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Since 1967, The Carolina Peacemaker has served as North Carolina’s leading news weekly with a national reputation. The Peacemaker has garnered awards from the National Newspaper Publisher’s Association and the North Carolina Press Association for outstanding news coverage, commentaries, editorial cartoons, sports and entertainment features, photography and effective public service campaigns.
The Carolina Peacemaker strives to highlight the people and events that make the City of Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County cohesive multicultural communities.
Guilford County’s growing population of 421,000 is comprised of working professionals as well as students who represent seven widely respected colleges and universities such as Bennett College for Women, Greensboro College, Guilford College, Guilford Technical Community College, High Point University, North Carolina A&T State University, and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Winslow Myers
Beyond Secrets
“As lowly citizens trying to understand the enormous resources poured into the national security state, it may help to examine the “meta-thinking” behind the mass mining of “meta-data” from our telephones and e-mails.”
Author: Winslow Myers
Published in: Sierra County Prospect http://www.sierracountyprospect.org/category/guest-columnists/, New Clear Vision http://www.newclearvision.com/2013/06/21/beyond-secrecy/, Pressenza http://www.pressenza.com/2013/06/usa-imagine-if-we-were-number-one/, Winslow Myers Op-Eds http://www.winslowmyersopeds.blogspot.com/
Date: June 16,17,21,2013
By Winslow Myers
Aside from debate about whether our government may be massively violating the 4th Amendment, we need to begin with compassion. It is not hard to see how fear and political necessity are among the engines driving the growth of the secrecy bureaucracy. There are bad actors out there, and a certain alertness is required to prevent them from doing their worst. Political leaders do not get elected by advocating love for enemies.
Thus President Obama cannot say aloud that the lives of children in Pakistan or Yemen are worth as much as the lives of his own daughters. That such evasions are politically necessary is one indication that our “meta-thinking” may be inadequate.
Our conception of national and international interest has not caught up with the advent of nuclear weapons and planetary ecological stresses. Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago has defined the term “offensive realism” as the only sensible stance a nation can take in the face of multiple existential threats. Because it cannot know the motivations of, say, the Chinese leadership, the United States must stay on the offensive militarily. And in fact the U.S. does project its forces—and listening devices—all around the world.
The Chinese leadership, or the Russian, or the Iranian, or the Israeli, are equally in thrall to “offensive realism”—what will be called “paranoid realism” once the planet passes through this dangerous but also opportune moment of history.
When the mutual fears of nations and even non-state actors motivate not only the acquisition of world-destructive weapons but the need for vast systems of data-analysis in order to watch and anticipate all the moves of the players, the general paranoia becomes as much the problem as the solution.
But there are forces at work in the world far larger that the supposed malign motivations of powerful nations. These forces can push all of us, in spite of our mutual fears, toward a renewed sense of compassion for ourselves as a species and a mutuality based in common survival goals—similar to the mutual superpower desire to end the Cold War after the Cuban crisis of 1962.
In this new understanding of common interest, the old “meta-thinking” that insists upon nations as exceptional, defensible systems has now become obsolete. Our present international paranoia is a current taking us downriver toward a waterfall. We can see this deadly drift in Syria today. For too long not only the U.S. but many nations have made a policy of selling arms to the enemies of their enemies. It will not work in Syria any better than it did in Afghanistan.
In order to dissolve the tensions of paranoia, experts and citizens alike need to understand our international predicament as a total system and build personal relationships across boundaries on the basis of this reality.
Though it has not yet sunk into the planetary group mind, our overall environmental challenge is the most obvious one that dissolves the illusion of nations possessing separate self-interests requiring an “offensive realist” response, including exceptionalist pretensions that the lives of “our” children are worth more than “theirs.”
The challenge of nuclear weapons, as Jonathan Schell has asserted, takes its place within the context of the environmental crisis. Computer models confirm that the detonation of only a small percentage of the world’s nuclear arsenals would throw enough soot into the upper atmosphere to shut down agriculture for a decade—in effect, a death-sentence for the planet. This alone renders all present nuclear strategy obsolete, as even that pitiless realist Dr. Kissinger has admitted.
Given the role of human error, or insufficiently safe design, in disasters such as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, or near-disasters like the Cuban Missile Crisis, in combination with the variety of forms that nuclear weapons have taken—nuclear missiles, mines, and artillery shells supervised by thousands of fallible humans—it defies all notions of common sense that the species can avoid forever the inadvertent or deliberate use of these weapons.
Disarmament then becomes a gradual, reciprocal process that depends upon a change of emphasis appropriate to the new paradigm: diplomatic and non-governmental initiatives based upon mutual assured survival, with continuing sensible alertness toward the ever-present possibility of the lethal combination of medieval mind-sets and weapons of mass destruction—making the sequestration of all nuclear materials an urgent priority.
Sunni and Shia, Russians and Saudis, and, yes, Republicans and Democrats will look up someday from their narrow preoccupation with each other’s shortcomings to see bearing down upon them a planetary oneness of disaster, oceans that rise even as they become empty of fish, air that our children cannot breathe, diseases that travel from tropical to temperate zones on the wings of climate change. We’re all in this together, our survival utterly dependent upon what our “enemies” do and vice versa.
The secrets that governments hold close and that the disaffected strive to reveal contain at their heart a hollowness based in the illusory assumption of separation. Taking their cue from this pragmatic truth, the major religions can function at their best to strengthen connection (re-ligare, to tie back together), not to separate—on the basis of the deep common truth of our planetary oneness. Inverting the lines from Auden’s famous poem—“those to whom evil is done, do evil in return”—reconciliation, nonviolence, forgiveness, active initiatives to build trust and resilience on the basis of common goals, will cause those to whom good is done to respond in kind. Before it is too late, may it be so.
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Winslow Myers is syndicated by PeaceVoice, is the author of “Living Beyond War: A Citizen’s Guide,” and serves on the Advisory Board of the War Preventive Initiative.
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A Song-by-Song Look at What Made George Martin the Fifth Beatle. Ringo Starr played drums on the first issue of the single version.
Mr. Martin’s assistant, Ron Richards, produced. Recorded November 1962. The Beatles originally played this song in a lugubrious, Roy Orbison-inspired style. Mr. Unknown. La Bible. Ten Great Years. Beatles : les albums remasterisés.
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Beatles movies & footage. Picture yourself on a boat... Paperback Web Writer. Beatles & Sciences. Abbey road studio. The Beatles Never Broke Up... The Beatles Complete On Ukulele. Philip Goldberg: Beatles in India: The Retreat That Reverberates Across the Universe. Forty five years ago, the Beatles were settling into the ashram of their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in Rishikesh, India.
The news coverage was nonstop and global, as it had been six months earlier when the lads first met Maharishi and became public advocates for his Transcendental Meditation technique. It would have been easy at the time to dismiss the media frenzy as just another pop culture craze. But reporters knew this was different. Why would four young, bright, fun-loving youngsters, wealthy beyond imagining, able to go anywhere and do anything, choose to hunker down in an austere, vegetarian, non-air-conditioned compound in the Himalayan foothills and spend large chunks of time each day with their eyes closed? What is this meditation thing? Questions like those turned what might have been a brief media burst into a watershed moment in cultural history. The Beatles took to meditation like they had taken to Chuck Berry and Little Richard. This Day in Music Spotlight: I Want to Hold Your Hun. Special thanks to ThisDayinMusic.com.
It’s hard to believe in this day and age, but in 1964 — at the dawn of Beatlemania — there was some doubt as to whether the Fab Four would sell in a non-English-speaking country like Germany. Perhaps those making that assessment weren’t aware that The Beatles had spent their formative years as a band tearing down houses on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn on a nightly basis. Nevertheless, Odeon Records (the German imprint of EMI) contacted George Martin and Brian Epstein and convinced them that The Beatles should record their biggest hits in German so that they could sell more records there. Martin and Epstein agreed. The Beatles did not. The group had set up shop in Paris for a series of dates at the historic Olympia music hall, and were none too thrilled at the prospect of re-doing “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” with ham-handed, translated lyrics.
The larger undertaking was the re-recording of “She Loves You,” retitled “Sie Liebt Dich.” John Lennon: Scumbag. Written by: Lennon-Ono-ZappaRecorded: 6 June 1971Producers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector Released: 15 September 1972 (UK), 12 June 1972 (US) John Lennon: vocals, electric guitarYoko Ono: vocals Frank Zappa: vocals, electric guitar Mark Volman: vocals Howard Kaylan: vocals Ian Underwood: vocals, woodwind, keyboards Bob Harris: vocals, keyboards Jim Pons: vocals, bass guitar Don Preston: Minimoog Aynsley Dunbar: drums Available on:Some Time In New York City Recorded with Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention in 1971, Scumbag was a live improvisation included on the 'Live Jam' disc of the Some Time In New York City album.
The Mothers' concert at the Fillmore East in New York was recorded for their Live At The Fillmore album. I thought he [Lennon] had a pretty good sense of humour, so I invited him to come down and jam with us at the Fillmore East.
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April 20 has been designated as global cannabis appreciation day. It is a day to let the world know that this beautiful plant genus is part of our society and one of the most important bounties of nature. As our civilization evolves, it is becoming essential for us to celebrate this day and share the wealth and knowledge that comes from harvesting and consuming what we have so generously been provided with.
Cannabis Sativa 'Blueberry' - source
Unfortunately however, as the Western World develops it is becoming more bipolar. While many countries upon analyzing the evidence for ending prohibition begin to lax their laws for possession, the governments of Canada and the United States are intensifying their war against cannabis.
In Canada, our Conservative government, lead by neoconservative Stephen Harper, is in the processes of dismantling Canada. They are doing this by implementing the Security and Prosperity Partnership and adopting the failed US “War on Drugs” policy. Their most recent attempt to implement this plan is by introducing Bill C-26 which is a US inspired mandatory minimum prison sentence for the possession of marijuana. “A person could be jailed for at least 6 months for the crime of growing as little as one marijuana plant if this legislation passes.”
In the United States, the most recent statistics are revealing that police are targeting and arresting minor marijuana offenders. Marijuana arrests in the US have topped previous records and are costing taxpayers billions of dollars per year. This brutal policy has created a prison population that is equivalent to being the 4th largest city in the United States.
Since our governments, corporations, and media are trying so desperately to wage war against nature by continuing their neo-conservative agenda, I thought it would be a good idea to summarize some of the medical benefits, social activities, and history of one of the most beautiful creations in nature - Ganja (also known as cannabis, marijuana, weed, pot, herb, grass, Mary Jane, reefer, skunk, kif, Maui wowie, the chronic, and Bud).
THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana, is concentrated in the flower of the cannabis plant, and since flowers are the sex organs of a plant, I can not envision a better way to spend a day than smoking some BC Bud. So yours truly will be taking part of the day off while enjoying this exquisite bounty of nature. However I have compiled the following information for those who wish to join in the festivities or want to learn more about this plant.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that those who consume cannabis are not criminals. They are your brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, and your children, and many have been sacrificed to further the agenda of certain individuals and organizations who feed off the profits from the criminalization of this simple plant that has the potential to save us and our environment.
The information presented has been broken down into the following sections for ease of reference:
1) History and Introduction
2) Medical News
3) News and Economics
4) Entertainment
5) Religion and Spirituality
6) Environment
7) Social Networking and Activism
8) Education
History and Introduction
Timeline: The following site www.concept420.com has published a timeline documenting the historical use of Marijuana starting from 6000 B.C. where Cannabis seeds were used in China for food, all the way up to June 2003 where Canada became the “first country in the world to offer medical marijuana to its patients”. This data was acquired from Erowid with the additional information of Canada’s medical marijuana legislation.
Event: Origin of 420 - This day is Marijuana appreciation day. “April 20, and the significance of the date could be religious or infamous, depending on whom you ask. But for many who describe themselves as members of the counterculture, April 20 -- or 4/20 -- is a day to celebrate the pleasures of altered consciousness, loosen the bonds of convention and, in short, slack off and smoke a lot of pot.”
Video: 420 Revealed: A Day of Peace (7:52) - “HIGH TIMES Editor-in-Chief Steven Hager visits ABC News to explain the origin and significance of 420 in this 2002 interview. Noting incidents of violence surrounding a day of peace -- a trend sadly continued by the Virginia Tech shootings -- Hager calls for the date to also be used for an exploration into the cause of such tragedies.”
History: A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis - “Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You'll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate. You'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with: Racism, Fear, Protection of Corporate Profits, Yellow Journalism, Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators, and Personal Career Advancement and Greed.”
Medical News: Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows - “The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.”
Suppression: U.S. Government Repressed Marijuana-Tumor Research - “A Spanish medical team’s study released in Madrid in February 2000 has shown that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana, destroys tumors in lab rats. These findings, however, are not news to the U.S. government. A study in Virginia in 1974 yielded similar results but was suppressed by the DEA, and in 1983 the Reagan/Bush administration tried to persuade U.S. universities and researchers to destroy all cannabis research work done between 1966 and 1976, including compendiums in libraries.”
Medical News: Cannabis sativa hemp, the miracle plant, contains the cure for cancer and other ailments - “My name is Rick Simpson. I have been providing people with Hemp Oil medicines, at no cost, for about three years. The results have been nothing short of amazing. Throughout man's history hemp has always been known as the most medicinal plant in the world. Even with this knowledge, hemp has always been used as a political and religious football. I want this knowledge out there for everyone to learn! Watch the documentary Run From The Cure to understand more about using cannabis as a cure for cancer and other medical problems!”
Medical News: New Studies Destroy the Last Objection to Medical Marijuana - “New research on "vaporization" has demonstrated that all those fears about the ill effects of smoking marijuana are 100 percent obsolete….Unlike smoking, a vaporizer does not burn the plant material, but heats it just to the point at which the THC and the other cannabinoids vaporize…. In a rational world, the government officials objecting to medical marijuana based on the health risks of smoking would greet this research with open arms. They would join with groups like the Marijuana Policy Project in spreading the word about this important, health-enhancing technology.”
Video: Valerie Corral at 2004 Cannabis Therapeutics Conference (32:15) - “Co-founder of WAMM (Wo/men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana) in Santa Cruz,CA, Valerie tells of the amazing help that Cannabis brings to the terminally ill, with spiritual benefits from a mindful approach to life and death in hospice. Conference hosted by Patients Out of Time.”
Medical News: Marijuana Ingredient May Prevent Mad Cow Disease - “According to basic research of scientists of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Valbonne, France, cannabidiol (CBD) may prevent the development of prion diseases, the most known being BSE (bovine spongiforme enzephalopathy), which is often called mad cow disease.”
Medical News: Marijuana skin cream could help allergies - “The chemicals that give marijuana its mood-altering kick might also be an option for treating skin allergies, according to a study done in mice.”
Scientific Research: Nature’s Themed issue: Cannabinoid Receptor 2: CB2 Receptors (January 2008 Volume 153, No 2) - “This issue has been edited by Ruth Ross and Ken Mackie and contains 16 review articles and 5 original articles which seek to give further insight into the function and role of the hitherto enigmatic CB2 receptor. The meeting ‘CB2 cannabinoid receptors: New vistas’ was held in Banff, Canada in 2007 and was organized by Keith Sharkey, Ken Mackie, Betty Yao, Marnie Duncan and Ruth Ross. This meeting was designed to bring together scientists studying CB2 receptors from diverse perspectives, including those interested in the chemistry of CB2 ligands, the role of CB2 receptors in normal biological processes, and the involvement of CB2 receptors in pathological processes.”
News: Former Surgeon General: Mainstream Medicine Has Endorsed Medical Marijuana - “The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organization and the second largest physician group in the United States. Its 124,000 members are doctors specializing in internal medicine and related subspecialties, including cardiology, neurology, pulmonary disease, oncology and infectious diseases. The College publishes Annals of Internal Medicine, the most widely cited medical specialty journal in the world. In a landmark position paper released in February, these distinguished physicians are saying what many of us have been arguing for years: Most of our laws have gotten it wrong when it comes to medical marijuana, and it's time for public policy to get in step with science.”
Medical News: Smoked Marijuana Improved ADHD Driver's Performance - “Researchers noted that 'people with ADHD are found to violate traffic regulations, to commit criminal offences and to be involved in traffic accidents more often than the statistical norm' and conclude from their investigation that 'it has to be taken into account that in persons with ADHD THC may have atypical and even performance-enhancing effects.'”
Medical News: Marijuana can prevent cancer, not cause it - “The Office of National Drug Control Policy has been spending millions of taxpayer dollars on advertisements and printed material declaring that marijuana causes cancer. The truth is just the opposite - marijuana can prevent cancer. Recent research has shown that the cannabinoids found in marijuana can not only halt the spread of cancer but can also kill cancer cells.”
Medical News: Marijuana May Slow Alzheimer's - “THC, the key compound in marijuana, may also be the key to new drugs for Alzheimer's disease. That's because the marijuana compound blocks the formation of brain-clogging Alzheimer's plaques better than current Alzheimer's drugs. The finding -- in test-tube studies -- comes from the lab of Kim Janda, PhD, director of the Worm Institute of Research and Medicine at Scripps Research Institute.”
Medical News: Results from Two Studies of Marijuana and Multiple Sclerosis - “Two recent studies – one conducted in Great Britain and one in Canada – provide new information about the possible effectiveness of marijuana or its derivatives as a treatment for MS symptoms.”
News: Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain - “A synthetic chemical similar to the active ingredient in marijuana makes new cells grow in rat brains. What is more, in rats this cell growth appears to be linked with reducing anxiety and depression. The results suggest that marijuana, or its derivatives, could actually be good for the brain.”
News: Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion a Year - “The new report is noteworthy because it undermines the common claim from law enforcement officers and bureaucrats, specifically White House drug czar John Walters, that few, if any, Americans are incarcerated for marijuana-related offenses. In reality, nearly 1 out of 8 U.S. drug prisoners are locked up for pot. Of course, several hundred thousand more Americans are arrested each year for violating marijuana laws, costing taxpayers another $8 billion dollars annually in criminal justice costs.”
News: Researchers say marijuana is less of a drag than cigarettes - “A study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine was completed on 5,263 teenage students in Switzerland and is producing some hair raising results. In line with a lot of studies that have been released in 2007 and 2008, this study boldly claims that it has found that marijuana use does not produce the fearful symptoms spread by anti-drug groups. The study seems to make a case that teenagers who use only marijuana, opposed to students who use marijuana and cigarettes are more active in sports, have better grades, are more socially adept and have used less illegal drugs.”
Article: Marijuana, War on Drugs, the Prison Industrial Complex, and a couple of Documentaries - “While we wait for Mr. Fleming’s movie to hit the theaters, why not enjoy some of the other great documentaries out there about Marijuana and the complete disaster known as the ‘War on Drugs’ (Please note that the first few minutes of the first movie are in Dutch, but the rest is in English).”
News: Denver 'Legalizes' Possession of Marijuana, Again - “The measure, which passed with a solid 57% of the vote, reads as follows: 'The Denver Police Department and the City Attorney’s Office shall make the investigation, arrest and prosecution of marijuana offenses, where the marijuana was intended for adult personal use, the City’s lowest law enforcement priority.'”
Video: Police Officer Steals Marijuana (0:55) - “Police Officer bakes brownies then calls 911 and says ‘I think we are dying.’ This shows us how little the law enforcement community actually knows about Marijuana and its effects. By making this call, the officer actually admits to stealing and consuming an illegal substance. Should not he then be charged with possession and theft? Why was he allowed to just resign? Is he above the law? This is Pathetically hilarious if you consider how many people are rotting in jail for lesser crimes.”
Coverup: Global drug Czar refuses to answer questions regarding the use of Cannabis from an NGO representative
Information: On the Legalization — or Not — of Marijuana - “Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent by the government since 1937 to both enforce and prolong marijuana prohibition. Meanwhile, over 19 million people have been arrested since 1965 (830,000 marijuana-related arrests in 2006 with 89 percent on possession-only charges), and an estimated 45,000 to 65,000 marijuana-only prisoners are currently incarcerated. There are more marijuana arrests annually than arrests for all violent crimes combined. As such, the moral and economic imperatives are clear in seeking logical and pragmatic alternatives to prohibition.”
News: Marijuana arrests in 2006 hit an all time record in the United States, where police arrested a record 829,625 persons for marijuana violations. However, now in 2008, with the slumping economy, “lawmakers from California to Kentucky are trying to save money with a drastic and potentially dangerous budget-cutting proposal: releasing tens of thousands of convicts from prison, including drug addicts, thieves and even violent criminals… A plan in Mississippi would offer early parole for people convicted of selling marijuana or prescription drugs. New Jersey, South Carolina and Vermont are considering funneling drug-addicted inmates into treatment, which is cheaper than prison.”
News: PM 'stands by stance on cannabis' - “Downing Street has signalled Gordon Brown remains determined to tighten the law on cannabis - against the advice of an independent panel of experts… If the government went ahead and reclassified cannabis to class B, ministers would be rejecting the findings of the council's panel of 23 drug experts - which has never happened before on a decision about drug classification.”
Atrocity: Quadriplegic Serving 10-Day Sentence For First-Time Marijuana Charge Dies In DC Jail - “A 27-year-old quadriplegic man sentenced to serve ten days in a Washington, DC jail on charges that he possessed a minor amount of marijuana died while in custody last week (2004) due to inadequate health care, including prison officials' failure to provide him with a ventilator.”
Statistics: Drug War Clock - This site keeps track of the money spent on the War On Drugs in the United States. “The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.” Further information on Americas war on drugs available at Basic Facts About the War on Drugs, and information on the American prison system available at Human Rights Watch.
Music: Bob Marley: No Woman No Cry (5:56) - Here is a little Marley to light up your day. This song specifically is one of my favorites and I hope you enjoy. And here is the Boney M (4:34) version just in case you enjoy your 70’s flash, I know I do.
Video: UCSC Porter Meadow 420 (2:59) - “Time Laps starting 1.5 hours before and ending 1.5 hours after 4:20 at UCSC.”
Entertainment: 4/20 Parachute Stoner Dash (Yakety Sax Benny Hill theme)
Video: Marijuana Celebration in Vancouver Canada: 420 Rally (3:45) - “4:20 Rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 7000 people hotbox downtown.”
Music: Cypress Hill - “Hits From The Bong Live in Amsterdam! (5:03)”
Truth: Bill Hicks - “Drugs and Evolution (4:36).”
Spirituality: Spiritual use of cannabis - “The cannabis plant has an ancient history of ritual usage as a trance inducing drug and is found in pharmacological cults around the world. Hemp seeds discovered by archaeologists at Pazyryk suggest early ceremonial practices by the Scythians occurred during the 5th to 2nd century BC, confirming previous historical reports by Herodotus. In India, it has been engaged by itinerant sadhus for centuries, and in modern times the Rastafari movement has embraced it. Some historians and etymologists have claimed that cannabis was used as a religious sacrament by ancient Jews, early Christians and Muslims of the Sufi order.”
News: Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher - “High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week… “‘As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics,’ Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday. Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the ‘burning bush.’”
Article: Deforestation and Hemp: How to Stop Global Warming - Cannabis products span the consumer spectrum making it the only plant in the world that can help us curb global warming. It has “over 25,000 potential uses.” It rejuvenates the soil, it can replace wood products saving our forests, it is medicinal, it can be used as a building material, textiles, paint & plastic, fuel, paper, food and body care.
Chart and Information: Modern Uses of Industrial Hemp
Documentary: Hemp Revolution - “This documentary covers a whole lot of ground. It deals with every historical and contemporary aspect of hemp usage and cultivation (mainly in the U.S.), which turns out to be a lot. From describing the production of a fibre much more durable and economic than wood, the documentary discusses hemps multilateral uses as e.g. food products, as a non-polluting fuel and as a pharmaceutical product with much less grievous side effects than chemical pharmaceutical products. The film also investigates why America went from a country which produced vast quantities of the non-narcotic industrial hemp, to the complete ban on hemp production in 1938. This story in particular is interesting, and it points out that the large oilbased industries actually had a key role in the aforementioned ban. Food for thought! The conclusion of the documentary could be that hemp may prove to be a valid alternative to both oil and wood in the future.”
Social Networking and Activism
Social Networking: Marijuana Nation - “Let's all fight for Cannabis Freedom at Marijuana Nation, a user driven social content website dedicated to Marijuana news and resources.”
Activism: No Extradition for the BC3! - To truly become free from our brutal laws against marijuana we must join in the struggle and there is no better way then to help “three Canadians (who) face life imprisonment in a US federal prison simply for political activities in Canada to legalize marijuana around the world.”
Video: The following two videos are a great introduction on how to grow your own: Growing weed other helpful info (6:21) and Grow Cannabis hydroponically By Eatspam & Raven (9:17)
Discussion Forums: Marijuana.com, 420magazine.com, and Cannabis Culture are just three of the great sites available on our Neutral Internet where you can discuss and learn about Marijuana and Drug War news stories, current events, activism, politics, and history.
Children's Book: "'It’s Just a Plant' is an illustrated children's book about marijuana. It follows the journey of a young girl as she learns about the plant from a diverse cast of characters including her parents, a local farmer, a doctor, and a police officer."
Documentary: If you like watching movies then the following two documentaries will not only inform you, they will make you laugh and cry, dance and sing, and most likely pray while you wait in anticipation for the time when we will all be free to live life as we see fit: Grass (1:18:37) and Hemp Revolution Part 1 (33:40) and Part 2 (39:04)
I hope you enjoy your journey, and if you want to have a little snack along the way don’t forget to make some Ganja goo balls
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Bois Locker Room – Another Ugly face of Cyber Crime | ProBono India
- Amarpal Singh, School of Law, UPES Dehradun
Introduction -
Over the years there has been a rapid increase in the use of the Internet especially among the teenagers this has led to an increase in crimes like voyeurism, publishing sexually explicit content, identity theft and cyberbullying. It is now a platform where one can easily maintain anonymity and commit these crimes. This is because the internet has become and continues to be a marketplace for evil ideas which the country and this world will continue to see in the future.
In unprecedented times during the widespread increase in the spread of the COVID 19 when the entire world was sitting in their houses due to the lockdown and education was being encouraged through the use of internet a horrific incident came to light where a girl shared various screenshots of an Instagram group chat where boys of the age group 15-17 based in Delhi and students of elite schools shared morphed pictures of under-age girls without their consent, objectified women and made plans to rape in a horrendous way. A suo- moto cognizance of the matter was taken by Delhi Commission for women and an FIR was registered with the Delhi police. The administrator of the group was taken into custody who was a 15-year-old boy and 22 other members were identified by the police.
Potential offences committed by the member of Bois Locker Room
As per the facts available the participants of the Instagram had morphed the pictures of young girls to deal with this issue section 463 ‘forgery’ of the Indian Penal Code ( hereinafter IPC) is the most appropriate which defines " any person who alters any electronic record with intent to cause any damage to other person commits forgery. In the case of SukantiChoudhry .v. State of Kerala the High of Kerala expressly stated that to constitute an offence of forgery any electronic record which has been altered or transmitted is done without the lawful authority of the person. In the instant matter, the member of the group did not have any lawful authority to alter the pictures of the girls.
The act of objectifying women and making a plan to rape also makes them liable under section 509 \'words, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of woman’ which provides that any words uttered by a person to insult the modesty of a woman intending that such words are heard by the woman or intrudes the privacy the woman shall be liable under this section.
Information Technology Act 2000
In Information technology Act penal provision were added to create a safe online environment for everyone. The activity of publishing and transmitting obscene material and pictures of underage girls by the members of Instagram group chat makes them liable under Section 67, 67 A, 67B as these sections provide punishment for transmitting or publishing any obscene act, sexually explicit act and depicting children in sexually/obscene act. The punishment for first conviction under section 67 is fine with 3 years of imprisonment and 5 years imprisonment with fine for committing an offence under section 67 A and 67 B.
In the case of State of Uttar Pradesh.v. Aman Mittal & Ors. the apex court observed that all the provision contained in the Information Technology Act are of paramount importance especially if the offence relates to the electronic record.
Judicial Intervention in the matter.
A writ petition was filed in the Delhi High Court for the immediate arrest of the member of Bois locker room and seeking direction for investigation of the matter by Special Investigation Team or Central Bureau of Investigation. The division bench consisting of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Talwant Singh directed the police to swiftly complete the investigation and file the report with the appropriate court concerned with the matter. Another letter petition was also filed with Supreme Court to take the matter on the judicial side as there are multiple issues which arose from the incident relating to the privacy of young girls and sensitization of juveniles in the involving themselves in such acts.
Application of Juvenile Justice Act.
Most of the members of the Instagram group chat were between the age of 15-17 thus are covered within the ambit of the definition of child in conflict with the law as defined section 2 (13) of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 as it states that any person who is alleged or found to have committed an offence and who has not completed the age of 18 years on the date of commission f such offence. Thus, the provision of the JJ Act would be applicable in this matter.
After the screenshots went viral on social media there was an outrage by the public that the members of the group chat should be treated as adults which is impossible in this matter. As these offences do not qualify as a heinous offence under section 2 (33) of the JJ Act. If the offences did qualify as heinous offence then only after preliminary assessment by the Juvenile Justice Board of their mental and physical capacity to understand the consequence of the act as specified in section 15 of the JJ act an order would have been passed in accordance with section 18 (3) to try them as adults.
The maximum punishment that is specified in the JJ Act is 3 years which would not less severe for these boys as the punishment for the offences committed by them is also 3 years.
Medial Trial – A different perspective
We live in a society which is limited by law but in the present times\' social media platforms are public courts and its users are judges. According to the rule of law, everyone has a right to a fair trial which is also enshrined in Article 14 ‘right to equality’ and Article 21 ‘right to life’’in the Constitution of India. The public opinion about the guilt of the person violates the presumption of innocence unless proved guilty and devoid the accused his right of fair hearing.
Moreover, section 74 of the JJ Act states the identity of a child in conflict with the law should not be revealed. In the case ofSubash Chandra Rai .v. State of Sikkim the High Court held that police, media and as well as the judiciary has to be very sensitive while dealing with a child in a conflict that provision of section 74 has to be strictly complied and under no circumstances, the identity of the child in conflict with law should be revealed. In contrary to the provision the identities of the members of the group are all over the social media. Thus, this also raises a serious concern about whether re-integration and rehabilitation of these juveniles would be possible in accordance with the objectives of the juvenile justice act.
A way forward:
Bois locker room incident is not the only one but there are millions of similar instances of cybercrime which go unreported and fail to catch the limelight. The solution to prevent these types of incidents is cyber education, monitoring the use of social media accounts of teenagers by parents, reporting the incidence and psychological support to the victim. An online platform cybercrime.gov.in is also maintained by the Ministry of Home Affairs with a special option to anonymously report the crime, especially for women and children. All the incident of cybercrimes must be reported so the perpetrators are identified and an example to the society is served to prevent similar incidents. As rule of law also postulates creating a safe environment of everybody in society.
1. 2013 (I) OLR 742.
2. 2019 (4) RCR (Criminal) 253.
3. 2018 CriLJ 3146.
4. Vakasha Sachdev, ‘Can members of the “bois locker room” member punished under the law’(2020) <https://www.thequint.com/news/law/boys-locker-room-criminal-offences-ipc-it-act-pocso-sharing-images-underage-girls> accessed 7 June 2020.
5. Sadhana NadathurJaykumar, ‘Bois Locker Room : Why does’nt the Incident Surprise women’ <https://feminisminindia.com/2020/05/05/bois-locker-room-doesnt-incident-surprise-women/> accessed 7 June 2020.
6. Aditi Singh, ‘Delhi High Court directs Police to expeditiously complete probe in bois locker room’<https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/delhi-high-court-directs-police-to-provide-safety-to-girls-who-exposed-bois-locker-room> accessed 7 June 2020.
7.Debayan Roy : ‘Bois locker Room Scandal : Letter petition urges Supreme Court to take up issue on judicial side’ <https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/delhi-high-court-directs-police-to-provide-safety-to-girls-who-exposed-bois-locker-room> accessed 7 June 2020.
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Yeah, I've re-written this a bit. We're getting into Obama/McCain territory, and jokes about the Starr Report are pretty dated, even if I still swoon over Sorkin's scripts for The West Wing... although Sports Night still looms larger for me. Same for the first three eps of Studio 60.
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Corey Jones has always maintained he didn't want a mate. After falling for his college professor and having his heart broken, he vowed to never go there again. Now, his decision to remain single is put to the test when he meets his Alpha's new personal assistant, Ethan Davies, and discovers the man is his mate.
After growing up in the foster care system all Ethan ever wanted was a home and someone to love him. He's overjoyed that his recent move has brought him to his mate. Ethan's happiness soon turns to devastation when Corey walks away from him and their bond.
Ethan is forced to walk a fine line between respecting his mate's wishes and refusing to give up on the one thing he's wanted his entire life. With Ethan's determination, an interfering brother, and pack members too interested in his personal life, Corey may not stand a chance.
Please Note: Corey has been re-edited, and expanded by ~13 K.
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Excerpt - Chapter One:
A knock on his office door brought Ethan back to what he was supposed to be doing.
“Come in,” he called out.
Tommy opened the door and took a couple of steps into the room. He stood with both hands protectively holding his stomach, as if he expected something bad to happen to his baby at any minute. Tommy looked down at his watch, then pointedly at Ethan.
“It’s six o’clock on a Monday evening. Why in the world are you still working?”
Ethan looked at the clock on his computer screen and sure enough, the damn thing flashed 6:01 pm. He glanced back at Tommy and smiled sheepishly.
“Got lost in the work I was doing, didn’t even realize how late it was.”
“Well, it’s time to stop. Tonight’s poker night and it’s our turn to host, which means you need to get out of this office and clean up a little before everyone starts arriving. Ben will want to introduce you to some of his mates.” That knowing glint was back in Tommy’s eyes again.
“What aren’t you telling me?” he asked, staring at the Alpha mate.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Tommy replied with a huff and turned to leave.
Ethan didn’t miss the huge grin that broke out on the guy’s face, though.
“You better get a move on. Wouldn’t want to be late or anything.” Tommy chuckled as if he’d said something funny and then flounced—well, at least that’s what Ethan assumed the man had been trying to pull off—from the room and left Ethan staring at a now empty doorway.
Shaking his head at Tommy’s behaviour, Ethan turned back to his computer. He silently wondered if the man was always like this or whether the pregnancy caused his weirdness.
He’d been on the job for an entire week now. Being Ben’s personal assistant and helping the Alpha to manage all the packs across the country was an interesting job, Ethan looked forward to work every day.
The day after he’d interviewed for the position, Ethan had flown home to Newcastle and packed his things. It had taken Ethan a month to pack up his apartment, serve out his notice at his job, put his house up for sale, and have everything moved to Atherton. All he’d wanted the entire time he was in Newcastle was to get back to Atherton and start his new role.
Making the decision to apply for the job had been easy, but Ethan never thought in a million years that he would actually get it. Deciding to accept and move halfway across the country was one of the scariest things he’d ever had to do. Seeing as how Ethan had grown up a child of the foster care system, he’d seen some pretty scary shit in his life.
Ben had been nice enough to pay for his belongings to go into storage until he found a place to live. Ethan had tried to argue that it wasn’t necessary, but Ben wouldn’t take no for an answer. Ethan had just planned to find a place and have his stuff shipped there so he could unpack when he arrived, but both Ben and Tommy had talked him out of it. Their main argument had been that he really needed to inspect the property personally, as he didn’t want to be stuck in a place he hated because he’d signed the contract sight unseen.
Ethan had reluctantly agreed, and for the last week he’d been searching for something that was within his price range and suited his needs. He didn’t have a great deal of stuff.
Ben had been more than kind to him and offered Ethan the use of one of his spare rooms until he found somewhere more permanent. The knowing grin Ben and Tommy both sported when they discussed it annoyed Ethan slightly. It was obvious the pair was keeping something from him, but for the life of him, Ethan couldn’t think what it might be.
After the way Tommy had acted when they’d first met, Ethan had been surprised the man was all right with him being in such close proximity to Ben any more than he absolutely had to. Tommy had been ready to rip his throat out when Ethan had walked out of Ben’s office after his initial interview. Something had changed dramatically since then, but whatever it was, Ethan had been kept in the dark about it.
Ethan could remember something else he’d been kept in the dark over. He’d been shocked as shit when Ben had explained to him about the ability for male wolves to fall pregnant. If it wasn’t for the fact that Tommy was the size of a bloody house when Ethan had returned to Atherton, he would probably still think the Pennaeth Alpha a little crazy.
There was no doubt about it, though; Tommy was pregnant. This was obvious, not just by the basketball-sized lump in his belly but by everything else that went along with pregnancy.
Tommy had the widest-ranging mood swings Ethan had ever seen. Ethan chuckled as he remembered one instance the previous Friday when he had been in Ben’s office discussing one of the South Australian packs and Tommy had walked in and started stripping off his clothes. Ethan had been too shocked to move and had watched as Tommy sat in his mate’s lap and had started to ravage the man.
Just when Ethan had gotten his senses back and stood to leave, Tommy had burst out into tears and started to hit Ben weakly in the chest. Ben tried to soothe his emotional mate, and Ethan had bolted, wanting out of there as fast as possible.
Ethan knew seeing the Alpha mate like this wasn’t exactly ideal, but it gave Ethan a great deal of insight into what a relationship based on love and friendship looked like. He’d never had anything even remotely close to what the Alpha pair had, but God, Ethan wanted it badly.
He didn’t know if he wanted the kids, the swollen feet, mood swings, and weird-ass cravings at all times of the day or night, but the love of a man who stood by him, no matter what? Yeah, he wanted that.
Now he just had to find his mate, and the chances of that happening here in Atherton were probably not that high. Ethan was only twenty-four, but after an entire life with no one to love him, Ethan was ready for more. He figured after he stuck it out here for a couple of years working for Ben, then he could move on and start his search for the man fated to be his and, with his mate, finally get the comforts of home he hadn’t had since his parents died.
Ethan shook his head and looked at his watch. If he didn’t get a move on, Tommy would kill him. He saved the files he was working on, then shut down the computer. Ethan tidied everything on the desk in preparation for coming back tomorrow morning, then closed the office door behind him and headed to his room.
As he walked across the hall, he heard the doorbell chime and swore softly. The last thing he wanted to do was be late. Ben and Tommy had explained about their poker nights to him, and he’d been invited along to last week’s, which had been held at one of Ben’s friend’s houses. Seeing as how Ethan had only arrived late the night before after several long days of driving and was starting the new job the next day, he’d begged off, stating all he wanted to do was collapse on his bed and sleep for a week.
Now, though, he didn’t have any excuses, and both Ben and Tommy were expecting him downstairs. To tell the truth, Ethan was kind of looking forward to meeting some new people. He’d met several over the course of the last week as pack members came for meetings with Ben on different subjects. He’d also spoken with a great number on the phone, but it was always nice to put a face to the name.
Apparently, the guys downstairs were Ben’s closest friends. Ethan would meet the rest of the pack at the next group get-together, which was scheduled in a few weeks—on the night of the full moon. He’d just missed the last one.
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An Opposing View on Corporate Social Responsibility*
By By Manda Salls who can be contacted at http://signup4.c.topica.com/maab4W0aa5rX4aaaaaab/
In a day that celebrated social responsibility and corporate virtue, one speaker offered a counter view by calling such programs "a complete fig leaf" and saying they can do more harm than good.
Matthew Bishop, business editor of The Economist, said company social responsibility initiatives could diminish shareholder returns, distract business leaders from their focus, and often allow companies to continue bad behavior in the shadows.
"Are companies actually socially irresponsible? I think the overwhelming message is that they are not," said Bishop at the 5th Annual Social Enterprise Conference, held March 6 at Harvard Business School. "It has been the process of people seeking to make profit, and the expansion of an economic system where that pursuit of profit has been possible, that has made the world fantastically more wealthy than anyone thought possible, even thirty or forty years ago."
In the end, pressure put on businesses by non-governmental organizations and other advocates to create social as well as financial benefit may have the opposite effect of what is intended. Because of media attention, Bishop said, many companies are beginning to feel it is better to pull their factories out of countries where there is desperate poverty, rather than risk being seen operating at standards below what you might expect in, say, Massachusetts.
"It is troubling to see companies accused of treachery for trying to be economically efficient," he told the audience, which largely appeared to disagree with his comments.
Recalling his recent experience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in February, Bishop said that CSR proponents have terrified the CEOs of the world. Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe was the only chief executive willing to say for the record that the primary role of the company is long- or medium-term profit maximization to benefit shareholders. "All of the other chief executives with whom I spoke said they thought he was completely mad to get up and say that in a public forum," Bishop said. But privately they agreed with him.
2. On the defensive
Companies are funding CSR initiatives not because they are in the best interest of the company or shareholders but to get NGOs off their backs, Bishop said. "Bad press has put everyone on the defensive."
In addition, there is no guarantee that cooperating with NGOs buys a company any long-term reputation protection, he said. Both Nestlé and Nike have spent millions to improve social conditions in their factories, yet get little credit in the press because they work outside of the CSR movement, Bishop said.
Bishop criticized the media for contributing to the problem. Media companies are out to make a profit, and many have cut back on foreign coverage. "You've got a group of people who are not well paid, who are not in the same mindset as people who work in companies, and who haven't really been exposed to the realities of what corporate life is like."
NGOs often feed journalists stories of supposed corporate malfeasance, which the reporters are happy to print without much on-the-scene checking. "They are desperate to get noticed because your main professional reward as a journalist… is to get your name in lights by saying something interesting. So there is a tremendous appetite for powerful stories."
Another worrying issue, he said, is that the climate for open debate about free trade and the business pursuit of profit is being destroyed.
As a remedy, Bishop said the media and the public should start putting pressure back on governments to improve labor and social issues. In effect, we are letting government and politicians off the hook by pressuring the companies we work for and invest in to take on additional financial and social burdens.
Bishop compared using company money to further socially responsible causes with a CEO deciding to buy a corporate jet. The executives shouldn't be spending shareholder money on things that aren't directly related to the bottom line, Bishop said.
* By permission of HBS Working Knowledge: http://signup4.c.topica.com/maab4W0aa5rX4aaaaaab/
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Nov. 16, 2020, 11:06 p.m. EST
HSBC Holdings plc Announces Tender Offers For Nine Series Of Notes
NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- HSBC Holdings plc (the ' Company', ' we ' or ' us ') has announced the anticipated launch of nine separate offers to purchase for cash any and all of the outstanding series of notes listed in the table below. The launch of the Offers (as defined below) is expected to be at or around 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on November 17, 2020 (the ' Launch Date '). The Offer Documents will be available from 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the Launch Date at the following link: https://www.gbsc-usa.com/hsbc/ .
We refer to the outstanding notes listed in the table below collectively as the ' Notes ' and separately as a ' series ' of Notes. We refer to each offer to purchase a series of Notes as an ' Offer ', and collectively as the ' Offers '. The Offers are made upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated November 17, 2020 relating to the Notes (the ' Offer to Purchase ') and the related notice of guaranteed delivery () Notice of Guaranteed Delivery ', and together with the Offer to Purchase, the ' Offer Documents '). As of the date of the Offer to Purchase, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Notes subject to the Offers is $8,261,539,000. References to '$' are to U.S. dollars.
AcceptancePriorityLevel(1) Title of Notes(2) CUSIP Maturity PrincipalAmountOutstanding ReferenceSecurity FixedSpread FixedPrice(3)
1 4.000% Senior Unsecured Notes due March 2022 404280AN9 March 30, 2022 $2,000,000,000 UST 0.375% due March 31, 2022 (US912828ZG82) +10 basis points ("bps") N/A
2 2.950% Senior Unsecured Notes due May 2021 404280AY5 May 25, 2021 $1,541,839,000 UST 2.625% due May 15, 2021 (US9128284P22) +10 bps N/A
3 2.650% Senior Unsecured Notes due January 2022 404280BF5 January 5, 2022 $638,128,000 UST 1.625% due December 31, 2021 (US912828YZ72) +10 bps N/A
4 4.875% Senior Unsecured Notes due January 2022 404280AL3 January 14, 2022 $417,483,000 UST 1.625% due December 31, 2021 (US912828YZ72) +10 bps N/A
5 Floating Rate Senior Unsecured Notes due January 2022 404280BG3 January 5, 2022 $755,193,000 N/A N/A $1,015.70
6 3.400% Senior Unsecured Notes due March 2021 404280AV1 March 8, 2021 $978,489,000 UST 1.125% due February 28, 2021 (US912828P873) +5 bps N/A
7 5.100% Senior Unsecured Notes due April 2021 404280AK5 April 5, 2021 $848,554,000 UST 1.250% due March 31, 2021 (US912828Q376) +5 bps N/A
8 Floating Rate Senior Unsecured Notes due May 2021 404280AZ2 May 25, 2021 $570,318,000 N/A N/A $1,008.00
9 Floating Rate Senior Unsecured Notes due March 2021 404280AX7 March 8, 2021 $511,535,000 N/A N/A $1,006.10
(1) We will accept Notes in the order of their respective Acceptance Priority Level specified in the table above, subject to the satisfaction of the Financing Condition (as defined within the Offer to Purchase). It is possible that the Financing Condition might not be met with respect to any series of Notes with any Acceptance Priority Level, and such series of Notes will not be accepted for purchase, even if one or more series of Notes with a lower Acceptance Priority Level is accepted for purchase.
(2) The 3.400% Senior Unsecured Notes due March 2021, the 5.100% Senior Unsecured Notes due April 2021, the 2.950% Senior Unsecured Notes due May 2021, the 2.650% Senior Unsecured Notes due January 2022, the 4.875% Senior Unsecured Notes due January 2022 and the 4.000% Senior Unsecured Notes due March 2022 are collectively referred to as the ' Fixed Rate Notes '. The Floating Rate Senior Unsecured Notes due March 2021, the Floating Rate Senior Unsecured Notes due May 2021 and the Floating Rate Senior Unsecured Notes due January 2022 are collectively referred to as the ' Floating Rate Notes'.
(3) Per $1,000 principal amount.
The purpose of the Offers is to improve HSBC's liabilities structure, as the Notes cease to qualify as eligible liabilities items under CRR once they have a residual maturity of less than 12 months. ' CRR ' refers to regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 26, 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending regulation (EU) No 648/2012, as amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time, and (where relevant) any applicable successor EU or UK legislation.
Each Offer will expire at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on November 24, 2020, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Company in its sole discretion (such date and time with respect to an Offer, as the same may be extended, the ' Expiration Time '). Notes tendered for purchase may be validly withdrawn at any time at or prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on November 24, 2020 (such date and time with respect to an Offer, as the same may be extended, the ' Withdrawal Date '), but not thereafter, unless extended or earlier terminated with respect to an Offer by the Company in its sole discretion. We expect the Settlement Date to occur on the third business day after the Expiration Time, or November 30, 2020, unless extended or earlier terminated in respect of an Offer by the Company in its sole discretion (such date with respect to an Offer, as the same may be extended, the ' Settlement Date ').
Each Offer is independent of the other Offers, and we may terminate, modify or waive the conditions of any Offer without terminating, modifying or waiving the conditions of any other Offer.
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer Documents, holders who (i) validly tender Notes at or prior to the Expiration Time or (ii) validly tender Notes at or prior to the Guaranteed Delivery Date pursuant to the Guaranteed Delivery Procedures (each as defined in the Offer to Purchase), and whose Notes are accepted for purchase by us, will receive consideration for each $1,000 principal amount of each series of Notes, which will be payable in cash on the Settlement Date as described below (the ' Consideration ').
The Consideration applicable to each series of Floating Rate Notes validly tendered and accepted by us pursuant to the Offers will be the Fixed Price specified in the table above for such series of Notes.
The Consideration applicable to each series of Fixed Rate Notes validly tendered and accepted by us pursuant to the Offers will be calculated at or around 11:00 a.m. (New York City Time) on November 24, 2020 (such date and time with respect to an Offer, as the same may be extended by the Company in its sole discretion, the ' Price Determination Date '), in accordance with the formula set forth in the Offer to Purchase and with standard market practice, using the applicable ' Offer Yield ', which will be equal to the sum of:
a) the applicable 'Reference Yield', as determined by the Dealer Manager, that corresponds to the bid-side yield of the Reference Security specified in the table above for such series of Fixed Rate Notes appearing on the Price Determination Date, such yield being directly quoted on the Bloomberg Reference Page (as defined below) and being rounded to the nearest 0.001 per cent. (with 0.0005 per cent. being rounded up), plus
b) the Fixed Spread specified in the table above for such series of Notes.
Accordingly, the Consideration payable by us for each $1,000 principal amount of each series of Fixed Rate Notes accepted by us will equal:
(i) the present value on the Settlement Date of $1,000 principal amount of such Fixed Rate Notes due on the maturity date of such Fixed Rate Notes and all scheduled interest payments on such $1,000 principal amount of such Fixed Rate Notes to be made from (but excluding) the Settlement Date up to and including such maturity date, discounted to the Settlement Date at a discount rate equal to the applicable Offer Yield, minus
(ii) the Accrued Interest per $1,000 principal amount of such Fixed Rate Notes;
such total amount being rounded to the nearest cent per $1,000 principal amount of such Notes, and the above calculation being made in accordance with standard market practice as described by the formula set forth in the Offer to Purchase.
The ' Bloomberg Reference Page ' means the page on Bloomberg from which the Dealer Manager will observe the bid-side yield of the Reference Security for each series of Fixed Rate Notes, which is expected to be PX3 or PX4, as applicable (or any other recognized quotation source selected by us in consultation with the Dealer Manager if such quotation source is not available or manifestly erroneous).
As soon as reasonably practicable after the Price Determination Date, the Company will issue a press release specifying the Consideration for each series of Fixed Rate Notes validly tendered and accepted.
In addition to the Consideration, holders whose Notes of a given series are accepted for purchase will also be paid a cash amount equal to accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes from, and including, the last interest payment date for such Notes to, but not including, the Settlement Date, rounded to the nearest cent (such amount in respect of a series of Notes, ' Accrued Interest '). Accrued Interest will be payable on the Settlement Date. For the avoidance of doubt, interest will cease to accrue on the Settlement Date for all Notes accepted in the Offers. Under no circumstances will any interest be payable to holders because of any delay on the part of Global Bondholder Services Corporation, as depositary, The Depository Trust Company () DTC ') or any other party in the transmission of funds to holders.
On the date of the Offer to Purchase, the Company launched a proposed new issuance (the ' Proposed Issuance ') of senior unsecured debt securities in one or more series () New Notes ') which are not subject to the Offers. It is expected that the Offers will be financed with the net cash proceeds from the issuance of such New Notes, along with cash on hand, if necessary. No assurance can be given that the Proposed Issuance will be completed.
The Offers are subject to the terms and conditions described in the Offer Documents. In particular, the Company's obligation to complete an Offer with respect to a particular series of Notes is conditioned on satisfaction of the ' Financing Condition ', meaning (1) the Proposed Issuance has been successfully completed on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Company in its sole discretion and (2) the aggregate principal amount of the Proposed Issuance, as set forth in an announcement at or around 10:00 a.m. (New York City Time) on November 18, 2020 (the ' Total Available Amount '), is sufficient to fund the sum of (a) the Consideration (excluding Accrued Interest) for all validly tendered and not validly withdrawn Notes of such series plus (b) the aggregate Consideration (excluding Accrued Interest) for all validly tendered and not validly withdrawn Notes of each series having a higher ' Acceptance Priority Level ' (as specified in the above table, with 1 being the highest Acceptance Priority Level and 9 being the lowest Acceptance Priority Level), other than Excluded Notes (as defined below).
Notwithstanding any other provision in the Offer to Purchase to the contrary, if the Financing Condition is not satisfied for a particular series of Notes, at any time at or prior to the Expiration Time, then (1) we will not be obligated to accept for purchase such series of Notes and will terminate the Offer with respect to such series of Notes (such series of Notes, ' Excluded Notes '), and (2) if there is any series of Notes having a lower Acceptance Priority Level for which the Financing Condition is satisfied, meaning the Total Available Amount is equal to or greater than the sum of:
a) the Consideration necessary to purchase all validly tendered and not validly withdrawn Notes of such series (excluding Accrued Interest), plus
b) the aggregate Consideration necessary to purchase all validly tendered and not validly withdrawn Notes of all series having a higher Acceptance Priority Level than such series of Notes, other than the Excluded Notes (in each case, excluding Accrued Interest),
then all Notes of such series having a lower Acceptance Priority Level will be accepted for purchase, and the Financing Condition will be applied at each subsequent Acceptance Priority Level until there is no series of Notes with a lower Acceptance Priority Level to be considered for purchase for which the Financing Condition is met.
It is possible that any series of Notes with any Acceptance Priority Level will fail to meet the Financing Condition and therefore will not be accepted for purchase even if one or more series with a lower Acceptance Priority Level is accepted for purchase. If any series of Notes is accepted for purchase under the Offers, all Notes of that series that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn will be accepted for purchase. As a result, no series of Notes accepted for purchase will be prorated.
The Company reserves the right to amend or waive any of the conditions of the Offers, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, in our sole discretion, subject to applicable law. If any of the conditions are not satisfied at the Expiration Time with respect to an Offer, we may, in our sole discretion and without giving any notice, subject to applicable law, (a) terminate such Offer, (b) extend such Offer, on the same or amended terms, and thereby delay acceptance of any validly tendered Notes, or (c) continue to accept tenders.
We will, in connection with the allocation of the New Notes in the Proposed Issuance, consider among other factors whether or not the relevant investor seeking an allocation of the New Notes has, prior to such allocation, validly tendered or given a firm intention to us or the Dealer Manager that they intend to tender their Notes pursuant to the Offers and, if so, the aggregate principal amount of Notes tendered or intended to be tendered by such investor.
Therefore, a holder who wishes to subscribe for New Notes in addition to tendering its Notes for purchase pursuant to the Offers may be eligible to receive, at the sole and absolute discretion of the Company, priority in the allocation of the New Notes, subject to the issue of the New Notes and such holder also making a separate application for the purchase of such New Notes to the managing bookrunner of the issue of the New Notes in accordance with the standard new issue procedures of such bookrunner. However, we are not obliged to allocate the New Notes to a holder who has validly tendered or indicated a firm intention to tender Notes pursuant to the Offers and, if New Notes are allocated, the principal amount thereof may be less or more than the principal amount of Notes tendered by such holder and accepted by us pursuant to the Offers.
All Notes accepted in the Offers will be cancelled and retired, and will no longer remain outstanding obligations of the Company. Holders of Notes are advised to read carefully the Offer to Purchase for full details of and information on the procedures for participating in the Offers.
The Company has retained HSBC Bank plc as Dealer Manager for the Offers (the ' Dealer Manager '). Questions and requests for assistance related to the Offers may be directed to the Dealer Manager at UK: +44 (0)20 7992 6237, US: +1 (212) 525-5552 (Collect) or +1 (888) HSBC-4LM (Toll Free), or by email at liability.management@hsbcib.com .
Global Bondholder Services Corporation will act as the information agent (the ' Information Agent '). Questions or requests for assistance related to the Offers or for additional copies of the Offer Documents may be directed to the Information Agent at (866) 470-4300 (toll free) or (212) 430-3774 (banks and brokers). You may also contact your broker, dealer, custodian bank, trust company or other nominee for assistance concerning the Offers.
If the Company terminates an Offer, all Notes tendered pursuant to such Offer will be returned promptly to the tendering holders thereof. Holders of Notes are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Notes as to when such intermediary would need to receive instructions from a beneficial owner in order for that beneficial owner to be able to participate in, or withdraw their instruction to participate in, an Offer before the deadlines specified herein and in the Offer to Purchase. The deadlines set by any such intermediary and DTC for the submission and withdrawal of tender instructions will also be earlier than the relevant deadlines specified herein and in the Offer to Purchase.
This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to purchase or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase or sell, any security. No offer, solicitation, or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. The Offers are only being made pursuant to the Offer to Purchase. Holders of the Notes are urged to carefully read the Offer to Purchase before making any decision with respect to the Offers.
United Kingdom. This communication and any other documents or materials relating to the Offers are not being made and such documents and/or materials have not been approved by an authorized person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Accordingly, this communication and such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, persons in the United Kingdom other than (i) to those persons in the United Kingdom falling within the definition of investment professionals (as defined in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the ' Financial Promotion Order ')), (ii) to those persons who are within Article 43(2) of the Financial Promotion Order, including existing members and creditors of HSBC Holdings, (iii) to those persons who are outside the United Kingdom, or (iv) to any other persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be made under the Financial Promotion Order (all such persons together being referred to as ' Relevant Persons ') and the transactions contemplated by the Offer to Purchase will be available only to, and engaged in only with, Relevant Persons. Any person who is not a Relevant Person should not act on or rely on this communication or any of its contents.
Belgium . Neither this communication nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offers have been submitted to or will be submitted for approval or recognition to the Financial Services and Markets Authority (' Autorité des services et marches financiers / Autoriteit financiële diensten en markten ') and, accordingly, the Offers may not be made in Belgium by way of a public offering, as defined in Articles 3 and 6 of the Belgian Law of 1 April 2007 on public takeover bids (the ' Belgian Takeover Law ') as amended or replaced from time to time. Accordingly, the Offers may not be advertised and the Offers will not be extended, and neither this communication nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offers (including any memorandum, information circular, brochure or any similar documents) has been or shall be distributed or made available, directly or indirectly, to any person in Belgium other than (i) to 'qualified investors' in the sense of Article 10 of the Belgian Law of 16 June 2006 on the public offer of placement instruments and the admission to trading of placement instruments on regulated markets, acting on their own account or (ii) in any circumstances set out in Article 6, 4 of the Belgian Takeover Law. This communication has been issued only for the personal use of the above qualified investors and exclusively for the purpose of the Offers. Accordingly, the information contained in this communication may not be used for any other purpose or disclosed to any other person in Belgium.
Italy. None of the Offers, this communication or any other document or materials relating to the Offers have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ('CONSOB') pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. The Offers are being carried out in the Republic of Italy as exempted offers pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the ' Financial Services Act ') and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Holders or beneficial owners of the Notes that are located in Italy can tender the Notes for purchase in the Offers through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in the Republic of Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority.
Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis-à-vis its clients in connection with the Notes and/or the Offers.
Hong Kong. This communication and any other documents or materials relating to the Offers and/or the debt securities is not being made in Hong Kong, by means of any document, other than (i) in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong) (the 'CWUMPO'), or (ii) to 'professional investors' as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) (the 'SFO') and any rules made thereunder, or (iii) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a 'prospectus' as defined in the CWUMPO.
No invitation, advertisement or document relating to the Offers and/or the Notes has been or will be issued, or has been or will be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the securities laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to the Offers and/or the Notes which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to 'professional investors' as defined in the SFO and any rules made thereunder.
Canada. Any offer or solicitation in Canada must be made through a dealer that is appropriately registered under the laws of the applicable province or territory of Canada, or pursuant to an exemption from that requirement. Where the Dealer Manager or any affiliate thereof is a registered dealer or able to rely on an exemption from the requirement to be registered in such jurisdiction, the Offers shall be deemed to be made by such Dealer Manager, or such affiliate, on behalf of the relevant company in that jurisdiction.
France. None of the Offers are being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in the Republic of France ('France'). This communication and any other document or material relating to the Offers has been or shall be distributed to the public in France and only (i) providers of investment services relating to portfolio management for the account of third parties (personnes fournissant le service d'investissement de gestion de portefeuille pour compte de tiers) and/or (ii) qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés), other than individuals, acting for their own account, all as defined in, and in accordance with, Articles L.411-1, L.411-2 and D.411-1 of the French Code monétaire et financier, are eligible to participate in the Offer. This communication has not been and will not be submitted for clearance to nor approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
In this communication the Company has made forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of terms such as 'believes', 'expects', 'estimate', 'may', 'intends', 'plan', 'will', 'should', 'potential', 'reasonably possible' or 'anticipates' or the negative thereof or similar expressions, or by discussions of strategy. We have based the forward-looking statements on current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us, as described under 'Risk Factors' in our Offer to Purchase. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed herein might not occur. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.
Investor enquiries to:
Greg Case +44 (0) 20 7992 3825 investorrelations@hsbc.com
Media enquiries to:
Ankit Patel +44 (0) 20 7991 9813 ankit.patel@hsbc.com
HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, is headquartered in London. HSBC serves customers worldwide from offices in 64 countries and territories in our geographical regions: Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa. With assets of US$2,956bn at 30 September 2020, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations.
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Episode 50 – Kristen Day
Kristen Day is the author of teen and young adult fiction. She loves writing paranormal romance and has a passion for greek and roman mythology. She is a southern belle at heart with a crazy streak that desperately tries to escape at every opportunity. She love all things nostalgic, rustic, and quirky.
Learn more about Kristen @ http://kristendaybooks.com/
Episode 49 – Amy Leigh Strickland
Amy Leigh Strickland was born Amy Leigh Albro on June 8, 1986 in a hospital in Nashua, NH. She was raised for eighteen years in Townsend, MA, participating in Drama Club, Girl Scouts, Art Club, Flight Student Literary Magazine, and the National Honors Society. Amy graduated as a Gold Award Girl Scout, as President of her school’s chapter of the NHS, and received the Flag Award for citizenship.
After graduating High School, Amy enrolled in the Savannah College of Artand Design. Amy earned her BFA in Performing Arts at SCAD, and she starred in Sharon Ott’s 2008 production of Oliver Twist as the title role. During this time, she also took advantage of her electives, studying writing, Shakespeare, and World Mythology. It was here that she met her future husband, Kyle Strickland.
In the summer of 2008, BFA in-hand, Amy returned to Townsend, MA to plan her wedding. She began writing her first novel while working retail and doing freelance web design work. On April 24, 2010, Amy married and became Amy Leigh Strickland. Days after returning from her honeymoon, Amy packed up and moved to Alabama.
Amy’s first published novel, Olympia Heights: The Pantheon, was released in July of 2011. Its sequels, Olympia Heights: The Weight of the World, Olympia Heights: The Blood of Athens, and Olympia Heights: The Cult of Kronos followed. In 2013, Strickland published Rescue OR, Royer Goldhawk’s Remarkable Journal, an American steampunk adventure novel. Its sequel is expected in 2014.
Strickland holds a Masters of Secondary Education (English Language Arts) from the University of Montevallo.
Learn more about Amy @ http://www.amyleighstrickland.com/
Support Amy’s Kickstarter campaign here!
Premiere YA Hangout with Misty Provencher
~ Hosted by Amy Evans and Amy Leigh Strickland
Misty Provencher is a long-term wife, mama, and author. The first two are a bit more recent, but Provencher’s writing roots date back to the hieroglyphics she left in her mother’s womb.
While Provencher can ride a motorcycle, knows how to Karate chop, and has learned enough French, Spanish, and Sign Language to get herself slapped, Misty’s life is actually just the ruse she uses to connect with people. She is totally enchanted with them and spends her days trying to translate the soul bouquets of her muses into words.
Misty Provencher lives in the Mitten. Knock on her internet blog door at: Misty Provencher’s Books, http://mistypro.blogspot.com/ or find her on Facebook and Twitter as Misty Provencher.
Episode 48 – Meradeth Houston
Meradeth’s never been a big fan of talking about herself, but if you really want to know, here are some random tidbits about her:
>She’s a Northern California girl. This generally means she talks too fast and uses “like” a lot.
>When she’s not writing, she’s sequencing dead people’s DNA. For fun!
>She’s been writing since she was 11 years old. It’s her hobby, her passion, and she’s so happy to get to share her work!
>If she could have a super-power, it would totally be flying. Which is a little strange, because she’s terrified of heights.
Learn more about Meradeth @ http://www.meradethhouston.com/
Episode 47 – Lynn Vroman
Born in Pennsylvania, Lynn spent most of her childhood, especially during math class, daydreaming. Today, she spends an obscene amount of time in her head, only now she writes down all the cool stuff.
With a degree in English Literature, Lynn used college as an excuse to read for four years straight. She lives in the Pocono Mountains with her husband, raising the four most incredible human beings on the planet. She writes young adult novels, both fantasy and contemporary.
Learn more about Lynn @ http://lynnvroman.com/
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Rodney Corp was 61 and a clerk at a store that was robbed by three teens who were convicted of his murder.
See some Coverage from MLive in which these words from the victim’s family appear:
“Rodney Corp’s sister, LeAnn Hanshue, was surprised to hear what Montalvo is doing with his life behind bars.
She thinks about her older half-brother daily, about his easygoing manner, his humor at family gatherings.
“He was always a good person,” Hanshue said. “He would have never hurt anyone. He would probably help them carry the money to the car rather than fight them.”
She and her family always felt Montalvo was the least culpable of the trio, she said, but she had not thought about forgiving him.
“I know I could never forgive the other two,” Hanshue said.
She needed a couple of days to think about Montalvo and talk it over with her family. Later, Hanshue said she can’t understand why Montalvo participated, but she also recognizes how young he was.
“I should be able to forgive him, now,” Hanshue said. “I guess, in my heart, I say, ‘Yeah, I could forgive him.’”
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Russian Media Spin Roundup: July 9th
July 9th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under
Filed Under: International • Media
Tags: Barack Obama • Dmitri Medvedev • Konstantin Kosachev • Putin • Russia Today • South Park • state controlled media
Theotherrussia.org provides glimpses into the Russian media, documenting self-censorship, spin, and other inaccuracies.
TV Channel Pulls Putin Caricature
The 2×2 television channel, which broadcasts primarily animated series, was taking no chances after it had a scare involving its license last fall. In its latest season of the popular South Park cartoon, the channel has edited out the character representing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Novy Region Information Agency reports.
Putin was shown in a scene receiving a phone call from one of the young characters in the cartoon, asking to help him blast a whale to the moon. In the sketch, Putin thinks that he is receiving a prank call from US President George W. Bush. The clip came from the “Free Willzyx” episode first broadcast in 2005, when Putin was the President of Russia.
2×2, which started broadcasting in 2007, faced the threat of license revocation in 2008, after a hardline Christian group filed suit for alleged extremism in 12 cartoon series shown by the station. The channel was issued a warning from Russia’s media monitoring body, and management eventually pulled the offending cartoons. In the end, the station managed to renew its license after a public campaign to save the channel garnered more than 50,000 signatures. In June, Russian authorities retracted the warning against 2×2.
Russia Today Invents “Mystery”
Russia Today, a government-funded news channel that broadcasts in English, was meanwhile busy spinning US President Barack Obama’s meeting with the Russian opposition. The Chessbase news blog breaks down the not-so-subtle slant in the reporting, which downplayed the political career of United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov.
The coverage described what Russian opposition leaders said to Obama as a “mystery,” despite the fact that transcripts of the statements made by the opposition have been made publicly available.
Deputy Reinterprets Obama’s Words
State Duma Deputy Konstantin Kosachev was quick to reinterpret Barack Obama’s position on Georgia for the Russian public. Kosachev, who chairs the Duma Committee on International Affairs, said the following at a July 8th press conference. The sound byte of Obama’s supposed reversal of the US position on the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia was then repeated frequently throughout the media cycle. Kosachev was responding to a question on the US support for Georgian territorial integrity.
“Obama affirmed the well known US position,” Kosachev said, “but a clear assertion followed in the same statement, that this territorial integrity must not be restored through military means. I take these words as a signal to Tbilisi. A serious transformation of the American position has appeared here.
“Yes, we differ on this issue, but there is no longer the same absoluteness in the words of the US representatives, as there was during the time of the George Bush administration. Barack Obama understands the haste of the judgments made in August 2008. And during our interactions, American congressmen admit that they obviously rushed to judgement. This affirms the truth of our position.”
Russian Media Imagine Agreement on Oil Price at G8 Summit
The Russian media were quick to report a statement from President Dmitri Medvedev’s office, that Medvedev had floated $70-80 per barrel as a fair world oil price. Unfortunately, they also didn’t delve too deeply into the second part of the statement, where spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said that “G8 leaders generally agreed in their remarks.”
While news outlets spun the report as a success by Medvedev, other world leaders were more than skeptical. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had this to say in response:
“We didn’t discuss a specific figure and we didn’t discuss in detail any price range … There’s no agreement on ranges.”
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What Is Barrett's Esophagus?
Reviewed: Dr. Mera
A change in the normal or physiologic “stress” on an organ leads to an adaptive change in the type of cells that make up its lining. This change in cell type is called metaplasia, and it commonly involves a change of one type of surface epithelium to another that is better able to handle the new stress.
Barrett’s esophagus is a condition that affects the lining of the lower esophagus, the part of the gastrointestinal tract that connects the throat to the stomach. It is a well-known complication of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), which is a chronic condition that occurs when stomach acid frequently flows back into the esophagus. When the lining in the esophagus is exposed for a prolonged duration to the reflux contents, it can lead to erosion and inflammation of the esophageal mucosa. This damage leads to metaplasia or the replacement of the esophageal lining or stratified squamous epithelium (better suited to handle friction of the food bolus) with one that resembles the stomach’s and is better able to handle the stress of acid (mucin-producing columnar epithelium). This transition is considered to be a premalignant change, which means that under persistent stress it can progress to dysplasia and eventually result in esophageal cancer (adenocarcinoma of the esophagus). In theory, with the removal of the driving stressor (treatment of GERD), metaplasia (Barrett’s esophagus) is reversible.
Barrett’s esophagus is named after Australian thoracic surgeon Norman Barrett. The definition of this condition has evolved over the last century. In 1906, it was described by a pathologist as peptic ulcer of the esophagus. Over the next four decades, the debate revolved on the anatomic origin of the mucosal anomaly. In 1950, Barrett supported the ideology that the stomach was tethered within the chest due to a congenitally short esophagus. However, in 1953, it was argued by Allison and Johnstone to be esophageal tissue and was agreed by Barrett in 1957. The histologic description for the next two decades vary and by 1976, a report on the histologic spectrum of the condition was published where biopsies were performed using manometric guidance.
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BTS’s “Dynamite” Takes Its First Music Show Win
Despite being an all-English song, they still had no trouble getting their first win!
On the August 29 episode of Show! Music Core, BTS‘s latest hit, “Dynamite”, took its first win!
Even though the song is entirely in English, the group was still able to compete on the show against fellow K-Pop artists.
They were competing against ITZY‘s “Not Shy” and SSAK‘s “Beach Again”. ITZY came in 3rd with 5,602 points, SSAK came in 2nd with 6,213 points, and BTS came in first with 8,882 points!
There were several comebacks on the show this week, as well as a debut. New 10-member boy group NTX debuted with their song “Black Hole”, a light and fun summery song.
KARD came back with their song “Gunshot”, and OnlyOneOf also performed their new song, “a sOng Of ice & fire”.
Rookie group CRAVITY also came back with their song “Flame”, Dreamcatcher performed their new song “Boca”, and ATEEZ once again showed off their charisma with “THANXX”.
There were several other performances from artists such as MCND, Hyolyn, Eric Nam, Cherry Bullet, Rocket Punch, and more on the show. ITZY was the only of the three nominees that performed as well.
Watch BTS’s win below!
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Crayon Pop’s Ellin Returns To Broadcast Jockeying After “Romance Scam” Scandal
Ellin said she won’t be streaming every day, but despite that, it is a complete return.
Bella Kay
In November of last year, Crayon Pop‘s Ellin was accused of perpetuating a “romance scam” that cost an unidentified man roughly $860,000 USD.
She went on to share her side of the story, in which she insisted that she hadn’t scammed him and that the claims were distorted.
She has since returned to her AfreecaTV channel saying, “I took longer to return to Afreeca than I had originally expected. I thought a lot during my three-month break.” Although she won’t be broadcasting every day, as she did before, Ellin has said that “It’s a complete return.”
Are you looking forward to Ellin’s return to broadcast jockeying?
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This Male Vocalist’s Most Recent Fan Meeting Proves His Talent Is Unrivaled In Korea
His fans gathered from all over the country to see him.
Park Hyoshin, who debuted way back in 1999 when the Korean music industry was blossoming with modern K-Pop that we know and love now, has since gained a huge and loyal fanbase that love him for his deep and rich voice.
He has earned the nickname of “Captain” among his fans, for being the center of the fandom and their world.
And at his most recent fan meeting held on July 2, 2019 at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul, Korea, “Captain” Park Hyoshin got to meet and greet his fans who showered him nothing but pure love and support!
The arena’s 15K seats were filled up with Park Hyoshin’s old and new fans. Even though the fan meeting was held on a weekday, his fans gathered from all around the country to interact with Park Hyoshin a little more up close and personal.
During the fan meeting, Park Hyoshin blessed his fans with live performances and small talks. Fans who were at this fan meeting are now calling it a surreal experience, pointing out that they’ve “had the time of their lives” and “heard him confess his love for the fans a million times”.
Park Hyoshin is currently doing a series of concerts, reported to have sold over 110K tickets nationwide. While he has recently gotten involved in a fraud lawsuit, Park Hyoshin remains unshaken in his reputation. With his unrivaled talent in singing and everlasting visual, this captain is still smooth sailing as one of Korea’s legendary vocalists.
Watch a video from the fan meeting and check out the amazing connection between the fans and Park Hyoshin himself:
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11 of I.O.I’s Best Moments From Produce 101 As Ranked By Nostalgic Fans
These legendary performances from the girls who got into the top 11 caught the attention of the public and granted them the chance to debut in I.O.I.
Despite the fact that project group I.O.I disbanded, the members of the girl group still garner plenty of attention and have a huge fanbase. Devoted fans have compiled the most renowned and notable performances that captured the hearts of the nation for each member in I.O.I
Somi (1st place)
Somi, from JYP Entertainment, during her cover performance of “Into the New World” originally performed by Girls’ Generation.
Sejeong (2nd place)
Sejeong, from Jellyfish Entertainment, during her cover performance of “Irony” originally performed by Wonder Girls.
Yoojung (3rd place)
Yoojung, who is under Fantagio, during her legendary performance of “Bang Bang”.
Chungha (4th place)
Chungha from M&H Entertainment during her audition for Produce 101 in which she improvised a dance on the spot.
Sohye (5th place)
Sohye, who is currently under S&P Entertainment, during her performance of “Full Moon” originally by Sunmi.
Kyulkyung (6th place)
Kyulkyung, who is just about to debut in Pristin, during her sexy performance of “Full Moon”.
Chaeyeon (7th place)
Chaeyeon from MBK Entertainment during her beautiful performance of “Into the New World”.
Doyeon (8th place)
Doyeon from Fantagio during her amazing cover performance of f(x)‘s “La Cha Ta”.
Mina (9th place)
Mina from Jellyfish Entertainment as she adorably chews on food during the program.
Nayoung (10th place)
Nayoung, who is also about to debut in Pristin, during her performance of “Fingertips”.
Yeonjung (11th place)
Yeonjung, who is also a member of Cosmic Girls during her performance of “Into the New World” in which she exhibited her impressive vocals.
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Sketches released of women whose bodies found duct taped together in Hudson River
UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan (WPVI) -- Police released sketches of the women whose bodies were found washed up from the Hudson River off New York City's Upper West Side.
WABC-TV reports, at about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, police received a 911 call for two unconscious individuals in the vicinity of 68th Street and Riverside Park. Officers found the bodies laying on rocks near the river.
A police source tell WABC that the bodies were bound together with duct tape, with tape around their waists and feet and then bound to each other, facing each other.
The victims were both in their late teens or early 20s. Both were fully clothed. There were no signs of trauma.
Sources believe the bodies washed ashore with the tide and stayed when the tide went out.
The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. The identities of the victims have not yet been released.
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NBA free agency intel: Warriors, Horford, Brogdon and more fallout
By Ramona Shelburne and Brian Windhorst
On the day after the Golden State Warriors lost the NBA Finals, hours after he walked with another limping star toward a gruesome MRI, Bob Myers woke up early to take his daughter to summer camp.
Myers, the team's president of basketball operations, was emotionally numb.
"As a human being, you can only process so much," he said of his emotions in that moment.
But life, like summer camp, goes on. And that's where the Warriors are as they embark on a summer with their dynasty on a knife's edge. In the days after their devastating Finals, where they lost Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson to terrible injuries, the Warriors have developed an audacious plan to try to hold their status as a championship team together, sources told ESPN.
Much of it centers on a huge volume of money. By the time free agency opens Sunday at 6 p.m. ET, the Warriors will have offered both Thompson and Durant full five-year maximum contracts. For Durant, that means $221 million, and for Thompson, $190 million. Even with the reality that Durant might miss all of next season recovering from a torn Achilles and Thompson might miss the bulk of it coming back from an ACL tear, this remains the Warriors' first choice.
For the Warriors to make max offers to both players and to retain free agent Kevon Looney, which is also a priority, their payroll this upcoming season could balloon to more than $375 million, including more than $200 million in luxury taxes, according to projections by ESPN's Bobby Marks.
This would create the most expensive team in league history, which the Warriors would be able to afford only because the brand-new Chase Center opening later this year in San Francisco is estimated to generate more than $200 million in new revenue, sources said. Within the past two years the Warriors have passed the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers as the highest-earning team in the NBA, eclipsing the $400 million mark in annual revenue, according to sources.
Still hugely in demand despite his injury, Durant will get numerous other offers. If he wants to go elsewhere now, the Warriors are preparing plans to pivot and potentially try to work with Durant on a sign-and-trade deal. Myers has been staying in contact with Durant and his business partner Rich Kleiman since the season ended, according to sources.
Doing a sign and trade would enable Golden State to perhaps create a $37.6 million trade exception. This could prove remarkably valuable instantly, as the Warriors could then become players in the free-agent market. They couldn't use the exception to immediately sign a player, but they could explore sign-and-trade deals with free agents, opening a significant window for them to add to the roster.
The trade exception also could be used to acquire other players over the next year. To get a team signing Durant to do this type of deal, Golden State might have to incentivize the team with an asset like a future draft pick, a scenario the Warriors have been preparing for.
If a deal to sign and trade Durant can't be worked out, the Warriors have the option of trying to retain DeMarcus Cousins. Under the rules, the Warriors can offer Cousins a salary of only $6.8 million for next season. He could very likely earn more elsewhere, and the Warriors have long prepared to lose him.
However, if Cousins were willing to return, the Warriors could build some of their offense around him from the start of the season and feature him more, something that was impossible to do last season as he was recovering from an Achilles tear. That could be attractive to Cousins if he can't find a long-term deal and wants to continue to rebuild his value. The 2020 free-agent class is more shallow than this summer's, which might convince some players to take one-year deals.
As for Thompson, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the max offer to Thompson is expected to accelerate the process of the two sides reaching a deal.
Some outstanding issues that could force Thompson to look to create leverage involve the terms of the deal. When the Warriors lockedStephen Curryinto a five-year max deal in 2017, the team didn't allow Curry an opt-out clause in the last year of the deal and also didn't give him a no-trade clause, two valued items that superstars often negotiate. That set a precedent in how the Warriors look to deal with their other stars, and those deal points could become prickly in talks with Thompson, depending on his priorities.
Also this summer, the Warriors can negotiate an extension for Draymond Green, who has one season left on his contract. Green has expressed an interest in landing a new deal with the Warriors in the past, and he is open to a new deal this summer, sources said. Talks are expected to take place later in the offseason.
As the Warriors said often during their injury misfortune during the playoffs, no one is going to feel sorry for them. With their aggressive plans over the next few weeks, they aren't feeling sorry for themselves either.
He might not be a superstar like some of the others in this class, but Al Horford's entry into the free-agent market has sent numerous teams into a tizzy trying to get his valued services. Much like three years ago, when a number of teams rushed to offer him a max contract when he decided to leave the Atlanta Hawks, Horford is in such massive demand across the league that he's very likely to get the four-year, $100 million-plus deal he's seeking by opting out of his deal in Boston.
In addition to teams such as the Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelicans, who instantly emerged as possible landing spots, league sources say there are a few surprise bidders who are trying to land the veteran big man. These include the Sacramento Kings and Philadelphia 76ers.
The Kings are interested in adding a center this offseason, and there's space for them to do it even with re-signing Harrison Barnes. It would require them to move on from Willie Cauley-Stein, who wants that anyway, as his agent has asked the Kings to let him go.
They'd potentially have the room to make an aggressive offer to Horford, but they have a number of the top centers on their list, sources said. In addition to Horford, the Kings could chase Brook Lopez and Nikola Vucevic. Lopez played for coach Luke Walton with the Lakers.
Philadelphia has its own free agents to deal with, namely Tobias Harris, Jimmy Butler and JJ Redick. Maybe the 76ers re-sign their guys and are never in the market. But if they don't re-sign all of them, they will have cap space, and they could chase Horford. Philadelphia has a wide range of options and is perhaps the most intriguing team to watch this summer.
One of the best spots for a player to be in is that of the gettable restricted free agent. Players who are in this gray area, where their teams might not match any offer, can sometimes drive fantastic deals, maybe even better than they could get if they were unrestricted free agents. Two players who've fit this bill in recent years are Zach LaVine and Otto Porter Jr., both of whom were believed to be gettable, and they landed tremendous offer sheets (which were matched).
This year, the player who seems to be squarely in that zone is restricted free-agent guard Malcolm Brogdon. With the Milwaukee Bucks facing a luxury-tax bill if they re-sign Khris Middleton, as they are expected to do, teams could challenge Milwaukee with a so-called toxic offer sheet for Brogdon. League executives believe a team could construct an offer sheet with the highest salary next season and then descending payments combined with a player option and possible bonuses that the Bucks might have to pay, but a new team might not.
The Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics (if they don't land Kemba Walker), Phoenix Suns and Mavericks could consider an offer sheet for Brogdon and test the Bucks.
Meanwhile, the Bucks have not totally closed the door on George Hill, sources said. With just $1 million of his $19 million contract guaranteed, Hill will be waived by the Bucks. But the two sides have an interest in working something out to have Hill return. He could be an option if Brogdon gets an offer elsewhere that the Bucks don't match.
The center position is deep in this free-agent class, but one player to keep an eye on is DeAndre Jordan. As Jordan is one of the league's best defenders and a close friend of Durant's, teams who have interest in Durant have interest in bringing Jordan aboard as well, including the Brooklyn Nets and Knicks, where Jordan finished last season.
But Jordan, who played nine seasons with theLA Clippers, has an interest in playing in Los Angeles again, sources said. He would potentially be a fit for the Lakers, who are expected to try to find a way to sign Jordan and play him alongside Anthony Davis and LeBron James.
Durant's decision has major implications around the NBA
Brian Windhorst details that even with his injury, Kevin Durant's free agency could cause a domino effect for the list of teams pursuing him.
Friedell confident Warriors will resign Klay
Nick Friedell says the whole Warriors organization loves Klay Thompson, and they will sign him to a max contract.
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Through impeachment, Democrats seek to bar Trump from post-presidency financial benefits
The ban would apply if he's impeached and convicted.
ByBenjamin Siegel andJohn Santucci
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.
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Under the Former Presidents Act, President Donald Trump is entitled to an office and staff, a pension and up to $1 million for annual security and travel expenses and lifetime protection from the Secret Service, all funded by taxpayers once he leaves office.
That is, unless he's impeached and convicted by Congress.
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That's one of the exceptions to the 1958 law, which was amended in 2013 to provide presidents with Secret Service protection for life.
Denying Trump post-presidency benefits is one of the several justifications offered up by Democrats for their push to impeach Trump after the storming of Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
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On Monday, Democrats introduced an impeachment resolution charging the president with "inciting an insurrection" by encouraging words to supporters before they converged on the Capitol.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the end of his speech during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021.
They also hope to bar him from holding federal office in the future, which would require a simple majority vote of the Senate if two-thirds of the chamber votes to convict.
MORE: A visual timeline on how the attack on Capitol Hill unfolded
It's unlikely that Trump, who is entitled to a pension of more than $200,000 annually, qualifies for federal health benefits after leaving elected office because he hasn't served more than five years, according to the Congressional Research Service. Neither Presidents Carter nor George H.W. Bush received federal health benefits for that same reason.
First lady Melania Trump is also entitled to Secret Service protection - unless she divorces President Trump, or remarries after his death, according to the Congressional Research Service. Barron Trump, the president's teenage son, is also entitled to protection until he is 16.
Trump would be entitled to these benefits absent congressional action. And he could also receive them if he were to resign from office before Jan. 20. President Richard Nixon retained his presidential pension, and other benefits after his resignation in 1974.
Sources have told ABC News that in the days after the 2020 election the president has been asking about his post-presidency financial security, fearful for his and his family's safety.
Before receiving Secret Service protection during his race for the White House four years ago, Trump traveled the country with a small private security team.
How Trump's legacy will be remembered by history
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Governor Phil Scott announces $2.4 million in grants for electric vehicle charging stations
Middlebury, Vt. – While the electric vehicle (EV) was invented nearly 50 years before the gas-powered automobile came onto the scene in 1885, widespread adoption of EVs has been slow. Part of the reason for the sluggish transition from gas-powered cars to EVs in recent years has been an insufficient number of EV charging stations. Today, Governor Phil Scott made an important step in accelerating EV adoption by announcing Vermont’s new Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment program (EVSE). This program will deliver millions of dollars to communities across the state to install electric vehicle charging stations.
“Transportation is the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in Vermont and passenger vehicle use makes up the largest share of those emissions,” said Governor Scott. “Increasing the use of electric vehicles is a critical strategy for Vermont to reduce emissions from the transportation sector and to achieve its goal of 90 percent renewable energy use by 2050. This new grant program will help expedite Vermont’s transition to cleaner forms of transportation.”
The $2.4 million charging station grant program will advance Vermont’s effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build a greener and more vibrant economy. The funding came from a settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Volkswagen after the company violated the Clean Air Act by selling cars that purposefully emitted more pollution than allowed.
This program is a partnership between the Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Housing and Community Development, Agency of Transportation, Department of Health and the Public Service Department. The program prioritizes funding in State-designated areas, like downtowns and village centers, highway corridors, public transit stops, major tourist destinations, colleges and universities, hospitals, public park-and-rides, workplaces and multi-family housing.
Grant applications for the first round are due November 30, 2018. For information about the program or to apply, visit the Department of Housing and Community Development website at https://accd.vermont.gov/community-development/funding-incentives/electric-vehicle-supply-equipment-evse-grant-program. For more information about the EVSE grant program contact gary.holloway@vermont.gov or visit the Department of Housing and Community Development’s website.
Technical assistance for EVSE grant applicants will be available through Drive Electric Vermont. The Vermont Department of Building and General Services’ vendors will offer tailored support for municipalities and schools.
The grants were announced while Governor Scott and his Administration were in Middlebury as part of their Addison County “Capitol for a Day” events.
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A Distant World: A Pandemic of Virtuality
Posted on 27 March, 2020 by alfin2101
Our closely packed cities are custom-made for spreading infectious diseases. Masses of people rubbing shoulders on sidewalks, packed like sardines in subways, clustered around conference tables sharing respiratory droplets, shaking dozens of hands a day, making those face to face contacts from dusk to dawn.
At least partially thanks to pandemic panic, we are more quickly moving to a dispersed and virtual world, where schools are online, work is from home, shopping is done on the web and delivered to your home, and social interaction/entertainment is electronically mediated.
Rise of Automation
Now that we’re not supposed to be touching each other or touching anything anyone else has touched, but we still need to eat, automating food preparation sounds appealing (and maybe necessary). Multiple food delivery services have already implemented a contactless delivery option, where customers can choose to have their food left on their doorstep.
Besides the opportunities for in-restaurant automation, “This is an opportunity for automation to happen at the last mile,” said Xing. Delivery drones, robots, and autonomous trucks and vans could all play a part. In fact, use of delivery drones has ramped up in China since the outbreak.
Speaking of deliveries, service robots have steadily increased in numbers at Amazon; as of late 2019, the company employed around 650,000 humans and 200,000 robots—and costs have gone down as robots have gone up.
ARK Invest’s research predicts automation could add $800 billion to US GDP over the next 5 years and $12 trillion during the next 15 years. On this trajectory, GDP would end up being 40 percent higher with automation than without it. __ Singularity Hub
The pandemic du jour is not a sufficient cause for the coming world of virtuality and dispersal. But it may be the final straw, the tipping point for much of what is coming.
It Happened Quickly for Schools
Schools Move Online
https://philonedtech.com/us-higher-ed-set-to-go-fully-online-in-just-four-weeks-due-to-covid-19/
It is taking them about a month to move US higher education from campus to online:
With the first announcements of institutions shutting down f2f courses on March 6th, it appears that almost all moves to fully online delivery will have occurred by the week of April 6th (and just a handful of additional migrations over the following week). This four-week period shows remarkable adaptability by higher education institutions. What we are not seeing are mass closures through the spring academic term – schools are choosing to go online rather than to shut down operations beyond a transition period. While not shown fully in the graphic above, it appears that roughly half of schools chose some period of closure beyond Spring Break to help with the transition online. __ https://philonedtech.com/us-higher-ed-set-to-go-fully-online-in-just-four-weeks-due-to-covid-19/
A similar transformation on a smaller scale is taking place across much of the primary/secondary school systems.
Dispersing from Large Cities
Until recently, overlords of the “cultural elite” have been promoting hyper-urbanization and megacities, as cures for whatever fashionable crisis was being touted at the time. But with the Wuhan pandemic looming over their heads, many of these overlords are fleeing the cities for more dispersed environs.
In the US, known cases and deaths are overwhelmingly concentrated in the Seattle area, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Gotham, with six percent of the US population, now accounts by itself for nearly half of the 18,000 cases in the country. Even the New York Times, a consistent booster for packing people into small spaces, now acknowledges that the city’s high densities are responsible for its much higher rate of infection even than relatively dense but far more dispersed areas like Los Angeles, which is equally diverse and global but still consists largely of single family houses.
In places like New York, crowded mass transit systems remain essential to many commuters, while suburban, exurban, and small-town residents get around in the sanctuary of their private cars. These patterns can be seen in a new report by the mid-American think tank Heartland Forward (where I am a senior fellow), which shows how relatively slight the impact has been outside of a few large urban centers on the coasts. Rural areas around the world have been largely spared, at least for now. The North American hinterlands, according to health professionals, benefit from less crowding and unwanted human contact.
Living in dispersion may not save you from contagion, but being away from people, driving around in your own car, and having neighbors you know, does have its advantages in times like these. Even the urban cognoscenti have figured this out—much as their Renaissance predecessors did during typhus and bubonic plague outbreaks, wealthy New Yorkers today are retreating to their country homes where they struggle with the locals over depleted supplies of essentials. __ A Coming Dispersion
Automation, Virtual Living, Dispersion
3-D printing is another technology that may be boosted by today’s pandemic milieu. These devices are being used to print face shields, essential parts for respirators, and a number of other vital medical supplies which seem to be in short supply lately. More
3D printers will also be used to print pharmaceuticals, and to provide personal drug delivery services in the home. This would be a useful service at any time, but particularly during times of pandemic. More on 3D drugs.
Another useful medical tool in pandemic times is home medical tests. Many people monitor their blood sugars, blood pressures, and blood oxygen levels at home — to say nothing of home pregnancy tests. There are several iPhone apps to monitor the owner’s health. We can expect the home testing arsenal to expand rapidly in a short time.
A surge in demand for telemedicine makes a great deal of sense. Telemedicine cannot do surgery or provide intensive care services, but it can help determine if one truly needs such things on an urgent basis.
With the rise of new tools of automation and virtuality, can dispersal be far behind?
… the bulk of the new growth of the “creative class”—the well-educated millennials critical to the urban renaissance—is “shifting away from superstar cities.” The rise in the migration of such prized workers is now two to three times faster in Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Grand Rapids, MI than in regions around New York, Los Angeles, or Washington, D.C. __ Quillette
The bigger cities will not empty out — at least not because of this pandemic. But they are no longer seen as such a net positive location, when people are taking infectious disease risk into account.
For better or worse, this pandemic will likely make us pick up the pace on our path to automation, across many sectors and processes. The solutions people implement during this crisis won’t disappear when things go back to normal (and, depending who you talk to, they may never really do so).
But let’s make sure to remember something. Even once robots are making our food and drones are delivering it, and our computers are doing data entry and email replies on our behalf, and we all have 3D printers to make anything we want at home—we’re still going to be human. And humans like being around each other. We like seeing one another’s faces, hearing one another’s voices, and feeling one another’s touch—in person, not on a screen or in an app. __ Singularity Hub
83 pp PDF report “The Age of Automation”
Assuming that the new age of automation will usher in “an era of unprecedented abundance,” who will benefit the most?
Most importantly, we need to begin a conversation about who owns the machines and how to distribute their proceeds more fairly. While for most of human history our problems have revolved around issues of material scarcity, the new machine age promises to bring about an era of unprecedented abundance – more than enough to meet everyone’s needs. The question is whether we have the political courage and conviction to share the wealth wisely. __ https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/reports/the-age-of-automation
The book Homo Deus presents an interesting set of speculations on this question.
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Born to Trick-or-Treat: Senior born on Halloween
Yesenia Rosales (12) poses at San Antonio Newspaper Conference. Photo by Sarah Walker.
Willa Smith, Staff Writer
“I remember my parents told me that when I was born my brother wasn’t allowed to go trick-or-treating because I was in the hospital with my mom,” Yesenia Rosales, senior, said.
Rosales was born on Halloween in 1997, and since then her birthday has been a bit different than the regular kid’s. Her older brother was three when she was born, and was angry with her for a while because he couldn’t go trick-or-treating on the night she was born. Rosales also said she “feels bad” because her birthday on Halloween because of the limits it places on her family and their abilities to go out that night.
“When I was nine, maybe eight–my dad’s a very traditional Mexican father–says that, ‘You’re old enough, you don’t need to have birthday parties’,” Rosales said. “And that’s when it all stopped.”
Rosales said one of the sad things about her birthday being on a holiday is that as a child she couldn’t celebrate the way her peers did. She couldn’t have a pinata, she couldn’t have friends over–instead, birthdays consisted of having family over.
This year for her eighteenth birthday, Rosales is having a party.
“We’re going to have a barbecue,” she said. “My friends are telling me, ‘We’re going to bring a pinata because you’ve never had one before!’ So I’m really excited this year. Nervous, because it’s the first time I’ve had friends over, but excited.”
One of her favorite memories of her birthday was of a party when her mom’s boss, Gabby, came to the party. “She was the life of the party,” Yesenia remembers. For her sixth birthday, she had a costume party, and that year Yesenia dressed up as a witch, which caused Gabby to nickname her “La Bruja”, which means “The Witch” in Spanish. That year’s party was filled with dancing and joy and stands out as a fantastic party.
Rosales is the type of person who doesn’t ask for gifts and said she gets that trait from her mom.
“I’ve always been raised like that…She [mother] always says, ‘We’re going to make you a dinner!’ and I say, ‘Great mom’, and then she says what do you want for your birthday and I always say, ‘No Mom, that’s enough. You made the food, you got everyone together, that’s enough for me.’”
Recently, Rosales had a conversation with her mom last week about her birthday and realized that this is the last year that she’ll spend her birthday at home because she’ll be going to school outside of Austin.
“She told me, ‘Next year, I’m not even going to see you. I’m going to have to call you and tell you happy birthday,’” Rosales said about the conversation with her mother. “And I said, ‘No mom, I’m going to see you’, and then I stopped, and I said, ‘No, you’re right.’”
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Evolutionary psychology and anarchy
I hold a particular, burning hatred of The Blank Slate, a seminal popular evolutionary psychology book. It seems to me that many people read it and, without applying any critical thinking, believe themselves to now be experts in human nature and that we’re all hardwired to be bellends so acting like a bellend is completely fine. I’ve basically stopped approving comments that cite The Blank Slate, because they’re always completely wrong.
In short, the author of The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, is a psychologist. Not an evolutionary psychologist: he did some very good work in child language acquisition and visual cognition. It is disappointing to see someone with scientific training write a book so unscientific. Rather than presenting a scientific account, The Blank Slate uses anecdotal evidence and pure speculation to make its point, and the point is that everything is how it is because it’s just human nature and so that’s how it is. The back of the book is full of breathless praise from right-wing newspapers, as it confirms their world view. However, The Blank Slate is not good science. Far from it. I will not critique the whole thing here: for those interested, here is a very comprehensive overview. For a shorter read, I wrote something about evolutionary psychology’s attitude towards gender here, and The Blank Slate is riddled with such problems.
Instead, I am going to focus on one short part of The Blank Slate which is completely wrong: Pinker’s views on anarchism.
In the media this weekend, there has been a lot of conflation of anarchy with lawlessness in commentary on the London riots. Anarchy is distinct from lawlessness: it refers to the absence of imposed political authority, while lawlessness has an implication of disorder. Pinker believes these two concepts to be one and the same:
The generalization that anarchy in the sence of a lack of government leads to anarchy in the sense of violent chaos may be banal, but it is often overlooked in today’s still-romantic climate. (The Blank Slate, p331)
Pinker argues that violence is “a near-inevitable outcome of the dynamics of self-interested social organisms” (The Blank Slate, p329), and that police are the adaptation to this aspect of human nature. Like the rest of Pinker’s book, the evidence is purely anecdotal. What is provided is a series of anecdotes which paint a picture of how we are but one line of riot cops away from a Mad Max dystopia.
At one point, Pinker explains that he used to be an anarchist, and that this changed following the Montreal police strike, where riots broke out. Of this incident, Pinker says:
This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (The Blank Slate, p331)
Empirical test? Pinker is supposed to be a fucking scientist! An anecdote is hardly an empirical test!
The evidence seems cherry-picked. At no point does Pinker discuss anywhere autonomous communities which operate perfectly well without police–take, for example, Greenham Common or any number of communes. The former example, Greenham Common may not sway Pinker, given his rather dated gender politics, but there are plenty of examples of places which have done just fine without any governance from the state.
However, fighting anecdotal evidence with more anecdotal evidence is the wrong approach–it is no better than Pinker’s own method.
Essentially, two hypotheses are proposed by Pinker in his treatment of anarchism:
1. That violence is an integral part of human nature
2. That the only way to stop it is to have a police force
The first hypothesis is not possible to test: this is a shortcoming of evolutionary psychology as a whole: one cannot empirically test whether something is “human nature” or not. We can look at proxies–for example, if violence is genetic, we can study identical twins who were raised apart, though even this methodology is flawed.
The second hypothesis would require controlling for all confounding variables, to test whether a police force is truly necessary and the only thing standing in the way of our horrifying nature. Essentially, one would need people raised in a complete vacuum with no mitigating factors such as economic deprivation or racism. This is, of course, impossible to test.
So what we are left with is a fairy story: we’re all violent, grappling thugs, and it’s only the presence of a policeman that stops us chucking a brick through the nearest window and running off with a spangly new telly.
The other side to the story is equally untestable: the very same two impossible experiments would need to be conducted to test whether we could do a lot better without state-controlled law enforcement.
Basically, there’s no science anywhere. We cannot discuss whether human nature inevitably tends towards looting any more than it inevitably tends towards cooperation. The difference is, anarchism does not tend to pretend it has science on its side: it is a political movement, an analysis of the system we have an a conclusion that we would probably do better without it.
I would feel a lot more comfortable, I think, if people stopped couching their political beliefs in pseudo-science. Rioting is a complex issue with a solution far beyond a little bit of anecdotal storytelling which concludes it’s in our genes. It must, therefore, be treated as such.
Likewise, anarchism is a complex political ideology. It cannot be handwaved away with nonsense and misconceptions.
Posted on August 8, 2011 August 8, 2011 Author stavversCategories psychology stuff, rage at the system
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Mike Buchanan says:
Stavvers, of course the ‘right-wing press’ approve of ‘The Blank Slate’, it accords with their readers’ world views (such as mine). Just as the left-wing press predictably approve of ‘The Gender Delusion’ and ‘The Spirit Level’ (which was followed, I see, by ‘The Spirit Level Delusion’).
Do you dismiss Prof Louann Brizendine’s ‘The Female Brain’ with such contempt as you dismiss Prof Pinker’s book? What about his sister Susan’s insightful book, ‘The Sexual Paradox’? Or is she part of the right-wing conspiracy too?
I can’t imagine what evidence would make a feminist believe in gender-pattern brains. Maybe if one were pink and the other blue? It’s as if a cornerstone of feminism would disappear if we accepted even the possibility of gender-pattern brains, so they must be denied at all costs. But those denials are looking increasingly like the denials of Flat Earthers presented with photos of the earth taken from the moon.
Mike Buchanan
Most of Brizendine is laughably bad, with a huge chunk of anecdotal evidence and citing things that are just plain wrong from self-help books written by life coaches. It’s also heavily reliant on animal studies and studies which do not compare genders. It’s not good science. I haven’t yet read Susan pinker, but if her standard of evidence is anything like her brother’s, it’s probably shit.
As for the Spirit Level, that’s also not a very good book and the quality of some of the evidence is appalling (though the Spirit Level Delusion is far worse statistically speaking).
This is a problem with books: books are not subject to peer review. Anyone can write a book and pretend that it’s evidence. The difference in quality of research in The Spirit Level, and the peer-reviewed papers conducted by the same authors are stark: the effect does still stand, though not as universally as the book posits.
So yeah. Popular science books are almost always shit. Delusions of Gender is a real outlier there–well-researched, and the references all say what they are supposed to say, presenting a reasoned critique.
Any old idiot can write a book, though.
McDuff says:
WRT violence being “human nature,” a couple of things.
What, precisely, do you mean by “human nature”? Are you talking about the behaviour of people in aggregate or individually? Because there are different tests and different levels of predictability there. Indeed, it’s a *lot* easier to predict how a group will respond to certain stimuli than it is to predict how a person will respond to it.
And, also, the overwhelming majority of societies trend towards authoritarian systems and internal/external violence. The existence of one or two low-populated communitarian systems populated by self-selecting pacifists within a multi-billion-member global system with a hard on for tribalist conflicts, if anything, points to the difficulty of establishing such social systems and making them stick.
Given what seems to be the case, that the social structures generally erected by groups of homo sapiens tend to be authoritarian and violent, is this not a certain amount of evidence that “human nature,” whatever it is, is prone to erecting these kinds of systems?
This is not to suggest that people who read “groups of people have a tendency to do X” and get from it “this gives me carte blanche to do X” are not, as it happens, massive fucking jeb ends. It’s just to say that behaviour on aggregate is different from behaviour on an individual basis.
Also, I think you’re confusing falsifiability with the existence of a counterfactual. A description of “human nature” must surely describe humans as is, mustn’t it?
When I talk of “human nature”, I am talking like Pinker–certain hardwired structures and behaviours. As may be apparent, I disagree with the level of hardwiring Pinker posits.
I find it highly unlikely that we are hardwired to live this way.
P.S. I bloody love you for that comment below. 🙂
I haven’t read “The Blank Slate” and so my sole Pinker reference is “How the Mind Works”. Having said that, I’m not going to go all out and defend Pinker’s opinions on everything.
I think it’s reasonable to say that there are some things which are – which have to be – hardwired (language acquisition as the obvious one) and some things which are not (such as a love of Mid C20th French art).
There are some things that are in the middle. The evidence suggests that the brain is a modular system of interconnected frameworks. There’s plasticity within the broad structure, but that structure is set fairly rigidly, not least because a completely plastic cognitive architecture that required rebuilding from scratch each time would take far too long to train up to communicate with other individuals.
So saying “things are hardwired” is… mostly wrong. But also saying “things are not hardwired” is oversimplistic.
When you say you find it unlikely that we’re hardwired to live this way, what is it that you are suggesting is the alternative? What part of “this way” do you think is amenable to change?
I’m not saying that you’re right or wrong in any particular, but I do find the notion that human beings can produce naturally equitable and non-hierarchical societies if left to their own devices to be somewhat counter-intuitive.
Goodness, it’s amazing how people will jump out of the woodwork, isn’t it?
Mike. The problem is not with “gender pattern brains”, whatever the righteous fuck one of those is supposed to be. It’s with the extrapolation of weak theories into strong ones by numpties.
For example, the idea that there is some sexual difference between the brains of typical cisgendered males and females seems fairly uncontroversial. After all, the brain is biological and there are other biological differences between those kinds of organisms.
Where the problems arise is when people say that typical cisgendered males and females are the only two kinds of brain that are “normal”, for example, and neglect the massive continuum of variation in an attempt to fit everything into gendered boxes marked “male” and “female”.
Then, what tends to happen is that people take supportable weak conclusions like “over a population, XX individuals displayed a slight statistical aptitude in traits A,B,C and XY individuals displayed more aptitude at traits D,E,F” and Chinese Whisper them into GIRLS SUCK AT DRIVING AND MATHS AND LIKE BABIES AND PINK AND BOYS LIKE FIGHTING AND RAPING SO I SHOULD GET TO RAPE A GIRL WHO WEARS PINK BECAUSE OF LIONS AND SHIT.
Before you stake out a tent, why not check the ground underneath you, kid?
McDuff, I find the term ‘kid’ offensive and patronising, and wouldn’t dream of using a similar term in a discussion forum.
You appear to be criticising me for assertions such as ‘Girls suck at driving’ which I’m not making, which seems a fairly infantile way to attack an argument. And I’m not saying there are ‘only two kind of brains’ which are ‘normal’ – of course there’s a continuum. From Margaret Thatcher (male-pattern) to David Cameron (female pattern) for example.
But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that the differences in typical cisgendered males and females – which you find uncontroversial – will result in outcomes. Those include the female male gender outcomes we see in all human societies over the course of recorded history (other than the happy female-dominated tribes tracked down by feminist anthroipologists in the remote Amazon, obviously…)
From Margaret Thatcher (male-pattern) to David Cameron (female pattern) for example.
I think we have established that you’re in the “fuck you” pile right about now. But, no, carry on, let’s see what you’ve got.
But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that the differences in typical cisgendered males and females – which you find uncontroversial – will result in outcomes.
This sentence doesn’t actually mean anything, you know that, right? “Things will result in stuff!” Yeah, OK, nice one Oppenheimer.
Those include the female male gender outcomes we see in all human societies over the course of recorded history (other than the happy female-dominated tribes tracked down by feminist anthroipologists in the remote Amazon, obviously…)
Is =/= ought. Aggregate =/= individual. Some biological differences =/= all differences are down to biology. Have a nice day!
OK, you win. The earth is flat.
‘The so-called conservative, uncomfortably disdainful of controversy, seldom has the energy to fight his battles, while the radical, so often a member of the minority, exerts disproportionate influence because of his dedication to his cause.’
William F Buckley Jr 1925-2008 ‘God and Man at Yale’ (1951)
I guess the sentiment applies equally well to radicals who are feminists or manginas?
Oooh, I think someone gave you a ‘thumbs up’ and me a ‘thimbs down’. A victory for people power, eh? Power to the people.
Mary Tracy (@MaryTracy) says:
“We cannot discuss whether human nature inevitably tends towards looting any more than it inevitably tends towards cooperation”
Oh, but we can. For evidence we have the world. If the only thing stopping people from looting were the existence of the police, then we would need virtually one police officer for every citizen, and 24 hour surveillance. This isn’t the case, by a long way. Conclusion: most people are not violent.
This won’t convince those who claim that human nature is intrinsically violent and evil. The reason is that it serves their interests to think that human nature is intrinsically violent and evil. So at the end of the day, we won’t be able to convince them, no matter how many experiments we carried out.
McDuff, thanks for this post, which stopped me cancelling my link to this discussion. Your line ‘For evidence we have the world’ reminded me of a quotation:
‘The notion that every problem can be studied as such with an open and empty mind, without preconception, without knowing what has already been learned about it, must condemn men to a certain childishness.’
Walter Lippmann 1889-1974 (an address in 1940)
Also two insightful quotations by Thomas Sowell (1930- ), an African-American economist and social commentator, if you want them.
Sorry, confused there… my last post should have been addressed to ‘Mary Tracy’ not ‘McDuff’…
Anyone who’s going to declare Margaret Thatcher as a “male pattern brain” clearly understands so little about gender or cognitive neuroscience as to be not worth having any kind of conversation on the subjects with.
If you think that means I think the Earth is flat, you’re welcome to that opinion. You keep believing that David Cameron is “female pattern” and this explains somethingorother, and I’ll keep shaking my head sadly and wondering if it’s possible to explain anything to you without using hand puppets.
If the only thing stopping people from looting were the existence of the police, then we would need virtually one police officer for every citizen, and 24 hour surveillance. This isn’t the case, by a long way. Conclusion: most people are not violent.
Counterfactual: violence presented as socially approved or necessary, i.e. wars, capital punishment, tends to get much more approval, even from (or possibly especially from) those who strongly disapprove of anti-social violence. Cases such as a husband killing a cheating wife, while less fashionable these days, certainly have their advocates – and again, the more authoritarian-inclined are more likely to approve of violent reprisals against those whose crimes veer against accepted social boundaries.
So the conclusion I draw is that we’re very socially aware creatures. We don’t loot because we know our neighbours. We go to war because we don’t know our enemies.
Now that obviously brings up many more questions than it purports to answer. If human socialisation is a phenotypical behaviour then that doesn’t mean it’s all genotypical (which is what people mean, or think they mean, when they talk about evolutionary psychology). But it also doesn’t mean that it’s not “hard wired” to a greater or lesser degree.
Personally, I think it’s not really instructive to talk about behaviours as being hard wired or otherwise, because that implies that certain behaviours are things we have no choice over and others are things we have infinite levels of freedom to pick and choose. It’s much more sensible to say that there are greater and lesser levels of strength of tendency, influenced by genetics and environment and varying between individuals and societies. It’s not to say “we are naturally like THIS or THAT.” It’s more to say “if you put a group of X individuals in a group and expose them to pressures Y and Z, you’re likely to see a social dynamic emerging that looks something like A, A.2 or A.3, and not likely to see B or C.”
Unfortunately, the nuances of such things are lost amidst the politics of people who’d rather say “we can all live peacefully if we just get rid of the state” or “girls like pink”.
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The FCC Starting Line-Up
The Wall St. Journal’s fabulous Amy Schatz reports that the FCC line-up seems set.
I know it’s not the Supreme Court. I know it’s not Kobe or Dwight Howard.
But for those of us practicing communications law–or interested in the future of the Internet–the FCC line-up may matter as much as the Supreme Court’s. And the intra-team rivalries sometimes compare to Kobe and Shaq.
The FCC is the government agency that regulates communications–TV, phone, and data over satellite, broadcast, cable, and phone lines. Oh, and the FCC also asserts authority over providers of Internet access. So the FCC matters–for the future of the Internet, the future of media, the future of personal and political communications. Essentially, though the FCC might be best-known for investigating Janet Jacksons’ wardrobe malfunction, this agency helps determine the shape of American discourse and democracy.
The President can appoint three from his own party, so the new line-up includes three Democrats and two Republicans, an obvious change from the Bush years.
Here’s our line-up, according to Schatz:
Julius Genachowski (D). The Chairman. A classmate of Pres. Obama’s at Harvard Law School, then a Supreme Court clerk, then an advisor to President Clinton’s first FCC Chairman, then a tech executive, then a venture capitalist. He was Obama’s top tech advisor during the campaign and gets credit for Obama’s excellent tech innovation agenda. Public interest groups have praised this choice.
Michael Copps (D). The Veteran Warrior. Copps has been the hero of the media reform movement and the open Internet movement for years. He speaks at Free Press’s major conferences every year, with uplifting speeches and charming wit, to applause and adoration. He became a hero through dissents and through negotiating victories while in the minority. He sees a window of opportunity while in the majority.
Mignon Clyburn (D). The State Commissioner. A state public utilities commissioner, Clyburn is not well-known in DC, but is expected to support the President’s agenda.
Robert McDowell (R). The Survivor. Schatz writes: “It wasn’t clear he would be renominated because he had drawn some opposition from AT&T Inc.” From my point of view, Commissioner McDowell has had his good votes–like on white spaces–and his bad votes–like on the Comcast network neutrality order and cable ownership limits. Smart guy, to say the least.
Meredith Baker (R). The NTIA head. I don’t know her personally.
These five have a lot of work ahead of them–such as building a national broadband plan on the basis of this piercing analysis.
With the line-up set, I hope we can get some confirmations soon.
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‘I’m not surprised’: Black protesters, clergy decry double standard in Capitol riot
Tiffany Cusaac-Smith , Adria R. Walker , Peter D. Kramer , Geoffrey Wilson , Jeff Neiburg | USA TODAY NETWORK
Pro-Trump protests turned into a violent riot as they storm US Capitol
President Trump spoke to the crowd and urged them to go to the building. Then the crowd turned violent as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Reenah Golden remembers people taking shelter in a church after hours of marching and protesting the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man suffocated while being restrained by Rochester police officers last year.
That night, officers followed protesters to the church, barraging the holy site with pepper balls.
Months later, Golden said the chemical dispersants and other tactics come to mind when she saw law enforcement’s response to President Donald Trump supporters marauding the U.S. Capitol, one of American democracy’s most hollowed spaces.
Egged on by Trump, the mob broke through police lines at the Capitol. Rioters were then seen waving flags in the building, sitting in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and storming the floor of the Senate.
Black activists say their largely peaceful marches following the death of Prude and George Floyd this summer were quickly met with police in riot gear and chemical dispersants, while law enforcement was lethargic in halting largely white marauders from storming the Capitol.
They say that racism is at the root of the disparate reaction from police officials.
The night the Prude protesters sought refuge in the Rochester church last September, Golden remained outside the church. She recalls police firing tear gas at her car while she sought to drive away with protesters for whom she was seeking medical attention.
“At the Capitol, I see just the opposite,” Golden said. “I see care, attention, thoughtfulness in the approach. Regard for human life to an extent — I saw a lot of that watching the footage and that definitely was deeply painful to watch.”
She added: “We didn’t get that same regard, that same care even though we were fighting for injustice.”
'White privilege' seen in riot's aftermath
Seeing law enforcement’s slow response, Black protesters and leaders saw race as the determining factor in the difference between the police response on America’s streets this summer and what they saw on Wednesday.
Mahkieb Booker, 50, has long been active on the social justice scene in Wilmington, the largest city in Delaware. He can be found at almost every protest for Black rights, whether there are six people there or 600.
During a small early September protest that attempted to travel down one of Wilmington’s main streets, Booker was among about a dozen protestors — who were calling for the firing of an officer they said abuses the community — who were denied the ability to walk on a public sidewalk. An hour-long standoff with the city’s police department included a brief scuffle that resulted in the arrest of two people, including a teenage boy.
Booker saw the various images Wednesday — police officers appearing to allow rioters to break the line, an officer escorting a white woman down the steps while holding her hand — and said it was another example of white privilege.
“You didn’t have a cop holding Sandra Bland’s hand,” Booker said. He pointed to the Breonna Taylor incident in Louisville and how officers let her lay wounded for several minutes before they tended to her, too late to make a difference.
'I should not be as shocked as I was'
Some decried the riots Wednesday as an instance of white supremacy on display.
“It just baffled me that it seemed that the Capitol Police were so underprepared and also just seeing how far they were able to get into the building, how much they were able to do,” said the Rev. Weldon McWilliams IV of Rockland County.
“They were not only able to march to the Capitol building but to get through the barricade, to the steps, and then to be able to scale and climb the building and then to actually get into the building. All this happened without any type of reaction from law enforcement. That to me just seemed astonishing.”
Upon reflection, McWilliams said, “It hit me that I should not be as shocked as I was.”
Yonkers native Dennis Richmond Jr. was "not surprised" by authorities' response to Trump supporters storming the building.
“I wasn't surprised to see non-people of color doing something, and not getting the same ramifications as if Black and brown people were doing it,” he said.
If Black people had even protested in that area, Richmond asserted, there would have been a bigger police presence. “The authorities would have been more active,” he added. “You know, I’m sure it wouldn’t be a lot of selfie-taking with the Black protesters.”
Lawmakers push for Trump's removal
A video posted to social media showed people in police jackets removing barriers outside of the Capitol building and allowing protesters to go inside, USA TODAY reported. Other videos showed at least one apparent officer taking selfies with people who stormed the Capitol.
USA TODAY has not been able to independently verify the identities of the people in these images.
Several videos shared to social media Wednesday afternoon showed officials slowly escorting people out of the building. One officer in riot gear could be seen helping a white woman in a Trump hat down the Capitol steps, holding her hand, according to a CNN livestream.
The condemnation of the protesters and Trump was swift. On Thursday, soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and many other Democrats took it a step further by saying Trump should be removed from office under the 25th Amendment.
Royal Parker, CEO of Until We're All Free, a New York nonprofit supporting intersectional justice, said there was no place for the violence seen at the Capitol on Wednesday and that Trump should be impeached immediately.
However, Parker, 31, of Pleasant Valley in the Hudson Valley, also felt there was a discrepancy between how law enforcement responded Wednesday when compared to police responses to Black Lives Matter protests across the country last year.
"If this were Black Lives Matter, the tanks would be in the streets," Parker said.
A matter of 'otherness'?
President-elect Joe Biden said that Black protesters were treated differently than rioters challenging the results of the election.
"Nobody can tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters that they wouldn't have been treated differently than the thugs who stormed the Capitol," Biden said. "We all know that is true. And it is unacceptable – totally unacceptable."
The Rev. Edward Hunt, pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Wappingers Falls, chalked up the different response to last summer's Black Lives Matter protests and Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol as a matter of “otherness.”
Wednesday’s rioters looked like the police, he said; Black Lives Matter protesters did not.
"The police officer was looking at his brother, looking at his cousin, looking at his brother-in-law. And (thought) 'I can't hurt him because I'm going to suffer,'" said Hunt
The riots in Washington on Wednesday resulted in more than 60 arrests and at least five deaths, including one woman who was shot and killed inside the Capitol by the building's police force.
By comparison, protests sparked by Floyd's death led to more than 100 arrests over the course of three days in Minneapolis, USA TODAY reported. In subsequent days, cities across the country arrested dozens of people in a single night, with Los Angeles arresting more than 500 in one day.
Booker, the Delaware activist, watched the events unfold Wednesday and saw what he called a “double standard.”
He used the term “Aluta,” which derives from the Portuguese phrase, “A luta continua,” which translates in English to “the struggle continues.”
As many politicians used the phrase “this isn’t us” over the last 24 hours, Booker disagreed.
“It’s nothing new,” Booker said. “This is America.”
More: Who voted against certification? Why these GOP lawmakers did even after Capitol riot
More: Schumer calls for Trump's removal: 'This president should not hold office one day longer'
USA TODAY contributed to this report.
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Thursdayח׳ שבט ה׳תשפ״אJanuary 21, 2021
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Yud Kislev: The Chag Hageulah of the Mitteler Rebbe
Yemei Chabad
י׳ כסלו ה׳תשפ״א - November 26, 2020
The 10th of Kislev marks the day when the Mitteler Rebbe was released from prison. Read the story of his arrest and release, and watch it celebrated at the Rebbe’s farbrengens.
By Yerachmiel Tilles – Chabad.org
Rabbi Pinchas Reizes was a chassid of the second Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi DovBer (known as the “Mitteler Rebbe”). When Rabbi Pinchas passed away, his only heir was a nephew, who opposed the chassidic ways.
Among the items that came into the nephew’s possession was a letter written by the rebbe to his uncle, asking Rabbi Pinchas to serve on a special committee to disburse funds for charity. The sum cited in the letter was 4,000 rubles.
The nephew showed the letter to a cousin of the Mitteler Rebbe, whose last name was Lipman. Lipman, who unfortunately was a complete scoundrel, saw this as a golden opportunity to blackmail the rebbe.
If the Rebbe did not give him money, he threatened, he would go to the authorities and tell them that Rabbi DovBer was collecting funds for clandestine, illegal purposes. But the rebbe was immune to his intimidations. “Not one penny will you get from me,” he told him. “Do whatever you want, for I have done nothing wrong and am not afraid of your slander.”
Incensed by the rebbe’s response, Lipman carried out his threat. With the help of some unsavory associates, he altered the original letter to make it appear as if the rebbe had 104,000 rubles instead of 4,000—a veritable fortune in those days. The rebbe was accused of various criminal activities, such as trying to bribe the Turkish sultan, and it was also alleged that the rebbe’s study hall had been built to the exact specifications of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, indicating his pretensions to the throne.
On Saturday night, 28 Tishrei 5587 (1826), investigators showed up at Rabbi DovBer’s house. They conducted a thorough search of the premises. Careful note was taken of all written materials, and anything else they considered suspicious. At the same time, a separate group of investigators measured the rebbe’s study hall; the astonished chassidim could not figure out what they were trying to find.
By that time a large crowd had gathered in front of the rebbe’s house, and everyone could hear the tearful pleading of the rebbe’s family with the police. The only one who seemed to be taking everything in stride was Rabbi DovBer. As if nothing unusual were going on, he withdrew to his room to write a chassidic discourse. A while later he announced that he would receive people for private audiences, which he did.
The following morning, the rebbe was ordered to accompany the police to their headquarters in Vitebsk. Word of the rebbe’s arrest quickly spread, and in every town and village along the way, hundreds of Jews came out to greet him. Thanks to the efforts of several influential Jews, it was agreed that the long journey would be made in stages, with numerous stops to allow the rebbe to rest.
When the carriage arrived in Dobromysl, the rebbe asked to be allowed to pray the afternoon service in the local synagogue. Afterwards, to everyone’s surprise, he delivered a chassidic discourse on the verse from Song of Songs, “Many waters cannot quench love.” The allusion to his present situation was clear.
The rebbe was subsequently imprisoned in the city of Vitebsk and placed under tight security. Some time later it was learned that the formal charge against him was rebellion against the government.
The rebbe was jailed for one month and ten days, but even from the beginning he was granted certain privileges. Three people were permitted to stay with him, and three times a day twenty Jews were allowed into his room to pray with him. The rebbe was also permitted to deliver a chassidic discourse twice a week in front of fifty people, after his doctor testified that it was crucial for his health.
In the meantime, efforts to secure the rebbe’s release were being made behind the scenes. Several high-ranking government officials who had heard about the rebbe and held him in great esteem tried to exert their influence. The rebbe was interrogated numerous times, during which he proved that not only were his connections to the Turkish sultan completely fabricated, but his designs on the czar’s throne were equally fictitious.
At the end of several weeks, the results of the investigation were turned over to the Minister of the Interior. The minister was very impressed by the rebbe’s responses to all the questions, and decided that a direct confrontation between Rabbi DovBer and his accuser was in order.
On the designated day, the rebbe dressed in his white Shabbat finery. When he walked into the minister’s office, the official was so disconcerted by his angelic appearance that he ordered his servants to bring the rebbe a chair.
The informer began to heap his invectives upon the rebbe, but one by one the rebbe dismissed the accusations entirely. At one point in the proceedings Lipman addressed Rabbi DovBer as “Rebbe,” prompting the rebbe to turn to the minister and remark, “Did you see that? First he calls me a charlatan and a revolutionary, and in the next breath he calls me ‘Rebbe’!”
From that point on, Lipman’s allegations became increasingly illogical. The minister was so irritated by his behavior that he ordered him to “stop barking,” and he was led away in humiliation. The rebbe was escorted back to his room with great deference, and informed that he would soon be released.
Rabbi DovBer was liberated on the 10th of Kislev, having been informed of the government’s decision while reciting the verse from Psalms 55, “He has saved my soul in peace.” Ever since, the event has been celebrated on that date by the Chabad-Lubavitch community.
Reprinted with permission from Chabad.org
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Andrew Maxfield, Composer
Celebrating Wendell Berry in Music
They All Saw a Cat
By the time I had conceived of this album project(around 2005), Mr. Berry’s essays, novels, and poems had already affected me profoundly. In my case, expressing my appreciation for his work came most easily through music. I began with just a few choral music settings of his texts. Early performances of those pieces were received well enough that I began to imagine a larger project, which grew into what you see here.
A highlight of the project, of course, was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Berry at their home in Kentucky. You’ll hear Mr. Berry read from his own work on the album.
Along the way, while I was pursuing this musical path, The Berry Center was emerging as a vehicle for putting into action many of the ideas the Berry family has advocated. I began to perceive a possible confluence of our interests. And so we coordinated a premiere performance in Louisville, KY, in 2013 to kick off The Berry Center’s inaugural conference and the release of Celebrating Wendell Berry in Music (Volume 1), a two-disc collaboration with Eric Bibb.
In 2016, I released a Volume 2. Entitled All The Earth Shall Sing, it adds new choral and art music to the growing project, as well as more recordings of Mr. Berry reading his work.
In 2017, Tantara Records, a fine record label with an excellent choral catalog, released a new edition of Celebrating Wendell Berry in Music, which features the best material from the original two volumes (now both out of print). Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe, chair of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California, selected and sequenced the tracks and contributed new liner notes.
Over time, a project like this begins to take on a life of its own. Nothing makes me happier than to hear of new friends across the globe finding meaning and joy in this music that was such a joy to make. I hope you find joy in it, too.
Andrew Maxfield
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A technique for comparing the bulk and surface structure of defects in thin films using the scanning transmission electron microscope.
M. M.J. Treacy, W. Krakow, D. A. Smith, G. Trafas
A technique is described which allows the scanning transmission electron microscope to be operated either in its usual mode to give a transmission image from a thin film, or with a tilted sample to give a low-loss image of the surface. The low-loss image obtained from one surface of a thin-film gold sample is compared with the bright field image of the same area. Microtwins in this film display strong topographic contrast on the single surface studied. From this, it appears that the microtwins are formed by deformation, rather than as growth accidents during the preparation of the sample. It is found advantageous in the low-loss mode to operate with a less steeply tilted sample than heretofore.
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.92370
10.1063/1.92370
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Treacy, M. M. J., Krakow, W., Smith, D. A., & Trafas, G. (1981). A technique for comparing the bulk and surface structure of defects in thin films using the scanning transmission electron microscope. Applied Physics Letters, 38(5), 341-343. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.92370
A technique for comparing the bulk and surface structure of defects in thin films using the scanning transmission electron microscope. / Treacy, M. M.J.; Krakow, W.; Smith, D. A.; Trafas, G.
In: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 38, No. 5, 01.12.1981, p. 341-343.
Treacy, MMJ, Krakow, W, Smith, DA & Trafas, G 1981, 'A technique for comparing the bulk and surface structure of defects in thin films using the scanning transmission electron microscope.', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 341-343. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.92370
Treacy MMJ, Krakow W, Smith DA, Trafas G. A technique for comparing the bulk and surface structure of defects in thin films using the scanning transmission electron microscope. Applied Physics Letters. 1981 Dec 1;38(5):341-343. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.92370
Treacy, M. M.J. ; Krakow, W. ; Smith, D. A. ; Trafas, G. / A technique for comparing the bulk and surface structure of defects in thin films using the scanning transmission electron microscope. In: Applied Physics Letters. 1981 ; Vol. 38, No. 5. pp. 341-343.
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British car production fell by more than an annual 40% in the first half of the year to the lowest level since 1954 as the coronavirus pandemic shut factories and dealerships, an industry body said on Thursday.
Plants and retailers closed in March and only some gradually began to reopen from May with certain sites still shut and others not at pre-virus levels.
The hit leaves output at just over 381,000 cars, the lowest level since 1954, when Winston Churchill's government ended food rationing imposed as part of the World War Two effort.
In 2020, the industry expects to churn out just over 880,000 cars, a third lower than in 2019 in what would be the worst performance for over 60 years, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said.
"Our factories were once set to make two million cars in 2020 but could now produce less than half that number, a result of the devastating effects of the pandemic on top of already challenging market conditions and years of Brexit uncertainty," said SMMT CEO Mike Hawes.
But announced investment in the first half of the year rose from 90 million pounds ($117 million) in 2019 to 485 million pounds thanks primarily to Nissan, which is due to build its new Qashqai in Britain.
Alongside the pandemic, the sector faces the challenge of investing in electrification, the rapid decline in demand for diesel models and is worried that Brexit could create trade barriers with its biggest export market.
Some in the industry have sought a scrappage scheme, last introduced in 2009, to protect jobs after thousands have been shed in the last few months.
"We have a proposal," said Hawes. "We think we can arrive at something which would be a net benefit to the Treasury."
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Sweden is burning, and we have no defense
in Featured, Sexual Politics
Criticism of Swedish authorities for their handling of the big forest fire in Västmanland has in some quarters been very strong. Much of it will never be seen by those who only consume media and authority-approved information. But those who actively search for information online do not have to look farther than Mikael Styrman’s blogpost “The Swedish incompetence in its prime.” Styrman knows what he’s talking about:
For those who do not know why I feel that I am called to speak about this, I fly helicopters and am a forest owner, a former forestry contractor and manager of a power plant. I have been through several forest fires and have both commissioned and performed several prescribed forest burnings, including both preparation and afterwork.
Operative firefighters from Sweden on a network meeting in 2012. Picture taken from the MSB website.
Styrman writes not only about the incompetence that has characterized the management of this particular disaster but also the cause: the system errors in the Swedish public sector. The same system errors that, as Styrman explains, cause the trains to stop, or not start at all, as soon as it gets warmer or colder than 10 degrees Celsius. Errors that cause expensive and unnecessary tunnels to not be completed on time. Errors that convict innocent citizens of 10 murders while the real killers go free. The reason the elderly are abandoned and locked up at night. The reason the electricity stops working when it gets a little windy and functioning telephone lines get scrapped because it means more money in the pockets of the telecommunications mafia.
Heads of operations
Styrman summarizes these system errors in one sentence when he discusses the five highest officials responsible for the rescue operation who answered questions at a recent press conference in Sala.
Five highly paid and totally ignorant people for which it is more important what sex they are, what party they belong to, and who they are family and friends with.
It is the factor that Styrman mentions first—gender—that we shall look at closely. But first, some facts about Swedish preparedness for disasters like this one. There was talk in the media that Sweden could quickly mobilize five helicopters for extinguishing and rescue work. The truth is that Sweden could mobilize only three. Two more had to be borrowed from Norway. Three helicopters is what Sweden can send up in the event of a major disaster such as this. THREE! We have ordered 10 Black Hawk helicopters, Prime Minister Reinfeldt said in his defense in a recent interview. But the order has apparently not been expedited for more than 10 years?!
What other customer has accepted a delay of 10 years when placing such an important order? Or any order, for that matter? Was there no clause to cancel the contract in case of a serious delay? Ten years? Give me a fucking break … And not a single follow-up question from the reporter. Marvelous!
Admittedly, helicopters are not a particularly effective tool when it comes to putting out fires of this magnitude, but they are incredibly important in almost all kinds of other rescue work. In this fire, the helicopters have rescued several people. But in the effort to extinguish fires of this scale, they are pretty useless. There is then really only one thing one can do, according to Styrman (except maybe start dancing a rain dance). You have to quickly cut fire roads in the periphery, start fires there, and let those fires burn their way into the middle, where they will extinguish one another. If this had been done straight away, this disaster could have been avoided. The key in these situations is knowledge.
An educated person will be more useful with just a shovel than a whole bunch of incompetent people with all the equipment in the world.
So what has the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (“Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap,” or MSB) done to strengthen this knowledge with their management staff in recent years? What has been done to educate the people who will be our last line of defense against natural disasters of this magnitude? Have they done anything?
Oh yes, they have spent millions of dollars to train management … in “gender studies and equality.”
In early 2010, the MSB spent 16 million Swedish kronor (called “sek,” and equal to US$2.3 million) on two major projects. Eight million went to the Center for Gender Studies at Karlstad University and the project “The gender-coded civil protection: Conditions of gender equality.” Among other things, it discussed whether masculinity should be considered a risk.
The same amount of money went to Luleå University for a four-year program called “Gender and Public Safety: Technology, organization and gender mainstreaming.” Some areas that researchers will examine include:
Why are the number of women greater among part-time firefighters than among full-time employees? Is it because of how the work is organized?
What role does new equipment and tools play for how we look at the job?
Physical strength is valued very highly among firefighters. How do we explain that an experienced firefighter may have high status, even if he is no longer so strong?
Are there significant barriers to equality that lie more in the community than outside civil protection?
How significant is it, for example, that a father of small children is expected to be able to work nights but not a mother of small children?
Does anyone see anything in this program that has got anything to do with rescue work? How best to fight major forest fires, for example? No? Neither do I.
Look at the following screenshot, which was recently taken from the MSB website. This page promotes a protection against accidents (SMO) program, which is a two-year post–high school program for anyone who wants to become a firefighter and work with rescue and safety. Does anyone notice the same as me?
So what did the Swedish taxpayers get for their 16 million sek? Were the burning forests in Västmanland full of strong and brave women who made heroic efforts to put the damn thing out? No, they were not. I will not say there were none, for I do not know that, but if there were women involved, they were not many. And if any of the men (or their leadership) who have been fighting this monster participated in this program, I doubt they have had much use for it in their 10-plus days of battling the largest forest fire in Swedish history.
The politicians, who are so freely handing out billions of taxpayers’ money to self-proclaimed frauds and swindlers at the universities, do not seem to question why their (read: our) spent millions did not contribute to an effective disaster preparedness. In any case, I have not heard any such criticism from any of them so far. Asa Romson (environmental party) now suddenly celebrates the same people whom in a recent speech in Almedalen she called “non-people”: white, heterosexual, carnivorous men. In one week, the same people can apparently go from being the cause of all that is wrong in this world to being heroes. All that’s needed is a forest fire that you can smell all the way to Stockholm.
It has rubbed many people the wrong way that early in the crisis Romson tried to win political points from a disaster that had already taken people’s (men’s) lives and homes, especially since she and her party have been driving the effort to totally dismantle Swedish defense units. If the Green Party would have had a majority in parliament, we would not have been able to mobilize even three choppers or a single tracked vehicle, for that matter.
But she is not the only politician who deserves criticism. They all do. We Swedes are generally either indifferent or ignorant about what is done above our heads.
I do believe, though, that most citizens would agree with me that it’s worth 16 million of our money to educate a good rescue service, thereby having not only rescue workers who know their shit but also competent crisis management. The tax money we pay to the Civil Contingencies Agency should be used to ensure just that. What it should not be used for, however, is funding a playhouse for self-appointed gender experts whose teachings denigrate the very people who right now are risking their lives to toil 20 hours a day in shifts to save people and property in Västmanland.
Am I the only one who can feel my blood starting to boil?
Helena Lindberg
And it does not get better when I hear that the (of course, female) head of the Civil Contingencies Agency, Helena Lindberg, refused to end her vacation early to come home to take charge. She gave some sort of explanation to the dumbfounded reporter, but all I hear is something like this:
I don’t give a fuck about your trivial fires and burnt-down cottages and you can do crap about it since I have protection. I do NOT want to be disturbed when I am on vacation reading the latest proposals from my interior designer. And anyway I don’t even know what a forest fire is. You don’t have to have skills in my job. You just have to be a woman with the right opinions and connections. Furthermore, it is my husband who does the BBQing in our family.
So far as we know, one man has died and a few more have been badly injured in this fire. And there is a big risk that more casualties and even fatalities will follow. It is never a good idea for civilians to wander into areas where huge forest fires are raging.
Whether or not volunteers join the fight despite the risks depends on management’s ineptitude. When people realize that those who should be doing the job of protecting them and their property don’t know how, they tend to take matters into their own hands. It is called responsibility. In these cases, it is often good, but sometimes it ends badly.
You cannot tell people not to do anything themselves: “Just watch from a safe distance as we make total asses of ourselves and your property gets destroyed!”
You have to learn how to do your job and then take care of it!
And guess who it is in the family who grabs the chainsaw and shovel and heads for the forest? Well, you have a 50 percent chance of getting it right. Looks like ordinary folk have not participated in university gender programs yet.
But that said, I also want to make it perfectly clear that it is not the many firefighters heroically fighting in the forests right now who are to blame. And a lot of women are also doing heroic actions: getting food, water, and other supplies to the workers, providing transport, and organizing sleeping shelters, etc. Funny how when shit hits the fan, we always seem to regress to our old gender roles. Dangerous close situations seem to have that effect on us. No shadow should fall over these people. They are all truly heroes and deserve our fullest respect.
And they also deserve a management and, ultimately, politicians who do not spend their hard-earned money on bullshit gender studies that have done NOTHING to help them fighting for us all out there.
Let us hope that no other big fires will happen anywhere in Sweden right now because at the moment every fire hose in the whole of Sweden is in Västmanland.
But at least we are equal, right? What a comfort.
The General: So it's about equality, huh?
Warren Farrell: Presentation to the International Conference on Men’s Issues 2014
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PNP reminds gun owners of upcoming election gun ban to start on 12:00 a.m. Saturday
April 13, 2018 DF Balita Philippine News, PHILIPPINES
As the election period for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections start on Saturday, April 14, PNP reminds gun owners of the upcoming gun ban which will commence on the same day
Anyone who violates will be arrested for illegal possession of firearms and violating the election rules
The gun ban will take effect on 12:00 a.m. Saturday and is expected to end on May 21
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is reminding gun owners not to carry their firearms in public without an exemption from the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) as the gun ban for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections starts on Saturday.
According to Chief Supt. John Bulalacao, spokesperson of PNP, the gun ban as declared by the Comelec for the May 14 election takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, which is also the start of the election period.
The gun ban is expected to end on May 21.
Chief Supt. Bulalacao said that anyone who wants to bring their guns in public must first secure a gun ban exemption from the COMELEC.
Anyone who violates will be arrested for illegal possession of firearms and for violating the election rules.
The PNP spokesperson also reminded policemen to strictly observe protocols in conducting checkpoints. They must also wear proper police uniform and being led by an officer.
In addition, cops on duty at checkpoints are only allowed to conduct a visual search of vehicles through the car windows and should not require passengers to step out.
However, authorities may order a passenger or a driver to get off the vehicle when he or she is an identified subject of an arrest warrant.
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The look in the mirror: The Museum for Foreign and Familiar Cultures
A talk with Lisl Ponger
In 2014, the artist Lisl Ponger realized her dream of her own museum in the Vienna Secession. With the exhibition “The Vanishing Middle Class”, she presented the “Museum for Foreign and Familiar Cultures”, MuKul for short, and made an enlightening contribution to the discussion about the future of ethnological museums. During my visit to Vienna in March 2016, Lisl Ponger explained her approach and her artistic perspective.
Beatrice Barrois (BB): From February 13 to March 30, 2014, your exhibition “The Vanishing Middle Class” took place in Vienna at the Secession. There you have realized the long-cherished wish of a museum for foreign and familiar cultures. How exactly did the idea come about?
Lisl Ponger (LP): It’s an old idea that I had about seven years ago, in 2009. It was clear to me that this idea could not be realized without an institution. For some time now I have been interested in ethnological and anthropological literature. During my research on American ethnology, Native Americans and First Nation People, I came across the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis, the so-called Indian photographer, whose photographs I was interested in. In the course of this research I came across the term “The Vanishing Indians”, a term I found particularly interesting and wanted to apply to other things. From this, the idea of a “Vanishing Middle Class” was born. In addition, there was the dream of once “building” a museum as an art project. When the request of the Secession came, I had about a year to realize it.
BB: Some of the exhibits in the exhibition come from your own collection, others are on loan. How did the selection and composition of the objects result?
LP: About 98% of the exhibited objects come from me. There were also loans, for example from the invented “Museum of the Emerging Middle Class” in Shanghai, of which many a visitor believed that it actually existed. By working with analogue photography in my artistic practice in order to take staged pictures, I have a large pool of objects at my disposal that I have collected. However, I bought most of the exhibits as part of the preparations for the exhibition.
BB: In the manner of an ethnological museum, all exhibits were provided with detailed inscriptions. How did this happen?
LP: I had a staff member of the then newly renamed Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna at my side, a young scientist who is now a Curatorial Fellow at the Kunsthalle Bremen. She was ethnologically in charge of the exhibition. I learned a lot in the process, because artistic exhibition practices and the logic of a museum are two diametrically opposed issues. All object descriptions, inventory numbers, wall texts etc. were checked for their ethnological museum suitability, because it was very important to me to work with the methods of a classical museum.
BB: You are interested in classification systems of ethnological collections and have studied various museums and exhibitions in detail. What fascinates you about it and which aspects were relevant for your “Museum for Foreign and Familiar Cultures”, in short MuKul?
LP: I am mainly interested in ethnological museum presentations. I have travelled a lot and have visited different museums in every country and city, but above all ethnological museums. For my museum, I specifically referred to the exhibition “Brazil” of the former Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna, now the World Museum. In recent years, the way in which ethnological exhibitions are presented have changed. Sometimes they are just modern showcases and typographies, but the content remains “classic”. The “Brazil” show was such an exhibition and I took a very close look at it and adopted many ideas.
BB: I remember the curtain on which a beach picture of the Cayman Islands could be seen and through which your museum was entered. An element of the “Brazil” show that you took over?
LP: Yes, exactly, there was also a curtain with an exotic Brazilian landscape through which one entered the exhibition.
BB: I find your work and the “Museum for Foreign and Familiar Cultures” impressive, because you use the means of an ethnological museum and thus manage to uncover common museological strategies and reveal their anachronisms ... I am thinking, for example, of the common concept of wanting to represent a culture by means of material objects. What contradictions did you notice during your research in ethnological museums? And how did you deal with it in your own museum?
LP: I had my big “aha experience” at my first visit of the “Brazil” exhibition, which I saw several times afterwards. The show was on the ground floor and there were two entrances. By chance I entered the exhibition through the “wrong” entrance and stood in a hall that was about the present. I thought to myself, “Now they have understood that one should not start in colonial times, but in the present time” and walked through the rooms, very happy, only to find out disappointedly at the end that the tour was arranged in a classical chronological way. I believe introducing an exhibition based on the present would be a different, more exciting and more contemporary narrative; not chronologically from one’s own collection, but vice versa. At the “Brazil” exhibition, for example, I also noticed that the contemporary space was rather poorly designed compared to the historical rooms: with white walls and utensils on shelves. The rooms of the past were colorful, with ... of course ... wonderful objects in glass showcases in exotic ambience. For my museum I have consciously applied the classical methods of ethnological museums and related them to a burning issue from a Western point of view.
BB: Collecting is a basic feature of every museum. What does collecting mean for you?
LP: Collecting means for me that I have things that I like, but I don’t have a collection that is worth much. Of course, I brought masks and figures etc. from my travels, but always with the good excuse that I need them for my work.
BB: For your museum, you have decided in particular for objects that have as many levels of meaning as possible. Another criterion was that they appeal to you aesthetically. Can you give me an example?
LP: When selecting the exhibits, I always proceeded first with the content. After that, aesthetics came into play. I have not chosen an object with which I would have had an aesthetic problem. One example is the perfumes in the first room. Representative utility objects of the “Middle Class” were shown here. These eau de parfums are called “rich” or “1 million” and speak for themselves. Another example are the board games, such as an anniversary edition of “Monopoly”, a collector’s edition from 1991, with a game board made of mahogany, and gold-plated and silver-plated game pieces. Then there are objects whose expressiveness is so great that nothing more can be said about them. For example, the “Lehman Brothers Emergency Evacuation Kit”, consisting of a gas mask, a flashlight, a whistle etc. That’s what all Lehman Brothers employees got after 9/11 to protect themselves from further catastrophes; didn’t work out so well ... or the number letters. These are first-day envelopes with stamps and a shrink-wrapped coin or banknote. If one speaks of tax havens, the island state of Vanuatu for example, which is also an exotic place of longing, then several levels of meaning come with this Numis letter to the surface. Another example is a golf ball covered with 24 carat gold.
BB: A more general question: Which function does your MuKul have for you?
LP: It was an attempt. I wanted to try out whether it was possible in a rather elitist art venue, which is the Vienna Secession, to appeal to a wider museum audience. In a museum, there are explanatory wall texts and object descriptions; in art exhibitions this is very rare and almost frowned upon. And many people who had never been to the Secession before came to visit “my museum”. The visitors were of course aware that they were in an art exhibition that functioned like a museum, with its didactic components and its potential for mediation.
BB: Ethnographic objects in exhibitions should convey a certain content and often feed stereotypical ideas. What do you think about it and how do you think one could break with these habits of seeing?
LP: In my MuKul, I deliberately played with these ideas and worked with typifications, just as it was the case in many ethnological museums or still is. Habits of seeing are deeply anchored in our history and certain objects and images recall certain stereotypes. One might have to question this process and pass on questions to the visitors. In my museum this aspect was quite obvious, it worked well. As curator of my museum, I have given twenty guided tours in six weeks. Many young, interested people came. One of the favourite objects of the visitors was a living casting, a half-figure made of plaster with the title “Generation Praktikum”. Here I made a reference to the anthropological studies and the live effusions of the so-called rescue ethnology and at the same time was able to deal with a burning topical question. The American “Salvage Ethnology” made plaster casts of the “last Indians” for posterity. It was about keeping them in the museum after trying to wipe them out. It had never been the goal to save their culture. It was more a matter of eliminating them as a threat, annexing their land and locking them in reservations. If they were then no longer a threat, artists, photographers and ethnologists stepped onto the scene to save what was to be saved. The objects were musealized in order to conjure up a nostalgic image of them as noble savages of the past. This is also where my exhibition on the disappearance of the middle class begins. We are at a time when the middle class is disappearing, democratically with drastic consequences. Now you have to collect quickly in order to be able to show later what it was like ...
BB: Do you think that you can create a picture of the past from objects, pictures, photographs or reports?
LP: Of course, it’s not. It’s always a construct. What we get to see from ancient cultures, such as the Egyptians in museums, are mostly only objects of the upper, ruling classes. The objects of the poorer population were mostly not made of permanent materials and are irrelevant from a cultural-historical point of view. This is an example of the invisible standards that are taken for granted and never spoken about. So, what one can learn about a past culture mainly concerns the rich classes. It is interesting to see which pictures are produced in this way.
BB: Your exhibition includes the MuKul with coloured rooms, glass showcases and dioramas, scenographically all classic building blocks of ethnological museums, as well as the special exhibition “Wild Places”, an art exhibition in the White Cube with your own photographic works. What relationship do you make between these two elements?
LP: Long before the theme “Can art save ethnological museums?” came up, I was sometimes invited to exhibit in such a place, often at the end of a tour in a small room. Hence the art exhibition in my museum in the last room. Art in ethnological museums should always have a critical potential.
BB: In your special exhibition “Wild Places”, you can see ten photographic works from very different years. Can you explain some of the work to me in more detail? Let’s take a look, for example, at the work “Let a thousand flowers bloom” from 2007, which by the way was also part of the exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthaus Dresden in 2009. The photograph shows a still life. Next to a flower vase there is a figure, which was also exhibited in a showcase in the third hall of the MuKul. What’s it all about?
LP: In general, I wanted to create links to the main exhibition on various levels with the works shown in the special exhibition. I chose the work “Let a thousand flowers bloom” because in the main exhibition I talk about China in connection with the emerging middle class. For a long time, I wanted to make a flower still life, especially since for several reasons I have been intensively involved with Dutch and Flemish baroque painting. Firstly, I am interested in their photographic view of the world; secondly, the almost God-given central perspective in painting was only one aspect that has prevailed. The Dutch and Flemish had a completely different approach to perspective. I also believe that the central perspective has contributed significantly to our idea of “The West and the rest”. Flower still lifes interested me because on them flowers that grow at different times in different places were made visible for the first time in a picture. I was very inspired by that idea. I have worked with artificial flowers in many of my photographs. I am interested in all these fake objects that are always available and can be bought for little money. These objects say: “Our social system has access to everything.” A few years ago, I was looking for artificial tulips in winter. In an artificial flower department of a large department store I asked a saleswoman about it. Stunned, she told me that tulips had no season now! It was new to me that artificial flowers were also sold after the season. Near Dresden, there was one of the largest production companies of artificial flowers until after the Second World War. With globalization, all this has migrated to the East. China had a long tradition in this respect and is now the world market leader. I visited the former production site in Sebnitz. “Let a thousand flowers bloom” is about western projections on China. At the left edge of the picture there is an Egyptian obelisk, an allusion to Athanasius Kircher and his claim that Chinese writing developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphics. The figure to the right of the vase, which is also displayed in a showcase in the MuKul, is an imitation of a figure originally from the period of the Cultural Revolution. These figures are produced again today for tourists and I bought mine on eBay. It is a soldier holding a banner in her hands that says in Chinese “Down with capitalism”. This inscription was of course in a completely different context at the time. Mao accused the renegade party comrades of having taken the capitalist path. As an object in the MuKul, this statement naturally takes on a completely different meaning. In the metal ball to the left of the vase, I mirror myself while photographing, an allusion to Dutch painting. On the left of the table is a shirred reprinted upholstery fabric from the Chinoiserie period, including a red silk fabric embroidered with a saying from EuroMayday 2007: “No more illusions, let’s struggle and organize ourselves”. In front of the vase is the “Little Red Book of Mao”. Between 1956 and 1957, the Communist Party of China called on the people to express themselves critically on the situation of the state. “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools compete.” However, this movement was only of very short duration. The title “Let a thousand flowers bloom” refers to it. There are still several shells to be seen, one of which was drawn by Rembrandt. The red starfish plays with the red communist star. Behind it is an artificial coral made of felt. In the Dutch still lifes, flowers have an iconography that I was not interested in. However, I have researched the meaning of different flowers in China. There is also a story about the blue and white vase, because this type of porcelain was traded between Asia and Europe, in both directions. In this picture, as in all my other works, there are many hidden stories ...
BB: One photograph is entitled “Indian(er) Jones II – The Glass Bead Game”. How does this work relate to the MuKul?
LP: This picture is actually the most important one in relation to the main exhibition. It is about Western museum presentations of non-European objects. How do different approaches to exhibiting change the meaning we ascribe to the objects? Exhibition practices are subject to fashions, as is the renaming wave of museums in recent years: suddenly these are called “world museums” or “world cultures museums”. In ten years, there may be new names again, following a new discourse. These changes are cyclical and not new. As early as 1913, ethnographic objects were presented as art in the “Armory Show”, officially called the “International Exhibition of Modern Art”. In 1984 the exhibition “PRIMITIVISM IN 20TH CENTURY ART, Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern” took place at the MOMA in New York. Often one gets the feeling that discourses produce an ultimate and unchangeable truth, but of course every discourse is also dependent on geographical, political and socio-economic conditions and is constantly changing. This statement also belongs to the invisible standards with which operations are performed. Let’s get back to Indian(er) Jones II. This is about the different presentation of non-European objects and private collections. There’s a template for this photo. I am referring to a painting by Willson Peale entitled “The Artist in His Museum” from 1822, a painting that many US Americans know from their textbooks. He himself, a painter and naturalist, can be seen opening his museum, America’s first private natural history museum. He lifts the red curtain and reveals his collection. Peale dug up dinosaur bones himself and devised classification systems. My work also deals with collections and classifications. You can see that the objects placed behind the curtain were divided into the categories Art, Artefact, Specimen, Trophy and Curio. Pablo Picasso was a passionate collector and Georg Baselitz also has an incredible collection of African objects. I got the idea that many painters who make money try to enroll in this genealogy since Picasso and start collecting African objects. My Indian(er) Jones series currently consists of four parts, just like Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones movies. Another one is in preparation and I will react with a fifth picture. “Indian(er) Jones III – High Stakes” from 2012 is a poker game between Indian Jones, the adventurer, conqueror or perhaps conquistador Hernán Cortez and the Mayas and Aztecs. The Indians have lost the game and left the table. Everything that Indian Jones has earned has turned to gold. But he knows that he was playing with his cards in the rack, maybe someone will claim his winnings after all. “I’d rather be armed and keep my hand on the gun”, he thinks. One of his booty pieces is the Cross of Coronado, invented for the film and modeled by me. But the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, after whom it is named, really existed. The red powder in a bowl, in the middle of the table, is cochineal, a dye obtained from aphids, a very valuable commodity at the time. In this work, too, every object and every element is precisely researched and selected. The picture “Indian(er) Jones IV – Dreams of New Worlds” from 2013 shows Indian(er) Jones as a banker and representative of the neoliberal system. The work refers to a wall painting by Diego Rivera titled “Dream of an Afternoon in the Alameda Park” from 1947–1948. To the left of Indian(er) Jones stands the Mexican woman Tod. She is also the constant companion of the neoliberal system. Behind them there is a demonstration, on the signs, different photographs are shown. One shows “La belleza de la desobediencia”, translated “The beauty of disobedience” as graffiti. Another shows the basketball court in a small village in the mountains of Chiapas, where talks between the Mexican government and the Zapatistas took place. It is a tribute to the Zapatista movement, the first of all system-critical anti-capitalist movements.
BB: In the picture “Indian(er) Jones I – Fact or Truth”, the hero stands with his back to the viewer and looks at a wall with several photographs. What’s it all about?
LP: For me, Indian(er) Jones is actually Indian Jones, hence the bracket in his name. I find it very exciting to work with an iconic figure from popular culture. The Indian Jones of the object is a prison academician and anthropologist who collects for representation. He is an adventurer in search of gold objects. If he finds something, you can see the sparkle in his eyes. But before greed overpowers him, he says: “I’m collecting for the museum.” In my four pictures, he is actually always a different one, but also Indiana Jones, the Western conqueror, ethnologist, archaeologist etc. In “Indian(er) Jones I”, I refer to photographs by Edward Curtis. Curtis was a photographer who at the end of the 19th century tried to photograph all the Indian tribes of North America. He was actually one of the good guys for his time. In search of the former “free, wild Indian”, however, he travelled through the country in a wagon full of costumes. If an Indian’s garment did not fit into his concept, he dressed him up. This can be seen in the photos in which the same shirt can be seen with different ethnic groups. Back to “Indian(er) Jones I – Fact or Truth”: The back figure alludes to Caspar David Friedrich’s painting “Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer” from 1818. However, my figure does not look into a painted landscape, but at photographs. I chose the painting as my starting point because in Caspar David Friedrich’s romantic approach to landscape I see a parallel to Edward Curtis’s romantic view of the “Indian peoples”. The first known ethnological feature film “Nanuk, the Eskimo” from 1922 was made by Robert J. Flaherty. Another one of this genre is the film “Tabu” by Friedrich Murnau, shot on Tahiti. These films are a mixture of ethnological observations and feature film elements. Actually, the first movie of this kind came from Edward Curtis. It was called “In the Land of the Head Hunters”, renamed “In the Land of the War Canoes” and was shot in 1914 in British Columbia, Canada. It’s a tragic love story with First Nation actors. I’ve been to some places where Curtis made the movie and took the pictures. My work shows Indian(er) Jones looking at various photographs with his back to us. There are pictures from the environment of today’s First Nation People, totem poles, community houses, souvenir items and a demonstration. The title “Fact or Truth” refers to a scene from the third film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”. Indiana Jones says in a lecture to his students: “... Archeology is not just a cross on a map and it’s definitely not mainly about finding treasures.” The next scene shows him in a library. On the ground, there is a huge cross and exactly there is the entrance to his next adventure, although he had just claimed that archaeology was not an adventure but a serious science. Archaeology is about facts and truth. It became my title, Fact or Truth. This work deals with documentary photography and the question of the extent to which the documentary, with its claim to truth, at least at that time, has always been a construct. Edward Curtis has depicted the “Indians”, but also invented their depiction in parts.
BB: Let’s take a look at the photograph “Fuimus Ibi” from 2008. What stories are there in the individual picture elements?
LP: In this work I refer to the painting “Man with the Red Turban” by Jan van Eyck from the year 1433, in which he probably portrayed himself. My photograph shows a person equipped with several exotic elements: a turban-like headgear, as can be seen in Oriental paintings by many “Western travelers”, an Indian shirt with a world map in its breast pocket and an African fabric in the background, whose pattern reminds me of the central aperture of an analog camera. The man therefore also carries a small camera in his right hand. The title “Fuimus Ibi” refers to the famous painting “Arnolfini-Hochzeit” by Jan van Eyck from 1434, with the inscription “Fui ibi” above a mirror in the background, “I was there” in Latin. In the mirror he can be seen himself. All this should certify his presence at the wedding. So “Fui ibi” became “Fuimus ibi”, “We were there”, an allusion to our presence in different functions at different times in “elsewhere”.
BB: In the picture “En Couleur” from 2007, you can see a woman putting her head diagonally on a table and holding an issue of a National Geographic magazine to her right. What’s this all about?
LP: This is an update of a photograph by Man Ray entitled “noire et blanche” from 1926, of which there are several versions, by the way. On one of them, a white woman is holding a black mask in her hand. I was interested in the question of how Man Ray would photograph this subject today. On the cover of the National Geographic magazine is a Bororo Fulani from Niger. It’s one of those favorite ethnological ethnicities. Robert Gardner shot the film “Deep Hearts” there in 1981. The film is about a contest in which the most perfect male Bororo is chosen, a beauty contest. So I’m also alluding to a gender issue here, because you could almost think that the person on the front page of National Geographic is a woman. I was also interested in Man Ray because at the time of the Paris Colonial Exhibition in 1931 he was a member of the Surrealist circles. They published a manifesto and leaflets that were directed against the colonial exhibition with its human views and decidedly adopted an anti-colonial attitude.
BB: I have a more general question: Would you say that you could speak of a mimetic procedure in relation to your museum? Moreover, could the term deconstruction be applied to your work?
LP: My aim is to recognize structures and make them visible. It is a political work, and a deconstruction it certainly is. In the system in which we live, there is less and less freedom and therefore I use what already exists and try to fill it with other content. I have no reservations about working outside the art context. Sometimes, for example, I am invited by ethnological museums. It’s clear to me, of course, that artistic work in this context is an experiment with an uncertain outcome. Will one be able to survive in the neighborhood of this powerful discourse of a colonial collection? Surely it is easier to exist in one’s own delimited space than with an artistic intervention that has to assert itself surrounded by ethnological objects. I would describe my approach of working something out as associative research. For the World Museum Vienna, I am currently preparing a work with the title “The Master Narrative”. Of course, I will present art works there and not my MuKul. To work in an ethnological museum with the methods of ethnology would not be perceived as critical work, I believe.
The interview took place on March 19, 2016 in Vienna. Special thanks to Lisl Ponger for the publication and permission to use images.
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1917 #39
The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?
Neither the EU nor Nationalist Poison – Spoil Your Ballot!
On 23 June 2016 British voters are asked to choose ‘Remain’ or ‘Leave’ in a referendum on membership of the European Union (EU). As the official campaign was kicking off in mid April more than 100,000 people marched in London to demand ‘health, homes, jobs and education’. While both the ‘united Europe’ and ‘independent Britain’ camps claim that their victory will lay the basis for better addressing all these issues, the fact is that this intra-ruling class squabble over how best to align the interests of British imperialism has no relation to any serious struggle against homelessness, unemployment, poverty and growing social inequality.
Prime Minister David Cameron and most of the Tory leadership, the Scottish National Party (SNP), the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party all stand in the pro-EU corner. Even Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and other political heirs of Tony Benn’s Labour left who opposed the Common Market in the 1970s are campaigning to ‘Remain’, as are a handful of far-left groups in the orbit of the Labour Party such as Workers Liberty and Red Flag. Across the ring are the Eurosceptic Tories led by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and Britain’s two largest ostensibly Marxist organisations, the Socialist Party and Socialist Workers Party.
Political divisions within the bourgeoisie reflect divergent interests of different sectors of capital. Larger businesses that feel capable of competing on the international level tend to want Britain to stay in the EU, reflected in a study commissioned by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which warned that a departure from the EU ‘could lead to 950,000 job losses and leave the average household £3,700 worse off by 2020’ and ‘could cost the UK economy £100bn – the equivalent of 5% of GDP – by 2020 and would cause long-lasting economic damage from which it would never recover’ (Guardian, 21 March 2016).
The exit (aka ‘Brexit’) campaign, on the other hand, finds its audience among smaller, more parochial, companies that hope to boost their bottom lines by escaping EU regulation: ‘Matthew Elliott, [Vote Leave]’s chief executive and founder of the Taxpayers’ Alliance.… said that while the EU might be good for big multinationals, “for smaller businesses it acts as a job destruction regulatory machine” (Guardian, 26 March 2016).
Bourgeois economists generally warn that disrupting existing trade and other financial arrangements with the EU could be risky, but the view is far from universal:
‘Patrick Minford of Cardiff Business School argues that: “In the long term, Brexit will herald a major growth-boosting period, as the UK breaks free of the over-mighty EU with its protectionist mindset and establishes free trade and intelligent regulation aimed at UK economic interests”.’
—Financial Times, 22 February 2016
The Financial Times observed: ‘Today’s campaigns to leave the EU make for a striking contrast with the groups that opposed the common market in Britain’s 1975 referendum. In the 1970s the bloc’s opponents were fundamentally protectionist. In 2016, their rallying cry is freer trade outside the EU’ (Ibid.).
Marxists do not take a side in conflict between the interests of small and big capitalists, nor in the intra-bourgeois debate on protectionism versus free trade, which ultimately boil down to disputes over how to best manage British capitalism and the oppression of workers at home and abroad.
Fortress Britain
Europe is gripped by an international refugee crisis, as hundreds of thousands are forced to flee from conflicts in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa – wars fuelled by the major European powers – only for many to be turned away at the borders of Fortress Europe (see ‘Proletarian Internationalism and the Struggle against Fortress Europe’). The British bourgeoisie has responded with a wave of anti-immigrant propaganda ranging from explicit racism to liberal ‘concern’ about the numbers arriving. At its extreme, this xenophobia reveals itself in swastika-touting fascists demonstrating in Dover (see ‘Fascists run amok in Dover’).
This situation is being exploited by UKIP, which argues that Brexit will provide the tools for keeping foreigners out: ‘If we remain members of the EU it is a perfectly reasonable, sane thing to say that our migration crisis will get worse’ (BBC, 27 February 2016). Although somewhat less overt, Cameron’s ‘Remain’ campaign is animated by similar sentiments to make the opposite argument. The deal he struck in Brussels in February was tailored to undercut the appeal of the Eurosceptics with provisions to deny benefits to newly arriving EU workers for four years.
Revulsion at immigrant-bashing campaigns has led many leftist workers to instinctively support ‘Remain’, without considering the real functions of the EU as an agency for inter-imperialist cooperation. The project of economically integrating Western Europe was first launched as an anti-communist bulwark against the Soviet Union. Since 1991 the EU has served to integrate the former Warsaw Pact countries into the orbit of the West European imperialists and as a mechanism for imposing neo-liberal austerity in Eastern Europe, Greece, Ireland and other non-imperialist components of the alliance.
The ‘Red Flag’ blog seeks to provide ‘internationalist’ cover for Corbyn’s policy of staying in the EU:
‘A socialist “Yes” to stay in would not mean yielding to the dictates of the EU Commission, the Central Bank, or obeying the EU’s neoliberal rules and treaties. It would mean defying them in solidarity with workers across Europe. We want to turn a national resistance to austerity into a European resistance.’
—‘Socialists and the European Union’
It is important to distinguish between what the EU actually is and utopian reformist daydreams about what it might become. Workers’ solidarity across national lines requires opposition to trans-national as well as national configurations of imperialist rule – doubletalk about voting in favour of an imperialist club as a means of expressing opposition to it can only undermine effective resistance to the capitalist austerity drive.
The ‘Lexit’ Delusion
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), led by the Socialist Party (SP) and Socialist Workers Party (SWP), aims to stand as the alternative left-wing exit campaign, or ‘Lexit’ as they call it, to the right-wing Brexiters. Their ‘anti-imperialist’ argument for getting out of the EU boils down to the simplistic notion that if the leading elements of the ruling class want in, we should want out.
The SP motivates voting to ‘Leave’ on bourgeois democratic grounds: ‘The European Council is made up of the heads of government of the 28 nation states of the EU – the EU really is a capitalists’ club. The governments of Europe have no interest in handing some of their power to the European Parliament’ (Socialist, 3 April 2016). This suggests that a popularly-elected European Parliament would somehow diminish the capitalist and imperialist nature of the EU. Since this reformist fantasy is not achievable even by the SP’s estimate, they pose a different reformist course in which the British imperialist state, administered by a Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn, nationalises major enterprises:
‘Some of Jeremy Corbyn’s most popular pledges when he stood as Labour leader – including renationalising the railways and energy companies – would be illegal under EU law. This does not mean a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government could not implement them – but in doing so it would come into confrontation with the EU. Far better to remove that obstacle by voting to leave in the referendum.’
—Socialist, 23 April 2016
This supposes that Corbyn will suddenly develop a willingness to stand up and fight, rather than cravenly capitulate as he did when Labour was accused of having an ‘antisemitism problem’ and he refused to defend Ken Livingstone and others under attack for criticising the Israeli state (for our view on the substantive issues see ‘Israeli Apartheid & Palestinian Oppression’) or when he allowed Labour MPs the freedom to vote in favour of bombing Syria. If he did try to implement any of his promises, he would soon discover that, in or out of the EU, Britain’s bourgeoisie would fiercely resist any attempt to nationalise their assets.
It is rather inconvenient for the SP’s plans that Corbyn is busy campaigning for ‘Remain’ and other leading Labour figures are sharing platforms with Tories and other parties across the political spectrum. If only Corbyn would listen to us, they plaintively complain:
‘If Jeremy Corbyn was heading up a left exit campaign, it would have transformed the debate. The possibility of Leave winning and the Tories being evicted from power would have been far greater.’
—Socialist, 3 April 2016
In a lengthy history of the EU that appeared in the International Socialist Journal in October 2015, SWP leader Alex Callinicos concluded that ‘the EU was a capitalist project from the start, strongly backed by US imperialism and developing its own problematic version of neoliberal imperialism. The obvious conclusion is to reject the EU’. More recently Socialist Worker (23 February 2016) has claimed: ‘The EU is also facing a crisis – Britain leaving could begin to break it up. That can strengthen workers fighting the Tories here and those in Greece fighting austerity’.
A similar view is put forward by the Spartacist League:
‘Amid the growing chaos besetting the EU, a British exit would deal a real blow to this imperialist-dominated conglomerate, further destabilising it and creating more favourable conditions for working-class struggle across Europe – including against a weakened and discredited Tory government in Britain.’
—Workers Hammer, No. 234, Spring 2016
These arguments overlook the fact that British imperialism will continue to be a powerful agency of oppression on a global scale whether in or out of the EU. Brexit would certainly reconfigure the political status quo, but it would neither change the class character of the British state nor alter the balance of forces in favour of the working class – something that should be obvious by a cursory review of the political composition of the ‘Leave’ campaign which is dominated by the right and even ultra-right, and rooted in protecting the interests of capital.
For Working-Class Independence – Spoil Your Ballot!
The duty of revolutionaries is to cut through the capitalist propaganda generated by both camps of the Brexit dispute. Instead the ostensible Marxists on each side claim that their position will better the interests of the working class. For instance, elements of the pro-EU left point to the EU’s Working Time Directive, which limits hours worked per week, while their leftist opponents counter with Britain’s opt-out clause to circumvent any provisions that conflict with the Tory and Labour anti-union laws. Workers cannot rely on bourgeois legislation – whether national or European – to defend gains won through previous rounds of class struggle. Wages, working conditions and everything else about life under capitalism will be shaped by the ability of the working class to organise and fight. This will remain true regardless of Britain’s membership in the EU.
Workers have no country. European trade unions must join forces across borders to defend wages and win new gains, while paying particular attention to fighting for equal rights for immigrants. Ultimately the interests of the working class and oppressed can only be advanced through the construction of revolutionary workers’ parties in Britain and beyond, rooted in the proletariat and committed to a genuinely Marxist programme. This is the only way to turn the tide on the current capitalist offensive and go forward to expropriate the expropriators and smash up their state machines, whatever the particular configuration of the mechanisms of capitalist rule.
On 23 June – Spoil Your Ballot!
The Brexit Election – Bolshevik Tendency
[…] can use either option to attack the historic gains of the workers’ movement.” – 1917, no. […]
– Roots & Fruits of Imperialism
– Imperialism, Tsarist Russia & World War I
– The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?
– Vote Corbyn, Break with Reformism!
– Thirty-five Years too Long! Free Mumia Now!
– Cops, Reformism & Black Liberation
– Thirty Years of Homosexual Law Reform
– Strike Against the Privatisation Juggernaut!
– Sanders: ‘Socialist’ Shill for Democrats
– ‘Democracy’ in Decay
– Trump: Ugly Face of Capitalism
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What was the Battle of Cibalae (314)?
The Battle of Cibalae was fought on 08 October 314 (or perhaps as late as 316, the chronology is uncertain), between the two Roman emperors Constantine I and Licinius.
The site of the battle was approximately 350 kilometres within the territory of Licinius. Constantine won a resounding victory, despite being outnumbered.
The hostilities were prompted by Constantine’s appointment of his brother-in-law, Bassianus, as his Caesar. Bassianus was discovered to be intriguing against Constantine, perhaps at the prodding of his own brother Senecio, a close associate of Licinius. When Constantine demanded that Licinius hand over Senecio, Licinius refused. Constantine marched against Licinius, who responded by elevating another associate, Valens. The date of Valens’ elevation as emperor probably occurred after the Battle of Cibalae.
The opposing armies met on the plain between the rivers Sava and Drave near the town of Cibalae (now Vinkovci, Croatia). The battle lasted all day. The battle opened with Constantine’s forces arrayed in a defile adjacent to mountain slopes. The army of Licinius was stationed on lower ground nearer the town of Cibalae, Licinius took care to secure his flanks. As the infantry of Constantine needed to move forward through broken ground the cavalry was thrown out ahead, to act as a screen. Constantine moved his formation down on to the more open ground and advanced against the awaiting Licinians Following a period of skirmishing and intense missile fire at a distance, the opposing main bodies of infantry met in close combat and fierce hand-to-hand fighting ensued. This battle of attrition was ended, late in the day, when Constantine personally led a cavalry charge from the right wing of his army. The charge was decisive, Licinius’ ranks were broken. As many as 20,000 of Licinius’ troops were killed in the hard-fought battle. The surviving cavalry of the defeated army accompanied Licinius when he fled the field under the cover of darkness.
Aftermath and Legacy
Following the battle Licinius was forced to flee to Sirmium, and then, after collecting his family and treasury, to Thrace. Peace negotiations were initiated, but they broke down. A further battle was then fought, the Battle of Mardia, which proved to be indecisive. Heavy losses were suffered by both sides. Following the battle, in expectation of Licinius retreating on Byzantium, Constantine advanced in the direction of this city. However, Licinius had withdrawn northwards and this placed him across Constantine’s lines of communication, Constantine also lost much of his baggage to Licinius.
A treaty highly-favourable to Constantine was subsequently negotiated; this included the ceding by Licinius of the greater part of the Balkan Peninsula and the elevation of Constantine’s sons, Crispus (then about 14) and Constantine (who was only an infant), with Licinius’ young son (Licinius the Younger), to the rank of Caesar. Licinius then deposed and executed his erstwhile co-emperor Valens.
Military History Battle of Cibalae 314, Roman Era
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Tag Archive: Turner Classic Movies′ Forbidden Hollywood book review
TCM’s Forbidden Hollywood looks back to a conflicted industry pushing the boundaries of decency at the movies
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Review by C.J. Bunce
A leg thrown over the arm of a chair. A monster tossing a girl into the river. A gangster with a Tommy Gun shooting a room full of people. A woman is expecting a baby. A man bites a woman to drink her blood. Actresses backstage get ready for a show. Dancers on stage kick their legs. “Kept” women. Physical violence.
Rural audiences and even film goers in big cities like Chicago would label all this as “smut” or “disgraceful” back in the day. In the realm of what is appropriate and what is not, the cinema has approached each new boundary with baby steps. But in the Depression-era early 1930s, many previously unaccepted concepts soared onto film. A new book takes a look at this era, now referred to by film historians as the “Pre-Code Era”–1930 to 1934–a time when the self-regulating movie industry pushed the bounds of its own rules, only to hit a wall when the public pushed back. Turner Classic Movies′ Forbidden Hollywood takes an educational, film school-level walk through an industry fighting within itself to both make money and please an audience it would find varied widely by geography, down to the community level. The handling of decency by the industry would have ramifications that would have an impact on generations of film creators and audiences. The chaos and in-fights would last until July 1934, when religious groups combined to take a stand, prompting the industry to bow to their demands with the formation of the League of Decency. That group would govern movie standards for nearly 35 years–until the ratings system would arrive in 1968. Even real-world gangster Al Capone thought the new, 1930s era of movies was bad for kids, saying “These gang pictures–that’s terrible kid stuff. They’re doing nothing but harm to the younger element of the country.”
Film historian Mark A. Vieira provides a scholarly examination of the studios, the directors, producers, and writers, including excerpts of decisions made and processes followed (and not followed), resulting in the promotion of the careers of some of Hollywood’s biggest names: Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy, Mae West, Joan Crawford, Marlena Dietrich, Clara Bow, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, James Cagney, Ward Bond, Bela Legosi, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney. Looking at elements incorporated into–or scissor cut from–dozens of films, including The Divorcee, Dishonored, Grand Hotel, Dracula, A Farewell to Arms, 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Riptide, Red-Headed Woman, She Done Him Wrong, Call Her Savage, Convention City, and Frankenstein, Vieira takes an objective look at the factors that influenced all sides in determining what would be appropriate in the movies and what role movies would take in society.
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Disho’s passion lies largely within the world of birds and photography. Having obtained a diploma in Travel and Tourism at college, he soon became involved in the tourism industry as a guide and has followed his passion for wildlife and conservation ever since.
Disho has also completed extensive training as a specialist birding and walking guide with the Okavango Guiding School, the Field Guide Association of Southern Africa (FGASA) and has developed an exceptional practical and theoretical knowledge of ecology of northern Botswana’s wildness area. To this day, he still holds the reputation of being the first and only Motswana guide to be awarded a full specialist birding guide by the Field Guide Association of Southern Africa (FGASA).
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Phetogo is a young man of 34 years of age, who grew up in the Okavango Delta. He grew up between Boro and Xaxaba where his father originates. Phetogo is from a family of professional guides, starting with his grandfather.
He started schooling in Maun and completed his education there. Phetogo started his career as a school teacher, offering physical education at a secondary school, in the year 2004/2005. He actively started his guiding career in 2006.
He worked for Okavango Wilderness Safaris and did his guide training with them and later moved to Andbeyond; where he was based in lodges. A year later he was moved to their expeditions safaris. Later, He signed a year contract with Great Plains, the following year he joined Letaka safaris, where he did most of the mobile safaris. Phetogo worked for Letaka for four years. After leaving Letaka Safaris at beginning of 2015, Phetogo started freelancing as a private guide for Bush Lark Safaris and got involved in guide training..
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His passion for guiding is in his blood; inherited, especially in his interest in birds. Thus making him to be one of the few specialist birding guides in the country. He has been passionately and enthusiastically guiding for 13 years now.
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ST. JOHN'S AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) CHURCH
ST. JOHN'S AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) CHURCH was the first AFRICAN-AMERICAN church, and the only permanent one, to be established in Cleveland during the antebellum period. The original charter was issued in 1836 to the African Methodist Episcopal Society, a group of six ex-slaves who had been recruited in 1830 by Father William Paul Quinn, Western Section Missionary for the new black denomination. As the group grew, services moved from members' homes to the Apollo Hall on the third floor in Merwin Square. The first church building was located at the southwest corner of Bolivar St. and Prospect Ave. and was dedicated as the Bolivar Street AME Church on 6 Jan. 1850. The church moved to Ohio St. (presently part of Carnegie Ave.) in 1863, where the name changed to the Ohio St. AME Church, then to Erie (E. 9th) St. in 1878, when the name became St. John's AME Church. In 1908, the congregation erected a new church at the cost of $55,000, a neoclassical structure designed by John F. Aring and the firm of BADGLEY & Nicklas, at E. 40th and Central Ave. (2261 E. 40th), where it stood in 2009.
The congregation of St. John's AME grew from a small band of ex-slaves to include representatives of every strata of the city's black community. With increasing racial tensions after WORLD WAR I, church membership grew markedly, reaching a high of about 3,200 in the years after WORLD WAR II. In 1974, the church was recognized as a Cleveland Historical Landmark by the CLEVELAND LANDMARKS COMMISSION and, in 1982, it was placed on the National Register of Historical Places. A $1 million renovation was launched in 2005 under the direction of ROBERT P. MADISON INTERNATIONAL to upgrade the physical, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical infrastructure of the venerable institution. The CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY, the region's largest nonprofit preservation organization, recognized the renovation project at St. John's AME with the Preservation Award for sacred landmark preservation.
Since its inception, St. John's AME has been an influential institution and a place of refuge for Cleveland's African-American community. The church has consistently supported civil rights and its location within the CENTRAL community made it a recreational and social center from the 1920s onward. The social outreach programs of the church included an after-school program, a summer camp, and a senior daycare center. It also hosted a health fair, "Let's Focus on Health," connecting the community with representatives from heart and diabetes associations. The congregation has sponsored an annual community dinner and clothing giveaway, and a Sunday morning breakfast for residents of the Central neighborhood. As of 2009, Reverend Dr. Taylor T. Thompson served as the pastor of the congregation.
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See also RELIGION and METHODISTS.
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Sutherland’s flag was revealed on December 14th 2018. It was the winner in a vote of four finalists, held in November 2018 which had been selected by a judging panel rather than a public vote. The plangent criticism of this original selection process led to the imposition of the public vote. The newly registered flag was unveiled at a ceremony hoisted by the county’s Lord Lieutenant.
at Highland Council’s Offices in Drummuie, Golspie and attended by representatives of HMS Sutherland, local veterans and pipers from Sutherland Schools Pipe Band.
The combined saltire and Nordic crosses denote Sutherland’s early history as a Scottish territory under Viking control. At the point where the arms of the two crosses meet, is a golden sun which is said to symbolise “the sun raised high in the south for the origin of the county name “South Land” as well as the sunrises seen on the East Coast and the sunsets on the county’s West Coast. The black colour of the cross recalls the peat of the “Flow Country” and dark skies and together with the whire recall the central colours of the former Sutherland coat of arms,
which depicted a black raven or eagle against a white field.
Over 3,000 voted during the month long competition, with 921 people voting for the winning design, securing first place with 29% of the vote. Option A, the originally chosen design (see below) amassed around 20% of the vote, along with option B
while option C
gained 24%.
Philip Tibbetts, “Honorary Vexillologist” to the Court of the Lord Lyon seen here
with the flag, said the chosen design held a strong personnel meaning for the small Highland county,
“The meaning behind this flag which I think is a real showcase of what good flag design is, is it’s got a meaning that could only apply to Sutherland, not any other county in the country. This literally says this is a unique place in Scotland; the place being where Vikings and the ancient people of Scotland met and fought with each other.”
Chief Petty Officer Underwater Warfare Paul Underdown of HMS Sutherland said crewmen will be proud to fly the flag. He commented
“I think it’s a brilliant flag and to actually give presentation of the actual flag of the county of Sutherland is amazing. It’s a brilliant design, bright vibrant colours and i’m sure the captain would be very proud to have that flying up on his flagpole. To have the votes of 3,000 is absolutely amazing for a small population of the county versus a bigger population of a smaller place.”
The vote had been arranged following local dismay over the originally chosen red and gold bi-colour, bearing a counter-changed front facing eagle and three gold stars.
The originally chosen Sutherland flag was announced by the “Northern Times” on January 26th 2018, following a competition to devise a county flag, established by the local community in conjunction with the Flag Institute. The winning design was added to the registry a week later; it featured a swooping eagle, seen face on, against a vertical bicoloured red and yellow background, with the eagle counterchanged yellow and red. The pattern was intended to symbolise the county’s geography with both Atlantic Ocean and North Sea coasts. At the hoist are three red stars or mullets. These, plus the red and yellow colour combination, was taken from the arms borne by Hugh de Moray Earl of Sutherland
The arms are described and illustrated in the 1910 publication “The Heraldry of the Murrays”, with a reference to their use by the fifth earl, William
They are also found on the seal used by the eighth holder of that title as described below
and were subsequently incorporated into the arms awarded to the former Sutherland County Council and Sutherland District Council
The three stars also featured on the 1786 town seal of Dornoch
and can be found on a stained glass window in Dornoch Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Gilbert
alongside the white and blue version adopted by another branch of the family in Moray More information on the arms is available here.
In April 2017, just over a year after its neighbour Caithness registered its own county flag and following encouragement from interested parties such as the Association of British Counties, county residents met to initiate the county flag competition for Sutherland. Details of the competition were released in September 2017, school pupils and young people across the county were expected to play a major role
The gathering where the competition was formulated
took place at the former Sutherland District Council chamber, above the public library in Dornoch and comprised the county’s Lord Lieutenant Dr Monica Main
, five of her deputy Lord Lieutenants; Major General Patrick Marriott; Lieutenant Colonel Colin Gilmour; Sheila Stewart; Kim Tulloch; and David Grant plus Graeme Smart from Kinlochbervie High School, Frances Gunn, Tongue, community volunteer development officer and Garry Cameron, ward manager for East Sutherland and Edderton. The group was given a presentation by the Flag Institute’s Community Vexillologist, Philip Tibbetts, seen at the centre of the group in the above photo, who told the meeting,
“A flag brings pride to communities and has real benefits. It has become incredibly popular in Caithness in a short space of time.”
describing how the Caithness flag was now flying at several public buildings and how it now features on items such as car stickers, lapel pins, bunting and T-shirts and appears on the kits of local sports teams. He guided the meeting through the process of officially registering a flag with the Court of the Lord Lyon which was expected to take from six to nine months to complete. The Lord Lieutenant then formed a steering group comprising representatives of various local groups to oversee and progress the scheme. Deputy Lord Lieutenant Patrick Marriott said the flag “would be a unifier”, while his colleague David Grant commented: “Hopefully it will engage a lot of people across Sutherland.”
The competition took place across September and October 2017, with judging taking place on Monday October 30th at Drummuie. Three hundred and twenty-eight entries were received, from as far afield as New Zealand, Japan and Sweden with many featuring the county’s wildlife. A Selection Panel, chose several of the designs for presentation to a Judging Panel, comprising the Lord Lyon, Philip Tibbetts of the Flag Institute and members of local schools, council and the Lord Lieutenancy’s team, the Sutherland Flag Steering Group, who decided the winning entry from amongst the designs selected.
Pictured above are, back row from left: Councillor Jim McGillivray, vice Lord Lieutenant Colin Gilmour, Lord Lieutenant Dr Monica Main, vexillologist Philip Tibbetts, Kieran Day, Kinlochbervie High School, Deputy Lieutenant Frances Gunn. Front row, from left: Syke Macdonald, Golspie High School, Lord Lyon Dr Joseph Morrow, Carmen Heddie and Erin Mackintosh, both Farr High School, Deputy lieutenants Patrick Marriott and Graeme Smart, head teacher at Kinlochbervie High School
Secretary of the selection panel, Colin Gilmour
, said there had been a “phenomenal” 328 entries, reflecting the wide interest shown in the project throughout Sutherland and particularly from the county’s schools.
He continued, “The selection panel was very impressed with the imaginative thought put into each design, with a wide variety of configurations depicting the varying Sutherland landscape, wildlife and life across the county.” Salmon proved the most popular fish, whilst deer, otter, eagles, wild cats and Highland cattle and sheep featured in many illustrations. Mullet stars, used in heraldry to depict any star shaped charge with rays, featured strongly. There were a few Viking helmets, including one with blood dripping from it, and also a train being pulled by a team of horses, with the comment that the horses were included to demonstrate just how often the trains break down in Sutherland!”
The selection panel
spent a day looking at all the entries and reportedly chose three, which were amalgamated to make up the final design. Upon its announcement Colin Gilmour commented,
“I think it is eye-catching, which is what you want. A lot of these flags you would not know one from the other. This will stand out at a distance.”
He advised that an eagle had featured on a considerable number of the entries and noted that,
“The eagle was chosen as a unifying feature of the flag – the west (of Sutherland) now has
a fair population of white-tailed sea eagles and the east
has golden eagles in good numbers.”
A distribution reflected in the bicoloured form of the eagle. “It was felt that the bird’s swooping pose, albeit perhaps unique on a flag, was considered bold and easy to identify from a distance”
The Lyon Court, has now issued a warrant for the design. Vice Lord Lieutenant Gilmour stated that,
“Following the official flag launch, any business, organisation or individual will be entitled to purchase and fly the flag. It could be used by hotels and B and Bs on their websites or leaflets, flags, sign posting and perhaps on key-rings, badges and even sports strips.”
Shortly after being revealed the flag was raised at the Owl House B and B, at Inveran
and a local school
and flown at a home in Tongue
Lord Lieutenant Monica Main said, “I would like to thank everyone who participated and entered the competition, especially those parents and teachers who ensured that there were so many entries from the younger generation”
The design of the originally selected Sutherland flag was an amalgamation of three submissions, combining three gold stars on red on from one submission, with a red and yellow counter-changed pattern from a second and a front facing swooping eagle from a third
The third flag featured a golden eagle, face on, set against a purple background reflecting the Purple Saxifrage, wild orchids, Purple Milk-Vetch and of course wild heather (caluna vulgaris) that can be found across the county. The pentagon shape is a stylised reference to the roughly five sided shape of the county,
whilst the blue and white surround recalls both snowy peaks against a cold sky
and the foamy seas of the coastline.
The first two of these three designs, featuring the three stars and bicoloured cat design, featured in the subsequent, November 2018 vote along with the originally selected, amalgamated design.
Upon its announcement the newly announced flag received a degree of criticism , which fell into five broad areas of concern;
the selection process;
the absence of a Scottish Wild Cat charge;
the inclusion of an eagle charge and its particular depiction;
the colours of red and yellow and their “orientation”;
the inclusion of “stars”.
Unlike previous competitions, the process in Sutherland included no “popular” element. Generally, such competitions had involved a judging panel which selected several finalists that were put to a public vote. Following a fanfare of publicity and general encouragement of participation in the process, the public’s opinion was never sought in deciding the winner. The high number of entries received, a few of which are shown below
, allowed for plenty of choice to select perhaps six varying designs, which could have then been put to a public vote. Given sufficient choice and the opportunity for the Sutherland public to have had a say in the matter, there would have been less cause for complaint about the final selection from aggrieved residents. That said, the process had been described and publicised for nearly a year without any comment or criticism from any party.
Whilst there is certainly evidence of a Scottish Wild Cat being used to represent the county,
including its deployment as a crest in the arms of the aforementioned earldom,
where one is depicted grasping the shield of three gold stars on a red field, Colin Gilmour of the flag steering committee clarified the committee’s reasoning for not opting for one on the county flag,
“ “The Land of the Cat” is properly Caithness, not Sutherland. The original land of the Cat or ‘Cait’ (from about 800 AD) centred on Caithness and just included a small part of south-east Sutherland. The confusion comes from the Gaelic name for Sutherland, which is ‘Cataibh’, which does indeed mean ‘cat land’, but it originated when south-east Sutherland and Caithness all fell under the one Pictish region. Unity of the county, especially including the west and north, was considered the key factor by the selection committee, so selecting an emblem that was historically limited to only a very small part of Sutherland (the south-east) and another adjacent county, might reasonably be considered to have been unrepresentative of the county as a whole.
With regard to criticism of the choice of an eagle on the flag, Colin Gilmour further advised that,
“The eagle featured prominently on a considerable number of the entries, indeed much more so than the wildcat. Its current prominence in many parts of Sutherland was selected as a unifying factor across the county. Since the overwhelming factor in the design was ‘unity’, this is provided by the eagle.”
Arguably a plain gold eagle against a red field might have been sufficient and made the design less “busy” but use of a bicoloured field and counterchanged eagle illustration ( red part on yellow and yellow part on red) reflects both species of raptor present in the county, the red being a sea eagle, the yellow, a golden eagle as detailed above. Combining the two also emphasised the sought for “unifying” factor.
Significantly, the last paragraph in this article
from a 1957 edition of the local newspaper, the Northern Times, which refers to the then county council’s arms
, describes the bird included in the design as “a raven or spread eagle of the Norse Jarldom”; the creature shown certainly more closely resembles an eagle than a raven.
A categorical local eagle reference is the “The Eagle” hotel in Dornoch,
constructed in the 1840s and named for the landing eagle crest of the clan Munro,
one branch of which was established in the Dornoch area.
It might be further considered that eagles are rare creatures in the British Isles, being the home of such magnificent birds is surely something of which to be proud, worthy of celebrating on a flag? However, it is true that the “orientation” appears not to make sense as the red portion representing the west, is on the right of the flag as observed and the gold part is at the left hand side of the flag, this colour scheme does not reflect the geographical distribution.
The specific illustration of the eagle was also criticised, with “budgie” references being made. An eagle seen swooping, head on,
raises its wings over its head in a “u”
or “v” shape
with the head positioned lower down between them, in this configuration the head occupies a more centralised position than that depicted on the registered design. Arguably a more “majestic” realisation, which better reflects this natural carriage, could have been effected. Accordingly, in response to criticisms of the depiction, three such examples were created
The choice of red and yellow per se, was also subject to heavy criticism. This, however, seemingly exhibited ignorance of the heraldic history of the locality, as detailed above. Although a newly contrived flag is not obliged to follow the colour scheme of previous charges in the area, it is as legitimate a basis as any other option and having been around since about 1150 (!), these are regarded as the county’s historic colours. There was a great call for shades that reflect the county’s landscape, a specious argument however, as by this reckoning all flags would be green and blue to represent land and sea with perhaps some yellow for the beach! Flags do not uniformly feature colours that symbolise geography, some do but it’s not an obligatory practice. Certainly, Sutherland’s terrain does include heather, so an uncommon, purple, could have been an acceptable choice to include but not using purple or green, by itself, is not a valid reason to condemn the final design; whilst these were options, they were not mandatory.
Finally, use of the stars raised the ire of critics. As described, the stars derive from local heraldry, being present on the original mediaeval arms of the Earldom of Sutherland and subsequently incorporated into the arms awarded to local administrations. A few concerns were expressed that the gold stars on red represent George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, notorious for his role in the Highland Clearances undertaken between 1811 and 1820. In fact the stars were borne by the Earl of Sutherland, a title created about 1230 for William de Moravia, whose family has used the three gold mullets on a field of red as a coat of arms ever since. Armorial banners displaying the trio of stars are seen below, raised over
and waved from
Dunrobin Castle, the latter signalling to HMS Sutherland in fact! The Duke, of Sutherland, Leveson-Gower, bore his own, entirely different, starless coat of arms. Significantly, as asserted by Colin Gilmour “..the three yellow stars on a red background were on the shields carried by the “Sutherland contingent” in fights against the English at Bannockburn in 1314 (3rd Earl of Sutherland); Halidon Hill in 1333 (4th Earl of Sutherland); and probably at Neville Cross in 1346.” He further confirmed that the traditional red and yellow featured in a very large number of competition entries.
Again, the stars did not have, to be included in the final design but their inclusion has a valid and firm basis. Comments about the red and yellow, the eagle and the stars, being “Communist” reflect people’s greater familiarity with the icons of far flung regimes, than with their own locality. Because a design bears a superficial resemblance to something else is not a valid reason to condemn it, especially when that condemnation is made without regard to the actual relevant derivation of the elements being used.
Notably, both the gold stars on red and an eagle, are present on the arms of Golspie high school in the county
and the gold stars on red, feature on the arms of Dornoch Academy
so the emblems and combination are not without local precedent.
As can be seen above, the red and yellow colours and stars, which seem to have come as a bit of a shock to many modern residents, appeared on several competition entries although clearly, local sentiment has favoured a flag that recalls the natural landscape, rather than the long established “county colours” of red and yellow/gold. In the above sample, one design cleverly takes the colours of the Sutherland Clan tartan and deploys them as a Nordic cross; the same designer has also created several cross flags that feature a representation of a kelpie, a horse like creature of local legend. His other designs combine Sutherland stars with a cross in differing colours. The eagle and stars are set against a red Nordic cross on yellow in the first design and the centre one combines a saltire, with the red and yellow colours and stars and the much favoured wildcat.
Upon its registration the flag was displayed by locals
and displayed opposite its Caithness counterpart
at their mutual boundary.
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(2016) True Life Drama (Paramount) John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini, Alexia Barlier, David Constabile, Peyman Moaadi, Matt Letscher, Toby Stephens, Demetrius Grosse, David Giuntoli, Mike Moriarty, David Furr, Kevin Kent, Freddie Stroma, Andrew Arrabito, Kenny Sheard, Christopher Dingli, Manuel Cauchi, Frida Cauchi. Directed by Michael Bay
One of the watershed moments of the last five years is the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. temporary embassy in Benghazi, Libya. Three people were killed, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Since then, it has been used as a rallying point for the right to display the incompetence of the current administration and to place themselves in the role as advocates for the victims. The left has come to see the attack as something of a conservative media Judas goat in which facts are obscured or downright fabricated for the sake of scoring political points, particularly against presidential candidate Hilary Clinton who was Secretary of State at the time.
The movie is based on the accounts of three members of the Global Response Staff, the private contractors employed by the CIA to protect agency installations worldwide. The GRS is mainly made up of ex-military members. Jack Silva (Krasinski), a veteran of GRS tours of duty, arrives in Benghazi to find a city in chaos. Their longtime military dictator, Moammar Qaddafi had fallen and the government was struggling to keep order. The city of Benghazi was essentially ruled by competing militias of which the 17-Feb was most closely allied with American interests.
Included in the six man team protecting the Annex, the CIA installation a mile from the embassy, was Tyrone “Rone” Woods (Dale), his good friend and commanding officer; Mark “Oz” Geist (Martini), Dave “Boon” Benton (Denman) – the team sniper, John “Tig” Tiegen (Fumusa) and Kris “Tonto” Paronto (Schreiber). The station manager, known only as “The Chief” (Constabile), seems annoyed by the presence of the security professionals and warns them against engaging with the locals. Even though tensions are high, the men have a lot of down time to think about their families and their choices to serve their country so far from home.
As the anniversary of the attack of 9/11 nears, Ambassador Chris Stevens (Letscher) arrives with a small Diplomatic Services security team with the aim of strengthening U.S./Libya relations. Despite security worries on the part of the GRS team, he is determined to stay at the temporary embassy which is a security nightmare defended mostly by members of the 17-Feb militia. When after darkness falls an attack on the embassy is made by militants, the militia runs for their lives and the embassy is left wide open for attack. The GRS team wants to head over there to rescue those who are being overrun but The Chief refuses to allow them to go, unwilling to let the Annex go undefended. However, as it became clear that those at the Embassy were in mortal danger, the GRS team elected to mount a rescue mission, realizing that the militants might well follow them back to the Annex and mount an attack there as well.
Bay is known for his big budget special effects extravaganza and while there are some well-choreographed combat sequences, this is a much smaller scale than we’re used to seeing from him. In some ways you get the sense that he tends to be better suited for the Transformers-style action epics, but he handles the scale here pretty well although there doesn’t seem to be a ton of character development. I had a hard time differentiating the GRS team from each other (there are also other GRS operatives who show up later, including Glen “Bub” Doherty (Stephens) who also perished in the attack. There is a lot of gung-ho testosterone bonding among the men, which is to be expected.
The filmmakers took great pains to recreate the embassy and annex in Malta, and the combat sequences look pretty darn realistic from my uneducated point of view. Those sequences are pretty terrifying as it must have been for those inside both compounds. I would have been the one balled up in a corner weeping for my mommy. I can’t imagine living through something like that.
What was unexpected for me was the emotional impact of the film, and that has more to do with the significance of the event rather than Bay’s skills as a filmmaker. I can imagine that if the characters were a little more drawn up I would have cared a great deal more and the film would have had even more resonance. As it is you leave the movie feeling genuine grief for those who didn’t make it, as well as admiration for those who did.
Earlier I discussed the politicization of the event and it bears discussion here. Much of how you see this film is likely to be colored by your politics. Some critics of a right-wing leaning have overpraised the film (in my opinion) while other critics of a left-wing leaning have been unduly harsh (again in my opinion). I think that Bay went out of his way to make the movie apolitical, but let’s face it; making the film at all was a political statement. As best I can, I tried to leave my political hat out of it and tried to judge the film purely on entertainment value, and found that this is a solid, better than average movie that in a season when most of the offerings out there are pretty awful, can be recommended with little reservation although again, you’ll tend to see this movie viewed through the lens of your political outlook. As long as that’s duly noted, you should be okay.
REASONS TO GO: A very realistic account. A powerful emotional experience.
REASONS TO STAY: Politicization or the events may inform your perspective. Not a lot of character development.
FAMILY VALUES: Plenty of combat-style violence, rough language and some images of bloody carnage.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Krasinski, Denman and Constabile all starred on the hit sitcom The Office.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: American Sniper
NEXT: The Finest Hours
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Tag Archives: Cary-Hioryuki Tagawa
Keanu Reeves keeps a sharp eye out for flying monkeys.
(2013) Martial Arts Fantasy (Universal) Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rinko Kikuchi, Tadanobu Asano, Ko Shibasaki, Min Tanaka, Jin Akanishi, Masayoshi Hanada, Hiroshi Sogabe, Takato Yonemoto, Hiroshi Yamada, Shu Nakajima, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Neil Fingleton, Natsuki Kunimoto, Togo Igawa, Tanroh Ishida, Yorick van Wageningen, Clyde Kusatsu, Haruka Abe. Directed by Carl Rinsch
There is honor and courage and then there are the ancient samurai of Japan. If we in the West think we know what those concepts are, think again. For that group of warriors, those weren’t just concepts – they were their way of life.
In feudal Japan, the kind and just Lord Asano (Tanaka) rules in a beautiful and bucolic province of Ako. He takes in a half-breed man named Kai (Reeves) who apparently escaped from the demon-infested forest as a boy, although his samurai urge him not to. His beautiful daughter Mika (Shibasaki) nurses him back to health and the two fall in love, although there is absolutely no future in it.
But not everyone is as honorable as Lord Asano. Lord Kira (Asano) desires the wealthy and plentiful lands ruled by Asano and determines to obtain them. With his devious partner, a shape-shifting witch (Kikuchi) who poses as one of his concubines, Kira hatches a plot to shame Lord Asano during a visit by the Shogun (Tagawa) which results in Asano’s ritual suicide. His samurai are released from service and declared to be Ronin, masterless samurai which is the equivalent of a mercenary in modern times although with much less respect. They are forbidden from seeking vengeance by order of the shogun. Kai is sold as a slave to the Dutch where he is made to fight in their bare knuckle brawls and Mika is betrothed to Kira whom she will marry after a one year mourning period for her father.
This is more than the leader of Asano’s samurai, Oishi (Sanada) can take. Even though he knows the consequences of his actions, he determines to re-assemble his men and add Kai, whom he had previously expressed disdain and loathing for, to take on overwhelming odds to exact justice for their Lord, but it’s not an easy matter. Kira’s palace is more of a fortress and the possibility of 47 men storming the castle and surviving is simply ludicrous, plus he is under the protection of a skilled and seductive witch but even if they are successful, the men know they will be under the sentence of death for defying the shogun’s orders. So what’s the use?
Well, according to the actual men who inspired this movie, plenty. If you take away the supernatural elements of this version of it, the basic events happened pretty much as shown – a Japanese feudal lord was betrayed by an ambitious and ruthless fellow lord, rendering his samurai as Ronin. They did defy the shogun’s order and behave as depicted. The results were surprisingly the same as well and they were led by a real life samurai named Oishi.
This was something of a surprising choice for a very big budget Hollywood movie. Why the writer and filmmakers determined to add the supernatural elements of the witch, the Lovecraftian samurai, and the demons in the forest is somewhat surprising; a smaller budget version with fewer special effects would have been a much more effective film in my view.
I won’t deny that some of the CGI are pretty spectacular and the attempts to give this a kind of epic scope of the sort that the legendary Akira Kurosawa used to routinely give his movies are pleasing to the eye. However, Kurosawa certainly would have rolled his eyes at the over-complexity of the plot. and quite frankly the legendary director wasn’t much into fantasy although he wasn’t afraid to use elements of the supernatural in his films when they were required.
Rumor has it that the studio was overly involved in the making of the movie, demanding changes and leading to a delay of nearly a year for this movie to come out. There definitely is a feel here for too many cooks in the kitchen; the movie doesn’t have the feel and flow that you get with a steady, single hand in charge. Perhaps they needed someone more experienced than first-time director Rinsch for a movie of this scope and budget.
While Reeves is as usual somewhat stiff and wooden, we are treated to some of the finest actors in Japan at this time with the Oscar-nominated Kikuchi as the seductive and sly witch with the different-colored eyes (one brown, one blue) and the respected Sanada, a veteran of The Last Samurai lending gravitas to Oishi and Asano (The Wolverine) giving Kira a kind of sly wink to go along with his wickedness. Tanaka (The Twilight Samurai) as the kindly Lord Asano is also memorable.
While this is a good-looking movie that gives us the opportunity to watch quality performances by actors who don’t get as much exposure in the West as they deserve, there is simply too many flaws for me to give this a solid recommendation. See it more as a curiosity piece rather than as coherent cinema and as long as your expectations aren’t too high, you might even find reasons to enjoy this.
REASONS TO GO: Some fairly cool eye candy. Nice supporting performances from a great Japanese cast.
REASONS TO STAY: Overwrought plot. Needless elements of fantasy in one of Japan’s most iconic true stories. Something of a mess.
FAMILY VALUES: There is quite a bit of martial arts action violence, some fairly disturbing images as well as some thematic elements that might be above the heads of the very young.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is the seventh filmed version of the story although the first to come from Hollywood; in reality the 47 Ronin are revered in Japan for their honor and adherence to the Samurai code despite overwhelming odds.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Forbidden Kingdom
NEXT: Griff the Invisible
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Tag Archives: Lu Edmonds
New Releases for the Week of November 16, 2018
(Warner Brothers) Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Zoë Kravitz, Carmen Ejogo. Directed by David Yates
When outlaw wizard Grindelwald escapes custody, he plans to create an army of wizards to make war on the world of Muggles. Standing in his way are Newt Scamander, No-Mag Jacob Kowalsky, Tina Goldstein and an instructor at Hogwart’s by the name of Albus Dumbledore.
See the trailer and video featurettes here
For more on the movie this is the website
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, 4DX, DBOX, DBOX 3D, Dolby, IMAX, RPX, RPX 3D, XD
Rating: PG-13 (for some sequences of fantasy action)
(Aviron) Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci. This is the story of Marie Colvin, one of the most respected and admired war correspondents of the 21st century thus far, a woman whose compassion and passion entwined to tell the story of those most affected by war – those caught in the middle. Colvin would go to places few other journalists would dare to tread, including a Syrian town called Homs where she would find a story that would eventually define her.
Rating: R (for disturbing images, language throughout, and brief sexuality/nudity)
(Focus) Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Madelyn Cline. After a Baptist pastor’s son is outed, the community leader in a small conservative town feels that the boy’s only hope of salvation is conversion therapy. Based on a gripping true story, the young man fights to establish his own identity in an environment where he’s told that being the person that he is becoming is a sin.
See the trailer, clips, interviews, video featurettes and B-roll video here
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Springs, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Cobb Plaza Cinema Café, Regal Winter Springs Village, Rialto Spanish Springs Square
Rating: R (for sexual content including an assault, some language and brief drug use)
(Paramount) Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Octavia Spencer, Margo Martindale. A couple, exploring foster care adoption, discovers three siblings that they decide to take on. Going from no children to three without any parenting experience is a daunting task at best but throw in a rebellious 15-year-old girl into the mix and they are in over their heads. This is based on writer-director Sean Anders’ own experiences.
See the trailer here
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, sexual material, language and some drug references)
The Public Image is Rotten
(Abramorama) John Lydon, Jah Wobble, Martin Atkins, Lu Edmonds. Johnny Rotten was once the face of punk rock until his band, the Sex Pistols, imploded. Lawsuits and legal chicanery kept him from moving on with his stage name so he adopted the name he was born with and founded Public Image Ltd., a band decidedly different than the one he left. Forty years later it is still a band. This was recently reviewed here on Cinema365 (see link below) and may be the best music documentary you attend this year.
Genre: Music Documentary
Now Playing: Enzian Theater (Monday only)
(20th Century Fox) Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki. When their criminal husbands are killed during a job, their widows are left with the debt their late spouses incurred with people you really don’t want to owe money to. Resolved to get out of the situation, they decide to pull off the heist their husbands couldn’t. This is Oscar winning director Steve McQueen’s first film since his masterwork 12 Years a Slave.
See the trailer, clips, clips, interviews, video featurettes and B-roll video here
Genre: Crime Drama
Rating: R (for violence, language throughout, and some sexual content/nudity)
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John Lydon considers his kitchen.
(2017) Music Documentary (Abramorama) John Lydon, Jah Wobble, Martin Atkins, Lu Edmonds, John Rambo Stevens, Alan Dias, Bill Laswell, Don Letts, Pete Jones, Bruce Smith, Thurston Moore, Moby, Adam Horovitz, Big Youth, Flea, Nick Launay, Scott Firth, Keith Levene, Jebin Bruni, Ginger Baker, Andrew Perry, Michael Alago, Ian Mackaye, John Waters, Vivien Goldman. Directed by Tabbert Filler
At first glance, doing a documentary on his post-punk project Public Image, Ltd. (or more popularly known as PiL) doesn’t seem to be something John Lydon would be terribly comfortable. Music documentaries by their nature tend to look back; Lydon has always been more interested in what lies ahead rather than what lies behind. However, Lydon has turned 60 and when people get to be more reflective at that age.
For those who don’t know, Lydon was one of the founding members of the Sex Pistols, the band credited with igniting the punk revolution which led to a fertile period in which musicians explored new forms of pop and rock and created music that broke all the rules, then continued on breaking those rules again. The Sex Pistols imploded before much of that happened amid much acrimony; Lydon was famously sued by band manager and control freak Malcolm McLaren who prevented Lydon from using his stage name of Johnny Rotten; the memory still leaves a bitter taste in his mouth although when McLaren passed away in 2010 Lydon paid tribute to the impresario.
Nearly broke and without a means of making a living, Lydon assembled a new band that eventually was named after a book by Muriel Spark with ex-Clash guitarist Keith Levene, Lydon’s former schoolmate Jah Wobble and Canadian drummer Jim Walker. The group released several albums and eventually fell victim to egos and contentious personalities. But that wouldn’t be the end of PiL.
Public Image Ltd. Has been in existence for 40 years now and has consistently pushed the boundaries of expectation, choosing to explore and invent rather than repeat. While they’ve only released ten studio albums in that period, albums like Metal Box and Happy? Have influenced generations of musicians, including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Moby and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (who was once offered a position in the band but turned it down to remain with his old band), all of whom are interviewed here.
Lydon is a fascinating subject. He is known for his candor and occasionally for genuine introspection. He has a puckish sense of humor (he spends much of the film interview sequences in his pajamas, sitting at a breakfast bar in his kitchen, reheating his coffee in the stove. He is self-deprecating from time to time – he doesn’t take fame very seriously – but when it comes to the music his demeanor is all business. He also keeps his private life as private as possible. His wife Nora doesn’t appear on camera and Lydon doesn’t really discuss how he and his wife have raised her granddaughters (Nora’s daughter is the late Slits lead singer Ari Up) although he does remark that having the kids around has changed him.
Most of the film revolves around the band and Lydon is generally complimentary to former bandmates, although there are exceptions. Of Wobble he said “He contributed a lot but ultimately he took more than he gave,” referring to Wobble’s middle finger exit to the band. Filler at least gives equal time to some of the musicians whom Lydon has issues with. Lydon is a fine storyteller and many of his bandmates – particularly Atkins – are also fine storytellers as well.
Fans of the band – which I was not one of – will appreciate the concert footage of the group, including their notorious Ritz show in New York in which the band chose to play behind a theater screen leading to a near-riot which Lydon gleefully claims is maybe their best live show ever. I have to admit however hearing Lydon talk about the uncompromising nature of the band and their need to continually reinvent themselves made a fan out of me and that’s not an easy thing to accomplish.
If I have any beef with the movie is that we don’t get as much on what motivates some of the stylistic changes that the band went through. I think part of it is that Lydon insists on bringing in musicians who are inventive but also gifted players like Levene, the late John McGeoch, Alan Dias and even Jah Wobble. Still, this may be one of the best music documentaries ever made. Even if you’re not a particular fan of PiL you should still see this; you may change your mind as I did.
The film is currently playing in New York City but will be playing all over the country in the coming months. Orlando residents can see the movie in November as part of the Enzian’s Music Monday series. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
REASONS TO GO: The band’s story is truly compelling. Lydon is an engaging raconteur. The concert footage is wonderful. Interviewing Lydon in his pajamas at his breakfast bar in his kitchen is a stroke of genius.
REASONS TO STAY: We get little sense of the things that influence Lydon in his creative process.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a fair amount of profanity as well as some drug references.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is Filler’s first feature film as a director. He has worked as a cinematographer on other films including Sammy Gate and The Activist.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Wrecking Crew
FINAL RATING: 10/10
NEXT: MDMA
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https://celticswire.usatoday.com/2019/09/30/jayson-tatum-al-horford-was-one-of-my-favorite-teammates/
Jayson Tatum: Al Horford was one of my favorite teammates
It doesn’t take too long for individuals to build a bond with one another and that idea is exemplified by Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum and Philadelphia 76ers forward-center Al Horford.
Speaking to reporters at Media Day, Tatum was asked who his favorite teammates have been in the short time he’s been in the league. Tatum, who was selected with the third overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, singled out Horford.
“I miss him,” Tatum says.
Horford signed with the Sixers in July after spending three seasons with the Celtics. Despite a desire to spend the remainder of his career in Boston, the veteran’s outlook of the team’s future changed with the departure of six-time All-Star Kyrie Irving and possibly the inability of Celtics president and general manager Danny Ainge to swing a trade for superstar Anthony Davis.
Jayson Tatum when talking about who his favorite teammates have been: "Al Horford was one of my favorite teammates. I miss him."
— Dante Turo (@DanteOnDeck) September 30, 2019
Horford’s quiet leadership and steady professionalism were well-received throughout the Celtics organization, with multiple players having expressed how he’s one of those people who leads by example.
The relationship between Tatum and Horford hasn’t been deeply explored. Indeed, their difference in ages — Horford is 12 years Tatum’s senior — would make it seem like there should be a generational gap between the two that could effect the potential potency of their relationship.
However, in the way that people have a favorite uncle or older cousin, Tatum obviously still found himself developing a relatively close bond to Horford. Further, as basketball teams often achieve a fraternal bond from spending so much time together — going through a roller coaster season filled with drama and triumphs — the chaos of last season may have only strengthened their connection.
The Celtics play the Sixers — a division rival— four times per season, so Tatum will have plenty of opportunity to reconnect with Horford in person. At the very least, the two likely have each other’s numbers, and can keep tabs on each other in that manner in the meantime.
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https://celticswire.usatoday.com/2020/09/17/nba-boston-celtics-jaylen-says-we-need-a-new-word-reform-not-enough/
Jaylen Brown: 'We need to start using different words other than reform'
With the intense challenge of the latter rounds of the NBA Playoffs requiring intense concentration for success, it doesn’t leave a lot of room for outside interests.
But that doesn’t mean the rest of the world goes away, either.
For Boston Celtics star forward Jaylen Brown, it hasn’t been easy to stay up to date with the news cycle outside of the NBA campus at the Wide World of Sports complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
So he had to be updated Wednesday by a reporter about a $12 million settlement granted the family of Breonna Taylor, killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky while executing a no-knock warrant in a situation that has since become emblematic of excessive use of police force.
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“I’m not sure if that makes me feel any better or worse about the situation,” replied the Georgia native after being brought up to speed.
“I think Brionna to this situation represents, not just her and her family, but other people that fell victim to the system that has been orchestrated to keep Black and brown people oppressed. I guess that is a great step for them telling her family, but it’s also more of a thing that needs to be changed.”
Brown took issue with the word “reform” in particular when discussing the police policy changed that were included in the settlement agreement.
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“I think that reform is the word that we use a lot,” he explained. “And we want to constantly see reform, but really, we’ve been saying that for a long time.”
“To be honest, we’ve been saying it for years. And if I wanted to reform my house you know I might upgrade my kitchen. I might change my garage. I might even do some outside but that doesn’t change [that] the house is the same. I think we need to start using different words other than reform, because reform is not the right energy I think that we are trying to present. I think that “recreate,” “dismantle” and things like that are words that we should maybe use, because it’s obvious that this incrementalism in this system has just been stringing us along year after year after year.”
Reform has been the topic of conversation, and some of the same things have happened,” Brown added.
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“But people are still getting killed in their houses,” he explained, “in their backyards, outside of places that they spent time at and reform is not the word, so we need to find a new word.”
And perhaps a stronger, evidence-based package of interventions to go with whatever word best reflects the change that is so desperately needed.
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Politics, Press Release
Rose Votes Against Democrats’ Failed Veto-Override Attempt in U.S. House
Press Release from United States Rep. John Rose, R-TN06, March 26, 2019:
Link: https://johnrose.house.gov/media/press-releases/rose-reaffirms-president-s-authority-build-wall
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman John Rose voted again today to support President Trump’s efforts to build a wall. Rose’s support of the President’s authority came as he voted against House Democrats’ efforts to override the President’s veto of a bill intended to block the President’s emergency declaration to secure the border.
“In order to protect the funding for the border wall that President Trump secured by declaring a national emergency at our southern border, I voted against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s latest attempt to terminate President Trump’s ability to declare such an emergency. I support the President’s authority to declare a national emergency to resolve the crisis at our nation’s border. This emergency declaration is fully within the President’s lawful powers, and I stand with the people of Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District in our shared desire to fully secure our border.”
The President, following recommendations by national security officials, requested $5.7 billion to secure our southern border. Democrats refused to meet the President’s funding requests, allocating only $1.3 billion. Following this, the President declared a national emergency on February 15 invoking powers granted to the President under federal statute.
The House Democratic Majority responded by bringing legislation to the House Floor on February 26 to terminate the President’s emergency declaration, which Congressman Rose voted against. The bill passed the House over Congressman Rose’s opposition and then passed the Senate, but was vetoed by President Trump on March 15.
Today, Congressman Rose’s vote against Speaker Pelosi’s failed attempt to override the President’s veto (requiring a two-thirds majority vote) reaffirmed his support for President Trump and the emergency funding for a wall to secure our southern border.
Congressman John Rose represents Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District and resides in Cookeville with his wife, Chelsea, and their son, Guy. The Sixth District includes Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, White, and Wilson counties as well as portions of Cheatham and Van Buren counties.
March 27, 2019 /by Press Release Center
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Speedy Forward Max Montes Commits to St. Cloud State
St. Cloud, MN – The St. Cloud State University Huskies picked up another commitment with the addition of 16 year-old (9/1/03) Hartland, Wisconsin native Max Montes on August 19. Hartland is a suburb of Milwaukee, WI. This follows the commitment of another forward from the Badger State, Jonah Aegerter of Janesville, WI a week ago.…
August 19, 2020 in Uncategorized.
Wisconsin Forward Aegerter Commits to St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud, MN – The St. Cloud State University Huskies received a commitment from Janesville, WI native Jonah Aegerter on August 12. The 16 year-old center announced via Twitter “I’m extremely proud and honored to announce my commitment to St. Cloud State. Thank you to my family, coaches, and friends who have supported me along…
CenterIceView: College Hockey Mid-Summer Ramblings
St. Cloud, MN – Although it’s the “Dog Days of Summer” things are moving forward on the college hockey landscape. Here’s some updates that may be of interest: Huskies Return to School With SCSU classes scheduled to begin on August 24, members of the SCSU men’s hockey team have returned to campus including international students.…
August 3, 2020 in Uncategorized.
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Diploma in Missional Leadership
June 7, 2021 - May 31, 2025
660 Francklyn Street
Halifax , NS , B3H 3B5
Are you a leader of a faith community committed to nurturing your own faith, growing in your understanding of the missional context around you, and networking with other ministry leaders? Are you passionate about mission in the Canadian context? If so, you are invited to apply to be part of the first cohort of participants in this exciting new Diploma program that focuses on developing practical leadership skills and attributes, while learning about the Canadian context as well as the nature and practices of mission-oriented leadership.
The first cohort (running from June 2021 to spring 2023) is focused on the Canadian context and is especially meant for racialized or minoritized ministry leaders.
The Diploma in Missional Leadership is a part-time program of study and mentorship with four components. You are required to participate in all four components to graduate from the program. (Please note that Diploma components are not university credit courses and cannot be transferred into another AST program.)
Unit 1: Leaders as Learners (in Halifax, June 7-11, 2021)
Focus: forming the cohort group; nourishing habits of self-care and continuous spiritual growth; self-awareness and leadership skills; introduction to modes of missional leadership and worldview; establishing peer accountability groups and patterns.
Unit 2: Leaders within a Tradition (online, Sept-Nov 2021)
Focus: specific denominational realities, including culture, polity, practices, theology, and ethos; developing intercultural competencies; inspiring and managing change.
Unit 3: Leaders in Context (in Toronto or Ottawa, spring 2022)
Focus: Canadian contexts of leadership, including the realities of language, culture, ethnicities, history, religion, secularization, geography, demographics, and economics; Canada’s ecumenical landscape within a global context; continuing to learn about missional leadership.
Unit 4: Leaders developing Leaders (online, Sept-Nov 2022)
Focus: personal coaching and leadership mentoring, both as a mentor and mentee; additional learning needs and goals identified by participants.
Graduation: May 2023 at the AST Convocation
Pre-graduation retreat (optional).
You must currently be serving in an authorized form of ministry in Canada.
You must commit to attending the first component of the Diploma on campus in Halifax, June 7-11, 2021, as well as the other components noted above.
Access to an up-to-date computer and Internet access (preferably high speed) is required.
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Gareth Bale lacking confidence in his fitness, admits José Mourinho
December 2, 2020, 11:32 a.m. ·3 min read
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José Mourinho believes Gareth Bale is undergoing a “physical evolution” at Tottenham and could emerge with body and mind fully repaired following a difficult few years at Real Madrid.
Bale, on loan from Madrid, is expected to start in Thursday’s Europa League group game against Lask in Austria but the Wales winger has rarely featured in Premier League matches this season.
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“The only problem with Gareth is to get into the dynamic and the confidence of playing consecutive matches without any bad feeling or negative feeling, without any remembrance of the recent past when the condition was not the best and the fears were there,” said Mourinho. “But now he has the chance of a physical evolution.
“He doesn’t need a tactical or a technical evolution. He just needs to get his confidence back about playing three matches in a week. It’s more about that [than anything else].”
A draw in Linz would ensure Mourinho’s side advance to the knockout stage and a manager who describes his team as “a pony” in the title race acknowledged that Spurs rank as “one of the most important horses in the Europa League”.
Whereas Bale has started four European games this season he has begun only one Premier League fixture, appeared in two more as a substitute and is likely to be on the bench for Sunday’s derby at home to Arsenal.
By then Harry Kane should have recovered from the mystery injury which has ruled him out of the Austrian trip and be ready to lead Mourinho’s attack. “I’m not going to tell you the nature of Harry’s injury” said Tottenham’s manager, who was widely expected to rest Kane. “But I don’t want to lie, I think he’s going to play against Arsenal.”
Although Toby Alderweireld seems set to return to central defence on Sunday, his recent recovery from groin trouble dictates Mourinho will not risk him in Linz, where Tottenham will also be without the injured Érik Lamela, Sergio Reguilón and Carlos Vinícius.
Like Bale, Dele Alli has largely been restricted to Europa League action, with the sometime England attacking midfielder struggling to make Mourinho’s Premier League bench.
Mourinho has grown accustomed to being quizzed on his relationship with Alli and Wednesday proved no exception as he took an opportunity to reiterate, perhaps pointedly, that every player must buy into Tottenham’s team ethos and sometimes sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
“I don’t have any problem with Dele,” he said. “My players are happy when they play and not happy when they don’t. But the concept above everything is that the team is more important than any of us.
“The ones who aren’t playing much should have only one thing in their minds and that is to show, in the minutes they have, that they should be playing. They must use every minute they have to improve their position.”
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Pope book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptic
ROME — Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and media organizations that spread their conspiracies in a new book penned during the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown.
In “Let Us Dream,” published Tuesday, Francis also criticizes populist politicians who whip up rallies in ways reminiscent of the 1930s, and the hypocrisy of “rigid” conservative Catholics who support them. But he also criticizes the forceful downing of historic statues during protests for racial equality this year as a misguided attempt to “purify the past.”
The 150-page book was written in collaboration with Francis’ English-language biographer, Austen Ivereigh, who said Monday he hopes a more colloquial English-speaking pope will resonate with English-speaking readers and believers.
At its core, “Let Us Dream” aims to outline Francis’ vision of a more economically and environmentally just post-coronavirus world where the poor, the elderly and weak aren’t left on the margins and the wealthy aren’t consumed only with profits.
But it also offers new personal insights into the 83-year-old Argentine pope and his sense of humour .
At one point, Francis reveals that after he offered in 2012 to retire as archbishop of Buenos Aires when he turned 75, he planned to finally finish the thesis he never completed on the 20th-century German intellectual, Romano Guardini.
“But in March 2013, I was transferred to another diocese,” he deadpans. Francis was elected pope, and bishop of Rome, on March 13, 2013.
The publisher said the book was the first written by a pope during a major world crisis and Ivereigh said it was done as a response to the coronavirus and the lockdown. For Francis, the pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to imagine and plan for a more socially just world.
At times, it seems he is directing that message squarely at the United States, as Donald Trump's administration winds down four years of “America first” policies that excluded migrants from Muslim countries and diminished U.S. reliance on multilateral diplomacy. Without identifying the U.S. or Trump by name, Francis singles out Christian-majority countries where nationalist-populist leaders seek to defend Christianity from perceived enemies.
“Today, listening to some of the populist leaders we now have, I am reminded of the 1930s, when some democracies collapsed into dictatorships seemingly overnight,” Francis wrote. “We see it happening again now in rallies where populist leaders excite and harangue crowds, channeling their resentments and hatreds against imagined enemies to distract from the real problems.”
People fall prey to such rhetoric out of fear, not true religious conviction, he wrote. Such “superficially religious people vote for populists to protect their religious identity, unconcerned that fear and hatred of the other cannot be reconciled with the Gospel.”
Francis addressed the killing of Floyd, a Black man whose death at the knee of a white policeman set off protests this year across the United States. Referring to Floyd by name, Francis said: “Abuse is a gross violation of human dignity that we cannot allow and which we must continue to struggle against.”
But he warned that protests can be manipulated and decried the attempt to erase history by downing statues of U.S. Confederate leaders. A better way, he said, is to debate the past through dialogue.
“Amputating history can make us lose our memory, which is one of the few remedies we have against repeating the mistakes of the past,” he wrote.
Turning to the pandemic, Francis blasted people who protested anti-virus restrictions “as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom!”
He accused some in the church and Catholic media of being part of the problem.
“You’ll never find such people protesting the death of George Floyd, or joining a demonstration because there are shantytowns where children lack water or education,” he wrote. “They turned into a cultural battle what was in truth an effort to ensure the protection of life.”
He praised journalists who reported on how the pandemic was affecting the poorest. But he took a broad swipe at unnamed media organizations that “used this crisis to persuade people that foreigners are to blame, that the coronavirus is little more than a little bout of flu, and that restrictions necessary for people's protection amount to an unjust demand of an interfering state."
“There are politicians who peddle these narratives for their own gain," he writes. “But they could not succeed without some media creating and spreading them."
In urging the world to use the pandemic as an opportunity for a reset, Francis offers “three COVID-19” moments, or personal crises of his own life, that gave him the chance to stop, think and change course.
The first was the respiratory infection that nearly killed him when he was 21 and in his second year at the Buenos Aires diocesan seminary. After being saved, Francis decided to join the Jesuit religious order.
“I have a sense of how people with the coronavirus feel as they struggle to breathe on ventilators,” Francis wrote.
The second COVID-19 moment was when he moved to Germany in 1986 to work on his thesis and felt such loneliness and isolation he moved back to Argentina without finishing it.
The third occurred during the nearly two years he spent in exile in Cordoba, northern Argentina, as penance for his authoritarian-laced reign as head of the Jesuit order in the country.
“I’m sure I did a few good things, but I could be very harsh. In Cordoba, they made me pay and they were right to do so,” he wrote.
But he also revealed that while in Cordoba he read a 37-volume “History of the Popes.”
“Once you know that papal history, there’s not that much that goes on in the Vatican Curia and the church today that can shock you,” he wrote.
Francis repeated his call for a universal basic income, for welcoming migrants and for what he calls the three L’s that everyone needs: land, lodging and labour .
“We need to set goals for our business sector that — without denying its importance — look beyond shareholder value to other kinds of values that save us all: community, nature and meaningful work," he writes.
Follow AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press
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Reactions to Keystone XL cancellation and welcoming Biden: In The News for Jan. 21
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 21 ... What we are watching in Canada ... CALGARY -- Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is calling for the federal government to impose economic sanctions against the United States in response to newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden's "gut punch" decision to tear up the permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline expansion. Kenney said he was upset the U.S. wouldn't consult with Canada first before acting but saved his strongest criticisms for federal Liberals, whose statements in response to Biden's actions Kenny characterized as too accepting. "If the U.S. government refuses to open the door to a constructive and respectful dialogue about these issues, then it is clear that the government of Canada must impose meaningful trade and economic sanctions in response to defend our country's economic interests," he said. The lack of a strong response sets a precedent that could allow other members of Biden's government to call for other "retroactive" permit revocations for existing pipelines, Kenney said. Part of Keystone XL has been built but it is not complete, nor is it operating. Kenney has said the province has about $1 billion at risk if the project is killed. The 1,947-kilometre pipeline is designed to carry 830,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Hardisty, Alta., to Steele City, Neb. From there it would connect with the company's existing facilities to reach the U.S. Gulf Coast — one of the world's biggest oil refining hubs. --- Also this ... CALGARY -- WestJet Airlines will operate the first commercial Boeing 737 Max flight in Canada today since the aircraft was grounded in 2019 following two deadly crashes. Transport Canada lifted its grounding order for the Max on Wednesday after approving design changes to the plane and requiring pilots to undergo additional training. WestJet executives will hold a press conference after the morning flight between Calgary and Vancouver. The event is part of a campaign to reintroduce the Max to service while assuring the public that the plane's safety issues have been addressed. Air Canada is expected to follow suit on Feb. 1. Air Canada has already said it will offer passengers booked on a Max the option of changing their flight at no extra charge. --- What we are watching in the U.S. ... WASHINGTON -- If Joe Biden's decision to kill off Keystone XL is supposed to sound the death knell for Canada-U.S. relations, you wouldn't know it from the newly minted president's call sheet. The 46th president's first phone call with a foreign leader comes today and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be on the other end of the line. "I expect they will certainly discuss the important relationship with Canada, as well as his decision on the Keystone pipeline we announced earlier today," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday. "His early calls will be with partners and allies; he feels it's important to rebuild those relationships and to address the challenges and threats we're facing in the world." Deep in the stack of leather-bound executive orders Biden signed on his first day in the White House was one to rescind former president Donald Trump's approval of the US$8-billion cross-border pipeline expansion. The project, first proposed in 2008, has been bouncing around the White House in various forms of limbo — stalled throughout Barack Obama's two terms before being outright cancelled in 2015, then twice resurrected by Trump. Trudeau, who has been careful to point out that Biden's campaign had already promised to block the expansion, did so again Wednesday in a statement that was more celebratory than scolding. "While we welcome the president's commitment to fight climate change, we are disappointed but acknowledge the president's decision to fulfil his election campaign promise on Keystone XL," the statement said. Trudeau welcomed Biden's other moves, including rejoining the Paris accord, a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and reversing the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries. --- What we are watching in the rest of the world ... World leaders welcomed into their ranks the new U.S. President Joe Biden, noting their most pressing problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, require multilateral co-operation, an approach his predecessor Donald Trump ridiculed. Many expressed hope Biden would right U.S. democracy two weeks after rioters stormed the Capitol, shaking the faith of those fighting for democracy in their own countries. Governments targeted and sanctioned under Trump embraced the chance for a fresh start with Biden, while some heads of state who lauded Trump’s blend of nationalism and populism were more restrained in their expectations. But the chance to repair frayed alliances and work together on global problems carried the day. China, whose U.S. relations nosedived due to widespread frustration in Washington over its human rights record and accusations of technology theft, expressed cautious hope about the change in the White House. “China looks forward to working with the new administration to promote sound & steady development of China-U.S. relations and jointly address global challenges in public health, climate change & growth,” China’s ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai, tweeted. Biden “understands the importance of co-operation among nations,” said former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos, who left office in 2018. “As a matter of fact, if we don’t co-operate – all nations – to fight climate change, then we will all perish. It’s as simple as that." French President Emmanuel Macron and Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama were among those welcoming U.S. attention to climate change. After Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, Biden reversed the move in the first hours of his presidency Wednesday. --- On this day in 1992 ... The Supreme Court of Canada began its review of David Milgaard's murder conviction in the death of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller. The high court quashed the conviction a few months later and Saskatchewan decided not to retry Milgaard. --- In health news ... A new study links the fitness level of Canadian children to that of their parents. The StatCan analysis suggests a child's aerobic fitness, muscular strength and flexibility all correlate to that of their parent. But there were differences when it came to the sex of each parent and child involved. Boys whose parent had "excellent" cardiorespiratory fitness had better cardiorespiratory fitness than boys whose parent had a "poor" cardiorespiratory fitness level. Girls whose parent had "excellent" flexibility had higher flexibility than girls whose parent had "poor" flexibility. But the correlation in cardiorespiratory fitness was only seen significantly in mother-and-son pairs; while a significant flexibility correlation was only seen in mother-son and father-son pairings. Grip strength was associated in all duos except father-son pairings. The study was based on data from the ongoing Canadian Health Measures Survey, and draws from a sample representative of children aged 6 to 11 years and their biological parents. --- ICYMI ... A massive snow sculpture on a St. John's lawn depicting former United States president Donald Trump drowning in a sea of blue is drawing visitors. The sculpture depicts Trump with his arms up, mouth open and hair aflutter, while his signature red tie floats out before him on the blue-painted snow. Co-creator James Keating says the snow carving is "huge" and "tremendous" and represents Trump “drowning in controversy." He and his 16-year-old son, Ashton Keating, had been working on it for a few days. Keating estimated they put about 10 hours of work into it and said they made sure it would be ready for Joe Biden's inauguration as U.S. president on Wednesday. --- This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2021 The Canadian Press
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Smart Labels to Provide Real-Time Product Information with RFIDs and QR Codes
Dublin, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ResearchAndMarkets.com published a new article on the smart food and beverage labeling industry "Smart Labels to Provide Real-Time Product Information with RFIDs and QR Codes" Changing consumer behavior is expected to boost the demand for smart labeling in the food and beverage industry. Due to the spread of COVID-19, the food packaging market is witnessing tremendous growth. Online shopping and panic stocking are among the most common outcomes that the lockdown has resulted in. This has, in turn, led to an increase in demand for essential food products, such as baby food, milk, and vegetables. Concerns pertaining to food safety due to COVID-19 are increasing the demand for pure and fresh food. Consumers demand clarity and accountability in the supply chain and are becoming more vigilant about their consumption behavior. A significant portion of consumers is engaging with labels to get a clearer understanding of the products they are consuming.The smart label market is at its emerging stage. Therefore, most manufacturers treat the technology as an aesthetic to their products. Looking at the current situation, the food and beverage manufacturers are strictly barring themselves from any additional packaging options that will increase their cost of production, as manufacturers are still dealing with the broken supply chain. To see the full article and a list of related reports on the market, visit "Smart Labels to Provide Real-Time Product Information with RFIDs and QR Codes" About ResearchAndMarkets.com ResearchAndMarkets.com is the world's leading source for international market research reports and market data. We provide you with the latest data on international and regional markets, key industries, the top companies, new products and the latest trends. Research and Markets also offers Custom Research services providing focused, comprehensive and tailored research. CONTACT: CONTACT: ResearchAndMarkets.com Laura Wood, Senior Press Manager press@researchandmarkets.com For E.S.T Office Hours Call 1-917-300-0470 For U.S./CAN Toll Free Call 1-800-526-8630 For GMT Office Hours Call +353-1-416-8900
In his first address, President Biden urged Americans to come together for the common love of the country
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Zimmerman v. City of Austin
Zimmerman v. City of Austin is a First Amendment challenge to Austin’s municipal campaign finance law, including its contribution limits for city council candidates. CLC is arguing that Austin’s contribution limits should be upheld.
Zimmerman v. City of Austin is a First Amendment challenge to Austin’s municipal campaign finance law, including its contribution limits for city council candidates. For decades, the Supreme Court has acknowledged that the contribution limits serve the important goal of preventing corruption and the appearance of corruption, while at the same time only minimally burdening First Amendment rights.UPDATE: On February 1, the Fifth Circuit panel issued a unanimous opinion, upholding the city's contribution limits. But the fight to protect contribution limits is not over, as we expect the decision to be appealed.
Thirty-nine states and countless local governments limit the amount of money donors can contribute to candidates. Courts have long recognized that these laws are effective tools at preventing corruption and its appearance. If the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals adopts Zimmerman’s proposed rigorous standard of review, contribution limits across the country will be opened up to new scrutiny and decades of settled law will be called into question. This would hamstring the ability of state and local governments to fight corruption in government.
In 1997, voters in Austin, Texas enacted a campaign finance reform law that, among other things, capped the amount donors could give to candidates for city council, created a black-out period during which candidates could not receive campaign donations, and required that unused campaign funds be spent or donated to charity shortly after the election. In 2006, the Austin City Council revised the contribution limits and pegged them to inflation; in 2016, the contribution limit was $350.
An incumbent city council member, Donald Zimmerman, filed a federal lawsuit against the city in 2015 arguing that these campaign finance regulations violated the First Amendment. The district court upheld the contribution limits, but invalidated the black-out period and dissolution requirements.
Zimmerman appealed the district court’s decision upholding the contribution limits to the Fifth Circuit, and the city cross-appealed the invalidation of the black-out period provision and the dissolution requirement. Throughout the litigation, Zimmerman has advocated that longstanding precedent upholding contribution limits be set aside and replaced with a far more demanding standard that would jeopardize similar contribution limits across the country.
On July 20, 2016, the district court upheld the contribution limits, but invalidated other provisions of the law. On appeal, Zimmerman, the former city council member who brought the suit, is asking the Fifth Circuit to reject the longstanding precedent upholding contribution limits as constitutional, and instead adopt a rigorous standard of review that would eliminate decades of deference courts have granted to legislatures in determining whether to adopt contribution limits and which dollar level to choose.
CLC, along with Dēmos, filed an amicus brief on May 8, 2017, arguing that Austin’s contribution limits should be upheld. CLC’s brief emphasizes the Supreme Court resolved this issue long ago—that Austin has the right to employ contribution limits as a means of preventing corruption and its appearance and that the court should defer to its judgment in setting the right amount for those limits.
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To Prevent the Effusion of Blood
December 26, 2020 WalterCoffey Military, South Carolina Leave a comment
Secretary of War John B. Floyd had gotten himself into a mess. A transportation company that had done work for the War Department had agreed to accept $870,000 in Indian trust bonds in lieu of pay. Floyd gained nothing financially from this transaction, but it was illegal nonetheless, so President James Buchanan, through Vice President John C. Breckinridge, had asked Floyd to resign.
Floyd then issued an order transferring 115,000 improved muskets and rifles from the Springfield (Massachusetts) armory and Watervliet (New York) arsenal to arsenals in southern states that would likely secede. He also directed the commander of the Allegheny Arsenal in Pittsburgh to send 124 cannon to forts in Mississippi and Texas. The commander complied, but citizens raised a protest as the steamboat took the weapons away. A wire went to Buchanan reporting that “great excitement has been created in the public mind by this order.” If Buchanan did not rescind the order immediately, “we cannot be answerable for the consequences.” The Pittsburgh Gazette printed a scathing article excoriating the Buchanan administration:
“These facts go to show conclusively the treasonable purpose of the administration. Every Northern Arsenal has been stripped of arms and ordnance, and every Southern Arsenal crammed full and left in such condition as to give the Secessionists a chance to capture them, and provide themselves thoroughly with the accoutrements of war, at the expense of the government. The one hundred and odd cannon to be sent from here to Ship Island and Galveston are, without doubt, to be placed where they can be captured without a blow. The traitors of the South are thus being furnished by a government in league with them with all the ammunitions of war.”
Buchanan was shocked when he learned of Floyd’s orders. He immediately cancelled the Pittsburgh transfer, but it took two days for his directive to reach the arsenal. At the cabinet meeting on the 26th, Buchanan expressed his displeasure with Floyd, but Floyd would not yet resign, though he was clearly becoming an adversary to the president and some of the new cabinet members.
In South Carolina, the Charlestonians were becoming increasingly hostile toward Major Robert Anderson’s foreign command still stationed in the harbor. With the state militia getting stronger every day, Anderson no longer felt he could defend Moultrie against a landward attack. He therefore opted to move to Sumter. Fort Sumter was a brick, pentagon-shaped structure built on an artificial island in 1829 but never completed. From there, Anderson could see any hostile force approaching from any direction, thereby giving him a much more defensible position in the harbor.
The move was initially delayed due to fog, but Anderson finally decided he could not wait any longer. On the day after Christmas, the troops received orders to get ready to move, but the destination was kept secret. Most of the men thought they were going to Fort Johnson, where Anderson had sent the garrison’s women and children. But that had been just a diversion; the ships carrying them would be “unable” to land and would therefore have to detour to Fort Sumter. Then, under cover of darkness, the rest of the garrison would head there as well.
At 6 p.m., the first of two waves of Federal troops were ferried from Moultrie to Sumter, one mile to the southwest. A steamer patrolling the harbor approached the second wave, and a small force left behind at Moultrie prepared to fire on the vessel if necessary. But the ship’s crew apparently did not notice the boats quietly rowing to Sumter, so an armed conflict was avoided for now. The Federals left at Moultrie spiked their guns and burned their gun carriages so the South Carolinians could not use them, and they too then headed for Sumter.
Anderson sent a message from Fort Sumter to Washington at 8 p.m.: “I have the honor to report that I have just completed, by the blessing of God, the removal to this fort of all my garrison… We have one year’s supply of hospital stores and about four months’ supply of provisions for my command… The step which I have taken was, in my opinion, necessary to prevent the effusion of blood.” Anderson then wrote his wife, “Thanks be to God… for His having given me the will and shewn the way to bring my command to this Fort. I can now breathe freely.”
The transfer went unnoticed by the South Carolinians until morning, when they were horrified to see the U.S. flag waving over Fort Sumter while Fort Moultrie smoldered. President James Buchanan had assured them that he would not allow Anderson to make any moves in the harbor, but that was exactly what Anderson had done. As Charlestonians filled streets, balconies, steeples, and cupolas to get a glimpse of the Federals in the harbor, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr., editor of the fire-eating Charleston Mercury, denounced Anderson’s move as an “outrageous breach of faith.”
Telegraph lines soon carried this stunning news throughout the country.
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Controlled Nitric Oxide Releasing Patch Versus Meglumine Antimoniate in the Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Recruitment Status : Terminated (An interim analysis showed that nitric oxide patches are not enough effective)
First Posted : April 25, 2006
The University of Akron
Universidad de Santander
Secretaria de Salud de Santander
Secretaria de Salud de Tolima
First Submitted Date ICMJE
First Posted Date ICMJE
Last Update Posted Date
Study Start Date ICMJE
Actual Primary Completion Date
January 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
(submitted: November 2, 2007)
Complete reepithelization [ Time Frame: three months after the beginning of the treatment ]
Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
(submitted: April 21, 2006)
Complete reepithelization three months after the beginning of the treatment.
Absence of reactivation and affections of the mucous membranes during the 6 months of the study.
Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
Absence of reactivation and affections of the mucous membranes [ Time Frame: during the first 6 months of the study ]
Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
Incomplete reepithelization three months after the beginning of the treatment.
Increase in the size of the ulcer by more than 50% in relation to the last clinical evaluation
Reactivation and or affections of the mucous membranes during the 6 months of the study.
Current Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
Original Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
Descriptive Information
Brief Title ICMJE
Official Title ICMJE
Double Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial, to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Controlled Nitric Oxide Releasing Patch Versus Meglumine Antimoniate in the Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a worldwide disease, endemic in 88 countries, that has shown an increasing incidence over the last two decades. So far, pentavalent antimony compounds have been considered the treatment of choice, with a percentage of cure of about 85%. However, the high efficacy of these drugs is counteracted by their many disadvantages and adverse events. Previous studies have shown nitric oxide to be a potential alternative treatment when administered topically with no serious adverse events. However, due to the unstable nitric oxide release, the topical donors needed to be applied frequently, making the adherence to the treatment difficult. The electrospinning technique has allowed the production of a multilayer transdermal patch that produces a continuous and stable nitric oxide release. The main objective of this study is to evaluate this novel nitric oxide topical donor for the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
A double-blind, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled clinical trial, including 620 patients from endemic areas for leishmaniasis in Colombia was designed to investigate whether this patch is as effective as meglumine antimoniate for the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis but with less adverse events. Subjects with ulcers characteristic of cutaneous leishmaniasis will be medically evaluated and laboratory tests and parasitological confirmation performed. After checking the inclusion/exclusion criteria, the patients will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. During 20 days Group 1 will receive simultaneously meglumine antimoniate and placebo of nitric oxide patches while Group 2 will receive placebo of meglumine antimoniate and active nitric oxide patches. During the treatment visits, the medications will be administered daily and the presence of adverse events assessed. During the follow-up, the research group will visit the patients at days 21, 45, 90 and 180. The healing process of the ulcer, the health of the participants, recidivisms and/or reinfection will also be assessed. The evolution of the ulcers will be photographically registered. In the case that the effectiveness of the patches is demonstrated, a novel and safe therapeutic alternative for one of the most important public health problems in many countries will be available to patients.
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is a worldwide disease that is endemic in 88 countries [1] . It is estimated that 1.5 million people suffer from CL annually and that more than 350 million are at risk of contracting the infection [2-4]. In America, 60,000 new cases of CL are reported annually [5], being endemic in 20 of its 22 countries and in 2 islands of the Caribbean [2]. Currently, CL has affected more than 500 U.S. Army soldiers serving in Iraq [6]. In the Andean region, the incidence of Leishmaniasis has been increasing dramatically over the last two decades; reaching more than 14,000 cases per year from 1996-98 [7]. In Colombia 6,500 cases have been reported [8]. The increase in the reported cases of CL in Colombia has been related to factors such as migration, deforestation, the multiplication of illicit plantations, the armed political conflict and the behavioral changes of the vector. The main strains of Leishmania in Colombia are L. panamensis, L. brazilensis, L. infantum and L. guyanensis, which are distributed throughout the entire national territory, predominantly in the rural areas [10]. CL is caused by intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania [1] and is transmitted to humans through the bite of a small percentage of the species of phlebotomus and lutzomyia sandflies classified to date [10]. In the digestive system of the sandflies, this dimorphic parasite presents an extracellular flagellated form called a promastigote, which upon its release in the host blood, is phagocytized by the macrophage, losing its flagella and turning into an amastigote [12]. Dogs, rodents and didelphidae are the natural hosts of the parasite while man is an incidental host [11]. This zoonosis has suffered an interesting urbanization phenomenon, changing from an eminent rural entity affecting mainly men of an active age, to a disease that is affecting all people, especially children [8,9]. The characteristic lesions of this disease are ulcers that heal spontaneously over a period of three months to a year, depending on the isolate, and that leave a flat, atrophic and depigmented scar [13-15]. The CL, especially the one produced by L. brazilensis can evolve into mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis (MCL), which has a worse prognosis owing to the deforming character of its lesions [16]. The spontaneous cure of these lesions allows for the acquisition of partial resistance to reinfection, which could explain the higher pathogenicity observed in the children and young adult population [9]. Previous studies have shown a higher incidence of CL and a poor response to treatment in the children population [17]. The program of epidemiological vigilance in Colombia requires that the probable cases of CL (identified by ulcer features and by the patient's origin) be confirmed by microscopic direct examination of a secession sample obtained from the ulcer, if these are negative, by biopsy of the wound. Once confirmed, the cases must be notified to the Local Health Secretary using clinical-epidemiological records. This institution, in charge of the epidemiological vigilance, studies the sources of transmission and distributes the medication to the people affected. Currently, various aspects are considered when treating CL, among which, the risk of developing MCL, the grade, localization, number, size, evolution and persistence of the lesions, are the most important [18]. For more than 60 years, the pentavalent antimony compounds: sodium stibogluconate, (Pentostan®, produced by Glaxo-Wellcome) and meglumine antimoniate, (Glucantime®, produced by Sanofi-Aventis) have been considered the treatments of choice for this disease [19]. Studies made in Colombia reported a percentage of cure of 85%, using meglumine antimoniate [20,21]. Despite the fact that the efficacy of these drugs is high, they present many disadvantages such as parenteral administration, and, reversible secondary effects such as nausea, vomiting, muscular and abdominal pain, cardiac problems, a rise in the concentration of hepatic aminotransferases, and chemical pancreatitis [21,22]. Additionally, the adherence to the treatment is affected by its duration (several weeks) and its availability by the restriction in its distribution. Therapeutic alternatives of second line have been proposed; amphotericin B and pentamidine have been used with excellent results, nevertheless their high cost, little availability, the necessity to hospitalize the patients for their administration and the severity of their secondary effects have limited their use [23,24]. In the last decade new treatments for CL have been developed, using oral agents such as mefloquine, itraconazole, miltefosine, paromomycin, ketoconazole, allopurinol and dapsone, however, they have not shown enough evidence of their effectiveness [19,21,25,26]. In an effort to develop a topical treatment for CL, paromomycin has been used in different preparations. However, rates of curation achieved with this medication have not been higher than conventional treatments, even when compared with placebo [27,28]. In several studies, in vitro and in vivo, it has been demonstrated that nitric oxide (NO) is effective to eliminate various strains of Leishmania in its amastigote form [29-35]. The production of NO from the oxidation of L-arginine caused by the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) constitutes one of the most important defense mechanisms of the macrophages [36], in which two oxidative forms of defense against Leishmania have been identified. During the first phase of infection, in response to the phagocytosis process, some promastigotes are eliminated due to the release of the superoxide ion, a process which is catalyzed by the NADPH oxidase [29]. Those promastigotes that survive this defense mechanism evolve into amastigotes, activating the production of IL-12 in the macrophages and promoting the presentation of the antigens of Leishmania [29] to the T helpers 1 lymphocytes that enhance the cytotoxic activities of the macrophages toward the intracellular parasites via the interferon gamma (INFγ) and the tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) by promoting the production of NO catalyzed by iNOS [31-33]. A recent study shows a higher activity of iNOS in the macrophages of subjects infected with CL, suggesting a vital role of NO in the immunological activity against Leishmania [34]. In Studies with rodents resistant to Leishmania infection (C57BL/6), where L. major, L. chagasi or L. donovani were inoculated, the application of iNOS inhibitors like NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) caused a higher rate of survival and virulence of the parasites in macrophages [33,35,37,38]. After inoculating L. major in mice with the genetic susceptibility to develop infections with Leishmania (BALB/C), no activity of iNOS was observed. However, the application of IL-12, was able to control the infection by activating iNOS [31]. In humans, several clinical trials have been realized with topical treatments containing NO donors [39,40]. In Ecuador, our group developed and tested a NO generating topical cream with S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP), evidencing a beneficial effect in the management of this type of ulcers with no reports of any serious adverse event. Nevertheless, due to the unstable nitric oxide release, the cream had to be applied frequently (4 times a day) making the adherence to the treatment difficult [39]. In Syria, another group used potassium nitrate acidified with salicylic acid and ascorbic acid for the topical treatment of L. tropica [40]. In vitro, this NO generating mixture destroyed the amastigotes and promastigotes of Leishmania; however, in vivo, the study of 40 patients presented inconsistent results, reducing the size of the ulcer in 28% of the subjects and healing only 12%. The discrepancy in these results is believed to be due to the technique used to obtain the NO. The acidification of nitrite produces an instant blast of NO, but its release is not maintained over a long period of time [40]. The difficulty of controlling the liberation of NO has created the necessity of looking for new techniques to regulate its release. The nanofiber polymers produced by the electrospinning technique have been studied in order to guarantee the constant release of pharmaceuticals on the lesion. In the electrospinning process, a high voltage is used to create an electrically charged jet of polymer solution, which dries and solidifies to leave behind a dry polymer fiber [41]. As this jet travels through the air, the solvent evaporates leaving behind a charged fiber that can be electrically deflected and collected on a metal screen [42,43]. Fibers with a variety of cross sectional shapes and sizes are produced from different polymers. With this technique, the encapsulation or entrapment of several pharmaceuticals, enzymes and proteins has been successful. In a previous study, nanofiber patches were successfully used as releasing vehicles of tetracycline hydrochloride. The release of tetracycline was constant for a period of 5 days [41;43]. Using the same model, a multilayer transdermal patch has been produced, in which nitrite is bound to an ion exchange resin (DOWEX) and electrospun into a polyurethane nanofibers layer. A solution containing Waterlock® superabsorbent and polyurethane is electrospun on top of the nitrite-DOWEX layer. The ascorbic acid entrapped in the polyurethane solution is electrospun onto a third layer, with another layer of Waterlock® superabsorbent and polyurethane as the fourth and final one. Upon hydration, this Nitric Oxide Releasing Patch (NOP) produces a stable release of 3.5 µmol of NO during 12 hrs [41,44,45]. In a pilot study, developed in Landazuri, Santander, Colombia, a placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted with 35 patients who presented 68 ulcers produced by L. panamensis. Using the NOP, a 65% improvement was observed in the treated ulcers, with only a 25% improvement in the placebo group (p=0.001). In this pilot study the unique adverse event described was pruritus in the area where the patch was applied (unpublished data). Taking into account the wide distribution of CL, the changes in its form of transmission and the difficulty related with the availability of medication, this study proposes to investigate whether the NO donor transdermal patch, produced by electrospinning is, at least, as effective as the meglumine antimoniate for the treatment of CL, with less adverse events and a lower cost, constituting therefore an effective therapeutic alternative. In case that the effectiveness of the NOP is demonstrated in this study, a novel and safe therapeutic alternative of easy access and higher adherence for one of the most important public health problems in our country will be made available.
To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of NOP in the treatment of CL compared with meglumine antimoniate (Glucantime®).
To evaluate the healing rate of CL ulcers using a NOP compared with the plan of treatment with meglumine antimoniate recommended by the health ministry.
To identify adverse events associated with the application of NOP and compare them with the ones produced by the treatment with meglumine antimoniate.
To identify and compare the recidivisms that may occur with both NOP and meglumine antimoniate.
To advance in the search of a therapeutic alternative for CL in Colombia.
Double blind, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled clinical trial, comparing nitric oxide releasing patches with meglumine antimoniate.
The sample was calculated according to the arccosine formula using a power of 80% and a type 1 error of 0.05%. Assigning a successful rate of 85% for meglumine antimoniate and 75% for NOP, 558 patients will be needed. After adjustment for a loss rate of 5%, the total of patients that must be recruited is 620 (310 patients per treatment group).
The population will be composed from two regions of Colombia. The first one is an endemic zone in Santander, Colombia, located between the Magdalena Valley and the East Mountain Range, which includes the municipalities of Landazuri, El Carmen, San Vicente, El Playon and Rionegro. The second region is an endemic zone in North Tolima, which includes the municipalities of Chaparral, San Antonio, Libano, Falan, Palocabildo and Mariquita.
SELECTION OF THE PATIENTS
Men and women between 18 and 50 years old
Cutaneous ulcers of more than two weeks of evolution
Positive parasitological diagnosis for CL
Patients that voluntarily agree to participate in the study and sign the informed consent.
Disposition to attend all the visits punctually (initial, treatment and follow-up)
Acceptation of not using any other treatment for CL while in the study
Presence of any condition or disease that compromises the patient immunologically (i.e. diabetes, cancer, etc.) or, any other, that, based on the judgment of the researcher, could alter the course of CL.
Diffuse CL or more than five active lesions.
Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (no lesion must be located less than 2 cm from the nasal, uro-genital, and/or anal mucous membranes or from the edge of the lips).
Visceral leishmaniasis
Complete or incomplete treatment with antimony compounds in the last three months.
Patients with history of hepatic, renal or cardiovascular disease.
Mentally or neurologically disabled patients that are considered not fit to approve their participation in the study.
Logistic Phase
This phase will last 4 months and will include the following activities:
Training of the personnel that will participate in the study.
Acquisition of the materials required for the development of the project.
Elaboration of flyers, promotional and educative material, procedures manual and case report forms (CRFs).
Treatment randomization. The treatment randomization will be realized by the epidemiologist of the Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia. This randomization will be done in blocks in order to keep the size of the treatment groups similar, to avoid long sequences of the same treatment and to balance when possible some of the bias inherent to the simple randomization process. Additionally, this randomization in blocks will facilitate the execution of interim analyses.
Recruitment Phase
This phase will take 22 months. In the selected municipalities, the health personnel that work in hospitals and health centers will receive training regarding the disease and the study methodology. Simultaneously an epidemiological focus study will be done with the leaders of the community and the health personnel to identify the geographic and demographic conditions with the purpose of developing strategies for the recruitment of possible cases of leishmaniasis. Subsequently, the subjects that present active ulcers with more than 2 weeks of evolution, with or without parasitological confirmation of CL, will be invited by the health promoters to attend the screening visit (Table 1).
Screening Visit
During this visit a complete clinical history will be elaborated and data about antecedents of leishmaniasis obtained (administered treatment, localization, number of lesions, etc). A full medical evaluation will be realized based on universally accepted techniques. The inclusion/exclusion criteria will be applied and the selected candidates informed about the study after which they will sign an informed consent. For those subjects with ulcers of more than two weeks of evolution without parasitological diagnosis a direct test will be performed by the parasitologist. If the first direct test is negative, it will be repeated up to three times; after which, in case of negative results, a biopsy will be performed. In case leishmaniasis is not confirmed the patient will be remitted to the original health center.
Initial Visit
The included patients will be randomly assigned in one of two groups. A culture in Novy-Nicole-McNeal (NNN) medium will be taken for strain identification and a blood sample withdrawn from the antecubital vein for hepatic enzymes, creatinine, and pancreatic amylase determination. During this visit, a complete medical evaluation will be performed, the ulcer will be measured and a picture will be taken. Before taking the picture, a graduated rule will be placed next to the ulcer along with a sticker marked with the identification code of the participant, and the date of the visit. The first NOP (active or placebo) will be applied covering the lesion and the first shot of meglumine antimoniate (active or placebo) administered. The patients will receive information on how not to damage the patches and how to identify and report adverse events. To help the patients to do so, they will receive a diary to register them. The two groups randomly composed will be divided as follows:
Group 1: During 20 days this group will receive simultaneously intramuscular (IM) meglumine antimoniate (Glucantime® 20 mg/kg/day with a maximum dose of 3 ampules per day); and a NOP placebo.
Group 2: During 20 days this group will receive simultaneously placebo of IM meglumine antimoniate (5-15cc/day) and an active NOP.
Treatment Visits
The patients will visit the health center daily during 20 days to receive both the NOP (placebo or active) and meglumine antimoniate (placebo or active). Daily, the subjects and their adherence to the treatment will be assessed and the data collected. If any adverse event is detected, the patient will be referred immediately to the medical staff who will make an evaluation and report it to the adverse event committee that will take the final decision in each case.
Follow-up visits
This phase will last 10 months. During the follow-up, the patients will be seen by the research group in 4 opportunities. The first visit will take place the day after the end of the treatment (day 21) in which new blood samples will be taken for biochemical determinations. The second, third and fourth visits will be realized on day 45, 90 and 180 respectively. During these visits the healing process of the ulcer, the presence of recidivisms and/or reinfection and the health of the participants will be assessed. The evolution of the ulcers will be photographically registered.
The maximum and minimum diameters of the ulcer will be measured using a graduated ruler, and the induration using the ballpoint pen technique. The ulcer and induration areas will be calculated separately, and then registered in the CRF. The evaluation of the clinical response will be based on the ulcer showing the least improvement.
Complete clinical response: Complete reepithelization of the ulcer and disappearance of the induration.
Clinical Improvement: Reduction of more than 50% of the ulcer and the induration areas in relation to the last clinical evaluation.
Absence of clinical response: Increase or reduction of less than 50% of the ulcer and the induration areas in relation to the last clinical evaluation.
Therapeutic failure:
Presence of the ulcer three months after the beginning of the treatment.
Reactivation: Appearance of a lesion on the edge or in the center of the scar, with positive parasitological diagnosis, after a period of complete reepithelization.
Affection of the mucous membranes: Presence of affections of the mucous membranes during the treatment, at the end of it or in the follow-up visits.
Reinfection: Activation of an ulcer in an area different from the original lesion.
For subjects whose treatment will have been considered a failure the code will be broken and they will be remitted to their original health center to look for another therapeutic approach.
A complete physical examination will be realized and vital signs will be measured.
Blood Samples Withdrawn
Blood samples will be withdrawn from the antecubital vein to perform the following biochemical analyses:
Creatinine by spectrophotometry
Alanine transaminase (ALT) by spectrophotometry
Aspartate transaminase (AST) by spectrophotometry
Pancreatic amylase by spectrophotometry
Sampling Technique for the Direct Test of CL
A direct test is performed to confirm the presence of cells with amastigotes in a dermis scrape[46,47]; the sample must be, in so far as it is possible, free of blood, cellular detritus or pus. If the patients present several lesions, the sample must be taken from the one with the shortest time of evolution, the biggest induration area and/or the least purulent discharge. If the lesion has a scab it must be removed to improve the quality of the sample. The sample can be taken from the active edge or from the bottom of the ulcer. When the sample is taken from the active edge asepsis must be realized with alcohol at 70% and hemostasis then performed using the first and second fingers to make sure that there is no blood in the sample. A small incision of about 3mm in length and depth is made with a scalpel in the active edge parallel to the edge of the ulcer. With the sharp side of the scalpel, a scrape is done in the dermic wall of the incision to obtain tissue. The extracted material is extended on two microscope slides. The sample is dried at room temperature, and then fixed with methanol and stained with Giemsa, Wright or Field. Using immersion oil the sample is observed under a microscope with a 100X lens, the presence of amastigotes of Leishmania assessed and their structure verified (nucleus, kinetoplast and cell membrane). If the sample is taken from the center of the lesion the same hemostatic technique must be used, the scab removed, and the bottom of the ulcer well cleaned using the sharp side of the scalpel to prevent the presence of cellular detritus and/or purulent material. This procedure must be continued until the granulomas are seen at the bottom. With the same technique used to process the samples from the active edge the presence of amastigotes of Leishmania is verified.
Technique for the sampling of cultures
The sample for the culture may be obtained by suctioning the ulcer active edge or by extracting a fragment of tissue which is then macerated in a phosphate-buffered saline solution (PBS) with antibiotics (1000 UI of crystalline penicillin per cc), before it is put in the culture medium. A tuberculin syringe with a thin needle (26G), containing 0.3 cc of PBS solution with antibiotics is used in the suction technique. Previous asepsis of the ulcer with alcohol at 70%, a needle is introduced into the dermis and through rotating movements a small amount of tissue is macerated by the needle bevel during about a minute, after which it is suctioned into the syringe. The sample is deposited in aseptic conditions into a NNN culture medium and incubated at 26ºC during 4 weeks [46,47]. Every week a drop is extracted from the culture medium and placed between two slides to be observed under a microscope. In case that promastigotes are not found, the cultures are rejected as negative [46]. The strains are identified by species using the monoclonal antibodies developed by Dr. Diane Mc Mahon Pratt [48,49].
Evaluation and management of adverse events
During the treatment and the follow-up visits, the patients will be asked about adverse events. Each adverse event will be classified by the physician as serious or non-serious(Table 2 and 3). A serious adverse event should meet one or more of the following criteria:
Life-threatening (i.e., immediate risk of death)
In-patient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization
Persistent or significant disability/incapacity The presence of a serious adverse event that puts the patient's life at risk and/or requires immediate medical or surgical procedure will call for the discontinuation of the treatment and the initiation of the pertinent medical management of the patients. The investigator will notify the Adverse Event Committee (AEC) of the FCV of any serious adverse event within 24 hours of learning about it.
A non serious adverse event will be classified as follows:
Mild: The patients are aware of their symptoms and/or signs, but those are tolerable. They do not require medical intervention or specific treatment.
Moderate: Patients present troubles that interfere with their daily activities. They require medical intervention or specific treatment.
Severe: The patients are unable to work or to attend their daily activities. They require medical intervention or specific treatment.
The possible relationship between the adverse events and the tested medication will be classified by the investigator on the basis of his/her clinical judgment and the following definitions:
Definitely related: Event can be fully explained by the administration of the tested medication.
Probably related: Event is most likely to be explained by the administration of the tested medication rather than other medications or by the patient's clinical state.
Possibly related: Event may be explained by the administration of the tested medication or other medications or by the patient's clinical state.
Not related: Event is most likely to be explained by the patient's clinical state or other medications, rather than the tested one.
All the events will be reported to the AEC that, depending on their criteria, will decide for the continuity or the withdrawal of the patient from the study and therefore the breaking of the code.
Although the project has been designed to minimize the inherent risks, any adverse event related to the study medications will be carefully evaluated by the AEC and the costs generated by the required treatment will be covered by the study.
Data analysis phase
This phase will last 6 months. After completing all the data entry to the CFR, the results will be audited and the detected errors evaluated and corrected by the person in charge. The information will be entered in two different databases by two different people and the records will be compared to detect any discrepancy. The original CFR will be used to correct any mistake in the database.
For the statistical analysis, Stata 8.0 will be used. The descriptive analysis will be composed of medians and proportions according to the nature of the variables, with its respective 95% confidence intervals. As a dispersion measurement the standard deviation will be calculated. The distribution of the variables will be studied using the Shapiro-Wilk test. To detect any difference between the groups, a T-test or a Wilcoxon test will be performed according to its distribution. The categorical variables will be compared using the Chi2 test or the exact Fisher's test. If required, a model of multiple logistic regressions or a covariance analysis will be done.
Two interim analyses will be performed when 35% and 70% of the calculated sample is collected, with the objective of determining the differences in effectiveness and safety between the treatments.
At the end of the study two endpoints will be evaluated:
Successful Treatment:
Treatment Failure:
Reactivation and/or affections of the mucous membranes during the 6 months of the study.
At the end of the study the results will be evaluated and discussed and a final report presented to COLCIENCIAS, entity that is sponsoring the project. The relevant results will be published in both, national and international journals, and presented in congresses and scientific meetings.
ETHICAL ASPECTS
This study will be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and with the Colombian legislation as per the Resolution 8430/93 from the Ministry of Health. Prior to the admission of the patients in the study, the objectives and the methodology will be explained and the informed consent obtained. The study was approved by the Research Ethic Committee of the Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia (Act# 105/January 28/2005). The right to confidentiality of the patients will be maintained in all the phases of the study.
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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
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Drug: controlled nitric oxide releasing patch
daily nitric oxide patch application during 20 days
Drug: meglumine antimoniate
20mg/kg daily during 20 days
Other Name: glucantime
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Intervention: Drug: meglumine antimoniate
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Intervention: Drug: controlled nitric oxide releasing patch
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(submitted: January 27, 2009)
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18 Years to 50 Years (Adult)
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Principal Investigator: Patricio López-Jaramillo, MD, PhD Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia
Principal Investigator: Daniel J Smith, PhD Akron University
Study Chair: Iván D Vélez, MD, MsC, PhD Program for the Study and Control of Tropical Diseases, PECET, Universidad de Antioquia
Study Chair: Gerardo Muñoz, PhD Universidad Industrial de Santander
Study Chair: Hernando Mosquera, MD
Study Chair: Federico A Silva, MD Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia
Study Chair: Marcos López, PhD The University of Akron
Principal Investigator: Daniel Smith, PhD The University of Akron
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February 2, 2020 • Business and Industry, Disaster, Waterbury, Who Knew?
On the evening of February 2, 1902, a fire broke out at Reid & Hughes dry goods store in Waterbury. No lives were lost, but property damage to the city’s central business district was extensive - Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online
…that the fire, which swept through Waterbury on a stormy February evening in 1902, would become the worst in its recorded history up to that point.
A February 3, 1902, article in The New York Times reported that the fire began at Reid & Hughes dry goods store on the west side of Bank Street. Despite the cold and wet, the building was quickly engulfed in flames, and soon adjoining buildings ignited.
Eyewitness Charles Somers Miller noted in his journal:
Then a general alarm calling out the entire fire department of the city was sounded but it was to no purpose. The flames spread …, sweeping all before them to South Main street, which it crossed …. They also spread to the Franklin Hotel and burned the long row of blocks along Grand Street to Levenworth street. Chief engineer Snagg and Mayor Kilduff, seeing that the center of the City was likely to be burned out, called on Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Torrington, Naugatuck, and Watertown for help, and they all responded by sending hose pipe and steamers, so at one time we had seven steamers at work. By midnight the fire seemed to be under control and I came home. At 2 a.m. I looked and could see no signs of fire but at 5 the heavens were all aglow, and the wind still blowing.
Perhaps because the fire occurred in the evening, no injuries or fatalities were reported, but property damage to the city’s central business district was estimated by The New York Times to be at least $2 million (about $45 million today). Miller recorded that throngs of visitors came from across the state in the days following the fire to view the ruins.
Contributed by Emma Demar, a Connecticut Explored intern and Trinity College student in 2011, and Elizabeth Normen, the magazine’s publisher.
© Connecticut Explored. All rights reserved. This passage originally appeared as part of the article “What a Disaster!” in Connecticut Explored (formerly Hog River Journal) Vol. 9/ No. 4, Fall 2011.
University of Pennsylvania. “The Journals of Charles Somers Miller (1858-1943),” 2004. Link.
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Questions and Answers in Linguistics
Mixed gender agreement in the case of Russian hybrid nouns
Olga Steriopolo 1
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This work presents a study of mixed gender agreement in the case of hybrid nouns in Russian. Examination of a number of approaches which seek to account for the category “gender” shows that these approaches are problematic when trying to explain mixed gender agreement in hybrid nouns. It is proposed here that the multiple-layer DP-hypothesis by Zamparelli (1995 and subsequent work) is best suited to analyze the Russian data. However, this rests on the crucial assumption that Russian demonstratives can occupy multiple positions within the DP, something that must still be verified by future work.
mixed gender agreement; hybrid nouns; common gender; agreement/gender mismatch; Russian
Abney, S. P. (1987). The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect. (Doctoral dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Cheng, L. L.-S., Heycock, C., and Zamparelli, R. (2017). Two levels for definiteness. In M. Erlewine (Ed.), Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI. Vol. 1 (pp. 79-93). Cambridge, MA: MIT.
Chomsky, N. (2001). Derivation by phase. In M. Kenstowicz (Ed.), Ken Hale: A life in language (pp. 1-52).Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Corbett, G. (1979). The agreement hierarchy. Journal of Linguistics, 15(2), 203-224.
Corbett, G. (2006). Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kramer, R. (2015). The morphosyntax of gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kučerová, I. (forthcoming). φ-features at the syntax-semantics interface: Evidence from nominal inflection. Linguistic Inquiry.
Matushansky, O. (2013). Gender confusion. In L. Cheng and N. Corver (Eds.), Diagnosing syntax (pp. 271-94). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nesset, T. (2001). How pervasive are sexist ideologies in grammar? In R. Dirven, B. Hawkins, and E. Sandikcioglu (Eds.), Language & ideology: Cognitive theoretical approaches (pp. 197-227). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Pereltsvaig, A. (2006). Small nominals. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 24(2), 433-500.
Pesetsky, D. (2013). What is to be done? Paper presented at the 87th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 4.
Postal, P. (1969). On so-called pronouns in English. In R. Jacobs and P. Rosenbaum (Eds.), Readings in English transformational grammar (pp. 12-25). Waltham, MA: Ginn.
Sauerland, U. (2004). A comprehensive semantics for agreement. Handout from the Phi-Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, August 27.
Sauerland, U. (2009). The presuppositional approach to Phi-features. (Unpublished manuscript). ZAS, Berlin.
Smith, P. (2015). Feature mismatches: Consequences for syntax, morphology, and semantics. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Steriopolo, O., and Wiltschko, M. (2010). Distributed GENDER hypothesis. In G. Zybatow, P. Dudchuk, S. Minor, and E. Pshehotskaya (Eds.), Formal studies in Slavic linguistics (pp. 155-172). New York: Peter Lang.
Steriopolo, O. (2017). Nominalizing evaluative suffixes in Russian: The interaction of declension class, gender, and animacy. Poljarnyj vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 20, 18-44.
Steriopolo, O. (2018). Morphosyntax of gender in Russian sex-differentiable nouns. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 26(1), 307-335.
Volynec, T. (2005). Sovremennyj russkij jazyk. Kategorija roda imeni suščestvitel’nogo [Contemporary Russian: The gender of nouns]. Minsk: Belarusian State University, Philology, Russian Language Department.
Wurmbrand, S. (2017). Formal and semantic agreement in syntax: A dual feature approach. In J. Emonds and M. Janebová (Eds.), Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2016: Language use and linguistic structure (pp. 19-36). Olomouc: Palacký University.
Zamparelli, R. (1995). Layers in the determiner phrase. (Doctoral dissertation). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester.
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Town Centre Park Master Plan
Parks and Recreation play an important role in any community’s social, emotional, and economic wellbeing. The Town Centre Park is Coquitlam’s largest urban park at 42- hectare (103 acre) drawing in visitors from across the Tri-Cities area. The site has a long history and over the years, a variety of uses and development of the site has evolved to accommodate many needs and uses, both green and active.
Original Use as a Quarry
Town Centre Park was originally a gravel quarry operated by Lafarge with the land being leased from the Province of British Columbia (See the Town Centre Park Quarry Photo (PDF)). Through cooperative and innovative thinking by Don Cunnings, Coquitlam’s first director of parks and leisure services, an agreement was reached by Lafarge, the Province of British Columbia and the City of Coquitlam to have the quarry lands and the manmade lake donated to the City of Coquitlam once quarry operations ceased.
Transition into a Recreation Site
The transformation from resource recovery site to recreation and leisure facility took place gradually. What evolved was a first-rate recreation area to serve the fast-growing Coquitlam Town Centre. When Town Centre Park officially opened in May 1989, it was the newest and finest facility of its kind on the lower mainland. A prestigious National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics District 1 track meet hosted by Simon Fraser University was the first event held at Town Centre Park stadium. One of the major features of the 100-acre development is its capability to host several types of sports events.
Development of the City Centre
The successful acquisition of these lands in turn spurred the development of Coquitlam’s City Centre. The result generated a hub for activity as it became a more desirable area to live, work and play. Developments led to the establishments of:
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Evergreen Cultural Centre
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In 2017 the Evergreen Line Skytrain will be completed and will end at Town Centre Park.
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Matt Viator Jeremy Hunt Levi Lewis Sports 2019-2020 Coronavirus pandemic Coronavirus Infectious diseases Diseases and conditions Health Lung disease College football Football College sports
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No. 23 Cajuns, Warhawks, renew rivalry after COVID layoffs
Louisiana-Lafayette head coach Billy Napier argues a called during an NCAA college football game against South Alabama in Lafayette, La., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)
MONROE, La. (AP) — No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette is expected to get coach Billy Napier back from isolation just hours before the Ragin’ Cajuns renew their annual rivalry with a Louisiana-Monroe squad that hasn’t played in three weeks.
It’s safe to say the COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on both the Cajuns (7-1, 5-1 Sun Belt) and Warhawks (0-8, 0-5), but won’t stop them from getting together at ULM’s Malone Stadium on Saturday for a game that players on both teams look forward to all year.
“This is a rivalry game regardless of records and statistics,” Napier said. “These guys have played us down to the last possession of the game the last two years.”
Louisiana-Lafayette has not played since its Sun Belt West-clinching victory over South Alabama on Nov. 14 because its game against Central Arkansas last week was cancelled by a COVID-19 outbreak affecting the Cajuns. Among those who contracted the disease was Napier, who said this week he was feeling fine but could not be around players or staff until Saturday.
He has spent this week watching practice videos and holding meetings online, but wasn’t about to complain.
To Napier, the theme of the 2020 season is to accept uncertainty and upheaval, and see every problem as an opportunity to find a solution.
He said his inability to attend practice this week provided "opportunities for other staff and players to really step up and take over.”
ULM coach Matt Viator said resuming football after an outbreak that shut down his program for a couple weeks is “nothing like I’ve ever been through for sure.”
“I’m not sure what’s going to happen,” he added. “We know it’s going to be a tough challenge for us to play a team of this caliber, but we’re concerned about us and trying to get us back going and putting the very best product that we can out on the field.”
While Ragin’ Cajuns quarterback Levi Lewis leads the Sun Belt with 1,880 yards passing, it’s not just his arm that concerns Viator.
“I can’t say enough good things about Levi Lewis,” Viator said. “There’s a few plays every game that he makes, that he extends plays running or gets out of the pocket and makes throws. ... It’s hard enough to stop him and then when you think you do have him, he extends plays.”
PROMISING PERFORMANCE
While ULM ranks 119th nationally in scoring at 16 points per game, quarterback Jeremy Hunt is coming off a promising performance. In a 52-34 loss at Georgia State in ULM’s last game on Nov. 7, Hunt came off the bench and passed for career-highs of 339 yards and three touchdowns.
RAGIN’ DEFENSE
ULL’s defense ranks 28th nationally in points allowed with just 22.1 per game. A big reason is the play of the secondary, which has intercepted 11 passes this season. The Ragin’ Cajuns are allowing 181.9 yards passing per game, which ranks 15th nationally. But if ULM has to run the ball, that could be a problem for the Warhawks, who’ve been averaging 66 yards rushing, which ranks fourth from last nationally.
DIVISIONAL DOMINANCE
Now in his third season at ULL, Napier has yet to see his team lose to a team in the Sun Belt West Division. The Cajuns will try to improve to 12-0 in the division under Napier on Saturday.
History is on the Cajuns’ side for other reasons. They’ve won two straight in the series and 10 of the last 13. But as Napier noted, many of those games have been close. In fact, 10 of the past 13 games also have been decided by single digits.
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Dover Air Force Base is home to the Department of Defense’s largest aerial port and mortuary facility where all fallen service members are returned. In 2008, Joe Biden became the first Delaware senator elected to the vice presidency of the United States.
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Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reimagines femmes of color as protagonists of historical, spiritual, and religious narratives that make up the foundation of today’s societal beliefs and culture. Whether through drawing, video, performance, or installation, DeJesus Moleski experiments with how to name the conflation of celebration and mourning when being racialized, liminal, and alive. DeJesus Moleski grew up moving from city to country to city in the American East Coast, South, and Midwest. Spending her most formative years in a constantly shifting landscape has tethered her work to interests in multiplicity, belief systems, and bewilderment. She has an ongoing practice of tending to the in-between, and those that know the trouble and pleasure there. Employing flamboyance as an exercise in utopic fantasies for the future, her work is a dream sequence triggered by our current time. She graduated with an MFA from the Yale School of Art. DeJesus Moleski has exhibited with the Brooklyn Museum and with MoCADA. Her work has been featured in Teen Vogue, New American Paintings, Art of Choice, Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, and Momma Tried Magazine.
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Terence Nance is a filmmaker, writer, director, actor, and musician who has been making music for a decade, scoring all of his own films and TV series and working with several groundbreaking musicians in the process.
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Kiara Daja Diamond and the 777 Satisfactions
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reimagines femmes of color as protagonists of historical, spiritual, and religious narratives that make up the foundation of today’s societal beliefs and culture.
Kiara Daja Diamond and the 777 Satisfactions is a surrealist graphic novel and animated TV series that tells the story of Kiara, a young ruler-to-be, who must master 777 “satisfactions” (amalgams of skills, knowings, senses, and subjectivities) in order to arrive at knowledge of self-family, body-spirit, and space-time. This story grapples with existential trauma by exercising mystery to solve reason, rather than relying on reason to solve The Mystery.
Animation, Graphic Novel
Alternate & Future Worlds
Terence Nance
Terence Nance is a filmmaker, writer, director, actor, and musician who has been making music for a decade, scoring all of his own films and TV series and working with several groundbreaking musicians in the process. He was born in Dallas, Texas, in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance learned personhood there. His first feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. In 2014, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In the summer of 2018, Nance’s Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness, about being young and Black in America today, debuted on HBO to great critical acclaim, and was renewed for a second season by the network. The New York Times hailed the show as “a striking dream vision of race” and “hypnotic, transporting and uncategorizable,” adding that “it’s trying to disrupt and redisrupt your perceptions so that, finally, you can see.” Additional film work includes Swimming in Your Skin Again and Univitillen. In 2017, Nance premiered a performance piece, 18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are Thus Spiritual Machines at Sundance. Nance is currently at work on healing, curiosity, and interdimensionality, and resides in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
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Tales of The Jazz Age Ebook by Shae Synnestvedt
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Enjoy this eBook on any device that can open a .epub file. Our ebooks were hand-prepared by our partners at Plympton Publishing, based on the original text made available through Project Gutenberg.
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"I created an original ink drawing on vellum and colored it in Photoshop. I wanted to achieve movement through line-work and typography, as well as use bold colors fitting of the era, and reminiscent of Jazz. I wanted to capture the fast, paced excitement of the 1920\'s, or the \"Jazz Age\" through a portrait of the alluring females, or flappers, that are central in most of Fitzgerald\'s stories throughout the collection in \"Tales of the Jazz Age\". " - Shae Synnestvedt
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Leading & Inspiring Teams
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2008 R 1h 28m DVD
Trying to recover from the nearly marriage-breaking stress following the death of their child, Jack and Stephanie spontaneously take off on a road trip. But when their car breaks down in a remote area, they find themselves in a horrific nightmare.
Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Heidi Dippold, Julie Ann Emery, J.P. Davis, Lew Temple, Leslie Easterbrook, Bill Moseley, Pawel Delag, Weronika Rosati
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Parents need to know that this horror movie -- which was adapted from a best-selling novel by Christian authors Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti -- has adult themes like repentance, sin, and suffering. The violence isn't as over-the-top as in many other horror movies (much of the worst of it occurs off screen or against people viewers later find out aren't even human), but the film's tone can become fairly intense. The movie's moral message is strongly present -- the lead couple renew their marriage while being pursued by a psychopath -- and it's clear that their reconnection and intrinsic goodness are what save them. While there's not much in the way of inappropriate sex, language, or drug/alcohol content, there is some fairly stereotypical depiction of Southerners; the villains are all depicted as creepy, cackling hillbillies.
Some graphic violence, including multiple stabbings, shootings, and beatings. A character flashes back to a childhood incident in which they deliberately shot their father while hunting. Another character hallucinates that they're drowning, with intense imagery. Bloody wounds. The villain is burnt to a crisp by the supernatural power of goodness. Scuffling and fighting. Characters are held at gunpoint. Dead bodies are seen. Some discussion of a character's childhood sexual abuse, with some disturbing imagery.
Characters are attending counseling to save thier relationship; the movie (which was adapted from a book written by Christian authors) has a strongly moral message about marriage. Discussion of good versus evil. Some discussion of Satanism. Stereotyping of Southerners as creepy hillbillies.
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Doreen Horschig
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Welcome to my academic website! I’m a doctoral candidate in Security Studies at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida (UCF).
My research interests lie within international relations and nuclear security, with a focus on public and elite opinion on weapons of mass destruction. I also explore the robustness of norms on the use of chemical and nuclear weapons. I have a regional interest in the Middle East and more specifically Israel. My current dissertation work discusses the causal mechanism of Israeli and US public support for the use of nuclear weapons as well as leader’s positioning on nuclear weapons. My work has been published or is forthcoming as scholarly articles in Third World Quarterly, Defense and Security Analysis, and Democratization and political commentaries in The Conversation, Inkstick Media, and Duck of Minerva.
I taught INR 4115: Strategic Weapons and Arms Control this past Spring and will embark on INR 4102: American Foreign Policy this Fall. I’m also part of the research group of UCF’s Kurdish Political Studies Program (KPSP), directed by Güneş Murat Tezcür.
Prior to my PhD studies, I pursued my Master’s degree in International Relations at New York University as a DAAD Fellow (German Academic Exchange Service). While at NYU, I also worked as editor for the Journal of Political Inquiry. Previously, I was a Research Assistant for the Organization for International Cooperation as well as for Dr. James Nolt and interned with Human Rights Watch in NYC, the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) in Berlin, Congressman Eliot L. Engel in Riverdale, and Covalence EthicalQuote in Geneva.
While a Division 1 track and field athlete, I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Manhattan College (2015) with a B.A. in International Studies.
I’m from a tiny village in rural Germany (Lumpzig) and currently reside in Orlando, FL. (When I’m not being a nerdy academic, I do obstacle races, play volleyball, travel, and listen to Rammstein.)
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New Article in the Third World Quarterly: “A Conditional Norm: Chemical Warfare from Colonialism to Contemporary Civil Wars”
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Posted on December 11, 2013 December 11, 2013 by Andrew Davis
The Pittsburgh-Boston debacle – Two wrongs don’t make a fight
What happened in Pittsburgh last Saturday has left yet another black mark on the great game of hockey. Both Shawn Thornton’s attack on Brooks Orpik and James Neal’s knee to Brad Marchand’s head were dirty plays which crossed the clear lines of respect all hockey players are supposed to follow, the “unwritten code” we all so often speaks of. (In case you haven’t seen it, click HERE for a video including both incidents)
It is very easy for the anti-fighting fans of hockey to twist Saturday night’s Thornton-Oprik incident into another example of fighting not having a place in the NHL. The problem is that the incident was not a fight: it was an assault. It is unrealistic to imply that this would not have happened if fighting was banned in the NHL. You can ban fights, but you can’t ban the thirst for revenge . Thornton was on a mission to avenge the concussed Loui Eriksson after he was hit by Orpik in the opening minute of the game. One could counter-argue that if Orpik had fought Thornton when he first challenged him, the incident could have just as easily been avoided. But the reality is that Orpik had no obligation to fight, and that’s where it should have ended. Thornton’s actions of slew-footing and punching a defenseless Orpik were unnecessary and uncalled for, and it’s very likely that the NHL department of player safety throws the book at him. He crossed a moral line, and there is no room for that in hockey. However, this should not be come a hill for anti-fighting groups to plant their flag. This was more about a player crossing the line than fighting.
What is being lost in all of this, most likely due to the images of Orpik being stretched off the ice, is the incredibly vicious knee to Marchand’s head, only second’s before Thornton’s attack. Neal, who has been under fire for dirty hits a few times in recent memory (such as these two incidents in the same game), had more than enough time to get out of the way and avoid hitting Marchand. No such attempt was made, and it’s clear in the replay that he angled his leg ever so slightly towards Marchand. The more I look at the video, the harder it is for me to come up with any defense for his heinous acts. A 5-game suspension for such an act I feel is getting off easy. For Neal to have such a lack of respect for a fellow player is far more disturbing than and fight I’ve seen this year.
We hope that what happened in that game will never happen again, but this won’t be aided simply by banning fighting in the NHL. Both of these incidents relate more to a lack of respect between players, something that rules simply can’t change. In a season that has been plagued by blatant head shots and other incidents which involved an intent to injure, it is the culture of the NHL players that needs to change, not the rule book. Respect for one another is the key to improving the poisoned and tainted culture of the NHL.
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233.03(1) (1) Adopt bylaws and policies and procedures for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business.
233.03(2) (2) Sue and be sued; have a seal and alter the seal at pleasure; have perpetual existence; maintain an office; negotiate and enter into leases; accept gifts or grants, but not including research grants in which the grant investigator is an employee of the board of regents; accept bequests or loans; accept and comply with any lawful conditions attached to federal financial assistance; and make and execute other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority.
233.03(5) (5) Procure insurance on its debt obligations.
233.03(7) (7) Subject to s. 233.10 and ch. 40 and 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, section 9159 (4), employ any agent, employee or special advisor that the authority finds necessary and fix his or her compensation and provide any employee benefits, including an employee pension plan.
233.03(8) (8) Appoint any technical or professional advisory committee that the authority finds necessary and define the duties, and provide reimbursement for the expenses, of the committee.
233.03(9) (9)
233.03(9)(a)(a) With any other person, establish, govern and participate in the operation and financing of any corporation or partnership that provides health-related services, if the articles of incorporation of any such corporation conform with par. (b) and if the corporation or partnership provides the secretary of administration, the legislative fiscal bureau and the legislative audit bureau access to examine any books, records or other documents maintained by the corporation or partnership and relating to its expenditures, revenues, operations or structure. The authority may provide administrative and financial services to any such corporation or partnership.
233.03(9)(b) (b) The articles of incorporation of any corporation under par. (a) shall provide that the secretary of administration, the legislative fiscal bureau and the legislative audit bureau have the access required under par. (a).
233.03(10) (10) Enter into procurement contracts with the board of regents or joint contracts with the board of regents for procurements from 3rd parties and may enter into other contracts, rental agreements and cooperative agreements and other necessary arrangements with the board of regents which may be necessary and convenient for the missions, purposes, objects and uses of the authority authorized by law.
233.03(11) (11) Issue bonds in accordance with ss. 233.20 to 233.26.
233.03(12) (12) Seek financing from, and incur indebtedness to, the Wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority.
233.03(13) (13) Construct or improve facilities that are on state-owned land, if approval requirements under s. 16.85 (14) are met and if the state agency having authority to approve construction or improvement projects on the land approves the project.
233.03(15) (15) Acquire, design, construct or improve any facility that is not located on state-owned land.
233.03(16) (16) Buy, sell and lease real estate.
233.03 History History: 1995 a. 27; 2007 a. 109; 2011 a. 10.
233.03 Annotation The Authority is a private entity without sovereign immunity. Takle v. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority, 402 F.3d 768 (2005).
233.04 233.04 Duties of authority. The authority shall do all of the following:
233.04(1) (1) By October 1, 1997, and annually thereafter, submit to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature under s. 13.172 (2), the president of the board of regents, the secretary of administration and the governor a report on the patient care, education, research and community service activities and accomplishments of the authority and an audited financial statement, certified by an independent auditor, of the authority's operations.
233.04(2) (2) Subject to s. 233.10, develop and implement a personnel structure and other employment policies for employees of the authority.
233.04(3) (3) Contract for any legal services required for the authority.
233.04(3b) (3b)
233.04(3b)(a)(a) Except as provided in par. (b), maintain, control and supervise the use of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, for the purposes of:
233.04(3b)(a)1. 1. Delivering high-quality health care to patients using the hospitals and to those seeking care from its programs, including a commitment to provide such care for the medically indigent.
233.04(3b)(a)2. 2. Providing an environment suitable for instructing medical and other health professions students, physicians, nurses and members of other health-related disciplines.
233.04(3b)(a)3. 3. Sponsoring and supporting research in the delivery of health care to further the welfare of the patients treated and applying the advances in health knowledge to alleviate human suffering, promote health and prevent disease.
233.04(3b)(a)4. 4. Assisting health programs and personnel throughout the state and region in the delivery of health care.
233.04(3b)(b) (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply unless a lease agreement under sub. (7) or (7g) and an affiliation agreement under sub. (7m) or (7p) are in effect that comply with all applicable requirements of those provisions. In the event either of these agreements are not in effect, the on-campus facilities and any improvements, modifications or other facilities specified in sub. (7) (c) shall transfer to the board of regents.
233.04(5) (5) Establish the authority's annual budget and monitor the fiscal management of the authority.
233.04(6) (6) Procure liability insurance covering its officers, employees and agents and procure insurance against any loss in connection with its property and other assets.
233.04(7) (7) Subject to s. 233.05 (1) and 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, section 9159 (2) (k), negotiate and enter into a lease agreement with the board of regents to lease the on-campus facilities beginning on June 29, 1996, for an initial period of not more than 30 years. The lease agreement shall include all of the following:
233.04(7)(a) (a) A provision that requires the authority to pay the state an amount determined under this paragraph for the lease of the on-campus facilities that are leased under the agreement. The amount of the rental payment for the on-campus facilities may not be less than the greater of the following:
233.04(7)(a)1. 1. An amount equal to the debt service accruing during the term of the lease agreement on all outstanding bonds issued by the state for the purpose of financing the acquisition, construction or improvement of on-campus facilities that are leased under the agreement, regardless of whether these bonds are issued before or after the lease agreement is entered into. The definition of “bond" under s. 233.01 (4) does not apply to this subdivision.
233.04(7)(a)2. 2. A nominal amount determined by the parties to be necessary to prevent the lease agreement from being unenforceable because of a lack of consideration.
233.04(7)(b) (b) A provision that requires the authority to conduct its operations in such a way so that it will not adversely affect the exclusion of interest on bonds issued by the state from gross income under 26 USC 103 for federal income tax purposes.
233.04(7)(c) (c) A provision that gives the state ownership of all of the following:
233.04(7)(c)1. 1. Any improvements or modifications made by the authority to on-campus facilities that are leased to the authority under the lease agreement.
233.04(7)(c)2. 2. Any facility that the authority constructs on state-owned land.
233.04(7)(d) (d) A provision that specifies an amount and that exempts any construction or improvement project on state-owned land that costs less than the amount from review and approval under s. 16.85 (14).
233.04(7)(e) (e) Any provision necessary to ensure that the general management and operation of the on-campus facilities are consistent with the mission and responsibilities of the University of Wisconsin System specified in ss. 36.01 and 36.09.
233.04(7)(g) (g) A provision that protects the board of regents from all liability associated with the management, operation, use or maintenance of the on-campus facilities. No such provision shall make the authority liable for the acts or omissions of any officer, employee or agent of the board of regents, including any student who is enrolled at an institution within the University of Wisconsin System, unless the officer, employee or agent acts at the direction of the authority.
233.04(7)(h) (h) A provision on a mechanism for the resolution of disputes.
233.04(7g) (7g)
233.04(7g)(a)(a) Submit any modification, extension or renewal of the lease agreement under sub. (7) to the joint committee on finance. No extension or renewal of the lease agreement may be for a period of more than 30 years. Modification, extension or renewal of the agreement may be made as proposed by the authority and the board of regents only upon approval of the committee.
233.04(7g)(b) (b) If the committee does not approve an extension or renewal of the agreement, the on-campus facilities and any improvements, modifications or other facilities specified in sub. (7) (c) shall transfer to the board of regents.
233.04(7g)(c) (c) This subsection does not apply to an automatic extension of the lease agreement under s. 233.05 (1).
233.04(7m) (7m) Subject to 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, section 9159 (2) (k), negotiate and enter into an affiliation agreement with the board of regents. The affiliation agreement shall take effect on June 29, 1996. The initial period of the affiliation agreement shall run concurrently with the initial period of the lease agreement under sub. (7), and the affiliation agreement shall include all of the following:
233.04(7m)(a) (a) A provision that ensures the authority retains cash reserves at a level not lower than the level recommended by the independent auditor specified under sub. (1).
233.04(7m)(b) (b) Provisions that ensure support of the educational, research and clinical activities of the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the authority.
233.04(7m)(c) (c) A provision that requires the development of standards relating to the selection and financing by the authority of any corporation or partnership that provides health-related services. The standards shall be consistent with the missions of the authority and the board of regents.
233.04(7m)(d) (d) A provision that requires the board of regents to make reasonable charges for any services provided by the board of regents to the authority.
233.04(7m)(e) (e) A provision establishing a mechanism for the resolution of disputes.
233.04(7p) (7p)
233.04(7p)(a)(a) Submit any modification, extension or renewal of the affiliation agreement under sub. (7m) to the joint committee on finance. No extension or renewal of the affiliation agreement may be for a period of more than 30 years. Modification, extension or renewal of the agreement may be made as proposed by the authority and the board of regents only upon approval of the committee.
233.04(7p)(b) (b) If the committee does not approve an extension or renewal of the agreement, the on-campus facilities and any improvements, modifications or other facilities specified in sub. (7) (c) shall transfer to the board of regents.
233.04(7p)(c) (c) This subsection does not apply to an automatic extension of the affiliation agreement under s. 233.05 (2).
233.04(9) (9) Provide, on a monthly basis, the secretary of administration with such financial and statistical information as is required by the secretary of administration.
233.04(10) (10) If Children's Hospital and Health System ceases to operate a poison control center under s. 255.35, administer a statewide poison control program.
233.04 History History: 1995 a. 27 ss. 1770g, 6301; 1995 a. 216; 1997 a. 35, 237; 2001 a. 105; 2007 a. 109, 130; 2009 a. 180; 2011 a. 10.
233.05 233.05 Lease and affiliation agreements.
233.05(1)(1)
233.05(1)(a) (a) Beginning on July 1, 1997, and any July 1 thereafter, a lease agreement under s. 233.04 (7) and an affiliation agreement under s. 233.04 (7m) are automatically extended for one year unless all of the following occur in the one-year period immediately preceding such date:
233.05(1)(a)1. 1. The board of directors or the board of regents adopts a resolution opposing the automatic extensions or the joint committee on finance takes action opposing the automatic extensions.
233.05(1)(a)2. 2. The party opposing the automatic extensions under subd. 1. provides written notice of its opposition to the other parties specified in subd. 1.
233.05(1)(b) (b) If a lease agreement and an affiliation agreement are not automatically extended on any July 1 under par. (a), the lease and affiliation agreements are not automatically extended on any subsequent July 1 unless in the one-year period immediately preceding such date each party that opposed the automatic extensions withdraws its opposition and notifies the other parties specified in par. (a) 1. of such withdrawal.
233.05(2)(a)(a) Beginning on July 1, 1997, and any July 1 thereafter, a lease agreement under s. 233.04 (7g) or an affiliation agreement under s. 233.04 (7p) is automatically extended for one year unless all of the following occur in the one-year period immediately preceding such date:
233.05(2)(a)1. 1. The board of directors or the board of regents adopts a resolution opposing the automatic extension or the joint committee on finance takes action opposing the automatic extension.
233.05(2)(a)2. 2. The party opposing the automatic extension under subd. 1. provides written notice of its opposition to the other parties specified in subd. 1.
233.05(2)(b) (b) If a lease or affiliation agreement is not automatically extended on any July 1 under par. (a), the lease or affiliation agreement is not automatically extended on any subsequent July 1 unless in the one-year period immediately preceding such date each party that opposed the automatic extension withdraws its opposition and notifies the other parties specified in par. (a) 1. of such withdrawal.
233.10 233.10 Appointment of employees; employee compensation and benefits.
233.10(1)(1) The authority shall employ such employees as it may require and shall determine the qualifications and duties of its employees. Appointments to and promotions in the authority shall be made according to merit and fitness.
233.10(2) (2) Subject to subs. (3), (3r) and (3t) and ch. 40, the authority shall establish any of the following:
233.10(2)(a) (a) The compensation of the employees of the authority.
233.10(2)(b) (b) The kinds of leave to which an employee of the authority is entitled, including paid annual leave of absence, paid sick leave, and unpaid leave of absence, except that unused sick leave accumulated prior to July 1, 1997, shall be carried over and made available for the employee's use for appropriate sick leave purposes or for conversion as provided under s. 40.05 (4) (b), (be), (bm), or (bp).
233.10(2)(c) (c) Any other employment benefits to which an employee of the authority is entitled.
233.10(3)(a)(a) In this subsection and sub. (4), “carry-over employee" means an employee of the authority who satisfies all of the following:
233.10(3)(a)1. 1. The employee is offered employment by the authority on or before June 29, 1996.
233.10(3)(a)2. 2. Immediately prior to beginning employment with the authority, the employee was employed by the state other than in an academic staff appointment.
233.10(3)(a)3. 3. The position in which the employee was employed under subd. 2. was at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
233.10(3)(c) (c) If an employee of the authority is a carry-over employee, the authority shall, when setting the terms of the carry-over employee's employment during the period beginning on June 29, 1996, and ending on June 30, 1997, do all of the following:
233.10(3)(c)1. 1. Pay to the carry-over employee the same compensation that the employee would have received if he or she were employed by the state in the position at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics on June 29, 1996.
233.10(3)(c)2. 2. Grant to the carry-over employee, except when he or she is on an unpaid leave of absence, a paid holiday on each of the days specified in s. 230.35 (4) (a) as of the last day of the employee's employment as a state employee and holiday compensatory time off as specified in s. 230.35 (4) (b) as of the last day of the employee's employment as a state employee if the employee was entitled to those benefits on that day.
233.10(3)(c)3. 3. Grant to the carry-over employee the same paid annual leave of absence, paid sick leave and unpaid leave of absence that the employee received as of the last day of his or her employment as a state employee.
233.10(3)(c)4. 4. Grant to the carry-over employee military leave, treatment of military leave, jury service leave and voting leave in accordance with s. 230.35 (3) and (4) (e) and, to the extent applicable, rules of the division of personnel management in the department of administration governing such leaves for employees in the classified service as of the last day of the employee's employment as a state employee if the employee was entitled to those benefits on that day.
233.10(3)(c)5. 5. Grant to the carry-over employee the same opportunity for employee training provided under s. 230.046 as of the last day of his or her employment as a state employee if the employee was entitled to those benefits on that day.
233.10(3)(d) (d) If an employee of the authority is not a carry-over employee, the authority shall, from June 29, 1996, to June 30, 1997, provide that employee the same rights, benefits and compensation provided to a carry-over employee under par. (c) who holds a position at the authority with similar duties.
233.10(3r) (3r)
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The Citrus Tower & Presidents Hall of Fame in Clermont, Florida
A lot of us grew up taking road trips, especially during the summer. I spent most of my childhood summers and holidays traveling across the country in the car. After starting my own family, we continued the tradition of the family road trip, and in fact, my husband, Scott, our daughter, Avery, and I just returned from a trip to visit family in Texas.
Nowadays, with the hustle and bustle of busy modern life, the days of hopping in the car just to see what you could find seem to be long gone. It’s no secret that Florida’s history is deeply rooted in tourism and in the heyday of road travel, many Floridians made their attempt to capitalize on the market with roadside attractions dotting the map beckoning for motorists to stop and explore.
Clermont is one such spot on the map that made its mark with well-known tourism stops that still stand today. The city’s history was firmly planted in the citrus industry from its founding back in 1884 through much of the 20th century when the county was mostly sprawling orange and citrus groves. Construction on a 226-foot-tall observation tower overlooking the groves began in 1955 and what was once one of Central Florida’s most famous landmarks opened to the public in 1956.
For several years after opening, the Florida Citrus Tower drew half a million visitors each year, as it was strategically placed on the highway. After the Florida Turnpike was extended north, surpassing much of Central Florida, the tower began to lose steam as a tourism hub.
Today, the tower still stands as it was, even getting back to its original white and orange citrusy paint scheme in 2015, and is open for visitors.
The view it offers now, however, is a stark contrast to what it was built to tower above. Gone are the days of rolling citrus groves, and instead the landscape is dotted with parking lots and buildings. One way to put Florida’s ever-changing scenery and out-of-control growth into perspective is to get a bird’s eye view. That’s not to say it isn’t worth a ride to the top.
To this day, the tower remains the highest observation point in Florida and is one of the state’s first attractions. The lobby features the history of the area and the tower itself. A coffee shop offers drinks that you can bring to the top with you and relax at tables on the observation deck. Once at the top, you are welcome to stay as long as you’d like. The tower is also open for rocket launches for an epic view. Unlike many tourist attractions, they don’t hike up the admission price for this special viewing either!
Adjacent to the Citrus Tower, quite literally in its shadow, is another classic roadside attraction, the Presidents Hall of Fame. This homage to American history is also one of Florida’s oldest standing roadside attractions. What started as a simple wax museum dubbed the “House of Presidents” in the 1960s, has grown over time to house thousands of historical items and replicas detailing the history of the American presidency.
Although it’s on the smaller side, this scaled down “White House” is packed to the gills with history. The wax figures of all past and present presidents, as well as several first ladies, are still around, cranking up the creep factor and feeling of constantly being watched.
I kept finding myself peeking over my shoulder feeling like someone was watching me, only to find JFK staring at me from a rocking chair or FDR peering through a window. All kidding (or creeping) aside, if you’re a history buff, it’s easy to get lost in the countless items detailing everyday presidential life.
It’s clear the main reason for the Hall of Fame these days is to house the massive miniature of the White House (I know, that’s kind of like a jumbo shrimp, right?). The sprawling 1/12 scale replica of the presidential palace takes up most of the main room, and it’s just as easy to get lost in the tiny details of it as well.
This one-of-a-kind house is actually in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest dollhouse and has traversed the globe, including all 50 states, Great Britain and Japan. It’s taken up residence in the Smithsonian and even the actual White House itself. The backside of the structure offers a detailed, true to life, look into each room, including the Lincoln Bedroom and Oval Office.
While this attraction may be aging, it doesn’t lack in fun photo ops – perfect for your Insta!
You can take a call in the Oval Office or hold a press conference at the presidential podium. Out front, you are greeted by miniatures of Mt. Rushmore (toddler shown for scale), the Statue of Liberty and the Lincoln Memorial.
If you can’t make it cross-country this summer, you can always head to Clermont for a miniature tour of the U.S.!
Admission and Hours:
The Citrus Tower
141 N. Hwy. 27, Clermont 34711
CitrusTower.com
Hours: Mon – Sat: 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Admission: Adults – $10; Children – $6 (discounts for seniors, military, large groups, first responders)
Presidents Hall of Fame
123 N. Hwy 27, Clermont 34711
ThePresidentsHallOfFame.com
Hours: Mon – Sat: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Sun: 12 – 4 p.m.
Admission: Adults – $15; Children (6-12) – $8
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Dissertation: Lessons from Embryos: Haeckel’s Embryo Drawings, Evolution, and Secondary Biology Textbooks
Haeckel believed that the development of an embryo revealed the adult stages of the organism’s ancestors. Haeckel represented this idea with drawings of vertebrate embryos at similar developmental stages. This is Haeckel’s embryo grid, the most common of all illustrations in biology textbooks. Yet, Haeckel’s embryo grids are much more complex than any textbook explanation. I examined 240 high school biology textbooks, from 1907 to 2010, for embryo grids.
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Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology" (2001), by Frederic Lawrence Holmes
In 2001, Yale University Press published Frederic Lawrence Holmes' book, Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology" (Replication of DNA), which chronicles the 1950s debate about how DNA replicates. That experiment verified that DNA replicates semi-conservatively as originally proposed by Watson and Crick. Rather than focusing solely on experiments and findings, Holmes's book presents the investigative processes of scientists studying DNA replication.
Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose (1970), by David M. Rorvik and Landrum B. Shettles
In the book Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose, David Michael Rorvik and Landrum Brewer Shettles describe methods that couples can use prior to and during conception that will increase the chances of producing a child of their desired sex. Rorvik, a science writer, and Shettles, an obstetrics and gynecology researcher and physician, co-wrote the book. Shettles developed the methods detailed in the book during the 1960s. Although the authors claim a high success rate, some researchers have contested the validity of the methods proposed in Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose.
An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (1895), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book presents photographs by photographer Edward Leaming that capture stages of fertilization, the fusion of sperm and egg and early development of sea urchin (Toxopneustes variegatus) ova, or egg cell. Prior to An Atlas, no one photographed of eggcell division in clear detail. Wilson obtained high quality images of egg cells by cutting the cells into thin sections and preserving them throughout different stages of development.
Subject: Publications, Reproduction
The Mechanistic Conception of Life (1912), by Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb published The Mechanistic Conception of Life in 1912. Loeb's goal for the book was to further disseminate his explanations of organic processes, such as embryonic development and organisms orientations to their environments, which relied on physics and chemistry. Loeb also wanted to provide an alternative explanatory framework to vitalism and what he called romantic evolutionism, then both widespread.
Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), by Stephen Jay Gould
Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a book published in 1977, in which the author Stephen J. Gould, who worked in the US, tells a history of the theory of recapitulation. A theory of recapitulation aims to explain the relationship between the embryonic development of an organism (ontogeny) and the evolution of that organism's species (phylogeny). Although there are several variations of recapitulationist theories, most claim that during embryonic development an organism repeats the adult stages of organisms from those species in it's evolutionary history.
The Woman Rebel (1914)
In the early twentieth
century, birth control advocate Margaret Sanger published eight
issues of a feminist magazine called The Woman Rebel. During
this time, discussion of sex education, birth control, and
abortion were illegal. The magazine featured literary pieces on
topics like women’s rights, love and marriage, women in the
workplace, reproductive and sexual education, and contraception.
The Woman Rebel was one of the first magazines that discussed
issues that working class American women faced. Through the
The Biological Bulletin
From 1886 to 1889 Charles Otis Whitman was director of the Allis Lake Laboratory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The lab was established by Edward Phelps Allis, Jr. to provide a place for biological research separate from a university setting and a place where an independent scholar like Allis himself could work. Allis had hired Whitman as an instructor to establish the lab, direct it, and lead a research program there. The lab lasted for eight years, attracted several researchers, and the papers that came out of the lab included a focus on embryology.
The Origin of Species: "Chapter Thirteen: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs" (1859), by Charles R. Darwin
Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs is the thirteenth chapter of Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species, first published in England in 1859. The book details part of Darwin's argument for the common ancestry of life and natural selection as the cause of speciation. In this chapter, Darwin summarizes the evidence for evolution by connecting observations of development in organisms to the processes of natural selection.
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You (2015), by the British Broadcasting Corporation and The Open University
In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus in the womb, Mosley meets with individuals around the world who experienced mutations that can arise in the womb. Introduced over the course of the three episodes, several people share their personal stories of how their bodies did not develop correctly prior to birth.
The Diversity of Animals: An Evolutionary Study (1962), by Edward Stuart Russell
In 1962 the journal Acta Biotheoretica published the final work of the biologist Edward Stuart Russell, a full eight years after his death. Entitled The Diversity of Animals: an Evolutionary Study, this short, unfinished manuscript on evolution received little recognition in the scientific presses despite both its technical discussion of adaptations in decapods (crabs, shrimp, etc.) and its different approach to evolutionary theory. The precise reason for this neglect is unclear.
"Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wide-Ranging Implications in Tissue Kinetics" (1972), by John F. R. Kerr, Andrew H. Wyllie and Alastair R. Currie
"Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wide-Ranging Implications in Tissue Kinetics" (hereafter abbreviated as "Apoptosis") was published in the British Journal of Cancer in 1972 and co-authored by three pathologists who collaborated at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In this paper the authors propose the term apoptosis for regulated cell death that proceeds through active, controlled morphological changes. This is in contrast to necrosis, a passive mode of cell death that results from uncontrolled cellular reactions to injury or stress.
A Child Is Born (1965), by Lennart Nilsson
Dell Publishing in New York City, New York, published Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born in 1966. The book was a translation of the Swedish version called Ett barn blir till, published in 1965. It sold over a million copies in its first edition, and has translations in twelve languages. Nilsson, a photojournalist, documented a nine-month human pregnancy using pictures and accompanying text written by doctors Axel Ingelman-Sundberg, Claes Wirsen and translated by Britt and Claes Wirsen and Annabelle MacMillian.
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Possums (1952), by Carl G. Hartman
Possums is a 174-page book consisting of a series of essays written about the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), the only living marsupial in the US. The essays were written by Carl Gottfried Hartman, an embryologist at the Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW), in Baltimore, Maryland, who also worked with another mammal, the rhesus monkey. Possums was published in 1952 by Hartman's alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Beginning in 1913, while as a graduate student, and later as an instructor at UT, Hartman captured and raised opossums.
The Sex Side of Life (1919) by Mary Ware Dennett
Mary Ware Dennett, an activist in the US for birth control and sex education in the early twentieth century, wrote an educational pamphlet in 1915 called “The Sex Side of Life, and it was published in 1919. The pamphlet defined the functions of the sex organs, emphasized the role of love and pleasure in sex, and described other sexual processes of the body not usually discussed openly.
Where Are My Children? (1916)
Where Are My Children? is an anti-abortion silent film released in the United States on 16 April 1916. The film was directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley and produced by Universal Film Manufacturing Company/Lois Weber Productions in Universal City, California. In the film, Weber tells a story of an attorney who wants to have children and raise a family, but his wife chooses to abort her pregnancies, fearing that having children will ruin her social activities. In the early 1900s, information about contraception was not freely available or legal to obtain.
40 Weeks (2014)
In 2014, Big Belli, a media and social networking brand, released a documentary called 40 Weeks online. The documentary, directed by Christopher Henze, followed multiple women during their pregnancies. The film predominantly features three women, though it includes the stories of many. Throughout the film, women detail their accounts of the physical and emotional changes that occur during pregnancy.
"Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance" (1915), by Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb published "Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance" in 1915. His goal for the article was to outline his conception of mechanistic science and its relation to other methods of inquiry. Loeb argued that mechanistic science was the foundation of knowledge and humanity's progress depended on it. Loeb's argument altered the account of science he offered in The Mechanistic Conception of Life insofar as scientists no longer aimed merely to control nature, but also to understand nature s underlying elements and their mechanical relations.
The Interpretation of Development and Heredity (1930), by Edward Stuart Russell
First published in 1930 and reprinted in 1972, Edward Stuart Russell's The Interpretation of Development and Heredity is a work of philosophical and theoretical biology. In this book Russell outlines a methodological and philosophical program aimed at reorienting the biological understanding of development and heredity.
Organisers and Genes (1940), by Conrad Hal Waddington
Conrad Hal Waddington's Organisers and Genes, published in 1940, is a summary of available research and theoretical framework for many concepts related to tissue differentiation in the developing embryo. The book is composed of two main conceptual sections. The first section explores the action and nature of the organizer, while the second section delves into genes and their influence on development.
Form and Function (1916), by Edward Stuart Russell
In 1916, at the age of twenty-nine, Edward Stuart Russell published his first major work, Form and Function: a Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology. This book has maintained wide readership among scientists and historians since its initial publication, and today is generally recognized as the first modern, sustained study of the history of morphology. In particular, Form and Function incorporates an extensive theoretical analysis of the relationship between embryological studies and comparative morphology in the nineteenth century.
A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham
In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham published a well-received three-volume treatise titled Chemical Embryology. The first four chapters from this work were delivered as lectures on Speculation, Observation, and Experiment, as Illustrated by the History of Embryology at the University of London. The same lectures were later released as a book published in 1934 titled A History of Embryology.
“Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” (1953), by James Watson and Francis Crick
In April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” or “A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid,” in the journal Nature. In the article, Watson and Crick propose a novel structure for deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. In 1944, Oswald T. Avery and his group at Rockefeller University in New York City, New York published experimental evidence that DNA contained genes, the biological factors called genes that dictate how organisms grow and develop.
"On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species" (1924), Hilde Mangold's Dissertation
Hilde Proscholdt Mangold was a doctoral student at the Zoological Institute at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany, from 1920-1923. Mangold conducted research for her dissertation 'On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species' ('Ueber Induktion von Embryonanlagen durch Implantation artfremder Organisatoren'), under the guidance of Hans Spemann, a professor of zoology at the University of Freiburg.
"RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas 9" (2013), by Prashant Mali, Luhan Yang, Kevin M. Esvelt, John Aach, Marc Guell, James E. DiCarlo, Julie E. Norville, and George M. Church
In 2013, George Church and his colleagues at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts published RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas 9, in which they detailed their use of RNA-guided Cas 9 to genetically modify genes in human cells. Researchers use RNA-guided Cas 9 technology to modify the genetic information of organisms, DNA, by targeting specific sequences of DNA and subsequently replacing those targeted sequences with different DNA sequences. Church and his team used RNA-guided Cas 9 technology to edit the genetic information in human cells.
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Theodore the Stratelates
The Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Stratelates, also Theodore the Heraclea, was a Roman Stratelates (General) who, in the early fourth century, as a Christian preached the Gospel while serving as the military commander in the city of Heraclea in Thrace until emperor Licinius had him tortured and then beheaded after he refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods. St. Theodore is regarded as the patron saint of soldiers. He is commemorated on February 8. The translation of his relics is remembered on June 8.
The martyr Theodore came from the city of Euchaita in northern Asia Minor. A soldier of many talents and a convert to Christianity, Theodore was a speaker of talent and brave as a soldier. His bravery was revealed when, with the help of God, he killed a giant serpent that lived on a precipice in the outskirts of Euchaita. The serpent had devoured many people and animals and terrorized the countryside. Theodore armed himself with a sword and vanquished the serpent, glorifying the name of Christ among the people. These skills and bravery won the esteem of the emperor Licinius who appointed him a military commander (stratelatos) and governor of the city of Heraclea.
After he came into office, Theodore showed no fear that he was a Christian, and his preaching among the pagans subject to him inflamed much of the city to the True Faith. His gift of persuasion, reinforced by his personal example of Christian living, brought many from their false gods, and soon, nearly all of Heraclea had accepted Christianity.
Late in the second decade of the fourth century emperor Licinius began a persecution against Christians. In an effort to stamp out the new faith, he persecuted the enlightened adherents of Christianity who were perceived as a threat to paganism. Among Licinius' actions was that of depriving officers in the army of their commissions if they did not sacrifice to the gods, included Theodore. Licinius tried to force Theodore to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods. The saint invited Licinius to visit him at Heraclea with his idols so both of them could offer sacrifice before the people.
Encouraged by a vision during the night announcing that it was time for him to testify in his own blood to his love of Christ, Theodore greeted the Emperor with pomp. Admiring the good order of the city, the emperor proposed to show his devotion to the gods by offering a sacrifice. Agreeing, Theodore asked only to take the idols at home during the night in order to worship before the public sacrifice. Taking the statues of gold brought by the emperor, Theodore spent the night reducing them into pieces and, in the early morning, he gave the gold to the poor. As the time of sacrifice arrived, a distraught centurion reported to the emperor that he saw a poor man wearing the golden head of a statue of Artemis.
Theodore was arrested and subjected to fierce and refined torture. He was dragged on the ground, beaten with iron rods, had his body pierced with sharp spikes, was burned with fire, and his eyes were plucked out before he was finally crucified. During the torture, the Holy Martyr only repeated: "Glory to Thee, my God!" Varus, Theodore's servant, Varus, barely had the strength to write down the incredible torments of his master.
God, however, in His great mercy, willed that the death of St. Theodore should be as fruitful for those near him as his life was. An angel healed his wounded body and took him down from the cross. The next morning, imperial soldiers found him alive and unharmed. Seeing with their own eyes the infinite might of the Christian God, they were baptized not far from the place of the failed execution.
Thus, St. Theodore became "like a day of splendor" for those pagans dwelling in the darkness of idolatry, and enlightened their souls "with the bright rays of his suffering." Unwilling to escape martyrdom for Christ, Theodore voluntarily surrendered himself to Licinius, and discouraged the Christians from rising up against the torturer, saying, "Beloved, halt! My Lord Jesus Christ, hanging upon the Cross, restrained the angels, and did not permit them to take revenge on the race of man."
Then, going to his execution, people who touched his robe were healed instantly from sicknesses and freed from demonic possession. By order of the emperor, St. Theodore was beheaded by the sword. Before his death he told Varus, " Do not fail to record the day of my death, and bury my body in Euchaita." Then, he bent his neck beneath the sword, and received the crown of martyrdom which he had sought. This occurred on February 8, 319, a Saturday at the third hour of the day.
The Holy Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates suffered for Christ in Heraclea on February 8, 319. At the time of his sufferings the St. Theodore ordered his servant Varus to bury his body on the estate of his parents in Euchaita. The transfer of his relics took place on June 8, 319.
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How (and Where) We Search for Beer – Who Said “Craft Beer?”
By Bryan Roth @bryandroth
Today we’ll continue our look into the growth of how the term “craft beer” became part of national interest. Here are previous posts on the topic for review of refresher:
How (and Where) We Search for Beer – A Visual Guide
How (and Where) We Search for Beer – An Issue of Wording
How (and Where) We Search for Beer – What Happened in 2009?
This effort is based on research that showed the term “craft beer” grew steadily in searches through Google beginning in 2009. Simply put, I want to know why. In part one of this latest series, I came to the conclusion that the growth of breweries around 2009, both in number and sales volume, helped drive awareness, especially in the Northeast. Additionally, it seems that the growth of curiosity in searching for “craft beer” may be an organic one.
Why is that? Let’s see what we can find…
It goes to say that if someone is holding a craft beer in their hand, they may be better equipped to recognize it as such. But if we can infer that sales drove interest of the term “craft beer,” what were the breweries themselves doing about it?
One of the top news stories of 2009 – the year “craft beer” began exploding on Google – was the release of Beer Wars, a documentary highlighting the struggle for independent brewers who compete with Big Beer. I reached out to director Anat Baron to see if she noticed any change in terminology when she started the film in 2005 and here’s what she said:
Everyone I interviewed from big to small brewers were calling it craft beer. I used that term since that’s what they used and it’s really their story. The media had very little interest in beer in general and craft beer specifically until around 2011 when the craft beer/mainstream media love affair began. When the film was released in 2009, most morning shows/talk shows were dismissive of the subject as too low brow.
There’s the answer to “who” was saying “craft beer” – the brewers and businesses themselves, as expected. But if these people were using the term in 2005, why did it take several more years for people to catch on?
Part of it may simply have to do with market saturation. Craft beer was below 3 percent of the U.S. beer market by volume until 2006 and then started making jumps:
For reference, craft beer market share in 2009 was 4.4 percent, 2010 was 4.97 percent, 2011 was 5.68 percent and 2012 was 6.5 percent.
But if it was brewers who were saying “craft beer,” how did it get to consumers? Sheer number of breweries might help. As we know from the recent explosion of craft beer, localized businesses are helping to drive growth. New breweries aren’t opening with regional or national sales in mind, they’re focusing on local customers. So when we see a chart like this spiking upward in 2009, we get a sense that interactions and awareness of beer should increase:
Again, if it’s an organic transition for people to call their beer “craft” in 2009 – before the media “love affair” Anat mentions – then it hints at the likelihood people were taking their cues from businesses and each other. It also further explains why the Northeast picked that phrase up so quickly, considering the strength of growth in that region of the country and adoption of craft beer.
I also contacted Julie Weeks, marketing communications manager with Boulevard Brewing Company. I wanted to know how their company – now one of the premiere breweries of the East Coast – handled their marketing:
Based on early press releases, we just defined ourselves as a local brewery. In the late 90s/early 2000s, we said we were the largest specialty brewer in the Midwest, and if I recall, that was based on the definitions of breweries at the time from the [Brewers Association] … We still refer to us as the largest specialty brewer in the Midwest in some of our material, however we’ve also referred to ourselves for many years as a regional craft brewery, based on the [Brewers Association] definition.
In addition to Boulevard’s efforts to define themselves as a “craft beer” producer, Boston Beer Company, maker of Sam Adams, was also an early adopter. According to Boston Beer’s press release archive, their first mention of the word “craft” appears in a March 9, 2005 release in which they describe their company as “America’s leading brewer of hand-crafted, full- flavored beer.” Then on Nov. 2, 2005, Boston Beer takes the full plunge [emphasis mine]:
Jim Koch, Chairman and Founder of the Company, commented, “We are very pleased by the almost 9% depletion growth achieved in the third quarter, which resulted in almost 5% growth for the first nine months as compared to the first nine months of 2004. The craft beer category has grown this year, despite price increases, while the beer industry as a whole has been relatively flat. We believe that the brand communication that we introduced in March 2005 has better positioned Samuel Adams to benefit from this category trend.”
Using “craft beer” became ubiquitous for both Boston Beer and Sam Adams by 2007. For what it’s worth, MillerCoors, owner of Leinenkugel Brewing, began using a standard tagging/signature with “craft beer” in their press releases in 2009, referring to the Wisconsin-based brand.
Again, we come back to the idea that breweries drove this change, which further explains the regionalism of saying “craft beer” early on in the movement.
But if it wasn’t mass media that was prompting this change in vernacular – as Anat pointed out – how did the idea of calling non-macro beer “craft beer” spread so quickly from the Northeast to other parts of the country?
… we’ll try to answer that question in the next part of this series.
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Both Sides Of The Body Positivity Movement
October 15, 2019 // by Charlotte Haye
If you’ve been around the internet a while, you’ve probably heard of the body positivity movement. On the face of it, it sounds great – a movement all about embracing the natural shape of people (mainly women, but men too), without shame or feeling that they should change just to make society accept you. But there have been a lot of different views on the body positivity movement over the years, and today we wanted to take a look at why some people think it’s great, and why some people aren’t so keen on the idea.
What Is The Body Positivity Movement?
Of course, before we can look at both sides of anything, we need to know what it is. In this case, the body positivity movement is a social movement rooted in the belief that all human beings should have a positive body image. It also works to challenge the ways society presents and views the physical body, with the goal of moving away from harmful (and sometimes unattainable) stereotypes and instead showcasing women in men in their natural, beautiful state.
The movement, which has gained a lot of traction over the last decade, actually started in the 1960s as a step towards ending fat-shaming. The founder of the movement was Lew Louderback, who kick-started everything by publishing a paper called “More People Should Be Fat.” In his essay, he critiqued the way fat people were treated in America, explaining the discrimination that he felt in the workplace and out in the world. He even advocated for “plump” women to appear in magazines, and to normalise the physical appearance of very normal women. Just two years later, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance was created, and the whole movement began in earnest.
The whole idea of body positivity was created to help people with marginalized bodies (including fat, queer, trans, bodies of colour and more) feel entitled to self-love and confidence in their own appearance. By making people in these categories feel accepted, normal and loved, you can significantly improve their mental health. In fact, studies have shown that poor body image is linked to poor mental health, and an improvement in body image can cause an improvement in mental health. So being part of the body positivity movement and feeling like your body is normal, beautiful and accepted as it is can do wonders for the self-esteem and mental health of the population.
The body positivity movement has also been responsible for some major changes in the worlds of fashion and marketing. Brands are now moving away from the heavily photoshopped, airbrushed and super-skinny models of old, and instead are opting to use models of all shapes and sizes, showcasing a more natural side of beauty. This can be seen everywhere from makeup brands using models with acne scars, visible pores or rough skin texture, right through to clothing retailers using real plus sided models (not just models at a size 12) to demonstrate their products. This is a huge step forward in the fashion world, and it’s something that has empowered a lot of women around the world to feel confident not only buying products they previously felt unable to, but to wear them confidently as well.
The Criticism
One of the biggest criticisms of the body positivity is that it could be deemed as unhealthy. Many people have claimed that the body positivity movement does nothing more than celebrate obesity, providing a convenient excuse for those who are living unhealthy lives. It has been labelled as unhealthy, promoting dangerous weight levels and generally spreading a dangerous message. While this was certainly never the idea behind the movement, it’s evolution over the years has shifted from ‘everyone has a different body type – that’s normal and should be accepted as long as you are healthy’ into ‘you can be whatever size you like and no one should judge you for that’. Drastic factions of the movement have taken to shaming anyone who chooses to diet and lose weight – believing it to be the expression of the psychological toll of fat shaming and not a genuine desire for health or change. We are still public health research showing that we are still in the grip of an obesity epidemic, and some of the blame for that has been laid at the feet of the body positivity movement. So while the ideals for the body positivity movement aren’t bad, there is some criticism around the impact it may have on the health of the population.
Another of the key criticisms of the movement is that body positivity is the wrong term – it really should be ‘fat positivity’. This is because over countless years the body positivity movement has been less than kind and even exclusionary towards those at the opposite end of the spectrum – thin people. Whether this is just thin people naturally or those suffering from mental and physical disorders like anorexia, bulimia and body dysmorphic disorder, the body positivity movement has been clear – this is not the place for you. This skews things a bit, as the original message of the movement was designed to be around acceptance of natural and beautiful, whatever those dimensions happened to be. This lack of acceptance of anyone who isn’t plus size has sparked a backlash against the whole movement that is still being dealt with today.
So, where do you come down on this? Is the body positivity movement an empowering, positive thing, or has it gone too far in the other direction and become something potentially harmful? Or is it like most things in life, and has been taken to extremes on both sides, when in reality the ideal is somewhere in the middle? At Elle Courbee, we believe the latter. Body positivity and acceptance of who you are will always be better for your mental health and confidence – but there should be no shame attached to wanting to change or improve yourself, if that is what will make you happy. We would love to know what you think, so please drop us a line in the comments below.
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No Longer at Ease
Published in English
Arrow of God
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the second work in what is sometimes referred to as the "African trilogy", following Things Fall Apart and preceding Arrow of God. Things Fall Apart concerns the struggle of Obi Okonkwo's grandfather Okonkwo against the changes brought by the English.
1 Novel's title
2 Plot summary
3 Themes
Novel's title[edit]
The book's title comes from the closing lines of T. S. Eliot's poem, The Journey of the Magi:
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
Plot summary[edit]
The novel begins with the trial of Obi Okonkwo on the charge of accepting a bribe. It then jumps back in time to a point before his departure for England and works its way forward to describe how Obi ended up on trial.
The members of the Umuofia Progressive Union (UPU), a group of Umuofia natives who have left their villages to live in major Nigerian cities, have taken up a collection to send Obi to England to study Law, in the hope that he will return to help his people by representing them in the colonial legal system, particularly with respect to land cases. However, Obi switches his major to English and meets Clara Okeke, a student nurse, for the first time during a dance.
Obi returns to Nigeria after four years of studies and lives in Lagos with his friend Joseph. He takes a job with the Scholarship Board and is almost immediately offered a bribe by a man who is trying to obtain a scholarship for his sister. When Obi indignantly rejects the offer, he is visited by the girl herself, who implies that she will bribe him with sexual favors for the scholarship, another offer Obi rejects.
At the same time, Obi is developing a romantic relationship with Clara who reveals that she is an osu, an outcast by her descendants, meaning that Obi cannot marry her under the traditional ways of the Igbos. He remains intent on marrying Clara, but even his Christian father opposes, albeit reluctantly due to his desire to progress and eschew the "heathen" customs of pre-colonial Nigeria. His mother begs him on her deathbed not to marry Clara until after her death, threatening to kill herself if her son disobeys. When Obi informs Clara of these events, Clara breaks the engagement and intimates that she is pregnant. Obi arranges an abortion which Clara reluctantly undergoes, but she suffers complications and refuses to see Obi. Obi sinks deeper into financial trouble partly due to poor planning on his end, in part due to the need to repay his loan to the UPU and to pay for his siblings' education, and in part due to the cost of the illegal abortion.
After hearing of his mother's death, Obi sinks into a deep depression and doesn't go home for the funeral, this is because he thought that the money he would have used to go and come back would be better served in the funeral and to help out across the house. When he recovers, he begins to accept bribes in a reluctant acknowledgement that it is the way of his world.
The novel closes as Obi takes a bribe and tells himself that it is the last one he will take, only to discover that the bribe was part of a sting operation. He is arrested, bringing us up to the events that opened the story.
Themes[edit]
Though set several decades after "Things Fall Apart", "No Longer at Ease" continues many of the themes from Achebe's first novel. Here, the clash between European culture and traditional culture has become entrenched during the long period of colonial rule. Obi struggles to balance the demands of his family and village for monetary support while simultaneously keeping up with the materialism of Western culture.
Furthermore, Achebe depicts a family continuity between Ogbuefi Okonkwo in "Things Fall Apart" and his grandson Obi Okonkwo in "No Longer at Ease". Both men are confrontational, speak their minds, and have some self-destructive tendencies. However, this aggressive streak manifests itself in different ways. Where his grandfather was a man of action and violence, Obi is a man of words and thoughts to the exclusion of action.[1]
No Longer at Ease debuted to largely positive reviews. Mercedes Mackay of the Royal African Society noted that "This second novel of Chinua Achebe is better than his first, and puts this Nigerian at the forefront of West African writers."[2] Arthur Lerner of Los Angeles City College wrote that "The second novel of this young Nigerian author continues the promise of its predecessor, Things Fall Apart."[3] The novel was widely praised for its realistic and vivid depictions of life in Lagos in the early 1960s. However, some reviewers felt that Achebe's attention to detail in setting was executed at the expense of fully fleshing out his characters. Ben Mkapa of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute wrote, "Achebe has a broad vision of the world he is writing about, but unfortunately this broadness is manifest at the expense of depth of characterization. Clara, who is so central to Obi's final disillusionment, is but imperfectly drawn; most of the others are only nominal. His characters are representational rather than real."[4]
^ Rogers, Philip (1983). ""No Longer at Ease": Chinua Achebe's "Heart of Whiteness"". Research in African Literatures. 14 (2): 165. JSTOR 3818384.
^ Mackay, Mercedes (October 1961). "No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe". African Affairs. 60 (241): 549–550. JSTOR 719005.
^ Lerner, Arthur (Summer 1961). "No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe". Books Abroad. 35 (3): 233. doi:10.2307/40115804. JSTOR 40115804.
^ Mkapa, Ben (January 1962). "No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe". Transition (3): 36. doi:10.2307/2934565. JSTOR 2934565.
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No Longer at Ease (1960)
Arrow of God (1964)
A Man of the People (1966)
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
"Dead Men's Path" (1953)
"Civil Peace" (1971)
"Vengeful Creditor" (1972)
Chike and the River (1966)
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (1988), including "An Image of Africa" (1975)
There Was a Country (2012)
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has banned the import of COVID-19 vaccines from the United States and Britain, labelling the Western powers “untrustworthy”, as the infection spreads in the Middle East’s hardest-hit country.
In a live televised speech he raised the prospect of the two Western countries, long-time adversaries of the Islamic Republic, possibly seeking to spread the infection to other countries.
He added however that Iran could obtain vaccines “from other reliable places”.
“Imports of U.S. and British vaccines into the country are forbidden ... They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations,” he said.
“Given our experience with France’s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren’t trustworthy either."
Khamenei repeated the accusations in a tweet that was removed by Twitter along with a message saying it violated the platform’s rules against misinformation.
Iran launched human trials of its first domestic COVID-19 vaccine candidate late last month, saying it could help Iran defeat the pandemic despite U.S. sanctions that affect its ability to import vaccines.
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Slavery by Another Name
A RIVER OF ANGER
The South Is "an armed camp."
In the three months since Reese began his slavery investigation, the guilt of every defendant called to court had in one manner or another been established. He'd won the personal attention and support of the U.S. attorney general and of President Roosevelt himself. Indeed, a new position had just been created in his office to oversee an even more expansive attack on slavery. Reese believed history, and the power of the nation, were with him. Even rabidly anti-black, white supremacist politicians and newspapers such as the Montgomery Advertiser initially reacted with embarrassment to the peonage charges that so suddenly burst into the public eye.
In truth, the mistrial in the case of Fletcher Turner marked an ominous reversal. Resentment to the exposure of the new slavery was growing. Other voices, defiant and rancorous, began to rise.
On the Saturday before Turner's surprise guilty plea, Alabama secretary of state Heflin spoke to an annual reunion of Confederate veterans in the town of Luverne, issuing a ringing endorsement of how men such as Pace and Turner had nobly returned black workers to their proper position as slaves and attacking Reese and Judge Jones as willing to sacrifice the honor of southern whites in return for advancement under President Roosevelt. They were nest foulers and "nigger lovers," cried supporters of the accused. Heflin and his allies said any man who did not defy them deserved all the contempt of the white South.
Reese and Heflin traded charges through the newspapers—the U.S. attorney asserting that Heflin deceitfully mischaracterized the facts of the case; Heflin, annealing his coarse racism in the language of the U.S. Constitution, retorted that Judge Jones was usurping the American ideals of trials by jury. 1
While the Turner trial was under way, a frenzied mob in Scottsboro, Alabama, gunned down the town sheriff in front of his family as he refused to turn over a black teenager who had allegedly "attempted criminal assault" on a nineteen-year-old white girl. Once the sheriff was dead, the black man was seized from his cell and hanged from a telegraph pole that night.
Midway through the trial, a lawyer in Dothan, Alabama, telegraphed Reese to report that a client, Enoch Patterson, was being held in peonage by the town's chief of police. Obviously, no local system of justice was available to defend Patterson. "I have no redress here for his wrongs," the lawyer wrote. "I know of no way to get justice for him but to submit the matter to you."2 Similar charges flowed into his office, so numerous and substantial that Reese—already frenzied with the duties of the trial and other indictments—could barely manage to send acknowledgments of the information, much less open investigations.
In Georgia, allegations surfaced in the court of Judge Emory Speer, in the cotton-dense version of that state's Black Belt, that the family of state representative Edward McRee, one of the most prominent in the state, was operating a slave plantation even more expansive and brutal than anything alleged in Tallapoosa County.
Across the nation, the spring and summer of 1903 marked a venomous turn in relations between blacks and whites. A pall was descending on black America, like nothing experienced since the darkest hours of antebellum slavery. If anything, the poisoned atmosphere and accelerating disintegration of the structure of civil society more resembled to blacks a time two centuries earlier, when white slave traders and their corrupted indigenous allies descended without explanation upon the villages of West Africa to plunder the native population. For at least the next four decades, especially on the backcountry roads and rural rail lines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, no black person living outside the explicit protection of whites could again feel fully secure.
The plummeting position of black Americans was driven by the convergence of transforming currents in American life. In the years of abolitionist fervor before and after the Civil War, northern whites who pushed for full citizenship for black freedmen operated under naive assumptions. Many believed that once schools and wages were extended to liberated slaves, they could be quickly and fully assimilated into U.S. society. In the span of half a generation, they imagined the nation's eleven million African Americans learning to read and write and becoming dark-skinned versions of the yeoman white farmers fanning across the western prairies.
Human slaves had been freed many times before—from the Israelites, to the Romans, to Africans in the vast British Empire as recently as 1834. But no society in human history had attempted to instantly transform a vast and entrenched slave class into immediate full and equal citizenship. The cost of educating freed slaves and their children came to seem unbearably enormous, even to their purported friends. Their expectations of compensation radically altered the economics of southern agriculture. And even among the most ardent abolitionists, few white Americans in any region were truly prepared to accept black men and women, with their seemingly inexplicable dialects, mannerisms, and supposedly narrow skills, as true social equals.
Moreover, Charles Darwin's still new theory of evolution was threading through American culture with unintended sinister repercussions. Before the publication of Darwin's landmark On the Origin of Species in 1859, virtually all Americans viewed the presumed higher and lower racial order of whites, blacks, and native Indian tribes as mandated by God. But the nearly ubiquitous acceptance of Christianity by American blacks—at the active encouragement of whites—also clearly established the essential humanity of slaves. Christianity said slaves—despite their legal categorization as chattel—and their owners were indisputably members of the same race. Regardless of the violence used by whites against slaves, there was a loose consensus, even in the South, that whites and blacks were linked in their humanity and that God demanded some measure of moral consideration and compassion for all. Northern opposition to slavery before the Civil War was deeply rooted in this religious precept.
But swirling concepts of evolution upended those traditions. Dehumanizing interpretations of the racial order were unleashed—driven and defined not just by skin color but by ever more refined concepts of blood. A new conceit of multiple, distinct human species emerged. The Indian wars of the 1870s solidified a growing sense of genetically propelled white superiority and of raw violence as an appropriate method of protecting white political supremacy and racial purity. Thousands of Civil War soldiers who had been introduced to battle in a morally complex war of racial liberation were later immersed on the Great Plains in the simple absolutism of the pure, racially motivated violence that would haunt the twentieth century.
Popular American culture embraced the western conflicts as proof of white superiority—spawning hundreds of novels and short stories that extolled the extermination of Indian populations as the inexorable march of white progress and eminent domain. William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show became a pageant of white supremacist rhetoric, drawing tens of millions of American and European spectators in the 1880s and 1890s.
A whole new genre of fiction extolling the antebellum South and an idealized view of slavery became immensely popular. Joel Chandler Harris's books filled with stories of contented slaves and kindly masters—first serialized in the Atlanta Constitution—sold in enormous volumes in the North. The most sensational book in all regions of the country remained The Leopard's Spots, a southern romance by a former preacher named Thomas Dixon Jr.
Published in New York by Doubleday Page & Co. the previous year, the novel was built around the quest of Confederate colonel Charles Gas-ton to attain love and glory as he swept away black political participation in Reconstruction-era North Carolina. Underscoring his repudiation of past depictions of cruel antebellum slavery, Dixon co-opted for his characters many of the names of the infamous Simon Legree and other key figures in Harriet Beecher Stowe's prewar abolitionist bible, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Yet in Dixon's rendering, the brutal southern slave masters were kindly; former slaves risen to power in Reconstruction were a gruesome plague upon whites and themselves. Late in the novel, Gaston gives his own blood for a transfusion to a girl raped by a black man. After her death, a relief from a life marked as despoiled, the father refuses to have his daughter placed in a grave dug by a black man. Confederate veterans at the funeral rally to dig a new one.
In the novel, a black man accused of the crime is tied to a pine tree, doused with oil, and burned to death. Dixon writes of Gaston pondering how "the insolence of a class of young negro men was becoming more and more intolerable."3 Gaston "was fast being overwhelmed with the conviction that sooner or later we must squarely face the fact that two such races, counting millions in numbers, can not live together under a democracy…. Amalgamation simply meant Africanisation. The big nostrils, flat nose, massive jaw, protruding lip and kinky hair will register their animal marks over the proudest intellect and the rarest beauty of any other race. The rule that had no exception was that one drop of Negro blood makes a negro." The book's initial printing of fifteen thousand was immediately consumed. Soon more than a million copies had been purchased. Dixon instantly became one of the most widely read writers of the first decades of the century.
Another best-selling novelist of the romanticized South, Thomas Nelson Page, became one of the country's most influential voices on race relations. Asserting that blacks constituted the vast majority of rapists and criminals in the United States, and that the overwhelming preponderance of blacks remained "ignorant" and "immoral," Page warned that the continued coexistence of the races was likely impossible. "After 40 years in which money and care have been given unstintedly to uplift them …the Negro race has not advanced at all," Page declared. Blacks are "a vast sluggish mass of uncooled lava over a section of the country, burying some sections and affecting the whole. It is apparently harmless, but beneath its surface smolder fires which may at any time burst forth unexpectedly and spread desolation."4
Few white Americans expressed disagreement. Southern whites cheered news in April 1903 that the New York public school system ordered the removal from its reading lists of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Echoing Dixon, New York public school libraries superintendent Cland G. Leland said Stowe's depiction of antebellum slavery "does not belong to today but to an unhappy period of our country's history, the memory of which it is not well to revive in our children."5
White Americans across the country were adopting a dramatically revised version of the racial strife of the nineteenth century—a mythology in which the Civil War had sufficiently ameliorated the injuries of slavery to blacks and that during the ensuing decades southern whites heaped assistance and opportunity upon former slaves to no avail. The new version of events declared that African Americans—being fundamentally inferior and incorrigible—were in the new century a burden on the nation rather than victims of its past.6
A widely disseminated treatise on blacks published in 1901 concluded that cohabitation in the same society by whites and free blacks would forever be cursed by the immutably brutish aspects of African character. "The chief and overpowering element in his makeup is an imperious sexual impulse which, aroused at the slightest incentive, sweeps aside all restraints in the pursuit of physical gratification."7
The Montgomery Advertiser reported with obvious satisfaction on a declaration of thanks issued by the "colored people of Richmond" to a white education conference for all that it had done for African Americans. While inviting attendees of the meeting to attend First African Baptist Church while in the city, the declaration assured whites, "The negroes of Richmond have always been able to live in peace and harmony with the white race. The same kindly feeling which coursed in the veins of the ‘mammy’ and body servant of bygone days exists today"8 White southerners clung to any fragment of such obeisance as demonstration that their racial conduct was a corrective measure aimed at bringing African Americans back to their natural posture toward whites—not an eruption of supremacist venality.
A young white chambermaid at the English Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana, named Louise Hadley became a brief cause célèbre in May 1903, hailed in the North and the South, after she refused to make up a bed that had been occupied by Booker T Washington. After being fired from her job, Hadley issued a public statement: "For a white girl to clean up the rooms occupied by a negro … is a disgrace," she wrote. "I have always felt that the negro was not far above the brute." Committees formed in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas raised several thousand dollars in contributions to Hadley. "We admire this young woman's discrimination and think she took exactly the right action," beamed the Dadeville Spot Cash.9
When Boston leaders publicly discussed a proposal to transport large numbers of southern blacks to New England's declining farm regions, southerners sputtered with skepticism. "We could well spare a few thousand ‘crap shooters’ and banjo pickers from the South," one Alabama letter writer responded on the pages of the Advertiser. "The only negroes who will probably agree to go will be those with whom it would be a mercy not only for the whites, but the negro of the South, to part," said the Chattanooga Times."Since the mulatto Crispus Attucks led the phlegmatic Bostonians in their revolt against the British troops, dark skins have been popular up there," sneered the Montgomery Advertiser. "Such a movement might be good for the South. It would probably rid our section of a good many negroes who are worse than useless here…It would give those far-sighted philanthropists a chance to learn by actual contact and experience something of the race problem about which they prate so much." The Advertiser editorialized on the need for African Americans to be "fixed" through hard labor.10
In the barely veiled racist invective of the day, the Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer-Sun said it doubted the movement would amount to anything until watermelon season was over.11
The popular sentiments used to justify the violence appeared to correspond with the work of a generation of American physicians and scientists—in the North and the South—who busily translated or mistranslated the elementary evolutionary principles outlined by Darwin into crude explanations for why blacks should be returned to a "mild form of slavery," as one delegate to a Virginia constitutional convention phrased it. At a meeting of the state medical association in Georgia, one physician presented a paper that purported to document the close similarities between a long list of black features—skin, mouth, lips, chin, hair, nose, nostrils, ears, and navel—and those of the horse, cow, dog, and other barnyard animals. From that claimed evidence, Dr. E. C. Ferguson extrapolated that the "negro is monkey-like; has no sympathy for his fellow-man; has no regard for the truth, and when the truth would answer his purpose the best, he will lie. He is without gratitude or appreciation of anything done for him; is a natural born thief,—will steal anything, no matter how worthless. He has no morals. Turpitude is his ideal of all that pertains to life. His progeny are not provided for at home and are allowed to roam at large without restraint, and seek subsistence as best they can, growing up like any animal."12
The new science of anthropology embraced the notion that quantifiable characteristics of whites, blacks, and Indians—such as brain size— demonstrated the clear physical and intellectual superiority of whites. In May 1903, as Warren Reese's Alabama investigation got under way, the Atlantic Monthly magazine published a long tract titled "The Mulatto Factor ," written by an erudite planter in Greenville, Mississippi, Alfred H. Stone, arguing that the presence of mixed-race blacks—with superior intelligence and leadership skills derived from traces of white blood—was the cause of current race turmoil.
New exhibits on primitive peoples made the American Museum of Natural History in New York City a scientific temple to the inevitability of white dominion over nonwhite races. The institution was emerging as a hotbed of the embryonic concepts of eugenics and "racial hygiene" that would eventually lead to unimaginable violence later in the twentieth century.
The St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 featured an exhibit of live pygmies, transported from the Belgian Congo—then reaching a gruesome apogee of colonial slavery under King Leopold strikingly similar to that emerging in the U.S. South. After the fair, one of the pygmies, Ota Benga, appeared briefly as an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History, before transferring to the monkey house at the Bronx Zoological Park—initially sharing a cage with an orangutan named Bohong. After several years as a freak curiosity in the United States, Benga killed himself in 1916.13
The same year that Benga appeared at Central Park West, the Carnegie Institution funded the establishment of the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The center eventually became the Eugenics Records Office and the leading scientific advocate of notions of racial superiority and inferiority. With broad support from the federal government, prominent jurists, and scientists at major universities, researchers there pursued a decades-long, but scientifically flawed, project to collect data on the inherited characteristics of Americans. (For the next four decades, the work of the Eugenics Records Office and its leaders was the backbone of a highly successful campaign to promote sterilization for "feebleminded" and other ostensibly inferior genetic stock, strict laws against racial intermarriage, and stringent limits on the immigration of Jews and southern Europeans to the United States.)
Amid that swelling wave of public sentiment, shared by the simplest and most advanced white Americans, the moral implications of the Civil War faltered. More than thirty-five years had passed since the end of the conflict, long enough that the grief and anger associated with individual deaths and disasters had muted. Aging Union veterans of the Civil War were declining as a national voting bloc. In place of the war's fading emotional resonance, a cult of reunion and reconciliation among whites in all regions arose, embraced by leaders of all national parties who had grown weary of the "bloody shirt"—a euphemism for demagogic political tactics designed to stir regional emotions.
There was a palpable sense that northerners were no longer willing to risk renewed violence to enforce a thinly supported victor's justice on the South. All demands for southern acquiescence to guilt for the war were dissolving. A generation of post-Civil War southerners—like Pace, McRee, and their contemporaries—were approaching middle age. They were anxious to redeem their fathers who fought and died in southern regiments and the skill of the officers who led them from the tarnish of defeat, the scandal of treason, and the perceived amorality of slavery. Southerners—and growing numbers of northern whites—gravitated to a new interpretation of the rebellion, one that abandoned any depiction of the war as a defeated insurrection and instead permitted open reverence for southern "qualities" of battlefield ferocity and social chivalry, and for specific acts of Confederate heroism to be incorporated into collective American history.
Georgia's federal judge Emory Speer, overseeing the new slavery cases emerging in southern Georgia, summed up the new conventional history in his 1903 commencement speech to graduates of Atlanta's Emory University. Taking the life of Robert E. Lee as his topic, Judge Speer called for an explicit rehabilitation of the once disgraced Confederate military commander. America, he said, "can no longer afford to question the military and personal honor of Lee and his noble compatriots. America, with all her acknowledged power, cannot fail to appropriate that warlike renown, which gleamed on the bayonets and blazed in the serried volleys of the soldiers of the South."14
The South had nothing to be ashamed of anymore. The myth that the war had been fought over regional patriotism rather than slavery became rooted in American identity. Even slavery itself came to be remembered not as one of the basal crimes of American society, but as a nearly benign anachronism. White Americans arrived at a contradictory but firm view that slavery was a relic of the past that had rightfully expired, but that coerced servitude and behavior was nonetheless the appropriate role in national life for blacks. Whites in the North and the South could be on the same side in this perverse recasting of the war's narrative. That new consensus unleashed typhonic waves across black life.
The blithe testimony of an elderly black man to a Georgia legislative commission inquiring into financial improprieties in that state's convict leasing system illustrated the gratuitous cynicism that steeped the lives of African Americans. In June 1901, the man, named Ephraim Gaither, was being held in a work camp for men arrested and convicted of minor offenses at an isolated location about fifty miles north of Atlanta. Gaither had been arrested on a dubious charge of carrying a concealed weapon. After conviction, he was sold along with 105 other men to a timber-cutting operation controlled by one of Atlanta's most prominent businessmen, Joel Hurt. That month, a sixteen-year-old boy arrived in the camp to serve three months of hard labor for an unspecified misdemeanor he had allegedly committed.
"He was around the yard sorter playing and he started walking off and got to trotting a little bit, playing around there and got behind a pine tree," Gaither recounted calmly, in testimony to the committee of Georgia elected officials. "There was a young fellow, one of the bosses, up in a pine tree and he had his gun and shot at the little negro and shot this side of his face off," Gaither said as he pointed to the left side of his face.
The fellow runs off to the woods about thirty or forty yards and the guards follow him. Then Charley Goodson, he goes and gets the dog and puts on the trail of him and they start off, the dogs are barking the way the negro went off. Directly they came back and I heard one of the guards say that negro he done and goes across the mountain and we can't get him. That is when they come back with the dogs and everything was quiet. That was on Thursday, Thursday evening. They let that negro stay there lying in the woods from Thursday to Thursday and it gets to stinking so bad we couldn't stand it hardly; and we complained about the smell. That day we noticed a bitch, a hound bitch it was going across by the edge of the woods with something in its mouth and we looked and seed that it was the arm of that poor negro that they had killed down there in the woods. The dog had torn the arm off of him and was dragging it down through the edge of the woods with the fingers dragging on the ground. The Bosses took John Williams and two or three others, I don't remember the names now and made him a pine box and went down there and buried him.
Members of the committee responded by grilling Gaither about why he came to the state capitol that day to testify and whether a black man's word could be trusted. "Did any white men see that?" asked one state representative, about the events described by Gaither. Another quizzed Gaither as to whether any white man in Atlanta could vouch for him. Finally he was asked: "You were a bad negro?"
Gaither responded: "No boss, I was no bad negro. They thought I was." No queries were made as to the identities of the boy killed, the camp boss who shot him, or why myriad state regulations governing the treatment of prisoners at the time or the handling of a convict's death were never fulfilled.15 The homicide Gaither described was never investigated.
The harvest of that river of animosity was palpable for thousands of African Americans. A venomous contempt for black life was not just tolerated but increasingly celebrated. On Tybee Island off the coast of Georgia, guards drove a squad of black men arrested by the local sheriff into the surf to bathe. Few could swim. Weighed down by balls and chains, four were swept into the sea. The body of misdemeanant Charles Walker surfaced a day later on the edge of nearby Screven Island.16
When a black man in Henderson, North Carolina, refused to give up his reserved seat in a local theater to a white patron in April 1903, he was forcibly ejected. When he resisted being removed, the black man was shot dead by a policeman.17 White southerners applauded broadly.
A white mob seized an African Methodist Episcopal minister in Lees-burg, Georgia, named Rev. W W Williams that spring after he began to emerge among local blacks in the farm community as an influential leader. White men owned nearly all the area's land and were accustomed to the same conjugal rights with black women on their farms as had existed during antebellum slavery. Rev. Williams began preaching that black women should resist the sexual advances of the dominant white men of the community, wrote Rev. J. E. Sistrunk, in an account of the attack sent to the Department of Justice. "The mob …went upon him without warning and taken him out of the parson aide [parsonage] …and strip[p]ed him naked and one sat upon his h[e]ad and each by turns with a buggy whip, whipped him until his back was raw from head to foot and after whipping him they told him that they whipped him because he was controlling colored women."18
Southerners particularly reveled at gruesome scenes of racial violence that occurred outside their region, affirming the hypocrisy of those Yankee critics who still criticized racial conditions in the former Confederacy. For weeks, carnage continued between blacks and whites in Joplin, Missouri, and Wilmington, Delaware. In April, a thirty-year-old black man named Thomas Gilyard was lynched in Joplin, followed by the reported expulsion of every black in the city19 In May, newspapers closely followed a "race war" in Louisville, Kentucky20
Accounts of mortal clashes between whites and blacks, and the raging mobs that often followed such incidents, littered the pages of newspapers in the first years of the century. "Race War in Mississippi," the Advertiser screamed in May 1903, after blacks and whites near the town of Laurel battled over several days, leaving at least one white farmer and "several negroes" dead. "The enraged white men of the community are still in the saddle searching for the negro who instigated the trouble," the paper reported with dramatic thrill.21
The same month, whites in Indianapolis, Indiana, began meeting to formulate a plan for removing African Americans from the city. Independence Day 1903 stirred extraordinary black and white hostility. In the tiny South Carolina town of Norway, a white farmer's son severely beat four black workers. In retaliation, the father, a one-armed Confederate veteran, was gunned down at his dinner table with a shotgun blast through a window. Local whites seized a black man in retaliation and lynched him. In response, more than two hundred armed blacks surrounded the town on July 4, threatening to burn it to the ground. The state's governor dispatched the South Carolina militia to counterattack.22
In Evansville, Indiana, crowds of blacks and whites battled on July 5 over the fate of a black man accused of killing a white police officer. Whites successfully broke into the city jail, but were driven back by armed blacks. Police charged in to disperse the crowds and spirit away the accused man.
On the same day, a mob of six hundred whites went in search of a black woman in Peoria, Illinois, who was accused of having beaten a white boy. After discovering that the woman already was in jail, the crowd attacked her home, dismantling it to the foundation and throwing all her furniture and belongings into the Illinois River. In Thomasville, Georgia, a street argument between a black man and his wife accelerated into a running gunfight between a white posse and crowds of African Americans.23
The New York Times opined in mid-July 1903 that "respectable negroes" should ban the city's bad ones. "There are in New York thousands of utterly worthless negro desperadoes," the Times wrote, "gamblers when they have money and thieves when they have none, moral lepers and more dangerous than wild animals." The newspaper followed up later in the month with hysterical coverage of racial disturbances in the city. "Negroes Attack Police" blared a headline over an account of a fight that broke out on West 62nd Street after an Irish policeman shoved a "disrespectful" black man on a sidewalk.24
Infuriated by the setbacks suffered by blacks in all regions of the country, W. E. B. DuBois, the rising young sociologist—the first African American Ph.D. graduated by Harvard—wrote that the South "is simply an armed camp for intimidating black folk." The emancipation act that had ended the Civil War had transmogrified into "a race feud," he said. "Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free Negro labor was possible without a system of restrictions that took all its freedoms away; there was scarcely a white man in the South who did not honestly regard Emancipation as a crime, and its practical nullification as a duty"25
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Category: West Africa: Hausa
Salifu Titah’s Band – Babu Me-Ee-Say Ala
December 8, 2008 June 27, 2011 · 2 Comments ·
Approximately 24 million people in Africa now speak the Hausa language, from Western Africa across the continent to Eritrea. However, it’s in northern Nigeria and the country of Niger where you’ll find the majority of speakers. It is an Afro-Asiatic language, which means it’s in the same general family as Berber languages and the Arabic of Egypt – languages spoken in the northern part of the continent. It can be written in an Arabic script, known as Ajami.
As far as research shows, the first commercial Hausa recordings were made in the Britain in the late 1920s when the Zonophone company, by then an arm of HMV, began releasing the very first recordings for African consumption (as opposed to ethnographic recordings made for study, or for the amusement of Europeans) – most if not all of Zonophone’s releases were actually recorded in England by native Africans, with the records being shipped back to West Africa for sale. There was also at least one Hausa song, recorded in Britain by native Hausa speakers, released on the small Duophone label as well. Odeon may have recorded Hausa material as well, on location, in the late 1920s. In the 1930s, 5 more Hausa recordings were made by Parlophone (by then also an HMV company) on their PO series – raw, rural music featuring the Hausa people’s fiddles, the goje or the kukkuma, with titles written in both Roman characters and Ajami script on the labels. HMV continued releasing Hausa recordings on their JZ series from 1937 onwards.
This record was made ca. 1952, and recorded in Nsawam, Ghana. By then, HMV had been joined by a cavalcade of competitors in the West African 78rpm market: mainly French labels such as Philips, Fiesta, Le Chant du Monde, Voice of Africa, Africa Vox, but also Decca, and near-lost independent labels such as Bassophone, Palmo-Tone, Nugatone…it’s quite amazing. There was a tremendous amount of recording going on, particularly in Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. But labels also went beyond the popular Creole groups of Sierra Leone and the high-life bands of Ghana and Nigeria, presumably to satisfy emerging markets, or simply smaller ones. HMV’s green-labeled TM series added recordings from Togo, as well as those in less commonly spoken West African languages like Adangbe and Awuna.
Which brings us to this Hausa recording, made for HMV and on the TM series. The guitars show an influence of West African pop, but the voices sound real and unpolished. The singers are accompanied by two (?) guitars, drum, and percussion (perhaps a bottle). Alas, I could find no information on Salifu Titah.
Issue Number: TM.1084
Matrix Number: OAB-3699-1
For more on the story of West African recording, there is Craig Taylor’s Savannaphone website, Paul Vernon’s article on the subject, and John Cowley’s excellent piece, “uBungca (Oxford Bags).”
Thanks to Bill Dean-Myatt!
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India, Life, Stories
Rape Cases in India – Has anything changed after the Nirbhaya Incident? – Part 1
By Sasi Priya on March 10, 2015
Crimes against Women have continued to make headlines in our country for quite some time now. Public reaction to these crimes has varied between peaks and lows; peaking when a grotesque crime is brought to limelight by mainstream media and ebbing away after a period of sustained vociferous condemnation on social media platforms and the occasional candle light march.
In such a scenario, it would be prudent for us to look into the statistical data about Crimes against Women and sensitize ourselves about how we could deal with these issues.
The vast quantum of data that is available about crimes against women is an indicator in itself about the gravity of these crimes. And for that simple reason covering all the crimes against women in one article became unworkable. Hence in the first in a series of articles on crimes against women, we deal with ‘Rapes in India”.
A newspaper without the daily dose of rapes reported across the length and breadth of our country looks almost impossible and worse amongst all age groups. We have data for the number of Rape cases registered, convicted, persons arrested, persons convicted and much more for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013. Analysis of the data from these three years gives us invaluable insights into how this horrific crime has been dealt with, how the institutions have responded etc. This will also provide valuable insights to understand whether the Nirbhaya incident in December 2012 has changed anything on ground.
Did the Nirbhaya incident and the national outrage that followed have any impact on the institutional response in the following year? Has the attitude about registering and reporting of rape cases changed post December 2012? Let us take a look at the data and find out.
To understand the analysis and data, let us first familiarize ourselves with the parameters based on which data has been categorised
Cases Registered: The number of Rape cases registered in the given year.
Cases Convicted : The number of cases in which trial has been completed and those that resulted in conviction of the accused. These cases that completed trial wouldn’t have been necessarily registered in the same year only. This is because of the time taking nature of our judicial process.
Persons Arrested: The number of Persons arrested on the charge of Rape.
Persons Convicted: Persons who have undergone trials and have been finally adjudged guilty and convicted.
Pending Trials: The number of cases awaiting final judgement at the end of the particular year.
Cases registered per 1 lakh women: The number of Rape cases registered per 1 lakh women in that region/state. This is calculated taking into account the female population (of Census 2011) of the particular region/state.
Conviction Rate: This is the percentage of cases that resulted in conviction of the total cases that completed trial in that year. It is to be noted that it is a percentage of completed trials and not a percentage of cases registered in that particular year. A case registered in a particular year can complete trial in any year. This distinction is to be understood.
All India Numbers: 2011 to 2013
The following numbers are cumulative figures for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Cases Registered
Cases convicted
Persons arrested
Persons Convicted
Pending trials (End of 2013)
States 79706 11980 98,350 16457 93,356
UTs 3130 756 3760 980 2375
Total (All-India) 82836 12736 102110 17437 95731
It is worth noting that
Eighty two thousand eight hundred and thirty six (82,836) Cases were registered over three years that is 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Over the last three years, 75 cases of Rape were registered every day across the country.
That is an average of 3 cases being registered every hour.
On an average over the three years, 93 persons were arrested every day on charges of rape.
That is an average of 4 persons being arrested every hour.
There are Ninety Five thousand Seven hundred and Thirty one (95731) Pending trials as of 2013 in courts all over the country.
Year on Year Comparative Analysis
Cases Registered per day
Cases Convicted per day
Persons arrested per day
Cases registered per 1 lakh women
2011 24206 66 4072 11 28878 80 4
2012 24923 68 3563 9 31117 85 4
2013 33707 92 5101 14 42115 115 5
Average 27612 76 4245 12 34037 93 4
Persons Convicted Per day
Conviction Rate in %
Pending trials
2011 5724 15 26.4 79476
Average 5812 16 26 —
From the year 2011 to 2012 the number of cases registered increased by 3%. But from 2012 to 2013 the number of cases saw a big jump of increase by 35%. The public outrage that followed the Nirbhaya incident seems to have had at least one concrete positive outcome, i.e. increased reporting of crimes.
The cases convicted over the years 2011 to 2012 saw a decline of 12.5% even though the number of cases saw a marginal increase over the two years. Then again from 2012 to 2013 the number of cases convicted rose by 43%.
The number of persons arrested from 2011 to 2012 rose by 7.75% and following the trend of substantial rise of figures from 2012 to 2013, number of persons arrested increased by 35% from 2012 to 2013
The number of persons convicted declined by 15% from 2011 to 2012 and rose significantly by 43% from 2012 to 2013
The highest conviction rate in the three years is observed for 2013 which is 12% over the 2012 conviction rate.
Pending Trials have only increased year by year. Despite setting up Fast track courts after the Nirbhaya incident, the pending trials have not shown any decline from 2012 to 2013.
Number of cases registered per 1 lakh women remained constant at around 4 cases for 2011 and 2012 and it went up to 5 cases per 1 lakh women which again clearly shows the trend of increased reporting of crimes.
On an average 93 persons were arrested per day over the period of 2011 to 2013.
With respect to trials completed in a year , 16 persons were convicted every day on an average for the years 2011-2013
(Note: The persons convicted in a year might not necessarily have been arrested in the same year, conviction results from trials completed in a particular year)
In Focus – Delhi
In the recent years, Delhi has earned itself the reputation of being the ‘Rape Capital’. While this claim cannot be completely refuted, the data does not suggest otherwise.
Cases Registered 572 706 1636 2914 971
Change from previous year – 23.40% 131% – –
Deviation from Average -41% -27% 68% – –
(Deviation from Average: This is the percentage by which a certain value varies with respect to its corresponding average. If the value is greater than the average then it results in a positive deviation and if the value is lesser than the average then it results in negative deviation)
On an average 3 cases of rape were registered per day in Delhi from 2011 to 2013.
Post the Nirbhaya incident, the number cases of rape reported in Delhi in 2013 more than doubled from the previous year i.e. 2012.
The total number of cases registered in Delhi over the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 are 3.6% of the total number of cases registered across India while the female population of Delhi is a mere 1.33% of the total female population in India.
The number of Registered Rape cases in Delhi increased slightly from 2011 to 2012 by 23%. The effect of Nirbhaya incident is clearly visible from the change in cases registered in 2013 compared to 2012. The number of cases registered in 2013 increased by 131% compared to 2012.
The number of registered cases in 2011 and 2012 were much lesser than the average number of cases registered over the three years .The number of cases registered in 2013 is 68% more than the average cases registered in those years.
Cases Convicted 186 297 227 710 236
Change from previous year – 60% -23% – –
Deviation from Average -21% 25% -4% – –
Convicted cases that increased by 60% from 2011 to 2012 dropped by 23% from 2012 to 2013. 2013’s Convicted cases is also lesser than the average convicted cases by 4%.
Persons Arrested 707 892 1851 3450 1150
Change from previous year – 26% 107% – –
Deviation from average -38% 22.40% 60% – –
The number of persons arrested per day rose by about 26% in 2012, but more than doubled in 2013.
Over the three years, on an average 3 persons were arrested everyday on the charge of Rape.
The number of persons arrested in 2012 and 2013 is lesser than the average number of persons arrested in the three years, but the number of persons arrested in 2013 is 60% more than the average number of persons arrested.
Persons Convicted 243 368 314 925 308
Deviation from average -21% 19.40% 2% – –
Number of persons convicted increased from 2011 to 2012 by 51% and declined by 14% from 2012 to 2013.
The number of persons convicted in 2011 is lesser than the average number of persons convicted over the three years but the numbers of persons convicted in 2012 and 2013 is higher than the average number of persons convicted.
Pending Trials 1439 1404 2154
Number of pending trials decreased by 2% from 2011 to 2012, but increased by a massive 53% cases from 2012 to 2013. This can be explained by the fact that the number of cases registered increased by more than two times from 2012 to 2013. But then at the same time Government set up a fast track court to specifically deal with sexual offences in January 2013 itself and yet this doesn’t have seemed to have had any substantial impact on the pending trials.
Cases registered per 1 lakh women 7 9 21 12
Change from previous year – 28.50% 133.30% –
Deviation From Average -41% -25% 75% –
From 2011 to 2012 the number of cases registered per 1 lakh women increased by 28.5% and from 2012 to 2013 it went up by 133%.
When compared to the average number of cases registered per 1 lakh women over the three years, the 2013 figure is 75% more. With the analysis of each parameter, the fact that reporting of crimes increased substantially post the Nirbhaya tragedy is reinforced.
Conviction Rate
Case conviction Rate for the three years
Case Conviction Rate (in %) 41.5 49.3 35.7 42
Case conviction rate increased from 2011 to 2012 and then again declined from 2012 to 2013.
For the three years on an average, 42% of the cases that completed trials resulted in conviction in the case of Delhi.
Conviction rate in Delhi rose by 18% from 2011 to 2012, but it declined by 27% from 2012 to 2013.
What do the numbers tell us?
The following trends were observed from analysis of the All India data and the Delhi data with respect to cases related to Rape
The national debate that ensued after the Nirbhaya incident did do a great deal of good. Apart from raising relevant questions and exposing the loop holes in our institutions, what it also did was to give enough confidence to women to report cases of rape and instil a sense of responsibility in the the police register cases.
This impact wasn’t localised to the states around Delhi, but it was witnessed all over the country.
Cases registered with for rape across India increased from 2011 to 2012 by 3% but they increased by 35% from 2012 to 2013.
In Delhi, the cases registered for rape increased by 23% from 2011 to 2012, but increased by a whopping 131% from 2012 to 2013.
Nationally, cases registered for 1 lakh women was almost constant at 4 in 2011 and 2012, but in 2013 it went up to 5. This increase of 1 case per 1 lakh women becomes significant when we take the entire population into account.
Government did take note and paid increased attention to Rape cases. For instance, Persons arrested increased from 2011 to 2012 by 6.25% but this increased by 35.2% from 2012 to 2013.
The number of persons arrested in Delhi increased by 26% from 2011 to 2012 but from 2012 to 2013 it increased by 107%
In the articles to follow, we will look at detailed numbers from different regions of the country & also the states. We will also look at the initiatives by the government to deal with crimes against women.
Answer to Unstarred Question No. 4964, Ministry of Home Affairs
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/
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In part 2 of the series on Rape cases in India from 2011-13, we look at different regions of the country and compare trends. Read it here
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Bhanupriya Rao on March 11, 2015 3:58 pm
Hello Sasi Priya, What a fab job you have done to compile all this data and put this in perspective. As you pointed the biggest outcome has been the increased reportage of rape incidents. The pending trials is a tad disappointing.
As someone who is interested in data, I believe that it should lead us to more questioning rather than take as an absolute. For eg, just looking at all this data, i am tempted to ask myself, about the class of women who are reporting rapes and the class of people being arrested. Is it the middle class or economically lower class women living in jhuggis etc that report rape? Similarly for the people arrested? As we know, the big fish always escape and it is easy to arrest those in the lower economic strata.
One of the issues with the entire rape/ violence against women discourse is that it is a problem of the great unwashed. While in reality we know it isn’t the case.
But, getting more granular data on the profiles, economic classes is a very difficult task I understand. Again, congrats on this awesome job. And thank you for writing this.
Rakesh Dubbudu on March 11, 2015 5:11 pm
Yes Bhanu. This particular data was gathered from the Lok Sabha question & answers. The granular data would be helpful most definitely. But am afraid we might have to get that from individual states by using RTI. Data on atrocities against SCs/STs might be available with NCRB. But the entire data will only be available with the state home department or the police.
Kishore on March 20, 2015 10:41 am
Great work. I have seen people rant about security in India after the recent ban on BBC documentary. It frustrated me as nobody was giving any facts to support what they are saying. I wondered if there is a place where data is provided to understand the reality and this post is the best I have seen. Thanks a lot for the information
Rakesh Dubbudu on March 20, 2015 10:57 am
Thank you Kishore
Pyare Lall on April 15, 2015 7:08 pm
What about False Rape charges, What shd we chop of in a girl.
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By: Carol Shaughnessy
Fantasy Fest, Key West’s annual masking and costuming festival, is rightfully famed for its outrageous party atmosphere. But it also offers a showcase for artists — illustrators who capture the festival spirit in poster and T-shirt designs, world-class body painters who use the human form as their canvas and, this year, a local talent exhibiting immersive graffiti-inspired images. There’s even a self-guided art and bar stroll.
This year’s winner of the Fantasy Fest poster contest is Los Angeles’ Pashur, a pioneer of modern body painting known for his breathtaking full-body creations.
Visual artists contribute to Fantasy Fest in a wide variety of ways. For example, each year festival organizers and the Florida Keys Council of the Arts issue a call to artists to submit designs for the festival’s official poster and T-shirt.
This year’s winner for both is Los Angeles’ Pashur, a pioneer of modern body painting known for his breathtaking full-body creations. He will appear at Fantasy Fest (for the 16th year!) to paint “living canvases” at Paradise Tattoo at 627 Duval St.
Pashur has traveled around the globe doing body-painting projects for clients including Cirque du Soleil, singer Nicki Minaj and Toyota. For Fantasy Fest, inspired by the festival theme “In Tune But … Off Key,” he created a design featuring musical elements, an exuberant color palette and Key West imagery that ranges from the infamous Mile Zero sign to a stylized conch shell.
Pashur will star at the arts council’s official poster-signing party at Paradise Tattoo starting at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25. Admission is free — and his gorgeous posters will be available for sale.
Festival goers also can meet and be a “canvas” for Hollywood celebrity makeup artist “Captain” Ron Wolek (yes, really you can!). Captain Ron will offer his custom artistry in hair, makeup and body design in the Beauty Garden next to Fairvilla at 524 Front St.
This is a chance not to be missed, since he’s widely acclaimed for his work on television’s “Stranger Things” and “The Vampire Diaries” as well as dozens of other television series, films and theater productions. His career credits also include a long tenure at Disneyland and work as a creature sculptor and designer at SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment.
Appointments for “glitter and glamor” treatments with Captain Ron and his stellar crew are available between 11 a.m. and midnight Oct. 20-26.
Key West artist Jack McDonald will display his colorful graffiti-inspired images in a Fantasy Fest exhibition at The Studios of Key West. (Photo courtesy of The Studios of Key West)
Moving from glamor art to gallery art, Key West’s Jack McDonald will display his colorful graffiti-inspired images in a Fantasy Fest exhibition, intriguingly titled “Master Slacker,” at The Studios of Key West at 533 Eaton St.
Jack is renowned for larger-than-life creations from parade floats to theatrical sets. For his Studios exhibit, dubbed a vibrant immersive experience, he used spray paint, stencils and acrylic brush work to craft unique paintings inspired by street art.
Also on hand will be the crew from Wonderdog Studios, masterminds behind Fantasy Fest’s vivid graphics and creative spirit, who will turn the gallery into a workshop for fantasy costumes, props and other design delights.
“Master Slacker” will be on view through Oct. 28.
And for those who like cocktails with their culture, Fantasy Fest features a special treat: the BART bar and art crawl of the Key West Historic Seaport.
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May 16, 2015 By joelcrosenberg in Epicenter
The Knesset, Israel’s 120-seat parliament.
“Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes [to help me lead you].” — Moses’ command to the children of Israel (Deuteronomy 1:13)
Israel has a new government. Its Members were sworn in Thursday evening after Prime Minister Netanyahu named his cabinet.
Netanyahu immediately called on opposition leader Isaac Herzog to join the government as Foreign Minister. The PM asked Herzog to help him unify the country amidst enormous challenges, including the Iran nuclear threat, ISIS, an imploding Syria, a resurgent Hezbollah in Lebanon, the need to find peace with the Palestinians, the need to strengthen U.S.-Israeli ties, badly strained in recent years, and the importance of expanding economic growth and helping the poor and the middle class who face high and rising food, fuel and housing prices.
Herzog thus far has refused Netanyahu’s offer.
The Bible commands us to pray for our leaders, and this new government definitely needs our prayers. We need to pray for Israeli leaders to have great wisdom and discernment on how to handle these domestic and foreign policy matters, and to demonstrate a deep commitment to serve, protect and honor all members of society, Arabs as well as Jews.
“First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.” (I Timothy 2:1-3)
There are many deep divisions within Israeli society and Israel urgently needs leaders who understand these divisions and seek to bring healing and unity, not to exacerbate these tensions. Religious and ultra-religious Jews are at odds with more secular and traditional Jews, and with Jews who believe in Yeshua (the Hebrew name for Jesus). Ashkenazi Jews (those from European countries) have deep differences with Sephardic Jews (those from Spain, North Africa and the Arab world). There are also tensions between Sabra Israelis (native born) and those from Russia and Ethiopia. Then there are serious strains between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs, as well as with Palestinian Arabs. Many are concerned the deeply divided new government not only reflects the deeply divided society but will make things worse. All the more reason for us to pray to the God of Israel to have mercy on these leaders and on all the inhabitants of the Land.
One major question looming over the new government: How long will it last? Despite a big and unexpected win two months ago for his Likud Party in national elections, Netanyahu struggled to put together the broad governing coalition he promised. Instead, he was only able to cobble together a razor-thin coalition comprising only 61 of the Knesset’s 120 members, the bare minimum. This means that the defection of even a single Member of Parliament — or one who is ill, or one who is traveling or on vacation — could topple the government. It also means that a single Knesset Member might be able to extract all kinds of benefits in return for his or her loyalty to the coalition and/or his or her vote on specific pieces of legislation.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition was formally sworn in on Thursday night after a raucous Knesset session that saw constant heckling, along with accusations by opposition leader Isaac Herzog that the freshly inaugurated government was ‘a circus,'” reported the Times of Israel. “The Netanyahu government, formed after arduous negotiations following the March 17 elections, thus finally took office almost two months after polling day, with the narrowest possible parliamentary majority.”
“The vote on the new cabinet passed by 61 to 59 — representing the balance of forces in the Knesset,” the Times noted. “Netanyahu’s five-party coalition numbers 61 members (Likud, 30; Kulanu, 10; Jewish Home, 8; Shas, 7; and United Torah Judaism, 6), to the opposition’s 59 seats (Zionist Union, 24; Joint Arab List, 13; Yesh Atid, 11; Yisrael Beytenu, 6; and Meretz, 5). Earlier, taking the stand in the plenum, Netanyahu issued an appeal for electoral reform, and, in a veiled appeal to Zionist Union party chief Herzog, said he was leaving the ‘door open’ to expanding his cabinet.”
“I am leaving the door open to expanding the government for two reasons. The first: Because I think the state needs it. And second: Because this is the only way to amend this [political system],” Netanyahu said. Turning to Herzog, he said, “I assume that the leader of the opposition won’t enter the government, but we must come together to change the system.”
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Doctor Who: Bradley Walsh opens up on ‘very sad’ final episode as Graham
BBC’s Doctor Who is set to return with a bang in just a few weeks as the festive season looms ever-closer. The New Year’s Day spectacular picks up with The Doctor (played by Jodie Whittaker) remaining trapped in a space prison but disaster soon strikes when companions Yaz (Mandip Gill), Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) are forced to take on the responsibilities of the Timelord. However, the epic episode will mark the end of the journey for two characters with Graham star Bradley Walsh detailing a “very sad” final instalment for his alter-ego.
The show released an extended trailer for the upcoming special on Sunday night, with fans desperate to learn the fate of The Doctor.
‘Revolution of the Daleks’ sees Yaz, Ryan and Graham have to conjure up a plan to try and save the entire world from the threat of The Doctor’s ultimate nemesis.
Luckily, they are able to draft in Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) for help as the character makes a highly-anticipated return.
However, there are a couple of high profile exits in store as both Graham and Ryan will decide to end their days travelling alongside the Timelord.
Speaking out on what viewers could expect from the episode, it seems there could be tears in store for those watching at home.
He said: “It is very, very dramatic. It is very sad. It is quite sad and poignant is the word.
“You can expect a lot of poignancy from the episode,” Bradley noted.
Bradley entered the world of Doctor Who back in 2018 with Tosin playing his step-grandson.
The characters became consumed in their grief after Graham’s wife Grace (Sharon D Clark) died as a result of being electrocuted and falling from a height.
But after being given the opportunity to travel with The Doctor, they jumped at the chance – but it’s now the time for this to come to an end.
Graham, Yaz and Ryan have been left by The Doctor and are left quite unaware of the extent of what’s happened to her.
“They are very annoyed,” Bradley said, “I think they are more annoyed as they feel like they have been abandoned.
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“I don’t think they realise what predicament the Doctor has been in and I think they are more annoyed and a bit upset that they have been sort of left alone.
“I think what is happening as well is that they are becoming slightly more accustomed to their surroundings being back on earth,” added the star.
The special is set to premiere on New Year’s Day and fans were delighted to see the new trailer released on Sunday night to confirm the show’s return.
Captain Jack is heard at the start of the teaser saying: “How many people in the universe get to meet The Doctor? Let alone travel with her.
“Being with The Doctor, you don’t get to choose when it stops, whether you leave her, or she leaves you.”
Yaz, Ryan and Graham can be seen trying to work together in the TARDIS as the threat of the oncoming Daleks takes hold across the world.
However, as they realise just how much The Doctor is missed, the severity of the situation starts to take hold.
Will all the companions get out alive and save the day, or could there be some major upset to come on New Year’s Day?
Doctor Who seasons 1-12 can be streamed on BBC iPlayer.
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Home » World News » Three properties with views of St Michael's Mount for sale for £1.8m
Three properties with views of St Michael's Mount for sale for £1.8m
Rooms with a view: Three properties offering stunning vistas of the iconic St Michael’s Mount off Cornish coast go on market for combined £1.8million
Three properties in the Cornish village of Marazion have been put up for sale for a combined £1.8m
The townhouse and two apartments all have views of the iconic St Michael’s Mount off Cornwall’s coast
St Michael’s Mount is a popular tourist destination and can only be reached at low tide across a causeway
The three addresses belong to one owner and can be bought individually or as a whole property portfolio
A trio of properties that look out over Cornwall’s iconic St Michael’s Mount are on the market for a combined £1.8m.
The three properties in Marazion look out on the tidal causeway that leads to the famous island, topped with a grand National Trust property and ringed by manicured gardens.
The sale includes an impressive townhouse and two apartments in a separate Grade II listed building, all of which have a different view of the mount.
St Michael’s Mount is a tidal island in Cornwall’s Mount’s Bay. The site is popular with tourists who can only access the island when the granite causeway emerges at low tide.
Each property has a spectacular view of the famous island, a former Benedictine monastery that followed the religious order of Mont Saint-Michel and which is twinned with a similar tidal island called Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France.
The ground floor flat at 1 Rhymnet Villas looks directly at the beach, island and the sea from the living room French doors and terrace and is only a stone’s throw from the water.
The three properties are all owned by the same person who bought the townhouse first in 1988 and then both apartments when they came on the market.
The three properties in Marazion on the Cornish coast look out over the tidal causeway that leads to the iconic St Michael’s Mount
The sale includes an impressive townhouse and two apartments in a separate Grade II listed building, all of which have a different view of the mount
The ground floor flat at 1 Rhymnet Villas looks directly at the beach, island and the sea from the living room French doors and terrace
The spacious living room of 2 Rhymney Villa also has views out over the Cornish coastline from the living room window
The living room is spacious enough to hold an organ and is used by the current owners as a music room
As well as for music, the current owners use the flats as accommodation for guests as well as a home office
They use the flats as accommodation for guests as well as a home office and music room, with one of the rooms housing an impressive organ.
The three addresses can be bought individually or as a whole property portfolio, say the current owner.
The two flats are in a Grade II listed building believed to date from about 1880, built by a successful railway engineer from Rhymney in Wales and split about 20 years ago.
They total 2,150 sq ft of living space, with Number 2 the larger flat over the first and second floor.
Number 1 has a semi-open plan living room and kitchen and dining room with an entrance hall, bedroom and bathroom.
The two flats are in a Grade II listed building believed to date from about 1880, built by a successful railway engineer from Rhymney in Wales and split about 20 years ago
Nearby Arley House is also being sold alongside the two flats. It is found in a Grade II listed Georgian and Victorian townhouse
The living areas are filled with period features and eclectic, colourful furniture with the bright windows looking out to sea
The house has about 2,500 sq ft of accommodation with an entrance hall, kitchen or dining room, sitting room and drawing room
The period property in Cornwall also comes with four bedrooms and two bathrooms, in addition to the extra accommodation provided by the two flats
Guy Morse, from estate agents Lillicrap Chilcott, said: ‘The owner has lived in this location for well over 20 years’
Number 2 has a large reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, bedroom and bathroom on the first floor with a 40ft long attic room on the second floor currently used as a home office but could be another bedroom.
Arley House is a Grade II listed Georgian and Victorian townhouse filled with period features.
The house has about 2,500 sq ft of accommodation with an entrance hall, kitchen/dining room, sitting room, drawing room, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
The garden has a raised cobbled terrace with views to St Michael’s Mount between the buildings.
Guy Morse, from estate agents Lillicrap Chilcott, said: ‘The owner has lived in this location for well over 20 years.
‘He bought Arley House originally and when the two apartments became available independently he bought those too.
‘He spent a small fortune making sure everything was perfect. They are unbelievably high quality – he rebuilt the floors and windows so they open out to allow the view to really become part of the room.
Aerial photos of the town show the prime location of the three properties, which look out over the St Michael’s Mount causeway
The two buildings containing the three properties are only a short distance away from one another in Marazion
Arley House also comes with its own garden on the Cornish coastline filled with trees and flowers that can weather the sea air
The proximity of the property to the iconic Mount, which can only be accessed on foot at low tide, is seen from these images
The flats are located just off the town’s main high street, with the flats located just in front of the townhouse
The flats have been used as a holiday let on occasion while the property owner lives mainly in Arley House, the estate agents said
St Michael’s Mount is a popular spot for tourists who visit Cornwall, with the causeway across only revealed at low tide
‘Those flats are the best place for sundown G&Ts in Cornwall. You have uninterruptable views, looking straight as Michael’s Mount and straight down the causeway with the beach either side and you can see the comings and goings of boats.
‘It’s a really special outlook, it is absolutely dead focused on the Mount, it’s almost like looking at a painting.
‘The owner has always lived in Arley House and used the flats as overflow accommodation when guests want to stay, and as a home office and music room.
‘He has done a little bit of holiday letting just to keep the place ticking over.
‘They would make the most incredible holiday lets, being able to take the photographs saying ‘this is where I’m staying’.
‘You have everything on your doorstep and it’s about a minute’s walk before you’re on the causeway. It couldn’t really be any better.’
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Technology briefs
World digital library construction under way
United States and United Nations officials signed an agreement Oct. 17 to cooperate in building a World Digital Library Web site. Officials said the site could be available to the public in late 2008.
Librarian of Congress James Billington proposed the WDL in 2005 after Google donated $3 million for the effort. The Web library will offer digitized versions of materials from around the world at no charge. The collected materials will include manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs.
Under the agreement signed by Billington and Abdul Waheed Khan, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s assistant director for communication and information, the Library of Congress and UNESCO will cooperate in developing guidelines and technical specifications for the project, enlist new partners and secure additional funding.
The two organizations — in conjunction with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina of Alexandria, Egypt; the National Library of Brazil; the National Library of Egypt; the National Library of Russia; and the Russian State Library — developed a test project that they are demonstrating at the UNESCO General Conference.
The test library supports seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Sanders Floats ‘Moratorium on 99 Percent’ of Deportations, Demolition of Border Wall
Senator Bernie Sanders (D., Vt.) on Monday said he may be open to demolishing sections of the U.S.–Mexico border wall, as well as halting 99 percent of deportations.When asked whether he would support tearing down the wall, Sanders responded “I don't know, maybe the answer is yes,” according to the Washington Post's Dave Weigel. “If it's going to cost me billions of dollars to tear it down, maybe the money would be better spent on child care in this country.“The senator then indicated his openness to a moratorium on deportations of illegal immigrants.“If someone has been convicted of a terrible, terrible crime, that might be an exception to the rule,” Sanders said. “A moratorium on 99% of deportations is nothing to sniff at, and I think the undocumented community would be very proud of that.“Sanders, whose presidential campaign has maintained strong fundraising numbers and the backing of a large portion of the Democratic party's progressive base, is currently second in the RealClearPolitics average of polls of the race, eight points behind former vice president Joe Biden.Building the border wall has remained one of President Trump's top priorities since his 2016 campaign, but progress has been slow: Of the 450 miles of barrier he promised to erect by the end of 2020, so far only 101 miles have been completed. The Trump administration has diverted funds from the Pentagon to construct the wall, following House Democrats' refusal to include requested funding in the federal budget. The diversion of Pentagon funds has in turn been met with numerous court challenges. Most recently, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, ruled earlier this month that a lower court's injunction against the unilateral appropriation of funds should be lifted.
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May 5, 2020 3:35PM PT
Learn About Centuries of Shoe History in Bata Museum’s 25th Anniversary Book
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Shoes have increasingly become the center of attention when it comes to fashion, from Christian Louboutin’s now iconic red soles to limited-edition Air Jordans. Chronicling the history of footwear dating back nearly 5,000 years is the Bata Shoe Museum, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with today’s release of, “The World at Your Feet: Bata Shoe Museum,” a book telling the story of 100 shoes in its collection.
“Each artifact in the collection has so many things it can reveal to me that every time I turn my attention to one, I am utterly fascinated,” said author Elizabeth Semmelhack, creative director and senior curator of the museum, about the museum founded by Sonja Bata to house a collection she began amassing after World War II through travels with her husband, Thomas Bata, heir to a global shoe manufacturing and retail enterprise.
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Published by Rizzoli, the book retails for $50 and is available online.
“The World at Your Feet: Bata Shoe Museum.”
CREDIT: Courtesy of the Bata Shoe Museum
Here, Semmelhack talks about the most influential periods of footwear history, legendary designers, and the role men’s shoes have played.
Which shoe designers have had the most impact?
Elizabeth Semmelhack: “Going back to the ’30s, Andre Perugia was incredibly important as was Salvatore Ferragamo, and I have a soft spot for Roger Vivier. Having said that, you’d have to go back a little bit further and look at François Pinet who made footwear in the late 19th century. It’s the reason why we celebrate designers such as Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin today. He made it so that a shoe designer could make shoes so elegant that their name would be on the tip of everybody’s tongue. We also have to give a nod to Beth Levine. “
How does the museum secure its archives?
EH: “The collection is now getting close to 15,000 artifacts and [acquire] footwear in a wide range of ways. [For example], something comes up for auction at Christie’s, an antiques dealer who comes across something interesting, to someone who comes in off the street with an amazing family artifact they came across when cleaning. It can be something that’s just come up for sale and we’re interested in purchasing it or have it donated. There’s competition to acquire [shoes] since there are not only standalone museums interested in footwear, but The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other costume collections that rightfully need footwear.”
Who are among the celebrities, past and present, that have had a strong influence in shoe fashion?
EH: “Think of Carmen Miranda [’30s to ’50s] and her platform shoes. She was famous for her footwear [style] and her shoe collection. She was an early example of media promoting this idea of women and their love of footwear.”
Have men had an interest in shoes over time?
EH: “One of the challenges in the collection of historical men’s footwear is that during the 18th century, the age of Enlightenment, there were ideas that defined masculinity, one [advocating] men didn’t love fashion. [Therefore], footwear wasn’t necessarily kept. Similarly, women’s footwear in the collection tends to be really small, not because there weren’t women with bigger feet, but there were cultural ideals that beautiful women had very small feet and larger footwear was not kept. Museum collections reflect larger cultural biases.”
Who are today’s footwear influencers?
EH: “We have many, many more icons [today]. What’s nice about it, is it means there’s a much larger diversity of who we idolize and we interpret [their style]. This speaks to the fact we’re opening up as a culture. Hollywood in the ‘30s was not very inclusive. While [today] it might seem like a cacophony of too many influencers, it speaks to the fact that we’re not beholden to a single idea of femininity.“
How is footwear indicative of specific periods of time?
EH: “Every time you look at something that was mass consumed, it met some kind of desire of that moment and was very successful. The same thing can happen with movies, books, and any other kind of popular culture. If it is mass consumed, then it reflects and speaks to its time period.”
Sneakers are among the hottest footwear categories. How can more women be brought into that conversation?
EH: “I think that things are opening up and women are being allowed to participate in sneaker culture. But, we do have huge concerns culturally about women and athleticism. For example, we have tons of male athletes who get signature shoes, and men, women and children, want to wear them. But, Serena Williams, who is such a power house and has signature shoes, doesn’t get the same traction. It has much more to do with our larger cultural ideas about femininity and athleticism. These need to be challenged more before women and sneaker culture are allowed to play nicely together.”
As a footwear historian, how do you think people will dress post-COVID-19.
“I think it depends on the length of this event, but I’ve [heard] people say they don’t want to put on their hard pants compared to sweat pants. I think the more we’re at home and get used to being in comfortable clothes, I absolutely see a continuation of that in public life. Or, when we finally get [past] it, I could also see people wanting to have a reason to dress up again. But, you might have to look a certain way at the [workplace], so there will still be a demarcation between fancier dress and pajamas. Maybe there is an opportunity there to redefine street wear in a way that allows it to be professional while also comfortable.
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City votes to rescind short-term rental regulations
Posted: Oct 22, 2018 / 02:12 PM PDT / Updated: Oct 22, 2018 / 07:37 PM PDT
SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego City Council voted 8-1 Monday to rescind an ordinance that placed regulations on short-term rental companies like AirBNB.
City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf, who represents the beach and bay communities in District 2, voted against the repeal, suggesting there's no guarantee that a compromise on a new set of regulations will ever be reached again.
The City Council originally passed the ordinance, 6-3, in July. Short- term rental operators would have been limited to renting primary residences a maximum of 180 days per year and would have had to pay transient occupancy taxes to fund the construction of affordable housing projects. The ordinance also mandated that vacationers stay in short-term rentals for a minimum of three days in coastal areas of the county and downtown San Diego. The regulations would have gone into effect in July 2019.
City Council members have said they plan to craft a new ordinance for short-term rental owners and companies, but no timetable for that has been agreed upon.
District 1 Councilwoman and Council Pro Tem Barbara Bry was the primary author of the measure and yet still voted to rescind it. Bry called it "a sad day for our city," supporting the repeal only because not doing so would tie the city up in two years of litigation until the next election, she said. Bry also chastised Airbnb, which faced accusations of funding signature gatherers who allegedly used manipulative tactics to fill out petitions.
"I'm disappointed that a corporation reportedly valued at $31 billion descended upon our city with its unlimited millions of dollars and used deceptive tactics to force us to where we are today," Bry said. "If this goes to the ballot, this large corporation would largely spend millions of dollars."
“I did it because I believe that waiting two years puts us in a state of limbo and nothing happens,” Bry said. “AirBNB would again use deceptive tactics and spend millions of dollars if this goes on the 2020 ballot."
District 7 City Councilman Scott Sherman spearheaded an effort to qualify a referendum on the ordinance shortly after the Council passed it. In late August, Sherman and a group of short-term rental advocates announced they had collected roughly 62,000 signatures, enough to trigger the referendum. The Council then had the option to repeal the regulations or put them to a public vote, likely in 2020 unless the city called for a special election.
"That's what the referendum process is for," Sherman said. "If a majority of citizens who sign a petition believe that their government passed something that went too far, they have a right to come up and say `we want to vote on this or you guys need to rescind it."'
Susan Adams supported the the council's decision. She said the current regulations are unreasonable and violate her homeowner rights.
“Yeah, this is a relief. Essentially, they banned my ability to either rent my home as a whole home or as individual rooms and takes away from my income,” said Adams. “I do this not as a profit but to be able to keep my home."
However, Gary Wonacott, President of the Mission Beach Town Council, argued that the original regulations were fair.
“I thought what was passed (in July) was a fair compromise. It was not a ban. We had hundreds of vacation rentals that still would’ve been active in Mission Beach with the new rules," Wonacott said.
As a result of Monday's vote, it is back to the drawing board on an issue that has pitted San Diego homeowners against each other for years.
“It’s now a matter of trying to find a new, different set of regulations that AirBNB will accept, but still protects property rights,” said Wonacott.
Repealing the regulations puts the city council back to square one as any future ordinance has to be significantly different in order to be considered.
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Getting Sacked in the Morning
Home Columnist ‘Load Both’ – or a Barrel of Laughs?
‘Load Both’ – or a Barrel of Laughs?
Andrew Misra
Over the last few seasons, there has been a marked rise in the number of professional footballers in England with double-barrelled second names. This season has already seen Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Morgan Gibbs-White hit the headlines. No longer, it seems, are double-barrelled surnames the preserve of ex-Blackpool striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher, or privately educated children with trust funds. Spanish side Athletic Bilbao famously only sign Basque-born players. Twisting this idea as only the English could, here we attempt to compile the finest starting line-up of players with double-barrelled surnames. Double-barrelled surnames are considered to be those comprising two separate words separated by a hyphen. The selectors aim to achieve a balance of experience, potential and team chemistry.
A 4-3-3 formation utilises the strengths of the double-barrelled population, notably the wide players available. The fact that Taylor-Fletcher gets nowhere near this side is testament to that. In goal, there was simply very little choice. Ali Al-Habsi was admittedly a bit unpredictable, but as a mainstay of a Wigan side that bravely fought relegation season after season from 2011-2015, he should not be written off. Throw in 118 international appearances and surely we are off to a good Oman between the sticks.
Again, at centre-half, there is a dearth of candidates. Timothy Fosu-Mensah’s name should reassure fans that he has the brains to apply himself at this level, but his inclusion is ultimately a reluctant one given his clear inexperience. With this in mind, the creative decision is taken to apply the tenacious skills of Nigel Reo-Coker alongside Fosu-Mensah. Reo-Coker was double-barrelling long before it was cool in the England Under-21 squad and his successful transatlantic switch to Major League Soccer displays clear aptitude. This, allied with his natural leadership, earn him the captain’s armband.
It is at fullback where the fun really starts. Afro man Benoit Assou-Ekotto was a consistent and reliable performer at left back for Spurs between 2008 and 2012. His presence ironically allowed Gareth Bale, formerly a left back, to shine so brightly at left wing. A controversial character off the pitch, he described playing football as “just a job”. Harry Redknapp tried to sign him for Birmingham in 2017 but declared the player was more interested in pursuing a career in porn. Assou-Ekotto, then, will bring thrust, exuberance and experience to the left side. At right back, Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold fights off competition from Kyle Walker-Peters. The 20-year-old is very highly regarded on Merseyside and has four international caps to his name already. A fine athlete who appears to have all the tools to succeed at right back, he has technical ability which could see him eventually move into central midfield. He also has a dangerous set-piece delivery in his locker. In Trent, there is clear attacking intent.
Our midfield triumvirate has a bit of everything. Despite falling out of favour recently, James Ward-Prowse has been a key figure in the Saints midfield over the last few seasons, rewarded with a full England call-up in March 2017. A wonderful technician, JWP has real pedigree in dead ball situations and with support from Alexander-Arnold, will be the side’s go-to man on set pieces. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is another product of Southampton who has moved away from his former days as an out-and-out winger. After functioning as a wingback for Arsene Wenger’s oft- dysfunctional side, ‘the Ox’ saw his stock rise in central midfield for Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool. His energy and dribbling ability make him a potent box-to-box weapon.
Eric Djemba-Djemba brings the experience to complete the trio. Regarded as one of the worst Premier League signings ever for his time at Old Trafford, it is easy to forget that this is a man who shone at the 2002 World Cup for Cameroon and was regarded as a potential successor to Roy Keane by Sir Alex Ferguson. Djemba-Djemba is a likely cult hero who will win over the fans, and his aggressive, combative nature will bring steel to the heart of this side. So good they named him twice, remember.
The forward line is one of dynamic wing play stabilised by a robust centre-forward. Colin Kazim-Richards is something of a forgotten man after his early days at Brighton. Now 32 and turning out for Lobos BUAP in Mexico, his experience will be vital. The former Turkish international notched 11 goals in 27 appearances for Feyenoord as recently as 2014-15. Richards will need to weigh in with a similar return rate here. On the opposite flank is Shaun Wright-Phillips. The baby-faced winger was electric in his pomp, with Chelsea shelling out £21 million on him in 2005. An incredibly tricky opponent, SWP should enjoy the freedom he gets out on the right while chipping in with his fair share of assists to support the big man: Hal Robson-Kanu.
A forward who has received his fair share of critics, the selectors themselves do not shy away from the accusation that his inclusion is the reflection of a solitary performance. However, his exquisite goal against Belgium for Wales at Euro 2016 shows that Hal is the man for the big occasion. His presence is one of no-nonsense, encapsulated beautifully by his decision to wear the number 4 shirt at his club side West Bromwich Albion. Robson-Kanu gives the side another dimension, as well as work rate and defensive qualities that will make this side tough to beat.
Line-up (4-3-3): Al-Habsi, Alexander-Arnold, Fosu-Mensah, Reo-Coker (C), Assou-Ekotto, Djemba-Djemba, Ward-Prowse, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wright-Phillips, Kazim-Richards, Robson-Kanu.
Overall, this side is not going to set the world alight, yet it has enough about it to be a tough nut to crack. The potential weaknesses at the centre of defence are compensated for by the thrilling wing play this side can offer, bolstered by an exciting, all-action midfield. Notable absentees from this side are Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Morgan Gibbs-White. All will undoubtedly add quality from the bench, however, experience was preferred over these raw options. All should look to break into the side in the near future. While this side follows a strict double-barrelled surname policy it is worth noting the pedigree carried by the double-barrelled forename market. We’re talking Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Kevin-Prince Boateng, no less. Is this a new era of indecisiveness? Maybe.
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Five foreign words which could get you into a lot of trouble
They seem nice… They seem obvious… They seem friendly… But beware! Words are not always what they seem to be!
False friends are pairs of words and phrases in two languages that look and/or sound familiar, but differ significantly in meaning.
Pesci in Italian may sound like the English peach, but you should never ask for succo di pesci when in Italy. If you do ask a waiter to bring you succo di pesci, don’t be surprised when they all laugh at you, as you just ordered fish juice, not peach juice.
Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, false friends are there to get you in trouble. They may not be as tricky as idioms – or maybe they are – but they can quickly lead to misunderstandings.
These 5 words could get you into a lot of trouble!
1. Gift (German)
My personal favourite is gift. This word brings so much joy to English-speaking people. Who doesn’t like to receive a gift? Well, there’s a whole nation that doesn’t. Actually, there are four (please correct me if I’m wrong in the comments section below): the Germans, the Danish, the Norwegians, and the Swedish. For these the word gift means poison.
To make matters even more complicated, gift in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish means not only poison (noun), but also married (adjective). I wonder if there’s a connection between these meanings.
2. Bombeiro (Portuguese)
It starts with bomb and it has the suffix denoting someone who works with the suffixed noun; it must be a (suicide) bomber, right? Wrong. It’s a fire-fighter. Portuguese fire-fighters work with bombs, but their bombs are those machines for making the water flow in a certain direction. The fire-fighters know how to pump water onto the flames.
3. Кoвёр [kɐˈvʲɵr] (Russian)
It almost sounds like caviar. The most well-known type of caviar, and also the most expensive, is the one from the Beluga sturgeon fish, which mainly lives in the salty Caspian Sea, which is near Russia. It seems perfectly logic to think that Кoвёр [kɐˈvʲɵr] means caviar, so a lot of people fall into this trap. But it actually means carpet or rug. This is a bit disappointing, unless we’re talking about a Persian Кoвёр, that is.
4. Gem (Swedish)
Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, pearls… all these sound so expensive. So why do Swedish people offer gems carelessly on a daily basis? No, they’re not sitting on a gemstone mine, nor they are the richest nation of the world. For them, gem is a paper clip. Everybody offers paper clips carelessly.
5. Librairie (French)
Since the English language was considerably affected by the French language for almost 300 years, I just had to include a faux ami in this list. Even though the French librairie and the English library share a certain passion for books, you can’t take a book out of a librairie without paying for it first – because it is a book shop.
Don’t try this abroad!
You’ll find even more ‘false friends’ on this post from the Telegraph.
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Does Mullah Omar's Death Give Pakistan The Upper Hand?
By Zafar Shah Rouyee
Supporters of Jamiat Nazariyati pray for late Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar in Quetta, Pakistan.
Official confirmations of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar have generated a vibrant media discussion about the future of the Taliban and the country's security situation.
On July 29 President Ashraf Ghani confirmed that Mullah Omar died in April 2013 in Pakistan. The president's claim contradicted an earlier statement issued under Mullah Omar's name three days after the Eid holiday that asserted that accomplishing a goal through political activities is legitimate in Islam. This was a divergence from Mullah Omar's long-held belief that the Taliban's grievances could only be addressed through military means.
"Mullah Muhammad Omar's death will weaken the Taliban, and they will divide into several factions. Although Pakistan’s intelligence agency lays out goals and objectives for the Taliban, Mullah Omar with his mysterious life played a major role in unifying the Taliban," Mohammadullah Babrak, an expert on political affairs, said in a roundtable discussion on Tolo News.
Wahid Mozdah, an expert on political affairs, said Mullah Omar’s death will exacerbate the activities of the Islamic State (IS) in the region. Some Taliban will rise in revenge for the death of Mullah Omar, and some will join IS, he added.
Mozdah, a diplomat under the Taliban regime, added that conflicts over Taliban leadership will escalate. Fifteen hundred clerics appointed Mullah Omar as the leader of the righteous, Mozdah said. Now, the Taliban doesn't have anyone to replace him.
Botched Negotiations
Meanwhile, Abdul Qayoom Sajjadi, a member of the House of Representatives of Afghanistan, participated in a roundtable on Ariana News TV where he described the news of Mullah Omar's death as questionably timed, as it emerged just when peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban were intensifying.
Sajjadi accused Pakistan of using Mullah Omar’s death to derail the Afghan government's peace talks with the Taliban.
Liaqat Ali Amini, an expert on political affairs, said Pakistan would benefit from confirming Mullah Omar's demise: "In the negotiations, the Taliban will pay more attention to the demands of Pakistan. On the other hand, Pakistan will see the emergence of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq as beneficial for its military policies in the region."
"With Mullah Muhammad Omar’s death, the government of Afghanistan will become more optimistic about the peace process, thinking the Taliban will fight one another and some will join the government," Nazar Muhammad Mutmaen, an expert on political affairs and a former Taliban official, said on One TV.
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Pakistan Election Rally Bombing Death Toll Climbs To 20
July 10, 2018 update July 11, 2018
By Radio Mashaal
FILE: The explosion took place as Haroon Bilour (L), the party's candidate for a provincial assembly, was arriving for a party meeting.
The death toll from a suicide bombing at an election rally claimed by the Pakistani Taliban has climbed to 20.
A suicide bomber attacked a crowd waiting for an election rally organized by the Awami National Party (ANP) in the northwestern city of Peshawar on July 10.
Mohammad Khurasani, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said in a July 11 statement that the group had targeted the ANP in an attack that killed Haroon Ahmed Bilour, a candidate for a seat in the provincial legislature. Another 65 people were wounded.
Militants have attacked the secular, ethnic Pashtun-dominated ANP in the past over its opposition to the Taliban and similar extremist groups.
Bilour's father, Bashir Ahmed Bilour, was killed by a suicide bomber in 2012.
The bombing came hours after Major General Asif Ghafoor, an army spokesman, warned of security threats ahead of national elections scheduled for July 25.
Ghafoor said the army would deploy more than 370,000 security forces to polling stations to ensure free and fair elections.
Based on reporting by AP and AFP
Radio Mashaal
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The Castaway Hotel: Next Generation Book 2 - 39. Spreading Their Wings
The following week passed by quickly, since Brandon and I were busy taking the boys to their practices and games, as well as muddling through our normal routines. Elliot spent most of his time with Ian, while Noah was hanging out with Adam. Noah had also asked Adam's parents to join us for the cookout, but they didn't give him an immediate reply. They said they'd talk it over and then let him know later.
Since Adam was at our house one night when we got home from work, I decided to ask him about his father. "Adam, I was wondering what your father does for a living?"
"He's a supervisor at the D.O.T."
"I see. Does he in work in the driver and vehicle section, or the highway group?"
"He's in charge of the guys that do the road work."
"Ok, I just wanted to know before they came to the cookout, because I thought it might give us something to talk about. Have they decided if they're going to join us yet?"
"Nah. I think Dad wants to, but Mom is letting her hang ups get in the way."
"Did you tell her that no one from our family or any of our friends would stare or saying anything while she was here?"
"I told her some of it, but I didn't want her to know that you guys all knew about her problem yet. I thought she might decide to stay home if she found out about that."
"Well, keep working on her, as we still have a couple of weeks before we get together. Maybe you could share some of this information with your dad and see if he can find a way to use it to get her to come."
"Ok, I'll try that."
Since Ryan was staying over at Owen's house this weekend, I didn't get a chance to find out where Owen's dad worked, but I still had time to do that too. I wasn't about to press the issue or push the panic button just yet, as long as we were able to discover the information before we all got together.
The following Wednesday we all went to see Ryan's team play Owen's team again. I think both boys were more intent on winning this game than any of the others, especially Ryan, since Owen's team had won the first match up. Owen was apparently hoping to make it a clean sweep, while Ryan wanted to even the record. I had never seen either of them quite this determined before, so I hoped it didn't result in a problem when the game ended.
Both teams played well and both boys were doing better than they had all season, so we were all extremely proud of them. The lead had changed several times over the first five innings, and the score was tied when Ryan came to the plate as the leadoff batter in the bottom of the sixth. He looked determined and I knew he wanted to get a hit, but the second pitch was wild and struck him in the side, putting him on first base. As he was trotting down the baseline, I saw him looking out to right field, and then he either said something or made some sort of a signal to Owen as he stepped on the bag. I wasn't sure what it was about, but I saw Owen shake his head vigorously before Ryan turned toward home plate and concentrated on the game again.
The next batter laid down a bunt toward third, but it was fielded by the pitcher and he tried to get Ryan out at second, rather than taking the easier out at first. Ryan had managed to get a decent lead before the pitch was delivered, and then he started running as soon as the ball left the pitcher's hand. Since he was also fairly fast, he was able to slide into second well ahead of the throw, which put runners on first and second with no outs. As I looked out at Owen, I could tell he was upset that his team had failed to record an out, but surprisingly he still smiled and gave Ryan a 'thumbs up' signal when he saw Ryan looking in his direction. I think he was letting Ryan know that he was happy he'd done well, even if it was to his team's detriment.
The next boy up laid down another bunt, but this time the third baseman fielded the ball. Since there wasn't much of a chance to get Ryan out at third, the boy threw the runner out at first instead. Now, there were runners on second and third with only one out, when there probably should have been two outs and just a runner at third.
The following batter stepped to the plate and hit a long fly ball to the outfield. The center fielder was able to run it down and make the catch, but he wasn't able to throw Ryan out as he tagged up and dashed to the plate. He scored easily, putting his team ahead by a run, but that would have been the third out if the pitcher had taken the out at first earlier, rather than trying to get Ryan at second.
After the third out was made, Ryan's team went out to their positions again, ready to protect their lead. They were able to prevent Owen's team from scoring and ended up winning the game. As soon as it was over, Ryan came running up to us with a huge grin plastered across his face. After we congratulated him, we went over to chat with Owen and his parents.
"Ok, we're even now," Owen conceded as we approached. "Our teams each won one of the games we played against each other, so I guess we'll have to wait 'til next year now."
"Yeah, but I hope next year we'll be playing on the same team," Ryan added.
"Yeah, I'd love playing on the same team with you," Owen agreed.
"If you don't mind the interruption, I'm curious to know what went on between you two when Ryan got on base the last time?" I announced as I looked from one face to the other. "I saw you doing something, and then Owen shook his head, so what was that all about?"
"I just asked him if he told his pitcher to throw the ball at me," Ryan admitted before giggling.
"I probably should have, but I didn't," Owen joked in return.
After saying goodbye to Owen and his parents, after we told Owen we'd see him on the weekend. We also reminded his parents that we'd see them at the cookout the weekend after that, which prompted Terri to respond. "We're looking forward to it. Can we bring anything?"
"Just yourselves and a healthy appetite," Dad responded before I could.
Benny and Joshie had a practice the following night and a game on Friday, which was their last game too. It appeared as if things might calm down a bit after that, at least until school started again, and we were looking forward to being able to catch our breath.
Benny and Joshie were really psyched for the game, although they were also slightly disappointed that their season would be over after this game. They both played hard and did quite well, but they lost. Their team ended the season above .500, though, so they weren't too upset, but I'm sure they still would have liked to win their final game.
Terri dropped Owen off at the house after we got home from the game, and once we were inside, I decided to ask Owen a question. "Owen, where does you father work?"
"At Sun Trust."
"Oh, what does he do there?"
"He's the manager of the local branch office. Why?"
"I was just curious, since I wasn't sure what he did."
"Oh, ok," he replied, and then he moved a little closer so he could whisper something to me. "Ryan said he told you about what I wanted to do, so will it be ok if we try doing it tonight?"
I was hoping he'd forgotten about this, but I should have known better. Since I didn't want anyone else to hear what we were talking about, I pulled him away from the others.
"Look, let me ask you some questions first. Have you ever tried putting anything up there?" He immediately blushed, while at the same time his head drooped slightly toward his chest and swayed slightly from side to side until he answered.
"Uh huh," was his very brief and timid reply. I understood he was slightly embarrassed, but I wanted to know this information.
"So what things have you used when doing this?"
He hesitated for a few seconds before he looked at me and answered. "A magic marker, a big one, not one like a pen, and I've used the handle of a hair brush and a small flashlight too."
"Did you use anything to make those things slide in easier?"
"Yeah, I put some baby oil in my butt first, before I used any of them."
"And did you have any problems when doing that?"
"Nope. I even liked doin' it and thought it felt good. That's why I want to see what it's like when Ryan does it to me."
"He's a little bigger than any of those items you've mentioned."
"Not much bigger, so I don't think I'll have a problem with him doin' it to me either."
"I have to admit that you've done more already than I'd expected, but I'm still worried about you boys trying this. You're both still quite young and there will be plenty of time to do this later, so maybe you should just stick to the things you've been doing."
"But I'm ready to do this - I know I am - and I want Ryan to do it to me. I won't ask to do it to him, cuz I know he's not gay and doesn't want to try it, but please let him do it to me." I thought about this for a few seconds before I answered.
"You're absolutely sure then?"
"Yep. Totally."
"Ok, just let me get some lube for you boys to use then. Go get Ryan and I'll meet you up in his room in a few minutes," I told him.
I then went to my bedroom and retrieved the container of Glide before heading up to Ryan's room. While I was there, I wanted to tell both of them a few more things, before I allowed them to do this.
"Ryan, I want you to put some of this on your penis before you do this, but first I want you to put some of this on your index finger and then slide it back and forth in Owen's rectum. After you have done that for a while, I want you to lube up your index and middle fingers and then insert them at the same time so you can repeat what you just did with one finger."
"Ewww, that sounds gross!" Ryan complained.
"Wait! Stop and think about this for a moment. You've been teasing me to let you put your penis in there, so why do you think it's gross to put your fingers in there?" He looked at me pensively for a few seconds.
"Yeah, I guess I never thought about that. Ok, I'll do it then."
"Owen, after Ryan loosens you up, you might want to suck his penis and get it good and hard before he puts any lube on it. Then, when you're ready, it will be easier if you get on all fours and let Ryan enter you from behind.
"Ryan, I want you to add more lube to Owen's rectum and your penis once he's in position, and then take your time inserting your penis. Don't just ram it in. Take it slowly, and Owen you might want to push out slightly with your anal muscles, because that will make it easier for Ryan to slip inside."
"K, we'll do that."
"Just stop if there are any problems or if Owen feels any pain. Ryan, since you're the one inserting your penis, you'll need to be considerate about how it's affecting your partner, because you'll want him to enjoy this as well. That's why you don't want to just shove it in and possibly hurt him or do damage." It was obvious Ryan understood what I was saying, since that had happened to him with the trucker, and then both boys looked at each other and back at me before nodding their understanding. "If you have any questions, I'll be waiting in my bedroom until you're done."
"Thanks for letting us do this," Owen said as I was leaving the room.
I then found Brandon and explained the situation to him next, and then we both sat down on the bed and waited to see if the boys needed anything. Before long, they both came bursting in the room, still totally naked and with huge grins on their faces.
"It didn't hurt at all and I really liked doin' it," Owen gushed.
"And I slid my dick in and out of him until I shot my stuff in his butt."
"It obviously didn't take very long, but I'm glad it worked out and you both enjoyed it."
"So can we do that from now on?" Owen wanted to know.
"I don't think you'll need to do it every time you want to get off, because there are other things you can do that will accomplish the same results. I suppose we could allow you to do it once each time you're here, and I'll even let Ryan keep the lube in his room so you'll have it to use."
Brandon and I then walked the boys up to Ryan's room and tucked them in. I had no idea how long it was going to take for them to fall asleep, because they were still caught up in the euphoria of having tried anal sex for the first time.
The following morning, Ryan and Owen were still all smiles as they sat down at the table to have breakfast with the rest of us. Brandon and I noticed this, although everyone else seemed to be oblivious to their current, upbeat mood.
After they finished eating, the boys went to play video games for awhile, and then they came out to ask if they could go in the pool. We all agreed it would be fine, but none of us went out with them this time. They were all capable swimmers, so we let them do it on their own. A little while later, Ryan came in and asked to speak with me alone.
"I told Owen I needed to pee, but I came back so I could ask you a question. I know he's not pushin' for me to do the same thing he did, but I can tell he wants to try doin' it too. Do you think I should do it for him?"
"Ryan, that's up to you, but I'm really surprised you're even considering it, especially after what you went through."
"I know, but he really seemed to enjoy having me do it to him, and he's a lot smaller than the guy who did it to me before, so I thought maybe I should give it a try. I just want to do it for Owen, so he can see what it's like too."
"I'm pleased that you're willing to consider his feelings too, but are you sure you're ready to do this?"
"I think so, cuz I want him to be happy too. I'm afraid if I don't do it, then he'll want to find someone else to do it with, and then he might start doin' everything with that other person, and not with me any more."
"I suppose it's possible that might happen, but if you're not gay, then why would you care if he does that with someone else?"
"Cuz I like what he does to me and how it feels, so I don't want him to stop. He makes me feel really good, so I want to keep doin' those things with him."
"I can't see him stopping completely, even if he does find someone else to do that with."
"Maybe, but I still think I should do this for him. That way he won't have to think about doin' stuff with no one else."
"It's up to you, but if you decide to do this, then you should have him try using other things on you first, like he did to himself. If you really want to do this, then I've got some items you can use to get ready, but I also want to talk to you about some other issues as well. Ok?"
"Yeah, ok, but why do I need to do this? I've already had something up there before."
"Yes, and you said it hurt like hell, so I want you to be ready this time. Besides, that was quite a while ago and I'm sure your opening has adjusted back to its normal size since then."
"K, I'll talk to Owen about this later then and see what he thinks."
"Ok, just promise you'll let me talk to you again before you try anything."
"K, I promise."
Ryan then took off before the others figured out he was doing more than just using the toilet. However, when the boys came inside later, he and Owen came over to see me, rather than going to the family room with the other boys.
"We're coming to you, just like you said," Ryan began.
"Ok, follow me up to my bedroom."
When we got there, I had them sit on the bed while I retrieved a few things. When I came back, I had several additional items with me. "These are called dildos, and as you can see they come in different sizes. Since Ryan wants to do this and hasn't prepared himself like you did, I want you to use the smallest one on him first, and then work your way up through the larger ones. Just promise that you'll stop if Ryan feels any pain."
"K, but where did you get these?" Ryan wanted to know.
"Let's just say that you're living in a household that has had many gays, so these are toys we've had to play with."
"Are they clean then?" Owen asked, making a face.
"Yes, and I'll show you why." I then pulled out a small box of condoms and a tube of lube. "We always put one of these over the dildo before we used it, to keep it clean for everyone else. I'll show you how to put one of them on the dildo, but you'll also be using them on yourselves, if you start doing things like this with anyone else. Once the condom is in place, just add some lube to it and you'll be ready."
"But we didn't use one of those when Ryan did it to me," Owen stated wide-eyed.
"As long as you aren't doing things with anyone else, then it should be all right to do it without one. However, if either of you start messing around with other boys or girls, then these will become necessary."
I then showed them how to properly slip the condom on the dildo, while making sure they also realized it was the same procedure they would use when putting one on themselves. Once I was certain they understood, I let them go up to Ryan's room carrying the items I'd just given them.
When they came downstairs again before dinner, I didn't notice anything unusual about them, so maybe they hadn't tried doing anything after all. If they had, it must have gone well, because I didn't notice Ryan walking funny, but I was convinced they'd let me know about whatever went on later. At least I hoped they would.
After we ate, I decided to take the boys out for a walk. Benny, Ryan, and Owen hadn't been given a tour of the property yet, and there were still a couple of hours left before it would start getting dark, so I asked if they wanted to do this. After they all agreed, I had them dress appropriately first, because I didn't want them to get scratched up by the briars we might encounter while we were out there.
It was a nice outing and I pointed out several features to them as we circled around the property before returning to the house. It was something different from the things we normally did, and I think the boys enjoyed spending time outdoors and getting to see how much land we owned. When we got back to the house, I sent them all up to take their showers, while I sat down to talk with Brandon and the others.
"Did you show them the ravine?" Dad asked.
"No, I stayed away from there, but I'll do that another time. The daylight was starting to fade when we got near there, so I felt it would be better to do it when the sun was brighter and they could see the ravine clearly."
"So none of them complained that doing it was boring?" Trey followed, as he flashed me a sly grin.
"No, surprisingly they didn't. They were actually very good about it."
As soon as we heard the boys finishing up, we gave them a few more minutes before we went upstairs to tuck them in. When we got to Ryan's room, Owen had something to tell us.
"When we left your bedroom and came upstairs, I told Ryan he didn't have to do it, but he wanted to try, so we used the dildos you gave us. I put each one up his butt, and he was ok with it."
"And how did you feel about it while he was putting those things in you?" I asked Ryan directly.
"It was ok and it didn't hurt at all, so I think I'm ready now."
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yeah, I want to do it for Owen."
"Ok, just heed the same warnings I gave you last night and stop if there's any pain at all. We'll wait in our bedroom again, if either of you needs anything."
"Ok, and thanks for letting us do this."
Brandon questioned me about this, once we got to our room. "Do you really think this is a good idea, after what Ryan has been through?"
"Yes, because he wants to do it. Since they used the dildos to get him ready, and seeing he didn't have any problems with those items, I felt we should let him give it a try."
"So you don't think his being raped will make it difficult for him or cause him to mentally balk?"
"There wasn't much scarring around his rectum from when it happened to him, and he hasn't had any problems with bowel movements, so I think he'll be fine physically. He also has expressed a desire to try this, so I doubt he'll change his mind in the middle of things, but we'll wait here, just in case. I don't expect any problems, though."
"Ok, you're the doctor, so it's your call."
We hadn't sat there for very long after we'd finished talking when two naked boys came bursting into the room. "I did it and it didn't hurt at all," Ryan boasted.
"Yeah, he didn't have any problems and I really liked doin' it to him. I liked it a lot."
"How about you? Did you enjoy it too, Ryan?"
"Not like I did last night, but it was ok. I didn't mind doin' it for Owen, since he did it for me."
"As long as you're both ok with it, and I'm glad neither of you experienced any pain."
"Maybe there was a little, but not very much," Ryan admitted, as we walked them up to his room. After tucking them in, we went to our bedroom again.
"I'm glad it went well," Brandon said after we shut the door.
"Yes, they both seem happy and neither one had any problems."
"But does it mean they're going to be doing this all the time from now on?"
"I told them I thought doing it once each time Owen stayed over should be enough for now, and they could satisfy any other needs by doing the things they'd been doing before."
"Ok, I just hope they stick to that."
When we were getting ready for church the next morning, I was curious to see if Ryan or Owen would have any qualms about joining us today, after the things they'd done over the weekend. Neither of them seemed fazed in the slightest, though, as we walked to the main entrance of the church and separated to go to our Sunday school classes.
When we all met up again for the service later, Owen made sure he sat beside me. I wasn't sure why he did this, because he didn't say anything, although I hoped he'd explain it to me when we got to the house. I wanted to know if there was a particular reason he had done this, or if it was purely coincidental.
After church, we went out for brunch before going home. As soon as we reached the house, the boys began asking if they could go swimming.
"I don't have a problem with that," I agreed.
"But we want you guys to do it with us this time," Owen insisted as he looked at the rest of us hopefully.
"Ok, I'll go in the pool with you then," I agreed.
"And so will I," Brandon added.
Before long, everyone had agreed to take a dip in the pool too. This time we went to our rooms to undress first, and then we carried the clothes we were going to put on afterward when we came downstairs again. At least that's what the adults did. The boys all paraded downstairs totally bare-ass, as we headed toward the backdoor.
"Thanks for doing this with us," Owen said as we were walking toward the pool.
"It's not a problem, and I know how much you enjoy seeing the rest of us like this too."
"Yep, especially you. I'm really happy you let Ryan and me do those things we wanted to try."
"I'm sure the others would have let you do it too, but since I'm the doctor, they leave those decisions to me."
"I'm gonna have my mom start bringing me to see you when I get sick or need a doctor from now on. You can even give me a physical."
"Well, I've seen everything already, so I'm sure you won't have a problem with anything I'll need to do."
We spent about an hour in the pool with the boys, and then the rest of us got out, dried off, and returned to the house. Most of the boys stayed in the pool, and we didn't have a problem with that, but Wyatt was getting tired. So Dion and Trey made him come inside with us.
When the boys came in around 3:00, I asked Owen if he was ready to go home. "Uh, me and Ryan want to go up to his room and do something first," he replied, before the two of them darted up the stairs.
I didn't question what they were up to, but after we'd dropped Owen off at his house, I decided to ask Ryan about it. "Owen wanted me to do it to him again before he went home."
"Just don't overdo it and start acting like a couple of horny newlyweds."
"Ok, we won't."
"So you were ok when he did it to you?"
"Yeah, it wasn't anything like when the other guy did it to me. Owen was really gentle and kept asking if I was ok. I thought it might bother me once he started, but I didn't mind it at all."
"If you thought it might bother you, then why did you want to do it with him?"
"I told ya. I don't want him to start messin' around with no one else."
"So you were willing to do something you didn't really want to do, plus you were willing to possibly endure some pain so Owen wouldn't find someone else?"
"That was part of it, but I wanted to do it for him cuz he was letting me do it to him. I didn't think it would hurt like it did with the other guy, so I wasn't too worried, but I just wondered if I'd feel bad afterward, cuz I'm not gay. I never even thought about that when we was doin' it, though, and it even felt kinda good. It doesn't mean I'm gay, just that I don't mind doin' it with Owen."
"Would you have a problem if it turned out that you were gay?"
"Not really, it's just that I don't want to have more problems like I had with those other boys. I still want to try stuff with a girl too, but I don't mind doin' this with Owen."
"Ok, and that's fine. There are other guys that don't mind doing those types of things with either sex as well, which means they are bisexual."
"Yeah, maybe I'm one of them, then."
"You might be, but you're young and are still trying to figure things out, so there's no need to label yourself. What you should be aware of, though, is how you feel about the other person. Do you have feelings of love for him or her, or does he or she feel that way about you? Are you doing this because you really care about each other, or is it just for the good feelings you get from having sex. That's what will decide if you're gay, straight, or bisexual."
Great chapter Bill. Ryan and Owen seemed to have taken a big step. Keep up the awesome writing!
Thanks, Dahawk. It may have surprised some that Ryan was doing this, but he doesn't feel forced or pressured, and he made up his own mind.
6 hours ago, tor200534 said:
Great chapter Bill, I like the way you are building the relationship between Owen and Ryan.
Thanks, Jon. The two characters just seemed to come together and hit it off.
i think Ryan and Owen have some Butterflies in the stomach. Another great Chapter Bill, Thank you.
24 minutes ago, Stix said:
Don't we all the first time? I'm sure they'll get over it. Thanks for the feedback, Stix.
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‘The Happytime Murders’ Movie Review
‘The Happytime Murders’ (2018)
The Jim Henson Company
Directed by: Brian Henson
Written by: Todd Berger & Dee Austin Robertson
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale, Leslie David Edwards & Bill Barretta.
‘The Happytime Murders‘ hit theaters this weekend. On paper, this film has a lot going for it – a raunchy comedy where live actors and puppets share the screen, a solid cast including Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale & Leslie David Baker, directed by Brian Henson, produced by Henson Alternative, etc. Unfortunately, the movie just doesn’t deliver on it’s potential. The story follows former puppet cop turned P.I. Phil Phillips (voiced by actor Bill Barretta) who is brought in to consult on a case where cast members of a former TV show called ‘Happytime’ are being killed off one-by-one. He’s paired again with his former partner Detective Connie Edwards (McCarthy) who no longer gets along with Phillips after she was wounded back when they were partners and blames Phillips for the whole debacle. The film has trouble deciding whether or not it wants to be a noir crime piece or a buddy-cop movie and, perhaps as a result, fails to achieve either. There are laughs to be had but only because of the over-the-top puppet exploitation (if that’s even a thing?), some fairly ludicrous scenarios involving puppet vs human violence as well as what can only be described as puppet porn.
The real-life actors try their best, but they all seem to be either under obligation to knock out this film or just plain weary of being there. Elizabeth Banks truly commits to her part and Maya Rudolph shines the brightest out of the cast but the plot is so threadbare that it hardly seems to matter. In fact, in a world where puppets can be cops and McCarthy has the liver of a puppet, I found myself bothered by details like “How can McHale’s FBI agent status allow him to relieve an LAPD Detective of her badge?!?!”. Yeah… the plot is that bad! ‘The Happytime Murders’ fails to achieve the same level of ludicrous fun that ‘Team America: World Police‘ gave us nearly 15 years ago and isn’t nearly as clever as ‘Avenue Q‘ in terms of funny puppet raunch. If you are desperate for a new film to see this weekend and don’t plan to bring the kids, then maybe this one will be for you. Otherwise, I’d recommend waiting until this movie hits Redbox or possibly skipping it altogether. On a scale of 1 – 10, there just isn’t enough stuffing to give this film anything more than a 3.5.
‘Christopher Robin’ Movie Review
‘Christopher Robin’ (2018)
Directed by: Marc Forster
Written by: Alex Ross Perry & Allison Schroeder
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett, Bronte Carmichael, Peter Capaldi, Toby Jones * Sophie Okonedo
Winnie-The-Pooh has been around for just over 90 years. In that time, we’ve gotten theatrical versions, radio broadcasts, animated specials and more. However, for all of the media and formats I’ve seen, none of them has been filled with as much heart and beauty as the new live action film ‘Christopher Robin‘ which hits theaters this coming weekend. The film opens with young Christopher Robin spending time with Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger & Company in the 100 Acre Woods for the last time before he heads off to boarding school. Through a series of scenes, we see Christopher grow up, lose his father, meet a girl, fall in love, go off to war and come home to settle into the grind of a daily job and raising a family. Through it all, Pooh wonders when he might see Christopher Robin again and, upon being unable to find his friends in the woods, he sets off on his own to look for Christopher Robin in London to enlist his help.
The plot is predictable to the point of cliche BUT…. not only is that my only real complaint, it is an issue that is easily brushed aside given the ridiculously talented cast and the gorgeous cinematography. Watching this film makes you feel as if you are being read the very best story ever by a loving, trusted parent. The voice acting of Jim Cummings as Winnie-The-Pooh is emotionally rich with every slight vocal inflection. Brad Garrett perfectly captures Eeyore’s patented ennui, Nick Mohammed does a great job of fretting as Piglet and Peter Capaldi‘s high-strung Rabbit is also spot-on. The live-action cast is not to be outdone by their voice acting counterparts. Ewan McGregor has never been anything less than phenomenal in anything he’s ever done and Hayley Atwell always lights up the screen be it big or small (although I would have liked to have seen more of her as her character didn’t have a great amount to do in this film). Their on-screen daughter, Madeline (played by Bronte Carmichael), is certainly a star on-the-rise and turns out an excellent performance here.
The cinematography is divine and beautiful and intimately draws you into the narrative. Director Marc Foster has outdone himself with this delightfully charming film that will no doubt bring joy to children of all ages. I give ‘Christopher Robin’ a very solid 8 out of 10. Whether you’re a long time Winnie-The-Pooh fan or even if you’re new to Pooh, I would highly recommend adding this film to your “must-see” list at a theater near you!! Just remember that it’s BYOH. (Bring Your Own Honey)
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The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country
Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West, New York, The Free Press, January 1, 2000
ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL PROFILES OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICANS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr. King or Thurgood Marshall, we would be deprived of political breakthroughs that affirm and strengthen our democracy. Here, two of the leading African-American scholars of our day, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West, show us why the twentieth century was the African-American century, as they offer their personal picks of the African-American figures who did the most to shape our world.
This colorful collection of personalities includes much-loved figures such as scientist George Washington Carver, contemporary favorites such as comedian Richard Pryor and novelist Alice Walker, and even less-well-known people such as aviator Bessie Coleman. Gates and West also recognize the achievements of controversial figures such as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and rap artist Tupac Shakur. Lively, accessible, and illustrated throughout, The African-American Century is a celebration of black achievement and a tribute to the black struggle for freedom in America that will inspire readers for years to come.
Black Jewish novelist Walter Mosley honored with National Book Foundation’s lifetime achievement award
Finally, Jewish kids’ books are starting to reflect the diversity of Judaism
Iconic Black Jewish Writer Julius Lester Should Be on Every Parent’s Radar
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Israel striker boycotts national team in hopes of getting citizenship
Staff Writer, The Associated Press, February 14, 2007
JERUSALEM: Toto Tamuz wants to be an Israeli citizen, and he’s going to withhold his soccer talents from the country’s national team until he becomes one.
Tamuz, who was raised in Israel and speaks fluent Hebrew, is the son of illegal Nigerian immigrants. But he has become famous in the Middle Eastern country because of his soccer skills, which have made him the top scorer in the Israeli league and a member of the national team.
The only thing the 18-year-old striker is missing is a passport.
“As someone who represents the country with pride, I’d like to get the same treatment from the country,” Tamuz said before meeting his lawyers, who are taking his case to the Israeli Supreme Court.
“I’m not willing to compromise on the basic issues. I want to be recognized as an Israeli, like everyone else.”
Tamuz, who has fought a lengthy and unsuccessful bureaucratic battle to win citizenship, had been able to represent Israel because of his temporary residency status. But that has expired, and he rejected a two-year extension offer because he wants citizenship.
The Beitar Jerusalem forward began his strike from the national team last week by skipping a friendly against Ukraine.
Israel’s hopes of qualifying for the 2008 European Championship — the team came within a point of reaching last year’s World Cup — could rest on the Supreme Court’s decision. No date has been set for the ruling.
Until just over a year ago, Tamuz was illegal. On Dec. 27, 2005, he was given the residency permit that allowed him to play on the national team. Tamuz does not have Nigerian citizenship and does not seek it.
The story of the black player raised in Israel has captivated the imagination of the country. His teammates and coaches have pleaded with authorities on his behalf and private petitions to grant him citizenship circulate on the Internet.
“He is a player with a lot of speed and power. He has the potential to reach Europe,” former Israel coach Shlomo Sharf said. “But regardless of whether he is a soccer player, he should get citizenship. He is Israeli. He’s been here almost his entire life and he knows no other country.”
Tamuz was 2 years old when he arrived in Israel from Nigeria with his biological parents.
His father, Clement Temile, played for a local soccer club, but when the family encountered financial difficulties, Tamuz was placed in the care of one of his dad’s Israeli teammates. Tamuz’s parents lingered in Israel for years, working illegally at odd jobs, before leaving.
His parents only attempted to renew contact following Tamuz’s rise through the ranks of Israeli soccer, but he has rejected the gestures.
When he was 8, Tamuz moved in with Orit Tamuz, a single Israeli woman whom he calls his mother. Though Tamuz declined to say exactly how he met the woman, she never formally adopted him but she raised him, put him through school and he took her family name.
Within a few years, Tamuz emerged as a huge soccer talent in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, and quickly moved into Israel’s top division.
Orit Tamuz declined to comment until the Supreme Court case is resolved.
Tamuz was Hapoel Petah Tikva’s leading scorer last year, finishing fifth in the league with 11 goals in his first season in the top league. He was also the star player on Israel’s under-19 and under-21 teams, leading the latter to a berth in this year’s European championship.
Now with Beitar Jerusalem, Israel’s most famous club, Tamuz has only gotten better. Last week, he scored two dazzling goals to help his first-place team beat three-time defending champion Maccabi Haifa. He leads the league with 10 goals.
With the national team, Tamuz scored a goal in a 4-1 win over visiting Andorra in September, and a month later in a European Championship qualifier he set up the equalizer in a 1-1 draw at Russia.
Israel, which is tied for third place in Group E with England, faces the English team on March 24, and Tamuz hopes his ordeal will be resolved by then.
“Playing against England would be one of the greatest moments of my life,” he said.
But that will depend on the Supreme Court. On Monday, Israel’s Interior Ministry rejected a final appeal from Tamuz.
“The fact that the plaintiff is a known and promising soccer player who played for the national team does not grant him privileges in attaining Israeli citizenship,” the government said.
Israel has tens of thousands of illegal African workers, many of whom are married and have children, and the government is wary of setting a precedent in the case of Tamuz.
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Hadad declined to comment on the case, citing the pending court ruling. But regardless of the outcome, she said there was no chance Tamuz would be deported.
Tamuz’s lawyer, Maxim Lipkin, said the striker is being discriminated against because he is a celebrity.
“If he was anyone else, this would not be a problem,” Lipkin said.
Despite his unusual upbringing, Tamuz said the first time in his life where he felt “different” was when his friends were drafted into the army — which is compulsory for most Israeli citizens.
The court’s decision could give the country a new soldier, and a chance to qualify for Euro 2008.
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Jersey Poet Laureate Unrepentant
Julia Goldman, The Jewish Week, September 27, 2002
Newark, N.J. — Controversial New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka, whose recent poem “Somebody Blew Up America” suggested that Israel knew in advance about the Sept. 11 terror attacks, blasted his Jewish critics Wednesday, calling the Anti-Defamation League “the voice of imperialism.”
Baraka is refusing to resign his post despite calls from New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey that he step down, adding Wednesday, “I will not apologize.”
ADL national director Abraham Foxman said he planned to meet with McGreevey on Wednesday night and would urge the governor to explore all legal options for Baraka’s ouster. In the meantime, Foxman said, the state should appoint another poet laureate to supersede Baraka.
“This should not be an issue mired down in legalities,” Foxman told The Jewish Week. “A moral message needs to be made: that no state will tolerate an anti-Semite as a spokesman, as someone who sets a tone or sets a vision.”
Baraka’s lengthy, free-verse poem, which he read at a recent poetry festival in New Jersey, contains the following lines: “Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed?/Who told 4000 Israeli workers/To stay home that day/Why did Sharon stay away?”
The poem also includes several lines sympathetic to Jewish suffering in the Holocaust and to other victims of tyrannical power.
Speaking at the Newark Public Library during a literary event, Baraka said the ADL misinterpreted his poem, pulling the lines about Israel and the attacks out of context. He called the ADL’s campaign against him “an attempt to defame me.” He also called the group “purveyors of falsehood.”
Baraka challenged the ADL to “show where this poem is anti-Semitic in the least,” and said he would be willing to publicly debate the issue with the organization.
Baraka said he based his conclusions that Israel knew in advance about the terror attack on mainstream news accounts, including those from Israeli papers.
“It is nonsense to say Israel did it,” he said, “they were warning [the United States] hand over hand.”
Asked about Baraka’s comments Wednesday, Foxman said, “He continues to be the anti-Semite we always knew he was, unrepentant, and an embarrassment to the people of New Jersey, of which I am one.”
The ADL views the poem as the latest salvo in a widespread campaign to blame Israel for the 9-11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
McGreevey’s office says it has no power to remove Baraka, who was appointed by an ad hoc coalition of state arts groups to the two-year, $10,000 position in May.
The controversy comes amid a growing concern that anti-Semitic attitudes are spreading, particularly in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Just two weeks ago, Harvard president Lawrence Summers noted that “profoundly anti-Israel views” were finding support in “progressive intellectual communities.”
“Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect, if not in their intent,” Summers said.
But some members of the African-American community say Jewish leaders should exercise restraint in dealing with Baraka.
“Sometimes if we overreact, it backfires,” said music impresario Russell Simmons.
In a telephone interview, Simmons said recent efforts by pro-Israel advocates to unseat incumbent Democratic representatives Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and Earl Hilliard of Alabama had damaged support for Israel among members of the Congressional Black Caucus and among many African Americans.
Relations between blacks and Jews could be further strained if the Jewish community is perceived as pushing for Baraka’s removal, said Simmons, who is an officer and board member of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, an organization founded by New York Rabbi Marc Schneier.
Simmons, who had just testified before Congress on regulating the music industry, said dialogue is needed, not censorship. “You don’t want a bunch of people to come to [Baraka’s] defense and argue over a couple of words in a poem.”
Simmons and others in the black community make a distinction between criticizing Israel and espousing anti-Semitism.
Many people in the black community, he said, “feel like they can’t say anything” negative about Israel. “That’s what they believe.”
Even so, some question the decision to appoint Baraka. The poet has a history of outspoken anti-Semitism, views he recanted in a 1980 Village Voice piece.
“It’s baffling,” Jerry Watts, author of the Baraka biography, “The Politics and Arts of a Black Intellectual” (NYU Press, 2001), said of the appointment.
“People can debate whether it’s possible to be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic,” said Watts, a professor of American studies and political science at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. “But accepting that as a possibility, [Baraka] has a track record of having been an anti-Semite. And the whispers are always there.”
New Jersey’s first poet laureate, Gerald Stern, sat on the committee that appointed Baraka. “I don’t think anybody on the committee thought he would want to continue his contentious behavior,” Stern said.
Baraka, whose first wife is Jewish and who once associated with Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg, reportedly has said his criticism of Israel is not an expression of anti-Semitism.
Baraka told The New York Times that Internet reports convinced him of Israel’s complicit role on 9-11.
ADL officials say they are concerned that Arab states could use Baraka’s poem and his official position to legitimize the “big lie” — a contention that Israel, and not al-Qaeda, is responsible for the attacks.
Kenneth Jacobson, ADL’s associate national director, called the 9-11 conspiracy theory “our No. 1 concern today.”
“It is the single most significant manifestation of anti-Semitism in the world today. It is the dehumanization of the Jews and Israel, and once people believe this, anything goes,” Jacobson said.
He cited a recent Gallup poll of nine Islamic countries showing that 60 percent of those polled said they believe that Israel or the Jews were behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks. A recent ADL report on rising anti-Semitism found that a contributing factor is Arab propaganda blaming Israel and the Jews for the attacks.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, at least 400 of them Jews, according to Jewish communal officials and based on records from the city’s Medical Examiner’s Office. Six of the victims have been identified as Israelis.
Baraka is known for radical views and countercultural activism. He was a potent force in the promotion of alternative literary movements in the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1965, following the assassination of Malcolm X, he distanced himself from white bohemian circles, moved to Harlem and took up the cause of black nationalism, acting as a leader in the Black Arts Movement and in Black Power. In 1968 he became a Muslim and changed his name from LeRoi Jones. In the early 1970s, Baraka embraced Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
An award-winning author and playwright, Baraka has received numerous prestigious fellowships and teaching positions. His appointment in New Jersey was hoped to bring new audiences to poetry.
Baraka wrote “Somebody Blew Up America” last October. He has read it publicly since, and the poem has circulated widely on the Internet. It did not cause much of a stir until the reading on Sept. 20 at the biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in New Jersey.
The festival’s organizer, Jim Haba, told The Jewish Week that after a moment of stunned silence by the audience of 2,000, Baraka was booed vociferously but then received muted applause.
Haba also said that Baraka deleted the offending lines from subsequent readings at the four-day festival, but that in one instance a stenographer working from a pre-typed text included the lines in captions that accompanied the reading.
Haba acknowledged that Baraka’s decision to read the poem was “thoughtless and in the moment destructive.” But he said Baraka might have wrenched open a pathway for freer discussions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“There is a tradition in poetry of letting the imagination and impulse and unconscious have free reign,” Haba said. “That may be a dangerous tradition to the larger society, but there is such a tradition and [Baraka] is sometimes part of it.”
Stern was less understanding. Baraka’s “divisive” behavior would hamper his role as the state’s second poet laureate, Stern said.
He said he had spoken to dozens of state and school representatives who told him they would bar Baraka from appearing.
“I’m sure there are communities in Newark where he has a base, who will continue to support him,” Stern continued. “Maybe he can do some good, but not by reading poems attacking Jews certainly, or by fostering lies.”
Originally published here: https://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/jersey_poet_laureate_unrepentant
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Azeri Jews: Centuries of coexistence in Azerbaijan
Gabriel Lerner, JewishJournal.com, November 1, 2008
“This,” says the guide, a man in his 20s with a round face, a hint of a mustache, beard and very short hair — “this below us is the city of Quba.”
We are standing at the top of a cliff, overlooking an urban development that at first sight looks like any other in this country — bright tin roofs, low-slung buildings, a few cars covered in dust because of the wind, but no commercial signs or logos — and, surprisingly, few mosques for a Muslim Shiite country like Azerbaijan.
Then I see the river that runs through Quba, and in the distance I notice a cluster of distinctive houses. They are more attractive, much larger, and decidedly different compared to others in surrounding areas. None of these houses looks like any other.
“This is where the Jewses [sic] of Quba live,” says the guide, pointing at the group of houses I was looking at. “They are very successful.”
Behind us is a cemetery. While the rest of the group stares at the river and the city, I walk alone toward the cemetery’s iron gates, where I immediately recognize a Mogen David. This gate is not unlike one at the cemetery outside Buenos Aires, where my father is buried, or one in Rishon Letzion, Israel, that contains my ex-father-in-law’s remains, or even the cemetery where my sister rests in L.A.’s Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills. I walk slowly, reading the Russian and Hebrew inscriptions and staring at the photographs of the deceased etched in stone.
“They [the Jews] have the best cars,” continues the guide. “Ferraris, Mercedes. They have them all. Jewses in Quba live very well.” His face portrays satisfaction and pride, and the other members of my group — journalists from Europe and the United States — listen and nod. I am with this group to cover for La Opinión an international conference on the role of the media in the development of tolerance, organized by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
Not unlike the Jews of Sefarad (Spain) during the First Caliphate, Azerbaijan’s Jewry is interwoven into the fabric of this state, which emerged in August 1991 from the Soviet Union. And despite their minuscule numbers — maybe 12,000 in a population of 8 million — their presence is known and acknowledged, especially that of the Jews of Quba. These Mountain Jews, as they are called, have been living in this area for a very long time, perhaps 2,500 years; they consider themselves the descendants of those Jews exiled to Babylon after the destruction of the first Temple in 586 B.C.E., remaining in what is modern day Iran. In the eighth century, when the Muslims from the Arab Peninsula conquered the area, they brought the Jewish tribe, an ally, to the area of Baku to serve as a barrier against the Kazakhs to the north. In 1730, they were officially allowed to put down roots and own property in the Quba province.
In Quba
I have read this and other accounts about the Mountain Jews, and now I am ready to meet them. I am the only Jew in the group. The others seem to sense my emotion and begin taking pictures of us as we approach a small group of congregational leaders. As I reach the group of Azeri Jews, I look at them looking at us and realize, all of a sudden, that these people and I have more in common than anybody else here, and so I step up, and the guide introduces me to the head of the community, and then I say “Sholem Aleichem,” and I also say in Hebrew, “Ani Yehoudi,” and point to myself. We stare at each other, each noting our similarities, and we hug in the middle of a street in Quba, Azerbaijan.
Now I feel part of them. We enter the building, and my “cousin” speaks to me in Azeri, which is translated into English. He is a mathematician, he says. He points to signs on the wall with lists of names, those of Jews who died in the long fight against the Armenians: a few dozen. Like everybody else on our trip, he speaks of the allegiance to President Ilham Aliyev, with special attention to the memory of his father, the late President Heydar Aliyev.
While 93 percent of the population is Muslim, the constitution mandates no state religion, a legacy from the former Soviet Union. The residents wear Western clothes, and in the official meals we were offered throughout the trip, vodka, wine and beer were served. Ethnically, I cannot differentiate between Azeris and Mountain Jews. But Yevda Abramov, the Jewish member of the Parliament representing rural Quba, whom I met in Baku, explains these differences.
“The Jewish community,” Abramov says, “differs from the rest of the population in education and lifestyle. We are very educated and operate businesses. We kept the Persian language,” referring to the Jewish version of the dialect Tat, “but 25 percent of the words we use are in Hebrew.”
The MP
Like almost everything else in Baku, the Parliament building is undergoing massive additions and renovations but will no doubt maintain its unmistakable Soviet-era character — solemn, impersonal, with massive amounts of concrete, small doors and an oversized walkway. Abramov’s office is a small room, devoid of decorations, on the building’s fifth floor.
“I ran against 17 other candidates of my own party” (the ruling New Azeri Party), Abramov states. “I won over all of them, and an international agency was watching the election. This is a democracy.”
In Quba, Abramov was a teacher, a principal and a rural organizer. “Today Quba is not unlike any other Jewish community,” he tells my translator, who then speaks to me in Spanish. “Our rabbi, butcher, mohel, chazzan — all were educated in Israel.”
Since the Helsinki Accords of 1972, the Jews of Azerbaijan have been exiting the country in large numbers, mainly going to Israel, where they number more than 50,000. Since most of the emigrants were Ashkenazis from Baku, the Mountain Jews remained here, as the majority of the community in the country.
Abramov, a bulky man with a prominent mustache, discusses the successes of Jews in Azerbaijan, mostly in holding government positions. There are some well-known Azeri artists who are Jewish. According to him, his country is a model for religious liberty in the world, “especially compared to Armenia,” he emphasizes, where “there are not even 10 Jewish families today.”
While the country keeps a remarkable pace of development and focuses on very rapid urban construction, exploitation of its huge oil reserves and the expansion of the apparatus of the state, its main concern is the conflict with Armenia. My hosts took me to a “recently discovered mass grave” — a horrific pile of bones at the end of a soccer field in a small town. These are, they claimed, the remains of hundreds of Azeris slaughtered by Armenians in 1918. At the same time Armenians were slaughtered by the Ottoman Empire.
Abramov supports the official line. “If there is a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Abramov says, “many Jews will die. Please, clarify that to the world. In the war for Karabakh, the first fallen hero was Jewish. Send the message.”
Between 1992 and 1994, the war between the two new countries left 30,000 dead and 800,000 refugees, almost all of them Azeris. Armenia, a country of less than 2 million, compared to 8 million of Azerbaijan, conquered the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, about 16 percent of the territory of Azerbaijan. One of the refugees was Emin Alesgerov, my translator. “I lived there with my grandparents; I was 7 years old, and they told us to leave. My grandparents still want to go back,” he told me.
The conflict is central to the government’s policies. Idahav Orijov, minister of religious affairs, becomes emotional describing the war. He stands by a map on the wall in his office and shows me a spot that represents his hometown in the area controlled by Armenia. Then he describes a series of settlements destroyed by the conquerors. Nazim Ibrahimov, minister of the diaspora — a population he put at 50 million (35 in Lower Azerbaijan, in Iran) in 36 countries — tells me about the need to organize that diaspora “like the Jews, the Italians, the Irish of the United States did,” to counter the influence of the Armenian diaspora.
Recovering the lost territory is considered the supreme goal of the state. To gain support for their cause, they resort to every imaginable resource, including an alleged strategic alliance with Turkey, a main ally, and Israel, with which they established diplomatic relations in April 1992. When I went to meet the head of the embassy in Baku I found an old friend.
Arthur Lenk, a native of New Jersey, served as Israeli consul for communications and public affairs in Los Angeles between 1998 and 2000. We had met on several occasions back then, as the consulate implemented a distinctive process of recognizing the increasing importance of the Latino community in the United States. Then he returned to other assignments in Israel, and in September 2005 he submitted his credentials in Azerbaijan.
Now we are looking at each other, smiling and speaking Hebrew, surrounded by other Israelis and Azeris — and a sizable contingent of security agents. He invited me to the celebration of Yom HaAtzmaut, the 59th anniversary of Israel’s independence. Lenk says that “the most interesting thing I found here is the human link, the fact that there is a sizable Jewish community that lives as brothers and partners, as part of a Muslim country. This is not always understood in the world and is vital for Israel.
“While there are those who speak in terms of a clash of civilizations, in Azerbaijan they talk about the other Islam, the moderate. Their relationship with Israel, in business, energy and regional interests, is a compelling example of tolerance and coexistence,” Lenk says. “They are an important partner of Israel; here, we buy one-sixth of our oil.”
All together, that’s more than a billion dollars every year. According to Jane’s Defence Weekly, Israel sells to Azerbaijan “battlefield aviation, artillery, antitank, and anti-infantry weapons.” The Washington Institute for Middle East Policy includes in Israel’s involvement “training for Azerbaijani security and intelligence services, as well as security for the Azerbaijani president during his foreign visits.”
While as a diplomat he emphasizes bilateral collaboration, Lenk cannot ignore the fact that there is still no Azeri embassy in Israel.
“It is true, but this is not our decision, and they must consider it in the perspective of their own interest. I try to convince my Azeri friends that the presence of Israel serves their own goals.”
In the hall of the Hyatt-Regency, Jewish youth sing the national anthem of Azerbaijan and “Hatikvah.” I stand close to Lenk — we sing too. I returned home to Los Angeles at the end of April. Since then, Azerbaijan never disappeared entirely from the news; first were stories about imprisoned journalists that sent an image of an authoritarian regime. Then, on Nov. 6, Azerbaijan announced that it foiled an attack by Wahabi extremists aided by Al Qaeda on the U.S. Embassy. Baku tries to dispel an insistent rumor about military cooperation with the United States and Israel that would allegedly include providing an air base for an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. In August, President Aliyev made an urgent trip to Tehran to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, six days after the visit to Baku by Israel’s transportation minister Avidgor Lieberman.
This area is in turmoil and under tremendous pressure for change and development. In this process, the Jews of Azerbaijan, Quba dwellers, the Mountain Jews who claim to have arrived 2,500 years ago to the area, are patient witnesses as well as participants.
Gabriel Lerner has worked in various editorial positions for La Opinion, the largest Spanish- language newspaper in the United States, since 1999, covering local, national and international news. A native of Buenos Aires, he lived in Israel for more than 25 years and has resided in Los Angeles since 1989. He founded a publishing company in Israel and a literary magazine in Spanish. He has written several books and is currently researching the immigration protests of 2006 in Los Angeles.
Rob Eshman wrote about Azerbaijan’s Jews a year ago.
(Tags: Azerbaijan, Mountain Jews, History)
Originally published here: https://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=18754
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Restructuring to hit Internal Audit Agency (IAA)
To enhance public financial management in Ghana, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed that measures are underway to restructure and re-engineer the practice of Internal Auditing in the country.
The Internal Audit Agency ACT, 2003(Act 658) established an Internal Audit Agency as a central agency to co-ordinate, facilitate, monitor and supervise internal audit activities within Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in order to secure quality assurance of internal audit within these institutions of State.
Presenting updates on key policy initiatives, at the mid-year budget review in parliament on Thursday, the Finance Minister suggested that “the Internal Audit function in the public sector needs to be restructured and strengthened to play its role in the fiscal consolidation efforts of Government.”
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He noted that the current law and structure of IAA does not empower it to effectively supervise, manage and regulate the practice of Internal Auditing in the public sector.
Some measures proposed included the restructure of IAA to function as a department of the Ministry of Finance (MoF).
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta
Ofori-Atta said “the Internal Audit Department will then be the Internal Auditor of Government, with all Internal Audit Units in MDAs and MMDAs directly under its control and management.”
This is expected to help align the activities of Internal Auditing to national financial priorities and strategies set by the Finance Ministry.
Players in the sector have indicated that the Internal Audit function in the public sector is being practised more as an operations function in organisations, rather than as a third line of defence, as it should and is also narrowed down to only financial controls and compliance functions.
There have been calls for a change to the culture and perception of what Internal Audit is, through more awareness creation among stakeholders.
Earlier this month, it was announced that as part of its strategic focus by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global, the country is expected to implement a three-year project aimed at building up the Internal Auditing profession.
The three-year project would be implemented through the Institute of Internal Auditors Ghana, the local chapter of the global professional body, with funding released annually based on the success of the previous year’s activities.
A study conducted by the World Bank for IIA Global, indicated that while the Internal Audit profession was at a matured level in other parts of the world, such as the United States of America and Europe, it was at initial and emerging levels in Africa, thus the need to invest in developing the profession further.
The study, which covered 11 Anglophone African countries, also found that there was the need for effective Internal Audit in the public and private sector as well as awareness of the Internal Audit function and its contribution to governance.
There are limited resources for training in the profession, while efforts were poorly coordinated across the continent.
By Joshua W. Amlanu
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Jay-Z: Early Memorable Guest Appearances
Just over a month ago Jay-Z released his collaborative album Everything Is Love with his wife Beyonce under the moniker “The Carters”. They made a big splash just dropping the album unannounced. The power couple have built up such a large brand that they were successfully able to pull that off. There was a time though where Jay-Z was still making a name for himself. Wanted to revisit memorable guest appearances he made during the early to mid 90’s prior to his debut album Reasonable Doubt. Some of the artists he worked with early on would serve as key mentors helping him hone his craft. Other artists he would cross paths with later on as he achieved prominence and would ultimately end up being his direct competition.
Jaz-O, an emcee from Brooklyn was Jay-Z’s first mentor. He would go on to put Jay-Z on several tracks from his 1989 album Word to the Jaz and 1990’s To Your Soul. The track that Jay-Z’s presence was felt the most was called “The Originators”. It showcased his ability to rap at an extremely fast pace that was popular at that time. Jaz-O and Jay – Z would continue collaborating here and there on Jay-Z’s early albums before having a falling out.
Jaz-O – The Originators feat Jay-Z
The next memorable appearance Jay-Z would make would be on the group’s Original Flavor’s 1994 sophomore album Beyond Flavor. He would appear on the tracks “Many Styles” and their biggest hit “Can I Get Open”. The relevance of this appearance was two-fold. One of the members of the group, Ski would produce several tracks on Jay-Z’s first two albums. The other important dynamic was that the group’s manager Damon Dash would go on and form the record label Roc-A-Fella Records with Jay-Z. Building a business empire until going their separate ways in 2005.
Original Flavor – Many Styles feat Jay-Z
Original Flavor – Can I Get Open feat Jay-Z
That same year Jay-Z appeared on Big Daddy’s Kane 1994 album Daddy’s Home. Big Daddy Kane had taken him under his wing around early 1990. Putting him on tour to give exposure with the goal of landing a record deal. The track he appeared on was “Show and Prove” along with Big Daddy Kane, Scoob Lover, Sauce Money, Shyheim, and Old Dirty Bastard. It was also the first time Jay-Z would appear on a track that was produced by DJ Premier. They would go on to produce classic tracks throughout his career.
Big Daddy Kane – Show and Prove feat Jay-Z, Scoob Lover, Sauce Money, Shyheim, and Old Dirty Bastard.
Each appearance was a stepping stone for Jay-Z to finally release his debut album. In 1995 Jay-Z appeared on “Da Graveyard” a track from Big L’s album, Lifestyles ov da Poor & Dangerous. This time with Big L, Jay -Z appeared with Lord Finesse and Y.U. Big L was well on his way of being a prominent artist and probably would of worked with Jay-Z down the road. Unfortunately, his life was cut short at the age of 24. He had been close to signing with Jay Z’s Roc-A-Fella records and had the trajectory of becoming a star.
Big L -Da Graveyard feat Jay -Z, Lord Finesse, and Y.U.
That same year Jay-Z hopped on Mic Geronimo’s “Time To Build” off of Mic Geronimo’s 1995 album The Natural. This track would be instrumental in taking him to the next level and beyond. Along with Jay-Z and Mic Geronimo on the track was also Ja Rule and DMX. The producer had coined the trio as Murder Inc. The three artists would eventually rule the hip hop world starting in the late 90’s into the early 2000’s. Hopping on tracks together here and there, teasing the world of a full-fledged album that never came into fruition.
Mic Geronimo – Time To Build feat Murder Inc. (Jay-Z, Ja Rule & DMX)
Jay-Z paid his dues early on in his career. He gained knowledge and forged relationships that positioned him to have an incredible run that is still going strong till this day. He aligned himself with personnel that would market and build his brand ala Damon Dash. Work with producers including Ski and Irv Gotti who would create monumental tracks for him. Have Jaz-O and Big Daddy Kane mentor him to hone his craft. Then for motivation purposes be associated with emcees who would become his peers and direct competition including Big L, DMX, and, Ja Rule.
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Jermaine Dupri and Biggie: Brotherhood
Jermaine Dupri recently appeared on the Sway in the Morning show to promote his documentary Power, Influence & Hip Hop: The Remarkable Rise of So So Def set to air July 18th on We TV. During the interview Sway and Jermaine Dupri touched on a number of subjects. One topic that stood out was the dynamic of the relationship between Jermaine Dupri and Biggie aka The Notorious B.I.G. (Check the 18:53 mark of the interview) Beyond working on a couple tracks together Biggie had a true admiration for Dupri’s So So Def artists and how he ran the label.
Jermaine Dupri – Sway in the Morning Interview
Biggie was impressed by the success of Kris Kross and how JD wrote all the lyrics. Something Biggie would emulate later on with his own group Junior M.A.F.I.A. Jermaine actually submitted a beat which sampled George Benson’s “Turn Your Love Around” for Biggie’s Ready to Die album. Although it did not make the cut it did not end up being used on the Junior M.A.F.I.A’s remix to “I Need You Tonight” featuring Aaliyah from their 1995 album Conspiracy. As well as on Lil’ Kim’s “Not Tonight” from her 1996 Hardcore album.
George Benson – Turn Your Love Around
Junior M.A.F.I.A – I Need You Tonight (remix) feat. Aaliyah (prod. by Jermaine Dupri)
Lil’ Kim – Not Tonight feat. Jermaine Dupri
JD then recalled how Biggie reached out to him to remix “Big Poppa”. That very same night Biggie had JD produce “Da B Side” which also featured Da Brat. That collaboration would end up on the 1995 Bad Boys soundtrack. Biggie would even make an appearance on the remix video to Da Brat’s “Give It 2 You”.
The Notorious B.I.G. – Big Poppa (remix) feat. Jermaine Dupri
Da Brat – Da B Side feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Jermaine Dupri.
A haunting fact about the relationship is that JD almost got in the vehicle with Biggie on that fateful night on March 9th, 1997. The party to celebrate Biggie’s Life After Death album had just wrapped up. JD was waiting for his ride. With the uneasy environment in Los Angeles at the time Biggie was concerned and told JD to hop in with him. As he was about to do so JD’s vehicle arrived. Moments later Biggie’s vehicle was shot up and he later passed away.
It is evident that Jermaine Dupri and Biggie’s relationship would have continued to grow. The two would have continued making music together. Biggie would also focus on becoming a record mogul, mirroring what JD had done with So So Def. Although their friendship was brief, the brotherhood will be forever remembered in hip hop history.
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