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620. Hazy Shade of Winter
ctan | April 2, 2015
When I opened the door to my hotel room I could see my leather jacket was on the corner of the bed nearest the door , as if someone had dropped it off in a hurry. I stepped on the day sheet on my way over to check that my wallet was in the inside pocket. It was. And I did a little dance when I saw the day sheet said:
APRIL 3.
You are in Flushing, New York.
Tonight’s show is at the Brendan Byrne Arena
in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The bus leaves at
1:00 PM SHARP.”
I tried to imagine that I was going to be completely unaffected by the fact that tonight’s show was in New Jersey. Why should that matter? Lines on a map. So what. New Jersey, New Schmersey.
Freshly showered and dressed, I presented myself in the lobby at 12:45 pm and didn’t see anyone else, but the bus was out front. The wind was raw and cold like winter was still hanging on in this part of the country. I knocked on the door and Randy opened it. He was our main driver, a forty-something guy with enormous arm muscles, biker tattoos, and a crew cut. All I knew about him was he used to drive long haul trucks and he liked driving rock bands better. He rarely said much, preferring to let his nod imply good morning or hello or whatever. I nodded back and got into the nice, warm bus.
Martin was already there. “Hey, stranger,” he said.
“Hay is for horses.” I sat down next to him in the front lounge. “Is it supposed to warm up today? This cold is brutal.”
“Not for a couple of days, I think. What, you weren’t watching the Weather Channel at four in the morning like an insomniac should?”
I looked at him. Something about what he said didn’t feel like our usual poking-at-each-other banter. “Have I been that bad?”
“With insomnia? If it’s bad enough for me to notice, I’d say yeah.”
“I slept fine last night.” I shrugged instead of elaborating on why. “So was it you or Flip who brought my stuff back?”
“Don’t look at me,” he said. “I take it you had a good time, wherever you went?”
“Got a good night’s sleep,” I said, and that closed the subject.
Within a few minutes we had everyone but Remo on the bus and Randy gave a double toot of the horn before pulling away from the curb. I took that to mean Remo was off doing press or something.
I confess I actually didn’t know who the fuck Brendan Byrne was and I didn’t care. I vaguely knew he’d been a governor of New Jersey but I didn’t know if it had been during my lifetime or what. The Brendan Byrne Arena, on the other hand, I knew of as the hockey/basketball arena at the Meadowlands where a lot of big concerts took place. I had never actually seen a show there, though.
Insert standard joke here about how in New Jersey the area known as “the Meadowlands” is a giant swamp.
The acoustics were good, though. I’ll give it that.
Remo was still not there by 1:30 so I got the band together for a pre-soundcheck rehearsal where we worked on “Baker Street.” Honestly I didn’t want to rehearse it so much that everyone got super-comfortable or bored with their parts. All the backing musicians had backgrounds in jazz, and the regulars were up for being challenged: part of what would make it exciting is that it’d be so fresh. Alan had even found a keyboard patch that gave him a sound kind of like the one in the original.
Remo still wasn’t there when we wrapped that up, and a brief debate took place between the sound crew and Waldo about when he was expected and whether we should give the stage over to the opening band, who were a kind of quirky blues band called Puddle in the Road. I hadn’t had much of a chance to talk with them yet.
While they were debating, Remo came in, so that answered that. We ran through half of three different songs and everything checked out fine, which meant it was time to go back to doing nothing until showtime. I decided to sit and watch Puddle in the Road do their check. They were fun, and one of the songs was so catchy it was going to be stuck in my head for a week at least.
Which led me to asking Artie later, when we were hanging around, “What’s it going to take for a band like Puddle to make it?”
We were sitting in the main green room, which the crew had set up with a couple of couches and a snack table with bowls of fresh fruit, granola bars, and containers of yogurt in a bowl of ice. Artie had a half-eaten cup of yogurt in his hand. “Well, depends on a lot of things. I mean, the style they’re playing is great for parties, but it isn’t really what radio is looking for right now.”
“Okay, but isn’t hit radio basically any-genre-goes now?”
“Well, except country and rap, and even those have one or two exceptions.”
“Exactly. So why not, whatever you would call what they do?”
Artie dug around in his yogurt cup, apparently having discovered the fruit on the bottom. “What would you call them?”
“Quirky blues? Party blues? I don’t know. But that song, ‘Hop The Fence?’ It’s really catchy. Don’t you think it could catch on if it had a really fun video?”
“Possibly, but you know, typically a record label isn’t looking for a one-hit wonder. If that’s their one really hot song, their best bet might be to license it to someone–have someone like me shuttle it to an artist on my roster.”
“Hm, yeah.” Jordan would have probably said the same thing.
“The history of this band is kind of interesting, but not exactly the best for a commercial breakthrough,” Artie went on.
“Yeah? I don’t know anything about them except Remo likes them.”
“They started out as a college group, playing on their campus, and then expanded out to playing campuses around the country. To hear them tell it, they were a Grateful Dead cover band for all of a few weeks but quickly moved to more uptempo blues with a touch of ska.”
“And that’s a strike against them?”
“Well, the band wasn’t originally called Puddle in the Road, either. It was ‘Pothole.'”
“Ah.” Good name for a jam band, bad name for a band in an era when there were Moms Against Music groups campaigning for censorship and boycotts.
“Yeah, Even with the name change they’re pigeonholed as a quintessential campus party band. They have a pretty good thing going with regular gigs, but no radio penetration at all.”
“Also, and it’s annoying to even think about but it’s more and more true in the video age, they’re great musicians. But they’re not telegenic.”
“But couldn’t you make them more telegenic for video? We had stylists all over us before we filmed ‘Why the Sky.'”
“Well, you also had going for you that you and Ziggy start out good-looking. And you’re both in good shape.”
By good shape I think he meant neither of us was chubby, unlike the lead singer of Puddle who was sort of a schlub. I knew better than to argue about that. How cute you were or whether you were considered “hot” by the teen magazines had nothing to do with whether someone was a good musician or not, but I knew what record companies looked for was a lot of things other than musicianship.
“The sad truth is that if I want to go out and sign a quirky blues party band because I think that’s the next hot trend,” Artie said, “I can probably go out and find one that’s more marketable than this one. Which isn’t to say these guys aren’t going to make it. Every band has strikes against them.”
“You’re saying these guys aren’t unique?”
“Only in the sense that every band is unique. But I would bet you I can find another uptempo blues band with a Jimmy Buffett-meets-They Might Be Giants vibe.”
“Huh.” That was kind of a chilling thought. “How many flamenco-influenced cello and hand percussion bands do you know?”
He shrugged. “If you’re doing it, I guarantee you you’re not alone. Someone out there, among the millions and millions of musicians we don’t know, other people are doing it, too. And if there’s a sudden breakthrough hit in that vein? Then there’ll be a stampede to sign a pile of them.”
Yeah. And four out of five of them would end up in hock to the record company and that would be that. But of that one out of five who made it to the next level…
Yeah, I was depressing myself thinking about it.
“That reminds me,” Artie said. “Tomorrow morning, before you leave for Philly, could you come by the office to sign some stuff?”
My hackles went up. “Sign some stuff?”
“You know, some CDs and promo photos of you.”
“Oh. You mean autograph. I don’t know what I was thinking.” I was thinking we hadn’t finished some paperwork, or like they needed me to amend my contracts or something. I was paranoid. “Is there some point when the whole band is heading down there?”
“I don’t think so. Nomad’s been to our offices so many times we didn’t set something up for this trip.”
“I’ll see. I’ll have to figure out how to get to midtown from the boonies where we’re staying. That might be easier on our day off. We’re off Friday.”
“We could send a car for you if we need to. I’ll check the schedule.”
I nodded. I’d have to check the schedule and make sure I wasn’t supposed to be anywhere, but with Remo doing most of the promo appearances on his own, I hadn’t had to do much.
Remo came in then and poured himself a cup of coffee, added milk and sugar, and then poured liberally from a flask into it before he sat down, looking rough around the edges.
I was going to bust his balls about being late, but instead I said, “You all right?”
“Yeah.” He took a swig of the coffee and grimaced. I guess even with milk and booze it was too hot. Or maybe it just tasted awful. He seemed pensive.
Artie got up to throw away his yogurt container and drifted away. Everyone else was elsewhere right then, too.
“Something on your mind?” I tried again. Remo was generally not an angst-ridden type of guy, you know?
“Did you hear about what happened?” he finally said, after another grimace-inducing swallow of coffee.
“No.” Or I wouldn’t be asking. But I didn’t say that.
“To Clapton’s kid.”
“No…?” My skin prickled with dread, though, from his tone of voice.
“Four years old. Fell out a window in Manhattan. Fifty stories. God.” He covered his eyes with his hand. “A janitor left the window open at his girlfriend’s condo.”
“Oh, jeez.” I couldn’t even say the words that’s awful. I also wasn’t sure how close Remo and Clapton were or if the heavy upset was all because Remo was thinking that could have been Ford who fell out the window. “When?”
“Last week.” He coughed and drank the rest of the coffee, setting the empty mug down. “He was going to come to the show but he’s lying low. Grieving.”
I didn’t even know Clapton had a four-year-old kid. “Have you talked to Melissa?”
“Not about this. I don’t want to freak her out.”
“Randy’s got a phone installed in the bus, you know.”
He nodded. A moment later he got up, and I knew now that I’d planted the idea, he was going to call Melissa anyway.
It’s a dangerous world out there, sometimes.
I don’t know what she told him, but by the time I saw him next, he was back to normal, all his emotions stuffed back into his pocket except for his usual laid-back jollity.
And the show was fine.
(Note: Both the cold New York weather on April 3, 1991, and what happened to Conor Clapton are true. It was hard to pick a song for this chapter. -ctan)
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sanders says:
Interesting that the date in the story more or less lines up with the current date. I love when that happens.
Once you have small children in your life, every story about something horrible happening to a kid becomes a hundred times more chilling and tragic. Knowing there’s no way to protect them from everything and coming to terms with that is hard.
ctan says:
When I’m writing a tour section of the book I like to look up the weather for each date to be accurate about it. (I looked up the temperature when Daron was living with Jonathan in LA a lot, too, come to think of it. Not a climate I’m used to!) But especially when I saw it was chilly cold there and that’s exactly how it has been this year, too! Brrr. Supposedly it’ll warm up to the 60s this weekend except I’ll be in Atlanta… where it’s lows in the 40s at night. Sigh! This winter follows me everywhere.
We’ve had two days of thunderstorms and flashfloods, which is progress from snow. Snow, however, doesn’t tend to create power flickers and screw with my modem. We did have a couple of nice transitional days between frigid and storms, though, of sixty, sunny, and a little breezy. We even managed a cookout.
Aaaand I’m in the comments with a weather report. 😀 You are a strange influence, dear.
“Hazy Shade of Winter” has me thinking about Robert Downey Jr since it was used in Less Than Zero, and his rise and fall and rise in celebrity. He puts the excesses of the 80s and early 90s into perspective alongside the number of people it’s sort of surprising are still alive, and how close Ziggy comes to that strain of fame.
Speaking of wild rides to fame and something we discussed in email a while back… I saw romance writer Roni Loren recommending Duff Kagan’s autobiography on Twitter. I just downloaded it to the Kindle app but haven’t had a chance to read it. (I wrote two chapters of DGC on the plane flight here instead….)
I approve of your life choices. Check your email later and you’ll find a snippet of a fic that’s entirely your fault and all about “Fall to Pieces”.
Fuck that snippet is good. *fans self*
Hmm, could you put together a fan post of slashiest rock videos ever for some Thursday coming up? Fall to Pieces would have to be one of them for sure. (I think there are two Jane’s Addiction videos where Dave Navarro kisses somebody male, I’m never sure who… but that might not count.)
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621. Sisters of Mercy →
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Expect the Unexpected: Clever Summer Exhibits Surprise and Amuse at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Posted June 22, 2009 in Press Releases
This summer, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) presents two exhibitions that challenge the traditional uses of wood, textiles and other materials, while celebrating the subversive and unexpected. Challenge VII: dysFUNctional and Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions will be on view July 18 – September 13, 2009.HCCC Curator of Fine Craft, Gwynne Rukenbrod, commented, “These two exhibitions showcase contemporary artists who are using traditional techniques to convey subversive or unexpected ideas. Both illustrate new and somewhat rebellious approaches to contemporary craft. HCCC is pleased to bring Houston some of the more offbeat and forward-thinking work on the national and international craft scenes.”
Challenge VII: dysFUNctional (in the Large Gallery)
On tour from The Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia, PA, Challenge VII: dysFUNctional showcases contemporary wood art, sculpture, photos, installation art, and videos that subvert and satirize function. Artists from all over the world were asked to explore and interpret ideas of function and dysfunction in this dynamic juried show. The call for artists encouraged the submission of lathe-turned wood objects, as well as work that incorporated other processes alluding to wood turning, and work that was offbeat, amusing and surprising.
Thirty-three works by 30 artists from Australia, Canada, England, France, Italy and the United States were selected. The artists filmed, glued, laminated, layered, nailed, notched, photographed, and sewed wood and other materials with amazing results. The works presented in Challenge VII evoke a sense of humor, fun, curiosity and suspicion—ranging from a prickly chair to a set of dinosaur-like spoons and many other imaginative creations.
Accompanying the exhibition is a full-color catalog that includes an artist statement and commentary for each of the works. In addition, the book offers an interactive guide for students and others to further explore the ideas presented in the exhibition. Challenge VII is the seventh in a series of exhibits that challenges artists to free themselves to create the piece of unique and unexpected work that they never take time to make. Challenge VII was organized by the Wood Turning Center of Philadelphia and juried by Cecil Baker, Marsha Moss, Richard Torchia and Ricardo Viera.
Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions (in the Small Gallery)
Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions focuses on performative knitting practice in the creation of avant-garde art. (Performative knitting refers to interactive experiences in which an artist may knit in public, on the street, or as a part of some other art performance—frequently making social or political statements.) The invitational exhibition highlights the work of four artists who are advancing and questioning established textile traditions: Adrian Esparza, from El Paso, Texas; Rachel Gomme, from London, England; Mark Newport, from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Sandra Valenzuela, from New York City, New York. By addressing stereotypes of gender and challenging the domestic-based, utilitarian objects that are typical of the knitted crafts, the work of these artists completely upends tradition.
Unknitting was curated by Kate Bonansinga, Director of the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso; and Dr. Stephanie L. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at New Mexico State University. The exhibition was organized by the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso and is funded in part by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, and Patricia Hewitt Silence Memorial Fund.
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Rachel Gomme is one of the four artists featured in Unknitting.
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After a century of suppression, Native languages are being revived in Washington schools
Throughout the state, tribal elders and educators are bringing Salish and other languages to youth.
Manola Secaira
Tribal elder Pauline Flett talks with a few children at the Spokane Tribal Language and Culture building in Wellpinit, Wash. where the translations she's done over the past five decades are kept, Jan. 30, 2020. (Rajah Bose for Crosscut)
Most days, Spokane Tribal Elder Pauline Flett begins her work as soon as she wakes up. The 95-year-old, one of three completely fluent Salish speakers in her tribe, doesn’t stop working until she feels she’s done enough for the day — sometimes working past midnight.
It’s the same routine she has kept since beginning her work 50 years ago to ensure that the Spokane dialect of the Salish language survives her.
“I sit down, and that’s it,” Flett says. “If I think of something, I have to write it down before I forget — I might use it later if I’m not using it now.”
Since she began, Flett has helped establish a Salish curriculum for the tribe’s language school in Wellpinit, Stevens County, and has been the primary author of each edition of the tribe’s Spokane-dialect Salish dictionary. That includes the most recent, published in 2016.
Revitalizing a language is daily work.
“I’m addicted to it,” Flett says. “If you’re meant to do it, that’s what it is. And I feel like I was meant to do this.”
She often uses prayers and songs to help teach the language — she’s currently working on a Spokane dialect version of “Amazing Grace." It’s a good trick for getting other people interested and speaking the language, she says, because it invites them to join in.
“Even just one little prayer, just do that and pretty soon you’ll be adding to it,” she says. If you’re learning a language and see how others speak, “pretty soon you’re doing it, too.”
Tribal elder Pauline Flett works to preserve the Spokane dialect of Salish and keeps a trove of translations she's done over the past five decades. (Rajah Bose for Crosscut)
A chunk of Flett's work is dedicated to breaking down words in the language, piece by piece. Marsha Wynecoop, the Spokane Tribe’s language program manager who often helps Flett in her work, describes it like this: In the Spokane language, different parts of a word can describe the word itself.
Wynecoop uses the word for skunk as an example: In its totality, the word means “skunk,” but when you break it down to its various syllables, it also means “something small and bad pretending to be good,” relaying the idea that a skunk is less harmless than it might seem.
“In English, [the word] doesn’t mean anything — it’s more like an object,” she explains. “But in our language, it gives it more of a full meaning of the animal.”
Flett’s process of reviving the Spokane language through careful cataloging and transcription is similar to how other tribes have revived their Native languages. In many cases, elders fluent in their tribe’s tongue have come together to put the language on paper in order to keep it from disappearing.
In the United States, the speaking of Native languages was suppressed and often punished in school systems for decades after Indian boarding schools were first established in 1860. Native people were forced to assimilate to Euro-American culture in a myriad of ways, including speaking English.
By the time the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act allowed Native parents the right to deny their children’s placement in these schools, their language legacy had been damaged nearly irrevocably.
“Everything that we’re doing today would have never happened without the tribal elders who held the language,” Wynecoop says.
Across the state, other tribes have been working diligently on language revival projects, including in public schools, according to Patty Finnegan, bilingual education special projects program supervisor in the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
“Some of them are restoring and preserving language, and some are building educator capacity to use the language in general education classrooms,” she said.
While OSPI doesn’t have a complete list of Native language education programs going on around the state — largely because the state acts as a collaborator or partner in this process and doesn’t track them — a 2018-2019 report says there are about 61,000 Native learners in the state's public schools.
Laura Lynn, program supervisor of the OSPI Office of Native Education, said the tribes govern all aspects of this work.
“If they invite us to be partners in that work, then we do that,” Finnegan adds. “And we’re just beginning to do that work.”
Pauline Flett is helped into the Spokane Tribal Language and Culture building by Elizabeth Johnstone in Wellpinit, Stevens County, Jan. 30, 2020. (Rajah Bose for Crosscut)
Crafting an Indigenous curriculum
The cornerstone of the state’s partnership with tribes in certifying Native language educators goes back to the First Peoples' Language, Culture and Oral Traditions Renewal bill, which became state law in 2007. The Spokane Tribe's Wynecoop was a core member of the group of tribal language education leaders who first came together to discuss what Native language certification might look like in Washington state.
At the core of the law was the belief that tribes in Washington should control the certification process, because speakers of those languages would know them best. It emphasized tribal sovereignty, ensuring that tribes wouldn’t have to go through the state when certifying Native language teachers and that the tribes would have control over the curriculum they would use. State Sen. John McCoy, a Tulalip tribal citizen and a state House member at the time, pushed for passage of the 2007 bill and said tribal control over the process was especially important for giving tribal elders their due credit.
Pauline Flett has translated thousands of pages of words and phrases in the Spokane dialect of the Salish language that are kept by the Spokane Tribal Language and Cultural Program, Jan. 30, 2020. (Rajah Bose for Crosscut)
“When we started this, it was the elders that were the keepers of the language and the history. You’re not going to send 70- or 80-year-old great-grandma to school in order to get a certification to teach a language. You're just not going to do that,” McCoy says. “So it was written that if they had the language, they get the certification, and tribes issue that certification.”
The idea of tribal independence over the teaching of Native languages was fairly new at the time, but now it’s the foundation of the work developing Native language education programs in Washington state.
For Wynecoop and others in the coalition, it was important that tribes have autonomy over how languages were taught — not just so they could craft the rules of certification, but also so that classes could be taught in a way that was more truthful to the heart of Native languages.
“It’s more of an Indigenous model of curriculum,” Wynecoop says, describing the classes taught at the Spokane Tribe’s language school. While some might think to “take English books and transcribe them in the language, that leaves the heart and soul of who we are out of it. That’s just teaching in a Western mindset,” she adds.
Pauline Flett shows Elizabeth Johnstone some of her translations at the Spokane Tribal Language and Culture building, Jan. 30, 2020. (Rajah Bose for Crosscut)
Bringing Native languages to future generations
Matt Remle, a member of the Lakota tribe who works with the Marysville School District as its lead Native American liaison, says these programs are still expanding. He has noticed that in many cases school districts incorporating Native language education into their curriculum contain a reservation within their boundaries. This has been helpful in Remle’s case, as he’s helped facilitate Lushootseed language education for the district's Native youth through the Tulalip tribe, whose reservation lies within the school district.
Where that isn’t the case, Remle says, these classes tend to be absent. In Seattle, for example, he has not seen schools that offer permanent Native language classes — although in some cases, students can receive credit for showing competency in a Native language.
But that doesn’t mean these languages aren’t being taught in Seattle. Remle and other language educators are teaching Lushootseed, Lakota and Native sign language on Tuesday nights at North Seattle College for Native learners of all ages. The program is being facilitated by the after-school program Clear Sky Native Youth Council, which is run by the Urban Native Education Alliance. In some ways, Remle prefers this program to formalized classes in a public school. He says that this way, the intricacies of the languages can be more thoroughly explored.
Similar to the Spokane dialect of Salish, Lakota words can often be broken down to reveal deeper meanings within themselves. He uses the word for water, mni, as an example. Once broken down, it can be translated directly into English as “this is giving me life.” This in itself, Remle said, reveals something about the culture that created it.
“It’s like a key to opening up to the worldview that our ancestors had and held, how they viewed the world and their relationship to the greater cosmos,” Remle said. “You can get into that more than you can in a traditional classroom setting.”
Both Wynecoop and Remle weren’t taught the language of their tribe as children, but as educators they can now see their kin grow up in a system where that’s possible.
“Getting them at a younger age is more effective. I can speak from personal experience — I was in my 20s when I started and it was hard,” Remle says.
Watching his kids grow up learning Lakota, he sees that for them it’s intuitive. “They don’t have to do any translating in their heads,” he says. “I’ve just seen how much their minds are like sponges when they’re young.”
Pauline Flett will receive a lifetime achievement award on Feb. 28 for her part in revitalizing the Spokane dialect of the Salish language, Jan. 30, 2020. (Rajah Bose for Crosscut)
Wynecoop says her grandchildren are learning their Native language, and she’s working to ensure that they have that education throughout their time in school. The Spokane Tribe’s language school is in its fourth year, and it hopes to someday have it go from preschool through high school.
As a show of gratitude for Flett's life’s work, the Spokane Tribe is awarding her a lifetime achievement award on Feb. 28 for her part in the progress made since seeding the program within the tribe in 1998.
“She’s been doing it so long she says she doesn’t know how to quit,” Wynecoop said. “She said she wants a paper and pad in her casket.”
For Flett, the work is her life. Preserving it has given her the peace of passing this part of her on and even helped her retain the language.
“I just don’t want it to die,” she says. “It just gets you by the heart.”
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Manola Secaira is the Indigenous Affairs Reporter for Crosscut. She covers stories involving Native communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. Find her on Twitter @mmsecaira or email at manola.secaira@crosscut.com.
Prohibition couldn’t stop every drinking habit. One particular Japanese tradition never went dry.
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Israeli Air Force intercepts Hezbollah drone off coast of Israel
by The Long War Journal | Apr 25, 2013 | Monitor |
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) this afternoon. The drone, which Israeli officials say belonged to Hezbollah and took off from Lebanon, was intercepted over the Mediterranean Sea, five nautical miles west of Haifa and at an altitude of 6,000 feet.
A statement released by the IDF on the incident said: “UAVs pose a serious threat to the State of Israel’s security. The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to violate Israel’s sovereignty or harm its security.” Similarly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is prepared to deal with any threat posed by Syria or Lebanon in the air, land, or sea.
In addition, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon said that “[b]y way of the Hezbollah, the Iranians are trying us and checking us…. We will respond at the point which we believe to be appropriate, but there will be a response.”
Hezbollah has denied that it sent the drone. “Hezbollah denies sending any unmanned drone towards occupied Palestine,” a headline on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar said this evening. Al-Manar did not provide any additional information. Earlier today, a Hezbollah official told the Associated Press that the Iranian-backed terror group did not have any information on the incident but would release a statement “if it had something” to say.
Today’s interception is the second such action by the Israeli Air Force in the past year. On Oct. 6, the IAF shot down a drone, which Hezbollah took responsibility for, near the Yatir Forest in the northern Negev.
When Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, announced that Hezbollah was behind the October drone, he said, “It is our natural right to send other reconnaissance flights inside occupied Palestine…. This is not the first time and will not be the last. We can reach any place we want.”
Hezbollah has used drones against Israel on a number of occasions in recent years. During the 2006 war with Hezbollah, the Israeli Air Force shot down a number of Hezbollah drones, and in 2004 an Iranian-made drone spent approximately five minutes in Israeli territory. In April 2005, a Hezbollah drone (Mirsad-1) was sent over Israel. According to a secret cable released by Wikileaks, Syrian intelligence officers may have helped Hezbollah with this launch.
Last April, Yedioth Ahronoth reported that “Hezbollah has been allocating increased resources towards bolstering its drone unit.”
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DiEM25 says no to demonstrations of hate
By Erik Edman | 24/01/2020
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A demonstration against refugees and migrants took place on Sunday, January 19, at Athens’ Syntagma Square, organised by various far-right organisations. A relatively small but vocal number of citizens was present, many holding banners with racist slogans and Greek flags, priests with icons who preached hate instead of love: a sad flash-back to images from last year’s demonstration against the agreement with North Macedonia. Golden Dawn members undergoing legal proceedings for their part in the assassination of rapper Pavlos Fyssas were also present, as was pseudo-neoliberal far-right advocate Thanos Tzimeros. All in all, a hateful crowd.
During the demonstration the German journalist Thomas Jacobi of Deutsche Welle and La Croix was repeatedly beaten on the face by Nazis who recognised him because of his role in the production of the documentary “Golden Dawn: A Personal Affair” (2016). That Jacobi was identified and targeted by the Golden Dawn is clear because this is the second time that he was bludgeoned by its supporters, the first being during last year’s demonstration against the agreement with North Macedonia.
The beating was not stopped by police forces, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, are far quicker to respond in Left-leaning demonstrations. The Conservative government took the opportunity to speak about “violence on both sides”, even though the Prime Minister has in past interviews assured us that “the far-right in Greece does not produce violence”. The Conservative ex-Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in the meantime, gave a telling interview to the “Fileleutheros” publication, condemning foreigners, illegal migrants, refugees etc. Is it really any wonder we are where we are?
Our Greek Electoral Wing MeRA25 has condemned the demonstration, and all similar gatherings of racism and hate. DiEM25 joins them in this condemnation and stresses that we, as convinced European democrats, stand against all far-right iterations in Greece and across the continent, and in solidarity with refugees and migrants. We call on the Greek Government to stop fuelling and tolerating misanthropic rhetoric and actions, and to finally liberate all refugees and migrants from their inhumane imprisonment.
The Holberg Debate: Is global stability a pipe dream?
Amidst a global pandemic, economic instability, persistent armed conflicts and the climate crisis, Varoufakis calls for tackling systemic threats.
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NFL Wild Card Playoffs AFC Picks: ‘Steelers To Win This Rather Impressively,’ Says CBS Pittsburgh’s Bob Pompeani
Filed Under:AFC Wild Card, Bob Pompeani, NFL Expert Picks, Norm Elrod
(CBS Pittsburgh) — The NFL made it through the regular season without missing a game. Some were delayed or rescheduled. Many didn’t include players who tested positive for COVID or were exposed to people who tested positive. But, in the end, it was a full season. Let’s hope the league continues its run in the playoffs.
Wild Card weekend offers an expanded lineup of games. With the field changed to seven teams in each conference, and only the top seed receiving a bye, there are six games. In the AFC at least, that results in three stellar matchups. The Indianapolis Colts (11-5) meet the red-hot Buffalo Bills (13-3). The Baltimore Ravens (11-5) and Tennessee Titans (11-5) face off in a rematch of last year’s divisional game. And the Cleveland Browns (11-5) play the Pittsburgh Steelers (12-4) for the second time in two weeks. (The Kansas City Chiefs (14-2) automatically advance to the divisional round.)
CBS Pittsburgh sports anchor Bob Pompeani breaks down the AFC matchups for Wild Card weekend.
All times listed are Eastern.
Indianapolis Colts vs. Buffalo Bills, Saturday, January 9 @ 1:05 p.m. (CBS)
The Bills enter the playoffs on a six-game win streak. In that time, they’ve averaged over 38 points per game, boosting their season average to 31.3 points per game. That’s second only to the Green Bay Packers. Their 396.4 yards per game is second only the Kansas City Chiefs. And Josh Allen deserves a lot of the credit.
“I just think Josh Allen is operating on a totally different arc right now, when you look at his season, all his touchdown passes plus the rushing touchdowns,” says Pompeani. “He’s developed more and more confidence. I think he’s got some great receivers. Stefon Diggs is going to be hard for Indianapolis to contain.”
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Allen completed over 69 percent of his passes in the regular season, averaging 284 yards per game with 37 touchdowns on the season. Those stats put him in elite company, particularly since that’s not the complete story. Allen has eight rushing touchdowns and is always a threat to run. One thing he doesn’t have is a wealth of playoff experience.
His Colts counterpart, Philip Rivers, has been here multiple times, albeit without much success. He never advanced past the divisional round with this former team, the Chargers. Could this be his year? “Philip Rivers is the veteran,” notes Pompeani. “He understands this. He hasn’t won a lot in the postseason. But when you got Jonathan Taylor running the ball the way he’s running the ball, coming off a 200+ performance day, this could be trouble for Buffalo.”
Taylor is coming off a 253-yard rushing performance against the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars. However, it was only his third 100+-yard game of the season. And the Bills’ defense is a big step up from the Jaguars’.
The Bills are riding high, having seemingly taken over the AFC East from the New England Patriots. Still, this is all new to them. “They haven’t had a lot of experience with this,” Pompeani points out. “But they’re winning winning playoff spots three the last four years has helped them. This is their first division title since 1995. I think it all looks like a Buffalo win.”
Baltimore Ravens vs. Tennessee Titans, Saturday, January 9 @ 1:05 p.m. (ESPN)
Last season’s Ravens looked Super Bowl-bound at the end of the season. And then they met Derrick Henry and a Titans team with different ideas. Baltimore has had its struggles this season, including a three-game losing streak and an offense that seemed off its game at times. They won’t be looking past Tennessee this time.
“A rematch of last year, when Baltimore thought they had an easy road maybe to the Super Bowl,” says Pompeani. “14-2, bye week and then boom, Tennessee comes in and they run the ball right down their throats, with a good defensive performance against Lamar Jackson, who wasn’t all that good in that game. So I expect Baltimore to be better.”
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They’ll have to be, with Henry picking up this season right where he left off. The Titans’ titan of a running back rushed for 2,027 yards this season, almost 500 yards more than anyone else. He also averaged over 5.3 yards per carry and over 126 yards per game.
Baltimore’s defense will have their work cut out for them. But so will Tennessee’s. The Ravens actually led all teams in rushing yards this season with 3,071. And while Lamar Jackson had his fair share (1,005 yards to be exact), he had help. J.K. Dobbins picked up 805 yards on the ground, and Gus Edwards chipped in another 723 yards. Dobbins has at least one touchdown in six straight games.
“I expect Baltimore to win this game, they are a better team,” says Pompeani. “I think Baltimore has a lot of revenge on their mind. I think the Ravens will take down the Titans.”
Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, Sunday, January 10 @ 8:15 p.m. (NBC)
The Browns finally made it back to the playoffs after an 18-year drought. But they will have to play on at a decided disadvantage. Their head coach recently tested positive for COVID and will miss the game. Multiple players have been moved to the Reserve/COVID-19 list and could miss the game as well. Exactly who remains to be seen, but the list will certainly include Kevin Stefanski.
“Kevin Stefanski is not just the head coach, he’s the play caller on offense,” Pompeani points out. “He’s a guy who does a lot more than most head coaches do. So his absence is going to make it harder on Alex Van Pelt, who I suspect will call the plays. They got the special teams coach, (Mike) Priefer, as their head coach, or at least acting head coach. There’s a lot of stuff there. Plus they’ve lost Olivier Vernon. They’ve lost their best offensive lineman in Joel Bitonio.”
>>READ: Tracy Wolfson On Ravens-Titans Matchup: ‘Lamar Jackson Feels This Team Is Peaking At The Right Time’
Stefanski’s absence will make it that much harder on a Browns team that barely punched its ticket in Week 17 against a Steelers team resting Ben Roethlisberger and other key starters. The Steelers haven’t looked that sharp of late themselves. After winning their first 11 games, they lost four of five games to close the season. The running game, in particular, was close to nonexistent during that stretch.
“I like Pittsburgh to win this game,” says Pompeani. “I think all the pressure, however, is on the Steelers. Cleveland comes in with no expectations now. So I look for the Steelers to win this rather impressively, rather handily, and they will then go on to take on Buffalo, based on how I see it.”
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Kongsberg Signs Contract with Norway’s NDMA for JSM Test Missiles for Integration on F-35 Fighter Jet
July 5, 2018 DP Staff Writer 0 Comments Anti-ship missile, Fifth-generation jet fighter, Joint Strike Missile (JSM), Kongsberg, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, Norway, Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA)
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS has signed a contract worth 700M NOK with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) for JSM (Joint Strike Missile) test missiles for the integration phase on the F-35.
As a result of the successful flight test in March and finalization of the development phase in June, the project now enters into an F-35 integration phase scheduled until 2023. This phase includes delivery of a number of test missiles, captive-carriage-, safe separation- and live firing tests.
Before proceeding with integration testing on the F-35A, the JSM was tested at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California, USA on F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) 416th Flight Test Squadron (416 FLTS).
“The JSM project continues on schedule and is the only 5th generation missile available on F-35 representing a significant market potential”, says Eirik Lie, President of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS.
The Joint Strike Missile (JSM) is a multi-role air-launched variant of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), an anti-ship and land-attack missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA). The missile can be employed against both sea- and land-based targets.
JSM is Norway’s advanced anti-surface warfare (ASuW) missile designed specifically to fit in the internal weapons bay of the new Lockheed Martin F-35A Lighting II fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft. Norway is also partner nation of the U.S.-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program.
Studies have shown that the F-35 would be able to carry two of these in its internal bays, while additional missiles could be carried externally.
According to FlightGlobal, the missile has an estimated range of 150 nmi (172 mi; 278 km). The range is dependent of the flight profile and Kongsberg claims that the range is over 100 nmi in low-low-low profile and over 300nmi in hi-hi-low flight profiles.
The achievement of initial operational capability (IOC) is expected in 2021 with the release of the F-35’s Block 4 software and the missile is expected to become fully operational in 2025.
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In this method, a small tube is inserted into the anus while sitting in running water (or in a large tub). [65] There was a Keeper of the Royal Rectum who may have primarily been the pharaoh's enema maker. Colonics are inappropriate for people with bowel, rectal or anal pathologies where the pathology contributes to the risk of bowel perforation. 2013;6:323–328. Many medications were administered by enemas. [53], In medieval times appear the first illustrations of enema equipment in the Western world, a clyster syringe consisting of a tube attached to a pump action bulb made of a pig bladder. They also may be used along with systemic (oral or injection) corticosteroids or other medicines to treat severe disease or mild to moderate disease that has spread too far to be treated effectively by medicine inserted into the rectum alone. Now bend the knee of your topmost leg, and place a rolled instructions. If You Have An Ostomy, Could You Still Have Discharge Out Your Rectum? Let the liquid enter the rectum via anus. There are arguments both for and against colonic irrigation in people with diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, severe or internal hemorrhoids or tumors in the rectum or colon, and its usage is not recommended soon after bowel surgery (unless directed by one's health care provider). By contrast, colonics, also known as colonic hydrotherapy or irrigation, involve multiple infusions. Enemas are very effective at inducing a bowel movement, so they’re a good tool for occasional relief, especially for functional constipation (constipation with no apparent reason – there’s no physical problem, but the person is still constipated). By using Verywell Health, you accept our, Simple Instructions on How to Use an Enema, Benefits and Risks of Using Enemas for Digestive Health, Enemas May Be Necessary in Some Cases but They Should Be Used With Care. Traditionally Basti – the yogic enema technique was used by yogis. 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Normal saline is least irritating to the colon, at the opposite end of the spectrum. from the body. [citation needed], Because of the embarrassment a woman might feel when showing her buttocks (and possibly her genitals, depending on the position) to a male apothecary, some contraptions were invented that blocked all from the apothecary's view except for the anal area. Along the upper Congo River an enema apparatus is made by making a hole in one end of the gourd for filling it, and using a resin to attach a hollow cane to the gourd's neck. [33] and is available for taking orally as a laxative. minutes. He is associate faculty at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as well as adjunct faculty with the Crozer Family Medicine Residency Program, and is an attending physician at Glen Mills Family Medicine in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. In some Am J Gastroenterol. An enema administration is a technique used to stimulate stool evacuation. filtered water. The enema tube and solution may stimulate the vagus nerve, which may trigger an arrhythmia such as bradycardia. [60], Recent research has shown that ozone water, which is sometimes used in enemas, can immediately cause microscopic colitis.[61]. Klismaphiles can gain satisfaction of enemas through fantasies, by actually receiving or giving one, or through the process of eliminating steps to being administered one (e.g., under the pretence of being constipated). The title of this study says it best: the theory of colon cleansing is “a triumph of ignorance over science.”. [144], In Shakespeare's play Othello (Act II, Scene I) Iago says, "Yet again your fingers to your lips? Meanwhile, proponents suggest that enemas can help treat or prevent a number of health issues said to arise from the buildup of waste in the colon, including allergies, bad breath, back pain, depression, fatigue, headache, indigestion, sinus problems, and skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis. Get it now here. [20], Mineral oil functions as a lubricant and stool softener, but may have side effects including rectal skin irritation and leakage of oil[21] which can soil undergarments for up to 24 hours. But for occasional times when other remedies just aren’t cutting it, an enema can help break the vicious cycle and put you on the road back to normal bowel movements under your own steam. Fill the enema bag with the enema solution that you have Noting that deaths have been reported from alcohol poisoning via enemas,[134] an alcohol enema can be used to very quickly instill alcohol into the bloodstream, absorbed through the membranes of the colon. Because with a coffee enema, you could find out! There’s no benefit to putting it up the other end. hot water. It is one of the six cleansing methods or Shatkarma in Hatha Yoga. […], Practice of Yoga to develop awareness of the body, mind and soul in unison is a popular ancient Indian practice which is very relavant in modern times. Perhaps the single most important distinction is that a colonic infers the use of specialized equipment administered by a trained hydrotherapist, while an enema can be performed at home with a do-it-yourself kit. which you can get at nominal cost. flow through. [68] In the Xibalban court of the God D, whose worship included ritual cult paraphernal, the Maya illustrated the use of a characteristic enema bulb syringe by female attendants administering clysters ritually. One of the many types of medical specialists was an Iri, the Shepherd of the Anus. It has the tools to let you reset your body, lose weight and start feeling great. The cane is inserted into the anus of the patient who is in a posture that allows gravity to effect infusion of the fluid.[67]. However, great care must be taken as to the amount of alcohol used. Peña A, Guardino K, Tovilla JM, Levitt MA, Rodriguez G, Torres R Bowel management for fecal incontinence in patients with anorectal malformations Pediatr. Clinical effects of colonic cleansing for general health promotion: a systematic review. Coffee Enema. You wouldn’t think this would be the quack therapy of choice for people trying to make a quick buck off desperate cancer patients, but enemas are the subject of a baffling amount of nonsense and snake oil, especially once you move past ordinary water and get into the exotic stuff like coffee.
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Dimitri Vegas Will Star Alongside Jean Claude Van Damme in New Movie
He’s a King, a DJ, and an actor? Dimitri Vegas seems to have been very busy these days. From running his kingdom at Tomorrowland to selling-out stadiums around the world, you can soon find him on a big screen near you. Dimitri Thiavos alongside his brother Like Mike are set to appear in a new film called “The Bouncer“. The American film will be directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah and will star action movie-star, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
This isn’t the first time Dimitri Vegas has appeared in a film. He also played roles in films including “Patsor” and “Rise the Living Dead“. Although his role in the movie is unknown at this time, the film will start filming at the end this month. This will also be the second time that Dimitri Vegas has appeared on screen alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme “The Hum” being their first. It may be a while before the film is fully flourished, but keep your eyes open for “The Bouncer” at a theater near you so you can catch the Kings Tomorrowland on screen.
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Q&A: Kathy Hirsh-Pasek on Finding the Balance with Screen Time
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, talks about why being intentional with technology use is important.
Amy Burroughs
Amy Burroughs is an award-winning writer specializing in journalism, content marketing and business communications.
Dynamics of digital instruction, learning outcomes and equitable access can be complex, with no one-size-fits-all approach. As researchers learn more about best practices, educators are tasked with putting their findings into practice — a job harder than it sounds. Now, districts are confronting new challenges around equity and screen time as they seek to deliver remote instruction.
We asked Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a faculty fellow in psychology at Temple University, to share her views on screen time.
This interview is part of a roundtable on how researchers and educators view screen time, digital equity and learning outcomes.
EDTECH: Research about the effects of screen time varies widely. How would you characterize this issue and the effort to balance technology in schools?
HIRSH-PASEK: When screen time is everything from homework to social media, it’s hard to sort out what people are really talking about. The distractions in some age ranges are going to be different than in others, and not taking that into account makes it tough.
That said, we’ve gotten some handle on use patterns. We clearly are at a point where everything’s been revolutionized by this new thing that’s come into our schools and our homes. We’re learning as fast as we can.
The problem is that the moment you think you’ve learned something, the technology changes. That’s about to happen again with augmented and virtual reality, so it’s hard to get arms around it. This is a matter of time and figuring it out.
EDTECH: If intentionality is key to effective use of educational technology, how can educators apply this in practice?
HIRSH-PASEK: The question is not as much about the gadget and gizmo as it is about what’s the best way to teach. These things offer tremendous opportunities, but at the same time we have to understand that teaching evolved for a reason, and I mean “evolved.” It’s been around forever. We all know the story of Socrates. We all know that in ancient Rome and ancient Greece, we had great teachers. Why were they so important, even in biblical times? Because humans relate to other humans.
Teaching is a relationship between two people. Finding the balance between the amount of information given, its delivery system, and relationships that support learning is the name of the game.
Our job is to figure out what works well and what does not. Active, engaged, meaningful and socially interactive learning is good. Passive, distracting, not meaningful and solo make something worse. Now we can create a profile and judge it along these criteria, along with how well it meets its prospective learning goal.
EDTECH: Some educators have concerns about potential negative effects of screen time. Are these concerns legitimate?
HIRSH-PASEK: My sense from watching kids in front of technology is yes. They’re like glue.
Personally, I’m a chocoholic, and I’m not giving up my chocolate. In the same way, kids shouldn’t give up their screens. But you negotiate when they’re going to be on it and when they’re going to be off it, and we abscond our responsibility when we don’t regulate.
Let’s take the analogy of dessert. Our kids love dessert. Dessert is addicting. Would we let our kids have chocolate cake for dinner? No. The best thing to do is to understand that nothing is an absolute in the world, and certainly nothing is an absolute with young children. Nobody minds if you have chocolate cake after dinner, but let’s make sure you have the right food first.
EDTECH: Future careers will require students to be tech-savvy, but they’ll also need effective interpersonal skills. Are these aims contradictory, and how can educators address both?
HIRSH-PASEK: Even to be good learners, people have to be social. We learn through each other. A lot of people have come up with “social-emotional versus the learning” — no. They’re intimately linked in the latest science. You can’t have one without the other.
CEOs say that the most important skills employees need are critical thinking, communication, collaboration — almost all things that involve other human beings. They’re just not separate anymore.
EDTECH: How do you frame the relationship between technology and equity?
HIRSH-PASEK: Everyone needs to have connectivity right now. That matters, and the kids who don’t have any are going to be left in the dust. We know that kids from under-resourced environments have fewer books in their home. Does it make a difference? Of course. We have to offer our children a full palette of what it means to be educated in the 21st century — and that means every kid.
READ MORE: Learn how to create an equitable digital culture in K–12 schools.
EDTECH: Given that our understanding of access and equity issues will continue to evolve, how can schools best approach this complex issue?
HIRSH-PASEK: Science is progressive, and the same thing is true for scientists who study learning. We’re trying to find out how to best use these tools so we can help all kids become active, engaged, meaningful and socially interactive learners. When we do that and we set goals and we help teachers see that it’s not about whether it’s projected on a whiteboard or a blackboard, we’re going to be much better off.
This isn’t about “Is screen time bad or good?” It’s about how you use it. It’s like with any other tool. It would sound ridiculous for me to say to you, “Is a screwdriver bad or good?” If you use it as a weapon, it’s bad. If you use it to get a screw out of a wall, it’s great.
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Anxiety and Betrayal
Engaging and listening to conversations, reading through all the various articles, blogs – including reader comments – along with emails (from communal professionals) the two words anxiety and betrayal pretty much sum up feelings in the Jewish world these days. With good reason.
And again this week, it appears that the funding crisis will take front page in American Jewish newspapers.
First, the Salem (Massachusetts) News has this insightful interview with Robert Lappin:
Lappin: ‘It breaks my heart’
“I am not sure which programs, if any, will resume. I am in the process of assessing what can be salvaged.”
the next four articles are all from the Los Angeles Jewish Journal:
The Four Big Madoff Questions: Who’s to blame, how much is lost, where’s the money, will it occur again?
Why is this fraud different from all other frauds?
The Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi scheme will definitely rewrite the record books when it comes to its dollar size, duration, number of victims, concentration within the Jewish community and, yes, the mountain of legal fees it generates.
So say fraud investigators, asset hunters, plaintiffs’ attorneys and a former federal prosecutor, all of whom also go out of their way to caution that some of what has already been publicly reported in this case will undoubtedly turn out to include inaccuracies.
There is still so much to discover and uncover.
Jewish Money
Give Bernard Madoff credit for one good deed: As much as his self-confessed Ponzi scheme revealed weaknesses in the Jewish world, it also laid bare many of our strengths.
Trials and tribulations tend to do just that — bring to light the good, the bad, the ugly. When some people behave at their worst, others are forced to, or revealed to, behave at their humanly best…
It’s not just that Madoff’s victims were disproportionately Jewish. (That fact alone should give pause to the idea that we possess some super-Spidey sense of financial acumen.)
It’s that the list of victims reveals something truly remarkable about the Jewish world: its deep and far-reaching philanthropy.
Financial tsunami shakes Jewish Community Foundation
“But I think the damage is greater than the numbers — the damage in people’s trust and the damage in the whole philanthropic ideal and the fact that this hit on top of the economy are making people not want to part with their money,” said Harriet Rossetto, (Beit T’Shuvah) founder and CEO. “We haven’t seen the extent of the damage here. It is going to keep being a domino effect — things people haven’t even thought of yet.”
Madoff’s Redemption
Every day, thousands of deals are made in our community, one Jew trusting another Jew and no one getting ripped off. We don’t hear about these, precisely because no one gets ripped off. There’s no doubt we ought to do more due diligence at all levels of Jewish philanthropy, and I’m sure that as a result of this scandal, we will. But let’s not kid ourselves: For as long as there are human beings, trust will play a central role in the affairs of men.
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Waiting for Superman: New CAJE, Old Battle
August 7, 2013 By eJP
by David Steiner
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving … conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.
The highlight of New CAJE #4 held at Nichols College, just west of Boston, was not the exemplary learning or rich celebrations of Jewish culture. It was the “Rumble in the Jungle,” the debate about the nature of Jewish education for the 21st century, which was set up like the famous heavyweight championship fight between Mohammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire and played out like the battle of the Mitnagdim and the Hassidim.
In one corner, there was Dr. David Bryfman, Director of the New Center for Collaborative Leadership at the Jewish Education Project in New York, and, in the other was Rabbi Danny Lehmann, President of Hebrew College of Boston. The room was packed, the stakes were high and, in place of a referee, Rabbi Cherie Koller-Fox moderated. There were no KO’s, but the crowd, passing judgment with the SMS app on their smart phones, gave a lean victory to Dr. Bryfman with the cellular poll asking which speaker would be most accepted by the audience member’s congregation or school board.
What were the stakes? The debate was set up to address the future of Jewish education. How important is Jewish literacy to the 21st century learner? What is the importance of Judaic text-based education in experiential learning? What is the importance of recreation (a sense of fun and belonging) in a Jewish education context? These were the questions, and if you removed references to the 21st century and experiential education, you might just think you were transported back to the era of apostasy following the false messiahs of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Standing in for the Hassidim was Dr. Bryfman, a new Baal Shem Tov, hoping to convince the crowd that the individual experience of a child, at the center of Jewish education, is best served with “positive Jewish experiences,” while his opponent, the Mitnaged, standing in for the Gra, Rabbi Danny Lehmann took the position that positive experiences are not a substitute for engagement with Jewish texts, which is at the center of Judaism.
To help decide whose vision of Jewish education is more appropriate for the 21st century, this writer turns back to the first century of the Common Era when a similar battle was being waged. In preparation for the Jewish people’s departure from their home turf in Roman occupied Palestine, Rabbi Tarfon and Rabbi Akiva argued the question: “Which is greater, education or action?” Tarfon insisted on experience, while Akiva defended learning. In the end, the rest of the rabbis settled the dispute by saying: “Education is greater because it leads to [proper] action.” Notice that education comes first, and, more importantly, not all action is proper.
In making his case, Dr. Bryfman delivered a body blow with an anecdote. He told the story of a woman who remembered the food she ate to break her fast on Tisha B’Av over two decades earlier at a Jewish summer camp. His point, we remember and identify with the world we experience. But Rabbi Lehmann, the southpaw, came back with an upper cut by lamenting the lack of substance and asking what is the benefit of an identity which is hallow? He asked why should we remain Jewish if it doesn’t stand for anything. Essentially, he was saying that there are many identities out there, and educators help to define Jewishness so young Jews will choose our identity.
Experiential education, John Dewey’s brainchild, was the centerpiece of the New CAJE debate, but there was a distinctly non-Dewey feeling in the air. Experience was being touted by Dr. Bryfman as a panacea for the ills of a religious school system that was failing our youth, while Rabbi Lehmann sounded like the naysayers of Progressive education. Both thought their educational philosophy is a natural outgrowth of Dewey, who would respond to them, “[A]ny movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.” It reminds me of the joke about the two scholars fighting over the true meaning of the Rambam. “My Monides is right.” “No, My Monides.”
Remaining loyal to Dewey, we can say that, “There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract.” Kal v’chomer, if this is so, then how can there be a panacea.
In my session, Exposing the Gorilla’s in the Complimentary School Classroom (and thinking about what to feed them), a group of religious school directors introduced themselves by telling each other where they are from and the particular challenges of their schools. We looked at this question through the lens’s of geography, demography and finance. What we discovered was just how complicated our situation is.
The problems of Jewish education are numerous but not uniform. (Repeat 3x) Like the seventy faces of Torah, each educator faces different challenges. Some of us are in big cities with large Jewish populations. In these cities, day school becomes an option, most often, when the public school system is failing. The consequence tends to be two forms of day schools; Jewish day schools and private schools for Jews. In all densely populated Jewish communities, the synagogue doesn’t need to be the center of Jewish life and bagels at the local deli may satisfy families’ needs for Jewish community and ritual. In small towns, isolation from highly trained teachers can be a major obstacle. One participant in my session told me about the positive role the Institute for Southern Jewish Life has in supporting these schools. Many are limited by finance. They can’t afford professional development for their teachers, and some even need to draft unpaid teacher volunteers. ISJL supports these schools through conferences, teacher mentorships and ongoing support.
I could go on about the challenges of the various religious schools, but my goal is not to make lists. I want to direct the reader’s attention to the fact that discussions about the nature of religious pedagogy, whether it is experiential or more like a traditional beit midrash, mislead us into believing that we can find uber remedies. In American public education, this is called “Waiting for Superman.” It doesn’t work. For millennia, Jewish communities have been led by the mara d’atra, usually rabbis, but essentially the “teacher of the place” whose charge it is to serve as a facilitator of Jewish knowledge and practice. Left to it’s own devices, this system wouldn’t work because the communities would eventually become so disparate in there beliefs that they would not find a common core. This is why they chose a big Jewish library of content to stand at the center of the curriculum. Each mara d’atra would have his favorite books and ways of teaching and expertise, but they would all emanate from a common set of constantly developing knowledge, an oral Torah. Left alone, this wouldn’t work either because some communities allowed their Torah to include false messiahs and unaccepted revelations. This is when the librarians came in and said, as I learned from my teacher Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, there need to be some borders for Judaism. This is where our system of checks and balances comes to play. We are pluralistic because we want the entire family at the table. It also teaches us to be humble and not assume that we have the monopoly on what’s right. We are tolerant because we stand for something, which means that not everything goes, i.e. we cannot have people at our table that will not sit with everyone at the table. And we allow some deviance because the best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go askew, and we have to address issues that we never thought would come up, like we do in conducting wars against terror or finding ways to accept the sexuality of all our family members.
Rabbi Lehmann is right that we have to look to our own library and grind our teeth in pursuit of these answers, and Dr. Bryfman is right in our need to create laboratories, a term I borrow from Dewey, where Jewish students can have Jewish experiences that make them want to be members of the tribe, and both of them are wrong if they think that theirs should be the dominant paradigm of our religious schools.
In Hebrew, we have three letter roots for our words, and often they become the source of a system of binary thinking that can be wonderful and terrible in the same moment. The root, shin, chet, reish, can create the word shachar, dawn, the beginning of light, and shachor, black, the absence of light. This gives us a spectrum on which to find ourselves. The same can be said for pey, shin, tet, which can create pshat, the simple or literary meaning, or moofshat, abstraction. Again, a binary. It’s the same idea that Bialik wanted us to learn in his brilliant essay, Aggadah and Halacha, Legend and Law. Each is the side of a coin. They cannot exist without the other. Think heaven and Earth, water and land, the workweek and Shabbat.
There are, however, other paradigms in Judaism. Seventy faces of Torah is a three dimensional paradigm. It recognizes the limitations of spectrums of thought. Seventy faces of Torah is why we need more organizations like New CAJE because Jewish educators need to come together and discuss our challenges and constantly brainstorm their solutions and share what works and what doesn’t. This is why I went to New CAJE, not for the heavyweights and their rumbles, not to make choices between mitnagdim and Hassidim, but to be in the company of my peers and colleagues and to face the challenges of the 21st century without waiting for Superman.
David J. Steiner, Ed.D. is working to complete his rabbinic ordination. He has been a congregational director of education for both the Reform and Conservative synagogues, and he recently returned to America from a fellowship at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
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Daniel Brenner says
Thank you for this excellent and thoroughly enjoyable window into the debate. My one concern is your conclusion “both of them are wrong if they think that theirs should be the dominant paradigm of our religious schools” My question to you: Why shouldn’t these models be dominant? Unfortunately I have seen many religious schools vacillate between “literacy” and “experience” in such a way that they end up trying to do both and end up with at best a B- or C+ in both categories. I would argue that religious schools would benefit from making choices and striving for an A – and both Bryfman’s and Lehmann’s models are good ones to dominate a curriculum. In other words – our synagogue educational leaders could either take Jewish text seriously or take Jewish civilization (i.e. arts/culture/ritual/experience) seriously – but they need to be realistic that trying to do both in limited time will result in a shallow experience. I’d also add a third option – taking Hebrew language seriously. The real “labs” will be the ones that make these choices, develop clarity about their dominant themes, go deep, and share their results with others.
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PRESS RELEASE : Malaysia’s Bid for the UN Security Council – INSTITUT RAKYAT
Posted on October 15, 2014 by Dr. Dzul
15 OCT, 2014: –
Why is Malaysia pushing so hard for a seat on the United Nations’ Security Council? What does it hope to achieve? And, how much has it spent on this quest?
This Thursday the United Nations will hold a vote on five seats up for grabs on its Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions, apply military action, and recommend the appointment of the U.N. Secretary-General.
Besides the five permanent seats accorded to the post-World War II big powers of the U.S., China, UK, France and Russia, there are ten non-permanent seats with two year terms. The last time Malaysia held a seat was 16 years ago.
Six countries – Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, Turkey and Venezuela – are competing for the five seats. Angola, Venezuela, and Malaysia are expected to be shoo-ins for seats on the Council as they have secured the support of their respective regional blocs of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. New Zealand, Spain, and Turkey will be racing neck-to-neck for the final two seats.
International politics is no less murky and cut-throat than Malaysian politics. Influence is bought, sold, and traded. Competition for the non-permanent seats on the Security Council is often fierce because the rewards are great.
A Harvard Business School paper, “How Much Is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations” by Ilyana Kuziemko and Eric Werker found that “a country’s U.S. aid increases by 59 percent and its U.N. aid by 8 percent when it rotates onto the council.” The flow of money increases in years when “key diplomatic events take place”. The flow of aid from the U.S. is more pronounced in years when the U.S. is engaged in major overseas invasions. The increase in U.N. aid is strongly tied to UNICEF, the children’s fund, which is dominated by the U.S.
Thus, Security Council membership appears to allow countries to extract rents in the form of U.S. aid bribes in addition to the other political bargaining chips that can be traded with other countries. Countries who table resolutions at the Security Council usually prefer to pass them unanimously; achieving this can take considerable diplomatic capital.
Malaysia has been lobbying intensely for a Security Council seat over the last few years.
Prime Minister Najib Razak unveiled his Global Movement of Moderates (GMM) in 2010. GMM has primarily been an international campaign because any domestic association of the Najib Administration with moderation has been undermined by perceived close ties between an increasingly right-leaning Umno and NGOs calling for aggressive responses to inter-ethnic issues, such as PERKASA and ISMA.
Moderation stands in stark contrast to the Prime Minister’s heavy-handed use of the Sedition Act to suppress speech by journalists, academics, students, lawyers, and politicians.
The image of moderation put forward by Najib’s GMM plays on a U.S. stereotype of Malaysia as a moderate Muslim nation that is compliant with U.S. geopolitical interests, in contrast to Muslim-majority countries such as Iran and Syria.
Najib and his GMM were featured in a 2013 event hosted by the influential New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, an organisation that boasts many past U.S. Secretaries of State and National Security Advisors as members.
The government-linked media has reported that Wisma Putra has been conducting high-level visits around the world to lobby for a Security Council seat. Delegates have reportedly traveled as far as Samoa and Kazakhstan to secure support.
Najib’s foreign policy thus far has been rational and pragmatic in that he has recognised that both the U.S. and China are crucial to Malaysia’s geopolitical future. He has tried very hard to please both of them with reciprocal state visits.
However, when two elephants fight in the jungle, the mouse deer risks being crushed between them. Washington-based analysts suggest that Najib is presenting himself as an Asia-Pacific outpost for the U.S. in relation to China while attempting to placate China on the other hand.
The U.S. wants Malaysia to sign on to its controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPPA) regional trade and investment pact, an agreement widely seen as an attempt to ringfence China in the Asia-Pacific.
China is a far more important trading partner to Malaysia than is the U.S., but it has also made aggressive territorial claims on James Shoal/Zhengmu Reef 80km off the coast of Sarawak and 1,800km away from China.
Since both the U.S. and China hold Permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council it is likely that Malaysia has made promises and assurances to both.
While increased diplomatic influence for Malaysia is welcome, there is a question about the domestic costs it may incur.
If Malaysia receives increased flows of aid from the U.S. how will this affect our stance on the Palestine-Israel conflict? Is signing on to the TPPA one of the bargaining chips?
How much has been spent on lobbying for Malaysia’s Security Council seat? Malaysia ranks amongst the world’s most corrupt countries as raised in surveys by Ernst & Young and KPMG. Costing for the Security Council campaign appears absent from the Budget of recent years.
A Security Council seat could also be leveraged as a bargaining tool to reduce foreign criticism of Malaysian human rights, especially by the U.S. and in fora such as the U.N. Human Rights Commission. The Najib Administration has moved from the repression of religious minorities to a full-blown crackdown using the Sedition Act. If the plan to incarcerate Pakatan Rakyat leader Anwar Ibrahim goes ahead then Malaysia must be prepared to face international criticism. It is an opportune time for Umno’s repressive domestic policy to be backed by international diplomatic capital.
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Book Review: Within The Cage
Posted on May 13, 2015 by toddpanther
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga.
Pamela Newkirk.
New York: Amistad/HarperCollins.
304 pp.; $25.99 (hardcover).
It’s the ingredients for a powerful devil’s brew: take white supremacy, slavery and colonialism and mix thoroughly with late 19th and early 20th century zoology, ethnology, wildlife conservation and taxidermy. Sprinkle with Darwin’s theory of evolution and simmer in Greater New York, the precursor to New York City. Simmer. Then pull back the curtain and pour, showing the African—the so-called “pygmy”—on public display in the monkey cage at the Bronx Zoo, all for the sake of greed disgustingly disguised as science.
Written by New York University journalism professor Pamela Newkirk in as dispassionate a tone as can be attempted, “Spectacle” shakes all the way to the reader’s core. The tale of Ota Benga, the Congolese forest dweller—exhibited with other captured people in the 1904 World’s Fair, the symbol of white world progress, and then, two years later, solo at the zoo—crackles with 21st century disbelief, even after taking into account an elementary historical understanding that many Europeans and white Americans for centuries publicly declared Blacks sub-human.
“For the general public [of the World’s Fair], the sight of barely clad, presumably primitive people assembled across the fairgrounds was evidence enough of Caucasian superiority,” writes Newkirk. “The beings whom scientists had described as semi-human, cannibalistic dwarfs were no longer regulated to mythology or to anthropological field notes. The reality—that the delegation comprised captured African children—if considered at all, was understood as merely a means to a scientific end.”
The painful, and painstakingly researched, work of social history goes beyond the surface level of “Whites Only” signs into the bleached hearts of an insecure, psychologically disturbed people who, in the early part of the 20th century, argued over the level of humanity of an African they had caged, failing to see the obvious irony. The efforts of a group of Black preachers to free Benga from his Bronx Zoo cage is prominently noted (as is the intellectual combativeness of the voice of true scientific reason, the anthropologist Franz Boas), but their limited, and relative, access to their own freedom and power dangles in the background.
Because Newkirk had no historical access to Benga, the public sensation via personal violation, she had the challenging task of writing around the man at the center of the monkey cage—the “prey for a merciless hunter.” That hunter’s name is Samuel Phillips Verner, and he is the central subject of this merciless defilement. He proves the old adage that some people in life pose as a friend in order to get into position as a more effective enemy.
Verner is, in many ways, the quintessential unapologetic white man for this type of unapologetically harsh story, fitting the perfect casting call for the benevolent white American liberal who interrupts African life for gold, status and power. He is a liar and thief who camouflages his character through the chronological guises of missionary, then adventurer, and finally an amateur “scientist” and “African expert” in this white world of European and American pseudo-science. In the histories and academic studies written and embedded by white men, he is the man who did well by doing good. Newkirk exposes his decades of shameless, opportunistic motives and behavior in what should be called visionist history.
Belgian King Leopold II’s shadow, and especially the mass graveyards of his uncounted African victims, loom over this work. Benga’s “rescue” by Verner, while the “hero” cuts business deals almost every waking hour, is symbolic of the American complicity in the raping of the continent by Europe. (As Newkirk shows, Belgium’s public relations campaign to get greedy American imperialists on its side—with Verner as one of many leaders—was quite successful, while it lasted.) The public shaming of white supremacy in the Congo by true heroes Mark Twain, George Washington Williams and Booker T. Washington are mentioned, but it is Verner’s ruthless ambitions that solidify the book’s central vortex.
Meanwhile, Benga—who a New York Times editorial charitably described as “a human being, of a sort”—resisted his captors as best he could, being a stranger in an absurd land surrounded by paternalistic friends. One day, he defies the zookeepers by physically fighting them. When he was physically prodded by the rowdy throngs that crowded the park to see him, he struck back. When he was allowed to roam the park, and another horde decided to track him, he fired an arrow at one of the rabble. He pulled a knife against a handler. Later, when he was moved to a museum, he attempted to escape. And finally, now years separated from his village, refusing to ask his former captors for help getting back to the Congo, he does what he must to ease his deepening depression. The author allows Benga’s actions to speak above the crushing waves of this psychologically tortuous history.
The Bronx Zoo, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society and their institutional fellow travelers in quantitative academia—all historic bastions of elite, white male privilege—will have a lot of questions asked by Newkirk’s readers to answer. Complicity in the crimes against African humanity connects like amber waves of grain. “Me no like America,” Benga said from his cage.
Frederick Douglass said in a famous 1852 speech that the United States of America was guilty of “crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages.” This superb book proves that postulate again, right in time for recent, post-modern generations of Americans who seriously need to come to terms with that consistent, historical truth.
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Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” (Inauguration Poem)
Film Mini-Review: J. Edgar Hoover, MLK and the Mixtape Sans Music
Film Mini-Review: The Four Tops
The Entire 2020 Hate Awards Can Be Found….
My Book Review on Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria’s Third and Final Book on the American Empire…..
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Class-action Lawsuit Alleges Florida’s DUI Laws Violates Suspects’ Due Process
Fort Meyers, FL- A class-action lawsuit that was filed in federal court this week alleges the rights of DUI offenders in Florida are being violated when their license is seized and suspended by the DMV.
The lawsuit was initiated by an Orlando man who was arrested for DUI last fall. Like all DUI offenders, the man was arrested, and his license was immediately seized and his license was suspended for a year.
WESH reports that after the man was found guilty of DUI and spent two days in jail, he and his legal counsel filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, alleging that his rights to due process were violated because his license is still suspended.
The lawsuit seeks an injunction that would prohibit the state from suspending driver’s licenses for the next 90 days. In addition to the injunction, the lawsuit is seeking $50 million in damages to be paid to 240,000 people arrested for DUI in Florida since 2012.
David Oliver, the attorney who file the suit told WESH, “They (DHSMV) are judge, jury and executioner. They decide that your license should be taken.”
Oliver also argues that is unconstitutional for the Florida DHSMV to keep a person’s driver’s license after they’ve been found not guilty. He also argues that not-guilty offender should not be required to pay a temporary license fee of $240 or be required to attend an administrative hearing to have their license reinstated, WESH reports.
If you are charged with your first DUI in Florida, having you license suspended is one of the many consequences you face. For a DUI conviction, you could face up to six months in jail, fines totaling as much as $2,000 and you could be ordered to do community service.
If you have lost your license and the would like to get it reinstated, you have several requirements you must meet. First you must complete DUI school and, if ordered, you must complete a rehabilitation program. Once you complete your court-mandated programs, you can apply for a hardship license. If your license is reinstated or you are granted a hardship license, you will have to show proof of insurance.
You best chance of avoiding the many headaches associated with a DUI charge is to retain and DUI lawyer in Fort Meyers, Florida to work on your defense and help you keep your driver’s license. Since a DUI conviction stays on your record for at least ten years, you need an aggressive defense strategy to help you avoid a conviction. And if that isn’t in the cards, an assertive defense will, at the least, give you the chance to mitigate the consequences of a DUI conviction.
If you have been charged with a DUI in Fort Meyers, USAttorneys recommends you contact the law offices of Michael Raheb and set up a time for a case evaluation. Contact his office at 866-949-0888 and let him get started on your defense.
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Dallas Police Face Criticism for Drop in DWI Arrests Iowa Lawmaker Pushes to Strengthen OWI Laws
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Aristarchus of Samos
(person) by cbustapeck Sat Sep 29 2001 at 20:26:19
Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer, flourished about 250 B.C. He is famous as having been the first to maintain that the earth moves around the sun. On this account he was accused of impiety by the Stoic Cleanthes, just as Galileo, in later years, was attacked by the theologians. His only extant work is a short treatise (with a commentary by Pappus of Alexandria) On the Magnitudes and Distances of the Sun and Moon. His method of estimating the relative lunar and solar distances is geometrically correct, though the instrumental means at his command rendered his data erroneous. Although hte heliocentric system is not mentioned in the treatis, a quotation in the Arenarius of Archimedes from a work of Aristarchus proves that he anticipated the great discovery of Copernicus. Further, Copernicus could not have known of Aristarchus's doctrine, since Archimedes's work was not published till after Copernicus's death. Aristarchus is also said to have invented two sun dials, one hemispherical, the so called scaphio, the other plane.
From the eleventh edition of The Encyclopedia, 1911. Public domain. The name of the encyclopedia is still a registered trademark, and is therefore not listed here. Some spellings have been changed to reflect the times (and link better), and some notes have been removed, most of which referred to other articles, and have been replaced with links.
Aristarchus Oeuvres d'Archimède Nicomachus Cleanthes
Encyclopædia Britannica Archimedes Palimpsest Thomas Little Heath Pappus of Alexandria
Claudius Ptolemaeus Almagest Archimedes Separating Science from Pseudoscience
Theorem of Thales Euclid, Ohio Historia Calamitatum III Antikythera mechanism
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Kepler Gaius Valerius Maximus Mathematical Repository
Strabo Oliver Byrne Democritus Thales
Italian Easter Pie
Gone in Sixty Seconds - A Theatre Quest
Target Rifle Shooting
what all the kids are reading
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Villainous Tools and Other Items, Magic, Paranormal
Books of Zeref
The Books of Zeref
The Books of Zeref are, as the name suggests, a series of Magic books written by the Black Mage Zeref, containing various spells of the Black Arts.
Not much is known about the appearance of each book, but the book containing E.N.D. is shown as a slightly tatty volume with various rips and tears in the cover. It has Zeref's name written in large black letters on the cover and the spine. On the front cover, there is a picture of a glowing eye in darkness with several wavy lines spiraling inwards towards it.
The books contain knowledge on the Black Arts which Zeref used. Many of the spells known to come from the books involve the creation of Demons. Each Demon is summoned by their own book. Warrod Sequen speculates that one specific book, the book of the most powerful of Zeref's Demons, E.N.D., may be in the possession of Tartaros, a Dark Guild whose members consist of Demons originating from the books, also known as Etherious.
Lullaby: This demon, usually in the form of a flute that kills anyone who hears its tune besides the player, is said to be from the Books of Zeref, according to Goldmine.
Deliora: This demon is also one from the Books of Zeref.
Nemesis : This spell comes from Chapter 4, Section 12 of one of the books, and allows the user to create Demons from rocks.
E.N.D.: Is described by Atlas Flame as the vilest Demon from the Books of Zeref. According to him, Igneel tried and failed to destroy him 400 years ago. The Demon's name is an abbreviation for "Etherious Natsu Dragneel", meaning his true identity is Natsu himself.
Eclipse: The Eclipse Gate uses a combination of Magic from the books and Celestial Spirit Magic to enable time travel.
Tartaros: A guild made up entirely of Demons originating from the books, according to Erik.
Mard Geer Tartaros: One of Zeref's strongest Demons and the founder of Tartaros.
Nine Demon Gates: Tartaros' powerful team of nine, are also Demons made by the "love" of Zeref, as mentioned by Kyôka, one of its members.
one of the Books of Zeref.
The Book of E.N.D.
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James Lugo: How To Overcome Binge Eating & Drop Over 100 Pounds
On August 1, 2015, James began his journey to lose 100 pounds and gain his health and life back. He sent me an email last year that went straight to my heart, and I’m looking forward to him sharing more of his story with you today.
Don Saladino: How to Spot Fake Experts, Using Tech for Good & How A-List Celebs Train in Real Life
What do Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson all have in common? We’re here with Don Saladino, one of the most in-demand and respected trainers in Hollywood, and he’s going to spill the beans on topics that will definitely raise some eyebrows.
Anna Vocino: Comedians, Cream Cheese & Cooking for Celiacs
What happens when a comedian writes a cookbook? Anna Vocino is a voice-over talent and stand-up comedian who also happens to be a celiac and cookbook author. And her cauliflower tots are out of hand.
Vinnie Tortorich: Prince, Road Food & The Tapeworm Diet
Returning to the show this week, our guest Vinnie Tortorich, will give us a behind-the-scenes look at what really goes on in the broadcasting world, and how the life of a celebrity is often not what it seems.
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Dwarf Planet Makemake Lacks Atmosphere
21 November 2012: Astronomers have used three telescopes at ESO’s observatories in Chile to observe the dwarf planet Makemake as it drifted in front of a distant star and blocked its light. The new observations have allowed them to check for the first time whether Makemake is surrounded by an atmosphere. This chilly world has an orbit lying in the outer Solar System and was expected to have an atmosphere like Pluto (eso0908), but this is now shown not to be the case. The scientists also measured Makemake’s density for the first time. The new results are to be published in the 22 November issue of the journal Nature.
The Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies
25 January 2012: Using the APEX telescope, a team of astronomers has found the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies found today. The galaxies, flowering with dramatic starbursts in the early Universe, saw the birth of new stars abruptly cut short, leaving them as massive — but passive — galaxies of aging stars in the present day. The astronomers also have a likely culprit for the sudden end to the starbursts: the emergence of supermassive black holes.
Stars Just Got Bigger
21 July 2010: Using a combination of instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth more than 300 times the mass of the Sun, or twice as much as the currently accepted limit of 150 solar masses. The existence of these monsters — millions of times more luminous than the Sun, losing weight through very powerful winds — may provide an answer to the question “how massive can stars be?”
The Most Distant Object Yet Discovered in the Universe
28 April 2009: ESO's Very Large Telescope has shown that a faint gamma-ray burst detected last Thursday is the signature of the explosion of the earliest, most distant known object in the Universe (a redshift of 8.2). The explosion apparently took place more than 13 billion years ago, only about 600 million years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers get best view yet of infant stars at feeding time
10 October 2008: Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars. They obtained a very precise view of the processes acting in the discs that feed stars as they form. These mechanisms include material infalling onto the star as well as gas being ejected, probably as a wind from the disc.
Accretion Discs Show Their True Colours
23 July 2008: Quasars are the brilliant cores of remote galaxies, at the hearts of which lie supermassive black holes that can generate enough power to outshine the Sun a trillion times. These mighty power sources are fuelled by interstellar gas, thought to be sucked into the hole from a surrounding 'accretion disc'. A paper in this week's issue of the journal Nature, partly based on observations collected with ESO's Very Large Telescope, verifies a long-standing prediction about the intensely luminous radiation emitted by these accretion discs.
The Little Man and the Cosmic Cauldron
27 May 2008: On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Very Large Telescope's First Light, ESO is releasing two stunning images of different kinds of nebulae, located towards the Carina constellation. The first one, Eta Carinae, has the shape of a 'little man' and surrounds a star doomed to explode within the next 100000 years. The second image features a much larger nebula, whose internal turmoil is created by a cluster of young, massive stars.
SN1987A's Twentieth Anniversary
24 February 2007: The unique supernova SN 1987A has been a bonanza for astrophysicists. It provided several observational 'firsts,' like the detection of neutrinos from an exploding star, the observation of the progenitor star on archival photographic plates, the signatures of a non-spherical explosion, the direct observation of the radioactive elements produced during the blast, observation of the formation of dust in the supernova, as well as the detection of circumstellar and interstellar material.
The 'Planemo' Twins
4 August 2006: The cast of exoplanets has an extraordinary new member. Using ESO's telescopes, astronomers have discovered an approximately seven-Jupiter-mass companion to an object that is itself only twice as hefty. Both objects have masses similar to those of extra-solar giant planets, but they are not in orbit around a star - instead they appear to circle each other. The existence of such a double system puts strong constraints on formation theories of free-floating planetary mass objects.
Island Universes with a Twist
26 July 2006: If life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you will get - the Universe, with its immensely large variety of galaxies, must be a real candy store! ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken images of three different 'Island Universes' [1], each amazing in their own way, whose curious shapes testify of a troubled past, and for one, of a foreseeable doomed future.
Sharp Vision Reveals Intimacy of Stars
24 November 2005: Using the newly installed AMBER instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, which combines the light from two or three 8.2-m Unit Telescopes thereby amounting to observe with a telescope of 40 to 90 metres in diameter, two international teams of astronomers observed with unprecedented detail the environment of two stars. One is a young, still-forming star and the new results provide useful information on the conditions leading to the creation of planets. The other is on the contrary a star entering the latest stages of its life. The astronomers found, in both cases, evidence for a surrounding disc.
Star Death Beacon at the Edge of the Universe
12 September 2005: An Italian team of astronomers has observed the afterglow of a Gamma-Ray Burst that is the farthest known ever. With a measured redshift of 6.3, the light from this very remote astronomical source has taken 12,700 million years to reach us. It is thus seen when the Universe was less than 900 million years old, or less than 7 percent its present age.
Moving Closer to the Grand Spiral
1 August 2005: An international team of astronomers from Chile, Europe and North America [1] is announcing the most accurate distance yet measured to a galaxy beyond our Milky Way's close neighbours. The distance was determined using the brightness variation of a type of stars known as "Cepheid variables".
Einstein Ring in Distant Universe
30 June 2005: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, Rémi Cabanac and his European colleagues have discovered an amazing cosmic mirage, known to scientists as an Einstein Ring. This cosmic mirage, dubbed FOR J0332-3557, is seen towards the southern constellation Fornax (the Furnace), and is remarkable on at least two counts. First, it is a bright, almost complete Einstein ring. Second, it is the farthest ever found.
Surprise Discovery of Highly Developed Structure in the Young Universe
2 March 2005: Combining observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, astronomers have discovered the most distant, very massive structure in the Universe known so far. It is a remote cluster of galaxies that is found to weigh as much as several thousand galaxies like our own Milky Way and is located no less than 9,000 million light-years away. The VLT images reveal that it contains reddish and elliptical, i.e. old, galaxies. Interestingly, the cluster itself appears to be in a very advanced state of development. It must therefore have formed when the Universe was less than one third of its present age. The discovery of such a complex and mature structure so early in the history of the Universe is highly surprising. Indeed, until recently it would even have been deemed impossible.
Rebuilding Spiral Galaxies
13 January 2005: Most present-day large galaxies are spirals, presenting a disc surrounding a central bulge. Famous examples are our own Milky Way or the Andromeda Galaxy. When and how did these spiral galaxies form? Why do a great majority of them present a massive central bulge? An international team of astronomers [1] presents new convincing answers to these fundamental questions. For this, they rely on an extensive dataset of observations of galaxies taken with several space- and ground-based telescopes. In particular, they used over a two-year period, several instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope. Among others, their observations reveal that roughly half of the present-day stars were formed in the period between 8,000 million and 4,000 million years ago, mostly in episodic burst of intense star formation occurring in Luminous Infrared Galaxies. From this and other evidence, the astronomers devised an innovative scenario, dubbed the "spiral rebuilding". They claim that most present-day spiral galaxies are the results of one or several merger events. If confirmed, this new scenario could revolutionise the way astronomers think galaxies formed.
Big Stellar Clusters Forming in the Blue Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5253
18 November 2004: Star formation is one of the most basic phenomena in the Universe. Inside stars, primordial material from the Big Bang is processed into heavier elements that we observe today. In the extended atmospheres of certain types of stars, these elements combine into more complex systems like molecules and dust grains, the building blocks for new planets, stars and galaxies and, ultimately, for life. Violent star-forming processes let otherwise dull galaxies shine in the darkness of deep space and make them visible to us over large distances.
Shadow of a Large Disc Casts New Light on the Formation of High Mass Stars
12 May 2004: Based on a large observational effort with different telescopes and instruments, mostly from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), a team of European astronomers [1] has shown that in the M 17 nebula a high mass star [2] forms via accretion through a circumstellar disc, i.e. through the same channel as low-mass stars. To reach this conclusion, the astronomers used very sensitive infrared instruments to penetrate the south-western molecular cloud of M 17 so that faint emission from gas heated up by a cluster of massive stars, partly located behind the molecular cloud, could be detected through the dust. Against the background of this hot region a large opaque silhouette, which resembles a flared disc seen nearly edge-on, is found to be associated with an hour-glass shaped reflection nebula. This system complies perfectly with a newly forming high-mass star surrounded by a huge accretion disc and accompanied by an energetic bipolar mass outflow. The new observations corroborate recent theoretical calculations which claim that stars up to 40 times more massive than the Sun can be formed by the same processes that are active during the formation of stars of smaller masses.
VLT Smashes the Record of the Farthest Known Galaxy
1 March 2004: Using the ISAAC near-infrared instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, and the magnification effect of a gravitational lens, a team of French and Swiss astronomers [2] has found several faint galaxies believed to be the most remote known. Further spectroscopic studies of one of these candidates has provided a strong case for what is now the new record holder - and by far - of the most distant galaxy known in the Universe. Named Abell 1835 IR1916, the newly discovered galaxy has a redshift of 10 [3] and is located about 13,230 million light-years away. It is therefore seen at a time when the Universe was merely 470 million years young, that is, barely 3 percent of its current age. This primeval galaxy appears to be ten thousand times less massive than our Galaxy, the Milky Way. It might well be among the first class of objects which put an end to the Dark Ages of the Universe. This remarkable discovery illustrates the potential of large ground-based telescopes in the near-infrared domain for the exploration of the very early Universe.
The Colour of the Young Universe
19 December 2003: An international team of astronomers [1] has determined the colour of the Universe when it was very young. While the Universe is now kind of beige, it was much bluer in the distant past , at a time when it was only 2,500 million years old. This is the outcome of an extensive and thorough analysis of more than 300 galaxies seen within a small southern sky area, the so-called Hubble Deep Field South. The main goal of this advanced study was to understand how the stellar content of the Universe was assembled and has changed over time. Dutch astronomer Marijn Franx , a team member from the Leiden Observatory (The Netherlands), explains: "The blue colour of the early Universe is caused by the predominantly blue light from young stars in the galaxies. The redder colour of the Universe today is caused by the relatively larger number of older, redder stars." The team leader, Gregory Rudnick from the Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysics (Garching, Germany) adds: "Since the total amount of light in the Universe in the past was about the same as today and a young blue star emits much more light than an old red star, there must have been significantly fewer stars in the young Universe than there is now. Our new findings imply that the majority of stars in the Universe were formed comparatively late, not so long before our Sun was born, at a moment when the Universe was around 7,000 million years old." These new results are based on unique data collected during more than 100 hours of observations with the ISAAC multi-mode instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), as part of a major research project, the Faint InfraRed Extragalactic Survey (FIRES) . The distances to the galaxies were estimated from their brightness in different optical near-infrared wavelength bands.
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About Uschris2019-03-22T16:08:51+08:00
First Aid Instructor Background
Steve Lewsen is a former ambulance officer and medical lecturer. He has been running first aid courses for over 25 years and has personally taught over 20 000 people how to save a life and assist an injured person in a range of different situations.
Steve is a very enthusiastic and vibrant lecturer and this clearly shows in his courses. He is very passionate and genuinely believes in the work that he does, as he has seen the difference that basic first-aid knowledge can make in an emergency. He regularly receives feedback from those he has taught stating that their children would have been far more seriously injured, and, in some cases, would even have died, had it not been for the knowledge that they gained from his course.
Steve’s courses have been described as “inspirational” by his students. Educating people is no longer just what he does, but who he is. He is exceptionally well-known throughout the Perth metropolitan area and has a reputation for providing a very high quality course to the public.
He is known for the fact that he teaches in a way that really gets people thinking about what they are learning, as opposed to simply memorising the steps. This helps them remember the info over time, even when under extreme stress. In fact, he spends time in every course teaching his students how to manage the “panic” of a real-life medical emergency!
In addition to running thousands of courses over the years, Steve has conducted over 1000 free medical seminars for playgroups, child health centres, parenting groups, community organisations and workplaces.
He has appeared on Channel 7 News discussing burns treatment and was interviewed on Nine News after one of his students, who had completed his course a week before, used the information on choking to save the life of her child.
He is regularly interviewed on radio regarding first-aid.
He has also run a medical series on ABC radio in both WA and Victoria, which was credited with saving a number of lives.
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(REFERENCE COPY - Not for submission) Children's Television Programming Report
CPR-159480
KREX-TV
Children's TV Programming Report
Current Step is General Information
Children's Television Information
Digital Core Programming
Digital Core Programming Summary
Non-Core Educational and Informational Programming
Sponsored Core Programming
Liaison Contact
Report reflects information for : Third Quarter of 2014
Station Type
Station Type Network Affiliation
Affiliated network CBS
Nielsen DMA Grand Junction-Montrose
Web Home Page Address www.krextv.com
State the average number of hours of Core Programming per week broadcast by the station on its main program stream 3.0
State the average number of hours per week of free over-the-air digital video programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream 0.0
State the average number of hours per week of Core Programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671: 0.0
Does the Licensee provide information identifying each Core Program aired on its station, including an indication of the target child audience, to publishers of program guides as required by 47 C.F.R. Section 73.673? Yes
Does the Licensee certify that at least 50% of the Core Programming counted toward meeting the additional programming guideline (applied to free video programming aired on other than the main Yes No program stream) did not consist of program episodes that had already aired within the previous seven days either on the station's main program stream or on another of the station's free digital program streams? Yes
Digital Core Programs(8)
Digital Core Program (1 of 8)
Program Title All in with Laila Ali
Origination Network
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturday 9a
Total times aired at regularly scheduled time 13
Total times aired
Number of Preemptions 0
Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News
Number of Preemptions Rescheduled
Length of Program 30 mins
Age of Target Child Audience 13 years to 16 years
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. ALL IN, hosted by Laila Ali, scours the globe to track down compelling stories, profiling inspirational people, groundbreaking achievements and extraordinary lifestyles. Using a magazine format, the program focuses on the achievements of individuals, who, whether through sports,culture, travel or adventure, follow their dreams. The program illustrates for viewers important life lessons: the rewards of developing a passion for some subject or discipline, the importance of setting goals and the value of not giving up. The show not only encourages a positive sense of commitment to one's goals but also the idea that hard work can achieve very positive results. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? Yes
Program Title Eco Company
Origination Syndicated
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturday 1030a
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Eco Company explores all aspects of being green and understanding how we impact our world. The E-Co team will report on the latest technologies in energy, recycling, conservation and organics and will share stories of young people making a positive impact on the environment. Each week the show will also provide practical tips that teens, and people of all ages can use in their daily lives. In addition through the dynamic and interactive eco-company.tv website, teens from throughout the country will be able to submit their own ideas and videos on how to live green.
Program Title Dr Chris Pet Vet
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturday 730a
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Chronicling the adventures of Dr. Chris Brown, DR. CHRIS PET VET allows viewers unique insight into the life of one of the world's busiest vets and the animals that he treats. For those animals that require specialist services, Dr. Chris calls on his good friend and colleague Dr. Lisa Chimes, who works at a small animal specialist hospital. The show usually consists of three segments, following the doctor as he treats various animals that are in trouble and offering the viewer opportunities to understand the challenges a veterinarian daily faces. The series focuses on how the doctor investigates the individual problem and tries to develop solutions that on the surface would seem confounding to the viewer. As such the show not only offers a view into careers in and responsibility for taking care of pets, but also into problem solving strategies and behaviors. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
Program Title Recipe Rehab
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturday 8a-12x Saturday 830a-1x
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Each week, host Evette Rios, recently a field correspondent and roving reporter for "The Chew," helps American families modify and update a high-calorie family recipe. First, two chefs face off in a head-to-head competition to give the recipes a nutritious low-calorie twist. After making each rehabbed recipe in its own kitchen, the family chooses its new favorite. This recipe makeover challenge teaches viewers about the nutritional value of different foods, promotes the use of healthy, wholesome ingredients, and demonstrates that healthy food choices can have positive effects on viewers' quality of life. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
Program Title Lucky Dog
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Animal trainer Brandon McMillan operates a training facility known as the Lucky Dog Ranch, where his mission is to rescue hard-to-love and untrained dogs and find them homes. The show focuses on exercising responsibility and on developing a sense of appreciation for life and animals. Life lessons are an integral part of the overarching theme of rescuing these animals from death and providing a second chance for life. Following McMillan's investigations into how to retrain these animals to make them welcome members in the homes of families is both educational and inspirational - encouraging this demographic to become sensitive to our own and others' behavior and teaching how we as individuals can make a difference. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
Program Title Innovation Nation
Total times aired at regularly scheduled time 1
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. The Henry Ford's INNOVATION NATION, hosted by Mo Rocca, features the celebration of the inventor's spirit - from historic scientific pioneers throughout past centuries to the forward-looking visionaries of today. Each episode tells the dramatic stories behind the world's greatest inventions, and the perseverance, passion and price required to bring them to life. The program includes segments focusing on 'what if it never happened' and 'the innovation by accident,' and has a strong focus on 'junior geniuses' who are changing the face of technology. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
Program Title Jamie Olivers 15 Minute Meals
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Best known for his Emmy Award-winning television program, "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," Oliver is one of the world's favorite celebrity chefs who aspires to teach the world to cook. Oliver's core belief is that simply cooking for oneself using fresh ingredients is the easiest way to maintain a balanced diet, and to this goal, he has perfected a delicious collection of healthy recipes that can be prepared in 15 minutes. The show encourages young viewers to replicate the recipes and to develop healthy lifestyles through healthy cooking. The program also fosters viewers' appreciation for different kinds of foods and cultures from around the world. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
Program Title Game Changers with Kevin Frazier
Total times aired 13
Number of Preemptions Rescheduled 1
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. GAME CHANGERS, hosted by "omg! Insider's" Kevin Frazier, highlights professional athletes who use their notoriety and success to make positive changes in the lives of people in need. The program offers a very positive opportunity to view sports figures in activities that reflect the ideas of good sportsmanship and civic mindedness. Profiled celebrities range from players who have set up charities for youngsters around the world to those who have put together foundations that support various initiatives in their own communities where they were raised as part of an effort to "give back." The show provides valuable lessons on the true meaning of sportsmanship and responsibility to society of those who have achieved great success. This program is specifically designed to further the educational and informational needs of children, has educating and informing children as a significant purpose, and otherwise meets the definition of Core Programming as specified in the Commission's rules.
Non-Core Educational and Informational Programming (0)
Sponsored Core Programming (0)
Does the Licensee publicize the existence and location of the station's Children's Television Programming Reports (FCC 398) as required by 47 C.F.R. Section 73.3526(e)(11)(iii)? Yes
Name of children's programming liaison Shelley Moore
Address 345 Hillcrest
City Grand Junction
State CO
Telephone Number 970-242-5000
Email Address accounts@krextv.com
Include any other comments or information you want the Commission to consider in evaluating your compliance with the Children's Television Act (or use this space for supplemental explanations). This may include information on any other noncore educational and informational programming that you aired this quarter or plan to air during the next quarter, or any existing or proposed non-broadcast efforts that will enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671, NOTES 2 and 3.
Other Matters (1 of 7)
Age of Target Child Audience from 13 years to 16 years
Program Title Game Changers with Kevin Fraizer
The undersigned certifies that he or she is (a) the party filing the Children's Television Programming, or an officer, director, member, partner, trustee, authorized employee, or other individual or duly elected or appointed official who is authorized to sign on behalf of the party filing the Children's Television Programming; or (b) an attorney qualified to practice before the Commission under 47 C.F.R. Section 1.23(a), who is authorized to represent the party filing the Children's Television Programming, and who further certifies that he or she has read the document; that to the best of his or her knowledge, information,and belief there is good ground to support it; and that it is not interposed for delay.
Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc
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Fourth Consecutive Top Micropolitan
Posted March 5th, 2018 | filed under News.
Findlay Ranked Top Micropolitan Community in the U.S. Fourth Year in a Row
Local Economic Development Projects top the national chart at 21 projects in 2017
(FINDLAY, OH, March 5, 2018)— For the fourth consecutive year, Findlay, Ohio has been ranked the top micropolitan community in the U.S. for new and expanding facilities by Site Selection magazine, the official publication of the Global FDI Association and the Industrial Asset Management Council. The magazine ranked 575 of the nation’s micropolitan areas, cities of 10,000 to 50,000 people which cover at least one county.
“Four years in a row as top small city in America is an emphatic endorsement of Findlay, its favorable business climate and its aggressive approach to economic development. The Findlay formula is a model that other cities, big and small alike, would do well to emulate.”, said Gary Daughters, Senior Editor Site Selection Magazine.
The Findlay•Hancock County Economic Development Office compiled and submitted 21 projects that met Site Selection’s qualifying criteria. Among those that qualified were the Campbell Soup Distribution Center, representing a $44 million investment, Valfilm’s 40,000 square foot plant expansion, a $6 million investment and AutoLiv Nissin Brake System’s new 216,000 sq foot facility, a $70 million investment.
“The Findlay Formula has resulted in a pro-business environment making it easy for companies to invest.”, said Findlay Mayor Lydia Mihalik. “The fact we have been ranked #1 four years in a row demonstrates to investors that we are ready for them. Wins like AutoLiv Nissin, Campbell Soup, Valfilm, could choose anywhere in the world and North America, we are thankful they chose Findlay.”
“Economic Development has broadened its purpose to now include: Retention & Expansion, Attraction, Downtown Findlay, Small Business, Workforce and Community Planning” said Tim Mayle, Economic Development Director. “2017 was a record year for job creation and construction by Site Selection Magazine’s metrics. Findlay also saw the construction of two hotels, a 100,000 square foot spec building, two multi-family residential communities and a new business school at the University of Findlay.”
The Top Micropolitan recognition demonstrates that companies continue to invest in Findlay. It did not take long for Dan Wendorf, Managing Director Jones Lange LaSalle (JLL) a Leader of Global Real Estate Services, to realize why companies continue to invest in Findlay. Wendorf praises “cohesion” among Findlay’s economic development professionals, elected officials and private sector partners, which facilitates speed and focus in going after deals. “They have sites that are ready, they are pro-business and they coordinate their efforts with no individual agendas. You really do feel like they’re there to make it happen.”
“It is great to be recognized for 2017 investments but 2018 is shaping up to be another outstanding year.”, said Brian Robertson, Hancock County Commissioner. “For the first time in many years a spec building is under construction in our community. We will be prepared for future investments with infrastructure and available buildings.”
A newly released video “We Are Ready for You….Are You Ready for Findlay?” can be found at www.FindFindlay.com detailing why organizations have invested in Findlay.
For more information, please contact the Findlay•Hancock County Economic Development Office at 419-422-3313.
A formal presentation of the award with Site Selection will take place on March 13, 2018. Additional details to follow.
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National webcast Saturday: Rosenberg, Evangelical leaders to call for revival in US, Great Awakening, support for Israel. VP Pence, Anne Graham Lotz, Dr. Tony Evans, Greg Laurie to speak by video. Please watch and share.
September 18, 2020 By joelcrosenberg in Epicenter
To watch or listen Saturday, please click here.
The following article was published today by ALL ISRAEL NEWS.
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA — With an unprecedented pandemic sweeping across the country, nearly 200,000 COVID deaths, millions of people unemployed, urban rioting, spiking racial tensions, surging murder rates and widespread lawlessness, many Americans are fearful about the future of their country.
A recent poll found that 8-in-10 Americans believe the country is headed in the wrongdirection.
Even more sobering, a poll conducted by Georgetown University found that the average American voter believes the country is on “the edge of civil war.”
In that context, dozens of Evangelical churches in the Midwest are holding a nationally broadcast event on Saturday, Sept. 19 calling for spiritual revival and a national Great Awakening.
They will also call for a renewed commitment for Christians to “bless Israel” that God may also have mercy on America before it’s too late.
The keynote speakers will be Joel C. Rosenberg, editor-in-chief of ALL ISRAEL NEWS, and David Brody, chief Washington correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Vice President Mike Pence will address the gathering by video.
Also speaking by video will be Bible teacher Anne Graham Lotz, pastor and evangelist Greg Laurie and Dr. Tony Evans, one of the most prominent African American pastors in the U.S.
Rosenberg and Brody met with Pence at the White House on Tuesday to videotape the VP’s message.
Organizers insist the event will be non-political and non-partisan.
Brody and Rosenberg asked the vice president why the Bible and his faith in Jesus is important to him, why the U.S.-Israel alliance is so important to the future of the nation and why the VP often ends his speeches with a discussion of one of his favorite portions of scripture, 2 Chronicles 7:14.
In that passage, God promised Israel’s King Solomon, “’If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways,’ says the Lord, ‘then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land.’”
These verses and their relevance to the U.S. will be a major focus of the event.
Another key passage that Rosenberg will discuss is Genesis 12:3, in which the Lord promised the patriarch Abraham and the future nation of Israel, “I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse.”
The event is called, “Where is America Headed? Finding Faith and Hope in a Time of Fear.”It will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Mountain time on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, not far from the famed Mount Rushmore.
The event will be broadcast live on over 200 Christian radio stations across the nation and some 1,000 people are expected to attend in person.
People can watch the event on the website or on Facebook live.It has been organized by a task force that includes representatives from 30 churches and Christian ministry leaders in the Black Hills and surrounding area.
Rosenberg, a dual US-Israeli citizen who lives in Jerusalem, is a New York Times best-selling author of both fiction and non-fiction books.
One of his more famous non-fiction titles, and the one he has been asked to discuss, was titled, Implosion: Can America Recover from Its Economic and Spiritual Challenges in Time?
Brody, a nationally respected journalist with CBN News, has interviewed and profiled some of the best known leaders in government, business and the faith community with piercing questions and a knack for pulling back the curtain and getting to the heart of the story.
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Hillary Clinton Oversaw US Arms Deals to Clinton Foundation Donors
An investigation finds that countries that gave to the foundation saw an increase in State Department-approved arms sales.
Bryan Schatz
Listening tour: Hillary Clinton and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saudi al-Faisal in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in March 2012Hassan Ammar/AP
In 2011, the State Department cleared an enormous arms deal: Led by Boeing, a consortium of American defense contractors would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns over the kingdom’s troublesome human rights record. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, Saudi Arabia had contributed $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, and just two months before the jet deal was finalized, Boeing donated $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to an International Business Times investigation released Tuesday.
The Saudi transaction is just one example of nations and companies that had donated to the Clinton Foundation seeing an increase in arms deals while Hillary Clinton oversaw the State Department. IBT found that between October 2010 and September 2012, State approved $165 billion in commercial arms sales to 20 nations that had donated to the foundation, plus another $151 billion worth of Pentagon-brokered arms deals to 16 of those countries—a 143 percent increase over the same time frame under the Bush Administration. The sales boosted the military power of authoritarian regimes such as Qatar, Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, which, like Saudi Arabia, had been criticized by the department for human rights abuses.
From the IBT investigation:
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton also accused some of these countries of failing to marshal a serious and sustained campaign to confront terrorism. In a December 2009 State Department cable published by Wikileaks, Clinton complained of “an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority.” She declared that “Qatar’s overall level of CT cooperation with the U.S. is considered the worst in the region.” She said the Kuwaiti government was “less inclined to take action against Kuwait-based financiers and facilitators plotting attacks.” She noted that “UAE-based donors have provided financial support to a variety of terrorist groups.” All of these countries donated to the Clinton Foundation and received increased weapons export authorizations from the Clinton-run State Department…
In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records.
The following tables created by the International Business Times show the flow of money and arms deals involving 20 nations, the Clinton Foundation, and the State Department:
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Arlington selects new police chief from Baltimore department
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Al Jones, new Arlington Police Chief
Col. Al Jones, a 25-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, has been appointed the new police chief of the the City of Arlington’s new police chief.
City Manager Trey Yelverton said Jones was an ideal choice because of his years of experience in implementing strong, community-based policing principles, his understanding of the future of policing, and his leadership capabilities.
“We have a great police department, and we have identified a leader who can continue ensuring excellent service to our residents and move our city positively forward,” Yelverton said in a city news release. “In the true spirit of community policing, I know that our whole community will come together and support Chief Jones and our police department in keeping our community safe.”
Jones, who currently serves as the chief of Baltimore County Police Department’s Community Relations Bureau, was selected through a process that began in June.
Jones will replace former Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson who announced on April 27 his plans to retire in June after a nearly 26-year career, 23-years of service with the city of Arlington.
Johnson joined Arlington in 1997 and quickly rose through the ranks before being named interim police chief in 2012. City Manager Trey Yelverton appointed Johnson as police chief in 2013.
In August, the City of Arlington named five finalists including three internal candidates.
Jones began his law enforcement career in 1995 as a Baltimore County police officer and steadily rose through the ranks of the 18th largest law enforcement agency in the nation. Since 2018, Jones has overseen management of the Community Relations Bureau, focused on building trust within communities throughout the county while diversifying the agency to better mirror the communities it serves.
Baltimore County is a metropolitan area with approximately 835,000 residents outside of the City of Baltimore. Baltimore County, CALEA accredited since 1985, has long been recognized as a progressive agency in the development of community-based policing.
In addition to taking a data-driven approach to respond to and find efficient, effective solutions for the city’s needs, Jones said he believes building relationships between police officers and neighborhoods, businesses and other stakeholders is critical to creating a place where people want to live, work, learn and play.
“Officers can’t be everywhere, which is why it is vitally important for the community to be engaged and help serve as our eyes and ears. Neighborhood involvement with the police department creates not only a safer community, but a stronger community,” Jones said in a news release.
Arlington will host a public event to welcome Jones when he begins as the new police chief on Jan. 11, 2021. Details will be announced at a later date.
Assistant Police Chief Kevin Kolbye will continue to serve as the department’s interim police chief until then.
Yelverton thanked the community, city employees and other stakeholders for participating in the selection process. He also thanked The Bowman Group, a local Arlington consulting firm with a specialty in police and public practices who helped recruit and vet the applicants.
In September, Jones and eight other police chief candidates had the opportunity to engage in face-to-face interviews with a wide range of panelists that brought diverse perspectives and experiences to the selection process.
The series of panel interviews included two community panels, a regional police chief panel, an internal police employee panel, and a city executive panel.
Then last month, Jones and four other finalists completed another round of internal interviews and participated in a forum where members of the community were able to ask questions to the candidates directly.
Jones recently participated in executive leadership training from groups such as the Major Cities Chiefs Association Executive Leadership Institute and the FBI-Law Enforcement Executive Development Association, which allowed him to engage with chiefs across the nation to discuss significant issues affecting policing in America as well as implementation of the 21st Century Policing Report.
Jones has been recognized by groups such as the Baltimore Country Branch of NAACP and the Islamic Society of Baltimore for exemplary service, leadership abilities and for being an advocate for equal rights. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Hartford and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Ashworth College. Seventy-four law enforcement leaders from across the nation applied to lead Arlington’s nearly 900-member police force.
Arlington is not the only local city seeking a new police chief. Fort Worth and Dallas are also in the process of finding a new leader for their police departments.
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A story written by INEGBENOISE OSEODION OSAGIE. (07068221839, 08093828575, inegbenoiseosagie@gmail.com)
Lauren helped her dad with his briefcase. The gardener shouldered the bag of rice from the trunk and strode into the house, his muscles swelling and zigzag veins bulging out. Her dad picked up the remaining cartons of foodstuffs and closed the trunk.
“Hope your day wasn’t too boring,” he said. “I wonder what it’s like living in this house alone. You stayed indoors all day?”
“I watched the TV. It helped in cutting the boredom.”
“You don’t have friends around to go visit?” dad said as they entered the sitting room. “Or you’ve still not well adapted. I never knew you for adapting slowly.” He positioned the cartons beside the wall.
“I didn’t say I was bored. How was work?” she asked, only to stop him from talking further.
“Work gets finer by the day.” He settled on a sofa.
Why wouldn’t it be finer when it was competition free? Lauren thought, and wished her dad heard her thoughts.
She set the briefcase on an armchair and started for the kitchen.
The gardener carried the cartons of foodstuffs into the kitchen and marched out.
She was opening the microwave oven when her dad’s voice rang from the sitting room. A lecturer just called that Newfield’s lectures had commenced. Her dad told her to pack up her things and return to school the next week. It was more of a command, the kind she couldn’t refuse.
“You bought a new book. What is this one about? It says ‘Tick, Tick.’”
“It’s a novel.”
“I know that. I was asking what the novel was about,” he said. “I thought only mom bought these for you. I never knew you also went to the bookshop to purchase for yourself.”
“I didn’t buy it. It was a gift.” She set the plates on a tray and headed to the dining table.
“A gift? Who gives a novel as a gift?” He laid the book on the sofa’s arm and looked to the dining table.
“Mr Jide.”
“Jide.” He hung his suit round the chair’s backrest and swaggered to the dining room. “Why would he give you a gift?”
“It is a birthday present.”
His eyes started from their sockets. “I thought you said no birthday celebration this year and no presents.”
“A Canadian doesn’t get presents from a black man every day. It would be rude refusing one.”
Dad blessed the food and dished the rice into a plate. “I never knew you and Mr Jide were so close he would think of giving you a birthday present.”
She sat adjacent to her dad. “I like the man.”
“What’s so special about him?” He mouthed in a spoonful and looked to her for an answer.
She shrugged. “He’s likeable.”
“You are right. He was very likeable, until I discovered he was friend to a criminal. And you know what is said about birdies of same wings.”
“Richard Fayemi is no criminal. I would say it as many times as I have to.”
Dad gulped down a glass of water. “His trial is near. You will hear what the judge has to say.”
“The judge might judge wrongly. A jury trial would probably see his innocence.”
“And if I happen to find myself among the jurors, he is either found guilty or the jury gets hung, even if it takes me to be the only opposition. The evidences are so glaring. I can’t vote for an acquittal with such evidences.”
She allowed some calm before voicing out. Her next words needed to sink into her dad’s brain. “If it were a jury trial, you wouldn’t be among the jurors. You’re white.” She rose. “I should go continue with my book.”
“I’m white, but I’m a citizen.”
It took more than that and her dad knew it. No one would appoint a white juror in a black man’s land when the defendant was not white.
“It’s whites that are known for racism, which is now at its very minimum,” her dad said, “and not the other way round.”
At this point, Lauren asked herself what was the actual definition of racism. Was it the love of one’s skin over the other? If that, then it was a disease that had sickened all humans, something that was etched in the physiology of every human and shouldn’t even be tagged a disease because it was a part of physiology, only that some people were privileged to exercise this liberty while others weren’t, and the unprivileged only wished it didn’t existed, and as such pretend to be the innocent and condemned its existence. “There are not so many whites here. You don’t expect the few to fill a position such as a juror. This is not our land.”
His face thinned and his cheekbones jutted out. “Don’t say that. It can be anyone’s land. I work here and you school here. Yes, we’re Canadians, but we’re no different from Nigerians.” The look on her dad’s face couldn’t be more forced, like one trying so hard to believe something that could never be true.
“We’re whites, dad. We were born whites, and it’s a good thing.” She fingered a speck off her nails. “It’s better than being black.”
Her dad fixed his gaze on her. “You’re taking this personal.”
“I’m not taking anything personal. I’m just revealing a truth. We’re Canadians in Nigeria. There is no way we can be seen like Nigerians. It’s either people look at us as aliens or they would just want to sneer and ask with a pretentious smile, ‘What are you doing in my country? You have a better one. You should be there.’ The only reason a black man is ever going to like you is because you’re white, and when I mean like, I don’t mean the kind that could lead to friendship, but a showy kind to gain something from you, something as worthless as the pride they place in having acquaintance with a foreigner.”
“You’re speaking from your own view.”
“No dad,” she said. “Everyone loves his skin more than the other. The world is full of a bunch of racists. No one is neutral. A white can’t be like everyone else in a black country. The only difference between we and them is that we whites are only privileged to exercise this thing you call racism.”
“You’re wrong, hon.”
“I’m not. How many black men would want to wed a white woman that isn’t a moneybag? It doesn’t happen because they can’t pretend to bear that false likeness for long, and believe me they won’t tell you. They say white women are pompous, impudent, territorial, name all sorts of words. Why? Because the women aren’t blacks. I hear it from people, from classmates and schoolmates.” She rose. “I should go continue with my novel.”
As she eased into the sitting room, a resentment of herself swept through her, her own voice telling her she was only a bloody racist in the search of a shield to defend herself; she was only someone looking for something to hate, or merely looking for an explanation for some things, and willing to accept any explanation that flings into her head, even the most abstract as racism. She stretched on the sofa and continued with her “Tick, Tick.”
“It’s everywhere, even in Canada,” her dad said from the dining. “Everyone surely loves his skin than the other. Or I should say majority because I’m an exception. I don’t see anything wrong in getting married to a black lady.”
“There are no exceptions.” She crossed legs and focused on her book, if that would make her dad quiet.
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Legacies of Slavery in Glasgow Museums and Collections
Glasgow architecture, Glasgow City Archives and Special Collections, Merchants, Plantations, Slavery
Cathkin House and Slavery
In 1870, James Maclehose published a volume of photographs entitled Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry. The photographs were taken by Thomas Annan (1829 – 1887), and the text, by John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, catalogued the stories of the families who lived in them. Tom Devine has commented that “they were essentially uncritical hagiographies, silent on the slavery roots of much of the city’s economic eminence and the role of the merchant adventurers whose profits, derived in large measure from the slave-based transatlantic economies, had caused Glasgow to flourish.”
Cathkin House, 1870
One of the houses photographed and profiled was Cathkin House, near Rutherglen, designed by architect and landscape gardener, James Ramsay (d.1820). At the time of publication in 1870, this house was the property of Alexander Crum Maclae. He was the nephew of Humphrey Ewing Maclae, and Jane Maclae Crum, children of Walter Ewing Maclae (1745 – 1814) for whom Cathkin House was built in 1799.
Walter Ewing Maclae (1745 – 1814) by James Tassie (National Galleries Scotland, PG 1915)
During his lifetime, Walter Ewing Maclae made a fortune in the West India Trade. In addition, his brother, James Ewing of Strathleven (1775 – 1853), was a dominant figure in the Glasgow Merchants House and the Town Council. By the 1790s, the family had extensive sugar interests in Jamaica. They owned various plantations in Jamaica, as well as at least 449 slaves. According to claim details from 1836, Walter’s son Humphrey owned slaves on at least three plantations: Dallas Castle in Port Royal (161 enslaved); Southfields in St Ann (195 enslaved); and Lillyfield in St Ann (93 enslaved).
Humphrey Ewing Maclae (1770 – 1860) by John Graham-Gilbert (Glasgow Museums, 3017)
The census of 1851 showing the inhabitants of Cathkin House
The census of Scotland in 1851 records that Cathkin House was inhabited by Humphrey Ewing Maclae (1770 – 1860), the laird of Cathkin, his wife Jane (1774 – 1874), and their servants. Humphrey Ewing Maclae died in 1860 at the age of 90. Jane Ewing Maclae passed away in 1874 at the age of 101.
Interestingly, in light of the slave-ownership within the family, Humphrey’s maternal cousin was Reverend Dr Ralph Wardlaw (1779 – 1853), who was one of Scotland’s leading anti-slavery campaigners.
There are other houses photographed in The Old Country Houses of the old Glasgow Gentry with direct links to slavery. These include Gilmorehill House, whose owner, Alexander Bogle, owned 286 enslaved people and Orbiston House, owned by West India merchant Gilbert Douglas, whose widow Cecelia donated her art collection to Glasgow Museums. There are likely to be many more, and a reassessment of the volume for links to enslaved people is long overdue.
Anyone may access the Mitchell Library’s copy of this volume. Catalogue details are here.
To find out more about the subsequent owners of Cathkin house, you can read this blog from the Glasgow Family History website.
Clare Thompson
Librarian, The Mitchell Library
glasgowmuseums2018 July 2, 2019 September 8, 2020 Alexander Crum Maclae, Cathkin House, Jamaica, James Ewing
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I enjoyed reading about the history of cathkin house it is an amazing building
I love looking at it’s built into flats now
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This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.
Jun 26, 2018 by Casey Coates Danson
In Hell’s Angels, the gonzo journalist wrote about left-behind people motivated only by “an ethic of total retaliation.” Sound familiar?
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Hunter S. Thompson, right, speaks at a panel discussion in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 7, 1972. (AP Photo)
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In late March, Donald Trump opened a rally in Wisconsin by mocking the state’s governor, Scott Walker, who had just endorsed his Republican opponent, Ted Cruz. “He came in on his Harley,” Trump said of Walker, “but he doesn’t look like a motorcycle guy.”
“The motorcycle guys,” he added, “like Trump.”
It has been 50 years since Hunter S. Thompson published the definitive book on motorcycle guys: Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. It grew out of a piece first published in The Nation one year earlier. My grandfather, Carey McWilliams, editor of the magazine from 1955 to 1975, commissioned the piece from Thompson—it was the gonzo journalist’s first big break, and the beginning of a friendship between the two men that would last until my grandfather died in 1980. Because of that family connection, I had long known that Hell’s Angels was a political book. Even so, I was surprised, when I finally picked it up a few years ago, by how prophetic Thompson is and how eerily he anticipates 21st-century American politics. This year, when people asked me what I thought of the election, I kept telling them to read Hell’s Angels.
Thompson observed that the Hells Angels were alienated from a changing America in which they felt left behind.
Most people read Hell’s Angels for the lurid stories of sex and drugs. But that misses the point entirely. What’s truly shocking about reading the book today is how well Thompson foresaw the retaliatory, right-wing politics that now goes by the name of Trumpism. After following the motorcycle guys around for months, Thompson concluded that the most striking thing about them was not their hedonism but their “ethic of total retaliation” against a technologically advanced and economically changing America in which they felt they’d been counted out and left behind. Thompson saw the appeal of that retaliatory ethic. He claimed that a small part of every human being longs to burn it all down, especially when faced with great and impersonal powers that seem hostile to your very existence. In the United States, a place of ever greater and more impersonal powers, the ethic of total retaliation was likely to catch on.
What made that outcome almost certain, Thompson thought, was the obliviousness of Berkeley, California, types who, from the safety of their cocktail parties, imagined that they understood and represented the downtrodden. The Berkeley types, Thompson thought, were not going to realize how presumptuous they had been until the downtrodden broke into one of those cocktail parties and embarked on a campaign of rape, pillage, and slaughter. For Thompson, the Angels weren’t important because they heralded a new movement of cultural hedonism, but because they were the advance guard for a new kind of right-wing politics. As Thompson presciently wrote in the Nation piece he later expanded on in Hell’s Angels, that kind of politics is “nearly impossible to deal with” using reason or empathy or awareness-raising or any of the other favorite tools of the left.
Listen to Hunter S. Thompson speak with Studs Turkel about ‘Hell’s Angels’ in 1967.
Hell’s Angels concludes when the Angels ally with the John Birch Society and write to President Lyndon Johnson to offer their services to fight communism, much to the befuddlement of the anti-Vietnam elites who assumed the Angels were on the side of “counterculture.” The Angels and their retaliatory militarism were, Thompson warned, the harbingers of a darker time to come. That time has arrived.
Fifty years after Thompson published his book, a lot of Americans have come to feel like motorcycle guys. At a time when so many of us are trying to understand what happened in the election, there are few better resources than Hell’s Angels. That’s not because Thompson was the only American writer to warn coastal, left-liberal elites about their disconnection from poor and working-class white voters. Plenty of people issued such warnings: journalists like Thomas Edsall, who for decades has been documenting the rise of “red America,” and scholars like Christopher Lasch, who saw as early as the 1980s that the elite embrace of technological advancement and individual liberation looked like a “revolt” to the mass of Americans, most of whom have been on the losing end of enough “innovations” to be skeptical about the dogmas of progress.
But though Thompson’s depiction of an alienated, white, masculine working-class culture—one that is fundamentally misunderstood by intellectuals—is not the only one out there, it was the first. And in some ways, it is still the best psychological study of those Americans often dismissed as “white trash” or “deplorables.”
Thompson’s Angels were mostly working-class white men who felt, not incorrectly, that they had been relegated to the sewer of American society. Their unswerving loyalty to the nation— the Angels had started as a World War II veterans group—had not paid them any rewards or won them any enduring public respect. The manual-labor skills that they had learned and cultivated were in declining demand. Though most had made it through high school, they did not have the more advanced levels of training that might lead to economic or professional security. “Their lack of education,” Thompson wrote, “rendered them completely useless in a highly technical economy.” Looking at the American future, they saw no place for themselves in it.
The Angels were the original “strangers in their own land”—clunky and outclassed like their Harleys.
In other words, the Angels felt like “strangers in their own land,” as Arlie Russell Hochschild puts it in her recent book on red-state America. They were clunky and outclassed and scorned, just like the Harley-Davidsons they chose to drive. Harleys had been the kings of the American motorcycle market until the early 1960s, when European and Japanese imports came onto the scene. Those imports were sleeker, faster, more efficient, and cheaper. Almost overnight, Harleys went from being in high demand to being the least appealing, most underpowered, and hard to handle motorcycles out there. It’s not hard to see why the Angels insisted on Harleys and identified strongly with their bikes.
Just as there was no rational way to defend Harleys against foreign-made choppers, the Angels saw no rational grounds on which to defend their own skills or loyalties against the emerging new world order of the late 20th century. Their skills were outdated; their knowledge was insubstantial; their powers were inferior. There was no rational way to argue that they were better workers or citizens than the competition; the competition was effectively over, and Angels had lost. The standards by which they had been built had been definitively eclipsed.
We parents tell our children that when you know you’ve lost an argument or a race, the right thing to do is to be a good sport and to “get ’em next time.” But if there is no next time, or you know that every next time you are going to be in the loser’s lane again, what’s the use of being a good sport? It would make you look even more ignorant, and more like a loser, to pretend like you think you have a chance. The game has been rigged against you. Why not piss on the field before you storm off? Why not stick up your finger at the whole goddamned game?
Therein lies the ethic of total retaliation. The Angels, rather than gracefully accepting their place as losers in an increasingly technical, intellectual, global, inclusive, progressive American society, stuck up their fingers at the whole enterprise. If you can’t win, you can at least scare the bejeesus out of the guy wearing the medal. You might not beat him, but you can make him pay attention to you. You can haunt him, make him worry that you’re going to steal into his daughter’s bedroom in the darkest night and have your way with her—and that she might actually like it.
It’s not hard to see in the demographics, the words, and the behavior of Trump supporters an ethic of total retaliation at work. These are men and women who defend their vote by saying things like: “I just wanted people to know that I’m here, that I count.” These are men and women whose scorn of “political correctness” translates into: “You can’t make me talk the way that you want me to talk, even if that way of talking is nicer and smarter and better.” These are men and women whose denials of climate change are gleeful denials of scientific expertise in a world where scientific experts have unquestioned intellectual respect and social status. These are men and women who seemed to applaud the incompetence of Trump’s campaign because competence itself is associated with membership in the elite.
Thompson would want us to see this: These are men and women who know that, by all intellectual and economic standards, they cannot win the game. So whether it be out of self-protection or an overcompensation for their own profound sense of shame, they lash out at politicians, judges, scientists, teachers, Wall Street, universities, the media, legislatures—even at elections. They are not interested in contemplating serious reforms to the system; they are either too pessimistic or too disappointed to believe that is possible. So the best they can do is adopt a position of total irreverence: to show they hate the players and the game.
Understood in those terms, the idea that Trumpism is “populist” seems misplaced. Populism is a belief in the right of ordinary people, rather than political insiders, to rule. Trumpism, by contrast, operates on the presumption that ordinary people aren’t going to get any chance to rule no matter what they do, so they might as well piss off the political insiders using the only tool left available to them: the vote.
While many commentators say Trump will have to bring back jobs or vibrancy to places like the Rust Belt if he wants to continue to have the support of people who voted for him, Thompson’s account suggests otherwise. Many if not most Trump supporters long ago gave up on the idea that any politician, even someone like Trump, can change the direction the wind is blowing. Even if he fails to bring back the jobs, Trump can maintain loyalty in another way: As long as he continues to offend and irritate elites, and as long as he refuses to play by certain rules of decorum—heaven forfend, the president-elect says ill-conceived things on Twitter!—Trump will still command loyalty. It’s the ethic, not the policy, that matters most.
The racism unleashed by Trump can be understood as directed at the political elite rather than minority groups.
Even the racism that was on full display in Trump’s campaign should be understood at least in part in retaliatory terms, as directed at the political elite rather than at struggling minority groups. The Hells Angels, Thompson wrote, did things like get tattoos of swastikas mostly because it visibly scared the members of polite society. The Angels were perfectly happy to hang out at bars with men of different races, especially if those men drove motorcycles, and several insisted to Thompson that the racism was only for show. While I have no doubt (and no one should have any doubt) that there are genuine racists in Trump’s constituency—and the gleeful performance of racism is nothing to shrug off—Thompson suggests we should consider the ways in which racism might not be the core disease of Trumpism but a symptom of a deeper illness.
Thompson would also direct our attention in the early days of the Trump administration to the armed forces and the policies that will mandate what they do. For one great exception to the Angels’ ethos of total retaliation against authority was the military, just as one great exception to the Trump voters’ ethos of total irreverence is the police. Thompson explains that such institutions, which are premised on brute force rather than the more refined rules of intellectual engagement, maintain both a practical and a cultural connection to people like the Angels. The military and the police draw mostly from poor and working-class communities to fill their ranks, and their use of violence is something the motorcycle guys understand. It is one aspect of American life they can easily imagine themselves being a part of.
For his part, Thompson thought that what might prove most dangerous about the ethic of total retaliation was the way it encouraged the distrust of all authority—except for the authority of brute force. The president-elect’s enthusiasm for waterboarding and other forms of torture, his hawkish cabinet choices, and his overtures to strongmen like Vladimir Putin are grave omens. We could end up back where Thompson left off at the end of his book: the Angels, marching with the John Birch Society, on behalf of the Vietnam War.
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At the end of Hell’s Angels, having spent months with the motorcycle guys, Thompson finally gets stomped by them. For some offense he doesn’t understand (and which he probably didn’t commit), Thompson gets punched, bloodied, kicked in the face and in the ribs, spat at and pissed on. He limps off to a hospital in the dead of night, alone and afraid. Only in that moment does Thompson realize that as a journalist (and therefore a member of the elite), he could not possibly be a true friend of the Angels. Wear leather and ride a motorcycle though he might, Thompson stood on the side of intellectual and cultural authority. And that finally made him, despite his months of good-timing with the Angels, subject to their retaliatory impulses. The ethic of retaliation is total, Thompson comes to realize. There is nothing partial about it. It ends with violence.
There’s no doubt about it: trouble lies ahead. That Hell’s Angels foresaw all this 50 years ago underscores the depth and seriousness of Thompson as a political thinker and of ours as a singularly dangerous time. Trumpism is about something far more serious than Trump, something that has been brewing and building for generations. Let us take Thompson’s cautions seriously, then, so that this time we Berkeley types are not naive about what we face. Otherwise, we’re all liable to get stomped.
Susan McWilliamsSusan McWilliams is Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College. She is most recently the editor of the forthcoming book A Political Companion to James Baldwin.
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Afghan Women Forced By Law to Have Sex April 4, 2009 Guest Contributor
Afghan Women Forced By Law to Have Sex
Afghanistan women are far from getting equal rights. This new law doesn’t help — it would apply to the Shia minority:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has just signed a law that forces women to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, keeps women from leaving the house — even for work or school — without a husband’s permission, automatically grants child custody rights to fathers and grandfathers before mothers, and favors men in inheritance disputes and other legal matters. In short, the law again consigns Afghan women to lives of brutal repression.
According to the Times Online (UK), the law was “passed without a formal debate and signed off by President Karzai this week, but is yet to be made law.”
What specifically does this law include?
Article 27 The age of maturity (and thus marriage) is 15 for boys; for girls it is when they have their first period
Article 132 The couple should not commit acts that create hatred and bitterness. The wife is bound to preen for her husband, as and when he desires. The husband, except when travelling or ill, is bound to have intercourse with his wife every four nights. The wife is bound to give a positive response
Article 133 The husband can stop the wife from any unnecessary, un-Islamic act. The wife cannot leave the house without the permission of the husband
Article 177 The wife does not have the right to the provision of maintenance by the husband unless she agrees to have intercourse with him and he gets an opportunity for doing so
— Obedience, readiness for intercourse and not leaving the house without the permission of the husband are the duties of the wife, violation of every one of them will mean disobedience to the husband
— One provision of the law appears to protect the woman’s right to sex inside marriage, saying that the “man should not avoid having sexual relations with his wife longer than once every four months”
Sayed Hossain Alemi Balkhi, a Shia lawmaker involved in drafting the law, defended the legislation, saying that it gives more rights to women than even Britain or the US does.
Hopefully, America won’t let this happen and Karzai will be pressured into making sure this law does not pass.
Seriously… what the hell is wrong with other countries…?
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Autumnal Harvest
. . .what the hell is wrong with other countries. . .
While I agree (obviously) that this is incredibly repulsive and horrible, I do want to point out that this was the law in most U.S. states just 30-40 years ago. And also that, even now, Phyllis Schlafly complains that the laws shouldn’t have been changed to their modern form.
Richard Wade
So much for Operation Enduring Freedom. What a wonderful country we have been propping up. Remind me, I can’t remember. What’s the difference between the Taliban and the Karzai Corruptocracy?
Women get their periods awfully young these days. I know of several women who got them at nine- that doesn’t make them mature. I suppose that means nine year olds are old enough to marry and have to have sex with their husbands four times a week?
Other than the unequal standards, what’s wrong with setting a lower age of maturity? The U.S. tradition of treating teens as children has it’s own array of negative consequences.
And it goes without saying that I agree that the rest are unspeakably horrible. But America won’t do anything about it, not just because our politicians lack the will but because they lack the power. We’ve been attempting to rule the world with military and economic power, but government missteps over the last decade have permanently destroyed both. It’s time we gracefully dispose of our imperialist ambitions.
WHO THE FUCK IS HE TRYING TO FOOL? WHICH US OR BRITIAN IS HE TALKING ABOUT?! I swear, people like this are going to drive me to kill every person on the planet.
jemand
That just goes to prove that these men do not actually want a wife.
They want an animated sex doll.
Actually, an inflatable one might work too…. so all you porn producers get to work! There’s obviously a TREMENDOUS demand for blowup sex dolls, sex robots, and other masturbatory aids. There is no way what they are describing is “sex”– it’s masturbation with a woman who’s mental state is supposed to be blank.
Apparently, the Muslim world is out to try and piss off everyone else. Can anyone say Overpopulation?
At this point, I think it’s okay to just nuke the whole lot of ’em. The fact that Arabic people seem to have few or no morals and the fact that they seem to want to kill everything they don’t enjoy/like it’s not a matter of if we will but a matter of when.
Seriously…where is the fun in having sex with an unwilling but complaisant partner? I would hate to know my partner didn’t want me, but was “bound by law” to lie there and take it.
CatBallou
Tyler, that’s completely idiotic. Don’t imagine that “Western civilization” hasn’t been exactly as punitive, intolerant, misogynistic, violent, and driven by religious dogma at various times. Fortunately, there was no one around to advocate nuking our ancestors.
And the Afghan people aren’t Arabs.
While I’m not sure exactly what Autumnal Harvest is referring to regarding U.S. law—women have never been required to get permission before going outside—it is true that until very recently, a man could not be charged with raping his wife: it simply wasn’t a crime to force sex on your spouse.
There was no requirement for a positive response, at least!
I look at how far we in the Western world have come regarding women’s rights then I look at this and I nearly cry.
Does it make me a bad person if I’m grateful for being born in Canada rather than Afghanistan?
I’m half-inclined to say we ought to just get all the women and children out of that vile country, and just wall all the men in there, and let them kill each other off.
Yes, CatBallou, I was referring to the legality of marital rape, which was after all what the title of the post referred to.
BTW I love your blog!
TheDeadEye
Who does he think he’s trying to fool?
I actually gasped more over Article 27 (a girl is mature and ready for marriage when she gets her first period) more than any of the rest of it. It’s very common for baby girls to experience a short menstruation immediately following birth because of the drop in estrogen that was present while in the mother’s womb. Some girls with disorders experience menstruation as young as 2, and even among children with no medical concerns it is not unheard of for a girl to begin menstruating as early as 8 or 9.
mikespeir
But, don’t you know, we should respect their culture.
And, no, I’m not serious.
This is just jaw-droppingly horrible.
To be fair, I’m sure there is definitely a sub-set of Afghan men who are just as appalled by this as we are, and I’m sure there are conservative women there who have already been living by this “law” and are pleased that their daughters and friends will now have to comply.
Allowing this sort of legislation in a country we’re actively occupying seems negligent and inhumane. Do we only care about human rights when the Taliban is the government violating them? Democracy doesn’t guarantee that human rights will be protected. An elected official can turn out to be just as irresponsible and horrific as a dictator.
These laws are a serious step back for women’s rights in Afganistan, but that doesn’t mean that America needs to step in there paternalistically and remove all the women and children, or nuke everyone (really? Nuke all of them? What are you, 13?)
The international community should be concerned and exert pressure on the government of Afganistan. But neither America, nor any other foreign power, can just step in, force everyone to accept any given way of life and make everything better. This sort of paternalistic approach just pushes people on the defensive and polarises them further. Change will have to come from within, from the Afgan people. We need to lend support to women’s and democracy groups in the region, but the Afgan people have to be at the forefront of the change they want to bring about. We can’t tell them what to do and how to do it, with our limited understanding of their culture and way of life.
Enlightenment is a long path for some.
Wow, Stephen Harper is actually doing the right thing for once! Canadians got sold on a long and expensive war on the basis that we were going to make things better for the people living in Afghanistan. I for one will be extremely pissed if we stay there letting our soldiers get blown up by IEDs while their government returns everything to a Taliban-style theocracy.
or nuke everyone (really? Nuke all of them? What are you, 13?)
Who said anything about nuking them? I just said get all the women and children out and let the men kill each other off. There’s obviously nothing the US can do for that country.
Sorry, that was in reference to a comment above yours.
gribblethemunchkin
This is what happens when ignorant fools get to start wars. When Bush declared we were bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t anyone in his little circle of facists think that this is maybe what many of the Afghans actually want?
Remember the Taliban enjoyed widespread support in Afghanistan (and now pakistan), the coalition forces didn’t lead a populist uprising, they empowered warlords from the north to conquer the southern, taliban dominated areas. Karzai is a warlord and a tool of warlords. His government are brutal despots forced into a government by the US and told to be democratic. Who on earth honestly thought these men had anyones self interest but their own at heart? Who honestly believed that these men were in the least concerned about the rights of women and religious minorities?
For some nations democracy simple means enshrining in law the prejudices of the masses against the minorities. Democracy isn’t always a good thing.
Please do not exclude the US, and don’t include every other country on the planet…
I would say “Seriously… what the hell is wrong with people…?”
Vystrix Nexoth
They’re entitled to glorify and codify their rape fantasies (and/or other peoples’ rape fantasies, for the political expediency of doing so), but are not entitled to have other countries committing their resources to defend them.
At this point, I think it’s okay to just nuke the whole lot of ‘em.
Does that include the women whose rights you’re so concerned about?
There’s the American mentality at work. If you aren’t a liberal democracy (just like US regardless of the stage of development of your country), then we have the right to blow you to smitherenes to make you so – for your own good. Hey, who cares how many we kill as long as we’re peddling FREEDOM.
Tyler is what I imagine a large cross-section of the US is like. In the 21st century, my fellow Americans transferred their racism overseas. That’s what was “accomplished.”
Afganis are not Arabs and they speak Pashto – an Indoeuropean language. Arabic is part of the Semitic language family. They are also separated from the nearest Arab country by almost a thousand miles – across other Central Asian nations.
I am waiting for the day when Afghanistan’s women all pack their bags and walk out of the country. They can vote there – they can vote with their feet. Their government will get a horrible shock when the Afghan people realise that there is such a thing as leaving your country when you don’t like the government and can’t do anything else about it.
Okay, so it’s not as easy as walking across the border – but it’s not impossible. If people want freedom badly enough, they will walk hundreds of miles and do incredible things for it. If the Afghan people want freedom from these kind of batshit insane laws enough, leaving behind everything and travelling potentially halfway across the world will be worth it. It’s easier said than done, but it’s a lot easier than trying to change a country run by hyper-religious misogynists. And yeah, it hurts to have to leave your whole life behind – but being stoned also hurts a lot too, and leaving home isn’t likely to result in a horrible, painful death. Given how well attempts from within and without to turn Afghanistan around in the past have gone, I’d say this time it’s better if the saner Afghan people just walk away and let the theocracy hang itself.
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All the gods, all the heavens are within you
Quote / By Martin
“All the gods, all the heavens are within you”. That phrase is something that you might have heard said to you at some point in the past. And it’s a shortened version of the quote “all the heavens, all the hells are within you”.
This is a phrase coined by literature professor Joseph Campbell. It means that you and you alone are responsible for your destiny, and how you live your life, and what’s right and wrong.
Such a quote might seem like you need a degree in philosophy to know what it means. However, it just means that we are solely responsible for our own happiness. If you want to feel fulfilled and live a meaningful life, then you cannot rely on others to do it for you.
You and you alone will need to live your life in a way that enables you to make the most out of it.
Origin of the quote
As with most philosophical quotes, this one comes from a book.
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell is about how Myths and legends have spoken about human philosophy and the roles that everyone plays within our society.
As a professor of Literature, Campbell knows how to analyse some of the most ancient and influential stories known to humanity.
He wrote this book shortly after the release of a documentary of the same name which he was responsible for. And if you’re still not sold on him, George Lucas has credited him for inspiring the Star Wars Franchise.
Let us look a bit deeper into what each of the words in the quote represents. By understanding this, we’ll be able to get a better idea of how we can use his quote to help us to make a better life.
By referring to heavens, Campbell is talking about our goals. And when I say goals, I’m not just talking about the kinds of stuff that you put onto a to-do-list. I’m talking about what your life goals are. This could be related to your work, your family, your relationships.
And gods are the way for you to achieve this goal. Much like how gods are the way to get into heaven, your plan is the way to get your goals.
Is it Atheistic?
One could argue that by saying “all the gods, all the heavens” are within you, you deny the existence of a god or supernatural power. Therefore, this seems like the type of quote you might find on an Atheist’s Instagram page.
A religious person might argue that gods and heavens aren’t within you, but rather outside of you. Some would say in the same physical world that we inhabit, whereas others would say in some kind of non-physical realm.
Either way, a religious person might avoid using this phrase.
Is Campbell religious?
The fact his quote is seemingly so critical of religion does raise a valid question “Is Campbell religious?”. And to answer that question, it’s hard to tell. He’s never given a solid yes or no in response to that question.
Although he had a religious upbringing, and his parents still follow that religion, I don’t know for sure if he has given up religion completely.
It’s no secret that he isn’t a fan of Orthodox religion, but it’s unsure if this covers all religion too.
A quote of his that makes the answer even fuzzier is “All religions are true, but none are literal”.
god vs God
Earlier, we mentioned how a religious person might not be too happy with “All the gods, all the heavens are within you”. But there is a loophole.
There is a difference between God and a god. This is important to look at as it makes it possible to agree with Campbell without giving up your religion.
God is an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, perfect being. Whereas, a god is just a mighty creature that rules over humans.
You can believe that you’re in charge of your own life and destiny but still believe in God.
Where’s the “and”?
As a big fan of the English language, there is one part of the quote that is slightly irritating to me. And that is the lack of an “and”.
“And” is the word that we tend to use to show that our list is coming to an end and the next thing we’re going to say will be the last. But what’s annoying here is that even though he left out the “and” his sentence still makes perfect sense.
This is because he uses a full stop before talking about something else. Abandoning the “and” might work in writing but probably not in speaking.
Self Help Gurus
Recently, there seems to have been an influx of these “self-help gurus”, such as Tony Robbins. People who have made millions off of telling people how amazing they are, and giving them advice on how to live a better life.
These people will often say similar sorts of things, stuff along the lines of “You are in control of your life”. But what these gurus lack that Campbell has is a background in literacy and philosophy.
They might tell you how amazing and capable you are. However, they don’t connect it to mythology, stories, or religion in any way.
I do think that quotes like these do have a place in our society. They can help us to become better people. However, it’s essential to also talk about situations where these sorts of quotes are easier said than acted upon.
Some issues, such as poverty, death, and famine, can be horrible. But they’re out of our control. You can’t “inspire” your way out of thousands of pounds of debt.
And if you have a mental health condition, taking control of your life is easier said than done.
“All the god, all the heavens are within you” is a philosophical quote written by Literature professor Joseph Campbell. What is means is that we are in control of our destiny, and we get to decide what happens to ourselves and our lives.
It’s a great quote that can be looked at as a critique of religion but can also be seen as a complement to it. While it does have some flaws, it’s certainly something to keep in mind.
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Spanish language school in guatemala
Where can I learn Spanish in Guatemala?
Here are a few of the top spots to study Spanish in Guatemala:
Antigua. Antigua attracts many travelers and Spanish students with its colonial charm. …
Lake Atitlán/Panajachel. There is something mystical about Lake Atitlán. …
Quetzaltenango (Xela) Quetzaltenango.
Do they speak Spanish in Guatemala?
Spanish is the official language of Guatemala. … Twenty-one Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages, Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.
What is the main language in Guatemala?
Is English spoken in Guatemala?
English is recognized as a co-official language even in Guatemala, where it is the first tongue of many inhabitants of Izabal Department. But a movement is afoot to make it the second tongue of all educated Guatemalans.
Is school free in Guatemala?
In Guatemala, the constitution guarantees the right to education. Six years of primary education are compulsory. Primary school is the only form of school that the state is required to provide to all children free of charge.
Is Guatemalan Spanish different from Mexican Spanish?
First off, the Spanish spoken in Guatemala is a little different than that of Mexico. In Mexico to say “you”, there Usted and Tu. But in Guatemala there´s 3: Usted, Tu, and Vos. There are other differences in vocabulary, too.
How safe is Guatemala?
Guatemala has one of the highest violent crime rates in Latin America, one of the world’s highest homicide rates and a very low arrest and detention rate. Most incidents of violent crime are drug- and gang-related. They occur throughout the country, including in tourist destinations.
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What is the religion in Guatemala?
Christianity remains strong and vital for the life of Guatemalan society, but its composition has changed considerably in recent decades. Roman Catholicism was the official religion in Guatemala during the colonial era and currently has a special status under the constitution.
What is Guatemala famous for?
What kinds of animals live in Guatemala?
The wildlife in Guatemala includes an almost endless list of species such as the iguana, sea turtle, crocodile, snake, howler, stork, spider monkey, ape, tapir, puma, jaguar, deer, ocelot, monkey, scarlet macaw, peccary, and many types of rodents.
Does Guatemala have snow?
I just learned that Guatemala had its first snow fall since most can remember. There was snow several years ago but not in areas where communities are based. It’s definitely not normal there and homes do not have furnaces or heaters of any type.
Can you wear shorts in Guatemala?
Modest, feminine clothing is a must when visiting Guatemala. Skirts or dresses that fall below the knee are a common choice for business and pleasure. Khaki pants or dress slacks can also be worn in some areas, though shorts are typically discouraged and often identify a woman as a tourists.
Is Guatemalan Hispanic or Latino?
Guatemalans are the sixth largest Latin/Hispanic group in the United States and the second largest Central American population after Salvadorans. Half of the Guatemalan population is situated in two parts of the country, the Northeast and Southern California.
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NOW in his eighties, Charles Rowan Beye holds the title Distinguished Professor of Classics Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Beye is better known to the world as a translator of the ancient Greek classics and as a scholar …
I’d been looking for Gay Havana and this was as much as I’d found, these three twenty-something boys out for a bit of afternoon fun in La Habana Vieja (Old Havana).
Twists and triumphs “by the wayside” of GLBT life.
A MAN who is never named – as if he’s invisible or not worthy of a name – is the protagonist of this somber, almost depressing novel by Will Davis, author of the award-winning novel, My Side of the Story (2007). …
Jim Nawrocki reviews Michael Rumaker’s Robert Duncan in San Francisco and Hilary Holladay’s American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND STEWART was part of the landed aristocracy in 19th-century Scotland, albeit a second son, who ultimately became baronet of Murthly Castle late in life upon the death of his childless older brother. With limited cash and not a lot to do prior to inheriting the title, he set out for ‘pleasure trips’ to the Rocky Mountains, spending several years there as he had adventures and explored the beauty not only of the frontier landscape but also of the young, virile men who flocked to the Rockies to explore and escape as well. …
LAST YEAR will be remembered in contemporary Russian history as the year in which politics returned to the country. For the first time since Vladimir Putin came to power in 1999, Russia saw large civil protests and political debates both in the parliament and in the media. …
IT IS POSSIBLE that you’ve already heard of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, which was a featured selection of Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club, still a potent force in publishing and enough to guarantee that Ayana Mathis’ debut novel would be an instant best-seller. The book is of a piece with many of Winfrey’s selections …
… POET AND PLAYWRIGHT Federico García Lorca was one of the hundreds of thousands of people executed by Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War. Today he has grabbed such a powerful hold on Spain’s cultural imagination that a photograph of his face is used as the logo for the city of Granada’s tourism industry.. …
THIS IS a remarkable exhibition to be found touring three lesser-known provincial art venues in southern England. One of the venues, Falmouth, fully makes sense, in that many of the paintings by Cedric Morris and Christopher (‘Kit’) Wood gathered here relate to periods spent in St. Ives and across Cornwall, and they feature the usual subjects: fishermen, village life, rural scenes, and tin miners. But other paintings describe a very different pair of trajectories …
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The Gombrich Archive
Papers and articles
Gombrich/Gibson dispute
The following bibliography is based on Sir Ernst’s own record plus my own notes. It is no replacement for J.B. Trapp, E.H. Gombrich: A Bibliography. London: Phaidon 2000, which is considerably more detailed.
Richard Woodfield 18.04.2011
Additions for three Turkish translations have been added courtesy of Anne Bechard-Leuté [A B-L] 10.06.2018 with corrections by Sarp Balcı [SB] 04.04.2019
Ein chinesisches Gedicht – und was ihm bei seiner Übertragung ins Deutsche alles passieren könnte, Literarische Monatshefte, 5, pp. 12-13.
Eine verkannte Karolingische Pyxis im Wiener Kunsthistorischen Museum, Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, n.f. 7, pp. 1-14.
Zum Werke Giulio Romanos: 1. Der Palazzo del Te, Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, N.F. 8, pp. 79-104.
Zum Werke Giulio Romanos: 2, Versuch einer Deutung, Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, N.F. 9, pp. 121-150.
Translation: Italian, 1984.
A bécsi oltár és az Esztergomi Múseum fareliefjeinek történeti helyzete (The art-historical position of the Vienna altar and the wooden reliefs of the Esztergom Museum) with summaries in German, French and English, Magyar Müvészet, 11, pp. 223-228.
Unser Weg zur Kunst, Tag der Jugend, Der Wiener Tag, 30 December, 5.
J. Bodonyi, Entstehung und Bedeutung des Goldgrundes in der spätantiken Bildkomposition (Archaeologiai Értesitë, 46, 1932/3). Kritische Berichte zur Kunstgeschichtlichen Literatur, 5, 1932/33, (published in 1935), pp. 65-75.
Weltgeschichte von der Urzeit bis zur Gegenwart (2 editions). (Wissenschaft für Kinder). Vienna, 302 pp., 71 ill.
Danish, Copenhagen n.d. Dutch, Amsterdam n.d. Norwegian, Oslo 1937. Polish, Crakow 1938. Swedish, Stockholm 1937. Turkish, 1947 [SB]. Revised with new chapter, Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser: Von der Urzeit bis zur Gegenwart, Cologne 1985; Hungarian 1991; Slovene 1991; English 2005, A Little History of the World; 12th edition of Genç Okurlar İçin Kısa Bir Dünya Tarihi – A Short History of the World [for Young Readers (with revisions)]– was published in 2011 by İnkılap Kitabevi. This text has been translated by Ahmet Mumcu, who is a well-known historian in Turkey [SB].
Extract:
Buddha, Der Wiener Tag, 11 Nov. 1935.
A classical quotation in Michael Angelo’s “Sacrifice of Noah”, Journal of the Warburg Institute, p. 69.
Wertprobleme und mittelalterliche Kunst, Kritische Berichte zur kunstgeschichtlichen Literature, 6, pp. 109-116.
English as “Achievement in Medieval Art” in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963.
Goethe’s “Zueignung” and Benivieni’s “Amore”, Journal of the Warburg Institute, pp. 331-339.
(With Ernst Kris). The Principles of Caricature, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 17, pp. 319-342.
Reprinted in E. Kris, Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art, 1952. Italian edition 1967.
20, including A. Warburg, Gesammelte Schriften. A Bibliography of the Survival of the Classics, London, The Warburg Institute.
A. Warburg, reprinted in Dieter Wuttke (Ed.), Ansgewählte Schriften und Würdigungen, pp. 433-435 [2nd Ed. 1980].
Art in education – 8: Some trends and experiments abroad, The Listener, 22 September, pp. 564-565.
Art and Propaganda, The Listener, 7 December.
Obituary: Julius von Schlosser, Burlington Magazine, 74, pp. 98-99.
(With Ernst Kris): Caricature, King Penguin Books, 5, Harmondsworth, Mddx. 31 pp., 16 colour plates, 19 text ill.
The Artist and the Art of War, The Listener, 29 August, pp. 311-312.
Reynolds’s Theory and Practice of Imitation, Burlington Magazine, 80, pp. 40-45. Reprinted in Norm and Form, 1966.
The Subject of Poussin’s “Orion”, Burlington Magazine, 84, pp. 37-41. Reprinted in Symbolic Images, 1972. French, 1983.
Botticelli’s mythologies. A study in the Neoplatonic symbolism of his circle, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 8, (published in 1947), pp. 7-60. Reprinted in Symbolic Images, 1972.
John Milton, Die Freiheit des Wortes, (translations from Areopagitica), in Ausblick, Zeitfragen im Lichte der Weltmeinung, June, pp. 1-7.
Portrait Painting and portrait photography, in Apropos. A series of art books, 3.
R. Langton Douglas, Leonardo da Vinci, His Life and Pictures, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 86, 1945, pp. 129-30.
George R. Kernodle, From Art to Theatre. Form and Convention in the Renaissance, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 88, 1946, p.103.
Cartoons and Progress, in A.G. Weidenfeld (ed.), The Public’s Progress, Contact Books, 5, London, pp. 74-83.
Wilhelm Waldmann, Honore Daumier, 240 lithographs. Burlington Magazine, 89, pp. 231-32.
Icones Symbolicae. The visual image in neo-Platonic thought, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 11, pp. 163-192. Reprinted (revised) in Symbolic Images, 1972.
Translation: French, in: D. Arasse and G. Brunel, Eds., Symboles de la Renaissance, Paris, 1976, pp. 17-29. (shortened version)
Tobias and the angel, Harvest. 1: Travel, pp. 63-67. Reprinted in Symbolic Images, 1972.
Daria Hambourg, Richard Doyle; Ruari Mclean, George Cruickshank; Frances Sarzano, Sir John Tenniel. (English Masters of Black and White). Burlington Magazine, 90, p. 153.
Peter Meyer, Europäische Kunstgeschichte, 1: Vom Altertum bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters, Zürich. Burlington Magazine, 90, p. 272.
Imagery and art in the Romantic period, Burlington Magazine, 91, pp. 153-158. Reprinted in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963; and in F.Licht (ed.), Goya in Perspective, 1973.
Charles Morris, Signs, Language and Behaviour, New York. Art Bulletin, 31, pp. 68-75. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
The Story of Art, London, 462 pp., 370 ill.
11th edition revised and enlarged 1966, 488 pp., 383 ill., 12th edition enlarged and redesigned 1972, 498 pp., 398 ill. 13th edition, redesigned 1978. 14th edition, enlarged and reset 1984, 520pp., 406 ill. 15th edition, enlarged and revised 1989, 546 pp., 411 ill. 16th edition, revised, expanded and redesigned 1995, 688 pp., 413 ill.
Afrikaans, Cape Town 1957. Danish, Copenhagen 1953; 2nd edition (revised) 1973, 3rd 1979. Dutch, Utrecht 1951; (revised) Hilversum 1967. Finnish, Helsinki 1955. French, Paris 1963; 2nd edition (revised paperback) Paris 1967; new edition Paris 1982. German, Cologne 1953; Stuttgart 1978. Hebrew, Tel-Aviv 1955; 2nd edition 1964. Hungarian, Budapest 1974. Italian, Milan 1952; 2nd edition (revised) Turin 1966, 1973. Japanese, Tokyo Vol. I 1972, vol. II 1974; new edition (with 2nd preface) 1982. Norwegian, Stavanger 1955; Oslo 1979. Portuguese, Lisbon 1961; Rio 1979. Rumanian, Bucharest 1975. Serbocroat, Beograd 1980. Spanish, Barcelona 1951. Swedish, Stockholm 1954, 2nd edition (revised) 1966, 3rd 1979. Turkish, Istanbul 1976. {“The Story of Art” was translated in Turkish in 1977 as “Sanatın Öyküsü” by Bedrettin Cömert, a Turkish academic from Hacettepe University in Ankara. He was an art historian, as well as a translator, writer and activist who was apparently murdered for political reasons in 1978. Although he received a prize for this translation, the owners of the publishing house –the Erduran family from the Remzi Kitabevi publishing house– are now credited for it and republished the book nine times between 1997 and 2015, before it was published in its pocket edition in 2016. Also spotted was a de luxe edition in a bookshop window but cannot find any trace of it on the Internet. [A B-L & SB]}
Extracts:
On Art and Artists, in Leslie Wilbur & Lowell Dabbs, Improving College English Skills, Chicago 1962; 11th edition, postscript 1965, The Atlantic, February 1966.
The Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo del Te, Journal of the Warburg and Courtald Institutes, 13, pp. 189-201. Reprinted in Symbolic Images, 1972.
Eric Newton, The Meaning of Beauty, London. The Listener, 22 June, p. 1063. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Lancelot Hogben, From Cave Painting to Comic Strip, New York. Magazine of Art, November, pp. 275-276.
Hypnerotomachiana, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 14, pp. 119-125. Reprinted in Symbolic Images, 1972.
Meditations on a hobby horse, or the roots of artistic form, in L.L. Whyte (ed.), Aspects of Form. A Symposium, London, 1951.
Reprinted in: Meditations on a Hobby Horse and other Essays on the Theory of Art, London, 1963; M. Philipson (ed.), Aesthetics Today, Cleveland, 1961; J. Miles, Classic Essays in English, Boston, 1961; G. Pappas, Concepts in Art Education, Toronto, 1970; Newly designed: Norwich School of Art, 1973.
Giorgio Castelfranco, Lineamenti di estetica, Florence 1950. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 10, pp. 78-9.
A classical “Rake’s Progress”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 15, pp. 255-64.
Kunstwissenschaft; Kunstliteratur, in Atlantisbuch der Kunst, Zürich, pp. 653-679.
The Open Society – a Comment, British Journal of Sociology, 3, pp. 358-60.
(unsigned) Ludwig Goldscheider, Michelangelo Drawings, London. Times Literary Supplement, 4 January.
Kenneth Clark, Piero della Francesca, London. Burlington Magazine, 94, pp. 176-78. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Lawrence Gowing, Vermeer, London. The Observer, 7 September.
Renaissance artistic theory and the development of landscape painting, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 41, pp. 335-360. Reprinted in Norm and Form, 1966.
Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, 1951. Art Bulletin, 35, pp. 79-84. Reprinted in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963.
R. Hinks, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – His life – his legend – his works, London; R. Hinks, Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin, Charlton Lectures on Art, 35, London; B. Berenson, Caravaggio, his incongruity and his fame, London. The Listener, 31 December.
M.Meiss, Painting in Florence and Sienna after the Black Death, Princeton 1951. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 11, pp. 414-416. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
B. Rowland Jr., The Art and Architecture of India and E.K. Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, (The Pelican History of Art). The Observer, 17 May.
E.K. Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, (The Pelican History of Art), The Listener, 18 June.
Conseils de Léonard sur les esquisses de tableaux, “L’Art et la Pensée de Léonard de Vinci”; Actes du Congrès Léonard de Vinci, Etudes d’Art Nos. 8,9, et 10, pp. 179-197. Reprinted in English in Norm and Form, 1966.
“Cosi fan tutte”, Procris included, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 17, pp. 372-373. Italian translation (expanded) in cosi fan tutte, Maggia Musicale, Fiorentino 1991
(Casa di Risparmio di Firenze), pp. 127-136.
L’influence des astres sur la culture de la Renaissance, Les Beaux-Arts, December (L’Europe Humaniste), 7.
Leonardo’s grotesque heads. Prolegomena to their study, in A. Marezza (ed.), Leonardo. Saggi e ricerche, Rome, pp. 199-219; Italian, pp. 541-556. Reprinted in The Heritage of Apelles, 1976.
André Malraux and the Crisis of Expressionism, Burlington Magazine, 96, pp. 374-378. Reprinted in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963; French (partial) translation France Observateur, 6 December 1962.
Psycho-analysis and the history of art, International Journal of Psycho-analysis, 35, pp. 401-411. Reprinted in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963; B. Nelson (ed.), Freud and the 20th Century, New York, 1957, London 1958.
Italian, E.H. Gombrich, Freud e la Psicologia dell’ Arte, Turin 1967; Spanish, E.H. Gombrich, Freud y la Psicología del Arte, Barcelona 1971.
Visual Metaphors of value in art, in L. Bryson et al. (ed.), Symbols and Values: an initial study. 13th symposium of the conference on science, philosophy and religion, New York, pp. 225-281. Reprinted in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963; and in R.A. Smith (ed.), Aesthetics and Criticism in Art Education, Chicago 1966.
Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, vol. 9, Burlington Magazine, 96, p. 27.
William M. Ivins, Prints and Visual Communication, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 5, pp. 168-169.
Letter:
The Emptying of Museums, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 96, No. 611 (Feb., 1954), pp. 58+61
Apollonio di Giovanni. A Florentine cassone workshop seen through the eyes of a humanist poet, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 18, pp. 16-34. Reprinted in Norm and Form, 1966.
The Renaissance concept of artistic progress and its consequences, Actes du 17e Congrès International d’Histoire de L’Art, (Amsterdam 1952), The Hague 1955, pp. 291-307. Reprinted in Norm and Form, 1966.
Raphael’s Madonna della Sedia, Charlton Lectures on Art, 38 pp. Reprinted on Norm and Form, 1966.
Werner Hofmann, Die Karikatur. Burlington Magazine, 99, p. 320.
Art and Scholarship. An inaugural lecture (University College, London), 21 pp. Reprinted in College Art Journal, 17, 1958, pp. 342-356; and Meditations on a Hobby-Horse, 1963.
A classical topos in the introduction to Alberti’s “Della Pittura”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 20, p. 173.
Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. 11. Burlington Magazine, 99, p. 320.
Richard Krautheimer, Lorenzo Ghiberti. Apollo, July, pp. 306-307.
Dora and Erwin Panofsky, Pandora’s Box, The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol. Burlington Magazine, 99, p. 280.
John White, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space. Apollo, December, p. 198.
Obituary: Ernst Kris, The Times, 23 March.
Lessing. (Lecture on a Master Mind – 1957), Proceedings of the British Academy, 43, pp. 133-156. Reprinted in Tributes, 1984.
German in Gastspiele, 1992.
The Tyranny of abstract art, The Atlantic, 201, pp. 43-48. Reprinted as “The Vogue of Abstract Art” in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963.
Ed., with Julius S. Held and O. Kurz, Essays in Honor of Hans Tietze, 1880-1954, Paris, VIII, 466 pp.
John Pope-Hennessy, Italian Renaissance Sculpture, London 1958. Apollo, December, pp. 228-229.
The Repentance of Judas, in Piero della Francesa’s “Flagellation of Christ”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 22, p. 172. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Obituary: Erica Tietze-Conrat (1883-1958), College Art Journal, 18, p. 248.
Art and Illusion. A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, 466 pp. 320 ill.
(Andrew William Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 5, 1956. Bollingen Series, 35, 5). New York and London 1960. (copyright 1959).
London edition reset, 1962. This edition republished, London 1962, 1968, 1972 (in each case with an additional preface). Slightly revised 1983 (p. 254).
Bulgarian, 1988. Chinese, 1988 with new introduction; another Chinese translation, 1990. Czech, 1985. Dutch, Zeist 1964 and De Haan 1988. French, Paris 1971. German, Cologne 1967; Stuttgart 1978. Hebrew, 1988 with new introduction. Hungarian, Budapest 1972. Italian, Turin 1965 (with a new preface). Japanese, Tokyo 1979. Polish, 1981. Portuguese, 1986. Rumanian, Bucharest 1973. Serbocroat, Beograd 1984. Spanish, 1979. Swedish, Stockholm 1972. Turkish, 1993.
{“Art and Illusion” was translated in Turkish by Ahmet Cemal in 1992 as “Sanat ve Yanilsama” (and republished in 2002 and 2015 by Remzi Kitabevi, the same publishing house as for the Story of Art). [A B-L]}
Irma Rautavaara, Nyky-estetiikan Ongelimia, Helsinki 1971, from Chapter 2.
H. Adams, Critical Theories since Plato, N.Y. 1971, from Chapter 11.
The early Medici as patrons of art: A survey of primary sources, E.F. Jacob, (ed.) Italian Renaissance Studies, pp. 279-311. Reprinted in Norm and Form, 1966.
On physiognomic Perception, Daedalus. Journal of the American Academy of arts and sciences, (Special issue: The Visual Arts today), pp. 228-241. Reprinted in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963.
Swedish in Paletten, 4, 1964.
Vasari’s “Lives” and Cicero’s “Brutus”, Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes, 23, pp. 309-311.
A. Malraux, The Metamorphoses of the Gods, The Observer, 9 October. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Critics, courts and artists. The 3rd Past and Present Conference…., Past & Present, 19, pp. 19-20.
How to read a painting. (Adventures of the Mind) The Saturday Evening Post, 234, pp. 20-21, 64-65. Reprinted as “Illusion and Visual Deadlock” in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963.
Das Wesen der Karikatur, Veröffentlichung der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing: Jahrbuch, 11, pp. 287-296.
The Tradition of General Knowledge, (Oration delivered at the London School of Economics), privately circulated, 23 pp. Reprinted in M. Bunge (ed.), The Critical Approach to Science and Philosophy (Essays in Honor of Karl Popper), New York, 1964 and Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Art and the language of the emotions, The Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Vol. 36, pp. 215-234. Reprinted as “Expression and Communication” in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963.
Alberto Avogadro’s Descriptions of the Badia of Fiesole and of the Villa of Careggi, Italia medioevale e umanistica, 5, pp. 217-229.
(With Michael Baxandall): Beroaldus on Francia, Journal of the Warburg and Courtaulds Institutes, 25, pp. 113-115.
Blurred Images and the unvarnished truth, British Journal of Aesthetics, 2, pp. 170-179.
Dark Varnishes: variations on a theme from Pliny, Burlington Magazine, 104, pp. 51-62. Italian in Allesandro Conti (ed) Sul Restauro, Torino (Einaudi), 1998.
Comment on Kenneth Adams, `Realism in Painting’, Discovery, July, pp. 47-48.
Introduction to Kokoschka, Retrospective Exhibition … by the Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Sept.-Nov., pp. 10-15. Reprinted as Introduction to Catalogue of Exhibition at Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, October-November 1966.
Foreword to Karel Vogel: Sculpture, a retrospective exhibition, 2 pp. South London Art Gallery, Camberwell, November-December; and Midland Area Museum Service.
Meditations on a Hobby Horse and other essays on the theory of art, 184 pp., 68 pl., London.
Meditations on a Hobby Horse or the Roots of Artistic Form (1951) – Visual Metaphors of Value in Art (1954) – Psychoanalysis and the History of art (1954) – On Physiognomic Perception (1962) – Expression and Communication, (1962) – Achievement in Medieval Art (translation of “Wertprobleme und mittelalterliche Kunst” 1937) – André Malraux and the Crisis of Expressionism (1954) – The Social History of Art (review of A. Hauser, 1953) – Tradition and Expression in Western Still Life (review of C. Sterling 1961) – Art and Scholarship (1957) – Imagery and Art in the Romantic Period (review of D. George, 1949) – The Cartoonist’s Armoury (1963) – The Vogue of Abstract Art (The Tyranny of Abstract Art 1958) – Illusion and Visual Deadlock: (How to Read a Painting 1961).
French, 1986. German, (with a new preface) Vienna 1973; Stuttgart 1978; Suhrkamp taschenbuch 1978. Italian, Turin 1971. Spanish, Barcelona 1968. Title essay in Hebrew, 1985.
The Cartoonist’s Armoury, South Atlantic Quarterly, 62, pp. 189-223. Reprinted in Meditations on a Hobby Horse, 1963.
German in G. Langemeyer, Karikatur als Waffe, Münich 1984
Controversial Methods and methods of controversy, Burlington Magazine, 105, pp. 90-93.
A Grillparzer Anecdote, German Life and Letters, 16, pp. 209-211.
An Interpretation of Mantegna’s “Parnassus”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 26, pp. 196-198. Reprinted in Symbolic Images, 1972.
Mannerism: The historiographic background, Studies in Western Art. (Acts of the 20th international Congress of the history of art), Vol. 2, pp. 163-73. Reprinted in Norm and Form, 1966.
Norma e forma, Filosofia, 14, pp. 445-64; also as Quaderni della “Biblioteca filosofica di Torino”, 6.
English in Norm and Form, 1966. German in Dieter Heinrich & Wolfgang Iser (eds.), Theorien der Kunst, Frankfurt 1982.
The Style “all `antica”: Imitation and Assimilation, Studies in Western Art. (Acts of the 20th international Congress of the history of art), vol. 2, pp. 31-41. Reprinted in Norm and Form, 1966.
F. Haskell, Patrons and Painters, London. The Observer, 23 June. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Exhibitionship, The Atlantic, 213, pp. 77-78.
Light, form and texture in 15th century painting, Journal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 112, pp. 826-849. Reprinted in W.E. Kleinbauer (ed.) Modern Perspectives in Western Art History, New York, 1971; (revised) in The Heritage of Apelles, 1976.
French in VRBI IX 1984, pp. xii-xxxv.
Moment and movement in art, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 27, pp. 293-306. Reprinted in The Image and the Eye, 1982 and P.T. Londsberg, The Enigma of Time, Bristol 1982.
Tradition and the New Art: Broadcast Discussion with Frank Kermode, Partisan Review, Spring, pp. 241-252.
F.B. Artz, From the Renaissance to Romanticism, Chicago. History, 49, pp. 130-132.
Kunstgeschichte und Kunsttheorie im 19. Jahrhundert (Probleme der Kunstwissenschaft, 1), Berlin. Art Bulletin, 46, pp. 418-420.
Thomas Munro, Evolution in the Arts and other Theories of Culture History, 1963. British Journal of Aesthetics, 4, pp. 263-270.
Obituary (unsigned): Gertrud Bing, The Times, 6 July.
The Beauty of old towns, Architectural Association Journal, April, 5pp. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Winston Churchill as Painter and Critic, The Atlantic, 215, pp. 90-93.
The Use of Art for the Study of Symbols, American Psychologist, 20, pp. 34-50. Reprinted in J. Hogg (ed.) Psychology and the Visual Arts, Harmondsworth 1969.
French in L’Information d’Histoire de l’Art, V, 4, September-October 1970. German (revised) in H. Bauer et al, (eds.), Wandlungen des Paradiesischen und Utopischen (Probleme der Kunstwissenschaft 2), Berlin 1966. Italian, E.H. Gombrich, Freud e la Psicologia dell’ Arte, Turin 1967. Spanish, E.H. Gombrich, Freud y la Psicología del Arte, Barcelona 1971.
Visual Discovery through art, Arts Magazine, November, pp. 17-28. Reprinted in J. Hogg (ed.) Psychology and the Visual Arts, Harmondsworth 1969, and The Image and the Eye, 1982.
French, 1983. Serbocroat: Razprave Problemi, February/March 1971. Spanish, Barcelona 1975.
Introduction to S. Kruckenhauser, Heritage of Beauty, Architecture and Sculpture in Austria, London, pp. 7-14.
C. Pedretti, Leonardi da Vinci on Painting: a Lost Book (Libro A); Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood. The New York Review of Books, 11 February, pp. 3-4. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Gertrud Bing, 1892-1964, in Gertrud Bing in Memoriam, The Warburg Institute, pp. 1-3.
Gertrud Bing zum Gedenken, Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, 10, pp. 7-12.
Norm and Form. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance, I, London, 167 pp., 186 ill.; 2nd. ed., VIII, 308 pp., 1971.
The Renaissance Conception of Artistic Progress and its Consequences (1958) – Apollonio di Giovanni: A Florentine Casone Workshop seen through the eyes of a Humanist Poet (1955) – Renaissance and Golden Age (1961) – The Early Medici as Patron of Art (1960) – Leonardo’s method for working out compositions (Conseils de Léonard sur les esquisses de tableaux, 1954) – Raphael’s Madonna della Sedia (1956) – Norm and Form (Norma e forma, 1963) – The Renaissance Theory of Art and the Rise of Landscape ( Renaisssance Artistic Theory and the Development of Landscape Painting (1953) – The style all’ Antica: Imitation and Assimilation (1963) -Reynolds’s Theory and Practice of Imitation (1942).
Italian, Turin 1972. Portuguese, 1990. Spanish, 1984.
The Debate on primitivism in ancient rhetoric, Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes, 29, pp. 24-37.
Freud’s Aesthetics, Encounter, 26, pp. 30-40. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
French in Preuves, April 1969. German in Literatur und Kritik, November 1967. Greek in Epoches, 1966. Italian in Tempo Presente, February 1966, also in E.H. Gombrich, Freud e la Psicologia dell’ Arte, Turin 1967. Spanish in E.H. Gombrich, Freud y la Psicología del Arte, Barcelona 1971.
Einige Erinnerungen am Adolf Busch, in: In Memoriam Adolf Busch, Dahlbruch (Brüder-Busch-Gesellschaft), pp. 34-36.
Ritualized Gesture and expression in art, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, No 772, Vol. 251, pp. 393-401. Reprinted in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
Aby Warburg, 1866-1929, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11 December.
Warburg Insititute Lecture: Aby Warburg. Reprinted in Dieter Wuttke (ed.) Ansgewählte Schriften und Würdigungen, pp. 465-477. Second Edition 1980.
Aby Warburg zum Gedenken. Festansprache vom 13. Juni 1966 in der Universität Hamburg zum Gedächtnis an Aby Warburgs 100. Geburtstag, Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, 11, pp. 15-27. Reprinted in Tributes, 1988.
H. Berve & G. Gruben, Greek Temples, Theatres and Shrines; R. Lullies, Greek Sculpture; E. Langlotz, Ancient Greek Sculpture of South Italy and Sicily; P.E. Arias, A History of 1000 Years of Greek Vase Painting; S. Marinatos, Crete and Mycenae; G.M.A. Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks; J.V. Noble, The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery. The New York Review of Books, 6 January, pp. 3-4. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Draper Hill, Mr Gillray, the Caricaturist and John Physick, The Duke of Wellington in Caricaturist, London. Burlington Magazine, 108, pp. 206-207.
M. Peckham, Man’s Rage for Chaos. The New York Review of Books, 23 June, pp. 3-4. Reprinted in B. Bergonzi (ed.), Innovations, London 1968 and in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Cornelius Vermeule, European Art and the Classical Past, Cambridge, Mass. Journal of Roman Studies, 56, pp. 259-260.
Celebrations in Venice of the Holy League and of the Victory of Lepanto, Studies in Renaissance and Baroque art presented to Anthony Blunt, pp. 62-68.
The earliest Description of Bosch’s “Garden of Delight”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 30, pp. 403-406. Reprinted in The Heritage of Apelles, 1976. Translation:
French in 1983.
From the Revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolò Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi, D. Fraser et al. (eds.) , Essays in the History of Art presented to Rudolf Wittkower, pp. 71-82. Reprinted in The Heritage of Apelles, 1976. French translation 1983.
Zur Psychologie des Bilderlesens, Röntgenblätter, 20 February, pp. 50-56.
Introduction (Italian) to E. Kris, Ricerche psicoanalitiche sull’ arte, Turin, pp. XIII-XXVI. Reprinted (translated and revised) in Tributes, 1984.
Graham Reynolds, Victorian Painting; Raymond Lister, Victorian Narrative Paintings. The New York Review of Books, 13 July, pp. 3-5. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
C. de Tolnay, Hieronymus Bosch. The New York Review of Books, 23 February, pp. 3-4.
The Leaven of criticism in Renaissance art, C.S. Singleton (ed.), Art, Science and History in the Renaissance, pp. 3-42. Reprinted in The Heritage of Apelles, 1976.
Methodfragen der Symbolforschung, Das Münster, 21, p. 57.
Should a museum be active? Museum, 21, pp. 79-86. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987. Also Japanese translation.
Style, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. 15, 352-361.
German in Peter Pot and Sándor Radnoti, (ed.) Stilepoche, Theorie und Diskusion, Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1990, pp. 619-638.
Erich Kahler, The disintegration of form in the arts; J. J. Sweeney, Vision and Image. The New York Review of Books, 1 February, pp. 5-8. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Jakob Rosenberg, On Quality in Art. The New York Review of Books, 20 June, pp. 3-4. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
V.P. Zubov, Leonardo da Vinci, New York Review of Books, 5 December, pp. 4-8. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Obituary: Erwin Panofsky, Burlington Magazine, 110, pp. 356-360.
In Search of Cultural History, The Philip Maurice Deneke Lecture, Oxford, 55 pp. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Catalan, Barcelona 1974. French (Gerard Montfort), Paris 1992. Polish in J. Bialostocki (ed.) Pojecia, Problemy, Metody Wspolczesnej nanki o sztuce Warsaw 1975. Spanish in Tras la Historia de la Cultura, Barcelona 1977.
Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”. A progress report, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 32, pp. 162-170. Reprinted in The Heritage of Apelles. 1976, French, 1983.
The Evidence of images:
I. The variability of Vision;
II. The priority of context over Expression, in C.S. Singleton (ed.), Interpretation, Theory and practice, pp. 35-104.
The Form of movement in water and air, in C. D. O’Malley (ed.), Leonardo’s Legacy. An international symposium, pp. 171-204. Reprinted in The Heritage of Apelles, 1976, French, 1983.
Geschichte des Nachlebens der Antike (Österreichische Gelehrte im Ausland), Österreichische Hochschulzeitung, 1 June, p. 5.
M. Meiss, The Great Age of Fresco. The New York Review of Books, 19 June, pp. 8-13. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Aby Warburg, an intellectual biography. With a memoir on the history of the library by F(ritz) Saxl. London, VI, 376 pp., 65 pls. 2nd edition Oxford 1986.
Myth and reality in German war-time broadcasts, The Creighton lecture in history. London, 28 pp. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Art and self-transcendence, in A. Tiselius et al. (ed.), The Place of Value in a World of Facts (Nobel Symposium 14) Stockholm, pp. 125-133. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Criteria of periodization in the history of European art. 3: (A Comment on H. W. Janson’s article), New Literary History, 1, pp. 123-125.
Introduction to Gerhart Frankl: Exhibition of Paintings and Works of Paper, London, Arts Council, Hayward Gallery, 2 pp. Reprinted, in a German translation, in Gerhart Frankl, Salzburg 1990, pp. 9-14.
Introduction to H. Honour and J. Fleming (eds.), A Heritage of Images. A selection of Lectures by Fritz Saxl, Harmondsworth, Middx., pp. 9-12.
A. Bredius, Rembrandt; H. Gerson, Rembrandt: Paintings; J. E. Muller, Rembrandt; J. Rosenberg, Rembrandt; C. White, Rembrandt as an Etcher; M. Kitson, Rembrandt; B. Haak, Rembrandt; R. H. Fuchs, Rembrandt in Amsterdam; J. Held, Rembrandt’s `Aristotle’ and other Rembrandt Studies. The New York Review of Books, 12 March, pp. 6-16. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Ideas of Progress and their Impact on Art,
I. From Classicism to Primitivism;
II. From Romanticism to Modernism, New York, Cooper Union, The Mary Duke Biddle Lectures, 89 pp. Privately circulated.
French, Paris 1983. German, Cologne 1978; 2nd edn. 1987. Italian, Bari 1985.
Reply to James J. Gibson: On information available in pictures, Leonardo, 4, pp. 195-197, 308.
Personification, in R.R. Bolgar (ed.), Classical influences on European culture, A.D. 500-1500, pp. 247-57.
The State of Art History: A plea for pluralism, American Art Journal, 3, pp. 83-7. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Vom Ethos in der bildenden Kunst: Gedanken zum 70.
Geburtstag Maz Hunzikers, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 5 March, p. 33.
Introduction to Kokoschka, exhibition of prints and drawings lent by Reinhold, Count Bethusy-Huc, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, pp. 6-9.
Symbolic Images. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance, 2, London, 247 pp., 170 ill.
Introduction: Aims and Limits of Iconology – Tobias and the Angel (1948) – Botticelli’s Mythologies, a study in the Neoplatonic Symbolism of his Circle (with a new preface and appendix, 1945) – An Interpretation of Mantegna’s “Parnassus” (1963) – Rapael’s Stanza della Segnatura and the nature of its symbolism – Hypnerotomachiana (expanded, 1951) – The Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo del Te (1950) – The Subject of Poussin’s Orion (1944) – Icones Symbolicae: Philosophies of symbolism and their bearing on art (revised and expanded from Icones Symbolicae, the visual Image in Neo-platonic thought, 1948).
Translation: Italian, Turin 1978.
Action and expresion in Western art, in R.A. Hinde (ed.), Non-verbal communication, Cambridge, pp. 379-33. Reprinted in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
The Mask and the Face: the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art, in E.H. Gombrich, Julian Hochberg, Max Black, Art, perception and reality, pp. 1-46. Reprinted in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
Translations: German, Stuttgart 1977. Italian, Turin 1978.
The Visual Image, Scientific American, 227, pp. 82-96. Reprinted in D.R. Olson (ed.), Media and Symbols, Chicago, 1974 and The Image and the Eye, 1982.
German in K. Steinbuch (ed.) Kommunikation, Frankfurt, 1973.
The “What” and the “How”: Perspective Representation and the phenomenal World, in R. Rudner and I. Scheffler (eds.), Logic and Art: Essays in Honor of Nelson Goodman, New York, pp. 129-149.
The Achievement of Sir Karl Popper: Broadcast Discussion, in The Listener, 24 August, pp. 227-228.
Introduction to Max Hunziker, Malereien, Glasfenster, Helmhaus, Zürich, August-October, 4 pp.
Mario Praz, Mnemosyne: The Parallel between Literature and the Visual Arts. Burlington Magazine, 114, pp. 345-346.
M. Wenzel, House Decoration in Nubia; J.C. Faris, Nubia Personal Art; A. & M. Strathern, Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen; R. Rain & A. Polock, Bangwa Funerary Sculpture. The New York Review of Books, 4 May, pp. 35-38. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Dürer, Vives and Bruegel, in J. Bruyn et al. (eds.) Album Amicorum J. G. van Gelder, pp. 132-134. Reprinted in The Heritage of Apelles, 1976.
Huizinga’s “Homo ludens”, Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 88, pp. 275-96.Reprinted in W. R. H. Koops et al., Johan Huizinga, 1872-1972, The Hague, 1973, in the Times Literary Supplement, 4 October 1974 and in Tributes, 1984.
Illusion and Art, in R. Gregory and E. H. Gombrich (eds.) Illusion in Nature and Art, London, pp. 193-243.
Italian in Dimensioni del Disegno, June 1987 and November 1987.
Research in the humanities: Ideals and idols, Daedalus, Spring, (The Search for Knowledge) pp. 1-10. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
The Concept of cultural History (Broadcast discussion with Peter Burke), The Listener, 27 December.
Commencement Address at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pa. 5 pp. Privately circulated.
J. Rykwert, On Adam’s House in Paradise. The New York Review of Books, 29 November, pp. 35-37. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Die Ambraser Kunstsammlung und die Dichterin Lilly von Sauter, Das Fenster, Tiroler Kulturzeitschrift, 14, 1974/5, pp. 1538-1544.
Meditations on a Hobby Horse, separately designed and published by the Department of Graphic Design at the Norwich School of Art.
The Logic of Vanity Fair, Alternatives to Historicism in the study of Fashions, Style and Taste, in P. A. Schilpp (ed.), The Philosophy of Karl Popper, 2, La Salle, Ill., pp. 925-957. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Spanish in Tras la Historia de la Cultura, 1977.
The Renaissance – Period or Movement?, Background to the English Renaissance, London, pp. 9-30.
The Sky is the Limit: the Vaulty of Heaven and Pictorial Vision, in Robert B. Macleod and Herbert L. Pick Jr. (eds.), Perception. Essays in Honor of James J. Gibson, Ithaca, N. Y., pp. 84-94. Reprinted in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
Topos and Topicality in Renaissance Art, Annual Lecture, privately circulated by the Society for Renaissance Studies, London, 18 pp.
La Vergine di Bruges, Video, La Rivista della Televisione, Nov. pp. 29-30.
Introduction to Exhibition Catalogue, Oliver Bevan, Polaroid Light Boxes, J.P. Lehmans Gallery, London.
Foreword to Heinrich Schäfer, Principles of Egyptian Art, Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. ix-x.
Art History and the Social Sciences, (The Romanes Lecture for 1973), Oxford, 60 pp., 4 pl. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Danish in Kunsthistorie og samfundsvidenskab, ed. & intro. by Lars-Aagaard-Mogensen, Humanistic, II, pp. 48; 2nd printing 1980; also in Hrymfaxe, Vol. 8, no. 2 (1978), pp. 1-48. Spanish in Tras la Historia de la Cultura, Barcelona 1978.
Kunstsalon Wolfsberg. Max Hunziker. Laudatio, at the conferment of the Auszeichnung für kulturelle Verdienste on the artist by the City of Zürich, 25 August, 17 pp.
Impara l’arte (La crisi dei musei), Bolaffiarte, p. 6.
Mirror and Map: theories of pictorial representation (Review Lecture), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B. Biological Sciences, Vol. 270, Number 903, pp. 119-149. Reprinted in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
Translation: in Omar Calabrese (ed.) Semiotica della Pittura, Milan 1980.
Reflections on Anna Mahler’s Oeuvre, introduction to Anna Mahler. Her Work, London, pp. 5-8. Also in German, Stuttgart, 1975.
The Heritage of Apelles, Studies in the Art of the Renaissance, 3, Oxford, 250 pp, 244 ill.
Preface – Light and Highlights: The Heritage of Apelles; Light, Form and Texture in Fifteenth Century Painting North and South of the Alps (1964) (revised) – Leonardo da Vinci’s Method of Analysis and Permutation: The Form of Movement in Water and Air (1969) – The Grotesque Heads (1954) – Jerome Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”: The Earliest Description of the Triptych (1967) – “As it was in the Days of Noe” (1969, under the title “A Progress Report”) – Classical Rules and Rational Standards: From the Revival of Letters to the Reform of the Arts: Niccolò Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi (1967) – The Leaven of Criticism in Renaissance Art (1968) – The Pride of Apelles: Vives, Dürer and Brueghel (1973).
German, Stuttgart 1987. Italian, 1986. Rumanian, Bucharest 1981. Spanish, Madrid 1992.
Means and Ends, Reflections on the History of Fresco Painting, The Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, 72 pp, 44 ill., London. Translations:
French, Paris 1988. Japanese, Tokyo 1988. Russian, Moscow 1982.
Bonventura Berlinghieri’s Palmettes, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 39, pp. 234-236.
Canons and Values in the Visual Arts: A Correspondence between E. H. Gombrich and Quentin Bell, Critical Inquiry, 2, pp. 393-410. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Erasmus Prize acceptance speech, Semiolus, 8, 1975/1976, 2, pp. 47-48. Reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979.
Introduction to Homage to Kokoschka, Prints and Drawings lent by Reinhold, Count Bethusy-Huc. Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, pp. 5-9.
Malraux’s Philosophy of Art in Historical Perspective, in Martine de Courcel (ed.) Malraux, Life and Work, London, pp. 19-183.
Translation: French, in Martine de Courcel (ed.) Malraux, Etre et Dire, Paris.
Francis Haskell, Rediscoveries in Art. The Times Literary Supplement, 27th Feb., pp. 210-211. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Obituary:
Otto Kurz, Burlington Magazine, 118, pp. 29-30. Reprinted as preface to Otto Kurz, The Decorative Arts of Europe. The Islamic East. Also, Otto Kurz, Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Instituts für Geschichtsforschung.
Hegel und die Kunstgeschichte, Neue Rundschau, 88, 2. pp 202-219 also (abbreviated) in Hans Mayer zum 19 Marz 1977, Stuttgart, and Hegel-Preis-Reden 1977, Stuttgart. Reprinted in Gedanken und Gewissen ed. G. Busch and J.H. Freund, Frankfurt 1986, pp. 485-525.
English, Architectural Review 51, 6/7, 1981. Reprinted in Tributes, 1984 and in Peters Abbs (ed.), The Symbolic Order, The Falmer Press 1989, pp. 89-103.
The Unrepentant Humanist, Cornell Review, 1, pp. 55-67.
The Museum: Past, Present and Future, Critical Inquiry 3, pp. 449-470, reprinted in Ideals and Idols, 1979 and in Lars Aagaard-Mogensen, ed., The Idea of the Museum, Philosophical, Artistic and Political Questions, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter, pp. 99-126.
Baccalaureate Address, University of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Gazette, October, pp. 31-33.
Leo Steinberg, Michelangelo’s Last Paintings: The Conversion of St. Paul and Crucifixion of St. Peter in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace. The New York Review of Books, XXIII, 21/22, pp. 17-20. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Danish, Kunst og Billedssprog: Reason and Emotion (1975) – Meditations on a Hobby Horse (1951) – Art and the Language of the Emotions (1962) – review of Charles Morris (1949) – The Visual Image (1972) – Style (1968) – Art and Self-Transcendence (1970) – Hegel and Art History (1977) – Review of Arnold Hauser (1953) – The Renaissance Concept of Artistic Progress (1955) – The Pride of Apelles (1973) – Durer, Vives and Breughel (1973) – The Experiment of Caricature (Ch. 10 of Art and Illusion, 1960) – The Vogue of Abstract Art (1956) – Should a Museum be Active? (1968) – A Plea for Pluralism (1971).
Introduction to Henri Cartier-Bresson, A Scottish Arts Council Exhibition arranged in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, pp. 5-10. Reprinted in Topics of our Time, 1991.
On Interpreting Pictorial Art, a Comment, Leonardo, p. 174.
Introduction to Exhibition Catalogue, L’Altro Occhio di Polifemo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, pp. 18, 19.
Rhetorique de l’Attribution (Reductio ad Absurdum), Revue de l’Art 42, October, pp. 23-25; reprinted in the French edition of Reflections on the History of Art, 1992. English version in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Interview with Angelo Schwarz, Il Diaframma (Fotografia Italiana), pp. 31-33. Reprinted in Angelo Schwarz, Trenta Voci Sulla Fotografia, Torino 1983, pp. 133-138.
A Historical Hypothesis in: T. F Rugh and E. R. Silva (eds.) History as a Tool in Critical Interpretation, a symposium, Provo, Utah, pp. 39-42.
Kunst und Fortschritt, Wirkung und Wandlung einer Idee. (see: The Ideas of Progress and their Impact on Art, 1971) with E. H. G.’s Bibliography 1930-1978.
Italian, Bari 1985. Hungarian, Budapest 1987.
PP Rubens: Paintings, Oil Sketches and Drawings, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Frans Baudouin, PP Rubens. Keith Roberts, Rubens. Michael Jaffe, Rubens and Italy. John Rowlands, Rubens, Drawings and Sketches. The New York Review of Books, 25, 3, pp. 6-10. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Moshe Barasch Gestures of Despair. The Burlington Magazine, 110. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
The Sense of Order, A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art, The Wrightsman Lectures, Oxford, 411 pp., 89 pl.
Chinese (with new introduction), 1987. German (Klett Cotta), Stuttgart 1982. Italian (Einaudi), Torino 1984. Japanese, 1989. Spanish (Edicion Castellana), Barcelona 1980.
Giotto’s Portrait of Dante? The Burlington Magazine Sixth Annual Lecture, The Burlington Magazine CXXI No 917 Aug 79, pp. 461-483.
The Dream of Reason: Symbolism in the The French Revolution, The British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, Autumn, pp. 187-205.
Ideals and Idols, Essays on Values in History and in Art, Oxford, 224 pp., 10 pl.
The Tradition of General Knowledge (1962) – In Search of Cultural History (1969) – The Logic of Vanity Fair (1974) – Myth and Reality in German Wartime Broadcasts (1970) – Research in the Humanities: Ideals and Idols (1973) – Art and Self-Transcendence (1970) – Art History and the Social Sciences (1975) – Canons and Values in the Visual Arts: A Correspondence with Quentin Bell (1976) – A Plea for Pluralism (1971) – The Museum: Past, Present and Future (1977) – Reason and Feeling in the Study of Art (Erasmus Prize Lecture) (1975).
The Primitive and its Value in Art, (Broadcast, BBC) Published in: The Listener, 15th and 22nd Feb, 1st and 8th March. 1. The Dread of Corruption, pp. 242-245. -2. The Turn of the Tide, pp. 279-281. -3. The Priority of Pattern, pp. 311-314. -4. The Tree of Knowledge, pp. 347-350.
A Preface to Legend, Myth and Magic in the Image of the Artist (A Historical Experiment). Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz, Newhaven and London.
Translation: German, Die Legende von Künstler, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1980. Italian, La Leggenda dell’Artista, Torino 1980.
In a Semiotic Landscape – Panorama Semiotique. Proceedings of the First Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Milan 1974. Mouton Publishers, Berlin, ca. summer.
Response to J. S. Ackerman on `Judging Art without Absolutes’, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 794-795.
Response to J. J. Gibson, Leonardo, vol. 12, pp. 174-175.
Exchange with Henry Zerner on `The Sense of Order’. The New York Review of Books, September 27, Vol. XXVI, No. 14, pp. 60-61.
Kunst og billedsprog, Udvalgte essays, (Art and Pictorial Language, Selected Essays), ed. & intro by Lars Aagaard-Mogensen, Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck, Copenhagen, (ISBN 87-17-02278-9), pp. 226. Translated into Danish by Dr. Else Mogensen.
“Head and Heart” (1976), “Meditation on a Hobby Horse or the Roots of Artistic Form” (1951), “Expression and Communication” (1962), “Charles Morris Signs, Language and Behavior” (1949), “The Visual Image” (1972), “Style” (1968), “Art and Self-Transcendence” (1970), “Hegel und die Kunstgeschichte” (1977), “The Social History of Art” (1953), “The Renaissance Conception of Artistic Progress and its Consequences” (1952), “The Pride of Apelles: Vives, Dürer and Bruegel” (1976), “The Experiment of Caricature” (1977), “Reflections on Anna Mahler’s Oeuvre” (1975), “The Vogue of Abstract Art” (1956), “Should a Museum be Active?” (1968), “A Plea for Pluralism” (1971).
Franz Schubert e la Vienna del suo tempo, lecture of 7 December 1978, privately circulated by Musicus Concentus, Firenze, pp. 3-17, 14 ill.
English (revised) The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 149, No. 4, February 1982, pp. 15-36.
Experiment and Experience in the Arts, Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Vol. 52, pp. 113-114. Reprinted in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
Four Theories of Artistic Expression, Architectural Association Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 14-19.
Standards of Truth: The Arrested Image and the Moving Eye, The Language of Images, ed. WJT Mitchell, University of Chicago Press, pp. 181-218. Reprinted in Critical Inquiry, Vol, 7, No. 2, winter 1980, pp. 237-273. Reprinted in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
Structure in Science and Art, (eds. Sir Peter Medawar and JH Shelley), Proceedings of the Third CH Boehringer Sohn Symposium, held at Kronberg, Taurus, 2-5 May, 1979.
Tribute to IA Richards, PN Review, 16, Vol 7, no. II, p. 31.
Oskar Kokoschka, Gedenkworte, spoken 3 June, 1980 in Das Parlament, 19-26 July, p. 18. Reprinted in Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen and Order Pour le Mérite: Reden und Gedenworte XVI, 1980.
English in Orbis Pictus, The Prints of Oskar Kokoschka, Santa Barabara Museum of Art 1987.
Michael Sullivan, Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China, Times Literary Supplement, 5 September. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Egon Verheyen, The Palazzo del Te in Mantua. The Burlington Magazine, 112, pp. 70-71.
Nature and Art as needs of the mind, the Fourth Leverhulme Memorial Lecture, Liverpool University Press, 24 pp, delivered 23 February, 1981 in the University of Liverpool. Reprinted in Tributes, 1984.
The Ecclesiastical Significance of Raphael’s Transfiguration, ARS AURO PRIOR, Studia Ioanni Bia_ostock, sexagenario dedicata, Warsaw, pp. 241-243.
Sigmund Freud und die Theorie der Künste, Festvortrag zum 125 Geburtstag, Sigmund Freud House Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 1 Vienna, pp. 11-25. Translated in Tributes, 1984. Reprinted (revised) in H. Leopold-Löwenthal and Inge Scholz-Strassen (eds.) Die Sigmund Freud- Voalesungen 1970-1988, Vienna 1990, pp. 113-133.
Image and Code: Scope and Limits of Conventionalism in Pictorial Representation, in Image and Code, Ed. Wendy Steiner, (Michigan Studies in the Humanities) University of Michigan. Reprinted (revised) in The Image and the Eye, 1982.
“That rare Italian Master….” Giulio Romano, Court Architect, Painter and Impressario, The Splendours of the Gonzaga, catalogue, Eds. David Chambers and Jane Martineau, exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, pp. 76-85. Reprinted in New Light on Old Masters, 1986.
George Boas, Journal of the History of Ideas, pp. 335-354 (also in separate binding with the portrait of George Boas). Reprinted in Tributes, 1984.
Otto Kurz, Proceedings of the British Academy for 1979, pp. 719-735. Reprinted in Otto Kurz, Selected Studies, Vol. II, 1982 and in Tributes, 1984.
Order and Tolerance, Statements on the Relationship between the Natural Sciences and the Visual Fine Arts, Leonardo, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 147.
Aby Warburg in Dizionario Enciclopedico, Casa Editrice Scode), Milan.
The Wild Man in Medieval Myth and Symbolism, catalogue of an exhibition at the Cloisters, (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The Burlington Magazine, January. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900. The London Review of Books, Vol. 3, No. 20, 5-18 November. Reprinted in London Review of Books, Anthology Two (preface by Michael Mason), 1982 and Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
On the Review by DR Topper of The Sense of Order, Leonardo, Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 88.
The Image and the Eye, Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, Oxford, 320 pp. 253 ill. Visual Discovery through Art (1965) – Moment and Movement in Art (1964) – Ritualized Gesture and Expression in Art (1966) – Action and Expression in Western Art (1972) – The Mask and the Face: The Perception of Physiognomic Likeness in Life and in Art (1972) – The Visual Image (1972) – `The Sky is the Limit’: The Vault of the Heaven and Pictorial Vision (1974) – Mirror and Map: Theories of Pictorial Representation (1975) – Experiment and Experience in the Arts (1980) – Standards of Truth: The Arrested Image and the Moving Eye (1980) – Image and Code: Scope and Limites of Conventionalism in Pictorial Representation (1981).
German, Stuttgart 1984. Italian, Torino 1985. Spanish, Madrid 1987.
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Focus on the Arts and Humanities, Bicentennial address, 15 May, 1981, Bulletin, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXV, No. 4, January, pp. 5-24. Reprinted in Tributes, 1984.
Frances A. Yates (1899-1981) in Frances A. Yates in Memoriam, The Warburg Institute, pp. 13-22. Reprinted in The New York Review of Books, XXX, 3, March 3, 1983, 11-13 and in Tributes, 1984.
The Trattato della Pittura, Some Questions and Desiderata, Leonardo e L’età della Ragione, Eds. Enrico Bellone and Paolo Rossi, Milan, Scienta, pp.141-154 (English), pp. 159-169 (Italian), 13 illus.
Spreading a Knowledge of Art, Il liguaggio della devulgazione, Atti del Convegno 11-12 February, 1982, Selezione dal Reader’s Digest, Milan, pp. 228-233 (English), pp. 234-237 (Italian).
What I Learned from Karl Popper, (Interview with the editor) Paul Levinson (Ed) in In Pursuit of Truth, pp. 203-220.
Goethe on Art, selected and translated by John Gage, London, 1980, and The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts, by WD Robson-Scott, Cambridge, 1981. Art History, vol. 5, No. 2, June, pp. 237-242.
Leonardo da Vinci, by Martin Kemp, London, 1981. Times Literary Supplement, January 15, pp. 43-44. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
“The Rare Art Traditions” by Joseph Alsop, Princeton University Press/Bollingen. The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXIX, no 19, December 2, pp. 39-42. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
German in Freibeuter, 16, 1983, pp. 135-145.
Foreword (in German), Joseph Bodonyi, “Entstehung und Bedeutung des Goldgrundes in der spätantiken Gemäldekomposition”, Mittenwald.
Otto Kurz, Neue Deutsche Biographie, 13 pp. 336-7
L’Ecologie des Images, Paris, Flammarion, pp. 5-434, ill. 219, transle. Alain Lévêque. Le sujet de l’Orion de Poussin (1944) – La théorie artistique de la Renaissance et l’art du paysage (1953) – La psychanalyse et l’histoire de l’art (1953) – La découverte du visual par le moyen de l’art (1965) – De la Renaissance des lettres à la réforme des arts: Niccole Niccoli et Filippo Brunelleschi (1967) – Le Jardin des Délices de Jérôme Bosch (1967) – Les formes en mouvement de l’eau et de l’air dans les carnets de Léonard de Vinci (1968) – Les idées de progrès et leur répercussion dans l’art (1971) – L’action et l’expression dans l’art occidental (1972) – L’image visuelle (1972) – La logique du jeu de la mode (1974) – L’histoire de l’art et les sciences sociales (1975) – Discours de réception du prix Erasme (1975).
2nd, (illustrated) preface to the new Japanese edition of “The Story of Art”, Bijutsu Shjuppan-sha, Tokio.
Ideal und Typus in der italienischen Renaissancemalerei, (Gerda Kenkel Vorlesung), Westdeutcher Verlag, Opladen, pp. 24, 72 illus. English translation in New Light on Old Masters, 1986.
Warum Denkmalpfflege? First International Congress on Architectural Conservation, University of Basle, Switzerland, March 1983, pp. 21-26, printed by courtesy of the Heritage Trust, London.
English and Spanish, Composicion Arquitectorica, (Bilbao), Feb 1989, pp. 115-138.
Raffaello: nel V Centerario della Nascita, Il Veltro, Risista della Civilta Italiana, 5-6, Anno XXVII, September-December, pp. 571-581. Unauthorised publication in 1984 and official publication in Accademie e Biblioteche d’Italia, LI, pp. 250-258.
Auge macht Bild, Ohr macht Klang, Hirn macht Welt, Franz Kreuzer im Gespräch mit Ernst H. Gombrich, etc., (ORF) Vienna, Frans Deuticke, pp. 7-37.
Psychological Aspects of the Visual Arts, in States of Mind, conversations with psychological investigators, ed. Jonathan Miller, B.B.C. Publications, London, pp. 212-231.
“Das Spiel mit den Dominosteinen” (Beim Schreiben) Neue Züricher Zeitung, Literatur und Kunst, June 24, p. 36. Reprinted in Gastspiele, 1992 and in Klett-Cotta, Das erste Jahrzeit, 1977-1987, pp. 270-273.
“Verachtet mir die Meister nicht! vom unerlässlichen Wert der Tradition für “jedes Künstleriche Schaffen”. Die Presse, Samstag/Sonntag 9/10 Juli, “Zeichen der Zeit”, Vienna.
Obituary of Kenneth Clark, The Royal Society of Literature, Reports, for 1981-1982 and 1982-1983, pp. 36-38.
Brief Tribute to Anna Freud in Anna Freud Remembered, ed. Maria W. Piers Erikson Institute, Chicage, p. 25.
Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the 17th century: (Chicago 1983). The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXX, No. 17, November 10th, pp. 13-17. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
William H. Peck, Drawings from Ancient Egypt, (London 1978). The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 69, pp. 192-193.
Letter, Karl Popper, Times Literary Supplement, July 8, p. 729, (re TLS July 1).
Introduction to catalogue of La Serennisima by John Bratby, Thackeray Gallery, March-April.
Tributes, Interpreters of our cultural tradition, Oxford 270 pp., 80 ill.
Focus on the Arts and Humanities, (1982) – The Diversity of the Arts, The Place of the Laocoon on the Life and Work of G.E. Lessing (1957) – The Father of Art History, A Reading of the Lectures on Aesthetics of G.W.F. Hegel (1977) – Nature and Art as Needs of the Mind, The Philanthropic Ideals of Lord Leverhulme (1981) – Verbal Wit as a Paradigm of Art, The Aesthetic Theories of Sigmund Freud (1981) – The Ambivalence of the Classical Tradition, The Cultural Psychology of Aby Warburg (1966) – The High Seriousness of Play, Reflections on Homo ludens by J. Huizinga (1973) – The History of Ideas, A Personal Tribute to George Boas (1981) – The Necessity of Tradition, An Interpretation of the Poetics of IA Richards (not previously published). The Evaluation of Esoteric Currents, A Commemoration of the Work of Frances A. Yates (1982) – The Study of Art and the Study of Man, Reminiscences of Collaboration with Ernst Kris (1967) – The Exploration of Culture Contacts, The Services to Scholarship of Otto Kurz (1981).
Letter, Edgar Wind, London Review of Books, vol. 6, number 6, 5th-18th April, p.4.
Raphael: a quincentennial address (translation of 1983), Art History, Vol 7, number 2, June 1984, pp 164-175.
The Wit of Saul Steinberg, Art Journal, Winter 1983, pp. 377-380. Reprinted in Topics of our Time, 1991.
The Story of Art, 14th ed. Supplement pp. 491-501 on New Discoveries.
Il Palazzo del Te, Riflescioni su un mezzo secolo di Fortuna Critica. Quaderni di Palazzo Te, Luglio-dicembre 1984, pp. 17-21. Translation: German in Zauber der Medusa (ed. Werner Hofmann), Exhition, Vienna, April-May 1987, pp. 22-31
Art History and Psychology in Vienna Fifty Years Ago, Art Journal, Summer, pp 162-164. A translation of: Kunstwissenschaft und Psychologie vor fünfzig Jahren, XXV Internationaler Kongress fuer Kunstgeschichte, Wien 4-10.9.1983, Bd. I, pp. 99-104, Wien 1984.
Representation and Misrepresentation (Reply to Murray Kreiger), Critical Inquiry, December 1984, Volume 11, 2, pp. 195-201.
The Warburg Institute and H.M. Office of Works, E.H. Gombrich in Memory of Frederic Raby (Text printed at the Friends’ Press, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, December 1984).
Eine Kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser, Cologne, 1985.
“Kunstwissenschaft und Psychologie vor fünfzig Jahren”, XXV Internationaler Kongress für Kunstgeschichte, Vienna, 4-10-9, 1933 Section I, pp. 99-104. Unauthorised reprint in Paul Kruntorad (ed.) A.E.I.O.U. Mythos Segenwort Der Osteriachisch Beitra. English in Art Journal, Summer 1984, Vol. 44, No. 2., pp. 162-164.
“The Embattled Humanities” (Address to The North of England Educational Conference, 3rd January 1985.) Culture Education & Society, (University Quarterly) Vol. 39, No. 3. Summer 1985, pp. 193-205. Reprinted in Topics of our Time, 1991.
“Image and Word in Twentieth-century Art” (Lecture at Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 1980) Word & Image, vol. 1, No. 3., July/Sept. 1985, pp. 213-241. Reprinted in Topics of our Time, 1991.
“The Symbol of the Veil: Psychological Reflections on Schiller’s Poetry”, Peregrine Horden (editor), Freud and the Humanities, London & New York, 1985. German in Gastspiele (1992)
Il gusto die primitivi, Memorie dell’ Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 1985.
Bibliographical notes to the Third Edition of Symbolic Images, p. ix-xii.
Bibliographical notes to the Fourth Edition of Norm and Form, pp. viii-xii.
Note to the Fourth Edition of Meditations on a Hobby Horse, p.x.
Preface to Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti, Kitawa, Iconografia e semantica in una Società Melanesiana, Milan 1985 (Franco Angeli Libri). Original English version published by Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 1990.
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: Introduction to the catalogue of her exhibition, Goethe Institute, London, 1985.
Acceptance speech for International Balzan Prize (German, French, Italian). Foundatione Internationale Balzan Premier, 1985, pp. 21-24.
Introduction to Wilheim Menning Als-ob-Art, Berlin (Gebr. Mann Verlag) 1985.
Review of Catalogue of Masters of Seventeenth-century Dutch Genre Painting, (ed. Peter C. Sutton) The New York Review of Books, June 13, 1985, XXXII, 10, pp. 20-22. Reprinted in Reflections on the History of Art, 1987.
Reneszánsz Tanulmányok (ed. Zádor Anna), Budapest 1985.
Leonardo’s methods for working out compositions (1954) – The form of movement in water and air (1969) – Raphael’s stanza della Segnatura and the Nature of its Symbolism (1972) – The Renaissance conception of artistic progress and its consequence (1952) – The Subject of Poussin’s Orion (1944) – Aby Warburg Zum Gedächtnis (1966).
(With Jill Tilden) Desert Island Objects: Prof. Sir Ernst Gombrich chooses, The V. & A. Album 4, 1985, pp. 214-252.
“Sind eben alles Menschen gewesen”: Zum Kulturrelativismus in den Geisteswissenschaften, Akten des VII. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses Göttingen 1985, Vol. I, Ansprachen Plenarvorträge, pp. 17-28, Tübingen 1986.
Italian (unauthorised), Mondoperaio, December 1986, pp. 70-76. English, Critical Inquiry, Summer 1987, Volume 13, Number 4, pp. 686-699; reprinted in Topics of our Time, 1991. French in Lettre Internationale, No 19, Winter 1988-1989, pp. 70-72. German in Gastpiele, 1992. Spanish in Atlántida, Vol 1, 3/1990, pp. 242-254.
Preface to Olive Renier and Vladimir Rubinstein, Assigned to Listen, published by the B.B.C. External Services; see also pp. 75-82
New Light on Old Masters. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance IV, Oxford and Chicago. 191pp., 157 ill.
Preface – Giotto’s Portrait of Dante? (1979) – Leonardo on the Science of Painting: Towards a Commentary on the `Trattato della Pittura’ (1982) revised. Leonardo and the Magicians: Polemics and Rivalry (1982), translated – Ideal and Type in Italian Renaissance Painting (1983) translated – Raphael: A Quincentennial Address (1983) (translated 1984) – The Ecclesiastical Significance of Raphael’s `Transfiguration’ (1981) – `That Rare Italian Master:’ Giulio Romano, Court Architect, Painter and Impressario (1981) – Architecture and Rhetoric in Giulio Romano’s Palazzo del Te (1984) revised – Michelangelo’s Cartoon in the British Museum (Not previously published).
German (Klett-Cotta), Stuttgart 1988. Italian, Turin 1987. Spanish (Alianza Forma), Madrid 1987.
A Note on Giorgione’s `Three Philosophers’, The Burlington Magazine July 1986, p. 488.
Kokoschka in his Time (Tate Modern Masters), Lecture given at the Tate Gallery on 2 July 1986.
Martin Jesinghausen-Lauster, Die Suche nach der symbolischen Form. Der Kreis um die Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Saecula Spiritual: 13). Baden-Baden, 1985. Kunst Chronik, 39, 8, August 1986, pp. 286-294.
Reflections on the History of Art: Views and Reviews edited by Richard Woodfield, Oxford.
Foreword – The art of the Greeks (1966) – Chinese landscape painting (1980) – Tribal styles (1972) – A medieaval motif (1981) – Expressions of despair (1978) – The impact of the Black Death (1953) – New revelations on fresco painting (1969) – Kenneth Clark’s Piero della Francesca’ (1952) – The repentance of Judas (1959) – Seeking a key to Leonardo (1965) – Leonardo in the History of Science (1968) – The marvel of Leonardo (1982) – Michelangelo’s last paintings (1977) – The rhetoric of attribution – a cautionary tale (1978) – The worship of ancient sculpture (1981) – Patrons and painters in Baroque Italy (1963) – Durch genre painting (1985) – Mapping and painting in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century (1983) – The mastery of Rubens (1978) – On Rembrandt (1970) – Adam’s house in Paradise (1973) – Painted anecdotes (1967) – The whirligig of taste (1976) – The anatomy of art collecting (1982) – The claims of excellence (1968) – The meaning of beauty (1950) – The beauty of old towns (1965) – Dilemmas of modern art criticism (1968) – A theory of modern art (1966) – Malraux on art and myth (1960) – Freud’s aesthetics (1966) – Appendix: Signs, language and behaviour (1949).
French (Éditions Jacqueline Chambon), Nîmes 1992. Italian (Einaudi), Torino 1991. German (Klett-Cotta), Stuttgart 1993.
Sir Ernst Gombrich: An Autobiographical Sketch and Discussion, Rutgers Art Review, VIII, pp. 123 – 141.
An Early Seventeenth-Century Canon of Artistic Excellence: Pierleone Casella’s Elogia Illustrium Artificum of 1606, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 50, pp. 224 – 232.
“They were All Human Beings – So Much is Plain”: Reflections on Cultural Relativism in the Humanities, Critical Inquiry, 13, pp. 686 – 699. (Translation of “Sind eben alles Menschen…”…, 1986) Reprinted in Topics of our Time.
The Values of the Byzantine Tradition: A Documentary History of Goethe’s Response to the Boisserée Collection, in The Documented Image, ed. GP Weisberg & LS Dixon, Syracuse UP, pp. 291 – 308.
From Careggi to Montmartre: A Footnote to Erwin Panofsky’s Idea, in Il se rendit en Italie: Etudes offertes à André Chastel, Paris 1987, pp. 667 – 677. Reprinted in Topics of our Time.
Western Art and the Perception of Space in Space in European Art: Council of Europe Exhibition in Japan, (Japanese and English, pp. 16 – 28.
Francis Haskell, Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays. The New York Review of Books, pp. 25 – 27.
“Symmetrie, Wahrnehmung und Küstlerische Gestaltung”, Rudolf Wille, (ed.) Symmetrie in Geistes und Natur-Wissenschaft, Symposium, (Springer). pp. 94-119.
“Voir la Nature, Voir les Peintures”, Les Cahiers du Musée National d’art moderne 24, Ete 1988, pp. 21-43.
“Spracherlebnisse”, Weiner Festrede nach der Entgegenahme des ersten österreichischen Wittgenstein-Preises, Die Presse, 14-15 May 1988, VI & VII. Reprinted Gastspiele (1992).
Catalogue, Milein Cosman, Stadtmuseum Dusseldorf, 11 May – 19 June 1988.
“Italian Caricature and its English Transformation”, B.I.S. Leconfield Lecture, Revista, Journal of the British-Italian Society. January/February 1988, pp. 1- 4 (Summary).
“Einige Erinnerungen an Julius von Schlosser als Lehrer”, Kritische Berichte 4/1988, pp. 5-9.
“`A Primitive Simplicity’ `Einfachte Nachahmung der Nature, Manier Styl’ in englischer Sicht”, Christian Beutler, Peter-Klaus Schuster and Martin Warnke (ed.) Kunst um 1800 und die Folgen, Werner Hofmann zu Ehren, pp. 95-95, Münich (Prestel-Verlag).
(With David Chambers) “Annibale Litolfi, a sixteenth-century nature lover: Spoglie from the Gonzaga Archives”, Renaissance Studies, Vol. 2., No. 2., October, 1988 ( A Tribute to Denys Hay) pp. 321-326.
(With Caroline Elam) “Lorenzo de Medici and a frustrated Villa Project at Vallombrosa”, Florence and Italy, Renaissance Studies in Honour of Nicolai Rubinstein (ed.) Peter Denley and Caroline Elam, Westfield Publications, London, 1988, pp. 481-492.
The purpose and limits of the psychology of art (summary), Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, vol. 39. A 75/76.
Words spoken at the graveside of Anna Mahler on 19th June 1988 (English and German in Anna Mahler, Sculptures, Catalogue, Salzburg Festival, pp. 41-42, (Hardback publication Salzburg 1989, pp. 10-11).
Letter in response to James Elkins’ article “Art History without Theory”, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 4, Summer 1988, p. 892.
Preface to Chinese ed. of The Story of Art.
Preface to Chinese ed. of Art and Illusion.
Preface to Chinese ed. of The Image and the Eye.
Preface to Hebrew ed. of Art and Illusion.
Focus on the Arts and Humanities, Selected Essays, translated into Chinese, (ed. Fan Jing Zhong).
Focus on the Arts and Humanities (1982) – Meditations on a Hobby Horse (1951) – Psycho-analysis and the History of Art (1953) – Visual Metaphors of Value in Art (1954) – Style (1968) – Norm and Form (1963) – The Renaissance Theory of Art and the Rise of Landscape (1953) – Leonardo’s Method for working out Compositions (1954) – Raphael’s Madonna della Sedia (1956) – The Heritage of Apelles (1976) – Light, Form and Texture in 15th Century Painting (1964) – Franz Schubert and the Vienna of his time (1980) – Kokoschka in his time (1986) – Homo ludens (1973) – Aesthetics and the History of the Arts (1984) – Ernst Kris (1987) – Otto Kurz (1979) – Goettingen Address (1985) – Nova Reperta (unpublished) – Kunst-wissenschaft (1952) – Kunstliteratur (1952).
“Evolution in the Arts: The Altar Painting, its Ancestry and Progeny”, Evolution and its influence. The Herbert Spencer Lectures 1986, ed. Alan Grafen, Oxford U.P., pp. 107-125, 45 illustrations.
Wege zur Bildgestaltung. Vom Einfall zur Ausführung. Gerda Henkel Vorlesung, Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 5-21, 65 illustrations.
English, in Topics of our Time (1991).
The Glory of Florence, Inaugural Lecture of the Florence Programme of Richmond College, Richmond, Surrey (3rd November 1982), pp. 3-23.
“Supply and Demand in the Evolution of Styles: The Example of International Gothic”, (pp. 127-160) – The Problem of Explanation in the Humanitites (pp. 161-167) – Technology and Tradition in the Arts (pp. 169-172) – `Valuefree’ Humanities (pp. 173-175), in Three Cultures Symposium organised by the Praemium Erasmus Foundation, Rotterdam University Press, pp. 127-160. The last three reprinted in Topics of our Time, (1991).
“The Problem of Relativism in the History of Ideas”, Storia delle Idee, Problemi e Prospettive (Lessico Intellettuale Europeo), ed Massimo L Bianchi, Rome, pp. 3-12. Reprinted in Topics of our Time, (1991).
“Bildliche Anleitungen” in Nonverbale Kommunikation durch Bilder, ed. Martin Schuster and Bernard P. Woschek, Stuttgart, pp. 123-142.
Preface to the Catalogue Leonardo da Vinci, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, 26 January – 16 April, 1989. pp. 1-4.
“Anticamente moderni e modernamente antichi”, Note sulla fortuna critica di Giulio Romano pittore, Introduction (pp. 11-13) to catalogue Giulio Romano, (Exhibition, Mantua, Sept-Nov, 1989), Milan Electra.
Preface to Catalogue of photographs by Vasco Ascolini, Aosta Metaphisica and other Places, (also in Italian and French), 1 page, Aosta.
“By way of Introduction” (Dutch & English) in H.R. Hoetink Gezicht op het Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1989, pp. 14-19 and 190-193. Reprinted in Topics of our Time (1991).
Acceptance Statement on election to German Academy, for Language and Literature (1988) in Vorstellungen, 40 Jahre Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung 1949-1989, pp. 303-305.
Comment on Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photograph of Matisse (in Japanese) No. 26 of publication by Pacific Press Service, ed. R.L. Kirschenbaum (2 pages).
Kenneth Keele’s contribution to the study of Leonardo da Vinci, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 82, Sept. 1983, pp. 563- 566.
Interview with Laura Gasparini, Fotologia, 10, pp. 75-78.
“L’Exposition imaginaire – Memory and the Work of Art”, Interview (English and Dutch) in L’Exposition Imaginaire, edited by Riet de Leeuw and Evelyn Beer, pp. 204-213, The Hague.
Interview in Herlinde Koelbl, Jüdische Portraits, Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer, pp. 86-90.
Interview with Michael Podro, Apollo, December 1989, pp. 373-378.
The Story of Art, 15th ed., revised and amplified.
Edward S. Reed, James J. Gibson and the Psychology of Perception. The New York Review of Books XXXV, No. 21 & 22, 19th January 1989, pp. 13-15.
Heinz Demisch, Erhobene Hände, Geschichte einer Gebärde in der Bildenden Kunst, Stuttgart, 1984. The Burlington Magazine, December, 1989, p. 85.
“Magic, Myth & Metaphor: Reflections on Pictorial Satire”, (XXVII Congres International d’histoire l’art, Strasbourg, 1-3 Septembre 1989, Actes) L’art et les révolutions, Conférences plenières, Strasbourg 1990, pp. 23-66.
“My Library was Dukedon large enough”: Shakespeare’s Prospero and Prospero Visconti of Milan in England and the Continental Renaissance, Essays in Honor of J.B. Trapp, edited by Edward Chaney and Peter Mack, Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1990, pp. 185-190.
Dall ‘Archaelogia alla Storia dell’Arte: Tappe della Fortuna Critica dello stile Romanico (Einaudi), Torino 1990. Privately circulated.
Idea in the Theory of Art: Philosophy or Rhetoric?, Idea, Colloquio Internationale, Roma 5-7 Jennaio 1989, ed. M. Fattori e M. L. Bionili, (Lessico Intellettuale Europeo LI), pp. 411.
Pictorial Instructions, in Images & Understanding, ed. by Horace Benlow, Colin Blakemore, Miranda Weston-Smith, Cambridge U.P., 1990, pp. 26-45. For German translation see “Bildliche Anleitungen” 1989.
The Warburg Institute – A Personal Memoir, The Art Newspaper, No.2, November 1990, p.9.
Speech at Retirement Party for J.B. Trapp, The Warburg Institute Annual Report 1989/90, pp. 26-28.
Old Masters and other Household Gods: Second Thoughts on The Story of Art, The Independent, Sat., January 6th.
Foreword to the Catalogue A. Games, 60 Years of Design, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, March 1990, pp. 9-10. Reprinted in Topics of our Times, (1991).
Foreword to the Catalogue Oskar Kokoschka The Late Works, 1953-1980. Marlborough Fine Art (London), 8th June-21st July 1990, p. 8.
Due lettere di Giovanni Previtali, Scritti in ricordo di Giovanni Previtali Vol. I, Prospettiva No. 55-56, April 1988 – January 1989, pp. 6-8.
Interview in Martina Sitt, Kunsthistoriker in Eigener Sache, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1990, pp. 62-100.
Carlos Montes, Interview with Carlos Montes, Arquitectonica, June 1990, pp. 125-136.
Preface to Seymour Howard Antiquity Restored, Essays on the Afterlife of the Antique, IRSA, Vienna 1990.
Topics of our Time, Twentieth Century issues in learning and in art, London. 223 pp., 158 ill.
An autobiographical sketch (1987) – The Embattled Humanities (1985) – Relativism in the Humanities (1985, 1987) – Relativism in the History of Ideas (1989) -Relativism in the appreciation of Art (1989) – Approaches to the History of Art (1989) – The Conservation our Cities (1963) – Watching Artists at Work (1989) – Plato in Modern Dress (1987) – Kokoschka in his Time (1986) – Image and Word in Twentieth Century Art (1985) – The Art of Saul Steinberg (1983) – A Master of Poster Design, Abraham Games (1990) – The Photographer as Artist, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1978).
With Didier Eribon Ce Que L’image nous dit, Entretiens sur l’art et la science (Adam Biro), Paris. 187 pp.
English 1993, A Lifelong Interest. German, Stuttgart 1993. Spanish, Madrid 1992, Bogota 1993.
Styles of Art & Styles of Life, The Reynolds Lecture 1990, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1991, pp. 1-35. Reprinted with other illustrations Kunst & Museum Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1991, pp. 9-22; Italian and English, Domus, December 1992.
Goethe and the History of Art, The Contribution of Heinrich Meyer, Publications of the English Goethe Society, New Series Vol. LX, pp. 1-19.
Archaeologists or Pharisees? Reflections on a Painting by Maerten van Heemskerk, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LIV, 1991, pp. 253-256.
André Chastel: Un témoignage personnel, Revue de l’art No. 93, pp. 25-27.
Zum Geleit, Preface to Klaus Lepsky Ernst H. Gombrich, Theorie und Methode (Böhlau Verlag), Wien-Köln, pp. 9-13.
Von der Grösse Adolf Buschs, Preface to Adolf Busch-Briefe-Bilde-Erinnerungen, ed. Irene Serkin-Busch, Arts and Letters Press, Walpole, New Hampshire, pp. vii-xii.
Introduction to Giuseppe Zevola, Piaceri di Noia, Quattro secoli di Scarabocchi nell’Archivi Stirco del Banco di Napoli (Leonardo Editore), Milan, pp. 7-17.
Preface, (Italian and English) L’apprendista Stregone, Faenza Anni 90, Agenzia Polo Ceramico di Faenza.
Preface, (in Spanish) to Joaquin Lorda, Gombrich: Una teoria del arte, Barcelona, Ediciones Internacionales Universitarias, Eiunsa, S.A.
“Why preserve historic building?” The Continued Relevance of Ruskin, (Shortened and revised version of Warum Denkmalpflege? 1983), Christie’s International Magazine, February 1991, pp. 2-5.
Gedanken zu “Mozart 1991”, Programm, Internationaler Mozart-Kongress 1991, Salzburg 2-6 February.
Speech on the retirement of Dr. Jennifer Montagu, Annual Report of the Warburg Institute 1990/1991, pp. 26-29.
Italian in Giornale d’Arte, Nov. 1991.
Letter to The Independent, 31st January 1991 (Signs of Art that must still be seen).
Tradicion y Creatividad (Seminar of Queen Beatrix, Amsterdam, 1982), Anales de Arquitectura, 1990, Numero 2, Ano II, pp. 39-49.
Tribute to Robert B. Silvers (editor The New York Review of Books), Copyright 1990, pp. 21-22.
Slovenian selection of Essays by Natasa Golob with a Preface by the author Spisi O Umetnosti, Ljubljana.
Introduction: Aims and Limits of Iconology (1972) – Icones symbolicae (1948) – Norm and Form (1963) – The Renaissance Conception of Artistic Progress and its Consequences (1952) – Moment and Movement in Art (1964) – Ritualized Gesture and Expression in Art (1966) – Action and Expression in Western Art (1970) – The Mask and the Face (1970).
Preface to Japanese edition of Symbolic Images.
Preface to Hungarian edition of Eine Kurze Weltgeslichte.
R.N. Shepard, Mind Sights. Perception, Vol. 20. No.5, pp. 693-695.
Gastspiele, Aufsätze eines Kunsthistorikers zur deutschen Sprache und Germanistik, (Bohlau Verlag, Vienna).
Vorwort. Erinnerungen an Ernst Schaumann (1885-1934) – “Sind eben alles Menschen gewesen.” Zum Kulturrelativismus in den Geisteswissenschaften (1986) – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Die Beitrag Johann Heinrich Meyers (191) – Goethe und die Kunstsammlung der Brüder Boisserée: Gewinn und Verlust in der Emanzipation von der byzantinischen Überlieferung (1987) – Das Symbol des Schleiers. Psychologische Betrachtungen zu Schillers Dichtung (1985) – Eine Grillparzeranekdote (1963) – Beim Schreiden: Das Spiel mit den Dominosteinen Überlegungen eines Kunsthistorikers (1983) – Spracherlebnisse Festrede aus Anlass der Entgegennahme des ersten österreichischen Wittgenstein-Preises, Wien (1988).
Preface to The Art of Laughter, ed. Lionel Lambourne & Amanda-Jane Doran, Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, pp. 9-12.
Foreword Oskar Kokoschka Letters, Thames & Hudson, London, pp. 7-11.
Introduction to Francis Ames-Lewis Cosimo il Vecchio de Medici 1389-1464 (Essays), O.U.P., pp. 1-3.
Preface to Catalogue, Guiliano della Casa, Galleria Civica, Modena, October-December 1992.
Address on occasion of A.A.H. Bookfair, London, Bulletin, Association of Art Historians, 44, Feb. 1992, p. 28.
Opening Address, Historical Exhibition 1963-1973, Free Painters & Sculptors, Members Newsletter, December 1992.
The Shock of the New (Conversation with Tom Phillips in the Mantegna Exhibition), The Royal Academy Magazine, No. 34, Spring 1992, pp. 50-54.
Interview with Martin Gayford, Modern Painters, Winter 1992, pp. 68-71.
(with Sam Oakley), Gombrich- The Art of Criticism, Pulp Magazine (Manchester Polytechnic Student Union), No. 9, 1991-2, p. 14 [No Trapp number]
Additional thoughts on perspective, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 51 (1), Winter 1993, p. 69.
Künstler, Kenner, Kunden, Wiener Vorlesungen im Rathaus, 19, (Picus Verlag Wien)
Two Contributions (Interview) in Adi Wimmer, Die Heimat wurde ihnen fremd, die Fremde nicht zur Heimat, Vienna 1993, pp. 24-29 & 179-182.
Lilly von Sauter, (1913-1972) Introduction to Lilly von Sauter, Die Blauen Disteln der Kunst, Prosa und Lyrik (Haymon), Innsbruck, 1993 pp. 7-20.
Recognising the World, Pissaro at the RA, The Royal Academy Magazine, 39, Summer 1993, p. 33.
Leonardo’s Last Supper, Papers given on the occasion of the dedication of the Last Supper (after Leonardo), Magdalen College, Occasional Papers, Oxford 1993, pp. 7-19.
The End of the Story of Art. Edited version of the open address given at the Free Painters’ National Exhibition 1963-73 in 1992. The Artist, August 1993, p. 4.
Speech made at Urbino on receipt of the Honorary Doctorate of Letters, 28th June 1992, published by the Universita degli Studi di Urbino, 1993, pp. 13-16.
A Reply to Jaques Vialle, Les sciences sociales et l’histoire de l’art, Xoana, Images et sciences sociales, 1, Marseilles 1993, pp. 118-121.
John Shearman, Only Connect. Art and the Spectator in the Renaissance. The New York Review of Books, March 4, 1993, pp. 19-21.
Francis Haskell, History and its Images. Financial Times Weekend, July 3/4, p. xvi and The New York Review of Books, xi/17, 21.10.93, pp. 60-6.
(With Bridget Riley): The use of colour and its effect: the how and the why, Burlington Magazine, 136, pp. 427-9
Jenseits der grossen asserschiede: Goethe und die Geister aus dem Kunstgrunde der Vergangenheit, Frankfurte Allgeime Zeitung, 29 August
Goethe: the Mediator of Classical Values, The Essential Gombrich, 1996
Aby Warburg and A.F. Rio. Studi in onore di Giulio Carlo Argan, special volume of Storia dell’arte, Florence: La Nuova Italia, pp. 48-52, 2 illustrations. Reprinted as ‘The Nineteenth Century Notion of a Pagan Revival’ in Richard Woodfield, ed., Art History as Cultural History: Warburg’s Projects, Amsterdam: G+B Arts, pp. 55-64
Aby Warburg e l’evoluzionismo ottocentesco, Belfagor 49 (6), pp 635-49
(German) Aby Warburg und der Evolutionismus des 19. Jahrunderts, (H.g.: Robert Galitz und Brita Reimers) Aby M. Warburg “Ekstatische Nymphe … traunder Flussgott” Portrait eines Gelehrten, Hamburg (Dölling und Galitz Verlag)
The Open Society and its Enemies: Remembering Its Publication Fifty Years Ago, Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, Discussion Paper Series, 11, 17pp.
From Archaeology to Art History: Some Stages in the Rediscovery of the Romanesque, Icon to Cartoon: A Tribute to Sixten Ringbom, Helsinki, pp. 91-108
The Essential Gombrich, London, 590 pp., 476 ill.
An Autobiographical Sketch – Old Masters and Other Household Gods – The Visual Image: its Place in Communication – On Art and Artists – Psychology and the Riddle of Style – Truth and the Stereotype – Action and Expression in Western Art – Illusion and Art – The Use of Colour and its Effects: the How and the Why – The Necessity of Tradition: an Interpretation of the Poetics of I.A. Richards – Verbal Wit as a Paradigm of Art: the Aesthetic Theories of Sigmund Freud – Leonardo’s Method for Working out Compositions – The Force of Habit – The Psychology of Styles – The Primitive and its Value in Art – Magic, Myth and Metaphor: Reflections on Pictorial Satire – Approaches to the History of Art: Three Points for Discussion – The Social History of Art – In Search of Cultural History – Architecture and Rhetoric in Giulio Romano’s Palazzo del Tè – From the Revival of Letters to the Reform of the Arts: Niccolò Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi – The Use of Art for the Study of Symbols – Aims and Limits of Iconology – Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura and the Nature of its Symbolism – The Subject of Poussin’s Orion – Dutch Genre Painting – Imagery and Art in the Romantic Period – The Wit of Saul Steinberg – Franz Schubert and the Vienna of his Time – Nature and Art as Needs of the Mind: the Philanthropic Ideals of Lord Leverhulme – Goethe: the Mediator of Classical Values
Italian translation: Sentiero verso l’arte, Milan 1997
Spanish translation: Gombrich esencial, Madrid 1997
French translation: Gombrich: L’Essentiel, Paris 2003
German translation: Das Gombrich Lesebuch, Berlin 2003
Polish translation: Ernst H. Gombrich – Pisma o sztuce i kulturze, Kraków 2011
Portuguese translation Gombrich essencial: textos selecionados arte e cultura, São Paulo 2012
Irving Lavin, ed., Erwin Panofsky, Three Essays on Style, Cambridge, Mass,, 1995 and Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form, New York, 1991,New York Review of Books, 15 February, pp. 29-30
J.-M Chauvet, E.B. Deschamps and C. Hillaire, The Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave New York 1996, and J. Clottes and J. Courtain, The Cave beneath the Sea: Palaeolithic Images at Cosquer, New York 1996, New York Review of Books, 14 November, pp. 8-12.
The Big Picture, interview with David Carrier, Art Forum, 34 (6), pp. 66-9, 106, 109
Response to Chang Hong Liu and John M. Kennedy. Response to J. Bakos. Richard Woodfield, ed., Gombrich on Art and PsychoIogy, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 140, 258-61
On Pride and Prejudice in the Arts. Lecture to the Art and Architecture Group at Leighton House, June 1992, 19 pp., London: Pentagram Design (Pentagram Papers, 26)
Speis der Malerknaben: Zu den technischen Grundlagen von Dürer’s Kunst. 29 pp.,3 illustrations. Vienna, WUV-Universitätsverlag (Wiener Vorlesungen, Konversationen und Studien
The Visual Arts in Vienna c. 1900; Reflections on the Jewish Catastrophe. Two texts based on lectures given on the occasion of the seminar ‘Fin-de-siècle Vienna and its Jewish Cultural Influences’, 17 November 1996, with a Preface by Emil Brix, 40 pp. London, Austrian Cultural Institute (Occasions, 1)
Art History and the Republic of Learning (with Polish summary: `Historia sztuki i Republika Nauk’). Address delivered on the occasion of the conferment of an honorary degree at the Complutensian University, Madrid. Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, 59, pp. 177-9
Een nieuwe toegang tot het meesterwerk van de Van Eycks. Kunstsschrift, 1997, 3, pp. 8-9, 2 illustrations
De ongelijk handen van Vermeers Geograf. Kunstschrift, 1, p. 2, 2 illustrations
A Passage from a Chinese Poet. Kent Kleinman and Leslie van Duzer, eds., Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 96-7
The Sassetti Chapel Revisited: Santa Trinita and Lorenzo de’ Medici. I Tatti Studies. Essays in the Renaissance, 7, pp. 11-35
Georges de la Tour. Letter, Times Literary Supplement, 3 January, p. 17
Preface. Gerhardt Frankl: Exhibition of Paintings and Works on Paper, Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum
Preface. Alf Bøe, From Gothic Revival to Functional Form. Oslo, Scandinavian University Press, pp. xiii-xv
Preface. Lawrence Gowing, Vermeer, 3rd edition, London, Giles de la Mare Publishers
Es muss einen Unterschied für ihn machen. Interview with M. Schuster, in H.R. Becher et al., eds., Taschenbuch: Kust, Pädogogik, Psychologie. Kunststanpunkte, Baltmannsweiler, Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, pp. 19-27
Eastern Inventions and Western Response. Daedalus, 127, pp. 193-205, 4 illustrations
An Islamic Motif in a Gothic Setting. G.R. Owen-Crocker and T. Graham, eds., Medieval Art: Recent Perspectives: A Memorial Tribute to C.R. Dodwell. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 159-64, figs. 84-8
The Mysterious Achievement of Likeness. Introduction to Tête-à-tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, London and New York, Thames and Hudson, pp. 1-9, 8 illustrations. Reprinted in The Art Newspaper, 9 February 1998. pp. 30-1
Sir Ernst Gombrich über seinen Lehrer Emanuel Löwy. Friedrich Berin, ed., Emanuel Löwy, ein vergessener Pionier, Kataloge der archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Wien. Sonderheft I, Vienna, Verlag des Clubs der Universität Wien, pp. 63-7I
Speech in Response to the Sindaco of Mantua on Receiving the Honorary Citizenship of that City. Gazzetta di Mantova, 21 June
‘Swansongs’ from 1945. Umení, 46, pp. 465-8, 1 illustration
Zeit, Zahl und Zeichen: Zur Geschichte des Gedenktages. Marcelo Stamm, ed., Philosophie in synthetischer Absicht, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, pp. 583-97. English translation: A History of Anniversaries: Time, Number and Sign, in K. Lippincott, ed., The Story of Time, London: Merrell Holberton, pp. 240-5
Review of J. Miller, On Reflection, London, Perception, 27, pp. 1135-6
Review of J. Starobinski, Largesse, Chicago, 1997. New York Review of Books, 23 April, pp. 443-4
The Uses of Images: Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication, 304 pp., 356 illustrations, London. Phaidon Press
Contents: Introduction; Paintings on Walls: Means and Ends in the History of Fresco Painting (1976); Paintings for Altars: Their Evolution, Ancestry and Progeny (1989); Images as Luxury Objects: Supply and Demand in the Evolution of the International Gothic Stvle (1989);`Pictures for the Home (previously unpublished);Sculpture for Outdoors (previously unpublished); The Dream of Reason: Symbols of the French Revolution (1979); Magic, Myth and Metaphor: Reflections on Pictorial Satire (1990); Pleasures of Boredom: Four Centuries of Doodles (1991); Pictorial Instructions (1990); ‘Styles of Art and Styles of Life (1991); What Art Tells Us (1993)
Dal mio tempo: Città, maestri,incontri. Ed. Richard Woodfield, xxxiv, 154 pp. Turin: Einaudi. Contents: Vienna 1900: le arti figurative e il problema della cultura ebraica (1997); Riflessioni sulla catastrofe ebraica’ (1997); ‘Ricordo di Ernst Schaumann (1992); Ricordo di Julius von Schlosser come maestro (1988); Il mio maestro Emanuel Loewy (1998); Storia dell’arte e psicologia a Vienna cinquant’anni fa (1984); Il Warburg Institute: Un ricordo personale (1990); lcona (1996); Lezione urbinate (1993); Discorso di ringraziamento (Vienna, 16 giugno 1993); Un ritratto (1989); Quando avete qualcosa di serio da dire … (1990)
Giulio Romano: II Palazzo del Tè: Con testi di Vittore Branca e Gian Maria Erbesato, 239 pp., 46 illustrations, Mantua: Tre Lune. Contents: L’opera di Giulio Romano: 1.II Palazzo del Tè; 2. Una proposta d’interpretazione (1934); Manierismo e classicismo in Giulio Romano (1984)
Aby Warburg: His Aims and Methods: An Anniversary Lecture. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 62, 1999 (published 2000), pp. 268-82, 3 illustrations
Sleeper Awake!: A Literary Parallel to Michelangelo’s Drawing of The Dream of Human Life. Festschrift für Konrad Oberhuber, ed. Achim Gnann and Heinz Widauer, Milan: Electa, pp. I30-2, 3 illustrations
Letter in reply to Fritz Stern. New York Review of Books, 24 February, p. 49
`Wooden 0’ [Shakespeare, Henry V, Prologue, line 13]. Letter, Times Literary Supplement, 10 March
Portrait of the Artist as Paradox. Review of Simon Schama, Rembrandt’s Eyes, New York Review of Books, 20 Januarv, pp. 6-10, 3 illustrations
Noch einmal denken. Kunsthistoriker Aktuell: Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Kunsthistorikerverbandes, 17, 1, p. 1
Concerning ‘The Science of Art’: Commentary on Ramachandran and Hirstein, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 7, Numbers 8-9, 1 August 2000, pp. 17-17(1)
Warburg Centenary Lecture. Text of a Lecture given at the Warburg Institute, London, 1966, in Richard Woodfield, ed., Art History as Cultural History: Warburg’s Projects, Amsterdam: G+B Arts, pp. 33-54
The Nineteenth Century Notion of a Pagan Revival. Originally ‘Aby Warburg and A.F. Rio’ (1994) in Richard Woodfield, ed., Art History as Cultural History: Warburg’s Projects, Amsterdam: G+B Arts, pp. 55-63
Pictures and Words: Inaugural lecture, Slade Professor of Art, Oxford, 1950 in Lauren Golden, ed., Raising the Eyebrow: John Onians and World Art Studies. An Album Amicorum in His Honour, BAR International Series 996, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, pp. 91-105
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The Preference for the Primitive. London: Phaidon, 324 pp., 218 ill
A Little History of the World trans. Caroline Mustill, 304pp., 46 pen and ink drawings, New Haven and London. Yale University Press.
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Assembly of God P.J
Rev. Joseph T. John & Sis. Vanitha Joseph
Rev. Johnathan A. D. John & Sis. Astare Rani Johnathan
Rev. Ebenezer David & Sis. Regina Ebenezer
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My Journey in GSAG
by Rev. Ebenezer David
I have been attending church since I was a child and my earliest memory was that of me attending the congregation of Good Shepherd (ELCMS) in Old Town Petaling Jaya together with my parents every Sunday evening. At that time we did not have our own building and so we used the premises of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (LCMS) located at Jalan Othman. After many years of continuous usage of the premise, the leadership decided to seek out another building and in the late 1970’s we were privileged to own a single storey bungalow house at No. 32, Jalan 1/12 46000.
The membership was about 30 and most of us were from the Petaling Jaya district. We only had one Sunday service, which was in the Tamil language and the time was from 9:00am to 10:00am. The adults and children came together to participate in the first part of the service before the sermon but during the sermon, all the children left the main hall to another room to attend Sunday School whereas the adults continued with the service from sermon to the benediction, which is the closing prayer. After which the children were also dismissed from our classes. Once my contemporaries and myself reached our teenage years, there were no more classes and so all of us only attended the Sunday service. There were no young adult activities and programs or Bible Study classes at that time. So I only had one meeting to attend for the whole week.
In 1986, Rev. Joseph T. John, who was an ordained Lutheran pastor, was posted to this church. He came together with his family to start their ministry. In that year I was 17 years old and was sitting for my SPM exams. Rev. Joseph started Bible Study and Prayer meeting in 1987 on a weekday in the evening. I was able to attend because I was waiting for my exam results and I had not started any other studies at that time. The attendance was very poor and so Sister Vanitha approached and invited the members to attend but many gave various excuses. There was one man who was agitated by the invitation and made a statement that, ‘Bible Study is only for women and children.” This did not discourage us but we continued regularly with a small number. Rev. Joseph would usually pick up an elderly aunty from her house for this prayer meeting and will send her back later. So those who attended regularly were Rev. Joseph and his family, the elderly aunty and I. We continued for almost 2 years and sometimes there were two or three that will attend but they were not consistent.
However, our regular Bible Study and prayer meeting were not in vain. With the teaching of various passages from the Bible given by Rev. Joseph and combined together with intercession prayer, God began to manifest His power of healing and deliverance. New people began to attend because of miracles and deliverance. It was during this period I began to experience God’s presence and His call upon my life. There was a deep yearning to see people coming into salvation. God was preparing me for full time ministry. I began to study the Bible more intently and discovered the work of God the Holy Spirit. I had the Pentecostal experience during this period.
The church also started new ministries. In 1988, we started off the English language service and we met every Saturday evening. Although there were about 12 members initially but we were excited with the move of God and over time we also began to see new people attending. Eventually all the teenagers wanted to have a Youth meeting on Saturday and we started coming about two hours earlier by public transport to meet before the English service started. Many of those teenagers are now married and have their own children attending Sunday School and Youth meetings. We also had a house meeting in Sungai Buloh, where the families were from the estate areas and we met every Fridays. We continued for about one year and those who attended wanted us to get a shop lot to start a church but at that time we were not financially strong and therefore we advised them to attend another church in their locality. They agreed to go to the other church but with a condition that when we are financially strong then we should come back again.
In 1990, there was a change in the leadership of the church when a new committee were elected as the church local council. With this new committee, we were able to bring massive changes to the church life. The English service became one of our main services and it was rescheduled to meet every Sunday at 11: 30am. Till now both the language services has seen a great growth. Attendance for Bible study and prayer meetings also increased tremendously because of the hunger and thirst for God’s word. During worship we begin to use scripture choruses and some contemporary Christian songs. The services became lively and many youths began to be involved in the music team. Worship must be freely expressed from ones heart.
Our motto was ‘JESUS SAVES HEALS DELIVERS.” We were actively involved in healing and deliverance ministry. Rev. Joseph and Sister Vanitha also spent most of their time in visitation and counselling. I had the opportunity to witness and be a part of the many healing and deliverance cases. It was a new experience for me but God moulded me and prepared me for ministry. All this led to membership growth and on Sunday there were many Bible Study and Sunday School classes. Due to the limitation of space in the building, many had to meet outside the building under the umbrellas. Some called us the ‘Umbrella Church’
We also had many house meetings in different places and many church leaders helped to manage these groups. God was moving and the reality of God was experienced. Many left their former faith because of the great changes that happen in their family. I thank God that from the beginning, He brought families to the church.
In 1993, Rev. Johnathan A. D. John, who was an ordained Lutheran pastor and was at that time serving in the Port Dickson church resigned and joined us as Associate Pastor. He is Pastor Joseph’s younger brother and he also had the Pentecostal experienced. God began to expand the church ministry with both the pastors. Around this time we applied to be affiliated to the Assemblies of God of Malaysia. God began to bless us financially and we decided to start an outreach work in Sungai Buloh. The move of God was also evident in the outreach work. There were many deliverance and healing cases.
I entered the Bible College of Malaysia in 1994 and graduated in 1998. In 1999 the Good Shepherd church in PJ Old Town and Sg. Buloh were accepted into the Assemblies of God and our registered name was Good Shepherd Assembly of God. It was during this time that the Power Praise Kids Church (PPKC) started in March 1999. This is a service for children aged between 4 and 12 years and they met every Saturday at 10:30am. Through this program, many children’s lives were transformed and this made the parents to attend church. The Youth Ministry also started with the emphasis on worship and fellowship. Many talented musicians were produced. A shop lot was rented for purpose of Youth service and office.
In 2000, we started to rent one lot on the 11th Floor of the Menara Mutiara Majestic located at Jalan Othman because the house building could no longer accommodate the large number of people. Eventually in 2001, we proceeded to rent the other lot on the 11th floor and moved everything completely from the house building and the shop lot. In May 2002, the Good Shepherd Assembly of God was set in order to be a Sovereign Church by the Central District Superintendent, Rev. Yee Tham Wan. At that time, there were many places around Sg. Buloh that began to be developed and many churches began to start in the Sg. Buloh area. The church members at that time wanted a morning Sunday service which was not possible for the pastors because of the main services in PJ. So the members decided for the outreach to be closed down and many travelled to PJ for morning services. Many who were Sunday School children grew up started work and had their own transport to travel to church. There were also some members who went to the other churches.
From the early years, we have always prayed for our own building and many contributed towards the building fund. In 2004, Rev. Graham Baker from Australia requested for funds to support the work in Vanuatu. The church approved to give an amount equivalent to one tenth of the total building fund collected at that time. Rev. Johnathan and Sis.Rani were chosen to represent the church to deliver the funds to the leaders of the church in Vanuatu. After they came back, God begin to stir the leadership to look for a new building. We went around the PJ Old Town vicinity looking for a place. There were many offers that came but nothing really materialized. However after much prayer and searching, God opened the door miraculously for Rev. Joseph and Sis.Vanitha to meet the developer of Hedgeford Innovation Park in 2008. We found favour in the eyes of the developer by God’s grace to help us to acquire No. 3, Hedgeford Innovation Park, Lorong Tandang B. Mr. Fong Loong Cheong and Mr. Soon Hoe Chuan were instrumental in the whole process of acquiring this new building, even though we have never met them before. They assisted us with the obtaining of the bank loan and also freely provided extensive building renovation before we moved in. This is God’s favour and His reward to everyone who tirelessly and diligently serve Him.
Today in our own building, we have the liberty to organise many types of programs and also allow others to use our premises. We thank God for this great miracle that He has bestowed on us.
Today – My Family and I in GSAG
Church Services and Events
Sunday School - Sundays at 10:30am
Healing Service - Wednesdays at 8pm
English Family Worship Service - Sundays at 11:30am
Power Praise Kids Church (PPKC) - Saturdays at 10:30am
Tamil Family Worship Service - Sundays at 8:30am
Bible Study - Sundays at 3pm
English Congregational Fasting & Prayer - 1st Friday of the month at 8pm
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No: 3, Hedgeford Innovation Park, Lorong Tandang B Off, Jalan Tandang, Section 51, 46050,
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UAE sugar imports at record high just as Brazil runs low
28 January, 2016 28 January, 2016
As reported in the Arabian Business Journal Wednesday, 27 January 2016 1:40 PM
The United Arab Emirates, home to the world’s largest port-based sugar refinery, imported the most raw sugar on record at the end of 2015 just before Brazil and India started to run low on exports of the sweetener.
Raw sugar destined for the UAE in the fourth quarter totaled 943,000 metric tons, according to shipping data compiled by Platts Kingsman. That’s the most on record since the data series began in the first quarter of 2006 and is up from 726,000 tons a year earlier, the company said. All of the supplies in the most recent fourth quarter came from Brazil, the world’s biggest exporter, according to Kingsman.
“According to the data I have, it’s a record high for a quarter, it’s not usual to have this important quantity,” Claudiu Covrig, senior sugar analyst at Platts Kingsman, said by phone Tuesday. “You usually see the U.A.E. buying more in the fourth quarter, but this volume was very big.”
The UAE typically gets raw sugar mostly from Brazil, and sometimes India and Thailand, Covrig said. First-quarter raw sugar exports from Brazil’s central south region, which accounts for about 90 percent of the country’s crop, will be 300,000 tons lower than previously estimated, at 3.2 million tons, partly on lower availability and lower demand, he said.
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Banks, Energy Companies Lead Stock Market Higher
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 9:28 pm | ג' תשרי תשע"ז
NEW YORK (AP) -
The stock market broke two days of losses on Wednesday with solid gains, as investors piled into shares of banks and energy companies.
Stocks jumped from the start on a rise in the price of crude oil, with banks joining the rally after a strong report on the service sector suggested the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates soon. Banks can benefit when rates rise because it allows them to charge more for their loans. Bank of America rose 2 percent.
The yield on government bonds rose again, and investors dumped phone and real estate companies, sending them down nearly 2 percent. Investors find them less attractive as a source of income relative to bonds when yields are rising.
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 112.58 points, or 0.6 percent, to 18,281.03. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 9.24 points, or 0.4 percent, to reach 2,159.73. The Nasdaq composite rose 26.36 points, or 0.5 percent, to 5,316.02.
The price of U.S. benchmark crude closed near $50 a barrel, its highest price since late June, after a U.S. government report said energy stockpiles shrank last week, a surprise to most analysts. Chesapeake Energy rose 43 cents to $6.80, a 6.8 percent gain, the biggest in the S&P 500 index.
Investors have been pushing crude sharply higher since OPEC announced a preliminary deal last week that would limit production, and the price is now nearly double its February low of $26.
A private report showed that U.S. service companies grew last month at the fastest pace in nearly a year. The Institute for Supply Management said that its services index jumped to 57.1 in September, the highest point since October last year, the latest in a string of indicators that the economy is gaining strength.
Investors took that as a sign that the Federal Reserve is more likely to raise rates from super-low levels this year, and pushed yields on government bonds higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.71 percent from 1.69 percent, and is now up about a tenth of percentage point since the start of the week, a big move.
Investors had been buying high-dividend stocks like utilities and phone and real estate companies as an alternative source of income to bonds, but are now having second thoughts as yields rise.
“Interest rates have been incredibly low, maybe artificially low, and everyone was chasing something with income, and they were blindly chasing them,” said Eric Ervin, chief executive of Reality Shares, an investment firm. The rush out of the one-time high flyers, he added, is a “sign of normality.”
Among stocks making big moves, Constellation Brands rose $2.75, or 1.7 percent, to $168.60 after it reported strong sales of beers like Corona and Modelo in its latest quarter. It raised its projections for sales growth for its beer business.
Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton fell $1.19, or 3.8 percent, to $30.31. Federal prosecutors said a contractor for the National Security Agency had been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information, and The New York Times reported that the contractor worked for Booz Allen. The firm said it had fired an employee who had been arrested by the FBI.
In Europe, the major indexes fell. Britain’s FTSE 100 lost 0.6 percent and France’s CAC 40 retreated 0.3 percent. Germany’s DAX also dropped 0.3 percent.
The euro rose to $1.1217 from $1.1197 and the dollar rose to 103.63 yen from 102.81.
Precious and industrial metals futures closed lower. Gold sank $1.10 to $1,268.60 an ounce, silver fell 8 cents to $17.70 an ounce and copper was little changed at $2.16 a pound.
The price of U.S. benchmark crude rose $1.14, or 2.3 percent, to end at $49.83 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, gained 99 cents, or 1.9 percent, to close at $51.86 a barrel in London
In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline slipped 1 cent to $1.49 a gallon, heating oil rose 3 cents to $1.58 a gallon and natural gas rose 8 cents to $3.041 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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A cautionary tale: What the FTC’s attempt to block P&G’s Billie acquisition means for CPG startups
by Anna Hensel | Dec 11, 2020 | dtcbriefing, plusbriefing, retail | 0 comments
This is the latest installment of the DTC Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the biggest challenges and trends facing the volatile direct-to-consumer startup world. Join Modern Retail+ to get access to the DTC briefing–as well as all articles, research and more.
Thanks to record e-commerce sales, it’s been a good year for direct-to-consumer founders. Except, maybe, for founders of direct-to-consumer razor startups.
Months after the FTC blocked Edgewell’s proposed acquisition of Harry’s, the FTC announced that it would be suing to block another proposed acquisition in the razor category: P&G’s intended acquisition of women’s razor startup Billie, which was announced in February.
Almost immediately after the decision was announced, the initial reaction was that the FTC’s decision was seemingly bad news for DTC startups. In an industry where there’s been relatively few exits totaling more than a billion dollars — or even several hundred million dollars — another exit would have been welcome. However, the founders and investors that Modern Retail spoke with pointed to the fact that the razor industry is highly consolidated, and even two blocked acquisitions in this category would not spell trouble for other DTC startups looking to sell to a CPG conglomerate.
Still, founders of startups in other highly consolidated CPG categories may want to take note of Harry’s — and now seemingly Billie’s — fate. If a founder is seeking to launch a new company in a highly consolidated category one way to potentially avoid antitrust concerns later down the line is to target the higher-end, premium side of that category.
In the press release announcing its decision, Ian Conner, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition said, “if P&G can snuff out Billie’s rapid competitive growth, consumers will likely face higher prices.” It remains to be seen whether or not P&G still tries to move forward with the acquisition — a spokeswoman for the CPG conglomerate said in an email to Modern Retail that “we were disappointed by the FTC’s decision. We are considering our options in light of the decision and do not have any further comments at this time.” A spokeswoman for Billie did not respond to a request for comment.
“I’m not surprised by the FTC’s move to block P&G’s Billie acquisition considering what happened to Edgewell and Harry’s,” said Chris Cantino, co-founder of early seed stage investment firm Color and a former marketing executive at Schmidt’s Natural deodorant, acquired by Unilever in 2017. He pointed to the fact that by one estimate, P&G’s Gillette brand has 58% of the market share in women’s razors, while Edgewell only has 10% of the share in the men’s market razor category, so any acquisition P&G would have been made in women’s razors would have been more highly scrutinized.
However, other investors say they were caught a bit off guard by the FTC ‘s decision to go after Billie, given that the company has only been around for two years. Harry’s, in comparison, was a much more established company, having launched in 2012.
“Billie hadn’t gone into retail channels yet, and so there was a view from my mind that P&G was potentially making this acquisition early enough in Billie’s life that the FTC would not take as much issue with it,” said Kiva Dickson, co-founder of Selva Partners, which has invested in CPG startups including Haus and Verb Energy bars.
Still, he said, when “when you are thinking about what the FTC is concerned about, they are concerned about five [players] becoming four, or four becoming three, or one of those three buying a really valid competitor.”
For the most part, the investors and founders who spoke with Modern Retail said that they believe razors is one of (if not the) most highly consolidated category in CPG. Many added that they believe founders in other categories shouldn’t worry that the FTC’s decisions against Harry’s and Billie’s will extend to their category. “If Nike wants to acquire Allbirds — there’s not going to be an injunction there,” said one DTC founder, speaking on the condition of anonymity. (One notable exception is laundry detergent, in which P&G accounted for 60% of sales in the U.S. five years ago.)
Perhaps one of the biggest lessons out of what happened to Harry’s and Billie is that if a company drums up the fact that it was able to cut product costs by cutting out the middlemen, there’s a greater chance the FTC may come knocking on their doors if they sell to an industry giant who works a lot with the middlemen.
In its press release, the FTC pointed to the fact that the proposed acquisition “halted Billie’s anticipated expansion into brick-and-mortar retail stores,” as one of the reasons why they believed it would hurt consumers. Billie’s had also made its lower pricing one of its core value proposition — touting to customers that it had eliminated the so-called “pink tax” placed on women’s products.
However, that doesn’t mean that founders in these categories have no chance of selling to a strategic acquirer. “[Harry’s and Billie] were coming in with lower prices,” said Karen Howland, managing director at fintech firm CircleUp, which works primarily with CPG startups. “When I think about something like the tampon market, so much of the innovation has been on the premium side — [for example] organic tampons, which is more expensive — so the idea of it negatively impacting the consumer, via price is less relevant,” she said.
Still, there’s a fear that other founders may be spooked, rightly or wrongly. Or, that startups will have trouble raising money if investors feel like they don’t have as many potential exit options. “I’m worried it might make brands think that they have to sell earlier than they necessarily want to, before they get too large and get on the radar of the FTC,” said the anonymous DTC founder.
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Biophilia is the psychological orientation of being attracted to all that is alive and vital.
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GENEVA (10 March 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez, today urged States to adopt new alternatives to the detention of children that fulfill the child’s best interests and the authorities’ obligation to protect them from torture or other ill-treatment.
“The detention of children is inextricably linked – in fact if not in law – with the ill-treatment of children, owing to the particularly vulnerable situation in which they have been placed that exposes them to numerous types of risk,” Mr. Méndez said during the presentation of his latest report* to the UN Human Rights Council.
“The particular vulnerability of children imposes a heightened obligation of due diligence on States to take additional measures to ensure their human rights to life, health, dignity and physical and mental integrity,” he said. “However, the response to address the key issues and causes is often insufficient.”
The human rights expert noted that the deprivation of liberty of children is intended to be a last resort measure, to be used only for the shortest possible period of time, only if is in the best interests of the child, and limited to exceptional cases.
“Failure to recognize or apply these safeguards increases the risk of children being subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, and implicates State responsibility,” Mr. Méndez warned. He called for the adoption of “higher standards to classify treatment and punishment as cruel, inhuman or degrading in the case of children.”
In addition, the Special Rapporteur pointed out that inappropriate conditions of detention – including pretrial and post-trial incarceration as well as institutionalisation and administrative immigration detention- exacerbate the harmful effects on children deprived of their liberty.
“Within the context of administrative immigration enforcement, it is now clear that the deprivation of liberty of children based on their or their parents’ migration status is never in the best interests of the child,” he added. “It exceeds the requirement of necessity, becomes grossly disproportionate and may constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of migrant children.”
“States should, expeditiously and completely, cease the detention of children, with or without their parents, on the basis of their immigration status,” Mr. Méndez said.
“One of the most important sources of ill-treatment of children in those institutions is the lack of basic resources and proper government oversight,” the UN Special Rapporteur noted. “Regular and independent monitoring of places where children are deprived of their liberty is a key factor in preventing torture and other forms of ill-treatment,” he concluded.
(*) Read the full report by the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/28/68): http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session28/Pages/ListReports.aspx
Mr. Juan E. Méndez (Argentina) was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in November 2010. Mr. Méndez has dedicated his legal career to the defense of human rights, and has a long and distinguished record of advocacy throughout the Americas. He is currently a Professor of Law at the American University – Washington College of Law and Co-Chair of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. Learn more, log on to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Torture/SRTorture/Pages/SRTortureIndex.aspx
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Sexual Wellness > HIV/AIDS
HIV Testing in the Philippines
Medically reviewed by Jobelle Ann Dela Cruz Bigalbal, M.D. | By Khristine Callanga
While much has been done to spread awareness and prevention, the rate of HIV transmission in the country is still alarming. Learn more about HIV Testing in the Philippines and treatments that are available.
How Does HIV Attack the Body?
The human immunodeficiency virus (HV) is the causative agent of HIV infection. It infects the immune system by attaching and infiltrating white blood cells known as CD4 cells. This progressively weakens the body’s defense against pathogens and the development of cancers.
The virus is spread via blood and certain body fluids like seminal, pre-seminal fluid, vaginal fluid, breast milk, and anal secretions. It can not be spread by tears or saliva. Neither can it be spread through hugging, shaking, or the sharing of food. The most common mode of spread in the Philippines is by unprotected sexual intercourse, anal or vaginal.
This illness cannot be cured but with drug combinations known as antiretroviral therapy (ART), the virus can be suppressed. This can halt its progression to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the most advanced form of the infection.
HIV tests are used to detect the presence of this virus with samples like a serum, saliva, and urine. They are highly accurate, but no test can detect HIV immediately after infection. Results are kept confidential, and those determined to be positive are encouraged to seek counseling. These sessions must also be conducted only with the informed consent of the individual to be tested.
How to Prevent HIV From Progressing to AIDS
Here are the different types of HIV testing apparatus used in diagnosing a patient.
Antibody tests
Most HIV tests are of this type. This includes most rapid and home test kits. Antibodies are substances produced by certain white blood cells when there are offending microorganisms in your body. These tests try to detect antibodies produced against HIV.
Antibody tests, however, could give a false negative in what is known as window period. This duration ranges from 3 weeks to 6 months. It is the period between the time of infection and the production of antibodies at a detectable quantity.
Antigen tests
More specifically known as p24 antigen tests. They detect the presence of a protein present in HIV known as p24. They are mostly used for early HIV detection. It is often used in combination with an antibody test because it does not pick up positive results very well. Also, this test is not particularly useful after a while since the body begins to produce antibodies and the concentration of p24 diminishes.
Antigen/Antibody Combination tests
This test is also called the 4th generation assay. These are a combination of the two aforementioned tests . They are recommended for laboratory testing since they can pick up infection as early as 2 to 6 weeks.
Nucleic acid-based tests
These are very expensive tests and so are not routinely used in screening. They are also called viral load tests because they can pick up the specific amount of virus in the blood. They are usually used for people who just had a high-risk exposure or are experiencing suspected early HIV infection symptoms.
A qualitative nucleic acid test (NAT) can also detect acute HIV viremia in patients who are antibody-negative. The main purpose of NAT is for large population screening (such as blood donor screening), which is generally performed on pooled specimens.
HIV in the Philippines
The Philippines is number one in terms of rapidly escalating HIV infections in the world. There has been a 174% rise in the prevalence of HIV between 2010 and 2017. The population that this affects the most is men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women. Currently, there is a large unmet need for HIV testing in the Philippines among these groups of people.
Another group with high HIV burden is young people. The percentage of HIV-positive people of 15 to 24 years has been on a rise. Between 2006 and 2010, it was 25%. But this figure rose to 29% between 2011 and 2018. Among the estimated number of HIV infected individuals between 15 to 19 years, only 4% are diagnosed. This percentage is better at 26% for those 20 to 24 years old.
Between January 1984 and March 2018, the number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) has cumulated in a total of 53,192. From January 2001 to December 2005, the major age group was 35 to 49 years old. This trend however shifted between January 2006 and March 2018 to involve those between 25 and 34 years.
HIV Awareness in the Philippines: Facts and Misconceptions
Low HIV Testing in the Philippines
The low rates of HIV testing in the Philippines is partly due to the restrictive legal and regulatory framework. Other factors include poor access to healthcare and poor sex education among youth. Several local governments take possession of condoms as proof of prostitution which is illegal in the Philippines.
National policy requires HIV testing in the Philippines to be performed by a specially trained medical laboratory scientist. Although the age of consent for HIV testing has recently been lowered to 15 years, younger sexually active adolescents exist. The primary model of accessing tests is by going to a facility that offers it i.e facility-based testing. Testing is only possible in centers that have been accredited by the Department of Health.
With rapid diagnostic screening test kits, community-based screening is possible. Efforts to elevate this to the level of status-quo have been made in Metro Manila, Davao, and Cebu. This has helped tremendously in enabling at-risk populations to know their HIV status.
HIV self-testing (HIVST) is a WHO-recommended strategy that has succeeded in increasing testing rates among at-risk groups in Vietnam and China. It has been found to improve uptake of testing services particularly in populations with poor access. Many people who prefer HIVST explain that the higher confidentiality level is a crucial advantage.
So far, HIV self-testing kits that have WHO prequalification are not available in the Philippines. However, campaigns are set to be initiated in order to speed up the introduction of these kits into the country. To get tested for HIV or other STIs, you can visit your doctor, a community health clinic, or the DOH. Testing is also available at Planned Parenthood health centers.
HIV testing in the Philippines is low according to the latest statistics. This is something that has to change given the rapidly growing infection rates. Early identification of positive individuals enables prompt treatment, which can halt progression to AIDS. As local and international efforts are made to improve these figures, citizens are encouraged to go out and get tested.
Learn more about HIV/ Aids here.
HIV/AIDS and ART Registry of the Philippines: August 2019, https://www.aidsdatahub.org/sites/default/files/publication/EB_HARP_August_AIDSreg2019.pdf, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
HIV Self Testing, https://www.who.int/hiv/topics/self-testing/en/, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
HIV Reduction Tool, https://wwwn.cdc.gov/hivrisk/how_know/different_tests.html, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
Assessment of country policies affecting reproductive health for adolescents in the Philippines, https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12978-018-0638-9, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
Department of Health, https://www.doh.gov.ph/node/14062, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
Sex education in PH schools still lacking - UNFPA, https://www.rappler.com/nation/139118-sex-education-philippines-unfpa, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
New law allows HIV testing of minors without parental consent, http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/12/28/minors-hiv-testing-parents-consent.html, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/glossary/3/acquired-immunodeficiency-syndrome, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
HIV testing and counselling: the gateway to treatment, care and support, https://www.who.int/3by5/publications/briefs/hiv_testing_counselling/en/, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
Is the Philippines ready for HIV self-testing, https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-8063-8, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
Acute and early HIV infection: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis, https://www.uptodate.com/contents/acute-and-early-hiv-infection-clinical-manifestations-and-diagnosis?search=hiv&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=1#H18410709, Accessed Jan 5, 2020
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Understanding HIV: How Does It Affect the Body
How can HIV affect the body? What makes it one of the deadliest viruses known to man? Learn the causes, risks, and the effects of HIV.
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Sunday, November 4, 2012 - 2 marker, Fearless Felix, Sci-Tech 0 comments
Faster than the Speed of Sound
He is about as close as it gets for humans to being a batman or a superman. He has jumped off the Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur and even flown across the English Channel, with the help of carbon fibre wings. Meet Fearless Felix – the Austrian sky-diver, who has just set a world record to become the first man to break the sound barrier.
As millions around the world experienced the view of the round blue earth surrounded by the black of space, captured from the Red Bull Stratos Mission’s capsule’s camera, Felix Baumartner, stepped off into the void and plummeted for more than four minutes, reaching a maximum speed of 1.24 Mach or 1,342 kmph, before landing safely in the New Mexico desert, with the help of his parachute.
He broke altitude and speed records set half a century ago by Joe Kittinger, now 84, a retired Air Force colonel, who guided Felix through tense moments from the Roswell Mission Control room. During the course of his historic jump, Felix was successful in setting three of the four new world records. 1. Reaching the maximum altitude of 39.04 kms, 2. Maximum speed of 1,342.8 kms per hour corresponding to Mach 1.24 and 3. Total free fall distance of 36,529 metres. He did not break the record for longest duration free fall. His total free fall time was 4 minutes 20 seconds, which was 16 seconds short of the current world record held by his mentor Joe Kittinger.
“It was harder than I expected. Trust me, when you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble. It’s not about breaking records any more. It’s not about getting scientific data. It’s all about coming home.” said Felix during his mission accomplished press conference.
Red Bull Stratos Mission
Salzburg born, 43 year old Felix Baumgartner was backed by a NASA style mission control operation called Red Bull Stratos. More than 300 people, including more than 70 engineers, scientists and physicians, worked at the Mission Control Room at Roswell, New Mexico.
It was not a mere extreme adventure sport mission. Besides aiming at records, the engineers and scientists on the Red Bull Stratos team intended to gather data that would help future pilots, astronauts and space tourists survive if they have to bail-out. The mission was also intended to test new age space-suits, escape concepts and treatment protocols for pressure loss at very high altitudes. On top of this, every one also wanted to know, what happens to the human body when it breaks the sound barrier?
The Mission to break the sound barrier was announced in January, 2010, with the help of a sponsorship from Red Bull – the energy drink company. It was decided that Felix Baumgartner would jump off from 36,000 feet, intending to become the first parachutist to break the sound barrier. This would be possible because, while the normal speed of the free-falling sky-diver is about 320 kmph, the high altitude, with less dense atmosphere would boost speed.
The preparation period was grueling. While Felix had no trouble jumping off buildings and bridges, and soaring across the English Channel, he found himself suffering panic attacks when forced to spend hours inside the pressurized suit and helmet. At one point in 2010, rather than take an endurance test, Felix went to an airport and boarded a plane fleeing the United States. Later, with the help of a sports psychologist and other specialists, he learned techniques of dealing with the claustrophobia.
Felix was originally scheduled to jump on the morning of October 9, 2012, but the mission got delayed because of bad weather. Technicians at the launch site also found that one of the capsule’s communication radios was faulty, forcing the launch to be rescheduled.
The mission was finally launched on Sunday October 14, 2012 at 9.30 a.m. amidst clear weather and winds blowing at 5.5 kmph. The ground temperature was 14 degree Celsius. Felix Baumgartner’s specially designed capsule, attached to a helium balloon, took around 2.5 hours to ascend to the required height.
Things became difficult shortly after crossing the Armstrong Limit and Felix’s visor developed a malfunction. Armstrong Limit is the altitude that produces an atmospheric pressure so low that water boils even at the normal temperature of the human body. Beyond this limit, humans can not survive in an unpressurized environment.
One of the techniques Felix developed was to stay busy throughout the ascent. He conversed steadily with Mr. Kittinger at the Roswell Control room and went through a 40-item checklist mentally rehearsing every move that he would make when the time to leave the capsule came.
When the actual moment came, Mr. Kittinger said to Felix, “All right, step up on the exterior step. Start the cameras. And our guardian angel will take care of you now.” Divine words, indeed.
Felix stepped outside and delivered a message that was mostly garbled by radio static. Later, he repeated it: “I know the whole world is watching, and I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are…. I am coming home now”
Baumgartner saluted and dived forward off the ledge at 12:08 local time. After 42 seconds of descent, Felix reached his maximum velocity of 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph). Within two minutes, he lost control of his body and went into an uncontrolled spin. Those were the anxious moments at the Control room as the spin, if not controlled soon, would have proved fatal, as blood would have gushed out of Felix’s eyes.
Thankfully, Felix was able to control his spin. He had an abort switch that would have allowed deployment of a drogue parachute which would have arrested the spin but prevented him from breaking any speed records.
Felix couldn't say what it felt like to smash through the sound barrier. He said his pressurized space suit prevented him from experiencing the supersonic boom as he broke the sound barrier and accelerated through the heavens at 1,342 kmph. 11 minutes after jumping from the capsule, Baumgartner landed successfully on his feet in eastern New Mexico.
“He demonstrated that a man could survive in an extremely high altitude escape situation,” Mr. Kittinger said. “Future astronauts will wear the spacesuit that Felix test-jumped today.”
Reb Bull Stratos announced on its website “Mission Successful”.
(PIB Features.)
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Ibrahim Nasrallah wins 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The Jordanian-Palestinian writer Ibrahim Nasrallah, author of the two Hoopoe novels, Gaza Weddings and Time of White Horses, and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press) won this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, for his cautionary futurist and dark novel, The Second War of the Dog.
During the prize ceremony held last month in Abu Dhabi, Nasrallah noted that “[The novel] exposes the tendency towards brutality inherent in society, . . . imagining a time where human and moral values have been discarded and anything is permissible, even the buying and selling of human souls.” Rashid, the protagonist, changes from an opponent of the regime to a materialistic and unscrupulous extremist.
Nasrallah said he wanted to “provoke the reader, to worry the reader” and send a warning that if “we continue on our current path, we will reach a future where we would become mostly annihilistic.”
“I was always preoccupied with man’s relationship to authority in its different forms, be it military, security, religious or social,” Nasrallah said in an interview with IPAF. “The idea [for The Second War of the Dog] had been in my mind for seven years and, as I usually do, I had started a file on it, where I wrote down every idea and thought which might be useful…. I have never written a novel before thinking about it for at least five years…. Although the novel doesn’t refer to Da’esh [ISIS] and extremist groups by name, yet it was written about those kinds of environments and also about international brutality.”
The Second War of the Dog, first published in Arabic in 2016 by Lebanon-based Arab Scientific Publishers, was chosen from among 124 entries from 14 countries.
Nasrallah is considered one of the most influential voices of his generation. His style of writing has been described as “intensely eloquent,” and “shimmering and sensitive.”
Among his 14 published novels, The Second War of the Dog is his first work of science fiction. “This is the first time that I write from this perspective, where everything is in the future,” Nasrallah told IPAF. “Writers should not stop experimenting and renewing.”
Born in 1954 and raised in a refugee camp to Palestinian parents who were displaced from their land in 1948, he spent his childhood in the El-Wehdat Palestinian Refugee Camp in Amman. He became a journalist before turning to creative writing. Currently he lives in Amman, Jordan.
Now in its 11th year, IPAF, managed in association with the Booker Prize Foundation in London and supported by the Emirates Foundation in Abu Dhabi, is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. The purpose of the Prize is to encourage recognition of high-quality Arabic fiction, reward Arab writers, and lead to increased international readership through translation. The shortlisted authors each receive $10,000. The winning author goes on to receive a further $50,000, with a commitment that IPAF will meet the cost of translating the winning novel into English for eventual publication.
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More on the Iraqi WMDs
The NYT reports:
The United States recovered thousands of old chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2009 and destroyed almost all of them in secret and via open-air detonation, according to a written summary of its activities prepared by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international body that monitors implementation of the global chemical weapons treaty. . .
It included a table disclosing limited details on 95 separate recoveries and destructions of chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, for a total of 4,530 munitions from May 2004 through February 2009 — a period of often intense fighting in Iraq.
The United States later recovered more Iraqi chemical weapons, pushing its tally to 4,996 by early 2011, according to redacted intelligence documents obtained by The Times via the Freedom of Information Act.
The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of terrorists or militant groups, according to current and former American officials.
The extraordinary arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006, and the American military deemed it a nonproliferation success. It led to the United States’ acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein’s Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
Most people believe that Bush was wrong (or even lied) about Iraqi WMDs. As this illustrates, he was not. Nevertheless, the Bush administration has no one to blame but themselves. They knew this stuff back when they were being accused of lying about WMDs, but they never bothered to put it out there. Now the truth is out, but no one is paying attention.
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Toy Story 4 Bested at Chinese Box Office by...Spirited Away?
James Whitbrook
Gorgeous new poster art made for Spirited Away’s China release.
Image: Huang Hai (Studio Ghibli)
Sorry, Woody. Not even one of the most delightful existential crises of the year (so far) can compare with the might of a Miyazaki classic.
Variety reports that Toy Story 4 opened to box office record success this past weekend across the world. It took top nods for the largest three-day opening for an animated feature in the U.S. (where it pulled in $118 million, below Disney’s estimates), UK, Argentina, Mexico, and more. But one surprising area it didn’t reach for the sky, as its heroic cowboy would demand, was in China, where it opened in second place, pulling in what would otherwise seem like a peculiarly low $13.2 million.
But it’s not like Toy Story 4 wasn’t received well in China, as it has been elsewhere. It wasn’t even because of the debut of a home-grown movie dominating China’s movie screenings. Instead, Forky and Friends lost out because of the first theatrical Chinese screenings of Spirited Away, the iconic Studio Ghibli film.
After they were never officially released in the country when first debuted, Ghibli films have slowly started making their way to China in the last year. At Christmas, a remastered My Neighbor Totoro made $25 million with its debut, and now Spirited Away has pulled in a hefty $28 million, besting Toy Story 4 by almost double.
Another of Huang Hai’s spectacular posters made for the Chinese release of Spirited Away.
There’s no real reason for why the beloved 2001 movie triumphed over Pixar’s endcap (at least for now) on one of its most famous franchises, beyond the fact that Chinese Exhibitors decided to give Spirited Away more screens to run on than Toy Story 4—it accounted for 30 percent of all screenings in China this past weekend, while Toy Story 4 accounted for 18 percent, with Variety speculating that simmering trade war tensions between China and Donald Trump’s administration as a potential factor in the decision.
Whatever the reason, it’s still a peculiar thing to see. But at least people got to enjoy two killer animated movies in the process?
James is a News Editor at io9. He wants pictures. Pictures of Spider-Man!
Entropy Is So Degrading
I’m not much of an anime fan at all, but I’d definitely pick Spirited Away over TS4. Add in the big screen factor and it’s an absolute no-brainer. Man, I wish a small, indy screen here in the Bay Area (I’m looking at you, Grand Lake Theater) would run Spirited Away.
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Stream on demand — week of May 28
Posted By: Kaylee BrewsterPosted date: May 28, 2020
HBO Max, a new streaming service that marries HBO’s programming with the Warner Bros. movie and TV catalog, launches this week with the entire runs of the hit sitcoms “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory” and a collection of HBO Max original shows, from the romantic comedy anthology series “Love Life” with Anna Kendrick to a new series of “Looney Tunes Cartoons” and “The Not Too Late Show with Elmo” to go with HBO’s “Sesame Street” for kids.
Subscribers also get all of HBO’s programming, CW shows “Batwoman,” “Nancy Drew,” and “Katy Keene,” “Doom Patrol” from DC Universe, the complete run of BBC’s “Doctor Who” revival, “Pretty Little Liars” for teens and tweens, and “Rick and Morty” for big kids. Movies available at launch include “Wonder Woman” (2017, PG-13) with Gal Gadot, the beloved musical fantasy “Wizard of Oz” (1939), American classics “Citizen Kane” (1941) and “Casablanca” (1942), and 20 films from Japan’s Studio Ghibli animation house, including “My Neighbor Totoro” (Japan, 1988, with subtitles) and Academy Award winner “Spirited Away” (Japan, 2001, with subtitles).
If you currently subscribe to HBO on cable or HBO Now, you may get instant access to HBO Max; check with your provider. New subscribers can go to hbomax.com/ for more details.
Steve Carell plays a career officer put in charge of creating a new branch of the military in “Space Force” (not rated). Chaos, naturally, ensues. It’s Carell’s first series since leaving “The Office” and he created it with “The Office” showrunner Greg Daniels. Lisa Kudrow, Noah Emmerich, Ben Schwartz, Jimmy O. Yang, Fred Willard, and John Malkovich costar in the half-hour comedy. 10 episodes streaming on Netflix.
“The Vast Of Night” (2020, PG-13), an indie sci-fi thriller set in 1950s New Mexico, leans on mood and eerie atmosphere as it tells a story of two savvy teenagers (Jake Horowitz and Sierra McCormick) on the local radio station night shift investigating the strange manifestations of a UFO arrival. The film, which played to great acclaim in 2019 film festivals (it won the Audience Award at Slamdance), debuts directly on Amazon Prime Video.
Adam Sandler gives one his finest performances as a New York jeweler and gambling addict in “Uncut Gems” (2019, R), an indie drama and character piece from the Safdie Bros. driven by adrenaline and nervous energy. Though overlooked for Oscar nominations, it won acclaim for Sandler’s performance and numerous awards from critics groups. Idina Menzel, Eric Bogosian, The Weeknd, and NBA center Kevin Garnett costar. Streaming on Netflix.
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“The Invisible Man” (2020, R) with Elisabeth Moss reimagines the horror classic as a modern drama of domestic violence. Leigh Whannell writes and directs the acclaimed thriller. Aldis Hodge and Storm Reid costar.
“The High Note” (2020, PG-13), a music drama starring Tracee Ellis Ross as a superstar diva and Dakota Johnson as the personal assistant who encourages her to follow her instincts, debuts directly to VOD at a premium price.
The documentary limited series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” (2020, not rated) gives voice to the survivors of the tycoon and serial sex abuser who used his wealth to get away with his crimes.
Matthew McConaughey puts his smarmy charm to great use in “The Lincoln Lawyer” (2011, R), a meaty legal thriller adapted from the Michael Connelly novel.
Streaming TV: Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath) declares war in “Supergirl: Season 5” (2019-2020, TV-14). Also new:
“Dynasty: Season 3” (2020-2021, TV-MA) of the CW revival of the nighttime soap opera
foodie series “Somebody Feed Phil: Season 3” (TV-14).
International cinema: a teenager from a rural Mexico finds himself lost when he’s sent to Queens in “I’m No Longer Here” (2019, Mexico, not rated, with subtitles) and a cop tackles her first major case in the crime drama “Intuition” (2020, Argentina, not rated, with subtitles).
International TV: A warrior cursed to wear the head of lizard seeks revenge in the animated adventure “Dorohedoro” (Japan, not rated).
Kid stuff: Inspired by a Chinese myth, “Ne Zha” (China, 2019, TV-PG, with subtitles), a fantasy about a child infused with the spirit of demon hellion, is the top grossing Chinese animated film of all time.
Stand-up: “Hannah Gadsby: Douglas” (2020, not rated) and “Kenny Sebastian: The Most Interesting Person in the Room” (2020, not rated).
A meek thirtysomething man (Elijah Wood) tries to reconnect with his estranged father (Stephen McHattie) in the darkly comic thriller “Come to Daddy” (2019, R).
True stories: Danny Trejo shares his own experiences in “Survivor’s Guide to Prison” (2018, TV-MA), narrated by Susan Sarandon.
You can now watch the premiere episodes of the new National Geographic limited series “Barkskins” (not rated), based on the Annie Proulx novel, starring David Thewlis and Marcia Gay Harden as settlers in a 17th century French colony in North America. New episodes each Tuesday. Also new:
the second season of the Hulu original series “Ramy” (TV-MA) from creator/star Ramy Youssef;
the premiere episode of the seventh and final season of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (new episodes each Thursday).
HBO Max / HBO Now
Hide and seek is a killer in “Ready or Not” (2019, R), a darkly comic thriller starring Samara Weaving as a bride marked for sacrifice by her new family.
Other streams
BritBox presents the complete “BBC Television Shakespeare” collection of all 37 plays, from “All’s Well that Ends Well” to “A Winter’s Tale,” made over seven years between 1978 and 1985. These productions were faithful and straight forward and feature some of Britain’s finest stage and screen performers, among them Claire Bloom, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, and Helen Mirren, plus Brenda Blethyn, Jon Finch, Patrick Stewart, Alan Rickman, and John Cleese. These were the productions that I watched growing up and were my real introduction to the work of Shakespeare.
“Central Park” (2020, TV-14), an animated musical comedy from “Bob’s Burgers” creator Loren Bouchard, features the voices of Josh Gad, Kristen Bell, Leslie Odom Jr., Titus Burgess, Daveed Diggs, Stanley Tucci and Kathryn Hahn. Streaming on Apple TV+.
“Blood Machines” (France, 2019, not rated, with subtitles), a short sci-fi/fantasy film big on style and trippy visuals, is transformed into a three-episode series now on Shudder.
“Sidewalk Stories” (1989, R), a touching contemporary silent movie from filmmaker Charles Lane, and “The Cloud-Capped Star” (India, 1960, with subtitled), a devastating classic of world cinema from director Ritwik Ghatak, debut on Criterion Channel. Also new:
“Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories,” a collection of personal documentaries by women about women and their experiences spanning the past 50 years;
“Three by Nicole Holofcener” including “Lovely & Amazing” (2001, R) and “Please Give” (2010, R) with Catherine Keener;
“Three by Jacques Rivette,” including the essential and amazing “Celine and Julie Go Boating” (France, 1974, not rated, with subtitles), which is still not on DVD or Blu-ray in the U.S.
Free streams: indie drama “Winter’s Bone” (2010, R), which earned Jennifer Lawrence her first Oscar nomination, Alexander Jodorowski’s surreal, carnivalesque odyssey “Santa Sangre” (Mexico, 1989, not rated) are new on Kanopy this month.
New on disc this week:
“The Invisible Man,” “Wildlife,” “Endings, Beginnings,” “Once Were Brothers: Robby Robertson and The Band”
Now available at Redbox:
“The Invisible Man,” “Training Day”
Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His reviews of streaming movies and TV can be found at http://streamondemandathome.com.
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Tag Archives: Brooklyn Psychiatric Center
Creedmoor State Hospital & Cemetery
Posted on September 5, 2013 by lsstuhler
Creedmoor State Hospital, Long Island, New York
The Lost World Of Creedmoor Hospital – New York Times.
Fear And Brutality In A Creedmoor Ward – New York Times.
Inside Creedmoor State Hospital’s Building 25 – AbandonedNYC.
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center – Wikipedia.
“REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS, October 30, 1912.
To the State Hospital Commission, Albany, N. Y.:
Gentlemen. – We respectfully present the annual report of the Board of Managers of the Long Island State Hospital for the year ending September 30, 1912. The operations of the hospital during the year have been described in sufficient detail in the report of the Superintendent, which we adopt and present as part of our own…..The beginnings of the development of the Creedmoor property have been made with some success and a promise of much larger achievement. The report of the Superintendent gives details. Plans for an institution with a capacity of over 2,000 have been presented to the Board by the State Architect, discussed at length and finally adopted. It is earnestly hoped that definite action to carry them out may be made possible by legislative appropriation. The necessity for such provision is apparent to all who have given even slight study to the problem of the metropolitan insane. We are gratified that the need of thorough rehabilitation of the present hospital has been recognized by the Commission to the extent that the report of the Superintendent shows; and that in addition, appropriations are being considered for further alterations in the buildings and the erection of several new ones.
Respectfully submitted, A. E. ORR, President, Board of Managers of the Long Island State Hospital.
CREEDMOOR – The land and premises situated at Creedmoor in the town of Queens, thirteen miles distant from the main hospital, acquired by legislative act of 1908, have continued subject to the control of the Commission and the board of managers of the Long Island State Hospital. This property originally comprised 192 (200) acres, but at a time when it was decided to sell this land and acquire a new site, nearly seven acres for roadway purposes were sold to the Long Island Motor Parkway, Incorporated, for $18,942. This money was reappropriated by the Legislature for the alteration of the existing buildings and for new construction generally. The roadway passes through the grounds diagonally in a northeasterly direction, and for the most part through the wooded, upland portion of the premises. It is below grade and properly protected by a fence and an overhead crossing. The parkway would not seriously interfere with the erection of new buildings for hospital purposes in the level area southeast therefrom, and some preliminary steps have been taken and are still under way to plan for such buildings, since the difficulty of acquiring a new site on Long Island is fully recognized by the Commission and the Managers. In April, 1912, the Governor signed, among other items in the Omnibus Bill, an appropriation of $50,000 for the commencement of the erection of buildings, including a railroad switch, power house and farm cottages.
As soon as a suitable block plan for a hospital is approved, the expenditure of moneys already appropriated will be made, since it is necessary to first decide upon a general hospital scheme before the installation of a railway, system of sewage disposal and other initial steps can be properly gotten under way. In the meantime, however, the property has been put to use to the extent of colonizing it with thirty-two patients. This was done early in the summer. The patients have been located in one of the twelve regimental buildings, and the necessary money to put this building in order was taken from the special legislative appropriation as a result of the sale of the strip of land. Patients have been employed daily at farm work, and the area of farm land under cultivation has been somewhat over forty acres. Care has been observed in the selection of the patients who have resided at Creedmoor, and no complaint has resulted from their presence in the neighborhood. There is no reason why the colony system cannot be enlarged. There are sufficient buildings to accommodate two hundred or more patients conveniently. On the following page is shown a view of the building at Creedmoor which is occupied by patients.”
Long Island State Hospital – Creedmoor
SOURCE: Annual Report of the Long Island State Hospital to the State Hospital Commission For the Year Ending September 30, 1912, Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1913, Pages 6, 16, 17.
“Creedmoor. A tract of land in east central Queens, one mile (1.6 kilometers) north of Queens Village and centered on Braddock Avenue and old Rocky Hill Road (now Braddock Avenue), named for the family that farmed there. The name is used only locally and does not refer to any village or settlement, past or present. Conrad Poppenhusen of College Point ran a railroad through the area parallel to Braddock Avenue in 1871 and donated some of the surplus land to the National Rifle Association for use by the National Guard, which opened firing ranges in 1873. The growth of Queens Village from the 1890s and the hazards connected with the firing ranges led to the eviction of the National Guard in 1908. In 1910 the tract became the site of a large state mental hospital.”
“Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. State mental hospital on Winchester Boulevard near Queens Village, built on land originally owned by the Creed family. It opened in 1912 as a “farm colony” for the Brooklyn Psychiatric Center in facilities formerly used as barracks for the National Guard. With the construction of new buildings in 1926, 1929, and 1933 Creedmoor became a separate state hospital. Although its nominal capacity was 3,300 patients, there were 6,000 patients by the 1940s, and overcrowding was exacerbated by staff shortages and limited funds. During these years various new treatments for mental illness were introduced at Creedmoor, including hydrotherapy, insulin therapy, electroshock therapy, and in a few cases lobotomy. A more important innovation was the introduction of antidepressant and tranquilizing drugs, which became widely used in the state mental health system in 1955. At Creedmoor the new drugs meant quieter wards, fewer injuries to staff members and patients, and a dramatic increase in the number of patients who could manage daily life in the community. As a result the number of inpatients at the hospital declined to 1,100 by 1991, while outpatient services and residential placements were expanded in keeping with the new policy of deinstitutionalization. When it became clear during the late 1980s that many of the homeless in New York City had urgent psychiatric needs, Creedmoor established a special impatient program of psychiatric rehabilitation intended specifically for the homeless. The Living Museum, presenting art by patients, was founded by Bolek Greczynski in 1984 in the hospital. In 2001 the city sold part of the mental hospital to residential developers and used another portion to develop three schools and athletic fields.”
SOURCE: The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition, Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood, Yale University Press, 2010.
Brooklyn State Hospital, Brooklyn.
The institution is very greatly overcrowded, but it is hoped to obtain relief at an early date. There is under construction, and to be soon completed, a reception hospital and a building for the care of the chronic type of patients. The reception hospital will accommodate about 150 patients, while the building for the chronic type will accommodate 450.
Foundations for a new store house and cold storage building have been laid. A large number of repairs have been accomplished during the last year. The domes of the main building have been renewed and painted. A large quantity of flooring has been laid and a number of the wards have been repainted.
A number of cottages at Creedmoor are being remodelled and made ready for occupancy, and it is expected shortly to house at least 150 patients at this branch.
This hospital has been visited during the year by the State Finance Committee, the State Hospital Development Commission and the State Hospital Commission, and it is the concensus of opinion that the present old building should be razed and new ones built. There is planned a new and modern psychopathic hospital that will accommodate the needs of this portion of Greater New York.
When plans have been consummated, this site will accommodate about 2,100 patients, while at Creedmoor plans are in contemplation for about 2,500 patients.
The medical service is very active at this institution. At least 51 per cent of the cases admitted are of the feeble and exhausted type, or of the very acute maniacal type, and are brought in on stretchers. Those who are physically able are sent to Kings Park. The admissions here during the year were 626. Beginning July 1st, we organized a school for male patients and a male instructor was appointed. It is hoped to obtain very beneficial results from the re-education of certain cases.
In August, 1916, a social worker was appointed who has been of great benefit to the institution and to the paroled patients. She visits all patients who are paroled, attends the clinics, inspects environmental conditions, obtains positions for recovered patients, and assists in obtaining proper histories for the physicians. Three outdoor clinics are held weekly, one at the Brooklyn State Hospital, one at the Williamsburg Hospital on Saturdays; and one at the Long Island College Hospital on Fridays. These clinics are of great value, as it is through them that information is spread that is of great use to the general public. The present census is 925; the certified capacity is 637, and 70 patients are on parole.
At the east of the institution there is an old potters’ field which has been used for years for the burial of the poor of Kings County. This land was turned over to the state two years ago, and it is now proposed to construct buildings on this area. Therefore the Charities Department of the City of New York was requested to remove the bodies buried there by that department during the last two years, and several hundred bodies were taken away during the summer.
SOURCE: The American Journal of Insanity, Volume 74, 1917, Pages 353-354.
BROOKLYN (Brooklyn State Hospital)
An investigation of the sanitary conditions of the Brooklyn State Hospital at Brooklyn was made by Mr. C. A. Howland, assistant engineer in this Department on August 15, 1919. Previous examinations of the sanitary condition of this institution were made by this Department in 1915, (see page 906 of the 36th Annual Eeport) and in 1917 (see page 642 of the 38th Annual Report).
Location: The main institution is situated in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, while Creedmoor Farm is located north of the village of Creedmoor close to the eastern boundary of Queens borough.
Site of institution: The hospital is situated in Brooklyn on Clarkson avenue just east of the Kings County Hospital. Although the grounds of the institution in Brooklyn are somewhat flat they are apparently well drained. At Creedmoor the farm land, much of which is under cultivation, is also flat but appears to be well drained.
Area of grounds: 25 acres in Brooklyn; 195 acres at Creedmoor; total, 220 acres.
Number of occupied buildings: 14 (2 practically complete but not occupied, one in course of construction).
Capacity: 343 men, 457 women, 305 employees; total, 1,105.
Present population: 441 men, 603 women, 206 employees; total, 1,252.
Class of inmates: All classes of insane except the criminal insane.
Water supply: The water supply for the main institution in Brooklyn is obtained from the Flatbush Water Company while the water supply for the Creedmoor farm is obtained from the Jamaica Water Supply Company.
Milk supply: The milk for the main institution in Brooklyn, which amounts to about 400 quarts of fluid milk, grade B, pasteurized, and 40 quarts condensed milk, are purchased per day from the Delancy Milk and Cream Company of Brooklyn. At Creedmoor farm the milk supply is obtained from a herd of five cows. The cow barn in which the milking is done is an old wooden structure which was not in a satisfactory sanitary condition at the time of the inspection.
Sewerage and sewage disposal: The sewage and storm water of the institution in Brooklyn is discharged through combined tile and brick sewers ranging in size from 6 to 18 inches into the sewerage system of the city of Brooklyn. At Creedmoor the sewage is at present discharged into two large cesspools located about 300 feet northwest of the building. A sewage disposal plant which will treat the sewage from the hospital to be ultimately constructed at Creedmoor is in the course of construction. This disposal plant will consist of Imhoff tanks, siphon chamber and sand filters, of which the inlet chamber, Imhoff tank and siphon chamber have been completed.
Refuse disposal: The garbage of the institution is fed to pigs at the Creedmoor farm. The garbage not suitable for feeding is disposed of in the institution incinerator. At the time of the inspection it was found that the piggery was not in a satisfactory condition and the engineer was informed that a new piggery is to be constructed. It was found that the barrels in which the garbage is stored at the institution were in some cases without covers. Rubbish, such as broken crockery, etc., is removed by the city street cleaning department. Waste paper is baled and sold and similar disposal is made of the rags. Combustible refuse is collected twice daily and burned in an incinerator of the Morse-Boulger Destructor type.
As a result of this examination the following recommendations were made in regard to the improvement of certain insanitary conditions found at the institution.
1. That the garbage receptacles be kept covered at all times.
2. That a modern piggery of proper design and construction be built as soon as possible.
3. That every precaution be taken in the handling of the milk at the Creedmoor farm in order to prevent the communication of disease by this means and that a plant for the pasteurization of the milk be installed as soon as practicable.
4. That the sewage disposal plant for Creedmoor be completed according to the plans approved by this Department and be put in operation as soon as possible.
SOURCE: State of New York, Fortieth Annual Report of the State Department of Health for the Year Ending December 31, 1919, Volume II, Report of Division of Sanitary Engineering, Albany: J.B.Lyon Company, Printers, 1920, Pages 421-422.
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Women’s Day in Russia 1917: A day to prepare for victory
“1917: The View from the Streets” – leaflets of the Russian revolution – #5
A leaflet issued by Russian socialists 100 years ago to honor Working Women’s Day anticipated the revolution that began that day.
For a French translation, see Europe Solidaire.
One hundred years ago, on or about March 6 (February 21, according to the Julian calendar in use in Russia at the time), the Petrograd Mezhrayonka (or Interdistrict Committee) distributed a leaflet regarding International Women’s Day (IWD), coming up in two days’ time on March 8. That day in 1917 became the first day of the Russian Revolution, begun by a strike of women textile workers.
Although the origins of IWD were in the United States, German Social Democrat Clara Zetkin proposed in 1910 the annual celebration of the holiday on March 8 (February 23 in Russia). The holiday was first celebrated on this date in 1911 in Germany and several other European countries. Russia followed with a small demonstration in 1913, but IWD was overshadowed in Russia by May Day and the anniversary of Bloody Sunday (January 9, 1905).
Women demonstrate in Petrograd, 1917
In 1917, Russia’s various socialist groups failed to unite behind common slogans for International Women’s Day and therefore were unable to carry out a joint action. Without a printing press at the time, the Bolsheviks did not issue any leaflets for IWD.
The Interdistrict Committee, authors of the leaflet below, wanted to rally all Revolutionary Social Democrats in order to present a united socialist front against the war, the autocracy, and liberal attempts to draw workers into a patriotic effort to support the war. During 1917 the Interdistrict Committee, which Leon Trotsky joined when he returned to Russia, fused with the Bolshevik current.
According to historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, the Interdistrict Committee intended the leaflet below to educate workers rather than provoke rebellion. None of the male socialists expected that on this holiday, women workers would provide the catalyst for the February Revolution, which would topple the autocracy.
Food shortages had become a routine occurrence by March 1917. On the morning of March 8 (February 23), a fuel shortage in Petrograd stopped bakeries from working. Women (or their children) who had stood in line for hours had no bread to buy. Anticipating the cries of their children hungry for food, women workers reached the limit of their patience. Women textile workers went on strike and appealed to metalworkers to join them. Radical socialists quickly decided to add slogans against the autocracy and war to the calls for bread.
In this way, unexpectedly and on a commemorative day that most radical leftists treated as of minor importance, the February Revolution began.
Selection, translation, and annotation by Barbara Allen.
Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Working women comrades! For ten years, women of all countries have observed February 23rd as Women Workers’ Day, as women’s “May First.” American women were the first to mark this as the day to review their forces on it. Gradually, women of the entire world joined them. On this day, meetings and assemblies are held at which attempts are made to explain the reasons for our difficult situation and to show the way out of it.
It has been a long time since women first entered the factories and mills to earn their bread. For a long time, millions of women have stood at the machines all day on an equal footing with men. Factory owners work both male and female comrades to exhaustion. Both men and women are thrown in jail for going on strike. Both men and women need to struggle against the owners. But women entered the family of workers later than men. Often, they still are afraid and do not know what they should demand and how to demand it. The owners have always used their ignorance and timidity against them and still do.
On this day, especially, comrades, let’s think about how we can conquer our enemy, the capitalist, as quickly as possible. We will remember our near and dear ones on the front. We will recall the difficult struggle they waged to wring from the owners each extra ruble of pay and each hour of rest, and each liberty from the government. How many of them fell at the front, or were cast into prison or exile for their brave struggle? You replaced them in the rear, in the mills and factories. Your duty is to continue their great cause – that of emancipating all humanity from oppression and slavery.
Women workers, you should not hold back those male comrades who remain, but rather you should join them in fraternal struggle against the government and the factory owners. It is for their sake that war is waged, so many tears are shed, and so much blood is spilled in all countries. This terrible slaughter has now gone into its third year. Our fathers, husbands, and brothers are perishing. Our dear ones arrive home as unfortunate wretches and cripples. The tsarist government sent them to the front. It maimed and killed them, but it does not care about their sustenance.
There is no end in sight to the shedding of worker blood. Workers were shot down on Bloody Sunday, January 9, 1905, and massacred during the Lena Goldfields strike in April 1912. More recently, workers were shot in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Shuia, Gorlovka, and Kostroma. Worker blood is shed on all fronts. The empress trades in the peoples’ blood and sells off Russia piece by piece. They send nearly unarmed soldiers to certain death by shooting. They kill hundreds of thousands of people on the front and they profit financially from this.
Under the pretext of war, owners of factories and mills try to turn workers into serfs. The cost of living grows terribly high in all cities. Hunger knocks at everyone’s door. From the villages, they take away cattle and the last morsels of bread for the war. For hours, we stand in line for food. Our children are starving. How many of them have been neglected and lost their parents? They run wild and many become hooligans. Hunger has driven many girls, who are still children, to walk the streets. Many children stand at machines doing work beyond their physical capacity until late at night. Grief and tears are all around us.
It is hard for working people not only in Russia, but in all countries. Not long ago the German government cruelly suppressed an uprising of the hungry in Berlin. In France, the police are in a fury. They send people to the front for going on strike. Everywhere the war brings disaster, a high cost of living, and oppression of the working class.
Comrades, working women, for whose sake is war waged? Do we need to kill millions of Austrian and German workers and peasants? German workers did not want to fight either. Our close ones do not go willingly to the front. They are forced to go. The Austrian, English, and German workers go just as unwillingly. Tears accompany them in their countries as in ours. War is waged for the sake of gold, which glitters in the eyes of capitalists, who profit from it. Ministers, mill owners, and bankers hope to fish in troubled waters. They become rich in wartime. After the war, they will not pay military taxes. Workers and peasants will bear all the sacrifices and pay all the costs.
Dear women comrades, will we keep on tolerating this silently for very long, with occasional outbursts of boiling rage against small-time traders? Indeed, it is not they who are at fault for the people’s calamities. They are ruined themselves. The government is guilty. It began this war and cannot end it. It ravages the country. It is its fault that you are starving. The capitalists are guilty. It is waged for their profit. It’s well-nigh time to shout to them: Enough! Down with the criminal government and its entire gang of thieves and murderers. Long live peace!
Already the day of retribution approaches. A long time ago, we ceased to believe the tales of the government ministers and the masters. Popular rage is increasing in all countries. Workers everywhere are beginning to understand that they can’t expect their governments to end the war. If they do conclude peace, it will entail attempts to take others’ land, to rob another country, and this will lead to new slaughter. Workers do not need that which belongs to someone else.
Down with the autocracy! Long live the Revolution! Long live the Provisional Revolutionary Government! Down with war! Long live the Democratic Republic! Long live the international solidarity of the proletariat! Long live the united RSDRP.
Petersburg Interdistrict Committee
Published in A.G. Shlyapnikov, Semnadtsatyi god, volume 1, 1923, pp. 306-308.
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, The February Revolution: Petrograd, 1917, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981, pp. 215-18.
Barbara C. Allen, Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016.
Other leaflets in the “1917: The view from the streets” series
“Down with the war; long live the revolution!” (December 1916, Bolshevik-influenced students)
“The day of people’s wrath is near!” (c. January 22 [9], 1917, Mezhrayonka)
“Only a provisional government can bring freedom and peace” (February 6 [January 24], 1917, Mensheviks).
“For a provisional revolutionary government of workers and poor peasants” (February 15 [3], 1917, Bolsheviks).
A note on Russian dates
The Julian calendar used by Russia in 1917 ran 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar that is in general use today. In the “View from the Streets” series, centennial dates are reckoned by the Gregorian calendar; dates are given with the Gregorian (“New Style”) date first, followed by the Julian date in parentheses.
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The Joy of Violent Movement
Independent Music with an International Focus
Tag: i-D
Video by William Ruben Helms Nov 19, 202010:15 November 19, 2020
New Video: Rising Ghanian-born Aussie-based Artist Genesis Owusu Peers into Madness
With the releases of his debut effort, 2017’s Cardrive EP, which garnered an ARIA Award nomination for Best R&B/Soul Release and praise from Sir Elton John (!), NME, i-D, mixmag and others, the rapidly rising Ghanian-born, Canberra, Australia-based, , 20-something artist Genesis Owusu — born Kofi Owusu-Anash — quickly developed a reputation for being a maverick presence with an ability to conjure powerful and deeply personal storytelling in diverse forms, centered around a genre-defying sound and approach that’s uniquely his own. Adding to a growing profile, Owusu has opened for the likes of Dead Prez, Col3trane, Sampa The Great, Cosmo’s Midnight, Noname, Animé, Ruel and others in Australia.
Building upon a rapidly growing profile, Owusu-Anash has released a handful of highly-celebrated singles over the past year, which have included “Whip Cracker,” and the ARIA Award-nominated smash hit “Don’t Need You,” which quickly became the #1 most played song on triple J radio — and since then has received airplay in the UK on both BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 6 and recently here in the States on KCRW, KUTX, The Current and Alt98.
“Whip Cracker” and “Don’t Need You” will be prominently featured on Owusu-Anash’s forthcoming 15 song Andrew Klippel-produced full-length debut Smiling With No Teeth. Slated for a March 5, 2021 release through House Anxiety/Ourness, Smiling With No Teeth reportedly sees the rising Ghanian-born, Aussie artist further honing and developing his genre-confounding sound and approach while charting the epic peaks of troughs of mental health struggles and his experience as a black man in a very white world. Centered around raw hip-hop energy, the material routinely veers into industrial, punk, funk and pop, sometimes within the same song. And as a result, the album’s brash and defiant material is dedicated to those who boldly refuse to be boxed in by stereotypes or cultural norms, or at the very least, don’t feel that they fit in anywhere.
“Smiling With No Teeth is performing what the world wants to see, even if you don’t have the capacity to do so honestly,” Owusu explains in press notes. “Slathering honey on your demons to make them palatable to people who only want to know if you’re okay if the answer is yes. That’s the idea, turned into beautiful, youthful, ugly, timeless and strange music.” Each of the album’s 15 tracks can trace their origins back to studio jam sessions with a backing band that features Kirin J. Callinan, Touch Sensitive’s Michael DiFrancesco, World Champion’s Julian Sudek and the album’s producer Andrew Klippel.
“The Other Black Dog,” Smiling With No Teeth’s third and latest single is a cinematic take on contemporary alternative hip-hop, industrial music and pop centered around Owusu-Anash’s breathlessly rapid-fire delivery and barking, and an industrial stomp featuring off-kilter, stuttering beats and wobbling synth arpeggios. Somehow managing to balance dance floor friendliness with a sweaty mosh-pit energy, the song is a full-throttled nosedive into the hell of madness that brings the drug and booze fueled chaos of ODB, and the fury and menace of DMX to mind. Thematically, the single finds the rising Canberra-based artist giving the fearsome inner and outer demons he lives with and informs his life, the “black dogs,” a name. “The track explores the internal struggle between a hopeful spirit of endurance, and a gnashing black hole of ugliness,” Owusu-Anash explains. “One is me, and the other is also me.”
Directed by Riley Blakeway, the recently released video for “The Other Black Dog” brings the track’s kinetic and forceful menace to vividly nightmarish life: the video finds the rising Aussie artist running for his life along a deserted, night time road, desperately trying to outrun a relentless and evil version of himself and the demons that feed off his fear and insecurities. The video suggests something deeply fearful and disconcerting that we all know but don’t want to admit: there’s no escape from the devils that torment our hearts and souls — and there’s no escape from the devils that torment us in our daily lives. You can run but you can never hide.
Video by William Ruben Helms Apr 16, 201909:50 April 16, 2019
New Video: Acclaimed Japanese Punk Act Releases Cinematic Visuals for Blistering “datsu hike no onna”
Over the past few months of this year, I’ve written a bit about the Kyoto, Japan-based garage punk act Otoboke Beaver (おとぼけビ～バ～ in Japanese), and as you may recall the act which is comprised of Accorinrin (vocals, guitar), Yoyoyoshie (guitar, vocals), Hirochan (bass, vocals) and Kahokiss (drums, vocals) can trace their origins to when they all were members of Kyoto University’s music club.
Shortly after their formation, the quartet quickly received attention both locally and nationally for pairing incredibly dexterous musicianship with their frontwoman’s confrontational stage presence. Interestingly, when Damnably Records released the Okoshiyasu!! Otoboke Beaver compilation, the Kyoto-based punk act began receiving airplay internationally from BBC Radio 6′s Gideon Coe and Tom Ravenscroft, XFM’s John Kennedy, as well as praise from the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, i-Dand The Fader.
Building upon a rapidly growing international profile, the members of the band made critically applauded and attention-grabbing appearances at SXSW and FujiRock Festival, played a sold out show at London‘s 100 Club — and their Love Is Short 7 inch charted in the UK for 4 weeks. Last year, the band went on a tour of the UK that was bookmarked by slots at Coachella.
The band’s newest album ITEKOMA HITS is slated for an April 26, 2019 release through their longtime label home Damnably Records, and from the album’s first three singles “Anata Watashi Daita Ato Yome No Meshi,” “Don’t light my fire” and “I’m tired of repeating your story” the Japanese band revealed that their specialized in feral and defiantly feminist rippers that drew from noise punk, no wave, prog rock and riot grrrl punk, centered around blistering power chords, rapid-fire chord progressions and tempo changes and shouted lyrics. The album’s fourth and latest single “datsu, hike no onna” continues in a similar vein as its immediate predecessor — furious, straightforward punk that bristles with discontent and frustration.
Directed by Haruka Mitani, the video for “datsu, hike no onna” marks an important first for the band — the first time they’ve collaborated with a female director. Shot in gorgeously cinematic 8mm film, the video focuses on a woman who is seemingly suffering from bipolar disorder — at one point manic and joyous, at another point murderous. Interestingly, as the band’s Accorinrin explains, the song “is a second woman’s song similar as my previous song’s themes. hikage no onna means woman in the shadows. It can be [a] metaphor for a mistress, an ‘illegitimate’ woman or a woman without a bubbly, outgoing personality. The message of this song is lamenting the oppression of being a woman in the shadows and about getting out from this suffering.”
New Audio by William Ruben Helms Mar 8, 201910:41
Last month, I wrote about the Kyoto, Japan-based garage punk act Otoboke Beaver (おとぼけビ～バ～ in Japanese) and as you may recall the act which features Accorinrin (vocals, guitar), Yoyoyoshie (guitar, vocals), Hirochan (bass, vocals) and Kahokiss (drums, vocals) can trace their origins to when they while being members of Kyoto University‘s music club. The quartet quickly built a profile both locally and nationally for pairing incredibly dexterous musicianship with Accorinrin’s confrontational stage presence; but when Damnably Records released the Okoshiyasu!! Otoboke Beaver compilation, the Kyoto-based quartet received airplay internationally from the likes of BBC Radio 6′s Gideon Coe and Tom Ravenscroft, XFM’s John Kennedy, as well as praise from the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, i-D and The Fader.
Building upon a rapidly growing international profile, the members of the band made critically applauded and attention-grabbing appearances at SXSW and FujiRock Festival, played a sold out show at London‘s 100 Club — and their Love Is Short 7 inch charted in the UK for 4 weeks. Last year, the band went on a tour of the UK that was bookmarked by slots at Coachella. The quartet’s newest album ITEKOMA HITS is slated for an April 26 2019 release through their longtime label home Damnably Records and the album’s first two singles “Anata Watashi Daita Ato Yome No Meshi” and “Don’t light my fire,” were feral rippers that possessed elements of noise punk, no wave, prog rock and riot grrrl punk. Interestingly, ITEKOMA HITS’ third and latest single “I’m tired of your repeating story” is much more straightforward yet breakneck punk rock track centered around a propulsive bass line, some blistering guitar rock and shouted lyrics that express a mix of fury and frustration. You don’t have to understand what it is they’re actually saying to get that it’s defiantly, boldly feminist — and it fucking rips hard. What else do you need?
New Audio by William Ruben Helms Feb 21, 201922:10 February 22, 2019
Consisting of Accorinrin ( vocal, guitar), Yoyoyoshie (guitar, vocals), Hirochan (bass, vocals) and Kahokiss (drums, vocals), the Kyoto, Japan-based garage punk act Otoboke Beaver (おとぼけビ～バ～ in Japanese) trace their origins to when they met while beiner g members of Kyoto University‘s music club. The Japanese garage punk quartet quickly built a profile both locally and nationally for pairing incredibly dexterous musicianship with Accorinrin’s confrontational stage presence; but when Damnably Records released the Okoshiyasu!! Otoboke Beaver compilation, the Kyoto-based quartet received airplay internationally from the likes of BBC Radio 6′s Gideon Coe and Tom Ravenscroft, XFM’s John Kennedy, as well as praise from the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, i-D and The Fader.
Building upon a rapidly growing international profile, the members of the band made critically applauded and attention-grabbing appearances at SXSW and FujiRock Festival, played a sold out show at London‘s 100 Club — and their Love Is Short 7 inch charted in the UK for 4 weeks. Last year, the band went on a tour of the UK that was bookmarked by slots at Coachella. The up-and-coming band’s newest album ITEKOMA HITS is slated for an April 26 2019 release through their longtime label home Damnably Records, and from the album’s first two singles “Anata Watashi Daita Ato Yome No Meshi” and “Don’t light my fire,” you’ll see why they’re so buzzworthy: their feral rippers draw from from noise punk, no wave, prog rock, riot grrrl-era punk in a way that bear a resemblance to Bo Ningen while being defiantly feminist.
New Video by William Ruben Helms Dec 2, 201723:55 December 3, 2017
New Video: The Mischievous and Surreal Visuals for Sigrid’s Club Banging, New Single “Strangers”
Sigrid is a 21 year-old, Ålesund, Norway-born, Bergen, Norway-based pop artist, who with the release of her acclaimed debut EP Don’t Kill My Vibe earlier this year, has quickly become an international pop sensation — her EP has amassed more than 100 million streams globally, and as a result she’s played a number of major festivals, including Glastonbury, Latitude, SXSW, Life is Beauriful, Lollapalooza and Pitchfork Paris. Adding to a growing profile, the Norwegian pop artist was chosen as Apple’s Up Next Artist.
The Norwegian pop sensation ends 2017 with the Martin Sjolie-produced single “Strangers” and the track pairs a slick, club-banging yet radio-friendly production featuring layers upon layers of arpeggiated synths, tweeter and woofer-rocking beats and a soaring hook, paired with Sigrid’s gossamer vocals. Lyrically, the song looks at a a relationship and its inevitable end with a stark and startlingly mature honesty, as the song’s narrator recognizes that love in real life, is never like the movies — that it can be fumbling, awkward and ambivalent, leaving you with more unanswered questions than you ever expected; and that worst yet, despite the connection you may have had with that person, once that relationship is over, you’ve become strangers, much like when you first met that person.
Directed by Ivana Bobic, the recently released video follows the young Norwegian pop artist as she performs the song on a stark yet surrealist set, which spirals and reforms with completely different and strange scenery throughout the video. As Sigrid explained to i-D about the video.”It was a joy making it. We wanted to take the feeling of seeing differently to what they really are. The one thing that is realistic is me dancing around in my usual way.”
New Audio by William Ruben Helms Jun 21, 201714:15 June 21, 2017
Comprised of Ella Thompson and Graeme Pogson, GL is a Melbourne, Australia-based electronic music production and artist duo, who with the release of 2013’s Love Hexagon EP and their full-length debut Touch developed a reputation for specializing in a sound that’s very much a contemporary take on disco, funk, boogie, soul and house music, and as a result the Australian electronic music duo quickly earned international attention from The Guardian, i-D, The FADER, V Magazine, XLR8R and others, as well as played sets at New Zealand’s St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival and Splore Festival while nationally they’ve opened for Nick Murphy fka Chet Faker and played a successful headlining national tour to support their full-length debut.
Building upon a growing national and international profile, which resulted in a busy touring schedule, the duo locked themselves away in the studio to write and record the double A-sided single “Destiny”/”Reflect,” and as the duo explain “‘Reflect’ is an extended jam we made at TFS Studio in North Fitzroy, Melbourne. We wanted to try a long form exploration piece. Listen out for the delightful keyboard solo by Harvey Sutherland! Lyrically, it’s about searching inward, when the outside gets a bit much.” Interestingly enough, the song while being decidedly introspective manages to be joyous, suggesting that searching inward can be a profound solace in a cruel world or as George Clinton once wisely sung “The kingdom of heaven is within.” Of course, sonically, the song will further cement the duo’s reputation for crafting a sound that draws so much from 80s and 90s house music and 80s synth soul that it brings to mind The Whispers “It’s A Love Thing,” “And The Beat Goes On,” and “Rock Steady,” Evelyn “Champagne” King’s “Love Come Down” and Cherelle‘s “Saturday Love” as Pogson pairs a production featuring layers of shimmering and cascading synths, a sinuous bass line, tribal drumming, bursts of shimmering keys and a soaring hook with Thompson’s self-assured vocals. Simply put, it’s arguably one of the most DJ-leaning, club rocking tracks I’ve written about in several months; in fact, if I were DJ’ing, I’d make sure to fit this one into a set.
Video by William Ruben Helms Mar 14, 201703:45 March 14, 2017
Live Footage: Up-and-Coming Australian Pop Artist Woodes Live at The Line in Melbourne Australia
Best known as Woodes, Elle Graham is an up-and-coming, 24-year-old, Melbourne, Australia-based singer/songwriter and producer, who first came to national attention across Australia with a commercially and critically successful collaboration with fellow Australian producer Elkkle on a single that wound up becoming one of 2015’s most played songs on Triple J’s Unearthed Radio. Building upon a growing national profile, Graham collaborated with an impressive list of contemporary artists and producers including FØRD, Golden Vessel, Atticus Beats and North Elements. Adding to a growing profile, Graham released her 2016 self-produced self-titled debut EP, which debuted in the iTunes Top 20 Charts in 7 countries and received more than 2 million streams, while receiving praise across the blogosphere from Indie Shuffle, Pigeons and Planes, i-D, as well as from actress Emma Roberts, who has tweeted about her love of “The Thaw.”
“Bonfire,” Graham’s latest single consists of a looped, handclap-led production featuring tribal polyrhythm, shimmering and moody guitar chords, twinkling keys, buzzing and atmospheric electronics with Graham’s ethereal yet soulful vocals with a soaring hook. And while drawing from a cherished childhood memory of being both fearless and carefree, the song manages to sound unlike anything in contemporary pop today.
Just in time for her Stateside and SXSW debut and the release of three remixes of the song, Graham released both the live video of her and her backing band performing “Bonfire” at The Line in Melbourne.
New Audio by William Ruben Helms Dec 7, 201500:40 December 7, 2015
Mark Dobson, the creative mastermind behind the British electronic music sensation Ambassadeurs has developed a reputation as a producer and electronic music artist for a sound that employs the use of samples that have been processed beyond recognition and that’s informed by dub, hip-hop, jazz, and drum ‘n’ bass. And as result of his signature sound and production style, Dobson has also become a go-to producer as he’s done work for a number of renowned labels including Tru Thoughts, Ninja Tune, Moshi Moshi, Fat Cat, Wah Wah 45s, Universal, and Rough Trade — all while heading his own label, Lost Tribe Records and releasing a number of free singles for his rapidly growing fanbase. (He currently has 35,000 followers and his singles on SoundCloud have exceeded over 7 million plays.)
Dobson has received airplay from several BBC Radio 1 personalities, as well as praise from the likes of The Fader, Mixmag, Vice, i-D, Clash, XLR8R and others, and as a result he has opened for the likes of renowned artists such as ODESZA, Machinedrum, The Gas Lamp Killer, Danny Brown, Gold Panda, Daedelus and Kelpe, had a 15 date co-headline tour across North America with Daktyl and played at festivals such as Hard Day Of The Dead, Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, and The Sound You Need Festival.
2015 has been a rather busy and prolific year for the London-based electronic music artist and producer as his debut effort Patterns was released to critical praise earlier this year, along with a number of EPs. Building up on the increasing buzz and serving as a teaser for his forthcoming 2016 efforts, Dobson recently released his latest single “Halos,” which was written and recorded during a vacation in the country — and in some way that vacation has influenced the single’s sound as it is reportedly much more organic than his previously released work as layers of staccato synths are paired with skittering drum programming, swirling electronics and soulful vocal samples with warm bursts of strings and twinkling keys. Sonically, the song seems to be equally influenced by Peter Gabriel (think of “Shock the Monkey” and “Biko“) as it is by house music; as I listened to the song I was reminded of Octo Octa‘s Between Two Selves. In other words, the material manages to be atmospheric and melodic, while possessing a cinematic quality.
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What Makes This Japanese Zombie Movie So Great Is A Spoiler
Throughout last year, I keep hearing how terrific the Japanese zombie flick One Cut of the Dead was. And I kept putting off seeing it. I thought I had seen it all when it came to horror movies, especially zombie ones. I was wrong.
Shot for under $30,000, One Cut of the Dead was made in only eight days and went on to become a cult hit in Japan. It has grossed over $26 million dollars and has been nominated for best picture at the Japan Academy Prize, Japan’s Oscars.
However, what makes this film so brilliant is a massive spoiler. There are fewer spoilers in io9's review (below).
Japanese Zombie Comedy One Cut of the Dead Is Shaun of the Dead-Level Brilliant
There are good movies, there are great movies, and then there are movies that deliver joy to every…
[Warning: This article has spoilers. Lots. Do not read this unless you like things spoiled!]
Going into this movie, the only thing I knew was that there was a long take and the title seemed to be a nod to either Shawn of the Dead or Typing of the Dead. Both, I hope. Hoping to pass time over the Pacific, I caught One Cut of the Dead on a plane. I wish I had seen it in theaters because it’s not only one of the most original zombie films I’ve seen but one of the best movies about filmmaking.
There is a rich history of long takes, whether that’s the tracking shot in I am Cuba, the openings of Touch of Evil and The Player, the traffic jam in Week-End or more recently, the intense fight scene in The Protector.
One Cut of the Dead starts with a single-camera 37-minute take that’s a complete zombie film. The plot follows the filming of a zombie movie that ends up overrun with real zombies. One camera in the film crew captures the horror as it unfolds in a long 37-minute take.
At 37-minutes, that’s certainly not the longest one-take. For example, the Mike Figgis move Timecode consists of 93-minute takes. Both are cinematic stunts. Much of Timecode was improvised, but One Cut of the Dead’s brilliance is that it only appears to be improvised. It’s not.
After that long take ends, One Cut of the Dead takes a sudden turn and becomes a vastly different film, turning into a movie about the making of the 37-minute zombie movie (which was a movie about a fake zombie movie turning into a really horrific situation). We go back to when the concept was first pitched to the director, his reservations about doing it and the difficulties entailed during pre-production as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the filming. This is when things get meta. These are actors playing the film crew in the movie hired to make a one-take cable movie that we just watched. In the second half of the movie, we watch a film crew film the fake film crew in the zombie movie, creating different layers of reality: the in-movie reality and the behind-the-scenes one.
Typically, movies about making movies start—and stay—behind the scenes. We get glimpses of scenes being filmed with the focus being the behind-the-scenes drama. François Truffaut’s Day for Night is a classic example. One Cut of the Dead deserves a place next to that film as one of the best movies about making movies.
But unlike Day for Night, we’ve already seen the finished flick in One Cut of the Dead. It’s not some abstract movie. We just watched before the film completely changed.
While watching the 37-minute long take zombie movie, there were moments in which I thought certain scenes fell flat or the camera movement was off (in one scene, the camera is dropped and then left on the ground for what seems like a minute). I found myself picking apart these moments in real time, mentally deducting points from my overall impressions which were generally favorable. I thought this was the whole movie.
However, after the in-movie zombie movie ends and One Cut of the Dead turns into a making-of movie, we see why certain scenes didn’t work (other actors were sick, missed their cues, etc) or why certain shots were off, shaky or strange (issues with the cinematographer). It makes the original 37-minute one-cut movie even more impressive because it seemed improvised and amateurish when in reality, it wasn’t. Not at all.
Nothing in the first thirty-seven minutes was actually random, though it was made to look so. The long take and the mise-en-scène were designed to seem completely natural and spontaneous, but in reality, One Cut of the Dead is as calculated as Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, which was a series of 20-minute long, highly calculated takes strung together and storyboarded way in advance.
It gets even more impressive. As I was watching the behind-the-scenes second half, I started to naturally assume, well, that’s how they did it. They had the actors hired to play the director and the in-movie crew make the movie, and the behind-the-scenes crew then filmed the movie that we watched.
But no, when the end credits roll, there’s actual behind-the-scenes footage. There was a professional film crew shooting the movie, filming the behind-the-scenes crew and the in-movie crew. There are three layers of reality. Shots that I thought the behind-the-scenes crew shot, which we see them filmed in the second half of the movie, were instead shot by the real film crew which we don’t seen until the end credits.
This isn’t the ultimate movie making stunt. It’s a cinematic magic trick. As with any successful magic trick, this was the culmination of extensive planning, rehearsal and blocking. It’s not an accident that One Cut of the Dead is so great. No accident at all.
Originally from Texas, Ashcraft has called Osaka home since 2001. He has authored six books, including most recently, The Japanese Sake Bible.
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I really liked how the ‘director’ in the zombie movie (first part) looks like a jerk/bully who doesn’t realise the gravity of the situation and pushes the actors to extremes... and then in the second part his character is complete opposite... insecure. Great movie.
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Džeza žurnāls №17
Crazy 1990’s and other jazz adventures
Evilena Protektore
Be the only one, playing complicated music, going against the regime and doing everything to make your sound unique
The name of Andrejs Jevsjukovs is known to almost every single guitarist that had chosen the path of the not so easy music. It is hard to count all the students that have studied with Andrejs, there’s just too many of them. Andrejs is also one of those people who got to experience the crazy time a lot of us have already forgotten or were born after, so the stories Andrejs shared sound impossible, sound… insane. But those who got to play during those times will agree that each had their own adventures and every single one was like from a movie – exciting but not always pleasant.
Our conversation began with the «Sunset» album that Andrejs had released last December together with «Jam Orchestra», but from the very beginning it was clear that we are going to take the trip down the memory lane and discuss everything that led to the creation of the recording. So, here goes a story of the «wrong» music in the Soviet Union, building the jazz community from zero and living in the time where everything changes constantly.
Let’s get straight to the most recent topic – tell me about the album!
I’ve had the music ready for a long while now, a lot of compositions on my computer were just sitting and biding their time, some ready, some half ready, some sketches… I just needed to sort through it all and that’s it! Five years ago I’ve already made an attempt to record the stuff with different musicians, but it didn’t work out, because all the musicians came from their own different situations, they all knew each other, played together before, but in the end the music didn’t sound right. Sometimes it happens, the music flows like a fountain with one lineup, and it’s completely dead with another.
All in all recording music is not an easy task. I have been trying to record my music with different musicians for years now, but only with the guys from «Jam Orchestra» it sounds as it should, this is our second album already. The first one was «9 More Rooms». I like playing with these people, the band members feel comfortable being together in music, they all are responsible people, we studied together in RPIVA, played at each other’s exams, so we’ve known each other for a long while. And the band was formed because of these exams, we played together in school so it was only logical to continue doing that outside of the school. We played in «Spalvas pa gaisu» club, for 11 years in a row we’ve been playing 4 concerts each summer in the Small Guild’s gardens. These people aren’t only talented and responsible, they are also very attentive. You know how it is, there are different musicians in the world, there are those who play only how they like to play. You give them the scores, the demo, you say that you want it to sound a certain way, but they are artists, and you don’t pay them, because it’s about self expression, not about commerce, so he says – I see it this way, I’ll play it how I feel it! And then the bedlam starts, because it’s not swing music where everything is clear, this music is heavily arranged and if the drummer plays the wrong groove, if someone else decides to change the riff, the tunes will sound wrong. But «Jam Orchestra» musicians make me happy, the music flows with them and I’m very satisfied with the album, in my opinion it sounds beautiful and serious.
The idea of this album came to our saxophonist Zintis Žvarts a year and a half ago, he said it was time and I said – sure, I’ve got the tunes! I chose the tunes and we started rehearsing. Last August we recorded the drums. We don’t play jazz, swing, so we don’t have the need to record together, and our music is complicated, heavily arranged, harmonies are far from simple, no one improvises over such harmonies live. It’s not II-V-I where you take one look at the scores and improvise, it’s my original harmonies. My music doesn’t have popular chord progressions, my progressions are all mine and even if I invited Michael Brecker or Pat Metheny to improvise over them, they also would need to study and practice.
Musicians are usually quite busy, everyone has a lot of work, so the recording process took a while, a year. I myself had to spend some time studying my own tunes, I wanted them to sound good, there’s no point in doing half of the job, you have to go all the way so that it would be interesting to listen to. You have to work hard, otherwise what’s the point in spending the money and your time. So anyway, it took us a year to record everything, all the tracks, and then during the summer we did the sound editing. It took two more months. I thought it was a long time for such a task, but if you read the biography of, let’s say, «Pink Floyd», they used to work for months on one single track, so my whole album, if compared to that, was ready in no time whatsoever.
When everything was finally done, we started thinking about the best ways to release the album. We thought about printing the CDs, but… It’s old technology now, people don’t even have the needed devices to listen to CDs, so why bother? Maybe we will write a project to the State Culture Capital Foundation and if they give us the funding, then there’ll be a CD, but nowadays it’s not really necessary.
Have you thought about releasing your album on vinyl? It’s a trendy thing nowadays…
My album is 60 minutes long and vinyl is only 45. If I decide in favor of vinyl, I’d have to get rid of at least 2 tunes. But yes, I have considered it. Maybe I’ll speak with «Jersika Records» if they have interest in releasing it. But I don’t even have a player for listening to vinyl, so where will I listen to my own album? A CD is better in this sense, at least if I give it as a present to my friends and relatives, they’ll be able to listen to it. But in any case, the album is available on Spotify, Amazon, other platforms.
You are the brains in the project?
Yes. I just happen to be the only one in «Jam Orchestra» who composes. The new generation of young musicians, they all are able to compose, because they are taught in the Academy of music, they have to do it in their studies. My musicians are from another generation, they don’t compose anything except their own improvisations. And that’s why when it came to recording an album I turned out to be the only composer. I compose, arrange, and the guys just have to learn it all and then work on their improvisations. But that also requires a lot of homework, because of how complicated my harmonies are.
You know, such big guns as Metheny and Mike Stern, when they compose music that they intend to play on tours, they use another approach – the themes are usually very complicated with odd meters and unusual chord progressions. It’s very popular now, the more twisted your music is, the better. But even though the theme is complicated, the solo part is extremely simplified. Often the solo parts are modal with one or two modal centers, it’s a rare occurrence when the solo part has the same harmonies and meters, only for the bravest ones. It’s crazy hard to improvise when the tempo is insane and each chord is syncopated and is in a chromatic sequence and with multiple alterations on top. It’s not easy to play a simple lick on top of that, what’s to say about an intricate improvisation… The big stars avoid these kinds of situations. My most favorite example is a tune by Mike Stern «Chromazone», where the theme is full of twists and turns, a lot of notes, syncopes, accents, like Parker’s «Donna Lee» but in funk. And then the improv is on A minor and then C minor and back to A minor and so on. Sounds fantastic, because he’s amazing, his improvisations are so skillful, the theme is amazing and the listeners aren’t such experts to notice that you, my friend, are sticking to two simple chords and that’s it. Anyone can do that, but it doesn’t matter because it’s his music, he plays it well and it sounds fantastic.
My situation is totally different, I didn’t write this music to play it live. I left it the way I composed it. I tried composing in such a way that every tune would be different, changing the solo order, things like that. While working with my students I’ve heard so many exams, I always try influencing them so that they would think about their performance harder, to include different styles, tempos, change instrumentation, make it interesting to the listeners. Young jazzmen have this problem… I’ve noticed that every time I listen to a new album it goes like this: the first tune is awesome (or I don’t like it at all, doesn’t matter), then the second… wait, is this an outro to the first one? The third tune – same story and then again on the fourth, and then you realise that the whole album is like one single piece. The stuff young musicians compose is all the same, because they don’t think of the listeners. I didn’t want to take that road, I tend to look at my music with a very critical eye. If I don’t like what I’m hearing I never show it to anyone. But this time I’ve listened and was surprised by how good it turned out! The album is very multilayered, funky stuff, interesting harmonies, nothing borrowed from other tunes… You know you can do that, if you don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking of something new, people do this when they take the changes from an existing jazz standard and write their own melody on top of them. Why wrecking your brain around to create something new, when everything has already been created? Just take the changes from «All the things you are», spice it up with some reharmonisation, change the key, write a new head and that’s it, the song is ready!
My approach is very different from that, my harmonies are being born during a state of musical meditation, maybe that sounds snobbish, but that’s the truth. I take my guitar and I start searching, combining, looking for what sounds good, and slowly a harmonic structure of the tune is being made. When I feel that this plan is satisfactory, that the harmonies sound fresh and original, I write the head, but that’s the easy part, I just doodle some options then work on them for a bit. I try singing a lot, for example, I often sing the drum pattern, just some «Boots-cats-boots-cats», try finding the best option. Then the bass line or a riff for the saxophone. Then I take virtual drums and create a demo on the computer.
How long have you been composing for?
Since I was 13 when I started listening to «The Beatles». John Lennon and Paul McCartney were my «greatest enemies», they made me compose tunes that sounded like theirs. But to be serious, it was my favorite band when I was a kid. In my time we just gathered in the yard together with other boys. We had one guitar for a crowd of 5 to 20 people, each had something to teach another. The first tune someone showed me was «House of the rising sun». I had a friend back then, we listened first to «The Beatles», then to «Deep Purple», «Led Zeppelin», all the pioneers of rock music. So when we listened to «The Beatles» we composed like them, and that’s normal. Nowadays young people do the same, they listen to some wise music, suck it in and compose the same things automatically, because they are still too young to create something of their own, something unique. At that age I also thought of myself as of a great composer. But when you do music for over 30 years you start understanding that the compositions of your younger self are yours for maybe 10%, and the other 90% is what you were listening to at that point in time. And that’s totally fine.
Anyway, me and that friend, we composed some songs that sounded like «The Beatles» at first, then like «Deep Purple» and so on, and he wrote some texts for his tunes and for some of mine. Then we started listening to «Led Zeppelin» and started moving towards funk, fusion jazz rock… and then in the 1980’s there was the «Rock Club»…
At that time there were no jazz clubs like today, when they invite you to play a concert and then they pay you money for your music. There were two «camps» – the «Rock Club» that gathered the creative youth, so to speak, the leader of that movement was Andrejs Jahimovich, who was also some kommunist activist, and all the guys that were self taught formed bands and rehearsed in the basements and were extremely happy when they had the chance to show their music to someone. Now you can earn money for that, but at that time this kind of music could only be a hobby, a self expression instrument.
Another «camp» was made of professional musicians – bar musicians, who played in bars and restaurants, that was the only way to earn money, but nothing was that simple. There was a committee called «Estrada’s concert union of Riga» that controlled every single restaurant. Each band that wanted to play in a restaurant for a salary (which was quite high, I must add, 40 rubles per month plus the tips, that could reach up to a hundred per day, depending on the situation) had to pass an examination of sorts – once a year they had to play a concert and the jury decided if the band was good enough for the job. They’d get a licence for one year, then another examination. Repertoire consisted of 300 and more songs. Due to the fact that we were a part of the Soviet Union, which consisted of 15 different republics, different nations came to Riga for a visit – Tajiks, Georgians, Uzbekians… every nation has their favorite songs and our restaurant musicians had to know the songs, because that’s where the tips came from. For Russians they played «Не сыпь мне соль на рану», lezginka for Georgians etc. And to show off in front of other musicians, they included some tunes from George Benson or Al Jarreau in the first set, and all the popular tunes.
Have you ever worked in a restaurant?
I had a situation once… I didn’t really want to do that kind of job, but once someone heard me at some concert and sayd: «Wow! You play amazing! Come and join our band, we need a guitarist!» I agreed because I like playing music and usually never decline gigs. I came to the gig, the guy told me to play «Girl from Ipanema», awesome! Then «Summertime» – marvelous! And now «Murka»! And that’s when I got confused, what «Murka»?… And the guy also got confused, asked me about «Не сыпь мне соль на рану», «Белые Розы», «Сиреневый Туман», but I didn’t know a single tune he named after the two jazz standards… So he was outraged, started screaming that I shouldn’t have come if I didn’t know the tunes, but he was the one to invite me, right? In the end he said that we should part ways because he needed a guitarist who knew the tunes and could also sing. No problem, goodbye.
And then everything changed – the year 1990 came, perestroika, and I already was quite successful in my career. In 1990 I was invited to work at the private recording studio in Dubulti, Jurmala, that was built in a former bunker left from World War II, right on the seaside. There was a team of musicians to record playbacks and we were paid a decent salary to do that. Nowadays you can download a karaoke track for whatever song you want, but then everything was done by real musicians without the help of computers. I’ve worked there for half a year. There was this project… Latvia had only just established some connections to America and we got an order to record music for some show that was supposed to go on an American tour. At that time Americans had a certain view of the Soviet Union – everyone wearing fufaikas and valenki and drinking vodka with bears as their drinking buddies. And suddenly a show from the former USSR – beautiful girls, good music… should have been a blast. I left the project before it was completed because I received a more interesting proposal from a bassist named Oleg Grishin, who heard me somewhere, then got my number, called me and suggested we make a duo and play our music. Only later I found out how it all ended with the project. They finished with all the music, prepared the choreography and what not and left for the States, but as usual, something went wrong. I don’t know exactly what happened, but someone screwed them over when they arrived. They played a couple of concerts and then a local tour manager stole all their money and maybe even passports and just disappeared. Just imagine, it was the beginning of Latvian republic, the ticket to America cost up to two and a half thousand dollars, while the average salary was only ten dollars. It took years for those people to get back home and not everyone made it.
You got lucky…
Yes. So me and Olegs had a duo named «Dao», let me tell you about that one. My very first album was recorded with this duo, it consisted mostly of my tunes. The name of the album was «Klubs 21». Oleg was considered to be a very respectable musician, played with Pete Anderson, toured around Europe. He suggested we play original music and I already had a lot of tunes composed. We spent half a year rehearsing, arranging tunes for two instruments and in the end it sounded very good, we created a high quality product. Today we have an overabundance of different things and this kind of music would never fit, but at that time it was unimaginable, two guys on the stage playing cosmic, meditative, original music…
So there was this man, Aleksandrs Nemirovskis, he is the CEO of the «ORIGO» shopping mall now, and Oleg was very well acquainted with him, at the time he was very well known in the music management world. So we went to the same recording studio in Dubulti, recorded a demo, maybe some 4 tunes, and Oleg gave Aleksandrs the cassette. Aleksandrs in turn gave this cassette to Boris Avramecs, but not because of us, because on the other side of the cassette was a sketch of a new album of a band he was managing at the time. I think he even forgot about us… And Boris was considered to be one of the best musicologists in Latvia, with a deep knowledge in oriental and jazz music. Boris listened to the cassette and called Aleksandrs, asking about the other side of the cassette (the one with our recording) and was extremely surprised to hear that these two musicians were local. Asked to be introduced to us. When we got to know each other, he made some calls and got us a gig in the restaurant in the TV tower and some other gigs.
At some point Sergejs Ancupovs came to our concert to listen. I didn’t know who he was, just some random listener applauding after every tune. Then he approached us and said: «Guys, the music you play is absolutely fantastic! I want to propose a deal. I am a member of an elite club, our members are Laima Vaikule, Igo, Aivars Hermanis and other famous people. I want to invite you to play us a concert during one of our upcoming gatherings! The money is not a problem, tell me how much you want, and you’ll have it. If everyone likes you you’ll get regular gigs, if not then you’ll have one good concert. Think about it.» We didn’t think long, we agreed right away. After a concert we were approached by two bosses — Indulis Bērziņš and Jānis Krūmiņš, they said: «Genius! We want you! We need regular background music, we gather every Friday in different locations, these locations are always a secret, tomorrow the Queen of England comes for a visit, the day after tomorrow Israely ambassador does, we need musicians who could play elite music!» They regularly invited other musicians and ensembles, they could afford it, but what they needed was live background music on a regular basis. So we signed a contract and officially became employees of the «Club 21». Every Friday from 7pm and until at least 1am we were there, it never ended earlier, and the pay for one gig was like two regular month salaries.
Raksts no žurnāla «Liesma», gads nezināms
We played for a year, only my music, eight or ten tunes. Each tune was 20-30 minute long, like a raga of sorts, but imagine playing the same stuff for a year… After a year had passed, Jānis Krumiņš approached us and in a very polite manner asked to add other tunes to our repertoire. We were also very ready for that ourselves. Surely we always changed the way we played our tunes, rearranged every time, improvised a lot, everyone liked it, but we didn’t know which way to move from there and that way we got a direction of sorts. We asked him what kind of music he had in mind, and turned out our tastes in music were similar – Eric Clapton, «The Beatles», «Sade»… So we started working on a new program, took some jazz standards, Oleg bought himself a rhythm box with some decent drum samples, it became more interesting to work in a duet.
All in all we’ve spent about two years working there. At some point Oleg said it was time to record an album and we went to Jānis, told him about the idea and he said – no problem, he’d fund us. So we wrote a project, submitted it to his office, received the money and in 1994 the first jazz album of the newly independent Latvian Republic was released. Then we got tired of playing together and went each his own path.
After that I tried recording my music «live» often, but there weren’t a lot of good musicians, and those that were available and were good were busy with their own music, weren’t really acquainted with each other, met only during rehearsals. Two-three rehearsals and then the studio, and then listening to the recorded material… it was bad. I instantly decided that I don’t want to do it that way. So I bought myself a computer, learned how to work with sound editing programmes and decided to record an album on my own, by myself. It took me about seven years, and in 2008 my second album «Night Silence» was released. The only guest artist in the album was Gints Pabērzs on the saxophone.
How many albums have you got so far?
Four. After «Night Silence» came «9 More Rooms» with the «Jam Orchestra» in 2010, and now «Sunset» with the same band.
How did you become a teacher?
It was 1987, the times of the «Rock Club», I had a band back then called «The Ugly Duckling» («Гадкий Утенок») and we listened to jazz rock and composed our own tunes with complicated meters. Our drummer knew an accordionist Jurijs Peškovs, a very well known musician and a teacher in JMRMV who was looking for a band to comp him at some concerts. The drummer recommended our band and Jurijs invited us to perform with him at several festivals and then, if everything was to his liking, to record an album with him. In return he promised to give us a rehearsing space, which at those times was impossible to find on your own. During the Soviet Union you could go to some culture house or a factory, whatever, they’d have the red corner there (A/N: a room, a part of a room or a stand that served the purpose of political agitation), they had all the necessary equipment, but they also already had their own band. And here we could be having our own rehearsal space for free! Unbelievable! Naturally we agreed. And what do you think? We played these festivals with him, he liked it and we went to record his album in the 1st studio in the Latvian Radio house. After the recording we decided that we needed an album of our own, so we arranged a sound engineer, gathered some money and made the recording. Then we listened to it and realised how bad we played…
We played a lot of concerts with this band then there was a legendary concert in the Kirov park (Vērmane garden) in 1988 where I gained 15 more students, because someone started a rumour that there’s an incredible jazz guitarist in Riga now and it’s a vital necessity to study with him. I was 23 at the time, and some of my students were in their 30’s… So it all somehow came together, the «Ugly Duckling», Jurijs, an album, students. And then Jurijs called me and said: «Listen, there’s a guitarists class in the Pioneer’s house looking for a teacher…» and that became my first official teaching job. At the same time I received an exact job at the «Elektrons» factory. I’ve worked as a teacher for a year, then I got bored and quit, decided to take a break. I’ve created my own teaching school, a three month long jazz improvisation class. A lot of guitarists took that class with me.
Now the level among young musicians is very high, a lot went to study abroad in The Netherlands, Germany, USA, a lot of them came back… You can’t compare it to the 1990’s whent the country had only one jazz guitarist – me and then my student Artūrs Kutepovs. But the reality was that there weren’t any musicians here. Almost none. I can name every single one of those: best pianists – Madars Kalniņš and Viktors Ritovs, best drummers Tālis Gžibovskis, Raimonds Kalniņš and Jānis Pitens, who always played with Raubiško in the «Hamlets» club, Galenieks (Ivars) as the best double bassists, but he soon left for England and Andris Grunte took his place. Raimonds Raubiško was Latvian number one saxophonist, he was the brightest in my opinion. Nic Gotham and Denis Pashkevich were also very active in the jazz world. I also played with Raimonds Raubiško in a project that he invited me to the moment me and Oleg parted ways. We had Tālis on the drums, Zigis (Žukovskis) on bass, Ilona Kudiņa on flute. I’ve played with them for half a year and then went away to work on a cruise liner and Kutepovs took my place.
And then in 2003 Indriķis (Veitners) received some funding and established the first jazz department in Latvia. It became a part of the Riga Dome Choir School. At first it was only the evening department, a two year long program, and of course he invited the best musicians he knew to become teachers there. I was teaching guitar, Madars – the piano, Tālis – drums and Zigis – bass. Inga Bērziņa taught vocals and Indriķis himself taught jazz history and saxophone. Then Nic Gotham joined, we also started playing together in different lineups, from duo’s, then trio’s with Grunte etc.
I remember one of the bands — «Abi Gali»!
«Abi Gali», yes. So, Indriķis invited the best and we still are a team, all these people. A couple of years later he managed to open the day department, then he spent a couple more years working hard and established the jazz department in the Academy of Music. He succeeded in 2009.
How about the papers? Did you even have a masters degree? I know it’s a requirement in the Academy of Music.
All of us had to study again to receive our papers. Soviet education wasn’t valid in the independent republic. Someone went to study in LU, some chose RPIVA, some JVLMA, although it was only possible to study jazz piano there and that’s it.
When I started my job at RDKS, Indriķis said I needed a diploma. He researched some options for me and found a Liberal arts institute in RTU, said I could go there and get my teaching degree. So I did it and got a teacher’s licence. But that wasn’t enough when they opened the day department, then I had no options left but to go to RPIVA, I was lucky they accepted me to the third year straight away. But imagine this – in RPIVA guitar was taught by Zigis, because he was the only one with an appropriate degree… When I enrolled I started working there at the same time as studying, and according to the papers Zigis was my teacher, although his specialty was bass guitar. Same situation with Madars, who went to JVLMA and was considered to be a student of Viktors. It was even crazier in Poland, they had this jazz guitarist Jarek Śmietana, who studied… with himself. Crazy, but what else can you do when you have literally zero options? Every time I tell someone this, nobody believes, but that was the reality of the time. Now we have tons of people who can teach, but our generation, we were all self taught.
When Indriķis formed the jazz department in JVLMA I had to study again. I though I’d kill myself, all the writing again, essays… And it was a madhouse in there, thank heavens that establishment was liquidated. Almost all the information they presented as the «knowledge» was in fact totally useless, they still worked according to the norms created in 1973… Soviet Union made. The only class that left a good impression was musical psychology, a very interesting course, but everything else…
Can you try and compare the jazz of the 1990’s with the situation today?
It was hard in the 1990’s. After the Soviet Union ended lot’s of people lost their jobs, a lot of them left. There were only a few musicians who played jazz music. You can’t compare it with the situation today. The brightest were, in my opinion, Raubiško and Rozenbergs, from the horns and composers. Something that we can be proud of. Especially Gunārs Rozenbergs – the things he did with the big band were absolutely phenomenal. We have to be proud of that. The same idea was continued by Māris Briežkalns – Latvian folklore in jazz arrangements. I think this approach is better than competing with Americans, jazz is their music, we have to find something of our own and Latvia has its own folk music, why not work with that?
Now it’s totally the opposite. A lot of our students that finished their studies came back, they play on the international level, they are that good. Of course, the part of self education is endless, but all in all these musicians are already something we can be proud of. We, the generation of self taught musicians, created a generation of professional musicians, that will continue composing and playing, teaching the even younger generation. If the coronavirus doesn’t kill us all, of course.
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Europe’s anti-science plague descends on Africa
David Boyd Uncategorized February 21, 2020 April 2, 2020 4 Minutes
An alarming commentary from the “European Scientist”. Beware cult like ideologies which deny mankind the benefits of modern science in medicine, energy and agriculture.
By James Njoroge – 17.02.2020
European activists are putting lives at risk in East Africa, turning a plague of insects into a real prospect of widespread famine. The fast-breeding desert locust has invaded Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, creating a state of emergency. The pests recently landed in Djibouti, Eritrea, Oman and Yemen. Swarms have also struck Tanzania and Uganda. They won’t stop on their own. According to the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO), “this is the worst situation in 25 years.
These beasts consume every plant in their path, leaving behind devastated croplands and pastures, and can migrate up to 150km in a day. They’ve already covered a million hectares in Kenya, with no signs of slowing down.
The human toll is staggering. Twenty-five million people have been left hungry, by Oxfam’s estimate. Yet, instead of rallying around African nations in this time of great peril, more EU-funded NGOs have descended on the Kenyan parliament to demand that the government disarm itself in the battle against locusts. They want the Kenyan government to outlaw the pesticides used to fight locusts, the only effective tool that can stop these insects, and prevent the crisis from spiraling out of control.
According to experts, a pesticide like fenitrothion will play a key role in eliminating locusts in Kenya and other African countries. Properly applied, it can thwart the desert locust swarms. But Kenya lacks the supplies it desperately needs. “The pesticide fenitrothion is very effective. It kills locusts within forty minutes to six hours of spraying,” says Salad Tutana, the Chair of Northern Kenya Locust Control Coordination team. Mr. Salad says they are experiencing a shortage of fenitrothion, but that fresh supplies of the pesticide have recently arrived from Japan.
More planes are needed for spraying. Currently, there are only five planes being used to spray the available insecticides.
Kenya has already set aside $2.5 million to combat locusts through spraying, but this is hardly enough as the situation continues to worsen. The U.N. FAO agreed to contribute $70 million to the spraying effort, but thus far only $15 million has made its way to the region.
Desperation in affected communities is real and more needs to be done. “We have resigned ourselves to crude methods, like shouting, burning tires, and blowing whistles, to chase away the insects,” Says Muthuri Murungi, a resident of Meru town in Eastern Kenya.
Africa’s agricultural community is still reeling from the incursion of another malignant pest, the Fall Army Worm, which in one year deprived Kenyan maize (corn) farmers of 70 percent of their crop. This voracious larval moth is kept in check in the Americas — where it is native — by pesticides and genetically modified Bt crops.
But, here too, the NGO activists are trying to dictate policies that will allow the insect plagues to continue, unchecked.
NGOs led by Route to Food — which opposes GMOs — is now pushing a proposal in Kenya to ban more than 200 pesticides — including those used against desert locusts and the Fall Army Worm. Route to Food was created in Africa in 2016 using taxpayer funds from the German Green Party’s Heinrich Boll Foundation.
This organization is advancing all the ideas currently fashionable in Europe, such as organic food mandates and opposition to modern crop technologies in the name of “agroecology.” Europeans can afford to pay the large surcharge to grow food with inefficient, organic methods. That’s not an option in Africa.
In effect, these Europeans want Africa to give up the idea of ever becoming an advanced world economy, or ever even reaching true food security. The “agro-ecology” fad embraced by European elites in international organizations — including some in FAO — extols “peasant farming” and the “right to subsistence agriculture,” as if that were some kind of ideal, while denying Africans the modern technologies used in countries like the United States and Brazil.
Route to Food isn’t alone. Another NGO, the Kenyan Organic Agricultural Network (KOAN), also sprouted from European seed capital. EU governments, through development agencies such as the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and the Dutch NGOs SNV and Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (HIVOS, or Humanistisch Instituut voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking in Dutch) have created this group to advance the business interests of the organic industry. Thus, KOAN is promoting bans of the pesticides Kenya needs to address these crises, but the proposal they back quite conveniently excludes from the ban the organic farmers’ favorite pesticide, copper sulfate, which is highly toxic. Why the double standards?
Copper, in its various compounds, is considered “natural” and thus is approved for organic production, but it is highly dangerous to humans and destructive to biodiversity. It accumulates in the soil and is a known carcinogen. In 2015, the EU put copper compounds on its list of “candidates for substitution” — meaning they are “of particular concern to public health or the environment.” The EU would have banned the substances long ago, except that organic growers, who dump them on their fields in truly astounding quantities, couldn’t survive without it.
Banning safer, more efficient modern pesticides, like locust-fighting fenitrothion, but allowing copper is a craven way for the organic interests to wipe out the competition.
Meanwhile, unless the locusts are stopped, it is African farmers themselves that will be wiped out.
The swarms are expected to multiply 500-fold in a matter of months, particularly as the rainy season hits in April and May. For the privileged elites of Europe’s capitals, pesticides and agricultural technology are a matter of life-style and virtue-signaling (and, sometimes, straight forward financial interest). Europe is rich enough to decimate its own agriculture and become even a larger net importer of food than it already is. For Africans without such a luxury, this is a matter of life and death.
Europe has been paralyzed by faddish, fact-free claims of activist NGOs pushing political agendas. It needs to wake up and see what happens when these anti-scientific doctrines descend on the African continent. The natural, organic world without pesticides or GMOs that they are promoting has arrived in Africa. It is a cloud of destruction.
The rest of the world needs to take action to prevent this crisis from becoming the worst form of tragedy — one that could have been prevented.
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Biochemical adaptation to ocean acidification
Jonathon H. Stillman, Adam W. Paganini
Journal of Experimental Biology 2015 218: 1946-1955; doi: 10.1242/jeb.115584
Jonathon H. Stillman
1Romberg Tiburon Center, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA 94920, USA
2Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
For correspondence: stillmaj@sfsu.edu
Adam W. Paganini
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The change in oceanic carbonate chemistry due to increased atmospheric PCO2 has caused pH to decline in marine surface waters, a phenomenon known as ocean acidification (OA). The effects of OA on organisms have been shown to be widespread among diverse taxa from a wide range of habitats. The majority of studies of organismal response to OA are in short-term exposures to future levels of PCO2. From such studies, much information has been gathered on plastic responses organisms may make in the future that are beneficial or harmful to fitness. Relatively few studies have examined whether organisms can adapt to negative-fitness consequences of plastic responses to OA. We outline major approaches that have been used to study the adaptive potential for organisms to OA, which include comparative studies and experimental evolution. Organisms that inhabit a range of pH environments (e.g. pH gradients at volcanic CO2 seeps or in upwelling zones) have great potential for studies that identify adaptive shifts that have occurred through evolution. Comparative studies have advanced our understanding of adaptation to OA by linking whole-organism responses with cellular mechanisms. Such optimization of function provides a link between genetic variation and adaptive evolution in tuning optimal function of rate-limiting cellular processes in different pH conditions. For example, in experimental evolution studies of organisms with short generation times (e.g. phytoplankton), hundreds of generations of growth under future conditions has resulted in fixed differences in gene expression related to acid–base regulation. However, biochemical mechanisms for adaptive responses to OA have yet to be fully characterized, and are likely to be more complex than simply changes in gene expression or protein modification. Finally, we present a hypothesis regarding an unexplored area for biochemical adaptation to ocean acidification. In this hypothesis, proteins and membranes exposed to the external environment, such as epithelial tissues, may be susceptible to changes in external pH. Such biochemical systems could be adapted to a reduced pH environment by adjustment of weak bonds in an analogous fashion to biochemical adaptation to temperature. Whether such biochemical adaptation to OA exists remains to be discovered.
The marine carbonate system is driven by exchange of atmospheric CO2 with ocean surface waters, by physiological processes (i.e. photosynthesis and respiration) and by geochemical processes. On long timescales (100s to 1000s of years), marine carbonate systems are likely to be in equilibrium with atmospheric CO2. But on short timescales, other carbonate system drivers are likely to be more important, especially in coastal waters (Fig. 1). Natural variability of pH varies throughout coastal and pelagic regions of Earth's oceans. Open ocean pH tends to be stable, but surface water pH and carbonate chemistry varies across the Earth's oceans (Takahashi et al. 2014). In shallow habitats on temperate rocky shores, pH routinely fluctuates by ≥0.5 units between day and night, and by ≥1 pH unit seasonally (Wootton et al., 2008). In estuaries, pH is also highly dynamic, changing with tides, respiration–photosynthesis cycles and runoff (Duarte et al., 2013, Fig. 1). On coral reefs, pH varies by up to 0.5 pH units during day–night cycles (Birkeland et al., 2008). Finally, pH changes rapidly by up to 0.5 pH units during upwelling of CO2-rich water on the California coast (Feely et al., 2008; Hofmann et al., 2011). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that mean global surface ocean pH will decline ∼0.35 units by the end of the century under the most carbon-intensive scenario, a phenomenon known as ‘ocean acidification’ (OA) (Gattuso et al., 2014, Pörtner et al., 2014, Hennige et al., 2014).
Variation in ocean surface pH and PCO2 over Earth's history. (A) pH and (B) PCO2 data used to make this plot were taken from the literature or environmental monitoring stations from three different types of data sources (supplementary material Table S1). ‘Gas’ indicates data from atmospheric monitoring stations or from gas bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice, and represents actual atmospheric PCO2. ‘Proxies’ indicates calculation of atmospheric PCO2 from fossil or geological specimens (e.g. carbonate sediments, foraminifera tests). ‘pH’ indicates directly measured pH of water at a shallow coastal site in the San Francisco Estuary using a YSI pH sensor (Model 6600V2) at the Romberg Tiburon Center SF BEAMS site (37°53′29″N, 122°26′47″W; http://sfbeams.sfsu.edu). For comparison purposes, PCO2 has been interpolated from pH data using the mean relationships between PCO2 and pH and time at the Hawaii Ocean Time Series (Doney et al., 2009) using a second order polynomial curve fit PCO2=7721.1×pH2−125131×pH+507221, and pH has been calculated from PCO2 data using the logarithmic curve fit pH=−0.219ln×PCO2+0.2904. [Note, use of the linear fits presented in Doney et al., 2009 produces overestimates of acidification in extrapolation, hence the curvilinear fits were used]. Although PCO2 from pH data, and vice versa, are likely inaccurate since coastal pH is dependent on other sources of protons than just CO2, a large fraction of the observed signal is due to biological processes, and reflects the dramatic variation in pH experienced by coastal organisms within their lifetime, which is presently equivalent to the range in the carbonate system that has been seen over the past 100 Ma.
Certainly, there have been major acidification events through Earth's history (Fig. 1), and those events are associated with major changes in marine communities (Table 1; Hönisch et al., 2012; Pelejero et al., 2010). Widespread extinction of calcifying marine organisms occurred during the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM, 56 Ma), that had rapid rates of ocean warming (OW) and OA (Hönisch et al., 2012). On geological time scales, PETM OA and OW changed slower than the present rates of change (Fig. 1). As a result of the present extremely rapid rates of change in temperature and pH, and the coupling of changes in pH with changes in other aspects of ocean habitat conditions (e.g. dissolved oxygen, salinity, alkalinity), none of those events are a perfect parallel to what is happening at present (Hönisch et al., 2012). Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that OA will exert strong selective pressures on marine organisms and communities, but predicting the consequences of those selective pressures is limited from the geological record.
A summary of ocean acidification events through Earth's history
Acidification can cause clearly unfavorable conditions to the cellular milieu. Such disruptions result in proton gradients that disrupt cellular homeostasis. Thus it is expected that adaptive potential could involve shifting acid–base balance or redox potential of cells, impacting metabolic pathway flux (Rokitta et al., 2012). Internal acidosis that results from H+ build-up can be buffered by HCO3− acquired through the dissolution of existing CaCO3 skeletons or shells (Green et al., 2004; Manno et al., 2007; Orr et al., 2005; Wheatly and Henry, 1992). However, making such adjustments to internal HCO3− can have profound effects on osmotic and ionic regulation (Larsen et al., 2014) as well as integrated organismal function such as behavior (Nilsson et al., 2012).
Predicting how marine organisms are likely to respond to changing ocean physical and chemical conditions over long time scales (decades to centuries) has been primarily informed by studies of plastic responses of extant organisms to OA over relatively short time frames (see Kroeker et al., 2013 for summary). However, there is a growing number of recent studies that assess adaptive potential over evolutionary time scales (for review, see Sunday et al., 2014). Experimental evolution responses in microorganisms with short generation times are able to demonstrate adaptive responses (e.g. Lohbeck et al., 2013; Reusch and Boyd, 2013). Comparative studies in organisms (populations, species) living across ecological gradients in pH use a ‘space for time’ argument in inferring adaptive responses (Calosi et al., 2013, Pespeni et al., 2013). In this article, we review the physiological, biochemical and molecular differences observed in those responses to seek a deeper understanding of whether there is a generalizable ‘biochemical adaptation’ to ocean acidification.
Evolutionary response possibilities
Organismal responses to changing ocean temperature and pH are likely to involve plasticity where one genotype can produce a range of phenotypes or adaptation by local or widespread selection of existing genetic diversity (Sunday et al., 2014). An evolutionary ‘time machine’ may exist in freshwater ecosystems, whereby diapause embryos of Daphnia magna trapped in sediments produced during pre-industrial atmospheric PCO2 can be resurrected for study (Orsini et al., 2013). No such dormant propagules of marine animals are available to assess evolutionary changes in marine ecosystems, although algae cysts in sediments may present that opportunity (Ellegaard et al., 2013; Härnström et al., 2011). However, the ‘crystal ball’ of the comparative physiology approach can inform us as to how organisms are likely to respond given present phenotypes (Somero, 2010, 2011).
Three main approaches have been used to assess adaptive potential to ocean acidification (Sunday et al., 2014): (1) Short-term acclimation studies (within one generation) to assess the capacity for physiological plasticity; (2) population or species level comparative studies to assess extant genetic and physiological diversity in organisms distributed across natural gradients in pH; and (3) experimental evolution, whereby selection of extant genetic diversity or novel mutations can lead to shifts in performance over multiple generations. Here, we describe advances in each type of approach related to understanding whether biochemical systems are adapted to environmental gradients in pH.
Plastic responses to ocean acidification involve those made within the lifetime of an individual (Somero, 2011), or potentially that persist for multiple generations through epigenetic or maternal effects (Burggren, 2014). Studying organismal responses to anthropogenic changes in the ocean pH yields insight into physiological systems most sensitive to habitat pH and with the potential for adaptation to ocean acidification. Organisms exposed to OA exhibit a wide array of responses that vary across response variables, life history stages, geographic locations and taxa. Meta-analyses have revealed across taxa that survival and calcification are most negatively affected (Kroeker et al., 2013). Taxon-specific analysis reveals the most heavily calcifying groups (calcified algae, corals, mollusks and the larval stages of echinoderms) are most negatively affected by decreases in pH (Kroeker et al., 2013). It is likely that there are environmental pH threshold limits to plastic responses, beyond which acclimation does not occur and fitness is impaired (Dorey et al., 2013).
Reductions in pH disrupt fish olfactory senses, which reduces the ability of individuals to detect predators, prey and parental cues (Dixson et al., 2010; Munday et al., 2009; Nilsson et al., 2012). These changes are mediated through the direct effects of pH regulation on GABA neurotransmitter pathways. Shifts in acid–base regulation alter the gradients of anions (Cl− and HCO3−) in neuronal membranes, resulting in a reversed current flow through GABA receptors (Hamilton et al., 2014; Nilsson et al., 2012). The impacts of reduced pH on fish olfaction can persist across generations (Welch et al., 2014), suggesting limited phenotypic plasticity in physiological systems involving olfaction. Olfactory neuron architecture is probably similar across fish. Thus, future studies that compare the acid–base regulatory physiology and GABA receptor responses in fish showing different behavioral responses to pH could illuminate an important example of biochemical adaptation to ocean acidification. Such studies could compare across individuals with different behaviors in response to changes in environmental pH (Welch et al., 2014) or among fish adapted to different pH environments.
An important consideration is that pH is not changing in isolation. Increased climate warming due to elevated atmospheric PCO2 is concomitantly changing sea surface temperature and those factors must be considered in combination for ecologically and evolutionarily realistic conclusions to be drawn (Harvey et al., 2013). The effect of OA is generally interactive with the effect of a temperature (Harvey et al., 2013). Physiological energetics may be the basis for the interactive effects, because shifts in energy partitioning between growth and maintenance have been observed for each environmental driver independently. Interactive effects of acidification and temperature variation have been observed in the intertidal porcelain crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes (Paganini et al., 2014). Acclimation to increasing pH variability caused an elevation in thermal tolerance, but no concomitant increase in respiration rate (Paganini et al., 2014). In contrast, pH variability had strong interactive effects with the effect of temperature on metabolic rate and thermal tolerance, and thus, sensitivity to pH is context dependent (Paganini et al., 2014). For coastal organisms living in dynamic pH habitats (Duarte et al., 2013), incorporating responses to environmental variability in pH and temperature is an important aspect of understanding plastic and adaptive responses (Dupont and Portner, 2013).
Populations living across natural ecological gradients in pH demonstrate that decreased calcification under low pH is a real-world phenomenon, not just one that is observed in laboratory experimentation. For example, in situ shell dissolution of the coastal snail Limacina helicina is accelerated at relatively more-acidified sites in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) (Bednarŝek et al., 2014). Sea urchin species distributed across pH gradients at naturally occurring CO2 vents in the Mediterranean Sea have shown that local adaptation to high PCO2 environments leads to an adaptive response, resulting in a high buffering capacity of intracellular fluid (Calosi et al., 2013). In this case, this physiological differentiation is what leads to the species distribution patterns. Interspecific comparisons of species adapted to different pH habitats offer insight into how organisms differ in their tolerance for such changes. Organismal tolerance for pH stress is shown when comparing congeners from habitats with different selective pressures, for example, porcelain crabs distributed across the intertidal–subtidal vertical gradient (Stillman and Somero, 2000). Comparisons of porcelain crabs in the genus Petrolisthes show how less-thermally-tolerant species exhibit higher mortality with concurrent decreases in exoskeleton [Ca2+] when exposed to pH stress than congeners from more stable (e.g. subtidal) temperature habitats (Page and Stillman, 2014). Variation in coccolithophore calcification has been seen across species and strains distributed across global-scale physico-chemical gradients, whereby coccolith mass is inversely correlated with PCO2 (Beaufort et al., 2011), highlighting the importance of comparing similar taxa distributed across large gradients in ocean chemistry conditions in order to understand adaptive potential to ocean acidification.
Intraspecific comparisons between individuals from different habitats allow inferences to be drawn about the plasticity of the physiological responses organisms may have to OA. Local adaptation and differential selection of specific genotypes under acidified conditions has been shown to govern allele frequency of top candidate genes for OA responses (Pespeni et al., 2013). Purple urchin larvae (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) locally adapted to less-acidic sites show this increase in allele frequency when exposed to pH stress, indicating that the adaptive capacity may be a result of standing genetic variation across the spatial-temporal habitats (Pespeni et al., 2013). Intraspecific comparisons with differing thermal habitats show how thermal plasticity can shape responses to pH stress. Populations of intertidal Concholepas concholepas snails from warmer habitats increase their aerobic capacity, resulting in higher levels of molecular chaperones when exposed to pH stress (Lardies et al., 2014). These responses are indicative of how thermal plasticity across populations can govern the tolerance limits of acidification stress, possibly by inducing similar pathways.
Similarly, diversity of phenotypic plasticity within populations can have significant effects on how species respond to OA. Brood-specific responses have been shown to be beneficial in regards to OA (Carter et al., 2013; Ceballos-Osuna et al., 2013), which are especially vital since early life stages (e.g. embryonic, larval) can be the most vulnerable to environmental stress (Miller et al., 2013). In porcelain crab larvae and embryos, individuals from some broods show a metabolic reduction in response to lowered pH, whereas in other broods, the same life stages are largely unaffected (Carter et al., 2013; Ceballos-Osuna et al., 2013). Brood-specific variation in response to lowered pH could be due to genetic variability among parents, though maternal effects related to environmental exposure during or prior to oogenesis could also play a role; differentiating between genetic and epigenetic or maternal effects remains an important challenge in determining the sources of plasticity.
Increased phenotypic and genetic variation for larval size of coastal invertebrates in future CO2 conditions has been shown to be key in understanding relative evolutionary potentials across a large number of species (Sunday et al., 2011). Increases in larval size can produce faster evolutionary responses to pH stress despite having lower rates of population turnover (Sunday et al., 2011). On a population level, the degree to which phenotypic plasticity is an important aspect of tolerance to ocean acidification may be related to standing genetic diversity. For example, increased tolerance for acidification is shown in urchins (Foo et al., 2012; Kelly et al., 2013) because of standing genetic diversity.
The capacity for adaptive responses through selection of genetic variation that leads to acidification-tolerant phenotypes has been demonstrated in many taxa, principally through studies where breeding designs (e.g. North Carolina breeding design) allow for partitioning of phenotypic diversity into genetic and environmental components (Lynch and Walsh, 1998). This approach has been useful for identification of sea urchin genotypes that produce embryos that are more resistant to OA and warming, potentially as a result of maternal provisioning (Foo et al., 2012), and larvae with growth that is less impacted by OA (Kelly et al., 2013; Sunday et al., 2011). Variation in responses to OA and OW at urchin early life stages are also evidenced at the molecular level, through differential regulation of gene expression (Evans et al., 2013; Padilla-Gamiño et al., 2013; Todgham and Hofmann, 2009), which has also been shown in abalone (Zippay and Hofmann, 2010).
Mechanisms that are responsible for calcification are paramount to also understanding adaptive shifts to OA. Purple urchin larvae, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, reared under high PCO2 were found to exhibit broad-scale decreases in gene expression in four major cellular processes: biomineralization, cellular stress response, metabolism and apoptosis; underscoring that physiological processes beyond calcification and biomineralization are impacted greatly (Todgham and Hofmann, 2009).
Oysters are economically important organisms that have had a huge influence on the attention given to ocean acidification in the public sector because of the sensitivity to OA during their early life stages (Barton et al., 2012). When water in oyster hatcheries is acidified, largely because of variation in pH across the CCLME, early ‘D’ stage larvae suffer high mortality (Barton et al., 2012). Selective breeding of oysters has great potential to diminish OA impacts on growth and energetics by selection of genotypes that are most fit under future OA conditions (Applebaum et al., 2014; Parker et al., 2011). However, there are potentially trade-offs in oyster biology between being well adapted to OA and other life history characteristics. For example, bryozoan clonal isolates exhibited correlated life history traits and trade-offs of those traits with tolerance to OA and warming (Pistevos et al., 2011). Clearly, there is much that remains to be learned about correlated traits that may have fitness consequences (or advantages) in addition to tolerance to OA conditions. Demonstration of the potential for existing genetic diversity contributing to the resilience of these and other species to a changing ocean suggests that conserving locally adapted populations in low- or variable-pH environments should be emphasized.
Experimental evolution
Adaptive responses to OA in marine organisms have focused on phytoplankton, including diatoms and coccolithophores, because of their importance in the ocean's food webs and biogeochemical cycles and their short generation times (Tatters et al., 2013; Falkowski, 2012). Coccolithophores are generally thought to have reduced inorganic carbon content under OA, though laboratory studies indicate a remarkable diversity in the responses of individual genotypes to future conditions (see Benner et al., 2013 for review). Because coccolithophores can be cultured for hundreds of generations under controlled conditions, they have been used in studies of experimental evolution to assess their adaptive potential to OA (Reusch and Boyd, 2013). The coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi is a particularly well studied species, with remarkable diversity in how it responds to OA across genotypes (Langer et al., 2009). Studies of specific strains held under different conditions for different lengths of time illustrate the potential for coccolithophores to make plastic and adaptive responses to OA (Benner et al., 2013; Langer et al., 2009; Lefebvre et al., 2012; Lohbeck et al., 2012, 2013; Schlüter et al., 2014). E. huxleyi typically exhibited a plastic response after 8 generations at high PCO2 and an adaptive response after 500 generations under the same high PCO2 conditions (Lohbeck et al., 2014). After 500 generations under OA, E. huxleyi can adaptively regulate genes responsible for cytosolic pH regulation (upregulation of proton pumps and bicarbonate transporters) and subsequently increase its growth and calcification (Lohbeck et al., 2012, 2013, 2014). Shifts in cell size have been observed following experimental evolution under elevated PCO2 in the freshwater green algae Chlamydomonas (Collins and Bell, 2004). The accumulation of mutations in genes involved with carbon-concentrating mechanisms is believed to be responsible for the adaptive shifts in Chlamydomonas (Collins and Bell, 2004).
Marine organisms live in a complex multi-driver environment and in the future, phytoplankton are likely to have to cope with OA concomitantly with warming, shifts in the nitrogen cycle, and potentially other environmental changes. Future PCO2 levels are expected to increase the NH4+/NO3 ratio in surface waters via a doubling of N2 fixation rates by Trichodesmium (Barcelos e Ramos et al., 2007; Hutchins et al., 2009). Calcification and carbon fixation of E. huxleyi are more sensitive to nitrogen source (NH4+ versus NO3−) than elevated PCO2, (Lefebvre et al., 2012). Those two environmental drivers interactively alter the ratios of calcification and photosynthesis products of particulate inorganic and organic carbon (Lefebvre et al., 2012). Interestingly, warming seems to ameliorate the negative effects of OA under long-term culture (Benner et al., 2013). The multivariate responses to changes in temperature, PCO2 and nitrogen source remain to be examined.
Studies on non-calcifying phytoplankton have also provided insight into the possible effects of OA on community interactions and productivity. For example, community structure in a mixed dinoflagellate assembly did not shift under OA conditions in a manner that suggested adaptation or acclimation of individual community members (Tatters et al., 2013). Rather, increases in the fitness of specific strains were attributed to biotic interactions (Tatters et al., 2013).
Is there biochemical adaptation to environmental pH?
An aspect largely lacking in the above-mentioned studies is consideration of how rate-limiting biochemical processes involved in responses to environmental pH may be conserved in organisms adapted to differing pH habitats. Classic examples in biochemical adaptation to temperature, for example, have beautifully illustrated that the Michaelis–Menten substrate binding affinity (Km) is conserved at physiological temperatures across organisms from a wide range of normal body temperatures (see Hochachka and Somero, 2002 for review). Conservation of Km allows enzymatic reaction rates to be maximally sensitivity to small changes in metabolites (Hochachka and Somero, 2002). It is not known whether biochemical adaptation of proteins, especially those on epithelial surfaces in contact with seawater, may conserve function across a wide range of environmental (including boundary layer) values of pH.
The widespread adaptive response of Km to temperature may be due to the fact that for ectothermic poikilotherms changes in environmental temperatures alter the entire organisms' intracellular environment in which proteins must function properly. In contrast, as environmental pH changes, intracellular pH is strongly buffered (Hochachka and Somero, 2002). However, epithelial tissues in contact with seawater, such as gill epithelia or keratocytes, have proteins on the apical surface that experience environmental pH (Calosi et al., 2013). Those membrane proteins may have altered function under OA. For example, if transmembrane enzymes involved with acid–base regulation (e.g. the H+-ATPase transporter (VHA) or anion exchanger in chloride cells) experience variation in external environmental pH, their rates of H+ pumping or Cl− transport could change. Fish scale keratocyte behavior and wound healing could be pH sensitive and adapted across organisms living at a range of environmental pH. Changes in function of those processes would alter the potential for acid–base regulation by establishing an imbalance between the intracellular acid–base environment and the extracellular pH environments in which the organisms have adapted. Do we expect that the pH-sensitive functional properties of epithelial tissue membrane proteins are conserved across organisms adapted to different pH environments?
Direct correlation of how pH affects Km of enzymes is largely dependent on multiple factors including: (a) substrate type; (b) ionization state of the binding site; (c) an organism's ability to regulate internal pH; and (d) enzyme function (Purich, 2009). For example, the optimal pH for the Km of pepsin (enzyme located in the acidic human gut) is 1.5, whereas Km for trypsin located in the more alkaline small intestine is optimal at pH 7.5 (Holum, 1998). pH can affect the ionization state of the binding site (Holum, 1998), and changes in intracellular pH may also change the shape of the active site and alter catalysis (Holum, 1998). Changes in pH can also alter the properties of the substrate such that it has altered binding properties. A reasonable assertion is that enzyme, substrate or cofactor structure related to binding and kinetic properties are optimal at a certain range of pH.
There may be inadequate shifts in environmental pH across marine environments to drive changes in protein structure–function relationships because of perturbation of hydrogen bonds, ionic interactions or other weak bonds. The intracellular PCO2, HCO3− and pH changes that occur during normal physiological processes are greater than the changes in global surface ocean pH expected to occur in the next several hundred years (Tresguerres et al., 2010). Parietal cells, for example, function in an external pH of ∼3 (Rabon et al., 1983), though may be buffered from the direct effects of the huge increase in [H+] by mucus (Schreiber et al., 2000). Nonetheless, it is possible that small changes in environmental pH could alter the function of those proteins. We hypothesize that enzymes in organisms adapted to different pH environments display similar conservation of Km as for patterns of adaptation to temperature (Fig. 2). At a common measurement pH, Km may be highest in aquatic organisms ranging from very acidic environments [e.g. hydrothermal vents, pH 5–7 (Tunnicliffe et al., 2009)], highly variable pH environments [e.g. estuarine, coastal, shallow CO2 vent, pH 6.1–8.6 (Duarte et al., 2013)] or stable high-pH environments [i.e. open ocean, pH 8.1–8.2 (Hofmann et al., 2011); Fig. 2]. Additionally, differences in the sensitivity of Km to pH may differ across taxa, allowing conservation of enzyme sensitivity across physiological environmental pH (Fig. 2). The shape of each organism's line in Fig. 2 is dependent on a theoretical increase in Km (or a decrease in binding affinity) with an increase in acidity (lower pH). The figure also assumes that the ionization state of the binding sites of these theoretical enzymes will be largely negatively affected by an increase in [H+] because of conformational changes that have been shown to take place under acidic conditions for various enzymes (Dixon, 1953).
Hypothetical data of enzyme substrate binding affinity (Km) from organisms adapted to different pH environments. Low pH=hydrothermal vent; variable pH=estuarine/intertidal; high pH=oceanic. We hypothesize that biochemical adaptation to environmental pH would follow similar ‘rules’ as biochemical adaptation to temperature (see Hochachka and Somero, 2002), whereby biophysical properties of enzymes are conserved within a narrow range (dashed lines) across physiological environmental pH values typically experienced, as indicated by the thickened blue regions on each curve. These patterns of biochemical adaptation are expected to be greatest for processes involved with protein structure–function changes associated with binding or catalysis at external epithelial surfaces. Whether such a biochemical adaptation to environmental pH does exist remains to be determined.
Na+ and K+ pump fluxes are affected by changes in intracellular pH, not by changes in environmental pH (Breitwieser et al., 1987; Fendler et al., 1987). This is largely due to the ATP-binding site of the transporter being located inside the cell where changed environmental pH would not change the conformational structure of the enzyme. However, when changes in external pH drive shifts in acid–base regulation that are transduced to shifts in internal pH or bicarbonate concentration, the intracellular acid–base environment could also be altered (Larsen et al., 2014). Because acidic intracellular pH inhibits Na+ and K+ influx and reduces Vmax for cation efflux (Breitwieser et al., 1987), there may be selective pressure for Km of enzymes to be conserved across environmental pH. We feel that this is an area of epithelial physiology that has been largely unaddressed and is ripe for research in light of recent advances in our understanding of the function of ion pumps, ion channels and pH sensors in epithelial tissues involved with acid–base regulation (Larsen et al., 2014; Tresguerres, 2014; Tresguerres et al., 2014). Such epithelial physiology studies could use the classic biochemical adaptation comparative approach that George Somero so strongly taught: comparing pH effects on structural and functional properties of homologous proteins from organisms living across a wide gradient of pH environments.
Continued industrialization and reliance on fossil fuels is predicted to change ocean temperature and chemistry (namely, pH) in an unprecedented manner. Understanding the persistence of populations of marine organisms in future altered environments requires an understanding of extant phenotypic plasticity under realistic environmental conditions and the potential for adaptation. Adaptation potential can be inferred from existing genetic diversity related to patterns of local adaptation across present gradients in environmental pH, and the potential for adaptive shifts through evolutionary processes as assessed by comparative studies. Evidence from such studies suggests that marine organisms do have the potential to adapt to changes in ocean pH. Whether that adaptive potential translates to real-world environments as they become warmer, more acidic and change in other ways associated with how human beings are shaping our planet, remains to be seen. Conservation efforts should work to protect existing genetic diversity by targeting rare marine habitats that show variation in the physical and chemical properties reflecting conditions predicted to be widespread in the future.
We thank George Somero for providing us with an opportunity to celebrate his influence on how we think about physiological and biochemical adaptation to the environment and for teaching us how to have a whole lot of fun being scientists. We also thank The Company of Biologists for providing funding for the George Somero retirement celebration symposium, and Lars Tomanek and Jason Podrabsky for their roles in organizing the symposium.
The authors declare no competing or financial interests.
J.H.S. and A.W.P. conceived the study, collected and analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation [grant no. 1041225] to J.H.S.
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K.T. Oslin’s 10 Best Songs and Biggest Hits
K.T. Oslin's legacy is being celebrated by fans and country singers who were inspired by her songs, talent and moxie. Her Top 40 country radio career was brief — just five years — but her impact was as long-lasting as her biggest hit.
"Do Ya" is the song fans think of first when Oslin's name comes up, but the greatest tangible honors of her career came for a pair of very different hits. Officially, Billboard tallies four No. 1 songs for Oslin and seven Top 10 hits, all from three albums released between 1987 and 1990. The Grammy winner would continue to record after she lightened her touring load in the early 1990s. Simply, her 2015 album on Red River Records, would be her final bow, released just before she shared her Parkinson's disease diagnosis with fans and the country music community.
Most remarkable about Oslin was that her commercial career started long after an age at which many women in country are pushed out of the mainstream section of the genre. She was 45 years old when "80s Ladies" was released.
"The gatekeepers didn’t even have a chance to decide whether or not they’d let her in," Chely Wright said on Twitter in the hours after Oslin's Dec. 21 death. "K.T. Oslin didn’t ask anyone for permission to enter. She waltzed in with her brilliant songs, her unmatched intellect, her perfectly foul mouth and she changed everything — forever."
Artists including Travis Tritt, the Oak Ridge Boys and Brandy Clark also spoke highly of Oslin, an Arkansas native who grew up in Houston, Texas, before heading to New York City to begin a successful career in theater. Below you'll find a list of her most well-known songs, biggest hits and career accolades, arranged alphabetically.
While the official cause of Oslin's death has not yet been announced, Music Row shares that she had contracted COVID-19 the week prior.
See K.T. Oslin's Top Songs and Biggest Hits:
"80s Ladies" (1987)
This coming-of-age story was Oslin's first big country hit. "80s Ladies" tells of three girls raised in the '50s growing up and navigating love, loss, laws and liberation. The Top 10 single would help earn Oslin her first serious country honor: a Top New Female Vocalist trophy at the 1987 ACM Awards.
"Come Next Monday" (1990)
"Come Next Monday" would end up being Oslin's final No. 1 hit, and really her final taste of radio success. Released just three years after her debut, the uptempo track speaks of letting a man go; in a way it forms its own circle of life with "80s Ladies," a song that touched on some of the same subjects.
"Didn't Expect It to Go Down This Way" (1989)
Oslin wrote many of her most well-known songs and often worked alongside Harold Shedd in producing singles such as "Didn't Expect It To Go Down This Way." This sultry ballad from the This Woman album exemplifies the singer's powerful, expressive vocals. She teases the audience with each verse before growling through an immersive chorus.
"Do Ya" (1987)
Without a doubt, "Do Ya" is Oslin's signature song, and the one that will be listed in the first line of every obituary. It's a classic '80s vibe with a timeless lyric that's been recreated many times sense. One feels it wouldn't take much to take the song to No. 1 again in 2020. Her yearning through the chorus highlights a great country standard.
"Hey Bobby"
Oslin released five songs from This Woman, including "Hey Bobby," a song that brought tones of Janis Joplin. This performance from Farm Aid shows the singer's live appeal.
"Hold Me" (1988)
A pair of Grammy wins for "Hold Me" would seemingly make it Oslin's career song, but the No. 1 hit didn't keep a hold on country music America quite like a couple others on this list. It's a moving ballad and a stirring vocal performance, but as so often happens, her lyrics describe a time that may have passed or become too familiar to be remarkable.
"I'll Always Come Back" (1988)
After "Do Ya," "I'll Always Come Back" raced to No. 1 on country radio airplay charts. It's a good time to point out that Oslin was an important music video artist, who used her training in theater to her advantage throughout several clips that featured a nuanced plot between song lyrics. The above clip is but one example.
"Money" (1988)
Not only did Oslin write many of her hit songs, she wrote many of them by herself. "Money" is one example of her fine songwriting and interpretive performance. Her partnership with Harold Shedd was magical for a bit, but as you listen to this list of 10 songs, you begin to hear similarities that may have helped spell an end to her success.
"Silver Tongues and Gold Plated Lies" (1996)
Oslin's voice had changed by the mid-'90s, when the then 54-year-old singer released "Silver Tongues and Gold Plated Lies." Her swagger had not diminished, however. This ice-cold vocal performance cuts down a no-good man who serves to deceive her. She'd chart one more time after this song, in 2001, with "Live Close By, Visit Often."
"This Woman" (1989)
Oslin plays a woman poised to do her man wrong in "This Woman," a Top 5 track from 1989. It's a reversal of roles that would even draw a few raised eyebrows in 2020, but the veteran singer pulls it off with some level of sympathy.
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Source: K.T. Oslin’s 10 Best Songs and Biggest Hits
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Despite the Controversy, Lady A Still Believe in the ‘Heart’ Behind Their Name Change
When the country trio formerly known as Lady Antebellum decided to change their name to Lady A, they hoped to foster inclusivity and distance themselves from the racist associations of the term "antebellum." However, they didn't realize that their decision would be met with opposition from a Seattle-based blues singer named Anita White who has been performing under the stage name Lady A for decades.
In the months since, White and the band have become embroiled in a heated battle over the name. Talks were broached but broke down; lawsuits were exchanged, and White has argued that the country trio's actions toward resolution were ultimately hollow, counter-productive to the purported goals of allyship they'd put forward by dropping "Antebellum" from their name to begin with. She even recently put out a musical response to the situation called "My Name Is All I Got," a gospel-infused, call-and-response-style song that minces no words about her feelings regarding the group's actions.
But in a new interview on Tamron Hall, Lady A explain that despite the bumpy road that's followed their name change, they stand by the motivation behind their initial decision.
"The heart of our decision still rings true today as much as it did back in June when we made this announcement," says the group's Hillary Scott. "We want our music and our live shows, everything that we're a part of, for everyone to feel welcome and invited."
Lady A's decision, she adds, was part of a larger realization about the band's role in furthering equality. The momentum emerged during the galvanized civil rights movement that intensified in the summer, ignited in part by the death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin (Floyd is one of several Black citizens who died in police custody or were mistreated by white police officers in 2020).
"Our name-changing was the first step," Scott continues. "But you never know how things are gonna happen, and we never saw that coming."
Bandmate Charles Kelley admits that 2020 has been a huge learning experience. "I think the word to me that resonates most this year has been 'blind spot,'" he reflects. "And I am so guilty of not -- I didn't think about it. You know, we came up with the name thinking about an antebellum home, and, you know, Hillary Scott's the lady! It's so naive now, looking back."
As they've gotten older, though, and welcomed kids of their own, the members of Lady A have gained more clarity, and a greater desire to make the world a better place for the next generation.
"We knew this was going to be difficult. We knew we were going to alienate a lot of fans. We didn't see some of these other things coming, but it hasn't changed how we've tried," Kelley adds. "We're trying to resolve this issue with Anita, and we're really trying to be a light out there for everybody."
Trio member Dave Haywood adds that a lot of careful reflection went into the decision to leave the "Antebellum" part of their name behind. "We employ several Black people, we spoke to a lot of Black people, in and out of the industry," he explains.
"Our goal was to find out the heat behind what 'Antebellum' could bring up for some, and unanimously, it brought up hardship," he says. "So this decision was simple for us."
It's also the first step in the band's journey towards inclusivity, Haywood adds, which also includes establishing their new Lady Aid Scholarship Fund to support those attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and provide relief for underserved communities.
"I was just going through my journal the other day, and, man, the common denominator with all my conversations with my friends of color was, 'Let's please keep having this conversation, y'all. Let's keep talking about this. Let's make some long-term commitments to this,'" he explains. "So [changing our name] was not the end, it was the beginning for us."
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Source: Despite the Controversy, Lady A Still Believe in the ‘Heart’ Behind Their Name Change
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Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns
Davidson Development Inc.
Author: Mark Lane
REPOSITIONING CAMPAIGN.
OVERVIEW.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
TARGET MARKET.
MARKETING STRATEGY.
INSIDE THE HALL OF FAME.
FURTHER READING.
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Web site: www.wgv.com
REPOSITIONING CAMPAIGN
Davidson Development Inc. was the primary engine behind the project that came to be known as World Golf Village, an upscale development located between Jacksonville and Saint Augustine, Florida, combining residential, commercial, and recreational zones. The Village's centerpieces were the World Golf Hall of Fame and a course designed by legendary PGA (Professional Golfers' Association) champions Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, called King & Bear in honor of the two players' respective nicknames. Initial attempts at marketing the area to home buyers took golf purists as their target market, but after several years of lackluster sales in its Estates of World Golf Village subdivision, Davidson turned to Atlanta-based agency Cole Henderson Drake (CHD) for a marketing campaign that would remake the development's image.
The Estates of World Golf Village "Repositioning Campaign" made use of a $700,000 annual budget during its 2003–04 run. CHD sought to change consumer perception of World Golf Village by drawing attention to the opportunities for gracious living present in the development rather than focusing solely on the golfing amenities, and it calibrated its message not for male golfers but for baby-boomer women, who were believed to play a larger role than their husbands in making home-buying decisions. The campaign primarily consisted of a series of two-page print spreads, with black-and-white photos and copy emphasizing the elegance and inspirational nature of the Estates lifestyle.
The campaign coincided with a 170 percent sales growth of Estates properties, and Davidson's revenues far outpaced precampaign goals. A tracking study indicated, furthermore, that CHD had successfully recast World Golf Village's image. In 2005 the "Repositioning Campaign" won a Silver EFFIE Award in the Real Estate category.
The PGA Tour's World Golf Hall of Fame in Pinehurst, North Carolina, was opened in 1974, but in the 1980s the PGA began searching for a site on which to build a similar facility that would honor golfers not eligible for the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the early 1990s a location between Jacksonville and Saint Augustine, Florida, was donated to the cause, and a number of worldwide golf clubs and associations pledged their support. The PGA eventually decided to close its Pinehurst facility and combine operations with the Florida facility under the name World Golf Hall of Fame. Construction began in 1996, and the Hall opened in 1998, boasting the support of 26 golf organizations from around the world.
Jack Nicklaus (L) and Arnold Palmer, April 6, 2001. © Reuters/Corbis.
World Golf Village was the name given to the multifaceted development surrounding the Hall of Fame. Conceived as a golfers' resort destination as well as an upscale residential area, the development featured two golf courses, the more notable of which was called King & Bear, named after its designers, the golf greats Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. The development mixed retail, commercial, residential, and resort amenities, but for a variety of reasons initial sales of the mostly high-end real estate did not meet expectations. The location itself (in a previously little-developed area) was...
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Law & Religion UK
Issues of law and religion in the United Kingdom – with occasional forays further afield
Caste discrimination and the Equality Act 2010
Posted on 3 February 2015 by Frank Cranmer
Yesterday in the House of Lords the Government confirmed that it had no immediate plans to make caste discrimination illegal: a power recently inserted into the Equality Act 2010. The amended s 9 (Race) of the Act provides that
“(5) A Minister of the Crown may by order—
(a) amend this section so as to provide for caste to be an aspect of race;
(b) amend this Act so as to provide for an exception to a provision of this Act to apply, or not to apply, to caste or to apply, or not to apply, to caste in specified circumstances.”
In reply to a question from Lord Avebury (LD), To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the timetable for implementing the legislation to incorporate caste as a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD) said this:
“… we have no immediate plans to incorporate caste into legislation. We are aware of the recent Tirkey v Chandok Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment [Chandhok & Anor v Tirkey (Race Discrimination) [2014] UKEAT 0190 14 1912 which we noted here] and are considering its implications for discrimination law. The judgment opens the possibility of a legal remedy for claims of caste-associated discrimination under existing legislation, in the ethnic origins element of Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010. We note this potential protection and have always stated that we completely oppose caste discrimination.
Lord Avebury was not convinced and sought an undertaking that, if re-elected in May, the Government would commence the provision and noted the opinion of the Equality and Human Rights Commission that Chandhok v Tirkey was not binding in all circumstances.
In reply to various expressions of concern at the Government’s inaction, Bs Garden said that there was no time left to legislation in the present Parliament and that during the passage of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (which inserted the new power into the Equality Act),
“… when the need for explicit caste legislation was debated extensively, it was generally acknowledged that a full public consultation should be undertaken, not least because there was no general consensus on even basic concepts, such as a workable definition of caste itself.”
Moreover, she believed that the judgment in Chandhok v Tirkey “clearly illustrates the need for caution” and suggested that many of the cases currently pending could be brought under the legislation outlawing discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin.
Comment: Given the fact that the General Election looms, Bs Garden’s response is no surprise. However, as Lord Deben (Con) pointed out, the Lords voted for a change in the law two years ago and nothing appears to have happened.
Cite this article as: Frank Cranmer, "Caste discrimination and the Equality Act 2010" in Law & Religion UK, 3 February 2015, https://lawandreligionuk.com/2015/02/03/caste-discrimination-and-the-equality-act-2010/
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Illinois Weed Sales Top $1 Billion For 2020
Riley O'Neil
I guess all those people you see every day standing in line outside the Sunnyside Cannabis Dispensary on McFarland Road showed up to spend some money last year.
Yes, I know that's just one of Illinois' marijuana dispensaries (we've got 80), and that they didn't rake in a billion dollars on their own, but the model seems to be very similar throughout our state since recreational marijuana became legal in January of last year.
Bottom line: Illinois has broken the billion-dollar mark in combined sales of medical and recreational weed, says the Chicago Tribune in a new report.
Wait, didn't we see a fall-off in sales just last month? We did, and there were those who said that it showed that after the novelty of legalization, sales would continue to slide downwards. It turns out that a small decrease in overall sales in one month was not a harbinger of things to come.
The Chicago Tribune report says that Illinois' dispensaries rebounded from November's sales of $75.2 million to sell almost $87 million in recreational weed products.
The billion-dollar figure comes from combining the sales totals of both medical and recreational marijuana. For the year, the Chicago Tribune, citing numbers provided by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, says:
Illinois generated $669 million in recreational weed sales, with more than $331 million in medical sales through November. The state has yet to release December medical marijuana sales. More than a fourth of the year’s recreational sales went to out-of-state residents.
I've noticed that there are many who supported legalization, and many who were totally against it--but nearly everyone wants to know how much tax revenue marijuana is bringing in to the State of Illinois' coffers. We don't have the total numbers for the year, but THCnet.com says the figure, through September, is $105.9 million.
We've still got quite a way to go to catch up with Colorado. Colorado's Department of Revenue reports sales of almost $2 billion dollars in 2020, and almost $10 billion since legalization took effect in 2014.
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Is the United Nations Biased against Israel and for Palestine?
PRO (yes)
Mitchell Bard, PhD, Executive Director of American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and Director of Jewish Virtual Library, in his July 2015 article “United Nations: The U.N. Relationship with Israel,” available at the Jewish Virtual Library website, wrote:
“Despite being the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel routinely faces more criticism and condemnation at the United Nations than any other country, including those that systematically kill their citizens or deny them the most basic of human rights. Even today, both the General Assembly and Security Council continue to pass one-sided resolutions that single out and condemn the Jewish State. Additionally, an overwhelmingly powerful bloc led by the Arab nations promotes a narrow and slanderous agenda meant to isolate Israel that has met little resistance.”
July 2015 - Mitchell G. Bard, PhD
Emily L. Hauser, MA, contributor to The Week, in an Aug. 19, 2013 article, “Yes, Virginia, There Is Anti-Israel Bias at the U.N.,” available at the Daily Beast website, stated:
“We on the left don’t often like to bring it up, but it’s the truth: Israel is often singled out for behavior that goes along unmentioned in other countries, often in much greater measure. Resolutions condemning Israel carry a nearly ritualistic quality at this point, yet blatant human rights abuses in other countries in the region (Saudi Arabia comes to mind) and around the world (China, anyone?) often appear to barely register on the official U.N. radar. The ongoing brutality in Syria provides an unfortunately apt example: While many member states have clearly wanted to take a stronger stand all along, for others the mere notion of harsh language was a bridge too far.
And that is wrong. That is wrong, and unfair, and frankly unhelpful to anyone wanting to build genuine, lasting peace anywhere in the world, not least Israel/Palestine.”
Aug. 19, 2013 - Emily L. Hauser, MA
Ido Aharoni, MA, Counsel General of Israel in New York, in a July 30, 2014 opinion article for TIME Magazine titled “How the United Nations Human Rights Council Unfairly Targets Israel,” stated:
“Instead of focusing on actual human rights violators around the world, as this international body was created to do, the UNHRC [United Nations Human Rights Council] keeps its main focus on Israel—a nation that has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect and preserve the lives of civilians, both during this latest conflict and throughout previous defensive responses to Hamas’ terror…
Since its inception in 2006, the UNHRC has released a total of 103 resolutions. Astonishingly, 56 have focused on criticizing Israel. The UNHRC has held a total of 21 special sessions to address dire humanitarian crises throughout the world. One has addressed Sudan, another Sri Lanka, another Ivory Coast and another Libya—while 7 of the 21 special sessions have irrationally targeted Israel.”
July 30, 2014 - Ido Aharoni, MA
Jonathan Kalfus, Campus Fellow for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) at the time of the quote, in a Mar. 21, 2013 article, “International Community Holds Israel to Unfair Double Standard,” available at the Neon Tommy website, stated:
“On December 18, 2012, the 67th United Nations General Assembly strongly criticized Israel and adopted nine resolutions on Palestinian rights and the Golan. By the end of the week, 22 resolutions were adopted by the Assembly against Israel, with only four resolutions passed on the rest of the world.
Syria—a country plagued by a civil war against a ruthless dictatorship that has reportedly claimed the lives of over 50,000 people, half of which are civilians—received one of the four resolutions. Iran, governed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a man who denies the Holocaust, represses gay rights and constantly calls for the annihilation of Jews and the Jewish state, received one resolution. Iran is the largest state-sponsor of global terrorism.
The other two resolutions were given to North Korea and Burma, both dictatorships with consistent systematic human rights violations. Yet Israel, the only country in the Middle East that has true democracy, free speech, religious tolerance, gay rights and equal protection for all citizens of the State, was handed 22 resolutions.
Israel has surely made mistakes, as all governments and nations have. However, the crimes that Israel has committed are consistently magnified to unfair levels, while those of other nations receive no attention. The continuous agenda of international organizations like the UN to pardon nations like Iran and terrorist organizations like Hamas for heinous human rights violations, but villainize Israel for building settlements or defending its citizens from rocket fire has created an unfair double standard.”
Mar. 21, 2013 - Jonathan Kalfus
The Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations, in a 2004 entry on its website titled, “Israel and the U.N. – an Uneasy Relationship,” stated the following:
“In the General Assembly and its committees, as well as in the specialized agencies of the UN, there exists a long-standing tradition of singling out Israel. The General Assembly devotes seven out of 179 items of its agenda to issues concerning Israel. No other nation or issue is accorded such scrutinizing treatment. Nineteen anti-Israel resolutions are adopted by the General Assembly annually.”
2004 - Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations
David Tell, Opinion Editor for The Weekly Standard at the time of the quote, in a May 6, 2002 editorial titled “The U.N.’s Israel Obsession,” wrote the following:
“Among the nearly 200 nations represented at the U.N., only Israel has ever been assigned special — reduced — membership privileges, its ambassadors formally barred, for 53 straight years ending only recently, from election to the Security Council. Meanwhile, and right up to the present day, that same Security Council has devoted fully a third of its energy and criticism to the policies of a single country: Israel. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights, which regularly — and unreprovingly — accepts delegations from any number of homicidal tyrannies across the globe, has issued fully a quarter of its official condemnations to a single (democratic) country: Israel.”
May 6, 2002 - David Tell
CON (no)
Richard Falk, SJD, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University, in an Apr. 10, 2015 speech at “The Israel Lobby – Is It Good for the US? Is It Good for Israel?” conference held in Washington, DC, the transcript of which is available at the Israel Lobby US website, stated:
“[An] approach used on behalf of Israel to weaken and discredit the U.N. involves trying to both manipulate the organization and to undermine it at the same time. It’s a very sophisticated kind of relationship to the U.N. that Israel has. It both pretends to be victimized by the organization and yet, because of its relationship to the U.S. and its clever use of these kinds of tactics, it intimidates the organization more than any other government, however large or small… Rather than being biased, the U.N. leans over backward in every particular context to make sure that Israel’s best arguments are made fully available and given as much attention as possible. In other words, the reality is just the opposite of the perception in this country [the US]. If anything, the organization could be criticized as being indifferent to the Palestinian reality and biased toward not offending Israel. It’s quite an amazing manipulation of the reality, at least as I experienced and understood it.”
Apr. 10, 2015 - Richard Falk, SJD
Brad Parker, JD, Attorney and International Advocacy Officer at Defense for Children International Palestine, in a Nov. 14, 2013 article, “Israeli Exceptionalism at the United Nations,” available at 972mag.com, stated:
“To be clear, the international community is not treating Israel unfairly; Israel is simply being treated and recognized as the persistent human rights violator that it is. The deep-rooted notion of Israeli exceptionalism inherent in Ambassador Manor’s statement is consistently used to delegitimize any international criticism of Israel’s serious human rights violations against Palestinians.
If Israel wants improved standing in the international community, its leaders must take responsibility for what is truly exceptional: a 46-year-old military occupation where systemic discrimination and persistent human rights violations are deeply entrenched and impunity reigns…
Despite the fact that Israel has ratified all the major international human rights treaties, and, as a result, has bound itself to act in accordance with those treaties; Israeli authorities persistently disregard and fail to comply with international law.”
Nov. 14, 2013 - Brad Parker, JD
Palestine Facts, an online resource for topics on Israel, Palestine, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in the “What Is the Evidence That the United Nations Is Biased Against Israel?” section of its website (accessed Sep. 8, 2015), wrote:
“Despite the fact that Israel believes the UN to have shown bias against them in history, there have been positive developments for Israel at this international body. The UN has a number of Israeli diplomats appointed to various positions. An Israeli official headed one of the committees of the organization in 2007. It was Rony Adam, the head of UN department of Israeli Foreign Ministry who presided over the UN Committee for Program and Coordination.
Moreover, in 2005, Israel was given the deputy chairmanship of the United Nations Disarmament Commission. In the same year, Permanent Representative to the UN and Israel’s Ambassador, Dan Gillerman, was elected as one of the 21 vice presidents of the General Assembly…
The United Nations has also considered issues that concern Israel and the Jewish community, particularly the ones related to Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. So it would be wrong to say that the United Nations is biased against Israel.”
Sep. 8, 2015 - Palestine Facts
129 organizations and distinguished individuals, including John Pilger, Richard Falk, SJD, Voice of Palestine, International Solidarity Movement, and Jewish Voice for Peace, in an Aug. 5, 2014 open letter to Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, available from the Electronic Intifada website under the title “UN’s Ban Ki-Moon Is a Partner in Israel’s Crimes,” wrote:
“We, the undersigned Palestinian human rights and community-based organizations, are extremely disappointed by your performance, notably by your biased statements, your failure to act, and the inappropriate justification of Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law, which amount to war crimes…
You have undeniably assumed a biased position toward the current attack on Gaza and Israeli violations in the West Bank by failing to clearly condemn Israeli unlawful actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, while, on the other hand, not hesitating to accuse – sometimes mistakenly – Palestinian combatants in Gaza of violations of international law…
Mr. Secretary-General,
When you make no distinction between oppressors and victims, in all your statements,
When you name Palestinian combatants as perpetrators of violations and war crimes while you ignore naming Israel, as you used to do in referring to specific actions,
When you avoid codifying Israeli actions that amount to war crimes, while you insist on prescribing Palestinian reactions as grave breaches of international humanitarian law,
When you always advocate unlawfully the Israel right to self-defense, while having not pointed out the Palestinians legitimate and legal right to resist occupation, colonization and institutionalized discrimination,
When you adopt and advocate Israeli false stories, while not mentioning Palestinians’ narrative,
When you disregard facts on grounds clearly resulting from Israeli attacks, while you seek the immediate and unconditional release of a falsely captured soldier who was in the battle field,
You do not maintain peace and security; nor do you ensure human rights…
For us, if you continue playing this role, you prove what our people feel, that you are a partner in, or at least an enabler of, the ongoing violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel against our families, children, women, elders – against our people.”
Aug. 5, 2014 - Open Letter to Ban Ki-Moon, Aug. 5, 2014
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Case of the Day: State Farm v. Amazon
The case of the day is State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (D. Ariz. 2018). Following a fire at the home of Hussein Zeitoun, Zeitoun’s insurer, State Farm, brought an action against LG Chem, Ltd. The facts of the case aren’t stated in the decision, but we can infer that State Farm paid Zeitoun’s claim for fire damage and then, as subrogee, brought a product liability claim against LG.
The case was filed in the Maricopa County Superior Court. Amazon, which was also a defendant, then removed it to the District Court. After removal, State Farm, using a “vendor” to handle the matter, sent a request for service to the South Korean central authority. The request sought service of the complaint and the state-court summons. The judge quashed the service, holding that the summons failed to meet the formal requirements of FRCP 4(a)(1).
The outcome is correct, but I think the judge didn’t identify the issue. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1448:
In all cases removed from any State court to any district court of the United States in which any one or more of the defendants has not been served with process or in which the service has not been perfected prior to removal, or in which process served proves to be defective, such process or service must be completed or new process issued in the same manner as in cases originally filed in such district court.
Arizona is in the Ninth Circuit, and that court has held (Beecher v. Wallace, 381 F.2d 372 (9th Cir. 1967)) that under § 1448, a state court summons issued before removal becomes a nullity upon removal, and if the defendant has not been served, the plaintiff has to get a new federal summons. On this reading, the purpose of § 1448 is to provide relief in cases where the service had occurred was defective in some way. But Beecher is not self-evidently correct—other decisions have allowed service of already-issued state court summonses after removal—but the judge in this case was bound by it.
Another example of the risk of not taking the law in this area seriously, or of outsourcing service altogether to a “vendor”! (Though no doubt the lawyer should have known to provide the correct documents to the vendor).
Tagged: Hague Service Convention, Korea
Aaron Lukken says:
In this particular case, the “vendor” was ABC Legal, the designated outsourcing agent for the DOJ in its capacity as Central Authority. As such… not just any vendor (ie: they know what they’re doing).
The error here was completely on counsel’s part. Removal was in June, and ABC’s Hague request was submitted to the Koreans in September. Odds are, nobody told ABC that it had been removed, and it’s not ABC’s job to ascertain.
Ted Folkman says:
Hard to know what the “vendor” knew, but you may be right. The broader point is: serving process is not like photocopying or e-discovery management—the lawyer has a responsibility to understand the legal issues and shouldn’t rely on others.
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The Book of Lost Names
by Kristin Harmel
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the "epic and heart-wrenching World War II tale" (Alyson Noel, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Winemaker's Wife.
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.
The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin's Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don't know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?
As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.
An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
Kristin Harmel - Author
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Rudyard KIPLING (1868 - 1936)
This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. but which for some reason were not included in the book Stalky & Co. Of these the more interesting is the first, "Stalky", which introduces the characters and is full of the humour and understanding of adolescent males and their timeless jostling with adult powers that characterise the stories in Stalky & Co. "Stalky" was the first of the tales to be written, and was published in 1898, so it is difficult to understand how it came to be omitted from the book in 1899. "Regulus", while also full of humour, is a more difficult read in an age when a "proper" classical education is no longer something widely experienced. There are also other stories that cannot be included here because they are still in copyright: - "The United Idolators" and "The Propagation of Knowledge" in Debits and Credits (1926) - "The Satisfaction of a Gentleman" in The Complete Stalky & Co (1929). There is also another "Scylla and Charybdis", unpublished in Kipling's day, and only made available recently that although not copyright in the USA cannot be included because we do not have access to the manuscript, only an edited edition (which itself is subject to copyright).
If you enjoyed Stalky & Co you will probably enjoy these additional stories.(Introduction by Tim Bulkeley)
Genre(s): General Fiction
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9. Steven Udvar-Hazy
Wealthiest Angelenos 2019
Net Worth: $6 Billion
Steven Udvar-Hazy
LAST YEAR: $5.6 Billion
CHANGE: +7%
RESIDENCE: Beverly Hills
SOURCE OF WEALTH: Aircraft leasing
THE MONEY: Aircraft leasing pioneer Udvar-Hazy founded International Lease Finance Corp. in 1973. He sold the company to American International Group in 1990 for $1.3 billion, staying on as chairman and CEO until 2010. Udvar-Hazy then launched Air Lease, where he’s now executive chairman. Despite facing some high-profile challenges in the past year, Air Lease stock is trading at roughly $40 a share, similar to its year-earlier price. Udvar-Hazy saw significant increases in the value of his private equity portfolio. He put his 28,600-square-foot Beverly Park estate on the market for $165 million. His art collection saw a modest increase in value.
THE BUZZ: It has been a turbulent year for Udvar-Hazy’s Air Lease, which had significant exposure when Boeing Co.’s 737 Max airplanes were grounded after two fatal accidents. The company’s stock was initially pummeled but recovered as Air Lease took strategic steps to mitigate the problem, including leasing out other aircraft. Udvar-Hazy was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the U.S. with his family in 1958, fleeing Soviet occupation. He graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in economics and holds an honorary doctorate degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In 1999 Udvar-Hazy donated $60 million to the National Air and Space Museum, which named its Northern Virginia facility after him. The campus houses NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery and Lockheed Corp.’s SR-71 Blackbird. Udvar-Hazy was honored with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary in 2016.
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Aaron Abernathy "Epilogue"
Every ending leads to a new beginning." Rising pianist/singer Aaron Abernathy has created a stir with his last two solo albums "Monologue" and "Dialogue" and now returns with the final installment of the series: "Epilogue." Widely known for his live performances and collaborative efforts with artists including Black Milk, Slum Village, and Foreign Exchange, Abernathy has embarked on solo tours in the US, Europe, and Japan in support of his solo work, and this new release is his most personal work yet. This follow up to Monologue and Dialogue focuses on restoration after heartbreak, an album that Abernathy has lived through and through and was uncertain about sharing. This vulnerable complex true story is made up of three acts touching on situations Abernathy and his peers are currently in the midst of living. The acts of HIS, HERS, and OURS take us through Abernathy's more adventurous electro-soul compositions as he tells the story of his breakup with a woman he loved dearly and how he react to their ending, a woman named Noelle's relationship with a man she was dearly in love with and how's she's coping with their relationship ending, and lastly how him Noelle are discovering if it's possible to heal and love again after major heartbreak. Abernathy said "I wrote this album because I'-m aware that everyone wants LOVE but many of us lack restoration and healing which is the most important step. Somewhere along the way we have been socialized to forgo healing and move to the next relationship without working on the spaces we need to grow in prior to finding love again and walking in prepared to do our part to create a love that will last. The optimistic outlook I found in creating "Epilogue" is that by definition it's a piece of writing at the end of a work literature, usually used to bring closure to work. This is the last piece of writing in this series of albums in which I want to express that we're bringing an ending to continuous heartbreak surrounding love and every ending leads to a new beginning. I'm praying our new beginnings will be filled with healing so that we can have the love our hearts desire.
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Ontario Steps Up to Support Commercial Tenants
Joe Figliomeni
Joe Figliomeni is a senior business litigation lawyer with a wide breadth of experience. He has represented commercial landlords and tenants in property damage claims, and claims for unpaid or overpaid rent. He may be reached directly at jf@landlordlitigation.ca or by phone at 416-400-9955.
In mid-April 2020, the Federal and Provincial governments partnered to introduce the Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance Program (CECRA). The program was meant to steady a commercial real estate market that was destabilized due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We blogged about the rent relief program, its intended application, and its perceived shortcomings here.
The level of participation in the CECRA was underwhelming. This was not entirely unexpected and, as we predicted, many Landlords balked at the idea of offering their Tenants any concessions on the amount of monthly rent payable.
In one of his daily press briefings, on May 19, 2020, Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged Landlords to apply for the CECRA and warned “greedy Landlords” to “work things out” or risk forcing the government to “come down on those who don’t.” Apparently the Premier’s stern warnings weren’t sufficient to persuade enough Landlords to avail themselves of the CECRA. Therefore, and as promised, Premier Ford’s government took action to steady the economy and support small businesses by enacting the aptly-named Protecting Small Business Act, 2020 (the “Act”).
The Act amends the Commercial Tenancies Act by prohibiting Landlords who are eligible to apply for the CECRA from evicting Tenants for non-payment of rent. The Act defines the term “non-enforcement period” as the period commencing on June 18, 2020 and terminating on an as yet to be determined future date. During the “non-enforcement period” the Act:
(a) prohibits Judges from ordering a writ of possession if the basis for ordering the writ is an arrears of rent. This restriction applies with respect to legal proceedings that were commenced before, on, or after the non-enforcement period;
(b) prohibits Landlords from exercising a right of re-entry and from seizing any of the Tenant`s assets as distress for arrears of rent;
(d) requires Landlords who exercised a right of re-entry between May 1, 2020 and June 18, 2020 to: (i) restore possession of the premises, unless the Tenant declines; or (ii) if the Tenant did not decline but the Landlord is unable to restore possession for another reason, compensate the Tenant for all damages sustained; and
(e) requires Landlords who exercised distress for arrears of rent between May 1, 2020 and June 18, 2020 to return to the Tenant all of the unsold goods and chattels.
The Act will likely have Premier Ford’s desired outcome and lead to an increase in the number of Landlord’s applying for CECRA. However, it remains to be seen whether a Tenant whose Landlord does not apply for CECRA will eventually be required to pay all of their rental arrears and, in those instances, when the arrears will become due and payable. It should also be noted that the Act does not relieve against non-monetary defaults; so a Tenant who is required to keep the Leased Premises in a certain state of repair, can’t rely on the Act to neglect its obligation to do so.
The fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to strain Landlord and Tenant relations and the Protecting Small Business Act is yet another law that Landlords and Tenants need to be aware of and understand. As lawyers with experience dealing with commercial lease disputes, we can help.
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267 U.S. 292 - Davis v. George B Newton Coal Co
267 US 292 Davis v. George B Newton Coal Co
DAVIS, Director General of Railroads,
GEORGE B. NEWTON COAL CO. (two cases).
Nos. 709 and 710.
Decided March 2, 1925.
Mr. Wm. Clarke Mason, of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Allen S. Olmsted, 2d, of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant in error.
These causes present the same points of law and were heard together both here and below. No disputed question of fact remains. In 1919 defendant in error, a Pennsylvania corporation, doing business at Philadelphia, contracted with producers for large quantities of bituminous coal, f. o. b. the mines, subject to the regulations of the United States Fuel Administration. During January and February, 1920, while thirty-three cars of coal consigned to the corporation under these contracts were moving over the Philadelphia & Reading Railway, the Director General of Railroads took possession of them and used the fuel for operating trains on that line. Eighty cars loaded with the same character of coal and moving on the Pennsylvania Railroad were similarly treated. The claim is that the Director General took this action under lawful rules and orders of the President, acting through the Fuel Administrator and pursuant to the Lever Act, approved August 10, 1917, c. 53, 40 Stat. 276, 279, 284 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 3115 1/8e et seq.). The producers of the coal were paid the prices specified in the contracts of purchase, as required by the Fuel Administrator; and it is now maintained that nothing more can be demanded by the owner. The owner's claim is for the difference between the amount received by producers and the market value of the coal—approximately $1.44 per ton.
The Lever Act conferred upon the President certain powers to regulate the prices and distribution of fuel, to be exercised for the efficient prosecution of the war. August 23, 1917, he delegated these powers to a Fuel Administrator, who freely used them during the continuation of hostilities. Shortly after the armistice substantially all such regulations were suspended and the Administrator ceased to function; but his appointment was not canceled or revoked.
On October 30, 1919, the President undertook to restore former orders and to employ the Fuel Administrator, as occasion might arise, to change or make regulations relative to the sale, shipment and apportionment of bituminous coal as the latter might think necessary. The next day the Administrator delegated to the Director General of Railroads the power to divert coal upon the railroads as might seem 'necessary in the present emergency to provide for the requirements of the country.' March 19, 1920, the President suspended all fuel regulations.
Seeking to recover the difference between the amounts paid to the shipper—the purchase price—and the market value of the coal, defendant in error commenced these proceedings (June, 1921), in a state court at Philadelphia, against the Agent appointed by the President under the Transportation Act 1920, c. 91, 41 Stat. 456, 461, § 206a (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 10071 1/4cc). Judgments went for it and were affirmed by the Supreme Court. Newton Coal Co. v. Davis, 281 Pa. 74, 126 A. 192. The latter court held: That the war with Germany had ceased prior to October 30, 1919, and the purpose of the President's order then issued was to meet an emergency incident to the miners' strike—not to provide for the efficient prosecution of the war. Also that seizure and use of the coal by the Director General rendered the United States liable for just compensation, measured by market value. And, further, that the Director General was not an innocent third person to whom property has been delivered by the sovereign for the public welfare, but an agency of the United States for operating the railroads, and, under the Transportation Act 1920, plaintiff in error might be sued upon claims arising therefrom.
The plaintiff in error now insists: That the order of October 30, 1919, and the regulations issued by the Fuel Administrator and the Director General of Railroads acting thereunder, were authorized by the Lever Act. That by diverting the coal to himself the Director General incurred no obligation except to pay the amounts due the shippers under the sale contracts—the compensation fixed by the orders. That the act of the Director General in diverting the coal to himself and its use on the railroads imposed no liability for which an action can be maintained against the Agent provided for by the Transportation Act.
From the facts stated it appears, plainly enough, that one hundred and thirteen cars of coal cars of coal belonging to defendant in error were seized by the United States while upon the lines of carriers under their control and thereafter appropriated and used in the operation of such roads. The taking was for a public use. The incantation pronounced at the time is not of controlling importance; our primary concern is with the accomplishment. As announced in United States v. New River Collieries Co., 262 U. S. 341, 343, 344, 43 S. Ct. 566, 567 (67 L. Ed. 1014) 'where private property is taken for public use, and there is a market price prevailing at the time and place of the taking, that price is just compensation' to which the owner is entitled. Also, 'the ascertainment of compensation is a judicial function, and no power exists in any other department of the government to declare what the compensation shall be or to prescribe any binding rule in that regard.'
Transportation Act 1920, § 206a:
'Actions at law, suits in equity and proceedings in admiralty, based on causes of action arising out of the possession, use or operation by the President of the railroad or system of transportation of any carrier (under the provisions of the Federal Control Act, or of the Act of August 29, 1916) of such character as prior to federal control could have been brought against such carrier, may, after the termination of federal control, be brought against an agent designated by the President for such purpose, which agent shall be designated by the President within thirty days after the passage of this act. Such actions, suits, or proceedings may, within the periods of limitation now prescribed by state or federal statutes but not later than two years from the date of the passage of this act, be brought in any court which but for federal control would have had jurisdiction of the cause of action had it arisen against such carrier.' If the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company or the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, while operating its own line, had seized and used the coal as the United States did while they operated those roads, the jurisdiction of the State court of actions to recover damages or compensation would be clear. And so, under the Transportation Act, that court properly entertained the proceeding now before us.
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BRECON TOWN COUNCIL CELEBRATES COMMITMENT TO REAL LIVING WAGE
Brecon Town Council is a Living Wage employer.
Brecon Town Council is now an accredited Living Wage Employer and their Living Wage commitment will see everyone working for the Town Council receive a minimum hourly wage of £8.75. The rate is significantly higher than the government minimum for over 25s, which currently stands at £7.83 per hour.
Wales is a region with one of the highest proportions of non-Living Wage jobs in the country (24%), with around 268,000 jobs paying less than the real Living Wage. Despite this, Brecon Town Council has committed to pay the real Living Wage and deliver a fair day’s pay for a hard day’s work.
The real Living Wage is the only rate calculated according to the costs of living. It provides a voluntary benchmark for employers that wish to ensure their staff earn a wage they can live on, not just the government minimum. Since 2011 the Living Wage movement has delivered a pay rise to over 150,000 people and put over £600m extra into the pockets of low paid workers.
Cllr Matthew Dorrance, Chair of Staff and Employment Committee said:
“Brecon Town Council is proud to have achieved accreditation as a Living Wage employer.
“We are committed to ensuring our staff and contractors are paid at least the cost of living for the work they undertake.
“Our commitment is good for the local economy and shows our drive and passion for delivering social justice.”
Tess Lanning, Director, Living Wage Foundation said:
“We’re delighted that Brecon Town Council has joined the movement of over 4,400 responsible employers across the UK who voluntarily commit to go further than the UK government minimum to make sure all their staff earn enough to live on.
“They join thousands of small businesses, as well as household names such as IKEA, Heathrow Airport, Barclays, Chelsea and Everton Football Clubs and many more.
“These businesses recognise that paying the real Living Wage is the mark of a responsible employer and they, like Brecon Town Council, believe that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay.”
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Josh Gracin is a married man. He is married to Katie Weir. The couple exchanged wedding vows on May 6, 2017, in a private ceremony in the presence of close friends and family. The couple dated for some time before getting engaged in October 2015. He released a single titled, ‘Nothin’ Like Us’.
On July 10, 2019, the couple announced Katie’s pregnancy. Weir gave birth to the couple’s first child, a baby boy on January 13, 2020. They named him Luka Roman Gracin.
Previously, he was married to Ann Marie. They met in high school. Together, the couple has three daughters, Briana Marie Gracin(born March 30, 2002), Gabriella Ann Gracin(born November 15, 2006), and Isabella Sophia Gracin(born November 12, 2008). Also, they have a son named Landon Joshua Gracin who was born on August 4, 2005.
After his relationship with his wife turned sour, he wrote a suicide note on Facebook. However, he later said it was a poorly worded separation letter to his then-wife. After some time, they divorced.
Inside Biography
1 Who is Josh Gracin?
2 Josh Gracin: Age, Parents, Siblings, Family, Childhood, Ethnicity
3 Education: School/College, University
4 Josh Gracin: Professional Life, Career
5 Josh Gracin: Net Worth, Salary
6 Suicide Scare and Rumors
7 Body Measurements: Height, Weight
8 Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Who is Josh Gracin?
Josh Gracin is an American country music singer. He became well-known after finishing in the fourth-place in the second season of the American talent competition, American Idol. He is a former member of the United States Marine Corps.
Josh Gracin: Age, Parents, Siblings, Family, Childhood, Ethnicity
Josh Gracin was born on October 18, 1980, in Westland, Michigan. As of 2020, his age is 39. He was born to parents, Mario(father) and Brenda Gracin(mother). He is the only male child of his parents and has four sisters. Stacy, Melissa, April, and Kristen.
During his childhood days, he listened to the Beatles, Elvis, and some other vintage rock and pop music on a local station. However, when he has 11, the format changed to country and since then, he started listening to country songs.
When he was in the eighth-grade, he made his first public appearance and sang Brooks’ 1993 hit song, ‘Standing Outside the Fire’.
His ethnicity is Caucasian.
Education: School/College, University
Talking about his education, he went to John Glenn High School. Following his graduation from there, he joined Western Michigan University.
Josh Gracin: Professional Life, Career
Josh Gracin auditioned for the second season of American Idol in 2003. The talented singer made it to the finals and came in fourth place in the competition.
However, because of his commitment to the United States Marine Corps, he became unable to participate in the Idol Finalists tour in different American venues.
Then, he went on a one year tour as a recruiter and made appearances at special events around America to promote the Marine Corps. He completed his fourth year of service and was honorably discharged in September 2004.
He signed a record deal with Lyric Street Records in 2004 and released his debut album, Josh Gracin on June 15, 2004. The album was certified gold. It’s first three singles all reached the top five on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart of the Billboard.
He released his second album, ‘We Weren’t Crazy‘ on April 1, 2008. The third release of the album reached a peak of number 10 on the charts.
In January 2010, he signed with Average Joe’s Entertainment. His first single under the record company, ‘Cover Girl’ was released in August 2010. On November 8, 2011, he released his third album, ‘Redemption‘.
Josh Gracin: Net Worth, Salary
Josh Gracin has an estimated net worth of around $2 million. There is no information about his salary. However, an average American musician earns around $42k yearly. So, he might also be earning somewhere in the same region.
Suicide Scare and Rumors
In August 2014, one of Gracin’s post on Facebook hinted that the singer publicly announced that he was committing suicide. The post read,
“I’ve loved her for 17 years(referring to his then-wife, Ann Marie). I made mistakes… I admitted them, told her the truth and she turned her back on me when I needed her help the most… Please remember me as someone who gave his all in his music… Pray for my family as they carry on in this world without me. Goodbye.”
A family member reported it to the police and the police tracked him down and escorted him to the hospital. Four hours later, his manager revealed to his fans that he is safe. Later, on Facebook, he apologized to everyone and admitted that he was getting help.
Body Measurements: Height, Weight
He has brown hair and a pair of brown eyes. However, there is no information about his height and weight. He has not revealed his body measurements.
Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Josh Gracin is active on social media sites. He is active on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. He has around 33k followers on Twitter and around 223k followers on Facebook. Similarly, his Instagram account has around 42.7k followers.
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“House Of Cards” Or Real Life?: Here’s What’s Really Going On With The Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Posted on September 25, 2019 - By Charise Frazier
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On Tuesday Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would begin proceedings to formally investigate Trump based on an unnamed whistleblower’s accusation that he tried to strong-arm the President of Ukraine for his own political gain.
The process has been a long time coming for the Democrats, who initially were reluctant, even during the Mueller investigation which probed whether or not the Trump administration melded in the 2016 election alongside Russian officials. However, after an unknown whistleblower revealed that a concerning phone call took place between Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of the Ukraine in July, in regards to Joe Biden’s son Hunter, and his business dealings in the Ukraine.
This is the third time that a president has gone under impeachment proceedings in Congress, first with Andrew Jackson, then Bill Clinton and now Trump. President Nixon resigned before official impeachment proceedings could take place due to the Watergate scandal.
What happened:
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Trump believes that then Vice President Biden interfered with a Ukrainian investigation of his son Hunter after Vice President Biden was appointed to oversee the fallout from the Ukrainian revolution, which took place in 2014. Around that time Hunter Biden took a position as a board member at Burisma, Ukraine’s largest private gas company, where he was paid up to $50,000 a month according to a report by NPR. Earlier this spring, Hunter Biden stepped down as a board member at Burisma.
In the transcript of the phone call between Trump and Zelensky, which was released Wednesday morning by the Trump administration, Trump asked Zelensky to look into why the country’s top prosecutor had ended their investigation of Biden. The call took place on July 25.
“Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me,” Trump said to Zelensky during the 30-min phone call, according to NBC News.
After Zelensky tells Trump that he will appoint a new prosecutor to “look into the situation.” Not only that, the transcript also names Attorney General William Barr and Trump’s advisor Rudy Giuliani, who will also possibly face the heat of an investigation.
Trump believes that it was a conflict of interest and like the pot calling the kettle black, wants the Biden family to be investigated. There are murmurs that Trump reportedly threatened to withhold millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine over the matter, but that has not yet been proved. However, it could be inferred that Trump has concerns regarding the 2020 election and whether or not Biden will prove to be the Democratic frontrunner in the election.
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The chairmen of the below six committees in the House will pull together their own separate findings and present them to the presiding Judiciary Committee in the House as phase one. But there are some key players to look out for during the beginning and end stages of the investigation.
Speaker of the House: Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Judiciary Committee Chairmen: Rep. Jerrold “Jerry” Nadler (D-NY)
Intelligence Committee Chairmen: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Ways and Means Committee Chairmen: Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-MA)
Financial Services Committee Chairwoman: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Oversight and Foreign Affairs Chairmen: Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY)
Senate Majority Leader: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Senate Minority Leader: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Supreme Court Chief Justice: John Roberts
What’s next:
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The unnamed whistleblower who bought the call to the attention of Congress is scheduled to present a full report to the House by Thursday, after it goes through a classification review.
The House will bring together all of its committee findings to the Judiciary Committee who will then have to vote on the articles of impeachment. If it passes in the committee, the vote will then go to the floor of the House and will need a majority vote out of the 435 members to impeach. But, the proceedings would then move to the Senate for a conviction and a removal, which will be overseen by Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. To pass, the Senate requires two-thirds of the majority vote. Which means out of 100 senators, 67 would have to vote in favor.
Keep in mind, a sitting president has never faced conviction in the Senate to be officially removed from office.
Most of Black Twitter is hungover today from their #ImpeachmentParty last night, but everyday new information will make this a very long ride.
All in all, stay tuned.
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For a People-Centered Science: A Call to Action
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By Shannon Dosemagen
Less than thirty miles south of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River, LA-23 takes a southern turn through Belle Chasse, winds down past the Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery, to the communities of Ironton, Davant, and Myrtle Grove. The road becomes narrower, and the thin strip of land is bordered on one side by the Mississippi and the other by an intricate series of passageways through the wetlands. The wetlands have been created by a long history of sediment moved by natural processes and industrial dredging which has slowly increased saltwater intrusion.
Years ago, communities in the area began working with national green organizations and local nonprofits to organize against the expansion of a new coal export terminal, United Bulk, on the Mississippi River. Knowing that there would be detrimental effects on both human and ecological health if the project went forward, the coalition began fusing organizing strategies with data, focusing on the potential problems the expanded terminal could cause to wetlands restoration.
Standing on a nearby levee and lofting a camera attached to a kite, members of a newly formed coalition captured the first data point: a single image. This image showed the facility polluting on a “good weather day” (as opposed to bad weather day, where there are certain allowable levels of pollution that a facility can offload). Scott Eustis, who was at the time the Wetland Specialist at Gulf Restoration Network (now Healthy Gulf), called having this data,
a critical turning point in our understanding of the problems with United Bulk’s dock. With the kite, we saw a very close side view for the first time. The pile accumulating beneath the conveyor showed that the conveyor was moving material directly into the river, over multiple days. The accumulation into the form of the pile showed that this was a systemic problem related to their equipment, not some fluke of a shift worker or the wind.1
Because the coalition organized and collected data (from the kite flight and later from additional overflights), they were able to win $75,000 in fines against United Bulk, a halt on coal terminal expansion in the area, and stronger guidelines on containment and cleanup activities. Their success demonstrated the power of using scientific information toward community-identified ends.
Pairing science and data with organizing around local environmental and health concerns is at the heart of “community science.” Community science recognizes that the power of science for communities is not in generating data; it is in using science as a way to move toward social change. In doing so, science is incorporated as one tool among many that people can use in observing, exploring, critically analyzing, and answering questions about the places and communities in which they live.
It’s common to see the oversimplification of human complexity and processes in the pursuit of obtaining scientific information. In contrast, community science places deep relationship-building at the center of work. It is part of a broader landscape of the participatory sciences, a term I’m using to describe approaches that include involvement, leadership, and cooperation from the general public. The people-centered approach we take in community science is valuable and should be implemented everywhere science is practiced. This is not a call to do community science, but to collectively embrace and realign our priorities with human relationships over the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
Building A Practice of Community Science
I’ve spent my adult life working with groups and projects that incorporate science and inquiry to create systemic change. My work has spanned from using benthic sampling to raise awareness about invasive species in the Great Lakes to working with refinery communities in the Gulf South. Science can be used for a wide spectrum of activities—bringing awareness of wonder to the everyday, community organizing for change, extending and supporting collective social agency. I’ve engaged at all points along this spectrum, but for this conversation I’m emphasizing that organizing creates change, and that science can help facilitate and bring innovation to organizing in ways that deserve further exploration and consideration.
For the past decade, I have practiced community science with Public Lab. This nonprofit, which supports a global open community, came into existence during the 2010 BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in response to a corporate-controlled media blackout. The activities were organized around a simple premise—that people deserve information, and couldn’t know the impact under the restrictions of the blackout. Collective work used “community satellites” (point-and-shoot cameras attached to giant kites or balloons) to tell the story of how people experienced the disaster through images of areas in the region that people from the Gulf Coast were most concerned about. The reasoning behind this approach was that the resulting data would not be the end-all of our work, but that it would be able to tell a more compelling story that foregrounded the concerns of Gulf residents to the public.
Public Lab’s version of community science emphasizes and insists upon valuing people first and then using and collecting data, if applicable. This framing is about science serving communities rather than communities serving scientific inquiry. Science is used as a tool to support organizing activities. The model of community science stands in contrast to participatory models which interact with people as a means to the predetermined end of obtaining data for science. The way that Public Lab envisioned science and data as able to support change and social agency evolved as a critique of this model.
This is why Public Lab has disputed the use of terms such as citizen science as a label on our work. Definitions of citizen science arose around a similar time from two different fields, but with very different meanings. From social scientists came a definition describing how people could challenge the limitations of science through new forms of activity.2 From ecology, though, rose a definition that has become hegemonic: engagement by the public participating in scientific research that is led by professional researchers.3 In the popularized version, we learned during the BP oil disaster and with our work after, that models of participatory science—such as citizen science and crowdsourcing, where scientists and researchers pose research topics—were typically not focused on or helping to solve community concerns.
Learning from and building upon the frameworks that many before us have created, Public Lab has been instrumental in developing and popularizing community science as a science that stands both in contrast and as complement to citizen science. As more organizations and people become interested in this framing, we’re actively working with partners to better define and outline the principles of this methodology in the hope that more community organizations and scientific networks will adopt these strategies.
In Community Science, Science Isn’t Always the Answer
Science centered on people focuses not on science for the sake of science, but data that are appropriate for the different goals and needs that people have. For example, if the main goal is to start a conversation in a previously divided community on the topic of climate change mitigation, getting people talking first is perhaps a better strategy than starting with “doing” science. The surge of “civic technology” around 2008 to 2010 with an abundance of new digital mapping platforms, open-source software, and hardware tools—and the rise of do-it-yourself (DIY) and do-it-together methodology rapidly expanding the availability of tools to do environmental monitoring—certainly gave a boost to groups hoping to conduct engaged exploration of environmental conditions, but it did not replace the need for robust social organizing as the primary vehicle of change. An illuminating case in point is a fifteen-year ongoing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico caused by Taylor Energy.4 The Gulf Monitoring Consortium, an incredible group of committed industry watchdogs spent years building a case by collecting data and doing overflights of the site, but without calling for media attention and asserting public pressure in combination with the data collection, the leak would most likely still be capturing little national attention or traction in accelerating clean-up.5
The onset of the industrial era generated new challenges as industry encroached on workplaces and neighborhoods, negatively affecting air and water quality, and polluting residential neighborhoods with contaminants. Numerous groups employed strategies and organizing tactics, such as in the classic cases of Love Canal (New York) and Warren County (North Carolina), to address environmental and health injustices and the burgeoning number of polluted sites in which people were living. Key influencers of the community science methodology of pairing science and data with organizing come from groups that have for decades strategized the use of new tactics to strengthen organizing activities. These include the environmental health and justice movement and groups such as Communities for a Better Environment and the Bucket Brigade model popularized by the now-defunct Global Community Monitor in the 1990s. My previous background, training, and earliest experiences in community science were deeply influenced by the Bucket Brigade organizing strategy. In this model science and data are used to leverage organizing against environmental injustices, extending and augmenting voice and a critical vantage point backed by data to people impacted by industrial petrochemical operations.
Air sampling was only a piece of the Bucket Brigade strategy, even though the model centers on the symbolic technology of a physical bucket that can be used to take air samples. The core work was organizing and connecting social spaces to impacts wrought by the onslaught of industrial facilities. For instance, taking air samples from public spaces—the steps of a church or a school playground—connected the places where community exists in its most social forms to pollution coming from nearby petrochemical refining facilities. As we continue to learn today, air samples from the bucket sampler didn’t always move communities directly from the initial data gathering point to action or justice-driven goals, and it wasn’t necessarily the bucket that was the most critical tool for the job. It was the act of bringing the community together—talking about what people were experiencing, and combining odor logs and years of newspaper clippings to create stark narratives about industrial refining—that would support a movement toward change. The Bucket Brigade taught us that science and the collection or use of data did not always create community-based change, but could help accelerate and drive people toward actionable outcomes. Organizing created a network, knitting community members together through storytelling, relationships, and data that build momentum.
The community science model establishes a methodology that shifts the balance of power in favor of communities. Equipped with a multi-faceted toolset of organizing and facilitation skills and the additional capacity to create richer narratives because of increased access to, and use of, data and information, we can start building toward new paradigms.6 These paradigms will transition the use of science to facilitate and support change from a radical effort to a new normal in the participatory sciences for doing people-centered science.
Change Comes from Organizing, but Science Can Accelerate Transformation
We’ve reached a historical point where the rapidly increasing effects of the climate crisis are now being seen and felt at systemic levels. We need a social departure from the “leave it to the experts” mindset because change isn’t happening fast enough. Being able to use science as a tool for goal-oriented change (through making maps, measuring erosion, understanding the baseline before a new facility comes in) helps society remember how to ask questions, critically engage with information that is presented to us, and leverage our voices as we strive for social change. Science and observation help us understand the passage of time in our unique corners of the world. It is pairing data with observations and visual information. It is understanding how to match and compare new information with old, trying new strategies, and acknowledging what doesn’t work in an attempt to find what does.
We live in a world where the people who are turning political decisions into policy use the language of expertise, data, and science as tools of influence. Comprehensive models of science to support change can help people become part of these decisions. Building on direct, legal, or group action, rallies, and public meetings, we can use science and data as tools to support collective and individual agency. The application of science to support social change exemplifies both broader social and personal impacts:
Redistribute power. Scientific knowledge helps to redistribute power amongst people who may be affected by a given decision. It can help move us toward collective governance, or the ability to participate in governance decisions and structures.
Learn from one another’s strengths. Science can show things in new ways, many times linking the scientific with cultural, political, and deeper community-based narratives. Our understanding of the world is stronger when we can pair different knowledge systems. What is called science is often defined narrowly and precludes other forms of knowledge expressed in a different idiom (such as local, Indigenous knowledge and multigenerational site-based experience). It can provide opportunities for us to learn with each other, across generations and social barriers.
Find new ways to engage people. Science can help us look at problems differently, especially in the way that it moves us through a process of inquiry. It reminds us about the power of observation to question the status quo.
This is a call to embed science as a tactic for organizing and bringing about social change; it isn’t a call for the role and responsibility of government to be taken over by the public. It is, though, an acknowledgement that we live in a world in which industry is allowed to self-monitor. There are deficiencies in our regulatory agencies and limits to their capacity to thoroughly do their job. People must be equipped to be active agents in the conversations, decisions, and changes that are necessary for us to create a healthy society and way of living.
A Call for Action for the Participatory Sciences
There are problems we need to solve in the world of participatory science. We have the potential to vastly amplify the ability for change-focused science to become common, valued, and even part of traditional merit systems. Institutions of science and governance actively create barriers to this. Relationship-building takes longer than funding timelines usually allow. Federal funding requirements for working with “disenfranchised communities” can create uneven, problematic, and exploitative relationships. Researchers are valued for the number of papers they produce rather than how many people they help. People who have been living lives rife with environmental injustices often have solutions. They’ve found a better way forward with ways to unite and be allies and partners.
Scientists, funders, and government agencies need to work toward a resolution, but not in a top-down way. The knowledge and experience to address these structural barriers already exists in social movements for environmental and social justice. Scientific institutions should be listening to people who have worked to identify and call out moments when research creates hierarchical relationships rather than equitable partnerships. Principles for how we can be better partners to each other can be found in the deep social labor people have done to explain the foundational cracks in relationship structures and strategies for fixing them, from the environmental justice movement (e.g., Jemez Principles and Heaney and others’ Community- Owned and Managed Research7) to the problem with labelling people resilient without acknowledgement of the complexities of trauma as one transforms into the “resilient” person (see Eve Tuck’s brilliant letter on “Suspending Damage”8). There are also science networks and institutes that are making strides toward different scientific futures that are not bound and valued only by rapid advancement, but by being better to each other. Examples include the manifesto of the Global Open Science Hardware community, Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research guidelines for maintaining a feminist and anti-colonial lab, and many of the large scientific consortia that are including values and norms in the form of Codes of Conduct for community engagement such as the International Marine Conservation Congress.9
Establishing and putting in the labor needed to build trust-based, human-centered partnerships is far more complex than the data, science, and technology that can be used in support of community goals. This is a problem that must be addressed by a broader social rethinking of science at large. Though the work across participatory sciences takes many different forms, some potentially useful guiding considerations for all our work include:
Explore new perspectives. Recognize that science is political. Science grounded in rigor and integrity can also support change-based action. Envision a transparent and open science and apply it where possible.
Practice facilitation. Together, collectively learn key points of how to facilitate productive discussions and then build this in as part of your practice when you meet. Have ground rules for equitable communication and make sure multiple people have facilitation skills so that gatherings create moments of mutual direction.
Develop a shared vision. Identify the many different points and places where collaboration and expertise can be rebalanced. Recognize the layers of personal experience that we each bring and spend time engaging with aligning values and priorities.
Define processes and expectations. Cocreate values and codes for how to work together. Take care to not co-opt the way that other people work by placing labels or structures they are uncomfortable with on processes they follow. Enact agreements that help to define the distribution of resources and labor, and the ownership of data and products.
Proceed with deliberation. Investment in the social and emotional labor of horizontal relationship-building will lead to deeper ties from which to then organize. Focus on relationship-building, and growing trust by creating strong foundations before getting to what people call “the real work.” Building deep and impactful relationships is one of the hardest things to do and perhaps why so many people shy away from these critical foundations.
There has been an uptick in organizations and institutions building in new policies and initiatives for bringing equity and diversity into the workplace. Problematically, it has at times resulted in organizations that are versed in the language of equity and diversity, but unable to do the deep, systemic work needed to build it into daily practice. Similarly, people-centered, action-oriented work is high stakes and can have harmful effects if done incorrectly. It’s important to understand the capacity that it takes to do truly people-centered work and build in frameworks for accountability.
When Radical Becomes the New Normal
We should all be working toward being better collaborators, recognizing the multiple knowledge systems that exist, and being better allies in structuring relationships in a way that distributes power and lifts up individual social agency.10 Doing this will support us in collectively being equipped to tackle the ever-pressing social, environmental, and political issues of our time. Any new versions of participatory science should support this. Let’s collectively shift our use of science in public spaces from being radical to being the new normal for participatory science.
I write this as a collective call to action. The points outlined here are meant as a starting point on the path toward a future where there is mutual agreement across participatory sciences that fosters structural changes which need to happen. It will be a future where we are bound by a holistic vision of how the scientific world interacts with people. It will see models of science created by the public that are based on mutual agreements for how we collaborate. The labor of relationship-building will be valued. Science and knowledge will distribute power equitably among all people. Our new normal for participatory sciences will be truly people-centered.
Thank you to Dr. Max Liboiron and Dr. Gwen Ottinger for their time spent with me discussing and articulating ideas, and reviewing this article. Thank you to the Public Lab network and partners from which I learn every day.
Shannon Dosemagen is co-founder and executive director of Public Lab, one of the originators and organizers of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware, previous Chair of the Citizen Science Association and current Chair of the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology. Shannon has spent over fifteen years working with environmental and public health groups to address declining freshwater resources, coastal land loss, and building monitoring programs with communities living adjacent to industry.
Shannon Dosemagen and Gretchen Gehrke, “Civic Technology and Community Science: A New Model for Participation in Environmental Decisions,” Liinc em Revista 13, no. 1 (May 2017): 140- 161.
Alan Irwin, A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development (London: Routledge, 1995).
R. Bonney, et al., “Public Participation in Scientific Research: Defining the Field and Assessing Its Potential for Informal Science Education,” Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (2009).
As of this writing, the Taylor leak was still active. See Lisa Friedman, “New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says,” The New York Times, June 25, 2019.
See Bonny L. Schumaker, “Findings of Taylor Energy and Failures of the US Coast Guard,” On Wings of Care, April 26, 2015.
In a vast over-simplification of the concept of facilitation, I use this word to indicate the design, implementation and maintenance of ways in which people move through conversations, discussions and decisions in ways that seek common objectives or ways to navigate opposing perspectives on a topic.
“Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing,” 1996, EJnet.org, accessed July 20, 2019. Christopher Heaney, et al., “Use of community-owned and -managed research to assess the vulnerability of water and sewer services in marginalized and underserved environmental justice communities.” Journal of Environmental Health 74, no. 1 (2011): 8-17.
Eve Tuck, “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities,” Harvard Educational Review 79, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 409-427.
“GOSH Manifesto,” Gathering for Open Science Hardware, 2016, accessed July 21, 2019; “Methods,” Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research, accessed July 20, 2019; Nathan Bennett, et al., “An Appeal for a Code of Conduct for Marine Conservation,” Marine Policy 81 (July 2017): 411-418.
Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, et al., “Towards African and Haitian universities in service to sustainable local development: the contribution of fair open science,” in Contextualizing Openness: Situating Open Science, eds. Leslie Chan, Angela Okune, Becky Hillyer, Denisse Albornoz, and Alejandro Posada (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, in press).
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23andMe Asks About DNA
A new survey found that most Americans are interested in using DNA testing to understand more about their health and ancestry, but the national survey also revealed a need for better education around the science of genetics.
Commissioned by 23andMe, the survey found that people had a strong interest in genetics, but that interest was out ahead of their understanding of the science. Many people still struggle with basic genetic concepts, according to the survey. This gap in genetic literacy follows similar findings around the need for improved science literacy in the United States.
Thao Do, PhD, 23andMe Education and Academia Program Manager, sees that gap between interest in genetics and knowledge about genetics as an opportunity, for engaging with people on the science.
“It presents an opportunity to educate people in fun and interesting ways,” said Thao.
Genetic testing itself offers people an engaging way not just to learn more about their health and ancestry, but also the science behind their results.
The survey offered some striking contrasts between people expressing a strong desire to tap into potential insights obtained by genetic testing, while at the same time illustrating that they did not fully understand the science behind the tests. For example, nearly three-fourths of those surveyed (74 percent) said they were interested in testing, but about the same percentage of people (75 percent) didn’t know that humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
But most most Americans, about 77 percent, know that genetics plays a role in the risk for certain diseases, and about 90 percent of respondents knew that DNA testing could inform them about their ancestry. The vast majority of Americans, 94 percent, said that whether it is information about their health, or ancestry, or traits, that they feel they have a right to at-home DNA testing to directly access this type of genetic information.
23andMe partnered with Kelton Global to generate the 23andMe DNA Survey, which was conducted between July 5th, 2017 and July 12th, 2017 among 1,000 nationally representative Americans ages 18+, using an e-mail invitation and an online survey, with a margin of error of +/- 3.1%.
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UCLA will advance children’s health with latest gift from Shapiro family
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has received $2.257 million from Ralph, Shirley, Peter and Alison Shapiro to support four endowed chairs in the department of pediatrics.
The chairs will help UCLA recruit and retain faculty in pediatrics who are focused on enhancing quality of life for children with cerebral palsy, autism, and other developmental and behavioral challenges. The gift bolsters support for an endowed chair the Shapiros established earlier, and it will create three new additional term chairs that will benefit faculty for five-year terms.
The original Shapiro Family Term Chair in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and Cerebral Palsy, currently held by assistant clinical professor Dr. Irene Koolwijk, helps strengthen training. The Peter Shapiro Term Chair for Enhancing Children's Developmental and Behavioral Health will support faculty in training health care providers, creating curricula and developmental screening tools, and leading national and international initiatives.
The gift also will advance clinical care through the Alison Shapiro Term Chair for Children's Cognitive Development and support research through the Ronald and Susan Cohen Term Chair in Childhood Development and Cerebral Palsy. The latter was funded through a partnership between the Shapiros and United Cerebral Palsy of Los Angeles to honor Ronald Cohen, who is retiring after more than 30 years as UCPLA’s president and CEO.
"UCLA is proud to continue collaborating with the Shapiro family to accelerate innovation in children’s health and improve the lives of children with developmental and behavioral challenges," said Dr. Sherin Devaskar, Mattel Executive Endowed Chair of the department of pediatrics at the Geffen School of Medicine and physician-in-chief of UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital. "The endowed chairs the Shapiros have funded will enable UCLA to recruit and retain faculty in the field, and they are testaments to the Shapiro family's philanthropic leadership in providing enhanced care and services for individuals with disabilities."
The chairs complement each other and extend the Shapiros' long-standing commitment to improve care for people with disabilities. The Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Fellowship Fund provides for first-year fellows in developmental–behavioral pediatrics. The family also has established endowments at the UCLA School of Dentistry, UCLA School of Nursing, and department of orthopaedic surgery to promote the well-being of people with developmental disabilities throughout their lives.
"Society has a responsibility to care for the most vulnerable individuals and families," said Peter Shapiro, president of the Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation, which he founded with his parents, Ralph and Shirley, and his sister Alison. "Our partnership with UCLA empowers faculty and students with the knowledge to meet that need."
Ralph Shapiro was a longtime member of the UCLA Foundation board of directors and has served on many other UCLA advisory councils. He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration in 1953 and his law degree in 1958, both from UCLA. His wife, Shirley, who received her bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1959, serves on the boards of UCLA Women and Philanthropy, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
The Shapiros' latest gift is part of the $4.2 billion UCLA Centennial Campaign, which is scheduled to conclude in December 2019 during UCLA's 100th anniversary year.
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Two sectarian terrorists freed by Punjab government – by Rauf Klasra
posted by Abdul Nishapuri | March 6, 2010 | In Newspaper Articles, Original Articles
The controversial Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, who is notorious for his pro-Taliban tendencies, has facilitated the release of two convicted terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) at the request of Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif.
PML-N has now formalized its alliance with the outlawed terrorist organisation, Sipah-e-Sahaba (formally associated with Al Qaeda and Taliban) in the forthcoming by-elections in Jhang. This alliance has been enacted through Rana Sanaullah’s joint public rallies with the central leaders of Sipah-e-Sahaba, in which sectarian slogans (Shia Kafir etc) were openly displayed and chanted.
In the following news item, Rauf Klasra provides details of this story also in the light of Governor Punjab’s formal complaint to the Chief Minister.
Two convicted SSP terrorists freed by Punjab government
By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: An official letter from Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif reveals that the Punjab government released two convicted terrorists of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) — Talib Qiamat and Siddiqui Jopoo apprehended by an intelligent agency in 1992 — ahead of the by-election in PP-82 (Jhang) to get their support in by-elections. The governor has demanded drastic action against the Law Minister Rana Sanaullah under Anti Terrorism Act-1997.
Governor Taseer warned Shahbaz Sharif that the Punjab could not be seen “encouraging and patronising the anti-state agenda of proclaimed terrorists”. In the three-page letter, Taseer has asked Shahbaz Sharif to take action against Law Minister Rana Sanaullah under the Anti Terrorism Act 1997, for his recent public meetings and address to rallies in Jhang accompanied by known terrorists of the banned SSP.
One source said that these two convicted terrorists were released under a deal to get votes of the SSP in Jhang to win the by-election. But the governor’s letter did not give any detail in this regard. Taseer has even accused the Punjab government of not only defying the federal government’s policy on terrorism but putting the peace of the sensitive region like Jhang in jeopardy by joining hands with the banned SSP just for the sake of securing their votes.
Governor Taseer has also asked the chief election commissioner to take action against the law minister for indulging in this kind of activity, which was a direct violation of the code of conduct for the political parties and contesting candidates.
The copies of the letter have been sent to President Zardari, PM Gilani and Minister for Interior Rehman Malik. The governor’s spokesman, Farrukh Shah, confirmed to The News that Taseer has written a letter to the CM Punjab, asking him to take action against his law minister after his recent public meetings in the company of the SSP activists.
He said he was writing to him (CM) to invite his attention to the press reports. He said one of the photographs published in the newspapers showed Sanaullah visiting the PP-82 constituency in the Punjab Police vehicle accompanied by Sipah-e-Sahaba activists ,who were displaying arms in public. He wrote that during his visit, the law minister met the chief of the banned organisation and took him to the election rallies in official vehicles of the Punjab government escorted by the Punjab Police.
“This position, you would agree, not only casts serious doubts about the credentials of the minister but also jeopardises the Punjab government’s declared stand on terrorism. It has sent shockwaves to all the quarters concerned with the present security situation in the country besides starting a heated debate and protest in the National Assembly.”
In the recent session, MNA Sheikh Waqas Akram complained that by taking such steps, the Punjab government was giving a message to the people that full protocol was being extended to the banned organisation and its leaders. Another MNA from PML-N Rasheed Akbar Naiwani also recorded his protest on the activities of the Punjab law minister. The governor pointed out that after the visit of the minister, flags of the banned organisation were appearing all over Jhang and Sargodha with no attempt by the local police to remove them as, ostensibly, they have the blessing of the provincial government. “To see the provincial law minister openly rallying activists of this proscribed organisation for political advantage is a sad message to the people of the province.”
The letter further said, “What is worse is that the minister has publicly admitted his activities with the claim that they have political support and therefore he is justified. Using same perverted logic, politicians can go to Malakand and support the terrorists there. These activities of the minister clearly flout the provisions of the Anti Terrorism Act 1997.”
Quoting from the anti terrorism law 1997, the letter said, the Section 11-F says: “A person is guilty of an offence if he belongs or professes to belong to a proscribed organisation; 2) a person guilty of an offence shall be liable to conviction to a term not exceeding six months of imprisonment; 3) a person commits offence if he solicits or invites support for a proscribed organisation or addresses a meeting which he knows is to support a proscribed organisation, further the activities of a proscribed organisation or to be addressed by a person who belongs or professes to belong to proscribed organisation; 4) a person commits an offence if he addresses a meeting or delivers a sermon to a religious gathering by any means whether verbal, written, electronic, digital or otherwise and the purpose of his address or sermon is to encourage support for a proscribed organisation or to further its activities.”
The governor wrote the unlawful act on the part of the provincial law minister also constituted a blatant violation of the code of conduct for the political parties and contesting candidates which says the political parties shall not propagate any opinion or act in any manner prejudicial to the ideology of Pakistan or the sovereignty, integrity or security of Pakistan. “I am of the firm opinion that canvassing by Rana Sanaullah with this group has further endangered the already fragile sectarian peace in and around the sensitive district Jhang”.
Source: The News
Rana Sanaullah’s pictures with leader of banned outfit surface
Upadated on: 06 Mar 10 10:13 PM
LAHORE: The pictures of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah with banned outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba leader Mohammad Ahmed Ludhyanvi have come on screen on Saturday.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has got the support of banned outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba in the by-polls in Jhang.
Rana Sanaullah had visited Jhang few days back and held meeting with banned outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba leader Mohammad Ahmed Ludhyanvi for getting support for by-polls at PP-82. Later on, Punjab Law Minister had also participated in the gathering of Sipah-e-Sahaba. The people present in the gathering of banned outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba were openly showing arms and chanting the sectarian based slogans.
Rana Sanaullah have not taken notice of the whole issue.
Later on, Governor Punjab Salman Taseer has demanded Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif to take action against Rana Sanaullah on the basis of the Anti Terrorism Act. SAMAA
Source: Samaa News
PML-N the Taliban midwife
Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba’s attack on Eid Milad-un-Nabi rallies: This is not sectarianism; this is terrorism.
Thanks to PML-N, sectarian violence may revisit Punjab
Rana Sanaullah has ties with sectarian terrorists? Shame on you, PML-N
Tags: Jhang, Justice Khawaja Sharif, Lahore, PMLN, PMLN’s support to ASWJ LeJ Taliban AlQaeda LeT, Rana Sanaullah, Sectarianism, Shahbaz Sharif, Shia Genocide & Persecution, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) & Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) & Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), Terrorism
Abdul Nishapuri
PSF Lahore
Given the current pro-sectarian and pro-Taliban activities of the PML-N government in Punjab, the international community must force Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif to explicitly state their policies on sectarianism and terrorism.
- March 7, 2010
Aamir Mughal
US helped ISI create extremists: Petraeus Sunday, March 07, 2010
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=27658
WASHINGTON: Noting that Pakistan has made significant progress in its fight against extremism that threatens its existence, a top US military general has refused the certificate of “American satisfaction” to Islamabad in its war against terrorism.
“I wouldn’t allow you to put words in my mouth,” General David Petraeus, Commander of the US Central Command told Charlie Rose of the PBS in an interview when he asked: “So the bottom line is you are satisfied with the Pakistani effort and the Pakistani cooperation and the Pakistani effort to wipe out the Taliban in Pakistan?”
Rose posed such a question to Petraeus, when the American general was praising Pakistan for its recent success against the Taliban and arrest of its top leaders inside the country. “What I would say is that Pakistan has made significant progress in its fight against extremists threatening its existence. And there is a growing recognition that the other extremist elements, also in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, have a symbiotic relationship with the tribal areas threatening them, and over time they are dealing with them as well,” Petraeus said.
“But, again, look, we have a chequered past with Pakistan, and we need to be up front about it and recognise it. We’ve walked away from that country three different times, including after Charlie Wilson’s war after we established the Mujahideen,” he said.
“Our money, Saudi money, others joined together, helped the ISI, indeed, form these elements which then went in and threw the Soviets out of Afghanistan with our weaponry. And then we left and they were holding the bag,” he said, acknowledging that it was the US which helped ISI to form these extremist elements. General Petraeus, however, acknowledged that the interests of Pakistan and the US differ in Afghanistan. He said Pakistan and the US has the same interest in Afghanistan in not allowing al-Qaeda to re-establish safe havens. “But it also has an interest that is somewhat different than ours, and that is their strategic depth and always has been for a country that’s very narrow and has its historic enemy to its east. So again, we just have to appreciate this.
“This is not unique, of course, just to Afghanistan and Pakistan and throughout the world. We have interests, they have interests. What we want to do is find the conversion interest, understand where they are divergent and try to make progress together,” Petraeus said.
PML-N’s links with Sipah-e-Sahaba in Faisalabad and Jhang are paying off.
Previously, the Sipah-e-Sahaba attacked the Eid Milad-un-Nabi rallies in Faisalabad and Sargodha.
Today, suspected sectarian terrorists on a motor bike kill a policeman in Faisalabad.
http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/mar2010-daily/07-03-2010/u23310.htm
Carry on the sectarian and jihadi agenda, Nawaz Sharif.
Speaking at the annual exhibition of paintings and graphic arts at Alhamra Art Gallery, the governor said that Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan was “roaming in police vehicles with terrorists sitting by his side”. He said this blossoming of terrorism under the umbrella of the Law Ministry was strange and will lead to a perception among the masses that it was ok to be an extremist.
The governor quoting the law minister said the PML-N was joining hands with the Sipah-e-Sahaba because it had a massive following and a massive vote bank and its support made perfect political sense. The governor questioned this logic, saying if this was the only criterion to side with a group, than the PLM-N would be forming a coalition with the Taliban in Bajaur and Waziristan because they too enjoy a healthy vote bank in these areas.
The governor said it was not difficult to understand the agenda of the people who would go this far to pursue their lust for power. He said PML-N’s method of campaigning for upcoming polls was in clear violation of Election Commission rules and the constitution. He said these violations called for serious punitive action.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=227601
Jhang fears return of sectarian violence
PML-N sees no harm in seeking banned outfit’s blessing
By Khalid Hurral & Babar Dogar
JHANG/LAHORE: A defunct sectarian organisation, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), is rearing its head again and its leader’s participation in an election rally in PP-82 constituency, along with Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, has sent shivers down the spines of citizens here, who have seen sectarian bloodshed for over a decade before it subsided in 2002.
The city has witnessed inauguration of development projects by the chief of the defunct organisation. One can see SSP’s flags across the city, and all this is going on under the nose of the administration and police.
In the last general elections, Jhang voters rejected the SSP candidate and, for the first time in two decades, the SSP failed to secure any seat in the district. However, people allege that MPA Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoob, who won from the Pakistan Muslim League-Q platform, switched over to the Pakistan Muslim League-N and started backing the defunct organisation. Yaqoob denies he ever patronised the banned organisation.
People allege that local authorities, especially police, were turning a blind eye to the resurrecting outfit and show of force by its gun-toting activists.
Officials deny this charge when they are asked to explain the unchecked display of firearms. Some of the officials, however, do admit that the situation is alarming, but they refuse to say anything on record.
Their fear is not unfathomable. A few months back when some miscreants, allegedly belonging to the banned party, burnt a train and the government and private offices and property, police launched a crackdown on the law-breakers. However, later, the transfers of the district police chief and the city SHOs put them in a passive mode and they started showing reluctance in continuing the investigation into the cases of arson.
When they are reminded that the law is being flouted publicly and they are inactive, their response is usually a counter question: “Do you think we are greater protectors of the law than the law minister. Go and put this question to the law minister and the PML-N lawmakers.”
Sources revealed that the district police have discharged many SSP activists from the Fourth Schedule. Nowadays, the SSP leaders can be seen moving in the city with masked gunmen around. DPO Sultan Ahmed Chaudhry told The News he had sought a report from the police concerned about the SSP’s activities. After getting the report, he added, he would be able to say anything on the issue. He said the police were performing their duties according to the law.
When asked how come development projects had the names of a proscribed outfit’s chief, District Officer Roads Aslam Khan claimed he never issued any orders to that effect. When contacted, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah admitted that the SSP was a banned organisation and majority of its activists involved in criminal activities had been nabbed by the law-enforcing agencies. He said the organisation still had a huge following, who are not involved in any criminal activity. About Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi, he said he was a runner-up in the 2008 general election, and he had grabbed 45,000 votes against the PML-Q’s Sheikh Waqas Akram.
“If Maulana Ludhianvi was an activist of the banned organisation, why he was allowed to contest the 2008 election?” He alleged that PPP’s Federal Minister Tasneem Qureshi had invited the Maulana to a lunch at his Sargodha residence to seek his support for the PPP candidate in Jhang by-polls. He claimed that some provincial and federal ministers of the PPP had also visited the Jhang residence of Maulana Ludhianvi to seek his support.
Nevertheless, he said, Maulana Ludhianvi, on his request, had decided to support the PML-N candidate, Azam Chela, and made an announcement in this regard at a public meeting, which was also attended by him (minister).
The minister said the PML-N had made him the in-charge of the election campaign in Jhang and he was present along with Maulana Ludhianvi at the public meeting. Moreover, he said, Sheikh Waqas Akram was supporting the PPP candidate in the Jhang by-polls and he was behind all this propaganda, to win over the Shia community votes and to neutralise Maulana Ludhianvi’s support for the PML-N candidate.
He claimed that he was not afraid of the propaganda as he had done nothing illegal or wrong. He further claimed that Federal Ministers Qamar Zaman Kaira, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and all provincial ministers, including Senior Minister Raja Riaz, were striving to win the support for their candidate and indulging in propaganda against him. He stated that Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer had also announced a visit to the constituency.
The minister’s view that the SSP chief was an electoral candidate raises a serious question: “Isn’t it a dereliction of duty on part of our state apparatus that a defunct outfit’s leaders went through the pre-election scrutiny?”
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Posted: September 7, 2016 in book birthday, new release, Uncategorized
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David B. Coe won the William L. Crawford Memorial Award for best new fantasy author for his The LonTobyn Chronicles back in 1999. Since then he’s gone on to publish the Winds of the Forelands and Blood of the Southlands fantasy series with Tor Books, the Case Files of Justis Fearsson (SPELL BLIND, HIS FATHER’S EYES and SHADOW’S BLADE) with Baen Books and his Thieftaker historical fantasy series described as “Sam Adams meets the Dresden Files” under the pseudonym D.B. Jackson (also Tor). Kirkus Reviews calls his work “innovative and engaging” as well as “thoroughly engrossing”. His work has also been called “amazing” (Kat Richardson), “evocative and captivating” (AuthorLink) and “a tour de force” (Faith Hunter). I could, of course, go on and on.
David and I have worked together for lo these many years, and he’s recently come full circle with his very first novel, CHILDREN OF AMARID, just reissued and the sequels, THE OUTLANDERS and EAGLE-SAGE also in the works. Thus, I asked him, as a veteran of the industry, what he’s learned between then and now, and he’s here to share his insight!
I have recently edited and reissued my very first novel, Children of Amarid, the opening volume in my LonTobyn Chronicle. I call this reissue the Author’s Edit (like the Director’s Cut of a movie) because I took the opportunity to fix many of the first-novel flaws I saw in the book and have wanted to edit out since its publication. It’s not that the book as originally written was bad. Children of Amarid established me commercially and critically, and the series won me the Crawford Fantasy Award. But still, those rookie mistakes bugged me; fixing them has been great fun, not to mention satisfying. The Author’s Edits of the second and third books, The Outlanders and Eagle-Sage, will be released in October and December.
Children of Amarid was first published in 1997, which is a really, really long time ago. The person who wrote that book must be, you know, old. Not “Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner” old, but at least venerable. Perhaps even vintage. Certainly grizzled.
I’m not sure I was ever the Hot New Thing in Fantasy, but if I was, I’m definitely not anymore, and haven’t been for a while. On the other hand, at this point I’m a Survivor, someone who’s Been Around Forever and Seen It All. And I suppose that’s kind of cool.
The fact is, I have seen a lot. The publishing industry isn’t known for being particularly quick to change, and yet over the course of my career I’ve seen remarkable transformations touching on everything from stylistic norms of writing, to genre and subgenre categories, to the way books are sold and read.
I started writing Children of Amarid in 1993 and sold the novel to Tor Books in the spring of 1994, based on five chapters and an outline. (Because the book wasn’t finished, needed a good deal of editing, and then had to be slotted into Tor’s publication schedule, it took another three years for it to be published.) I bring up these dates because 1993 and 1994 were significant years in publishing in general and speculative fiction in particular.
But let me back up just a bit. When I first published my LonTobyn books, I did what every writer would do automatically today: I created a website. The thing is, when I did it websites were a big deal. I would tell people I was a writer and would get in response the 1990s version of “Meh.” But when I then added that I had my own website, people would be, like, “Oooohhhh! You have a website?!” As if I’d said, “I have a unicorn.” But already the world was changing. In 1994, as I was signing my contract with Tor and finishing my book, some guy out in Seattle was starting an online bookstore unlike any we’d seen before. The guy’s name was Jeff Bezos, and he called his store Amazon.
The LonTobyn Chronicle is alternate world epic fantasy, because back in 1993 when I started it, that’s what I loved to read and that’s what I assumed people meant when they talked about “fantasy.” But that same year a book came out that would change “fantasy” forever, and would influence profoundly the course of my writing career. Laurell K. Hamilton’s Guilty Pleasures, the first of her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels, ushered in a new trend in speculative fiction, introducing readers to what we now think of as urban fantasy. Hamilton’s books combined horror, noir detective stories, and romance in a way that made possible the novels of Kim Harrison, Jim Butcher, Faith Hunter, Patricia Briggs, and so many others, including my Thieftaker Chronicles, a historical urban fantasy series that I write as D.B. Jackson, and my Case Files of Justis Fearsson, a contemporary urban fantasy that I write under my own name.
What about those stylistic changes I mentioned? When I got into the business, editors and writers were just moving away from two things that authors used a ton in the 70s and 80s and use very little now: omniscient point of view and said bookisms. The former is a narrative voice in which the author gives readers access to the thoughts and emotions of several characters at a time, something we now refer to, and not kindly, as head-hopping. Said bookisms are those words we use in dialog attribution instead of “said” or “asked.” “He opined,” “she growled,” “he hissed,” “she inquired,” etc. Again, in today’s market, these are considered a sign of poor writing, of “telling” rather than “showing.” Looking through books published in the 80s and 90s, you’ll also find far more adverbs than you would in a book published today. Literary style, like car design and clothes fashion, changes over time.
In the early 2000s, bookstores decided that they wanted to fit more books on their shelves and keep book price points at a certain level, and so they told publishers that they preferred shorter novels. My first five novels — the three LonTobyn books and the first two volumes of my Winds of the Forelands series — each came in at over 200,000 words. Now my publisher wanted to know if I could cut the remaining two Forelands books in half. I couldn’t, but I was able to find a way to turn the two remaining novels in the series into three somewhat shorter books. My Blood of the Southlands books came in at 140,000 words. My Thieftaker and Fearsson novels are all between 100,000 and 110,000.
Of course, with the advent of ebooks, book length has become less of an issue. Big books are back in style — ask George R.R. Martin, or Patrick Rothfuss, or any number of others who are writing novels to rival the length of the epic fantasies I remember reading in my twenties. In many respects, digital books have brought on a publishing revolution that goes far beyond book length — widespread self-publishing, e-readers that can hold entire libraries and fit in a pocket, a resurgence in short fiction markets. And yet, in other ways, digital books have had less impact than one might have expected. According to some forecasts made a decade ago, paper books were supposed to be extinct by now. Just like vinyl records . . . Yeah, just like. Instead, they continue to make up more than half of all book sales in the United States. People, it turns out, like to read traditional books. Most readers are hybrids, using ebook readers for convenience, but maintaining a paper library for those books they truly love.
Charting the changes that have overtaken the publishing world in the past twenty years could fill a book of its own — a big one. And this post is already long enough. But I would leave you with a couple of thoughts. Despite the evolution of — and revolution in — publishing that we hear so much about, notwithstanding predictions of doom and gloom for the written word, several essential truths persist: Good stories continue to sell; compelling, well-conceived characters continue to drive every good story; and previously unpublished writers continue to fascinate us with new, exciting characters.
Books can take us everywhere, and with ereaders, we can do the same with them. But the written word isn’t going anywhere. It’s here to stay.
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Bobby Hunter (@rshunter88) says:
I had no idea that omniscient POV stuck around until the early 90s. I wonder if that will ever make a comeback.
Omniscient =/= head-hopping. Head-hopping is when the narrative abruptly switches POV, often without any indication that it’s doing so, and often just as abruptly switching back to the original narrative POV.
Stephen King does it for a sentence or two in Hearts in Atlantis, and for some reason it was never edited out.
Now, I’ll agree there was an anti-head-hopping movement that put a chill on third-person omniscient, but they are not and never were the same thing. That this disinformation continues to circulate is disquieting.
luciennediver says:
Head-hopping is really any time you know what more than one character is thinking in a scene. Omniscient leaves room for this because there’s no single viewpoint character, and so sometimes the focus switches from one to another, essentially hopping heads.
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GPS enhancement refers to techniques used to improve the accuracy of positioning information provided by the Global Positioning System, a network of satellites used for navigation.
Enhancement methods of improving accuracy rely on external information being integrated into the calculation process. There are many such systems in place and they are generally named or described based on how the GPS sensor receives the information. Some systems transmit additional information about sources of error (such as clock drift, ephemeris, or ionospheric delay), others provide direct measurements of how much the signal was off in the past, while a third group provide additional navigational or vehicle information to be integrated in the calculation process.
Examples of augmentation systems include the Wide Area Augmentation System, Differential GPS, Inertial Navigation Systems and Assisted GPS.
2 Precise monitoring
3 Real-time Kinematic Positioning
4 Timekeeping
5 Carrier phase tracking (surveying)
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based system for navigation. Receivers on or near the earth's surface can determine their locations based on signals received from any four or more of the satellites in the network.
All satellites in the work broadcast on the same two frequencies, known as L1 (1575.42 MHz) and L2 (1227.60 MHz). The network uses code division multiple access (CDMA) to allow separate messages from the individual satellites to be distinguished. Two distinct CDMA encodings are used: the coarse/acquisition (C/A) code, which is accessible by the general public, and the precise (P) code, that is encrypted so that only the U.S. military can access it. The messages sent from each satellite contain information ranging from the satellite health, the satellite's orbital path, the clock state of the satellite, and the configuration of the entire satellite network.
Precise monitoring[edit | edit source]
The accuracy of a calculation can also be improved through precise monitoring and measuring of the existing GPS signals in additional or alternate ways.
After Selective Availability was turned off by the U.S. government, the largest error in GPS was usually the unpredictable delay through the ionosphere. The spacecraft broadcast ionospheric model parameters, but they are necessarily imperfect. This is one reason the GPS spacecraft transmit on at least two frequencies, L1 and L2. Ionospheric delay is a well-defined function of frequency and the total electron content (TEC) along the path, so measuring the arrival time difference between the frequencies determines TEC and thus the precise ionospheric delay at each frequency.
Receivers with decryption keys can decode the P(Y)-code transmitted on both L1 and L2. However, these keys are reserved for the military and authorized agencies and are not available to the public. Without keys, it is still possible to use a codeless technique to compare the P(Y) codes on L1 and L2 to gain much of the same error information. However, this technique is slow, so it is currently limited to specialized surveying equipment. In the future, additional civilian codes are expected to be transmitted on the L2 and L5 frequencies (see GPS modernization). Then all users will be able to perform dual-frequency measurements and directly compute ionospheric delay errors.
A second form of precise monitoring is called Carrier-Phase Enhancement (CPGPS).[citation needed] The error, which this corrects, arises because the pulse transition of the PRN is not instantaneous, and thus the correlation (satellite-receiver sequence matching) operation is imperfect. The CPGPS approach utilizes the L1 carrier wave, which has a period of
which is about one-thousandth of the C/A Gold code bit period of
to act as an additional clock signal and resolve the uncertainty. The phase difference error in the normal GPS amounts to between 2 and 3 meters (6 to 10 ft) of ambiguity. CPGPS working to within 1% of perfect transition reduces this error to 3 centimeters (1 inch) of ambiguity. By eliminating this source of error, CPGPS coupled with DGPS normally realizes between 20 and 30 centimeters (8 to 12 inches) of absolute accuracy.
Real-time Kinematic Positioning[edit | edit source]
Main article: Real-time Kinematic Positioning
Real-time Kinematic Positioning (RKP) is another approach for a precise GPS-based positioning system. In this approach, determination of range signal can be resolved to a precision of less than 10 centimeters (4 in). This is done by resolving the number of cycles in which the signal is transmitted and received by the receiver. This can be accomplished by using a combination of differential GPS (DGPS) correction data, transmitting GPS signal phase information and ambiguity resolution techniques via statistical tests—possibly with processing in real-time.
Timekeeping [edit | edit source]
While most clocks are synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the atomic clocks on the satellites are set to GPS time. The difference is that GPS time is not corrected to match the rotation of the Earth, so it does not contain leap seconds or other corrections which are periodically added to UTC. GPS time was set to match Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in 1980, but has since diverged. The lack of corrections means that GPS time remains at a constant offset with International Atomic Time (TAI) (TAI - GPS = 19 seconds). Periodic corrections are performed on the on-board clocks to correct relativistic effects and keep them synchronized with ground clocks.
The GPS navigation message includes the difference between GPS time and UTC, which as of 2009 is 15 seconds due to the leap second added to UTC December 31, 2008. Receivers subtract this offset from GPS time to calculate UTC and specific timezone values. New GPS units may not show the correct UTC time until after receiving the UTC offset message. The GPS-UTC offset field can accommodate 255 leap seconds (eight bits) which, given the current rate of change of the Earth's rotation (with one leap second introduced approximately every 18 months), should be sufficient to last until approximately the year 2300.
As opposed to the year, month, and day format of the Gregorian calendar, the GPS date is expressed as a week number and a seconds-into-week number. The week number is transmitted as a ten-bit field in the C/A and P(Y) navigation messages, and so it becomes zero again every 1,024 weeks (19.6 years). GPS week zero started at 00:00:00 UTC (00:00:19 TAI) on January 6, 1980, and the week number became zero again for the first time at 23:59:47 UTC on August 21, 1999 (00:00:19 TAI on August 22, 1999). To determine the current Gregorian date, a GPS receiver must be provided with the approximate date (to within 3,584 days) to correctly translate the GPS date signal. To address this concern the modernized GPS navigation message uses a 13-bit field, which only repeats every 8,192 weeks (157 years), thus lasting until the year 2137 (157 years after GPS week zero).
Carrier phase tracking (surveying)[edit | edit source]
Utilizing the navigation message to measure pseudorange has been discussed. Another method that is used in GPS surveying applications is carrier phase tracking. The period of the carrier frequency times the speed of light gives the wavelength, which is about 0.19 meters for the L1 carrier. With a 1% of wavelength accuracy in detecting the leading edge, this component of pseudorange error might be as low as 2 millimeters. This compares to 3 meters for the C/A code and 0.3 meters for the P code.
However, this 2 millimeter accuracy requires measuring the total phase, that is the total number of wavelengths plus the fractional wavelength. This requires specially equipped receivers. This method has many applications in the field of surveying.
We now describe a method which could potentially be used to estimate the position of receiver 2 given the position of receiver 1 using triple differencing followed by numerical root finding, and a mathematical technique called least squares. A detailed discussion of the errors is omitted in order to avoid detracting from the description of the methodology. In this description differences are taken in the order of differencing between satellites, differencing between receivers, and differencing between epochs. This should not be construed to mean that this is the only order which can be used. Indeed other orders of taking differences are equally valid.
The satellite carrier total phase can be measured with ambiguity as to the number of cycles. Let denote the phase of the carrier of satellite j measured by receiver i at time . This notation has been chosen so as to make it clear what the subscripts i, j, and k mean. In view of the fact that the receiver, satellite, and time come in alphabetical order as arguments of and to strike a balance between readability and conciseness, let so as to have a concise abbreviation. Also we define three functions, : which perform differences between receivers, satellites, and time points respectively. Each of these functions has a linear combination of variables with three subscripts as its argument. These three functions are defined below. If is a function of the three integer arguments, i, j, and k then it is a valid argument for the functions, : , with the values defined as
Also if are valid arguments for the three functions and a and b are constants then is a valid argument with values defined as
Receiver clock errors can be approximately eliminated by differencing the phases measured from satellite 1 with that from satellite 2 at the same epoch.[1] This difference is designated as
Double differencing can be performed by taking the differences of the between satellite difference observed by receiver 1 with that observed by receiver 2.[2] The satellite clock errors will be approximately eliminated by this between receiver differencing. This double difference is:
Triple differencing can be performed by taking the difference of double differencing performed at time with that performed at time .[3] This will eliminate the ambiguity associated with the integral number of wavelengths in carrier phase provided this ambiguity does not change with time. Thus the triple difference result has eliminated all or practically all clock bias errors and the integer ambiguity. Also errors associated with atmospheric delay and satellite ephemeris have been significantly reduced. This triple difference is:
Triple difference results can be used to estimate unknown variables. For example if the position of receiver 1 is known but the position of receiver 2 unknown, it may be possible to estimate the position of receiver 2 using numerical root finding and least squares. Triple difference results for three independent time pairs quite possibly will be sufficient to solve for the three components of position of receiver 2. This may require the use of a numerical procedure such as one of those found in the chapter on root finding and nonlinear sets of equations in Numerical Recipes.[4] To use such a numerical method, an initial approximation of the position of receiver 2 is required. This initial value could probably be provided by a position approximation based on the navigation message and the intersection of sphere surfaces. Although multidimensional numerical root finding can have problems, this disadvantage may be overcome with this good initial estimate. This procedure using three time pairs and a fairly good initial value followed by iteration will result in one observed triple difference result for receiver 2 position. Greater accuracy may be obtained by processing triple difference results for additional sets of three independent time pairs. This will result in an over determined system with multiple solutions. To get estimates for an over determined system, least squares can be used. The least squares procedure determines the position of receiver 2 which best fits the observed triple difference results for receiver 2 positions under the criterion of minimizing the sum of the squares.
Error analysis for the Global Positioning System
↑ Between-satellite differencing
↑ Double differencing
↑ Triple differencing
↑ Press (1986), p. 959.
Press, Flannery, Tekolsky, and Vetterling (1986). Numerical Recipes, The Art of Scientific Computing. Cambridge University Press.
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GPS.gov—General public education website created by the U.S. Government
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manual: NAVSTAR HTML and PDF (22.6 MB, 328 pages)
GPS SPS Performance Standard—The official Standard Positioning Service specification (2008 version).
GPS PPS Performance Standard—The official Precise Positioning Service specification.
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"Threatening" the Crimean bridge Ukrainian missile destroyed two goals
During tests on the ground of AliBey in the Odessa region of the Ukrainian cruise missiles, the R-complex 360 RC-360МЦ "Neptune" almost simultaneously destroyed two targets. This was stated by the head of the design Bureau "Luch" in the composition of the concern "Ukroboronprom" Oleg Korostelev, writes "АрміяInform".
According to him, military rockets were carried out for two purposes in the Black sea at intervals of two seconds. Korostelev said that the first sea target was at a distance of 85 kilometers from the launch site, and the second is 110 kilometers. The distance between them was more than 20 kilometers.
The expert said that for about 10-15 miles to hit a target missile fell five meters above sea level and calculated the optimum point of defeat.
In July last year, the former Secretary of the national security and defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov said that these missiles allegedly capable of a few minutes to destroy the Crimean bridge. In response, the Deputy of the state Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that in such a scenario Ukraine will cease to exist as a state.
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Adler Announces Select Summer Tour Dates
March 20th, 2015 – ADLER the band led by former Guns ‘N Roses drummer Steven Adler announced today that they have confirmed a handful of select summer shows. These will be the band’s first live performances in over two years, and the band’s first ever visit to South America.
Additional 2015 tour dates are currently being secured and will be announced in the coming weeks.
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6/20/15 – Jefferson Barracks Amphitheater – St. Louis, MO – w/ QUEENSRYCHE
7/10/15 – Whisky A Go Go – West Hollywood, CA
7/23/15 – Venue TBA – Lima, Peru
7/25/15 – Country Club Los Huancas – Huancayo, Peru
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8/28/15 – Mohegan Sun Casino – Uncasville, CT
ADLER’S debut album “Back From The Dead” was released at the end of 2012 via New Ocean Media. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jeff Pilson (FOREIGNER, DOKKEN) and mixed by Jay Ruston (ANTHRAX, STONE SOUR, THEORY OF A DEAD MAN), the CD consists of 11 tracks, ranging from adrenaline-pumping rockers (“Back From The Dead”, “Own Worst Enemy”, “Another Version Of The Truth”) to arena-rock anthems (“Good To Be Bad”, “Blown Away”) to powerful, heartfelt ballads (“Waterfall”, “Just Don’t Ask”). The album features guest appearances by Adler’s former GUNS N’ ROSES bandmate Slash and ROB ZOMBIE/ex-MARILYN MANSON guitarist John 5.
ADLER is comprised of Steven Adler, frontman Jacob Bunton (LYNAM, MARS ELECTRIC), guitarist Lonny Paul (ADLER’S APPETITE), and bassist Johnny Martin (CHELSEA SMILES).
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Nursing Graduate from North Camden the First in Her Family to Attend College
Yahoska Morales is committed to working with Spanish-speaking patients. She plans to work in a hospital emergency room or trauma unit after graduation.
When Yahoska Morales walks across the stage to receive her bachelor of science degree from the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden, it will be a landmark moment not just for her, but for her entire family. “I was the first person in my family to go to college,” she said. “I’m excited, and my parents are ecstatic.”
Morales’ parents emigrated to the United States from Nicaragua in the 1980s, and she was born in 1994 and lived all her life in North Camden. She began her studies at Rutgers–Camden after earning an associate’s degree from Camden County College. The combination of hands-on skills lab work and clinical trials she completed in her junior and senior years cemented her decision for her career. “I’ve learned so much,” she says. “I know for sure that the nursing is the field for me.”
A clinical trial Morales completed in the Trauma Step-Down Unit at Cooper University Hospital in Camden in the spring 2019 semester ignited a passion to work in a fast-paced ER or trauma unit. “That was when I knew that trauma was exactly where I wanted to be,” she says. “You always have to be on your toes. You don’t know what’s going to come inside those doors.”
Morales took the Spanish for Health Professions course developed as part of a collaborative effort between the School of Nursing and the Department of World Languages and Cultures, which led to an internship in fall 2018 with VITALity Catholic Healthcare Services in Camden that allowed her to serve Spanish-speaking patients. “The number of Spanish speakers in America will continue to grow, and I’m pleased to be a part of the university’s award-winning effort to ensure they can receive health care from someone who can communicate with them in their native language,” she says, referencing the 2018 American Association of Colleges of Nursing Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award that the Rutgers–Camden Spanish for the Health Professions program received. “It felt good to be doing work in my hometown, helping Spanish speakers get the most out of the health care system.”
After the School of Nursing Commencement on May 22, Morales plans to take the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX) in the summer and hopes to start working as a nurse soon after. Her younger sister, Tatiana, is a student at Rutgers–Camden, studying health sciences. “I am proud to be a mentor for my sister and know that she will follow in my footsteps,” she says. “Many people think that if you live in Camden, you don’t have opportunity. They don’t think that people in Camden turn out to be something. I feel like we are doing the complete opposite, and proving them wrong.”
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It’s not pocket change. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield is looking for almost 11,000 individuals and companies who haven’t cashed checks totaling $1.77 million. The unclaimed checks were issued in 2015 to members and health care providers.
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Every year, the state requires insurers like Excellus BCBS to make a list of unclaimed checks that are at least three years old. The names are then placed in advertisements in local papers in an attempt to find the people who have money to claim. If the property is not claimed by August, the money is then turned over to the Comptroller of the State of New York.
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LANSING — Agricultural industries and well owners throughout Michigan both rely on the groundwater flowing deep beneath the earth. In some cases, reservoir depletion can render smaller wells useless — unsurprisingly, disputes result.
The problem is not new, legislators and representatives of rural industries say, but as agriculture expands, conflicts are expected to become more prevalent. Both sides say solutions can come from some kind of state-sponsored mediation program, but time is running out to reinstate such a program in place this year. Budget constraints and a belief that existing legal solutions to the disputes are sufficient nixed an aquifer protection program that was in place from 2003 to 2009, said Maggie Datema, director of the office of legislative affairs at the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The program, put in place to assist property owners who believed their wells and groundwater levels were harmed by neighboring water use, ran through DEQ and resolved most cases brought before a civil suit was deemed necessary, Datema said.
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Researchers use remote sensing technology to go back in time on the Ethiopian Plateau
The cliffs that rise above the Blue Nile contain 750 million years of exposed geologic history. But it’s what’s happened in the past 6 million years that intrigues Dr. Mohamed Abdelsalam, an associate professor of geology at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and his research colleagues.
The group’s findings about the rates at which geologic material has been removed from the Ethiopian Plateau are published as the cover story in September’s GSA Today, a publication of the Geological Society of America.
The cliffs that rise above the Blue Nile contain 750 million years of exposed geologic history. Remote sensing technology shows that dramatic geologic changes started to take place about 6 million years ago.
In addition to satellite images, Abdelsalam and the other researchers relied on data from a Space Shuttle Endeavour flight in 2000. By employing new 3-D technology, the group was able to trace the evolution of the Gorge of the Nile back in time about 30 million years. They discovered that, as the Ethiopian Plateau was uplifted, the river began to flow with increased power.
According to the researchers, the most dramatic geologic changes started happening in the Gorge of the Nile approximately 6 million years ago.
In the meantime, East Africa changed relatively quickly from a woodland to a savanna to a largely arid region. These evolving geologic conditions likely corresponded with big changes in early human evolution.
According to Abdelsalam, Charles Darwin concluded that human evolution was a consequence of adaptive change on the African Savanna.
“And we can now show a connection between the rates of geologic evolution and human evolution,” says Abdelsalam, who conducts his work in UMR’s new 3-D Visualization and Remote Sensing Laboratory. “This is an exciting outcome that can result in future multi-disciplinary research.”
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TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a provider of instruments, reagents, and services for molecular profiling applications, today announced the appointment of Ms. Michelle Griffin to its Board of Directors.
“We are pleased to welcome Michelle to our Board,” said TJ Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of HTG. “Michelle brings deep financial and accounting expertise, in addition to her extensive executive experience, making her insights invaluable as HTG continues its growth trajectory. She will be a tremendous asset to our Board, and we look forward to her contributions.”
Ms. Griffin added, “I am excited to join this thoughtful and dynamic group. HTG’s technology is exciting and has the potential to change the practice of medicine, and I look forward to contributing to its success.”
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Ms. Michelle Griffin is the founder of Pacific Biotechnology Consulting Group, a firm that provides consulting services to biotechnology companies and boards of directors. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors and chair of the audit committee for Acer Therapeutics, Inc (Nasdaq: ACER). She has also served on the board of directors and as audit committee chair for PhaseRx, Inc. from 2016 to 2018, OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc. from 2008 to 2011, and Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2004 to 2008; as chair of the board of directors for Universal Cells, Inc. from 2017 until its acquisition by Astellas Pharma Inc. in 2018; as a member of the board of directors of Virginia Mason Health System and Virginia Mason Medical Center from 2014 to 2018; and as a member of the board of directors for Polynoma LLC from 2012 to 2014. Prior to founding her consultancy firm, Ms. Griffin served as executive vice president, operations and chief financial officer at OncoGenex from 2011 to 2013, and also served as acting chief executive, senior vice president and chief operating officer at Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2009 until its acquisition in 2010 and as its chief financial officer from 2006 to 2009; and served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Dendreon Corp. from 2005 to 2006. Ms. Griffin began her career in the biopharmaceuticals industry in 1994 at Corixa Corp. and served as its chief financial officer from its IPO in 1997 until 2005 when Corixa was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline plc. She received a post‐graduate certificate in accounting and an MBA from Seattle University, a B.S. in statistics and marketing from George Mason University and has passed the certified public accountant exam.
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Police: Killing of LA officer part of series of crimes
Authorities say the fatal shooting of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer occurred during a two-hour series of crimes by gang members that included another attempted shooting where the targets were unhurt …
The fatal shooting of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer occurred during a two-hour series of crimes by gang members that included another attempted shooting where the targets were unhurt, authorities said.
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed multiple charges against two men and a woman arrested last week in the killing of Officer Juan Diaz.
The 24-year-old officer was gunned down after he confronted the trio spray-painting gang graffiti near a taco stand, investigators said.
Francisco Talamantes, 23, Cristian Facundo, 20 and Ashlynn Smith, 18, were tagging buildings early on July 27, Police Chief Michel Moore said at a Tuesday news conference.
At around 12:45 a.m. they tagged a sidewalk in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood where Diaz was eating tacos with three friends, Moore said.
When Diaz asked them to stop, Facundo became aggressive and lifted up his shirt to display a handgun, the chief said.
Diaz and his friends tried to get into a car to avoid violence, but Facundo shot into the vehicle, according to investigators. The officer and one of the other men were hit by gunfire. Diaz died from his wounds and the other man was hospitalized with critical injuries. He’s now recovering at home, Moore said.
After Facundo shot Diaz, the three drove to another location where they fired at an ex-boyfriend of Smith and another person — but the gun malfunctioned, Moore said.
Facundo and Talamantes were each charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder with the special circumstance allegation of being gang members, prosecutors said.
Both men and Smith each face one count of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle and vandalism. Smith also faces one count of accessory after the fact, prosecutors said.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the defendants had obtained lawyers.
Diaz is the second off-duty officer killed in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In June, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Gilbert Solano was shot and killed at a Jack in the Box restaurant in the suburb of Alhambra.
The suspect, Rhett Nelson of Utah, is also charged in the killing of professional Russian snowboarder Dmitry Kolstov. Authorities have said that the killings of Solano and Kolstov are believed to be random. Nelson has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
Diaz had been on the force for two years and was assigned to the police department’s Professional Standards Bureau.
The union that represents Los Angeles Police Department officers said prosecutors should seek the death penalty in the case.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued a moratorium on death row executions in March that granted temporary reprieves to more than 700 inmates.
He said no executions would take place during his term. California has executed 13 inmates since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
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JetBlue to Launch Service to Grenada
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 02/04/15 — JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), New York’s Hometown Airline™, today announced its intent to add another destination to its ever-expanding network in the Caribbean. Subject to receipt of government operating authority, flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Grenada’s Maurice Bishop International Airport (GND) will begin on June 11, 2015, with a twice weekly service on Thursdays and Sundays. Grenada will be JetBlue’s 90th destination and its 32nd destination in the Caribbean and Latin America. Flights will be available for sale following government approval.
“We cannot wait to add Grenada to our network of Caribbean destinations,” said Dave Clark, JetBlue’s vice president, network planning. “Grenada is one of the most beautiful and adventurous destinations in the Caribbean, and our new nonstop service will make it much easier to get there. Whether you go for the white sand beaches, world class diving, flagship resorts, or rich history, we know you will want to return again and again.”
“Grenada has seen remarkable growth in tourism thanks to a fresh marketing approach, an extraordinary new Sandals resort and a very resilient and committed tourism sector. Combine that with all the magnificent facets of our tri-island state and we have a winning formula. JetBlue is known to offer quality service and high standards, and is the perfect addition to our family. We are indeed very pleased to welcome the inaugural flight on June 11th to Pure Grenada, the Spice of the Caribbean,” said the Honorable Alexandra Otway-Noel, Minister of Implementation, Government of Grenada.
JetBlue will serve the route with its spacious 150-seat Airbus A320 aircraft featuring the most legroom in coach (based on average fleet-wide seat pitch of U.S. airlines), free first-run movies on flights to/from Grenada, and unlimited free snacks and soft drinks.
About JetBlue Airways
JetBlue is New York’s Hometown Airline™, and a leading carrier in Boston, Fort Lauderdale/ Hollywood, Los Angeles (Long Beach), Orlando, and San Juan. JetBlue carries more than 30 million customers a year to 87 cities in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America with an average of 825 daily flights. Service to Cleveland and Reno-Tahoe, Nev., will launch this spring. For more information please visit JetBlue.com.
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The Two Soviets Who Saved the World
July 8, 2011 Dan Lewis Uncategorized 0
In 1961, the United States undertook a series of unsuccessful campaigns in Cuba, attempting to overthrow Fidel Castro and his regime. These campaigns — for example, the Bay of Pigs invasion — ultimately failed. The Soviet Union, Cuba’s staunch ally at the time, reacted by working with Castro to build a secret nuclear weapons site on the island. Cuba is a stone’s throw away from the Continental United States, and had the base been completed, any nuclear missiles there would have been able to hit American soil.
On October 12, 1962, a U.S. recon plane captured images of the base being built, sending the White House (and the American people) into panic. The U.S. created a military quarantine of Cuba, denying the Soviets the ability to bring in any weapons, and insisting that the base be dismantled. The Soviets publicly balked, and anyone alive at the time (and old enough to remember) needs no refresher: the world was on the brink of nuclear war. But roughly two weeks later, on October 28, 1962, the two nations came to an agreement, staving off a result the world could not afford to have occur.
But if it weren’t for a Soviet naval officer named Vasili Arkhipov (pictured above), there is a good chance none of us would be here today. The day before the Americans and Soviets found a middle ground, Arkhipov was aboard a submarine patrolling the waters near Cuba. American naval forces surrounded the submarine and began dropping depth charges — a tactic the American Navy used to get submarines to surface, and not one intended to destroy the (assumed to be) enemy submarine. Unfortunately, the submarine’s captain either forgot about this tactic or was unaware of it, and — underwater, unable to contract Moscow — believed war had broken out. Soviet protocol at the time allowed for the use of nuclear torpedoes if the three highest ranking sailors on the ship believed it proper. The captain and a third officer concluded it was. Arkhipov, the second in command, objected — and, thankfully, prevailed. The ship surfaced without starting World War III.
Over twenty years later, nuclear war was barely averted once again. By the early 1980s, the Soviets had developed an early warning system which aimed to detect an incoming nuclear missile attack. The system allowed the Soviets to, if need be, respond with a retaliatory missile attack. Without such a system, the incoming missiles would likely destroy or disable the Soviet arsenal before it could be deployed. The protocol was simple: if the monitoring station discovered missiles incoming, the leadership there was to notify its superiors. The powers that be would then decide whether the U.S.S.R. should launch its own strike, and, given the tensions at the time, it is likely they would have — with a hair trigger, at that.
On September 26, 1983, the monitoring station detected an incoming missile. And then, it detected four more. Stanislav Petrov, the lieutenant colonel and ranking officer on site, did something incredible: he unilaterally decided that the monitoring equipment had erred, and he declined to report the “attack” to the Kremlin. Petrov based this belief on a few key factors: one, the equipment was very new and believed to be a bit buggy (although not to this degree); and two, Petrov was trained to believe that a U.S. strike would involve hundreds of warheads, not five.
Petrov turned out to be correct. The satellites were not functioning properly and the “missiles” were phantoms. Ground-based systems, a few minutes after the satellites erred, saw nothing, corroborating Petrov’s belief. But Petrov did not view himself a hero. Later in life, he’d say that he was just doing his job and, in fact (and perhaps too literally), he actually did nothing at all.
Bonus fact: During a sound check prior to giving a radio address in 1984, then-President Ronald Reagan jokingly said into the microphone, “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” Contrary to popular belief, that audio was not actually broadcast over the airways. It did, however, get recorded and later leaked to the press. One can listen to the quip on Wikipedia, here.
From the Archives: Bombs Away: When the U.S. military lost a thermonuclear bomb.
Related reading: “At the Edge: Daring Acts in Desperate Times” by Larry Verstraete. Thirty-six accounts (including Petrov’s story) of people who made split-second, life-in-the-balance decisions. The book is geared toward children ages 9-12 and has only one review on Amazon (5 stars), but may be worth the risk at $4.62.
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They say the work of a campus and facilities planner is never done — and with the National Center for Education Statistics projecting U.S. undergraduate enrollment to increase to 19.6 million students by 2024, they may just be right.
But that’s why it’s imperative to stay on top of current campus construction trends. With each new generation of students that enroll, campus design needs and expectations evolve.
According to Margie Simmons, former CEO of SHW Group LLC, “There is competition for the best and brightest students, and one of the ways to attract them is to offer the type of housing and student life they desire.”
Daniel Beyer, Senior Associate at Continuum Architects + Planners, agrees. “Colleges are placing a high value on constructing buildings that will aesthetically enhance their campuses and contribute to the student atmosphere.”
With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of our top three college and university campus construction trends for your consideration.
“Healthy and sustainable. That’s the new ‘it’ when talking about campus facilities,” says Roger Smith of BBS Architects.
In fact, the U.S. Green Building Council reports that the number of building projects registered for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification now accounts for one-third of all new construction—a remarkable increase from the two per cent reported in 2005.
“We see campuses not inquiring about sustainable buildings, but instead requiring sustainable buildings,” says Beyer.
Campus sustainable design “represents an opportunity to make a long-lasting positive impact,” says Raimund McClain, architect at McCLAIN +YU Architecture & Design, “not only in terms of energy efficiency, but also in terms of greater degrees of student satisfaction, longer lasting buildings and reduced maintenance costs.”
Christian Sottile, Dean of the School of Building Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), claims adaptive reuse is far more sustainable than brand new college construction projects. “The data [confirm] that a new high-efficiency building can take between 10 and 80 years just to meet the baseline of environmental damage caused through demolition and rebuilding.”
Since being founded in 1978, SCAD has repurposed scores of historic buildings in Savannah, totaling over 185,805 square miles of real estate.
“These places, with their own deep histories, live on while our students write new chapters today,” Sottile added.
Modular, off-site building
Modular campus construction isn’t what it used to be.
“Modular can be concrete and steel,” says Jim Snyder, Director of Operations for Warrior Group Construction. “It doesn’t have to look like an 8th-grade science class.”
“They aren’t the trailer park or doublewides that come to mind when you think of modular,” says David Rabold, who has first-hand experience with campus off-site construction as Capital Projects Manager at Muhlenberg College.
“If you went by the building, you couldn’t tell it was a modular building,” says Rex Bercot, Building Superintendent at the University of Saint Francis. “I’d bet you $100 that you couldn’t tell.”
But from a campus planning and design standpoint, aesthetics aren’t the only appeal of campus modular construction. Ninety per cent of construction and material storage occur in a controlled, off-site environment, providing better quality control over materials and construction.
Modules can be added, taken away or transported to new locations, making modular campus construction highly adaptable and scalable. Modular design is an excellent companion to adaptive reuse, allowing older buildings to be modified and added to with minimal site disruption. Since off-site campus construction takes place at the same time as on-site development, the duration of modular college construction projects can be cut by as much as 50 per cent.
Speed is the big gain, especially on university campuses where the off-season for students offers a short construction window. “What wows people about pre-manufactured is that you go from a blank slate to a finished project very quickly,” says John Dolan, a project executive with the Skanska construction firm.
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American Endurance Racing set to debut at NJMP
Yamaha, New Jersey Motorsports Park announce partnership
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American Endurance Racing set for debut at New Jersey Motorsports Park
Multi-class event makes first stop at Lightning Raceway August 1-3, 2014
MILLVILLE, N.J. – A new endurance racing series will make its way to southern New Jersey for the first time in early August.
American Endurance Racing (AER) was created by a group of grassroots endurance racing enthusiasts who have been racing in other disciplines for years. Born out of a desire for an inclusive endurance series with simple rules, AER’s goal is to provide a fun and safe environment for experienced drivers to participate in endurance races using almost any production-based race car while not requiring any significant series-specific prep work.
The NJMP date, like all others, will feature multiple classes, with teams trying to complete the most laps in the allotted time frame. Teams will compete for the overall win and against cars in their indexed class.
“We created AER to be the racing series that we would want to race in,” said AER president John Kolesa. “Lots of seat time at great race tracks, simple, fair rules, and the ease of being able to run the race car you already own.”
Throughout the weekend, various racing personalities and celebrities will take to the 2.25-mile Lightning Raceway in AER’s fleet of Press/VIP cars, which will also be competing for the overall and class wins.
VIP drivers scheduled to participate include: Jalopnik’s Travis Okulski, 2013 BMWCCA National SE30 champion and BMWCCA NJ Chapter president Jeff Caldwell, Road and Track’s Jack Baruth, and Randy Pobst, a two-time class winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona, four-time World Challenge GT champion, and North American Touring Car champion.
Practice and qualifying are set for Friday, August 1st from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with two days of racing Saturday (August 2nd) and Sunday (August 3rd) from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Daily spectator tickets will be available at the gate each day for $5.00. For more information on competing or about the series itself, visit www.americanenduranceracing.com.
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Deluxe two CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD + Blu-Ray edition. Presented in a hardback book with the original album on CD plus a second CD of bonus music, and is topped off with a DVD and Blu-ray (ALL REGION) featuring the album and bonus material in a 24/96 DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround sound mix and 24/96 hi-res stereo audio plus the music video for 'Demons'. Also includes a 48-page book featuring lyrics, photos from the writing of the album and recent touring, drum notations from Gavin Harrison and handwritten lyrics. Over the last half-decade, The Pineapple Thief - led by musical polymath Bruce Soord and bolstered by the involvement of master drummer Gavin Harrison - has rapidly ascended to the upper echelons of Europe's alternative rock scene. Versions Of The Truth is the latest instalment in the band's deserved (and welcome) rise to success. With the release of this album, The Pineapple Thief is set to raise it's exceptional standards once more, having produced what may be one of the most important albums of 2020. Versions Of The Truth represents a conceptual progression from Dissolution and lyrically tackles similar themes, but from a more personal perspective. Reflecting on how there can be more than one 'version of the truth', the album's songs revolve around the impact the media can have on our lives and the people we love.
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Versions Of The Truth [Import 2CD/ DVD/ BR Deluxe Limited Edition]
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4. Driving Like Maniacs
5. Leave Me Be
6. Too Many Voices
7. Our Mire
8. Out Of Line
9. Stop Making Sense
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Home • The Administration • Council of Economic Advisers
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Strengthening the Rural Economy - Investing in the Education and Health of Rural Economies
VI. INVESTING IN THE EDUCATION AND HEALTH OF RURAL COMMUNITIES
A centerpiece of the Administration’s policies for rural America is its effort to strengthen the rural workforce and improve the quality of life for rural Americans. As described in Section II, there are significant gaps in educational attainment and in the quality and availability of health care between rural and urban communities. These gaps arise in part because rural areas face several unique challenges in achieving high-quality education and health care. First, the recruitment of high-quality teachers and health care professionals may be more challenging; for example, rural professionals often face lower pay and difficult working conditions. Second, because of lower population densities, it is harder for rural areas to support specialized classes in their schools, such as vocational and advanced classes, and specialized health care providers, such as experts in the treatment of relatively unusual conditions. And third, the fact that rural students are often far from institutions of higher education makes it more costly for them to attend school beyond high school (Card 1995), and the fact that rural residents are often far from hospitals makes it more difficult for them to obtain timely, high-quality medical care.
The Administration is working to help rural communities overcome these challenges, and in doing so, to close the gaps with urban areas. These efforts are being conducted through the Recovery Act, which is funding a range of programs strengthening rural education and health care; through health care reform, which may prove particularly beneficial to rural America; and other measures.
A. Education
Much of the Administration’s support for rural education comes from the Recovery Act. Given the greater educational challenges of rural areas, the education funding in the Act is likely to be particularly important in these communities. The Recovery Act’s State Fiscal Stabilization Fund is already directly providing approximately $7 billion for education in rural communities as a down payment on the President’s broader goal of creating a more educated rural workforce.26 This spending is likely to have short- and long-run benefits. For example, direct reporting to the Department of Education indicates that education spending from the Recovery Act has already helped save or create hundreds of thousands of teacher and other education positions, reducing the damage of this recession to the human capital of rural communities and the rest of the country. Economic research suggests that the increases in class size that would have resulted from laying off teachers would have harmed student achievement (Card and Krueger 1992; Angrist and Lavy 1999; Krueger 1999).
Several other provisions of the Recovery Act hold the promise of improving educational quality in rural communities and around the country. The $9.45 billion provided by the Recovery Act to the whole country for the Race to the Top Fund, the Investing in Innovation Fund, Teacher Incentive Fund, State Educational Technology Grants, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems, and Title I School Improvement Grants offer the promise of substantially improving the quality of education in both urban and rural areas.
Another component of the Recovery Act is investing in workers’ skills. The CEA estimates that, because of the Recovery Act, the Department of Labor is spending an additional $650 million in rural areas on Workforce Investment Act programs, which provide job training and related services.27 Additionally, the Bureau of Indian Affairs received $19 million for workforce training, including on-the-job training in construction in American Indian Areas.
A final important component of the Recovery Act is its investment in education through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Recovery Act provides nearly $280 million in funds for school construction on Bureau of Indian Affairs lands. A recent study suggested that households in California value schools at 150 percent the cost of building them, offering suggestive evidence of a high benefit-cost ratio for this type of investment (Cellini, Ferreira, and Rothstein 2010).
Rural communities will also benefit from the President’s proposed American Graduation Initiative. This initiative funds a new online skills laboratory, which will provide free high-quality courses online, especially benefiting rural areas. Teams of experts in subject areas as well as in pedagogy and technology will develop courses, which can then be modified, adapted, and shared, and then made available for free online. Funding from the Recovery Act to develop rural broadband will be important in extending access to these courses to rural communities.
B. Health
1. Funding for Health Care during the Recession
The high unemployment during the recession has reinforced the importance of access to coverage for those who have lost their jobs, and thus cannot obtain employer-sponsored health insurance. Indeed, the fraction of Americans without health insurance climbed during the recession as individuals lost employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. Rural areas were no exception to this trend. While the overall rate of uninsurance in rural areas is similar to that in metropolitan areas, as described above, rural residents are more dependent on public coverage -- through Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs such as the Indian Health Service -- compared with urban areas.
The Recovery Act contains measures that address the immediate needs of rural families affected by the recession and invests in its health care infrastructure and workforce to meet its longer term needs. Between 2009 and 2019, the Recovery Act will add nearly $90 billion in Federal support for Medicaid through higher matching rates for states. The Recovery Act has been critical to bolstering the Medicaid program as enrollment nationwide rose by nearly 6 million during the recession and its aftermath. This support is especially important for rural areas, which have a higher fraction of their population enrolled in Medicaid. The Recovery Act also provided subsidized COBRA continuation coverage – paying for 65 percent of premium costs – to allow workers who lost jobs during the recession to extend health insurance coverage for themselves, their spouses, and their dependents. Through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, previously known as the Food Stamp Program) administered by the Department of Agriculture, the Recovery Act provided about $20 billion in support for better nutrition and food security, benefiting both rural and urban regions.
Beyond strengthening the safety net, the Recovery Act makes investments in the rural health care workforce and infrastructure to address difficulties in accessing primary care, doctors, and hospitals. The Recovery Act devotes funds to help nurses repay their loans, and encourages recent health profession graduates to enter primary care. The Act also makes an enormous investment – nearly $26 billion – to accelerate the adoption of health information technology that will, among other things, fund grant programs to help rural areas cope with the unique difficulty that their residents face in accessing doctors and hospitals. For example, this includes funding for telehealth and network infrastructure to help patients interact with providers without being subject to the constraints of geography and distance (see Box 5).
The President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2011 builds on the Recovery Act’s support for strengthening public coverage critical to rural areas by investing in programs that address the unique concerns of these regions. For instance, the budget continues the Recovery Act’s support for American Indians and Alaska Natives, with $4.4 billion to support the Indian Health Service. It also includes an initiative to improve the performance and financial stability of rural hospitals as well as to increase the number of health care providers in rural counties and strengthen regional and local partnerships among them. The budget provides $2.5 billion for health centers in underserved areas, which will help to improve primary and preventive care in rural regions. Finally, it expands support for physicians and other health care professionals entering primary care by helping providers who work in a medically underserved community repay their student loans.
2. Health Insurance Reform
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by the President in March builds on the Recovery Act by expanding coverage, containing health care costs, and regulating health insurance markets. The new law contains important specific provisions that address the challenges of affordability and difficulty accessing care in rural regions.
As described earlier, a significantly higher percentage of rural families pay more than 10 percent of their income on health insurance compared with urban families; these families will benefit from the expansion in coverage. In the bill signed by the President, families with incomes up to 400 percent of the Federal poverty level ($88,200 for a family of four in 2009 and 2010) who are uninsured or without access to affordable employer-sponsored health insurance coverage will be eligible for subsidies to purchase coverage through an exchange that caps premiums and out-of-pocket spending at a fixed percentage of income. A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that a family of four with an annual income of $38,600 (175 percent of poverty) in 2009 would receive assistance in purchasing coverage totaling around $7,450 and pay a maximum of only about 5 percent of its income on health insurance premiums. These subsidies will substantially increase health insurance coverage among individuals and families in rural areas (Kaiser Family Foundation 2010).
As private insurance coverage has eroded, many rural families have turned to the essential safety net of public coverage to guarantee access to needed medical care. Reform legislation also strengthens this critical safety net. The law will expand Medicaid coverage to all non-elderly individuals at or below 133 percent of the poverty line. Similarly, it will strengthen Medicare by enacting delivery system reforms that ensure quality and efficiency, and will eliminate unnecessary overpayments to private insurers. An additional benefit of this latter set of reforms is that it will lower the growth rate of Part B premiums for Medicare recipients, which more than doubled from 2000 to 2010.
The new health insurance reform law also contains several specific provisions to meet critical health care workforce needs and improve the health care infrastructure of rural areas. Confronting the more than twofold difference in the concentration of doctors between rural and urban areas, the legislation contains loan repayment and other incentive programs to encourage medical providers to enter primary care and work in areas with professional health shortages or that are medically underserved. The law also builds on the Recovery Act’s support for the rural medical workforce by expanding graduate medical education positions in rural teaching hospitals and by supporting training for doctors and nurses in rural health care. It also requires the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to review payment adequacy for rural health care providers serving the Medicare program. In the area of infrastructure support, the law contains specific protections for rural areas that maintain payments for hospitals that are the sole sources of coverage in their community, extends demonstration programs that analyze reimbursement practices at rural hospitals, and builds on the Recovery Act by directing the newly created Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to consider rural telehealth expansions.
The escalation of health care costs threatens rural families by making health care even less affordable over time. Independent analysts and business groups agree on the potential of reform to rein in health care cost inflation over time. An analysis by the CEA found that health insurance reform has the potential to reduce the growth rate of health care costs by 1 percentage point across the private sector and in Medicare and Medicaid (Council of Economic Advisers 2009).28 Reducing the annual growth rate of health care spending by this amount would yield large gains in affordability for American families. For a typical family of four, slowing premium growth by this rate implies that income in 2030 would be higher by several thousand dollars, relative to what it otherwise would have been.
These gains in income would especially help families in rural areas, who currently face higher payments as a percentage of income for health insurance. Because employers substitute between wages and health benefits in compensating their employees, containing the growth rate of costs means that employers will pay a larger portion of overall compensation as wages rather than health insurance premiums. The benefits of cost-containment also extend to retirees in rural areas, who will be able to keep a larger portion of their Social Security payments as the growth rate of Medicare Part B premiums slows.
By increasing affordability, strengthening the safety net, and tailoring provisions to meet the needs of rural areas by investing in primary care and critical community hospitals, health insurance reform will provide security and stability that reverses the growing challenges posed by the status quo for rural health care. These changes will produce a healthier population in rural America and allow its residents to devote their resources to other activities, including making investments in education, new businesses, and other areas.
Box 5: Encouraging Innovation in Rural America
A common theme in the Administration’s policies for growing a robust rural economy is innovation. The Administration is encouraging the creation of new online skills laboratories to increase access to education. Increased broadband availability will increase education and business opportunities in rural areas. In the area of clean energy, the renewable fuels standard is expected to bring nascent advanced biofuels into the marketplace, and ARPA-E is funding early stage energy research. The Administration is also investing in new technologies to improve water allocation. Here we highlight three specific programs at the forefront of the Administration’s rural strategy that promote innovation: telehealth, which will increase access to quality health care in rural communities; agriculture and food research, which will foster innovation in several priority areas; and regional innovation clusters, which will facilitate business and community development.
Telehealth – using telecommunications technologies such as internet video and mobile phones to deliver health-related services remotely – can allow for the coordination of care between doctors and patients, and with other care providers such as nurses and pharmacists, without regard to distance. For example, telemedicine systems can allow remote monitoring of intensive care unit patients from a central location during after-hour shifts, and remote examination of children by primary care providers. Through the Recovery Act and other grant initiatives, the Administration is making substantial investments in programs that extend this healthy and potentially life-saving technology to rural areas. The Federal Communications Commission recently announced a commitment of $191 million to 22 broadband telehealth networks that will link hundreds of hospitals regionally in more than 15 states. Recently passed health reform legislation will build on these investments by directing the newly created Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to consider rural telehealth expansions.
The proposed fiscal year 2011 budget increases funding for several research and extension programs by over $180 million. These programs are designed to spur new innovation and, in so doing, maintain the long-term prospects for American agriculture through improvements in productivity and food safety. For instance, the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative will achieve its highest level ever to support competitive, peer reviewed grants to researchers with an eye toward supporting research in several areas that are priorities for the Administration such as childhood obesity, food safety, climate change, and bioenergy.
The Administration is also seeking to promote economic opportunities through regional innovation clusters. The Administration includes in its proposed fiscal year 2011 budget the Rural Innovation Initiative, for which the Department of Agriculture will set aside up to 5 percent of its funding from approximately 20 different programs and then allocate this funding competitively to regional pilot projects geared toward local needs. This initiative will raise roughly $280 million in loans and grants to promote a coordination of projects and is designed to make the regions more attractive for business development. In March of this year, the Department of Agriculture requested proposals through its Rural Business Opportunity Grant program, which provides technical assistance to rural communities. This grant focuses on funding regional (or multi-jurisdictional) collaboration that incorporates some aspect of the Administration’s broader rural objectives, such as promoting local and regional food systems, producing biofuels or renewable energy, spreading broadband, or innovatively using natural resources to generate business opportunities.
Continue to VII. Conclusion
26 This figure is calculated by taking the 81.8 percent of the $53.6 billion State Fiscal Stabilization Fund that must be allocated toward education and assuming that the money is disbursed to counties in the same proportions as it is disbursed to states, on the basis of total population and school-age population.
27This internal CEA calculation assumes that rural areas receive an amount proportional to population of the $3.95 billion in Recovery Act funding for Workforce Investment Act programs.
28The CEA analyzed the House and Senate health-insurance reform legislative proposals as of December 2009. The version signed into law was amended based on the Senate legislation. While the legislative changes affect short-run projections of savings resulting from reform, its long-run measures to control costs in the public and private sector are largely the same as the earlier version of the legislation analyzed by the CEA.
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Book Review| June 01 2012
Review: Borromini’s Book: The “Full Relation of the Building” of the Roman Oratory by Francesco Borromini and Virgilio Spada of the Oratory by Kerry Downes
Kerry Downes.
Borromini’s Book: The “Full Relation of the Building” of the Roman Oratory by Francesco Borromini and Virgilio Spada of the Oratory
Oblong Creative
, 536 pp., 455 b/w and color illus. $99, ISBN 9780955657641
Martin Raspe
1Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2012) 71 (2): 238–240.
https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.2.238
Martin Raspe; Review: Borromini’s Book: The “Full Relation of the Building” of the Roman Oratory by Francesco Borromini and Virgilio Spada of the Oratory by Kerry Downes. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2012; 71 (2): 238–240. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.2.238
The nucleus of this weighty and ambitious book is an English translation of the Italian text of the Opus Architectonicum, a precious folio volume on the design and construction of the Oratorio dei Filippini, the oratory and conventual house of the Congregation of St. Philip Neri. This precocious “architectural monograph” was published in Rome in 1725 by Sebastiano Giannini, working from a manuscript (1644–47) composed by the Oratorian father Virgilio Spada in collaboration with his friend Borromini, who had been the architect of the Congregation for thirteen years (1637–50). A concise overview of the building’s history and importance, and a critical appreciation of Downes’s edition have been given recently by Joseph Connors.1...
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PALLBEARER Unveils Alternate “Forgotten Days” Video
Pallbearer, who recently announced the Oct. 23 release of their highly-anticipated fourth album, Forgotten Days (Nuclear Blast), have shared a black and white, cinematic version of the video for title track “Forgotten Days.”
The clip, which stands in stark contrast to the original version that was released earlier this month, has echoes of classic science fiction films such as “Solaris,” “Silent Running,” and “Stalker.”
“When Ben sent us this alternate version of the ‘Forgotten Days’ video, we were instantly taken aback at how a simple color shift and change to aspect ratio transformed the feeling of the narrative,” explains singer/guitar player Brett Campbell of the Ben Meredith directed video. “This cinematic edition is dripping with oppressive claustrophobia, and in being stripped of color, deepens the sense of the unknown lurking in the shadows of the mind. We’re happy to share it with you today.”
Campbell, in discussing what is the first glimpse of what’s to come on the band’s eagerly-awaited album, said: “‘Forgotten Days’ is inspired by people in my family, and people getting to the age where people’s grandparents are facing the inevitable. Things that happen when you get old. It’s about your loss of identity while you’re aware it’s happening and how horrifying it is. I think it can also be applied to what makes you you.”
Bass player/songwriter Joseph Rowland added: “Forgotten Days is us exploring what is natural to us. The songs tell me where I need to go when I write. We wanted to focus on songs that were visceral and enjoyable to play live – that our audiences would enjoy experiencing. We’re also getting back to more of the groovier and heavier elements of Pallbearer. Heartless is fairly uptempo and technical. This one is a little more open, it hammers you.”
Forgotten Days pre-orders are available now: https://www.pallbearerdoom.com/forgotten-days
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Jon Maynard currently serves as President and CEO for the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation (EDF) , a public private partnership whose mission is to be a leader in creating opportunities for responsible economic investment and to thereby raise the per capita income for all citizens of Lafayette County. He also serves as President and CEO of the Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce.
His professional background and experience in community development have prepared him well to establish and maintain positive community efforts which improve Oxford-Lafayette County’s quality of life and yield economic benefits. Mr. Maynard holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Northwestern State University in Business Administration, and is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma’s Economic Development Institute. Mr. Maynard has worked in community and economic development for well over twenty years both as a volunteer and as a paid professional. He has worked in local, regional and super-regional (ten Parishes in North Louisiana), and has worked closely with local and state officials to improve the communities in which he has lived and worked.
Mr. Maynard currently holds membership in the Mississippi Economic Development Council (MEDC), the Southern Economic Development Council (SEDC), and the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).
Mr. Maynard is married to Cherie, and the father to two wonderful children, Connor and Holly.
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Pam Swain serves as the Senior Vice President of the Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce. She has been with the Oxford Chamber since 2002 where she manages Chamber programs, membership benefits, and events. Swain holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science in Public Relations from the University of Southern Mississippi.
Mrs. Swain serves on multiple boards of directors in the Oxford community, including the United Way of Oxford and Lafayette County and also the Healthy Oxford Advisory Board. She is very active in the Lafayette County School District, where she serves as President of both the Lafayette Endowment Fund for Education and the Lafayette Middle School PTO. She was chosen as Parent of the Year for the School District in both 2016 and 2018.
Mrs. Swain has served as President of board of the Public Relations Association of Mississippi and the Oxford/Ole Miss Chapter of PRAM, as well as Vice President position on the Southern Public Relations Federation board. She has received numerous awards and honors for her work in PR and has been recognized by the Southern Public Relations Federations as a Senior Practitioner in the field of PR.
Mrs. Swain is currently a member of the Mississippi Economic Council (MEDC) and the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE). She is also a graduate of Leadership Mississippi and Leadership Pinebelt.
Mrs. Swain lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband Cory Swain, and their three precious, but rambunctious little boys: John Pitner, David Doss, and Jones Carson.
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Libraries and the future of the audience contract
25 March, 2015 13 May, 2015 PM
Corporations who claim they speak for the creators we love are major driving forces in turning the internet into the largest mass-surveillance tool in human history.
The crux of the issue is the one-sided defense of copyright by powerful vested interests. (And, per Doctorow, the lack of countervailing powerful vested interests in the citizenry remaining free and unsurveilled.)
The one-sidedness of the policy conversation in this area is leading governments to act in ways that are inimical to freedom and the human rights of everyday citizens, through the imposition of excessive and disproportionate penalties for noncommercial copyright infringement and the enabling of a vast katascopocracy[1] to detect such infringements. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been making this argument for years, far more effectively than I could, so I’ll just link you to them. (The folks at Defective by Design and Chilling Effects also have some points to make about the problems of DRM and a heavily-surveilled internet.)
But the “content” industries have one incontestable point in their favour: we do love creative works.
Not only do the folks who create them inherently deserve some prospect of reward for doing so, but if creators aren’t rewarded for making them, they will be able to make far fewer. This is the crux of the audience contract: in exchange for people taking the time and effort to create something, and potentially making themselves vulnerable and the centre of attention by sharing it, the community will ensure that there is at least a hope that they will end up no worse off – or even better off. Without some expectation of a return on creative work from the audience of that work, dedicated creation becomes much less viable, and creation has to happen in time carved out of a life supported some other way. That makes certain creative forms and professions (those requiring large budgets, long periods of dedicated work, and/or large groups of collaborators) near-impossible without the patronage of the hugely wealthy, granting them a destructively disproportionate, quasi-feudal voice in the culture.[2]
The solution (in principle)
So how do we combine easy, effectively unlimited, and unmonitored copying of creative works with rewarding creators?
We shift the focus away from the creative work, and onto the act of creation and the creator(s) themselves. Rather than just an industrial, widget-based economy where a work is rewarded based on the number of reproductions sold, we move to an artistic, networked economy where audiences can express appreciation for a specific work or for its creator with equal facility in a wide range of ways – and sharing copies of a creator’s work, rather than robbing the creator, is actually helping spread their work and their reputation.
Purchases of artefacts will continue to be one major way to do this. Artefacts may of course be hard-copy reproductions of the work, whether generic reproductions such as mass-market books, or prestigious limited editions with fancy covers etc. They may also, as webcomics creators have found, be associated artefacts that declare an affiliation to or appreciation for the work or the creator, such as T-shirts or various tchotchkes. They may be entirely unrelated; some online creators derive significant income from goods that, aside from a common creator/publisher, bear no relation whatever to the works for which the creator is best known. Regardless, whatever the nature of the artefact, commercial production and distribution of those artefacts should of course require that the creator of the work(s) be rewarded for the use of their work.
Active recommendation/sharing of the creator’s work is another – after all, an audience is a potentially valuable thing for anyone, especially a creator. The creator can also derive income from the other side of this process: using affiliate links in online marketplaces, and similar technology, to capture a fraction of any sale triggered by their recommendations is much more lucrative if those recommendations have a substantial audience. And other as-yet uninvented modes of endorsement and support are still on the way.
However, direct payment from audience to creator will become – is already becoming – another substantial avenue of support for creators. The tools to support aggregation of mass support both for specific projects and directly for creators themselves – crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Pozible, Flattr, and Patreon – are already in place and growing in popularity. (Note that these are not inherently hostile to existing production and distribution models – numerous successful crowdfunding beneficiaries have gone on to use existing channels for publishing completed works to a wider audience.)
By enabling popular/mass patronage to compete with that of a single wealthy entity, platforms like these substantially, though not entirely, mitigate the feudal tendencies alluded to above of historical models of patronage. In some respects they even go further towards democratizing culture, enabling niche audiences and creators to find each other who otherwise might be missed by publishing bureaucracies focusing on larger returns from larger market segments. After all, the additional costs imposed by such corporate apparatus means that an income which can viably sustain a creator is often not sufficient to sustain them plus the industry that supposedly supports them – making the bureaucracies that supposedly exist to help creators find sustainable livings, even if entirely honest and efficient, sometimes a barrier to that same sustainability.
Certainly in the games industry, the use of these services by independent creators and critics to fund work that otherwise would have gone unfunded has had a huge impact. Whether the colossal success of the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter in 2012 resulting in games propelling that service into the mainstream and becoming its #1 category ($300m of its $1.5b to date), or the breakout success of Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency Kickstarter revealing the scope of both the audience for basic feminist critique of popular culture and the vitriol of the anti-feminist backlash, it is fair to say that crowdfunding has been central to the last few years of games culture. (Which is, of course, a large and growing part of mainstream culture.) But while games creators have been particularly quick to jump on the opportunities offered by these new models (gamers being trained to spot opportunity and advantage, and highly sensitive to network effects), no medium is ignoring them – or can afford to.
The library, however – the place that above all others has been about enabling the public’s right to access to culture and information in a systemic, sustainable way; that above all others is about connecting the public with what they love regardless of commercial considerations – has been sitting this transformation out.
I believe that this is a mistake: we have a key role to play in this. Further, I believe that if libraries take a more active interest in helping creators and their audiences find each other efficiently and make a living, the supposedly irreconcilable tensions between free (meaning unsurveilled as well as unrestricted) sharing of culture and the needs of creators start to look a lot less intractable. Finally, I believe that remaining blind to the tremendous ferment of creativity enabled by these new funding and publication channels is a great way to make ourselves irrelevant. If we are increasingly seen as supplying a representative sample only of corporate-approved materials rather than of the full range of contemporary culture, we both abandon our popular mandate and play into the idea that all we do is compete with retailers of commercial creative works.
Below are just a few suggestions for how we might make that shift. But before I close this theoretical section, let me address one key argument against free culture: the economic-rationalist view that once someone has something for free they will never pay for it. To me, this says more about the mean-mindedness of the theorists than it does about reality. The actual facts of piracy contradict this, with shows and movies that have been shared unauthorised still being heavily watched and purchased, and even some producers of such projects (the hugely successful Game of Thrones comes to mind) acknowledging the role that “piracy” (actually peer-to-peer sharing rather than industrial-scale commercial reproduction) has played in making their shows more popular and more successful. But more importantly, it also ignores the tremendous willingness people have to invest time, energy and money into supporting and celebrating the things they love. Fan culture, which has been on the rise alongside peer-to-peer sharing and, not coincidentally, has always been one of the major places such unauthorised copying occurs, is merely the most overt example. The correlation between library usage and book purchasing is another, less obvious demonstration of the fact that free access to culture – far from reducing interest and investment in it – only increases the time, energy and money people are willing to spend on the things they appreciate.
Some solutions (in practice)
Let me note at the outset that, while some of these suggestions may result in substantial changes to library practice and relationships, I don’t consider any of them to be particularly significant changes to the basic job of a library. My point is that for libraries to continue doing what they’ve always done – sampling and making available a wide variety of content to suit their particular patrons’ interests – they need to start considering these sorts of possibilities, because the old models for publishing and distributing creative works are being forced to make room for new ones.
Expanding the pool of publishing/distribution channels from which we buy
For various reasons, libraries have outsourced more and more of their collections and processing to companies who use economies of scale to lower per-unit costs.
Aside from any other effects of this trend, it locks libraries into materials that are available to be distributed (and processed) at those kinds of scales. And it does this precisely at the historical moment when original voices are less likely to make it through those filters (owing to the consolidation and resulting homogenisation of editorial voice into publishing megacorporations), and more likely to publish through the newer channels we are neglecting.
As these more direct creator-audience publishing models become more prevalent, there will be less reason for creators to have industrial-scale volumes of stock created and hanging around to be sold. Such creators will already know the size of their audience, and in some cases will have printed directly for their previously-measured demand. (For instance, a Kickstarted project might print only the number of copies of a work needed to fulfil the project’s obligations, plus a small percentage of spares in case of damage, shipping error, and so on.)
For this reason, libraries that rely on traditional print-then-sell publishers may miss out entirely on opportunities to acquire particular works which may be hugely influential. While such works are likely to find a reprint, past experience has shown that this can take some time, during which period the library is failing to supply the work to its patrons. And again, this assumes that the work finds a home with existing publishers – which many critical viewpoints may not.
Therefore, libraries need to consider allocating some budget to buying works from new crowdfunding platforms, and to as-yet-unknown publishing models, not just the 20th-century publishing models we’re used to.
Naturally, some of this purchasing will need to be done at patron request – just like regular collections. In fact, I’d suggest that in the interests of discovering the widest possible range of such works, you might want to actively cultivate patron suggestions in this area. The trend towards targeted promotion includes creators looking for their audience; you are unlikely to see interesting new authors advertising in the mainstream press or publishing trade journals.
In this connection, it’s worth noting that academic libraries are moving towards models where their catalogues will find items to which the library does not yet have lending rights, and acquiring those rights in response to demand from the academic populace they serve. Of course, this is partly a response to the outrageous prices and conditions being imposed by academic publishers, who are making sharing of research (research that is of course founded upon the intellectual commons) harder and more expensive at precisely the historical moment when doing so is actually getting easier and cheaper. Even so, the models exist, and may well have lessons for how to find the best purchases for a given library’s collection.
Engaging better with free content – including rewarding creators who contribute to the library’s collections and resources after the fact
As discussed above, part of the present shift in cultural production is moving away from the make-a-widget-sell-a-widget industrial model. If creators choose to make their content available in that way, we should by all means continue to use existing systems to pay for their work. But as more and more creators explore open culture publishing models, and rely on support from those who use their creations, I believe that libraries need to start considering their relationship to such creators and their work.
I’m only too well aware that library budgets are often a pittance compared to demonstrable need, and that it might be hard to justify paying for “free” resources. I’m also well aware that simply by having an item in the library’s collection, we are helping its creator find their audience – and therefore, in crude commercial terms, their market.
However, I believe that libraries need to not only take seriously the material that’s published free online and do more to explore it for our patrons, but to acknowledge the debt we have to the free online resources we use.
And, as a logical and moral extension of that point, to consider chipping in financially and practically accordingly – both as a matter of principle, and as a matter of modelling the appropriate relationship to creative and other original work to our patrons.
This is a complex and nuanced discussion – for instance, by having the library contribute to the costs of a creator, does that make our patrons feel they are absolved from doing likewise, causing them to donate less? It probably deserves a post of its own, really. But in the age of Creative Commons, copyleft, and the Free Culture movement, too few libraries are even considering these questions.
[But for the sake of clarity: yes, this does mean I am saying that libraries should consider both donating to Wikipedia and allocating some staff time to be made available to edit it. (Aside from any other considerations, this might go a long way to redressing the gender imbalance among Wikipedia editors.)]
One fact I feel needs to be central to these considerations is that as an institution with a considerable – though usually inadequate – budget, libraries are often better off than either individual creators or the project teams to which they are donating their time and effort. While I fully understand and even applaud libraries wanting to conserve budgets, the fact remains that however resource-poor we are, chances are that creators of free resources are also not well off – and unlike libraries, they actually feel hunger. It would once have gone without saying that we need to be willing to contribute to the costs of resources we include. This applies equally to resources for which we pay via non-conventional means as to those purchased under long-established models. To do otherwise is to discriminate against creators who are attempting to make it easier to share their work – in other words, people who share our values.
I’m not proposing carte blanche for anyone who publishes free stuff online. Given that these resources are free, it is not unreasonable to add them to the collection and see how they fare. However, I submit that we must be willing to consider paying creators at the point we are certain we want their work in the collection, whether that decision comes before they are added or after assessing our patrons’ response to the works.
I’m fully conscious that – budgets being directly affected by this idea – there are some key stakeholders who will resist it: organisational managers who will ask some pretty hard questions about why libraries should pay for something they already got for free. Those are valid, but answerable, questions – we should be able to demonstrate the value of the items to the collection, and therefore the need to sustain and reward creators. And answering them properly will also incidentally reduce the gameability of such systems (whereby library staff might corruptly dispose of library funds to the benefit of themselves or those close to them).
But let’s be clear: this will also inevitably involve a certain amount of managing up. We shouldn’t shy from that. Organisational managers are excellent at managing generic “resources”, but librarians are the experts in the collection and sharing of culture. It is right that managers ask questions about how resources are expended, but they are not qualified to offer leadership in making those decisions. Again, for library folks not to be in the forefront of engaging with a cultural shift of this magnitude is to voluntarily edge ourselves and our beloved libraries towards redundancy.
[Also: It’s not directly relevant to this paper, but crowdsourcing can help libraries too!]
Libraries cultivating support for creators as a moral and practical imperative if people like content
Libraries could do more to get people supporting the creators they love, and even those they don’t love, but benefit from, or think are interesting or important. This needn’t be restricted to newer crowdfunding-type channels; buying a book or a DVD is just as much an option for supporting creators as pledging to their next project (or a past one). That said, it is worth us helping our communities explore what share of the money spent on each option actually ends up with the people who created the work – and how clearly that support sends the signal people want it to send.
Most people, including most creators, certainly make the common-sense assumption that libraries already foster this kind of active appreciation and support of culture to a considerable degree. (And they are right to do so: both logic and evidence very much point this way!)
But we could do more both to celebrate what we already do and to find new ways to advance the principle of supporting creativity. (It helps that both these things would also give us further leverage in negotiations with recalcitrant publishers over price and terms of newer forms of published works, e.g. ebooks.)
For instance, we could (and should) act in an educational capacity – telling the story of what these new funding models enable. Not everyone will be interested, but just as we help people explore the world of books and then translate their tastes into purchases at the bookshop, there are genuine opportunities for us to support our communities in exploring these new channels – both as audiences engaging with original work, and as potential creators themselves.
We could also spell out the connection made at the start of this paper, between the need to protect privacy and the need to provide an alternative to the widget-sales model of cultural economics.
We could also do more to foster yet other ways for creators to engage their audiences, and for audiences to enable their creators to make a living, as some of the following suggestions outline. To this point I have largely focused on ways libraries can work in with existing or emerging systems that are independent of them. In the suggestions that follow, I will begin exploring ways in which our unique attributes and position enable us to offer opportunities unavailable elsewhere.
Libraries cultivating their own audience’s creative aspirations as a way to instil respect for other creators
As I’ve discussed previously, libraries are increasingly moving towards becoming libraries of their community as well as for their community, with a growing focus on supporting creativity among their patrons rather than simply gathering the best of what’s happening elsewhere.
There has always been an element of seeking to support local creators in libraries’ work; at the very least we are inclined to purchase their work, if not actively promote it to their community. After all, a work is more likely to be of interest to patrons if they have met its creator, and more likely to be relevant given the greater odds of a similar background.
Likewise, we have sought to foster new creators through programs like writers’ workshops, especially for young people. Similarly, as the internet has grown to greater social and economic prominence in people’s lives, we have sought to help our patrons learn how to navigate it.
I believe that we can fruitfully combine these two things and help new creators learn to navigate these systems to find support. Having done so, we can help our communities discover their local creators just as those creators are seeking their audience. And we can help those local creators to build on that audience and leverage it into wider success, and to network and support each other in making their way out to the wider world.
How does this translate into supporting creators? One necessary corollary of helping people create is that patrons who have attempted their own creative work, and to a lesser extent those who aspire to do so, will better appreciate the work involved, and the need for creators to have a sufficient income to continue to create. This is not entirely dissimilar to simply respecting those who make things we like, as in the previous point, but the respect is likely to be more nuanced and to include those who make things we don’t like but who make them exceptionally well.
Again, rather than leaving this as an implicit point of learning, libraries could make an effort to explicitly leverage these teachable moments to make this point. (As always, heavy-handedness can backfire, but the basic point is incontestible.)
Libraries as channels to contact creators/agents if their patrons are interested in work
If the library is to become a vector for the audience-creator relationship, clearly our greatest strength is on the audience side of that equation; it’s our relationship to creators that we will need to develop.
One possibility here might be to develop tools and protocols that enable our circulation and activity data – thoroughly anonymised, of course! – to become a resource for creators and their representatives.
One such option might be a standardised, automated interface for flagging that the library staff, on behalf of their patrons, are interested in the creator’s work, along with some capacity to suggest particular activities that might be of most interest, or to outline activities that are happening anyway that might offer opportunities for the creator to piggyback their own event onto. For instance, a library might report that their members would love a presentation from a particular creator, or might report that a book club are holding a cosplay event themed around a creator’s work.
There would be no expectation of a response – that would need to be up to the creator, who would have the information to dip into as their own interests suggest – but creators would have a potential insight into where their work was being appreciated… and where they might profitably be able to visit and engage their audience in whatever further ways they desire.
The obvious use of this is in finding hotspots for things like book tours, but creators who want to run things like workshops, or to engage with audiences in other ways (perhaps to gain audience input into new, more collaborative creative forms), could also use information from such an interface to target those efforts as well. In the book club cosplay event example above, the creator might get in touch with the library and offer to judge, plus hold a signing or a Q&A about the characters.
Such engagement need not take place within the library, though it is a logical venue for such things as creator talks, creative workshops, and so on. Local retailers (bookshops, music shops, etc) or other businesses might come on board to help organise, promote, and host the event. The creator might see sufficient demand in a region that they might hire out a larger public venue. The event might be a specialised activity requiring particular tech, furniture and/or spatial configurations, such as LAN gaming, a theatrical production, or an artistic installation.
In any case, the library could become both a channel for the creator to notice that demand exists, and a potential partner in letting the audience know about it. And it would provide a level of granularity in the detail as to where demand exists that is currently not possible – or at least not without invasive data mining. (I hope no library worker needs an explanation as to why supporting alternatives to mass snooping on the public is a good thing!)
Another (and related) option would be to have the library be the place where people learn how to reach out to the creators whose works they admire. A workshop on writing to creators and other public figures, where attendees can nominate who they want to contact, and which covers basic etiquette, reasonable expectations, understanding of the demands on public figures’ time, and maybe a little research into the specific creators’ preferred channels of communication and/or modes of relating to their audience, could potentially be a relatively easy way for individual libraries to start moving into this space. (I’m also quite sure it would be a remarkably popular program! Contact me if you’re interested in pursuing this further.)
Admittedly, the existence of celebrity stalkers means this could be somewhat fraught! But as with most situations, the conspicuously unbalanced individuals who make trouble for everyone are a tiny minority. In fact, by planting the seeds of reason at the beginning of someone’s engagement, libraries could do a great deal to avert the obsessive spirals such people fall into.
Enabling creators to routinely see stats on loans/access to their works through libraries
The basic idea here is that thoroughly anonymized loan stats are fed into a centralized system and then made available to creators (or their deputized agents), so they can see a global heat map of the public’s engagement with their works in libraries.
Not only does this potentially feed into marketing for their next creative work, it also allows them to plan book tours, and even potentially help fund a holiday by picking up a little public speaking work in the destination country. And for creators who are more interested in direct relationships with their audience, this sort of information could be invaluable.
To be genuinely useful, this would need to distinguish number of loans and number of borrowers so that creators can tell when a library has a single obsessive re-reader or when they have a genuinely wide audience there.
Given that libraries in many countries already track some such usage statistics as part of public lending right schemes, and therefore some such central reporting already takes place through national libraries, in some ways this is not that much of a stretch from current systems – especially if the trend towards centralising and amalgamating library services continues, and given that library loan records are all electronic anyway.
In other respects I can see it being a political nightmare, on the one hand used by creators (and the megacorporations who benefit disproportionately from managing their rights) to lobby for higher lending payments or more restrictions on libraries, and on the other hand pushing for greater violations of privacy in the form of more detailed access to more-poorly-anonymized lending information. Certainly libraries would need to value this information appropriately as the tremendous resource it is, rather than simply giving such information away without a substantial tradeoff.
Just as crucially, libraries would need to recognise that such data is held in trust from the public, both as individuals and collectively. It is not an asset libraries own and are free to dispose of in their own interests, without regard to the interests of those from whom it is derived.
Lastly, this need not be limited to loans or other access data. As above, it could include information about activities (including those outlined below) taking place in the library relevant to a particular creator. Given that we also report on this sort of thing already to some degree, once again it’s just a case of making sure that the information is sufficiently detailed (specifically, that we are reporting on the subject of activities, rather than just aggregating headcounts under general headings like “story times” etc) and goes where it can be used.
Embedding portals to creators in library catalogues/metadata
[For those who read the post early and are just wanting to find the new stuff, this is the section that was added after publication.]
Given that we already have independent authority records for creators, and even have value-added subscription services such as Syndetics and OCLC providing expanded content for our records, to simply add a link from a work or a creator’s authority record to a URL they nominate seems pretty simple. All we need is some sort of central authority to track authors’ official “home pages” – something that could largely be automated and built into library deposit or public lending right schemes – and we’re already helping people connect with creators.
But this is only the least of the possibilities. We might for instance allow similar creator-controlled fields within bibliographic records, to take people to the official URL for a particular creative work, rather than just a standard link for the creator. The tools to manage this would be slightly more complex technically, and more work to manage, but would still be well within the realms of possibility.
Taking this even further, I can imagine a third-party service that provides (moderated!) embedded content to library catalogues directly from creators. As an example, when the publication date of the next installment of a beloved series is revealed, one of the channels for that announcement might be the catalogue pages of the previous installments. Obviously this sort of thing would need moderation – nobody should have unrestricted anytime access to the pages of the library catalogue – but a trusted third party working within agreed frameworks and standards could very easily make something like this a valuable tool for audiences, libraries, and creators.
We could even allow creators to post links to purchase copies of their work in ways that the creator feels best supports them. This might be referral links to online stores like Amazon, or it might be a service that lists local booksellers that stock particular works, or it might be a print-on-demand service. Simply putting this decision in the hands of creators would give them additional leverage in the creative economy – leverage that at present is very much with publishers and distributors – without the library being seen to misuse its position to favour one particular local (or other) business.
And naturally such things need not be limited to widget purchases. We might also – especially for works that we have included in the collection unpaid – allow crowdfunding links, such as those from services like Flattr or Patreon. These might be general “fund the creator” links, or they might be more specific “reward this particular work” links. Either way people who have found the work worthwhile can support the creator – and everyone is completely clear that the sharing of the work was beneficial to the creator.
In the interests of privacy, we might even consider becoming an anonymous channel for such support. One downside of direct patronage for some members of the public will be that such systems involve putting their support or appreciation for particular ideas or works on the record in ways that are not visible or accountable to them. Just as we are channels for anonymous reading, we could become channels for anonymous patronage. It would be a politically fraught process, with only the imperfect anonymity our readers enjoy; and it would be tremendously open to corruption (anonymity and money are never a good combination!), but it’s certainly a conceivable role for libraries to play.
Libraries as places to build community – and for communities to build themselves
We like to talk about libraries as the new village square, but it’s remarkable to me how little we do to enable public-driven usage of the space. I understand why: there are custodial obligations to our collections, spaces, and patrons that rule out or at least complicate a number of public activities. But in a true village square, activity is not predominantly programmed by public employees but often emerges organically from the interests of the people in the space at any given time.
Given those custodial obligations, which are real and too important to abandon, we can’t aspire to that level of unsupervised, unstructured public usage. But as I’ve touched on earlier in my two-way libraries paper, we could be doing a lot more to provide a degree of structure and mutual accountability that would allow more of this self-directed usage.
One such usage could be to encourage people to think of the library as a safe neutral (and somewhat anonymous) venue for shared cultural interests. We do this somewhat with book clubs, but rather than organising them ourselves and fixing the topic and activity, we could quite easily create tools based on pledgebanking systems that would allow the public to propose their own (suitably moderated) shared uses for our public meeting spaces and discover if there were interest for their ideas.
I think it’s quite likely that some such uses would include fan clubs for the various media we enable people to access – and this would be very much to the benefit of creators, especially in combination with the above reporting.
It is not a coincidence that the media that most require this sort of co-ordinated physical copresence, in this case to experience it at all not only to share appreciation, are the various forms of interpersonal play, especially social and tabletop games.
Libraries to host networked meeting/lecture spaces to connect communities all over the world
Technologies to connect multiple groups in different locations into a single larger group have largely been the domain of corporate meetings. But they do already exist, and could provide some remarkable opportunities for libraries to connect their communities not only indirectly through the shared world of learning and culture that we enable our patrons to access, but by directly allowing them to share experiences.
This could – and should – include homegrown experiences such as local history events, talks by local creators, and so on. (“Sister City” arrangements could particularly benefit and be strengthened.) There is a lot to be said for horizontal grassroots sharing of this sort, though that’s another post.[3]
But it could also allow numerous libraries with smaller budgets to pool funds to pay for creator talks by famous creators, or other more-expensive-but-relatively-simple events, that would then be shared live throughout all contributing libraries. (In my view, any library worth its salt would talk to the creator about then posting such talks on the internet under some sort of free culture license, but having the chance to be in the live audience – and potentially interact with the public figures in question – would be the preserve of the participants in the actual libraries at the time.)
It would even make such events cheaper, since travel costs would be reduced to the distance to the nearest participating library – or the nearest other facilities capable of streaming such events.
And of course, combined with the above patron-driven approach to the use of spaces and facilities, new uses for this sort of capacity would be quick to emerge.
(Once again, I confess a non-personal vested interest, this time in the possibilities for International Games Day @ your library and especially my own volunteer project, the Global Gossip Game.)
Libraries supporting lobbying for more creative funding
Finally, I fully realise that libraries have plenty of lobbying to do for our own budgets. But if we’re going to be helping audiences and creators engage more anyway, we’re going to be de facto supporting one common cause that is likely to draw broad support from the creative sectors: improving funding for the creative sectors.
While limited public funds mean that ultimately there is a degree of rivalry or tension between funding creation and funding libraries, both are clearly essential, and proponents of both should be vigorously supporting each other. And it would certainly cement the library as a key ally to the creator.
This is a point worth stressing. The reason that the corporations of the “content industry” have so successfully imposed their clearly disproportionate demands on the internet is because they have portrayed themselves as the champions of the creators who make the cultural and intellectual works that we love and need. And, to be fair, they have enabled some truly astonishing work.
But publishing corporations are not the only ally to creators. (Indeed, in some cases, the relationship has not been an alliance but rather profoundly exploitative.) And the corporations (and the lobbying groups that represent them) have clearly abandoned any respect for the interests – let alone the rights – of the public, except insofar as those rights are the right to purchase their product.
As the institution that has always been about the public freely engaging with culture, the library can and should step up. We are here for our patrons, and because our patrons (and we) love culture, we are here for the people who create it as well. Perhaps we can even help publishers let go of the obsessive need to monitor and monetise every possible engagement with a creative work, and go back to their core job: finding and supporting original, amazing creators. There are wider social forces at work here, of course, but most publishers are already keenly aware of how despotic and bureaucratic they look at times (and how much money is wasted on their attempts to assert oligopolistic control over the Internet). They need only a sense that there is another way to make a living, that they are not abandoning their responsibilities to shareholders and creators, and it suddenly makes sense to simply walk away from the worst excesses of the widget-selling model of culture.
But they won’t do this without creators taking a lead, and creators too need to know that they can find a living elsewhere. That sense of tension, of competition for limited funds, evaporates when you look at the bigger picture of what the point of libraries and of creating original works actually is. This is why it’s important for libraries to advocate for funding not only for themselves and the audiences they serve, but for the creators they serve as well.
In this regard, it doesn’t hurt that – if the suggestions above and in that two-way library piece linked earlier gain traction – libraries will be directly supporting creation to a greater degree, such that funding one is funding the other!
We in the library business are deeply committed to creators, and always have been. Our whole reason for being is to help the communities we serve find the created works (whether artistic or referential) that most meet their requirements – a function that, while public-facing, also serves creators. Far more than a mere recommendation engine or discovery interface, we enable our patrons to explore and develop their own tastes rather than merely throwing back at them endless iterations on themes they already like. In doing so, we serve creators of both excellence and originality – and most of all those creators who offer both at once. In other words, we both broaden and deepen the market for culture.
But because we are public-facing, we are also custodians of the bigger picture of culture: that created works exist to serve a greater good. That’s the reason that copyright and similar elaborate legal mechanisms have been created and operate at such vast expense to the public – original work is important enough that we recognise the imperative to reward it.
However, creative/original thinking isn’t the only public good, and material incentives aren’t the only way to encourage it.[4] The right to access culture and information unmonitored, and the right to freedom of expression, are both central pillars of the kind of intellectual freedom fosters genuinely original thinking. And both are threatened by measures actively proposed by the corporate industrial interests supposedly speaking on behalf of creators.
Privacy is under assault by corporate forces that seek to prevent unauthorised copying by spying on everyone to make sure that only authorised – which is to say, remunerated – consumption of culture occurs. (To be fair, they are strongly supported in this by others who seek to spy on us for other reasons.) It is not possible technically to prevent copying the “wrong” data, but it is possible to combine the threat of ridiculously disproportionate penalties (tens of thousands of dollars and a criminal record for watching a TV episode without paying?) with highly visible, seemingly state-endorsed (and increasingly state-run) surveillance schemes to scare people into compliance. The fact that these systems can be – and are – abused to breach privacy is bad both for humanity generally and for creators specifically. Without privacy, creators are discouraged from exploring experimental, challenging, and/or personal works; these render creators vulnerable in different ways, but the hope of privacy can mitigate some of that disincentive. And of course in the bigger picture, lack of privacy fosters a climate of self-censorship and self-moderation which puts a system-wide brake on effective peaceful dissent against those in charge of these systems.
Freedom of expression is, of course, inherently inhibited by copyright laws around use of fictional characters and settings – that’s more or less its point, to prevent people other than the creator of a work from making free with it! And that’s fine – I’ll be the first to admit the undeniable benefits, both economic and intellectual, to allowing the originator of an idea or work to maintain a voice and a financial stake in how it is published, and further developed and explored. But the system we have in place now stifles genuinely original reworkings of past culture under mountains of licensing and permissions red tape (making the use of, for instance, music samples prohibitive to most people not already signed up to one of the labels with the legal departments who run the show).
It makes it impossible for scholars and archivists to preserve our legacy, by criminalising digital preservation of works without clear permission from a creator who may be untraceable – or entirely unknown. (And even if you throw principle aside and argue that a work being abandoned in this way makes it a safe bet that you can get away with unauthorised copying, there are people who would consider it just as safe a bet that they can falsely claim to own the copyright and sue.) I’ve read a number of statistics about the percentage of works from the early days of the current copyright period – which is to say, the earlier part of the 20th Century – being lost to posterity because of this. They vary, but all are shockingly high.
And it has created a remarkable new tool for censorship: simply allege copyright infringement through an automated online tool and you can get even private companies to take down material they host, pending a counter-complaint by the original poster. This has already begun to be used as a tool for removing – even if only temporarily – material that is unwelcome to some unaccountable soul at some particular moment. Governments and corporations have attempted to claim copyright in the material their critics are using to criticise them. Antagonists in various culture wars have targeted each other with false copyright claims. Far from encouraging reasoned discourse or promoting the development of cultural works, copyright has become a tool to suppress unwanted views.
Controlling the reproduction of created works in these ways is only justified if this is our mechanism for rewarding creators. If we can achieve that goal of offering incentives to creators to create in some other way, what is now seen as theft (enabling others to access a creator’s work) becomes a supportive act, an act of endorsement – which is how many people actually experience the act of sharing the works they love.
By reaffirming our commitment to supporting creators (and taking the lead in exploring new ways to do so), libraries can help break the industrial-age connection between reproduction and remuneration, helping creators to continue to prosper from their work without having to endorse – and divert ridiculous amounts of resources into – these oppressive, wasteful, and anti-creative systems.
And of course, it frees up the infosphere for us and our patrons too.
— Footnotes ——-
[1] ‘Rule by spies’. Technically, there is no effective way to encrypt something that ultimately has to be human-readable. So the only way to prevent unauthorised copying of content is to scare people into not doing it – and that can only happen if they have a reasonable expectation of their private activity being watched and recorded while online, or even by their own personal property.
[2] One could quite plausibly argue that this is already somewhat the case (*cough*Murdoch*cough*Walden Media*cough*), but at least under the current system there is some mechanism for finding support from a mass audience – even if that support is typically funnelled through (and heavily taxed by) a large number of institutional middlemen who contribute nothing to the actual creative work.
[3] Briefly: by encouraging people to pay attention not to the centralised culture industry with its necessarily skewed perceptions and priorities but to other everyday folks, we get a counterbalance for the mass-produced monoculture that distorts our sense of ourselves and our place in the world… though of course until EVERYONE has access to the networks this would create, distortions will still be built into the system.
[4] In fact I would argue that there is an inherent human drive to create, one which (history shows) finds expression regardless of such incentives. Further, the massive external incentives we’ve created for the creation of culture have – as external incentives typically do – distorted the activity they’re supposedly incentivising. Rather than becoming a tool to remove daily survival pressures and free people to express the burning truth or beauty inside them, it’s become a prize to be won by creating experiences that compel attention – regardless of whether it’s worth creating for its own sake, or whether that experience (or the compulsion) is healthy. Of course, it has also enabled a great deal of extraordinary work, and even more research into why people like what they like – I’m not saying it’s all bad. Just something to consider.
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Genetic information to guide antiplatelet selection after ACS can improve outcomes
THE PHARMCLO STUDY: A Prospective, Randomised, Multicentre Study Of A Pharmacogenomic Approach To The Selection Of Antiplatelet Therapy In Acute Coronary Syndromes
Presented at ACC.18 by Diego Ardissino (Azienda Ospedaliero - Universitaria di Parma, Italy)
News - Mar. 11, 2018
The efficacy of the antiplatelet agent clopidogrel in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is hampered due to interpatient response variability. Choice of P2Y12 receptor antagonist treatment is normally based on a doctor’s assessment of a patient’s risk of ischemic events and the risk of uncontrolled bleeding. Several genes have been shown to affect enzymes that make clopidogrel more or less effective in preventing platelet aggregation. For this study, researchers developed an easy-to-use genetic screening tool, ST Q3, which provides information about these genes from a blood sample, within 70 minutes at each patient’s bedside.
The PHARMCLO study aimed to evaluate a more personalized approach to choosing a P2Y12 receptor antagonist in patients with ACS. The study combined clinical characteristics with genetic information to inform the choice of medication. 888 Patients hospitalized for ACS in 13 centers in Italy were randomized to either receive standard clinical care, in which doctors prescribe clopidogrel, ticagrelor or prasugrel based on clinical characteristics alone, or to receive a genetic test (testing for ABCB1, 2C19*2, 2C19*17), the result of which were considered along with clinical characteristics, before prescribing antiplatelet therapy. The primary endpoint at 12 months was a composite of myocardial infarction, stroke, CV death or major bleeding (BARC 3-5).
Main results
In the standard of care arm, 50.7% patients were prescribed clopidogrel, 8.4% received prasugrel, 32.7% received ticagrelor and 8.2% did not get a P2Y12 inhibitor. In the pharmacogenomics arm 43.3% received clopidogrel, 7.6% prasugrel, 42.6% ticagrelor and 6.5% received no P2Y12 inhibitor.
The primary endpoint occurred in 71 patients (15.9%) in the pharmacogenomics arm and in 114 (25.9%) in the standard of care arm.
Patients receiving a genetic test showed a 42% reduction of the primary endpoint as compared with the standard of care treatment arm (HR: 0.58, 95%CI: 0.43-.078, P<0.001). The reduction of the primary endpoint was mostly driven by a reduction of non-fatal MI (21 vs. 47, HR: 0.42, 95%CI: 0.25-0.70).
In patients treated with clopidogrel, the primary endpoint was reduced by 32% in the pharmacogenomics arm as compared with controls (HR: 0.68, 0.47-0.97, P=0.03).
This study showed that the implementation of genotyping to guide the antiplatelet therapy in ACS is feasible across different institutions and that it resulted in different prescribing patterns. A more personalized approach to the selection of antiplatelet therapy may lead to a clinically meaningful reduction in ischemic and bleeding complications. Future studies of genotype-guided antiplatelet therapy should confirm these data and clarify the cost-efficacy of genotyping in the challenging setting of ACS.
In a press release, the presenter Diego Ardissino said “PHARMCLO is the first step of a new approach that will see a shift in emphasis away from trying to discover ever more potent antithrombotic drugs and toward ensuring that the right therapy is given to each individual patient.” And, “As genotyping to select P2Y12 receptor antagonists in the setting of acute coronary syndromes cannot be delegated to centralized genetic laboratories for reasons of time, we designed the ST Q3 instrument for bedside genotyping as a low-cost, portable system for foolproof use by unskilled personnel,” Ardissino said.
Our coverage of ACC.18 is based on the information provided during the congress.
This study was published simultaneously in JACC
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