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TODD new CD is on Billboard Charts
‘I almost didn’t believe it’: With State, Todd Rundgren makes a return to the charts — the dance charts by Something Else! Reviews Todd Rundgren is back on the charts with his new electronica-laced Cherry Red release State, the first time since 2004. But there’s a twist: He landed on the Billboard dance/electronic charts. “Having an album on any sort of a chart lately is a refreshing experience,” Rundgren says in the attached video. As for debuting on the dance polls, he added: “I was surprised when I heard it; I almost didn’t believe it.” Rundgren’s 2004 effort Liars rose as high as No. 132 on the UK charts. Before that, Rundgren’s last appearance on the Billboard album lists was with 1991′s 2nd Wind. His last Top 40 U.S. hit as a solo artist was 1978′s Hermit of Mink Hollow. “I haven’t had an album that really charted in a long time,” Rundgren admits, “but I also haven’t had a label, in the traditional sense, in a long time. Most of my recent recordings have been self-produced, and then I go find a distributor for them.” As Rundgren launched himself head-long into the technology revolution that’s changed the way music is made, his albums have become more electronic — and, yes, in many ways more danceable. But he says the creative goals remain unchanged. “I still try to stick to my original criteria,” Rundgren adds. “I want to write songs that mean something to people — regardless of the tools that I am using.”
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DICTIONARY - E
Earth Earth is one of the four classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy and science. In Alchemy, Earth was believed to be primarily dry, and secondarily cold, (as per Aristotle). Beyond those classical attributes, the chemical substance Salt, was associated with Earth whose alchemical symbol is a downward-pointing triangle, bisected by a horizontal line. In astrology, Earth relates to the astrological signs Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo.
Earth as a planetary symbol is depicted as a globe bisected by meridian lines into four quarters. It was commonly associated with qualities of heaviness, matter and the terrestrial world. Due to the hero cults, and chthonic1 Underworld deities, the element of Earth is also associated with the sensual aspects of both life and death in later occultism.
The first Greek god was actually a goddess, Gaia, or Mother Earth, who created herself out of primordial chaos. From her fertile womb all life sprang, and unto Mother Earth all living things must return after their allotted span of life is over. Gaia, as Mother Nature, personifies the entire ecosystem of Planet Earth. Mother Nature is always working to achieve and maintain harmony, wholeness and balance within the environment. She heals, nurtures and supports all life on this planet, and ultimately all life and health depend on Her. In time, Nature heals all ills. In Classical Greek and Roman myth, various goddesses represented the Earth, seasons, crops and fertility, including Demeter, Persephone and Ceres.
Earth and the other Greek classical elements were incorporated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn system of Ceremonial Magic. Zelator is the elemental grade attributed to Earth; this grade is also attributed to the Kabbalistic sphere Malkuth. The elemental weapon of Earth is the Pentacle. Each of the elements has several associated spiritual beings. The archangel of Earth is Uriel, the angel is Phorlakh, the ruler is Kerub, the king is Ghob, and the Earth elementals are called Gnomes.
Earth is considered to be passive and is referred to the lower left point of the Pentagram in the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram. Many of these associations have since spread throughout the occult community. See also Gnomes and Quarters.
1 The Gods of the Underworld were named 'Theoi Khthonioi' or Chthonian Gods by the Greeks. They were ruled by the grim god Hades and his queen Persephone. The term 'Chthonic Gods' was also used for the closely related gods of agriculture.
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica See Ordo Templi Orientis.
Elder Futhark See Runes.
Elven Star There is considerable meaning behind the Septagram or seven-pointed star known as the Elven Star or Faerie Star. For its followers (known as Fae), it represents a belief in fairies, and is used as a band symbol to signify their belief.
Each point of the star has a meaning, and stories about those meanings vary depending upon the storyteller. Seven has long been a 'magical' or 'lucky' number, which is possibly why so many feel comfortable with the Elven Star if only for its seven points. There are seven wonders of the ancient world, seven visible colours in a rainbow, seven notes to a musical scale (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti), seven levels of heaven, and the eternal city is supposedly built on seven hills.
Additionally, there are seven Chakras, or energy centres in the body, and seven days of the week. Seven represents universal balance. This is illustrated by the symbol for Earth, a circle with four segments, combined with the Trinity, representing heaven. These are bound together in harmony, forming a seven-pointed star. In an Elven Star, this balance is symbolised by three over four, or heaven over earth.
For some, the points represent the seven directions: north, south, east, west, above, below, and within. For others, it's the seven magical elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, life, light, & magic. Still others say it's inner and outer elements.
English Defence League (EDL) The English Defence League (EDL) is a far-right street protest movement which focuses on opposition to what it considers to be a spread of Islamism and Sharia in the United Kingdom (UK). It describes itself as an anti-racist and human rights organisation. The ideology behind the EDL was the belief that the religion of Islam ‘challenges an English, Christian way of life’. The EDL has been described as Islamophobic and was until 2013 ‘the most significant counter-jihad movement in Europe’ and considered by some academics to be one of the more intriguing developments on the far right.
The EDL was born from a group known as the ‘United Peoples of Luton’ (UPL). The UPL had been formed in response to a demonstration organised by the extremist Islamist organisation, Al-Muhajiroun (a banned terrorist Salafi jihadist organisation based in the UK linked to international terrorism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism), against the war in Afghanistan, held in March 2009. This demonstration took place as the Royal Anglian Regiment marched through Luton following a tour of duty in the Helmand province campaign. When the Luton counter-demonstration led to arrests, a BBC News report said local football supporters 'decided something should be done' and found common cause with other 'soccer casuals' and 'firms' associated with major clubs. The conversation concluded that Islamic extremism was a national problem and they had to put aside club rivalries.
EDL's original leader, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson (born 1982), recalled that he had been prompted to found the organisation after he had read in a newspaper about a group of local Islamists attempting to recruit men outside a local bakery in Luton to fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan: "I was like, they can't do that! In working class communities, we all know somebody in the armed forces. I've got a mate who lost his legs. And these lot were sending people to kill our boys.”
In October 2013 Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll, a co-founder of the EDL, left the group with Robinson citing concerns over the ‘dangers of far-right extremism’. He was replaced as leader by Tim Ablitt.
Enneagram / nonogram An enneagram is a nine pointed star composed of three overlapping triangles, whereas a nonogram is any nine-pointed polygon. In esoteric Kabbalistic doctrine, it represents the sphere of Yesod, the Moon, dreams and illusions. The enneagram is a well-known emblem of the Baha'i faith, symbolising the value of the word baha, ‘glory’.
Another type of enneagram, a nine pointed glyph, was devised by the esoteric philosopher Gurdjieff, a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Alexandrapola. The emblem's unusual shape is constructed by mapping the sequence of musical octaves, and has come to represent Gurdjieff's 'Fourth Way Society' and its philosophies.
Gurdjieff's enneagram is likely based on the Kabbalistic tree of life, and accordingly, is said to represent the underlying geometry of the universe.
Enochian Script Enochian script is a magical language which the philosopher and mathematician, John Dee (1527 - 1608 or 1609 CE), reportedly received from Angelic messengers through the medium Edward Kelley (1555 - 1597) in the late 16th century. Dee noted in his diaries that the letters represented the order of man's creation. Although Dee himself referred to the alphabet as 'Adamic', it was eventually named after the Biblical prophet 'Enoch'.
This Script was the basis for a rudimentary theurgical system begun by Dee but never completed. It eventually became the basis of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's magical system, but was banned by Paul Foster Case (1884 - 1954) of Builders of the Adytum after his expulsion from the Golden Dawn due to his belief in the inherent danger of the system. There are twenty-one letters in the Enochian alphabet, some of them representing several sounds, including some overlap. As in Hebrew and other angelic alphabets, the language is written from right to left.
Enochian Watchtowers See Quarters.
Eretz Yisrael Shelanu Eretz Yisrael Shelanu (Our Land of Israel) is a far-right religious party in Israel founded by Chabad Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo (also Sholom Ber Wolpe) and Baruch Marzel on 11 November 2008. It seeks to prevent both the creation of a Palestinian state as well as the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
In 2008, in anticipation of the 2009 Knesset elections, Wolpe and his party merged with Baruch Marzel's Jewish National Front. The Knesset list was topped by Wolpe, Marzel, and Israeli musician Ariel Zilber. In the weeks prior to the election, the joint list agreed to run as part of the National Union list, with Michael Ben-Ari, its representative, taking the 4th spot on the alliance's list. The Union won four seats, allowing Ben-Ari to enter the Knesset.
On 27 October 2010, violence broke out at the town of Umm al-Fahm between Eretz Yisrael Shelanu marchers and Arab counter-protesters.
In 2012, Ben-Ari and Aryeh Eldad of Hatikva, another member party of the National Union, announced their decision to leave the alliance and form Otzma LeYisrael. Ben-Ari left Eretz Yisrael Shelanu, and formed Otzma Yehudit, and leading up to the 2013 Knesset elections, party leader Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo announced his support of HaBayit HaYehudi. Subsequently, leading Haredi rabbis Ya'akov Yosef and David Meir Drukman announced cessation of support of Eretz Yisrael Shelanu.
Eros In Greek mythology, Eros is the god of love. His Roman counterpart is Cupid (desire). Normally, he is described as one of the children of Aphrodite and Ares, and along with most of his siblings, was a part of group, consisting of winged love gods. However, sometimes he is also described as one of the primordial gods, but then, he is most often identified with Phanes.
Eros appears in ancient Greek sources under several different guises. In the earliest sources (the cosmogonies, the earliest philosophers, and texts referring to the mystery religions), he is one of the primordial gods involved in the coming into being of the cosmos. But in later sources, Eros is represented as the son of Aphrodite, whose mischievous interventions in the affairs of gods and mortals cause bonds of love to form, often illicitly. Ultimately, in the later satirical poets, he is represented as a blindfolded child, the precursor to the chubby Renaissance Cupid, whereas in early Greek poetry and art, Eros was depicted as an adult male who embodies sexual power, and a profound artist.
Erzulie Dantor See Veves.
Erzulie Freda See Veves.
Estonian Mythology Estonian Mythology is a composite of myths belonging to the Estonian folk heritage and literary mythology. Information concerning the pre-Christian and mediaeval Estonian mythology is scattered in historical chronicles and travellers' accounts as well as ecclesiastical registers. Systematic recordings of Estonian folklore started in the 19th century CE.
Pre-Christian Estonian deities included a sky god known as Jumal or Taevataat ('Old man of the sky') in Estonian, corresponding to Jumala in Finnish, and Jumo in Mari.
Ether See Aether.
European Union (EU) The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 28-member states located primarily in Europe. It has an area of 4,475,757 square kilometres (1,728,099 square miles), and an estimated population of over 510 million. The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states. EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital within the internal market, enact legislation in justice and home affairs, and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development. Within the Schengen Area, passport controls have been abolished. A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 -- it is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency.
For further details visit the official website of the EU at https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en.
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) is a formerly armed leftist nationalist and separatist organisation from the Basque Country in northern Spain and southwestern France. It was founded in 1959 CE and evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group engaging in a violent campaign of bombings, assassinations and kidnappings throughout Spain. Its aim was to gain independence for the region known as the ‘Basque Country’.
Between 1968 and 2010, ETA is reputed to have killed more than 800 people (including civilians) and injured thousands more. Internationally, ETA is classified as a terrorist group with more than 300 members imprisoned in Spain, France, and other countries.
ETA declared several ceasefires between 1989 and 2010, then on 20 October 2011 it announced a ‘definitive cessation of its armed activity’. On 24 November 2012, it was reported that the group was ready to negotiate a ‘definitive end’ to its operations and disband completely. Finally, on 7 April 2017, it announced that it had ceded all its weapons and explosives and would be officially a disarmed organisation.
Evil Eye The evil eye is a curse thought to be cast by a malevolent glare, which is usually given to a person when they are unaware of it. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury, so have created talismans to protect against it -- these are also called 'evil eyes'.
The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it, the concept and its significance varying widely among those cultures, primarily in Western Asia. The idea appears several times in Rabbinic literature, and was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures.
Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as Nazars, used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across Armenia, Albania, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Greece, the Levant, Afghanistan, Syria, Southern Spain, and Mexico, and have become a popular choice of souvenir with tourists. See also Nazar.
Eye of Horus / Ra Designed to resemble the eye of a falcon, this symbol is called the 'Eye of Horus' or 'Eye of Ra' and represents the right eye of the Egyptian falcon god Horus. As the Udjat (utchat) it was associated with the Sun god Ra/Ré. The mirror image, or left eye, represented the Moon, and the god Tehuti or Thoth. A very similar concept of the Sun and Moon as eyes appears in many religious traditions, such as the Celtic tale of the 'Hand of Nuada'.
According to legend, the eye was torn from Horus by his murderous uncle Set, and restored by Thoth, the god of magic. After the restoration, some stories state that Horus made a gift of the eye to Osiris, which allowed this solar deity to rule the Underworld. The story of this injury is probably an allusion to the phases of the Moon as the eye which is torn out every month. Together, the eyes represent the complete universe, a concept similar to that of the Yin yang symbol of Taoism.
Spiritually, the right eye reflects solar, masculine energy, as well as reason and mathematics, whereas the left eye reflects fluid, feminine, lunar energy, and rules intuition and magic. Together, they represent the combined, transcendent power of Horus.
The Eye of Horus was believed to have healing and protective power. It was used as a protective amulet, and as a medical measuring device, using the mathematical proportions of the eye to determine the proportions of ingredients in preparations for medications. The Masonic All-seeing Eye, or Eye of Providence symbol found on American money, and our modern 'Rx' pharmaceutical symbol are all descended from the Eye of Horus.
Eye of Providence See All-seeing Eye.
Eyes of the Buddha This symbol is also referred to as the 'Wisdom Eyes of Buddha' (Bodhnath temple eyes). Often found painted on the Stupas of Tibetan Buddhism, it represents the 'all-seeing eyes of the Buddha', a symbol of the omnipresent compassion of the Bodhisattvas.
The small dot depicted between the eyes represents a third eye, a symbol of spiritual awakening. The curious squiggle between the eyes is the Sanskrit numeral one, symbolising the unity of all things.
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Saakashvili arrested, Hungary pleased, Prosecutor General vs Anti-Corruption, and more: Weekly Update on Ukraine #39, 4 – 10 December 2017
Situation in the combat zone
The situation in eastern Ukraine deteriorates – Kurt Volker. The United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker reported on the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Donbas. “Humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine is the worst in 3 years and deteriorating. Russia can end this by ending intervention and support for so-called separatists, and implementing Minsk Agreements,” the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations twitted on December 8.
A view from The Hague. The Office of the Prosecutor at The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in the 2017 Report on Preliminary Examination Activities cited the information pointing to “the direct military engagement between the respective armed forces of the Russian Federation and Ukraine suggesting the existence of an international armed conflict in eastern Ukraine” (Article 94).
New US sanctions against Russia (and the old ones)
New sanctions. The U.S. President Donald Trump approved new sanctions on Russia for redeploying banned missiles, reports Politico quoting a senior administration official. It is reported that the Commerce Department “will punish Russian companies that have provided technology to help develop the new weapon, which was outlawed by the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by the United States and then-Soviet Union in 1987”.
Sanctions for Crimea. The U.S. sanctions on Russia will remain in place until Russia leaves Crimea and withdraws its forces from Donbas, said Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State at the 24th OSCE Ministerial Plenary Session in Vienna.
Saakashvili arrested: what’s next?
Court decision. Pre-trial investigation in the case of the “Movement of New Forces” leader Mikheil Saakashvili started at 12 pm December 11 and is still ongoing.
The authenticity of the tapes provided by the Prosecutor General’s Office. Recordings of the presumed talk between Mikheil Saakashvili and Serhiy Kurchenko need to be passed for examination to the UK or the US, said David Sakvarelidze, a former ally of the Georgian ex-President. “You can imagine Saakashvili’s scale and who Kurchenko is – a runaway oligarch and a symbol of Yanukovych’s power. That’s what the authorities are trying to link Saakashvili to. There is a big case on Yanukovych’s criminal group, but it is so badly arranged that it will fall into pieces in courts in a while. According to the case, Saakashvili became a member of the organization’s plot that aimed at toppling the authorities in power in Ukraine. That’s the logic of the case,” Sakvarelidze said.
Saakashvili on hunger strike. The leader of the “Movement of New Forces” and ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili announced he had gone on a hunger strike at a pretrial detention center of Ukraine’s Security Service.
The position of the Foreign Affairs Ministry: Minister Klimkin’s statement. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin emphasized that the West considers the arrest of the leader of the “Movement of New Forces”, former head of the Odesa regional State Administration and ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili a Ukraine’s domestic affair. “… It is a Ukrainian affair: do your job but do it within the legal framework. It’s that simple,” Klimkin told the journalists in Kyiv last Saturday commenting on the situation around the case.
President Poroshenko’s statement. During his official visit to Vilnius President Poroshenko stated that the Saakashvili case has nothing to do with his political activities. “Overall, if we evaluate the situation with Saakashvili – it is not worthy of international attention, as there is a specific crime that has been committed. We must ensure the transparency of the investigation, the absolute openness, and impartiality of the investigating authorities. A transparent, efficient, and impartial court trial is what we need to guarantee as an independent state.” In Poroshenko’s opinion, a person charged with a crime, who illegally crosses the border and escapes after being arrested, has to be held liable. “It has nothing to do with the political activities,” the President said.
Learn more in UCMC material “To arrest Saakashvili: five good questions to ask”.
A New Attack on the National Anticorruption Bureau
The attack on Ukraine’s National Anticorruption Bureau (NABU) continues. After the draft law that could have made NABU subordinated to the Parliament was called back from the Rada under considerable pressure on the part of the international community, the main conflict line became the one between NABU and the Ministry of Justice.
A new conflict with the Ministry of Justice. Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice reports the pressure on the part of the National Anticorruption Bureau. NABU detectives searched the office and the house of a Ministry of Justice official after they received the information that there is a risk that a series of documents might get destroyed. NABU emphasizes that Kyiv’s Solomyansky district court recognized the searches that NABU conducted at the premises of the Ministry of Justice on December 8, 2017, being lawful. In its turn, the Ministry of Justice filed a claim to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko reporting a crime on the part of NABU staff resulting from an illegal search and seizure of documents without a court decision.
Office of the Prosecutor General backs the Ministry of Justice. The Office of the Prosecutor General put on the unified Registry of pretrial investigations the information on a criminal offense by NABU detectives who were searching the Ministry of Justice. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko emphasizes that NABU being a law enforcement agency needs to operate within the legal framework.
President’s response. The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he will not allow for political interference into the activities of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies. “I will not allow any threats of political interference in the activities of anticorruption institutions,” President Poroshenko said during a joint press conference with the Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė in Kyiv on Friday.
The pressure of the international community. The European Union will disburse a new tranche of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine conditioned that the Anti-Corruption Court is set up. According to the Ukrainian media Europeiska Pravda, after Ukraine was granted a visa-free regime with the EU, there are not so many tools left to the European Union to influence Kyiv. One of the tools is actually the macro-financial assistance. After the draft law on NABU was called back from the Parliament, Poroshenko claims that he expects the Parliament to establish the anti-corruption court within a month.
Read more in UCMC’s translation of the Europeiska Pravda’s article “A step away from an abyss: the night Ukraine almost lost the visa-free travel”.
Languages in Ukraine: the Venice Commission takes Ukraine’s side
The decision of the Venice Commission. The European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known as the Venice Commission, have not supported Hungary’s accusation towards Ukraine in narrowing the rights of national minorities with the article on tuition language of Ukraine’s Law “On Education”.
Commission’s Recommendations. The Venice Commission recommends that Ukraine prolongs the transition period until 2020 before the article on tuition language in the Law “On Education” comes into force in full. According to the recommendations, “Article 7 provides a legal basis for the teaching of other subjects in the EU official languages.” “However, the new Law provides no solutions for languages which are not official languages of the EU, in particular, the Russian language, as the most widely used non-state language.”
The response of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin is convinced that Ukraine and Hungary will find a way to resolve the language problem. “Hungarians have to get all the opportunities that the civil service and politics have to offer. Our Hungarian partners already understand it. Undoubtedly, there are nuances for them in the domestic policy. I am convinced that we will come to terms. Education in Hungarian stays but part of the classes will be in Ukrainian,” Klimkin told journalists in Kyiv on Saturday. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs chief emphasized that everyone in Ukraine has to know Ukrainian and understand what country they are citizens of.
The response of the Hungarian government. The Hungarian government voiced two preconditions required to resolve the problems linked to the Ukrainian Law “On Education”, reports the press-service of the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Ministry. At the OSCE Ministerial Council in Vienna Péter Szijjártó, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, emphasized the importance of ensuring that, firstly, the rights of the Hungarian national minority are not violated and, secondly, that the Hungarians of Zakarpattia confirm their consent for the law. Szijjártó voiced respective conditions during the meeting with Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin and later during the meeting with the United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker.
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SCHEDULE OF PRESS-BRIEFINGS IN UKRAINE CRISIS MEDIA CENTER FOR JULY 17, 2019
Topic: "Diplomatic cooperation on the tragedy of the MН17"
Moderator: Taras Kachka, Deputy Executive Director of the International "Renaissance" Foundation
Valerii Chalyi, Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA (Skype)
Oksana Zolotariova, acting Director of the Department of International Law of the Minixtry of Foreign Affairs
Vsevolod Chentsov, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Netherlands (Skype)
Topic: "Presentation of Bellingcat Investigation Group on Tragedy of MH17"
Topic: "Presentation of the speaker of the Security Service of Ukraine on the course of investigating the tragedy of MH17"
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Topic: "Narratives of Russian media about the tragedy of MH17"
Moderator: Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, analyst of UCMC Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group
Lyubov Tsybulskaya, Head of UCMC Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group
Viktoriia Romaniuk, deputy editor of StopFake
Arkadii Babchenko, journalist (Skype)
Topic: "Foreign Policy of the New Parliament: Between Demand and Supply"
Gennady Maksak, Chairman of the Council, Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism"
Sergiy Gerasimchuk, Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism"
Anna Shelest, UA: Ukraine Analytica
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The inadequacy of intellect
Perhaps the most dangerous byproduct of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world. Even on the low level of practical affairs this is patently untrue. Any small human activity, the local bowls club or the ladies' luncheon club, requires for its survival a measure of self-sacrifice and service on the part of the members. In a wider national sphere, the survival of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self-sacrifice of the citizens. The impression that the situation can be saved by mental cleverness, without unselfishness or human self-dedication, can only lead to collapse.
Thus we see that the cultivation of the human intellect seems to be a magnificent ideal, but only on condition that it does not weaken unselfishness and human dedication to service. Yet this, judging by historical precedent, seems to be exactly what it does do. Perhaps it is not the intellectualism which destroys the spirit of self-sacrifice—the least we can say is that the two, intellectualism and the loss of a sense of duty, appear simultaneously in The life-story of the nation.
Civil dissensions
Another remarkable and unexpected symptom of national decline is the intensification of internal political hatreds. One would have expected that, when the survival of the nation became precarious, political factions would drop their rivalry and stand shoulder-to-shoulder to save their country.
In the fourteenth century, the weakening empire of Byzantium was threatened, and indeed dominated, by the Ottoman Turks. The situation was so serious that one would have expected every subject of Byzantium to abandon his personal interests and to stand with his compatriots in a last desperate attempt to save the country. The reverse occurred. The Byzantines spent the last fifty years of their history in fighting one another in repeated civil wars, until the Ottomans moved in and administered the coup de grace.
Britain has been governed by an elected parliament for many centuries. In former years, however, the rival parties observed many unwritten laws. Neither party wished to eliminate the other. All the members referred to one another as honourable gentlemen. But such courtesies have now lapsed. Booing, shouting and loud noises have undermined the dignity of the House, and angry exchanges are more frequent. We arc fortunate if these rivalries are fought out in Parliament, but sometimes such hatreds are carried into the streets, or into industry in the form of strikes, demonstrations, boycotts and similar activities. True to the normal course followed by nations in decline, internal differences are not reconciled in an attempt to save the nation. On the contrary, internal rivalries become more acute, as the nation becomes weaker.
At this point I feel constrained to point out that "this time it really is different". In times past, if there was a crisis, at least the competing factions could agree that the crisis existed, even if they were at loggerheads as to what to do about it. But in the UK, while many British people think there's a crisis of national decline, our rulers - of all parties - disagree. Indeed, many of the phenomena evinced as symptoms of decline are celebrated by them. "We are comfortable with modern Britain and that we believe our best days lie ahead" is a typical comment.
Which brings us on to :
The influx of foreigners
One of the oft-repeated phenomena of great empires is the influx of foreigners to the capital city. Roman historians often complain of the number of Asians and Africans in Rome. Baghdad, in its prime in the ninth century, was international in its population—Persians, Turks, Arabs, Armenians, Egyptians, Africans and Greeks mingled in its streets.
In London today (written in 1978 - LT) , Cypriots, Greeks, Italians, Russians, Africans, Germans and Indians jostle one another on the buses and in the underground, so that it sometimes seems difficult to find any British. The same applies to New York, perhaps even more so. This problem does not consist in any inferiority of one race as compared with another, but simply in the differences between them.
In the age of the first outburst and the subsequent Age of Conquests, the race is normally ethnically more or less homogeneous. This state of affairs facilitates a feeling of solidarity and comradeship. But in the Ages of Commerce and Affluence, every type of foreigner floods into the great city, the streets of which are reputed to be paved with gold. As, in most cases, this great city is also the capital of the empire, the cosmopolitan crowd at the seat of empire exercises a political influence greatly in excess of its relative numbers.
Second- or third-generation foreign immigrants may appear outwardly to be entirely assimilated, but they often constitute a weakness in two directions. First, their basic human nature often differs from that of the original imperial stock. If the earlier imperial race was stubborn and slow-moving, the immigrants might come from more emotional races, thereby introducing cracks and schisms into the national policies, even if all were equally loyal. Second, while the nation is still affluent, all the diverse races may appear equally loyal. But in an acute emergency, the immigrants will often be less willing to sacrifice their lives and their property than will be the original descendants of the founder race.
Third, the immigrants are liable to form communities of their own, protecting primarily their own interests, and only in the second degree that of the nation as a whole. Fourth, many of the foreign immigrants will probably belong to races originally conquered by and absorbed into the empire. While the empire is enjoying its High Noon of prosperity, all these people are proud and glad to be imperial citizens. But when decline sets in, it is extraordinary how the memory of ancient wars, perhaps centuries before, is suddenly revived, and local or provincial movements appear demanding secession or independence. Some day this phenomenon will doubtless appear in the now apparently monolithic and authoritarian Soviet empire. It is amazing for how long such provincial sentiments can survive.
Historical examples of this phenomenon are scarcely needed. The idle and captious Roman mob, with its endless appetite for free distributions of food—bread and games—is notorious, and utterly different from that stern Roman spirit which we associate with the wars of the early republic. In Baghdad, in the golden days of Harun al-Rashid, Arabs were a minority in the imperial capital. Istanbul, in the great days of Ottoman rule, was peopled by inhabitants remarkably few of whom were descendants of Turkish conquerors. In New York, descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers arc few and far between. This interesting phenomenon is largely limited to great cities. The original conquering race is often to be found in relative purity in rural districts and on far frontiers. It is the wealth of the great cities which draws the immigrants. As, with the growth of industry, cities nowadays achieve an ever greater preponderance over the countryside, so will the influence of foreigners increasingly dominate old empires. Once more it may be emphasised that I do not wish to convey the impression that immigrants are inferior to older stocks. They are just different, and they thus tend to introduce cracks and divisions.
As the nation declines in power and wealth, a universal pessimism gradually pervades the people, and itself hastens the decline. There is nothing succeeds like success, and, in the Ages of Conquest and Commerce, the nation was carried triumphantly onwards on the wave of its own self-confidence. Republican Rome was repeatedly on the verge of extinction—in 390 B.C. when the Gauls sacked the city and in 216 B.C. after the Battle of Cannae. But no disasters could shake the resolution of the early Romans. Yet, in the later stages of Roman decline, the whole empire was deeply pessimistic, thereby sapping its own resolution. Frivolity is the frequent companion of pessimism. Let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. The resemblance between various declining nations in this respect is truly surprising. The Roman mob, we have seen, demanded free meals and public games. Gladiatorial shows, chariot races and athletic events were their passion. In the Byzantine Empire the rivalries of the Greens and the Blues in the hippodrome attained the importance of a major crisis.
Judging by the time and space allotted to them in the Press and television, football and baseball are the activities which today chiefly interest the public in Britain and the United States respectively. The heroes of declining nations are always the same—the athlete, the singer or the actor.
Food for thought, eh? And this was thirty years before X Factor. Next instalment - Glubb Pasha looks at 10th century Baghdad, then, would you believe, the Swinging London of the Muslim world.
Labels: Glubb Pasha, history, UK politics
Sgt Troy said...
Well hats off to Glubb, laban -we can agree on what he says.
But where do we go from the analysis of the desperate problem?
It is perhaps worth noting that unlike the latter Roman Empire our armed forces, and particularly the combat units, remain very largely indigenous; of course there are Commonwalth soldiers - but very few Muslims.
This is the only positive out of Blair's wars, but it is a by no means insignificant one.
The surface area of our land that is dominated by foreigners remains very small
Your blog does remind me of the Beatles song laban
"She took me half the way there. She's a big teaser. She took me half the way there, now."
Martin said...
Laban,
Sounds like good read, if in much the same vein as Gibbon and Carpopino.
I don't agree with everything Glubb says by any means. But the general patterns he draws are a reasonable fit with what we see. I thought it was interesting and worth bringing attention to.
Please disabuse yourself of the idea that what I quote necessarily = 'my view at that time'.
Foxy Brown said...
I can't wait for part three. Brilliant stuff.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/duty.html
"Please disabuse yourself of the idea that what I quote necessarily = 'my view at that time'."
A commendable detachment
I invariably use quotes to support an argument I am making.
But then I am a xenophobic, racist, fascist blah blah
otoh - I did drive through Sparkbrook, Small Heath today and observed the ever-growing legion of black tents, the Al-Aqsa "100% non-stun" halal meat shop, the "In Allah we trust" Somali emporium at the top of the Stratford Rd - rather taking the piss that as they might have confined the message to their usual squiggle; the massive green domed mosques.
Rather looked like colonisation, but then what do I know?
Distance always adds liberality to the view
Northern Monkey said...
Very interesting Laban - I shall read the full extracts at the link.
Although my wife is due to give birth to our first child in the next few days and this is all very depressing!
Sgt - please don't make assumptions about what I think of you, either.
I too know Sparkbrook and Sparkhill, although I knew it a lot better 25 years back. It was still an Irish area in the 70s.
Vale-Onslow's is still with us, I see, although Len is no more. What changes that guy must have seen in 103 years.
icr said...
But Britain has been part of the American Empire for quite a few years now.
Russians in London in 1978?
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Transcript of Interview - Sky News PM Agenda with David Speers - 20 November 2014
Transcript of interview with David Speers Sky News – PM Agenda
E&OE
SUBJECT: Options for electronic voting; Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters; interim report on electronic voting
DAVID SPEERS: Now, it seems that at every election we hear about some votes perhaps being lost in a certain polling booth, or a count that has to be recounted because it’s so close and coming up with a very different result from the first one. Many have suggested over the years that we should move towards electronic voting. It’s done in many other jurisdictions around the world. In fact, in the ACT election—the local election there—there was some electronic voting rolled out there. But today, the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters—which has been looking at all of this—has decided no; now’s not the right time to move towards electronic voting. The Chair of that Committee is the Liberal MP, Tony Smith, who joins me now. Thank you for your time.
TONY SMITH: Hi David.
SPEERS: You particularly looked at this after the most egregious example of lost votes, and that was the Western Australian Senate election, where 1 375 votes, ballot papers, were lost. And a whole new Senate election—costly experience—had to be undertaken.
SMITH: 23 million dollars.
SPEERS: 23 million dollars! Nonetheless, you’re saying no to electronic voting. We should look at what electronic… what we’re talking about here because there are a number of different things when we talk about electronic voting, aren’t there?
SMITH: Well look, you can really put it into two broad categories, David. The safest version is the most costly and that is machine voting, where you still turn up at a polling booth and you vote on a machine—and you mentioned the ACT; there are a number of jurisdictions around the world that do that. It’s very, very costly…
SPEERS: Because you need… how many machines would you need at each polling booth? You’d need, what, half a dozen machines, or something?
SMITH: As many as you’ve got booths, really, to make it work and avoid long queues. And we’ve got thousands of polling places. But the other option which would be the most convenient—it’s the one which would have the most superficial support—is voting over the internet. And the evidence of that is whilst it would be very convenient, it is highly risky, very open to hacking, and raises a number of other concerns as well including the secrecy of how you vote. So we’ve looked at it, we’ve heard from international experts as well as from experts here. And interestingly, David, far from the rest of the world moving towards electronic voting, there’s a move away from it. A number of jurisdictions that have had it are moving back to the ballot paper.
SPEERS: Is that right?
SMITH: Yes, that’s right. But I mean Ireland invested a huge amount of money and purchased all the machines only to discover that they weren’t secure, so they never used them and they solved them for nine euros each as scrap metal. The Dutch have moved away. In the recent US elections, a number of states that had had machine voting didn’t proceed because they’re too costly to maintain in one state, I think 25 per cent of the machines failed when they tested them. And you have problems with those machines as well; there have been instances in the past where they stopped counting votes and they can be vulnerable as well. So it’s an area where intuitively people think this is where we’ll naturally move but it’s not the experience from overseas at the moment.
SPEERS: Well it does seem incongruous though, doesn’t it; we do all our banking with either a machine or on our computer—a laptop or whatever. When you buy your groceries now, you’re doing it all yourself. So many things are electronic, yet voting—I know voting is a very important thing—but there are problems with paper ballots as well, aren’t there? I mean, the recent election shows that. Are you saying that no jurisdiction you’ve seen actually does it in a cost-effective and reliable way?
SMITH: Well David, you make a very good point. I mean, an American expert summed it up well. He said: "when it comes to elections, folks would rather be online than in-line". And there’s no doubt about that but the risks are there. There are other factors as well. If you move to internet voting, you’re moving to make the secrecy of the vote more vulnerable. So people not only have a right to vote; they have a right to a secret vote.
SPEERS: And you’re worried someone could be standing over a particular voter and saying you should vote this way?
SMITH: Yes. The experts pointed out family coercion, markets for votes… these sorts of things that are an extra consideration. Problems with all sorts of voting systems, no doubt, and there’s a lot that can improve in the Australian system as a result of Western Australia.
SPEERS: Now what about barcodes? …I was going to say, what about barcodes? Because, well explain to me what you’ve actually looked at here and what you’re recommending.
SMITH: Look, what we’ve recommended is even the most ardent of electronic voting needs to understand it’s not a possibility anytime soon. The safest system would be extremely costly, and you’d go to all that trouble and you’d still turn up at the polling booth, you’d just go to a machine. We’re told to make it as safe as it could be, there should be a printed receipt as well, so that if there’s a problem with the machine, you’ve still got a record… very costly, all to get the result a bit earlier. So look, we’ve looked at a number of jurisdictions. You mentioned the ACT. There’s a number of things they do there. The general point I’d make, David, is look: the ACT is as easy as it gets because of the size and there’s six locations. Now, when you try and scale that to federal elections in Australia across our vast territory it would be prohibitively costly. What we have said though—which we’re strong on and I should point out it’s a unanimous report—the AEC should improve some of its systems using modern technology and the first and most obvious is the list where your name is crossed of when you go in to vote. So David, when you vote in whatever electorate you’re in, your name is crossed off but it’s on the list in every other booth in that electorate. We say have a computer-based list so when your name is crossed off, it simultaneously goes off on every other list and that will cut down on errors, the risk of multiple voting, and the like. And that is something we say they should do at the next election at every pre-poll level just to start.
SPEERS: And what about this question about showing ID when you actually turn up and get your name crossed of the list?
SMITH: Well, we haven’t addressed that in this report. It’s something we’ll address in our final report. It’s in our terms of reference. And I don’t mind saying—as I’ve said many times in the past—my personal view is some form of ID would be a good thing, I think. It would give voters confidence there isn’t multiple voting going on. And it’s something we’re used to in most aspects of our life. Interestingly, in Queensland at the state level, they have introduced this. And actually, at that by-election, where they rolled it out and all the reports were that it was pretty successful. It didn’t get a lot of coverage, David, because the by-election result wasn’t so good for the LNP. But they have tried it out at a full election.
SPEERS: Now, your previous report looked at the whole area of whether it should be harder for Senators to get elected on very tiny primary votes to get a seat through introducing some form of preferential voting, tougher registration rules for minor parties. Now given what’s happening in the Senate this week, more splintering and confusion about the balance of power and all of that, where do you think this is headed? Have you heard any actual response on this one from the Government yet?
SMITH: Well, no. We produced the report early so that there would be a lot of time for it to be considered. Importantly, it was a unanimous report that had the support of Labor and The Greens, and I worked very hard with the Committee to get a unanimous report because I wanted it to be durable if it was introduced. Clearly, as the Chair of the Committee, I think it is a vital reform. It’s not urgent right now because the next election is some time off. But the situation at present does not reflect the will of the voter. It’s as simple as that. And we say having optional preferential voting and the abolition of group voting tickets will mean that voters can preference in a Senate ballot above the line to the extent that they wish. That is, they will choose the preferences and they will choose to preference as much as they wish. And whilst I understand some of the minor party senators—or perhaps all of them—don’t like that proposition, it is a proposition that returns full power to the voters, and it will end senators, in some cases, being elected, really, by lottery, by virtue of those complicated preference deals that don’t reflected the considered will of the voter.
SPEERS: Certainly complicated, that’s for sure. Tony Smith, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon.
SMITH: Thanks David.
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Quotes about Wisdom
"Transcedent common sense is the rare power of seeing things as they are which signifies genius. It is the ability to draw right conclusions and to take correct action."
J.W. Fortescue (-) Writing on Wellington.
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism.
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century political liberalism.
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Naguib Mahfouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.
"The wise don't speak much, and those who are eloquent are not wise."
"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does-except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
Dear Abby (-) is the name of the notable advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name Abigail Van Buren
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist, and social critic.
"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions."
James Allen "Jim" Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American syndicated columnist, populist activist and author.
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. Kant was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment.
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for expierence."
James Boswell (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson.
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Foreword by Judith Russell, Geroge A. Smathers Libraries
Paper ISBN 13: 9781944455026 - Pub Date: 2/8/2017 Details: 164 pages, 8.25x11.7 Subject(s): Latin American - History
When the United States took on the building of the Panama Canal in 1904, workers were faced with extremely difficult living conditions. The tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow fever plagued them just as they had the earlier French effort. The housing stock left behind by the French was dilapidated and inadequate.
About a hundred sets of beautifully drafted architectural plans left by the French came in handy for locating drains, etc., as the Americans made repairs to existing buildings. Some workers found insect ridden rooms in adjacent towns while others lived in tents or thatched huts near construction sites. Not wanting to endanger the lives of their families, most men left their wives and children behind.
What started out as a cesspool of disease and loneliness eventually emerged as a little piece of paradise for its Canal Zone residents. This book tells some of the stories of the various townsites scattered along the fifty miles of the Panama Canal Zone between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. It also shares the fond memories of a few of its residents whose hometowns have changed since the Panama Canal was turned over to Panama on December 31, 1999, and the Canal Zone as they knew it was no more.
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Otto Preminger – Skidoo (1968)
in 1961-1970, Comedy, Cult, Otto Preminger, USA October 9, 2014 0 765 Views
An American comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures on December 19, 1968. The screenplay satirizes late 1960s lifestyle and its creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies, free love and then-prevalent use of the mind-altering drug LSD.
Along with top-billed Gleason and Channing, Skidoo also stars (alphabetically listed) Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark (who died on December 5, two weeks before the film’s release), Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip Law, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney and Groucho Marx playing “God” (making, at age 77, his final film appearance). Singer-songwriter Nilsson, who wrote the score and receives credit as a member of the cast, appears in a few brief scenes with Fred Clark, as both portray prison tower guards swaying to Nilsson’s music while under the influence of LSD.
Skidoo was a notorious bomb, failing both with critics and at the box office. In the years since its release it has seen a rise in appreciation by film critics. In 1973 Jonathan Rosenbaum said he valued the film as an “endlessly fascinating aberration… it enlists a legion of Fifties TV corpses into an amalgamation of every conceivable Hollywood genre.” In his 2011 review of the DVD in his New York Times column, Dave Kehr framed the film as the product of Preminger being “politically aligned with the kids… but culturally bound to the grownups”, which “allows his ambivalence to fester into an across-the-board caricature… The result is a finely controlled mess, one of the most uncomfortably evocative films of its time.”
The movie received some belated attention in the late 1970s when it was screened at San Francisco’s Roxie Cinema and in the 1980s when seen on cable TV. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art periodically exhibits a 35mm print, and it also screened at the USA Film Festival in Dallas in 1997 and had a Los Angeles showing in 2007 at the American Cinematheque.
On January 4–5 and July 11–12, 2008, paired with another counterculture-themed feature, 1967’s The Love-Ins, Skidoo was seen as an installment of Turner Classic Movies’ Friday night–Saturday morning TCM Underground series. Each film features a brief appearance by then-famous/notorious chain-smoking, “tough-guy” syndicated TV talk show host Joe Pyne, who died of lung cancer in March 1970 at age 45.
As of 2011, the film is in rotation on Showtime. Olive Films released the film on DVD in its original aspect ratio on July 19, 2011.
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/EF8DE138CAB0311/skidoo.1968.720p.bluray.x264-ebp.mkv
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Walnut Hills History >>Housing
Tag Archives: Housing
Washington Terrace
Model Home by Schmidlapp Jacob Schmidlapp talked some of his friends into joining him in financing a half-million-dollar joint stock company called the Cincinnati Model Homes Company. Like his earlier housing ventures, the company sought to provide decent affordable housing for low-wage workers. The largest projects built by Model Homes went on previously vacant land[…]
DeHart Hubbard
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Gary Dangel
Gary has been an active neighbor in Walnut Hills since the late 1970’s. He has worked on community gardens, including the school garden across from Frederick Douglass School. Currently he is the Health Outreach Coordinator at the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation. Gary moved to Walnut Hills to rehab a house on Crown Street. Back then his[…]
Low Cost Housing History – Washington Terrace Community
The Washington Terrace Apartment Complex built by Jacob Schmidlapp’s Model Homes Company west of Gilbert and south of Blair was built on vacant land that was until that time a usually dry creek, without much in the way of city services. Model Homes sought to provide the community with park and playground space in the[…]
Low Cost Housing: Gordon Hotel
Jacob Schmidlapp (see a recent low-cost housing post post) continued his mission to produce affordable, decent housing in Walnut Hills from 1911 until his death in 1919. Another project called the Gordon Hotel, provided an alternative to the rooming houses in the neighborhood. Schmidlapp himself provided an excellent summary of the building in his short[…]
Low Cost Housing History – Jacob Schmidlapp
Jacob Schmidlapp moved from his native Piqua, Ohio, to Memphis, Tennessee shortly after the civil war, where he went in to the tobacco and cigar business. In 1874, he moved to Cincinnati and made his fortune in distilling. He was a self-made man whose fortune rivaled those of established families like the Emerys and the[…]
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Augusta Canal Authority
Augusta Canal Multi-Use Trail
Built in 1845 and designated by the United States Congress as Georgia’s first National Heritage Area in 1998, (making it the first National Heritage Area in Georgia), the Augusta Canal’s importance is unquestionable. The Heritage Area is designed to showcase the history of the Augusta Canal as it relates to the industrial development of Augusta and the south. The master plan for the Heritage Area includes amenities, exhibits, Petersburg boats, docks, interactive features, monuments, recreational areas and trails. The trail system is the backbone of the area and creates the connectivity of features and trailheads. The section of the trail system designed in this project, the River Trail, provides a critical link in the trail connectivity, joining the Canal and its multiple trail heads to downtown Augusta along arguably one of the most scenic sections of the heritage area – the Savannah River.
By creating new vistas along the river, as well as an innovative suspension-bridge design and prefabricated weathered steel bridge, Benesch has provided this historical landmark the long-wanted connectivity of the trail system to areas that would have been otherwise inaccessible. This project has achieved the desired goal of providing alternative modes of transportation and serving recreational needs, while positively impacting the Augusta economy. The completion of this trail section provides direct access to the downtown area which boasts approximately half a million user days annually.
Benesch was the prime consultant for the project, handling total project management, lead design, permitting, and construction administration and inspection for the three-mile section of the multi-use trail. This section is part of a 13-mile system of trails that provide alternative transportation from West Augusta and Columbia County. This trail segment includes two bridges and a significant timber boardwalk. As designed, the Augusta Canal River Levee Trail resulted in a three-mile section of new trail including two bridges spanning 250 and 190 feet respectively, and 416 feet of boardwalk.
Design and construction staging in areas virtually inaccessible by land
Poor subsurface conditions
USACE & USCG Permitting required
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sigil magic
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Formation: The Magick Act of Beyoncé
Posted by Damien Williams on February 9, 2016
Posted in: Uncategorized. Tagged: beyoncé, black girl magic, blood magick, conjuring, formation, hoodoo, hypersigils, Invisible Architecture of Bias, Invisible Architectures of Bias, magic, magick, music, music videos, police body cameras, police brutality, police overreach, race, racism, sigil magic, the formation working, the occult, vodun, voodoo. 1 comment
[Originally posted at Eris Magazine]
I recently watched and have been spending some time with the semiotics of the video and Super Bowl halftime performance of Beyoncé’s “FORMATION.” And if that statement makes you snicker, then YOU NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH THE SEMIOTICS OF THESE PERFORMANCES.
There have already been thinkpieces on this in Vox, the Guardian, The Washington Post, and many influential unaffiliated blogs, and rightly so. They’ve all variously and collectively discussed the connection of the visuals and clips used to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the current work of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the deeply feminist message that Beyoncé has been working to build for the past several years. What most of them don’t do, however, is recognise that she’s not only invoking these images and themes to use for her own ends, she’s evoking them. She’s conjuring the truth of a particular perspective into being. Beyoncé has created an act of magic, here.
In order to have this discussion, we are going to have to reference certain kinds of magic, and religion, and voodoo, and hoodoo. I’m not necessarily going to give you individual treatises on these each of things, right now, but rather, we’ll do a quick primer.
Magic is generally understood as the process of causing something to happen, by mysterious or impossible means. Action at a distance, words of power, ritual formulations (and formations) to bring about particular ends. We can talk about the work of Crowley or Spare or Foisy or Any other prominent magicians who evoke and invoke powers beyond the “normal,” and who resonante with language and the manipulation thereof. One of the theories of Austin Osman Spare’s chaos magic is the Sigil—an intention written down, then abstracted into a piece of art. Many have taken this and evolved out of it the idea of the hypersigil. A play or television show or a song that carries the intention out into the world, and gains potency as it is viewed, heard, engaged. Think Chalmers’ The King In Yellow or Sorkin’s The West Wing.
The kind of religion we’re seeing, here, is deep south Black Christianity, of a specifically New Orleans variety, and we have to understand that that was always tinged with the Hatian, with the Creole, with Voudun. The dancing and drumming traditions West African Yoruba traditions (hear that beat, in the halftime Show?) melded and blended with the work of Christian Missionaries and became the immediate subject of white terror. It was always a way for the black population to remain familiar with the spirits and gods of their ancestors, while nominally capitulating and then actively incorporating the beliefs of their captors.
Hoodoo is of a similar lineage, but can be seen as more organic, in a literal sense; a system developed by the slow accretion of emotion and spirit and desire to survive through whatever means nature brings to hand. Hoodoo is often referenced as “rootworking,” or “conjuration,” and it ties the ideas of the Justice or Providence of the Christian God directly into the more practical, “down and dirty” aspects of doing what you have to do to make a life. Hoodoo is, in many ways, more akin to the kind of “messier” witchcraft, Western audiences are used to seeing, with it’s potions and herbs.
In “FORMATION,” Beyoncé has braided all of these elements and more into a single working. While the nature of the thing necessitated that there would be far more spectacle at play in the Super Bowl Halftime Show, at base, both of these performances constitute Beyoncé broadcasting an immediate reappropriation of power to her community—power from her ancestors and people, power from their struggle and overcoming—as well as a warding against all those who might try to ape, steal, or dilute that same power. The repeated scene on the plantation steps encompass a system of power that was specifically denied to the people of this place, for a very long time, and Beyoncé is reclaiming that system, manipulating it (see the section below about hands), and standing present as matriarch of this place. She is at once source and example of power. This working (because that’s the only way it feels right to talk about the song, the video, the Halftime Show, together) is a show of strength through particularly highlighted points of vulnerability, a casting of a protection that is felt to be needed, now.
Look at how hands move, in the official video. There’s the interplay of the Raised Hands: In the church scenes we see hands raised in praise and surrender to the God of that church; these are interspersed with shots of the extraordinarily sharp double edge of what appears to be a 12 year old black boy* dancing as hard and as well as he can in front of a row of white police officers decked out in riot gear. As the boy dances harder and harder, the praise in the church reaches a pitch, and as the congregation throws their hands up, again, in surrender, the police throw their hands up to the boy. Surrender and praise, intertwined. The recognition of something more powerful, more perfect, something worth surrendering to.
I can’t even deconstruct this scene without crying. And if you still didn’t get it, there’s a shot of graffiti at the very end of it all that says, “Stop Shooting Us.”
This working is also an expression of Self-Possession, in all possible senses of that term. Either explicitly or implicitly, in “Formation” Beyoncé calls out every criticism leveled at her in recent months and years, from the ridiculous to those that must have hurt her to read or hear. Member of the Illuminati, too white, too black, too slutty, too rich, too reckless. She takes every single one of these and she holds them up, turns them to the light of who and what she knows she is and can be—what we all can be (“We Slay”)—and focuses it back on any and all who would try to tear down her or her people. Beyoncé’s constant hoodoo hand and body movements are specific and intentional, meant to evoke the grasping of power, the constant, predatory awareness of all comers, the building and creation of her self, and an exhortation for others—specifically other women—to do the same.
There hasn’t been a series of lines as powerful to rally around as “Come on ladies, let’s all get in Formation/Prove to me you got some coordination/Slay, trick, or you get eliminated” in a very long time. In her specific articulation of these syllables, she simultaneously reinforces herself as Slayer while leaving open the possibility of being slain—either in the sense of impressed, or of taken down—by whatever women can work hard enough, dig deep enough, and come together to slay her and the whole wide world. And anyone who doesn’t, she warns, is lost.
Again, much has already been written about the powerfully pro-black, pro-feminist message of this song, the video, and Super Bowl performance, with several writers opining that they don’t feel that this was “for them.” And maybe it wasn’t. That is, this was not something that those writers were meant to feel as a deep shared connection of lived experience, in the way that it would be felt by those ravaged by Katrina, or disproportionately targeted by police action and the United States’ prosocutorial justice system, or who struggle to maintain a balance of what it means to be a “Negro.” Some may not be meant to “get” that; it may not be “for you.” But, if not, then what is for you in these presentations is to recoginze that the people who do feel this,have felt this for a long time; that entire communities are still strong and getting stronger—like broken bones are stronger after they heal, like forests grow back stronger after fires.
What is for you is to realize that Beyoncé has done something in this working that many many people have felt needed to be done for a very long time.
Everything about the “FORMATION” working is an act of evocation and conjuration. A reification of the truth and need born out of the lived experience of the people in the world that Beyoncé outlines and encircles, with her hands.
[*UPDATE 02/10/16, 12:55pm: On repeated viewings, that boy is much younger than 12. Eight years old, at the most.]
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Antibiotics May Cure Appendicitis -- No Operation Needed
TUESDAY, Sept. 25, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- If you're suffering from acute appendicitis, you might be successfully treated with antibiotics and never need an operation to remove your appendix, Finnish researchers report.
Most appendicitis cases are uncomplicated, which simply means the organ hasn't ruptured, so they can be treated with antibiotics. Only when the appendix looks like it may burst immediately is an operation necessary. And the difference is easily seen on a CT scan, said lead researcher Dr. Paulina Salminen, a surgeon at Turku University Hospital.
"There are no severe complications associated with the antibiotic therapy, so it's a safe option," she said.
About 20 to 30 percent of patients with appendicitis have a perforated appendix that needs to be removed, but 70 to 80 percent of patients may only need antibiotics, Salminen added.
A perforation is a small tear in the appendix, which lets its contents leak out into the stomach. This can cause a potentially fatal blood infection.
In a trial that compared 273 patients who had an appendectomy with 257 treated with antibiotics, researchers found that about 60 percent of those treated with antibiotics didn't need to have their appendix removed in the five years after treatment.
In all, 100 of 257 patients treated with antibiotics had to have an appendectomy over the five years of the study, including 15 patients operated on during the initial hospitalization, the researchers found.
The report was published Sept. 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
One U.S. expert brought up the pros and cons of antibiotics instead of surgery.
"I think the big issue is this -- can physicians and patients accept the fact that there could be close to a 40 percent chance of recurrence in five years?" said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
This might not be acceptable for many people, he said.
"It's a question of how risk-averse you truly want to be, given that once your appendix is removed with uncomplicated appendicitis, your risk of complications is quite minimal," Glatter said.
Patients need to understand that while antibiotics may effectively treat acute appendicitis 60 to 70 percent of the time, the treatment may also fail and require an operation, he said.
Although the antibiotics-only approach has been gaining increased attention and popularity, it requires further study in specific subgroups of patients who may be at higher risk, including patients with appendicolith, in which the appendix is obstructed with calcified deposits. These patients were excluded from this latest study, Glatter noted.
In addition, the study only looked at open appendectomy, not the less invasive laparoscopic appendectomy. The laparoscopic approach is associated with a shorter hospital stay and a lower risk of complications than open surgery, Glatter explained.
Antibiotic therapy required three days of intravenous antibiotics given in the hospital, plus seven days of oral antibiotics. The hospital stay after laparoscopic surgery was only one day, he noted.
"The decision to initiate antibiotics-only as opposed to pursuing an operative approach to treating acute appendicitis should incorporate shared decision-making between physicians, patients and their families," Glatter said.
In fact, a recent survey from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine found that even though appendicitis often resolves with the use of antibiotics, the overwhelming majority of Americans would choose surgery instead. Only about 1 in every 10 adults said they'd use antibiotics to ease an inflamed appendix, according to survey results.
Visit the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for more on appendicitis.
SOURCES: Paulina Salminen, M.D., Ph.D., Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; Robert Glatter, M.D., emergency physician, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Sept. 25, 2018, Journal of the American Medical Association
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“Scene in LA” June 2018 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish
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Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month:
“Alice and the Fabulous Tea Party” Vaudeville, burlesque, panto, farce and fantasy combine to make this a no-holds-barred evening of hilarious theatre. Set in a fabulously overdone and wild garden-themed Victorian salon, Alice (now a grown woman) returns to Wonderland at the invitation of her old friend, the Queen of Hearts. Once there, she finds that things are just as madcap and nonsensical as ever. Written and directed by Chris DeCarlo & Evelyn Rudie, with music by Evelyn Rudie, it runs June 1 through June 30 at the Santa Monica Playhouse in Santa Monica. For tickets call 310-394-9779 Ext. 2 or visit www.santamonicaplayhouse.com/alice-pride-2018.
“Bearing Witness” Thomas Bird’s autobiographical solo show is the moving father-son story of Bird’s relationship with his World War II veteran dad and their mutual healing from the traumas of battle and the Holocaust. In the play, Bird travels to Mauthausen concentration camp to honor the memory of his father, an Army doctor who cared for survivors upon the camp’s liberation. As Bird conjures the spirits of his father and the camp’s victims, he recalls his own wartime experiences in Vietnam along with a long-held secret his dad revealed just before his death. In “bearing witness” himself, Tom is finally able to find some peace. Written by Thomas Bird, and directed by Brian Delate, it runs June 1 through June 17 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. For tickets call 310-477-2055 Ext. 2 or visit www.OdysseyTheatre.com.
“Cabaret” Wilkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. This is The Kit Kat Klub… the seediest, sexiest nightclub in Berlin. In here, life isn’t just beautiful – it’s downright dangerous. If you’re not careful, you could lose your perspective on the world outside. Fight that urge. RESIST. Celebration Theatre presents Kander & Ebb’s dark, eerily relevant masterpiece like you’ve never seen it before. Written by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and directed by Michael Matthews, it runs June 1 through July 15 at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles. For tickets call 323-957-1884 or visit www.celebrationtheatre.com.
“An Evening of Betrayal” An evening celebrating two masters of language, Harold Pinter and William Shakespeare, as they investigate the same subject: Betrayal. The first half will feature Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” in its entirety. After a short intermission, the same four actors will perform an abridged one-hour adaptation of “Othello”, told backwards to mirror the structure of Pinter’s “Betrayal”. Written by Harold Pinter and William Shakespeare, and directed by Elizabeth Swain, it runs June 1 through June 24 at the THEATRE 68 in North Hollywood. For tickets visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3415884.
“The Marvelous Wonderettes” takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! As we learn about their lives and loves, the girls serenade us with classic ‘50s hits including “Lollipop,” “Dream Lover,” “Stupid Cupid,” and “Lipstick on Your Collar.” Featuring over 30 classic ’50s and ’60s hits, it will keep you smiling in this must-take musical trip down memory lane! Written by Roger Bean, and directed by Robert Marra, it runs June 1 through July 7 at the Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale. For tickets call 818-244-8481 or visit www.glendalecentretheatre.com.
“Parade” is a tragic and true story of the 1913 trial of a Brooklyn-born Jewish factory manager Leo Frank who was accused of raping and murdering a 13 year old employee, Mary Phagan. Already guilty in the eyes of those around him, the trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused anti-Semitic tensions in Atlanta and the state of Georgia. Written by Alfred Uhry, with music by Jason Robert Brown, and directed by T.J. Dawson, it runs June 1 through June 10 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Cerritos, then June 15 through June 24 at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center in Redondo Beach. For tickets visit www.3dtheatricals.org.
“Coriolanus” An allegory for today’s tumultuous times, Shakespeare’s searing tragedy is a cautionary tale of political manipulation and revenge. Rome, a city where the one-percenters rule, is led by a populist general who has nothing but contempt for the common people and is unable to reconcile his disdain for the citizens with his love of country. Written by William Shakespeare, and directed by Ellen Geer and Melora Marshall, it runs June 2 through September 23 at the Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. For tickets call 310-455-3723 or visit www.theatricum.com.
“Newsies” They delivered the papers, until they made the headlines! Newsies, the smash-hit, crowd-pleasing new musical from Disney will ignite the stage in La Mirada. Written by Harvey Fierstein, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and directed by Richard J. Hinds, it runs June 2 through June 24 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada. For tickets call 562-944-9801 or visit www.lamiradatheatre.com.
“Next to Normal” has been called one of the best musicals of the 21st century and its soundtrack one of the best original soundtracks in a musical due to its graceful handling of its dark, complex subject matter and its moving and brutally honest exploration into pain. Written by Brian Yorkey, with music by Tom Kitt, it runs June 2 through June 17 at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks. For tickets visit www.panicproductions.org.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Theatricum brings back its signature production, an audience favorite with a set design unrivaled by any other theater – because it’s the real thing. The most magical outdoor setting in Los Angeles is once again transformed into an enchanted forest inhabited by lovers both fairy and human. Shakespeare conjures a world of wonder, magic and romance where comical misunderstandings and the pain of unrequited love are resolved, and all is reconciled through midsummer night revelries and the enduring power of nature. Buffet dinners with a costumed cast of fairies in attendance take place in the theater’s adjacent gardens prior to Thursday evening performances on Aug. 2; Aug. 9; Aug. 16; and Aug. 23. (Separate admission, or combo packages available.). Written by William Shakespeare, and directed by Willow Geer, it runs June 3 through September 3 at the Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. For tickets call 310-455-3723 or visit www.theatricum.com.
“Henry IV” an evening of Shakespeare’s finest comedy and most touching drama with Fallstaff, starring Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks. Written by William Shakespeare, adapted by Daniel Sullivan, and directed by Daniel Sullivan, it runs June 5 through July 1 at the Japanese Garden on the West Los Angeles VA Campus in Los Angeles. For tickets visit www.shakespearecenter.org.
“Long Day’s Journey Into Night” Haunted by the past but unable to face the truth of the present, James and Mary Tyrone and their two sons test the bonds of a family caught in a cycle of love and resentment. As day turns to night and each member of the family indulges in their vices, the truth unravels leaving behind a quartet of ruined lives. Written by Eugene O’Neill, and directed by Sir Richard Eyre, it runs June 8 through July 1 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. For tickets call 310-746-4000 or visit www.TheWallis.org/LongDays.
“Write Me a Murder” Julie Sturrock, wife to ruthless business man Charles Sturrock, longs to write mysteries. When she meets David Rodingham, a young writer whose home Sturrock has just bought, they dream up the perfect murder plot. Written by Frederick Knott, and directed by Michael-Anthony Nozzi, it runs June 8 through July 15 at the Pierson Playhouse in Pacific Palisades. For tickets call 310-454-1970 or visit www.theatrepalisades.org.
“100 Aprils” mines the dark humor of oppression and creates a story that illuminates the struggle of all marginalized people. It is both timely and universal in scope. John Sapian is a modern-day Don Quixote. He and his family are second generation Armenians whose parents escaped the Genocide. John believes that a tormentor is pursuing him. Is the enemy a haunted memory from his childhood or is he real? Written by Leslie Ayvazian, and directed by Michael Arabian, it runs June 9 through July 16 at the Rogue Machine Theatre (in The Met Theatre) in Los Angeles. For tickets call 855-585-5185 or visit www.roguemachinetheatre.com.
“Lysistrata Unbound” In this newly imagined, dramatic version of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, an aristocratic Athenian matron is crushed by fateful events and gradually transformed into the most celebrated anti-war activist of the ancient world. Written by Eduardo Machado, and directed by John Farmanesh-Bocca, it runs June 9 through August 4 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. For tickets call 310-477-2055 Ext. 2 or visit www.OdysseyTheatre.com.
“Clybourne Park” A spin-off of Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking drama A Raisin in the Sun, this razor-sharp satire examines race and real estate in a fictional Chicago neighborhood. Smart and funny, this Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play featured the evolution of a house, acting as the focus of reactions to the shifting racial landscape of a community. Written by Bruce Norris, and directed by Matt August, it runs June 10 through June 24 at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach. For tickets call 949-497-2787 or visit www.lagunaplayhouse.com.
“Skeleton Crew” follows four co-workers—Faye, Dez, Reggie and Shanita—at a Detroit auto factory in 2008. The play highlights the layered relationships and drama of blue-collar workers navigating the instability and uncertainty in their personal lives and at work. Each character’s patience and loyalty are tested as the plant’s future comes into question and they are forced to make hard choices to ensure their individual survival. Written by Dominique Morisseau, and directed by Patricia McGregor, it runs June 13 through July 8 at the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. For tickets call 310-208-5454 or visit www.geffenplayhouse.org.
“Rumors” Five neurotic couples gather for a dinner party celebrating one couple’s 10th anniversary. The best laid plans go wildly awry when guests arrive early only to discover their host has shot himself, the hostess and servants are missing, and dinner not ready. As confusions and miscommunications mount, the evening spins off into farcical hilarity. Written by Neil Simon, and directed by Doug Engalla, it runs June 15 through July 29 at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood. For tickets call 818-763-5990 or visit www.thegrouprep.com.
“The Crucible” is a classic parable of mass hysteria that draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch hunts of 1692 and McCarthyism, which gripped America in the 1950s, remains eerily timely in today’s climate of fake news. Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, its own history firmly rooted in the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklist — when actor Will Geer and his wife, Herta Ware, created the theater as a haven for blacklisted actors — opens a new production of Miller’s modern classic. Written by Arthur Miller, and directed by Ellen Geer, it runs June 16 through September 30 at the Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. For tickets call 310-455-3723 or visit www.theatricum.com.
“Their Finest Hour: Churchill and Murrow” This full-length play sheds light on the unique relationship between Winston Churchill and Edward R. Murrow during the early years of WW II when England was under attack by Hitler’s air-force. Murrow, who was covering the war for CBS Radio News, not only became friendly with Churchill, but had a passionate and adulterous love affair with the Prime Minister’s daughter-in-law. Written by Willard Manus, and directed by Stu Berg, it runs June 16 through July 22 at the Write Act Repertory @ the Brickhouse Theatre in North Hollywood. For tickets visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3328722.
“Sweet Charity” The story centers on Charity’s life as a dance hall hostess “with a heart of gold”, determined to break out of the Fan-Dango Ballroom. Her misadventures in 1960s New York take her from a zany night with Italian film star Vittorio Vidal (in which she ends up alone in his bedroom closet), to dating the neurotic and shy Oscar Lindquist. When Oscar proposes, he insists he doesn’t care about Charity’s profession. But in the end, he does care very much and Charity is soon back to having her toes and heart stepped on in the ballroom. But not before singing and dancing to such rousing Broadway classics as “Big Spender,” “If My Friends Could See Me Now,” “Where Am I Going,” and “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This.”. Written by Neil Simon, with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and directed by Kathleen Marshall, it runs June 20 through July 1 at the UCLA’s Freud Playhouse in Westwood. For tickets call 866-811-4111 or visit www.reprise2.org.
“The 39 Steps” Hitchcock meets hilarious in this fast-paced comedy mystery thriller for anyone who loves the magic of theater. Train chases, plummeting planes and old-fashioned romance lead to a death-defying finale as a cast of four actors breathlessly reenacts hundreds of characters, locations and famous scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 film of the same name. Written by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan, and directed by Jamie Torcellini, it runs June 22 through July 8 at the International City Theatre Long Beach Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. For tickets call 562-436-4610 or visit www.InternationalCityTheatre.org.
“Pump Boys and Dinettes” Out there on Highway 57 in North Carolina, somewhere between Frog Leap and Smyrna, sits a gas station across from the Double Cupp Diner. The Pump Boys and Dinettes know what you want and they’ve got what you need: gasoline and comfort food. Fill your tank and fill your belly: The Energy Duet. They’ve also got a whole bunch of toe-tappin’, hummable country/pop tunes guaranteed to show you a good time. Written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann, with music by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann, and directed by Allison Bibicoff, it runs June 23 through July 29 at the Sierra Madre Playhouse in Sierra Madre. For tickets call 626-355-4318 or visit www.sierramadreplayhouse.org.
“Slaughter City” follows the lives of a group of workers laboring at a slaughterhouse. Tensions rise as the work gets tougher and more dangerous, their wages are cut, and their benefits reduced. The play was inspired by a number of labor-related incidents including the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 and the 1993 strike at Fischer’s meat packing plant in Louisville, Kentucky. Written by Naomi Wallace, and directed by Jer Adrianne Lelliott, it runs June 23 through July 14 at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. For tickets call 323-944-2165 or visit www.coeurage.org/slaughtercity.
“The Blade of Jealousy” Dashing Melchor moves to Los Angeles to meet his online dating connection but unexpectedly falls in love with a mysterious veiled lady (Magdalena), and she with him. He later meets her sans veil but is unimpressed, thus igniting Magdalena’s jealousy – of herself! A farcical amalgam of disguise and deception ensues. Written by Henry Ong, and directed by Denise Blasor, it runs June 24 through August 26 at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks. For tickets visit www.thebladeofjealousy.brownpapertickets.com.
“Our Very Own Carlin McCullough” A single mother discovers that her ten-year-old daughter is a tennis phenomenon. When a young, dedicated coach takes Carlin under his wing, her meteoric rise takes shape and this threesome struggles over what is best when building up a champion. Written by Amanda Peet, and directed by Tyne Rafaeli, it runs June 27 through July 29 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. For tickets call 310-208-5454 or visit www.geffenplayhouse.org.
“The Chalk Garden” An outdoor production of Enid Bagnold’s unique comedy that blends witty humor with insightful truths. Dyed-in-the-wool British dowager Mrs. St. Maugham is an eccentric with two obsessions: caring for her troubled teenage granddaughter and growing a traditional English garden in the harsh chalk soil of the surrounding grounds. When the mysterious Miss Madrigal, with her keen knowledge of gardening, is hired as a governess despite her lack of references, she brings along a dark secret. Written by Enid Bagnold, and directed by Susan Angelo, it runs June 30 through September 30 at the Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. For tickets call 310-455-3723 or visit www.theatricum.com.
“The Death and Life of Mary Jo Kopechne” tells the story of an American tragedy from the point of view of the victim – a young woman who became famous one night in 1969 when the car she was in plunged off a bridge on Martha’s Vineyard on the way back from a midnight tryst on the beach. A prominent United States senator who’d had too much to drink was at the wheel. He survived. She didn’t. Mary Jo Kopechne was a Democratic campaign worker and idealist with ambitions of running for the Pennsylvania State Assembly. A demure Catholic with little experience with men, she was not the type to have an impulsive sexual adventure with a married man. But does she say no to a man of considerable power and influence, a man who could help advance her career, a man she also may have admired? A dilemma that has become particularly prominent in the #MeToo era we are living through. In his hotel room Ted Kennedy is frantically trying to devise some way out of this potentially career-ending disaster when his two dead brothers and his father miraculously show up to help him try to salvage not only his political future but the family’s reputation. They are deep in damage control scenarios when there is a knock at the door. They open it to discover Mary Jo Kopechne standing there, soaking wet, and very angry. The Kennedys try desperately to persuade her to help them cover up the incident. The decision that she has to make in the next few hours will determine not only Ted Kennedy’s fate but also that of the entire nation, perhaps for decades to come. Written by Peter Lefcourt, and directed by Terri Hanauer, it runs June 30 through August 12 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. For tickets call 323-960-4418 or visit www.Plays411.com/MaryJo.
“Mary Poppins” The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family how to value each other again. Mary takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren’t the only ones upon whom she has a profound effect. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises, “Anything can happen if you let it!” Written by Julian Fellowes, based on the stories by P.L. Travers, with music by Richard Sherman & Robert Sherman, and directed by Kristie Mattsson, it runs June 30 through August 4 at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica. For tickets call 310-828-7519 or visit www.morgan-wixson.org.
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“Scene in LA” July 2019 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish — Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Scraps” Set in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, three months after the fatal shooting of black teenager Forest Winthrop by a white police officer, this is a highly theatrical, frequently funny mash up of poetry, realism and expressionism that chronicles the effects [...]
“Scene in LA” June 2019 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish — Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” An arrogant prince is cursed to live as a terrifying beast until he finds true love. Strangely, his chance comes when he captures an unwary clockmaker, whose place is then taken by his bold and [...]
“Scene in LA” May 2019 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish — Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “VIOLENCE: The Misadventures of Spike Spangle, Farmer” tells the story of Spike Spangle, a down on his luck farmer who gets sucked into a whirlwind of celebrity and patriotism. He joins Superman on billionaire Max Enormous’ Celebrity Space Shuttle and [...]
“Scene in LA” April 2019 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish — Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “The Root Beer Bandits – A Rootin’ Tootin’ Wild West Musicale” tells the story of Polly Peppercorn, the only female to ride for the Pony Express. But as often is the case — that is her predicament – she really [...]
“Scene in LA” March 2019 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish — Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Attack of the Second Bananas” Who killed beloved stage stars Ruby Moss and Andrea Hammond? Find out as the LAPD detective on the case pieces together the clues. Attack of the Second Bananas is a comedy noir about the ultimate [...]
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High flyer: a vision of Jean Nouvel's addition to New York's soaring skyline
At Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Monday night, a sleek crowd, including architect Richard Meier and former New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, gathered to fete French architect Jean Nouvel, whose tallest building to date is under construction next door at 53 West 53rd St.
Dubbed 53W53, the 1,050-feet-high residential skyscraper makes use of air rights purchased from MoMA and other nearby buildings to provide views of Central Park and the city's skyline. 'When you are inside, you will feel you are in the sky in New York City,' says Nouvel. Officially, the event at MoMA - during which Vanity Fair contributing editor and filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer interviewed the soft-spoken architect - marked the commencement of sales of the tower's 140 luxury units. Unofficially, the swanky affair that spilled out into MoMA's Sculpture Garden was the beginning of the PR machine surrounding the building, slated for completion in 2018.
The elegant tower, with its glass and exposed steel diagrid structure, will create one-of-a-kind floor plans in the condominiums, ranging from one-bedrooms to duplex penthouses and full-floor layouts. Each unit will have sloping windows and muscular, slanting columns, giving New York-based interior designer Thierry W. Despont a challenging set of parameters.
53W53, which joins Manhattan's new slew of supertalls, has weathered its own share of controversy since it was announced in 2007. Torquing at subtle, oblique angles ('like a snake,' says Nouvel) as it tapers to a sharp summit, the tower was originally slated to be 1,250 feet tall, but neighbours balked and the city asked the architect and developer Hines to lower it (Hines is partnering with Goldman Sachs and Singapore-based Pontiac Land Group on the development).
Then in January 2014, MoMA, who sold 53W53's 18,000-square-foot lot to Hines and Goldman Sachs in 2007, decided to raze the adjacent Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. A future museum expansion by Diller Scofidio + Renfro will link to three of 53W53's lower floors which will be accessed from and connected to MoMA. The replacement of the Folk Art Museum raised cries of protest from architects, critics and the public, who lauded its small galleries and faceted bronze façade. Nouvel, who said the Folk Art Museum was 'a very interesting building' and claimed to be shocked by its disappearance from the site next to his tower, said that keeping the Folk Art's façade and gutting the interior, as was once suggested, didn't make sense.
On Monday night, Tyrnauer showed a brief clip of a documentary he is making about Nouvel before interviewing the architect. When Tyrnauer asked Nouvel about his creative process, he replied that he has to spend some amount of time lying in bed with an eye mask on and earphones in, thinking about his work. 'I don't want to see the light,' he said, eliciting laughs from the crowd. 'The light is inside.'
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Major Races
It is known that horse racing was common in ancient Greece and India. The earliest references to these tests date back to 1000 BC. Competitions in chariots drawn by fours were the basis of the ancient Greek Olympic Games. In ancient times, horse racing was a great success and held a special place in the life of society. Winners of equestrian competitions received fame and recognition worthy of true heroes. Even more popular racing became thanks to the participation in it of the great emperors – Nero, Caligula and Domitian. With the fall of the Roman Empire, the popularity of horse racing declined, although there were still competitions in Europe. In the Middle Ages in Europe a variety of equestrian tests were also carried out, which were successful among the population. A new round in the development of horse racing began in the XVII century. Then in England a special breed of horses was bred, possessing the best abilities for horse racing.
At the beginning of the XIX century was created high-speed thoroughbred breed. The appearance of such horses contributed to the reduction of race distances. The previous running distances of 6.5-9.5 km were reduced to 5 km or less. So the horses had the opportunity to maximize their speed. In the 18th century, major hippodromes were opened in such cities of Great Britain as Epsom, Ascot, Newmarket and Doncaster. Later, hippodromes began to appear in France. Longchamp became the most famous French hippodrome, where horse racing is held today. Horse racing has been regulated by the National Rules and Regulations since the 18th century in England. Here was organized the first jockey club which has the authority to control the conduct of equestrian competitions. It was the British who first began to record horse racing records and record the nicknames of horses.
At the turn of the XVIII and XIX centuries, horse racing acquired the status of a prestigious occupation. To become a competitor, the horse owner himself could sit in the saddle, or put in his place an acquaintance or a stable employee. In those days, the color of the winner’s stable was recorded in a special book. This tradition is still followed during the races of thoroughbred riding breeds. On other races colors are recorded that belong to the jockeys, and not to the stables. In Germany, horse racing has spread only in the XIX century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the first German hippodrome was built in the city of Mecklenburg, where horses were brought from Britain. In America, horses appeared in the 15th century thanks to the Spanish conquistadors. In America, the Mustang breed was bred – unique horses that appeared from the crossing of American breeds with Arabian horses.
Great interest in horse racing has always been observed in high society. Kings, dukes, courtiers and other noble people had the opportunity to maintain their own stables. Often they themselves participated in competitions. The mass development of horse racing was obtained in the 17th-19th centuries, which is associated with an improved selection due to the industrial revolution. More perfect breeds of horses appear, and people have more money and free time – the European middle class begins to emerge. At the same time, many hippodromes are opened, on which (first illegally) sweepstakes appear. The possibility of winning repeatedly spurred interest in horse racing. In many countries, restrictions were imposed on sweepstakes, up to a total ban. Perhaps this was one of the reasons for the decline of love for horse racing. But the main thing in which they were inferior to the newly emerging sports, so it is in entertainment. Jumping, triathlon, dressage and other modern types of equestrian sports are clearly superior to monotonous jumps, which are now referred to as standard tests of the horse for speed and endurance.
What are the races: horse racing tips before you start
There are certain differences between horse breeds. They determine the type of races in which they will be used. There are some types: smooth; still chase; endurance race.
Hurdling. In horse racing, horses must overcome various obstacles – water or sand breaks, hedges. The most widespread stipple-chase is in Ireland (the place of origin of this sport), the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Canada and Australia. The races are held at a distance of 4-7 km, up to 30 obstacles of varying difficulty can occur on the track. Racing through barriers originates from sport hunting. Aristocrats enjoyed popular horseback hunting for foxes, hares and wolves in the open country, but with natural low-growing vegetation common on the island. The most famous obstacle race has been held in Liverpool since 1836; its prize pool exceeds £ 1 million.
Gambling racing. Probably, horse racing was the first sport that brought wealth not only to participants, but also to spectators. It is known that in the first millennium BC, horse races with bets on the winner were organized on the Arabian Peninsula. But the development of totalizator system is already at the present time. In a number of countries, races with a tote are under full or partial prohibition. So in some US states, a law was passed to ban the sweepstakes in 1951. But in many states, stakes are not easily resolved, but they are also a significant proportion of the local budget. So the Hong Kong hippodrome brings in more than 25% of tax revenues to the treasury of the city. And the total global tax collection exceeds $ 100 billion annually. At the same time, a significant part of totalizator incomes remains in the shadow sector of the economy.
Dangerous sport: horse racing fixtures
Since high speed develops in races, this often leads to bad consequences. So the research conducted by the Center for Medicine at the University of North Carolina, reported that over 60% of jockeys have injuries and health problems. Moreover, 20% have serious complications in the form of head and neck injuries. We also managed to find out that for every 2000 starts there are 3 horses killed. In 2006, in New York alone, 600 horses were killed in competition. And the number of non-lethal cases and not entailing culling the animal even more. This circumstance as well as the opinion of a number of human rights organizations on cruelty at the races led to a serious campaign against this type of equestrian competitions. In particular, the use of the whip, fishing, and other traditional methods of controlling a horse is criticized. Some players, by the way, put exclusively on the first few numbers in the handicap. And this strategy works fine. But the horses from the last lines do not win so often. Handicaps are divided into six classes. The first class (Class 1) is the highest; these are the highest quality horses. The sixth grade (Class 6) is the lowest. A horse can start with low handicap classes and gradually climb up.
Class 1 is the cream of the British races. These are the very jumps that the whole country watches and discusses, on which the greatest bets are made. What is interesting, inside Class 1 also has its own “ladder”. The first class is divided into Listed, Group 3, Group 2 and Group 1 races.
Listed level rides are a transitional stage from simple handicaps to the prestigious Group 1, 2 and 3 races. It is honorable for any horse to speak in such a jump – it says a lot about his talents. And if you win in Listed, you will break into the Group level races and win hundreds of thousands of pounds.
In barrier jumps, the picture is similar. As in the smooth series, here, too, most of the races are handicaps, and they are divided into six classes. There are also maiden and listed jumps here. Well, for the highest level races in barrier races, instead of the word “Group”, “Grade” is used. The highest level of British barrier races is Grade 1.
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Australia Test stars have point to prove
26th-Oct-2016
Australia captain Steve Smith admits the team has its work cut out after their 3-0 Test series loss to Sri Lanka, but says it'll be a different ball game on home soil against South Africa.
Smith and his colleagues pull on their pads Tuesday for day-night Sheffield Shield domestic games with several players needing to impress before the first Test against the Proteas starts in Perth on November 3.
Former Australia captain Mark Taylor recently claimed only five members of the current Test side, which went down 3-0 in Sri Lanka in September, were assured of their places.
They included Smith, David Warner, Peter Nevill, Mitchell Starc, and Josh Hazlewood.
The skipper admitted that Australia's latest performances had been poor, with the one-day team whitewashed 5-0 by South Africa following the Sri Lanka hammering.
"Results haven't gone our way in the last couple of months but that's the game of cricket sometimes," he said in comments published by The Australian Tuesday.
"You have to move on and try and improve. I was disappointed with the way we played in Sri Lanka. We probably let a few opportunities slip so we've got to move forward and try to improve in those conditions. There's a lot of work to do there."
But Smith, himself under the microscope after Australian great Steve Waugh said his captaincy would be closely monitored in the summer Test series against South Africa and Pakistan, insisted it would be different on Australian soil.
"I'm comfortable with where we're at back in Australia. We've played good cricket here in the past and hopefully we can continue to do that this summer."
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Aussies hire spin gurus ahead of India tour
18th-Jan-2017
Former Indian bowler Sriram Sridharan will work with Australia as a "spin consultant" on the upcoming tour of India, Cricket Australia announced Tuesday.
Sridharan played eight one-day internationals for India and toured with Australian squads in Sri Lanka and India last year. "He knows our players very well and has a wealth of knowledge on the conditions that our players will face in India," said team performance manager Pat Howard.
Australia have named four spinners in the squad to take on top-ranked India in the series that begins in Pune on February 23. Uncapped Mitchell Swepson, 23, joins Nathan Lyon, Ashton Agar and Steve O'Keefe.
Monty Panesar, the former England spinner, who played three Test tours of India for 28 wickets, has also been recruited by Australia to impart his knowledge of sub-continent pitches. Panesar, who was one of England's 2012 winning tourists in India, will spend a week in Brisbane with the Australians as they seek to bolster their chances of winning their first match in India since 2004.
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Australia will be ready for England showdown - Smith
07th-Jun-2017
Steve Smith insists Australia's batsmen will be ready for their do or die Champions Trophy showdown with England despite their lack of action in the tournament.
Smith's side endured the frustration of having Monday's clash with Bangladesh abandoned due to rain, just days after their opening fixture against New Zealand was also washed out.
On both occasions, it has been Australia who were batting in the early stages of their innings when bad weather ended play.
Against Bangladesh, they had reached 83-1 in pursuit of 183 to win and required only four more overs to be bowled to ensure they would take maximum points via the Duckworth-Lewis rule used in rain-affected matches.
With two points from their two matches, Australia will have to beat hosts England in Birmingham on June 10 to reach the semi-finals.
"I think it makes the equation pretty simple for us," Smith said. "We have to beat England and then I think we're through. "I haven't really read into anything else that's happened. I guess we've just got to beat England."
In the circumstances, Australia could have done with their batsmen being in good form before the crunch encounter with their old rivals.
But, asked if their lack of time at the crease could undermine them against England, Australia captain Smith said: "I'm sure they will be okay.
"You know, most of the guys have been playing a lot of cricket, anyway, having been at the IPL and things like that.
"I think once they get out in the middle, things will just click into place, and yeah, hopefully we can play well in Birmingham."
On the bright side for Smith, his bowlers were more effective against Bangladesh after struggling to find their rhythm in the New Zealand match.
Pace bowler Mitchell Starc was the cream of the crop with four wickets in nine balls in rout the Bangladesh tail.
- Consolation -
"I thought all our bowlers were a lot better today. We hit some good areas early on and challenged the defence of Bangladeshi batsmen," Smith said.
"Everyone that bowled I thought did a pretty good job today, and it was nice that we were
able to turn things around from the way things went in the first game against New Zealand."
Starc's blistering spell was some consolation for Smith, but he was still left to rue the
weather and what he felt was the umpires' quick decision to go off, thus denying Australia a chance for those vital four overs.
"Of course I didn't want to go off. I was happy to keep batting through the rain," he said.
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UK budget aims for driverless cars by 2021
20th-Nov-2017
British finance minister Philip Hammond is to announce œ75 million ($99 million, 84 million euros) funding for Artificial Intelligence and plans to put driverless cars on UK roads by 2021, in his budget speech on Wednesday.
Hammond will announce regulation changes to allow Britain's driverless car industry, which the government estimates will be worth œ28 billion by 2035, to get cars on the road within as little as three years, according to extracts of the budget released by his office on Sunday.
"Some would say that is a bold move, but I believe we have to embrace these technologies if we want to see Britain leading the next industrial revolution," he told BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
The minister, who is under pressure to deliver an eye-catching budget following Brexit spats with cabinet colleagues, will also announce a œ400 million fund for companies hoping to roll out electric-car charge points across the country.
People who want to buy a battery-electric vehicle will also be able to access funding as Britain attempts to move towards zero-emission transport.
With a focus on tech industries, the government is also planning to spend œ75 million supporting companies developing AI and œ160 million in developing 5G technology, which it believes will be necessary for the mass rollout of driverless cars.
However, the Conservative minister is likely to be judged more on his social spending policies, particularly on his housing policy in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster that killed 71 people.
He is expected to announce plans to build 300,000 homes every year, telling the Sunday Times that he will do "whatever it takes" to meet the target.
"That's a big step up from where we are now," he told Andrew Marr.
"There is no single magic bullet and it's certainly not just about pouring money in, because if you pour money in without fixing the other elements of supply, you will simply create more house price inflation, that makes the problem worse, not better."
Critics accuse the chancellor, nicknamed "spreadsheet Phil", of being obsessed by facts and figures and lacking a grand vision.
"I recognise that I can't use this budget just to trail a bunch of numbers, but must tell a story about where Britain is going," he told the newspaper.
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Eight Ways for Organisations to Make the Most of Female Talent
By Robert Hall, in conjunction with Harriet Minter and The Telegraph
Failing to make diversity and inclusion a priority for your business isn’t just bad for company culture; it’s bad for the bottom line.
As most you would've noted it was International Women’s Day recently. A day where we celebrated the progress gender equality has made – and lament how far it has to go. It’s easy to be complacent about the topic, but complacency leads to trouble, particularly in a business, as Uber is discovering. A failure to make diversity and inclusion a priority within a company doesn’t just make it an unpleasant place to work, it can be bad for the bottom line.
Public Sector is Leading the Way
The public sector is often viewed as male dominated, too old and stuffy, a slow moving beast, people remain in the same job forever and it's notoriously resistant to change. The private sector on other hand is supposed to be innovative, dynamic, embracing change, leading the way on diversity.
This perception is in serious doubt and a recent observation by Professor Stephen Hawkings drove this point home emphatically. It showed the public sector is leading the way, at least in the UK.
He considered the five most powerful jobs in the UK to be; 1. The Head of State, 2. The Prime Minister, 3. The Home Secretary, 4. The First Minister of Scotland and 5. The Head of the Metropolitan Police.
The role holders are; 1. Her Majesty The Queen, 2. Theresa May, 3. Amber Rudd, 4. Nicola Sturgeon, and 5. Cressida Dick (recently elected and about to start the post).
The observant among you will have noted they are all women. The public sector is making huge strides and there are no glass ceilings, at least in the UK.
What Can the Private Sector Do to Catch Up?
Addressing workplace inequality is often regarded as something that ought to be done, but is just a bit too much like hard work. Yet research shows that gender-diverse companies outperform their competitors by 15pc. So if you, as a business decision-maker, are looking around the office and wondering where all the women are, or asking why there are so few in senior positions, here are eight actions that you could consider taking in the coming year.
Pay women equally
The pay gap between men and women in full time employment is 9pc. It’s slightly less for those in their early 20s – more for those over 45. This isn’t proof that it’s fading out, unfortunately, but simply that we’re now paying young men less. By simply paying people equally, your company would be starting a revolution.
Measure the workforce
So often we believe that because we’re good people, we won’t be unconsciously discriminating against anyone. In fact, it’s the companies that don’t consciously measure their HR data that suddenly find themselves looking at an office filled with men.
Keeping accurate retention and compensation records allows a business to understand better why people leave and what it needs to do to keep the good ones.
Don’t assume that women won’t want to return after parental leave
This is where many companies find female employees leaving the company. Often it’s because they’ve seen their pay cut and opportunities for promotion denied, so they’ve decided to move elsewhere – rather than because they want to stay at home. Remember: if you lose a talented female employee after maternity leave, she has probably gone to one of your competitors.
Treat fathers like mothers
The uptake of shared parental leave has been disappointing. This is partly to do with the financial costs involved, but young men also fear that it would harm their career prospects.
Managers need to treat prospective fathers as they do prospective mothers; men may well want to take several months with their child. They might want to try flexible working. By ignoring fatherhood, businesses make life more difficult for both men and women.
Make sure that everyone speaks in meetings
If the women in Obama’s White House found it difficult to make their voices heard in meetings, then you can almost guarantee that the women in your organisation are feeling the same. There are some simple ways to manage this. When a woman makes a point, understand that people may talk over the top of it, so make sure that you acknowledge her point and try to add to it. Don’t let someone hijack it and claim it as their own.
Find role models – and champion them
It’s very hard to be what you can’t see. If the women in your company are looking at the board and seeing only men, you’re subliminally telling them that there’s no place for them at that level. When senior positions do appear, make a conscious effort to try to create more gender balance.
Businesses always want to hire the best person for the job, but if the best person always seems to be a man, questions should be asked about where it's looking.
Implement unconscious bias training
We all have biases – and while most of us wouldn’t want to admit to being outright sexists, unconsciously we do tend to think of certain job roles as being male or female. So invest in some training, talk to your staff about this, and be honest about your own biases. Once we all start talking about them, we can challenge them.
Ask the women in your organisation what they would change
And then listen. If you do just one thing to make your organisation more equal, this is it. Don’t ask them if they’re okay or whether they think the company discriminates – they’re going to tell you that everything is fine. Instead, ask for constructive criticism and then accept what they tell you. It’s as simple as that
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TORONTO — Jose Bautista did not have to drop out of school to pursue a career in baseball, and he wants to make sure some amateur athletes are afforded that same luxury.
Bautista grew up with a middle-class family in the Dominican Republic. His mother was an accountant, his father ran poultry farms and, regardless of Bautista’s ambitions to play professional sports, it was never allowed to take away from his education.
The biggest break Bautista received early in his career was when he received support from the Latin Athletes Education Fund, which helped baseball players from Spanish-speaking countries attend school in the United States. Bautista is now trying to repay that favor with the Bautista Family Education Fund.
“I think there has been a great impact,” Bautista said of his foundation. “Obviously, when you can help these kids into not giving up their dream to continue to play sports while getting their education, I think it’s a great opportunity. Some of them can find their way and figure out what they want to do in life without having to sacrifice either or.
“There are 37 right now in school — seven graduates already — the GPA cumulative is 3.4, which is unheard of. We raised our expectations a little bit, they seem to respond. We not only give them financial assistance, but we try to guide them and be the liaison between the kids and the school just to make sure they have everything they need to be successful.”
Far too often in the Dominican Republic, young teenagers are forced to choose between attending school or enrolling in a local baseball academy with the hopes of pursuing their dreams. Bautista wants people to know young athletes can find a way to focus on both school and a future in athletics.
That’s one of the main reasons that Bautista created his foundation. It was launched in 2011 and has financed 37 athletes through post-secondary school on scholarships throughout the United States and Canada. Bautista also made sure his foundation impacted not only Dominicans, but also those from the Caribbean, South America and North America.
All applicants for a BFEF scholarship must be enrolled or accepted into a post-secondary program, have a GPA of 2.8 of higher and are required to pass a test of English as a foreign language. The scholarships cover the cost of everything from education to meal plans, books and housing. It’s also not limited to baseball players and covers athletes from other sports as well.
“I’m a big believer and proponent that education should not be sacrificed just for the chance to play any particular sport,” Bautista said. “I know I’ve done it and I know all of the kids can do it too.”
Bautista’s biggest fundraiser of the year took place on Thursday when he held his annual celebrity golf tournament at Eagles Nest Golf Club in Toronto. Josh Donaldson, Kevin Pillar, Justin Smoak, Devon Travis, Russell Martin, Marcus Stroman and Aaron Sanchez were among the Blue Jays players who attended the event. Celebrities included NHL player P.K. Subban, former CFL quarterback Damon Allen and NHL alumni Mike Krushelnyski.
BFEF recipient Bradley Smith also attended the event. He’s currently a student at the University of British Columbia through the aid of a BFEF scholarship.
“As many applicants we keep having, that we can support, we’re going to welcome them and continue to help them,” Bautista said. “With my personal contributions and the ability to create more events to raise more funds, I think the possibilities are, not endless, but certainly not at capacity right now.
“We can keep growing as long as we have kids to help. I don’t want to just raise funds and have the money sitting there and not be able to help anybody. But we have some kids on deck for next year, so I have to get creative with some of the events and raise more funds.”
By Gregor Chisholm / MLB.com
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/192466134/blue-jays-jose-bautista-has-charity-golf-event/
Posted on July 29, 2016 by bfef in Events, News
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Title: A Million Suns
Publishing Date: January 10, 2012
Pages/Format: 386, Hardcover
Godspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos.
It’s been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed.
But there may be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his vision—no more Phydus, no more lies.
But when Elder learns shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed. They must work together to unlock a mystery that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Their success—or failure—will determine the fate of the 2,298 passengers aboard Godspeed. But with each step, the journey becomes more perilous, the ship more chaotic, and the love between them more impossible to fight.
Beth Revis catapulted readers into the far reaches of space with her New York Times bestselling debut, Across the Universe. In A Million Suns, Beth deepens the mystery with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending conclusion: They have to get off this ship.
Initial Reaction of Book in One Word: Disappointing
Unfortunately for me, the Across the Universe trilogy is a lot like the Matched trilogy--lots of hype, but it just doesn't do much for me. And it's such a shame, because I love astronomy, and this series is set in outer space. I really hoped that A Million Suns would be better than Across the Universe, but it was probably just the same--okay.
I don't think the writing style is the problem--I don't remember any problems with it when reading the book. Although there were some repeat phrases, which annoys me. I think the book just doesn't give me many feels. When something big happens, I rarely had much of a reaction. I barely connected with the characters. I liked Elder but never really fell for him. As for Amy--I don't know, she seemed to annoy me on more than one occasion. She was kind of all over the place, and while I wanted her and Elder to be together, something was off. The synopsis mentions romance, but there really wasn't much at all--it was disappointing.
A Million Suns was kind of like a scavenger hunt, with Amy and Elder finding clues which led to more clues, hoping to find answers about some pretty big things that were happening. (I'd tell you more, but I don't want to spoil it.) They wanted to land on Sol-Earth, but first they had to get there. After the death of Eldest in Across the Universe and the loss of Phydus (basically, a calming, controlling drug) the people went crazy and started to rebel. Godspeed was in chaos, and Elder was, as Amy put it, holding the weight of his world on his shoulders. Sure, there were some shockers and interesting turn of events, but not enough to make me be all "OHMYGOSH THIS BOOK." That said, I was engrossed in this book, turning page after page, wanting to finish it.
In the end, I'm not sure how to put forth my feelings of this book. I'll definitely be reading Shades of Earth, for I (SPOILER ALERT) want to know what's going to happen since they're set to land on Sol-Earth. Who will they find? What will they find? What's going to happen to everyone? How will this series end? The concept with these books is interesting, but it just doesn't come across in a way that pulls me in. Hopefully Shades of Earth, with it's new change in setting, will be much better.
Did I like it? Sorta.
Did I love it? No.
Would I reread it? Doubt it.
Would I purchase it? Probably not.
Would I recommend it? Depends on the person--some people really like this series, and it's set in space.
Labels: Beth Revis, Review
I couldn't get past the first seventy or eighty pages of the first book. I was just BORING. I tried I really did, but i couldn't find any interest in the characters or plot.
I for one loved the matched trilogy, it was a different sort of dystopian trilogy than those out there with the fighitng being done more discretly and done purely without swords and guns but with words, poems and love.
Hummer H1 Accessories August 3, 2013 at 11:58 AM
I haven't read Across the Universe yet but I really need to! Glad you liked the sequel just as much as the first, that makes me even more excited to read the series!
Best Rogue River Salmon Fishing website, click here October 3, 2014 at 1:02 AM
A Million Suns was an amazing book and I can't wait for the conclusion to this series. I need to know what happens next.
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Real World - Road Rules Challenge
Grade It Now!
Swamp Rats
By Kim | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 03.01.2000
Previously on Challenge 2000: The Road Rules team won three missions in a row. David said, "Let's get paid. Let's stop losing. I don't want to lose anymore."
David is sitting in the baggage compartment of the bus. You'd think it would smell like exhaust in there. Maybe he inhaled a lot of carbon monoxide. At least that would explain his actions for the rest of the episode. He calls Kat over and tells her to "smell this." Obviously, Kat doesn't have any brothers, because if she did, she'd know that when a man calls you over to smell something, it's never going to turn out well. I guess David meant his cologne or something, because Kat smells his wrist. David tells us that he has known Kat for a year and a half, and that they were friends before going on the Challenge. Kat tries on David's cowboy hat and says they have a "solid friendship." David says he wouldn't mess up their friendship. Okay, so clearly they are going to get in a fight tonight.
Dan says that "Dave's a cool guy" and that David will talk about "beating up guys in his old neighborhood" and then switch gears and talk about how "some priest touched his soul the other night" and "everything about him is so intense." I got a little nervous with the sentence that started out "some priest touched his..." so I'm glad that ended well. David is sitting by the pool talking to Piggy, Veronica and Holly, and looking at a bridal magazine. Piggy says that David is cool because "he can hang with the guys but he can also connect with the chicks on many levels." David says his thick Boston accent makes people think he is stupid or a street thug. How long has it been since he lived in Boston, though? You'd think his accent would be a little less thick at this point. Veronica asks David if he knows what kind of tux he wants to wear when he gets married, and David says he does, and that he also wants an outdoor wedding in "early fall time in New England." David dives in the pool and then, apropos of nothing, tells Holly that she should marry Dan because they are "AA -- All American," and that they would have "the black Lab, the house." Piggy agrees. Holly just laughs. David tells us in an interview that Dan and Holly are like "sport Billy and sport Lily." Again, the whole Dan/Holly thing kind of came out of nowhere, didn't it?
Holly tells us that she and Dan have really connected while on their daily runs, and we see them preparing to go on a run, and then returning from one. Holly says she thinks they were meant to meet, since they have "the same sense of humor, the same taste in..." and fade to Dan saying, "music, same sense of humor." Wow, they are soulmates, since they said the same thing. Bunim Murray has convinced me. We see Holly on a pay phone telling her mom that Dan is "the sweetest boy [she's] ever met." Mike tells us that if anyone is going to hook up on this trip, it'll be Dan and Holly. Yes asks Dan if he has a girlfriend back home and Dan says he does, and that they have been going out for a year and a half. Dan tells us he is "nervous about his relationship with Holly," and he hopes it works out. The producers must have been really desperate for someone to hook up if this is the best they could do. As far as we know, these two haven't even kissed, and Dan seems to want to be faithful to his girlfriend. How boring!
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* {{aut|Herre, A.W.C.T.}} 1940: Notes on fishes in the Zoölogical Museum of Stanford University, VII. New and rare Philippine gobies from the Herre 1936-1937 Oriental expedition, and in the collections of the Bureau of Science. ''Philippine Journal of Science'' '''72''' (4): 357-369, Pls. 1-6.
* {{aut|Herre, A.W.C.T.}} 1940: Manacopus, a new name for a genus of Phallostethidae. ''Copeia'' '''1940''' (2): 141.
* {{aut|Herre, A.W.C.T.}} 1940: New species of fishes from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. ''Bulletin of the Raffles Museum'' '''16''': 5-26, Pls. 1-20. [Unlisted types may be at the BMNH and Raffles Museus (see last sentence on p. 26, which would apply to all species).]
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* {{aut|Herre, A.W.C.T.}} 1940: Notes on fishes in the Zoölogical Museum of Stanford University, VIII. A new genus and two new species of Chinese gobies with remarks on some other species. ''Philippine Journal of Science'' '''73''' (3): 293-299, Pl. 1.
* {{aut|Herre, A.W.C.T.}} 1942: A new genus and species of Gobiesocidae from the Philippines. ''Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin'' '''2''' (4): 120-122.
Albert William Christian Theodore Herre
1 Beschriebene Taxa
2 Publikationen
Beschriebene Taxa
8 (bisher in diesem Wiki erfasste) Taxa beschrieben von Albert William Christian Theodore Herre
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1923: Notes on Philippine sharks, I. Philippine Journal of Science 23 (1): 67-73, Pl. 1.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1923. A review of the eels of the Philippine Archipelago. The Philippine Journal of Science, 23 (2): 123–236. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1924. Distribution of the true fresh-water fishes in the Philippines. I. The Philippine Cyprinidae. Philippine Journal of Science, 24 (3): 249-307, Pls. 1-2. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1924. Distribution of the true fresh-water fishes in the Philippines, II. The Philippine Labyrinthici, Clariidae, and Siluridae. Philippine Journal of Science, 24 (6): 683-709, Pls. 1-2. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1924. The distribution of true fresh-water fishes in the Philippines and its significance. Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress / Pacific Science Association, 2 [1923]: 1561-1570. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1924: Poisonous and worthless fishes. An account of the Philippine Plectognaths. Philippine Journal of Science 25 (4): 415-510, Pls. 1-2.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1925: Two strange new fishes from Luzon. Philippine Journal of Science 27 (4): 507-513, Pls. 1-2.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1925: A new species of cardinal fish from the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science 26 (3): 341-342, Pl. 1.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1925: A new Philippine sea robin, family Peristediidae. Philippine Journal of Science 27 (3): 291-294, Pl. 1.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1926: Four new Philippine fishes. Philippine Journal of Science 31 (4): 533-543, Pls. 1-3.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1926: A summary of the Philippine catfishes, order Nematognathi. Philippine Journal of Science 31 (3): 385-411, Pl. 1.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1926: Two new fishes from Lake Lanao. Philippine Journal of Science 29 (4): 499-502, Pls. 1-2.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1927. Gobies of the Philippines and the China Sea. Monographs, Bureau of Science Manila, Monograph 23: 1-352, Titelbild + Pls. 1-30. (BHL) Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1927: Hynnis momsa, a new Philippine pampa Philippine Journal of Science 34 (2): 235-236, Pl. 1.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1927: Philippine surgeon fishes and moorish idols. Philippine Journal of Science 34 (4): 403-476, Pls. 1-16.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1927: A new genus and three new species of Philippine fishes. Philippine Journal of Science 32 (3): 413-419, Pls. 1-2.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1927: Four new fishes from Lake Taal (Bombon). Philippine Journal of Science 34 (3): 273-279, Pls. 1-3.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1928: Three new Philippine fishes. Philippine Journal of Science 35 (1): 31-35, Pls. 1-3.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1928: The Philippine gars or needlefishes. Philippine Journal of Science 36 (2): 215-232, Pls. 1-4.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1929: Description of a new Philippine shark. Philippine Journal of Science 40 (2): 231.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1930: Busuanga Herre, new genus. Science (new series) 71 (1831): 132.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1931: A check list of fishes from the Solomon Islands. Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institute 6 (4): 4-9.
Herre, A.W.C.T. & Myers, G.S. 1931. Fishes from southeastern China and Hainan. Lingnan Science Journal, Canton, 10 (2-3): 233-254. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1932: Fishes from Kwangtung Province and Hainan Island, China. Lingnan Science Journal, Canton 11 (3): 423-443.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1932: Five new Philippine fishes. Copeia 1932 (3): 139-142.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1932: Leucoglossa herklotsi Herre, new species. Hong Kong Naturalist 3(2): 151.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1933. Herklotsella anomala.--A new fresh water cat-fish from Hong Kong. Hong Kong Naturalist, 4 (2): 179-180. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1933. Twelve new Philippine fishes. Copeia, 1933 (1): 17-25. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1933: A check list of fishes known from Madang, New Guinea. Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institute 8 (4): 12.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1933: Some Chinese gobies with description of one new species. Lingnan Science Journal, Canton 12 (3): 429-430.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1933: A check list of fishes from Sandakan, British North Borneo. Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institute 8 (4): 2-5.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1933: A check list of fishes from Dumaguete, Oriental Negros, P. I., and its immediate vicinity. Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institute 8 (4): 6-11.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1934. Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. 1. The fishes of the Herre Philippine expedition of 1931. The fishes of the Herre 1931 Philippine expedition with descriptions of 17 new species. Newspaper Enterprise Litd., Hong Kong. 1-106. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1934: Hong Kong fishes collected in October--December, 1931. Hong Kong Naturalist Suppl. 3: 26-36.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1934: Notes on new or little known fishes from southeastern China. Lingnan Science Journal, Canton 13 (2): 285-296.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1935. Two new species of Ctenogobius from South China (Gobiidae). Lingnan Science Journal, Canton, 14 (3): 395-397. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1935: A new goby from Singapore Island. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 9: 85-86.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1935. New fishes obtained by the Crane Pacific expedition. Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series, 18 (12): 383-438. (doi) Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1935: A new sciaenid from southeastern China. Lingnan Science Journal, Canton 14 (4): 603-604.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1935: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. II. Two new genera and species of Japanese sharks and a Japanese species of Narcetes. Copeia 1935 (3): 122-127.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1935: Philippine fish tales. D. P. Perez Company, Manila, Philippines. Philippine fish tales.: 1-302.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1935. Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. VI. New and rare Hong Kong fishes obtained in 1934. Hong Kong Naturalist, 6 (3-4): 285-293. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1936. Fishes in the Zoölogical Museum of Stanford University, III. New genera and species of gobies and blennies and a new Myxus, from the Pelew Islands and Celebes. Philippine Journal of Science, 59 (2): 275-287, Pl. 1. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1936. A new cyprinid genus and species and a new characin from Portuguese East Africa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 49: 99-101. (BHL) Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1936. Notes on fishes in the Zoölogical Museum of Stanford University, V. New or rare Philippine fishes from the Herre 1933 Philippine expedition. Philippine Journal of Science, 59 (3): 357-373, Pls. 1-2. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1936: Two new gobies from Hong Kong. Hong Kong Naturalist 7 (2): 184-185.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1936: Fishes of the Crane Pacific expedition. Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series 21 (publ. 353): 1-472.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1936: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. I A new catostomid from Mexico and a new callionymid from Celebes and the Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 49: 11-13.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1936: Eleven new fishes from the Malay Peninsula. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 12: 5-16, Pls. 1-11.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1938: A new Chinese blenny. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 51: 65-66.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1938: Notes on a small collection of fishes from Kwangtung Province including Hainan, China. Lingnan Science Journal, Canton 17 (3): 425-437.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1938. Luzoneleotris, a new genus of eleotrid fishes from Luzon. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 1 (2): 59-60. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1939: On a collection of littoral and freshwater fishes from the Andaman Islands. Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) 41 (pt 4): 327-372.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1939: The Philippine blennies. Philippine Journal of Science 70 (4): 315-373, Pls. 1-5.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1939: The genera of Phallostethidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 52: 139-144.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1939: A new Henicichthys from the Philippines. Copeia 1939 (4): 199-200.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1939. On a collection of fishes from Nanyo, the Japanese mandated islands. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 18 (4): 298-307. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1939. Tanichthys albonubes and Aphyocypris pooni. The Aquarium, Philadelphia, 7 (10): 176. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1939: A new cyprinid fish of the genus Microrasbora from lower Burma. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 1 (4): 159-160.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1940: Additions to the fish fauna of Malaya and notes on rare or little known Malayan and Bornean fishes. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 16: 27-61.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1940: Notes on fishes in the Zoölogical Museum of Stanford University, VII. New and rare Philippine gobies from the Herre 1936-1937 Oriental expedition, and in the collections of the Bureau of Science. Philippine Journal of Science 72 (4): 357-369, Pls. 1-6.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1940: Manacopus, a new name for a genus of Phallostethidae. Copeia 1940 (2): 141.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1940. New species of fishes from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, #16: 5-26, Pls. 1-20. (PDF) Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1940: Notes on fishes in the Zoölogical Museum of Stanford University, VIII. A new genus and two new species of Chinese gobies with remarks on some other species. Philippine Journal of Science 73 (3): 293-299, Pl. 1.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1942: A new genus and species of Gobiesocidae from the Philippines. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 2 (4): 120-122.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1942: New and little known phallostethids, with keys to the genera and Philippine species. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 2 (5): 137-156.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1942: Notes on a collection of fishes from Antigua and Barbados, British West Indies. Stanford University Publications, University Series, Biological Sciences 7 (2): 286-305.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1942: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. IX. A new species of Salarias, with a key to the Philippine species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 55: 1-7.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1942: Glyptothorax housei, a new sisorid catfish from south India. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 2 (4): 117-119.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1942: Bunaka sticta, a new Philippine eleotrid fish. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 2 (4): 119-120.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1942: Contributions from the Zoological Museum of Stanford University, California, IX [error for X]. Two new species of Petroscirtes and a key to the Philippine species. Copeia 1942 (2): 111-116.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1943: A new Philippine apogonid, with notes on some rare species. Copeia 1943 (4): 216-218.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1943: On Pleurogobius, a typographical error. Copeia 1943 (2): 132.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1943: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. XI. Two new genera and species. With key to the genera of gobies with vomerine teeth. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 56: 91-95.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1944: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. XVII. New fishes from Johore and India. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 57: 45-51.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1944: A review of the halfbeaks or Hemiramphidae of the Philippines and adjacent waters. Stanford University Publications, University Series, Biological Sciences 9 (2): 41-86. [Also as a separate, pp. 3-48.]
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1944: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. XV.--Two new minute gobies of the genus Mistichthys from the Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 57: 107-111.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1944: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. XVI. A new species of sand-diver, with notes on some rare gobioid fishes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 57: 5-10.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1945: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. XVIII.--Two new species of Tamanka, with a key to the species from the Philippines and China. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 58: 73-76.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1945. Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. XII. Two new genera and four new gobies from the Philippines and India. Copeia, 1945 (1): 1-6. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1945: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. XIV.--A new genus and three new species of gobies from the Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 58: 11-15.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1945: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. XIX.--Two new Philippine gobies, with key to the genera of gobies with vomerine teeth. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 58: 77-81.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1945: Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University: XX, New fishes from China and India, a new genus, and a new Indian record. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 35 (12): 399-404.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1946: New genera of Eleotridae and Gobiidae and one new species from West Africa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 59: 121-126.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1950: A new name for Hanno, a genus of African gobies. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 3 (4): 198.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1950. A new labrid and other interesting Philippine fish records. Philippine Journal of Science, 78 (2): 149-153. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1950: Two new gobies from the Philippines with notes on a third rare goby. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 63: 73-76.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1951: Six additions to the Philippine fish fauna including two new species. Philippine Journal of Science 79 (3): 341-346.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1952: A review of the scorpaenoid fishes of the Philippines and adjacent seas. Philippine Journal of Science 80 (4): 381-482.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1953: Eight additions to the Philippine fish fauna, including three new species. Philippine Journal of Science 82 (1): 9-14.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1953: A new species of Gnatholepis with a key to the tropical Pacific species. Philippine Journal of Science 82 (2): 193-197.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1953: Check list of Philippine fishes. United States Fish and Wildlife Service Research Report 20: 1-977. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1953. Tropical Pacific gobies with vomerine teeth. Philippine Journal of Science, 82 (2): 181-188. Zitatseite
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1953: The tropical Pacific Eleotridae with vomerine teeth with descriptions of two new genera and two new species from the Marshall Islands. Philippine Journal of Science 82 (2): 189-192.
Herre, A.W.C.T. 1955: Remarks on the fish genus Mirolabrichthys, with description of a new species. Copeia 1955 (3): 223-225.
Wiggins, Ira L. 1962. Albert William Christian Theodore Herre (1868–1962). Bryologist, 65 (4): 268–277.
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Chatur Lal is name-checked on the cover of "Freak Out!" (1966) under the heading "These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them".
Chatur Lal (1925 - 1965) Indian tabla player. One of the musicians responsible for bringing classical Indian music to the attention of western listeners. He first toured in Europe in 1955 and then onto the USA accompanying Ravi Shankar. They recorded the acclaimed "Three Ragas" album in 1956 and, with Nodu C. Mullick, "Sounds of India" (1958). He wrote the music for Norman McLaren's animated film "A Chairy Tale" (1957) and James Ivory's documentary on Indian minature paintings "The Sword and the Flute" (1959). He recorded the solo "Drums of India" in 1961.
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From WikiChristian
The Protestant Churches
Branches of Protestantism Index - Anabaptist, Anglican Communion, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Reformed churches, Salvation Army, Seventh-day Adventist, Uniting churches
Protestant Doctrine - Justification by faith
History of Protestantism - Reformation, Puritan Movement
Modern movements - Evangelicalism, Liberalism, Charismatic
SERMONS, ESSAYS AND OPINIONS
1 Definition and origins - Reformation
2 Basic theological tenets of the Reformation
2.1 The Solas
2.2 Real presence in the Lord's Supper?
3 Later development - History of Protestantism
3.1 Pietism 17th Century - Methodist movement 18th century
3.2 Evangelicalism 18th Century
3.3 Pentecostalism 20th Century
3.4 Modernism 20th Century
3.5 Fundamentalism 20th Century
3.6 Neo-orthodoxy 20th century
3.7 Neo-evangelicalism mid 20th Century
3.8 Ecumenism 20th Century
4 Protestant denominations
5 Number of Protestants
6 Well-known Protestant and Anglican religious figures
8.1 Defense of Protestant Christianity
8.2 Criticisms of Protestant Christianity
8.3 Miscellaneous
The Protestant Churches are one of the main groups of churches or branches in Christianity. The Protestant Churches developed because of a split from the Roman Catholic Church that occurred during the sixteenth century in Europe — a period known as the Protestant Reformation. The split occurred primarily over issues of doctrine (belief), especially the issue of Justification by faith versus Justification by faith plus works. Some of the main Protestant church denominations today include the Lutheran Church, Anglican Communion and the Baptist Church.
Definition and origins - Reformation
The term Protestant originally applied to the group of princes and imperial cities who protested the decision by the 1529 Diet of Speyer to reverse course and enforce the 1521 Edict of Worms. The 1521 edict forbade Lutheran teachings within the Holy Roman Empire. The 1526 session of the Diet had agreed to toleration of Lutheran teachings (on the basis of Cuius regio, eius religio) until a General Council could be held to settle the question, but by 1529 the Catholic forces felt they had gathered enough power to end the toleration without waiting for a Council.
In a broader sense of the word, Protestant began to be used as the collective name for a sudden movement of separation from the Roman Catholic Church, the beginning of which is ordinarily connected with the public disputes raised by Martin Luther. Later, John Calvin, French theologian of the Swiss, Zwinglian, Reformed churches, figured prominently in a movement that embraced a wider, more international diversity of churches. A third major branch of the Reformation, which encountered conflict with the Catholics, as well as with the Lutherans and the Reformed, is sometimes called the Radical Reformation. Some Western, non-Catholic, groups are labeled as Protestant (such as Quakers, for example), even if the sect acknowledges no historical connection to Luther, Calvin or the Roman Catholic Church.
In German speaking and Scandinavian lands, the word Protestant still refers to Lutheran churches in contrast to Reformed churches, while the common designation for all churches originating from the Reformation is Evangelical.
As an intellectual movement, Protestantism grew out of the Renaissance and universities, attracting some learned intellectuals, as well as politicians, professionals, and skilled tradesmen and artisans. The new technology of the printing press allowed Protestant ideas to spread rapidly, as well as aiding in the dissemination of translations of the Bible in native tongues. Nascent Protestant social ideals of liberty of conscience and individual freedom were formed through continuous confrontation with the authority of the Bishop of Rome, and the hierarchy of the Catholic priesthood. The Protestant movement away from the constraints of tradition, toward greater emphasis on individual conscience, anticipated later developments of democratization, and the so-called Enlightenment of later centuries.
Basic theological tenets of the Reformation
During the Reformation several Latin slogans emerged illustrating the Reformers' concern that the authorities of the Church had distorted the message of justification before God and salvation in Jesus Christ. The Reformers believed it was necessary to return to the simplicity of the Gospel in terms of the issues designated by these slogans.
The Solas
There were five Solas, four discussed here. The fifth, Soli deo gloria (to God alone the glory), was intended to underly the other four. These slogans essentially became rallying cries to challenge the problems the Reformers believed they had identified, they are:
Solus Christus: Christ alone.
The Protestants characterized the dogma concerning the Pope as Christ's representative head of the Church on earth, the concept of meritorious works, and the Roman idea of a treasury of the merits of saints, as a denial that Christ is the only mediator between God and man.
Sola scriptura: Scripture alone.
Protestants believed that the Roman Catholic church obscured the teaching of the Bible, and undermined its authority, by following Tradition regardless of whether it over-ruled or added to the doctrines of Scripture.
Sola fide: Faith alone.
The Protestants characterized the Roman Catholic concept of meritorious works, of penance and indulgences, masses for the dead, the treasury of the merits of saints and martyrs, a ministering priesthood who hears confessions, and purgatory, as reliance upon other means for justification, in addition to faith in Christ and his work on the cross.
Sola gratia: Grace alone.
The Roman Catholic view of the means of salvation was believed by the Protestants to be a mixture of reliance upon the grace of God, and confidence in the merits of one's own works performed in love. The Reformers posited that salvation is entirely comprehended in God's gifts, (i.e. God's act of free grace) dispensed by the Holy Spirit according to the redemptive work of Jesus Christ alone. Consequently, they argued that a sinner is not accepted by God on account of the change wrought in the believer by God's grace, and indeed, that the believer is accepted without any regard for the merit of his works - for no one deserves salvation.
Naturally, it proved easier to advocate separation from the Catholic Church, than to form a single, positively united alternative. On the theological front, the Protestant movement soon began to coalesce into several distinct branches. One of the central points of divergence was controversy over the Lord's Supper.
Real presence in the Lord's Supper?
Although early Protestants were in general agreement against the Roman Catholic dogma of transubstantiation, which teaches that the substance of the bread and wine used in the sacrificial rite of the Mass is transformed into the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ (see Eucharist), they disagreed with one another concerning the manner in which Christ is present in Holy Communion.
Lutherans hold to an understanding closest to that of Real Presence (often characterized by critics by the term, "consubstantiation"), which affirms the true presence of Christ "in, with, and under" the bread and wine. Lutherans point to Jesus' statement, "This is my body", while refusing to delve past Christ's words in order to describe just how this takes place. Lutheran teaching does, however, insist that Christ is present physically, rather than in a purely "spiritual" sense.
Reformed teaching concerning the Lord's Supper ranges along the continuum from Calvin to Zwingli. The Reformed closest to Calvin emphasize the real presence, or sacramental presence, of Christ, saying that the sacrament is a means of saving grace through which the believer actually partakes of Christ, "but not in a carnal manner". Zwinglians deny that Christ makes himself present to the believer through the elements of the sacrament, but affirm that Christ is united to the believer through the faith toward which the supper is an aid (a view referred to somewhat derisively as memorialism).
A Protestant holding a popular simplifiction of the Zwinglian view, without concern for theological intricacies as hinted at above, may see the Lord's Supper merely as a symbol of the shared faith of the participants, a commemoration of the facts of the crucifixion, and a reminder of their standing together as the Body of Christ.
In Christian theology, as the bread shares identity with Christ (which he calls, "my body"), in an analogous way the Church shares identity with him (and also is called "the Body of Christ"). Thus, controversies over the Lord's Supper only initially seem to be about the nature of bread and wine, but are ultimately about the nature of salvation, and therefore secondarily about the nature of the Church.
Later development - History of Protestantism
Protestants can be differentiated according to how they have been influenced by important movements since the magisterial Reformation and the Puritan Reformation in England. Some of these movements have a common lineage, sometimes directly spawning later movements in the same groups.
Pietism 17th Century - Methodist movement 18th century
The German Pietist movement together with the influence of the Puritan Reformation in England in the 17th century were important influences on John Wesley and Methodism, as well as through smaller, new groups such as the Quakers.
The practice of a spiritual life, typically combined with social engagement, predominates in classical Pietism, which was a protest against the doctrine-centeredness Protestant Orthodoxy of the times, in favor of depth of religious experience. Many of the more conservative Methodists went on to form the Holiness movement, which emphasized a rigorous experience of holiness.
Evangelicalism 18th Century
Beginning at the end of 18th century, several international revivals of Pietism (such as the Great Awakening and the Second Great Awakening), took place across denominational lines, which are referred to generally as the Evangelical movement. The chief emphases of this movement were individual conversion, personal piety and Bible study, public morality often including Temperance and Abolitionism, de-emphasis of formalism in worship and in doctrine, a broadened role for laity (including women) in worship, evangelism and teaching, and cooperation in evangelism across denominational lines.
Pentecostalism 20th Century
Pentecostalism as a movement began in the United States early in the 20th century, starting especially within the Holiness movement. Seeking a return to the operation of New Testament gifts of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues as evidence of the "baptism of the Holy Ghost" became the leading feature. Divine healing and miracles were also emphasized. Pentecostalism swept through much of the Holiness movement, and eventually spawned hundreds of new denominations in the United States. A later "charismatic" movement also stressed the gifts of the Spirit, but often operated within existing denominations rather than coming out of them.
Modernism 20th Century
Modernism, or Liberalism, does not constitute a rigorous and well-defined school of theology, but an inclination of some writers and teachers to integrate Christian thought with the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment. New understandings of history and the natural sciences of the day led directly to new approaches to theology. See also: Modernist Christianity
Fundamentalism 20th Century
In reaction to liberal Bible critique, Fundamentalism arose in the 20th century, primarily in the United States and Canada, among those denominations most affected by Evangelicalism. Fundamentalism placed primary emphasis on the authority and sufficiency of the Bible, and typically advised separation from error, and cultural conservatism, as important aspects of the Christian life.
Neo-orthodoxy 20th century
A non-fundamentalist rejection of liberal Christianity associated primarily with Karl Barth, neo-orthodoxy sought to counter-act the tendency of liberal theology to make theological accomodations to modern scientific perspectives. Sometimes called Crisis theology, according to the influence of philosophical existentialism on some important segments of the movement; also, somewhat confusingly, sometimes called neo-evangelicalism.
Neo-evangelicalism mid 20th Century
Neo-evangelicalism is a movement from the middle of the 20th century, that reacted to perceived excesses of Fundamentalism, adding to concern for biblical authority an emphasis on liberal arts, co-operation among churches, Christian Apologetics, and non-denominational evangelization.
Ecumenism 20th Century
The ecumenical movement has had an influence on mainline churches, beginning at least in 1910 with the Edinburgh Missionary Conference. Its origins lay in the recognition of the need for cooperation on the mission field in Africa, Asia and Oceania. Since 1948 the World Council of Churches has been influential. There are also ecumenical bodies at regional, national and local levels across the globe. One, but not the only expression of the ecumenical movement has been the move to form united churches, such as the Church of South India, the Church of North India, The United Church of Canada and the Uniting Church in Australia. There has been a strong engagement of Orthodox churches in the ecumenical movement.
Protestant denominations
Protestants often refer to specific Protestant churches and groups as denominations to imply that they are differently named parts of the whole church. This "invisible unity" is assumed to be imperfectly displayed, visibly: some denominations are less accepting of others, and the basic orthodoxy of some is questioned by most of the others. Individual denominations also have formed over very subtle theological differences. Other denominations are simply regional or ethnic expressions of the same beliefs. The actual number of distinct denominations is hard to calculate, but has been estimated to be over thirty thousand. Various ecumenical movements have attempted cooperation or reorganization of Protestant churches, according to various models of union, but divisions continue to outpace unions. Most denominations share common beliefs in the major aspects of the Christian faith, while differing in many secondary doctrines.
Please note that only general families are listed here (tens of thousands of individual denominations exist):
Anabaptist and Baptist
Anglican / Episcopalian
Calvinist / Reformed and Presbyterian
Methodist / Wesleyan and the Holiness movement
Pentecostal and Charismatic
Number of Protestants
There are about 590 million Protestants worldwide. These include 170 million in North America, 160 million in Africa, 120 million in Europe, 70 million in Latin America, 60 million in Asia, and 10 million in Oceania. 27% of all Christians today are Protestants.
Well-known Protestant and Anglican religious figures
Some of the well known 16th century Protestants include:
Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian, founder of school of thought known as Arminianism
John Calvin, French speaking Reformer, theologian, founder of school of thought known as Calvinism
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, leader of the English Reformation
John Knox, Scottish Calvinist reformer,
William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury under Charles I of England
Martin Luther, German religious reformer, theologian, founder of the Lutheran church in Germany, founder of Lutheranism
Philipp Melanchthon, early Lutheran leader
Menno Simons, founder of Mennonitism
Philipp Jakob Spener, "godfather" of the Pietist movement
Huldrych Zwingli, early Swiss religious reformer
Some of the well known Protestants from the 17th to 19th centuries include:
Jacob Amman, founder of the Amish church
Francis Asbury, early bishop of American Methodism
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
Jonathan Edwards, American Puritan theologian, Great Awakening reformist preacher, Calvinist
George Fox, Founder of the Society of Friends
Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian considered founder of Liberal Christianity
Charles Wesley, Anglican priest, Methodist leader, poet, & hymn writer
John Wesley, Anglican priest, founder of the Methodist movement
George Whitefield, Great Awakening reformist preacher
Some of the more recent well known Protestants include:
Billy Graham, American evangelist
Martin Luther King Jr., peace and civil rights activist
Jerry Falwell, American evangelist and political activist
C. S. Lewis, apologist / fiction writer
Karl Barth, German theologian along with Emil Brunner known for Dialectical theology and Neo-orthodox theology
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, involved in the resistance against Nazism and executed shortly before the end of World War 2
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologion and ethicist
Pat Robertson, American charismatic/fundamentalist leader
Paul Tillich, Lutheran existentialist theologian
Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, peace activist
John Howard Yoder, Mennonite theologian and ethicist
Franklin Graham, American evangelist (son of Billy Graham)
John B. Cobb, theologian, involved in Process Theology
Stanley Hauerwas, American Christian theologian and ethicist
Defense of Protestant Christianity
Apologetics Information Ministry
Criticisms of Protestant Christianity
Anti-protestant analysis
Why Only Catholicism Can Make Protestantism Work by Mark Brumley
The Future of American Protestantism from Catalyst (United Methodist perspective)
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Tuttle Compact Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English / English-Japanese
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Co-working space project set to begin at Stark County Library
by Edd Pritchard, CantonRep.com
Business development groups are hoping a corner of the Stark County District Library’s main branch can become a hub of entrepreneurship.
A section of the second floor has been designated as a co-working space. The Stark Entrepreneurship Alliance, the library and a number of other community groups have partnered to set aside the space for aspiring entrepreneurs.
It’s a one-year pilot program with SEA leasing space from the library. Participants will pay $50 per month to use the space, which so far has a table, chairs, work stations and a computer.
Organizers see the co-working space as a spot where entrepreneurs can network, build relationships and brainstorm.
Participants also will be able to get business counseling from local executives who have volunteered to help. There already are 15 businesses and economic development organizations signed up to volunteer with counseling once a month. Another 10 businesses and groups are weighing possible involvement, said Stephen L. Paquette, Stark Development’s president and chief executive officer.
GROUP EFFORT
Entrepreneurship helped build Stark County, said Ronald Manse, executive in residence with the DeVille School of Business at Walsh University. If the region wants to remain vibrant and see future growth it needs to support new entrepreneurs, he said.
About a year ago Manse pitched the idea of a co-working space for entrepreneurs. “There needed to be a place where they could get together and share ideas,” he said.
The Stark Entrepreneurship Alliance, which is affiliated with the Stark Development Board, began reviewing the proposal with several organizations, including the library district. Already a partner with other community groups, the library wanted to build connections with local business.
The co-working space proposal “seemed like a great opportunity to combine forces,” said Josh Harris, communications director for the library.
ESTABLISHING EQUITY
Because the goal is to help entrepreneurs, anyone interested in the co-working space must apply through the SEA’s website, http://starkentalliance.com/co-working-space.
Applications are being accepted now and organizers hope to have participants using the space beginning March 1.
Officials with SDB and the Small Business Development Center at Kent State University Stark Campus will vet applications. That process will include a short interview with applicants.
“We want to find potential entrepreneurs who really want to grow their business and be in Stark County,” Paquette said. If the applicant doesn’t fit the co-working space model, the business organizations can guide them to other sources for assistance.
The co-working space fee exists to help participants realize they’ve stepped past thinking about a business and actually started one.
Source: Co-working space project set to begin at Stark County Library URL: http://www.cantonrep.com/news/20160210/co-working-space-project-set-to-begin-at-stark-county-library
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Entrepreneur launches a legacy and value-added produce products
by Candace Harrell, Richland Source
Entrepreneurs have many reasons for launching an enterprise, but Pam Mack’s is unique: Mack wanted to leave a legacy for her grandsons in honor of their deceased mother, Mack’s daughter. Mack’s entrepreneurial enterprise, named L Marie Ltd. in tribute to her daughter, is a certified organic vegetable company with value-added products soon to hit store shelves. The first will be Mack’s locally famous chutney.
Mack let classmates, family, and friends taste test her products, as well as attendees at a speaking engagement. “They all loved it,” she said. “I’m not worried about the demand, but there’s a process you have to go through and it’s not ready yet.”
Mack explained that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires producers to complete a Better Process Control School, either in-person or online. Mack completed the course online through University of California, Davis. “There are about eight courses or sections that you have to take, but they offer 16, so I took all 16,” she said.
“Now I’m at the step that I have to find a Process Authority,” she added. A Process Authority, according to the FDA, must have expert knowledge of thermal processing requirements for low-acid foods acquired through appropriate education, training, and experience.
Once FDA approval is received, the product must be processed in a commercial kitchen, noted Mack.
“I’ve always gardened,” said Mack, who grows all of the vegetable ingredients for the chutney, from seed to product.
Certified organic for three years, Mack said she went the organic route for the health benefits. “I have four people in my family with autoimmune disease,” she said. Mack’s daughter passed away from Lupus complications and Mack stepped in to raise her grandsons. With family health issues, Mack feels her health, as well as that of her family, and the fact her grandsons depend on her, is worth the effort of growing and eating organically.
Mack is a graduate of the Entrepreneur Cohort class at North Central State College’s Urban Center.
“I had already started developing the business when I went to the class. I’d been working on it the last two years, once I knew I was going to retire,” said Mack, who retired last year after 30 years employment with the state of Ohio.
“You learn a lot in the class that you never would have otherwise,” added Mack. “Heather [Tsvaris], the instructor, is so full of energy. She gets so excited and she is so knowledgeable in that area. You just can’t beat it, not if this is what you really want to do.”
Mack hopes to have produce available for sale at the North End Farmers’ Market soon. With the later cool weather, she noted, vegetable production is a bit slow this year. Mack has over 300 tomato plants growing in a long tunnel that should be producing soon.
She will offer a variety of tomatoes, from Mortgage Lifter to Amish Paste, as well as green and lemon cucumbers, yellow and green zucchini, radishes, carrots, cabbage, peppers, cauliflower, onions, pumpkins, and even okra, as well as a variety of beans.
Mack will be speaking at the Northeast Ohio Agribusiness Forum breakfast on June 27 at 7:30 a.m. The topic will be “Becoming an agricultural entrepreneur after retirement.” The breakfast is held at the Der Dutchman restaurant, 720 State Route 97 West, in Bellville. The event is sponsored by Braintree Business Development Center and The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Registration forms may be found at the website. There is a $5 charge for the breakfast, payable at the door.
Source: Entrepreneur launches a legacy and value-added produce products URL: http://www.richlandsource.com/business/article_712f3988-fa54-11e3-93d7-001a4bcf6878.html
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Governor's tax plan: an important step forward, but more needed
Anonymous (not verified) 02/18/10
Gov. Chris Gregoire has taken an important step toward protecting vital services for children and families by proposing more than $605 million in new state revenues, but much more is needed to protect families and children in this time of crisis.
The governor’s proposal would help sustain a portion of the safety net services that help families make ends meet during this cruel recession, which are at risk of being cut without new revenue. An important new development is that the proposed revenue options include increasing taxes on products that contribute to poor health and nutrition for children.
The Children’s Alliance strongly supports the proposal to tax soda and other carbonated beverages, but the governor’s proposal would raise just $93.6 million. The proposal we’re urging lawmakers to adopt is a penny-per-ounce tax on any sugar-sweetened drink – including sport and energy drinks and ready-to-drink coffees and teas – which would raise an estimated $315 million, or more than $400 million if diet soda were added to the list.
Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages is an emerging trend across the country. And here in Washington, it feeds into a growing “healthy communities” movement that promotes efforts such as making fresh fruits and vegetables more widely available to kids.
“This new revenue is a necessary first step needed to help Washington maintain important commitments to families, such as making sure all children have access to affordable, preventive health care,” said Jon Gould, deputy director of the Children’s Alliance. “It’s also good for kids because in the long run, it will reduce consumption of soda and sweets, which contribute to chronic diseases and the steady rise in childhood obesity.”
We also support extending the sales tax to candy and gum, which the governor says would raise $28 million), and repealing a tax credit for makers of soda pop syrup, raising $7.7 million.
We cannot cut ourselves out of the revenue crisis Washington state faces. It is crucial that the Legislature raise new revenue to prevent devastating cuts like the one proposed for Working Connections, which puts affordable child care within reach of thousands of hard-working parents across the state.
We applaud the governor for opening the door to some sensible plans for protecting important services, but call on our lawmakers to take even bolder steps to raise significantly more revenue.
Read more about the concerns we share with advocates across the state in this news release from the Rebuilding our Economic Future Coalition (of which the Children’s Alliance is a member).
Read more about the governor's tax proposals in her news release and in the letter she sent to lawmakers, "A Balanced Approach for Hard Times."
And find out more about the work the Children’s Alliance’s does as a member of the Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition.
– Liz Gillespie
No Kidding: Children's Alliance Blog
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Division of Endocrinology
Contact the Division of Endocrinology 617-355-7476
Schedule An Appointment Monday-Friday 7:00am-8:00pm
Second & Third Years
Division of Endocrinology Research and Innovation
Here in the Division of Endocrinology at Boston Children’s Hospital, we understand that children with endocrine disorders face unique challenges.
Our program brings together experienced pediatric endocrinologists, endocrinology nurses, diabetes nurse educators, registered dietitians and mental health professionals to guide you and your family from diagnosis through the early challenges of managing your child’s condition.
Your child’s medical team will build a customized plan of treatment designed to keep your child healthy — and allow her to enjoy the wonders of childhood.
Throughout the entire treatment process, you’ll receive compassionate family-centered care from a truly integrated medical team. We can see you either at our Boston campus or at one of several locations throughout Eastern Massachusetts.
Among the services we provide:
The pediatric endocrinologists, specialist diabetes nurse educators and dietitians in our Type 1 Diabetes Program work together as a team to design a customized plan of care for your child.
We are one of the only medical centers in the country offering a dedicated, multidisciplinary program for type 2 diabetes.
We can evaluate your child’s bone density — safely and painlessly — in our Bone Health Program’s state-of-the-art DXA (dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry) Center
Innovation and Care
At Boston Children’s, we believe in innovative programs that treat the person as well as the disease:
Our Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program has been recognized as one of the most comprehensive pediatric obesity programs in the country inCHILD Magazine's surveys of the best U.S. children's hospitals.
Our Thyroid Program is one of the only centers in the United States exclusively devoted to the care of children with thyroid diseases.
Our team also includes researchers, devoted to finding new treatments and cures, who have:
sparked new hope for a treatment for obesity by regulating leptin levels
identified new genes never before thought to be linked to obesity
helped explain an important paradox in the relationship between insulin level and longevity
Excellence in Care
Boston Children's Hospital has been ranked in Diabetes and Endocrinology in U.S. News & World Report.
Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Endocrinology operates one of the nation's most extensive research programs focused on pediatric endocrine disorders. With more than 50 basic science and clinical researchers, we are attempting to unravel the genetic and biochemical underpinnings of the endocrine system.
We are constantly studying new ways to preventing premature births, improve diabetes management, control obesity, enhance our knowledge and treatment of growth and development disorders, and address other endocrine malfunctions that affect the health and quality of life of children.
Here are some of the projects we’ve been working on:
Identifying the genetic causes of endocrine diseases (including short stature and obesity)
Researching the causes and treatment of obesity by studying diets characterized by a “high glycemic index”
Evaluating methods to slow down aging and prevent cancer by regulating insulin signaling in the brain
Developing treatments for type 1 diabetes that do not require insulin
Studying the role of blood sugar control in ensuring the best outcomes for patients in the intensive care unit
Developing drugs that treat obesity by regulating leptin levels
Identifying potential sources of stem cells in endocrine organs to eventually replace diseased tissue
Research opportunities within Children's Hospital Division of Endocrinology and Joslin Diabetes Center include a wide variety of projects at the level of patient-oriented research, isolated genes, cells, and intact organisms that include transgenic, knockout, and knockin mouse models of human diseases.
Information and contact
Joseph A. Majzoub, M.D., Chief, Division of Endocrinology
Director, Training Program in Pediatric Endocrinology at Boston Children's Hospital and Joslin Diabetes Center
Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
617-919-2930; 617-730-0244 (fax)
For more information about other professional training programs at Boston Children’s see our Clinician Resources page.
Some of the patients treated by physicians in the Division of Endocrinology may participate in clinical trials. For more information on studies in which your child may be eligible to participate, find a clinical trial.
Reduced insulin signaling hampers insulin’s ability to manage the transfer of energy from the bloodstream to the cell. But a study led by Boston Children’s researcher Morris White, PhD, indicates that this may be true only in the body — in the brain, reduced insulin signaling is linked with increased longevity. What is the easiest way to keep insulin signaling in the brain low? Good old-fashioned exercise.
Our taste for sugar evolved as a response to the drive of plants to reproduce. Seed-bearing fruits were infused with sugar, rich in available energy and used by every cell in the body, in an effort to keep the fruit-eaters strong. Humans grew to associate sweetness with goodness, and the “sugar tooth” was born.
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Post 2015: Development redefined, but can we adjust?
Baton is passed
The High Level Panel report on the post 2015 development agenda has redefined development and placed the most difficult issues, that have robbed the poorest and most vulnerable from sharing in the progress enjoyed by some since the MDGs were first unveiled, centre stage.
We know that 1.5 billion people live in countries that have made the least, if any, progress toward the technical milestones of progress represented by the MDGs. Just stop to think for a moment about that number. 1.5 billion out of a global population of just over 7 billion.
The reason for this was that world leaders at the time simply avoided one of the most obvious reasons for extreme poverty in front of them – bad or non-existent governance and resource capture by rapacious elites, in many places – and opted for global measures that would allow them to maintain the pretence that you could somehow end poverty by massive financial transfers, in many cases to those same elites, while concentrating solely on technical projects that had nothing to do with the political factors lying at the heart of so much human misery. Vested interests, from donors and recipient governments, as well as the aid industry itself, won out. Progress, in some cases amazing progress, was nonetheless reserved exclusively for people living in areas that were already relatively stable.
The Panel have identified five “transformational shifts” to deliver radical change in pursuit of the goal to end extreme poverty by 2030. One of those is peace and security, both as an inalienable human right to which all should be entitled but also as a basic pre-requisite to growth. Sounds simple, and many have been saying it for years, but it’s going to mean some fundamental change – both for governments and the aid industry itself.
High Level Panel
Gone is the certainty of only responding to violence in a way that picks up the pieces, such as services for victims of sexual violence. In is the approach that also sees the active political participation of those communities – including women, the young and people with disabilities – as a non-negotiable part of the deal. Superb. And we have some of the more progressive voices from within the Panel, which inevitably had internal differences, to thank for it. Here’s Sweden’s Foreign Minister Gunilla Carlsson on the thinking behind it:
"We have had frank debates, and I have chosen to focus on areas that often encounter resistance around the world. I am therefore pleased that the panel was finally able to agree on strong language on, for example, political freedom, freedom from corruption and the importance of sexual and reproductive rights. It's a great victory, certainly for Sweden, but above all for people around the world living in poverty and exclusion…"
Not sure about the ‘victory for Sweden’ language, there, but you get the picture. Ms Carlsson was one of the stars of the Panel for me, diplomatically but very firmly rejecting the idea of some of her colleagues that all we needed to do was roll over the MDGs.
So what does this new world of political inclusion and active citizenship look like? Highlights from the report include:
More jobs and equitable growth
Improved political governance and effective institutions
Stable and peaceful societies
Sustainable management of natural resources
So in other words growth in which everyone can participate and freedom from violence tackled by giving people a say in the governance of their countries and communities. The logic was quite nicely summed up by Owen Barder in his weekend blog entitled “it’s the politics, stupid”.
No single lobby got everything they wanted out of this process. They were never going to. And it was clear from the two hour lobby-fest that the Panel were subjected to by the 200 or so lobbyists that took part in the London meeting that there were going to be some upset people. Oxfam, for example, is upset that there was no goal on inequality.
And while this may look like a paradigm shift from a peace and conflict perspective, which it is, for me the relegation of the New Deal for Engagement on Fragile States to the status of an annexe at the back of the report is baffling, particularly since its implementation represents much of this new agenda in action, right now. During the Africa consultation of the UN Task Team on Post 2015’s Global Consultation on Conflict, Fragility and Disaster President Johnson-Sirleaf dropped in for what I will never forget was called a “Fragility Dinner” (yes, really) – the first thing she asked the UNDP bods was “where is the New Deal” and the last thing she asked them was, er, “where is the New Deal”. Well, it doesn’t seem to be anywhere in the report that she helped co-chair, much.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf at the "Fragility Dinner": Where's the New Deal?
So there will be obstacles. And they will come very soon and at times appear insurmountable. But while most people’s understanding of that is the power politics and inter-governmental negotiations that will now take place within the Open Working Group my own sense is that global civil society itself now needs to significantly up its game and, in some cases, work in very different ways.
I have been told by several officials closely involved with the High Level Panel, from a number of countries, that their greatest fear is that the momentum of this report is somehow lost or diluted. And that fear is well placed. Those elites in 2000 that opposed any reference to peace, security or political participation to the last set of MDGs are in many cases still there. And some of the newly powerful actors in global governance are at best ambivalent about the ideas.
So what should we do? In my view, for what it is worth, we need to think about legitimacy, organisation and ideas.
Legitimacy
The Open Working Group is a strange name for a group where the main business will be conducted, in classic UN style, behind closed doors. The meetings will not be where the action is at. It will be, to a large degree, a closed working group. In fact one senior official who will be representing their country at some of these negotiations told me that it is already known as the “open wound group” which at least shows that there is a good sense of dark humour among some of them!
Civil society needs to shine a consistent light on how the group is working, and the activities of its members between now and the conclusion of its work.
This will be actively welcomed by some, and very much resisted and resented by others. It may be that some civil society groups are actively intimidated by their own governments from speaking out. How is global civil society going to support them? One way, it strikes me, is through making information available using new technologies and old, in the way that the MyWorld consultation has apparently managed to do with a great deal of success. If MyWorld, as imperfect as it is, manages to generate a sustained public involvement in the debate which is demonstrably coming from the ground up, even the hardest nosed negotiators will find it hard to justify ignoring them.
The Beyond2015 coalition has been more effective than many of us I think expected it to be. Civil society recognised that we needed a platform and formed one. But networks need to be maintained and kept active, and what concerns me at present is that while the High Level Panel along with the UN Task Team events led to literally hundreds of opportunities around which civil society could interact and mobilise there is no obvious means by which the Open Working Group provides the same level of engagement. How do you interact, for example, if you are a grassroots organisation in a country who’s government is not even a member of the Open Working Group? The coalition will need to find a way to facilitate that active discourse.
Globally, despite all our disappointments at various elements of the report, we will need to recognise that this is the best chance we have to achieve a vision of development that actually works for everyone. And that will mean coming together and getting behind it in a co-ordinated way.
We are in a new phase of global governance. New powers have risen as have new coalitions among them. The High Level Panel consisted of classic representatives of governments, but it also included a human rights activist and CEO of a global corporation. The Panel identified civil society, youth and business as their core constituencies with which to engage and the report is clear that the private sector, for example, has a key role to play.
I do worry, then, when I hear perfectly legitimate complaints about tax avoidance appearing to spill over sometimes into an anti business approach by some. I have been at numerous discussions in the last months at which “business” has been spoken about as if they are the enemy and a threat. They are not. In fact at local level they are often the same people who take huge risks to bring peace to their communities, while developing opportunities for people to pursue their own ambitions and provide for their families.
So just as governments will need to adjust to a new way of doing business, some of the old ideology of the aid industry may also need to change. The reality is that we all need checks and balances, business, government and us included, but we are all part of the solution.
Interesting times ahead.
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Largest solar farm to be built in Jamaica
The Toronto-based Solamon Energy Corporation says it plans to build the largest solar power plant in the Caribbean.
The solar company said that the programme, to be built in Jamaica, will cost in the region of CAN$450 million or US$444.2 million.
When completed, the farm will “enhance and improve the nation’s energy infrastructure, as well as serve as a beacon to attract additional investment in the ICT (Information Communications Technology) and greentech sectors.”
Solamon’s senior vice president, Ainsley Brown, said the farm would represent one of the region’s first strategic private-public partnerships.
“In order to implement a solution of this magnitude sites, several parishes are being considered as future homes of one of three 50-acre plots that when conjoined will provide the Jamaican people with 60MW of clean electricity,” he said.
“This programme represents a comprehensive approach to renewable energy development, energy diversification, job creation and training for the 21st century,” Brown said.
“Its success will necessitate a level-headed and like-minded approach at the table, as we are offering to tackle and deal with all elements of risk cooperatively and openly examine the implications of carbon credits, fuel or foreign exchange savings, in order to share the greater benefits of solar with our partners, and the communities they serve over the lifetime of this deal.”
Brown said the mega-project would create many new jobs for Jamaicans, and with the completion of a requisite light manufacturing plant, will establish the island as a “bona-fide greentech hub.”
In addition to generating solar electricity and, thereby, reducing for future generations of Jamaicans an “imposing reliance” on fossil fuels, he said the new revenue from the sale of carbon credits will be directed toward establishing employee training and certification programmes, “required to build this and many other similar facilities across the Caribbean.”
“I believe the utility should not be the only one to benefit from the nation going green,” Brown said.
“JPS, as it currently stands, benefits from green initiatives, from not having to produce that energy, as well as the fuel-saving and foreign exchange saving, without passing anything onto the green investor or the customer at large,” he said.
The company said it is “excited” to deliver turnkey power plants using renewable solar energy as a resource to Caribbean and Central American countries, and develop mutually beneficial and long-term relationships around the world.
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Category/ies:Jamaica News.
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WhatsApp is trying its best to ruin New Year’s Eve with latest outage
Thousands of users in the US, Canada and Europe around the globe are reporting difficulties connecting to WhatsApp on both Android and iOS today. The outage started at around 9:30 EST and appeared to be fixed before the issues started to resurface again minutes later. The service is working as intended for some users, according to Down Detector, but myself and two others at TNW all had issues connecting to the service. The issue for the three of us was in the connection to the service, although Martin Bryant did report receiving Natt Garun’s message about 2 minutes after the fact, but he wasn’t able to reply.
Thousands of users in the US, Canada and Europe around the globe are reporting difficulties connecting to WhatsApp on both Android and iOS today. The outage started at around 9:30 EST and appeared to be fixed before the issues started to resurface again minutes later.
The service is working as intended for some users, according to Down Detector, but myself and two others at TNW all had issues connecting to the service.
The issue for the three of us was in the connection to the service, although Martin Bryant did report receiving Natt Garun’s message about 2 minutes after the fact, but he wasn’t able to reply.
My test with another of our reporters, Napier Lopez appeared to go through, but his message was delayed by a solid 5 minutes, and much like Martin, I was initially unable to reply.
A quick search of Twitter and Facebook appears to show users in South America and Asia are now reporting trouble with the service as well.
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Clumber Spaniel Club > The Breed > History
THE HISTORY OF THE BREED
Clumbers have been established in the UK for well over 250 years. That is a fact which can be proved but the origin of the breed is one which is shrouded in mystery.
Over the years many have tried to solve the puzzle and many credible theories have been put forward. One thing is certain in that the name derives from Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, at one time the seat of the Dukes of Newcastle.
The second Duke succeeded to the title in 1768. His friendship with the Duc de Noailles has led to the wonderful (but fanciful) story that the dogs arrived from France to escape harm during the French Revolution. There is no mention in either of the Dukes’ papers to any gift or sale being made. All we do know is that in the 1760s dogs were imported and brought to Clumber Park from the Continent, but France is not specifically mentioned.
I tend to go with the theory that the spaniels kept at Clumber Park had existed for many years but these were descendants of the original Blenheim which had been used for sporting purposes for centuries. Imports were used to increase the gene pool and produce a stronger, slower moving spaniel suitable for working the undergrowth of Sherwood Forest. They were not required to retrieve.
We do not even know when the name was first used. In the famous painting ‘The Return from Shooting’ (Francis Wheatley, 1788) the three spaniels were described as ‘Springers or Cock-flushers’. The late (and last) Duke of Portland always said they should have been called Welbeck Spaniels as the family had them for as long as, and in greater number, than the Newcastles.
Others who kept large numbers of the breed include the Dukes of Norfolk, Northumberland, Sunderland, Westminster, Manchester and Bedford and many more Marquises and Earls. Royalty also admired the breed and were owned by the Prince Consort, Edward VII and George V. Nowadays the Princess Royal maintains an interest. Truly the ‘Spaniel of Aristocrats, the Aristocrat of Spaniels’.
65 Clumbers are mentioned in the first KC Stud Book of 1874 and the breed remained pretty stable numerically during the early 20th century.
In 1904 forty enthusiasts met the form the Clumber Spaniel Club and lay down a standard. Later in the year the KC recognised its existence.
World Wars and the growth in industries led to the demise of many big houses and sporting estates but the breed survived due to the increase in dog shows and the pedigree pet market.
There have been many good kennels in the last 50 years or so but sadly many of these are no longer. Probably the greatest influence on the modern day Clumber was made by the late Rae Furness (Raycroft). In 1954 Rae bought a bitch from Brian Gent (Thornville) as a pet as she lived in the ‘Dukeries’ and felt the house should have one. Her Irish Setters were famous the world over and one day at a show she was ‘challenged’ (her words) to try and improve the Clumber. She bred from her bitch and the rest is history. What she achieved has been written about many times and is such a remarkable tale that I believe it will never be likened.
Overseas enthusiasts were always been keen to purchase stock from the UK and many dogs have been sent all over the world. In the last few years this has virtually ended and instead we are the ones buying Clumbers from overseas. Only time will tell if this will prove of benefit to the breed.
The Clumber is a wonderful breed, even if from dubious origins, and is regarded as a quintessential British one and admired by many. I hope the decline in its interest will turn around and those admirers may be enticed to get involved.
Ian C Layfield (Dockwray)
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Elliot Visits St. Louis
Kid Adam took his oldest son, Graham, on a business trip to Washington, D.C., recently. He thought he owed middle son Elliot a trip, so they hopped on a jet for a weekend in St. Louis. Graham, is 7; Elliot is 5, and Kid 3, Finn, is 3.
Being a born and bred Florida boy, he wasn’t quite sure if he liked cold Missouri weather. (You can click on the photos to make them larger. Once clicked, you can use your arrow keys to step through them)
First stop: City Museum
I don’t have many photos from the City Museum because Elliot could go through places the fire department would have to cut me out of. Even his skinny dad contorted his body into shapes I didn’t think possible.
There’s a saying that there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. I was perfectly content to let Elliot be bold while I played old.
When we got to the gift shop, I told him to pick something out. He found a stack of shiny stones that WERE quite attractive. When he went to check out, the cashier said, “Four dollars.” She must have seen my face, because she quickly said that the four bucks would buy a tiny pouch that he could fill with as many stones as would fit.
He managed to cram four stones in it, and he played with it the whole time he was in town. Money well spent. His Uncle Mark (actually, I guess he’s his GREAT-uncle) kept scheming to try to entice the rocks from him for some sundry good or service, but he resisted.
Earlier visits to City Museum
The rooftop was closed for the winter when Adam and Elliot were there, but I DID manage to convince Curator Jessica to ride the Ferris wheel in 2014. (Despite hearing her mutter, “You’re standing on a banana peel on the steps to eternity, but I’ve got a lot of life left, and I don’t intend to die on a Ferris wheel in St. Louis.”)
Son Matt and crew were the first Florida Steinhoff contingent to visit the museum. Malcolm, like Elliot, explored all there was to be explored.
Licking the Arch
Elliot was afraid his tongue would stick to the stainless steel arch since it was a cold day, so I told him that he only had to stick it out for the photo.
I’ve had various results convincing first-timers that it’s customary to lick the arch. See the results.
The scale of the Arch was lost on a 5-year-old who was getting cold and tired.
He thought the tram ride to the top was kind of interesting, but it didn’t take long before he said, “I’m bored.”
Pulitzer Arts Museum
Our first stop the second day was the Pulitzer Arts Museum. He and I weren’t all that impressed by the “art” that was displayed inside.
We liked “Joe” a lot better. Here’s the official description of it. It reminds me of why I often wish I was wearing high boots in art museums.
Commissioned by Emily Rauh Pulitzer as a permanent feature of the courtyard, Richard Serra’s Joe articulates a space that reframes perceptions of scale and movement through its subtle, shifting contours. As a counterpoint to Tadao Ando’s angular forms and immutable concrete, Joe conveys an evolving sense of the organic; the walls of the sculpture’s spiral path expand and contract, conveying you to its center—a vast expanse of sky, framed by a ribbon of weathering steel. Named in homage to the late Joseph Pulitzer Jr., who commissioned the artist’s first site-specific sculpture in 1970, Richard Serra’s Joe stands as a testament to the forces of life that influence and shape us.
At the top of the stairs in the museum was a phonographic turntable with some vinyl records. Elliot, a child of the digital age, was fascinated. He suggested that we chill and listen to some music.
Before long, he and his dad were dancing.
National Memorial Family Church of God in Christ
While we were driving around looking for a place to eat, we ran across the ruins of the National Memorial Family Church of God in Christ. The remaining walls of the church had been reinforced, so it was safe to walk in.
Elliot found a small piece of stone inside, and wanted to take it with him to remember the visit. I felt a strong generational bond. I have bricks from Athens, Cape, my grandfather’s liquor store in Advance, and a “convict brick” made by Ohio prisoners and used to build a school. We weren’t sure the TSA would be happy with it in his carry-on, so I mailed it to him later.
St. Louis Science Center
Uncle Mark, who lives in St. Louis, knows all the tricks, so we saved $10 by parking for free at the McDonnell Planetarium, which is connected to the Oakland Building by a walkable Skybridge over Interstate 64/Highway 40. The skybridge is neat because it has holes where you can look down on the traffic below. It also has radar guns and speed displays. In the days when radar detectors were more common in cars, it was fun to watch drivers lock down when their warnings lit up.
He got to check out dinosaurs and see how he’d fit in one of their footprints.
He got to feel wild winds, build a an arch out of foam blocks, and learn all about electricity.
One of the coolest things was a board where you placed elements to show the flow of electricity from the power plant to the substations to transformers to neighborhoods of houses.
He was playing with the blocks when a boy of 8 or 10 walked up and patiently explained the whole concept to him. They played for quite a while, learning how eliminating one house wouldn’t make the rest go dark, but losing a substation or a transformer could.
After the old boy wandered off, Elliot stuck around trying different sets of blocks. A little girl about his age showed up, and Elliot took on the role of tutor, passing on what the older boy had told him. Girls, apparently aren’t much interested in electricity, so she didn’t hang around long.
Finally, it was time to rehydrate and head back to Uncle Mark’s house for another treat.
Lime-S Electric Scooter
It seemed like bright lime-green electric scooters were buzzing around all over town. Mark explained how they were rented, and Adam located an unused one about two blocks away.
You can learn how the concept works by going to the Lime website.
He scored it by putting some money in a smartphone app, then he and Elliot went cruising up and down Flora Place. Mark loaned him a helmet and tried to charge his nephew four rocks for it, but the transaction didn’t happen.
I only have the one shot showing him rating the ride two-thumbs-up because I concentrated on video.
Next up will be night shots of the Missouri Botanical Gardens Glow Garden.
Castor River Shut-Ins
Wife Lila and Grandson Malcolm came up for a visit. When Malcolm was here last year, we went to Johnson’s Shut-Ins and Elephant Rocks. He liked them well enough he told us he wanted to do the same when he came back in 2018.
“I LOVE this place,” he commented. It’s good to see him infected with the Midwest. There may be hope for him.
Anyway, just as we were getting ready to pull out of the driveway, I saw Neighbor Bill across the street and told him where we were going. He asked, “Have you ever been to Castor River Shut-Ins.
I allowed as how I hadn’t, but since it was about half the distance to our original destination, we decided to check it out. (You can click on the photos to make them larger, by the way.)
Their new favorite place
My visitors said they liked it better than Johnson’s Shut-Ins. It has all the rock climbing of Elephant Rocks, with the water fun. I agree that all the pink granite is pretty, but Johnson’s has more cool water flumes to shoot down.
Traded bold for old
My bold days have been traded for old days, so I was conservative about where I stepped and climbed. Wife Lila was a bit more aggressive because she wanted to keep an eye on Malcolm so she could write the “Dear Matt and Sarah, Guess what we did to your kid” letter.
A gasp and a splash
It wasn’t long before Malcolm was playing mountain goat and heading up a near vertical wall.
I heard Lila gasp, followed by a splash. Showing that she really is a photographer at heart, she complained that there was a branch in the way that kept her from getting a good shot when he slipped and bounced on his backside into the river.
He sat in the cool water for a few minutes regrouping before frolicking some more. About the only thing injured was his pride.
Beautiful scenery
The place is pretty, offers plenty of room to spread out, and wasn’t overrun by people, even though it was a hot day.
Google says that the Castor River Shut-Ins are 45.7 miles (1 hour, 9 minutes) from Cape via MO-72. Johnson’s Shut-Ins are 88.6 miles (1 hour, 53 minutes), also on MO-72.
Earlier visits to Johnson’s Shut-Ins and Elephant Rocks
Johnson’s Shut-Ins around 1978
Johnson’s Shut-Ins in 2014
Elephant Rocks in 2014
Road Warriorette Shari and Curator Jessica also made it to the parks in 2017, but they didn’t do anything outrageous enough to publish.
Leafing the Library
This hasn’t been a great season for fall colors in SE Missouri. It was too hot and too dry for the trees to put on a great show for more than a couple of days. I drove around trying to get excited, but there was too much brown for my taste.
If you’re wondering why I’m just getting around to writing about Fall when Spring isn’t far off (Please, please, please), it’s because the framework that drives the blog has been having Old Age issues.
Shaking out the bedbugs
Kid Matt has worked some magic that has given it a new look that’s going to take some getting used to, but will also, hopefully, shake out the bedbugs. By the way, you can click on the photos to make them larger, just like in the old version.
Trees were by the Cape Library
I stopped by the Cape Public Library to swap out some audio books and music CDs. On the way back to the car, the late afternoon set the trees on fire.
Is ‘Librarian Hell’ a real place?
I discovered the old Carnegie Library when it was on the Common Pleas Courthouse lawn. I must have been about 12 when I convinced the librarians that I really COULD read adult books. From then on, I would walk out with a stack of books on Saturday, then swap them out the next weekend.
The new library is one of the nicest I’ve been in. What makes it special for me is that I can wander the stacks and still find books I read half a century ago.
(How do I know? I may go to Librarian Hell for this confession, but I would write my initials very, very small print in the back of the book so I could tell if I had read it before. Some of them are still in circulation.)
The ‘good’ books
Debate partner Pat Sommers had a part-time job at the library, so we used his key to get in to do research when the facility was closed.
Not only did we have access to all the books and periodicals we needed for debate, but Pat knew where the “good” books were that were hidden from public view unless you were (a) an adult and (b) weren’t too embarrassed to ask for them.
Not just books
When I signed up for my library card, I was given a booklet that gave all the rules and regulations, plus a list of things you could check out.
Take a look at some of things you can borrow: telescopes, WiFi hotspots, audiobooks (they have a great selection, by the way), and cake pans. Yes, you read that right: cake pans.
It has an inviting kid area and lots of computers. Cape should be proud of its library. (I’d like to find out where they keep the “good” books, but Pat doesn’t work there anymore.)
Raised on Raisin Bread
We Steinhoff boys were raised on cinnamon sugar peanut butter toast made with raisin bread bought at the “used bread store.” Mother would go to the Bunny Bread outlet and buy loaves of the stuff, and turn out a dozen or so slices every morning.
Sounds as much as taste
What I remember more than the taste of the gooey stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth concoction was the sounds of its making.
It would start out with the squeak of the springs in the oven door being pulled down. Then there was a clatter and crashing when Mother removed all the heavy pots and pans stored in the oven. That would be followed by a tinny sliding sound when she took out the warped and bent cookie sheet.
She’d butter up as many slices of bread as the sheet would hold, then sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on them, and stick them in the oven. Just as the sugar was beginning to bubble and, hopefully, before the toast would start to burn, she’d snatch it out of the stove and put a dollop of Peter Pan crunchy peanut butter on it. (I always liked a thin coating of the butter on mine. I didn’t like big globs of the stuff.)
Peach milk shakes
When peaches were in season, she throw some fresh peaches in the blender, along with ice cream and a little milk. Because I was scrawny in grade and high school, she might pitch a couple raw eggs in my shake. Little did we know the delayed effect of that. It took about 35 years for them to add more than the desired bulk.
I don’t do peach milk shakes in the morning, but I DO like a smoothie in the evening. Since I had some fresh strawberries and blueberries for my smoothie, I thought I’d try them on my morning toast. They added an interesting taste change, and looked pretty darned colorful. (The picture was taken with my Samsung Galaxy 7 Edge smart phone. I’m always amazed at the quality it produces. Click on the photo to make it larger.)
For what it’s worth, I’ve found the raisin bread sold at Sam’s Clubs is some of the best around: it’s very dense and has a gazillion raisins. Wife Lila said she likes it with some cream cheese spread on top.
(That’s Son Matt and Grandson Malcolm. Malcolm is sneaking up on his teen years now, but he’s still not crazy about being stuffed into funny shirts.)
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PAKISTAN: Women own less than 3% land despite sharing 70% activities
Source: Daily Times
Keywords:Women, landlessness
KARACHI: Women own less than 3% of the country land and they may not have actual control over it despite sharing agriculture activities by 70%, says Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment in a report issued on Wednesday.
According to the report, land distribution in Pakistan is highly unequal as 5% of large landholders possess 64% of the total farmland and 65% small farmers held 15% of land. About 67% households own no land. Landless are mostly engaged in informal activities that absorb a large majority of unskilled, uneducated or less educated poor individuals. Unequal distribution of land is extremely high in Pakistan. Almost 40% of the land is owned by only 2.5% households and 24% land owned by only 0.4 households. Situation of women land ownership is quite depressing.
Land governance and reforms are basically required for redistribution and management of land which could have several benefits that could be social, economic and administrative. There is always inverse relationship of large land holding and productivity therefore land reforms are always treated as strategy for better production.
However, the traditional large land holdings hardly concentrate on productivity. The population all over the world as a whole is on rising trend and Pakistan is one of the populous countries in the world with more than 180 million populations. The entire population requires fulfilling the need for food, a dwelling to live and economic activity to survive. For such activities land is very much required, this aspect of importance of land have already been discussed at the beginning of this essay.
Rapid population growth, widespread poverty, persistent food insecurity, and alarming rate of environmental degradation have fuelled an increasing debate on land tenure systems and land reforms. More equitable access to land is important in combating rural poverty. Under these circumstances, land reforms undoubtedly are regarded as an important factor to alleviate poverty and increase economic development. Since there is always a relationship between land reforms and growth, therefore land reforms were central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries. But in Pakistan their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on implementation. For the land reforms it requires political will and determination of the governments, not only this but appropriate laws need to be formulated with their ensured implementation.
Land Reforms inviting involvement of international donor agencies, different governments at different times, NGOs, environmentalists, and economists. Globally, land reforms have been introduced for a mixture of political, economic and egalitarian motives, often resulting from political upheavals, and changing the distribution of land in favour of small farmers. Land reform is also treated with a view of Human Rights issue as it involves survival of people and livelihood of poor peasants. More equitable access to land is important in combating rural poverty to overcome the menace of poverty. Land is important source of security against poverty, social status and political power in rural Pakistan. Land is one of the most important sources of earning sustainable livelihood and to enhance food security for poor people living in rural Pakistan. Based on HIES 2001-02 data, approximately 10.36% of the rural population is landless; 32.67% owns under 1 hectare of land; 0.05% owns between 1 and 2 hectare of land; only 0.03% owns 2-3 hectares of land while only 0.02% owns 5 or more hectares of land. This means that a large majority of rural households do not own land at all or do not own enough for subsistence. Approximately 1% households own subsistence and above land holdings.
This implies that rural poverty is extremely high. In fact, almost 57% households are involved in non-agricultural work in order to survive. Given this situation, looking at women’s ownership, access and control over land is a critical area for investigation if any progress is to be achieved to ensure social protection.
The country’s political and administrative system is dominated by the powerful feudal lords. Most of Pakistan’s GDP and the bulk of its export earnings are derived primarily from the agricultural sector controlled by a few hundred feudal families. The feudal paradigm in Pakistan consists of landlords with large joint families possessing hundreds to thousands of acres of land.###
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Aimee Garcia Talks About Working on Dexter, Her First Love Scene and More [Photos and Interview]
ADrinkWith.com sits down with Dexter co-star Aimee Garcia to talk about working on Dexter and with Michael C. Hall, the murder scenes, the love scenes, her celebrity crush and more. Read her latest interview below.
WHAT IS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING ON A SHOW LIKE “DEXTER” THAT PEOPLE WOULDN’T EXPECT?
It moves a lot quicker than you would think, sometimes you just have a couple hours to shoot a long scene. Also, how much of an impact the actors have. My character is a grad student and I noticed that we hadn’t seen her study in awhile so I asked the props master if we could have some text books, a pen and a notebook because even though it didn’t say it in the script, when Dexter calls I wanted her to be barefoot on the couch doing homework. It’s a real collaborative effort. I am going to miss the show, it’s over forever! We just wrapped.
AFTER SHOOTING A MURDER SCENE, WHAT IS THE VIBE LIKE ON SET?
It depends. Michael C. Hall is very focused, disciplined and professional. If he’s doing an intense scene he really keeps his mind in the zone. My character is a little lighter. I’m walking around in a bikini, laying out by the pool, carrying a baby around and making out with my boyfriend. Michael has a really great sense of humor, an incredible voice and he knows how to dance. He’s a true triple threat!
Read the rest after the jump -- (plus more photos).
WHEN DID YOU FIRST BREAK INTO ACTING?
I started by doing commercials with Michael Jordan and Sammy Sosa when I was a kid. I wanted to go to Northwestern so any acting job I did the money always went to tuition. In high school I did theatre at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston and I was Claire in “The Nutcracker” at the Arie Crown Theater. When I graduated I thought I was done with acting because I had already paid for school. I ended up moving to New York, where I lived in Brooklyn and worked in finance. I was a mutual fund analyst and I thought, “This sucks! I’m going back to what I did before.” It’s like dating a guy you love. You have to date other guys and then you come back, hope that he takes you back and thankfully acting did.
SPEAKING OF DATING, ARE YOU TAKEN?
No. Single girl.
CELEBRITY CRUSH?
He’s not the guy you would think but I love Joseph Gordin-Levitt. He’s classy, cool and really talented. He started out as a child actor but he went to a public school in L.A. and came out relatively normal. He’s so charming. “500 Days of Summer” is one of my favorite movies. I used to say Ryan Gosling but then we ended up going to the same gym for awhile and it kind of lost its luster. You have to be careful about your celebrity crushes because you meet them or work with them and all of a sudden [it's awkward]. I love Mark Wahlberg. He seems like a cool guys’ guy from Boston. To me Boston and Chicago are very similar cities.
DID FITTING INTO HOLLYWOOD COME EASY?
I’m from Chicago so I tend to be focused on the craft so at first I wondered what breaking down a scene had to do with having to wear a Calvin Klein dress down the red carpet but then I realized I’ve always wanted my own show and if I really want that I have to build a brand and play the game. Everyone has to do things they don’t want to do. I’ve never compromised my morals or my integrity. I’ve never slept with producers to get a job or to get ahead. If I have to wear a Calvin Klein dress down the red carpet, even though I prefer to be playing sports with my buddies, then it’s a small price to pay. Now it’s fun!
YOU RECENTLY DID YOUR FIRST LOVE SCENE. HOW DID IT GO?
It’s very technical. The last thing you‘re thinking about is the other person. He’s thinking about if his spray tan looks good, I’m thinking about if my butt looks tight. There are nine people around you so it’s definitely not this intimate setting. I wanted to represent women taking control in the bedroom in a very strong kind of way. Coming from the Midwest I’m very conservative but it’s not a cheesy movie, it’s a respected show and it was beautifully lit. I’m working with Golden Globe winning actors and doing scenes of Emmy winning writers so it felt very right to me as an artist. I didn’t show everything but it was very suggestive. I wanted to keep it classy and represent Chicago.
WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF DOWN THE LINE?
I would love to become a producer one day. Sandra Bullock was my boss on “George Lopez”. I always admired her because she would be shooting “The Proposal” in Europe but also executive producing and opening doors for us here. I thought she didn’t know what was going on. I remember saying, “Hi Sandra, I’m Aimee,” and she’s like, “Yeah, I know who you are. I hired you!” Even though you don’t see her she is the wizard behind the curtain.
YOU SEEM TO BE VERY GRACIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO THE PRESS.
I do think the media builds you up to tear you down but I took my lead from Michael C. Hall. He’s so gracious and makes people feel special. He said it always takes more effort and energy to say no [to press and fans] than to say yes. We get to do what we do because of the public. I just did a documentary with Wilmar Valderrama who is also lovely. I admire him for segueing into producing. I wanted to pick his brain and asked, “How do you deal with it when you’re having dinner with your parents and people come up and ask for autographs and pictures?” He said, “Robin Williams told me that every fan will have a maximum of two minutes, maybe 30 seconds, so what kind of two minutes do you want them to have? What kind of experience do you want that two minutes to be for them?” I will never say no.
WHEN YOU VISIT HOME WHAT DO YOU MAKE SURE TO DO?
I love antique shopping. White Attic is one of my favorite stores. I love little sushi places and the Vietnamese food in Andersonville. I went to Northwestern University so I always go back and walk around campus. You guys actually have my secret favorite job. I went to Medill and always wanted to be a journalist … Frank Sinatra says Chicago is a big city with the heart of a small town and I think that nails it perfectly. I remember once my car died on a random street and some guy came out and gave me jumper cables and said, “Look, I have to go to work but just leave them in front of my door right there.” That would never happen in L.A.
YOU’RE THROWING THE FIRST PITCH TONIGHT FOR THE CUBS GAME. ARE YOU NERVOUS?
I said to Kerry Wood, ”You hold the record for most strikeouts in history, you struck out 20 people in nine innings, do you have any tips?” He said to aim for the catcher’s head. People tend to throw it down and it’s better to miss high than low. I wasn’t nervous at all because I love Wrigley Field and I would always go to games as a kid but then Matthew Perry, who’s also in town for Kerry Wood’s Wiffle Ball Classic charity event, was like, “Are you nervous? Are you nervous?” I said, “Well no, were you?” He’s like, “I’ve thrown out the first pitch and I will never do it again.” So now I’m actually nervous! He said, “Don’t pull a Carly Rae Jepson.” I guess she threw it straight to the ground. They showed me her YouTube so now I know exactly what that means.
IF YOU COULD HAVE A DRINK WITH ANYONE, WHO WOULD IT BE?
The first person that comes to mind is Richard Branson because I think he’s amazing, entrepreneurial and a visionary. I’d love to have a drink with Gandhi, just to ask him how he overthrew an entire government without a single weapon. As far as women, oh gosh, I would say Oprah. Talk about a self-made rag-to-riches educated kind of woman and she has this relatability to her.
By JOHN on Friday, August 23, 2013
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Cocaine Hippos – Pablo Escobar’s Pets were as Dangerous as Him
Aleksandar Mishkov/ published 1 year ago
At the height of his power, Escobar was making more than $400 million per week, and he built a large hacienda to show off his wealth. There, he had a zoo with exotic animals
Pablo Escobar is known as one of the most dangerous crime lord of all times. The Columbian drug lord build an empire to the point he was making more than $400 million per week. And when you have as much money as Pablo, you can do whatever you like. For Escobar, that meant showing his wealth to others.
Quick Hippo Facts
- The hippo, native to Africa, has an average length of 15 feet and weight of 7,000 pounds
- The hippo is the third largest land mammal on the continent of Africa
- Hippos have a lifespan of 50 years
- They spend most of their day under water in groups, as they are excellent swimmers. During the night, they search for food
- Even though they look friendly, hippos are considered one of the most aggressive animals on the planet
- More than 3,000 people die every year as a result of a hippo attack
- They can be found in 29 African countries
How Escobar found love for hippos?
Escobar was born and raised in Medellin. However, when he became rich, he moved away from the city. He bought 7.7 square miles of land 110 miles away from Medellin. There, he built his residence known as the Hacienda Napoles.
The residence had some amenities that satisfied his extravagant taste and needs, like an airstrip to fly his product, and a helipad to accommodate his guests. He also had a bullring made, where he held bull fights, concerts for his friends, and much more.
The nature of the residence is breathtaking. The former drug lord had 14 manmade lakes made, and he also establishes his own private zoo. There, he brought in the first four hippos. They were smuggled from the United States, and the hacienda proved to be an excellent habitat. Hippos had all the water and grass they needed, plus they had the hot weather they were used to.
The animals were taken care of while Escobar was alive. He wanted to use them as a “show-off” of his wealth. After all, not many people can say they have hippos in their own private zoo. Buses with children arrived at the property on a daily basis to visit his zoo, strengthening his reputation as a modern Robin Hood.
War on Escobar
Everything changed when the state of Colombia declared war on Pablo Escobar. He fled the hacienda, and became a fugitive. The zoo animals were left to starve. The Colombian government seized control of the property after his death.
And while most of the animals were sent to zoos, the hippos stayed in Colombia. Authorities were not willing to take the risk and struggle of moving the dangerous and huge animals. So they left them be.
Soon after the hippos broke the fence, and started to reproduce. From four hippos, soon after, there were around 40 hippos living in Colombia. Currently, 26 of them are still residing in the territory of the Hacienda.
At the beginning, there were reports of the animals doing damage on farms and private properties. Once a hippo entered a city, which terrified people.
Soon, the story of Escobar’s hippos became known around the globe. The government took control of the property, and turned it into a theme park, with water park and a zoo built. Many exotic animals were brought in, but no new hippos.
As for the hippos, and how dangerous they were, National Geographic made a documentary in 2010, titled “Cocaine Hippos”.
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World Finance » Dividend, Dividend & Payment » Company Dividends
Company Dividends
When a company earns a profit, it pays a certain amount of the profit to its shareholders, in the form of dividends. The company also retains a part of the profit in order to re-invest in the business.The companies of the world follow different types of dividend structures. A company’s dividends may be declared quarterly, bi-annually or annually.
In some companies, the board of directors put the proposal of dividend payments to a vote in the company’s annual meeting. The mode of payment of the dividends may vary from one company to another. Companies may pay dividends in the form of checks, stocks, property, or in some other form, dependent upon the company’s policy.
The dividend per share to be paid by the company is determined by the amount of profit earned in that fiscal year. According to the dividend history of JP Morgan Chase, the company issued dividends of $1.0600 in 1999, $0.9133 in 2000, $1.3400 in 2001, $1.3600 in 2002, $1.3600 in 2003, $1.3600 in 2004, $1.3600 in 2005, $1.3600 in 2006, and $1.0600 in 2007. GE pays dividends quarterly, and for over one hundred years, the company has paid dividends each quarter.
GE’s dividends have increased for each of the previous consecutive 31 years.
Mellon Investor Services manages the direct stock purchase and the dividend re-investment program for Microsoft. Microsoft pays a quarterly dividend of $0.10 per share. Microsoft started paying quarterly dividends in 2005, prior to which the company paid dividends annually.
Arecent declaration made by the Intel Corporation’s board of directors confirmed that the company will pay a quarterly dividend of 11.25 cents per share on the common stock of the company.
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Home Election Awaaz Services Three Steps for a Winning Campaign
How to PLAN Your WIN
Three Steps for a Winning Campaign: This is compiled to take the campaign through a step-by-step process to develop a written campaign plan. These steps include:
a. Doing the research necessary to prepare for the campaign.
b. Setting a strategic campaign goal of how many votes are needed to win.
c. Analyzing and targeting voters.
d. Developing a campaign message.
e. Developing a voter contact plan.
f. Implementing that plan.
These suggestions cannot give you all the answers to all of the problems your campaign will face. It cannot tell you what your campaign message should be. It cannot tell you who are your most likely supporters. It cannot tell you what are the most effective methods of contacting voters in your region. What it can do is provide the questions that will help you think through the planning process in a thorough and methodical way.
Therefore, the candidate, the campaign manager, and all the key advisers should conduct a strategic planning meeting and go through these points seriously and rigorously. Your strategic planning session should also result in a written campaign plan. Too often, politicians believe that they hold the winning strategy “in their heads.” In reality they have no strategy at all and are wandering aimlessly. Too often the candidate and the campaign manager believe that they are following a single strategy, only to find out later that their opinions about the strategy are completely at odds. A written campaign plan, agreed upon by the candidate, the campaign manager, and all the key advisors, would help avoid such problems. The rule is simple – if a plan is not written down, no plan exists.
Once you have the written plan, you must follow that plan in a disciplined way. As with any plan, it is only as good as its implementation. All campaigns must be flexible to changing circumstances, but these changes should be carefully considered and weighed against the original research and strategy laid out in the plan.
A political campaign is an intense experience and, when done correctly, it is also a lot of hard work. There are no tricks or short cuts to winning the confidence of the voters. A political campaign can also be an exhilarating, rewarding and fun experience. To the campaign workers, you should be commended for offering you time and skills to improve the general situation and make democracy work. To the candidates, you should be commended for stepping forward and offering your services to your community. In doing so you not only serve your community, you are contributing to the democratic process as a whole.
STEP ONE: RESEARCH
Every campaign is different and unique. While certain basic principles can be applied to each campaign, it is important to have a complete understanding of the particular situation and the conditions in which your campaign will be waged. At some point in almost every campaign, someone says, “it is different here” or “you’re not taking into account our particular situation.”
“Step One: Research” is where you start and where you take into account the differences and peculiarities of each campaign. It is here that you have the chance to demonstrate just how different your situation really is.
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The first step in developing a winning strategy must begin with a realistic assessment of the political landscape in which you will be running. It is true that you can never know everything about your Constituency, your opponents and the voters. However, by using your time wisely and setting clear priorities, you will be able to compile the kind of information you need to develop a good strategy and be prepared for most events in the coming campaign. There are a number of factors that should be understood as completely as possible as you prepare to write a campaign plan:
1. What is the type of election and what are the rules?
2. What are the characteristics of the Constituency?
3. What are the characteristics of the voters?
4. What has happened in past elections?
5. What are the main factors affecting this election?
6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your candidate?
7. What are the strengths and weaknesses of all the viable opponent?
It is important for the campaign team to take some time to research the answers to as many of these questions as possible. If you have a large, reliable campaign team, you may want to assign different sections to different members of the team. They can then report their findings to the campaign manager who will be responsible for writing the final campaign plan. Either alone or as a team, it is important that you set and stick to a time limit for doing the research. There will always be more information you can gather, but this will only delay the use of the information you already have in developing your strategy. In some cases, this type of research may benefit from more scientific methods of obtaining the data, such as political polling or focus groups. You will need to determine what resources are available to you and whether they are worth the expense of time and/or money.
In small, local races paying for a poll could cost as much as the whole campaign and therefore should not be considered. On a larger campaign where thousands of dollars will be spent on advertising, you would be foolish not to spend a fraction of that amount to see if the message of that advertising will work. ELECTION RULES It is important to first determine the type of election in which you will be running and what will be the rules of the election. Much of the basic strategy depends on this information. Is this a legislative office you are seeking or an executive office? Do you need a majority of the votes to win or a plurality? Will there be a runoff election? You should definitely research the laws and, if they are complicated, you may want to ask your political party or a lawyer to draft a memo outlining the most important points. Missing a deadline or violating some part of the law could end your campaign before it has even begun.
THE CONSTITUENCY
Once you have determined the basic election rules, you should start to gather as much information on the Constituency and the voters as possible. How large is the Constituency in which you will be running? What type of terrain will you have to cover as you campaign? What type of transportation will you and the voters need to use? How has the population of the Constituency changed recently? You need to understand the political landscape in which you will be operating. Who are the important political players in the area? How strong are the various political parties in the area? Who are the civic and business leaders that can influence the campaign? Winning the support of a particularly influential leader in the community can often make the campaign much easier. You also must understand how voters get their information. What are the local media outlets? Who are the reporters and what are their deadlines? How will the election be covered and how does the press view the various candidates? To develop a comprehensive press strategy, it is important to have as much information on the media as possible.
THE VOTERS You will need to break the voters in your Constituency into manageable groups. This is the basis you will later use to develop a strategy for targeting particular voters. The following are some of the questions you may want to consider. Is there a voter file or accurate list of all possible voters available to the campaign? What support is there for various political parties? What is the demographic composition of the voters? For example, what are the income levels, education levels, professions, ethnic backgrounds, religious backgrounds, age, gender, etc.? Where do people work, shop and play? What is the geographic break down of the voters? What percentage or how many people live in the city, in the rural areas or in small villages? Do the voters live in single-family homes or apartments? How would you describe your supporters and those voters you hope to persuade? Voters with similar characteristics may have similar interests and may tend to vote the same way. Seniors will be less interested in schools and more interested in pensions while young mothers will be more interested in schools and less interested in pensions. By determining how many senior citizens there are and how many young mothers there are, you will be better able to target your message to groups that matter to your success.
Often you can gain valuable information about this election by looking at information from past elections. Who ran for this position in your Constituency in past elections and what were the results? How many voters turned out for similar elections in the past? How many votes were needed to win? You may be able to use this type of information to predict the turnout and baseline levels of support in this election. How did candidates with similar backgrounds and messages fair in past elections? You will want this type of information later when you determine what worked for them and what you will have to do differently to do better than they did.
THIS ELECTION
Next you should look at the factors that will affect this election, namely the various issues that concern voters and other political campaigns, which are being waged in the area. What local, regional or national issues are important to voters? What will motivate voters to go to the polls?
How would you describe the voter mood?
What other races will be on the same ballot? Will candidates in other races help or hurt your campaign? Is there the opportunity to work with other campaigns in a coordinated manner? What effect will other campaigns have on the election? Your relationship with your party and other candidates on the same ticket will affect your strategy. Your campaign’s message should complement, or at least not contradict, the other messages.
OUR CANDIDATE
The most important factor in your election will be the candidate. During your strategic planning session, you should honestly and candidly judge the strengths and weaknesses of your candidate. As you do this exercise, you should also look at your candidate from the point of view of your opponent. What you may view as a fresh new face with new ideas, your opponent may view as a lack of experience.
You may want to organize your assessment into various sections, such as the candidate’s childhood, education, work history, immediate family, and past political positions.
It is important to look for both strengths and weaknesses in all of these areas. By finding weaknesses early, the campaign will be better prepared to deal with them and respond to charges that may come up later in the campaign. Too many candidates have lost because they refused to deal with past mistakes and were caught off guard when their opponents painted the picture of their mistakes in a very unflattering light.
VIABLE OPPONENTS
Once you have determined your own candidate’s strengths and weaknesses, the next logical step is to repeat the process for your opponents’. If you are facing several opponents, you should determine which are your strongest competitors for the loyalty of voters you hope to attract. Again, you can organize your assessment into various sections and look for both strengths and weaknesses.
Your opponents will not be forthcoming with information about themselves. You will probably need to do some digging to find reasons for voters to vote against them and for your candidate.
Too often candidates and campaigns view opposition research as looking for the one scandal that will finish off their opponent’s campaign. This may happen, but more often what you find is patterns of behavior that you can use to persuade voters to either vote against your opponent or for you. You will use this to create a contrast between your candidate and campaign and your opponents’ campaign when you develop your message, but this process is the basis for finding that contrast.
The other mistake campaigns often make, is saying that they do not want to wage a negative campaign. Researching your opponent and waging a negative campaign are two entirely different things. By not taking the time and doing the hard work of opposition research, you forfeit the ability to be prepared for what your opponent will say and do and to build the contrast between yourself and your opponent.
As you gather your opposition research, you must be extremely well organized: list the sources of your documentation, and have a system in place that will allow you to quickly access the information. It will do no good to know something and not be able to provide backup of the information. All of this research should be gathered together in a binder for easy referral and referenced for easy tracking. Being meticulous and organized now will save a lot of time and energy later.
STEP TWO: SETTING A GOAL
The ultimate goal of almost every political campaign is to win elected office. What you need to do here is determine what must be done to achieve that victory. Too often campaigns forget to calculate how many votes will be needed to guarantee victory and determining where these votes will come from. They then spend their precious resources of time, money and people trying to talk to the whole population instead of the much fewer voters they will need to win. Here you will reduce the number of voters with whom you need to communicate to a much more manageable size. As part of your research, you should determine the total population of your Constituency, the total number of voters, the expected votes cast, the number of votes needed to win and the number of households in which these voters live. Some of the answers that are needed here require you to look into the future and make some educated guesses. Use your best judgment and the information you have found from past elections.
WHAT IS THE TOTAL POPULATION OF THE CONSTITUENCY?
“Total population” is all the people who live in your Constituency. Considering children too young to vote and people not registered in the Constituency, this number should be larger than the total number of voters.
WHAT IS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTERS?
“Total number of voters” is all the voters in the Constituency who are eligible to vote and can possibly vote in this election.
WHAT IS THE EXPECTED TURNOUT?
“Expected turnout ” is the expected votes cast in this election. Not every voter will vote. Often you can determine how many voters will vote by looking at past similar elections. If there was 35% turn out in the last city election and there are no added factors this time to change the situation, you might figure that about 35% would vote in the city election this time. If on the other hand, there was a 55% turn out in the Parliamentary election and this time the city election is combined with the Parliamentary election, you may want to estimate that 55% will turn out this time.
HOW MANY VOTES ARE NEEDED TO WIN?
This is a very speculative number. What you are looking for is the total number of votes needed to guarantee victory in your race. If you need a majority of the votes to win, this would be 50% of turnout plus one vote. In many cases you only need a plurality of the votes cast or more votes for your candidate than any other candidate in the race receives. In the case of multi-candidate races, you may be able to win with 35%, 30%, 25% or less of the vote. It is important to convert this percentage to a real number. How many actual votes will guarantee your victory? You should be conservative and error on the side of too many votes rather than too few.
HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS DO THESE VOTERS LIVE IN?
You can reduce this group yet again. On average, let us say that there are two voters per household. Some families may have three or four voters living in the same house. Some voters may be single and live alone. Now, if you think that a husband and wife are likely to vote the same way, you can often assume that if you talk to one member of the family than you can expect to get the second vote. So, how many households will you need to communicate with to receive the number of votes needed to win?
How does all this come together? Let us say that your Constituency has a population of 130,000 people. Of this population, there are 30,000 children below voting age and other non-registered voters, leaving a total number of 100,000 voters. In the last city election, there was 50% turnout of voters, or 50,000 votes cast. You assume it will be the same this time. In a multi-candidate race for city council, the winning candidate received 34% of the vote or 17,000 votes cast. If you figure an average of two voters per household, this would come to 8,500 households.
Now, you cannot assume that every voter you talk with will be persuaded to vote for you. So you should figure to communicating with a larger number of voters in order to receive the votes from 17,000 voters or 8,500 households. Suppose you persuade seven out of every 10 voters you communicate with to vote for you. You will need to talk to 25,000 voters or 13,000 households in order to be assured of support from 17,000 voters or 8,500 households (25,000 x 0.7 = 17,500 and 13,000 x 0.7 = 9,100). It is still a lot easier to talk with and try to persuade 13,000 families than it is to talk to and try and persuade 100,000 people. This whole process is narrowing the group of people you need to persuade down to a much smaller size.
: SETTING A CAMPAIGN GOAL
Using your research information and your best judgment, answer the following questions and incorporate the answers into your written campaign plan:
1. How many people (not just voters) live in your Constituency?
2. How many of these people are able to vote in this election?
3. What percentage of these voters do you expect to vote in this election?
4. How many expected voters is this in real numbers?
5. How many candidates will be running for this position?
6. How many of these candidates could be considered serious?
7. If the election were held today, what percentage of the vote do you think each candidate would receive?
8. What percentage of the votes cast will be needed to win?
9. How many are votes cast in real numbers needed to win?
10. On average, how many voters live in one household?
11. Do these voters living in the same household all tend to vote for the same candidate?
12. If they do tend to vote for the same candidate, how many households will you need to receive the support of to guarantee victory?
13. If you talk to ten average voters, how many can you persuade to vote for you?
14. How many households will you need to communicate with for your message to reach enough voters to achieve victory?
STEP THREE: TARGETING THE VOTERS
WHAT IS TARGETING?
Once you decide how many votes you need to win and, therefore how many voters you need to persuade to support your candidate, you need to determine what makes these voters different from other voters who will not support your candidate. This process is called “targeting the voters” or simply “targeting.” The point of targeting is to determine which subsets of the voting population are most likely to be responsive to your candidate and focusing your campaign efforts on these groups of voters. You will remember when you worked on “Step One: Research,” you were asked to break voters down into more manageable groups. It was said then that you would use this information when you targeted particular voters. That time has come.
WHY TARGET VOTERS?
Targeting is important for two reasons. First, you want to conserve those precious campaign resources of time, money and people, and second, you want to develop a message that will best persuade those voters you still need to convince to vote for you. CONSERVING CAMPAIGN RESOURCES If you develop literature for everyone in the Constituency and try to shake the hand of every voter in the Constituency, then you are wasting a lot of money and a lot of time on people who will not vote for you no matter what you say or do. If, on the other hand, you can identify a smaller but significant group of voters who will most likely be persuaded by your campaign message. You will then be able concentrate your efforts on them and you will have more resources to repeat your message over and over again, until it seems that they have no choice but to vote for your candidate. Suppose, for example, that you decide that you need to communicate with 33% of the voters to win. If you could identify exactly which voters were most likely to deliver that 33%, then your campaign could reach them with one-third of the resources that you would need for an untargeted campaign. Put another way, if your campaign had the resources to reach every voter in the Constituency one time, you could instead target your efforts to reach your most likely supporters three times. Candidates that do not take the time to target their voters have lost the right to complain about scarce campaign resources.
PERSUADING TARGET VOTERS
In the next section, a good bit of time will be spent discussing your campaign message. Before that , however, you need to determine who the best audience for that message will be. This will help you determine what you can say that is likely to persuade them. An important rule to remember is that as a party or candidate tries to reach a broader and broader audience, then that party’s or candidate’s message becomes defused and weaker for each part of that audience. Ultimately, the party or candidate that promises everything to everybody has an empty message that no voter will find credible or compelling. The goal of targeting, therefore, should be to focus your campaign effort on a range of voters that can deliver approximately the same number of votes that you set as your campaign goal in Step Two. If your target audience is too narrow, you will not attract enough votes to win. If your target audience is too broad, your message will become diffused, and candidates with better focus will steal parts of the message – and the electorate – from you. Generally speaking, there are three types of voters: your supporters, your opponents’ supporters and those voters in the middle who have yet to make up their minds. Your supporters are those who have already decided to vote for you. Your opponents’ supporters are those who have already decided to vote for your opponents. Those voters in the middle who have not yet decided and still need to be persuaded to vote for one or the other candidates are called persuadable voters. It is some portion of these persuadable voters whom you want to target and with whom you want to communicate your message. Remember that a political campaign is a communication process. HOW TO TARGET VOTERS Once you have determined that you need to persuade only about half of the electorate or less to vote for your candidate, you need to figure out what makes your potential voters different from the others. There are two ways to determine this: geographic targeting and demographic targeting. Most campaigns will use some combination of both methods.
GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING
Geographic targeting is simply determining who will vote for your candidate based on where they live. For example, let us say that candidate “A” lives in town “A” and is well known and liked by her neighbors. Candidate “B” lives in town “B” and is well known and liked by his neighbors. Most of candidate “A’s” supporters are going to come from town “A” and she needs to go to town “C” to persuade those residents who are not already committed to a candidate in the race that she is the best candidate. She would be foolish and wasting her time to go to town “B” and try to persuade those residents and neighbors of candidate “B” to vote for her. This is a very simple example, though there are elections where the targeting is that easy. More often the campaign will have to look at past elections to determine past performance, the persuadability of the voters and the expected turnout. This can best be done where data can be obtained for past elections down to the precinct level. Past performance is the percentage of votes that your candidate, your party or a similar candidate received in past elections. Precincts with high performance contain your most likely supporters. In theory, a campaign should not spend resources on very high-performance precincts; after all, it makes little sense to try to persuade voters who will already vote for you. However, most candidates should some spend resources in areas with a history of voting for democratic candidates and parties in order to solidify their base of support before reaching out to other potential supporters. The persuadability of voters is the percentage of voters in a precinct that do not vote in a consistent way. It is the difference in percentage of votes for similar candidates either in the same election or two consecutive elections. Voters either “split” their vote (vote for candidates of different orientations in the same election) or “shift” their vote (vote for candidates of different orientations over the course of two or more elections). It is generally considered that “vote splitters” and the “vote shifters” are the voters most likely to be persuaded by a campaign’s efforts. Because of this, most campaigns spend the majority of their effort – posters, door to door, etc. – in precincts with high persuadability. This strategy makes sense. Expected turnout can be determined by the percentage of voters who turned out in the most recent similar election. It makes no sense to spend campaign resources on people who will not vote, so your campaign should spend more resources on precincts with a history of higher turnout.
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Hospital-community partnership improves mental health care for children
Children with behaviour problems at an early age can end up having risky behaviour and being involved with the criminal justice system later in life. Early treatment can help prevent long-term problems, but it can be difficult to put effective programs in place in community settings. This is especially the case in high-risk communities.
Researchers examined whether a partnership between a hospital and a community agency would help put in place a program to reduce disruptive behaviour in young children. The program involved two training components, one to improve parenting skills, the other to improve children’s social and problem-solving skills. The program was already running successfully at the hospital before the study started. The community agency had not previously offered mental health services. As part of the study, staff at the community agency received training on how to deliver the treatment program.
To get the full story, check out EENet’s new Research Snapshot of the article, “Implementing an Evidence-Based Parent-Child Mental Health Program in a High-Risk Community,” by Fiona K. Miller and Daniel P. Keating, published in Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 32 (2013): 139-153.
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Even though the community agency did not specialize in mental health care, children who took part in the program at the community agency showed levels of improvement in problem behaviours that were similar to those of children who took part in the program at the hospital.
What is this research about?
Children who show behaviour problems at an early age often end up behaving dangerously and being involved with the criminal justice system later in life. Early treatment can help reduce the risk of long-term problems, but it can be difficult to put effective child mental health programs in place in community settings. This is especially true for high-risk communities that often have fewer services, such as those where people have lower incomes or with a large number of immigrants.
What did the researcher do?
The researchers examined whether a partnership with a hospital would help the community agency put in place a program to reduce disruptive behaviour in young children. The program involved two components:
parent training to improve parenting skills, and
child training to improve social and problem solving skills.
The program was already running successfully at the hospital before the study started. The community agency had not previously delivered mental health services. As part of the study, staff at the community agency received training in how to deliver the treatment program to clients. Both organizations were located in a large Canadian city, less than one mile apart.
What did the researcher find?
Compared to the hospital setting, families at the community agency were more likely to:
be immigrants,
have lower levels of education, and
have lower incomes.
This is important because it shows that the community agency was able to reach the kinds of families that did not to use the hospital clinic.
The researchers also found that a similar percentage of families at both the hospital and community agency completed the program. Even though the community agency did not specialize in mental health care, children who took part in the program at the community agency showed levels of improvement in problem behaviours that were similar to those of children who took part in the program at the hospital.
All of the 21 staff members interviewed about the partnership between the hospital clinic and the community agency said they would like the partnership to continue. They felt that it provided the community with a service that was needed and allowed workers in the community agency to develop their professional skills. On the other hand, they also felt that a lack of staff time might prevent the partnership from continuing, and that the hospital and the community agency would need to improve communication for the partnership to work in the long term.
How can you use this research?
This research may be of interest to health care administrators and policymakers as they plan community mental health programs for young children. The research shows that local partnerships between traditional mental health service providers and community agencies might help make mental health care more available in non-traditional community settings. In particular, the research suggests that these partnerships may be a way of reaching high-risk populations who might not use traditional mental health services offered in hospital settings.
About the researchers
Fiona K. Miller is with the University Center for the Child and the Family at the University of Michigan. Daniel P. Keating is with the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. millerfk [at] umich [dot] edu.
This Research Snapshot is based on their article “Implementing an Evidence-Based Parent-Child Mental Health Program in a High-Risk Community,” which was published in the Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, vol. 32, no. 1 (2013): 139-153.
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Stevie Nicks Recalls Her 'Strange' Friendship With Prince
Stevie Nicks, like Prince, is a force to be reckoned with. She's powerful; she's soulful; she's unapologetically her, and because of that the Fleetwood Mac singer always had an affinity for The Purple One.
During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the rockstar discussed her relationship with Prince, admitting they were "strange friends." She lamented never being able to play her solo song "Stand Back," which was inspired by "Little Red Corvette," with the iconic singer. "I guess we all think we’re immortal," she confessed. "I always thought we had plenty of time. I should have told Prince 10 years ago or 15 years ago, 'Hey, Prince, we should do this song onstage together — some night, some city, call me.'”
Though they never had the opportunity to physically perform together, Nicks described feeling Prince with her both on and off stage. "I feel like Prince is with me," she said. "When I’m nervous, I’ll talk to Prince. In my solo act, when I do 'Moonlight,' I wear this white wolfy coat — I put this coat on and I try to transform into a Dire Wolf from Game of Thrones. And before I go on, I always say, 'Walk with me, Prince.'”
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Hello, Helio: What a Difference a Year Makes
South Florida’s Helio Castroneves had quite the newsworthy ’09….
Last spring, he missed the 2009 season opener tending to personal issues; in May, he became the first foreign-born driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 three times; and in October in South Florida, he finished fourth in the race for the 2009 IndyCar Series Championship.
And the 2010 IndyCar Series season—which again will conclude at Homestead-Miami Speedway this fall (Oct. 1-2)—the dancing driver is again in the headlines, as he took the checkered flag in Race 3 at Alabama. With the victory, Castroneves snapped a two-race winning streak of Penske teammate Will Power, who entered the race in Alabama with hopes of achieving what no IndyCar driver ever has done: wins in the first three races of a season.
The win was Castroneves’ first time on a road/street course race since August 2008 and put him just 32 points back of Power in the series Championship standings. It was Race 3 of 17 en route to the IndyCar Series crowning its 2010 Champions at Homestead-Miami Speedway the weekend of Oct. 1-2. For ticket information, stay tuned to THEChampionshipTrack.com or call (866) 409-RACE.
The win gave Castroneves a record-setting 10th season with at least one win and his 10th consecutive season with at least one victory, also an IZOD IndyCar Series record. Next up, an April 18th race through the streets of Long Beach (3:30 p.m. EST on VERSUS TV, IMS Radio Network, XM Ch. 145 and Sirius Ch. 211).
“I can’t wait to go back to Long Beach,” said Castroneves, who made his 2009 debut there. “I have great memories of winning in 2001 and then returning last year after a missing [the season-opening] race. Now this year, after winning just this past weekend in Alabama, Team Penske and I are super excited to be back in Long Beach. It’s going to be a great show for the fans.”
Last year, fellow Penske-pilot Power started from the pole and finished second in the No. 12 Team car, just two days after relinquishing the seat of the No. 3 Team Penske entry back to Castroneves, who finished seventh in his first race of the season. Power recently reflected on last year at Long Beach, the difficult circumstances surrounding Team Penske and his runner-up finish.
"It was a great day,” said Power. “We had no radio and no telemetry, so I was doing it off the steering wheel and off the pit board.”
Last spring at Long Beach, Dario Franchitti—en route to being crowned 2009 IndyCar Champion at Homestead-Miami Speedway last fall –drove a strong race and benefitted from two well-timed pit stops to win. The victory was the ninth of Franchitti's career and the 25th for Target Chip Ganassi Racing.
Danica Patrick—who will race at Homestead-Miami Speedway during both IndyCar Championship Weekend (Oct. 2) and NASCAR’s Ford Championship Weekend (Nov. 20)—drove to a fourth-place finish at Long Beach in 2009, sparking a run of four-straight Top 5 results.
"Long Beach is a challenging race, but I'm up for it,” said Patrick, who sits 83 points back of series-leader Power. “It's been a rough start to the season, no question, with all the road and street courses. But the whole GoDaddy.com crew has been working really hard to get us where we want to be, and hopefully we can start to turn things around this weekend."
With the victory in Alabama and his rise in the Championship standings, Castroneves is eyeing winning an IndyCar Series Championship, as well as the Indy 300 race Oct. 2, on his “home track” of Homestead-Miami.
Castroneves, Patrick, Franchitti, Power and the rest of the IndyCar field will resume the pursuit for fall glory in Miami on Sunday, April 18, in Race 4 at Long Beach (3:30 p.m. EST on VERSUS TV, IMS Radio Network, XM Ch. 145 and Sirius Ch. 211). Both the IZOD IndyCar and Firestone Indy Lights Series Championships will culminate at Homestead-Miami Speedway the weekend of Oct. 1-2. For ticket information, stay tuned to THEChampionshipTrack.com or call toll free (866) 409-RACE.
Open It Up: South Florida’s Indy Drivers
Helio Castroneves claimed victory in Race 3 of 17 en route to the IndyCar Series crowning its 2010 Champions at Homestead-Miami Speedway (Oct. 1-2), and South Beach-resident Marco Andretti finished a season-best fifth after leading 58 of 90 laps. But it was a tough afternoon for some of their neighboring South Florida IndyCar pilots, as seven of the 10 finished outside the Top 10.
"After the race in Barber I'm really optimistic for Long Beach this weekend,” said Andretti. “I think we're on to something with the Venom car.”
Boca Raton native Ryan Hunter-Reay, will pull double-duty at Long Beach this weekend, running in both the IZOD IndyCar Series for Andretti Autosport and in the American Le Mans Series for Level 5 Motorsports. Hunter-Reay sits seventh in the IndyCar Series Championship standings after a 12th-place finish in Alabama.
"I guess I'm 'old school’—I'd rather be racing than doing anything else,” said Hunter-Reay. “So if I have a chance to run another during the weekend, that's fine with me."
Key Biscayne resident Tony Kanaan heads to Long Beach ranked ninth in the IZOD IndyCar Series Championship standings, as he also eyes racing for a title on his “home track” at Homestead-Miami Speedway Oct. 2.
"I'm very excited for Long Beach,” said Kanaan. “Team 7-Eleven is much better than what you see in our results from the first three races, and I think the same could be said for the whole Andretti Autosport team.”
South Florida residents E.J. Viso and Mario Moraes headline the KV Racing Technology contingent at Long Beach, and both young racers figure to be strong on the “Left Coast.”
Viso was impressive in qualifying last year with a season-best fourth starting position. And at St. Petersburg this year, he was leading the race when a parts failure cost him a chance for his first IndyCar win.
"After St. Pete, I can say we have a pretty strong car on street circuits, and hopefully we are going to have an even better one here,” said Viso. “Coming from a difficult and hard weekend at Barber, I know we have learned a lot, and every time we gather more data so I am sure the PDVSA - KV Racing Technology will have a good weekend in Long Beach."
Moraes, the youngest full-time driver in the IZOD IndyCar Series at age 21, turned in his best 2010 run last week at Barber after qualifying 12th.
"I am looking forward to being back at Long Beach,” said Moraes. “It's going to be my second race with my new engineer [Iain Watt], and now we know each other better. I'm understanding better how he works, so hopefully the team and I will have a good finish after all the hard work the guys have put in."
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By Lewis Perdue | September 10, 1999
An old proverb says the road to Hell is paved with the bricks of good intentions. So if this is true and you're going there on business anyway, you might feel a little better if your company kept track of your progress with the new Internet and wireless GPS system from @Road. OK, maybe you won't feel any better, but your boss will.
@Road's first product, FleetASAP, is a patented system consisting of a vehicle-mounted GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver with a wireless connection to the Internet that allows a company to monitor the position of its trucks or other mobile employees and to communicate with them via interactive text-based messaging.
While the system could eventually migrate downward into passenger vehicles and rental cars and upward into long-haul trucking, @Road has targeted the short-haul and regional markets for fleets of vehicles -- mostly delivery trucks and school buses -- in major metropolitan areas. In addition to making it easier to track deliveries, it could also be used to direct pick-ups, deliveries and customer service to dispatch the vehicle closest to a customer. Consumers on the road could find the closest golf course, pizzeria or Kinkos.
@Road and its financial partners estimate that the fleet market targeted by the company is $3 to $4 billion per year.
FleetASAP is elbowing its way into a crowded market with big public company players such as Qualcomm (QCOM), Highway Master (HWYM), GPS pioneer Trimble Navigation (TRMB) and Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB) as well as private firms including Newcomb Communications and NavSys.
But @Road is undaunted by the white line scrimmage because of its broadbased patent consisting of 44 sub-claims and the operational and cost advantages that derive from them. To begin with, @Road is the first to use the Internet for tracking rather than a more expensive proprietary system, and their wireless link uses Cellular Digital Packet Data for transmissions which is five to seven times less expensive than the standard cellular or satellite-based systems used by competitors.
This allows @Road to sell its service for $39.95 per month for each vehicle plus a one-time $249 purchase of the onboard hardware. By contrast, Qualcomm and Highway Master sell onboard hardware starting at $2,500 and the monthly service from $70 to $100.
The company currently has about 100 customers including Pepsi and the San Francisco public schools -- operating about 1,000 vehicles using FleetASAP.
The company's patented idea created by founder (now Chief Technology Officer) Rod Fan attracted its first round of financing -- $3 million -- in 1996 from Orient Semiconductor Electronics, the Taiwan-based manufacturer of @Road's hardware. Its initial financing illustrates a tactic that should probably be considered by more start-ups: getting the funding from its main supplier which not only understands the technology better than pure financial sources, but which has an even bigger vested interest in the new company's success.
A second, $6 million round was completed in October 1998 and a $23.2 million round (which they hope to be their last) this June. In addition to OSE, @Road's funding syndicate includes Alex Brown Capital and Galleon Management which led the most recent round, BancBoston Robertson Stephens, U.S. Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Crimson of Asia, Venture Law Group, Alliant Partners and Morgan Stanley.
@Road's well-funded and patented efforts means it is likely to be rocking down the highway over the next few years, even if it means leaving the big players crying in their beer.
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Iraq Dinar - Iraqi Dinar - Iraq Stock Exchange - Dinar Revaluation and Speculation - Investors Iraq > Iraq News > Iraq Business News > UNDP Improves Access to Safe Water in Sulaimaniyah
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Sulaimaniyah Governorate completed the rehabilitation of the main water network providing safe drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people.
UNDP’s Iraq Crisis Response and Resilience Programme (ICRRP) and Sulaimaniyah Governorate repaired key components of the main pipeline that transfers water from Dukan Lake to Sulaimaniyah Governorate. Pumping stations and a treatment plant were also rehabilitated to help alleviate water shortages and ensure an adequate supply of clean water to households in the Governorate.
At a ceremony on 5 July 2017 marking the completion of the project, Governor of Sulaimaniyah H.E. Omer Ahmed Amin, said:
“In Sulaimaniyah, one in every eight residents is an internally displaced person. The influx of displaced people is putting considerable pressure on public services, in particular water, electricity, health, and education. This project is providing a key service to all women, men and children in Sulaimaniyah.”
The Head of the Consular Office of Japan in Erbil, Mr. Moriyasu Katsumi, said:
“Japan is honoured to be a partner of this important project. We are delighted to see that all inhabitants of Sulaimaniyah, including internally displaced people and Syrian refugees, will equally benefit from improved access to the water supply.”
UNDP’s Programme Manager for ICRRP, Ms. Mizuho Yokoi, noted:
“Water is essential for life. We are glad we contributed to such an important basic service project focused on improving the well-being of vulnerable communities. We thank the Sulaimaniyah Governorate for their cooperation and the Government of Japan for the generous contribution which made this project possible.”
The first step to recovery, after a crisis, is ensuring people have access to basic services. UNDP’s ICRRP is supporting local authorities to deliver services that are fundamental to daily life. Over 2.4 million people in Iraq have access to improved basic services like water, electricity, health, education, sewerage and roads thanks to UNDP.
(Source: UNDP)
Source: Iraq-BusinessNews.com. (http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2017/07/16/undp-improves-access-to-safe-water-in-sulaimaniyah/)
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Rob Delaney: My Elvis role was cut from Elton John movie Rocketman
The Catastrophe star said he dyed his hair black for the part, but his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.
Rob Delaney has said he was cut from the Sir Elton John biopic Rocketman – but only after filmmakers permanently dyed his hair black by accident.
The actor and stand-up, 42, said he had signed up to play Elvis Presley in the hit movie.
Speaking on his BBC Radio 6 Music show on Sunday, he urges listeners to see the film, “even though I’m not in the final cut”.
The Catastrophe star has revealed he was due to appear in the Sir Elton John biopic (PA)
The Catastrophe star says: “I did shoot a couple scenes in the film as a guy named Elvis Presley, who you may have heard of, and they even dyed my hair black for it.
“In the make-up trailer they said: ‘Do you want the temporary dye or the permanent?’
“I was like, ‘temporary please’, and they put in the permanent by mistake, so it was black for six months after.
“My hair is black in another movie because of playing Elvis in Rocketman, which got cut, which is very funny, but that’s just the way the ball bounces sometimes.”
He said he felt no bitterness about being cut from the final version of the movie, which stars Taron Egerton as Sir Elton.
“I know when Sharon Horgan and I were making Catastrophe, we would frequently cut out things that we really enjoyed, just for time, so I bear no ill-will towards the makers of Rocketman.”
The US star quipped: “It’s excellent, even though I’m not in it. Please see it then just maybe PayPal me some money because I’m a little bit personally sad.”
Delaney and Sherlock star Martin Freeman have signed up to cover Elbow singer Guy Garvey’s slot on 6 Music.
Rob Delaney on BBC Radio 6 Music airs on Sunday from 2-4pm.
Rob Delaney
Sir Elton John
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Marie Valigorsky
Marie@KMACenter.org
Title: Viola/Violin Instructor
Genres: Classical, folk, pop, rock, original compositions, improvisation
Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Education: B.M., Music Technology and Performance at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA);
M.F.A., Music Performance and Composition at Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
Marie Valigorsky is a violist, pianist and accomplished composer who is originally from the Mechanicsburg area. As a student at Cumberland Valley High School, she studied privately with Alice Bish. She has performed with the York Symphony Orchestra, the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Shippensburg University Community Orchestra. She is currently principal violist with the West Shore Symphony Orchestra, and also performs with the Central Pennsylvania Symphony.
During her undergraduate music studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, Marie studied with composers David Stock and Amanda Ford. Her Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Performance and Composition was earned at Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied with violist Ann Roggen, violinist Kaori Washiyama, and composer Allen Shawn. She taught music theory, aural skills (sight-singing), composition and piano lessons at Bennington. Marie also coached her own compositions with the Bennington String Quartet and other chamber ensembles.
After graduating from Bennington College, Marie lived in New York City, where she founded the Brooklyn Emerging Artists, a performing artists non-profit, with colleagues from Bennington College. The group organized 15 concerts and commissioned original new music from local composers and performers in the NYC area. She is currently composing music and performing with a chamber ensemble, Sempre Dolce, founded in Harrisburg.
Marie teaches violin and viola lessons in the Harrisburg area, and is active as a performer and composer in the Harrisburg music scene, including volunteering and performing at the MakeSpace and the Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center. She is thrilled to be expanding her reach onto the West Shore as a violin and viola instructor at KMAC, and is looking forward to being involved with the school's various ensembles, classes and workshops.
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Keystone Musical Arts Center (KMAC)
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New Car Infotainment Platform
Google has partnered with Fiat Chrysler to present a new in-auto infotainment platform. The new system combines Uconnect with Android Auto. All of Google’s Android apps can be installed on the platform, and then can be used by drivers: Google maps, Google Assistant, Pandora, etc.
The system was demonstrated using a Chrysler 300 sedan, which includes an 8.4-inch Uconnect system that runs Android Nougat. Google is committed to turn Android into a turnkey automotive platform, so its collaboration with Fiat Chrysler is probably the first one in a long list of partnerships with auto makers.
Both companies are interested in developing in-vehicle infotainment and connectivity, thus meeting the requirements of drivers, who want to have access to information with minimal distraction.
Lately, the car industry has been revived and vehicle prices have gone up because people are willing to pay more for extras that have the potential to improve their driving experience.
Apple’s New AirPods are Finally Available
Apple’s fans are finally able to purchase the new wireless AirPods. People had to wait for a few months, but it looks like the delay did not impact negatively the iPhone7 sales. It’s true that some iPhone users have purchased similar products from other manufacturers, but the company’s true fans have waited.
Feedback from early AirPods buyers is generally positive, even though some would like a longer battery life. Others complain about syncing problems, and there are some who say that the stereo effect is not working as expected.
The good news is that the AirPods don’t just represent a new way of listening to music; they are a part of Apple’s vision for mobile. The headset was created with the secondary goal of helping people communicate with others without opening their phones or watches. By investing your money into a pair of AirPods, you will (hopefully) use them to do more things with your Apple devices in the future.
Amazon Stem Club Launches
Educational toys are all the rage these days! More and more parents want to educate their kids, while keeping them happy and entertained. Amazon has big plans, because it has created its Stem Club, which will deliver science toys, tech engineering toys and even math toys to parents that have 3 to 13 years old children.
The affordable $19.99 / month subscription gets you an intelligent toy each month. Parents can choose one of the three categories: 3-4 year olds, 5-7 year olds, 8-13 years olds. Amazon has promised that it will offer a wide range of toys that encourage children to learn new things through play.
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December 29, 2014 By Julia in Uncategorized 22 Comments
A Suicide Prevented?
Posted on 15 December 2014, 10:00 by Michael Tymn on the White Crow Website
Michael Tymn is the author of The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die , published by White Crow Books. His book, Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife is now available on Amazon and other online book stores.
His latest book, Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I , is published by White Crow Books. It is a wonderful read!
Suicide is one subject on which spirit messages coming through various mediums all seem to agree. While there are some conflicting messages relative to suicide by terminally-ill people, the messages overwhelmingly condemn conventional suicide. They strongly suggest that the individual who hopes to escape from his or her problems here in the material world does not do so. That does not mean that the person finds himself in “hell,” as some religions teach, or even experiences a “fire of the mind.” Much seems to depend on the motivation, the degree of despair, and the overall mental state of the individual at the time he or she attempted the escape from this world. The important point is that nothing is gained by the suicide and it may even set the person behind in his or her spiritual evolution.
One such message was communicated through the trance mediumship of Gladys Osborne Leonard by Claude Kelway-Bamber, (below) a British pilot killed during World War I. Claude told his mother that nothing can kill the soul. “You see, therefore, a suicide, far from escaping trouble, only goes from one form of misery to another; he cannot annihilate himself and pass to nothingness,” Claude said. He further stated:
“I know now the whole mistake lies in looking upon death as the end of ‘activity,’ with a renewal at some indefinite date, whereas as a matter of fact it is an incident only, though a very important one, in a continuous life. Your feelings, your memory, your love, your interests and ambitions remain; all you have left behind, and even that which one cannot at first realize, is the physical body, which proves to be merely the covering of the spiritual to enable it to function in a material world. Man truly is a spirit and has a body, not vice versa.
“I have told you that I, in common with hundreds of other men here, go down to the battlefields to help to bring away the souls of those who are passing out of their bodies. We are united for the work, having ourselves endured the horrors of war. Spirits unused to it cannot bear the terrible sights and sounds. We bring them away so that they may return to consciousness far from their mutilated physical bodies, and oh, Mum, I feel quite tired sometimes of explaining to men that they are ‘dead’! They wake up feeling so much the same; some go about for days, and even months, believing they are dreaming.
“Death works no miracle, and you wake up here the same personality exactly that left the earth-plane. Your individuality is intact, and your ‘spirit body’ a replica of the one you have left, down to small details – even deformities remain, though, I am told they lessen and disappear in time.
“People with narrow, set, and orthodox beliefs are puzzled by the reality, the ‘ordinaryliness,’ if I may coin a word, of the spirit world. If it were described to them as ‘flashes of light,’ ‘mauve and sapphire clouds,’ ‘golden rivers,’ etc., it would more readily approximate with their preconceived ideas. They require ‘mystery’ about the future life. I often laugh when I hear them complain they can’t believe in ‘solid’ things like houses, and gardens in the spirit-world…
“The first time I was sent down to help our enemies I objected but was told to remember they were fighting for what they believed to be right and in defence of their country, too. I saw rather an interesting meeting between an Englishman and a German who had killed each other. They met face to face and looked at each other steadily. The Englishman held out his hand. His erstwhile enemy, taking it, said, ‘What d—- fools we have been!’”
At another sitting, Claude had this to say:
“I have often heard people ask why God permits wickedness. If it were impossible for man to sin, he would no longer be a free agent but an automation. As man is on earth to learn his lesson and develop his soul, he must have his mettle proved. There would be no good without evil. Contrasts exist and are necessary; just as day and night, wet and fine, heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are only realized and appreciated through their opposites.”
That communication was set forth in Chapter Three of my most recent book, Dead Men Talking. In Chapter Two, another fallen World War I warrior, Bob Boylan, in communicating with his mother via the automatic writing form of mediumship, also mentioned suicide. He said, in part:
“Warn all with whom you talk against suicide. I do not gather from what I hear that curses afflict any poor soul that makes that mistake. But the self-inflicted death disarranges and delays the plans that are being shaped for the individual. Every detail of life is worked out with a thoroughness only possible in spiritual geometry. A sudden break necessitates rebuilding the whole theory. It may require skill for you to tell what you have to tell and yet restrain broken-hearted ones from throwing themselves across the invisible line. Of course, they want to rejoin their darlings. But that will be later.”
According to Jane Katra, Ph.D., (below) those messages, or at least one of them, may have prevented a suicide a hundred years after they were communicated. Jane was one of several people who were to receive a review copy of Dead Men Talking. Just before the book was released during July, I informed Jane that White Crow Books, the publisher, would be sending her an advance copy. “While I was anxiously awaiting for my copy of the book to arrive in my Eugene, Oregon post office box, I received a message on my answering machine from my friend in Durham, North Carolina thanking me for sending her a book,” Jane picks up the story. “I called her back to tell her that I hadn’t sent her any book, and she promptly responded, ‘Why, of course you did! Your name was on the label!’ She then told me that she’d opened the book and read on the first page (to which she had opened the book) about how ‘Suicide doesn’t help at all’ because ‘The character we form here, we take with us, we cannot get away from it.’ She knew at once that she was to make a phone call and read that passage to her friend who had told her that she was planning to kill herself. The book’s messages from the dead prevented the woman’s suicide. All three of us believe that the book was mysteriously sent to North Carolina to save a life!”
Jane later determined that when she was attending a conference of the International Association for Near-Death Studies in North Carolina some years earlier, she had asked White Crow Books to send her a supply of a book she had co-authored with Russell Targ,The Heart of the Mind, to be sold at the conference. To avoid shipping the books from her home in Oregon to the conference in North Carolina, she asked that White Crow mail them to her in care of her friend in Durham. The Durham address went into the White Crow computer as Jane’s and that is how Dead Men Talking found its way to the friend’s house.
Coincidence? Possibly. Spirit-directed synchronicity? You be the judge.
An interesting You-Tube talk on suicide by Dr. Carla Wills-Brandon can be found at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi33RXRWFLk
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Carlos, I agree with everything you’ve written except one point. Many of us who work professionally have worked directly with people who committed suicide. I am one of them. And I will say, that for the most part, they really regret doing it. Other than that, you are right–expectation plays the biggest role in what happens.
Dave Montague
The overall tone of the posts above suggest people are making conscious decisions to commit suicide. I want to be clear, people who commit suicide are beyond a pain threshold none of us could even imagine. To even assume that someone is going to commit suicide much like taking a trip, is beyond ludicrous. Dr Michael Newton has a very book on the afterlife and I have really come to subscribe to his findings. I believe he has reset the foundational construct from which I previously viewed the afterlife. Losing my Son has forced me to really look for the answers out of my deepest concern for his whereabouts.
Although many people do make a conscious decision, others commit suicide spontaneously, or “by accident,” as is the case with many drug overdoses. Frequently, especially with young men, they don’t know what the real reasons were for doing it, at least not immediately. I’m sorry to say that Newton’s version of the afterlife is extremely flawed and would only apply to a certain mindset among Americans.
“I’m sorry to say that Newton’s version of the afterlife is extremely flawed and would only apply to a certain mindset among Americans.”
Newton’s versions were stories from people who related their experiences to him through past life regression therapy… as you already know. I am not sure how it could be “extremely” flawed. I have watched over 1000 near death experience videos on youtube and for the most part, these experiences have much in common with what Newton has written. Newtons experiences, in my opinion, were written in English so that might be their only appeal to Americans. I have a split belief that when people leave this earth they travel far away. People, in almost every case, are drawn through a tunnel and leave this physical domain. I know in your experience you claim to be able to channel these energies beyond the grave. What if that’s what you have created because that is what you believe? I am beginning to think our experiences are tied to what we believe and the fact we have some “global order” is because we live in a shared consensus reality. All of us have agreed on this reality. I have come to believe that this life is simply a evolutionary path and the purpose is to survive… if we can do that peacefully then great. I see no reason for coming here to earth for 80 years and walking away with valuable eternal lessons. I think of the over one million women and children slaughtered in the Congo and ask myself; what’s their lesson?
I was better off in the box of religion “ignorance is bliss”. But my perspective now is vastly different and I am at a point where I question everything.
Dear Dave, First, forgive me for not answering you sooner. Our purpose is not to survive. That’s an old Darwinian idea or, worse, Neo-Darwinian materialism speaking. Our purpose is to experience and create, to fulfill ourselves in the deepest sense. About Newton, he hypnotizes his subjects and then he leads them into experiences that he telepathically or verbally manipulates. I know how easy it is to do that because I work with people constantly in regression/past-life therapy. I want to mention too that the famed tunnel experience is very rare and has not been attested in the few studies from other countries, such as India. What is promoted as a Near-Death Experience is always the positive sort, and even they have been so standardized they can no longer be believed. Many NDEs are negative, even horrifying. They say very little about the so-called afterlife but much more about a person’s state of mind or deepest fears or deepest hopes. Still they do convey the magic of nonlocal realities. I am certain by now that the “Being of Light”–a being whose appearance is also quite rare in the overall picture of NDEs, is in fact our oversoul.
Lastly, I want to impress on you that there is no one way a person goes after death. Each person is different, each surprising, even for suicides. It is this element of surprise, of the unexpected, that makes me certain communication is genuine. Otherwise, it would have the predictability of false models, such as Newton’s.
Wilma James
This article was very disturbing and made my stomach churn. It seems like the typical judgemental negative societal script about suicide. I find it hurtful wrong and offensive. I was going to subscribe to this site but no longer will do so.
Dear Wilma, There is no subscription to this site! And I cannot change what the dead say about suicide. I’ve worked with so very many people–mostly young men–after their suicides and they are almost always miserable after death or in shock at the violence they have done to themselves. Many of them don’t have any clear idea of why they did it.
In my book I write about our society’s attitude toward suicide and do know how different it can be in other societies (Japan, ancient Rome, etc). There are also situations where suicide is a “positive step”. But mostly suicide is a poor solution to life’s temporary problems. Crossing over in such a hopeless state of mind doesn’t help either.
Maggie miller
I just lost my son 4 weeks ago to suicide he was 13. He did it impulsively. I started questioning my faith a couple years ago the bible scared me. Now I’m reading stuff about reincarnation and that scares me. I talked to a medium she said he crossed over. But I’m not completely sure if all the things she said she didn’t find on Facebook and news paper. I think I need like a specific question that only he would know. I just don’t know where he’s at or what to believe
Maggie, I’m so sorry. You must be in agony. Your best bet really is contacting your son yourself. I give how-to tips on my homepage (at the bottom of the page) and more extensively in my book. Direct contact is much better than going through a medium. In fact, I work with people all over the world as a medium but with the aim that they have the experience. Alternatively, you can go to an Induced After-death Communication Therapist, a person trained for you to make direct contact as well. We live in an age where doing something is possible!
Try working on your own. Let me know what happens.
Again, I am so so sorry for your pain.
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Au Bon Climat Hildegard White Table Wine
The lovely aroma of vanillin and hazelnuts from the oak and the mouth-coating richness makes for a wine that seems like a top-notch Chardonnay. The fruit profile is more melony than Chardonnay and the aromas are more flowery than Chardonnay.
Jim Clendenen was born in Akron, Ohio to gastronomically impoverished parents during the culinary Dark Ages of the American 1950s. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with High Honors in Pre-Law in 1976. It was during his ""junior year abroad"" in 1974, while turning 21 in France, that he discovered life beyond tacos. After graduation, a one month stay in both Burgundy and Champagne convinced him to attempt a career in wine rather than continue on to law school.
Beginning with the 1978 harvest, Jim Clendenen was assistant winemaker at Zaca Mesa Winery for three vintages, a valued training experience. In 1981 his vision broadened with three harvests in one year as Jim worked crush and directed the harvest at wineries in Australia and France. Three harvests in one year confirmed his masochistic tendencies.
In 1982, Clendenen decided, along with Adam Tolmach, to start a winery dedicated to Burgundian varietals in leased quarters. Adam left in 1990 to pursue his own efforts leaving Jim solo at the helm. Through careful re-investment from its own production, Au Bon Climat (which means ""a well exposed vineyard"") has grown to over 50,000 cases annually.
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The winery has cultivated an international reputation for its Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris. Jim Clendenen, the “Mind Behind” Au Bon Climat, is recognized worldwide for his classically styled wines. In addition to his Burgundian-focused Au Bon Climat wines, Jim also established another brand, Clendenen Family Vineyards. This project of passion allows him to make artisan, small lots of distinctive wines from a wider spectrum of varieties in styles conducive to small lots. He has received high acclaim for Italian varietals particularly his Nebbiolo that has a five year aging regimen in barrel.
In 1989 and 1990 Au Bon Climat was on Robert Parker's short list of Best Wineries in the World, and in 1991 was selected by Oz Clark as one of fifty world-wide creators of Modern Classic Wines. Dan Berger of the Los Angeles Times named Clendenen the ""Los Angeles Time Winemaker of the Year"" in 1992; Food & Wine magazine named him ""Winemaker of the Year"" in 2001. Germany's leading wine magazine, Wein Gourmet, in 2004 name Clendenen “Winemaker of the World;” and in 2007, Jim was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s “Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America.”
The name Hildegard is a salute to the history of Burgundy and to her husband the King of the Franks, Charlemagne. During his rule in the early 800s the importance of wine and viticulture exploded. The Catholic Church and Charlemagne ruled most of Europe and both were interested in wine and viticulture. The Church needed wine for the Eucharist and under Charlemagne more and more vineyards were planted in Burgundy. Charlemagne brought civilization and order back after the dark ages. Part of this rebirth was wine production.
This distinctive blend of Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and Aligoté is barrel fermented and aged in all new French oak.
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Ayala Blanc de Blancs 2012
Ayala Blanc de Blancs is produced in small quantities in exceptional years only and fully expresses the superb calibre of great Chardonnay from the best crus of the Côte des Blancs.
Bright, light yellow in colour, with very fine and abundant bubbles. Delicate aromas, but very expressive, the nose features a great aromatic freshness, with notes of lemon, white fruits, yellow plums and frangipani. Right from the start, the palate is light, yet voluptuous and vibrant, showing a silky texture with a touch of raciness. It features notes of citrus fruit and white flowers, culminating in a long finish, tightly wound on a pure line of the chalky minerality that Côte des Blancs is famous for.
Le Blanc de Blancs 2012 is a great epicurian apéritif on its own, but will also pair beautifully with seared sea scallops with preserved Meyer lemon or with a turbot fi llet with a seaweed-infused beurre blanc sauce.
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Champagne AYALA is one of the longest-established champagne Houses; it has been based in Aÿ, at the heart of the great champagne vineyards, since it was founded over 150 years ago. Independent and family-owned, it is still today the archetype of a great and historic House, producing top quality wines which are enjoyed throughout the world for their freshness and elegance.
Edmond de Ayala, founder of the House in 1860, came from a family that had always aspired to go one step further. His ancestors bequeathed him with a sense of excellence and a taste for adventure that drove him to settle in Aÿ in order to learn about winemaking. From the very beginning, the House quickly became a reference both in France and overseas. As a young champagne House, Champagne AYALA owed its rapid expansion in large part to Fernand de Ayala, Edmond’s younger brother, who in 1863 settled in London where he mixed with British aristocracy and introduced the House’s unique flavour profile to British connoisseurs, notably with the 1865 vintage that had a very low dosage for the time. During the same period, the House was one of the founding member of the Syndicat des Grandes Marques in 1882 and also contributed to the creation of London’s Benevolent Trust in 1886.
The 1920s were a remarkable golden age during which Champagne AYALA produced over a million bottles each year, ranking the House amongst the top brands in Champagne at the moment. Champagne AYALA was also official supplier to the royal courts of England and Spain and hired over 100 workers. The grandeur of that period is also exemplified by the rich iconography that the House inspired: the numerous advertising posters and artistic drawings from the era are the best testimonies of that splendour.
Ayala Blanc de Blancs is produced in small quantities in exceptional years only and fully expresses the superb calibre of great Chardonnay from the best crus of the Côte des Blancs. After 6 years of ageing in the cellars, remarkable minerality and low dosage make this an outstanding wine that can accompany a variety of flavoursome dishes including poultry and fish, or be served on its own to celebrate a special occasion.
Dosage: 6 grams per litre.
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Playwright explores peace in ‘Exia’
Posted on November 20, 2013 by Lethbridge Sun Times
The University of Lethbridge examines the other side of Greek tragedy and family with its production of University of Lethbridge guest playwright-in-residence Meg Braem’s original work “Exia.” It runs in the University of Lethbridge Theatre Nov. 19-23.
It explores the untold story of Chrysothemis, the peace-making sister in Aeschylus’ ancient Greek trilogy “The Oresteia.”
“It takes place in ancient Greece between the murder of the father and the murder of the mother. It is about the one sister who doesn’t have a story in the trilogy and isn’t hell-bent on revenge,” summarized playwright Meg Braem, adding the sister, Chrysothemis, played by Aimee McGurk, tries to keep the peace in the family by sitting them all down to supper together.
“She is seen as passive. I feel like she was judged in literature. She is part of the most volatile family in history,” she continued.
In “Exia,” patrons are transported to a sumptuous scene in ancient Greece. Chrysothemis and Elektra have returned home to discover their father, King Agamemnon, murdered by their anorexic and withdrawn mother. Through the power and fragrance of her gastronomical talents, Chrysothemis attempts to bring her family back together.
“She hopes to make peace through the alchemy of cooking for her family. Because cooking is sort of alchemy — transforming nothing into food,” she said.
The play runs approximately an hour-and-a-half.
Braem also just learned another one of her plays made the short list for the Governor General Award.
“Blood: A Scientific Romance” is also about family, though not quite as volatile a family as the Greeks in “Exia.”
“It’s about two twin sisters whose parents die in a car crash. The doctor ends up adopting them,” she said, adding the doctor experiments on them to study their bond.
“I guess I am focusing a lot on family,” she said, adding she is inspired by the politics and community nature of families.
She wasn’t expecting to be shortlisted for the play, which was staged back in 2010 by Sage Theatre in Calgary.
“I didn’t win, but it’s a huge honour. That was my first full-length play,” she said. “Blood” was her thesis for her master’s degree in plays from the University of Calgary.
While that play was written more normally with constant rewrites by the playwright on her own, “Exia” was a collaborative effort with director Gail Hanrahan and her New Plays Development class.
That class includes cast members Erica Barr (who plays Electra), Aimee McGurk (Chrysothemis), Chloe Sando (Clytemnestra), AJ Baragar (Young Man), Matthew Lowry ( Aegisthus), Kyle Schulte (Ancient), Brianna Diodati (Middle and Shopper), Meredith Pritchard (Youngest) and Garrett Bishoff (Vendor) who developed their characters as part of the course.
“That was the most important thing for my class. They got to see the play develop from the beginning to the end,” said Hanrahan.
“It was a real gift. It is a beautiful play,” she enthused.
“The students learned about improvisation, identity and authentic movement,” she said, adding she hadn’t been involved in a production quite like this one, though she has been part of plays written by other University of Lethbridge playwrights like Ron Chambers.
Actress Erica Barr is excited about playing Electra, the 14-year-old youngest daughter.
“She’s a very angry young girl,” Barr described. “She was really close with her father before he was murdered. . . So she wants to seek revenge.”
McGurk plays the peace-making sister and chef Chrysothemis.
“She’s a peacemaker and she’s about trying to find a solution,” she said.
Barr enjoyed creating her character under the tutelage of dramaturge Vicki Stroich.
“We asked a lot of questions and I learned a lot working with the playwright,” she continued.
“It was a lot of work,” summarized McGurk, who had a lot more work as her character doesn’t have a story in the original trilogy.
“But it was a great learning experience. But this is a role every girl dreams of — getting to play a princess. And I’m on stage a lot,” she enthused.
“It’s great theatre,” added Barr.
“I think we’ve put something together the audience hasn’t seen before,” McGurk added.
Hanrahan is hoping audience will be affected by the play.
“The audience will be very moved,” she promised.
“It’s a tragedy, but it has a hugely emotional core,” she said.
“It’s an emotional play. It’s not dry and intellectual. I think everyone will be able to identify in some way with this crazy family,” she said.
Braem is already working on her next play, “The Cut Grass Carnival,” which is about a carnival touring Alberta during the Depression.
“Exia” is playing Nov. 19 – 23 in the University Theatre at 8 p.m. nightly.
Tickets are available at the University Box Office, Monday–Friday, 12:30 p.m. –3:30 p.m., or by calling 403-329-2616. Tickets are $18 regular, $15 senior, $12 students and are also available for purchase online: uleth.ca/tickets.
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Emily van der Werf fall 2019
15-February-2002
Emily van der Werf is a 17-year-old girl who grew up together with her parents and brother in Beverwijk, the Netherlands. Emily can be described as a high disciplined, hard-working and helpful girl who always aims for the best possibility and does not settle for less. Sports has always been a big part of her life and besides tennis she also played field hockey at a high level for a long time.
Besides being a very good athlete, Emily is also an outstanding student. She is currently in her senior year of high school at the highest level of education in the Netherlands (VWO/Gymnasium), holding a 3.7 GPA. She expects to graduate in June 2019. She is scheduled to take The SAT on December 1st and TOEFL on December 8th.
Studying and playing tennis at the best possible level at an American university is a dream for Emily.
Emily started playing tennis at a local tennis club at the age of 5. Within a year she was recognized by the National Tennis Federation (KNLTB) and she practiced there until she was 12 years old.
During her junior career, she played the national junior ranking tournaments, competed at the national Dutch junior championships and played some Tennis Europe and ITF events. She always played at the top of The Netherlands in her age group. She participated three times with the top 5 players of the Netherlands in a country match against Belgium. In addition, she also became 2nd at a Tennis Europe tournament (U14 & U16) in doubles. She achieved a highest singles ranking of 165 and a highest doubles ranking of 112 in the Dutch national open woman’s ranking. Emily has a projected UTR rating of 8.58.
Emily is a right-handed player with great footwork and who loves to control the rally. She has a powerful serve and her most dangerous weapon is her forehand. When she sees any possibility to be aggressive she will move to the net. In addition Emily is a good doubles players with great hands. She reads the game very well, and she knows when to poach. Emily loves it to play in a team and is very coachable.
Best results of 2018:
6-3 2-6 6-3 win over Kiki Rijk (UTR 8.93) National Dutch open ranking of 85, August 2018
7-5 6-4 win over Lucky van Gennip, National Dutch open ranking of 87, August 2018
1-6 6-7 loss to Amelie van Impe, (UTR 9.37), July 2018
3–6 5–7 loss to Eloise de Mooij (UTR 9.59), National Dutch open ranking of 63, April 2018
6-2 7-6 win over Julia Szegedi, (UTR 8.25), January 2018
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The Many Meanings of Independence in 1967
Sada Reddi | February 19, 2018 | Independence, Latest News | No Comments
Just as those who experienced slavery knew best what a slave regime was about, similarly the generation who voted for independence viewed it differently from what historians sometimes write about
Election in Mahebourg
For the elections of August 1967, all political parties regularly held open-air meetings throughout the island to campaign for or against independence. In one of those meetings, held near the historical museum at Mahebourg, one of the speakers of the Independence Party might have indulged in some unusual rhetorical flourish. When the meeting came to an end, a labourer in the audience perhaps half- mockingly told his friends to get their boundary stones ready. He was referring to one of the promises made during the meeting that independence was going to bring about a redistribution of land, particularly sugar estate lands.
Whether or not labourers believed in that promise is not known, but a sense of redistributive justice was deeply ingrained in the minds of not only labourers but also many other people who voted for independence. A sense of justice and freedom was just one of the meanings people attached to independence; there were many more. The debates on independence at another level – amongst the elite – focused on the economic and political aspects. However many of these issues inevitably trickled down to the grassroots, as there was no firm dividing line between the elite and the masses, yet the masses in the materiality of their daily lives had their own ways of giving meanings to the independence struggle. In this article an attempt will be made to capture some of the meanings or even the motivations behind the Independence vote in the village of Mahebourg in 1967.
Election 1967 in Mahebourg
The vote being secret, it is impossible to know for whom one votes in an election. Nevertheless in a small village which was a face-to-face community and where interethnic relations were intense, one was aware of each other’s political views and attitudes and these were voiced openly, vociferously and most often amicably. Even when some ethnic conflict was foisted on the local community, as in 1965 by the PMSD, the antagonism remained brief and artificial thanks to close economic and social networks. The fishermen depended on the middleman for the sale of fish who in turn depended on many fishmongers from different ethnic groups. For example, when a group of supporters of the PMSD attacked cinemagoers watching a Hindi film in the Odeon picture house, one of the attackers branded a long knife and when he recognized a cake vendor he knew personally, he just pushed him aside with the side of his knife and simply shouted at him to go home without any intention of harming him. The attacker was one of the few who led a life halfway between a tramp and a hanger-on and could be easily exploited by some to pick up a fight for just a pint of wine. He was also the one who provoked a scuffle at a labour meeting and harmed Inspector Radhakrishna of the local police station.
I have chosen the village of Mahebourg, which is familiar to me, and my account is a personal one, based on personal reminiscences and encounters and in no way comes near to reflecting a broader picture of political attitudes of the village population nationwide. Mahebourg is a small village, multi-ethnic and muti-religious. It’s probably the only village which can boast the largest number of religious premises: from an Anglican Church to a Telugu Mandiramu and a Tamil Kovil, established by the some Tamil merchants at the entrance of the village in the wake of the cholera epidemic of 1854. Most of the major families had been living there for more than a century, and one Indian family had already settled there in 1814. While there are one or two locations which had a predominantly ethnic colour, the village was very heterogeneous in terms of ethnicity and class. It forms part of one of the three constituencies which voted labour in 1967, each of them returning a member of the General Population, namely Harold Walter for Mahebourg, Marcel Mason for Vacoas-Floreal and Raymond Rault for Port-Louis North-Montagne Longue.
In the village of Mahebourg, as distinct from the constituency proper, voting in August 1967 was informed by ethnicity, party alignment and class. Irrespective of ethnic community, labourers, mostly employed on sugar estates in Riche-En-Eau, Ferney or Beau-Vallon voted labour. Most of them lived in the northern part of Mahebourg – from Beau Vallon up to the Roman Catholic Church. The employees of CEB and the artisan class in the Public Works Department, where there was a predominance of the general population, as well as those in the hospital establishment voted Labour and were among the staunch supporters of Harold Walter and Lutchmeeparsad Badry. One should not overlook the fact that Harold Walter had been a strong Minister of the Labour government since 1959, Minister of works and later Minister of Health, and above all the most powerful orator of the Mauritius Labour Party and a most trusted colleague of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam.
Factors influencing the vote
There was unmistakably in those days a strong element of clientelism and class support for Labour Party that sometimes coincided with ethnicity, but that was not always the case. The Labour government had put in place a number of measures in favour of the working classes. In 1959, labourers invariably cheered up the orators of the labour party when the implementation of Wages Council was announced at a meeting at Willoughby Government School. Labourers working in the sugar industry also benefited from the introduction of ‘cartes de travail’. As a result they were no longer laid off during the inter-crop season as was the practice in the past. Labourers who fulfilled a presence rate of 80% during the crop season were entitled to work during the intercrop and, in 1963, they benefited from a 23% increase in real wages following the implementation Chesworth Report. Moreover the ‘Travail pour Tous’ programme provided employment to hundreds of workers in the villages since 1963.
For a majority of labourers in Mahebourg, the choice was clear when it came to voting for the labour Party team led by Harold Walter, or Cyril Guimbeau, the PMSD candidate who in the eyes of the electorate was the very personification of an oligarchy that they abhorred. At a private meeting in a club where Guimbeau was allowed to speak, one labourer lashed at the club’s executive members for giving permission to one who belonged to ‘those who had exploited our women and sisters in the past’ to address the audience. On another occasion, a sirdar furiously withdrew his hand for a handshake with Guimbeau possibly out of some kind of deference or simply because he felt that the divide between ‘us and them’ was too wide to be bridged by such a gesture.
Some form of clientelism existed on the other side of the divide. Pressure on the artisan class in the sugar industry might have deterred them from openly expressing their political preferences. But many of the independent craftsmen, workers and fishermen or those closely connected with the fishing sector were the staunch supporters of the PMSD. So were also a handful of the coloured population employed in the supervisory class in the sugar industry. Many bus industry workers, employed in the Savanne Bus Service Company, drawn largely from the Muslim community opted to vote for the PMSD, visibly on ethnic lines. However its middle class, predominantly a merchant class, was divided and many supported the Muslim Committee of Action or the Labour Party though one among them was a chief agent of the PMSD. After the elections, he lodged a case challenging the results of the election and Walter pompously and arrogantly dismissed his action as the move of a peanut vendor who dared challenge him in court.
Though the Catholic Church remained officially neutral, the members of its parish committee, drawn mainly from the top of the sugar hierarchy, were pro-PMSD. For members of the Arya Samaj branch, independence could not be anything but good for the country. Every year they usually held a procession from the Museum to the Arya Samaj School near Ville-Noire with children and women carrying the Indian Tricolour to celebrate Indian Independence Day.
For people who had welcomed the independence of India, which was associated with the names of Gandhi and Nehru whom many venerated, the independence of Mauritius was viewed as a great liberating moment. I use the term ‘venerated’ for, at one time, there was a statue of Gandhi in the yard of the Mariamen Kovil at Albion Docks, Port Louis, at whose feet people used to burn camphor. Similarly, in the Tamil Kovil at Mahebourg, one part of a wall was adorned with a framed map of India with the picture of Gandhi in the middle surrounded with about a hundred miniature photographs of congressmen who had participated in the Indian independence movement.
If the Arya samajists were overwhelmingly pro-independence, there was one staunch Arya samjist, a very well known Tamil teacher, who returned to orthodoxy and sought to win over the local Tamil community to the PMSD cause because one of his close relatives was standing as the PMSD candidate in Grand Bay-Poudre d’Or. He managed to split, though temporarily, the Beau Vallon Tamil Kovil into two different societies. That split resulted for some time in both societies organising separately their Cavadee processions — one drawing a larger crowd than the other, the dissenting one supported by a smaller group. However, by 1965, the two associations were merged again, but the Tamil teacher retained the support of about 10 families belonging to his association while it was the 90 or more families of the larger association which retained the ultimate control of the Kovil and who remained firmly on the side of labour.
These few reminiscences may help to remind us that the independence issue had many meanings at the ground level. Historians often fail to peep into the minds and actions of the common people for a number of reasons, and their focus on documents of the colonial archives gives only a very partial and often distorted picture of events. Just as those who experienced slavery knew best what a slave regime was about, similarly the generation who voted for independence viewed independence differently from what historians sometimes write about. For many, it meant liberation from the economic, political and social conditions of the time but it also amounted to a cultural liberation after colonialism and the plantation capitalism had destroyed their language, religion and cultural values. One hopes that many could come with their own reminiscences to shed light on the independence issue at the grassroots level and provide a corrective to our fetishism for documents.
* Published in print edition on 16 February 2018
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Home » Funding, Indic Languages, Internet, Investments, Mobile, ShareChat, social
ShareChat gets Rs 720 crore from new and existing investors
By Trisha Jalan ( @trishajalan trisha@medianama.com ) September 20, 2018
ShareChat has raised fresh funding of $99 million (approx Rs 720 crore) led by existing investor Shunwei Capital, reports the Economic Times. New investors Morningside Ventures of Hong Kong and Jesmond Global, an affiliate of DST Global, also participated in the round, along with existing investors Xiaomi, SAIF Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company will use the funding to develop its core product offering to diversify into other categories, according to VCcircle.
We have reached out to the company for a confirmation, and will update this when we hear from them.
With this round, the Bangalore–based company has raised a total of $124 million ever since it began operations in 2015. Founded in 2015, ShareChat is an Indic language social networking app which puts together features of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, and focuses on non-English conversant users in India. It lets users make posts to a ‘wall’, add images, GIFs, videos and audio clips, view posts from others, add and follow friends, and so on. It also has a ‘treasure’ section, where it lists posts based on categories like romantic, humorous etc. The app also lists news, horoscopes, daily tips, devotional services and other miscellaneous services.
Importantly, the app is not available in English, but in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Haryanvi and Rajasthani. ShareChat has clarified that content for each language is unique. As of January this year, Sharechat claimed to have 8 million monthly users.
Previous funding
In January, the company secured Series B funding of $18 million (approx Rs 116 crore), for improving its machine learning & AI capabilities and also to manage increasing cloud infrastructure costs.
In November 2016, it raised $4 million in a Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, and participation from existing investors SAIF Partners and India Quotient.
In July that year, the company also raised $1.25 million from SAIF partners.
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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Westminster Presbyterian Church / Westminster United Church (745 Westminster Avenue, Winnipeg)
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Clerics | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
During the early 20th century, Manitoba’s economy boomed and its population grew dramatically. With sharp increases in memberships, many churches found it necessary to replace their buildings. In 1909, the members of Westminster Presbyterian (now United) Church concluded that their 1893-1894 building was inadequate for a congregation of almost 1,000. This site, closer to the homes of the parishioners, was selected and the church was built between 1910 and 1912. For its grandest buildings—Westminster, Augustine (1903-1904) and Knox (1914-1918)—the Presbyterian Church in Winnipeg called upon renowned architect J. H. G. Russell. For each church, Russell relied on a different interpretation of the Gothic Revival, a popular architectural style that drew its inspiration from medieval churches. Russell’s design was based upon the English expression of Gothic and emphasized pinnacle towers, slender vertical supports and large openings, in this case featuring a beautiful rose window. Inside the church are plaques commemorating parishioners who served and were killed during military service in the First World War and Second World War.
In 1992, the Manitoba Heritage Council unveiled a commemorative plaque to recognize this fine stone church, a provincially- and municipally-designated historic site. A collection of photographs of the building by J. H. G. Russell is held at the Archives of Manitoba.
Charles Bruce Pitblado (1836-1913)
David Christie (1865-1943)
Westminster United Church (May 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of Westminster United Church (October 2016)
One of two original First World War Honour Rolls at Westminster United (April 2019)
Source: Darryl Toews
Second of two original First World War Honour Rolls at Westminster United (April 2019)
First World War commemorative plaque (March 2019)
Second World War commemorative plaque (March 2019)
Site Location (lat/long): N49.88210, W97.16127
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Provincially Designated Historic Sites
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
“Noted divine to get call,” Winnipeg Tribune, 10 September 1909, page 9.
Information for this page was provided by The City of Winnipeg’s Planning, Property and Development Department, which acknowledges the contribution of the Government of Manitoba through its Heritage Grants Program.
Westminster United Church, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, George Penner, and Darryl Toews.
Page revised: 7 April 2019
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Former pontiff is to be made a saint by Pope Francis
Cardinal Montini was elected Pope Paul VI
Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini was elected as Pope Paul VI on this day in 1963 in Rome.
He succeeded Pope John XXIII and immediately re-convened the Second Vatican Council which had automatically closed after Pope John’s death.
Pope Paul then implemented its various reforms and as a result had to deal with the conflicting expectations of different Catholic groups.
Following his famous predecessor Saint Ambrose of Milan, Pope Paul named Mary as the Mother of the Church.
He described himself as ‘a humble servant for a suffering humanity’ and demanded changes from the rich in North America and Europe in favour of the poor in the third world.
Pope Paul had been born in Concesio near Brescia in 1897 and was ordained a priest in Brescia in 1920. He took a doctorate in Canon Law in Milan and afterwards studied at various universities, therefore never working as a parish priest.
He had one foreign posting, to the office of the papal nuncio in Poland.
After the outbreak of the Second World War, he created an information office for prisoners of war and refugees, producing more than 11 million replies to enquiries about missing persons.
He was attacked by Mussolini’s government several times for allegedly meddling in politics.
Pope Paul VI pleaded with the Red Brigades to
release the kidnapped former PM Aldo Moro
Pope Pius XII made him archbishop of Milan in 1954 and Pope John XXIII made him Cardinal Priest of SS Silvestro e Martino ai Monti in 1958.
After Pope John XXIII died of stomach cancer in 1963, Cardinal Montini was elected as his successor on the sixth ballot.
He later wrote in his journal: ‘The position is unique. It brings great solitude. I was solitary before, but now my solitude becomes complete and awesome.’
Pope Paul VI became the first pope to visit six continents, earning the nickname ‘the Pilgrim Pope.’
A man tried to attack him with a knife after he had arrived at Manila in the Philippines in 1970 but one of his aides managed to push the aggressor away.
Pope Paul wrote a personal letter to the terrorist group the Red Brigades in 1978 pleading with them to free the politician Aldo Moro, who had been his friend when they were both students.
After the bullet-ridden body of Moro was found in Rome, Pope Paul personally conducted his funeral mass.
Later in 1978 Pope Paul VI died at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo after suffering a massive heart attack. According to the terms of his will he was buried beneath the floor in St Peter’s Basilica and not in an ornate sarcophagus.
Pope Paul VI has already been declared Venerable and has been Beatified, and it has recently been confirmed by the Vatican that he will be made a Saint in October this year.
The house in Concesio where Pope Paul VI was born
Concesio, where Pope Paul VI was born, is a town in Lombardy about 8km (5 miles) to the north of Brescia. The town is in the lower Val Trompia at the foot of Monte Spina. The footballer Mario Balotelli was placed in foster care at the age of three with Silvia and Francesco Balotelli who lived in Concesio. Eventually he was permanently fostered by the couple and took their surname.
The pontifical palace in Castel Gandolfo, with the two
domes of the Vatican observatory
Castel Gandolfo, where Pope Paul VI died, overlooks Lake Albano from its wonderful position in the hills south of Rome. The Pope spends every summer in the Apostolic Palace there. Although his villa lies within the town’s boundaries, it is one of the properties of the Holy See. The palace is not under Italian jurisdiction and is policed by the Swiss Guard. The whole area is part of the regional park of Castelli Romani, which has many places of historic and artistic interest to visit.
1891: The death of architect and structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi
1919: The birth of the architect Paolo Soleri
Labels: 1963, Aldo Moro, Castel Gandolfo, Catholic Church, Concesio, Lake Albano, Pope Paul VI, Popes, Red Brigades, Religion, Saints, Vatican
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NEXT Collective Biography
NEXT Collective
NEXT Collective is an ensemble of the next generation of jazz greats exploring their own interpretations of songs by contemporary artists.
NEXT COLLECTIVE IS…
Alto saxophonist Logan Richardson (born 1980) was by the age of sixteen already featured in the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra in his hometown; by nineteen, Downbeat magazine hailed him as “up and coming.” After music studies at Boston’s Berklee School of Music and New York’s New School, he worked with a series of bands led by Greg Tardy, Joe Chambers, Nasheet Waits and Jason Moran. He has recorded two critically embraced albums as a leader —Ethos and Cerebral Flow—and toured with his own group since 2006, and in 2010, France’s Jazzman magazine declared him “one of the ten burning alto saxophonists worldwide.”
Tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III (born 1980) is a Houston native who graduated from his hometown’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and in 2003, from Berklee. He has already appeared on over 75 recordings worldwide, has performed or recorded with the likes of Terence Blanchard, Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Eric Reed, Mulgrew Miller, Bob Hurst and Joe Lovano, and released three albums to date, including III in 2010. He currently divides his time between leading his own quintet and being a featured sideman in bands led by Ambrose Akinmusire, Eric Harland and others.
Guitarist Matthew Stevens (born 1982) grew up in Toronto, graduated from the Etobicoke School of the Arts and later, the Berklee College of Music, where he received the Guitar Department’s highest honor, the Jimi Hendrix Award. Though he is best known for his ongoing contributions both on and off the stage in the ensemble led by fellow Berklee graduate Christian Scott, Matthew has also shared the stage and recorded with the likes of: Donald Harrison, Victor Bailey, Jason Moran, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jeff Lorber and Esperanza Spalding.
Keyboardist Gerald Clayton (born 1984) is the scion of Los Angeles’s well-known jazz family, which features his father, bassist/composer John, and his uncle, saxophonist Jeff. In 2011, he won the Edison award for Best International Jazz Album, has had three Grammy nominations and was second place in the 2006 Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Pianist Competition. He is the product of years of intensive training, at the University of Southern California and the Manhattan School of Music, and on-the-gig experience with the likes of Roy Hargrove, Lewis Nash, Terell Stafford, Clark Terry, Hank Jones, Benny Green, Kenny Barron, Ambrose Akinmusire, and others. He currently leads one of the most popular piano trios on the scene with bassist Joe Sanders and drummer Justin Brown and will release his Concord Jazz debut album in April of 2013.
Keyboardist Kris Bowers (born 1989) stands as the youngest of this youthful conclave, a prodigy who just last year (2011) won the coveted Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition Award. Raised and schooled in Los Angeles, he has studied with Eric Reed, Fred Hersch, Frank Kimbrough and Kenny Barron and has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Aretha Franklin, Marcus Miller, Benny Golson, Q-Tip, Jay Z and Kanye West, Louis Hayes, Ludacris and José James. He is the first recipient of the Luther Henderson Scholarship at Juilliard, where he received his Master’s degree in Jazz Performance with a focus on film composition. His debut solo record will be released on Concord Jazz in 2013.
Bassist Ben Williams (born 1984) was raised in Washington D.C., studied at Michigan State University, earned his Masters at Juilliard, won the 2009 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, and is already one of today’s most in-demand sidemen, playing regularly and recorded with such headliners as Pat Metheny, Jacky Terrasson and Stefon Harris. He has been picked to perform with Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Paquito D’Rivera, Roy Hargrove, and others. In 2011, he recorded with George Benson on his album The Guitar Man and released State of Art, his debut recording as a leader.
Drummer Jamire Williams (born 1984), like Walter Smith, is a Houston native who graduated the city’s High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, after which he received a B.F.A. in Jazz and Contemporary Music from New York’s New School. He has since toured and/or recorded with such notable R&B and jazz artists as Christian Scott, Bilal, Corrine Bailey Rae, Kenny Garrett, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Solange Knowles, Jason Moran, Gretchen Parlato and Robert Glasper. He currently leads his own group ERIMAJ and has recently released his debut album, Conflict Of A Man.
Trumpeter Christian Scott (born 1983) is a New Orleans-raised, Berklee-schooled, Grammy-nominated bandleader and composer whose impact on today’s scene has grown exponentially with each successive recording, including his fifth release: this year’s double-disc best-seller Christian aTunde Adjuah. Nephew of famed saxophonist and Big Chief, Donald Harrison, he is intensely proud of his heritage (as depicted by his choice to adorn [his latest album with] the Afro-Native American Culture of New Orleans ceremonial regalia) and shares this sentiment from the stage. Most recently, Christian was featured on the cover of JazzTimes magazine, along with many other major press acknowledgments.
Producer Chris Dunn (born 1968) is both a former alto saxophonist and producer/radio host on San Francisco’s famed KJAZ, where his father was a longtime deejay. He joined Concord Music Group in 1996, produced his first album—Christian Scott’s Rewind That—in 2005, and has co-produced other important titles by Scott, Ben Williams’ State of Art, Ninety Miles with Stefon Harris, David Sánchez and Christian Scott, and most recently, Kurt Elling’s 1619 Broadway—The Brill Building Project.
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James WINN (b.1952)
Variations on a Theme of Bartók, for cello and piano (1977, rev. 2010) [8:16]
Masque, for oboe, cello, and piano (1981) [14:23]
Three Nocturnes, for violin, cello, and piano (1986-87) [25:08]
Dmitri Atapine (cello); Rong-Huey Liu (oboe); Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio (violin); James Winn (piano)
rec. October 2014, Tanglewood Studios, Reno, Nevada, USA
MSR CLASSICS MS1588 [47:47]
James Winn is a Nevada-based pianist and composer who writes in a musical style that nearly went out of fashion a hundred years ago. The three chamber works presented here have an appealing simplicity of expression, and openness of spirit, which demonstrate that an old-fashioned romantic language can remain personal today.
The first work up is Variations on a Theme of Bartók, but as Winn quickly points out in his notes, he’s actually an even more conservative composer than Bartók was. This certainly is not a theme from one of the string quartets. Instead, it’s a folk tune which Bartók collected and added to his “For Children”. The melody sounds rather like a Dvorak dumky, and the variation system is (as Winn admits) Brahmsian - quite successfully, I’ll add. Many a cellist would be happy to have such an attractive piece in their repertoire.
Masque, for the unusual trio of oboe, cello and piano, is a three-movement suite inspired by baroque theatre. There is no neo-baroque sound, here, though; instead Winn’s piano writing continues to evoke Brahms, while the work as a whole shows influences of the tuneful, outdoorsy chamber music of composers like Copland or Peter Schickele. The first movement’s climax awkwardly brings the oboe and cello together in unison, but the lively finale makes up for this.
The first of the Three Nocturnes returns us to the world of the last Brahms works, and Winn proves himself a gifted melodist capable of taking advantage of string instruments’ flowing lyricism. My favourite track on the disc is probably the final nocturne, a tribute to Sibelius and a portrayal of a Finnish legend. As with Brahms in the variations, the imitation is so good that it rises above pastiche and becomes a valuable piece in its own right. Winn again proves his gift for melody, even in a quasi-fugal passage.
The recording nicely captures Dmitri Atapine’s cello, as well as the composer’s very skilled piano playing but there’s something amiss with the higher frequencies: violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio sounds a bit recessed and thin, for example, and I know from personal experience that she does not sound like this live. I lived in San Antonio, Texas for several years when she was the concertmaster of its orchestra, and a fixture of its chamber music scene.
The biggest problem with this disc is the best kind of problem to have: there’s not enough of it. The playing time is 48 minutes, and the most recent work on the album dates from 1987. By the way, another Winn piece popped up on Sant’Ambrogio’s “Going Solo” album, which I reviewed here a few years ago. What else has James Winn been writing for the past thirty years? I would love to hear more of it.
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Companies will not be disrupted while corruption probe is on: Saudi Arabia
Posted at: 08 Nov, 2017, in Business
Manama: Saudi Arabia has reaffirmed its commitment to the rights of national and multinational companies operating in the kingdom and abroad, including those wholly or partly owned by individuals under investigation.Chairing a meeting of the Council for Economic Affairs and Development, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman instructed the concerned ministers to ensure that the companies are not disrupted while investigations into corruption cases were under way, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.Prince Mohammad, who is also the Chairman of the Council for Economic Affairs and Development, said on Tuesday evening that the Council recognised the importance of the companies for the national economy and the significance of ensuring that investors could operate confidently in Saudi Arabia.Fair treatmentThe Council said that the government would ensure the fair treatment of the arrested individuals by the justice system.Around 50 people have been reportedly arrested hours after the launch on Saturday of a new anti-corruption drive “as part of an active reform agenda aimed at tackling a persistent problem that has hindered development efforts in the Kingdom in recent decades.”The Attorney General said that the authorities gathered ample information about graft cases as they questioned the suspects.In its meeting, the Council said that tackling corruption within the rule of law and preventing the waste of public funds were crucial for the sustainable growth of the national economy and for the fair treatment of all Saudis.Anti-corruption measures taken by the state were a major part of Vision 2030 and vital to ensure stability, to protect investments by domestic and international investors and to provide a level playing field, it said.The royal order establishing the anti-corruption committee said that its formation was deemed necessary “due to the propensity of some people for abuse, putting their personal interest above public interest, and stealing public funds.”In a statement, The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) said that the decision to suspend the bank accounts of some individuals was in response to the Attorney General’s request pending investigations in their cases.The suspension was limited to the bank accounts, leaving corporate businesses unaffected and operational.SAMA said that there were no restrictions on money transfers through proper banking channels. – [Gulfnews.com]
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Men’s Basketball Travels to SVSU and WSU
MARQUETTE, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team travels to the Lower Peninsula for the final time this season for two Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference games. Northern plays at Saginaw Valley State University on Thursday (Feb. 14) at 6 p.m. and then concludes the weekend at Wayne State University on Saturday (Feb. 16) with tip-off at 1 p.m.
The Wildcats enter the week at 5-16 overall and 4-13 in conference play after being swept at home over the weekend. Grand Valley State University defeated NMU 64-56 on Thursday (Feb. 7) evening. Northern fell 69-63 to Ferris State University on Saturday (Feb. 9).
Junior forward Matthew Craggs is the lone Wildcat to average double figures with 14.2 per game and junior forward Scoter Johnson averages 9.1 points. Sophomore forward Kendall Jackson leads the way in rebounds with 6.2, while Craggs averages 5.8.
SVSU sits one spot above NMU in the GLIAC North Division with a 9-11 overall and 7-10 conference record. The Cardinals split its games over the weekend; the first was a 73-68 loss at Lake Superior State University on Thursday. On Saturday, the Cardinals came away with a 79-74 over Wayne State at home.
Chris Webb averages 16.5 points for the Cardinals, while Brett Beland averages 12.3. In the rebound category, Rob Clark leads with a 6.5 average.
NMU edges the Cardinals 29-28 in the all-time series. SVSU defeated NMU 56-51 from the Berry Events Center on Jan. 17. Northern hasn't won on the road against the Cardinal since the 2007-08 season.
WSU currently is in first place of the GLIAC North with a 14-5 overall and 13-3 GLIAC record. The Warriors received two of its three conference losses over the weekend. Along with the loss to the Cardinals, WSU also fell 74-63 at Northwood University. The losses mark the only back-to-back losses for the Warriors all season.
Three players average 12 points or more per game for the Warriors. Mike Hollingsworth leads with 14.7, while Chene Phillips and Ian Larkin each average 14.1 Cole Prophet contributes with 12.4. Larkin leads in rebounding with 6.5.
The Warriors lead all meetings against NMU, 34-33, including the 65-59 win over the Wildcats back on Jan. 19 from Marquette. Northern has won three out of the last 10 meetings.
100.3 FM "The Point", the official radio voice of the NMU Wildcats, will broadcast both games.
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NASDAQ Recognizes Colon Cancer Awareness; Atlanta’s Dr Indrakrishnan Participates in Ringing of Opening Bell
by veena April 15, 2013 0178
Atlanta, GA: March is colorectal cancer awareness month. NASDAQ invited Dr Indran Indrakrishnan, from the board of directors of Fight Colorectal Cancer, a leading national colorectal cancer advocacy organization recognized as a top cancer nonprofit by Philanthropedia & Guidestar, to ring the opening bell on March 25th to honor and recognize its service and to increase the colon cancer awareness among the public. Dr Indran Indrakrishnan, a clinical Professor of Medicine at Emory University school of Medicine and a practicing Gastroenterologist in Lawrenceville with a special interest in colon cancer screening participated in the NASDAQ opening bell ringing ceremony at Times Square, New York and met with many colon cancer survivors and families of patients who died of colon cancer who flew from many parts of the country for this event.
Fight Colorectal Cancer, a not for profit organization empowers survivors to raise their voices, trains advocates around the country, and educates lawmakers and pushes them for better policies. It offers support for patients, family members and their caregivers, and serve as a resource for colorectal cancer advocates, policymakers, medical professionals, and healthcare providers. Additionally, it does everything it can to increase and improve research at all stages of development and for all stages of colon cancer.
Colon cancer is a preventable, detectable and treatable malignancy, yet the second leading cause of cancer deaths in Georgia including amongst those of Indian ethnic origin. The compliance for colon cancer screening is poor in the Indian community presumably due to a common false belief that vegetarians do not get colon cancer.
Removal of colon polyps by colonoscopy is the key in the prevention of colon cancer. A diet rich in fiber, vegetables and fruits but low in meats and fats have anti oxidants which can neutralize the free radicals which are thought to be the promoters of colon cancer and polyps. Supplements such as folic acid, calcium and a small dose aspirin appear to have a protective effect on colon cancer/ polyps. Regular physical exercise and avoiding tobacco products can also help in reducing the risk of colon cancer.
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Bylaws of the Oregon GNSS User Group
Dues Notice
GNSS Standards
Past Special Events
Letters from the Secretary
The purpose of the Oregon GNSS Users Group is to promote the use and understanding of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for surveying, mapping, and geographic information systems; to provide a forum for the exchange of information among members and the general public; to advance local, State, and Federal GPS strategies and legislation; and to promote the understanding and establishment of standards and guidelines.
ARTICLE I - CORPORATE NAME
SECTION 1 - NAME
1.1.1. The name of this Corporation shall be the following phrase - "Oregon GPS Users Group."
ARTICLE II - REGISTERED OFFICE
SECTION 1 - OFFICE INFORMATION
2.1.1. The registered office of this Corporation shall be Oregon GPS Users Group, 3433 S.W. Carolina Street, Portland, OR 97201, but such location may be changed by the direction of the Corporation.
ARTICLE III - MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES
SECTION 1 - CORPORATE MEMBERS
3.1.1. The term "Corporate Members" as used hereinafter shall denote Corporate Members only of this Corporation and shall be those on the bylaws, and such other persons as may be hereafter accepted for Corporate Membership in the manner hereinafter provided.
3.1.2. Only persons who are duly recognized by this Corporation to be utilizing GPS in the state of Oregon for the practice of surveying or mapping shall be eligible to be admitted as or to be continued Corporate Members of this Corporation.
3.1.3. Only persons who are duly registered with the Official Membership Roster of the Oregon GPS Users Group shall be considered as Corporate Members of this Corporation.
3.1.4. Corporate Members shall be the only persons eligible to vote on Corporate business or to hold office in the Corporation.
3.1.5. Any Corporate Member who, for any reason, submits to the Secretary of this Corporation a written request of resignation from Corporate Membership in this organization shall be removed from Membership status.
SECTION 2 - AFFILIATE MEMBERS
3.2.1. The more general term "Members" as used hereinafter shall denote Corporate Members as well as Affiliates only of this Corporation and shall be those on the bylaws, and such other persons as may be hereafter accepted for Membership in the manner hereinafter provided.
The Affiliates of this Corporation shall include Associate Members, Student Members, and Special Members.
3.2.2. Persons who are working in direct support of the GPS industry and the profession of surveying and mapping in the state of Oregon shall be eligible to be admitted as Associate Member of this Corporation.
3.2.3. Only persons enrolled as full-time students in an approved surveying or mapping curriculum shall be admitted as Affiliates under the classification of Student Member.
3.2.4. Those persons who do not meet qualifications for Corporate Member, Associate Member, or Student Member but who, by virtue of their employment, service or training, have a particular interest in, or association with, the profession of surveying or mapping utilizing the GPS, shall be eligible to be admitted and continued as Affiliates of this Corporation under the classification of Special Member. This category shall also include persons who are not residents of Oregon.
3.2.5. Only persons who are duly registered with the Official Membership Roster of the Oregon GPS Users Group shall be considered as Affiliate Members of this Corporation.
3.2.6. Any Affiliate Member who, for any reason, submits to the Secretary of this Corporation a written request of resignation from Affiliate Membership in this organization shall be removed from Membership status.
SECTION 3 - APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
3.3.1. Applications for Membership shall be submitted to the Secretary and shall include applicant's full name, address, telephone number, electronic mail address if applicable, and current representative business that supports Membership status and shall be accompanied by the dues, as set forth in Article VII, Section 1, then payable for the remainder of the year during which such application is submitted . The New Member shall be entered immediately onto the roster as a tentative New Member until a vote on the application by the Corporation is taken.
3.3.2. Such application for Membership shall be presented to the Corporation for approval by a majority vote of those Corporate Members in attendance at the next regularly scheduled meeting. Should the Corporate Members vote not to accept the application, the applicant shall be informed by the Secretary and any dues received shall be returned soon after the vote.
3.3.3. The Secretary of this Corporation shall promptly update the Official Membership Roster and report such approved or disapproved Membership to the Corporation in meeting minutes.
3.3.4. Applications for Membership shall be in such form as the Corporation may from time to time determine.
SECTION 4 - REQUIREMENTS
3.4.1. All applicants for Membership shall agree to support and abide by the Code of Professional Ethics adopted by this Corporation and in force at the date such application for membership is submitted. The Code of Professional Ethics shall be printed on the application form.
3.4.2. Every Member is responsible to furnish the Secretary of this Corporation with a current mailing address within thirty (30) days of application for Membership or change in address to which notices of meetings and all other notices may be mailed or served, and in default thereof shall have no further redress concerning non-receipt of such mailings.
SECTION 5 - VOTING REQUIREMENTS
3.5.1. All motions, seconds, and votes on Corporate business, whether at regular or special meetings of the Corporation, shall be made by Corporate Members only. When there is a negative vote cast the vote shall be by a show of hands unless by secret ballot. When the vote involves Corporate business the Secretary shall record the number of Corporate Member vote for and against. These numbers are to appear in the minutes of the meeting.
3.5.2. All Corporate votes taken by mail shall be sent to and tallied for Corporate Members only.
ARTICLE IV -CORPORATE MEETINGS
SECTION 1 - REGULAR MEETINGS
4.1.1. Corporation meetings shall be held not less than three times per year at a time and place decided by the Members.
SECTION 2 - SPECIAL MEETINGS
4.2.1. Special meetings shall be called by the Secretary on the request of the Chair of this Corporation or by written requests directed through the Chair.
4.2.2. Verbal or written notice of such a special meeting must state the reason for such meeting, and no other business will be considered at such special meeting.
SECTION 3 - NOTICES
4.3.1. Notices of Corporate meetings shall be given by the Secretary of this Corporation by mail or electronic mail at least ten (10) days, and not more the fifty (50) days, prior to the day on which such meeting is to be held, and the deposit of such notices in the post office and addressed to each Member, with postage fully prepaid, or electronic return receipt request for electronic mail notification, shall be deemed a legal notice, and such notice shall be deemed given when so deposited.
4.3.2. Members may request contact by written notices only if electronic mail is not readily available.
SECTION 4 - ATTENDANCE
4.4.1. Attendance at all Corporate Meetings is strictly voluntary. An attendance list shall be made of all meetings.
4.4.2. In the event that the Chair or Chair-Elect are unable to attend a scheduled Corporate meeting, each or both may choose an alternate to represent them at the meeting, provided said alternate has been briefed on current Corporate activities.
4.4.3. In the event that the Secretary is unable to attend a scheduled Corporate meeting, an alternate shall be chosen to fulfill the duties of recording minutes of the meeting.
4.4.4. Any alternate shall be designated in writing and so indicated in the meeting minutes. The designated alternate shall have all the rights and privileges due to a regular Officer of the Corporation.
SECTION 5 - QUORUM
4.5.1. Those Corporate Members present or represented by absentee ballot at any "Regular" or "Special" Meeting consisting of not fewer than ten (10) percent of the Corporate Membership shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of "regular" business. Each Corporate Member present or represented by absentee ballot shall be entitled to one vote and there shall be no voting by proxy.
4.5.2. Those Corporate Members present or represented by absentee ballot at any "Regular" or "Special" Meeting consisting of not fewer than fifty (50) percent of the Corporate Membership shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of "special" business. Special business concerning specific issues shall be determined by the Corporation. Each Corporate Member present or represented by absentee ballot shall be entitled to one vote and there shall be no voting by proxy.
4.5.3. The majority of the votes cast shall be necessary and sufficient for the adoption of any matter voted upon by the Corporate Members unless otherwise provided by law or herein.
ARTICLE V - CORPORATE OFFICERS
SECTION 1 - GENERAL
5.1.1. The Officers of this Corporation shall be a Chair, Chair-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and Immediate Past Chair. The offices of Chair-Elect, Secretary, and Treasurer shall be elected for a term of one calendar year in the manner hereinafter provided. The Chair-Elect shall automatically succeed to the office of Chair during the calendar year following the term as Chair-Elect, and the Chair shall automatically succeed to the office of Immediate Past Chair following the term as Chair.
5.1.2. The Chair-Elect, Secretary, and Treasurer of this Corporation shall be elected by the Corporation annually at the last regularly scheduled meeting of the year, their term commencing on January 1st of the following calendar year.
5.1.3. The Chair, Chair-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and Immediate Past Chair of this Corporation shall serve at the pleasure of the Corporation and may be removed by majority vote of the Corporation whenever, in its judgment, the best interests of the Corporation would be served thereby. A vacancy in said offices for any cause may be filled by the Corporation for the unexpired portion of the term by a majority vote of those Corporate Members.
5.1.4. The Corporate Members may decide by majority vote to combine the offices of Secretary and Treasurer. When the office of Secretary is combined with the office of Treasurer and served jointly by one person, the Secretary-Treasurer shall be considered as one office.
5.1.5. There is no limit to the number of terms a Corporate Officer may hold a position.
5.1.6. The Officers of this Corporation shall serve as the Board of Directors for this Corporation.
SECTION 2 - DUTIES OF THE CHAIR
5.2.1. The Chair of this Corporation shall be the chief executive officer and head of the Corporation and shall, subject to the control of the Corporation, have the general and active management of its business and affairs. As a member of the Corporation the Chair shall attend all meetings of the Corporation unless a chosen alternate is sent per Article IV, Section 4, Part 2. The Chair shall be an ex-officio member of all committees.
5.2.2. The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Corporation and at Special Meetings unless otherwise ordered by the Corporation.
5.2.3. The Chair shall sign on behalf of the Corporation all deeds, contracts, mortgages, bonds and promissory notes unless otherwise expressly directed by the Corporation. The Chair shall also have general supervision over all property, business and interests of the Corporation as well as over its officers, employees and agents.
5.2.4. The Chair shall make annual reports showing the condition of the affairs of the Corporation, making such recommendations as the Chair thinks proper and submit the same to the Corporation at the final meeting of the year. The Chair shall, from time to time, bring before the Corporation such information as may be required relating to the business and property of the Corporation.
5.2.5. The Chair shall not vote on Corporate affairs except in the event of a tie vote of the Corporate Members.
SECTION 3 - DUTIES OF THE CHAIR-ELECT
5.3.1. The Chair-Elect shall have the same powers and shall perform all the duties of the Chair in the absence of the Chair or in case of the Chair's disability or inability to act or his refusal to act. As a member of the Corporation the Chair-Elect shall attend all meetings of the Corporation unless a chosen alternate is sent per Article IV, Section 4, Part 2.
5.3.2. The Chair-Elect will automatically succeed to the office of Chair in the event such office becomes vacant for any cause prior to the end of the term of the office.
5.3.3. In the event the Chair-Elect succeeds the Chair prior to the end of the term there shall be a special election held under the rules cited in Article V, Section 9, Part 6, for a new Chair-Elect. The Secretary shall notify the Members of the election to be held and the results within 10 days after the election.
5.3.4. The Chair-Elect shall have a vote in Corporate affairs.
SECTION 4 - DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY
5.4.1. The Secretary of this Corporation shall keep a fair and correct record of all meetings of the
Corporation and shall give notice of all official meetings as provided herein. As a member of the Corporation the Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Corporation unless a chosen alternate is sent per Article IV, Section 4, Part 3.
5.4.2. The Secretary shall be responsible for the maintenance of all records of the Corporation, transcribe the minutes of all meetings, post a copy of these minutes within fifteen (15) days to the Corporate Internet web site, be responsible for Corporate business communications and correspondence, prepare all contracts or written obligations relating to the conduct of business between the Corporation and other bodies, public or private, and maintain a current and complete Official Membership Roster of the Oregon GPS Users Group.
5.4.3. The Secretary shall perform such other duties and functions as may be requested or directed by the Corporation or the Chair of the Corporation.
5.4.4. The Secretary shall have a vote in Corporate affairs.
SECTION 5 - DUTIES OF THE TREASURER
5.5.1. The Treasurer shall maintain all financial records of the Corporation, receive and deposit all incoming monies due to the Corporation and pay all bills as directed by the Chair.
5.5.2. The Treasurer shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements and shall render an annual report in writing as to the financial condition of the Corporation, and such other reports as the Corporation may direct, and shall perform such other duties in connection with the administration of the financial affairs of the Corporation as the Corporation may direct.
5.5.3. The Treasurer shall have supervision and custody of all bonds, stock and other securities owned or controlled by the Corporation. The Treasurer shall also bring to the attention of the Corporation any and all measures which, in the Treasurer's judgment, are necessary and proper to be taken for the preservation and renewal of such securities and for the enforcement of rights secured thereby.
5.5.4. Upon request of the Corporation the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of the Treasurer's duties in such sums and with such security or surety as the Corporation shall determine, the premium for which bond shall be an expense of the Corporation.
5.5.5. The Treasurer shall perform such other duties and functions as may be requested or directed by the Corporation or the Chair of the Corporation.
5.5.6. The Treasurer shall have a vote in Corporate affairs.
SECTION 6 - DUTIES OF THE IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR
5.6.1. The Immediate Past Chair shall serve as an advisor to the Corporation and shall be entitled to all of the benefits of Office in the Corporation. In the event of the absence or incapacity of both the Chair and Chair-Elect, the Immediate Past Chair shall assume the position of Interim Chair until the return of the Chair or Chair-Elect or the vacancy to the office of Chair has been duly filled, at which time the Immediate Past Chair shall return to the prior position.
5.6.2. The Immediate Past Chair, while serving in that capacity, shall have a vote in Corporate affairs.
SECTION 7 - GENERAL ELECTION
5.7.1. All Corporate Officers except Chair shall be elected during the last regularly scheduled meeting of the calendar year. The Chair shall preside over the officer election process.
5.7.2. Nominations may be made from the floor by any Corporate Member or by electronic mail from Corporate Members directed through the Chair prior to the last regular meeting.
5.7.3. The balloting for Corporate Officers shall be a secret ballot and a majority vote of those Corporate Members voting shall be required to elect any Corporate Officer.
5.7.4. The meeting agenda sent to all Members prior to the final meeting shall include Corporation election information.
SECTION 8 - ABSENTEE VOTE
5.8.1. Each Member of this Corporation shall be entitled to one vote on all matters coming before this Corporation and may do so by absentee ballot. This absentee ballot shall be submitted through the Secretary by either posted mail or electronic mail and received no later than one (1) day prior to the scheduled vote.
5.8.2. Absentee ballot by posted mail shall include the full name and signature of the Member and checked with the Official Membership Roster of the Oregon GPS Users Group to avoid duplication.
5.8.3. Absentee ballot by electronic mail shall include the full name of the Member and exact electronic address listed with the Official Membership Roster of the Oregon GPS Users Group and checked with the list to avoid duplication.
SECTION 9 - PROXY VOTE
5.9.1. Each Member of this Corporation shall be entitled to one vote on all matters coming before this Corporation and there shall be no voting by proxy. Only Corporate Members are allowed to vote on Corporate business.
SECTION 10 - IMPEACHMENT AND VACANCY
5.10.1. Any Corporate Officer may be removed as a Corporate Officer upon the majority vote of the Corporate Members provided that written notice that the removal of one or more officers will be considered as an item of business at a regular meeting has been given to all Corporate Members not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of such meeting.
5.10.2. A vacancy in any Corporate Office, for any cause, shall be filled for the unexpired term of office by a special election.
5.10.3. Positions filled through special election may continue through the following calendar term, commencing on January 1st, if decided upon by majority vote of the Corporate Members.
5.10.4. No person may hold more than one Corporate office at any time.
5.10.5. In the event of a special election a person then holding a Corporate Office, except the office of Chair-Elect, may be a candidate for the vacant office, and if elected to such office, the office previously held shall become automatically vacant at the time of such election.
5.10.6. Special elections will be held at the next regularly scheduled meeting after the vacancy occurs and shall conform to the procedures of regular elections as outlined in Article V, Section 7.
ARTICLE VI - CORPORATE COMMITTEES
SECTION 1 - SPECIAL COMMITTEES
6.1.1. There shall be such number of Special Committees of this Corporation performing such functions as the Corporation, from time to time, may determine. Creation of Special Committees shall be made by the Chair through direction and approval of the Corporation.
6.1.2. The Corporate Chair will select and appoint a Chair and Vice Chair for each Special Committee. Where the Corporation does not present enough Members names to fill all the Special Committee offices, a Member may be appointed to more than one committee. Members from the Official Membership Roster are eligible to serve as Special Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs and may be selected from the rolls of the Corporation at large in the event that selected Members decline to serve.
6.1.3. Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs may select Committee Members from the rolls of the Corporation at large in the event that there are no volunteer Members at the formation of the Special Committee. Members from the Official Membership Roster are eligible to serve as Special Committee Members and may be selected from the rolls of the Corporation at large in the event that selected Members decline to serve.
6.1.4. The Corporate Chair and Chair-Elect may, at their option, attend and participate in all committee meetings as non-voting members. The Chairs and appointees of such committees shall serve at the pleasure of the Chair of the Corporation.
6.1.5. The Committee Chair is responsible to report all findings and recommendations of the Special Committee to the Corporation.
ARTICLE VII - CORPORATE FINANCES
SECTION 1 - DUES
7.1.1. Annual dues shall be paid by all Members to this Corporation on a calendar year basis in such amount as may from time to time be determined by the Corporate Officers, provided that the amount of such dues shall be determined prior to the commencement of the calendar year for which such dues are payable and shall not be modified during such calendar year. No annual increase in dues shall be adopted without the approval of a majority vote of the Corporate Members at the last regularly scheduled meeting of the year.
7.1.2. Annual dues shall be paid by all Affiliate Members to this Corporation on a calendar year basis at a rate of one-half the amount of dues charged to Corporate Members.
7.1.3. In the event that a change or increase in the amount of annual dues is not presented to or agreed upon by the Corporation at the last regularly scheduled meeting of the year, the amount of such dues shall be the same as was payable during the preceding calendar year.
7.1.4. The annual dues payable by each Member to the Corporation shall be remitted to the Treasurer on or before January 1st of each calendar year.
SECTION 2 - PENALTIES
7.2.1. On February 1st of each calendar year the Treasurer of this Corporation shall notify all Members of this Corporation whose dues are not paid for the current calendar year, that their dues are in arrears. All Members whose dues to this Corporation are not paid by March 1st for the current calendar year shall be automatically suspended from Membership status without further notice or action by this Corporation.
7.2.2. By March 15th of each calendar year the Treasurer shall notify the Chair of all non-paid Members. Any Member who fails to pay dues and or assessments as of the date prescribed by this Section, or as otherwise prescribed by the Corporate Officers, shall be removed from Membership status.
7.2.3. Reinstatement of such Members shall be upon terms as the Corporation may determine and shall include the full amount of annual dues required for the calendar year.
7.2.4. The right of a Corporate Member to vote or to be elected to or hold office in this Corporation and the right of any Member to participate in the affairs of this Corporation shall cease during any time while said Member's dues to this Corporation remain unpaid.
SECTION 3 - COMPENSATION
7.3.1. Officers or Members shall not receive compensation for services performed in the capacity of Officer or Member.
7.3.2. This provision shall not be construed to prevent the payment of compensation to any Officer or Member for valuable services performed in any other capacity.
7.3.3. The actual expense incurred, or to be incurred, by any person in serving the Corporation may be advanced or be paid, upon approval or ratification by the voting Corporate Members.
7.3.4. Any expense incurred by any person in serving the Corporation shall be submitted within 45 days of actual occurrence of such expense. Failure to meet the 45 day limit constitutes forfeiture of reimbursement for the expense.
SECTION 4 - DISBURSEMENTS
7.4.1. Payment of budgeted Corporate expense shall be made by the Treasurer when due without any additional ratification or approval. Any disbursements due to excess of budgeted Corporate expenses must have the approval of the Corporation.
7.4.2. All checks, drafts or withdrawals drawn upon Corporate funds for Corporate expenses shall be executed by the Chair and the Treasurer of this Corporation.
7.4.3. All disbursements and receipts by the Treasurer shall be reported at the next regularly scheduled Corporate meeting.
SECTION 5 - DEPOSITS
7.5.1. All monies generated by activities in behalf of this Corporation shall be deposited in the Corporate account. All monies of this Corporation shall be kept in such bank or banks or other depository or depositories as the Corporation shall from time to time designate. The Treasurer shall ensure all deposits are identified and reported on properly encoded deposit slips.
SECTION 6 - BUDGET REQUESTS
7.6.1. All Corporate and Special Committee operations budgets may be submitted to the Corporation at the regularly scheduled meetings of the Corporation. Final budget approvals shall be given no later than the next regularly scheduled meeting through approval by the voting Corporate Members.
SECTION 7 - SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
7.7.1. The Corporation may make special assessments for necessary operating or special finances only after a special election with a majority of the votes cast being in favor of the assessment.
7.7.2. The time and procedure for such special election shall be determined by the Corporation, but in no event shall the period of time between the notification of election and the voting deadline be less than forty-five days.
7.7.3. The Secretary shall be responsible for all mailing of ballots and for the final vote count and shall notify the Corporation of the voting result at the next regular meeting of the Corporation.
7.7.4. Voter approval shall cause the Corporation to determine the time and method of Special Assessment payments.
SECTION 8 - FINANCES
7.8.1. All disbursements in payment of the Corporate expenses shall be approved or ratified by the Chair. All checks, drafts or withdrawals drawn upon Corporate funds shall be executed by the Chair and Treasurer.
7.8.2. All monies collected by the Corporation in the name of Oregon GPS Users Group become a part of Corporation finances and must be accounted for in the annual Corporation Financial Report.
SECTION 9 - LEGAL OBLIGATIONS
7.9.1. The Officers and Members of the Corporation shall not have the authority to bind or in any manner obligate the Corporation and shall not purport to act for or on behalf of the Corporation in any actions or statements not conforming with the official business of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VIII - AMENDMENTS
SECTION 1 - BYLAWS
8.1.1. Subject to the requirement of Article VIII, Section 2, these bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed and new or revised bylaws adopted by a majority vote of this Corporation.
SECTION 2 - PROPOSALS FOR CHANGES OR ADDITIONS
8.2.1. Proposals for change(s) in or addition(s) to these bylaws may be made by any Corporate Member of this Corporation. The Corporation shall be required to take action regarding said proposal only if it is accompanied by a petition signed by at least ten (10) percent of the Corporate Members.
8.2.2. Proposals for change(s) in or addition(s) to these bylaws shall be submitted in writing to the Secretary at least twenty-one (21) days prior to the next regular or special meeting of the Corporation, and the Chair shall consider said proposal at that time.
8.2.3. In the event that the majority of the Corporation, or by petition ten (10) percent of the Corporate Members have determined that a change or addition to these bylaws may be warranted, the Corporation shall direct the Secretary to notify in writing each Member of the proposed change(s) or addition(s). The Corporate Members shall vote on acceptance or rejection of the proposed change(s) or addition(s) at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
8.2.4. Discussion and concerns of said proposal may necessitate the extension of the vote if decided by the Corporation.
8.2.5. The results of the vote of the Corporation on the proposed change(s) or addition(s) shall be binding on the Members of the Corporation.
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WAYNE TROTTER, The Countywide & Sun
Oklahoma has a new workers’ compensation law. It was even ruled constitutional by the State Supreme Court this week. It’s about time.
There was a lot of rejoicing in the business community when the court gave the new law its okay earlier this week. The attack on the new approach was largely based on the possibility the Legislature had engaged in “logrolling” again. The court said nothing of the kind had happened.
What’s logrolling? Boiled down, it’s getting your way by leveraging one thing to obtain another. Politicians like to do that. To keep them honest, the Constitution says every bill must be restricted to one subject and one subject only.
In the years the Democrats controlled the Legislature, they learned how to deal with this. With only a few years of command under their belts, the Republicans are having trouble. One day after the court said “fi ne” to the new workers’ comp setup, it zapped the income tax cut, another GOP favorite. Nevertheless, joy spread through corporate offices when the news got out that the workers’ comp reform had been approved.
“Today’s decision is obviously very good news for the business community,” said Fred Morgan, president of The State Chamber of Oklahoma. “We hope the new law can be implemented promptly.”
There were celebrations at the state capitol as well. “I am excited the state can move forward with improvements that will help to encourage job growth and investment in Oklahoma while delivering on a more efficient, effective and fairer workers’ compensation process,” said Gov. Mary Fallin, Tecumseh’s favorite daughter.
Gov. Fallin, Mr. Morgan and other members of the business elite had a right to be happy. When the GOP captured both houses of the Legislature and then re-captured the governor’s office, they found what they knew was there — a huge mess in the way Oklahoma handled workers’ compensation. The new governor had been working on the problem for years and was able to nibble a little at the core causes while she was lieutenant governor.
Now the Republicans had enacted what they considered the ultimate fi x. They would tear the whole thing down and start over. That’s essentially what the state is doing. We say that should’ve been done years ago.
About 15 years ago, maybe longer, the proprietor of this newspaper was hired to assess a similar operation in Washington State. The question was whether a potential buyer could make his new acquisition turn a profit if he didn’t do any work himself. The newspaper in question was remarkably similar to this one. It grossed about the same amount of money, employed about the same number of people, and produced about the same size product every week.
When the study was done, some alarming facts emerged. Yes, an absentee proprietor could turn a profit on the Washington property. But if he tried it in Oklahoma, he would lose money. One of the major differences was the high cost of workers’ compensation in the Sooner State. Another was the lower cost of hospitalization insurance at that time in Washington. That might have been related to workers’ comp costs too.
Now, here’s the truth: Oklahoma, like most every other state, started out with the workers’ comp law that was wonderfully intended. Its goal was to make sure that people who were injured on the job were properly cared for and compensated. That goal, great as it was, got compromised over the years.
What compromised the law? Greed. Pure, unmitigated greed.
And who was greedy? Practically everyone associated with the old judicial workers’ comp system, excluding some but not all of the judges.
The lawyers got slicker and greedier to increase their incomes.
Some businessman tried to cheat around the edges to increase their income as well. They were greedy too. Some deadbeat employees faked injuries to collect more and longer benefits. They were just as greedy.
By the time the Republicans took over, every one of these interests had some kind of stranglehold on the old Democratic Party. The lawyers were major contributors. Some of the workers were associated with interests which exerted strong influence over the party. The corrupt businessmen generally had cast their lot with the Democrats because Democrats had controlled the state from the inception.
So the Republicans cleaned it up, and they had to tear it down before they could build it back. The new structure is an administrative one, and it should work.
But everybody needs to remember why this had to be done. Let’s make this one work.
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Brangwyn - Bridge at Subacio- 1924
Item Code: xxbn25
Brangwyn - Bridge, Subacio
Sir Frank Brangwyn
BRIDGE AT SUBACIO - 1924
Etching (Copperplate)
Handsigned in pencil by the artist.
Reference: Gaunt 229, only state
xxbn25
37,50 cm x 38,20 cm
Frank Brangwyn
Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956)
Born in Bruges, Belgium in 1867, to British parents ( his father was Welsh) and was brought up and educated in England. His art training was at the Royal College of Art. He was apprenticed to William Morris in 1882. It was Morris’s influence that caused him to diversify his art. He was famous as an accomplished etcher and lithographer and his favourite subjects included powerful depictions of ship building and heavy industry, and the labourers involved in such work. However, his efforts in the fields of design are less well known. He produced designs for furniture, jewellery, and textiles, and stained glass panels. Brangwyn fulfilled many commissions to produce large scale murals for public interior spaces, the most high profile of which was for the House of Commons in London for which he completed 18 large scale panels on the theme of the British Empire which was rejected by the commissioning commitee but became the subject of fierce bidding by many other institutions.
To add to his achievements, Brangwyn was also an official war artist during the 1st World War. He excelled in etching, doing hundreds on a wide variety of subjects.
When The Studio started their series of Famous Etchers he was one of only two artists to be given two volumes. In 1926, The Studio published The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn - a catalogue raisonne, with reproductions of over 330 etchings.
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Stick it like Gianni
27/07/2018 27/07/2018 Oman Observer
Newspapers recalling decades of sporting glory line the walls, cupboards overflow with stickers of footballing legends and on a desk, pristine packets lie tantalisingly waiting to be opened: welcome to the home of Gianni Bellini, the man with a claim to the biggest football sticker album collection in the world.
Bellini boasts 4,000 complete albums filled with some two million stickers and another 400,000 yet to stick in.
“Every day after I’ve finished work and picked up my grandson from school, I spend at least 4 to 6 hours working on them,” Bellini said.
The 54-year-old typographer lives in the small town of San Felice sul Panaro around 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Modena — the heartland of renowned sticker maker Panini.
He began his collection around age 13, before taking a small break a few years later, “more interested in girls” than stickers, he admits.
But soon after getting married aged 19, Bellini picked up where he left off, and published ads in newspapers around the world looking for fellow collectors to exchange albums with.
“I received 600-700 letters a month, it was the start of correspondences and friendships, many of which I still have today,” he laughs.
And his wife Giovanna, who is also a football fan, doesn’t mind her husband’s diehard hobby.
“I support him and I’m happy too. That way he’s always at home, where I can keep an eye on him, he doesn’t go to the bar,” she jokes.
Every day, Bellini checks for new products online and keeps up with his some three hundred correspondents.
“I send about 5,000 emails a year,” he says, poring over a large diary where everything is logged.
His entire collection is also archived on his computer.
“It’s an amazing feeling to finally have the album in your hands,” says Bellini as he opens a fresh packet from Mexico.
“But once that emotion is over, you’re already thinking about the next album.”
Bellini spends 4,000 to 5,000 euros a year on his albums which are carefully stored at a temperature of 23 degrees.
Nothing is for sale because “the real collector buys, exchanges, but does not sell,” he says.
Bellini’s most prized album is that of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico: “Panini’s first international album,” he says proudly.
On the other hand, the thought of the 1986 Egyptian championship album still makes him shudder: the album got lost when he sent it to be translated and he only found another copy 20 years later.
For Bellini, the albums are also a record of shifts in modern culture because “over the years, you see the changing hairstyles, shirts etc.”
The Panini factory in Modena has become almost a second home for him as he buys their albums and stickers direct.
Although the Italian publisher represents only around half of his collection — there are other manufacturers, such as Topps which holds the rights to the Champions League — Bellini insists that Panini is “the best.”
He also regularly holds exhibits of his collection and is involved in a project to open a museum in Chiasso, Switzerland, expected to be inaugurated in mid-2019.
Bellini hopes that his seven-year-old grandson will share his passion, but he’ll have to earn his stripes.
“He must understand that he must buy a package, exchange the pictures he is missing with his friends… Opening a package is like finding some treasure, you never know if you’ll find the image that you’re missing, that’s what’s beautiful.” — AFP
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Congratulations to Niki van Niekerk for winning the Western Cape Premier’s Service Excellence Award (gold) in the Individual innovator category. The award was announced at a gala occasion on the evening of Monday 28th August 2017.
This was awarded for her implementation of a pre-discharge newborn oxygen saturation screening programme at Mowbray Maternity Hospital (MMH). This was the first public service hospital in the country to have implemented this programme.
Oxygen saturation screening is designed for early detection of critical congenital heart disease. (and also picks up other serious though treatable conditions such as early neonatal sepsis, pneumonia or persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn).
The screening has been rolled out in well-resourced countries across the globe, and in the private sector in South Africa. MMH has in excess of 800 deliveries per month. Thus it is a moderately resourced busy maternity service. The implementation followed a feasibility study of 1000 newborns in the postnatal wards at MMH.
Congratulations to Dr Alvin Ndondo and Alan Davidson who have been elected to the Council of Paediatricians of SA. We are very pleased that training and professional matters will benefit from such outstanding leadership and wish them much success for their term.
Fri, 18 Aug 2017 - 14:00
Congratulations to Associate Professor Mignon McCulloch who was elected President-Elect of the International Paediatric Transplant Association at their congress in Spain. This is the first time that someone from Africa has the honour of being President Elect and is a wonderful reflection of Mignon's standing in the international community and her contribution to paediatric transplantation.
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 - 11:00
Dr. John Lawrenson, our cross platform Head of Paediatric Cardiology, has been promoted to Assoc Professor in the Dept of Paediatrics at Stellenbosch University. Congratulations on this wonderful achievement and milestone in his career.
Thu, 04 May 2017 - 07:30
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Bill Diamond
Bill Diamond is a technology executive and Silicon Valley veteran. He has over 20 years of experience in the photonics and optical communications industry, and a decade in X-ray and semiconductor processing technologies. His corporate background spans the spectrum from venture-backed start-ups to Fortune 100 multinationals, with responsibilities ranging from engineering and operations to sales, marketing, product management and CEO positions.
Most recently, Diamond was Vice President of Sales for Oclaro, Inc. where he led the company’s penetration in optical networking of the rapidly-evolving Web 2.0 Data Center market. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Product Management for optical amplifiers, ROADM, high bit-rate modules, and micro-optics at Oclaro, culminating in the successful divestiture of several of these businesses to II-VI.
Bill was CEO of WaveSplitter Technologies, raising over $75M in investment capital for the company’s development of optical waveguides in one of the world’s first 8-inch Silicon PLC wafer fabs. He also held CEO positions at DenseLight Semiconductor in Singapore, and Xradia, Inc, (now part of Zeiss) in Concord, California where he led a team that developed the world’s highest resolution X-ray microscopes, as well as manufacturing the only commercially available zone-plate lenses for focusing X-ray beams.
He spent 6 years with the Optoelectronics Business Unit of AT&T Microelectronics (subsequently Lucent Technologies) leading the company’s expansion into the fast-growing European market before returning to the US to head up marketing and product management globally. After AT&T, Mr. Diamond was part of the executive team for the successful IPO of E-Tek Dynamics and subsequent $15 billion sale of the company to JDSU. Prior to joining Oclaro in 2012, Bill spent 6 years as President of Comet Technologies; the US subsidiary of Comet A.G. in Switzerland, a manufacturer of RF Power supplies for semiconductor processing tools and X-ray sources and systems for industrial and security applications.
Bill Diamond holds a B.A. in physics from Holy Cross College and a masters in business administration from Georgetown University.
Photo and biographical information from the SETI Intitute website.
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Space, SETI, the Singularity and Shostak
February 07, 2018 • 59:04
Where is everybody? That was the question physicist Enrico Fermi asked when he wondered why we hadn’t yet met ET. What will happen if we do? Will humans lose the will to explore?
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Welcoming Our New Public Policy Sector Director
We are delighted to welcome David Lezhava to our team, as our new Public Policy Sector Director.
Mr. Lezhava brings with him 20 years of sound experience in the fields of public finance and economic development, regional development, social policy and energy policy.
Prior to joining PMCG’s management, he worked as a National Project Manager on UNPD’s project “Support to Rural Development in Georgia” where he ensured effective implementation of the project.
In addition, during his time as Deputy Minister of Finance of Georgia, he handled international relations, fiscal forecasting and analytical work, and public debt management process.
Mr. Lezhava enriched his expertise in coordinating relations between international organizations and the Georgian government, while working as Advisor to the Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, in Washington D.C. where he represented the interests of Georgian authorities, facilitated IMF program implementation in Georgia, and reviewed IMF policy documents.
As a Chief Economist, Head of Research Division, and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the National Bank of Georgia, Mr. Lezhava led the creation of economic models for macroeconomic forecasts and played key role in monetary and foreign exchange (FX) policy decision making.
We are confident that Mr. Lezhava will excel in his new role which will entail managing PMCG’s public policy project portfolio, fundraising and collaboration with partners, clients and international development organizations, as well as development and implementation of the company’s strategy.
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Home Alternative Rock The Minus 5 - Stroke Manor 2019 ( Free Download )
The Minus 5 - Stroke Manor 2019 ( Free Download )
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The Minus 5 - Stroke Manor 2019
Scott McCaughey, leader of the Minus 5, may not be a household name, but he ought to be. In addition to the Minus 5, McCaughey has led seminal Seattle band Young Fresh Fellows for decades. Along with the Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn, McCaughey co-leads the Baseball Project, an ace pop-rock band whose songs do indeed focus on the colorful history of baseball. McCaughey is also a member of Filthy Friends, the alt-rock supergroup fronted by Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. And speaking of R.E.M, McCaughey played an integral role in that band's albums and concert tours from 1994 through the band's retirement in 2011.
McCaughey's rock 'n' roll career came to an abrupt halt in November 2017 when he suffered a life-threatening stroke. But it was during McCaughey's first three-week hospital stay that Stroke Manor was born. Although doctors speculated that McCaughey, who lost much of his musical memory, might not play again, he began scribbling down the words that would become the lyrics on Stroke Manor, while still in the hospital.
The album, which was recorded a few months into his recovery (and initially released in a limited edition on Record Store Day 2019 on 13 April), opens deceptively with "Plascent Folk", a pastoral ballad that features at least one word ("plascent") that only existed in McCaughey's mind in the days after the stroke.
The second track, "My Collection" is more representative of the sound of Stroke Manor. "My Collection" and the next song, "Beacon from RKO" are guitar-based rockers that will probably remind R.E.M. fans of their 1994 album, Monster, minus Michael Stipe's oddly lecherous lyrics. Instead, McCaughey's surreal words don't literally tell the story of his stroke but evoke the feeling of being disoriented and trying to find the way back to something relatively normal.
These songs are followed by the super-catchy pop tunes "Bleach Boys & Beach Girls", and "My Master Bull", which initially sounds like it wants to turn into psychedelic bubblegum chestnut, "Green Tambourine". "Beatles Forever (Little Red)" is a subtle tip of the hat to the Beatles, of course, but also to Peter Buck, who made McCaughey a Beatles mix to help him recover his musical memory not long after the stroke.
Artist: The Minus 5
Album: Stroke Manor
Style: Alt Rock
01.Plascent Folk
02.My Collection
03.Beacon From RKO
04.Bleach Boys & Beach Girls
05.My Master Bull
06.Beatles Forever (Little Red)
07.Message of Mother
08.Well in Fact She Said
09.MRI
10.Pink Bag for Rip Torn
11.Scar Crow
12.Goodbye Braverman
13.Top Venom
" My Epic - Violence 2019
" Sublime With Rome - Light On 2019
" Hand Off Gretel - I want The World 2019
" Fall Out Boy - Mania 2018
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Mon Roi Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Film Portfolio
Blu-ray, DVD, Emmanuelle Bercot, Film Packaging, Maïwenn, StudioCanal, Vincent Cassel
Released on Bu-ray and DVD comes Mon Roi. Seemingly a straight-forward artworking of the theatrical poster, there was quite a bit of work on different concepts for the sleeves, but ultimately the director was set on keeping the original image. The grainy nature of the sleeve reflects the fact that the main image has been enlarged quite a bit from the original shot, whilst not ideal sometimes there is nothing to do but run with it. Trying to blur or reduce the grain would have made the image look artificial, completely against the feel of the film.
From multiple award winner Maïwenn, the critically acclaimed Mon Roi is the story of a passionate and destructive relationship featuring award winning performances from Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel.
Mon Roi DVD Packaging
Mon Roi Blu-ray Packaging
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Glenn Rothner
Anthony R. Segall
Ellen Greenstone
Jonathan M. Cohen
Eli Naduris-Weissman
Maria Keegan Myers
Michele Sherer Ancheta
Daniel B. Rojas
Hannah S. Weinstein
Carlos M. Coye
Jonah J. Lalas
Juhyung Harold Lee
B.A. University of California at Los Angeles 2002, Summa Cum Laude
J.D. University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) 2012
Judicial Clerk, Hon. Raymond C. Fisher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2017-2018; Judicial Clerk, Hon. Dolly M. Gee, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2015-2017; Judicial Clerk, Hon. Nathanael Cousins, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 2014-2015; Judicial Extern, Hon. John T. Noonan, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Summer 2010. Senior Articles Editor, Berkeley Journal for Employment and Labor Law.
Before becoming an attorney, Jonah was a union organizer. He first joined a Los Angeles-based local of the Service Employees International Union, and organized private sector healthcare workers across Southern California. He then moved to Texas where, as organizing director of a joint SEIU/AFSCME local, he led a campaign to organize over 13,000 City of Houston public sector employees. The historic first contract from that effort included improved wages and benefits, and a strengthened voice on the job for city employees.
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Conundrums For Sale
Situation: You’re in a big city and you don’t know anyone. You’re down to your last dollar, and you’re five miles from your hotel. It’s 3 o’clock in the morning, it’s raining, it’s 10 degrees below zero, and you have a recurring hernia. A doberman is chasing you, and your glasses start to fog up. You’re carrying a 70-pound suitcase in one hand and a bowling ball in the other. You trip over your shoelace and land face first into a mud puddle. As you attempt to stand up, you realize you’ve twisted your ankle. Just then, you get a call on your cell phone. The question is: do you answer it or let it go to voice mail? These are the dilemmas of life. Hypothetically, you may think you have the answer, but until you get in that situation, you just never know.
In an unusual turn of events, hurricanes Opal and Pablo have somehow crossed paths and are furiously confronting one another off the coast of Florida. Opal insists that she was there first, and that Pablo must wait until she has died down, or at least gone into retirement as a tornado in the midwest. Pablo says Opal was hanging around too long, breaking the hurricane code of ethics by overstaying her 10-day time limit. He says Quincy is right behind him, even having asked to play through. So, what would you do if you were a climatologist involved in this case?
One thing that would be great if the Olympics gymnastics announcers would do differently is not spoil the drama for us by telling us ahead of time to watch for this next great move that’s about to happen in a routine. For one thing, it’s annoying, and for another, it completely removes the spontaneity of the event. Tim Daggett is the resident expert, and he can’t seem to keep a secret. Throughout the course of a routine, he’ll spill out, “Now, watch this here coming up…” Tim, Tim, Tim. We are already watching it. Your cameras are pointed right at the gymnast in full felicity and we can’t help but be watching it. The figure skating commentators at the Winter Olympics have also been guilty of this. “Here comes a big move…” Thank you, but I think we can wait another three seconds and be pleasantly surprised.
Can you imagine sitting next to these people at the movie theater? If they’ve already seen the movie, then every time Clint Eastwood is about to beat up a guy, they’d have to butt in, “Here comes his big move… Yes! He landed it! Clint is going to get high marks for that one!” Tim, have a Jujube and calm down.
As of today, Michael Phelps has participated in five gold medals at the 2008 Olympics, which is half of the total number of U.S. gold medals so far. I’d say that’s pretty good. He should open up his own branch country. If you can be in half your country’s gold medals, it’s time to diversify.
Phelps is surely cool (though still not quite as cool as the speedskater Apolo Ohno). However, I have one problem with the sharing of gold medals for relay events. Mathematically, each of them should be worth no more than a fourth of a medal, if you think about it (which I tried to). Phelps has five gold medals at these Olympics, and two of those were from relays. He didn’t even compete in some of the preliminary heats leading up to the finals for those events. So when they say he gets seven or eight gold medals in one Olympics, I think it needs to be statistically tempered. Yes, he is great, but he did get some help in those relays. Likewise, Mark Spitz won four gold medals on his own in 1972, and then was part of three relays. So really, he won 4¾ gold medals at that Olympics.
There’s also a ponderous discrepancy between the value in women’s gymnastics for the vault and the beam. The vault consists of one quick jump that takes maybe two seconds — unless you include the run down the ramp, but they don’t get rated on the run. Meanwhile, the beam consists of about two minutes of a series of grueling moves on a tiny four-inch wide strip. The back flips on this apparatus are probably the most difficult maneuver in any Olympic sport. But in the all-around, the beam gets no more credit than the vault. If they were truly value-based, the beam would be worth at least three times that of the vault.
Suppose rodeo were an Olympic sport, the Chinese could ride the American bull, the Russians would ride the Japanese bull, the Americans would ride the Romanian bull, and then the bulls would get the medals according to which ones bucked the best. It would be especially fun to see a bull rider donning leotards. They would get style points for their dismount, as they’re being flung through the air. Bonus points if you land back on the bull again. And then the curtsy to the bull at the end would be a requirement, worth a .30 deduction if not executed properly.
The Olympics needs to keep expanding its horizons and spice things up a bit. The divers should have to get pennies off the bottom of the pool. It would add an element of suspense to the event. “Great dive! And they’re making their plunge… Still down there… OK, now they’re coming up… Looks like they’ve got 28 pennies! That’s going to really help them find favor with the judges, Al!” In fact, just have all the divers dive in at the same time, with a penny free-for-all. Let’s see who can really dive.
The pommel horse participants could come swinging down on a rope from up in the balcony to make their entrance. It would be so much more intriguing that way. Land on the horse, start your moves, and then after maybe 30 seconds, it starts bucking. And don’t forget your cowboy hat.
Did you see Mark Spitz's interview with Bob Costas and Michael Phelps at oh, probably midnight last night? Pretty inspiring. Besides being uplifted, I learned that Mark Spitz actually competed in 13 events the year he won 7 gold medals (but didn't do preliminary heats for those events). So if I got that right, Michael Phelps is actually performing (or just plain racing) just as much if not more than Mark Spitz, but has not lost a gold medal in the midst. He did come in 2nd in that one preliminary, but perhaps part of the strategy in some prelims is to just make it and not push the body to the extreme.
What else? Oh, am I the only one that thinks Michael Phelps could be in the Brough family? In the last Olympics, I thought he looked so much like Blake Brough (even his demeanor -- just not hair color). This year, he's 1/2 Blake, 1/2 Ryan Brough. I didn't see the Ryan resemblance until he (they) won that relay and he went crazy. Not that Ryan is crazy, but that more powerful look made him look more like Ryan and now I see that in him too.
Hope there's not a limit on how many words I can write. :) -- Renee
Whoops! Change all those "preliminaries" to "semi-finals" -- got my terms mixed up. I'm thinking now that preliminaries are to see who qualifies for the Olympics and the semi-finals are the heats to determine who races for the medals. You can edit my previous comment if things like that bother you (they do me! :)) -- Renee
Rusty Southwick said...
We were thinking the Brough-houses too when we saw Mr. Phelps. He's the long lost Brough.
No problem with the multiple comments. It keeps the comment total higher.
Natasha Becoming Something said...
Okay, so you're not who I thought you were. You have a photo and other blogs and I'm just being paranoid. You have a twin writer who's a woman. I thought she started another blog under deep cover.
I didn't believe the visual thing so I DID copy it and use the eyedropper tool and could not believe it.
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By Maria Groot:
But the fight against slavery has a face: that of the prominent activist Biram Dah Abeid. He is sometimes compared to Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Roman Republic, or to Malcolm X, but to many locals he is simply Biram, the man who goes on hunger strikes, frees slaves, and who once publicly burnt Islamic scriptures that he says justify slavery. In just a couple of years, Biram has split the country into two groups: those who love him and those who hate him.
I met Biram a year before my trip to Mauritania, in Brussels. Surrounded by three guards in a hotel room, he spoke slowly and thoughtfully, like a reverend. “I am always shocked when some Westerners try to tell me that slavery is part of our culture,” he told me. “They take a brutal crime, decriminalize it and turn it into a cultural phenomenon. There is no crime older than rape. Yet nobody will say it is a cultural thing.”
When Biram was eight years old, his father told him that his grandmother had been a slave. The revelation had a profound impact on him. “I promised my father that I was going to fight slavery and discrimination,” he told me. The young boy started to write pamphlets, which he handed out at school. Later, he went to study law in the capital Nouakchott and had an administrative job for 10 years until he was so frustrated with his superiors that he quit and became a full-time activist.
After being a member of the more diplomatic and state recognized anti-slavery organization SOS Esclaves for many years, he decided to create his own organization in 2008. The logo of L’Initiative pour la Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste (IRA) is a red clenched fist. The powers that be deserve a punch, and Biram intends to throw one at them.
“The state has been complicit in slavery, so it is not in their interest to fight it. That is why slavery continues to exist,” he told me in Brussels. The UN also holds Mauritania’s government responsible, as it has failed to implement legislation and seems unwilling to follow up on allegations of slavery. Most cases are closed without proper investigations.
Activists hope Mauritania Court Rulings Signal "Beginning of the End" for Slavery
By Kieran Guilbert at Reuters:
A week in which two slave-owners were jailed and two leading anti-slavery activists were released from prison in Mauritania could mark a turning point in the West African nation's fight to eliminate the practice, campaigners said on Wednesday.
Two men were last week handed five-year prison sentences - one year to be served, four years suspended - and ordered to pay compensation to two victims in only the country's second ever prosecution for slavery since it was criminalised in 2007.
Prominent activists Biram Dah Abeid and Brahim Bilal, who had been in prison for 18 months after taking part in an anti-slavery march, were freed two days later by the Supreme Court.
The court reversed an appeals court judgement made in August which had upheld a two-year sentence for the two Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) leaders.
The two court judgements could signal the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania, according to Sarah Mathewson, Africa programme co-ordinator at Anti-Slavery International.
"This should empower people to come forward, access justice and seek compensation," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Anti-Slavery Activists Finally Released from Prison in Mauritania
Dear friends of the Abolition Institute,
Yesterday has a truly historic day in the centuries-old struggle to end slavery in Mauritania.
World renown Mauritanian anti-slavery leaders Biram Abeid and Brahim Ramdhane, both of whom have travelled and spoken in Chicago as guests of the Abolition Institute, were released from prison by the Mauritanian Supreme Court. Read the statement on this momentous event by our U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania Larry Andre, a strong champion for human rights in the region.
Millions of activists across the globe sent e-mails to the Mauritanian government urging their release. Countless news outlets covered their plight. While Biram and Brahim were arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against slavery, their government had, at that time, never successfully prosecuted actual slaveholders.
I personally met with Biram and Brahim in their remote prison in Aleg, Mauritania last year. Their perseverance, optimism and commitment to the cause was truly inspiring. Even in these difficult circumstances, both Biram and Brahim expressed tremendous gratitude to the Abolition Institute and supporters like yourself who are fighting so hard for our shared cause. It has always been deeply meaningful to me that Biram’s last event before receiving the prestigious United Nations Human Rights Prize at the UN General Assembly in New York was to address student activists – the future of the movement – with us in Oak Park, Illinois.
The broader movement against slavery won a second huge victory yesterday as well. For the first time in Mauritania’s history, a special anti-slavery court convicted and sentenced slave-owners to prison and to pay meaningful restitution to women they had enslaved. The only previous conviction for the crime of slavery in Mauritania was in 2011, and the slave-owner never served prison time.
Eight more anti-slavery cases are now pending, and Judge Aliou Ba stated that the decision was meant to send a message to slaveholders that cases will now be vigorously prosecuted in the new courts.
Great credit is due to the lawyer for our partner organization, SOS Esclaves -- Maitre Mohameden Elid. As a Haratine (a group that has traditionally suffered from slavery and discrimination in Mauritania), it was deeply symbolic that Maitre Elid was the first lawyer to argue – and win – a case in the new Mauritanian slavery courts.
Special gratitude also goes to all the members of SOS Esclaves, including founder Boubacar Messaoud, who have struggled for decades against slavery in Mauritania. SOS Esclaves helped both victims escape, assisted them in supporting their families, and organized and filed the successful cases. Legal training and assistance was provided by Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest international human rights organization and a great partner of ours based in London.
I’d like to close this note with a word about the two female victims, Fatimetou Mint Hamdi and Fatimetou Mint Zaydih. They are who this movement is all about. Fatimetou and Fatimata, both in their late 30s, had lived with the Ould Daoud family since birth as their slaves.
They took great risks and showed great courage, escaping with their children last year with help from local SOS Esclaves activists. Fatimetou attended the public trial and spoke compellingly about what she had suffered. Mauritanian slave masters often claim, when confronted, that their slaves are really just members of their family. When the masters were denying the charges, she began shouting out: ‘That’s not true, you know what we were to you!’ For the first time in history, a Mauritanian slavery court agreed and for that we are truly thankful.
Sean Tenner
The Abolition Institute
John Kerry: Reconsider Muaritania's AGOA Eligibility, Call for Anti-Slavery Enforcement
The Honorable John F. Kerry
2201 C Street, NW
Dear Mr. Secretary:
We are deeply troubled by the August 20th court ruling in Mauritania upholding a two-year prison sentence for anti-slavery activists Biram dah Abeid (recipient of the 2013 UN Human Rights Prize), Brahim Bilal, and Djiby Sow. The Mauritanian government has demonstrated a complete disregard for rule of law and basic human rights by imprisoning human rights defenders for exercising their right to freedom of assembly and expression and by circumventing the judicial process for appeal.
When arrested in November 2014, the human rights organizations that Abeid, Bilal and Sow represent were leading a peaceful sensitization “caravan” along the Senegal River – as the biggest obstacle to the struggle against slavery in Mauritania is the lack of awareness about the problem. On January 15, 2015, the Mauritanian government sentenced Abeid, Bilal and Sow to two years imprisonment for inciting rebellion and membership in an ‘illegal’ organization. In an attempt to diffuse popular support for the prisoners and make it difficult for their family and lawyers to visit, within 24 hours of being sentenced, all three were arbitrarily moved to the remote location of Aleg. In light of these events, we urge you to publicly condemn this injustice; encourage the government of Mauritania to enforce its anti-slavery laws; and seriously reconsider Mauritania’s eligibility for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
Freedom House has documented Mauritania’s deteriorating human rights record in its annual Freedom in the Worldreport. In 2009, Mauritania was downgraded from ‘Partly Free’ to ‘Not Free’ status, due to the military’s ouster of the democratically elected president. Under President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, political power is highly centralized in the hands of the executive and the scale of slavery has not diminished. According to the Global Slavery Index, Mauritania has the highest prevalence of modern slavery in the world at an estimated 4% of the population - although many local human rights organizations put the number close to 20%.
Abeid’s organization, the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), among others, have been instrumental in raising the issue of slavery to the forefront, exposing abuses and mobilizing Mauritanian citizens to demand basic rights. Since the November arrests, the organization’s resources have been funneled into legal proceedings and drawn away from their ultimate mission to eliminate slavery in Mauritania.
We urge the United States to publically condemn the decision by the appeal court in Aleg against Abeid, Bilal and Sow. The United States provides over $40 million in security assistance to Mauritania. This aid offers a significant amount of leverage to engage the Mauritanian government on issues of human rights. Also, as you made clear in your remarks at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism earlier this year, civil society groups and human rights defenders like Abeid, Bilal and Sow are essential in the struggle against violent extremism as they promote social and political inclusion, diminishing the appeal of extremist groups.
The United States should press the government of Mauritania to enforce its anti-slavery laws. We welcomed the enactment of tougher laws against slavery earlier this month, especially provisions which allow non-profit organizations to file complaints on the behalf of victims; however, the Mauritanian government’s commitment to implement these laws is in doubt. Since Mauritania criminalized slavery in 2007, the government has not provided adequate resources for the special tribunal dedicated to slavery prosecutions - as noted in the recent report issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery - and only one perpetrator has been brought to justice. Weakening local human rights organizations will make the enforcement of anti-slavery laws even less likely.
Finally, the United States should reconsider Mauritania’s AGOA eligibility on human rights grounds. During the upcoming AGOA eligibility review of Mauritania, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative should consult with Mauritanian human rights organizations regarding the restrictions on political rights and civil liberties as well as the trend lines in the incidence of slavery that exist in the country.
As one of Mauritania’s closest allies and key partner in the fight against terrorism, the United States is in a strong position to encourage President Aziz’s government to stop persecuting anti-slavery activists and live up to its own commitments to end slavery. These efforts would help make Mauritania more pluralistic and resilient and decrease terrorism and instability.
Mark P. Lagon
President, Freedom House
Co-Signers:
Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture
Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme (AEDH)
Anti-Slavery International
Association des Femmes Chefs de Famille
Free the Slaves
Human Rights First
IRA – Mauritanie
IRA – USA
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
SOS-Esclaves
Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO)
Abolition Institute and others call upon United Nations to act on Mauritanian human rights issues:
To the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery,
To the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related Intolerance,
To the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders,
To the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association,
We, international organizations supporting the anti-slavery movement in Mauritania, are writing to call for concerted action from the UN human rights community after the conviction of three Mauritanian human rights activists was upheld on appeal on August 20, 2015. Biram Dah Abeid, Brahim Bilal Ramdhane (President and Vice-President of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement) and Djiby Sow (President of Kawtal) were initially convicted on January 15, 2015, after leading a peaceful campaign against slavery and for land reform in favour of disadvantaged groups in Mauritania. Their ‘crimes’ were “inciting rebellion”, “disobeying the orders of the authorities” and (for IRA) “belonging to an illegal organization”. Their conviction prompted a national and global outcry; one response was an Avaaz petition signed by nearly one million people from around the world.
Within two months the activists were transferred to an isolated unit of a prison in the remote town of Aleg, where their appeal was held. This move was in conflict with normal legal procedures according to which the imprisonment and appeal should have been held in Nouakchott, which led the activists to regard their detention in Aleg as ‘arbitrary’ and to boycott the appeal in protest.
We find it deeply disturbing that the Mauritanian authorities would choose to prosecute these innocent defenders of human rights, in flagrant violation of their rights to freedom of assembly and association, simply for their action against Mauritania’s deeply-rooted slavery system. Indeed, the Government should be actively engaged in this vital work, facilitating and supporting the role of civil society. It has instead chosen to target and punish civil society leaders, while slave-owners continue to enjoy total impunity. Mauritania’s array of measures to combat slavery, including a new anti-slavery law adopted just last week, has been revealed once again to be little more than a smokescreen to disguise the Government’s continued lack of action or will to end the practice.
The testimonies of people who have escaped slavery bear witness to systematic abuse, forced labour and the exercise of full ownership rights over them from birth. Yet despite an overwhelming body of evidence of the practice and at least 30 slavery cases before the courts, the Government continues to deny the existence of the slavery system, acknowledging only that the ‘legacy’ of the practice remains. A culture of denial and cover-up pervades Mauritania’s judicial system: the only slave-owner ever prosecuted for the crime (in 2011) was released on bail pending his appeal, which has never taken place. It is also deeply ironic that this slave-owner had received a prison sentence of just two years – the same sentence that the activists are now enduring for their work to combat slavery practices.
We call on you to recognise that no anti-slavery initiative from the Mauritanian government can be taken seriously as long as leaders in the anti-slavery movement continue to face this level of persecution for their work. We respectfully request that you make every effort to increase pressure on the Mauritanian authorities to cease its campaign against the activists and uphold their rights. We, the undersigned organisations, all actively supporting the anti-slavery movement in Mauritania, are at your disposal to provide any support or information to facilitate your efforts.
Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l'Homme
IRA-USA
Society For Threatened Peoples International
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
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Kingsclere and Whitchurch RD — Current theme: Social Structure
The first census in 1801 simply divided people into those employed in agriculture and those in trade or manufacturing, and the 1841 census, the first to gather detailed occupational data, imposed no real order on it at all. However, the first occupational classification, introduced in 1851, was clearly concerned with social status as well as with what people made: it began with the Queen, followed by government officials and then by 'the learned professions'.
In the twentieth century a separate system of social classes was devised. Originally created to help understand mortality, the Registrar General's Social Classification was tabulated by the census from 1951 onwards. However, the Office for National Statistics no longer officially use the social classification, but instead provide data for an essentially similar set of 'Social Grades' defined by the British Market Research Society. To provide a longer perspective we have re-organised earlier occupational information to the same system. Like the published 1951 data, all our figures are limited to men.
This is only possible where we have very detailed occupational statistics at district-level, so these earlier censuses are limited to 1841, where the replies to the occupational question were tabulated almost raw; 1881, where we can use complete data from the enumerator's books; and 1931, which produced the most detailed of all occupational reports.
We hold these detailed statistics for Kingsclere, which we graph and tabulate here:
Grouped Social Class 1951 to 1971 Registrar General's Social Class, grouped (4)
Social Class 1951 to 1971 Registrar General's Social Class (6)
Socio-Econmic Groups Total (males only) 1961 to 1971 Total of all Socio-Economic Groups (1)
Socio-Economic Group (males only) 1971 Socio-Economic Groups, with sub-groups (39)
Socio-Economic Group (males only) 1961 to 1971 Socio-Economic Groups (17)
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Stanford University Stanford, CA
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University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
The University of California—Berkeley overlooks the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, Calif. Students at this public school have more than 700 organizations to get involved in, including more than 55 fraternity and sorority chapters.
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
The California Institute of Technology focuses on science and engineering education and has a low student-to-faculty ratio of 3:1. This private institution in Pasadena, California, is actively involved in research projects with grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
Georgia Institute of Technology has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,682, with a gender distribution of 66.2 percent male students and 33.8 percent female students. At this school, 54 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 46 percent of students live off campus.
University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
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Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
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University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor was established in 1817 as a public institution. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor follows a trimester-based academic calendar and its admissions are considered most selective.
Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Cornell University, a private school in Ithaca, New York, has 14 colleges and schools. Each admits its own students, though every graduate receives a degree from Cornell University. The university has more than 1,000 student organizations on campus.
Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN
Purdue University–West Lafayette has a total undergraduate enrollment of 29,255, with a gender distribution of 57.4 percent male students and 42.6 percent female students. At this school, 37 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 63 percent of students live off campus.
Princeton University Princeton, NJ
The ivy-covered campus of Princeton University, a private institution, is located in the quiet town of Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton was the first university to offer a “no loan” policy to financially needy students, giving grants instead of loans to accepted students who need help paying tuition.
University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX
University of Texas–Austin is a public institution that was founded in 1883. The school has 36.5 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students, and the student-faculty ratio at University of Texas–Austin is 18:1.
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Home > Vol 8, No 3 (2014) > Loadenthal
Eco-Terrorism? Countering Dominant Narratives of Securitisation: a Critical, Quantitative History of the Earth Liberation Front (1996-2009)
Eco-Terrorism?
Countering Dominant Narratives of Securitisation: a Critical, Quantitative History of the Earth Liberation Front (1996-2009)
by Michael Loadenthal
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has carried out acts of political violence and ‘economic sabotage’ characterized by a pattern of behaviour reflecting tactical and targeting selections, communications strategies, and geographic location. The movement’s attacks typically focus on the destruction of property located in ‘soft targets’ associated with commercial and residential construction, the automotive industry, and a variety of local, national and multinational business interests. These sites are routinely targeted through a variety of means ranging from graffiti to sabotage to arson. Geographically, the movement has focused its attacks in the United States and Mexico, and, to a limited extent, countries on the European, South American and Australian continents. The findings presented in this article were developed through a statistical analysis of the movement’s attack history as presented through its above-ground support network. This is discussed in critical contrast to assertions about the movement’s alleged terrorist behaviour found in most academic and government literature. This study seeks to present an incident-based historical analysis of the ELF that is not situated within a logic of securitisation. In doing so, it challenges traditional scholarship based on statistical findings.
Keywords: Earth Liberation Front, eco-terrorism, single-issue terrorism, quantitative analysis
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the often-linked fields of Terrorism Studies and Security Studies have witnessed a boom, accompanied by the more general rise in university studies directed at Islam, political Islam, terrorism and Middle Eastern politics[1]. Subsequently, new approaches have been developed within a host of “critical” fields, including Critical Terrorism Studies[2] and Critical Security Studies[3]. These attempt to problematise and clarify a methodology for those seeking to investigate political violence and responses to it through a non-orthodox, non-realist lens in an attempt to move beyond a purely securitisation focus. These approaches, while offering a host of new points of concern and criticism, often continue to base their study on raw data produced by state institutions. Thus while such studies may critically examine findings, new scholarship is needed that draws its conclusions from the wealth of data offered by the social movements themselves.
Within this post-9/11 era of terrorism scholarship, a new class of “terrorism experts”[4] emerged, poised to corner the academic market, often at the service of law enforcement, state-centric think tanks and a wider statecraft of securitisation. The present study is not meant to serve as yet another quantitative tool for criminal and behavioural profiling. Instead it is meant to act as an example of a methodological break, wherein one surveys the difficult data offered by the practitioners of political violence or their supporters themselves. The analysis contained herein is not meant to be a tool for law enforcement but rather to serve as a counter balance to the statist narrative concerning tactical trends and their relation to the criminalisation of dissent. Overblown, inaccurate, and fear mongering depictions of bomb-throwing masked vigilantes occupies much of the discussion of “eco-terrorism”. In response, scholars have been careful to begin developing counter-narratives to discuss these movements within a more accurately nuanced language. Activist-aligned journalists[5] and academics[6] have also begun to offer critiques of the terrorist framing of these movements in an attempt to offer an alternative explanation to state rhetoric. Within state rhetoric, we see the ELF (and its sister entity the Animal Liberation Front) termed “eco-terrorists” since around 2002, when Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Domestic Terrorism Chief James Jarboe invoked the label twelve times in a speech entitled “The Threat of Eco-Terrorism.” The same year, Dale Watson from the FBI’s counterterrorism and counterintelligence division, reported to the United States Senate that the ALF/ELF represented a serious terrorist threat, characterising them as the most active extremist elements in the US.
The ELF has been active in the US since 1996, and through the use of decentralised, self-contained, underground cells of activists, has managed to not only carryout scores of attacks on property, but remain relatively immune from arrest. Activists inspired and motivated by the politics of the ELF are free to carry out acts of property destruction and claim them via the ELF moniker, provided they meet the movement’s guidelines. According to widely circulated guidelines, ELF actions must economically harm the adversary, aim to educate the public, and avoid harming both human and (non-human) animal life. Therefore if an individual, or a small grouping of activists agree with these three simple points, they are encouraged to act independently and to claim their attack through the ELF moniker. This has most often been done through written communiqués bearing the ELF name. In those rare instances when a communiqué is not issued, the letters E.L.F. have appeared in paint at the site of the incident. The various actors and cells that constitute the ELF should therefore we understood as an ideologically-aligned network of autonomous, decentralised nodes, who share a strategic and tactical vision. They are not a unified movement in the traditional sense, nor are they a membership-based organisation. They are a tactical, strategic and praxis-informed tendency supported by a similarly decentralised, ad hoc network. As a result, scholarship that insists on understanding such groupings as nothing more than radical splitters of traditional social movements (e.g. Earth First!) will continue to be inherently flawed.
In exploring these networks of clandestine eco-saboteurs and arsonists, one is often tempted to construct a definition of terrorism, and following that, present one’s case comparatively to that set of parameters. The goal then becomes to decide if the evidence presented qualifies the object for inclusion within the terrorist designation. Conversely, this study seeks to present evidence which can then be held up against a variety of definitions of terrorism that have in common a focus on deliberate attacks against unarmed human beings in order to intimidate, coerce or otherwise influence a larger audience. Therefore the ‘dominant narratives’ this study seeks to challenge are those that present the ELF not as a strategic social movement utilising targeted property destruction, but as a violent terroristic threat to the nation state. It is not the main intention of this study to refute the FBI’s classification of the ELF as domestic “eco-terrorists”, but rather to discuss how data is represented through a divergent lens, and subsequently used to embolden such claims for the purposes of securitisation. The intention of this study is to provide quantitative evidence to public, above-ground activists and scholars who seek to offer support in the creation of counter narratives; explanations of an emergent social movement not based in state-centric terrorism rhetoric.
The following study seeks to determine the tactical, targeting, messaging and associated behavioural characteristics of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) through a data set drawn from the movement’s self-constructed mouthpiece. This analysis will draw from the movement’s 13 (1996-2009) year history of global attacks in order to answer the question: What does a typical ELF attack look like, and secondly, how often are atypical incidents claimed under the ELF moniker? In order to develop such a behavioural profile, a series of statistical findings will be reviewed. These findings are drawn from an analysis of the movement’s attack history as presented via their above-ground support structure, the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office (NAELFPO)[7]. All data analysed was gleaned from pubic (i.e. non-classified) sources and as such, provides little to no utility for law enforcement as such entities compile their own incident databases from a host of clandestine (e.g. Law Enforcement Sensitive, Classified, etc.) sources. This attack chronology, documented by the NAELFPO, was used to develop a database of 707 events, each coded for 11 variables. Each attack was coded through a standardised decision tree based on the description provided by the NAELPO, as well as communications issued by the ELF cell directly. The data was then split into six datasets and analysed. These six distinct datasets were developed to account for the presence or absence of repeating events (e.g. one cell breaks the windows of four banks, claimed in one communiqué) and commonly occurring, distinct national locations. Throughout the discussion contained herein, the findings have been compared to studies presented in academic journals, as well as government reports, in an attempt to evaluate the ELF’s attack history in the light of assertions made about the movement’s behaviours.[8]
Methodology: Process & Limitations
The database utilised throughout this analysis was created from the “diary of actions” hosted on the NAELFPO’s website. According to the NAELFPO, “The actions contained on the pages below comprise a complete history of ELF actions in North America and globally.”[9] From the “diary of actions,” a 707-entry database was created, each entry representing one ELF-linked attack. These 707 entries were comprised of 211 distinct events, and 496 repeating attacks (e.g. a single cell vandalising multiple, distinct targets in one outing claimed through a single communiqué) occurring between 14 October 1996, and 23 November 2009. The attacks were carried out across 14 countries, including 28 US states while there were as well four attacks without a clearly discernable location. The data was coded manually, and used to create a database via the “SPSS Statistics 17.0” software suite. Each event was assigned distinct values within 11 variable fields.[10] Many of the attack descriptions and cell communiqués are exceedingly descriptive regarding the tactics utilised and target selection, though in some cases this descriptive richness was lacking. Occasionally, attacks were recorded in the NAELFPO diary with only a single descriptive sentence, making the process of coding for 11 variables difficult. The variable categories were developed with such limitations in mind, and thus, “the goal in developing the [coding] taxonomy was to build a set of classes broad enough to capture the range of terrorist behaviour, but still simple enough to use, given the limitations in the descriptive data available on each individual terrorist incident”[11].
In cases where elements of the description necessary for coding were absent, attempts were made to estimate a reasonable scenario, and to describe it through the most accurate terms available.[12] For example, if a description stated that a laboratory was “attacked,” “trashed,” or “monkey wrenched,” the attack was recorded as an act of “sabotage/vandalism/graffiti,” as the broad nature of this tactic category was developed to allow for the coding of such events; events where the exact nature of the damage and tactics are unclear. If the description stated that the target was “covered in slogans,” “paint bombed,” “tagged” or used similar language, the tactic was recorded as “graffiti,” despite the fact that such a term was not included in the communiqué text. Throughout the coding process, attention was paid to the stated motivation for attacking a target. For example, when a Wal-Mart or Nike shop was attacked and criticised for its global policies, it was recorded as an attack targeting a “multinational corporation,” whereas the office of a regional energy company was recorded as a “business property.” Similarly, two attacks, both targeting automobiles could be coded differently depending on the owner’s position vis-à-vis the larger ELF policy. The vandalism of a sports utility vehicle (SUV) in a dealership was recorded as targeting a “SUV/automobile,” whereas similar vandalism of a specific individual’s (e.g. CEO of targeted company, researcher engaged in controversial experimentation) car, targeted because it belonged to that individual, was recorded as the targeting of “personal property.” In coding the data, the aim was to use as little interpretation as possible, and to transparently decipher the language of the description and/or communiqué into the coding values through a standardised decision tree.
In order to accurately represent the scale of some attacks, some single events are recorded as multiple entries. For example, if four SUVs are firebombed, the events were recorded as four acts of arson because four targets were attacked[13] Conversely, the breaking of four windows of one office/SUV/home/etc., was counted as a single attack. However, if one window was broken on each of four separate offices, this was recorded as four attacks since multiple targets serve as the determining factor. Occasionally, the exact number of targets attacked was unclear. If the description stated that “numerous vehicles” or “a row of homes” was attacked, that incident was recorded as two entries despite the possibility that many more targets were attacked. Lastly, if an attack utilised two distinctly different tactics, the event was recorded as two incidents[14]. This was done when both tactics fell outside of the “sabotage/vandalism/graffiti” category, such as in the case of an “animal liberation” that also involved the arson of the building. In this example, the event would be recorded as one “distinct incident” and one “multiple entry”[15]. Because of the tendency for such a coding procedure to artificially inflate the appearance of some attacks, calculations were conducted separately within multiple data sets, one wherein multiple entries are included, and another wherein only distinct (non-recurring) attacks are included. In this second, distinct incident data set, multiple entries were condensed to single attacks. For example, if saboteurs were to slash the tires of four vehicles and claim it in a single communiqué, this would be recorded as one tire-slashing incident in the distinct incident data set, and recorded as four tire-slashing incidents in the multiple entry data set. For the purposes of analysis, the sample was split into three location-based categories. Each of the three datasets were then split into subsets (multiple entries and distinct incidents). For the purposes of reporting and discussion, these six datasets will be referred to throughout, abbreviated as DB1, DB2, DB3, DB4, DB5 and DB6 and are detailed in the endnotes.[16] All numerical findings were rounded to the nearest whole number when presented in the in-text data tables, and in doing so, some total to more than one hundred percent.
In rare cases, the NAELFPO’s data included attacks that were carried out by a known group that was not affiliated with the ELF. For example, between 10 October 2008 and 31 October 2008, four attacks were carried out in Canada targeting the EnCana Corporation[17]. These attacks were not claimed by an ELF cell despite the presence of a communiqué hosted by NAELFPO, and thus, these attacks were excluded from the sample. Occasionally a cell adopted the ELF name after the initiation of an attack campaign. For example, starting in June 2009, attacks in Mexico ceased to be claimed by the ELF, and were instead claimed by "Eco-arsonists for the liberation of the earth" (EpLT).[18] Thus attacks claimed by the EpLT were excluded from the study sample, and only those prior attacks signed with the ELF name were included. Around the same time, additional attacks in Mexico were being carried out by “Luddites Against the Domestication of Wild Nature,” (LADWN); these were similarly excluded as LADWN represented a distinctly new, non-ELF moniker.[19] However, on 20 July 2009, LADWN announced in a communiqué that it now "form[ed] part of a cell of the Frente de Liberación de la Tierra,”[20] thus from that date onwards, the group’s actions were recorded as attacks of the ELF[21]. Finally, when a group used the ELF name but specified a distinct unit within the movement, this attack was simply recorded as being carried out by the ELF. For example, on 5 March 2001, a graffiti attack was claimed by the “ELF Night Action Kids,”[22] and was recorded in the database as being carried out by the ELF. These methodological decisions were made to allow for focus on the deployment of the ELF moniker - not the wider constituency makeups. For example, despite the ideologically-shared proclivities of the ELF and the EpLT, since the latter chooses an explicitly non-ELF moniker to claim its actions, it is excluded despite tactical, strategic and ideological similarities.
In coding for the “communiqué” variable, the presence of a communiqué linked from the NAELFPO website was recorded as such, just as the lack of a communiqué present on the website was recorded as “no communiqué issued,” despite the possibility that a communiqué was available in another source.[23] In order for an attack to be marked as ELF-linked without the presence of a communiqué, it was required that the letters “E.L.F.” were left at the scene of the attack either through graffiti, a banner, note, or similar visual/written communication. For example, on 11 October 2004, a “package with the letters ‘ELF,’”[24] was left on a road in Philadelphia and treated as a possible improvised explosive device, thought the box turned out to be harmless. Thus in the database, the attack was credited to the ELF as a “bomb threat.”
Limitations exist in the data acquisition and categorisation methodology employed. Of particular importance are concerns regarding the validity of the NAELFPO’s “diary of actions” as the data was provided by an organisation with vested interests in promoting the best image of the ELF. Despite other databases available, such as those created by the Foundation for Biomedical Research[25][26] the North American Animal Liberation Front Press Office reports[27], and numerous scholarly articles[28], this study sought to utilise a single data source, thus eliminating the need to synthesise conflicting information. In an attempt to remove the judgment of the researcher from the acquisition of a data sample, only the NAELFPO “diary of actions” was used despite the understanding that such a source may contain inherent bias. As previously discussed, the lack of descriptive detail present in accounts of some attacks led to the development of coding categories that were more broadly defined then would have been necessary if complete incident descriptions were present for all attacks. To correct for this tendency, the variable coding categories were defined broadly enough to be inclusive of the uncertainty present in the data, while attempting to maintain distinctions. The categories were designed so that a single event could only be classified within one category. Despite these limitations, the NAELFPO dataset provides a singular and complete source for analysis while avoiding the need for the researcher to decide which sources are legitimate and which are to be excluded. At its best, the “diary of actions” represents an accurate, well-researched history of the ELF and affiliated movements. At its most limited, this study analyses the manner in which the ELF’s press office presents the movement to a wider audience; how the press office frames the cells’ actions via their intended messaging.
Findings & Discussion: Targeting
This first section will analyse the targeting pattern present in the ELF data. Target data was coded within 24 targeting types ranging from the common (e.g. 208 attacks on automobiles) to the obscure (e.g. one attack on an advertisement). The results from the data analysis concerning targeting vary dependent on the portion of the sample utilised. When the complete 707-entry[29] dataset (DB1) is analysed, the following findings emerge as the eight most commonly attacked[30] target types:
SUV/automobile: 29%
Phone booths: 17%
Homes under construction/model homes: 12%
Company vehicles: 11%
Construction/industrial equipment: 10%
Business property: 5%
Farm/ranch/breeders: 2%
McDonalds restaurants: 2%
The other 16 target types each account for less than 2% of the total attacks, and collectively comprise only 12% of the total targets.[31]
When the global dataset excludes the multiple entries (DB2), the predominance of attacks on automobiles and phone booths is reduced, as these targets are typically attacked in groups. In the 211 entry DB2 dataset, the 12 most commonly attacked targets are:
Home under construction/model homes: 13%
Business property: 12%
Phone booth: 8%
Business vehicle: 8%
McDonalds: 5%
Farm/ranch/breeder: 5%
GMO experiment/research: 4%
Government property: 3%
Trees: 3%
Government vehicle: 2%
When these findings are compared to that of prior scholarship, points of congruency and disagreement can be seen. Though no alternative study could be located using the exact sample data source, in an article based on a dataset consisting of “database of [109] ELF attacks,” occurring between 1996-2001, Leader and Probst [33] report that the most commonly attacked ELF targets are:
“corporations”: 33 (36%)
“Urban sprawl/development”: 30 (33%)
“logging & related”: 18 (20%)
“genetic engineering/biotech research facilities”: 14
“facilities that threaten animals”: 6 (7%)
“government facilities”: 5 (5%)
“symbols of global economy”: 3 (3%)
As one can see, a close comparisons becomes quite difficult between the two studies as they adopt different frameworks for categorisation; one based in the nature and identity of the targeted object, and the other in a broader business type category.
Similarly, a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-commissioned study, carried out by Helios Global Inc., reported comparable, though more generic results. The Helios study focuses on a conflated history of the ELF and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) over a longer timeline, from 1981-2005.[34] Because their sample incorporates the ELF as well as the ALF, and their timeframe predates the ELF’s founding by 15 years, an exact comparison is not possible. Regardless of such limitations, according to the Helios study[35], the most frequently attacked “primary targets” of the ALF/ELF are:
“Commercial enterprises and/or individuals engaged in housing and urban development
Commercial enterprises and/or individuals involved in the logging industry
Sports utility vehicle (SUV) dealerships
Commercial enterprises and/or individuals involved in the production, sale, and distribution of animal products (leather and fur producers, sellers, and distributors; restaurants; and meat, poultry, and fish producers
Animal research facilities and personnel
Commercial enterprises and universities involved in genetic engineering.…”
From the Helios study, though different terminology is employed, the targeting findings are quite similar to those contained in the present study. Target category 1, overlaps this study’s category termed, “house under construction/mobile home,” whereas the remaining five categories similarly overlap this study’s use of categorical terms such as: “SUV/automobile,” “business property,” “farm/ranch/breeder,” “laboratory” and “GMO crops or research” respectively.
Returning to the data presented herein, in this ELF-specific study, one can now examine the remainder of the datasets concerning targeting typologies. When the dataset is further reduced to only attacks carried out in the United States, including multiple entries (DB3), the results are largely the same, with the same target types occupying the higher echelons. Notable changes include the exclusion of attacks on “phone booths,” as all such attacks occurred in Mexico, as well as the rising presence of the targeting of “trees” (via tree spiking) as the eighth most common target type, comprising 2% of the total attack pool. In the 462-entry DB3 dataset, the most commonly attacked targets are “SUV/automobile”, “House under construction/model home”, “Business property”, “Construction/industrial equipment”, “Business vehicle”, “McDonalds”, “Farm/ranch/breeder” and “Trees: 2%”. The other 13 target types each account for less than 2% of the total attacks, and collectively comprise only 12% of the total targets.[36] When this dataset excludes multiple entries (DB4), the results are largely the same. With the exclusion of multiple entries, the targeting types are more evenly distributed, with 15/20 target types accounting for 2% or more of the total pool. Comparison between these two datasets is displayed below:
The other 11 target types each account for less than 5% of the total attacks, and collectively comprise 21% of the total targets.[37]
When targeting type is further reduced to the pool of attacks carried out only in Mexico, including the incorporation of multiple attacks (DB5), the exceedingly high proportion of attacks on “phone booths” is visible. In this sample, 78% of all ELF attacks in Mexico targeted a Telmex phone booth. This is by far the most singularly-focused targeting seen in any of the datasets. In the DB5 dataset, the second most commonly attacked target type is “business property,” comprising only 7%.[38] When multiple attacks are excluded from the dataset (DB6), attacks on phone booths still remain the most common target type, but only account for 39% of the total attacks. Attacks on business property similarly remain the second most commonly attacked target type, now accounting for 24%.[39]
Throughout the findings in regards to targeting, there is a pattern of ELF cells attacking unguarded, ‘soft target’ sites such as vehicles, phone booths and construction sites. In general, such properties would be located in public areas with little or no security. In contrast, target types such as laboratories, ski resorts, banks and government property consistently occupy the lower levels of target selection, possibly because such areas would more commonly employ electronic surveillance systems or human guards. Regardless of the dataset examined, and independent of the inclusion or exclusion of multiple attacks, business properties and construction sites are routinely targeted. In the US datasets, there is a dominant pattern of targeting homes under construction and model homes, though this pattern is not seen in other national settings. This is likely a reflection of the growing “sprawl” critique as seen in anti-globalisation, anti-gentrification, anti-capitalist and anarcho-primitivist movements in the US, a site where many ELF activists find their ideological groundings[40]. In other nations, such as Mexico, there is no record of the targeting of “sprawl” sites, as Mexican cells have focused their attention on attacking phone booths as part of a larger campaign against Telmex, a company described in communiqués as “earth destroying,”[41] and guilty of “biocide”[42].
Throughout the data collection and coding process, attention was paid to determining if the ELF attack carried out was part of a larger stated campaign, thus leading to the specific location being targeted. In the US, two campaigns were identified. The most prominent was the anti-sprawl campaign in Long Island, N.Y, comprised of eight distinct attacks (42 multiple entry attacks), occurring from September 2000 to January 2001. Such attacks accounted for approximately 8% of the total attacks carried out in the US. Craig Rosebraugh, former ELF spokesman, notes the prominence of the Long Island anti-sprawl campaign, writing that it “constituted the most focused and intensified campaign the ELF had ever undertaken,”[43] consisting of 11 “major” attacks including five arsons of homes and condominiums under construction [44]. The second largest campaign targeted affiliates of animal research supplier Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).[45] Six distinct anti-HLS attacks were carried out in the US, comprising less than 2% of the overall attacks. Such campaigns do not appear to be prominent in the ELF’s targeting system as approximately 91% of all US attacks were not part of a stated campaign.[46] In Mexico, this trend dramatically changes, as over 81% of all multiple entry attacks, and over 51% of all distinct entry attacks are part of the campaign targeting Telmex. Mexico also was the venue for one anti-HLS attack.[47]
In examining atypical events, some of the data that comprises the rare incidents, the outliers, though not statistically significant, are deserving of brief discussion. In only one distinct attack a ski resort was targeted, yet despite its rarity, the Vail, Colorado arson is often the most commonly heard of ELF attack, possibly because it caused approximately $26 million in damages [48]. At the time the datasets were being constructed, a photograph of the Vail fire was featured on the ELF’s main page, cataloging the movement’s “diary of actions”[49]. A second atypical targeting discovery focuses on cells’ decisions to target human life and not solely property. Throughout the movement’s 13-year history, only one attack directly targeted a human being. On 3 June 2009, an Australian cell of the ELF “hand delivered” a written threat to the home of a Hazelwood Power Station CEO, located in Melbourne[50]. The note threatened the individual’s property not his person, but because the threat was addressed towards a specific person, the incident was recorded as an attack targeting an individual not their property. Finally, in the targeting of fast food establishments, 15 attacks were directed at McDonald’s restaurants, while in only one attack, a Burger King was targeted. This particular action was taken in 2002 by an ELF cell in the US city of Richmond, Virginia [51].
Findings & Discussion: Tactics
The findings related to the tactics employed by ELF cells show little variation when the different datasets are examined comparatively. In every dataset, regardless of national location or the inclusion of “multiple entries,” the top three tactical choices are: “sabotage/vandalism/graffiti,” “arson” and “graffiti.” When viewed across datasets, the proportionality of these tactics changes, as does their usages vis-à-vis one another (but regardless of these variations), these three tactical choices consistently occupy the top three positions in the tactical tool belt. This cross-dataset trend can be viewed in the comparison chart below (Table #1) wherein the frequency of the three most common tactical typologies are compared across DB1-DB6:
In five out of six datasets, “sabotage/vandalism/graffiti” is the most commonly employed tactics, followed by “arson,” and finally, “graffiti.” In only one instance does “arson” calculate as the most commonly employed tactic.[52] After the first three most commonly employed tactics, the breakdown across the various datasets begins to show greater diversity. Below is a comparison (Table #3) of the fourth, fifth and sixth most commonly utilized tactics within the six datasets:
When examined together, these tactical trends show some similarity, with the breaking of windows, tree spiking [TS], attempted arsons [abbreviated as “At ar”] and animal liberations proving common in the first four datasets, while the Mexican datasets (DB5-6) show identical results.[53]
The findings concerning tactics of this study can be compared to similar attempts in the scholarly literature. The Helios study summarises the tactical choices of “ecoterrorists,” a broad category including but not limited to the ELF, and represents the totality of such attacks within five tactical typologies. According to the Helios study[54], the tactical breakdown of “ecomilitant tactics carried out between 1981 and 2005,” can be summarised as:
“Vandalism”: 45%
“Theft”: 23%
“Harassment”: 15%
“Arson”: 10%
“Bombing”: 7%
The Helios results share some findings with this study, as both agree that “vandalism” (termed “sabotage/vandalism/graffiti” in this study) as broadly defined, is the most commonly employed tactic, and “bombing[s]” (termed “IED” in this study), is the least commonly used tactic. Both studies also agree that within these extremes, “ecomilitants” use other tactics including arson and theft. Though not detailed in the study, one can assume that “Theft” for Helio encompasses the removal (or release) of live animals from slaughterhouses, breeding facilities, laboratories, etc. The Leader and Probst (2003) article reports similar findings but utilises smaller categorical groupings. Based on 92 attacks, according to the article[55], the three most common tactic types are:
“Vandalism”: 36 (33%) [56]
“Arson”: 32 (29%) [57]
“Sabotage”: 19 (17%) [58]
Once again, such findings support those of this study, in that both report the most commonly utilizsed tactics combine sabotage, vandalism, graffiti, arson and attempted arson.
In attempting to identify inaccuracies within the literature—such as those positioned to embolden security debates—the tactical descriptions of the ELF are likely the most important areas to examine. The Leader and Probst article asserts “ELF’s prime weapon is arson”,[59] though this claim is not supported by their own data nor the research presented herein, as more general sabotage and vandalism tactics generally show a higher predominance, as they do in datasets DB1-DB5, excluding DB6, where arson does surface as the most commonly utilised tactics in “distinct incident” attacks carried out in Mexico. In Leader and Probst’s own findings, vandalism occurs slightly more commonly than arson, and thus the statement that the movement’s “prime weapon is arson” appears hyperbolic for the sake of rhetoric. Linked to the tactics chosen for attack, are issues of lethality and threat to life. Casualty data was collected for every incident in the datasets. Throughout the 707, multinational, all incident dataset (DB1), and thus all secondary datasets, no ELF attack is reported to have caused any injuries or fatalities to human beings. This finding is supported by the scholarly literature[60] in every example surveyed and places a big question mark as to the rationale for the categorisation of ELF activities under ‘terrorism’.
Findings & Discussion: Claims of Responsibility
The presence of a communiqué documenting an attack is common throughout the different attacking cells. In cases where a formal communiqué is not issued, attackers sometimes leave ELF ‘calling cards’ such as the group’s name scrawled in graffiti, notes, or banners. In the following chart (Table #4), the comparison of communiqués and ‘calling cards’ is shown across the six datasets:
When compared across the six datasets, the trend is relatively uniform. In all cases, communiqués are more commonly issued then not, though their existence has varying degrees of regularity. In the first four datasets (DB1-4), communiqués are issued for more than half of all attacks (56% on average), and when a communiqué is not issued an ELF ‘calling card’ is present in approximately 19% of all cases.[61] In the Mexican datasets, communiqués are issued 100% of the time.[62]
Although this study has focused on attacks carried out by cells self-identifying as members of the ELF, occasionally, attacks are claimed in the name of a cooperative endeavor by the ELF and ALF through either a communiqué or through the NAELFPO’s description of the attack. The following chart (Table #5) shows the proportion of attacks claimed solely by the ELF, as compared to those claimed mutually by the ELF/ALF:
This cross-dataset comparison shows that the claiming of ELF/ALF joint actions is marginally more common in the non-US, non-Mexican arena. In the Mexican-only datasets, such cooperative claims of responsibility are exceedingly rare, accounting for only one attack in the entire country’s history.[63]
Findings & Discussion: Location
According to the data collected, the ELF is active in fourteen countries across the continents of North America, South America, Europe and Australia. The highest concentration exists in the English-speaking, ‘Western’ world of North America and Western Europe, though the presence of active cells in Mexico appears to be increasing [64]. In DB1, the countries with the highest rates of attacks are the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom and Canada. The other ten national locations account for less than 2% of the total attacks each, and collectively comprise only 7% of the total events.[65] Making up this collective 7%, are attacks carried out in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Chile and Colombia. When the dataset is reduced, examining only “distinct incidents,” the results are the same, both in the nations identified, as well as their general ranking vis-à-vis one another. The most common countries remain the US, Mexico, Canada and UK and the other ten nations account for less than 1% of the total attacks each, and together comprise less than 3% of the total events.[66] A comparison of these two similar findings is displayed below:
These findings are similar to those reported in the Helios study wherein the authors state, “despite their global presence…acts of terrorism appear to be most prevalent in North America and Western Europe”[67]. Helios' exclusion of Mexico as a target of ELF attacks is expected, as the study was published in 2008, the year when Mexico began to experience activity from ELF cells.
The United States is overwhelmingly the focus of the ELF’s international campaign, despite the fact that the movement as it exists today emerged in England[68]. The availability of information relating to the location of ELF attacks occurring in the US lends itself well to analysis, as there is no need for the researcher to equitable develop categories or to extrapolate variable labels from attack narratives. Data on location as it pertains to state was available for all but one “distinct incidents,” and regional divisions were determined based on mapping provided by the US census report.[69] In the chart below (Table #7), attacks within the US (DB3- DB4) will be compared in regards to region and regional division:
From this data, one can see that the Western region (specifically the five state Pacific division), has been a particular center of activity, concentrated in the states of California, Oregon and Washington. Similarly, the Middle Atlantic three state division within the Northeast region has been particularly active, as numerous attacks have been carried out in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. The least active region appears to be the Midwest despite its large geographic area. The least active regional division is the West South Central, four state grouping of the southern region.[71]
In surveying the literature concerning the ELF, only the Helios study includes a detailed discussion of location as it pertains to regions throughout the US. Although the Helios sample is different from the one employed herein, the findings are similar. The Helios study concludes “ecoterrorists” are “particularly active in the Western and West Coast states. In particular…Oregon, California and Washington…the Midwest and East Coast have a smaller percentage of eco-terrorist incidents”[72]. Certainly, the data contained herein supports the Helios claim that such movements are especially active in the “Western and West Coast states,” and state-specific data supports the claim that high levels of activity is seen in Oregon, California and Washington.[73] The claim, that the Pacific Northwestern region “is the most prominent environmental hot spot in the nation” is also offered, by former ELF spokesmen Craig Rosebraugh[74]. Also, both the Helios study and this study agree that the Northeast (called East Coast in Helios study) and Midwest occupy the lower regions for ELF activity.
This article draws on the case study of the ELF to demonstrate the analytical potential of conducting a quantitative tactical analysis of activism of social movement groups in order to debunk hyperbolic tropes of "terrorism." For example, methodological decisions related to categorisation, coding and data sourcing can be used to skew data towards hyperbole, fear-mongering and securitisation or they can be used to approach greater accuracy, nuance and balance. The preceding dataset challenges the framing of radical environmental groups as terrorist threats to the nation-state. This rhetorical framing—especially that dealing with tactics and targeting—supports the increased government repression of leftist movements through targeted legislation such as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 and the larger atmosphere of the “Green Scare”[75]. Future research can challenge limits to dissent through quantifying movement group actions, and calling into question government tropes about "radical" movements. With such political and methodological concerns in mind, the data presented can allow scholars to develop an incident-driven history of the ELF beyond broad state framings as bomb-throwing ‘terrorists’ and ‘arsonists.’
The ELF, a transnational movement of direct action eco-saboteurs, follows a definitive targeting and tactical pattern, focusing its attacks on unguarded properties associated largely with commercial and residential construction, automobiles (especially SUVs), and various regional, national and multinational business interests. ELF cells target such entities clandestinely, and with low-tech tactics, often striking multiple sites within one target type in rapid succession. For example, it is common for one cell to vandalise dozens of SUVs in one outing. The targeting patterns follow regional indicators concerning campaigns developed through attack histories in that locale. In the US, such attacks have focused on targets associated with “sprawl” and residential development, SUV sales and ownership, and construction sites. In Mexico, attacks have focused on a campaign targeting Telmex phone booths and other affiliated properties. The majority of ELF attacks are not part of larger attack campaigns, though in about 5% of US attacks, and 34% of Mexican attacks, the communiqué stated that the target was chosen as part of a long-term campaign; focusing strikes on a specific set of entities, linked thematically.
Tactically, ELF cells tend to rely on varied combinations of vandalism (including graffiti), sabotage and arson. Throughout all of the data, a combining of vandalism and sabotage has dominated the tactical history, with arson occurring as the second most commonly employed tactic. In extremely rare instances (six attacks out of 707 equaling 0.85%), cells have used tactics that direct violence against humans, or present the threat of violence against humans through the use of improvised explosive devices, bomb hoaxes, and written threats.
Through a combined analysis examining targeting as it compares to tactics, one witnesses the defining modus operandi of ELF cells.[76] When distinct attacks are examined globally, the arson of residential units, as well as the sabotage and vandalism of construction vehicles and other business properties emerges as the most dominant attack patterns.[77] When the US is examined separately, one sees the same pattern of homes being targeted through arson, business properties targeted through sabotage and vandalism, and SUVs targeted with graffiti.[78] In the purely Mexican context, targeting and tactics collide at the vandalism, sabotage and arson of Telmex phone booths, and to a far lesser extent, the arson of construction and industrial equipment.[79]
Concerning cells’ claims of responsibility for attacks, in the global context, attacks are claimed via a formal communiqué sent to either an aboveground press office or other media outlet more than 70%, of the time.[80] In other instances, the ELF name is left at the scene of the crime to indicate the movement’s claim of responsibility. In only approximately 17% of ELF attacks is the incident linked to the movement, but not formerly claimed via a communiqué or other form of communication.[81] The ELF movement rarely reports that its cells have jointly carried out attacks cooperatively with cells affiliated with the Animal Liberation Front. The ELF/ALF cooperative moniker is seen globally in approximately 6% of cases, with a greater frequency seen in attacks occurring outside of North America.[83]
Trends in attack location indicate that the ELF, while focused primarily in the United States, is having an expanded sphere of activity in Mexico. Other sustained areas of activity include Canada—centered in Ontario province—and the United Kingdom—especially within England. Within the US, attacks have focused on the eastern and western coastal areas, centered in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, New York and Pennsylvania. Outside of North America and the UK, sparse attacks have been documented in the continents of Europe (especially Western Europe and Scandinavia), South America and Australia. At the present time, there are no reports of ELF attacks within Antarctica or the African or Asian continents.
Finally, the preceding analysis has attempted to diagram the attack history of the ELF through a transparent methodology. In doing so, one is able to comparatively evaluate its findings alongside that of other, more opaquely-authored studies. While it is true that the preceding findings were constructed around an a-priori agenda—namely providing defensible data for furthering nuanced and well-informed debates regarding emergent social movements—this is no different than scholarship that came before or will likely come after. If the critical analysis of state and academic scholarship is seen as ‘having an agenda’ could one not say the same thing of well-circulated papers built around an a-priori agenda of securitisation? For example, the 2013 DHS-funded report authored by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), while academically rigorous, cannot be described as politically impartial. The report explicitly describes its mission in the opening pages stating:
This report is part of a series in support of the Prevent/Deter program. The goal of this program is to sponsor research that will aid the intelligence and law enforcement communities in assessing potential terrorist threats and support policymakers in developing prevention efforts.[83]
Studies such as those conducted by START or Helios are funded by, and produced explicitly for, the policing of dissent, as they are identified as projects of the DHS. The collection and publication of such data fits into a larger American, post-9/11 shift in domestic policy - a shift from policing to national security. Scholarship of this nature can be as rigorous (or manipulative) as any academic pursuit, but to contend that it does not possess a pre-existent ideological framework and political agenda is to misunderstand statecraft as a neutral endeavour.
The data suggests that the label “eco-terrorism” has been misapplied to a form of political militancy that falls short of what can reasonably be called “terrorism” since there have been practically no deliberate deadly attacks on civilians that would warrant the use of such a loaded term. While the actions of the perpetrators are often unlawful since these tend to involve acts of vandalism, arson or sabotage, and while these acts are meant to convey a message to a wider audience, that is still a far cry from the bloody terrorism of, for example, salafist jihadists. The terrorism label loses its potency if it is stretched beyond credibility. It should be used sparingly, rather than loosely and be limited to certain categories of gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law – roughly the peacetime equivalent of war crimes.[84]
Acknowledgement: The author would like to thank Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Terrorism for his kind encouragement and guidance throughout this process, as well as the anonymous reviewers, especially the individual who challenged the article’s “a-priori agenda.” Lastly, the author would like to thank the past, present and future anonymous and known contributors to the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office, the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, Bite Back Magazine, the Talon Conspiracy and others. Without their dedicated archival efforts, the histories of these movements would have been far more difficult to reconstruct.
About the Author: Michael Loadenthal is a Doctoral Fellow at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University (Arlington, VA) and teaches ‘Terrorism and Political Violence’ at the Program on Justice & Peace at Georgetown University (Washington, DC). He can be reached at [email protected] and regularly posts papers, presentations and other work at https://gmu.academia.edu/MichaelLoadenthal. Michael has been surrounded by ‘radical’ social movements as both a student and teacher, participant and observer, for more than fifteen years. He can usually be found reading to his daughters, writing about political violence, or conspiring to build a better world.
The appendices for this article can be found in full in the PDF version.
[1] Richard Jackson. Constructing Enemies: ‘Islamic Terrorism’ in Political and Academic Discourse, Government and Opposition, 42, 3, 2007, 394–426.; C Kurzman and C.W. Ernst. Islamic Studies in U.S. Universities (presented at the Social Sciences Research Council workshop on “The Production of Knowledge on World Regions: The Middle East”). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009, 1-34.; David Miller and Tom Mills. The Terror Experts and the Mainstream Media: The Expert Nexus and Its Dominance in the News Media, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2, 3, 2009, 414–437, Magnus Ranstorp. "Introduction: Mapping Terrorism Research," in Mapping Terrorism Research: State of the Art, Gaps, and Future Directions. London: Routledge, 2007, 1–28; Jessica Shepherd. The Rise and Rise of Terrorism Studies, The Guardian, 3 July 2007, http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/jul/03/highereducation.research.; Andrew Silke. “Contemporary Terrorism Studies Issues in Research,” in Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda. New York: Routledge, 2009, 34–48.; Yasir Suleiman and Ayman Shihadeh. Islam on Campus: Teaching Islamic Studies at Higher Education Institutions in the UK, Journal of Beliefs & Values, 28, 3, 2007, 309–329.
[2] Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney, and Aaron Winter (Eds.) Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror. New York: Routledge, 2010; Richard Jackson, Eamon Murphy, and Scott Poynting (Eds.) Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2010; Scott Poynting and David Whyte (Eds.) Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The “War on Terror” as Terror. New York: Routledge, 2012; Jacob L. Stump and Priya Dixit, Critical Terrorism Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods. New York, Routledge, 2013; Mikkel Thorup, An Intellectual History of Terror: War, Violence and the State. New York: Routledge, 2012.
[3] Rita Floyd. When Foucault Met Security Studies: A Critique of the ‘Paris School’ of Security Studies (presented at the 2006 British International Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Cork, Ireland), 2006; Rita Floyd. Towards a Consequentialist Evaluation of Security: Bringing Together the Copenhagen and the Welsh Schools of Security Studies, Review of International Studies, 33, 2, 2007, 327–350., Mark Salter and Can Mutlu (Eds.) Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2012.; Paul Williams and Alex Bellamy (Eds.) Critical Security Studies, in International Society and Its Critics, 2004.; Nick Vaughan-Williams and Columba Peoples. Critical Security Studies: An Introduction. New York,: Taylor & Francis, 2010.; Laura J. Shepherd (Ed.) Critical Approaches to Security: An Introduction to Theories and Methods. New York: Routledge, 2013.
[4] Glenn Greenwald. The Sham ‘terrorism Expert’ Industry, 15 August 2012, http://www.salon.com/2012/08/15/the_sham_terrorism_expert_industry/.
[5] Will Potter. Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2011.
[6] Dara Lovitz. Muzzling a Movement: The Effects of Anti-Terrorism Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism. Herndon, Lantern Books, 2010; Colin Salter. Activism as Terrorism: The Green Scare, Radical Environmentalism and Govermentality, Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2, 1, 2011, 211–238.
[7] Since completing the data collection for this study, the website of the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office has been taken offline. While much of the data is available at other sources such as the North American Animal Liberation Press Office (http://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/) and Bite Back Magazine (http://www.directaction.info/) I also have access to an offline archive of the NAELFPO website as it appeared on 15 January 2010.
[8] In August 2013, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Center of Excellence at the University of Maryland issued a comprehensive study of ELF and ALF bombings and arson. While a complete comparison between these findings and the findings presented herein is not included, in brief, START’s findings are surprisingly similar when a similar data parameters are added to my data set. Though this study examined only the Earth Liberation Front, START also reviews Animal Liberation Front activity as well. A comparable dataset was produced from my own research fitting START’s requirements: 1.) a bombing or arson 2.) occurring between 1995-2000, 3.) in the US, 4.) and fitting a radical environmental or animal liberationist politic. Including these parameters, I located 285 incidents. The START study includes 239. The similar number of incidents points to similar methodologies for locating resources as described herein as well as in START’s report. A complete comparison of these findings will be discussed in a subsequent paper.
[9] North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office. Earth Liberation Front Diary of Actions. Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/doa.html.
[10] The variables recorded for each attack are: 1.) date, 2.) group responsible, 3.) tactic type, 4.) target type, 5.) casualties, 6.) national location, 7.) state or province for attacks occurring in the US and Canada, 8.) damage estimate in USD, 9.) multiple or distinct incident, 10.) presence of communiqué or other claim of group responsibility, and lastly, 11.) was the attack part of a larger ELF campaign? Distinct values were assigned in all cases except for #8, damage estimate in USD, as this data was often not provided and could not be estimated.
NB: The dataset analysed in this study is a subset of a much larger project to be analyzed and published at a later date. The larger dataset is comprised of approximately 30,000 global “eco-terrorist” incidents, occurring from 1972-present, and coded for twenty-two variables.
[11] Brian Jackson and David Frelinger. Rifling Through the Terrorists’ Arsenal: Exploring Groups’ Weapon Choices and Technology Strategies, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 31, 7, 2008, 587.
[12] Vague dates were estimated in a standardized manner, thus when only a month and year were given in the description, the 15th was chosen as it represents the middle of the month. For example, a date reported as “06/04-07/04” was recorded in the database as occurring on 15 June 2004.
[13] In the case of multiple attacks, when damage estimates were available, the dollar value for the damage incurred was divided evenly between the events, thus an arson spread across four targets, causing $10,000 in damage, was recorded as four arsons of $2,500 each.
[15] Ibid., 587.
[16] The DB1-DB6 abbreviations used throughout constitute:
DB1: All countries, multiple entry inclusive dataset, (707 incidents)
DB2: All countries, “distinct incident” dataset, (211 incidents)
DB3: US only, multiple entry inclusive dataset, (462 incidents)
DB4: US only, “distinct incident” dataset, (134 incidents)
DB5: Mexico only, multiple entry inclusive dataset, (150 incidents)
DB6: Mexico only, “distinct incident” dataset, (41 incidents)
[17] North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office. Earth Liberation Front Diary of Actions- 2008. Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/actions2008.html.
[19] The exact name of the group, in Spanish is “Ludditas Contra La Domesticacion de la Naturaleza Salvaje.”
[20] “Frente de Liberación de la Tierra,” is the Spanish term for the ELF, literally translated it is ‘Front of Liberation of the Land’ (FLT)
[21] La célula del ELF-LCDNS México. Earth Liberation Front Communiqué 07.20.09: ELF Targets Telmex Branch Office in Mexico. Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/comm072009.html.
[23] No additional data sources were searched (outside of the NAELFPO “diary of actions”) to determine if a communiqué was issued.
[25] Foundation for Biomedical Research. Illegal Incidents (1997 - Present). Foundation for Biomedical Research, 2009, http://www.fbresearch.org/Media/MediaRoom/Backgrounder/IllegalIncidentsMap/tabid/960/Default.aspx.
[26] In addition to the “Illegal Incidents Map,” the Foundation for Biomedical Research was contacted via email and provided over 70 pages of data it had collected documenting attacks carried out by the ELF and the Animal Liberation Front targeting the ‘medical industry.’ This data was excluded from the sample.
[27] North American Animal Liberation Front Press Office. 2008 Year- End Report on Animal Liberation Activities in North America. North American Animal Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/pdf/year_in_review1.pdf; North American Animal Liberation Front Press Office. 2001 Year-End Direct Action Report. North American Animal Liberation Front Press Office, 2002), www.tao.ca/~naalfpo/2001_Direct_Action_Report.pdf.
[28] Stefan H. Leader and Peter Probst. The Earth Liberation Front And Environmental Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, 15, 4, 2003, 37–58.; Helios Global. Ecoterrorism: Environmental and Animal-Rights Militants in the United States. Washington DC: Helios Global Inc./U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2008.
[30] For the purpose of discussion, percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number. The exact percentages as well as the actual number of attacks they represent are included in the corresponding data tables provided in the appendix.
[31] For the complete targeting DB1 data table, see appendix chart 1.
[33] Stefan H. Leader and Peter Probst. The Earth Liberation Front and Environmental Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, 15, 4, 2003, 43.
[34] The dataset used in the Helios study, is likely most similar to the DB2 dataset, as it represents a global movement and makes no mention of a multiple entry feature factoring into their calculations.
[35] Helios Global. Ecoterrorism: Environmental and Animal-Rights Militants in the United States. Washington DC, Helios Global Inc./U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2008, 7.
[37]For the complete targeting DB4 data table, see appendix chart 4.
[40] Craig Rosebraugh. Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front. Herndon: Lantern Books, 2004, 121–126.; Sally and Peter. “ELF Claims Vandalism Against New Housing Developments in Philadelphia Suburb,” in: Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth. Oakland: AK Press, 2006, 415–416; Karen Ziner. Burning Down the Houses - Earth Liberation Front Tries to Stop Urban Growth in Rural Long Island, E: The Environmental Magazine, 2001, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1594/is_3_12/ai_74628715/.
[41] Frente de Liberación de la Tierra. Earth Liberation Front Communiqué: 10.04.09 Earth Liberation Front Torches Telmex Cell Tower in Mexico State. North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/comm100409.html.
[42] FLT/ELF- Mexico. Earth Liberation Front Communiqué, 01.07.09: Mexico: ELF Burns 5 Telmex Phone Booths. North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/comm010709.html.
[43] Craig Rosebraugh. Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front. Herndon: Lantern Books, 2004, 157.
[45] The campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences has been led aboveground by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), and most anti-HLS attacks have been claimed by the Animal Liberation Front. Generally, within this campaign SHAC helps to identify and publicize HLS-related primary and secondary targets, and attacks are carried out against these entities by underground, clandestine cells with attacks often being claimed by the Animal Liberation Front. An example of a SHAC produced targeting list, visit: http://www.shac.net/action/current_targets.html
[46] For the complete campaign DB3-DB4 data tables, see appendix, chart 7-8.
[47] For the complete campaign DB3-DB4 data tables, see appendix, chart 9-10.
[48] Earth Liberation Front. Communiqué 10/19/98. North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 1998, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/comm101998.html.
[49] North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office. Earth Liberation Front Diary of Actions. Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/doa.html.
[50] Earth Liberation Front. Earth Liberation Front Communiqué: 06.03.09 Earth Liberation Front Leaves Message for Hazelwood CEO Graeme York in Australia. North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/comm060309.html.
[51] North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office. Earth Liberation Front Diary of Actions - 2002. Earth Liberation Front Press Office, 2009, http://www.elfpressoffice.org/actions2002.html.
[52] These entries have been marked by *s in the data table #1.
[53] For the complete tactical data tables DB1-DB6, see appendix charts 11-16.
[54] Helios Global. Ecoterrorism: Environmental and Animal-Rights Militants in the United States. Washington DC: Helios Global Inc./U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2008, 14.
[56] Defined as “low level damage such as breaking windows, spray painting of slogans, etc.” (Leader and Probst, 41)
[57] Defined as “Deliberately starting a fire or attempting to start a fire to cause property damage.” (Leader and Probst, 41)
[58] Defined as “deliberate damage to equipment, vehicles, crops, buildings etc.” (Leader and Probst, 41)
[60] Gary A. Ackerman. Beyond Arson? a Threat Assessment of the Earth Liberation Front, Terrorism and Political Violence, 15, 4, 2003, 162.; Randy Borum and Chuck Tilby. Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 28, 3, 2005, 212.; Stefan H. Leader and Peter Probst. The Earth Liberation Front And Environmental Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, 15, 4, 2003, 44; Bron Taylor. Religion, Violence and Radical Environmentalism: From Earth First! to the Unabomber to the Earth Liberation Front, Terrorism and Political Violence, 10, 4, 1998, 3,8.
[61] For the complete communiqué data tables DB1-DB4, see appendix charts 17-20.
[63] For the complete group claim data tables DB1-DB6, see appendix charts 23-28.
[64] John Ross. Our Fires Illuminate the Night: Wave of Anarchist Bombings Strikes Mexico, Counterpunch, 6 October 2009, http://www.counterpunch.org/ross10062009.html; John Ross. The Mexican Revolution at 100: Mexico Welcomes 2010 With Bombs and Riots, Counterpunch, 11 January 2010, http://www.counterpunch.org/ross01112010.html.
[65] For the complete national location data table DB1, see appendix charts 29.
[67] Helios Global. Ecoterrorism: Environmental and Animal-Rights Militants in the United States. Washington DC, Helios Global Inc./U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2008, 11.
[68] Noel Molland. “A Spark That Ignited a Flame: The Evolution of the Earth Liberation Front,” in Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth. Oakland,:AK Press, 2006, 49.
[69] Descriptions of the US regions and divisions are taken from the US “Census Regions and Divisions” as of 14 June 2000. A graphical version of this breakdown, including the regional and divisional splits is available at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/reps/maps/us_census.html
[70] The appendix’s “Definition of Abbreviations and Terms, Region and Division” contains all necessary formation regarding the territorial breakdown of the US census regions and regional division terminology.
[71] For the complete US state regional and divisional data tables DB3-DB4, see appendix charts 31-32
[73] For the complete, US state individual data tables DB3-DB4, see appendix charts 33-34.
[74] Craig Rosebraugh. Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front. Herndon: Lantern Books, 2004, 76.
[75] Will Potter. Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2011.
[76] For a complete series of tables relating TACTIC to TARGET, for DB1-DB6, see appendix charts 35-40.
[77] These calculations are based on the DB2 dataset.
[78] These calculations are based on the DB3-4 datasets.
[80] These calculations are based on an average of all (DB1-DB6) datasets.
[83] National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Overview of Bombing and Arson Attacks by Environmental and Animal Rights Extremists in the United States, 1995-2010. College Park, MD: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Center of Excellence, 2013, 1.
[84] Cf. Alex P. Schmid.’ Frameworks for Conceptualising Terorrism’. Terrorism and Political Violence, 16 (2), 2004, 197-221.
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This Trial Blazer’s résumé is far more impressive than President Obama’s.
Fellow Fairness Fanatics: you are invited to a Kaffee Klatsch ($1,000 per sustainably farmed, responsibly purchased organic cup) to show support for Senator Roland Burris, the Democrat who was appointed by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to fill the seat vacated by Barack Obama.
The appointment of Senator Burris (the only black in the U.S. Senate) was unquestionably legal even though, shortly after he made the appointment, Governor Blagojevich was impeached, because of, he says, his enemies’ misinterpretation of the First Amendment.
The problem Senator Burris’s detractors claim to have with the good senator is that he apparently gets confused when answering questions and filling out affidavits. He was asked whether he had been involved in fund-raising for Gov. Blagojevich and he said, more or less, no. And his friends may have to concede that he should have said, more or less, yes, or at least a bit more of the yes and a bit less of the no than he actually did say.
But, hey, that’s awfully technical. Like not paying the taxes you owe when you work for the International Monetary Fund. Or failing to report all that rental income you got from a luxury beachfront villa in the Caribbean. Or like getting a sweetheart loan from Countrywide Financial because you were a friend of the CEO, Angelo Mozilo, while you’re serving on a congressional banking committee.
Clearly Senator Burris will fit in quite well with his new colleagues. So what’s the problem? A quick look at his résumé tells us much.
The senator went to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (where he was known as Trail Blazer, or just “TB”) and he has a law degree from Howard University, which is only a little more than a ‘v’ away from Harvard, where President Obama went.
The senator began his career as a bank examiner for the U.S. Treasury Department — Barack Obama never did that — and has served as vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank — wow! Barack Obama never did that (“BONDT”) — and as President of the National Association of Comptrollers (BONDT) and of the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers, and Treasurers — wow again. BONDT.
Impressive? Yes. But there’s more. The senator was also a Trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation Board (BONDT) and served for three years on the Executive Board of the Government Finance Office Association of the United States and Canada. Double BONDT!
Let’s face it: this guy knows something about banking — and perhaps a lot more than most of his new “colleagues” who are up to their keisters writing bailout bills.
Senator Burris was also the first African-American National Bank Examiner for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for the U.S. Treasury Department. Wow! And his 1978 election to the first of three terms as Illinois state comptroller made him the first African American ever elected to an Illinois state office. The senator has also been recognized annually for sixteen years (!) by Ebony Magazine as one of the hundred most influential Black Americans. Wow again! Seriously wow!
As busy as he’s been, however, the senator has nevertheless found time to give back to his community. Burris has served on nonprofit organizations, including the National Center for Responsible Gaming (my god, he’s a gambler! That means he might be better at rolling dice than Rep. Barney Frank), and he served on the board of the Auditorium Theatre of Chicago (my god, he’s an actor! Like — like — that guy who beat Jimmy Carter).
It is perfectly apparent that TB Burris is a very distinguished man, which is why he’s listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Government, Who’s Who in Law, and Who’s Who in Who’s Who.
Let’s face it: TB Burris has the talent. Let’s face something else: TB’s résumé is more impressive than President Obama’s. No, seriously! TB hasn’t just talked the talk, or walked the walk. He’s hoped the hope, and changed the change.
Some people just can’t stand competition, so now “they” want to get rid of TB, like a bad disease. This is a tough town.
The question Washington is asking today is, TB or no TB?
Help frame the answer. Come to our “Kaffe and Kash for TB” — before his enemies cashier him out.
TB FOREVER.
Well, until the next election anyway.
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Compiled by Elizabeth Bush
POA ISSUES WARNING ABOUT BRIDGE JUMPING
There has been an uptick in young residents jumping from the Captain’s Island bridge into the creek below, according to an announcement by the Daniel Island Property Owners Association in their weekly e-blast. On Saturday, July 21, parents were reportedly seen dropping kids off to let them jump off of the bridge.
“This may seem like a fun idea at the time, but it is an incredibly dangerous one and we would like for all residents to please be responsible and educate your children of the hazards of this behavior,” stated the POA in their message to community members. “Bridge jumping can cause serious injury to those partaking in the activity and may cause death. Passing boats are also at risk by the unexpected jumper.”
Additionally, the POA reports it is working with Charleston Councilmember Gary White to amend the City ordinance to make bridge jumping illegal.
IMPROVEMENTS TO GUGGENHEIM PARK
Construction on the renovations for Guggenheim Park will begin August 1, 2018.
Silt fencing and tree protection are already in place. This renovation project will be focused on the Island Park Drive end of Guggenheim Park. Part of the one-way street on the north side of Guggenheim Park will be closed to traffic during the course of the construction project. Cars will be able to turn onto the street from Seven Farms (adjacent to Wasabi) to access some of the angled parking and the parking behind the businesses on Seven Farms.
One lane of Island Park Drive will be closed toward the end of the project to accommodate crosswalk striping. Sidewalks will be closed on Island Park Drive in front of the park during the course of construction. There will be pile driving taking place during the month of August from approximately 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. The construction project is anticipated to last until the end of February, 2019.
Direct questions or comments to Jane Baker, vice president of community services for the Daniel Island Property Owners Association, at jane.baker@dicommunity.org. To see digital renderings of the plans for the park, visit https://danielisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Guggenheim-Deck-Rend....
DEVELOPER HEARS CONCERNS REGARDING FIELDS ADJACENT TO DI SALES CENTER
In response to concerns voiced recently by Daniel Island residents concerning the overgrown fields adjacent to the Daniel Island Real Estate Sales Center, the area has been mowed.
A reader who wrote a letter to the editor about the fields to The Daniel Island News noted that the area had become “an eyesore” and he feared it would lead to an increase in snakes, mosquitos and possibly coyotes.
According to Jane Baker, vice president of community services for the Daniel Island Property Owners Association, the grassy parcel may be trimmed “one or two more times” during the growing season, which lasts until the fall.
“It’s a wait and see when development starts as to what the protocol will be next year,” said Baker. “But we heard the residents’ concerns loud and clear. It will be cut back but not well manicured.”
The property is currently maintained by Daniel Island Company developers, who are working on future plans for the site, added Baker, but there has been no closing for the parcel as of yet.
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The World Last Week
The most interesting story last week was of course about the boy who was thought to have gone up did not go up. I was just watching Arianna Huffington questioning the wisdom of the story, justifiably because it is a non-story which the major networks devoted an enormous amount of time on. Arianna was on the Ed Show on MSNBC to talk about her recent post why Joe Biden, a long time opponent of sending more troops to Afghanistan, should resign if the President decides to concede to General McChrystal and send more troops. Arianna's point was that American executives should sometimes resign in protest, and not go silently as Colin Powell did, after enduring two uncomfortable years of the war in Iraq and even choosing to become the public voice justifying it. That does not measure up as integrity. But she was visibly peeved when she was called to discuss this and this discussion turned to the boy in the hot air balloon. She pointed out that this is indeed the worst kind of tele-voyeurism - and a journalistic failure to check the story's credentials before publicizing it. The discussion was amusing - a prominent blogger accusing MSNBC for wasting people's time, and Ed Schultz defending it in the name of public concern and news. That seemed to be the media world in reverse, or possibly the way soon it is going to be.
The other big news is Obama's big question - to be or not to be. Almost everyone knows that sending more troops to Afghanistan is pointless - and, as Zbigniew Brzezinski stated, the United States is increasingly making the same mistake that Soviet Union did twenty years back. He says, Soviets walked into Afghanistan and believed that they can create a communist society with a handful of urban Afghan communists. When they realized that this is not going to be easy, they sought a military solution, with the objective of getting everyones compliance to the ideas of the few. US is making a similar mistake, he says. When the United States went in, it used only about 300 special Marine commandos, along with thousands of Afghans, who saw them as liberators, to throw the Taliban out. And, then, US lost the peace, by bungling the reconstruction, by relying too much on a few Westernized Afghans in the cities. And, then, it sought a military solution. Today, there are 60,000 US troops along with 40,000 NATO ones, and General McChrystal is saying that the Taliban is winning. He's got a point, indeed. In this context, the big question before the President Obama is whether to give in and send another 40,000 troops, which will, according to Dr Brzezinski, only help solidify the opposition and expand the Taliban ranks.
Of course, the people who believe more troops should be sent pointed towards Pakistan. This was a bad week for Pakistan. The news there almost read like the ones from Iraq in its worst years, suicide attacks every day, including one inside the Army HQ in Islamabad, the capital. It looked as unstable as ever. The apologists of troop surge talk about stabilizing Pakistan, because, with its nuclear arsenal, Pakistan is a far greater danger.
This is indeed a bit of convoluted logic, which made no sense at the outset. America has already won the war in Afghanistan. What it lost is the peace. But instead of trying to win the peace, it is getting into a seize mentality. Egged on by the Pakistani administration, surely, who wants to pass on the responsibility of governing their country to the Americans, without passing on their sovereignty. The Pakistani administration failed to take any action to restrain the terrorist ideologues who preached openly and directed people to attack Indian people; their excuse was religious freedom. They possibly can't see that the bombs that went off in their territory were made of the same religious staff.
And, Americans continue to lose the peace. It made depressing reading to know about the widespread corruption in the Afghan elections, designed to keep the incumbent President, Hamid Karzai. Peter Galbraith, the ex-Deputy Head of UN Mission in Afghanistan, was surely in a place to know. I shall recommend his article in TIME as a must read. The results of the election is still not announced - it has just been delayed by another day - but media reports indicate that at least a third of the vote in favour of Karzai is possibly fraudulent. Add this to sheer mindlessness of trying out an American style election in Afghanistan, and one gets the sense why the US is losing the war. They need some common sense, not 40,000 troops, to restore Afghanistan.
Indeed, the US indifference to the stolen election in Afghanistan is making their moral stand vis-a-vis the stolen election in Iran much less convincing. The news is that some of the democracy protesters have been given death sentence for inciting trouble. With its bloodied hand in Afghanistan, rest of the world will have to stand by and say nothing. Besides, Iran seems to be getting away with its nuclear programme, as both China and Russia failed to work with the US to impose any sanctions. So, Iran will go Scot-free, which will add to the nuclear threat in the region.
And, finally talking about the UN, the UN Human Rights Council accepted the Goldstone report, despite some attempts of blackmail from the Israelis, and some woolly-minded voting from United States. Justice Goldstone said human rights have been violated and civilians have been attacked, both by Israel and Hamas, during their war in Gaza. Something which we knew, and something that must stop. Yet, Israel linked this to their national self-defence, unbelievably, and wanted states to vote against the acceptance of the report. So, did United States. Britain and France could not make up their minds, so abstained without a formal declaration. But, almost everyone else accepted the report. Indeed, this will amount to nothing, because this will now be recommended to UN General Assembly, which is notoriously ineffective because the United States will block it. So will Britain and France, as they gain their composure and discover that doing the right thing is to let Israel do whatever it likes. But, then, that's another bit in losing the peace, in Middle East in particular and in the world at large.
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Jihadi knife-attack in Brussels wounds two; perp shot and killed.
An “Aloha Snackbar” attack in Brussels today resulted in the wounding of two soldiers and the jihadi being shot and killed.
A man who attacked two soldiers in Brussels, Belgium, with a knife was shot and killed on Friday, the Brussels prosecutor’s spokeswoman told CNN.
The incident is being treated as a terror attack, she said. The soldiers were slightly wounded.
The assailant yelled “Allahu akbar” (God is great) while pulling a knife on the soldiers who were on patrol in the center of the capital, the spokeswoman said.
The man was known to police for petty crimes but not for terror links, authorities said. He has not been identified.
This comes the same day that a man was arrested for a “knife assault” on two British policemen outside of Buckingham Palace. No motive in that attack has yet been released.
stuartb says:
To a knife gun, fight bring a don’t. Or something like that
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Larry Summers Lack of “Intrinsic Aptitude” For A Coherent Economic Agenda
President Obama said on January 8 that “We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime.” Yet as dire as things are, the President still lacks an economic plan. So while Treasury Secretary Nominee Timothy Geithner appeared confounded before the Senate Finance Committee as to any path forward, the President was praying in the National Cathedral for a way out of the credit crisis. Apparently National Economic Council Director Larry Summers has not answered the President’s prayers yet.
With his Moon in Gemini harmonizing his Mercury and Jupiter, our Blackberry toting multitasking President did not want to waste any time while he was waiting to plan his way out of the economic crisis. Jupiter rules ethics, and with the Moon in Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius, President Obama assured us that he is creating a strong framework for ethical behavior. At the same time the President was signing executive orders on the matter, Geithner was getting grilled about failing to pay taxes he admitted he knew he owed but was “careless” about. When asked for his ideas about how the new administration should handle the TARP or about Obama’s mammoth stimulus package, Geithner referred to “the two detailed letters Larry Summers sent to Congress.”
If Larry Summers is the designated man with the plan and is not known to have any tax troubles, why isn’t he the nominee to be Treasury Secretary? With Mercury retrograde at the start of the Obama Administration, it would be quite apropos for Summers to reprise his role as Treasury Secretary. However, Obama and his advisors know that Summers has become too controversial since his days as Geithner’s boss and President Clinton’s Treasury Secretary to pass a Senate vote. Rumor has it that Summers covets Ben Bernanke’s job once he manages to rehabilitate his boorish behavior.
With his Sun (self-identity) in the global sign of Sagittarius, Larry Summers served as Chief Economist of the World Bank from 1991-1993. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, and Summers was born with Jupiter conjoining Uranus, bestowing a potential predisposition to radical ideologies that can be ahead of their time. Four years before the Pluto in Sagittarius era of globalization (1995-2008) began, Summers had already tapped into its energies by advocating the outsourcing of heavily polluting industries to countries with the lowest level of development and lowest wages. In a December 12, 1991 memo, Summers writes: “I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted.”
At the Treasury Department, Summers continued his focus on world affairs. He played a key role in the 1995 US bailout of Mexico, and was instrumental in China joining the WTO. When his boss and mentor, Robert Rubin resigned as Treasury Secretary to take an advisory role at Citigroup, Summers served as Treasury Secretary to President Clinton from July 1999 until the end of Clinton’s term. A February 15, 1999 TIME Magazine cover called Summers, Rubin, and Alan Greenspan “The Committee To Save The World.” What’s most amusing is the subtitle: “the inside story of how the Three Marketeers have prevented a global economic meltdown – so far.” The Three Marketeers convinced Congress and President Clinton to pass the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. The Act’s purpose was to:
Protect credit derivatives from being regulated by the CFTC or SEC.
Protect financial institutions from “overregulation.”
Position the US financial services industry to be world leaders in the new century.
The Sun represents financial speculation, and Pluto represents debt and private and unregulated financial transactions such as credit default swaps. One month before Bear Stearns became the first carcass of the credit crisis, transiting Pluto in Capricorn conjoined the Act chart’s natal Sun. Lehman Brothers collapsed on the September 15, 2008 Full Moon as transiting Saturn in Virgo challenged the Act’s Pluto in Sagittarius, reflecting severe financial contraction due to a lack of government (Saturn) accountability (Virgo). True to the nature of Sagittarius, the fallout from Lehman’s bankruptcy (Pluto) triggered a global financial contagion.
Jupiter also rules higher education, and Summers became president of Harvard University after leaving the Treasury. With his Mercury challenging Mars, Summers has a propensity for impulsively saying things he might come to regret later. In 2006 Summers resigned as Harvard’s president after giving a speech where he said that women have less of an “intrinsic aptitude” than men for math and science. Just as he claimed he was doing with the World Bank memo, Summers said his remark was “meant to be provocative.” But coming from the president of a university who is supposed to be promoting education is very strange indeed. And despite having two daughters, President Obama is obviously not fazed by the remark. But with Summers' Mars exactly conjoining the USA’s Moon, certainly enough women were angry enough to force his resignation and would be ready to protest if he was nominated to a position in the Obama administration requiring Senate confirmation.
With natal Jupiter retrograde, Summers remained at Harvard as an economics professor, returning to a job he first held in 1983 after receiving a PhD from the university. Summers also worked as a managing director at hedge fund D.E. Shaw Group, coming into the office once a week to offer economic advice. Summers also began writing periodic opinion pieces for the Financial Times.
Larry Summers now operates out of the White House as Director of the President’s National Economic Council (NEC), a position President Clinton created by executive order on January 25, 1993 for Robert Rubin. The NEC Director serves as the President’s closest economic advisor and is responsible for coordinating economic policy between federal agencies.
Wall Street wanted Summers to play the lead economic role in the Obama administration, and is now starting to regret what it wished for. The mixed messages in his ambiguous letters to Congress last week created renewed turmoil in the financial sector over fears of creeping government nationalization of the financial industry. On the one hand, Summers seeks to wipe out at least the common equity holders of financial companies receiving government assistance by reducing dividends to a penny. Yet at the same time he wants private investment to buy out the government’s investment as soon as possible. As much as it is politically popular to “punish the shareholders,” common equity is the only true form of capital in the banking system. Preferred and deferrable debt is a form of hybrid capital that can never substitute fully for common equity. The government is sending out conflicting messages to banks to both increase their lending and at the same time, maintaining higher capital ratios.
With his progressed* Sun conjoining the NEC’s Sun and Mercury and his natal Mercury conjoining the NEC’s Pluto, Larry Summers will be the real economic powerhouse of the Administration, not Timothy Geithner. With his Jupiter/Uranus alignment challenging natal Neptune in Libra, Larry Summers is still working on a government spending plan of gargantuan proportions that will end up creating a lot of roads and bridges existing only in our collective minds. When Summers finally does release his plan, we’re going to see that he’s the one who lacks an “intrinsic aptitude” for math. The plan will be confusing and difficult to truly understand, as the new Administration’s call for transparency will not shine any light on its opaque economic plans.
*A predictive method that mathematically calculates the planets forward in time.
Lawrence Summers: November 30, 1954 time unknown New Haven, CT
Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000: December 21, 2000
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OMAHA (DTN) -- In the wake of flooding that has inundated the Midwest, people offer different perspectives calling for more investment in flood control infrastructure as recovery begins along the Missouri River and in much of the Mississippi River watershed.
Some point to the need for upgraded flood control to improve climate resiliency, while others see a need to refocus the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers more on flood control and less on environmental rehabilitation.
Michael Walsh, a retired Army Corps of Engineers major general, said in an interview with DTN he thinks the center of the country is losing on critical infrastructure investment, partly because of a stubbornness to address climate resiliency. Meanwhile, coastal communities respond to disasters such as hurricanes to increase their resiliency to sea-level rise. That typically comes by setting up a long-term federal study or task force to examine new infrastructure needs.
"Never waste a good emergency." Walsh said. "Certainly the flooding this year has meant the high water is going to last longer than it has in the past. I think the center of our country needs to have a massive plan at the watershed scale that most folks just don't recognize."
Walsh was in the Corps of Engineers for 36 years and commanded the Mississippi Valley Division during the 2011 flood. Walsh made the difficult decision during that flood to blow up Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, which saved Cairo, Illinois, from more extreme flooding but also flooded more than 100,000 acres of Missouri crops.
Walsh explained the states with large inland river watersheds flowing into the Mississippi need to be looking out longer term to consider what it will take to manage the Mississippi River watershed over the next century.
"The coastal areas are putting together plans that spend hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. If the middle part of the country doesn't pick up the pace, we're going to be in trouble. So we have to figure out how to use this emergency to create the political will, not to solve the five-year problem, but how do we solve the 100-year problem," Walsh said.
The latest National Climate Assessment released last fall highlights that the Midwest will continue to be more susceptible to increased rainfall and flooding events, especially in winter and spring. And yet, the same models that show 9% more spring precipitation as midcentury approaches also show declining summer precipitation by an average of 8% in portions of the Midwest. The climate assessment highlights, "Water infrastructure for flood control, navigation, and other purposes is susceptible to climate change impacts and other forces, because the designs are based upon historical patterns of precipitation and streamflow, which are no longer appropriate guides."
Click here to read the National Climate Assessment: https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/…
Pointing to Missouri River flooding, Walsh noted, "The challenge that you have on the Missouri is that there is no infrastructure master plan. So when something like this happens, people say, 'OK, how do we fix it?' And there is no plan there, so you fix it as it was."
Cathy Crain, mayor of Hamburg, Iowa, doesn't have the luxury to examine the root causes that led her town to flood. Hundreds of residents lost their homes and Hamburg went months this spring without potable water after flooding hit in mid-March.
"Things have changed in the world, and now we have to fight the Missouri River that's five miles away that we didn't have to fight from 1952 to 2011," Crain said.
Hamburg residents are bitter because the town built an emergency levee in 2011 that held off floodwaters during the height of that flooding. The town tried to keep that levee but Corps officials said it didn't meet federal regulations on issues such as compaction per square inch. Hamburg didn't have the funding to improve the levee to federal specifications, so the town had to take down it down. Recovery will cost significantly more for local residents.
"It wasn't a test drive. It was the real deal, and it would have worked. And we think it would have worked this time," Crain said. "We had to tear it down because it did not meet all of the requirements of Congress' perfection. We are about performance, not perfection and that's what hurt this town."
QUICKER RESPONSE
Some politics have changed in the 2019 floods. The governors of Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas have called for more say in how the Corps of Engineers manages the Missouri River. It's unclear though, what the sustaining power those early meetings will translate into.
In Southwest Iowa, the state Department of Transportation has responded to a critical pinch point on the river that led to significant flooding in both 2011 and this year. Earlier this month, the Iowa Department of Transportation quickly awarded a $34.3 million project to build new bridges from Sidney, Iowa, to Nebraska City, Nebraska. The levee-to-levee distance at that point is one of the most narrow along that area of the Missouri River. The project will get rid of a u-shaped setback levee that creates a choke point for the river during floods. The two overflow bridges will have space between pillars for water to flow under during floods. That will relieve pressure on the levee system upstream. The completion date is set for early March 2020 to get it open before next spring's thaw.
"This is a project that would normally take four to six years and we went through the entire process in just a few months," said Scott Schram, a district engineer for Iowa DOT. "It's going to be a fast-moving project."
REFOCUS ON FLOOD CONTROL
The 2019 floods were highlighted last week at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment hearing. The subcommittee is in the early stages of reauthorizing the next Water Resources Development Act. Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., said the anticipated costs of this year's flooding will be several billion dollars. Thousands of river bottom acres in his district have been underwater for more than four months. Graves said he thinks the Corps has to "balance too many priorities" and noted funding for annual levee maintenance -- before the flooding -- was only $13 million while spending $30.7 million was appropriated for wildlife and habitat reclamation.
Army Corps of Engineers officials said they were dealing with record discharges on a number of rivers this spring due largely to heavy rainfall events. Floodwaters remain too high for the Army Corps of Engineers to provide a full assessment of damages to levees on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, but the known costs right now for levee repairs have reached $1.9 billion just for levee damage between Omaha and St. Louis. The Corps has counted 160 levee breaches on the Missouri River. Some breaches gouged 50- to 70-foot deep holes stretching a quarter-mile in length. New levees may have to be set back from such damage.
"We can start work on some areas pretty soon, but doggone it, the rivers are still just so high there's not a lot of work we're going to be able to do," said Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works R.D. James.
Major General Scott Spellmon, the Corps' deputy commander for Civil and Emergency Operations, told lawmakers it was too early to determine damages on the Mississippi River south of St. Louis because the flood events continue. "It's still raining," he said.
The costs of this year's flood will continue to rise. James also said he thinks another supplemental funding package will be needed beyond the $19 billion disaster package passed last month. "If I were a betting man, I would bet we will need more money to attack the damage that's been done," James said.
When asked about climate change as a reason for more intense flooding, James said he's not a scientist but the Corps is using climate models and engineers recognize they can't rely on historical data to forecast future flood risks. "We're making every effort as far as I am concerned, as far as I know, to build sustainable infrastructure," James said.
Spellmon told lawmakers the Midwest is seeing changing precipitation patterns in both number of intense rain events and overall volumes of rainfall.
Tom Waters, a Missouri farmer and chairman of the Missouri Levee and Drainage District Association, testified the current Missouri River flooding is not over because the reservoirs are full in North and South Dakota and Montana. Reservoirs in Kansas and Missouri are full as well. All three basins have to release water before next year.
"So that is going to keep the river high. We know it is going to be high above flood stage throughout the summer, into the fall and probably into the winter."
The flood risk will remain beyond 2019 because Waters noted the Corps is projecting it will take two years or more to fix the levees. Waters said he thinks it will more likely be three to five years. Waters also said roughly one-third of crops in Missouri are produced in the 100-year floodplain. "This thing is going to drag on a long time and it just trickles through the economy of the state, not just the state, but when you put Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska in there -- the whole Midwest -- it really will affect food production food and trickle through the United States economy," Waters said. "I really believe that."
On the $1.9 billion in preliminary estimates for repairs, "That number is going to continue to increase," Waters said.
Waters also stressed that flood control needs to be the top priority for the Corps. He believes some of the restoration projects for endangered birds or fish in the Missouri River have damaged the ability to defend against floods.
"We have to get back to flood control as the top priority," Waters said. He added the situation has reached a tipping point. "Missouri and Iowa farmland was not meant to be the Fish and Wildlife Service laboratory, and Midwestern farmers no longer wish to be their guinea pigs."
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#8568 - 10/24/10 04:45 PM Re: Jessica [Re: wagga]
Jessica received a prestigious award a few days ago. I waited to post this until the missing were found.
Now Abby has received a different, but nevertheless worthwhile award.
She also visited NASA to meet the SARSAT team.
"Currently, the SARSAT system has saved more than 205 lives in the United States this year alone. However, Affens and his team are developing new technology that will detect distress signals in less than five minutes, a process made possible by placing repeater technology on the Air Force's network of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. "
Two posts on her blog:
A week in Maryland and day 2 in Washington.
Jessica has been appointed the Ambassador for the China Cup International Regatta. Here and here.
"The China Cup International Regatta is currently in its fourth year running and has grown leaps and bounds into the definitive sailing regatta in Asia with an international bill of teams from all around the world including UK, United States, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, France, Israel, Estonia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and China."
Jessica turned up at the Melbourne Cup in fancy gear. Amazing the difference a year makes at her age. But she's still Jessica. And she can pick horses, too.
Jessica is named a finalist in Queensland Australian of the Year.
Jessica just posted quite the TR.
Laura is talking about actually getting out on the ocean.
"Guppy is filled with boxes of food and drink. The diesel and water tanks are full so we are ready. Today I recently sailed with a good friend, there was a lovely breeze and I really wanted to sail it right now. Unfortunately there was a stowaway on board so I had to go back to Anfi for that off. But tomorrow I'm really about kicking back a little sailing. 'm Really curious how the Cape Verde will be. And I can not wait to go back to St. Maarten.
I think I will leave tomorrow afternoon from Anfi. And then a week at sea will sit until the next island is in sight."
#9146 - 11/17/10 01:08 AM Re: Jessica [Re: wagga]
Laura has sailed to the Cape Verde islands.
Details here.
In a way, I was kind of hoping this thread would die a natural death, but SteveC and others via PM seem to think otherwise.
Here is a good summary of what is going on. It seems that Laura is finally moving out, Abby has a ghost-written book and Jessica has won more rewards. More later.
Jessica went on holiday on the Pacific Dawn. Apparently she wasn't required to steer the ship. Not that that stopped her. (see photo).
She's the State finalist for Young Australian of the year. She won't be sailing in the Sydney to Hobart race, because she just isn't old enough. And there are more awards. More later.
Abby is leading a normal life, (so she says), writing her book & getting her driver's license.
Laura is on her way across the Atlantic. Her web site apparently doesn't have permalinks, so each link is to the current post. Or something like that. And the en route mapping page doesn't work, either.
"The wind decreased again last night, but fortunately, there is a slight breeze now. Still about 750 nautical miles [1389 kilometres; 863 land miles] to go, so I think that I will arrive in Sint Maarten around December 20th."
Jessica is gearing up for a different kind of Xmas.
She has reindeer antlers on her MINI - no reindeer in Oz, everybody knows that Santa's sleigh is pulled by six white boomers.
Laura has landed in St. Maarten after crossing the Atlantic. Check yesterday's entry on her blog - she lost & replaced her wind vane steering system rudder.
Jessica met up with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston in the build-up to the Sydney-Hobart race.
"She may have braved some of the most heinous conditions imaginable during her round-the-world voyage but Jessica Watson was just an excited teenager yesterday when she and one of her heroes accidentally crossed paths in Sydney."
Well, here's an end-of-year wrap on our intrepid sailor girls.
Laura has turned back into a touron in St Barts. Her webby people have never gotten the hang of permalinks, so the pointer is always to the most recent post, which breaks all archival references. Besides that, the "Where is Laura" tracking page has never worked.
Abby wishes us all a Happy New Year. She's thinking of taking on the bagpipes. Somebody needs to tell her that the bagpipes were invented by the Irish & given to the Scots as a practical joke, who, to this day, haven't gotten it.
Jessica had a great Christmas and is sunbaking on the beach.
On a different note, Jeanne Socrates, who is not a teenager, is approaching Cape Horn. The link takes you to the home page, click on the link under "Latest Logs" for the newest.
Abby made Yahoo's top ten survivor story list. Jessica & Laura got a mention, too.
Jeanne Socrates has suffered a knockdown near Cape Horn. She is apparently OK.
There is a full account of Jeanne's knockdown on her blog.
She, unlike Jessica & Abby, has posted pictures of the mess.
Jeanne is anchored at Cape Horn.
Jeanne made landfall in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world.
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Is Clapping Appropriate in Worship Services?
Applause has its place. But for some it seems out of place in the worship services of the church.
The sanctuary lights dimmed, as costumed young people made their way to the platform. The story of Joseph began to unfold. His coat of many colours, the dreams, the jealousy of his brothers. The youth group of the church my wife and I attended some years ago was presenting the familiar account in the form of a contemporary musical. Eventually, they came to his time in Potiphar's house and Joseph's encounter with Potiphar's wife. A teen-age girl slunk across the platform singing a song called "Mae East"--a take-off on Mae West, the movie vamp of the thirties.
It was an impossibly difficult task, singing that song. Not musically, but dramatically. Play it for laughs and it trivializes the conflict between holiness and wanton wickedness. Play it too sensually and it crosses the border of good taste. My impression was that the singer came perilously close to the latter. With the sexual innuendo in her walk and her look, she left no doubt as to what this was all about. At last she ended her siren song--on a spectacularly high note. "Praise the Lord!" proclaimed a gentleman seated in front of me, in a voice loud enough to be heard rows away.
It was startling, disturbing, that note of praise. What was he lauding? This woman's wicked seduction of a godly young man? No, not that. His attention was on the performance. What thrilled him was that sensational finishing note. It was the singer's ability to climb higher up the musical scale than the average person. And in that moment, a deep concern was ignited in my mind and heart.
Will you excuse me if I "stops preachin' and goes to meddlin'" for a moment? It sometimes distresses me when we applaud the ministry of music in our church services--especially during those times designated for worship. What are we applauding? I am sure that in many cases it is the skill of the performance. I know there is a breezy style abroad that says, "Let's give the Lord a hand," but I wonder. Are we sincerely worshipping when we applaud at the end of a song. "My Jesus, I love Thee..."--and we clap enthusiastically. What? Whom? Jesus? In the majority of cases, I doubt it.
Those of us who serve publicly in this way need the attitude of John the Baptist who said, "He must increase, but I must decrease" (Jn. 3:30). And the outlook of the one on the platform ought to promote a similar response from those in the pew. Augustine once said, "When I am moved by the voice of him that sings more than by the words sung, I confess I have sinned." Let's determine to direct our attention to what the words communicate. Let's respond to the sentiment of the message, not assess the competence of the performer.
So, is there a place to encourage the one who sings? Certainly. Time enough later, after the service, to express personal appreciation for the ministry. It is entirely appropriate to approach a soloist after the meeting, and say how much the ministry has blessed us. God's servants need our support. But as Ecclesiastes reminds us, "to everything there is a season" (Ecc. 3:1). Worship celebrates His worth-ship. In services designed for such a purpose, we must be careful not to confuse emotional excitement with spiritual energy, or worship with entertainment. Hold that applause...please.
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New Aston Martin Vantage GTE to make its Le Mans 24 Hours debut
Tags: GTE, Models, le-mans
Aston Martin Racing returns to the scene of its famous 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours triumph with the all-new Aston Martin Vantage GTE, which makes its first competitive appearance on the legendary Circuit de la Sarthe this weekend (16-17 June).
Monday, 11 June, Le Mans: Aston Martin Racing returns to the scene of its famous 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours triumph with the all-new Aston Martin Vantage GTE, which makes its first competitive appearance on the legendary Circuit de la Sarthe this weekend (16-17 June).
A year on from Jonny Adam’s dramatic late pass for the lead of the GTE Pro category that led to a glorious win for Aston Martin Racing, the team has entered two new Vantage GTEs in the 2018 event. Based on the critically-acclaimed Aston Martin Vantage road car and powered by the same 4.0-litre, V8 turbo-charged engine optimised by AMR, the Vantage GTEs are part of a 17-strong GTE Pro line-up that represents the most competitive field ever assembled for the class.
The new Vantage GTE made a solid debut in Spa-Francorchamps with both the #95 car driven by Nicki Thiim (DEN), Marco Sørensen (DEN) and three-time Le Mans winner Darren Turner (GB) and the #97 machine of Maxime Martin (B), Alex Lynn (GB) and Adam (GB) finishing in the points. Following an extensive development programme that covered 35,000km over the winter, the team is now ready to give the car its toughest examination yet in the most famous race of all.
This in spite of Sørensen’s accident at the Le Mans test day, which required the team to build up a brand new chassis in a tight timeframe. Aston Martin Racing’s technicians and engineers worked around the clock in split shifts to ensure a fresh #95 ‘DaneTrain’ was completed, shaken down and ready for scrutineering just six days after work began on a new race car.
The new Vantage GTE replaces the highly-decorated normally-aspirated V8 Vantage GTE, but that doesn’t mean the old car’s hunt for Le Mans glory is over. Indeed two will compete in this year’s event. The #98 car, driven by Aston Martin Racing's reigning GTE Am champions Paul Dalla Lana (CDN), Mathias Lauda (A) and Pedro Lamy (POR), will seek to add a Le Mans class victory to its extraordinary success tally, which continued with another GTE Am win in the opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Spa last month.
The second V8 Vantage GTE meanwhile, will be campaigned by Aston Martin’s partner team TF Sport, driven by Charlie Eastwood (IRL), Euan Hankey (GB) and Salih Yoluc (TUR).
Aston Martin Racing Team Principal Paul Howarth added: "Le Mans has already thrown up many challenges for the team to deal with this year, including the build of a brand new Vantage GTE chassis and repairing the #98 GTE Am car which was damaged during the test. I truly believe the team has demonstrated an exemplary example of teamwork and how to overcome unforeseen events. We are all now focussed on the race week and looking forward to what is shaping up to be one of the most competitive GT entries of the modern era. I have every confidence in all areas of the team that we will rise to the challenge."
Aston Martin Racing Technical Director Dan Sayers said: “Le Mans is a unique circuit just as the race is one of a kind, but we have prepared long and hard for this with a comprehensive and extensive testing programme. We were very happy with how the car ran during the test day, and our drivers reported that it behaved well through the critical sectors of the lap. So now it’s up to us to ensure it remains reliable and consistent for them to perform in the biggest race of them all. As ever, that means executing in all areas so that we leave nothing on the table, whether that be in engineering, pitstops or preparation. We’ve been working towards this point since we started testing the new car nearly a year ago and it will be a proud moment to see the new cars lined up on the grid next weekend.”
Vice President and Chief Special Operations Officer David King said: "The Le Mans 24 Hours is the jewel in the crown of sportscar racing and one of the principal reasons we build racing cars is to go out and beat our rivals in this race. Le Mans provides the ultimate test of durability and performance on and off the track. We’ve already had one test of endurance, which the team passed with aplomb with all the tremendous work and dedication that went in to building a new #95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE in a short time period. Now we need to go out and deliver the best results possible to reward that hard work and commitment from everybody in the weeks leading up to the race."
Works driver quotes:
Marco Sørensen (DEN), #95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE: “I’m very much looking forward to racing at Le Mans after all the build up. We didn’t have the best start for a Le Mans campaign with my accident but now obviously the mechanics are preparing a fresh car and I just cannot wait to go there and do a great job to do them justice for the amazing job they have done in such a short space of time. The car felt great through the whole test so I am really excited about driving it in the race. It’s time to just go flat out and race for a good result and deliver for the whole team.”
Nicki Thiim (DEN), #95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE: "`Le Mans is the highlight of the year. As a racing driver, as a racing fan, this is the big one. The test day was not great but the guys have done a stunning job to get the #95 car ready for the race weekend. I can’t wait to go directly to Le Mans, meet the fans, get the whole Le Mans feeling inside and the pure rush that this week gives you. I’m pretty sure we are going to be competitive. All the manufacturers are so close and I’m certain that this year the GTE Pro class is going to be the one to watch and the hardest fought over.”
Darren Turner (GB), #95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE: “I’m so excited to be going to Le Mans this year with the Aston Martin Vantage GTE. I’ve really enjoyed the extensive test programme that we began last August and the whole development process. At the test day I was able to get a good number of laps under my belt and the car left a very positive impression on me while running in the Le Mans trim. Obviously after Marco’s accident, Aston Martin Racing have been working around the clock to build us a new race car in time for Wednesday’s opening practice session. I’m really proud of how the team has responded and the effort everyone at Banbury has put in. I can’t wait to be back in the ‘DaneTrain’ as we aim to repeat last week’s success.”
Jonny Adam (GB), #97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE: "I can’t wait to return to Le Mans. Last year was very special for me and the whole team with the win we secured in the #97 car and it will only serve to give us extra confidence as we head into this weekend. The new Aston Martin Vantage GTE is an impressive step forward from its predecessor and we all love driving it. We’ve done a lot of mileage in testing through the off-season so we are ready and prepared as a team for the biggest race of the season."
Alex Lynn (GB), #97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE: “It goes without saying that for me it’s the highest honour to be able to represent Aston Martin Racing at Le Mans in 2018 with the brand new Vantage GTE. I can’t wait to hit the track for real and fight for victory with this famous team.”
Maxime Martin (B), #97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE: “I am really looking forward to driving at Le Mans, especially with this new Vantage GTE. The car felt very strong during the Le Mans test, and it gave us drivers a lot of confidence. I think it is going to be an amazing race and one of the hardest and toughest the GTE class has ever seen, but I think we are more than well prepared. It is going to be a great battle and I can’t wait to get involved in it.”
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Mad props for the Shrine Bowl coaches
The Shrine Bowl named its coaching staffs this week, and it was interesting to see how the groups came together.
The North squad will have some solid representation from Campbell County, as Wright’s Larry Yeradi, the head coach, picked up Gillette’s Vic Wilkerson and one of his own assistants, Doug Schrader, to help round out his staff. Riverside’s Michael McGuire (who is making the trip to Casper an annual event), Jackson’s Bill Wiley (and outgoing coach who gets a well-deserved Shrine Bowl nod on his way out) and Kaycee’s Dustin Sipe help round out the North staff.
The South staff doesn’t have any weak links, either. Head coach Jay Rhoades of Douglas pieced together a solid staff, including his own assistant, Wes Gamble, who had a ton to do with the Bearcats’ success this fall. Rock Springs’ Tony Yerkovich, Kemmerer’s Shawn Rogers and Saratoga’s Heath Hayes — all coaches who have been involved in this sport in the state for many years and who all have the respect of their coaching colleagues — join veteran Guernsey-Sunrise coach Casey Moats, who made the staff after his first year as a head football coach but earned his stripes as a longtime assistant with the Vikings.
IMHO, there isn’t a single undeserving coach in the bunch. I’ve talked to most of these guys at least once — many several times — and every single one has my seal of approval, something that’s all but meaningless to everyone but me…. but it speaks well of the Shrine Bowl that they were able to land such quality coaches for the big game.
More on the Shrine Bowl here.
Five Minute Introduction: Glendo
School: Glendo
Nickname: Eagles
Colors: maroon and white
State championships: 1957
Times worth remembering: Glendo had seven consecutive winning seasons from its championship season in 1957 to 1963. The 1957 championship season was the best of the run, a 9-1 campaign that ended with a shutout win over Tongue River in the title game; the 1959 team was also solid, going 4-1-1 (in the games for which I can find results).
Times worth forgetting: The end was long and painful for the Eagles, who didn’t win more than one game for six consecutive seasons before ending the program after an 0-7 season in 1979. In those six years from 1974-79, the Eagles won just three games, lost 43 and tied one.
Best team: The championship squad of 1957 had to fight — not only for the championship, but for the right to play in the title game. A 15-13 loss to Lingle in the regular season left the Eagles tied for the Southeast conference championship, forcing them to play Glenrock in a tiebreaker for the right to play in the state championship. So, just four days before the title game, the Eagles beat the Herders 24-13 in Douglas. Later that week, Glendo beat Tongue River 20-0 for the state’s first eight-man championship.
Biggest win: While the playoff win over Glenrock and the championship-game victory over Tongue River rank high, another victory during the 1957 season might have been even more important. One week after the loss to Lingle, Glendo had to face Pine Bluffs — a team that had tied Lingle 19-19 earlier in the season. The Eagles had no troubles, though. They blasted the Hornets 55-13, regained their confidence and were never challenged again on the way to the title.
Heartbreaker: The details of Glendo’s 1959 season are still a little fuzzy, but know this — Glendo tied Lingle 6-6 in the season finale. Lingle went to the playoffs, while Glendo didn’t. One way or another, that tie kept Glendo, which went 4-1-1 in games for which I could find results, from making the playoffs. Take that for what it’s worth.
Glendo Eagles team page.
Site updates: Lots of Pine Bluffs and Glenrock, some Albin, some Coaches Project….
I’ve mentioned Pine Bluffs before when doing site updates — how I know that I’ve under-researched the Hornets and I have yet to uncover everything about Pine Bluffs football. There are lots of reasons for that, but they really don’t matter. What matters is that I’m continuing to uncover some cool info about the purple and gold and its football history.
I put another significant dent into that research this week. I added 11 more new unique entries, including seven for the 1953 season alone, and knocked five more Pine Bluffs games off the missing games list.
Here’s what I’ve added for the Hornets:
Pine Bluffs 1953: Added a 20-0 loss to the Cheyenne (Central) JV on Sept. 15; added a 41-0 victory over the Scottsbluff, Neb., JV on an uncertain date (somewhere between Sept. 23-29, added to missing games list); added a 40-0 victory over the Laramie JV on Oct. 3; added a 12-0 victory over Morrill, Neb., on Oct. 16; added a 26-7 victory over Sterling St. Anthony’s, Colo., on Oct. 24; added a 24-0 victory over the Cheyenne (Central) JV on Oct. 29; and added a 13-0 victory over Sidney St. Patrick’s, Neb., on Nov. 6. I also found the location and date for the Sept. 11 game against Kimball, Neb. (it was in Pine Bluffs).
Pine Bluffs 1954: Added a game against the Cheyenne (Central) JV on Oct. 28 (but couldn’t find a final score and added it to the missing games list). I also added scores for the Oct. 15 game against Sidney St. Patrick’s, Neb. (Pine Bluffs won 14-2) and the Oct. 22 game against Morrill, Neb. (Morrill won 19-7). Also corrected the date for the Sept. 22 game against the Scottsbluff, Neb., JV (I originally had Sept. 24).
Pine Bluffs 1955: Added Pine Bluffs’ 26-0 loss to the Laramie JV on Sept. 15; found the location and the date for the Sept. 9 game with Kimball, Neb. (it was in Pine Bluffs); found the date for the Oct. 21 game with Morrill, Neb. (but it stayed on the missing games list for an unknown location); and added a Oct. 14 game with Sidney St. Patrick’s, Neb. (and added it to the missing games list because I couldn’t find the final score).
Pine Bluffs 1956: Added a game with Grover, Colo., on Nov. 2 (and added it to the missing games list because I couldn’t find a final score)
I also made significant progress with some Glenrock details that I had been missing:
Glenrock 1957: Knocked five missing games off the list. Found a location and a date for a 25-o victory over Huntley on Sept. 13 (I also corrected the score; I had originally listed 26-0); found the location for the Oct. 5 game against Lyman, Neb. (in Lyman, Neb.), and the Nov. 2 game against Lingle (in Glenrock); found the date and location for the Oct. 19 game against the Natrona JV (in Glenrock); found the score for the 34-0 victory over Glendo on Nov. 9.
Glenrock 1954: Knocked two missing games off the list. Found a score for Glenrock’s 52-12 victory over Lingle on Sept. 24 and discovered the Oct. 1 game with Harrison, Neb., was canceled.
Glenrock 1951: Added the Herders’ 18-14 victory over Lingle on Sept. 26 and found the date and location for the 28-0 loss to Manville on Sept. 21 (it was at Lance Creek).
Added Hanna’s 22-12 victory over St. Mary’s on Sept. 17, 1977
Added Albin’s 27-6 victory over Melbeta, Neb., on Sept. 10, 1954 (and added it to the missing games list for a missing location)
Found the date and location for Albin’s loss to Melbeta, Neb., on Sept. 9, 1955 (it was in Albin)
In all, 14 new entries were added to the database. All these updates have been made on all the relevant pages.
But that’s not all! Here are some other updates I’ve made this week:
I added almost every missing coach from the 1978 and 1981 seasons, nearly completing the Coaches Project from 1976 forward. I’m still missing one coach from 1976 forward: Glendo’s 1978 coach. Otherwise, the prior 34 years of the Coaches Project are done! I have recently made Coaches Project updates for Albin, Basin, Bow-Basin, Byron, Cokeville, Gillette, Hanna, Lander, Lyman, North Big Horn, Rawlins, St. Mary’s and Saratoga.
Also, Steve Core down in Green River has come through BIG again. He provided me a list of all of Green River’s coaches from 1943 to the early 1970s, which is where my list picked up. So, for now, I’m good to go for the Wolves’ coaching history. Thanks again to Steve for all the help he’s provided!
Other housekeeping
With the updates I added last week, I realized Lovell’s losing streak from 1959-62 had actually increased a game, from 22 to 23, while the Bulldogs’ winless streak jumped from 23 to 24 games. Those changes have been reflected on the streaks page.
New Sporcle quiz: Wyoming HS football stadiums east to west
So I put up another Wyoming high school football quiz on Sporcle…. The Wyoming high school football teams ranked east to west by the location of their stadium.
Click here to play it.
Or, check out the stadiums page to study up before you take the quiz. No cheating, though! Scout’s honor.
Once again, my two most nerdy sides emerge simultaneously. 🙂
Over Christmas break, I began compiling individual win-loss records for all the state’s football coaches from 1946 to the present. In doing so, I was able to come up with a coaching leaderboard of sorts… the coaches with at least 100 career victories.
For some reason, the list was a lot shorter than I anticipated. I guess I thought there were more coaches who “defined” programs, leading them for a long enough period to get into the 100-victory range. I guess not…. Even so, the short list is still impressive.
The table below lists the coaches who have won at least 100 football games from 1946 to the present, and it’s only for coaches’ records with Wyoming teams (any out-of-state records aren’t considered). As always, the list is limited by both time and the information to which I have access; if the coach isn’t listed with the team pages, he wouldn’t make this list. Some coaches might not make this list for that reason. Don’t consider this list full or complete. It’s just the best I can do right now.
100-victory club
Petronovich, Pete 105 88 4
Almost there (90+)
From what I can find, current Cokeville coach Todd Dayton is far and away the winningest coach in state history. Dayton, who took over the Panthers’ coaching duties in 1980, has led his team to 242 victories, including 16 state championships.
John E. Deti, aka John Senior, the longtime coach at Laramie who took over the Plainsmen program in 1944, ranks second. His career record is most likely closer to 206-86-8, with a 1944 record of 5-3-1 and a 1945 record of 4-3-1 (check out my Laramie history page to see more on the Plainsmen and their coaches). His son, John R. Deti, aka John Junior, is third all-time with 188 victories, most of those with Laramie — not a bad family legacy.
Outside of Cokeville and coach Dayton, the state’s winningest active coach is Natrona’s Steve Harshman, who has won 114 games in 19 seasons leading the Mustangs. It’s no surprise Harshman is where he is — he’s been at his post longer than any other active coach in the state, execpt for Dayton. Time-wise, Hulett’s Steve Colling is third (Colling has led the Red Devils for 18 seasons and has 70 career victories), but victories-wise it’s Southeast coach Mark Bullington that’s closest to Harshman (and Dayton, of course) with his 92 victories in 11 seasons with the Cyclones.
The records for all coaches aren’t posted anywhere on the site yet, as I’d like to get a few more coaches’ names banked before I post anything more official-looking. But, for now, it’s fun to look at what I’ve got.
Five Minute Introduction: Riverton
School: Riverton
Nickname: Wolverines
Stadium: Tonkin Stadium
Times worth remembering: Three championships, two undefeated seasons and a 26-game winning streak — the late 1990s were by far the peak of the Riverton program. Titles in 1997, 1998 and 1999, including back-to-back 10-0 seasons in 1998 and 1999, established Riverton as a 3A powerhouse. The Wolverines weren’t especially dominant, but they knew how to win — 10 wins in that time frame were by eight points or fewer, including all three state title games.
Times worth forgetting: Two periods were especially tough for the Wolverines: a 4-30-2 stretch from 1955-59 and a 4-29 run from 2005-08. The recent run qualifies as Riverton’s toughest, though; the late 50s teams were outscored by an average of 24.5-9.4 and won at least one game every season; the 2000s teams were outscored 30.2-8.8 on average, and had the school’s only winless season (0-8) in 2005.
Best team: Good luck trying to find some differences between Riverton’s squads in 1998 and 1999 — they were nearly equal in every facet. Both teams went 10-0 and won the 3A state championships in similar fashion, riding efficient offenses and tough defenses. The 1998 team had a 254-76 scoring edge in its 10 games; the 1999 team had a 333-85 point advantage. Both teams had six first-team all-state players, including three players who were on both (Jeff Mowry, Terry Cottenoir and Tom Vincent).
Biggest win: Few high school games will ever match the dramatic circumstances of the 1994 3A title game between Riverton and Lander. The two longtime rivals were meeting for the first time in playoff circumstances, and both were coming off road victories in the semifinals. The game itself was a tense, seesaw battle, one not decided until Corte McGuffey hit Kevin Devries with the winning TD pass in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter. Riverton won the game 33-27, notching its first state football championship in the process.
Heartbreaker: Riverton’s 1973 fairy-tale ending ran into just one speed bump: Laramie. After losing the 1972 championship game to Kelly Walsh, the Wolverines came back strong again in 1973, finishing the regular season 7-2. But, for the second straight year, the Wolverines couldn’t finish the job. Laramie topped Riverton 22-7, giving the Wolverines their second consecutive championship-game loss. It was Riverton’s last best chance; the Wolverines lost decisively to Cheyenne Central in the 1979 championship game and didn’t make it back again until 1994.
Coaches Project updates: New listings for 32 schools
Thanks to the folks at the Wyoming High School Activities Association, as well as my own detective work on the microfilm, I’ve added names for about 100 seasons to the Coaches Project.
The WHSAA hooked me up with their archive of old statewide directories, allowing me to find my missing coaches for every school in the years 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993. I am still missing some coaches for 1978 and 1981, years for which the WHSAA didn’t have directories in their file… but even so, this hook-up gave me a ton of names and helped me complete a huge gap in my research. Thanks!
For what it’s worth, I believe I have obtained every coach’s name from 1976 to the present — the past 34 years of Wyoming football — except for the following:
1978 coaches for Basin, Bow-Basin, Byron, St. Mary’s, Cokeville, Hanna, Lander, Lyman, North Big Horn, Saratoga and Glendo, as well as the first name for coach Bujol in Gillette.
1981 coaches for Basin, Bow-Basin, Byron, St. Mary’s, Hanna, Lyman, Saratoga and Rawlins.
With the cumulative efforts of my work on microfilm and the work I did at the WHSAA, I’ve added coaching updates for the following 32 teams: Basin, Bow-Basin, Byron, Cokeville, Cowley, Deaver-Frannie, Encampment, Farson, Gillette, Glendo, Greybull, Guernsey, Guernsey-Sunrise, Hanna, Lander, Lingle, Lyman, Manderson, Moorcroft, Morton, North Big Horn, Pavillion, Rawlins, Saratoga, St. Mary’s/Seton, St. Stephens, Sunrise, Ten Sleep, Thermopolis, Tongue River, Torrington, Wind River. Check out those individual team pages and check the list of missing info to see the updates and what still needs to be done.
Also, Greybull native Steve Core, now in Green River, also hooked me up with some Greybull coach names. Those have now been posted. Thanks to Steve for that info!
More stuff on coaches later this week.
Site updates: A whole bunch of them
Knocked 32 games off the missing games list, added 13 more new entries and corrected a pair. Yeah, it’s been a busy time.
Most of what’s been updated lately is games from small southeast corner schools, mostly Guernsey and Sunrise. I’ve come across old microfilm of the Guernsey Gazette and have been using that to fill in a bunch of missing information. I’d say somewhere close to one-half of the games on the missing games list from the 1950s are (or at least were) games involving small southeast corner schools.
I also chipped away at the Byes Project and found a few new games that way, as well.
Anyway, here’s the list of stuff that’s updated:
Took the following games off the missing games list:
Found the location for three Sunrise games in 1962: the Sept. 14 game with Guernsey (Guernsey); the Sept. 21 game with Chadron, Neb., Assumption (Sunrise); and the Oct. 3 game with Huntley (Huntley)
Found the date for the Sept. 7, 1962, game between Hanna and Lingle
Found the location for the Sept. 2, 1960, game between Newcastle and Belle Fourche, S.D. (it was in Belle Fourche)
Found scores for two Guernsey losses in 1959: 42-0 to Glenrock on Sept. 11, 1959 and 24-13 to Huntley on Sept. 25
Found the location for the Sept. 11, 1959, game between Pine Bluffs and Galeton, Colo. (it was in Pine Bluffs)
Found the score for Sunrise’s 20-0 victory over Huntley on Oct. 30, 1959
Removed a game between Chugwater and Guernsey on Oct. 17, 1958; Chugwater didn’t have a team that season
Found the score and corrected the date for Guernsey’s 33-0 victory over Lyman, Neb., on Oct. 22, 1958 (originally had Oct. 24)
Found the location for two Sunrise games in 1957: the Sept. 20 game with Lyman, Neb. (Lyman) and the Oct. 11 game with Chugwater (Chugwater)
Found the date and corrected the location for Guernsey’s game with Chugwater on Oct. 18, 1957 (it was in Guernsey, not Chugwater)
Found out the Nov. 1, 1957, game between Sunrise and Pine Bluffs was canceled
Removed a scheduled game for Sept. 14, 1956, between Guernsey and Albin that was not played (Albin didn’t field a team that year)
Found scores for three Glendo games in 1956: a 47-7 loss to Lingle on Sept. 21, a 26-14 victory over Guernsey on Oct. 10 (had originally listed it on Oct. 12), and a 21-7 victory over Huntley on Oct. 19
Found the score for Sunrise’s 38-6 victory over Chugwater on Oct. 9, 1956
Removed scheduled games between Moorcroft and Hulett on Oct. 5, 1956, and Moorcroft and Sundance on Oct. 9, 1956 (Moorcroft did not field a team that season)
Found the score for Glenrock’s 20-0 victory over Pine Bluffs on Oct. 26, 1956, and deleted an extra entry for the game on Oct. 19, 1956
Rectified the end of Guernsey’s 1956 season: Noted that Guernsey won its Nov. 2 game over Huntley by forfeit; noted that Guernsey lost its Nov. 9 game to Lyman, Neb., by forfeit, and removed an extra entry for a game against Huntley on Nov. 14
Added a pair of losses for Upton in 1955: A 26-0 loss to Spearfish, S.D., on Sept. 9 and another 26-0 loss, this one to Edgemont, S.D., on Sept. 23
Found a score for Glendo’s 18-6 victory over Guernsey on Oct. 14, 1955
Found a score for Sunrise’s 13-7 overtime victory over Huntley on Oct. 28, 1955
Found a score for Upton’s 12-0 loss to Edgemont, S.D., on Sept. 11, 1953
Added the following games:
Two for Pine Bluffs in 1959: a 32-12 victory over Sidney, Neb., St. Patrick’s on Sept. 18 and a 20-18 victory over Glendo on Sept. 25
Two for Pine Bluffs in 1958: a 34-12 loss to Sidney, Neb., St. Patrick’s on Oct. 24 and a 12-6 loss to Sterling, Colo., St. Anthony’s on Sept. 19
Lovell’s 14-6 loss to Hardin, Mont., on Sept. 9, 1960
Hanna’s 35-19 victory over Guernsey on Oct. 20, 1962
Pavillion’s 27-0 loss to the Lander JV on Sept. 17, 1963
Two for Pinedale in 1967: a 55-7 victory over the Jackson JV on Oct. 21 and a 25-14 loss to Pavillion on Oct. 27
Burlington’s 28-6 victory over Morton on Oct. 26, 1962
Sunrise’s 21-0 victory over Pine Bluffs on Sept. 21, 1956
Glenrock’s 39-6 victory over the Natrona JV in late October 1956 (also added it to the missing games list for the missing date and location)
The snowed-out game between Tongue River and Sundance on Oct. 25, 1957
Other corrections:
Corrected the date for the Oct. 14, 1966, game between Glendo and Guernsey-Sunrise (had originally listed Oct. 18)
Noted Glendo’s forfeit victory over Guernsey on Nov. 1, 1957 (originally had it as just canceled, but the Longhorns actually had to forfeit this one in the conference standings)
More updates soon, including big changes and updates for the Coaches Project.
Five Minute Introduction: Kemmerer
School: Kemmerer
Nickname: Rangers
Colors: black and red
Stadium: Ranger Stadium
Times worth remembering: Kemmerer has had some good times — most notably a mythical state title in the 1970s and back-to-back titles in the 1990s. But both can’t compare to the sustained success the Rangers enjoyed from 2005-08. Aside from 2006’s 5-4 campaign, the Rangers have gone 11-0, 10-1 and 10-1. The 2005, 2007 and 2008 seasons are Kemmerer’s only seasons in school history where they’ve crept into double-digit win totals.
Times worth forgetting: Even with all its success, Kemmerer has had long dry spells, too, including three losing streaks of at least 20 games apiece. But the struggles of the 1952-55 seasons, in which Kemmerer had three consecutive winless seasons followed up by a 1-7 record in 1955, is one of the roughest stretches on record. Kemmerer’s three closest losses in its 20-game winless streak, encompassing an 0-6 1952 and 0-7 records in 1953 and 1954, were by 18, 19 and 19 points. Things began to improve in 1955, but only an 18-0 victory over the Rock Springs JV saved the Rangers from yet another winless season.
Best team: While the Kemmerer teams of recent years, especially the 2005 and 2007 teams, are among the school’s best, the Rangers’ best squad was probably the 1974 team that went 9-0 and split a mythical state championship with Torrington. The ’74 Rangers outscored their opponents 309-35 and gave up just eight points in their final six games.
Biggest win: Even with home-field advantage in the 1993 semifinals, Kemmerer couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable with its opponent, the Lovell Bulldogs. After all, Lovell had beaten Kemmerer 20-15 on a neutral field just two weeks prior to the semifinals. But the Rangers didn’t flinch and beat the Bulldogs 17-14, paving the way for the first of Kemmerer’s state championships. And in the 1994 season, Kemmerer beat Lovell twice — once in the regular season and then again in the semifinals — to win state again.
Heartbreaker: Kemmerer has suffered a few tough losses along the way, but none was tougher to figure out than the one that happened in the 1996 quarterfinals. The Rangers were their conference champions and had home-field advantage and were pegged as one of the top teams in 2A (Kemmerer’s only loss during the regular season was to Rich County, Utah). The first-round matchup with 1-6 Newcastle looked like a warmup to a potential semifinal against Thermopolis. But the Rangers couldn’t hold onto a 26-13 lead and gave up two late touchdowns. Newcastle advanced with a 27-26 victory — a win that still ranks as one of the greatest playoff upsets in Wyoming’s history.
Coaches Project update: Basin, Seton, Ten Sleep, Saratoga, Hanna, Lander, Lyman, North Big Horn, Byron, Encampment
With some of my spare time this week, I jumped into the Coaches Project and found out some more names. Basin, Seton, Ten Sleep, Saratoga, Hanna, Lander, Lyman, North Big Horn, Byron and Encampment all had names added for various years, most in the 1980s. Check out those individual team pages to see the updates.
Also, the 1944 season is about an hour away from being completed. The 1945 season is done and ready to go…. I hope to have the 1940s compete by May, then work back from there this summer. I hope to reach 1920 by this August, but we’ll see. From there, I’ll post the years to the site as time allows, although I’m still not completely sure of my summer schedule yet.
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Paul Beresford – 2019 Speech on Travellers in Mole Valley
Below is the text of the speech made by Sir Paul Beresford, the Conservative MP for Mole Valley, in the House of Commons on 25 April 2019.
I thank the Minister for being here as the last man standing. It is an awful position, one I used to have, too. However, this is an opportunity to raise a vexing issue that has plagued my constituency and Surrey as a whole. We are now in what we call the summer Traveller season; it is like a disease. Mole Valley constituency consists of Mole Valley District Council south of the M25 and the eastern wards of Guildford Borough Council. It is close to London and to Epsom downs, so it is attractive to Travellers from afar, and many of those come with a distinct Irish accent.
We have two distinct, different types of Traveller problem. The first involves those who suddenly appear and squat on a site. The second involves those who squat on a site that they say they own or have access to, and then proceed to openly defy planning regulations. The first group very occasionally have permission to camp—as I have noticed—use the site and then they leave it as it was found. That is rare, and normally things are quite different. This is exemplified by an incident at the end of March, when five caravans and various vehicles squatted on a public commuter car park near Leatherhead station. The council moved fast—or, rather, as fast as possible—and after a few days it served a section 77 notice for the caravans to move. Predictably, that was ignored and a couple of days later the police arrived in force and moved them on, with the council then doing the clean-up. This was a waste of time and money, and a blockage, with a loss of space, of a busy commuter car park.
Last Traveller season, Surrey had hundreds of these incidents, and Mole Valley had more than its share. Surrey’s councils and the population accept the need for Traveller sites, but not without limit. Currently, the Surrey districts are working together to provide one or two transit sites, which will help the police and councils to justify their action. Elmbridge Borough Council, a Surrey council, has tried something revolutionary. It mapped every public space—churchyards, schools, playgrounds and so on—in Elmbridge and then obtained a three-year injunction against Traveller squatting on those mapped sites. That meant the police in Elmbridge could act straightaway, regardless of who the individuals were, and whom the vehicles and caravans belonged to. However, this approach has several downsides. As a member of the National Farmers Union, I note that no private land, including farm land, was covered by the injunction. The injunction was for only three years, and huge public efforts and expenditure went into setting up the maps. What this approach does provide is an indication that if such land squatting was criminalised nationally, as I believe applies in Ireland, direct action by the police could take place, whoever owns the land, although obviously at the landowner’s request.
The second area of Traveller abuse relates to abuse of planning law. Mole Valley District Council and the Mole Valley constituency are smothered with building restrictions; we have sites of special scientific interest, areas of outstanding natural beauty, green belt and so on. This includes the Guildford wards next door. Any constituent from the settled community that builds without permission, particularly on land where these restrictions apply, can expect to be required to remove the development. Some of the Traveller community do not believe these laws apply to them—or they choose to ignore them. I wish to focus on how a very few of these Travellers manipulate the system in ways that would not be entertained by settled residents or by planning authorities. In saying that, I emphasise that there are a number of successful, popular Gypsy, Traveller sites in the constituency where there are no difficulties and no arguments, and where the community is integrated.
First, I shall touch on two long-standing examples. One is in Guildford, on a site on a narrow little private lane off the A246. The A246 is a busy road, but the lane is tiny and narrow, with few properties. Development is severely limited as it is an area of natural beauty, with ancient forests—it is green belt and so on. A Traveller from outside Mole Valley inherited the land, or access to it, squatted on it and, over a short period, placed a number of caravans, trucks and cars there and ran several different businesses from the site.
The second example is in Leatherhead, on green-belt pasture land. Since what I believe are Irish Travellers arrived at the site in 2003, which is a few days back, the area has been fenced, a fast-growing hedge has been planted, a number of caravans have been placed there and a few other buildings of a more permanent design have been built. To my amusement, two large, high, wrought-iron, electrically operated gates have been erected between pillars at the entrances. It looks like the entry to a minor stately home.
On both sites, it is apparently the norm that all injunctions have been ignored; numerous applications have been made, rejected and appealed; and relations with the local community are fractious, with numerous threats to community members. As I said, the Travellers arrived in 2003, so this has been going on for years, without success in ensuring that the planning laws respected by the settled community are not ignored or dodged by devious legal means by the people who have squatted there.
A third case commenced this Easter weekend in Capel. By chance, I drove past and came across the site. Going by the accent, it was probably a group of Irish Travellers, with two or three small caravans squatted on a two-acre field. They claim that they own the land, which may or may not be true. The land is accessed by a narrow agreed-access way over another person’s land. The squatters bought in a small digger and widened the access way, and they wooden-fenced the widened way without the landowner’s agreement. This morning, I observed that the fence has been taken down while the access is being further enlarged and re-fenced to allow through bigger vehicles, such as horse-carrying vehicles and bigger caravans. The standing passage right of way for this field specifically bans caravans.
The individuals have brought in a number of lorry-loads of hardcore, which was laid and spread by a fairly large JCB digger. The wooden buildings were knocked down to make space for what I understand are going to be new buildings, including stables. A local neighbour I talked to was threatened by the individuals in respect of the water supply, which I understand has been accessed probably without the water company’s agreement. Moreover, other neighbours have been threatened and told not to interfere or they will suffer severe retaliation.
The local council is seeking legal advice pending an approach to the courts. The Travellers have put in the usual foot-in-the-door planning application for caravans and stables for a horse business. This probably means that the council cannot act on any injunction until the application is heard, presumably reviewed, refused and then appealed. That will probably be followed by a further sequence of applications and appeals, and in around 20 years’ time these people will have continued to breed there, raised their horses, increased the whole site, or at least the number of vehicles on it, and added numerous caravans and more businesses.
The behaviour is along the lines of what I have seen of the Mafia in Sicily. One might ask why these people would act in this way; the answer is, of course, because they can and nobody, including the courts, the police and the local authority, seems capable of stopping them. The Minister and his Department have being running a review for months, now running into years. It is time for a speedy and tough response.
First, in cases of squatting on possibly-owned land and the ignoring of planning regulations, I would like the Government to change the legislation to enable local authority planning officers to place an immediate stop notice on even minor development, with heavy fines and ultimately jail for failure to comply and return the land to the condition it was in before. Leave it to the Travellers rather than the local authorities to go to court if they wish to oppose the stop notice. Where Travellers squat on other people’s land without permission, this should be made a criminal offence. That is how it is done in Ireland and it seems to work, enabling the police to take direct and immediate action.
Next, will the Minister consider tightening up the legal definition of Travellers? It is too loose at the moment, and one thing that those who squat do not do is travel. Related to that is the extraordinary requirement that the claim to need to live in caravans should overcome the normal and understandable offer of bricks and mortar accommodation. That is particularly relevant where children and infants would by normal standards be accommodated in a better and healthier environment in a normal dwelling. I have a number of other suggestions, but I will test just one more. Will the Minister enlarge on the definition of repetitive similar applications, so that these can be accumulated and rejected at a stroke?
There is a belief among many of the settled community who brush up against these individuals—that is a polite way of putting such contact—that such Travellers ignore normal law-abiding activity because the law is weak and ineffective. My experience supports that feeling. Change is years overdue; and, because of the Easter events, let me make a vain request: can any change be made retrospective to the day before last Easter? Over to you, Minister.
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New Movie Releases: April 2016
With Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hitting theaters this month and Captain America: Civil War arriving in May, April offers us a chance to catch our breath a bit between superhero movies and steel ourselves for the blockbuster onslaught of summer. Next month brings exciting films like The Jungle Book and Key & Peele’s Keanu, along with the totally bonkers Huntsman: Winter’s War and a few thrilling indies (Green Room, anyone?). There’s much more in store in our guide to April’s new movie releases.
Everybody Wants Some!!: Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Wyatt Russell and Zoey Deutch. A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Collide: Directed by Eran Creevy. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Anthony Hopkins and Felicity Jones. An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Munich’s high-speed Autobahn.
Miles Ahead (Limited): Directed by Don Cheadle. Starring Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor and Emayatzy Corinealdi. An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
The Dark Horse (Limited): Directed by James Napier Robinson. Starring Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston and Kirk Torrance. An emotionally charged and inspiring drama about a man who searches for the courage to lead, despite his own adversities - finding purpose and hope in passing on his gift to the children in his community.
Pandemic (Limited): Directed by Dustin T. Benson. Starring Rachel Nichols, Missi Pyle and Alfie Allen. Set in the near future, a doctor searches for survivors after a virus has taken over Earth.
Meet the Blacks (Limited): Directed by Deon Taylor. Starring Mike Epps, Mike Tyson and George Lopez. Beverly Hills is about to get real dangerous.
Darling (Limited): Directed by Mickey Keating. Starring Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Young and Larry Fessenden. A lonely girl’s violent descent into madness.
Kill Your Friends (Limited): Directed by Owen Harris. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Ed Skrein and Rosanna Arquette. An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.
Standing Tall (Limited): Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot. Starring Catherine Deneuve, Rod Paradot and Benoit Magimel. The story centers on a young delinquent as he comes of age.
Hardcore Henry: Directed by Ilya Naishuller. Starring Sharlto Copley, Haley Bennett and Tim Roth. A first-person action film from the eyes of Henry, who’s resurrected from death with no memory. He must discover his identity and save his wife from a warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.
The Boss: Directed by Ben Falcone. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell and Peter Dinklage. A titan of industry is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
Demolition (Limited): Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper and Heather Lind. A successful investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash.
Louder Than Bombs (Limited): Directed by Joachim Trier. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan and Isabelle Huppert. The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.
The Invitation (Limited): Directed by Karyn Kusama. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Michiel Huisman and Tammy Blanchard. While attending a dinner party at his former home, a man thinks his ex-wife and her new husband have sinister intentions for their guests.
Term Life (Limited): Directed by Peter Billingsley. Starring Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinfeld and Jonathan Banks. A guy wanted around town by various hit men hopes to stay alive long enough for his life insurance policy to kick in and pay out for his estranged daughter.
The Jungle Book: Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson and Ben Kingsley. An orphan boy is raised in the jungle with the help of a pack of wolves, a bear, and a black panther.
Barbershop: The Next Cut: Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. Starring Ice Cube, Margot Bingham and Anthony Anderson. 10 years after the last film, the Barbershop and Beauty Shop employees now share a space and must join forces to protect their community
Criminal: Directed by Ariel Vromen. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Alice Eve. The memories and skills of a deceased CIA agent are implanted into an unpredictable and dangerous convict.
Green Room (Limited): Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Starring Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart and Imogen Poots. After witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads.
Sing Street (Limited): Directed by John Carney. Starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen and Jack Reynor. A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band and moving to London.
Colonia (Limited): Directed by Florian Gallenberger. Starring Emma Watson, Daniel Bruhl and Michael Nyqvist. A young woman’s desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
The Adderall Diaries (Limited): Directed by Pamela Romanowsky. Starring James Franco, Amber Heard and Christian Slater. Based on the bestselling memoir by Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries is the gripping and complex story of how an author’s fascination with a high-profile murder case leads him to come to terms with his troubled past while embarking on a potentially life-changing romance in the present.
Rio, I Love You (Limited): Directed by Various. Starring John Turturro, Emily Mortimer and Rodrigo Santoro. A series of short films set in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
The Huntsman: Winter’s War: Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. Starring Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain. As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land; two renegades - Eric the Huntsman - who previously aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna, and his forbidden lover, Sara set out to stop them.
Compadres: Directed by Enrique Begne. Starring Eric Roberts, Kevin Pollak and Hector Jimenez. A disgruntled Mexican cop is forced to work with a teenage hacker to hunt down the criminals who killed his wife, and dismantle their operation.
Elvis & Nixon (Limited): Directed by Liza Johnson. Starring Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey and Alex Pettyfer. The untold true story behind the meeting between the King of Rock ‘n Roll and President Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.
A Hologram for the King (Limited): Directed by Tom Tykwer. Starring Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw and Tom Skerritt. A failed American businessman looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.
The Meddler (Limited): Directed by Lorene Scafaria. Starring Rose Byrne, Susan Sarandon and Sam Elliott. An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Sworn Virgin (Limited): Directed by Laura Bispuri. Starring Alba Rohrwacher, Emily Ferratello and Lars Eidinger. An Albanian woman escapes a life of oppression by swearing an oath of virginity and moving into the mountains, where she lives out her days as a man until something awakens her need to return to womanhood.
Tale of Tales (Limited): Directed by Matteo Garrone. Starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly and Vincent Cassel. A trio of fantastical, interconnected stories.
Keanu: Directed by Peter Atencio. Starring Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele and Jason Mitchell. Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen kitten by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.
Ratchet and Clank: Directed by Kevin Munroe and Jerrica Cleland. Starring James Arnold Taylor, Sylvester Stallone and Paul Giamatti. Based on the hit video game series, this animated adventure follows a pair of unlikely heroes on a mission to stop an alien threat.
Mother’s Day: Directed by Garry Marshall. Starring Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson. Intersecting stories with different moms collide on Mother’s Day.
A Beautiful Planet: Directed by Toni Myers. Narrated by Jennifer Lawrence. An exploration of Earth and beyond as seen from outer space.
The Man Who Knew Infinity (Limited): Directed by Matt Brown. Starring Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel and Toby Jones. Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
The Family Fang (Limited): Directed by Jason Bateman. Starring Jason Bateman, Nicole Kidman and Christopher Walken. A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.
Source: New Movie Releases: April 2016
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By +972 Magazine
|Published February 17, 2012
Ex-political prisoner shares journey though Israeli jails
There were 4,937 political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers in November 2011 according to Adameer, a Palestinian non-governmental organization. Yazan Abdulhadi was one of them before he was released on November 28, 2011, between the two swaps of the deal between Israel and Hamas to free Gilad Schalit (not as part of the deal). On January 7, 2012, he agreed to give an interview that would be published in +972 Magazine. The conversation took place in Ramallah, at Café Pronto.
By Alexis Thiry
Yazan spent 15 months in Israeli prisons, accused of being a member of a student union affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which Israel claims is a terrorist organization. Israel can arrest any member of an illegal political group in the West Bank, based on a British law enacted during the time of the mandate.
His is the story of many Palestinians arrested for what Israel calls security concerns, but actually for political activity, in Area A, which is officially under full Palestinian civil and security control. Sharing his experience in prison, he says, remains a “duty as long as there is a Palestinian prisoner still in the occupation’s prisons.”
His point of view as an insider helps reveal details of interrogation methods and living conditions in Israeli prisons.
Ramallah. August 9, 2010.
Abdulhadi was 22 years old when Israeli forces arrested him in the early morning of August 9, 2010. “My arrest came as no surprise for me since it was part of a broader campaign targeting university students with a political background,” he explained. Some of his “comrades had already been interrogated,” and his name, he says, was on a list. About 15 men, including a member of the intelligence, turned his room upside down searching for subversive books and evidence.
Handcuffed and eyes covered, he was escorted to a military vehicle that took him to a detention center located in the Israeli settlement of Beit El near Ramallah. After answering questions about his health, he was transferred to Jerusalem for interrogation. “Three or four of the policemen came into the room, and asked me to undress, which I refused,” Yazan said. “They threatened me with an electronic device, and they gave me an orange uniform similar to what you see on television.”
Jerusalem interrogation center. August-September 2010. 54 days of isolation.
“You are hiding something, you are a terrorist, you are a Nazi, you want to drink our blood,” the interrogators said, according to Yazan.
The investigation conducted by Israel’s Internal Security Agency (Shin Bet) about the student movement lasted 15 days in total, during ten of which he was refused legal advice. Yazan said his interrogators did not use physical torture but psychological pressure, such as blackmail, saying things like: “If you don’t talk, you father will!”, “If you don’t help us you will spend the rest of your life behind bars… If you don’t talk, we will give you to the Palestinian Authority intelligence for interrogation, and who knows how you will be treated over there.”
Yazan said he was made to sit on a chair for ten hours at a time, and not allowed to sleep, then given 30 minutes to rest in his cell before answering more questions by ten different officers from the intelligence agency.
During and after his interrogation, Yazan related that he was put in complete isolation for 54 days. His cell was two square meters, with no sunlight. The only people allowed to see him were the lawyer appointed by the Palestinian Minister of Prisoner’s Affairs, and Red Cross representatives, visiting every Monday. Neither of them was allowed to see either the interrogation room or the cell. Though he is skeptical about the authority these figures hold within the Israeli prison regime, they did provide some emotional support.
“Even lawyers don’t have much authority. It is known that your sentence is already a decision of the intelligence, not of the court,” Yazan said. “It [the legal representation] is like a decoration. During my interrogation, one of the officers told me I would be sentenced for one or two years, which was right.”
Meeting the Red Cross was his “lucky day”, he said. They brought some messages to his family. “I remember a lady who came one day and asked me if they gave me new clothes, and I said yes, they did yesterday. She laughed before telling me they always do that to show that prisoners are well treated.”
Ashkelon Prison. November 2011. Nine months.
“Hearing stories about prison is nothing compared to what you experience,” Yazan said.
Since the Israeli authorities could only prove Yazan’s membership in an illegal organization based on the evidence the soldiers found in his room, and from previous confessions of other prisoners, the evidence was deemed insufficient to continue the interrogation. His case was finally sent to the military court where he was tried for membership in a student union affiliated with the PFLP. Before he was convicted, he was transferred to a prison in Ashkelon, which was unusual: many of the prisoners there were serving long sentences in this facility, for conviction of charges of violence – they are known in Israel as prisoners with “blood on their hands.”
His trial started in November 2010 and ended in March 2011. The sessions took place twice per month in Ofer Prison, an incarceration facility near Ramallah. “Going there is a 15-hour journey during which you cannot possibly eat, smoke, or go to the toilet.” The guards ensuring the transfer between Ashkelon and Ofer have a reputation of being brutal and provocative, and stories of maltreatment circulate among prisoners, he said.
Birzeit University provided another lawyer for the trial, in addition to the one previously provided by Palestinian authorities. Since so many students get arrested, the university charges no fees if the defendant has no criminal background. Since Yazan knew the Shin Bet had already settled his case, he was advised to agree to a list of charges that equated to a sentence of 15 months.
As he spoke of daily life in Ashkelon, Yazan mentioned that Fatah and Hamas militants imprisoned there had separate cells to prevent tensions. Yazan did not live with conservative Muslims: “Personally, as a leftist, my lifestyle couldn’t possibly match with a Hamas prisoner who prays five times a day.”
He explained that nine other prisoners lived with him. Six of them were serving life sentences, three of whom were released after the Schalit deal. His most atypical cellmate was a Samaritan Palestinian. He said he was serving six life sentences for being part of the Palestinian resistance in Nablus where the small community of Samaritans, whose faith is closely related to Judaism, still exists despite the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
In prison, communication with the outside world is limited and closely controlled. Visits are regulated by Israeli authorities, and Yazan said they decided arbitrarily which prisoner can be visited. He was one of the luckiest. The Red Cross organized transportation for his mother and sister to see him. His other sister could not obtain clearance, because they had changed their family names when they married, lowering their eligibility for permits.
Prisoners listened regularly to a popular radio broadcast program in which a speaker reads messages posted by families. The show is the most effective bond prisoners have with Palestinian territories, since only one letter out of five reaches either the family or the prisoner, due to censorship.
“I got lucky because my brother in-law is employed at Radio Amwaj, and kept me posted on air about my family,” Yazan said.
Yazan related conversations he had with prisoners who had been incarcerated for 18 years. “He started to ask me some questions about Facebook. I tried to explain, but…he was getting more and more confused about the technology. Some prisoners did not see the face of a woman for 30 years. How can they possibly understand that today young women are going to university?”
Ketsiot Prison. 21 days of supportive hunger strike.
Yazan Abdulhadi completed his 15 months sentence in Ketsiot between October and November 2011, during which he went on what is known as a “supportive strike.” He explained there are two kinds of hunger strikes: The open strike signifies that you are prepared to fast even if you put your life in danger. The supportive strike is meant to express solidarity with those on open strike, but does not reach the same level of commitment.
There are currently some 20 Palestinian prisoners living in absolute isolation for “security reasons”, some of them for about 15 years. One of the goals of the hunger strike was to protest this solitary confinement. Another demand was to cancel the informal “Schalit policy” stating that “everything that Schalit did not have in captivity, Palestinian prisoner should not have, such as free Hebrew courses.” It is a retaliatory policy aiming to make Palestinian prisoners aware of what Schalit has been through.
“Now he is back home, and the pressure on the prisoners is just increasing,” Yazan said.
After 21 days of open strike in November 2011, an agreement was eventually signed with Israel to stop the practice of putting prisoners in solitary confinement. To date, the terms have not been honored.
Still, Yazan thought the hunger strike was a success: “Even if it didn’t end the case of isolation, it gave the prisoner a new spirit, it means we can put pressure on the authorities, just as they put pressure on us.” Yazan said.
Ramallah. 2012.
Yazan was released by the IDF on November 28, 2012. He spent 15 months in total in Israeli prisons, including four months in the Meggido and Ketsiot prisons. “Celebrating my liberation with my friends and family was one of the most intense moments of my life,” he said.
He now wants to put his student activism on hold until he graduates from university. He says he has had enough for the moment. “The question is not whether or not I have the right to be political. I do have the right to carry on, but the intelligence is watching released prisoners, and my only purpose now is to finish university.”
His experience left him bitter. “What I did was just selling books, and fighting for a less privatized education,” Yazan said. “I don’t understand the connection between that and security matters. I think Israel has a problem with organizations raising national consciousness.”
Alexis Thiry is a French-language editor of the Palestine News Network based in Bethlehem in the West Bank. His blog is called Des Visages et des couleurs
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“Israel can arrest any member of an illegal political group in the West Bank, based on a British law enacted during the time of the mandate.”
Does the writer know whether or not Jordan abrogated (or purported to abrogate) this Emergency Law?
I ask, because Israel seems to have passed much legislation bearing upon people living in the OPTs (even if only upon Israelis living there), and if such new legislation is held to be valid, it means that an occupying power (as Jordan was) or an annexing power (as Jordan claimed to be) can alter the law, and the NEXT OCCUPIER IN LINE (as Israel is today) must respect the law is it is at the time the occupation begins, not some older law (such as Mandatory law).
Doesn’t it seem odd, in any case, that Israel should seek to justify onerous laws by “grandfathering” them on British Emergency Laws when they have all the machinery for enacting military orders (as well as statutes) and, in any case, APPEAR TO CARE NOTHING FOR THE LEGAL NICETIES OF THE GENEVGA CONVENTIONS AND OTHER OCCUPIER’S LAW.
Actually Israels position seems to be that the HRC and CAT do not apply in the occupied territories.
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We Israelis should not be surprised WHEN the apparatus of occupation will extend from the Mediterranean to the Jordan river. The total power of the Israeli authorities will continue to corrupt Israel totally
Greg Pollock
Where is the Hasbara? It is apparently better to ignore this post than comment. Both sides know how to fight their words, but when it comes to people–best to be somewhere else.
At one time Jews bore most of the personal destruction. Now, at this locale, this is not the case. So we erase people through concepts, history, corporate entities. And that is our human demon. No side, of the many sides, is immune to this. Neither side, of the many sides, wants to admit they are as their enemy. So be a passerby. Be somewhere else.
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Road to the Lemon Grove Pays Homage to the Italian Experience
Published: July 3, 20194:05 pm
Author Eleanor Chornoboy
Nick Mancuso and Dave Hildebrand on the set of Road to the Lemon Grove
What better way to pay homage to a rich cultural heritage than with a compelling film? Road to the Lemon Grove is exactly that kind of movie for Italian Canadians. Its premise will prompt viewers not only to keep their culture alive, but to make it thrive. Directed by Dale Hildebrand and co-authored by Hildebrand and Charly Chiarelli (who also stars in the movie), this heart-warming comedy goes to the soul of what it means to be Italian, and speaks to the Italian immigrant experience in its own unique ways.
In the narrative, an old-world Sicilian father tries to negotiate his way into heaven after he dies. However, God won’t allow the man in until he repairs his relationship with his son and gets his son to reunite two family factions after a bitter fight over a lemon grove. Throughout the film, the audience is reminded of the importance of reconnecting with family roots to better understand who we are. This is demonstrated in particular by the poignant moments between the deceased father, Antonio, and his son Calogero, a linguistics professor.
Charly Chiarelli stars in Road to the Lemon Grove
The comedic yet touching scenes expose the all-too-familiar loss of culture and identity. Yet, Road to the Lemon Grove will resonate with audiences that are sensitive to their own stories of immigration, unresolved family issues, and love found in unexpected places.
While it is often the stories about the pain of discrimination that new immigrants relate, Hildebrand turns these into gentle comedic moments – for example, when young Calogero, played by Tomaso Sanelli, reads “workmen’s compensation board” as “workmen’s constipation board.” Alongside the comedy, Hildebrand incorporates concerns familiar to new immigrant families: parents’ fears that their children will lose their language and culture, and the struggle to understand children who adopt the culture of their new home. Throughout the movie, no matter how long ago someone immigrated, everyone continues to gather and tell stories over home-cooked pasta and red wine – all flavoured by memories of the “old country.”
The dialogue in the film is generously sprinkled with Italian phrases, and at times subtitles are used to ensure that English-speaking audiences are not left out of the conversation. The use of Italian dialogue is a testament to the endurance of the language among Italian-Canadians, despite the arrival to Canada of many as far back as the 1940s and 1950s.
No movie is complete without a love interest, and this movie actually has three: the love of a father and son; the love of country; and Calogero’s unrequited love for the famous Maria Miosogno, played by the real-world Italian radio and TV personality, model, dancer and celebrity Rossella Brescia. Besides Charly Chiarelli (called the “Sicilian Spalding Grey” by the Edmonton Journal) who plays the dual role of Antonio and Calogero, the movie stars Burt Young (of Rocky fame), Nick Mancuso (Ticket to Heaven), multi-platinum recording artist Loreena McKennitt, and Tomaso Sanelli (Titans).
Road to the Lemon Grove won the Cirs Award for “Best in Cultural and Social Achievement in Sicily” at the Taormina Film Festival, awards for “Best in Italian-Canadian Cinema” and “Excellence in Performance” at the Italian Contemporary Film Festival, and as “Best Comedy Feature” at the Edmonton International Film Festival. It opens in 16 cities across Canada on the Labour Day weekend. Check local listings.
See vimeo.com/263320354 and www.roadtothelemongrove.com
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The University of Education, Winneba has concluded a pact with AsanSka College of Design and Technology, Accra, at a ceremony held in UEW on Tuesday 1st November, 2016.
The Signing of the Pact is part of the requirement of the National Accreditation Board for Colleges to be affiliated to a mentoring University that would supervise the running of programmes. In his welcome address, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mawutor Avoke remarked that the signing of the agreement concludes the partnership between the two institutions.
He noted the pact commits the University to the responsibility of fulfilling its obligations as outlined in the agreement. He stated that the University has an affiliation instrument which the College should be acquainted with to guide them on what is expected of the partnership.
In his statement, the Registrar of UEW, Dr. C.Y. Akwaa-Mensah indicated the readiness and willingness of the University to assist the College by fulfilling its part of the agreement.
He insisted that there was the need to ensure that the standards in entry requirement and examinations by the College were the same as UEW since graduates would receive the same certificate.
He reinterated the fact that the University does not compromise on it standards and urged management of the college to work towards ensuring that high academic standards are maintained.
The Ag. Registrar of AsanSka, Mr. Emmanuel Ansah expressed the college’s gratitude to the management of UEW for accepting to mentor the college. He pledge that the college would abide by the terms of the agreement. He also indicated that the college would work hard to ensure that acceptable academic standards were maintained.
Signing on behalf of the University of Education, Winneba was Professor Mawutor Avoke, witnessed by Dr. C.Y. Akwaa-Mensah. The Founder and Director of the College, Mr. Kwabena Asante-Asare signed for AsanSka and was witnessed by the Acting Registrar, Mr. Emmanuel Ansah.
Present at the signing ceremony were the Ag. Principal for College of Agricultural Education, Professor James Kwame Kagya-Agyemang, Principal for Colleges of Languages Education, Professor Nsor Avea, Senior Assistant Registrar, Academic Affairs, Mr. Collins Owusu-Ansah, who represented the Deputy Registrar, and the Head of University Relations and Protocol Services, Mr. Israel E. Fugar, Senior Lecturer, Department of Graphic Design, Dr. Frimpong K. Duku.
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November 14, 2016 Adventures in Anthropology led a group tour at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in Northern New Mexico. This 2-hour event covered a tour of an important archaeological site that was once home to 1,500 Pueblo Indians who lived, farmed and hunted game there from 900s to 1580 A.D..
Native peoples first settled in the area in the late 10th century living in dispersed farmstead dwellings at the east side of the Jemez Mountains. Puye Cliffs’ inhabitants then moved into the Rio Grande River valley, eventually becoming the ancestors of today’s Santa Clara people, who now live at Santa Clara Pueblo, 10 miles east of Puye.
The visitors center is an original Harvey House built by the legendary Fred Harvey Company in the late 1800s as amenities for tourists traveling to the Southwest by railroad and, later, by passenger car. The Harvey House at Puye Cliffs was the only Harvey House built on an Indian reservation.
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo land near Española, New Mexico. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
The dwellings were carved out soft of volcanic tuff on about a 200 feet (61 m) cliff ridge. The rock is relatively soft and can be excavated using wooden tools. The cliff dwellings held about 740 rooms and ruins at the base of the cliff that likely held additional dwellings.
Puye Facts:
One level of the cliff dwellings is over one mile long
Edgar Hewitt excavated Puye Cliffs in 1907
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Puye Cliff Dwellings. (2016, October 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:13, October 9, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puye_Cliff_Dwellings&oldid=743458473
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