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Home Comparative Religion Where Religions Differ
Published: 21 February 2009 | Written by Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq | Print | Email
The media has done a lot to demonize Islam and create hatred between Christians and Muslims. When you consider that the purpose of religion should be to bring peace, when war and hatred replace love in the name of religion, it should really make the thinking mind wonder.
The American Muslim leader, Imam Warith Deen Mohammed said,
"When we read the Qur'an and Bible with proper understanding, we can clearly see that these great religious leaders were not divided one against the other. Jesus not only supported the scripture that Moses taught, but he interpreted it and explained it so that the people could get more light on what Moses had taught them. When Prophet Muhammad of Arabia came behind Jesus, he did the same thing. He spoke from the scriptures that Jesus had left and he explained and interpreted what Jesus left. If our great heroes in religion have not divided themselves one against the other, and if they have shown us that they belonged to one unified family, why are we divided?"
Obviously the message that each religious leader brought supported each other from Moses to Jesus and to Muhammad. But the history of the followers of these religions have not been peaceful. Today Islam is being accused of the worst things. Along with that, Qur'anic verses are being deliberately taken out of context and misquoted to give the impression of endorsing war and the source for terrorist actions. These misquotes, out of context remarks and mis-translations do not in any way accurately reflect what Islam teaches.
I will list some accusations made against Islam (indeed there are many) by leading Christians and Christian Zionists starting with the most recent remarks from The Pope and then I will respond:
“Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached'." Pope Benedict XVI quotes Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II.
“Islam is simply "a religion of war." You may protest that your Islamic neighbor down the street could not possibly be a threat. Free Congress says you should bear in mind that "there are lax Islamics.” Or to put it another way, the peaceful individual Muslims are out of step with their religion. They are outsiders looking in.” Statement by the Free Congress.
Franklin Graham, fundamentalist preacher son of Billy Graham, pronounced on NBC Nightly News November 16, 2001:
"The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It is a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion."
Pat Robertson, said on the "700 Club" television program on February 21, 2002 that
"Islam is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist. They want to coexist until they can control, dominate and then, if need be, destroy."
Nobel literature prize winner Elias Cannetti has defined Islam as:
"a religion of war – literally a killer belief." "Islam has made war on Christendom and Christians since it first swept out of Arabia to conquer much of the Christian Mediterranean world."
Ann Coulter boldly wrote that the US should conquer the entire Muslim world and convert them to Christianity. She pronounced these words of war and conquest with no criticism or outcry by “turn the other cheek” Christians. In fact she is loved and encouraged by them.
Conservative Baptist Evangelist, Jerry Falwell, in an interview on the CBS news program 60 Minutes (October 6, 2002) said," I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough of the history of his life written by both Muslims and non-Muslims, (to know) that he was a - a violent man, a man of war".
Not to be outdone by the Christians and fueling the flames of hatred, especially Muslim-Christian hatred, have been leaders amongst the Jews. Israel now enjoys major support and major endorsement by more than 30 million Christian Zionists and Evangelicals who believe that Islam is their enemy and that they must support Israel against Muslims.
In their fundamentalist vision of the world, the Evangelicals see supporting Israel , right or wrong, as the best way to fulfill -- and even speed up -- the Bible's doomsday plan for the world. The founding of Israel in 1948 was the first step in the Biblically-mandated series of events leading to Armageddon and the return of Jesus. They are preparing for a period of extreme violence costing millions of lives including many Jews. Those who remain will embrace Jesus as Savior.
The Israelis are enjoying this because despite the Christians claim to a future beneficial outcome for Christians, the Israelis are reaping the benefits TODAY of strong Christian support against their enemies. They have even predicted a future Christian crusade against Muslims as in the following statement:
"Within a few years a Christian crusade against Islam will be launched, which will be the major event of this millennium...” Benny Elon, Israeli Tourism Minister and high level envoy.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/05/29/d30529150280.htm
At the same time many in the leadership of Judaism don’t see the world of Christianity as a threat. They view the Christian world as a civilization that has already been conquered with their only remaining challenge being the Muslim world. This is reflected in the following statement:
“The Jews are not a nation, neither a religion,” he said. “They are a civilization, and they have their civilizing mission. They cannot tolerate the competing civilization of Islam, as they could not tolerate Christendom or Communism. That is why the war with Islam is unavoidable.” Yehuda Bauer, director of the Holocaust Memorial Institute Yad va-Shem in Jerusalem
http://www.israelshamir.net/English/midasears.htm
The turmoil brought on by hatred and wars between Christians and Muslims works well for these Jews. Without lifting a finger they gleefully enjoy how the Christian Zionists are fighting Muslims for them. Through the ownership of the world's media they also help in the propaganda war against Islam by painting it to be a religion of violence and terrorism.
In response to these charges and which religion is the religion of violence and war, I would like to mention that "people who live in glass houses should never throw stones."
It was not Muslims who went to Christian lands to wage 8 successive Crusades to take their land away from them as directed by their Islamic leaders as Christians were, following the direction of their Popes.
It was not Islam whose leadership claimed that the purpose for the first crusade was (1) to rescue their brothers of the faith in the East from Muslim hordes and (2) liberate Jerusalem. But lo and behold then by the second crusade their Christian brothers in the East – who supposedly needed rescuing from the Muslims – joined the Muslims to fight against the crusaders due to the savage, barbarous and cruel behavior of their “rescuers”.
It was not Islam that went conquering people all over the world and colonizing them as Christians did forcing defenseless people to embrace Christianity after being militarily defeated by the more powerful Christian armies of Europe . These actions are being repeated in this time with the military conquest of Iraq by America and Britain only to be followed by enthusiastic Christian Zionists seeking to convert Muslims to Christianity. "The opportunity for broadcast expansion in post-war Iraq is phenomenal," enthused Don Black, Vice President of In Touch Ministries in Atlanta , in an interview with the web site Salon. Samaritan's Purse, a relief headed by Franklin Graham, is another group planning to proselytize the people of Iraq . All these groups are doing it under the guise of providing aid to the Iraqi people. Of course this is strongly encouraged and supported by the Bush administration which claims “it's not the administration's responsibility to determine which groups can provide aid to Iraq.”
http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/showthread.php?t=32135
It was not Islam, whose Holy Book teaches “make no graven images” yet portrays the son of God as a Caucasian crucified savior on a cross for all the races in the world to worship. Then to also portray his virgin mother, apostles, and all the saints as Caucasians, belonging to the ‘divine white race’ for all to revere and love. This fostering of white supremacy in religious form caused Caucasians to feel superior over the non-white ‘un-Godly’ races thereby justifying the colonization and subjugation of other human beings. As a result of worshiping a Caucasian-looking God, it caused non-white races to feel inferior and Caucasians to feel superior, bringing about serious racial inferiority complexes among the non-white races and inspiring the rise of cruel inhumane organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, that committed lynching, murders and other racial atrocities.
It was not Islam that encouraged the slave trade in Africa declaring it was OK because the heathen Africans were having their souls saved by being converted to Christianity. It was not Islam that cursed a whole race of people and described them as inferior, children of Ham because of the color of their skin. Then to add further humiliation and deepen racial tensions have this story embellished showing ridiculous origins of African features as done by Rabbis in the Jewish Talmud.
It was not Islam which caused the decimation of over 50% of the population of the Congo as was done by the Belgian Christian King Leopold (11 million massacred out of a population of 20 million).
It was not Islam that attempted to Frenchify Algeria at the cost of over a million Algerians (which at the time represented over 10% of the population) as Christians from France did to this defenseless country in Africa .
It was not an Islamic nation that uttered the arrogant and conquering statement "the sun never sets on the British Empire " as was done by a leading conquering Christian nation.
It was not Islam which dominated and conquered the world, not as a result of superior ideas and excellent examples of humanity, but as a result of superior weapons of war possessed by Christian nations used against weaker nations, as we see being done by Christian America today against Iraq and Afghanistan, and tomorrow against Iran, Syria and other Muslim countries.
It was not Islam whose history is mired with constant cycles of vicious wars and hostility as experienced for Centuries by the Christian nations of France , England , Spain , Portugal, Germany , Russia and others.
It was not Islam that went to the Far East and conquered Asians and as part of the Asians’ humiliation and subjugation introduced addictive drugs into their societies, forcing those countries to fight Opium wars to free themselves from Christian tyranny.
It was not Islam that caused the misery, suffering and whole scale deaths of millions with mass destruction of cities like the Christian nations did in WWI and WWII. During one night on February 13, 1945, the allied armies -- Britain and US -- bombed the city of Dresden in Germany, and it is estimated that as many as 350,000 - 600,000 victims were incinerated beyond being identifiable or even recognizable as human remains in that Holocaust. Only 35,000 could be identified. Then the Christians culminated this death and destruction by dropping atomic bombs on Japanese cities killing an estimated 115,000 victims, and many later with radiation sickness, disfigurement and permanent damage to thousands of innocent people.
It was not Islam that persecuted and murdered thinkers and scientists, like Galileo, Copernicus and the great female scientist Hypatia in the worst way because they dared to state their scientific findings that differed from Catholicism. It was not Islam that defied scientific facts and insisted for years that the universe was Geo-centric rather than Helio-centric simply because Muhammad lived on earth as Christians did with Christ and persecuted anyone who dared to say different. During the recent invasion and occupation of Iraq , US occupation forces detained more than 600 top Iraqi scientists, whose fate is totally unknown. Before this invasion, an American scientist, David Albright, wrote an article " IRAQ : Resettle the Scientists," in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (page 17, Jan/Feb 1998) foretelling the US plans.
It was not Islam that kept its followers in perpetual ignorance, superstition and barbaric filth during a period of time known as the Dark Ages. It was not Islam that allowed its people to live in the most un-hygienic ways, discouraging cleanliness and baths and causing them to suffer Bubonic Plagues and other life-threatening diseases for centuries. This Bubonic Plague was responsible for decimating 25% of the European population at that time which was approximately 137 million people.
It was not Islam that instituted the Inquisition that punished millions of "heretics" for several centuries who did not go along with the official version of Christianity with imprisonment, torture and death. Then in the 1500’s, the Christian Spaniards brought the Inquisition to the Americas demanding instant conversion by the Indians and death to any Indian daring to refuse.
It was not Islam that caused people to flee religious persecutions as Christianity did in Europe causing Europeans to find and establish religious freedom in a new land. Then due to the horrible, inhumane experience with Christianity the country formed in the new world said “never again”. Never again would we let the ignorance and cruelties of the Christian religion rule our government. We insist and we legislate that there will always be a separation of church and state!
It was not Islam that encouraged the ethnic cleansing of Native American Indians and ruthless theft of their lands as done by Christians from England , France and Spain . The number of deaths caused by European Christians on poor hapless American Indians was upwards of 250 million.
It is not Islam whose countries are decaying from within because of high crime rates, immorality, corrupt leaders, high divorce rates, social unrest, rampant accepted homosexuality like in Sodom and Gomorrah , destruction of the family, extreme selfishness, greed and other ills that plague Christian nations today.
It is not Islam which has championed the cause of another people's religion identifying them as "God's chosen people" and then provided the means for these people to steal Palestine and ethnically cleanse innocent Palestinians including fellow Christians. The war crimes committed, barbarism, cruel and inhumane treatment of Palestinians and the Israelis’ in brazen defiance of UN resolutions are rewarded by the most powerful Christian nation in the world with free money, undying support and special consideration.
It is not an Islamic nation that has imposed sanctions on another nation that has caused deaths of mainly innocent children in the range of 4000-5000 per month. Then to add insult to injury threaten and attack that nation – killing more than 2,000,000 CIVILIANS -- on false pretense causing millions more to live in squalor and misery as the great Christian nation of America is doing to Iraq. Now that the WMD claim for attacking Iraq proves to be false, this Christian nation changes the rules and claims that the WMD reason to attack Iraq does not matter.
It was not an Islamic nation that has brutally massacred more than 1,000,000 innocent Afghans and threw the Geneva Convention out the window in their inhumane, barbaric treatment of Afghan prisoners as the great Christian nation of America has in its false war on terrorism against Afghanistan . While the world, including Islamic nations, mourned the innocent deaths of about 3000 Americans on 911, the great Christian nation of America degrades the dignity of human beings by describing the innocent Afghans killed as collateral damage.
It is not an Islamic nation that already has a plan mapped out known as A Project for the New American Century (PNAC) whose National Security Strategy - promulgated as late as September 2002 - now includes pre-emptive attacks on possible future competitors first, assuming regional hegemony by force of arms in the Middle East, controlling energy resources around the globe, maintaining a permanent war strategy, and more as Christian America does. It is easy to surmise that Christian America is after oil, but not one of the Muslim nations, not even Iraq , has denied America the purchase of its oil. The Christian nation of America does not care. It is bent on pursuing a warlike imperial foreign policy and is chomping at the bit to attack Iran next.
Need I say more? I could go on and on.
While the Zionists and Christian Zionists write and talk about Islam being warlike, the above information proves that Christians are the ones who are truly warlike. More evil has been committed in the name of Christianity than has been committed by any other religion in human history. Their history has been one of a people who have “the mark of the beast” in their hands or actions. But the elite Jews who are rejoicing and reaping the benefits of the turmoil caused by Christians are the ones with the “mark of the beast” in their foreheads. After all they gave Europeans their version of Christianity and even boast about it as in the following:
We conquered you as no empire of yours ever subjugated Africa or Asia . And we did it all without armies, without bullets, without blood or turmoil, without force of any kind. We did it solely by the irresistible might of our spirit, with ideas, with propaganda.
We made you the willing and unconscious bearers of our mission to the whole world, to the barbarous races of the earth, to the countless unborn generations. Without fully understanding what we were doing to you, you became the agents at large of our racial tradition, carrying our gospel to the unexplored ends of the earth.
Marcus Eli Ravage, Jewish Scholar and Official Rothschilds Biographer
Muslims will never say, as some Christians do, that the evils done by Christians were due to the teachings of the Noble Christ. Muslims will never blame good God conscious Christians for those evils. No, Muslims will put the blame where it belongs and that is on evil people who used the name of Christ to accomplish their wrongs. Evil men and women dirtied the name of Christ with their evil deeds. Now these same evil, war mongering, hypocritical false people are trying to smear and falsify Islam. They are at it again. They want war and they are using the name of Christ and smearing the name of Muhammad (saaw) to achieve it.
M. Pickthall an Englishman said around the turn of the Century: "In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture." To see this let us look through the eyes of history as to the behavior of Christians when they conquered Jerusalem and of Muslims when they conquered Jerusalem at two different points in history:
"To turn to the Christians, the story of the triumphal entry of the Khalifah Umar ibn al-Khattab into Jerusalem has been often told, but I shall tell it once again, for it illustrates the proper Muslim attitude towards the People of the Scripture....The Christian officials urged him to spread his carpet in the Church (of the Holy Sepulchre) itself, but he refused saying that some of the ignorant Muslims after him might claim the Church and convert it into a mosque because he had once prayed there. He had his carpet carried to the top of the steps outside the church, to the spot where the Mosque of Umar now stands -
"From that day to this; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has always been a Christian place of worship, the only things the Muslims did in the way of interference with the Christian's liberty of conscience in respect of it was to see that every sect of Christians had access to it, and that it was not monopolized by one sect to the exclusion of others. The same is true of the Church of the Nativity of Bethlehem, and of other buildings of special sanctity.
"When the Crusaders took Jerusalem they massacred the Eastern Christians with the Muslims indiscriminately, and while they ruled in Palestine the Eastern Christians, such of them as did not accompany the retreating Muslim army, were deprived of all the privileges which Islam secured to them and were treated as a sort of outcasts. Many of them became Roman Catholics in order to secure a higher status; but after the re-conquest, when the emigrants returned, the followers of the Eastern church were found again to be in large majority over those who owed obedience to the Pope of Rome. The old order was reestablished and all the Dhimmis once again enjoyed their privileges in accordance with the Sacred Law (of Islam)."
Here is another rendition of the same period of history from the article, "The Crusades: Then and Now" by Robert B. Ashmore:
"Reaching Jerusalem in June, 1099, the Crusaders lay siege to the city. Successfully defeating its defenders, the Crusaders flooded into Jerusalem on July 15. "Men, women, and children were put to the sword until the streets were littered with corpses. Even Jewish inhabitants were killed."[6] Arabs would long thereafter recall the difference between how the Franj took Jerusalem and the earlier taking of Jerusalem by Calif Umar in 638 A.D. Upon entering Jerusalem Umar had assured the Greek patriarch that lives and property of the inhabitants would be respected. Escorted to the site of the Holy Sepulchre, Umar insisted on not praying inside the site, lest Muslims appropriate it. Instead, he unrolled his prayer mat outside. By contrast, the Arab historian Ibn al-Athir reported concerning the Crusader victory of 1099, "The population of the holy city was put to the sword, and the Franj spent a week massacring Muslims." Ibn al-Qalanisi adds, "The Jews had gathered in their synagogue and the Franj burned them alive." Maalouf writes, "Not even their coreligionists were spared. One of the first measures taken by the Franj was to expel from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre all the priests of Oriental rites. They arrested the priests who had been entrusted with custody of the Cross and tortured them to make them reveal the secret [of its whereabouts]."[7]"
The great Bertrand Russell gives his views on the warlike origins of European Christianity as follows:
"It was the conversion of Constantine to Christianity that first gave occasion for the full _expression of those persecuting impulses by which Europe has distinguished itself from Asia. During the last hundred and fifty years, it is true, there has been a brief interval of liberalism, but now the white races are reverting to the theological bigotry which the Christians took over from the Jews. The Jews first invented the notion that only one religion could be true, but they had no wish to convert all the world to it, and therefore only persecuted other Jews. The Christians, retaining the Judaic belief in a special revelation, added to it the Roman desire for worldwide dominion and the Greek taste for metaphysical subtleties. The combination produced the most fiercely persecuting religion that the world has yet known. In Japan and China, Buddhism was peaceably accepted and allowed to exist along with the Shinto and Confucianism; in the Mohammedan world, Christians and Jews were not molested so long as they paid the tribute; but throughout Christendom death was the usual penalty for even the smallest deviation from orthodoxy."
Bertrand Russell (Eng. philosopher, mathematician, 1872-1970): In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays [1935] viii, "Western Civilization"
Lastly, I would like to address verses in the Qur'an that Zionists and Christian Zionists take out of context and mis-quote in order to present a false picture of Islam. It is truly amazing to witness the vigor by which these deceivers attempt to push false information. When confronted they attempt to present themselves as experts knowing more about Islam than Muslims. But their arguments are weak and can easily be dispelled. There are quite a few Qur'anic verses that they mis-represent. I will address a few to show how easy it is to dispel their lies.
The following are three verses that the Zionists and Christian Zionists like to use to discredit Islam:
"Fight those who believe not in God nor the last day…Nor acknowledge the religion of truth, (even if they are) of the people of the Book (Christians), until they pay Jizya (taxes) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." Surah 9:29 (Qur'an)
"But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem; but if they repent and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity then open the way for them." Surah 9:5 (Qur'an)
"The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his apostle, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifiction, or the cutting off of the hands and feet from opposite sides or exile from the land…" Surah 5:36 (Qur'an)"
The translations for these verses are not accurate and they are taken totally out of context by not showing the full statement in the verses and what came before and what came after. But even with the bad translations and missing statements I will respond to them. Mostly these verses are not directed towards a specific faith but to people whom the Muslims were at war with. There are historical references to these verses detailing a time when Muslims were being persecuted and brutally mistreated by the pagans of Mecca. The phrase "People of the Book" refers to both Christians and Jews. The reference here is not to the sincere Christians and Jews of whom the Qur'an says:
"...whoever believes in God and the Last day and does righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord..." Sura 2:62.
The verse is referring to the corrupt evil doers among the Christians and Jews " who permit evils and wrong doing that were forbidden by God". It is referring to those who commit evil deeds in the name of their religion as in the examples I gave above. These are hypocritical Jews and Christians "who believe not in God and the Last day." This is in direct contrast to the verses that promises heaven to Christians and Jews who believe in God and the Last Day.
One of those verses is as follows:
Those who believe (in the Qur’an) And those who follow the Jewish (Scriptures) And the Christians and the Sabians, - ANY who believe in God And the Last Day, And work righteousness, Shall have their reward With their Lord: on them Shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. (Sura 2:62)
The verses quoted above to show Islam as warlike and hostile towards Christians and Jews, when read in context and with historical understanding show that war is permitted in self-defense and under well defined limits in Islam. When undertaken it must be pushed with vigor, but only to restore peace and freedom for the worship of God. In any case strict limits must not be transgressed: women, children, old and infirm men should not be molested nor trees and crops cut down, nor peace withheld when the enemy comes to terms.
The following example in the life of Prophet Muhammad (saaw) demonstrates his regard for the protection of innocent lives. There was an incident during one of the battles where children of the enemy were killed by mistake. Muhammad the Prophet was observed with tears in his eyes, in pain because of the killing of innocent children. Some of his followers tried to sooth the Prophet by saying, "They were only the children of Kafirs (disbelievers)" The Prophet turned to the one who spoke, and he was visibly angry, our Prophet said, " Aren't you the child of a Kafir also?"
In general, it may be said that Islam is a religion of peace, good will, mutual understanding, and good faith. But it will not acquiesce in wrong doing, and its men will hold their lives cheap in defense of honor, justice and the religion which they hold sacred. They know that war is an evil, but they will not flinch from it if their honor demands it and it serves the needs of righteousness and justice.
Another mis-quote is:
"Ye muslims are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind…" Surah 3:110 (Qur'an)
The correct translation showing the rest of the verse that was left out is:
"Ye are the best of Peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in God..."
Isn't the best of us those who encourages and act on what is right? The Jews believe they are God's chosen people. They forget the other part of the sentence given to them by Moses. That is "if they obey God and keep His commandments." This verse is similar to what Moses said but it applies to all human beings. We are not evolved and we are not chosen until we "enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong and believe in God." This is put in simple language that anyone can understand. The Qur'an also says that "God created the human being in the most excellent of forms." This applies to all human beings. This is no narrow racist, sectarian view of humanity. It is a universal view recognizing the innate dignity of all human beings.
"O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is one of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust." Surah 5:54
This is one of the most common misstatements about the Qur'an: "Take not Jews and Christians for friends . . . " If the writers of this had taken the time to study the Arabic language they would have come to a better understanding. In Arabic the common word for friend is "Siddiq". The Qur'an did not use that word in this verse. The word used is "wali" which means protecting friend or guardian. The Qur'an is telling Muslims in this verse that they should not take Jews and Christians as protecting friends to protect their interest in Islam. Why? Because Jews and Christians do not know or are sensitive to the special interest of Muslims that are unique to Islam. Would a Christian go to a Buddhist and say "Mr. Bhuddist here is my Bible I want you to be it's guardian and protect the special interest that the Bible has for Christians." No! That can only be done by a fellow Christian who shares that interest. This was taken totally out of context. There are too many places in the Qur'an that enjoins closeness and unity to God fearing Christians and Jews. Here are few references to words from our Prophet and Qur'anic verses addressing Muslims interaction with non-Muslims:
"He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest, should not harm his neighbour, should speak good or keep quiet." (Bukhari, Muslim)
"Whoever hurts a Non-Muslim citizen of a Muslim state hurts me, and he who hurts me annoys God." (Bukhari)
[7:159] “Among the followers of Moses there are those who guide in accordance with the truth, and the truth renders them righteous.”
[3:113-114]. “They are not all the same; among the followers of the scripture, there are those who are righteous. They recite God's revelations through the night, and they fall prostrate.”
”They believe in God and the Last Day, they advocate righteousness and forbid evil, and they hasten to do righteous works. These are the righteous.”
Here is another verse that is often taken out of context by the enemies of Islam:
"If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him; and in the hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost." Surah 3:85 (Qur'an)>
Anyone reading this should ask the question "what does Islam mean and how do Muslims understand this verse?" The word Islam means anyone who submits their will to do God's Will. In other words to submit what you want to do for what God say do. So if an urge rises up in me to lie and God says "thou shalt not lie", then to be a Muslim I must put aside my desire to lie and follow what God says. This is true of other desires like killing, stealing, adultery, etc, any evil desire I may have that does not agree with God's edicts I must put them aside and follow God if I want to be a Muslim. Why is this important? It is because everything in nature and the universe obeys the laws by which they were created in. The human being has free will. Unlike an animal, that depends on instincts or an inanimate object that are governed by laws, the human being has a choice. By living according to the purpose for which God has created him the human being joins the plants, animals, stars and everything in the universe by living in tune with his nature.
This is the same as when Jesus said "Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven" or "I do nothing of myself but of Him who sent me!" If this verse was meant to refer only to those who identify with orthodox Islam, the Qur'an would not have revealed that "ANY who believe in God and work righteousness will receive their reward from their Lord. On them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve". It is saying that if anyone desires a religion that does not teaches obedience to God and righteousness it will not be accepted. Those people who teach evil and racism in their religion will not be accepted by God. The hideous teachings of the Talmud is a good example of this.
The Muslim position is clear. The Muslim does not claim to have a religion peculiar to himself. Islam is not a sect or an ethnic religion. In its view all religions are one, for the truth is one. It is the continuation of the religion preached by all the earlier Prophets. It is the Truth taught by all the inspired Books. In essence it amounts to a consciousness of the Will and Plan of God and a joyful submission to that Will and Plan. If anyone wants a religion other than that, he is false to his own nature, as he is false to God's Will and Plan. Such a one cannot expect guidance for he has deliberately denounced guidance. In the words of the Qur'an:
"Say, We believe in God, and in what has been revealed to Abraham, Ishmail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus and the Prophets from their Lord; We make no distinction between one and another among them, and to God do we bow our will (Islam)."
I could list more mis-quotes and answer them, but I will stop here. Instead I invite the reader to study Islam for his or her self. Islam is an open religion. We don't have anything to hide. The Qur'an and Hadiths are in just about every library. Regarding religious propagation the Qur'an says, "Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth stands out clear from error." To Muslims the Qur'an teaches, "Your duty is only to deliver a clear message. Only God can touch the heart." Islam is against the forcing of religion on others and the killing of those who change their minds. Every life is a sacred gift bestowed by God. Muslims believe that God is the Giver of life and only He should take life or give the circumstances by which a life could be taken. There are no big I's and little you's in Islam. As such every life is sacred. Punishment is meted out to anyone who take a life in a way not ordained by God. Justice must be meted out with no prejudice or consideration to partiality. In the words of the Qur'an:
"O ye who believe! stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor: for God can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily God is well- acquainted with all that ye do." (4:135)
+4 #1 Caowinhim 2011-09-20 18:36
Right? It's ridiculous how the media portrays Islam as so badass when really it's a religion for little girls. I mean, it gets your hopes up, that FINALLY there's been a religion dedicated to explosions and awesomeness, but then when you look it up it's all about peace and kindness. I talk about my disillusionment here: publicunintellectuals.blogspot.com/2011/09/caowins-editorial-on-islam_20.html
#2 bossman — chris 2014-12-18 22:15
Part of your article is incorrect see what happened in 630 AD I believe the first real crusade or "holy war" was actually a Muslim crusade.
#3 630 AD — Nashid 2014-12-24 19:49
What you "believe" is not objective fact. The objective fact is that there never was any Muslim crusade against Christians or anyone of other religions in 630. We have to face reality and go with facts rather than what you claim to believe.
#4 Source of a hadeeth in one of your articles — Syed Naqi 2015-10-02 18:45
Can you share the source of this event:
#5 Hadith Source — Nashid 2015-10-11 07:44
ASA Naqi,
That Hadith was told to me by one of the Muslim Imams in the US. Insha ALLAH I will also try to locate the source online as well.
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International Songwriter INTERVIEW OF ANDREW GOLD BY JOE MATERA (Year: 2000)
Joe Matera, International Songwriter, 2000
Joe Matera: Tell me a bit about your background. You started writing songs at 13?
Andrew Gold: Yeah, I started around then (13). My first song was called 'Where Is The Love', not to be confused with the 70's hit by the same name. It was a dark minor song waltz.....
JM: Your most known song is 'Lonely Boy' (1976). How did you come to write that song and what was the process of recording it? I love the way you took the basic A, D, and E chords and put the 3rd in the bass, in the verses?
AG: Actually, It's kind of a semi rip off of a section of a Ry Cooder song, 'How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live'...but barely....I just wrote this song one night in Hollywood in my little apartment, and thought it should be an 8 minute opus....but got bored after 3 and a half....
JM: You are also a multi-instrumentalist and producer, having worked with such artists as Linda Ronstadt and 10cc?
AG: Yes, I have always had a knack for playing many instruments.....and arranging ideas come easy.
JM: Did you play that classic guitar solo in Linda's 'You're No Good'?
AG: Yes, me and Peter Asher and Val Garay stayed up one night recording it and we were very proud at the end. However, the next day Linda heard it and didn't know if she liked it or not....I showed up and Peter was laughing because by the time I got there she had decided she did...thank God.
JM: What inspires you to write?
AG: Money....Okay, no, I get inspired when I hear something by someone else I like...I feel like...Hey! I want to write something great like that!
JM: What sort of gear do you use?
AG: Recording wise, I use Pro Tools alot these days...love the ability to change stuff, move it around, reverse it, affect it, tune it..etc etc. Guitars: mainly Fender's and Rickenbackers, (and Martins) but also Gretsch and Gibsons occasionally. Keyboards, I use a Roland A-80 with many synths and samplers, but often I just use a piano to write on or an acoustic guitar.
JM: Do the songs change much from the first draft to the finished product?
AG: Sometimes, not much though...just that it goes from one instrument to many.
JM: With the internet these days and the technology available, where one person can co-write with another without ever meeting, do you think this has made things easier for someone to get their music out and to a bigger audience, or is it the same as it's been before, in the sense of trying to succeed?
AG: Hard question...I think in some ways its the same... except you can send someone an MP3 easily so they can hear it better than by the phone...or slow like mail.
JM: What are some tips you would like to share to help us songwriters write songs that are hit material?
AG: If I knew I'd be much richer! But stick with it, listen to other songs and try and analyze it...but also be original....mainly make sure that your recording is what you heard in your head....or better.
JM: What are your current projects? You have a new album coming out soon?
AG: I have two new albums coming out: one, The Spence Manor Suite, is a semi-country album of new original songs. The other is Bikini, an album of Wax rarities. (Wax is Graham Gouldman and myself).
JM: Who are your favourite songwriters and songs?
AG: Well, Lennon and McCartney, Jobim, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Debussy, Gershwin, Randy Newman, Carole King, too many to list.
JM: One last question, what is your view on the '70s and '80s. I can hear a lot of that era's sound in today's music and think that it was one great period of history that produced some memorable songs like 'Lonely Boy'?
AG: I think the '60s and '70s was the peak period for the singer songwriter for sure....people like Cat Stevens, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne...whew...good songs...nowadays, its a slightly different thing, with the recording and arrangement more important than the song....which is why they won't last as oldies. But I'm not bothered by it...it's a phase and its new. So I don't want to be like my grandparents saying, 'This isn't good like in our day!'. I like everything including Rap ...I just think its too narrow these days. I'd like to see Rap and songs, and not just R & B....anything, be successful...but...its the teenagers thing, so viva whatever is going on, you know?
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Big Weekend Ahead For BU Mens Hockey
The BU mens hockey team are right where they want to be. Tied atop the Hockey East standings and ranked No. 2 in the country, the Terriers are in prime position as they go deeper into the second half of the season.
This weekend is crucial for coach Quinn’s club as they look to continue to control their destiny. It begins Friday night at Agganis Arena, when archrival BC visits, and continues Sunday when two-time defending conference champ UMass-Lowell — who BU shares first place with — visits Agganis for a Sunday matinee.
The Eagles (12-7-2, 5-4-2 HE) sit four points behind the Terriers (12-3-4, 7-1-2) in the conference standings. BC is unbeaten in their last seven (5-0-2). They haven’t lost since November 29, a 1-0 setback to Providence. The Eagles have outscored opponents 23-11 over that stretch. Goaltender Thatcher Demko has stopped 164 of 172 shots (.953) in five games over that streak.
BU got the better of their friends from the other side of Comm Ave. in their initial meeting this season on November 7, when the Terriers prevailed, 5-3. However, this is a much different BC team than the one BU faced earlier in the season. The second semester is always the time of year when Jerry York has his team playing the brand of hockey that has made him the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division 1 hockey. This season appears to be no different.
The River Hawks, ranked sixth in the USCHO.com poll, is 7-1-2 in league play. Their lone blemish came last Saturday, when the ever-pesky UConn Huskies took a 2-0 decision in Hartford. Lowell has won the last two Hockey East championships and looks like a team that could win a third. The River Hawks rank second in the conference in offense behind BU (3.8 GPG) with 3.7 goals per game, their 1.8 goals allowed per game is bettered by only Providence (1.36). Their power-play ranks third in the conference with a 19.5 percent success rate.
Womens hockey takes trip down the Green Line
The sixth-ranked BU womens hockey team travels to Northeastern on Sunday. The Terriers have lost two of their last three. The Huskies (6-11-4, 5-6-1 HE) are winless in their last six games (0-5-1). Sunday marks the third meeting between the two schools this season. BU took the first meeting 3-2 on Oct. 28, before Northeastern got the better of the second matchup on Nov. 11 with a 6-3 win.
Womens basketball looks for two in a row
The BU womens basketball team snapped a nine-game skid Wednesday night with a 58-53 win over Colgate. Saturday they will aim for their first consecutive wins of 2014-15 when they host Loyola-Maryland Saturday afternoon at The Roof. The Terriers are 3-0 against the Greyhounds all-time. All three of those matchups came last season, BU’s first in Patriot League play. Two of them came at BU, the Terriers winning 74-55 and 40-35, the latter win coming in the first round of the conference tournament.
Mens basketball tries to get back on track
League play began as good for the BU mens basketball team as coach Joe Jones could draw it up.
The Terriers started Patriot League play with a 3-0 record, but have lost two straight since, dropping one-point decision to Lafayette, 63-62, before losing 62-53 to Colgate. They’ll travel to Baltimore to try to get back on track, when they face Loyola. The Terriers took both contests last season with the Greyhounds, 72-58 and 87-72.
As it usually seems to be the case, the BU/BC game Friday night will be televised on NESN. Coverage begins at 6:30.
During commercial breaks and between periods, be sure to flip to NBC Sports Network and check in on Notre Dame/UConn, which will be televised on the network. The Fighting Irish sit in sixth place in the league standings (4-2-2) while the Huskies sit one point behind in seventh and have racked up impressive wins against Quinnipiac, BC, Vermont, Union and UMass-Lowell. They tied BU at Agganis on November 8, 4-4. Both teams should have a big say in how things shake up come March.
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Rube Foster
Andrew "Rube" Foster overcame childhood illness to become an outstanding pitcher, a shrewd manager, and the dominant executive in black baseball. As a 6'4" 200-lb teenager, he joined the Yellow Jackets, a traveling black team in Texas. John McGraw saw Foster during spring training of 1901 (or thereabouts) and wanted him and other blacks for his New York Giants. But, unable to use them, he instead asked Foster to tutor the Giants' pitchers. Christy Mathewson reportedly learned his "fadeaway" pitch (a screwball) from Foster.
Foster then joined the Chicago Union Giants, pitched a shutout in his first start, but soon lost his effectiveness. He regained his form while with a white semi-pro club in the Michigan State League, and defeated every team in the circuit. Because of his difficulties, he had become a keen student of the game, and a wily pitcher. By 1902 he was with the black Cuban Giants.
In 1903 Foster was the top black pitcher in the country. He pitched the Cuban X-Giants to the black championship, and was the winner in four of their five victories over the Philadelphia Giants in the Black World Series. The following year, he pitched the Philadelphia Giants to the title, and recorded both victories in a best-of-three series against the Cuban X-Giants.
It is difficult to distinguish fact from fiction in Foster's pitching career; he is credited with a 51-4 season early on. Documentation does exist for a 1904 no-hitter he tossed against the Camden, NJ team. He reportedly gained his nickname by defeating the Athletics' Rube Waddell in 1902, and is reputed to have fared well in duels with major league pitchers Chief Bender, Mordecai Brown, and Cy Young. Frank Chance called him "the most finished product I've ever seen in the pitcher's box," and Honus Wagner said he was "one of the greatest pitchers of all time...smartest pitcher I've ever seen..."
Foster began managing in 1907, when he guided the Chicago Leland Giants to a 110-10 record. Their record was 64-21-1 in 1908. In 1909 Foster challenged the Chicago Cubs to a series, which the Cubs won in three close games. Foster pitched the second game and took a 5-2 lead into the ninth inning, but lost 6-5. Mordecai Brown won the first and third contests. There is no record of any major league club coming forth to answer Foster's challenge in 1910, when his team went 123-6.
In 1911 Foster left the Lelands to form a partnership with Chicago businessman John C. Schorling. From this union came one of black baseball's strongest teams, the Chicago American Giants. They dominated both the Chicago semi-pro scene (regularly winning the championship) and national black baseball, capturing Negro League titles in 1914 and 1917 and sharing the 1915 championship with the New York Lincoln Stars. Competing against white major leaguers following the 1915 season, they won the California Winter League crown.
In the winter of 1919 Foster organized the first viable black major league, the Negro National League, which operated in the Midwest and the South from 1920 through 1931. He served as president of the new league until 1926, and ruled it completely. An Eastern counterpart was organized in 1923 and Black World Series between the two leagues were held from 1924 through 1927.
Foster continued to manage through 1925, and won the Negro National League's first three pennants (1920-22). He made use of psychology and speed, invented the bunt-and-run, and intimidated opponents. White major leaguers often attended his games to learn his tactics. Though he made few rules, he expected his players to follow them. He ran the games as he ran the NNL - in total control - and once hit a player across the head with his pipe for tripling after he was given the bunt sign.
Foster's last known public meeting was in 1926 with lifelong friends Ban Johnson and John McGraw, through whom it is believed he was trying to schedule white major league teams to play his American Giants. Shortly thereafter he began to lose his mind, and spent his last four years in the Kankakee, Illinois State Hospital.
Courtesy of Baseball Library.
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Ray Chapman
Ray Chapman is the only modern major leaguer to have died as a direct result of being hit by a pitch. At the Polo Grounds on August 16, 1920, Chapman, crowding the plate as usual, was struck in the temple by a pitch from Yankee submariner Carl Mays that barely missed the strike zone. Chapman was taken to a hospital, never regained consciousness, and died twelve hours later. Rookie Joe Sewell replaced Chapman at short, beginning a Hall of Fame career. Cleveland players wore black arm bands, and manager Tris Speaker rallied his dejected men to win the first World Championship in club history.
The popular Chapman led the Indians in stolen bases four times, setting a team record with 52 in 1917 that stood until 1980. He led the AL in runs scored and walks in 1918. He was hitting .303 with 97 runs scored when he died. It is baseball analyst Bill James's opinion that Chapman was "probably destined for the Hall of Fame had he lived."
Courtesy Baseball Library.
Sand Hooters
From Bob Harris at This Modern World.
All over the world, wars and languages and cultures may divide us, but humanity still seems united by one powerful force: teenagers always seem to get a big kick out of sand hooters.
Below: The first picture is from Columbia and the second from Singapore.
Fred Merkle
On occasion, this blog will highlight a player from baseball history. Courtesy of Baseball Library.com.
Fred Merkle is forever famous for his bonehead play on September 23, 1908, which cost the Giants a critical victory and made possible the Cubs' pennant-clinching victory when the game was replayed at the end of the season. The play itself was clouded by contradictory affidavits by players, conflicting opinions by various baseball officials, and protests lodged by both teams over the umpires' handling of the incident.
The confusion started when Merkle, the runner on first, failed to touch second after an apparent game-winning base hit. Instead, he turned back toward the dugout, as was customary at the time, when he saw the run cross the plate. As the happy Polo Grounds crowd filed across the field towards the centerfield gate, second baseman Johnny Evers got the ball and stepped on second, claiming a forceout which negated the winning run. With the fans already crowding the field, the game could not be played to a decision, and had to be replayed.
When the season ended with the two teams tied, a group of Giants, led by Christy Mathewson, went to owner John T. Brush. They claimed they shouldn't have to play another game for something they had already won. The gravely ill Brush expressed disappointment at their attitude, and they played and lost. Whatever the merits of the case, it was one of baseball's most controversial plays and it haunted Merkle not just for the rest of his playing days, but all his life. He bitterly refused requests for interviews in later years because he didn't want to relive the incident.
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Queer women are ignored in HIV research: this is a problem and here is why it matters
Published date February 23, 2016 • By Author By CATIE
By Carmen Logie
Lesbian, bisexual and queer women are rarely included in HIV research. Women who have sex with women, and their HIV infection rates, are not captured anywhere because women cannot report having a woman as a sexual partner in Canada’s HIV statistics. The current record only allows women to report HIV exposure either through injection drug use or heterosexual sex. This contributes to the erasure of women’s sexual and gender diversity and fluidity in HIV research. Queer* women are ignored in HIV research: this is a problem and here is why it matters.
Queer women have a range of sexual practices and partners: There is a sexual and gender fluidity that is missed by current epidemiological categories, and subsequently in the majority of HIV research. People’s sexual identities may not always reflect standard understandings of sexual practices. For example, persons identifying as lesbians may have sex with cisgender or transgender men. Lesbian, bisexual and queer women may use drugs and may share needles; some research indicates that women who are queer and use drugs may in fact have elevated rates of exposure to HIV. We know homophobia can contribute to poverty, social exclusion and mental health challenges, including substance use, so keeping our mind open to the fact that queer women may use drugs to cope with homophobia can allow us to move beyond the assumption that all women who use drugs are straight. Queer women can also be transgender, and transphobia has negative impacts on wellbeing.
Queer women experience stigma, discrimination and are more likely to report sexual violence: For the last five years there is an increasing focus on social drivers of HIV, in particular stigma, discrimination and violence. There is emerging literature, from South Africa and in forthcoming data from a national Canadian study conducted by the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS), that demonstrates forced sex as a risk factor for HIV transmission among women, and among queer women in particular. Homophobic rape, often known as ‘corrective rape,’ targets queer women across the globe. Categorizing HIV transmission from homophobic rape as ‘heterosexual sex’ misses the point that it was violent and homophobic. It misses the point that queer women can be at risk for HIV just for being who they are. Applying a lens that looks at the intersection of stigma and discrimination based on sexuality, race, gender identity, class, and nationality, among others, shows the complexity that needs to be considered when we think of the lived realities of queer women.
Queer women have the same—or higher—rates of other sexually transmitted infections: There is an abundance of research that shows queer women have the same, and sometimes even higher, rates of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than heterosexual women. There are also differences in STI risks between women who have sex with women, with several studies showing women who report having cis men as sex partners having higher rates of STIs. Despite these STI risks, queer women have a low perception of risk, and limited uptake of safer sex strategies. Research that I conducted shows linkages between a lifetime history of STIs among queer women and sexual stigma, forced sex, and women believing that their healthcare provider was uncomfortable with their sexual orientation. My forthcoming research also shows that homophobia reduces safer sex practices among queer women with low social support and low coping skills. We know having another STI elevates HIV infection risks, so this is another reason to include women’s sexual identity and partners in our research.
The solution is quite simple. Why don’t we just ask women about their own, and their sex partners’ sexual and gender identities?
* I use ‘queer’ to convey asserted, non-heterosexual identities and affiliations claimed by women across multiple contexts/interactions
Carmen Logie is an assistant professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. She is also the adjunct scientist for Women’s College Research Institute at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.
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DrLogie nails it!!
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Felixprinters Assists In Commercialization Of Vegan-Friendly 3D Printed Salmon
FELIXprinters has established itself as a key player in the supply of mid-priced highly accurate industrial additive manufacturing (AM) machines. The company’s reputation is built upon the Pro 3, Pro L, and Pro XL platforms, which are used throughout an array of industry sectors for challenging AM production applications.
FELIXprinters recently introduces the BIOprinter which was developed on the chassis of the established FELIXprinters product line, meaning that at its heart is the tried and tested technology that has already been serving manufacturers for years. The printer is characterized by key features that are specifically designed for medical, scientific, and research applications, including syringe cooling, print bed cooling and heating, a dual head system, easy syringe positioning (ergonomic access to the machine supports researchers in their work), and automatic bed levelling.
However, in recent months a group of international students has developed a 3D printing technique that enables them to print complex binders and proteins into plant-based fish alternatives, and at the heart of this research is the FELIX BIOprinter.
The trio of students from The University of Gothenburg, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) started to work together on an EU-led project in 2017. During their work research as part of Training4CRM, a research project which uses 3D printing to develop treatments of neurodegenerative disorders, the team realized that similar techniques could be applied to 3D print plant-based proteins. Identifying a gap in the market within the seafood sector for more structured vegan-friendly fish-based products, the team began developing its plant-based alternative.
The process is now set to be launched commercially under the trading name Legendary Vish with the aim of providing a healthier and tastier alternative to existing vegan-friendly fish substitutes.
The step forward in the technology is the ability to create seafood products with complex structures that is impossible using traditional extrusion technologies, and this was achieved through the use of the FELIX BIOprinter.
The key driver behind the use of 3D printing for fish production centres around sustainability issues, addressing the fact that many of the world’s fisheries are at the moment pushed beyond their biological limits. In addition, 3D printing fish rather than relying on traditional fishing methods reduces greenhouse gas emissions, destruction of the oceans, and negates the need to use antibiotics, a common necessity to “aquacure” salmon in fish farms.
In an attempt to tackle these environmental challenges, the student team built on the extrusion-based 3D printing technique they’d developed as part of project Training4CRM, to 3D print fish instead of medicinal products. Using the FELIX BIOprinter, the AM method works by extruding a range of plant-based bio-inks, the BIOprinter allowing the extrusion of different plant-based ingredients (basically “food-inks”) through different print heads. This allows the production of the complex appearance of salmon fillets, showing the realistic distribution of orange/red meat tissue and white connective tissue.
Wilgo Feliksdal, Co-Founder of FELIXprinters comments, “The BIOprinter consists of an adaptable and flexible ecosystem to ensure that it can meet a wide range of researchers’ needs without generating unnecessary costs, and we are delighted that it has been at the core of the work undertaken at Legendary Vish. One major advantage is the source control system which enables the user to use standard slicing software and make changes themselves if needed. Also, syringes are not restricted to expensive brand-specific or in-house produced products that essentially drive up operating costs. The machine instead has been designed to use a standard 5ml syringe, and standardized petri dishes and culture plates, so there are no limitations on auxiliary parts and materials.”
“The FELIX BIOprinter is appropriate for all types of bio-printing research, and is equipped with strong motors that can extrude a range of different viscosity of materials which was invaluable when being used to simulate the look and feel of salmon. In addition, the BIOprinter has been designed to be easily upgradeable, which means that the lifecycle of the machine can be extended without compromising quality, reliability, and productivity,” Feliksdal concludes.
About FELIXprinters
FELIXprinters is headquartered in IJsselstein, the Netherlands, and was established in 2010, and provides top-end, robust, reliable, and competitively priced 3D printing solutions for industry users. Beyond the optimisation of its industrial range of printers, however, FELIXprinters has extensive engineering and R&D capabilities, which it is able to utilize to provide specific services in the development of tailor made, customised 3D printing platforms — working in partnership to produce new and innovative solutions.
Wilgo Feliksdal
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NASA Astronauts Safely Splash Down after First Commercial Crew Flight to Space Station
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Two NASA astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday for the first time in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space Station to complete a test flight that marks a new era in human spaceflight.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, carrying Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, splashed down under parachutes in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 2:48 p.m. EDT Sunday and was successfully recovered by SpaceX. After returning to shore, the astronauts immediately will fly back to Houston.
“Welcome home, Bob and Doug! Congratulations to the NASA and SpaceX teams for the incredible work to make this test flight possible,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “It’s a testament to what we can accomplish when we work together to do something once thought impossible. Partners are key to how we go farther than ever before and take the next steps on daring missions to the Moon and Mars.”
Behnken and Hurley’s return was the first splashdown for American astronauts since Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, and Donald “Deke” Slayton landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii on July 24, 1975, at the end of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight launched May 30 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After reaching orbit, Behnken and Hurley named their Crew Dragon spacecraft “Endeavour” as a tribute to the first space shuttle each astronaut had flown aboard.
Nearly 19 hours later, Crew Dragon docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module May 31.
“On behalf of all SpaceX employees, thank you to NASA for the opportunity to return human spaceflight to the United States by flying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley,” said SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell. “Congratulations to the entire SpaceX and NASA team on such an extraordinary mission. We could not be more proud to see Bob and Doug safely back home—we all appreciate their dedication to this mission and helping us start the journey towards carrying people regularly to low Earth orbit and on to the Moon and Mars. And I really hope they enjoyed the ride!”
Behnken and Hurley participated in a number of scientific experiments, spacewalks and public engagement events during their 62 days aboard station. Overall, the astronaut duo spent 64 days in orbit, completed 1,024 orbits around Earth and traveled 27,147,284 statute miles.
The astronauts contributed more than 100 hours of time to supporting the orbiting laboratory’s investigations. Hurley conducted the Droplet Formation Study inside of the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG), which evaluates water droplet formation and water flow. Hurley also conducted the Capillary Structures investigation, which studies the use of different structures and containers to manage fluids and gases.
Hurley and Behnken worked on numerous sample switch outs for the Electrolysis Measurement (EM) experiment, which looks at bubbles created using electrolysis and has implications for numerous electrochemical reactions and devices. Both crew members also contributed images to the Crew Earth Observations (CEO) study. CEO images help record how our planet is changing over time, from human-caused changes – such as urban growth and reservoir construction – to natural dynamic events, including hurricanes, floods, and volcanic eruptions.
Behnken conducted four spacewalks while on board the space station with Expedition 63 Commander and NASA colleague Chris Cassidy. The duo upgraded two power channels on the far starboard side of the station’s truss with new lithium-ion batteries. They also routed power and Ethernet cables, removed H-fixtures that were used for ground processing of the solar arrays prior to their launch, installed a protective storage unit for robotic operations, and removed shields and coverings in preparation for the arrival later this year of the Nanoracks commercial airlock on a SpaceX cargo delivery mission.
Behnken now is tied for most spacewalks by an American astronaut with Michael Lopez-Alegria, Peggy Whitson, and Chris Cassidy, each of whom has completed 10 spacewalks. Behnken now has spent a total of 61 hours and 10 minutes spacewalking, which makes him the U.S. astronaut with the third most total time spacewalking, behind Lopez-Alegria and Andrew Feustel, and the fourth most overall.
The Demo-2 test flight is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which has worked with the U.S. aerospace industry to launch astronauts on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil to the space station for the first time since 2011. This is SpaceX’s final test flight and is providing data on the performance of the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew Dragon spacecraft and ground systems, as well as in-orbit, docking, splashdown, and recovery operations.
Crew Dragon Endeavour will return back to SpaceX’s Dragon Lair in Florida for inspection and processing. Teams will examine the spacecraft’s data and performance from throughout the test flight. The completion of Demo-2 and the review of the mission and spacecraft pave the way for NASA to certify SpaceX’s crew transportation system for regular flights carrying astronauts to and from the space station. SpaceX is readying the hardware for the first rotational mission, called Crew-1, later this year. This mission would occur after NASA certification, which is expected to take about six weeks.
The goal of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station. This could allow for additional research time and increase the opportunity for discovery aboard humanity’s testbed for exploration, including helping us prepare for human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
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don l lind
Don L. Lind is an American astronaut.He was born on May 18, 1930 (89 years old) in Midvale Utah.. About.
He received his Wings of Gold in 1957 and served four years on active duty with the Navy at San Diego and later aboard the carrier USS Hancock. There is a real world around me.
I see it. He helped to develop the Apollo 11 EVA activities, and served as CAPCOM for the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions. Following his military service obligation, he earned a Ph.D. in high-energy nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Don Leslie Lind (born May 18, 1930), (Cmdr, USNR, Ret. I’m alive. It has never failed to do so. Awards (1). Awarded NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1973 .. Education Don Leslie Lind, Ph.D. is an American scientist and a former naval officer and aviator, and NASA astronaut. Following his military service obligation, he earned a Ph.D. in high-energy nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.
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He graduated from the University of Utah with an undergraduate degree in physics in 1953. I’m here. During that time Lind logged more than 4,500 hours of flight … După efectuarea stagiului militar, acesta a obținut doctoratul în fizică nucleară de … Lind was then assigned as backup Pilot for Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 and nearly flew on the proposed Skylab Rescue mission. ), is an American scientist and a former naval officer and aviator, and NASA astronaut.
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Lind held the rank of Commander in the Naval Reserve.
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He graduated from the University of Utah with an undergraduate degree in physics in 1953.
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5 MW Lithium-Ion Energy Storage System Unveiled In Oregon — Will Provide Storage For Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources
A new, state-of-the-art, 5 MW lithium-ion energy storage system was recently unveiled in South Salem, Oregon. The new energy storage system — which is a demonstration project — will allow the storage of the excess electricity occasionally produced by some intermittent renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, as well as providing other services.
The energy storage system is integrated with a localized power zone — a microgrid — which means that about 500 customers in the area will be able to retain power even during regional electrical blackouts. The microgrid, and the new energy storage system, are both a part of the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project — a project designed with the intention of testing out innovative technologies and energy solution methods in the real world, and potentially spurring their wide-scale adoption.
“The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is a successful public-private partnership involving 17 organizations across five Northwest states,” said Patricia Hoffman, assistant secretary for DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, which oversees regional smart grid demonstration projects. “It is a highly innovative project demonstrating transactive energy management, which is a promising, cost-effective way to integrate variable renewable energy, energy storage and demand response at scale. The celebration of the Salem Smart Power Center makes it clear that Oregon is helping to lead the way on energy storage commercialization and grid modernization.”
The 5 MW lithium-ion energy storage system was developed by Portland General Electric as part of its contribution to the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. Half of the facility’s development cost of $23-million-dollars was covered by the US Department of Energy. As a whole, the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is a five-year, $178-million project that launched in 2010. More
New Date For Jamaica's 115MW Renewable Energy Plant! - Aug 2016
The country will have to wait more than three years before the proposed 115 megawatts (MW) of energy from renewable sources is added to the national grid.
The introduction of the renewable energy should cut Jamaica's oil bill substantially (US$55 million at current prices) but the three-year wait will mean a painful delay for Jamaicans desperate for lower electricity bills.
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) last week accepted 28 proposals for the development of projects aimed at generating the renewable energy.
The submissions, from 20 local and overseas companies, were revealed during a public opening of bid documents last Monday.
The proposals included two for wind projects, one for biomass, and 25 for solar energy.
Eight of the proposals were received from local companies.
The bidders include the local entities Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ); Wigton Windfarm Limited; Blue Mountain Renewables, and BNRG Renewables Jamaica.
In its proposal, the PCJ submitted a 20.98-megawatt photovoltaic solar-generating project at a cost of approximately US$63.16 million.
Wigton Windfarm submitted a proposal for a 24-megawatt wind energy power generation project, at a cost of US$45 million.
Blue Mountain Renewables submitted a 34-megawatt wind power generation project for approximately US$77 million.
The overseas investors include Wirsol AG and Roc Energy, which have tendered a proposal for a 78-megawatt solar park power generation project at a cost of some US$140 million; and New York-based entity, Roraima Consulting Incorporated, which submitted a bid for a 24-megawatt solar power generating project, at a cost of approximately US$59 million.
Project manager at the OUR, Peter Johnson, said the high level of interest in supply renewable energy was very encouraging.
"We are hoping that these proposals will actually bear fruit and that we will get some good solutions out of (them)," stated Johnson.
"This is the first tranche of that and we're very excited with what we have seen."
According to Johnson, with the bids in hands, the OUR will now move towards the evaluation processes, which should be completed by August 5.
"The evaluation will look at the best proposals in terms of the best reliability, the best price (and) will also look to see if one proposal or a combination of proposals will best fit the needs of the country."
The highest-ranked applications will be notified on September 11, with the OUR looking to complete the negotiation of project agreements by June 18, 2014.
The selected applicants are expected to post their performance security deposit by June 28, 2014, and begin construction in August 2014.
The proposed commissioning date of the new renewable energy plant is August 2016.
A request for proposals was issued by the OUR in November 2012, when it invited interested entities to submit bids for the supply of up to 115MW of renewable energy electricity generation to the national grid on a 'Build, Own and Operate' basis.
The Impending Deluge
Fifty thousand drowned, steamships aground with their bows among trees, cattle rolled head over heels by gigantic waves — stories of great sea surges from past centuries abound. Many of them cascaded ashore when coastlines were relatively stable, killing everyone in their path. Today, we live in a warming world of rising sea levels, where tens of millions of us live a few meters above the ocean. The potential for sudden cataclysm is greater than ever.
The record of history is sobering. On Jan. 16, 1362, a severe southwesterly storm swept across the British Isles. The wooden spire of Norwich cathedral in eastern England collapsed.
Hours later, the Grote Mandrenke, “The Great Killing of Men,” descended on the Low Countries at high tide. Huge waves carried everything before them. “An infinity of people perished,” fishing fleets became matchwood, entire herds of cattle and sheep perished in the raging waters. Three centuries later, in 1634, another cataclysmic storm surge brought sea levels four meters above normal to the Strand Islands off northern Germany. As many as 15,000 people and 50,000 livestock drowned.
These were but two of the savage attacks on the low-lying coasts of the North Sea, this from a patch of ocean that was largely dry land less than 8,000 years ago. The geologists call it Doggerland, a sunken landscape that once formed the North Sea. It was a land of sluggish rivers, lakes and extensive wetlands. A few thousand hunters thrived there, living off fish and small game, using antler-tipped spears.
We know this because a trawler dredged one from the seabed in 1932. Doggerland slowly vanished in the face of sea level rise caused by thawing ice sheets, an ever-changing world for those who lived there. By 5,500 B.C., Doggerland had disappeared under the chilly waters of the North Sea.
The inhabitants of the Low Countries have been battling the ocean ever since. For over a thousand years, they have tried to wall off the ocean. Today, millions of people live in densely occupied coastal landscapes behind great barriers. The Dutch government’s hideously expensive Delta Works was the culmination of centuries of defense work, but the authorities never relax in the face of a warming future with predictions of more extreme weather events. They are planning for at least 10,000-year storms in a world of rising sea levels.
It’s hard for us to imagine what the world was like at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were about 220 meters lower and the North Sea was dry land.
Take the Nile, which flowed into the Mediterranean through narrow gorges. As the ocean rose, the now silt-heavy Nile formed a fertile delta that became the granary of the pharaohs. All was well two thousand years ago, when Alexandria had only 300,000 inhabitants. Today, the Aswan Dam far upstream has drastically reduced silt flow. Nearly 10 million people live in Alexandria and Cairo. The delta is slowly vanishing under rising sea levels, its groundwater contaminated by saltwater, the soils depleted. The delta is no longer a balanced system. Perhaps 7 million people will suffer regularly from starvation by 2100.
The world’s sea levels have risen since the 1860s, with no end in sight. Skeptics argue that this is a long-term problem, measured in centuries rather than generations, that there is plenty of time to adapt to changing shorelines. But they forget about the more frequent extreme-weather events with their sea surges predicted for the future.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 were both wake-up calls for Americans living near sea level. Katrina devastated New Orleans, leaving 80 percent of the city underwater. Levees broke, over 1,500 people died, and thousands were stranded, especially poorer people. Sandy’s surge flooded Lower Manhattan and the New Jersey Shore. Subways flooded, thousands of houses became rubble. With $60 billion of damage, recovery will take years, while a debate over long-term solutions sputters along. Does one wall off New York, force people to build on higher ground, or restore protective mangrove swamps? The answers will be long in coming, but meanwhile, as cities like Miami grow, our vulnerability increases every year.
The threat is even more ominous elsewhere. Today, some 200 million people live within five meters of sea level, many of them in megacities like Shanghai. The Netherlands has the resources to wall off the sea, but what about other parts of the world? Small Pacific islands like Tuvalu, Alaska’s barrier island communities, and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean are seriously endangered and may even cease to exist.
Bangladesh, most of which is river delta country, lies at the head of the Bay of Bengal, where intense cyclones and their fast-moving storm surges have the potential to kill thousands. And kill they do, in a country with an exploding population, chronic poverty and a long coastline. Cyclone Bhola in 1970 killed over half a million people, at a time when the population was much smaller than today. To its credit, the government has developed early warning systems, erected refuge buildings, and created evacuation strategies that have saved many lives. But these do not answer the longer-term problem of fast-growing urban populations, threats to rice crops, seawater contaminated groundwater, and nowhere to move millions of people forced from their homes by rising seas. More
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Handbook of Mathematical Functions With Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables (AMS55)
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FIRST | PREVIOUS | NEXT | LAST | CONTENTS | PAGE | ABOUT | MEDIUM | LARGE
1. Mathematical Constants (p. 1)
2. Physical Constants and Conversion Factors (p. 5)
3. Elementary Analytical Methods (p. 9)
4. Elementary Transcendental Functions
Logarithmic, Exponential, Circular and Hyperbolic Functions (p. 65)
5. Exponential Integral and Related Functions (p. 227)
6. Gamma Function and Related Functions (p. 253)
7. Error Function and Fresnel Integrals (p. 295)
8. Legendre Functions (p. 331)
9. Bessel Functions of Integer Order (p. 355)
10. Bessel Functions of Fractional Order (p. 435)
11. Integrals of Bessel Functions (p. 479)
12. Struve Functions and Related Functions (p. 495)
13. Confluent Hypergeometric Functions (p. 503)
14. Coulomb Wave Functions (p. 537)
15. Hypergeometric Functions (p. 555)
16. Jacobian Elliptic Functions and ThetaFunctions (p. 567)
17. Elliptic Integrals (p. 587)
18. Weierstrass Elliptic and Related Functions (p. 627)
19. Parabolic Cylinder Functions (p. 685)
20. Mathieu Functions (p. 721)
21. Spheroidal Wave Functions (p. 751)
22. Orthogonal Polynomials (p. 771)
23. Bernoulli and Euler Polynomials, Riemann Zeta Function (p. 803)
24. Combinatorial Analysis (p. 821)
25. Numerical Interpolation, Differentiation and Integration (p. 875)
26. Probability Functions (p. 925)
27. Miscellaneous Functions (p. 997)
28. Scales of Notation (p. 1011)
29. Laplace Transforms (p. 1019)
Subject Index (p. 1031)
Index of Notations (p. 1044)
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Where I Play DAIS
Photo: Ashlea Wessel
By Matthew Ritchie
Like any creative and philosophical person, Sol Guy thinks a lot about the state of art in modern society. But there was one question in particular he couldn't stop pondering in the fall of 2015.
The former music industry professional-turned-TV-producer-turned-content creator was walking around all-night Toronto arts festival Nuit Blanche with former Universal Music Canada CEO Randy Lennox when the then-newly appointed head of Bell Media's Content and Broadcasting asked him what artist development looked like in this day and age.
"But not just for musicians," the former Rascalz and K'naan manager says. "For visual artists, actors, writers, producers, directors — all different disciplines."
What Guy kept coming back to was physical space.
"Sometimes a lot of people just need a space to sit and write, to be quiet, or someone to bounce their ideas off of, or a studio to go into, or they might need an editor, or a little bit of money for production," he says. "Can we build a physical space that can facilitate that?"
The answer was yes.
Last year, Guy and his team took over 1196 Queen Street West, part of a historic building (that also houses the Gladstone Hotel) — nestled right next to Toronto's bustling, burgeoning, arts-focused Parkdale neighbourhood — and quickly transformed it into a multipurpose space for creative types. They named it DAIS. The word (with Latin, Old French and Middle English roots) means platform, but Guy describes the project as more of a "launch pad" designed to "catapult" artists to the next level.
There's no formal application process to use the space. Instead, as word spread about the building and its many amenities — including a full recording studio, radio/podcast suite, 4K video editing room and street-level art gallery/performance/discussion space, to name a few — so too did DAIS's connections to the arts community around them.
When DAIS's partnership with Bell Media was announced in November 2016, industry insiders were quick to compare it to business competitor Rogers Media's similar partnership with Vice the previous year.
But for Guy, DAIS is not so much a content generator, but an "artist first media company," comparing the selection process for collaborators to something like A&R scouting at a record label, and the end product as being the perfect balance between art, commerce and social change (something close to Guy's heart — he did a 2010 TEDx Talk in Toronto about the subject).
"Bringing an artist in, helping develop an idea… there's value in making it, because when that artist's idea gets actualized, maybe 30 people get to work on it, and everybody's skill levels up," he says. "We want to be the add-on to what people are doing. When we add value and things elevate, everybody can share in the success."
And, since opening their doors, Guy says there's been "no shortage of unbelievable ideas."
Previous and current collaborators include: DJ trio A Tribe Called Red (with whom DAIS helped create a four-part music video series with for recent album We Are the Halluci Nation); Canadian hip-hop producer/rapper Rich Kidd (who was working in studio the day of our visit); label/artist management groups Pirates Blend and Cadence; youth-focused arts and business initiative The Remix Project; digital radio station iHeartRadio Canada (which broadcasts a program focused on hip-hop, R&B, soca and Afrobeat recorded in the basement)l; Rakhi Mutta and her Brampton-based romantic web dramedy about life and love in Canada's South Asian community, Anarkali (they're currently editing its third season and hope it gets picked up by CraveTV); and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star Ezra Miller (whom Guy first met at Burning Man, and is partnering with to create a socially conscious travel-adventure show similar to Guy's previous project 4REAL), to name just a few.
If there's a through-line, it seems to be the proliferation and promotion of artists, issues and narratives that have previously been ignored. (One of DAIS and Guy's biggest successes to date is "I Am a Man," a short film created in partnership with CNN's short-form production house Great Big Story that looks at the American prison system — and its affect on the black community — through a mixture of dance, music and words from social justice activist Bryan Stevenson).
There's also a focus on promoting Canada as a whole. Having spent the past decade or so between Los Angeles, New York and Toronto, Guy says he's seen how our country's art and artists get "absorbed into America."
"People forget who Canadians are," he says. He hopes DAIS can help his collaborators find international success, while also highlighting its country of origin and its other amazing talents.
In some ways, the building's décor — whether it's books by Naomi Klein, a painting of Muhammad Ali, a stack of Black Panther comics, or a chopped and screwed canoe now used as a book shelf and coffee table — seems to represent both focuses and inspire its in-house collaborators at the same time.
Still, DAIS is hard to fully describe, even for its creator.
"I keep trying to explain it, and in some ways I can't," he says. "And that's fine. I'm not disappointed because I can't completely articulate what it's going to be, because, let's be honest, I don't know exactly. I know the purpose, I know the direction, I have the vision. How we get there? That's part of what's fun."
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Home Article MY QUEST OF DISCOVERING QUAID-E-AZAM
“The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men” – Charles Fowler
The man born on 25th December, 1876 changed the destinies of 10 crore Musalmaans, whose past was humiliating, present dismal and future uncertain. He soon carved a place in their hearts and went on to become their true leader, protector, founding father and architect. However, how much do we as a nation know about that remarkable man – our Quaid-e-Azam?
My first introduction with Quaid-e-Azam was probably when I read an essay about him, in 3rd or 4th grade. I learnt that he was the father of the Nation, the founder of Pakistan. At that time, those facts had no impact on me as it was just one of the ‘lessons’. Then whenever one was required to write an essay on “My favorite personality”, either in English or Urdu, teachers would always encourage writing it about him. Though what I wrote was not related to his personality as I didn’t know much, but just memorized bits of information about his life. While all the years that I studied Pakistan Studies, I only learnt that he was an astute politician having high principles and a resolute disposition, and that he without doubt was a born leader. However I was never able to catch a glimpse of who he really was as our course did not include facts such as his exceptional rhetoric skills (in public and in the courthouse), witty sense of humour, debonair smile or his impeccable sense of dressing! Furthermore his valuable legacy in form of speeches, documents and correspondences, which would make a befitting part of our curriculum, have been ignored. Students, especially those studying Law and Political Science could greatly benefit and learn immensely from his knowledge as well as rich experiences, accumulated during a span of nearly half a century.
Who then, was Muhammad Ali Jinnah? My eagerness to get to know him better, lead me onto the path of discovering him and in the past nearly two decades I have learnt a lot by reading various books about him. I found, that not only his personality but the way he lived his life is truly inspiring, and the sacrifices he made for us are beyond our imagination.
Often I have heard our youth complain that they have no contemporary role model whom they could follow. This baffled me, because with a towering personality like Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who else do we need? But after some serious contemplation I found the answer. Among many reasons, a major one is that the media has not played its role in highlighting various aspects of his life, which are so vital for us to know, to truly appreciate him as a person and as our leader. In comparison they regularly propagate every aspect of the personal lives of foreign stars and personalities, who have no national significance.
Anyone who had the honor of knowing him, held him in the greatest esteem. I on the other hand was not so fortunate yet I have come to deeply admire him because he possessed true Muslim characteristics. He had a deep rooted belief in Allah and was greatly influenced by the personality of the Hazrat Muhammad (SAW). In a commemorating speech he said “The Prophet (SAW) was the greatest man that the world had ever seen…”
He was honest and always kept his word. He once said “If ever you make a promise, think a hundred times, but once you make a promise, honor your promise.” He would never acquiesce to anything or anyone, so steadfast was he in his thoughts and actions. These, however are just to name a few of his virtues, but more importantly the lessons I have learnt from his life, have left an indelible impression on my mind. Foremost is that you can achieve anything through hard work and determination. Though the journey isn’t easy and those who look for an easy way out might achieve temporary success, however success accomplished through honest and fair means, by never letting go of your principles is long lasting. Secondly one must face life with courage whatever the circumstances may be. And lastly that one should never give up, strongly believe in one self and above all believe in Allah. He said “Failure is a word unknown to me”.
Even his strongest of opponents’, could not deny his greatness; for on his demise, Surat Chandra Bose, leader of the Forward Bloc wing of the Indian National Congress,summed up his personal and political achievements in a glowing tribute: “Mr. Jinnah, was great as a lawyer, once great as a Congressman, great as a leader of Muslims, great as a world politician and diplomat, and greatest of all as a man of action, By Mr. Jinnah’s passing away, the world has lost one of the greatest statesmen and Pakistan its life-giver, philosopher and guide.”
Though seemingly, we as a nation remember him with great reverence on the occasion of his birth, but does he really mean anything to anyone, anymore? An imperative question every single person should ask themselves. Moreover I feel greatly disappointed in my own generation who don’t seem to have an appreciation and true realization of all that he did for us! One of the major reasons why Pakistan today, is not what Quaid-e-Azam had envisioned is because we never followed his guiding principles and objectives; that would have made Pakistan a great nation.
My quest; however is not over yet, as there so much more to learn about him. And I couldn’t agree more with what Paul Shafer said “The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person … who is worthy of emulation”
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BoA: ‘I Have Challenged Myself for Ten Years As Singer’
Singer BoA (real name Kwon Bo Ah, 24), who has been celebrating the tenth year since her debut, said, “For the last ten years that I have lived as a singer, I have tried to spare as much time as possible.”
She made her debut in Korea in 2000 when she was in the second grade of middle school, and became a role model among Korean singers as she successfully debuted in Japan in 2001. In 2008, she also advanced to the American music industry, so that entire process that she had to complete required a long time, and "twelve months in a year was not enough time for her." She reportedly did not even have time to long for an ordinary life.
As she has lived in a whirlwind of overseas activities, her recently released 6th album entitled “Hurricane Venus” was actually released in Korea after a five year break. In a recent interview, BoA said while smiling, “I have not been bored at all for ten years because I have kept challenging myself for the last ten years. My record of challenges says that I debuted at the age of fourteen, advanced to Japan, completed the first tour concert in Japan, advanced to America, released my 6th album after five years, and will appear in a Hollywood movie soon.”
Even though she had to spend ten years on those challenges, she is still in her twenties. Thanks to her strong image of a “powerful girl,” when she made a debut, she is still remembered as a teenage girl in people’s mind. But, her appearance with smoky makeup on her new album jacket looks very natural now. She said, “I want to have a strong romantic relationship which comes like a strong hurricane. I used to be a shocking girl to the public, but since I cannot stay a teenage girl any more, I just want people to accept my changes as natural.”
-"The moment I came to the USA was the turning point.” -- For the recent two years, BoA has only strived to develop in the American music market. She has not had any noticeable outcome yet, but it is too early to define it as a failure because she is still trying to develop in the market. BoA stressed, “It is like that I silently released an album without a distinct outcome. But, working in the American music market had become a turning point for my life as a singer. It has acted as a stimulus, and I could feel my passion for music again. I could also improve my singing and dancing while working together with famous music producers in the USA. Even though I could not achieve something as a singer, I have received great help regarding developing my ability as a singer. In addition, Lee Soo Man has given new challenges to me whenever I am in trouble.” She continued, “Radio promotion is essential for the American music industry, and one day he made me, who is not a native speaker of English, appear on a live radio program. It was very much like our company (SM), which pursued a Spartan style of training.” She smiled when she said this. As she will have activities in Korea, she might feel like coming back home after long overseas activities, which had given pressure to her and been full of tension. But she unexpectedly said, “I am worried whether I can adjust to the transformed Korean music industry, and I feel like that I become a new singer again.”
-"I hope many women will vibe to my 6th album.” - BoA said, "I was agonized over the same reason when I prepared for producing my 6th album. I had to follow the trend of Korean music industry by adopting electronic sounds and a repeated chorus, and at the same time, I needed to show off a completely new trail like a pioneer in the music market."
She had showcased songs that were composed by foreign music composers so far, but this time she worked together with many famous Korean music composers and singers and songwriters such as Kim Dong Ryul, Kim Jong Wan from the group Nell, and Jinu. BoA said, “I was curious about what kind of music would be produced if I worked with famous Korean musicians. Since I personally like ballad songs made by Kim Dong Ryul and Kim Jong Wan, I asked them to make songs for me. I also decided to work with Jinu after I listened to the song ‘Abracadabra,’ which he produced. For my album, I wanted to find really good songs instead of including many songs.”
In the new album, songs for performances which will produce satisfying visual effects and songs for emotions which will produce satisfying audio effects are both included. Jinu’s songs such as “Game,” "Dangerous,” which features strong sounds of drums and synthesizer, and the electronic pop song “M.E.P” are those songs intended for performances, and Kim Dong Ryoul’s ballad song “Stand By,” Kim Jong Wan’s “Implode,” and the song “Romance,” in which jazz pianist Song Young Ju participated, will give audiences a chance to listen to BoA’s mature vocals.
BoA stated, “I chose the title song ‘Hurricane Venus’ to showcase a splendid performance on the stage, but generally I wanted to make an album that can arouse women’s sympathy. Women in their twenties might want to listen to my songs in various situations: in a car, in a club, and in a situation when their boyfriends upset them. And this is the reason why I included chic songs that women can enjoy cheerfully.”
Two of her own songs are in this album. The song entitled “Let Me,” which expresses her passion towards dancing, and the song entitled “Ordinary Day,” which contains the feelings that we can have in our daily life, are those songs. Her brother, pianist Kwon Soon Hwon, participated in recording the song “Don’t Know What To Say,” for which BoA wrote the lyrics.
BoA explained, “I think that the break worked as a positive effect. I could choose various songs among various selections, so songs in my new album become more diversified.”
-"In a Hollywood movie, I want to immortalize my dance.” - Her new challenge this time is going into Hollywood by acting. She will appear in Duane Adler‘s new movie. Duane Adler, who had been highlighted by writing the movie script for dance movies such as “Step Up” and “Save The Last Dance,” will write the script and direct the movie. The movie will be about dance and based in New York, and the title of the movie has not yet been decided. She said, “My schedule as a singer alone was too tight, so I have not thought about acting, but the movie is about dance and will be produced by the director who made my favorite movie ‘Step Up,’ so I was fascinated. It was an attractive opportunity for me to have my dancing, which I have just presented through TV, immortalized in a movie; it was not just an opportunity to advance into Hollywood.”
She has stayed at the top for ten years as a dance music singer, who tend to have short careers. It seems that she has come over a level road, but actually she has suffered injuries and her body condition has become worse. But, she has a strong feeling that she can perform as a dance music singer until she becomes 35 years old as long as she takes care of herself thoroughly. In this way, she has always shown her attitude as a professional, so she is actually a role model of many junior singers who focus on dancing.
She continued, “Dancing and singing live at the same time on the stage is not easy at all. In contrast to the time in the early 2000s, singers who lip sync are blamed. Junior singers who are singing while dancing have a great ability and they look amazing. Singers do not have to show off their appearance, so it is more important for them to try to improve their singing ability.”
There are many titles for BoA including idol, dance music singer, artist, and performer, but she wants to be called a performer because she has a deep affection for dancing.
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Determination of satellite orbits and the global positioning system
Agrotis, Loukis George (1984) Determination of satellite orbits and the global positioning system. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
An artificial satellite orbit determination (OD) computer program is the most essential tool in satellite geodesy. Such a program has been developed at Nottingham as part of this research and was tested with Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) observations of the Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS).
This thesis describes the basic theory behind orbit determination and the software development at Nottingham. It includes details of the adopted force model, coordinate reference frames, and numerical integration and interpolation techniques. It is also explained how several geodetic parameters can be determined. The thesis discusses the results of two separate determinations of the LAGEOS orbit with an emphasis on the solutions for station coordinates and for earth rotation and polar motion.
The NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS) is on schedule to replace Transit as the most important satellite navigation system. When fully operational, in 1988, it will consist of 18 satellites which will provide continuous global coverage. This thesis describes the Global Positioning System and outlines the theory behind the most accurate techniques of adjustment of the CPS observables. It derives the equations for interferometric techniques and shows that, by differencing the observations, several undesirable unknowns can be eliminated.
GPS data from the NAVSTAR Geodetic Receiver System (NGRS) have been provided for Nottingham by the US Defence Mapping Agency (DMA). The thesis describes the software development to analyse these data and gives the results of several solution schemes to derive the absolute coordinates of the NGRS antenna. It is also shown how the software can be modified to incorporate interferometric techniques. Significant improvements over the NGRS solutions can be expected when GPS is fully operational, with refinements in both receiver hardware and software.
Ashkenazi, V.
Artificial satellites for geodesy, Geomagnetism, Cartography
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
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"You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic
Kirwan, Peter (2014) "You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic. Shakespeare Bulletin, 32 (1). pp. 11-26. ISSN 1931-1427
Official URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/shakespeare_bulletin/v032/32.1.kirwan.html
This article addresses the construction of Shakespearean reputation and legacy in contemporary film through re-evaluation of the much-derided Anonymous (Roland Emmerich, 2011), in addition to John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998). In both films, the framing, presentation and performance of Shakespeare's contemporaries (Jonson, Marlowe, Nashe, Dekker and Webster) is key to an understanding of how both films figure what it means to be "Shakespeare" and what it means to be "not-Shakespeare". Viewing Shakespeare and his work through the eyes of his fellow writers, the films position Shakespearean reputation as formed both by and in spite of the observations of his friends and rivals.
In performing Shakespeare's contemporaries, writers and work are elided to create simple caricatures that contrast directly with the expectations of Romantic genius established for Shakespeare. In the cases of Marlowe and Jonson, however, more complex associations between competing literary legacies are brought into play that problematise the nature of the Shakespearean legacy. Emmerich's film, in seeking to rewrite the history of "Shakespeare", employs Jonson as its protagonist in order to question the nature of memorialisation, recognition and connoisseurship in preference to unquestioning fandom. In so doing, Anonymous provides a model for understanding the anti-Stratfordian experience through the overshadowing of other early modern dramatists.
film, Shakespeare, Jonson, authorship, Anonymous, Shakespeare in love
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of English
https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2014.0009
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Internet sources, hardware, and software elements are the target of felony or malicious attempts to gain unauthorized management to cause interruptions, commit fraud, have interaction in blackmail or access private info. The spread of low-cost Internet access in creating nations has opened up new possibilities for peer-to-peer charities, which permit people to contribute small amounts to charitable tasks for different people. Websites, similar to DonorsChoose and GlobalGiving, enable small-scale donors to direct funds to individual projects of their alternative. A popular twist on Internet-based mostly philanthropy is the usage of peer-to-peer lending for charitable purposes.
An Internet blackout or outage can be attributable to local signalling interruptions. Disruptions of submarine communications cables may trigger blackouts or slowdowns to massive areas, corresponding to within the 2008 submarine cable disruption. Less-developed countries are more weak due to a small number of excessive-capacity links. Land cables are also weak, as in 2011 when a girl digging for scrap steel severed most connectivity for the nation of Armenia.
“Individuals utilizing the Internet 2005 to 2014” Archived 28 May 2015 on the Wayback Machine, Key ICT indicators for developed and developing countries and the world (totals and penetration charges), International Telecommunication Union (ITU). “Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI). 2015. Models of Mobile Data Services in Developing Countries. Research temporary. The Impacts of Emerging Mobile Data Services in Developing Countries”.
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In the early 1970s Mr Pouzin created an revolutionary knowledge network that linked locations in France, Italy and Britain. Its simplicity and efficiency pointed the way to a community that could connect not just dozens of machines, however millions of them. It captured the creativeness of Dr Cerf and Dr Kahn, who included elements of its design within the protocols that now energy the web. “So, who really did invent the Internet?” Archived three September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Ian Peter, The Internet History Project, 2004. “Who owns the Internet?” Archived 19 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Jonathan Strickland, How Stuff Works.
The volume of Internet visitors is troublesome to measure, as a result of no single level of measurement exists within the multi-tiered, non-hierarchical topology. Traffic knowledge may be estimated from the combination volume by way of the peering factors of the Tier 1 community providers, however traffic that stays local in giant provider networks is probably not accounted for. As the Internet is a heterogeneous network, the physical characteristics, together with for instance the information switch charges of connections, differ widely. It displays emergent phenomena that depend on its massive-scale group.
Major improvements like synthetic intelligence, blockchain, machine studying, web of things, and digital reality have started to completely transform the world and the character of work. Technology has evolved and formed our workplaces in some ways, by way of the adoption of tools like the internet and email for communications, word processing, spreadsheets and presentations for office productiveness, electronic databases for report preserving, and robots and artificial intelligence for automation. World Internet Usage Statistics News and Population Stats Archived 19 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine updated for 30 June 2010.
The Internet’s technologies have developed enough in recent times, particularly in using Unicode, that good facilities are available for growth and communication in the world’s broadly used languages. However, some glitches similar to mojibake (incorrect display of some languages’ characters) nonetheless remain. ] a couple of VoIP suppliers present an emergency service, however it isn’t universally available. Older conventional phones with no “additional features” could also be line-powered only and function throughout a power failure; VoIP can by no means do so and not using a backup power supply for the cellphone tools and the Internet entry gadgets.
Kiva pioneered this idea in 2005, offering the primary web-primarily based service to publish particular person loan profiles for funding. Kiva raises funds for local middleman microfinance organizations which post stories and updates on behalf of the debtors.
Although many governments have tried to limit both industries’ use of the Internet, in general, this has did not stop their widespread popularity. After English (27%), the most requested languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese (25%), Spanish (eight%), Japanese (5%), Portuguese and German (4% each), Arabic, French and Russian (three% each), and Korean (2%). By area, 42% of the world’s Internet customers are based in Asia, 24% in Europe, 14% in North America, 10% in Latin America and the Caribbean taken collectively, 6% in Africa, 3% in the Middle East and 1% in Australia/Oceania.
Lenders can contribute as little as $25 to loans of their choice, and receive their a reimbursement as borrowers repay. Kiva falls wanting being a pure peer-to-peer charity, in that loans are disbursed earlier than being funded by lenders and borrowers don’t communicate with lenders themselves. While much has been written of the financial advantages of Internet-enabled commerce, there may be also proof that some features of the Internet similar to maps and site-aware services may serve to bolster financial inequality and the digital divide. Electronic commerce could also be answerable for consolidation and the decline of mom-and-pop, brick and mortar businesses resulting in will increase in income inequality. Lonely individuals tend to make use of the Internet as an outlet for his or her feelings and to share their stories with others, such as within the “I am lonely will anyone communicate to me” thread.
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InVivo Therapeutics Announces $3.0 Million Registered Direct Offering Priced At-the-Market under Nasdaq Rules
April 15 2020 - 07:30PM
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with several institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 1,715,240 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $1.75 per share in a registered direct offering priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. The Company also agreed to issue to the investors unregistered warrants to purchase up to 1,715,240 shares of common stock. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.62 per share, are exercisable immediately, and will expire five and one-half years following the date of issuance. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about April 17, 2020, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The gross proceeds to the Company from the registered direct offering are expected to be $3.0 million, before deducting the placement agent’s fees and other offering expenses payable by InVivo Therapeutics. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital, business development activities, and general corporate purposes.
The shares of common stock (but not the warrants issued in the private placement or the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants) are being offered by the Company pursuant to a “shelf” registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-234353) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, and declared effective by the SEC on November 14, 2019. The offering of the shares of common stock will be made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the shares of common stock being offered will be filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained, when available, on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov or by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at (646) 975-6996, or email at placements@hcwco.com.
The warrants described above were offered in a private placement under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Act, and Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and the warrants and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants have not been registered under the Act or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the warrants and shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Act and such applicable state securities laws.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About InVivo Therapeutics
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. is a research and clinical-stage biomaterials and biotechnology company with a focus on treatment of spinal cord injuries. The company was founded in 2005 with proprietary technology co-invented by Robert Langer, Sc.D., Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Joseph P. Vacanti, M.D., who then was at Boston Children’s Hospital and who now is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. The publicly traded company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements can be identified by words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “will,” “may,” “should,” “expect” and similar expressions, and include statements about the anticipated completion of the registered direct offering. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, satisfaction of the closing conditions related to the proposed offering, risks and uncertainties relating to the Company’s ability to successfully open additional clinical sites for enrollment and to enroll additional patients; the timing of the Institutional Review Board process; the Company’s ability to obtain FDA approval to commercialize its products; the Company’s ability to develop, market and sell products based on its technology; the expected benefits and efficacy of the Company’s products and technology in connection with spinal cord injuries; the availability of substantial additional funding for the Company to continue its operations and to conduct research and development, clinical studies and future product commercialization; and general economic and market conditions and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, that forms a part of the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the offering of the shares of common stock and the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, and its other filings with the SEC, including the Company’s Form 10-Qs and current reports on Form 8-K. The Company does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements.
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House Demolition in Jerusalem 2007
Type of violation Demolition/destruction
Date 01 January 2007
City Jerusalem
Brief narrative The demolition and evacuation of 111 Palestinian houses and other structures in Jerusalem during 2007 Land Research Center 02 January 08 The Israeli occupation authorities continued to violate the individual and collective rights of Palestinians in the occupied Jerusalem, in general, and the right to proper housing and land, in particular, during the year 2007 under various pretexts such as the construction of the Segregation Wall, bypass roads, archeological excavations, building of colonies and un-licensing. This policy of ethnic cleansing which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the occupation of the city is accompanied by a continuous building of new colonies and the expansion of the existing colonies in and around the city, such as Abu Ghuneim (Har Homa), Psigat Zeev, Givaat Zeev, Nof Zion, Kadamat Zion …etc, as well as the ongoing diggings and excavations in various parts of the old city, including the Haram Al Sharif compound. The Land Research Center (LRC), a Palestinian NGO and member of Habitat International Coalition, as part of its mandate of monitoring, documenting and writing about human rights violations, including the right to proper housing and land ownership, has documented the following housing violations at the hands of the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem during 2008: • The total of 97 housing units have been demolished and their occupants forcibly evicted. These housing units have the total surface area of 9946 square meters and the total of 373 rooms. As a result, 529 people were made homeless after being forcibly evicted from their homes, of whom, 311 are children under the age of 18. • The total of 43 other structures, including stores, farms, pens, barracks and walls have been, also, demolished during the year 2007. • Compared to 2007, LRC had documented the demolition of 78 housing units during 2006. In addition, it had documented the demolition of 606 housing units during the period 2000–2006. The destruction of property and demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied Jerusalem by the Israeli authorities is contrary to international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and incompatible with article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Israel has signed and ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1966, and went in force in 1976. Israel, therefore, is obliged to apply its provisions in relation to the occupied Palestinian Territories, including Jerusalem. And Israel is also obliged, as the occupying military power, to abide by the provisions enshrined in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, on the protection of civilians under occupation. The Land Research Center determined to call on Israel, the occupying power: (1) To put an end to violations of international humanitarian law and principles of the International Bill of Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the occupied city of Jerusalem. (2) That Israel stop the policy of Judaization, displacement and ethnic cleansing practiced against Palestinians of occupied city of Jerusalem, lift the closures and blockades on the city, stop the separation and dispersal of Palestinian families, institute family unification policy for Palestinians, cease and reverse all illegal actions and measures that violated the right of families and individuals as a result of the wall construction or other discriminatory measures, and to allow http://www.lrcj.org/Eng/site.php A Statistical report prepared by Land Research Center about the house demolitition in Jerusalem during 2007, at: www.icrj.org.
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It's good to be bad!
So, Star Wars: The Last Jedi released, and Luke Skywalker was right: “This is not going to go the way you think.”
Ok, that’s a big, fat lie. It goes exactly the way you think, except for the parts where it doesn’t. The Last Jedi does . . . or did? Whatever Yoda would say, and how!
This will be a spoiler-free report, so read on without fear or remorse.
Anyone who pans these films just doesn’t know how to embrace the cheese. The movies are fun, but they’ve always been light-fare of a local boy who goes big. They’re space opera, with emphasis on the opera part—big heroes, big fights, big explosions wrapped in a “battle for freedom”.
Lucas forgot this during his “prequel” phase, and we’re well rid of him for these installments. That may be blasphemy to some, and you’re welcome to it. Lucas was always, always, always the “big idea” guy. His ideas have now spanned 45 years, and a franchise that can imagine quite a bit more. He simply could not execute, and as Harrison Ford once told him (paraphrasing), “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it.”
Thanks for showing us the Force, George. We’ve got it from here.
The Kessel Run? That old thing?
Rian Johnson has impressed the hell out of me since Brick (with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which everyone should now watch, and then own on Blu-Ray). Taking the reins of the greatest space opera ever has really allowed him to shine. He treats the characters as one should for the second movie in a planned trilogy—he beats the hell out of them. That’s not to say he’s disrespectful. Anything but. Johnson, who is only a few months younger than me, grew up with Star Wars. It’s been a part of our cultural tapestry from the start, a thing that, even if we wanted to, we can’t get away from.
It’s a damn shame that Johnson will not be returning for Episode IX.
That said, The Last Jedi does everything the trailers promised and more. It is visually beautiful and wonderfully exciting. There are enough lightsabers and space battles to fill an Imperial starships—not the local bulk cruisers, mind you, I'm talking about the big Corellian ships. Luke Skywalker is all kinds of in this thing, and Carrie Fisher is just so much awesome it will fill your heart to bursting.
Yeah, the view is great, but look at the location!
Another shame that we won’t get to see her in the next movie.
There was at least one scene that put me right into tears, and another that made my jaw drop at the implication. Johnson did what every Star Wars film should—provided a good story, well told, that left me wanting more. What The Force Awakens began, and Rogue One promised, The Last Jedi has now delivered. See it. See it again. Buy it on disc and add to your collection with pride.
Marketing Covers for Flames of Perdition Part 3
As promised, here is the theoretical cover art for Company of the Damned. This might be my favorite out of all three, as it’s the only book that hasn’t released yet, and thus had no first or second cover to salt the well.
Shaken, but not stirred
Also, as I said, I have some news about an upcoming release. In addition to being picked up by Ellysian Press for the Aubrey Hartmann steampunk books, a side project for Del’s world has been nagging at me. I’ve decided to give in and write a Jane book. Jane was supposed to be a one-note side character, a tough-as-nails member of the shadowy Jaccob/Joshua Smalls group operating out of Salt Lake City that Marrin became enamored of. She ended up growing and her story-arc became more and more prominent—but she’s always been secondary to Del.
Until now!
I’m still working on titles, but the first chapter of the book is written. This will be a stand-alone, outside of the Flames of Perdition series, but still within that world. I’ll keep you posted as the work moves forward.
Tell me again how to make your drink!
Back in the day, I loved, loved, loved Show & Tell time. Mostly, I loved to show and tell. Probably we all did, but I don’t recall a thing anyone showed and told about during Show & Tell. Probably it was a lot of stuffed animals and real animals and whatnot. I do, however, remember some of my showing and telling.
Writers are often told “show, don’t tell.” It’s one of the first things posted on a request for critique.
Telling actually has a place in writing.
It may seem like blasphemy to the masses of new authors eagerly attending their first conference, but it isn't always practical to show. Some scenes, technical, mechanicals, etc. can't be shown, they have to be told—especially if the character is trying to understand why a thing isn't working in the first place, and they need that thing to work.
But Rob! Why would a character think through all the aspects of a piece of technology?
Well, Slotted Pig, in real life, we do this in our heads all the time without really thinking. When an app fails to load or function correctly, we start to run through all the steps: turn the device off and back on, reinstall the app, check for updates and patches, etc. Some of that is pretty common, so it’s not very interesting to a reader. When dealing with a process, tech, magic, etc. that is not common, or is wholly made-up, then some telling is not only needed, it’s downright necessary.
A simple example that nearly everyone can relate to is “trigger discipline.”
Most people don't know what trigger discipline is, even if they've handled a gun a few times. Books and TV and Hollywood often get it wrong. Tarantino even exploited this hand-waved trope in Pulp Fiction when Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) accidentally shoots Marvin in the back of the car due to his complete lack of trigger discipline.
In the case of trigger discipline you’re actually accomplishing both telling and showing at the same time. You tell the reader what the term means, and in so doing, that your character knows how to properly handle a gun, that she’s a trained and even competent professional.
Certainly, there should be more showing and less telling going on in a story. It's easier to be immersed in the visceral experience of a world that feels real. But to say you should never tell is just not what storytellers should be hearing.
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Where Have You Gone, Sandy Koufax
05 · Issue 5, Archives
It’s not until after the game that Gabe Kapler’s tattoos can be seen. The Boston Red Sox outfielder stands in front of his locker in the guts of Fenway Park, peeled down to his shorts. A Star of David as big as a chocolate-chip cookie brands his bulging left calf. Bruise-blue Hebrew letters in a crescent around the star translate to “strong mind.” The tattoo on his right leg is in English: “Never Again, 1933-1945.”
Kapler, whose throw from the outfield fence helped seal a victory tonight, is touted as one of the most promising Jewish athletes in the world. “A Jewish rookie sensation,” the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix gushed in 1999. A “potential all-star,” effused Slate in a 2001 article called “Jews on First,” which pondered whether the day would soon be upon us when there would be a major-league minyan—10 Jewish players in the big leagues.
There isn’t one yet. There are currently eight Jewish players in Major League Baseball. There are also—as anyone can learn by reading one of the dozens of websites, magazines and books devoted to Jews in sports—five sons of Abraham in the National Hockey League, six in the National Football League, and about a dozen playing world-class soccer.
Muscular, intense-eyed Kapler, 28, is a big deal in the world that hungrily tracks such things, a gung-ho Semitic slugger whose four home runs in the 2003 season and 55 since his 1998 debut are chronicled as assiduously as Shylock tallied each ill-gotten ducat.
Nevertheless, word of Kapler’s stature in the hearts of Jews obsessed with Jews in sports has apparently not filtered down to the men he plays with every day, men who, in locker rooms and showers and weight rooms before and after their 162-games a year, have ample opportunity to see his giant Hebrew tattoos. When Pedro Martinez, the famous ace pitcher for the Red Sox, is asked if he thinks Kapler might be a symbol of pride to Jews just as Pedro is to people from his homeland of the Dominican Republic, the pitcher seems surprised and asks, “Kapler is Jewish? I didn’t know that. I thought Kapler was just American.”
Four decades after Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax refused to pitch on Yom Kippur during the World Series and ignited Jewish pride, the Jewish-athlete-obsession business is red hot. But times have changed since 1965. Now every Jew who lifts a dumbbell at a Muscle Beach competition or warms a bench as a third-string professional is benighted by fanatic sports fans as a mini-Koufax.
There are 18 Jewish Sports Halls of Fame in the United States, dozens of websites on Jewish athletes, a bear market in Jewish sports memorabilia ($535 for a baseball signed by 1940s Detroit Slugger Hank Greenberg), a newly issued set of Jewish Major Leaguers baseball cards covering the years 1870 to 2003 and a new Judaica Sports Collectibles Library from New York City-based S.p.i. Books, which includes the forthcoming title The Big Book of Jewish Athletes: Biographies & Anecdotes of Great Jews in Sports.
This is serious business to many people. Few things raise the ire of brissed-out ball fans more than jokes like the one in the 1980 movie Airplane:
“May I offer you anything to read, ma’am?”
“Do you have anything light?”
“How about this leaflet, Famous Jewish Sports Legends?”
There is nothing light about the Jewish Sports Review, a bi-monthly publication with 1,000 subscribers that seems to catalog every athletic feat by every Jew from junior high school through senior citizens’ leagues.
Readers of the $6, 24-page Sept/Oct issue can find among its hundreds of rapid-fire tidbits:
“DAVID MANSOUR (Eng) captured the foil event of the 2003 British Fencing Association Championships. He is the first Jew to win the senior foils since ALAN JAY in 1963.”
“We just learned that DEDE COHEN of Houston’s (TX) Memorial H.S. enjoyed an outstanding sophomore season as a shooting guard.”
“CAROLYN WARHAFTIG (P) (Soph) – Colgate – from Wyckoff, NJ. Carolyn fed for an assist for one point as she started 17/17 contests.” [This from the Women’s 2003 College Soccer Preview, a special section in the issue]
The (P) after a name means that only an athlete’s father is Jewish. If there’s no (M), meaning only the mother is, or (C), indicating a conversion, the athlete is 100-percent full-blooded Yid.
Manhattan-based Shel Wallman, 66, a retired high school dean, and his co-publisher, Ephraim Moxson, a 61-year-old parole agent administrator in Los Angeles, pore over the sports pages in newspapers from around the country, and every time a Stein, Rosenberg or Cohen appears, they play “is he a Jew?” with gusto, chalking up members of the tribe like a marlin fisherman notches his rod to count catches.
“Last year,” JSR notes, “we mentioned ANITA MARKS, QB for the Florida Stingrays of the Women’s Professional Football League. We can now include her teammates, DT ALISON KATZ, DE BONNIE LEVY and OL MELISSA GREEN.” (Marks, incidentally, posed for the September, 2002 issue of Playboy, wearing shoulder pads, a wrist guard and little else.)
Why do Wallman and Moxson do it?
“People were always asking, ‘Is this guy Jewish, is that guy Jewish?'” Wallman says. “We decided we would find out and that’s what we’ve done for five and a half years. We find out, and people who want to know, they subscribe to our magazine.”
And legions do want to know. So many people visit the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame—literally a hallway inside the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit—that the 56 plaques are being moved from a back area near the inline hockey center to a more prominent renovated hallway near the health-club entrance. The new wall will also contain an interactive touch-screen where visitors can watch videos on the inductees. Among them: Julius Spielberg, who, when he was inducted in 1999 at age 98, was the premier Senior Olympics speed walker in his age class; Hank Greenberg (“the best,” says Steven Simmons, who runs the hall); and Benny Friedman, an all-American at Michigan in the 1920s who is also in the NFL Hall of Fame.
The Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, founded with a $100,000 donation from the Rose and Adolph Levis family, who continue to give about $10,000 a year, completed an expansion in 2003 from one room to two. The 5,000 annual visitors can now peruse 22 Plexiglas-sealed lockers displaying memorabilia such as a basketball uniform from the 1930s-era South Philadelphia Hebrew Association. New inductees include “Dynamite” Dave Smukler, a college and pro football player in the 1930s, and Ed Lerner, a college basketball player in the 1940s.
But those are the minor leagues. The Jewish sports hall of fame which claims to be the national Jewish Sports Hall of Fame is in Commack, Long Island. It was, until recently, also just a hallway filled with plaques leading from the gymnasium to the pool in a Jewish community center. By early 2004, the hall of fame will have moved to its own airy room, where visiting Hebrew school groups will be able to view illustrated timelines of the Jewish experience in the Olympics and other sporting events. The new room was designed by Frank Cirillo, who also created the Yogi Berra Museum in Montclair, New Jersey.
This effort is worth it, director Alan Freedman explains, because with so many Jewish kids pinning posters of Barry Bonds and LeBron James on their walls, we need to make sure they know that Jews can make it as big-time athletes, too.
“When it comes down to it,” he says, “we’re showing that maybe there isn’t as much difference between people as we all think, and all the jokes about Jewish athletes and Polish scientists and Italian war heroes aren’t true. I’m not making it out that Jews are better. All I’m trying to say is we’ve responded in sports just like everywhere else.”
Not all athletes whose faces are cast in bronze or whose names are uttered lovingly by the Freedmans and Wallmans of the world are playing along. When the spokesperson for Olympic ice skater Sasha Cohen, a gold medal favorite for 2006 who is profiled and pondered in nearly every publication devoted to Jewish athletes, is contacted for an interview request, the spokesperson declines with a polite e-mail explaining that Sasha “does not practice Judaism and would not want to lead people the wrong way.”
Right now, the best the tribe has got is Jay Fiedler, the starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. He’s full-blooded—no (M), (P) or (C)—and took the time to show up in Commack, near his native Oceanside, for induction into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.
Dolphins spokesman Neal Gulkis, however, doesn’t sound optimistic about setting up an interview with Fiedler, even after I explain that I don’t want to discuss his faith, but rather, how he feels about those preparing to engrave his image into some sort of Jewish Mt. Rushmore next to Koufax, Greenberg and swimmer Mark Spitz—if only Fiedler can win a Super Bowl.
Gulkis says he gets a lot of calls for interviews with Fiedler about being Jewish.
After two weeks of back and forth, Gulkis finally says, “At this point, he doesn’t have much of an interest. What with the season happening and everything ….”
When Freedman at the Commack Hall of Fame is told about Fiedler’s lack of interest, he quickly reminds me of Miami’s third-string quarterback, Sage Rosenfels, a 6’4″ blue-eyed buck from Iowa. “We lead the league in Jewish QBs,” a Dolphins fan wrote in the finheaven.com chat room.
Gulkis sounds tired when phoned two weeks after the Fielder rejection for an interview with Rosenfels. “He’s not Jewish,” Gulkis sighs. “His father is Jewish. [(P)] He acknowledges that he’s half-Jewish, but he’s raising his children …” Gulkis pauses. It sounds like he might have begun uttering a word that begins with “C,” which would make sense since Rosenfels’ wife’s name is Maria, but then Gulkis seems to remember his public relations training—saying less is always better than saying too much—and regathers himself, continuing without elaboration. “He’s not raising his family Jewish.”
Is this enough to disqualify the bench-warmer Sage—who has thrown 9 passes and rushed for negative 10 yards in his entire NFL career—as a symbol for a people he doesn’t even to want to be a part of? Not likely. The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inducted him in absentia in 2002.
Some Jewish athletes will never even know they’ve been drafted as eternal symbols into the Jewish sports canon. Boston publisher Martin Abramowitz earned some column inches in the Boston Globe and other papers for his set of Jewish Major Leaguers baseball cards, which purports to be as complete a compilation as possible of every Jew ever to play big-league ball. Working from his kitchen table, Abramowitz secured funding from the American Jewish Historical Society, arranged photo rights with the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Players Association, and convinced the venerable card company Fleer to print 15,000 sets of the 142-card collection at cost. Â
Forty of these players, most from the early 20th century, most dead, never before appeared on a baseball card. Jesse “Tiny” Baker, whose major-league career consisted of appearing at shortstop in one game in 1919, from which he was removed after being spiked by Ty Cobb. Baker’s name at birth was Michael Myron Silverman.
Within a few days of the Globe article, the AJHS, which is offering the cards as a premium for those who donate at least $100, had received orders for 1,000 sets. Within a month, the JML sets were being sold on eBay next to such items as a Koufax-autographed limited-edition oil painting listed for $1,200, and a muddy postcard photo of boxer Sammy Dorfman, who went undefeated in 1925 and 1926, going for 40 bucks.
This current wave of Jews-in-sports mania isn’t the first. In 1965, The Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports was published, and in 1983, perhaps as a direct answer to the Airplane “light reading” joke of three years earlier, Robert Slater and Red Auerbach’s 352-page tome Great Jews in Sports first appeared. An expanded and updated version hit shelves in November, 2003.
But there’s no longer a need to rely solely on arcane history books. Peruse the stunningly thorough jewsinsports.org—which recently posted a feature on Sasha Cohen—and there, listed alphabetically in the football section between Hal Seidenberg, an all-Ivy League fullback at Cornell in the late 1940s who later became a lawyer, and Robert Seigal, a player with the 11th-place Canton Bulldogs in 1925, is Mike Seidman, the current starting tight end for the Carolina Panthers. His bio informs readers that he was raised in Westlake, California and that in 2003, Mike “was the highest Jewish player selected in the NFL draft.”
The Panthers are happy to put their rookie on the phone. So how does it feel to be a Jewish sports hero? “If it makes people happy, then good for me, I guess,” Seidman (M), 22, says cheerfully. Asked if he might marry a Jewish woman, even though he wasn’t really raised in the faith, he replies, “My girlfriend is half-Arab. From Westlake. I didn’t even think anything of it. People would tell me, ‘She’s half-Arab. They don’t like Jewish people.’ I met her dad. He’s cool.”
Muscles bulging as he grabs his duffle bag on his way out of Fenway Park, Gabe Kapler tells me, “I’ve always been intrigued by the stronger, more powerful Jewish role models versus—not that these guys aren’t interesting people—role models like Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Crystal.”
A month later, on the phone from his off-season home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, he continues, “The portrayal of Jews is as weak, and that fires me up. It’s our own fault. It’s kept up by the parents of Jews because they stress education so hard rather than letting a person develop into whatever they are.”
He says that if he were a big star, he’d make an even bigger deal about being Jewish, trumpeting it from every magazine cover and TV show he could.
Before he gets off the phone to spend time with his wife Lisa and their two young children (P), Kapler gives his bottom line: “I don’t like our stereotypes. I think our stereotypes are bullshit.” He says some Jews don’t like the histrionic professional wrestler Goldberg, but to him the loudmouth is a modern Koufax. “He’s charismatic and interesting and he’s a stud. We need a stud.”
More strident studs do seem to be stepping forward and volunteering for duty—but those obsessed with Jews in sports aren’t necessarily welcoming these new arrivals into the fold. In 1999, German tennis great Boris Becker told Inside Tennis magazine that his mother has a “Jewish background,” and had fled Czechoslovakia in her youth. Then in 2003, international soccer superstar (and Posh Spice husband) David Beckham revealed to OK! magazine that his mother’s father is Jewish.
“Beckham is a quarter Jewish, but doesn’t practice Judaism,” scoffs Ephraim Moxson of the Jewish Sports Review. “Becker’s a crock. I don’t think there’s anything to that at all. It’s like that Buffy Sainte-Marie song from the ’60s where everyone claims to have Indian blood. Now everyone’s claiming to have Jewish blood.” Moxson also sniffs at claims by Russian ice skater Oksana Baiul that she is Jewish. “At best, one-eighth,” he says. For the JSR, only one-half or better, or a convert who actively practices the faith, will do.
But there is hope on the horizon—the next Koufax may arrive in the guise of a basketball player.
“Not like this guy from Maryland a few years ago, who Sports Illustrated called ‘the Jewish Jordan.'” Moxson says. “We knew from the beginning he wasn’t good. Now he’s playing B-level ball in Israel.” Moxson can’t even remember that player’s name anymore. (It is Tamir Goodman.) But you can hear the raw excitement in his voice when Moxson talks about his great hope: Jordan Farmar, a senior basketball player at Taft High School (Kapler’s alma mater) in the San Fernando Valley, who has already committed to attend UCLA in fall 2004.
“He’s half-Jewish, half-black. Bar mitzvahed. Not only is he good, but he’s the number one high-school shooting guard in the nation, according to two national ratings guides. Two!” he exclaims, underlining the veracity of his claim. “He is the real deal.”
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I agree with the author that there is great interest in Jewish athletes. I think that as more Israeli athletes become world class, there will be more recognition and acclaim. An Israeli basketball player from Maccabi Tel Aviv was selected in 2009 to join the NBA Sacramento Kings. The Israeli Davis Cup team is currently in the semi-final round for the first time in history- a significant victory since the Israeli team has finished ahead of the USA, Australia, France and Britian.
The decision a few months ago of the Dubai tennis tournament to discriminate against Shahar Peer of Israel led to a pouring of support and acclaim for her.
The Israeli athletes, by the way, are all very proud to be both Israelis and Jews. I think the interest in Jewish athletes will continue to grow.
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Home > FTC launches fair competition probe of Post to Post deal
Published:Friday | August 2, 2019 | 12:00 AMMcPherse Thompson - Assistant Editor-Business [1]
The Fair Trading Commission, FTC, has initiated an investigation into whether the acquisition of Post to Post Betting Limited by Supreme Ventures Limited, SVL, is likely to adversely affect competition in the bookmaking market.
Supreme Ventures gained control of Post to Post on July 1, having completed the $572.2-million deal in mid-June. The gaming conglomerate told the Financial Gleaner that it was cooperating with the fair trade regulator to provide any information requested in what it described as FTC’s due diligence process.
FTC Executive Director David Miller says his agency’s investigation is expected to wrap up in August.
Stakeholders approached by the competition watchdog to weigh in on the acquisition include market participants Capital Betting and Wagering Limited, Ideal Betting Company Limited, Island Bet and Jamozzie/BetCris and the sector’s regulator, the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), which maintains records on the market’s sales, payout and gross profit.
Bookmaking services can be described as any business that accepts bets on the outcome of sports contests and pays winners based on the mutually agreed odds, said the FTC. Sales in the bookmaking market, as reported by sector regulator BGLC, was over $4.9 billion in fiscal year 2017.
In its July 2019 newsletter, FTCNewsLine, the competition agency said it learned of the proposed acquisition of Post to Post through media reports in May.
“Should this proposal materialise, it would represent a substantial change in market structure of the bookmaking services industry, as two of the island’s largest bookmakers would become one,” the FTC said.
Supreme Ventures previously disclosed to the market that the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in Post to Post was completed on June 14, and that it had nominated three directors to the bookmaker’s board – namely SVL President & CEO Ann-Dawn Young Sang, Ansel Howell and Xesus Johnston.
Post to Post Betting itself arose from the 2013 merger of Jamaica’s largest bookmaking companies – Champion Betting, Track Price Plus Limited and Markham Betting. At the time, the three firms operated about 188 betting shops across Jamaica.
Supreme Ventures said this week that the Post to Post chain now comprises 35 shops. Asked about the apparent shrinkage of the network, the gaming company said it could only speak to the operations of the business since its acquisition
Bookmakers take bets for events such as horse racing, simulcast racing and other sports such as football and the National Basketball Association or NBA games. They then pay betters according to their odds.
Any Bet is said to be Jamaica’s largest sports bookmaker. It controls some 73 per cent of the bookmaking market, based on sales, according to data published by the BGLC in its annual report for the year ending March 2017.
SVL also owns and operates the sports-betting game JustBet. The gaming company holds about 19 per cent of the bookmaking market through its wholly owned subsidiary Prime Sports, according to the BGLC data.
Supreme Ventures is the leading player in the lottery-gaming market and is owner of Jamaica’s only horse-racing track, Caymanas Park, which it acquired from the Jamaican Government in 2017.
The gaming company earns most of its revenue from its lottery operation, which accounted for $9.2 billion of the $18.6 billion of revenue collected over the period January to June 2019. Horse racing accounted for $3.5 billion in the same period, while sport betting contributed just $158 million to group sales.
Over the past two years, the sports betting segment has averaged 6.7 per cent of total SVL revenues.
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HomePoliticsBeto O’Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember.
Beto O’Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember.
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EL PASO — At a special City Council meeting in 2006, a billionaire real estate investor unveiled his vision for redeveloping downtown El Paso. To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings, he proposed restaurants, shops and an arts walk rivaling San Antonio’s River Walk.
Representative Beto O’Rourke, one of hundreds attending, wasn’t exactly a disinterested party.
Not only had he married the investor’s daughter, but as a member of City Council he represented the targeted area, including a historic Mexican-American neighborhood.
Calling downtown “one piece of El Paso that was missing on the road back to greatness,” Mr. O’Rourke, now the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, voted to take the first step forward with the plan.
Over the next two years, Mr. O’Rourke would defend the plan before angry barrio residents and vote to advance it. At other times, he would abstain. Business owners who opposed the plan accused Mr. O’Rourke of a conflict, citing the involvement of his father-in-law, the billionaire developer William D. Sanders.
Twelve years later, Mr. O’Rourke is championing progressive causes, attracting millions of dollars from small donors across the country and eschewing political action committee money in what he calls a grass-roots effort to unseat Ted Cruz, the Republican incumbent, in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the midterms. Polls show Mr. Cruz with a modest lead.
Yet, as Mr. O’Rourke’s national popularity grows — there is even speculation he may run for president in two years — his involvement in the proposed El Paso redevelopment highlights a side of his record that, on its surface, seems to contradict the populist image he has cultivated in Texas and nationally.
Mr. O’Rourke was perceived by many as siding with the moneyed elite against angry barrio residents, small business owners and even the Jesuit priests who ministered to the immigrant community at Sacred Heart Church.
“Mr. O’Rourke was basically the pretty face of this very ugly plan against our most vulnerable neighborhoods,” said David Dorado Romo, a local historian who says the episode resurrected longstanding race and class divisions in the city.
Barrio residents feared they would lose their homes through eminent domain, and a city-funded branding study suggested that the residents of El Paso were perceived as “dirty” and “lazy.’’ Among some constituents, the hurt feelings have lingered.
One of them is Guadalupe Ochoa, 75, who owns a home near the redevelopment area. “We had voted for Mr. Beto, and now that he got to the top, and close to the power, he turned things around on us,” Ms. Ochoa said through an interpreter, Dr. Romo.
Mr. Cruz and the super Pac that supports him have seized on that chapter of Mr. O’Rourke’s career to attack him as elitist, accusing him in ads of “displacing poor families to enrich his own,” something that never happened — the plan itself was ultimately abandoned.
Mr. O’Rourke declined requests to be interviewed for this article. In response to claims that he favored developers over barrio residents, he has said in the past that he never voted for eminent domain, that no property was ever taken by the city through eminent domain and that he had no financial interest in the project.
Despite the resentment among some over the development plan, Mr. O’Rourke has broad support in his home city, where 80 percent of the residents are Hispanic but still regard Mr. O’Rourke, who is white, as a favorite son. “Beto” signs, T-shirts and lapel buttons are everywhere. Even many who objected to Mr. O’Rourke’s support for the redevelopment plan say they will vote for him.
Once a bustling city with 50,000 manufacturing jobs — and nicknamed the “jeans capital of the world” for its thriving garment industry — El Paso was hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement. As jobs moved to Mexico in the 1990s, the city’s strong retail trade also declined.
Mr. O’Rourke’s father-in-law, Mr. Sanders, now 77, had grown up in El Paso, attended Cornell, then started the national real estate company LaSalle Partners, headquartered in Chicago. The firm later merged to form Jones Lang LaSalle.
Bloomberg News once called Mr. Sanders the Warren Buffett of the real estate industry and estimated the value of his portfolio at $20 billion. He developed expertise in establishing real estate investment trusts, which pool money from investors to purchase and operate real estate.
“When I spoke to kids in El Paso, I would tell them that someday you can become Bill Sanders,” said Tanny Berg, an El Paso businessman.
By the early 2000s, Mr. Sanders had returned to the El Paso area, where he was asked to help redevelop the downtown.
The vehicle for the renewal was the Paso del Norte Group, a nonprofit organization. Made up of more than 300 leaders from both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, across the river in Mexico, the invitation-only organization received both city funding and a federal grant to devise its plan.
For a time, its membership included Mr. O’Rourke as well as Amy Sanders, Mr. Sanders’s daughter, who had married Mr. O’Rourke in September 2005, just months before the plan was made public.
Mr. Sanders unveiled the proposal, focusing on a 300-acre swath of downtown, in a meeting in March 2006. What might not have been entirely clear to everyone at the meeting was that the plan’s success was largely dependent on the city’s ability to convince property owners in the most blighted areas to turn over their holdings to the private trust. In the case of recalcitrant owners, eminent domain would be used.
“We don’t want to do that, O.K.?” Mr. Sanders told the gathering, saying the first option was to convince owners to merge their properties into the trust.
The plan immediately caused controversy.
Much of it involved the proposed demolition of portions of Segundo Barrio, which means Second Ward, near the Rio Grande border crossing to Mexico. The neighborhood has served as the entry point to the United States for generations of Mexican-Americans.
The barrio retains much of its appeal despite efforts to “de-Mexicanize” it. In the early 1880s, many of the adobe buildings were torn down, removing what newspapers called “their bad associations,” an effort Dr. Romo described in his 2005 history, “Ringside Seat to a Revolution.”
Street murals depict colorful scenes evoking Roman Catholicism and the Mexican immigrant experience. Retail strips cater to both the Mexican-American community in El Paso as well as day trippers who cross the bridge by foot from Mexico.
The plan aimed to relocate the residents of nearly 500 apartments, many of them in the barrio. Even though new housing was to be built, some residents worried they would not be able to find affordable housing.
Outrage in the barrio was heightened with the release in 2006 of a city image study, developed by an outside vendor, apparently intended to set the stage for the redevelopment. The study included headshots of the actors Penélope Cruz and Matthew McConaughey, interpreted by the some as the theoretical new faces of El Paso, with notations like “educated” and “bilingual” and “30-40,” a reference to a desired age range.
The old face of El Paso, by contrast, was an older man wearing a cowboy hat along with the notations: “speak Spanish,” “dirty,” “lazy” and “uneducated.”
Barrio residents gave Mr. O’Rourke a piece of their mind in a meeting at Sacred Heart Church.
One of them was Ms. Ochoa. “We used to be happy here in our barrio,” she told him, “even with all its defects.”
“There are a lot of people who are working very hard to frighten the people who live here,” Mr. O’Rourke told the residents, speaking in Spanish, in an effort to reassure them that the results would not be so dire.
Mr. O’Rourke abstained from votes establishing a tax zone that would set the stage for eminent domain, and voted for a temporary moratorium; he later voted against an effort to limit its use.
While the branding study inflamed opponents in the barrio, business owners with properties in the redevelopment zone formed an organization called Land Grab Opponents.
In an ethics complaint, they asserted that Mr. O’Rourke’s company, Stanton Street Technology Group, had provided information technology services to the Paso Del Norte Group.
They also questioned whether Mr. Sanders — and by extension Mr. O’Rourke — would be enriched by the plan. Though Mr. Sanders had said he would donate the dividends from his investment to a nonprofit organization, “his financial involvement only crystallizes the conflict of interest for Representative O’Rourke,” the complaint stated.
The city ethics commission rejected the complaint. Stuart Blaugrund, the Dallas lawyer who represented the Land Grab Opponents, said in an interview that Mr. O’Rourke was “tone-deaf” to the appearance of a conflict.
“He ultimately recused himself and did the right thing, but it seemed to me to be unnecessary for us to have to generate such ire among his constituents in the interim period,” Mr. Blaugrund said.
“Even if he didn’t have an actual conflict, the optics were terrible,” he added. According to Mr. Blaugrund, the plan was eventually abandoned, partly because of a state ballot initiative in 2009 prohibiting the use of eminent domain to take property for private use.
In an interview with The New York Times Magazine in 2011, Mr. Sanders said he had intended nothing nefarious in the plan, describing it as an effort to put together “a civic system here that weaves together the whole city.”
Mr. Sanders was among investors in late 2006 who formed Borderplex Community Trust, a trust that was to spearhead the redevelopment by taking control of downtown property.
By February 2007 — before it became clear the plan would fall apart — Borderplex had started buying up major El Paso buildings. Recent documents showed Borderplex’s assets at $82 million, including two major office towers in downtown El Paso, with Mr. Sanders owning 1.7 percent.
“Did he contribute the profits to charity as he pledged?” Mr. Blaugrund wondered.
Mr. Sanders did not respond to requests to be interviewed.
Six years after the redevelopment plan was proposed, Mr. Sanders appeared to step in to help his son-in-law’s first race for Congress. One of his companies contributed $37,500 to a PAC that, in turn, spent $240,000 to defeat Mr. O’Rourke’s opponent, the eight-term Democratic congressman Silvestre Reyes.
Mr. O’Rourke won by 3,000 votes.
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Home Non-Fiction Britain Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge
Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge
In May 1983, in the wake of her victory in the Falklands, Mrs Thatcher won the second of her three general election victories. Liverpool, going not for the first or last time against the grain, elected a Labour council that vowed to be different. In an environment of mass unemployment in which Liverpool felt abandoned by an indifferent government, the council resolved to join others across the land in refusing to set a budget that would hurt the poorest. It was at first wildly popular, but the scene soon became set for a battle between the city and central government that would shape the future of Liverpool.
Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1983 election, Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge sets out an even-handed assessment of events with oral testimonies from many of the key protagonists. Thirty years on, Liverpool has to some extent reinvented itself as a visitor destination, but it is again facing major spending cuts while its deep seated social problems remain. This book sheds new light on what is for some a dark period in the city’s past, best forgotten, while for others is a memory of the city that refused to lie down and die and a continuing inspiration.
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Author Frost, Diane & North, Peter
Publisher Liverpool University Press
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Memorable Manitobans: Charles Harold “Steppy” Fairman (1894-1965)
Journalist, athlete.
Born at Portage la Prairie on 12 December 1894, son of Charles Richard Fairman (1862-1944) and Jessie Devlin (1870-1970), in 1910 he was a founding member of the Winnipeg Toilers Basketball Club. He also captained the Rowing Club team to intermediate rugby championships and played intermediate baseball with the Arenas. He worked as a clerk prior to the First World War and, following his enlistment in July 1915, he served overseas with the 79th Battalion. He played for the unit’s football association in military league competition. Returning from military service, he was a sports writer for the Winnipeg Tribune for several years before taking positions with the Regina Daily Star (Sports Editor), Regina Leader-Post, and Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, and also wrote a Western Producer column, eventually retiring around 1962. He was badly injured in a crash near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in October 1935. He, along with his friend and fellow Toiler, Walter McLaren ”Waddy” Ferguson, owned the property which has since been been commemorated as Toilers Memorial Park. He died at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on 3 September 1965.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
“A letter from “Steppy” Fairman,” Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 27 November 1915, page 19.
“Pte. Harold ”Steppy” Fairman,” Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 28 April 1917, page 27.
“Regina sports editor injured in auto crash,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 October 1935, page 18.
“Regina sports editor in critical condition,” Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 29 October 1935, page 1.
“Charles R. Fairman to be buried Monday,” Winnipeg Free Press, 8 January 1944, page 4.
“Steppy Fairman dies in Saskatoon,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 September 1965, page 18.
Obituary [Jessie Fairman], Winnipeg Free Press, 30 July 1970, page 35.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
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Augusta Hotel Marks 100th Birthday
The 100th birthday celebrations of the Augusta Hotel this coming weekend are expected to bring back to life some of the old tales associated with the town. Founded by the Ellis family, the hotel has always been a major landmark in the area.
The news article “100 years for Augusta Hotel” has full details on this story. It says the following about the hotel: “Over the century almost everybody who grew up in Augusta has, at some stage, had something to do with the hotel – it was where football, cricket and lawn bowls wins were relived, birthdays and anniversaries celebrated, babies’ heads wet. It was also a source of relatively scarce local jobs. Many of the characters, from both sides of the bar, will be back for the celebrations to reminisce and regale.” http://www.margaretrivermail.com.au/story/272524/100-years-for-augusta-hotel/?cs=1429
Though the Augusta Hotel’s building and range of amenities available have changed considerably in 100 years, the thick limestone walls of the original building still exist. The foundation stone that was laid by Toby (Henry) Ellis and his sisters in the wall next to the original front door back in August 1912 still exists under the veranda situated between the hotel’s main entrance and bottleshop.
A weekend of activities has been planned for the Augusta Hotel’s birthday celebrations, beginning with a long luncheon on Friday 1.00-4.00pm, with an official welcome, memories and music, the inauguration of the time capsule, brief historical presentations and of course, cutting of the birthday cake. Friday night will start at the pub with happy hour 5.00-6.00pm, with prizes, giveaways and chook raffles throughout the evening, music from 8.00pm and football on the giant screen.
Saturday will be a community day at the hotel noon-5pm with face painting, bouncy castle, sausage sizzle and kids’ fun on the lawn. Also, there will be TAB promotions, Happy 100 Minutes of drink specials, giveaways and prizes, football on the giant screen, chook raffles and happy hour 4.00-5.00pm. A twilight dinner Saturday 6-11pm will feature a 4-course meal with matching wines, brief historical presentations about the Ellis, Percy, Robinson and Stanes families who have been the owners of the hotel.
The hotel will have a brunch on Sunday 9.00-11.00am, made to order from the day’s specials. Some of the well known faces will be back behind the bar over the weekend and if you are an old timer, you may be able to identify others reprising their former roles. Tickets to all the events can be purchased from the hotel’s reception.
The birthday celebrations of the Augusta Hotel are sure to offer a remarkable experience that you can’t afford to miss.
www.augustahotel.com.au/
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I am married and live on a farm near Margaret River with my wife, daughter and son. I set up The Margaret River Guide to assist people coming to Margaret River Western Australia to easily find what they are looking for. I also wanted to allow people to find activities they did not know about and to be able to openly comment on/ review businesses.
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Technical Analysis on Communication Equipment Equities -- Ericsson, Ciena, JDS Uniphase, ADTRAN, and Infoblox
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Ciena Corp.'s stock edged 0.04% lower, to close the day at $25.01. The stock recorded a trading volume of 2.06 million shares, below its three months average volume of 2.92 million shares. Over the last one month and over the past three months, Ciena Corp.'s shares have gained 2.63% and 11.90%, respectively. Furthermore, the stock has surged 28.85% since the start of this year. The company's shares are trading 2.07% above their 50-day moving average and 22.98% above their 200-day moving average. Additionally, Ciena Corp. has an RSI of 52.80. The complimentary notes on CIEN can be downloaded in PDF format at:
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On Tuesday, shares in JDS Uniphase Corp. recorded a trading volume of 3.38 million shares, higher than their three months average volume of 2.29 million shares. The stock ended the day 0.63% lower at $11.02. JDS Uniphase Corp.'s stock has lost 8.24% in the last one month, 17.39% in the previous three months and 19.68% on YTD basis. The company is trading below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages by 9.34% and 14.75%, respectively. Furthermore, shares of JDS Uniphase Corp. have an RSI of 35.15. Register for free on Equity Research Institute and access the latest research on JDSU at:
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ADTRAN Inc.'s stock edged 0.25% lower, to close Tuesday's session at $15.92. The stock recorded a trading volume of 0.53 million shares, below its three months average volume of 0.69 million shares. Over the last one month and the previous three months, ADTRAN Inc.'s shares have fallen by 2.63% and 0.76%, respectively. Additionally, the stock has lost 26.27% since the start of this year. The company is trading 4.48% and 17.19% below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, respectively. Furthermore, ADTRAN Inc.'s stock traded at a PE ratio of 32.49 and has an RSI of 39.87. The complete research on ADTN is available for free at:
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Infoblox Inc.'s stock finished Tuesday's session 0.37% lower at $23.96. A total of 0.65 million shares were traded, which was close to its three months average volume of 0.69 million shares. Over the last one month and the previous three months, Infoblox Inc.'s shares have declined 11.98% and 2.60%, respectively. However, the stock has gained 18.56% since the beginning of 2015. The company's shares are trading above their 200-day moving average by 10.29%. Infoblox Inc.'s stock has an RSI of 30.69. Free in-depth research on BLOX is available at:
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Everbridge Features 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush Speaking on Leadership and Critical Event Management, as well as CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Day 1 Keynote for COVID-19: Road to Recovery Symposium
By: Everbridge, Inc. via Business Wire News Releases
Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management (CEM), today announced highlights from day one of its two-day Autumn 2020 “COVID-19 R2R: The Road to Recovery” virtual leadership symposium, addressing global best practices to reopen economies amid COVID-19, while most safely returning people to public spaces, offices and campuses. The first day’s sessions emphasized the importance of public and private sector partnerships during the next phase of the pandemic. Day two of the symposium offers another impressive lineup of marquee speakers.
Everbridge COVID-19 Symposium Autumn 2020 (Graphic: Business Wire)
Everbridge’s COVID-19: Road to Recovery Symposiums bring together tens of thousands of leaders and experts from 150 countries across business, healthcare, and government. To attend the “COVID-19 R2R: The Road to Recovery” virtual leadership summit and to replay select presentations on demand, please visit Everbridge’s event registration page.
In his conversation with Everbridge CEO David Meredith, President Bush shared his perspective on leadership and critical event management during a public health crisis, as he addressed leaders across industries. He also emphasized the value of preparedness for crises of all kinds, including pandemics, severe weather, cyber-attacks and more.
“We at Everbridge feel privileged to feature the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush to speak on leadership and critical event management during the first day of our COVID-19: Road to Recovery Symposium,” said Everbridge CEO David Meredith. “Joined by CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, day one of our event included board level, CEO, president and C-level speakers from Capital One, Fannie Mae, Ford, Fortinet, Humana, IBM, Mayo Clinic and more.”
Added Meredith, “While we all await a vaccine, global leaders, including many of our keynote speakers and panelists, strive to utilize innovative technologies, as well as proven best practices to take immediate action to keep their people as safe as possible while also getting their organizations up and running, faster. We can draw inspiration and hope from the many stories shared this week on navigating the uncertainty of returning to work and reopening society, safely.”
Day one highlights also included discussions with Director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) Dr. Nancy Messonnier; a panel with board members representing Fortinet, DOW, Russell Reynolds Associates, Tyson Foods, and others; as well as a panel dedicated to C-level leadership, including IBM President Jim Whitehurst and Ford Motor Company’s former CEO Jim Hackett. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and former Florida Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera spoke from a government leadership perspective, and day one also included a debut speech from newly appointed Everbridge Chief Customer Experience Officer John Maeda. Each of these sessions can be found on-demand on the Everbridge site.
Day two (October 15th) keynote speakers will include presidential advisor and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Dr. Anthony Fauci and Virgin Group Founder Sir Richard Branson and many other C-level leaders across public and private sectors.
The Symposium features C-level speakers from Fortune 500 and international corporations, universities, healthcare organizations and government agencies including Ford Motor Company, IBM, Fortinet, Accenture, Auburn University, Aviva, CAG Holdings, Capital One, Fannie Mae, Humana, Lumen Technologies, Optum, Rackspace, Siemens, Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), Goldman Sachs, the Governor of Mississippi, the Mayor of Miami, Houston Methodist Hospital, CDC Foundation, the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Duke University Health System, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, New York City Emergency Management Department, Office of National Commission of Police in Iceland, the European Emergency Number Association (EENA), and Australia’s Emergency Alert program, among others.
Over 5,300 global organizations use Everbridge’s CEM Platform to assess threats, monitor the wellbeing of their workforce, rapidly communicate warnings, and protect supply chains. At the onset of the pandemic, Everbridge rapidly launched its COVID-19 Shield™ Return to Work and Contact Tracing software solutions followed by the introduction of Everbridge Control Center, the industry’s first off-the-shelf physical security information management software platform to help organizations return to work while complying with social distancing and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) policies. Since the pandemic began, Everbridge customers have used its software to send more than 850 million coronavirus-related communications with vital information and instructions to safeguard their populations, employees, patients, and students.
Everbridge serves over 3,700 first responder agencies and 1,500 healthcare entities including the top pharmaceutical, biomedical and medical device and manufacturing companies, as well as the largest healthcare systems (overseeing more than 25 percent of all hospital beds in the U.S.), managed care organizations, pharmacies, and statewide health alert networks (HANs), including the CDC and the NIH.
The Everbridge Platform reaches over 600 million people and currently supports the countrywide public warning system deployments in all major regions of the world. Everbridge supports population-wide alerting in 11 countries across Europe, Asia, Oceania, The Middle East, Africa, and South America including Australia, Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Singapore and Sweden. Everbridge’s population alerting capabilities also power the entire states of California, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, and Florida, as well as municipalities, counties and cities within 49 of the 50 United States, within all of Canada’s provinces, and throughout Europe and Asia, including deployments within multiple populous states in India.
About Everbridge
Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order Keep People Safe and Businesses Running™. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,300 global customers rely on the Company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans. Everbridge serves 8 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 9 of the 10 largest U.S.-based investment banks, 47 of the 50 busiest North American airports, 9 of the 10 largest global consulting firms, 8 of the 10 largest global automakers, 9 of the 10 largest U.S.-based health care providers, and 7 of the 10 largest technology companies in the world. Everbridge is based in Boston with additional offices in 14 cities around the globe. For more information visit www.everbridge.com
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Bongani Khumalo on his Reading debut, life and South Africa's chances in the Africa Cup of Nations
Bongani Khumalo will make his debut for Reading at in a glamour-free pre-season friendly at neighbours Swindon Town tomorrow (Saturday), just a week after appearing for Tottenham Hotspur in their 3-0 Vodacom Challenge win over South African champions Orlando Pirates at Ellis Park.
The 24-year-old Bafana Bafana centreback is on loan at the Championship club and he insists: “Right now I am a Reading player and the only thing I am thinking of is playing well for Reading.”
Khumalo, born in Swaziland and raised in Pretoria, joined Spurs in January for £1.5m after winning three successive South African Premier League titles with SuperSports United.
He has yet to play for Harry Redknapp’s first team apart from his appearances this month in South Africa and was linked to Scottish champions Rangers last month, with the prospect of Champions League football.
But Khumalo, who played six games on loan for relegated Championship club Preston North End last season, yesterday revealed it was Redknapp who persuaded him to stay in England. He told the Reading Post: “Harry talked about how Reading would be a great club to go to. He said I needed more experience.
“I remember seeing Reading when they were in the Premier League and seeing the stadium on TV in South Africa.
“I guess there will be a bit of interest in Reading back home in South Africa now as well.
“My family have been looking into the club and the history at Reading and they are getting themselves up to date with everything.
“Other clubs were mentioned, but as soon as I spoke to Reading there was only one place where I wanted to go. The manager Brian McDermott told me how hungry he was for success. That was a big selling point for me."
Khumalo played against Reading for Preston in a 2-1 defeat at Madejski Stadium last season. Reading went on to reach the play-off final and only missed out on a return to the Premier League after losing 4-2 to Swansea at Wembley.
Khumalo said: “I was impressed with the style of football Reading played and how they passed the ball around.
“The team seemed to have a very positive approach and that’s why they managed to get to the play-offs.
“I only met the rest of the guys yesterday for the first time on the way to Bristol Rovers and they were all very nice. At this moment I’m not even thinking about a permanent deal at Reading. It’s very early days.”
Khumalo, under the terms of his loan agreement, could be recalled by Spurs in January. With the veteran William Gallas and injury-prone Ledley King among their centre-backs, he may be needed to supplement a defence which also includes Younes Kaboul and England regular Michael Dawson.
But with South Africa currently topping their qualification group, Khumalo’s season is likely to be interrupted by the Africa Cup of Nations which will he held from January 21 to February 12 in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Khumalo added: “South Africa haven’t done too well in the Africa Cup of Nations for some time, so it would be fantastic to win it.
“Off the back of the World Cup I think we have improved and playing for South Africa feels like playing for a club nowadays.
“We have a lot of promising young players coming through and being part of that is something that I take great pride in.”
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Katlego "Killer" Mphela sweats over verdict after Celtic trial
Katlego Mphela’s future in Europe will be decided today after the South African striker’s 45-minute appearance for Celtic in their 2-0 friendly defeat against Wolves in Glasgow on Wednesday night.
The 26-year-old “Killer” from Brits may have produced the last-gasp goal for South Africa which defeated mighty Egypt last month but he was unable to score for the Bhoys, having his only real chance - a header - well-saved by Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy.
The Mamelodi Sundowns striker, ending a five-day trial at at Parkhead, was replaced at the half-time by fellow triallist Milos Lacny from Slovakia.
Mphela has scored 19 goals in 40 appearances for South Africa while Lacny, 23, has yet to play a full international for his country and the Sparta Prague striker is on a second trial with Celtic.
Boss Neil Lennon said of his experimental Celtic side, showing 11 changes from the team that won their Scottish Premier League opener against Hibernian 2-0 on Saturday: "They did okay. It was difficult for them, to get 45 minutes and they’ve not really played that much with the other players before.
"Mphela was unlucky with a header and Lacny had a couple of chances, so they showed bits and pieces.
"We will speak to them over the next couple of days, probably before we go to Dublin (for two further friendlies this weekend).
"I will probably not make a decision until tomorrow. I can't give you an answer tonight, we will talk about it tomorrow.”
Mphela, who spent two goalless seasons at French clubs RC Strasbourg and Stade Rheims from 2004-2006 after starting his goal-happy career at Arcadia and Jomo Cosmos, had hoped to grab his second chance in Europe with a bang after Sundowns turned down an offer for his services from Israel’s Maccabi Haifa.
Before he left for his Celtic trial, Mphela said of his spell in France: "It's a different story now. Back then, I was still only 18 or 19 and it was hard to adjust and I ended up coming home.
"But I think that has helped me in the long run because I am now a regular for my country and have played in all these big competitions like the Confederations Cup and the World Cup. I'm pleased that things have gone well but now I want to go back to Europe and prove myself."
Jamie O'Hara's free-kick after 28 minutes gave Wolves a first-half lead before a 72nd minute own goal by Hoops second-half substitute Filip Twardzik wrapped it up.
On Celtic’s official Facebook page, only one fan (if you discount excited South Africans) commented on Mphela’s performance, saying: “Why do we have fans slagging off the team after a pre-season friendly? The team was full of triallists and fringe players. Mphela looks sharp so i think we should sell (Irish striker Daryl) Murphy.”
While FC Twente’s Bernard Parker – Mphela’s Bafana Bafana striking partner - signed a two-year deal to return to South Africa with Kaizer Chiefs yesterday, hours after the Amakhosi’s Zimbabwean top-scorer Knowledge Musona agreed a five-year contract with German club Hoffenheim.
Benni McCarthy, the 33-year-old Bafana Bafana top scorer who is clubless after being released by West Ham, continues to be linked with champions Orlando Pirates though a move to Ajax Cape Town, where he is currently training, may still be on the cards. He is quoted as saying: “My mom is here in Cape Town and that’s probably the biggest thing in my head. I’ve been away 15 years, which is almost half my life.”
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Benni's bombshell: "I want to win the Champions League with Orlando Pirates"
Benni McCarthy has set himself one final target after 16 gruelling years of professional football – he wants to become the first man to win both the European and African Champions League trophies.
And to do that of course, the 33-year-old will simply have to join South African champions Orlando Pirates .
McCarthy famously came on in the 78th minute of the 2004 Champions League final to help Jose Mourinho’s Porto defeat Monaco 3-0 at Arena AufSchalke in Germany after scoring twice against Manchester United during qualifying.
Since then McCarthy has suffered mixed fortunes – he scored 37 goals in 109 games for Blackburn Rovers before his well-documented weight problems in a goal-free year at West Ham in 2010.
Released by the Hammers earlier this year amid a plethora of “fat chance” headlines, McCarthy – who failed to make South Africa’s World Cup squad last year - is currently out of contract and training with Ajax in Cape Town.
And despite noises about a permanent move back to the Mother City where he was born in 1977, McCarthy said yesterday: "Pirates are talking about winning the African Champions League – I could become the first player to win the Champions League in Europe and in Africa. That would be a very special record.
. "I don't really see myself starting all over again in another country. I've moved around enough.
"As a kid, growing up playing football, you always wanted to play for Kaizer Chiefs or Pirates; you wanted to play in that big Soweto derby.
"Me, I wanted to play for Chiefs, but really, Chiefs or Pirates, that was the dream. They are like Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain; every kid's dream.
"I feel a lot for Ajax, of course, but I'm not sure of their ambitions on the pitch – what they are saying to me is more about attracting more fans. I'm still ambitious to win more trophies.”
Pirates chairman Irvin “Iron Duke” Khoza and his new Brazilian boss Jusio Cesar Leal are apparently interested in the man who has played over 500 games at the top level, scoring nearly 200 goals, including a record 31 in 79 games for Bafana Bafana.
Even Ajax chief exec George Comitis said: "I know Irvin has been on to Benni’s agent – Benni told me that himself – but I don't know how serious they are."
McCarthy’s agent Rob Moore had been looking for an American or Arabic retirement home for his iconic striker – but McCarthy admitted last week: "I’ve played abroad and I think what I learned over there I can give back and inspire some of the younger kids to see a different side to life.
“If Benni comes home and I make a good living for myself… I live alright… maybe that’s what every kid from the street would want to have.
“I got distracted at West Ham but I’m starting to get the love back for football.”
Last night Pirates official Floyd Mbele was quoted as saying he was “unaware of any interest” in McCarthy, who will be available for free after a reported £1.5m pay-out terminated his West Ham nightmare.
Comitis refused to accept McCarthy isn't tempted by his former club Ajax, last season’s unlucky SAPL runners-up, adding: "I know Benni really wants to be with us, here at home in Cape Town, despite all the talk about winning another Champions League."
And McCarthy insists big-spending Mamelodi Sundowns, under new Dutch megastar Johan Neeskens, are “still sniffing” too.
But what about the fines for being fat at West Ham? The headlines which surrounded his torrid year in London’s East End? He grins: “I’ve been working. Changed my life, started to live healthier, looked after myself a bit more because I realised the healthier you are, the longer you live. I want to live to see my kids have kids one day; so that just made me change certain ways of my life and hopefully I can maintain and achieve my goals.
“It all depends on what my legs say. At the moment, I can still juggle it, I can still keep up with the younger boys so I don’t see any point for me yet to throw in the towel.
“When you start having kids your life changes, you can’t be an irresponsible, stupid little boy anymore.”
Labels: ajax cape town, bafana bafana, Benni McCarthy, blackburn rovers, orlando pirates, south africa's top scorer, transfer bombshell, west ham fat fines
Put the knitting away dear, it's nearly time for football... and plenty of needle!
Right, put the knitting away dear, turn off the Bold and the Beautiful... the football season is nearly upon us.
But my, how different things look since the end of last term, when Orlando Pirates, managed by Ruud Krol, saw off Ajax Cape Town, led by Foppe de Haan, and Ian Gorowa’s Mamelodi Sundowns.
Now of course, we’ve got Julio Cesar Jeal, Maarten Stekelenburg and the world-famous Dutchman Johan Neeskens in charge with Kaizer Chiefs boss Vladimir Vermezovic the only surviving manager in the top four. Incredible. Krol gone after winning just about everything. Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger never suffer such insecurity.
But as we will find out at Soccer City on Saturday when Chiefs play Pirates yet again, some new-fangled money-maker called the Black Label Cup, there’ve been a few personnel changes among South Africa’s top teams too.
Most important departure? That could turn out to be South African Premier League top-scorer Knowledge Musona if his move from Kaizer Chiefs to Hoffenheim in Germany finally works out.
Otherwise, Ajax have lost the most significant player in their armoury – and the man voted South Africa’s finest last season – Thulani Serero. He is currently receiving rave reviews after a goalscoring debut at Ajax’s Amsterdam Arena last week.
There are others who could yet move before the European transfer window slams shut. Siphiwe Tshabala could still leave Chiefs after reported interest from Nottingham Forest’s new boss Steve McClaren failed to materialise. Morgan Gould, mysteriously rejected by Crystal Palace, may yet find another lucrative route out of Supersports United. Sundowns’ wantaway striker Katlego “Killer” Mphela is currently on trial with Scottish giants Celtic.
But South Africans worried about the exodus of top talent should not be overly concerned. With the big shake-up at treble-winning Pirates comes new blood.
The most impressive of those? Siyabonga Sangweni, 28, from Golden Arrows who looked solid at centreback during the Vodacom Cup, closely followed by young winger Sameehg Doutie from Ajax Cape Town and Namibian netbuster Rudolf Bester from Martizburg United.
Chiefs, clearly worried about the possible departure of Musona to Hoffenheim or the newly-interested Celtic, have picked up the man who finished behind him in the SAPL top-scorers’ race last year, Lehlohonolo Majoro from Amazulu. The 24-year-old spiky-haired firebrand from Ladybrand was highly impressive in the Amakhosi’s sparkling 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the opening game of the Vodacom challenge and looks a great buy.
At the back, where Chiefs needed a bit of work, Vlad the Impaler has speared Wits University’s teak-tough Tefu Mashamaite to shore up the centre and pointedly signed Keegan Richie from Moroka Swallows to replace left back Punch Masanamela, who left for apparently greener pastures at Sundowns’ HM Pitje Stadium.
Punch should prove a hit for South Africa’s so-called Brazilians and the much-hyped Neeskens, but his move may be overshadowed by the arrival of Gbolohan Salami. Little is known of the 20-year-old from Nigeria’s Sunshine Stars but early reports suggest an “old-fashioned centre-forward” with bulk and brawn. Might be a handful.
Uganda goalkeeper Dennis Onyango is training with Sundowns and the word is former Orlando Pirates sensation Teko Modise has recaptured some of his old sparkle under Neeskens.
It’s Ajax you have to worry about. Always destined to be a bit of a selling club, the Amsterdam-based franchise has added Serero to a list of top quality graduates which features such luminaries as Steven Pienaar and Benni McCarthy.
With De Haan finally retired and back in Europe, the untried Stekelenburg has a real job on his hands to keep the Mother City in the Championship chase again this season. No obvious replacement for Serero or Doutie has been purchased, though they have a queue of young talent eager to break through while Cole Alexander and Aiden Jenniker are both back from loan spells.
In goal, where some suggest the now-retired veteran Hans Vonk handed over the title to Pirates on the last day of the season, Stekelenburg has poached former Liverpool gloveman Sander Westerveld from Italian club Monza.
Still, Stekelenburg, who lists Pienaar and Spurs team-mate Rafael van der Vaart among his successes as a youth coach in Amsterdam, argues: “Foppe was very experienced, I’m very young. He was quiet and within himself, I’m a bit of an extrovert.
“But I’ll play the same 4-3-3 format, possession football. This club has finished second three times in the South African Premier League, so this is a huge opportunity for me.
“Serero is a special talent, you can’t really replace him. But I must try to find somebody who can play in his position in a different way.
“Sometimes a bit of arrogance is good, be humble off the field but take the lead on it. I’m confidence I can do the job.”
Just as Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City are expected to dominate the English Premier League this season, so Pirates, Chiefs, Sundowns and Ajax are expected to remain the top four in South Africa.
But if Liverpool and Spurs are pushing for those Champions League places in England, who can we pull out of the hat to challenge the top four in South Africa?
The season-opening MTN8 competition will throw some of those contenders in to the fray, with Santos, Bloemfontein Celtic and Wits hoping to conjure a lucrative early boost to their challenge against Pirates, Sundowns and Chiefs respectively.
But for me it’s Supersports United – drawn against Ajax in the MTN8 - who may be the side to watch after finishing a disappointing eighth last season. The Pretoria-based side have persuaded Gavin Hunt to stay in charge and will be hoping for a return to the sort of form they showed winning three successive titles in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They’ve signed a dozen new players and Nasief Morris, 29, after a European career which took in Greece, Cyprus and Spain. If captain and lynchpin Gould doesn’t complete his dream move to Europe, they should be there or thereabouts.
Hunt, perhaps still paying for the £1.5m departure of Bongani Khumalo from the Matsatsantsa in January, admits: "It was a big comedown last season. But that's history. We are currently rebuilding, we’ve made massive changes,with 13 new players.
"I'm confident in our new recruits who will bring both experience and youth to the side. But there's no pressure. We'll just take it one game at a time."
Bet we’ll hear that phrase used again over the next ten months.
MTN8 opening fixtures (played first weekend in August, R8m to eventual winners):
Orlando Pirates v Santos
Ajax Cape Town v SuperSport United;
Kaizer Chiefs v Bidvest Wits
Mamelodi Sundowns v Bloemfontein Celtic
Labels: ajax cape town, kaizer chiefs, katlego Mphela, mamelodi sundowns, orlando pirates, serero, South African Premier League preview, supersports united
Tottenham's loan ranger Khumalo will be Reading between the lines
Bongani Khumalo’s topsy-turvy football career as Tottenham’s “loan ranger” has become a case of Reading between the lines. Careful, that’s Reading, not reading.
It was the Royals coach Brian McDermott, questioned by the local Reading Post newspaper, who gave us a nudge and a wink towards the former SuperSports United captain’s future destination this weekend.
While Khumalo was helping Tottenham Hotspur win the Vodacom Challenge Final with an emphatic 3-0 over Orlando Pirates at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, his future Championship team-mates were winning by an identical score-line at Northampton Town’s less impressive Sixfields.
After the game former Arsenal midfielder McDermott, the 50-year-old Reading boss renowned for unearthing young talent at the Madejski Stadium, was asked about South Africa’s 24-year-old centre-back Khumalo and grinned: “He’s a player I know well.”
Thousands of miles south in Johannesburg, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp confirmed Khumalo would be headed 40 miles west to Reading, despite offering the Bafana Bafana defender to Scottish champions Rangers on loan three weeks ago.
Redknapp, who hates being described as a wheeler-dealer, said: “Look, Bongani lacks experience, this is only his first year in England. I have experienced central defenders like Ledley King, William Gallas, Michael Dawson, Younes Kaboul and Sebastien Bassong.
“So it looks like this loan move to Reading will happen. We have the option of a recall in January, but it will be a good move for him. He’s a good lad.
“It will be difficult for him to get into the team here. He will be much better off going out on loan to gain experience and adapt to the lifestyle in England.
“I’m sure in a year he will come back a better player. Then it will be up to him to prove whether he is good enough to start for Spurs.”
Khumalo was subjected to a similar set of quotes last season, when he was farmed out to doomed Championship club Preston North End after failing to break in to the first team after his £1.5m move from Pretoria in January. He managed six games before suffering a metatarsal injury. Preston were relegated but their former Hull City boss Phil Brown did laud some of his performances as “outstanding”.
The word from Reading is there are a few loose ends to be tied up. They will have to pay Khumalo's salary, as is the tradition with loan moves. Khumalo’s agent Glyn Binkin appeared keen on the move to Glasgow and possible Champions League football under new Rangers boss Ally McCoist. But the switch to Reading will mean significantly less unheaval – and a gentler path to regular English football for Khumalo, often hailed as “the new Lucas Radebe”.
Unless there is a last-minute hitch, Khumalo will return to train not with Spurs but Reading this week but he had this parting message for his homeland: “I get a lot of love from the people of this wonderful country and I’m grateful for that.”
Labels: bafana bafana, bongani khumalo, Brian McDemott, glasgow rangers, harry redknapp wheeler dealer, madejski stadium, reading, supersports united, tottenham hotspur bristol city
Meeting the Parlotones... it all kicks off when sport meets art nine storeys above the streets of Johannesburg
PAULA TERNS. Internationally acclaimed tunes, surprising art... and half of Paula Terns claims a reasonable proficiency on the football field. Only, being South African, they call it soccer.
Yes, the Paula Terns. Spelt Parlotones. And there they were up in the clouds, next to the Sky Bar at the Holiday Inn in Sandton on Thursday night (while Orlando Pirates were seeing off Kaizer Chiefs in the Vodacom Challenge), where drummer Neil Pauw was showing off his ability as an artist; using only brushes, trowels, scalpels, computer graphics, melted plastic... and a skottel braai.
A skottel braai? Yup, the Ringo Starr of the Parlotones (above, right, withJuli and I, the proud owners of his newest work) uses a bloody barbecue to heat materials for his paintings, carefully planned by laptop computer during endless tours of Europe and America before being translated to canvas with loving care at his studio in Johannesburg.
One of them now hangs on our lounge wall in Centurion. It’s called “The Passion of Missy Rose”. A striking winged fire fly with an angel’s innocence. Pauw, perhaps the least affected pop star in the history of modern celebrity, was at pains to explain the motivation behind his work, the pleasure he gets from his art, the blood, sweat and gently simmering plastic he puts in to his vivid canvasses.
From “Flowers”, a heartbreaking image of a young boy with red blooms, to “Broken Star”, a big bang explosion of plastic and colour, the Parlotones art exhibition in the Cullinan Suite, nine storeys above Sandton, was, surprisingly, high art.
And Pauw’s part-time efforts as South Africa’s Pablo Picasso went like carefully braaied hot cakes. Lead singer Khan Morbee snapped up “Two Hearts”, a joining of two beings with five prominent toes, “because when we rehearsed at Neil’s house, it haunted me”. A partner from Spoor & Fisher, the prominent legal eagles who look after the Parlotones trademarks, claimed “Flaming Lips”, a surreal gathering of ideas and swirling textures.
The sold stickers were spreading like copies of “Eavesdropping on the Songs of Whales”, their latest release. Neil’s brushes created the cover for the album. Bustling band manager Raphael Domalik plans to auction the original to help save South Africa’s rhinos.
But we’re getting too arty-farty in a nation where the battle between sport and art is an unequal one, generally dominated by studded boots and smelly shin pads.
Even more striking than Pauw’s carefully braaied paintwork is the impression left by South Africa’s awesome foursome as they work the three rooms of the Cullinan Suite, hob-nobbing happily with journalists, critics and the hoi polloi of Egoli’s northern suburbs.
Neil, who signs his paintings with a drum motif, is taller than expected, red-bearded, strong. He talks easily, earnestly; about art, the universe and everything. No airs and graces. When I accidentally refer to his cool quartet as “a boy band” he issues only a wry smile.
This is no overnight pop sensation. These guys have their own Parly Army, they fill stadiums locally and are pushing hard overseas. Particularly in America.
“The Viper Room in the States was incredible,” Neil grins after a discussion of his provincial-level skills as a Florida Albion midfielder, “To play there, in such a well-known venue, with the humidity dripping off the ceilings... amazing. They had 300 fans in a venue which holds 250. And they all knew the words.”
From drums to bass guitar and Glen Hodgson , who stops to talk about the band’s next visit to Britain in November. His brother Paul, the lead guitarist, completes the roll call.
And finally to Khan, the charistmatic lead singer. He’s tiny, nearly hidden beneath a knitted grey beanie, donned to ward off the effects of the Highveld winter. Johannesburg’s glitterati clamour about him. But there is no arrogance here, no pretention. Simply football.
“We still play five-a-side when we can,” he grins, “All four of us went to Westridge High which was mainly a rugby school, but Neil and I played at Florida Albion. I’m a good footballer, but you know what it’s like when it’s art versus sport.
“I didn’t have a problem with it. I’d go straight from drama class to soccer training. No problem. I love the game. But for me it was always going to be music.”
Later Neil, between portrait sales, assures me: “Khan’s probably better than I am at football now. But I achieved more... I was picked for the provincial team!”
But the Parlotones aren’t just about music, art and football. There’s wine too. They’ve put their name to three boutique blends: “Push me to the Floor”, “We Call This Dancing” and “Gigantic Mistake”.
Khan says: “I had a dream. My love affair with wine began when I realised that it had accompanied me throughout both momentous occasions and moments of heartache. But I guess I will have to wait a while before I can actually afford the wine farm.”
Not that long. Paula Terns’ unique combination of music, painting, wine and good company could take them as far as they like. And they’d still stop to talk football.
Labels: art exhibition, khan morbee, neil pauw, parlotones, sandton holiday inn, sport versus art in south africa, vodacom challenge
Crystal Palace won't dig deep for Gould... but mighty Morgan will dig deeper for a European future
SuperSports United centre-back Morgan Gould remained stoically upbeat after his surprise rejection at the hands of English Championship club Crystal Palace yesterday.
The 28-year-old flew home to Oliver Tambo International after his two weeks in South London insisting he “definitely” still wants to play in Europe, adding: “I’ve learned a lot from this experience.”
Gould , in man-of-the-match form when South Africa fought out a 0-0 draw against seven-times African champions Egypt in Cairo last month, was generally “impressive” on trial with the championship club in pre-season friendlies against Basingstoke and Wycombe Wanderers.
And with Bafana Bafana team-mate Kagisho Dikgachoi already at Selhurst Park after his move from Fulham, Morgan’s £500,000 transfer well within the bounds of most Championship clubs. Effectively the English second division, the Championship (18,106) is officially the sixth best-supported league in the world after Germany’s Bundesliga (42,673), the English Premier League (34,780), Spain’s La Liga (29,124), Italy’s Serie A (25,304) and France’s Ligue 1 (19,742).
But the Croydon Advertiser, the local “bible” for Palace fans, quoted Palace boss Dougie Friedman as saying yesterday: "Morgan did very well but at the price they were after I just felt he wasn't quite right for us.
“We're working to a very tight budget and at that price he would have had to go straight into the team and 'm not sure he was quite ready for that."
But when Gould arrived on trial, the Advertiser wrote: “Palace have only one recognised central defender in their ranks – and that is the error-prone Paddy McCarthy. A new man at the back is very much needed.”
Gould himself, talking to London-based former Johannesburg football writer Ed Aarons, said: “I most definitely still want to play in Europe.
“I’ll have to go back to South Africa and wait to hear if there are any other options. But it was a good experience that I will learn a lot from.
“We had a meeting today and Dougie said he likes everything he has seen but they need a player who can adapt quickly to the league. They are looking for someone who is experienced in playing in Europe so I have to respect that and move on now. Everything that happens to me I take it as a learning curve.”
On their fan site, Palace fan Lewisham Eagle wrote: “From what I read into that Dougie seems interested in Gould but wants to drive to price down.” EagleNut wrote: “We won't be signing Gould - DF thinks the price is too high and he 'isn't ready' for the first team.”
Prior to Gould’s rejection, Palace fans were being advised to stock up on blue and red vuvuzelas and rename one end at Selhurst Park “The Nelson Mandela Stand” in honour of KG (not many south Londoners can pronounce Dikgachoi) and Gould.
Palace were plunged into a financial crisis when colourful chairman Simon Jordan left after the club went into administration last year – they eventually avoided relegation by six points - but they still managed to pay around the same fee (5.3 million South African rand at yesterday’s rates) for midfielder Dikgachoi.
Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur paid £1.5m (around R16m) for Gould’s centre-back partner Bongani Khumalo last January and he has yet to play for the first team, though he has played in both Spurs’ Vodacom challenge matches in South Africa over the past week.
Just 24 hours before deciding to ditch Gould, Friedman saw Soweto-born 28-year-old who started out at Jomo Cosmos impress in a 0-0 pre-season draw at League One outfit Wycombe Wanderers. He said then: “Morgan has done fantastically well but I think it is only right I talk to the kid before I make any statement.
"It's hard to judge, but he's been with us for a week and we know what we're after. You do your homework and you'll see the signings I bring in will be the right type, the right age, the right profile and he fits all of that.
"So he's done alright but we'll have a chat with him tomorrow and see.
"There's a long, long way to go. There is a fee involved and before we can even go anywhere we'd have to get the right deal. We'll see."
Gould, capped 17 times by South Africa, will return to pre-season training with Supersports United next week. Boss Gavin Hunt may well be breathing a huge sigh of relief over Friedman’s harsh decision to return his captain. Matsatsantsa (The Swanky Boys) struggled in the South African Premier League last season, failing by a substantial margin to maintain the standards which led to three successive South African Premier League titles in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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Labels: bongani khumalo tottenham hotspur, championship, crystal palace, gavin hunt, morgan gould, neal collins in south africa, south african football transfers latest, supersports united
Kaizer Chiefs most valuable asset? Itumeleng Khune. And here's why...
For Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune, tonight's Soweto derby – displaced a few thousand kilometres to Port Elizabeth’s Nelson Mandela Stadium – means much more than simply a place in Saturday’s Vodacom Challenge final against Tottenham Hotspur.
It could be the gateway to a career in Europe – and the real possibility of being hailed as South Africa’s finest ever goalkeeper.
After a stellar performance in the Amakhosi’s 1-0 win over Spurs at Polokwane last Saturday, Khune suddenly finds himself thrust in front of World Cup hero Siphiwe Tshabalala and top-scorer Knowledge Musona as Kaizer Chiefs’ most wanted.
While Tshabalala, scorer of that monumental opening goal against Mexico last June, continues to hope for further interest from Steve McClaren’s Nottingham Forest and Musona, despite scoring twice on trial in Germany, awaits further news from Hoffenheim, Khune is getting rave reviews.
A glorious diving save to his left to deny Peter Crouch at the Peter Mokabe Stadium, followed by an acrobatic effort to his right to foil Gareth Bale left viewers at home and abroad gasping... as did his trademark lightning fast distribution.
Gary Mabbutt, looking after Spurs on their African safari before coach Harry Redknapp’s arrival in South Africa on Monday, said: “If we had scored then we probably would have run out victors. The save from Crouch especially was one of the better ones I have seen in a long, long time. He is very confident and controls his box very well. He’s still young, he can make it in Europe.
“I thought the keeper was outstanding. The two saves he made towards the end from Peter Crouch and Gareth Bale were very important because it was just before Chiefs scored.”
And there was further backing from the Spurs players as they wandered around the pool at their plush Palazzo Hotel near Monte Casino on Monday.
Tottenham’s French central defender Younes Kaboul told us: “The Chiefs player who impressed me most was the goalkeeper . He was amazing. I think Khune and Tshabalala could easily make it in Europe, because they really are quality players and they have a good chance of making it in Europe."
Cameroon full-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto agrees: "Yeah he is very good with his feet. His distribution is very good."
But the most important confirmation comes from Tottenham’s new signing Brad Friedel, a 39-year-old American who knows a bit about goalkeeping after a record 82 caps for his country and over 400 Premier League appearances.
Before Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw with Orlando Pirates he said: “I watched South Africa’s young goalkeeper in the World Cup and now we have just played against him and he made two fantastic saves on Saturday.
“He’s not that tall but you can see the spring he has in his legs, that makes up for it and I think he can be able to manoeuvre himself around the goal just fine.
“The thing that stands out is his distribution. It’s outstanding for such a young guy - at 24, he is still very young for a goalkeeper and as long as he keeps working hard he can only get better and better.”
Khune, born in Tshing near Ventersdorp on June 20, 1987, is one of six from a mining family. He went to Chiefs on trial as a teenaged outfielder, injured a leg, and found himself playing in goal. Given a surprising passion for cricket – he lists South African big-hitter Lance Klusener as one of his boyhood heroes – he showed good hands and the rest is history.
Last month, Khune’s agent Jazzman Mahlakgane ruled out a move overseas. He said: “Itumeleng has already indicated to me that he is not ready to move and play abroad for now. He wants to stay in South Africa for at least one more season before moving overseas.”
If Khune shines against Pirates tonight – and, if Chiefs down their old rivals – in the Vodacom Challenge final against Spurs at Ellis Park on Saturday, Jazzman may well be left eating those words.
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Labels: amakhosi, bafana bafana, brad friedel, gary mabbutt, harry redknapp, itumeleng Khune, Kaizer Chiefs 1 Spurs 0, orlando pirates, record caps, soweto derby, vodacom challenge
Killer Mphela flies to Celtic for five-day trial while Musona deal "is still on"
WANTAWAY Sundowns striker Katlego “Killer” Mphela will fly to Scotland tonight for a five-day trial with Glasgow giants Celtic.
Mphela’s agent Glyn Binkin last night confirmed Sundowns had dismissed an offer from Israel’s Maccabi Haifa for the man who scored Bafana Bafana’s winner against Egypt two months ago.
But he told the Discovery Sports Centre on MetroFM: “It’s been quite a documented transfer situation but I’m delighted to say he’s got permission from Mamelodi Sundowns this afternoon.
“He’ll be flying out to Celtic tonight to take a five day trial in Glasgow. Sundowns promised to give him a chance, I’d like to thank them for giving him this opportunity.
“Maccabi Haifa? Katlego wanted to play football at the highest level, whatever that entailed. But in consulation with the club, Sundowns decided they’d prefer to pursue to Glasgow Celtic option and we’ll take him there.”
Asked if the Celtic offer would exceed the reported £17m made by Maccabi, Binkin said: “Maccabi made an offer and Sundowns turned it down. We respect that decision. When Mphela first played in Europe (with Strasbourg) at 17, he didn’t make it. That’s why he came back to South Africa. But now he has another opportunity.
“Sundowns wanted Mphela to stay but now, for whatever reason, they’ve let him go. I can’t speak for the club but I think it’s important for South African football that Mphela and players of his ilk go abroad.
“There’s been a lot of figures bandied about, Celtic have given Sundowns an idea of the fee they’re looking at. Now he has to prove he’s worth that amount.
“The Scottish Premier League is very tough and demanding, the big clubs are Celtic and Rangers, always at the top, always in Europe. For Mphela, it’s about competing at the top level, and we believe it’s the option which will be good for his future.”
Labels: "killer", bobby Motuang, glyn binkin, hoffenheim, kaizer chiefs, katlego Mphela, knowledge Musona, mamelodi sundowns, transfer, vodacom challenge
Brad Friedel wishes Nelson Mandela happy birthday... and prepares for Pirates onslaught
Brad Friedel, the ageless American goalkeeper, wished Nelson Mandela a very happy 93rd birthday yesterday before engaging in the usual pre-match verbals in the build-up to tonight’s clash between Tottenham Hotspur and South African champions Orlando Pirates in Nelspruit.
Asked to give a message to camera by the South African Broadcasting Corporation cameras in a quiet corner of the luxurious Palazzo Hotel next to Monte Casino – South Africa’s answer to Las Vegas – the 40-year-old didn’t hesitate. He rarely does.
In South Africa for the first time on the date set aside as Mandela Day by the United Nations, he said simply: “Congratulations Mr Mandela on your 93rd birthday. Everyone at Tottenham Hotspur wishes you well.”
And he remembered another South African luminary too. He played with former Kaizer Chiefs legend Doc Khumalo at Columbus Crew in the late 90s as was quick to ask after his old friend.
It’s the mark of the man that he is so calm in front of potentially awkward camera shots, that he knew how to handle the latest Madiba landmark, as he has handled tricky shots 82 times between the sticks for the United States not to mention 426 games for Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa.
Now retired internationally – he missed out on the USA’s World Cup challenge in South Africa last year – Friedel explained his off-season move to Tottenham easily: “After all those years at Blackburn I made the move to Villa but my contract was expiring and when Harry Redknapp made an offer, I took it.
“It was easy. They’re a good club, going places, with a great squad. The older you get, the easier it is to fit into different atmospheres.
“I’ve found the Tottenham changing room very easy to come into, the players seem very genuine and they’ve made me very welcome. It’s a great group of lads, a great atmosphere and the camaraderie between the players is very good.” ”
But Friedel – left on the bench for Tottenham’s tour-opening 1-0 defeat against Chiefs at Polokwane on Saturday (thanks largely to Itumeleng Khune's great save from Peter Crouch, pictured above) - theoretically finds himself down the pecking order behind Brazilian No 1 Heurelho Gomes and former Chelsea stopped Carlo Cudicini, the Italian who once offered to play for England.
So he’s happy to be number three at White Hart Lane? In a word. “No.” He said firmly, bald head gleaming in the African winter sun, “I’ll be fighting for the number one spot with Carlo and Gomes. It’s friendly rivalry but it’s real. I will work to be No 1.
“The manager sees us train. He decides who to pick. I won’t be taking it easy at Spurs. I’ll be that was as long as my body holds out... I know that will be sooner rather than later, but that’s how it is. This is no holiday.”
Nobody in a white shirt will be taking a holiday over the next five days in South Africa, according to boss Harry Redknapp, who arrived in Johannesburg yesterday. After treble winners Pirates at the Mbombela Stadium tonight, Spurs go to Ellis Park in nearby Johannesburg on Saturday play the winners of the Orlando Pirates v Kaiser Chiefs Soweto derby showdown in Port Elizabeth on Thursday.
Friedel, from Lakewood Ohio and at 6ft 2in, an All-State basketballer in his youth, confesses: “It’s good pre-season work for us. We won’t be taking it easy. It’s a tough season ahead. We didn’t quite make the Champions League last season, I’ll leave it to the manager to say what our aims are this season, but for me, every game, every result is important.”
Though he hasn’t seen enough of South African team-mates Steven Pienaar or Bongani Khumalo to pass judgement, Friedel, aware that team-mate Pienaar faces his boyhood favourites tonight, insists: “You don’t win any awards in pre-season, but you need to get yourself ready, get your sharpness up.”
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Labels: bongani khumalo tottenham hotspur, brad friedel, harry redknapp, Kaizer Chiefs 1 Spurs 0, soweto derby, steven pienaar, treble winning Orlando Pirates, vodacom challenge
McCarthy in no rush to secure a new club as Musona's German move nears completion
Benni McCarthy appears to be in no rush to secure a new club as he flew to Cape Town “to get keep fit and get his touch of the ball back” this week.
The 33-year-old, who has scored more international goals than any other South African, arrives in the Mother City in no apparent hurry to refute the “fat and lazy” slurs which followed him out of the exit door after 18 goalless months at West Ham United in April.
Even his agent, Rob Moore, appears relaxed about McCarthy’s laid-back attitude. He told my colleague Ed Aarons last week: “Benni has just got back from Disneyland.”
Aarons, now working for Sky Sports after his World Cup stint with the Citizen in Johannesburg, spoke to Moore again yesterday when news of Benni’s jaunt to Cape Town broke on Twitter. This time Moore said: “The bottom line is Benni is planning on coming to Cape Town for a holiday and he asked me to ask Ajax if they mind if he trains there to keep fit.
“We haven’t planned anything yet because he has been on holiday for the start of June so it just a matter of starting things up and seeing what direction we move.
“He’s on holiday visiting friends and you can’t spend 24/7 doing that so he wants to have somewhere he can go and get his touch of the ball back and that type of thing.
“Obviously certain clubs have certain targets in mind at this point in time so maybe a decision will only be taken in August. It’s still early days.”
Moore claims interest from clubs in America’s MLS and the lucrative middle-east, where Qatar and the United Arab Emirates offer big money to professionals looking for a retirement package.
McCarthy, so sharp during his days with Jose Mourinho’s Porto and Sam Allardyce’s Blackburn Rovers in his heyday, will train next week with new Ajax coach Maarten Stekelenburg to get himself back in some sort of shape, but both Moore and McCarthy’s twittering brother Jerome reckons no discussions have been held about a permanent move.
Ajax Cape Town CEO George Comitis, who saw his side go so close to the South African Premier League title last season, said simply: “No, he is not joining us. He is just coming to train with us while he is in Cape Town.”
McCarthy’s brother Jerome, who also works as a player agent, twittered: “My brother is coming to Cape Town tomorrow, but I do not know anything about him signing for Ajax.
“Maybe somebody found out he was travelling to Cape Town and made up their own conclusions, but he has not said anything to me about it.”
Jerome also mentioned Benni had elicited interest from Qatar and the MLS, but concluded: “That is all I know.”
As I told SABC’s excellent football commentator Sizwe Mabena on MetroFM’s Discovery Sport Centre on Thursday night, McCarthy can do better than that. Long derided by Bafana Bafana fans for his on-off attitude towards the national squad, this is when McCarthy should consider giving something back to the nation of his birth, confirming his reputation as South Africa’s finest modern striker.
Mr Moore rarely appreciates my views, but McCarthy is being presented with the perfect opportunity to end his career with a bang in the city of his birth. If he trains hard and impresses Stekelenburg, then Ajax are bound to make a bid for a man cast out of West Ham four months ago after twice being fined for being overweight.
Failing Ajax, he could even consider a move to Kaiser Chiefs if Knowledge Musona goes to the Bundesliga, as appears increasingly likely.
Chiefs general manager Bobby Motaung told the Sowetan: “It was a successful trip for the player who flew to Germany on Sunday and joined the team for the pre-season in Austria.”
Motaung confirmed TSG Hoffenheim have offered Chiefs R15m for Musona and that Amazulu’s Lehlohonolo Majoro is being lined up along with FC Twente’s unsettled Bernard Parker to replace Musona. But surely a fit, hungry McCarthy could do the job?
Moore admits: “One doesn’t rule anything out at this stage because we haven’t sat down so we will just have to see what happens.
“I’m sure there are a few clubs that would like to sign him. I think he needs to get all his holidays and visits completed and then at that point he can see what the right choice should be.”
Labels: bafana bafana, Benni McCarthy, blackburn rovers, cape town, Discovery Sports Centre, fat fines, jerome mccarthy, MetroFM, mls, rob moore, south africa's top scorer
Fury as Masilele's move to Leicester breaks down over Konchesky
Tsepo Masilela’s life-long ambition to play in England fell apart amid a gathering storm last night when the Bafana Bafana left-back’s one-year loan move to Leicester City was scuppered by the arrival of the experienced Premier League journeyman Paul Konchesky.
Masilela’s agent is furious – Witbank-born 26-year-old Masilela, currently at Maccabi Haifa in Israel, had actually flown to Sweden, where Championship club Leicester and their former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson were on tour.
Pending a medical the season-long deal (with a subsequent option to buy) was on the verge of going through when Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish, panicked by news of Masilela’s move, cut Konchesky’s fee by around 70 percent to £1.5m (R16m).
That amounts to half of what Roy Hodgson paid his old club Fulham for Konchesky last year – but Dalglish, Hodgson’s successor at Anfield, was no fan of Konchesky. He farmed the former Charlton, Spurs, West Ham, Fulham and Liverpool full-back out to Nottingham Forest on an emergency loan last year.
Though Konchesky, 30, has played over 400 Premier League games and won two England caps under Eriksson, Dalglish was clearly influenced by the Liverpool fans, who never took to the Barking-born defender.
According to Sky Sports, Masilela’s agent Paschalis Tountouris raged: "The way Liverpool operated is totally unacceptable. The medical was okay and we were just waiting for Leicester to offer a contract. But when Liverpool saw that Tsepo was going to sign, they reduced their price by 70 per cent for Konchesky.
"Konchesky doesn't need a work permit, which was going to take 20 days for Tsepo, he is experienced in England and Eriksson knows him much better. Tsepo had his heart set on a move to England. This is unfortunately the situation, but I don't think Leicester have dealt with this issue in the proper way."
"Life goes on and he will go back to Maccabi Haifa for now. I'm sure he will get a chance at another European club."
Masilela played a major part in Maccabi Haifa’s title triumph in Israel last season and is three years into a four-year contract though he has been offered a two-year extension. With 33 Bafana Bafana caps to his credit, relegated Premier League club Birmingham City are now thought to be interested in the former Benoni United player.
Labels: agent fury, bafana bafana star, benoni, leicester city, Maccabi Haifa, paschalis tountouris, paul knochesky, sven goran eriksson, Tsepo Masilele
Pienaar lands in Johannesburg, McCarthy returns from Disneyland. Which one's Mickey Mouse?
The two most recognisable faces of South African football nearly crossed paths at Heathrow Airport in London on Wednesday night – Steven Pienaar on his way to Johannesburg and going places, Benni McCarthy on his way home from Disneyland and going nowhere.
While Bafana Bafana captain Pienaar is looking forward to three Vodacom Cup games with Tottenham Hotspur, South Africa’s record goalscorer McCarthy is desperately seeking a club to extend his career.
At 33, Benni appears to be quite relaxed about his future. According to Ed Aarons, the British journalist who worked in South Africa, this is what his agent Rob Moore said about Benni’s quest for a future: "I spoke to Benni and he’s just got back from Disneyland with his family, but Benni just wants to take a bit of time to decide his next move.”
Cast out of West Ham after scoring precisely zero goals in 18 months of argument about his weight, Benni is apparently sought after in the United Arab Emirates and America’s MLS, where old professionals never die, they just play that way.
Alternatively, we hear Ajax’s Cape Town branch are keen on bringing McCarthy back to the mother city after a goal-happy 12-year career in Europe which took in Celta Vigo, Porto and Blackburn before the disastrous £2m move to the Hammers.
Hopefully he’s left Mickey Mouse behind and is currently working hard at pre-season training, though exactly where and when that happens remains open to question.
And Pienaar? He turned up at Oliver Tambo International yesterday full of beans, ready to take on Kaizer Chiefs in Polokwane on Saturday after admitting to being an Orlando Pirates fan when he grew up in nearby Westbury. Spurs play Pirates at Nelspruit’s Mbombela Stadium on Tuesday.
Pienaar is the new face of South African football. Presentable, hard-working, eager to please. With the Luca Modric-to-Chelsea row growing by the day, he will use the Vodacom Challenge as a perfect opportunity to prove his worth to boss Harry Redknapp, who signed him from Everton for a bargain £2m in January.
He twittered this week: “It’s always amazing to play back home. I can’t wait. I supported Pirates as a kid before I moved to Ajax Cape Town.”
Prior to that, Pienaar offered his views on the Rainbow Nation’s hosting of last year’s World Cup to FIFA, saying: “Many people, especially in Europe, thought that we couldn’t manage a World Cup in our country. At the end, we all proved them wrong.
“The world celebrated a fantastic World Cup on the African continent, with crazy supporters and the unforgettable sounds of the Vuvuzelas.
“The future will show us if we can keep up the spirit from the World Cup, but I am convinced that we can do it. I think a World Cup in my country was a fantastic opportunity for us and the African people to make a strong statement on ending discrimination.”
Yup, Pienaar isn’t afraid to be political. He added: “Growing up in South Africa, a country that for many years suffered under racial discrimination, I kept myself busy with football and tried not to think about apartheid around me. It was a tough time in South Africa and many innocent people suffered under apartheid in my home country, but we have to forget about the past and build on our future.
“Nelson Mandela is our ‘Father of the Nation,’ and he played a major role in trying to put an end to discrimination in South Africa and the world. Even when he was in jail, he never gave up fighting for freedom or for our rights. He showed us that we all have to fight for a better life, for freedom and for an end to discrimination in the world.
“Sport is the best thing to unite people. Nelson Mandela taught us how sports can change people’s minds and bring them together as a happy family. I remember the Rugby World Cup in our country when he brought our nation together. Sports can change people’s minds and prejudices not only in South Africa but around the whole world.”
Spot on Schillo. Perhaps it’s time big Benni tried to change people’s minds and prejudices.
Now read Ed Aaron's superb blog on McCarthy: http://edaarons.blogspot.com/2011/07/bennis-homecoming-fat-or-fiction.html
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Is green growth just a fantasy? Knowledge, innovation and the promise of a better life for all
I don't know about you, Steamnocchio, but I have my doubts about this black growth strategy
Steampunk describes a world of airships plying the aether and mechanical computing based on Babbage’s Difference Engine. Artists show great imagination in describing a world where coal is still king, streets are gas lit, and rock oil has not yet been rebranded as petroleum.
They play with the ideas of lock-in and path dependence, a situation where a technology that may be inferior to alternatives still dominates because switching would create too many problems, or be too expensive, or where an early decision limits the options available later, even if the original conditions are no longer relevant.
A new study from the OECD Fostering Innovation for Green Growth looks at these issues too, but with more of a policy focus than say Steamboy or FreakAngels. It may be hard to see what government bureaucracies with their rules and procedures could do to promote innovation other than shut up and leave the innovators to get on with it. In fact, they can do quite a lot. History has plenty of examples of inventions and other innovations that came about thanks to public money.
Traditionally, the means used was to create a prize. For example, hunger and scurvy were provoking more losses than the enemy during Napoleon’s Russian campaign, so the government launched a competition to find a way of preserving food for the soldiers. In 1809 Nicholas Apart came up with the winning entry – canning.
Today, prizes have given way to R&D funding or other systematic efforts to promote innovation, and thanks to public programmes we have the Internet, World Wide Web, and GPS navigation. But you may have noticed I said “inventions and other innovations”. It’s not just about new technologies. Innovation covers new ways of using existing technologies as well as new processes for production and marketing. For example, miniature storage devices and portable music players both existed before they were combined to create MP3 devices, while online music stores represent a marketing innovation.
The paper argues that while “green” innovation is the same as other kinds of innovation in many respects, government policy is needed to address a number of specific issues where the market alone is unlikely to provide a solution. One of the main issues is that if firms and households do not have to pay for the environmental damage they inflict, there will be little incentive to invest in green innovation. Dominant designs can be a barrier too – the costs of supplying the infrastructure needed to replace today’s automobiles with electric or hydrogen-powered vehicles for instance.
Innovation is also the theme of the OECD Global Forum on the Knowledge Economy taking place today and tomorrow. Among all the proposals for unleashing of entrepreneurship, the title of Session 2 is quite innovatively sobering: “Science and innovation policy on a shoestring”. (You can see a webcast here.)
As the conference presentation says, fostering innovation and scientific breakthroughs is tough even when governments and companies have money to spend. It will be interesting to see what the participants think can and should be done now that budgets are tight, and how developing countries can benefit.
Let’s hope that future audiences of alternative history and fantasy will be as amused or horrified by a world that stayed on the path we’re on just now as we are by steampunk.
OECD work on green growth
OECD work on innovation
The future is not what it used to be
They all laughed when Katie tried to explain her broadband idea
1961, what a year, eh? The OECD, George Clooney and Barack Obama were born. And of course, Yuri Gagarin proved Joseph de Lalande wrong, yet again.
In 1782, a year before the first manned balloon flight took off from the site that would become OECD headquarters [insert your own hot air joke here], the eminent expert from the Académie française declared that: “It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and they would have to be moved at a speed of three feet per second. Only a fool would expect such a thing to be realised.”
Of course, it’s easy to get it wrong, but it takes a rare form of genius to fail to predict what has actually happened. So a special mention goes to the Engineering Editor of The Times, who, three years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, informed the cream of British society that: “All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.”
Britain’s outstanding record in technology forecasting was maintained by Astronomer Royal Richard Van Der Riet Woolley, who in 1956 declared that “space travel is utter bilge”. The following year, his predecessor, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, showed that timing is everything when he upgraded the rating to “Space travel is bunk” two weeks before the first Sputnik.
Four years later, Gagarin orbited the Earth, and only eight years after that Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. Astronautics was the most spectacular proof that the pace of change in science and technology had accelerated dramatically, but major breakthroughs were occurring in every domain in the 1960s.
One Brit who got it right was Harold Wilson, the future prime minister, who said that that the type of country being “forged in the white heat” of the scientific and technical revolution would need different ways of dealing with the potentials and problems of the new discoveries.
However, policymaking often lags behind the pace of change in science and technology, and we’re no exception: the OECD’s Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy wouldn’t be created until 1972, long after Committees overseeing other areas such as agriculture or tourism.
Then as now, scientific discoveries that would prove crucial often appeared unimportant to all but a few specialists. For instance, putting E. coli cells in a cold calcium chloride solution doesn’t sound exciting, but they then become permeable to nucleic acid fragments, allowing scientists to carry out numerous genetic engineering operations.
This illustrates a dilemma for science and technology policy makers. They are faced with demands to finance “useful” research, but it’s practically impossible to predict where science will lead, and which technologies will ultimately make the most money.
A funding strategy that relies on spotting winners ignores the role that unforeseen connections and insights play in science and technology.
The OECD has been a major influence in changing how governments approach science, technology and innovation, and how economics as a discipline tries to understand these phenomena. In 1963 already, Science, economic growth and government policy convinced governments of something that seems obvious now: that science policy should be linked to economic policy. In 1971, Science, growth and society anticipated many of today’s concerns by emphasising the need to involve citizens in assessing the consequences of developing and using new technologies.
For many experts though, the OECD’s major contribution was the concept of national innovation systems, presented in 1992 in a landmark publication, Technology and the Economy: The Key Relationships. Economists working at the OECD pioneered a new approach that saw innovation not as something linear, but as a kind of ecosystem involving interactions among existing knowledge, research, invention; potential markets; and the production process.
Since then, the way science is done has been changed radically by the connectivity offered by the Internet and other communication tools. This allows scientists and technologists to interact better with each other, and it also allows scientists and technologists to take advantage of other types of expertise to develop the tools and foster the innovation required to meet emerging economic, sustainability and even social challenges.
This means that what has been called the science of science policy will have to change too. The OECD will have a role to play in this. As in the past, the OECD will be expected to spot emerging issues; provide the data, analyses, and policy recommendations needed to make the most of them; and to provide a forum where problems, contradictions and differing aspirations can be debated in an objective, productive fashion.
OECD work on science and technology
The OECD Innovation Strategy
Looking back at looking forward – great forecasting mistakes
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Schubert, F.: Piano Sonatas D 959, 537
Giuseppe Bruno, Piano
Sonata in A Major, D 959
Sonata in A Minor, D 537, Op. 164
It is hard to fathom how Franz Schubert’s career as a composer lasted only a decade when we consider how extraordinarily prolific it was. And it is ever more astonishing that the evolution of his language would be so immense, guided by harmonic and structural explorations that would have continued well into the nineteenth-century – were it not that death untimely claimed him at age thirty-one. Penned in March 1817, when Schubert was twenty years old, the Sonata in A Minor D 537 is the first successful effort in the genre, having been written after a number of attempts either as multi-movement compositions that often lack a closing rondo, or as standalone movements in sonata or A-B-A form that are today understood as abandoned projects. The opening movement proposes an original approach to key relations, with the second theme in the key of F major and a recapitulation in the key of D minor. The second movement, “Allegretto quasi andantino,” also offers a variety of modulations and sudden changes to relatively remote keys. The closing rondo is characterized by frequent interruptions that we could interpret programmatically as a series of unanswered questions. The sonata ends on an optimistic note, in the key of A major. The work remained unpublished until 1852.
If on the one hand the Sonata D 537 was Schubert’s first fruitful effort in the genre, the Sonata in A Major, D 959 was one of his last: completed as death was nearing, in September 1828, the work is one of three monumental sonatas for piano that are today considered the pinnacle of the composer’s genius, alongside other major works such as the Quintet in C Major, D 956 and the Mass in E-flat Major, D 950. All these works explore extended forms, producing movements of unusual lengths. The first movement (Allegro) juxtaposes a majestic opening idea to an intimate second theme that informs much of the development. The rarified coda features a rare occurrence of pedal indications in Schubert’s piano works. The second movement, an andantino in F-sharp minor casts a desolate, foreboding melody against a devastating middle section whose harsh chromaticism and sonorities must have perplexed the small audience that attended Schubert’s first performance of the sonata. A brief, delightful scherzo precedes a rondo of immense proportions. Here, Schubert recycled the theme from the slow movement of the Sonata in A Minor, D 537 (then unknown) for the opening theme. A second idea, equally melodious, hardly stands in contrast against the opening theme; the structure is highlighted by imposing sections that feature strong dynamic peaks. A coda, marked “presto,” ends the rondo in a joyful tone, with a short-lived quote from the opening of the first movement that heroically bookends the work.
With this fifth album, Giuseppe Bruno continues his exploration of Schubert’s sonatas for piano for the OnClassical label.
Recorded by engineer Alessandro Simonetto at the Saletta Acustica 'Eric James', The recording was captured by four Brüel & Kjaer microphones.
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Home » Kenton County Extension bonds over the spirit of the season
Kenton County Extension bonds over the spirit of the season
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Denise Donahue, Kathy Byrnes and Debbie Covington joined the rest of the Kenton County Extension office staff in volunteering for a morning at Master Provisions in Florence, Kentucky. Photo by Carol Lea Spence
December 17, 2019 | By: Carol Lea Spence
FLORENCE, Ky., — Many offices fill the final days before the holidays with Secret Santas, luncheons and parties. University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension staff in Kenton County, however, decided to share their blessings by volunteering together at Master Provisions, a local nonprofit organization that connects resources to needs in five states and multiple countries.
During a morning in December, Kenton County extension agents, assistants and support staff gathered in Master Provisions’ warehouse in Florence to sort donated winter coats for local distribution. There was a lot of laughter and chatter as they spread the coats out on long tables and rapidly sorted them into male, female and child piles, then hung them on clothing racks and wrapped in plastic. Though there were other volunteers working that morning, it wasn’t hard to distinguish the Cooperative Extension volunteers, dressed, since they all were dressed in T-shirts emblazoned with UK and Kentucky State University logos, custom-made for the occasion by 4-H agent Denise Donahue and staff member Vanessa Sturgill.
“I am so blessed,” said Kathy Byrnes, family and consumer sciences extension agent and event organizer. “My closets are bulging, because I have too many clothes, and that’s ridiculous when you think about it. We all have had that experience where you drive a short way down the road, and there are kids who are hungry and cold. It’s just heartbreaking. I thought this was something we could do as a group to help out.”
This is the third time within the past six months that area extension folks have volunteered at Master Provisions. In June, family and consumer sciences agents, statewide, took on a service project. Byrnes, Joan Bowling and Linda Brown-Price, Kenton County FCS agents, volunteered on the food side of Master Provisions, sorting through bread to make sure nothing was moldy or torn, but more than anything, helping employees do tasks they may not have time to do. In October, Extension Homemakers volunteered during a Homemaker Day, and now, in December, the entire office was giving a few hours of their time.
Master Provisions’ work began in 1994, when founder Roger Babik learned that Ukrainians needed clothing and jobs to get on their feet after the fall of the Soviet Union. Now 25 years later, the organization serves 43,000 people a month through an extensive food pantry, clothing drives and family care. In 2018, the organization distributed 3.7 million pounds of food to more than 140 partner nonprofit agencies from five states. These agencies sign up to purchase food for 10 cents a pound. The organization also holds a monthly mobile food pantry, which often serves about 1,000 people in a single day.
“Anyone in need is welcome to come to that. That’s the one thing we do that connects directly to people, rather than other agencies,” said Victoria Short, communications manager for Master Provisions. “The need is definitely there. We’ve noticed a lot of poverty, how it’s changing. The working poor are definitely increasing, so we’re seeing a lot of families coming in from farther out that we didn’t see before.”
The clothing drives have expanded too, and the agency now collects clothing to be distributed not only locally, but also in Ghana, the Togolese Republic (Togo) and Honduras; 580 containers containing 20 million pounds of clothing and shoes have been shipped since 1994. In Honduras, the clothing goes to locally owned businesses to sell. In Togo, the clothes go to support a woman-run sewing industry, where clothes and materials are altered and repurposed.
“It’s a very well-oiled machine. They have such a good mission,” Byrnes said. “This has been a nice bonding day for us, too. We’re a big staff. We are always at different places, so it’s been wonderful to be able to get together in one place to do some behind-the-scenes work to help our community. It’s been a good Christmas experience.”
UK Cooperative Extension Service is part of the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, which is dedicated to improving people's lives through excellence in education, research and outreach.
Kathy Byrnes, 859-356-3155
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George ‘GStar’ Internet Celebrity Turned Rapper Scores Biggest Label Deal of 2020
Upon scoring a massive record deal, beloved rapper and entrepreneur George ‘GStar’ attributes his triumphs to his unwavering work ethic.
Famously known as the youngest and most distinguished entrepreneur in the world, internet celebrity turned rapper George ‘GStar’ stands by the claim that millions simply are not enough. At just 27 years old, the self-made mogul has accumulated over $150 million, first by working in the logistics and metal recycling business and then exacerbating his fortune by diving into real estate investment. Now, his growing legacy acts as an inspiration to his fans and followers.
A true visionary, GStar has taken on a myriad of endeavors and enjoys speaking on leadership, social dynamics, and real estate investing. Not to mention, he’s found massive success through his websites, which impressively generate over $45 million in profits yearly. He is even the founder of the largest recycling oil and gas exporter overseas. Still, GStar is continually finding ways to capitalize on every opportunity and further his music career as a rapper, having just scored one of the biggest label deals of the year.
Upon selling his first scrap and metal business for $350 million, an avid philanthropist, GStar donated half of the profits to assist in rebuilding over thirty communities in South Africa. Through YouTube videos and other digital means, GStar shares tips and tricks to success that his fans can’t seem to get enough of. Much of his advice highlights the importance of creating a routine and fostering positive energy.
An inspiration to young people everywhere, George ‘GStar’ is the definition of ambition. Before he finally snagged the name GStar, he was raised inside of a federal penitentiary. He attended high school while living on Rikers Island. He decided to alter his life course, working tirelessly to build his reputation, music career, and massive fortune. With his entrepreneurial mindset constantly at work, GStar is always striving for bigger, better, and more.
Company Name: George Gstar
Website: https://www.instagram.com/ohhgstar/?hl=en
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Billie Eilish: Still kinda doable?
Internets, It was courageous of Billie Eilish to leave the house looking a damn mess, and it's a sham
Life in a Shanty Town
October 16 · Issue #243 · View online
The hip-hop newsletter that's not afraid to ask the tough questions
Internets,
It was courageous of Billie Eilish to leave the house looking a damn mess, and it’s a shame that we live in a world where grown-ass men feel they should be allowed to have an opinion on a teenage girl’s body.
If you haven’t been following the news, the other day Eilish was photographed looking like an especially well-endowed homeless ghost, prompting discourse that will likely continue through the weekend, despite the election, the pandemic and what have you.
She appeared to be in a parking lot, next to Killer Mike’s Dodge muscle car, but it’s not clear where she was going. (Please Lord, don’t let me find out Killer Mike is hitting that. I’m jealous enough of him as it is.)
Based on her attire, you might think that she was on her way to do laundry, but she doesn’t have a duct-taped black Hefty bag of clothes with her, and I’m sure she made enough money from streams of that song “Bad Guy” alone to have her own washer/dryer.
Her outfit, aside from her Crocs, is the same shade of brownish yellow that a man’s underwear becomes if you wash it with the rest of your clothes, with no bleach, for three years or so in attempt to save whatever it costs for a bottle of bleach… I’m assuming.
She’s always been fair-skinned, but she looks especially pale here, like maybe she really has been indoors since mid-March. She might look better if she got rid of the bright green hair. Is that an anime thing? Her next album could be interesting.
Rivers Cuomo, you’ll recall, spent a year in a dank bedroom, with blackout curtains on the windows, rubbing one out to anime before he dropped Pinkerton.
As many of Eilish’s heroic defenders pointed out on Twitter this week, her body isn’t half bad-looking. Her cans still stick out further than her stomach, which is the key indicator of whether or not a woman is basically acceptable, if not truly attractive.
I think I speak for literally all black men and many lower class white men when I say that I’d definitely hit that. (Eilish is 18 years old. Otherwise, I wouldn’t state my opinion, nor would I have one.)
On Twitter, some young guy calling himself GamesNosh, who says he’s a 29-year-old former games journalist, had the sheer balls to suggest that Eilish has developed the body of a mid-30s wine mom over the course of the past 10 months, i.e. since Corona hit.
Which is literally not true. She probably doesn’t look any different from how she looked pre-Corona, aside from leaving the house in her pajamas. It’s hard to say for certain, because she used to dress like she was about to go skateboarding—in the 1990s.
She’s at that age when a lot of girls pack on the “freshman 15.” Fortunately for her, she was already born with the freshman 15. She’s chubby enough that you wouldn’t necessarily notice if she gained 15 pounds. Her cans might even grow. She should try it just in case.
She’s obviously gotten over the insecurity that had her out here dressing like Ali G, who I’m sure she’s never heard of, and I say good for her. Not every woman can have a good body, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t worthy of being loved.
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Fortuna wins and keeps the class
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Fortuna Dusseldorf have taken the last step towards the class against Erzgebirge Aue. The Red and Whites won on the 34th match with 1: 0 (1: 0) and finished the season with 42 points on the eleventh place.
Gartner meet against Aue 1-0
The starting position before the last day was clear: Fortuna Düsseldorf and Erzgebirge Aue reached a point to keep the class safely. Coach Friedhelm Funkel stressed in the run-up that one would not be content to push the ball back and forth for 90 minutes.
“We want to win this game, because we have not won a win at home for a long time and because we want to give it to our fans,” the 63-year-old said, “There is no non-attack pact.” On Sunday afternoon, both teams did not fire a footballing fireworks display before 37,320 spectators, but Fortuna switched at least to the forward. Christian Gartner scored the goal of the day just before the break. “Now we can go on vacation,” said goalkeeper Michael Rensing.
Hook up, look forward
Funkel had to improvise against Aue, because on the left Lukas Schmitz (blocked) and Axel Bellinghausen (injured) were missing. He surprised by confiding to Anderson Lucoqui. The 19-year-old Eigengewachs had been on the pitch for a total of 45 minutes – in Berlin and against Dresden. Now he had to prove himself in a difficult situation.
Lucoqui defended with Robin Bormuth, Andre Hoffmann, Kaan Ayhan and Julian Schauerte. Adam Bodzek, Marcel Sobottka and Gartner played in the central midfield. Jerome Kiesewetter stormed with Rouwen Hennings.
Farewells, which usually belong to the last matchday, were not in the Esprit-Arena. The concentration was on the descent. And he began easy. Fortuna tried to control, had a slow game quickly under control. Aue pressed anything but aggressive, pulling himself deeply into the back of his own half.
The result: tough midfield combat. Sobottka tried to score a header after eleven minutes, but Aue goalkeeper Martin Mannel caught the ball effortlessly. If it was dangerous in the initial phase, then in front of the gate of the guests. After 18 minutes, Gartner failed with a lupfer.
Gartner scores a flat shot before the break
And what did Aue show? Surprisingly, quite little. In the Dusseldorf half, the “violets” hardly appeared at all. FC Erzgebirge, with new coach Domenico Tedesco over the past few weeks, had made a good start to the Red-Whites. Hoffmann missed a 1: 0 goal from a short distance. And Gartner punished the passivity with a flat-shot 1: 0 for Dusseldorf (40th). For the Austrian, whose contract expires, it was the second Saisontor.
The second round began with a clearing-up
The Fortuna fans had rolled paper rolls into the penalty area of the guests, referee Harm Osmers had to interrupt the game briefly. Afterwards, Aue danced a bit more, Pascal Köpke caused a change for the danger before the goal of Rensing.
But Fortuna was quickly back on the pace, Hennings urged Mannel with a free kick (63). Kiesewetter fled in a one-on-one at the guests’ keeper (74). In the end, it was the tight victory for Fortuna, both clubs playing next season in the second place. For the Red-Whites it was the first success for seven months.
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Brian Elder is an incumbent running for his third term in the Michigan House of Representatives representing the 96th District. Elder is an attorney who has been practicing in mid-Michigan since 1998 and prioritized his firm to help working families and small businesses in the community. In 2003, Elder entered public life as a Commissioner in Bay County for the next eight years, and during that time served as Chair of the Board of Commissioners and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee. After being elected to the House, Brian was selected to serve as an Assistant Floor Leader.
Elder’s priorities include advocating for a Health Care Bill of Rights and lowering the cost of prescription drugs, ensuring families have leave time so they can support their families, and protecting Michiganders from large spikes in car insurance rates if you get in an accident that was caused by our infrastructure.
Elder is endorsed by four of our partner organizations including the Michigan Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, Michigan AFL-CIO, and Between the Lines.
Elder faces right-wing Republican Timothy Beson. We do not recommend voting for Beson because of his far right-wing views. He is endorsed by the anti-choice organization Right to Life.
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Brian Elder is an incumbent running for his third term in the Michigan House of Representatives representing the 96th District. Elder is an attorney who has been practicing in mid-Michigan since 1998 and prioritized his firm to help working families and small businesses in the community.
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Sarah Schulz is running for the Michigan House of Representatives in the 98th District. Schulz was born and raised in Flint and is currently a human resources executive at a large national nonprofit driven to help kids in urban schools graduate and succeed.
Schulz’s priorities include supporting businesses that bring good jobs to Michigan and ensuring families earn a living wage without working multiple jobs, protecting pensions and repealing the Pension Tax, repealing Right-To-Work legislation, and ending the gender pay gap in Michigan.
Schulz is endorsed by four of our partner organizations including the American Federation of Teachers, Michigan AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan, and Between the Lines.
Schulz is challenging incumbent Annette Glenn is endorsed by the anti-choice organization Right to Life and by the DeVos-connected Great Lakes Education Project.
Schulz is the most progressive candidate in this race.
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The World Must Unite Against the US-Saudi-Zionist entity Proxy War in Syria
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By Tony Cartalucci
US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have conspired to destroy Syria by way of arming sectarian extremists since 2007.
The West now admits it, along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have provided thousands of tons of weapons to terrorists in Syria – while also conceding that Al Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra is the best armed, most well equipped militant front in the conflict.
US, Saudi, Israeli-backed terrorists are now committing a myriad of horrific atrocities against all of Syria’s population meaning neither “democracy” nor even “sectarianism” drives the conflict, but rather the destruction of Syria in its entirety.
US State Department acknowledges Syria faces threat from Al Qaeda, demands blockade of arms/aid from reaching government to fight terrorists the US State Department admits are present in every major Syrian city.
Since 2007, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have been documented as conspiring to overthrow the Syrian government by way of sectarian extremists, including groups “sympathetic to Al Qaeda,” and in particular, the "Muslim Brotherhood". While the West has attempted to portray the full-scale conflict beginning in Syria in 2011 as first, a “pro-democracy uprising,” to now a “sectarian conflict,” recent atrocities carried out by US-Saudi-Israeli proxies have shifted the assault to include unwilling to participate in the destruction of the Syrian state.
Such attacks included a mortar bombardment of Damascus University, killing 15 and injuring dozens more, as well as the brutal slaying of two prominent clerics – the latest of which was beheaded, his body paraded through the streets of Aleppo, and his head hung from the mosque he preached in. While the West attempts to mitigate these events by labeling the victims as “pro-government,” the reality is that the forces fighting inside Syria are funded, armed, directed, and politically supported from abroad – and therefore do not represent any of the Syrian people’s interests, including those Syrians who do not support the government.
It is abundantly clear that the West’s goal is neither to institute “democracy,” nor even take sides in a “sectarian conflict,” but rather carry out the complete and permanent destruction of Syria as a nation-state, sparing no one.
Such a proxy war exists contra to any conceivable interpretation of “international law.” The world is left with a moral imperative to not only denounce this insidious conflict brought upon the Syrian people, compounded and perpetuated entirely by external interests, but demands that concrete action is taken to ensure that this act of aggression is brought to an end.
The US, UK, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have admitted to colluding together, flooding Syria with thousands of tons of weapons via Jordan to Syria’s south, and NATO-member Turkey to Syria’s north. And in an otherwise inexplicable conundrum, while the likes of US Secretary of
Syrian opposition sources estimate there are 15-20 different brigades fighting in and around Damascus now, each with up to 150 fighters. Many of them have Islamic tendencies and bear black-and-white Islamic flags or al-Qaeda-style flags on their Facebook pages. There is also a presence of Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the strongest Islamic terrorist groups fighting alongside the rebels.
The US State Department’s own statement regarding the designation of al-Nusra as a listed Al Qaeda terror organization states:
According to the US State Department, al-Nusra is carrying out hundreds of attacks with a wide array of weaponry, across the entire nation of Syria, indicating a massive front and implying an equally massive network of logistical support, including foreign sponsorship. What’s more, is that the US State Department acknowledges al-Nusra’s presence even in cities close to Syria’s borders where the CIA is admittedly overseeing the distribution of weapons and cash. The New York Times, in their June 2012 article, “C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” reported that:
A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition militants across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.
And in New York Times’ more recent March 2013 article, “Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.,” it is admitted that weapons are being funneled into Syria across both its borders with Turkey and Jordan:
Simultaneously, arms and equipment were being purchased by Saudi Arabia in Croatia and flown to Jordan on Jordanian cargo planes for rebels working in southern Syria and for retransfer to Turkey for rebels groups operating from there, several officials said.
The US State Department acknowledges that the well-armed, prominent terror front al-Nusra is operating in the very areas the CIA is feeding weapons and cash into.
The Destruction of Syria Began in 2007, Not 2011
While the West has attempted to reclaim Syria as part of its sphere of influence for decades, concrete plans for the latest proxy war were laid at least as early as 2007. It was admitted in 2007 that the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel conspired together to fund, arm, and direct sectarian extremists including militants “sympathetic” to Al Qaeda, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, against the governments of Iran and Syria. In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” the conspiracy was described as follows:
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in
Some of the core tactics of the redirection are not public, however. The clandestine operations have been kept secret, in some cases, by leaving the execution or the funding to the Saudis, or by finding other ways to work around the normal congressional appropriations process, current and former officials close to the Administration said.
Mention of the Muslim Brotherhood already receiving aid even in 2007 was also made:
It is clear that the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel planned to use sectarian extremists against the nation of Syria starting at least as early as 2007, and it is clear that now these sectarian extremists are carrying out the destruction of Syria with a massive torrent of weapons and cash provided by the US and its regional allies, just as was described by Hersh’s report.
A Moral Imperative to Save Syria
Syria is under attack by an insidious, premeditated foreign assault, intentionally using terrorist proxies in direct and complete violation of any conceivable interpretation of both national and international law. The world has a moral imperative to support the Syrian people and their government as they fight this assault – both politically and logistically.
The US is directly responsible for the emergence and perpetuation of Al Qaeda and other extremist groups in Syria.
A united front between nations against this wanton state sponsorship of terrorism is needed – with nations pledging political and logistical support to the Syrian people to defeat this open conspiracy. Individually, we can identify, boycott, and permanently replace the corporate-financier interests who conceived of and are driving this agenda. Failure to stop such wide scale criminality against the Syrian people now, will only invite greater criminality against us all in the near future.
M.D
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Prosper Utseya Profile by CricketArchive
Player: P Utseya
DateLine: 20th February 2007
Like so many youngsters, Prosper Utseya too got his chance to play for Zimbabwe when the rebel cricketers withdrew. This was against Sri Lanka in 2004. Since then he has been a regular member of the ODI squad and has impressed with his utility qualities being regarded as a one-day specialist. But it is his bowling that catches the eye more than his batting. An off spinner of some variety who is not afraid of giving the ball air Utseya has the ability to turn the ball and his economy if not the strike rate is admirable. In his lone Test against Sri Lanka at Harare in 2004 he top scored with 45 in his debut innings. He bowled very well on the tour of the West Indies in 2006 and was thrust into the captaincy for the series against Bangladesh that followed keeping the job for the ICC Champions Trophy in India later that year. A prodigy of sorts Utseya made his first class debut just before his 16th birthday scoring a half-century in a tight situation in just his second match.
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Russian Transcriptions / Vyacheslav Gryaznov
Composer: Alexander Borodin , Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Sergei Rachmaninov , Sergei Prokofiev ... Performer: Vyacheslav Gryaznov Number of Discs: 1
"The art of transcription is a genre that is an integral part of my creative life. It’s an opportunity to look at some well-known pages of the past and feel modernity and novelty in them and express this dialog of epochs and styles. The process of creating any piano transcription is completely unique each and every time. I very much enjoy this unpredictability, and love when a spontaneous idea comes into my mind and yields an absolutely new and fresh vision of the music with which I am working."
-- Vyacheslav Gryaznov
R E V I E W:
The title Russian Transcriptions for these works by pianist Vyacheslav Gryaznov doesn't give the artist quite enough credit: they are not simply reworkings for Read more piano of music originally composed in other media, but rather arrangements that creatively adapt the music for maximum effect. As such, they fall into a long tradition, but one that has been neglected. Gryaznov is more purely a product of the Russian School than many of his compatriots, although there has been an American aspect to his career that has resulted in the present recording. He has written some 30 of these arrangements, and even if it's a shame not to hear his Rhapsody in Black, based on Gershwin, that's understandable in view of the focus on Russian material here. At any rate, this is a welcome return to a grand tradition. There is virtuosity aplenty, perhaps in unexpected places (sample the little Italian Polka of Rachmaninov), but really the most fun are the pieces that draw attention to the player as a poetic figure: the little-heard ballet music On the Dnieper, Op. 51, of Prokofiev, comes alive in Gryaznov's flexible, lovingly shaped renderings. Gryaznov, born on a Russian Pacific island, is an artist to watch, developing outside the constraints placed on the flood of Russian musicians jockeying for a place in the British scene, and that he has found his way to the American Steinway & Sons label, which has devoted itself to reconstructing the virtuoso past, is cause for celebration.
1. Notturno
Composer: Alexander Borodin Performer: Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1881 Russia Date of Recording: 4/25/2017 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 8 Minutes 32 Secs.
2. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Waltz of the flowers
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Performer: Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Piano)
3. Songs (15), Op. 26: no 12, Night is mournful
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov Performer: Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Piano)
4. Songs (12), Op. 21: no 7, How fair this spot
Period: Romantic Written: 1902 Russia Date of Recording: 4/25/2017 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 2 Minutes 3 Secs.
5. Songs (14), Op. 34: no 14, Vocalise
Period: Romantic Written: 1912-1915 Russia Date of Recording: 4/25/2017 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 5 Minutes 20 Secs.
6. Italian Polka
Date of Recording: 4/25/2017 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 3 Minutes 28 Secs.
7. On the Dnieper, Op. 51a
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev Performer: Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Piano)
Date of Recording: 4/25/2017 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 20 Minutes 44 Secs.
8. Valse-fantaisie for Piano in B minor
Composer: Mikhail Glinka Performer: Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1839 Moscow Date of Recording: 4/25/2017 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 9 Minutes 9 Secs.
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Mozart: Sonatas K 283, K 282, K 280, K 517 / David Fung
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performer: David Fung
Pianist David Fung is widely recognized for interpretations that are elegant and refined, yet intensely poetic and uncommonly expressive. His performances of Mozart sonatas are quasi-operatic, full of drama.
R E V I E W S:
Mozart's early piano sonatas are limpid works, not terribly difficult technically, and perhaps because of their very simplicity, have been subjected to an unusually large variety of interpretations. Young pianist David Fung deserves credit for devising fresh readings, and they have the additional virtue of fitting the general ethos of his new label, Steinway & Sons. Fung offers restless Mozart readings that one might imagine Liszt playing; for the most part, there are no delicate Mozart Read more melodies here. Sample the first movement of the usually innocent Piano Sonata in G major, K. 283, all forward motion and piercing high notes. To his credit, Fung realizes that the late Piano Sonata in B flat major, K. 570, is a different ball of wax, and he plays this almost minimal, rather intellectual piece in a straightforward way. One wonders about the logic behind including three early sonatas and one late one, with none of the famous Mozart pieces like K. 331 (with the "Turkish" rondo) being included; several of them might have served Fung's aims well. However, this is undeniably bold Mozart, and that's a good thing.
Pianist David Fung makes his Steinway & Sons recording debut with Mozart, whose intimacy and songfulness has been an alluring presence in David’s life for as long as he can remember.
David Fung was intensely musical as a small boy growing up in Australia. After watching one of his brother’s violin lessons, five-year-old David, who’d never played the violin, took hold of the instrument and shocked his family by attacking (with finesse) the very passage his brother was struggling with. David’s violin lessons began then and there. At age eight, he took up the piano, and fell passionately under its spell. In his teens, he found the piano’s magic won out over his love of the violin.
But despite his incredible prowess and competitive success as a young pianist, he chose to follow his brother’s footsteps and become a doctor. It took only a couple of years of medical school to feel the void that came with leaving music behind. He switched gears, moving on to become the first piano graduate of the prestigious Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles. Yale came next. At 22, he won top prizes at the Queen Elisabeth and Arthur Rubinstein Competitions. Now he’s a busy globetrotter with friends in cities around the world. “I have become accustomed to saying hello and good-bye in the same breath,” he says.
Through it all, Fung has had an intense attraction to Mozart. It goes back to his earliest memories of listening to music, when his mother’s career as a singer helped to bring him into Mozart’s lyrical universe. For his debut recording on the Steinway & Sons label, David Fung has chosen a very personal program: three of Mozart’s early piano sonatas, and, as a closer, the penultimate masterpiece – the Piano Sonata No. 17.
There are heartbreaking movements (listen to the Adagio of the 2nd Sonata, track 8) where Fung pulls his phrases from a special silence that is exclusive to the tender world of Mozart. Voices arrive and disappear, in and out of the atmosphere of their circumstances, just as they do in the operas. Fung relishes the art of exploring Mozart’s characters – giving them freedom to breathe, and casting them in darkness and light to help reveal their humanity. All that from music that, at first blush, can seem so simple.
-- WCRB [Classical Radio Boston]
Steinway artist David Fung offers four lesser-known piano sonatas on his new album: the Piano Sonatas No.2 in F Major, K280, No.4 in E-flat, K282, No.5 in G Major, K283 and No.17 in B-flat, K570. Upon first hearing, Fung’s vision of Mozart’s keyboard music is immediately apparent. The (scant) liner notes make much of Fung’s musical upbringing and exposure to the opera – the Mozartian operatic stage in particular – but these references seem status quo and rather obvious in analogy; the comparisons do not quite do justice to Fung’s interpretive approach.
His is a unique and bold reading. Often, contemporaneous interpreters attempt to subdue their own (romantic) leanings, fearing to obscure the ideals of neoclassicalism as manifested in the music of W.A. Mozart. Fung, however, has no such qualms. He portrays a pianistic tableau of striking contrasts, unusual voicings and wanton manipulation of the dimension of time.
Employing a declamatory style, Fung directs the musical action from his keyboard with a strong command of phrasing and rhythmic impetus. He goes far beyond the customary approach to pulsation and accompaniment figures, in search of an inner energy of syncopated beats and subtle ostinati.
Upon repetition of A and B sections, Fung offers fresh takes on voicings that surprise the listener, challenging established conceptions of such material. By far his boldest strokes come in the form of timescale bending: the stretching out of rests, fermati and cadences, as he pushes values to the limit of neoclassical good taste. The resultant effect is generally pleasurable but does, on occasion, turn to parody. Notwithstanding, variety is the spice of life and let’s applaud Fung’s triumph in delivering his singular vision.
-- Adam Sherkin, The Whole Note
If there is a standard path toward piano stardom, David Fung has assuredly not taken it. Growing up in Australia, this musically gifted youngster began violin studies at 5 and piano studies at 8, before deciding to become a doctor. After two years of medical studies, he became the first piano graduate of the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, and then went on to Yale University and the Hannover Hochschule für Musik.
At 22 Fung entered the world of international piano competitions, where he won prizes at both the Queen Elisabeth and Arthur Rubinstein Competitions. (In the latter competition, Fung also was awarded the Chamber Music Prize and the Mozart Prize; the latter is an indication of the gifts he brings to the recording under discussion here.)
Fung’s new Mozart-sonata disc illustrates his individualism in several ways. First is the choice of repertoire: not the “usual subjects” chosen by pianists eager to make a splash, but instead, four sonatas whose charms are not always so obvious on the surface. Fung has chosen No. 5 in G Major (K.283); No. 4 in E-flat Major (K.282); No. 2 in F Major (K.280); and No. 17 in B-flat Major (K.570). These performances of three early sonatas and a later one will reward close and attentive listening, for the quantity and quality of details (some of them daring) that Fung lavishes on each movement.
Take the exuberant Allegro of K.283 (G Major), for instance: the first-movement repeat is different, a little more hesitant and then more boisterous, as if rethinking the first way. There’s lots of variety in Fung’s touch, with lines that sometime seem a little questing, and then a well-judged pause. A repeated theme sounds decidedly jauntier or more assertive than the first time around; there are slight hesitations here and there, but nothing feels manipulated or overly studied. While the performances feel spontaneous, it is evident that a great deal of thought has gone into every line of the music.
The playing, in short, is consistently interesting. Fung has more colors in his musical palette than many Mozarteans can command. The right-hand phrasing is especially eloquent, and his tempi are often quite elastic: surprising the ear by stretching the line just a little here and there in a manner that never seems exaggerated or unnatural. Fung draws a lot of drama from his instrument: silky, dulcet melodic lines become more assertive, even a little edgy, later on.
This also is a pianist who also can let go and have fun, as in the Presto finale of the K.283: the movement has an exuberant gaiety, with stormy passages giving way to playing that sounds good-humored. He can surprise listeners with the occasional “Wait for it!” pause when you’re not expecting one (as in, for instance, the Presto movement of K.280/No. 2). In short: it’s not “Mozart as usual.” Each of the sonatas has a distinctly different character. The K.282 in E-Flat (No. 4) has an opening Adagio that is serenely contemplative, leisurely, and spacious, with lyrical melodies and a lot of clarity; the sustaining pedal is applied sparingly if at all. There are eloquent little spaces in a reading that is unhurried and explorative.
And, on the other side of the coin, then there’s the K.570 (No. 17) in B-Flat Major. It’s a study in the adroit building and subsiding of dynamics, and limpidly graceful melodies. The third movement – the last track on this recording – leaves the listener with Mozart at his most playful (occasionally rambunctious), and the lively good humor of this interpretation.
-- Melinda Bargreen, EarRelevant
As a young budding virtuoso, David Fung gravitated towards the music of Mozart–but his teachers (while encouraging him to master it) warned him not to play it publicly. Maybe they were intentionally using reverse psychology; in any event, at age 22 Fung won the Mozart Prize at the Rubinstein Piano Competition, playing Mozart’s piano concerto number 25. And now we have this very fine recording of Mozart sonatas–an interesting program consisting of three early works (sonatas numbers 2, 4, and 5) and a late one (number 17), allowing us to see in one breathtaking transition the progress that Mozart had made as a keyboard composer between the ages of 19 and 33. Of course, some of what one might call “progress” was simply stylistic change; the early sonatas were written during the early- to mid-classical period, while number 17 came as that period was getting ready to give way to the Romantic era. Fung’s playing is stunning, his sense of line and emotional narrative exceptional. Highly recommended to all classical collections.
-- Rick Anderson, CD Hotlist
1. Sonata for Piano no 5 in G major, K 283 (189h)
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performer: David Fung (Piano)
Period: Classical Written: 1775 Munich, Germany Date of Recording: 11/7/2017 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 12 Minutes 48 Secs.
2. Sonata for Piano no 4 in E flat major, K 282 (189g)
Period: Classical Written: 1775 Munich, Germany Date of Recording: 7/23/2018 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 13 Minutes 22 Secs.
3. Sonata for Piano no 2 in F major, K 280 (189e)
4. Sonata for Piano no 17 in B flat major, K 570
Period: Classical Written: 1789 Vienna, Austria Date of Recording: 7/23/2018 Venue: Steinway Hall, New York City Length: 17 Minutes 39 Secs.
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Oscar Koveleski, a 2015 inductee to the Sports Car Club of America Hall of Fame, passed away on December 28, 2020. He was 88 years old.
Koveleski was a tireless supporter and promoter of motorsport, as a driver, team owner and business owner. At 18 years old, he joined the Philadelphia Region of the SCCA. His first win came in a 1951 SCCA Regional race at Bone Stadium in Pittston, Pennsylvania. He raced regularly through the 50s and 60s in SCCA Regional and National Races, as well as the 12 hours of Sebring and the 24 hours of Daytona. In 1970, he won the ASR National Championship at Road Atlanta, beating 27-time National Champion Jerry Hansen by just one-tenth of a second. From 1969 through 1972, Oscar was a regular competitor in SCCA Can-Am action, with his orange “Car 54” one of the most recognized cars in the series.
Looking for a way to contribute to better safety for drivers, he joined the board of directors of the Motor Racing Safety Society. Oscar served on the Board of Directors for the SCCA, and promoted SCCA races at Pocono Raceway from 1980 to 1996.Oscar introduced a countless number of children to racing, both in person and through his Auto World mail order catalog that sold model and slot cars beginning in 1958. Oscar contributed to a love of cars and racing early in a child’s life, and many future racers got their start at home thanks to his Auto World catalog.
"Oscar Koveleski was a treasure," said fellow SCCA Hall of Famer, racer and Road Racing Drivers Club president Bobby Rahal. "His outspokenness and passionate demeanor in trying to convince you of the importance of his latest project were the essence of his personality. Never quitting, always promoting, in such a charismatic way that one just couldn’t say no.”
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ANTES DE LA RESACA @ MUSEO UNIVERSITARIO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE MÉXICO DF
ART, CULTURE, INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL
Eltono, Espacios Flexibles in La Quiñonera
On June 30th, 2011, the exhibition, “Antes de la Resaca” opened at MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de México DF). The retrospective exhibition of Mexican art focused on re-installing back into contemporary society the creative spaces and innovative and radical proposals put forward by Mexican artists during the 1980s and 90s. Legendary art spaces such as, La Quiñonera, Temistocles 44, and La Panaderia sought artistic experimentation and collaboration amongst artists to create public dialogue which reach beyond the local. Artistic institutions were introduced to develop a sensitivity, openness and attentiveness towards the new artistic vocabularies that were surfacing. Collective and community art programs established the production of minimalistic and conceptual art. At the time, many members of society scorned such institutions with distrust.
Since the 1980s, La Quiñonera, has remained one of the most emblematic spaces of the Mexican art scene. Located in Coyoacan, in the south of Mexico City. The house, with its rambling construction and gardens, have both hosted and inspired multiple creative experimentations from diverse and well-known artists. This independent space is still providing a platform for artistic works that involve a conscientious posture and critical analysis of the social and political problems in Mexico City and beyond. It acts as an area where political and social expression can be harvested and released as an art form.
Curators initiated the exhibitionat MUAC as a means for reassessing and re-appreciating the work produced by a particular group of artists and the extent to which their work during the 80s and 90s has played out on and affected contemporary art in Mexico. Included in the exhibition are Mexican artists such as Francis Alys, Gabriel Orozco, Teresa Margolles, Grupo Semefo, Mónica Castillo, Boris Viskin and Gabriel Macotela, as well as iconic Mexican bands such as Santa Sabina & Caifanes.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Nestor Quiñones organized the show “Espacios Flexibles” in collaboration with Anonymous Gallery (New York) and La Curtiduria (Oaxaca) to give continuity to La Quiñonera as an exhibition space in parallel with the MUAC program.
Renowned public space artist, Eltono was invited to participate in Anonymous Gallery’s first public project in Mexico City. Working since 1989, Eltono has exhibited his art around the world in cities such as San Paulo, Paris and Korea. His unique affinity for unuasual, often abandoned, materials gives his work absolute freedom. Deriving his abstract, often colourfully geometric style from classic grafitit writing, Eltono has developed a unique form of abstract minimalism which has led to his involvement in outdoor projects at galleries such as the Tate Modern in London and the Liverpool biennial as well as showing his work in 12 countries. His artistic ventures are triggered by the impulse to emphasise the gaps in public spaces, counteracting and subverting advertising signs and posters which he views as being imposed on society by force. His painting, in contrast, promotes a ‘kind of visual rest’ – they exist within an aesthetic state of compositional harmony. Eltono wishes to push the boundaries of mass communication.
Emma Corbett for XXXX Magazine
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Wolf Attack
Sixteen-year-old Noah Graham suddenly found himself in the jaws of a wolf.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reports that this is thought to be the first actual documented wolf attack on a human in their state.
Graham and five of his friends were camping near Lake Winnebigoshish when the attack took place. One minute Graham was sitting peacefully talking with his girlfriend, and the next minute he was fighting for his life.
The wolf apparently came up behind Graham and chomped down on the back of the teenager's head. Graham said he had to reach back and jerk his head out of the wolf's mouth. Then he kicked and screamed at the animal, causing it to leave, but it left only reluctantly.
There is a persistent undercurrent of denial among some alleged "nature lovers" that claim wolves don't attack humans. Well, here's one more case to disprove that theory.
Graham was ambushed by the wolf. He never saw it coming, and never even knew wolves were in the area. To his credit, he did the right thing by fighting, screaming, kicking, and generally presenting himself as a target not to be messed with.
If you are confronted by wolves, face the animal head-on, stand tall and make yourself look bigger than life by raising both arms overhead while waving your jacket. Raise a ruckus, yell and scream. That will probably do the trick. But if the wolf, or a pack of them, continue to close in around you, prepare to fight with anything you can get your hands on — rocks, sticks, hiking poles, a knife, a firearm.
As wolves become more plentiful and more habituated to humans, they will lose their natural fear of man, and close encounters will undoubtedly become more frequently reported.
Do not believe that wolves are harmless to humans. These are top-of-the-stack predators who will do whatever it takes to feed themselves and their young.
They know how to survive, so if you're in their territory, you need to know how to survive an encounter with them.
Survive A Hazmat Incident
When a train pulling cars filled with flammable and corrosive materials went off the tracks recently in Louisiana, more than 50 families were evacuated, forced out of their homes to save their lives.
If you become aware of an incident involving hazardous materials, monitor radio or TV stations to learn what's happening.
Now, you might think this type of hazardous materials incident can't happen to you but, before jumping to that conclusion, let's take a look at the numbers. According to FEMA, "varying quanitites of hazardous materials are manufactured, used, or stored at an estimated 4.5 million facilities in the United States. These substances are most often released as a result of transportation accidents or because of accidents in manufacturing facilities."
The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that over the past 10 years "there has been a major growth in the amount of hazmats transported on a daily basis, resulting in a high level of risk."
In total, there are more than 3.1 billion tons of hazmats transported annually across the county by rail or roadway. By far (94%) is carried by truck. Five percent is transported by air. And about 1% goes by rail, pipeline or ship.
So, what do you think the chances are that an accident might happen in your community, resulting in the release of hazardous materials into the atmosphere, or on the ground, or into the waterways? Would it surprise you to learn that on average, there are more than 15,000 hazmat incidents reported in the U.S., resulting in more than $50-million in damage per year.
The big question is: What are you supposed to do to survive a hazmat incident? Here are the steps to take:
Follow instructions issued by authorities.
Stay away from the incident area, to minimize the risk of exposure and contamination.
The general rule is "Up" — stay upstream of materials released into a waterway; stay uphill (because these materials are generally heavier than air, so they sink to low ground); and stay upwind.
If you're driving, and must remain in your vehicle, roll up windows, turn off the air conditioner or heater, and close vents. Try to drive out of the area to a safe zone.
If you're indoors, close and lock all exterior doors, so people won't open the doors and allow the hazardous materials inside. Close windows and all vents and fireplace flues. Use plastic sheeting and duct tape to seal all doors, windows, vents and ducts. Use plastic sheeting to seal over all electrical wall outlets, cable TV, and phone line outlets. Turn off ventilation systems that might bring in outside air. Seal cracks and voids around pipes or other openings through the walls.
Remain in place until given the "all clear" by authorities.
If you inadvertently come in contact with hazardous materials, follow decontamination instructions issued by authorities. Depending on the chemicals involved, you might be instructed to shower — or you might be instructed to stay away from water completely. Don't assume that the right thing to do is hop in the shower, because some chemical agents can be activated by water.
If you experience symptoms that you suspect are the result of exposure, seek medical help as soon as possible.
Lightning Survival
According to the National Weather Service, about 400 people in the U.S. are struck by lightning each year and an annual average of 73 die — nearly one out of five.
That’s more than the average weather-related death toll from hurricanes, tornadoes or blizzards — only floods rank higher than lightning strike, when it comes to deadly weather.
One of the things that can happen to a lightning strike victim is cardiopulmonary arrest. Basically, that's death.
To save a victim who has suffered lightning-induced cardiopulmonary arrest, administer CPR while waiting for the emergency medical team to arrive. In spite of best efforts, some victims remain in a coma and eventually die of secondary causes including hemorrhages and lesions to the brain, spinal cord, lungs, liver, intestines, etc.
Those who aren't outright by the lightning strike typically suffer debilitating injuries — severe burns, burst eardrums, blindness, paralysis, memory loss, sleep disorders, weakness, dizziness, numbness, seizures, chronic pain, and other disabilities.
Sometimes victims recover, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they live the rest of their lives with permanent disabilities. Needless to say, lightning strike is extremely serious.
Due to predominant weather patterns, certain parts of the country are especially prone to lightning. The Southeast experiences more strikes than anywhere else in the U.S. Florida ranks number one, but there is plenty of risk elsewhere. In fact, there is no place in the world that is totally safe from lightning strike.
So, what can you do to be safe? If you hear thunder, lightning is within 6-8 miles so you are within the danger zone and should seek shelter immediately. Safe shelters include: metal vehicles with windows up, substantial buildings, or the low ground.
Avoid trees, water, open fields and high ground. Small shelters such as tents offer virtually no protection against lightning, especially if they are positioned on high ground or near a tree or a small group of trees that dominate the area. If your only shelter is a tent, it should be located in a low area and away from tall trees.
If you feel your hair standing on end or hear crackling noises, you are in immediate danger. Waste no time in distancing yourself from metal objects (toss the golf club or fishing rod away from you), place your feet together, duck your head, and crouch as low as you can, with your hands on your knees. You're trying to make a small target that has only one "ground" point at your feet.
As a storm approaches, thunder will lag behind the flash of lightning by five seconds for each mile of distance. For example, if you see lightning and the sound of thunder doesn’t reach you for ten seconds, the strike was about two miles away. The distance from one strike to the next can be six to eight miles, so you are in danger and need to take precautionary actions.
After lightning and thunder have departed, wait a minimum of 30 minutes before resuming activities. Don’t be fooled by sunshine or blue sky. A bolt, literally from the blue, can travel from a storm cell as much as 10 miles away.
The grim reality is that lightning is a capricious and deadly event that cannot be predicted with any degree of reliability. There is nothing you can do to prevent a strike. All you have in your favor is living by rules that offer the best chance for safety.
The Truth About Wild Edibles
It drives me crazy when I hear accounts of someone who is rescued after being lost in the wilderness for a few days and the story says the person kept himself alive by eating berries or pine nuts or cattails or some such thing.
The addition of a few berries, nuts or weeds to the diet is not going to make the difference between life and death in a 3-day survival incident. The greatest value of those food items is psychological — it makes the individual feel like he’s doing something positive to survive and gives him hope.
Granted, any food you can intake does help boost the energy level a little. But keep you from dying during a short survival incident? No. To actually die from lack of food would take much longer — weeks, not days.
That said, there is tremendous value in knowing how to find and use wild edible plants. If a survival incident goes long-term, food gathering and preparation will be critically important. Over time, lack of caloric and nutritional intake results in loss of physical, mental and emotional strength, leaving the victim weak and apathetic, and unable to take care of basic needs. Supplementing the diet by every available source can help stave off those debilitating effects.
But how do you find the right things to eat and avoid the wrong things? The truth is that if you indiscriminately “graze” your chance of ingesting toxic wild plants is huge. There are several hundred thousand plant varieties in the world, but only a small fraction of them are edible. Get into the wrong ones, and you might kill yourself.
Imagine walking into a grocery store and all the labels are written in a foreign language. That’s what you’re facing in the wilds. The plants are all labeled, but unless you know how to read the language, it would be like opening a can of unidentified stuff and chucking it down your throat, not realizing that it's poisonous drain cleaner, not food.
If you want to take advantage of wild edible plants, you must learn to read the labels. There is a false notion that you can rely on animals to show you which plants can be eaten. That is not true. The fact is that some plants that are perfectly safe for some animals to eat can kill humans. Examples: squirrels can eat deadly (to humans) varieties of the Amanita mushroom, and some birds can eat the berries of poison ivy.
Unlike some survival instructors, I don't subscribe to the “edibility tests” that would lead you to test edibility by sampling a small amount and waiting to see what happens. My advice — if you don't know what it is, don't put it in your mouth. The consequences of making a mistake can be lethal. An example is the Water Hemlock with roots that smell and taste like parsnips. It is reportedly the most deadly plant in the U.S. and eating a piece the size of a peanut will kill a man.
The good news is that you can easily learn to use wild plants safely. All that is necessary is to learn to make positive identification. It’s no more difficult than telling the difference between Romaine and Iceberg lettuce, or differentiating yams from sweet potatoes. Except that with wild plants, the edible parts are sometimes hidden underground or inside a shell or leaf cluster, so you need to know what all parts of the plant look like and the stages of the plant in all seasons. Begin with the plants in your region, and spread out from there. There are books about plant identification for all parts of the world, so start hitting the library.
It can become a very enjoyable lifetime study, and might even save your life someday, if you're caught in a long-term survival situation.
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by Marshall Burt | Aug 21, 2017 | TheETG Press & Media Communications
Allan Besselink PT, Dip. MDT [Smart Sport International, Austin, Texas]
Last Fall he was one of the headliners in Copenhagen, Denmark at the McKenzie International’s pre-conference workshop “MDT and the Athlete”.
Last Friday….in the photo, he was speaking in Brasilia, Brazil at Brazil’s physical therapy association’s international conference.
TheETG Physical Therapist since 1992, Allan owns his P.T. clinic Smart Sport International and is a college instructor at P.T. schools in the Austin area, Adjunct assistant professor at Austin Community College in the Physical Therapist Assistant program, Contributing Faculty at the University of St. Augustine in the Physical Therapy program.
Allan has been the Physical Therapist for the United States Track and Field team at the World Cup Of Track & Field, World Championship for Half-Marathon, World Cup Race-Walk, event staff for the Olympic Games, U.S. Olympic Trials, USA Track and Field Championships, and the World Junior Track and Field Championships. Coached world ranked triathletes, duathletes, World Champion masters runners, author of the book….”RunSmart: A Comprehensive Approach To Injury-Free Running”.
He lectures each year at the Texas Physical Therapy Association’s annual meeting, is brought in to give his “RunSmart” seminars to groups of athletes and physical therapists nation wide, and among the American Physical Therapy Association membership has become a nationally renowned blogger on all things that matter in the PT profession. With the global McKenzie Diagnosis & Therapy [MDT] organization he has been their newsletter editor in years past, now a featured commentator in the newsletter, as well as a speaker in sessions leading up to their annual conferences looking to move MDT deeper into elite sport and treatment of professional athletes.
Allan Besselink is one of about 500 Physical Therapists, Doctors, and Chiropractors in the -world- to have not just certification but the diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy [a.k.a. McKenzie Method] from the McKenzie Institute International. Self-employed physical therapist, college instructor, and a globally recognized thought leader in the physical therapy community.
I first met Allan at one of my lectures in 1991 at a nationally known running store in Austin called RunTex. That led to a tradition of having Sunday dinner at his house almost every Sunday for nearly a decade. We attended just about every USA Track & Field Convention together through the decade of the 1990’s. A proud Canadian born and raised in tiny town Brockville, Ontario, he arrived in Austin about a year before I did, attracted by the live music scene and home of Stevie Ray Vaughn. Now a U.S. citizen, Allan is a world famous thought leader in his profession as a physical therapist.
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The Olympian: An American Triumph
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The Olympian is a triumphant story based on the life of John Baxter Taylor Jr., a graduate of Philadelphia's Central High School and the University of Pennsylvania and one of the first members of the Sigma Pi Phi fraternity. This chronicle of Taylor's extraordinary Olympic experience is filled with love, passion and the achievement of a dream against all odds. One hundred years after the fact, the first African American gold medal winner's amazing story is captured in this poignant historical novel.
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Coral Davenport and Christiana Figueres assure us ‘there’s no such thing as the U.N. imposing any regulation’ ; UN officials are just ‘working toward forging a historic, legally binding global-warming treaty’
Coral Davenport and Christiana Figueres assure us “there’s no such thing as the U.N. imposing any regulation”; UN officials are just “working toward forging a historic, legally binding global-warming treaty”
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Debunking the U.N. Climate-Change Conspiracy – NationalJournal.com”No!” she said. Figueres added, “Here’s the simple truth. The U.N. does not do anything that its member countries don’t want to do. Period. There is no such thing as the U.N. being a super-national authority imposing anything on governments. It just doesn’t exist. Syria is the clearest example of that. It’s about what the countries decide to do. All the U.N. does is provide a platform for conversations and an exchange of views.… But there’s no such thing as the U.N. imposing any regulation.”Figueres acknowledged that the climate-change conspiracy theory has been key to slowing and blocking action on climate change in the world’s biggest economy and historically largest polluter. “It’s very unfortunate that climate change has been politicized in the U.S.” …”We’re moving into a fascinating future where every one of our homes and buildings will produce the energy those buildings need. We won’t depend on a corporations or government to produce energy. That’s an exciting future, and I begin to see the seeds of that in the U.S and it’s very encouraging—the ‘Green Tea Party.’ “Still, the conspiracy theorists will have more fodder over the coming year, as U.N. officials work toward forging a historic, legally binding global-warming treaty in Paris in 2015…The biggest challenge in forging a successful U.N. climate treaty, she said, will be to create binding legal commitments requiring countries to cut fossil-fuel pollution without halting economic growth, particularly in the world’s most rapidly developing economies.
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As goes the groin, so goes the season
The fall of Capt. Luongo
The shot heard 'round the province seemed such an innocent thing.
On the afternoon of Nov. 22, at 4 minutes 54 seconds of the first period in a game at Pittsburgh, Philippe Boucher of the Penguins fired the puck from the point.
Roberto Luongo was ready. Kneeling in a butterfly position, the Vancouver Canucks goaltender moved his left leg to block the shot. When the puck instead ricocheted to his right, Mr. Luongo reflexively flicked his right leg.
He was attempting a physical position nature had not intended.
He collapsed face-first on the ice.
He was skated to the dressing room by teammates Ryan Kesler and Taylor Pyatt, the goalie placing his weight on his right leg, the left trailing behind. A photograph of the pair escorting the goalie looked like the painting The Death of General Wolfe, as all around looked on in horror at the fallen warrior.
As it turned out, the Canucks won a game, but lost a superstar.
The goalie's groin is “strained, not torn,” the club insisted in announcing he had suffered an adductor-muscle strain on the left side of his groin. Like a James Bond cocktail, the precision of the description is key. In this case, it is the fans who are both stirred and shaken.
Hours after the injury, a sports reporter wrote: “Roberto Luongo walked Sunday,” as if to reassure diehard fans and obsessive poolsters that the goalie's fate was better than that of Gen. Wolfe.
Here are some statistics. Mr. Luongo wears sweater No. 1, stands 6 foot 3, weighs 205 pounds. He has a save percentage of .928 and a goals-against average of 2.17. He has been watching games from the press box for five weeks and he still leads the National Hockey League in shutouts with five.
When you combine the words “Roberto Luongo” with “groin” on Google, you get 86,700 hits.
Comedian Torben Rolfsen says the goalie possesses the most talked-about nether parts since Sharon Stone appeared in Basic Instinct.
I will say this.
I know more about his groin than I do my own.
(In a city that gave us a band called Bruno Gerussi's Medallion, how long before some smart-aleck punks call themselves Roberto Luongo's Groin?)
The concern over Mr. Luongo's health reached a crisis in the week before Christmas when a radio station reported the goalie is lost for the season. The club insists the athlete is being evaluated on a week-by-week basis.
Why so much ink over one player's inguinal injury?
Mr. Luongo, the team's captain, is regarded as a cornerstone of its success. No Bobby Lou, no long playoff run. No long playoff run, no additional revenue from ticket sales, no jam-packed bars and restaurants, no (temporary) newspaper circulation gains, no out-of-towners staying in downtown hotels, no cops making tons of overtime while eyeballing celebratory fans. A lot of money rides on that adductor.
Goalies can have strained relations with their body parts, especially involving what is euphemistically referred to as a lower-body injury. A recitation of Czech-born goaltender Dominik Hasek's many groin injuries reads like a Franz Kafka tale as told to Feodor Dostoyevsky. (Note to hockey fans who have stumbled onto the news pages – the latter pair are dead writers, not checking forwards to watch at the 2010 Olympics.) So dark and so bizarre were Mr. Hasek's struggles with his health that the sports columnist Mitch Albom once wrote a dialogue between the injured goalie's brain (“I can come back”) and his groin (“I'm feeling a twinge. I'm not kidding”).
The media reports on Mr. Luongo's condition read like war dispatches:
Dec. 1 – Luongo skated a few laps, but did not take shots.
Dec. 2 – Luongo spent an hour on the ice.
Dec. 5 – Luongo faced “controlled shots” during practice.
Dec. 9 – Luongo returns to practice.
Dec. 11 – Luongo left practice early.
Dec. 13 – Luongo suffers a setback and will no longer take to the ice.
The Canucks have twice made the finals of the seemingly never-ending Stanley Cup playoffs. The euphoria of the 1982 and 1994 springs was a joy to behold. Okay, both ended in disappointment, and the white surrender towels of '82 would have been handy during the riots of '94. Still, the mood of the province is affected by the team's fortunes.
British Columbia is scheduled to hold a provincial election on May 12, just about the time the serious contenders in the playoffs make their move. The winner (of the election) will welcome the world to the 2010 Winter Olympics the following February.
No sporting event at those Games will be more closely watched than the men's hockey tournament. One of the likely goaltenders for Team Canada will be a workhorse Montreal-born netminder. That would be Martin Brodeur.
Another likely goaltender for Team Canada will be a workhorse Montreal-born puck-stopper who answers to the name Luongo.
In the coming months, we will be hearing as much about a goalie's groin as we can stomach.
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Mickey Vernon, baseball player (1918-2008)
They called Mickey Vernon the Gentleman First Baseman. The productive baseball player won two American League batting titles in a career straddling the Second World War. He was a seven-time all-star and one of the most popular players of his era.
Polite, kindly, and graceful on and off the field, Mr. Vernon's enviable reputation only grew after he retired as a coach and manager. He was a frequent guest at banquets, old-timer's games and other charitable events where fans got to meet their childhood heroes.
“Mickey Vernon is as silent as a night watchman, as conservative as a banker and as well-behaved as a vicar,” a baseball writer once said.
With a face as lean as his frame, accentuating a large nose and jug ears, Mr. Vernon's constant half-smile seemed to express delight that he was fortunate to earn a living playing a child's game. The placid demeanour contrasted with that of the mercurial Ted Williams, the great batter he bettered to win his first batting crown.
While resident in the White House, Dwight Eisenhower pronounced Mr. Vernon his favourite ballplayer, the selection receiving bipartisan support. The sure-handed first baseman provided the Washington Senators with a panache they otherwise lacked in the field and at the plate.
Five years ago, Mr. Vernon's hometown erected a life-sized statue of a favourite son on the site where his career began as a sandlot player. A plaque hails him as a “role model, mentor, great guy” and “a gentleman's gentleman.”
After 20 major-league seasons and a long career as a coach and manager, including a stint with the Montreal Expos, Mr. Vernon returned to the county of his Pennsylvania birth, where he lived with the high-school sweetheart who became his wife. Mr. Vernon attended the opening game of the local Little League each spring without fail, taking it as a duty after they named the league for him.
It was while closing out a losing season as manager of the minor-league Vancouver Mounties that Mr. Vernon got talked into a wacky stunt. The clubhouse attendant, a teenaged university student, begged for a chance to pitch. Something of a soft touch, the avuncular manager pencilled the lad in as the starting hurler for the final game of the 1968 season. What happened that day has become part of the city's baseball lore.
Mr. Vernon was born in a working-class town along the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del. His grandfather, Samuel Vernon, a Civil War veteran, was elected the first burgess, or mayor, of the borough of Marcus Hook, Pa., in 1893. His father, Clarence Vernon, worked at the Sun Oil Co. (Sunoco) refinery. Pinker, as he was known, also starred as a first baseman, part-time pitcher and slugger for the company's semiprofessional baseball team.
An aunt took to calling her nephew Mickey and the name stuck. A tall and skinny boy, he first won attention in the Chester Times newspaper at 15 as a star hitter in a local sandlot circuit. That October, he hitchhiked with three classmates to Washington, where they took in two games of the 1933 World Series. Six seasons later, Mr. Vernon, by then a lean, 6-foot-2, 180-pounder, would be patrolling first base at Griffith Stadium himself.
While attending Eddystone High School, Mr. Vernon won a regional championship with an American Legion team before leading his school to a title of its own. He also earned a spot on the roster with the much older men on his father's old industrial-league team. A sports writer described the “lanky sensation” as a “sure shot for the big time.”
After graduating, he accepted a scholarship at Villanova College, ending feverish competition among scouts. As it turned out, the coach also managed the minor-league Easton (Md.) Browns and he inked the freshman to a professional contract.
Mr. Vernon played for the Greenville (S.C.) Spinners the following season, then earned a promotion to the Springfield (Mass.) Nationals in 1939. He was leading the league in hitting when the parent Senators called him up to the major leagues. Mr. Vernon made his debut in Philadelphia against the Athletics, the team for which he had cheered as a boy. He went 1-for-4.
In 1941, Mr. Vernon married Lib Firth, whom he had met in high school several years earlier. He had been too shy at the time to ask her for a date and their courtship did not begin until he was playing baseball out of town.
Mr. Vernon enjoyed three full seasons as the regular first baseman for the Senators before joining the U.S. Navy at the end of the 1943 season. After basic training, he spent much of the war playing baseball for service teams.
Competition for positions was fierce in 1946, as returning servicemen jostled with the players who held roster spots during the war. Mr. Vernon beat out veteran Joe Kuhel to regain his Senators job. Mr. Kuhel had been the first baseman in the World Series he had seen as a schoolboy. “He was a very good first baseman,” Mr. Vernon told Baseball Digest magazine, “but he was getting near the end of his career.”
At his physical peak and still retaining the speed of youth at 28, Mr. Vernon responded with the greatest season of his career. He hit 51 doubles, eight triples and eight home runs while registering a .353 average for his first American League batting title.
He failed to maintain those numbers in the following two seasons, as his batting average fell precipitously. The Senators traded him to the Cleveland Indians, although Washington got him back just 18 months later.
The Senators struggled to win as many games as they lost in the following seasons, badly trailing the Yankees in the standings. (The musical comedy Damn Yankees, in which a Washington fan makes a pact with the devil, debuted on Broadway in 1955; many years later, a Pennsylvania production was dedicated to Mr. Vernon.) A rare victory celebrated by Senators fans came in 1953 when Mr. Vernon won his second batting title, this time with a .337 average.
Back in Pennsylvania, a newspaper publisher arranged for the batter to receive a state licence plate with his initials and average: MV 337.
With Mr. Eisenhower on hand to throw out the opening pitch of the 1954 season, Mr. Vernon smacked a game-winning two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning off Allie Reynolds to defeat the Yankees, 5-3. As he crossed home plate, he was accosted by a man in a suit who identified himself as a member of the Secret Service. He took Mr. Vernon to the grandstand to meet the president.
A month later, Mr. Eisenhower presented a silver bat to his favourite player in honour of his 1953 batting title. Mr. Vernon failed to get a hit that game, but the Senators once again defeated the hated Yankees.
Washington traded him to the Boston Red Sox, where he spent two seasons before being claimed on waivers by the Indians, who in turn traded him to the Milwaukee Braves. Mr. Vernon closed out his playing career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who signed him as a playing coach for the final month of the 1960 season. He got one single in eight pinch-hit appearances.
The Pirates faced the powerhouse Yankees in the World Series that fall. Ineligible to play in the series, Mr. Vernon assisted manager Danny Murtaugh, who had been a teammate when they were teenagers. Mr. Vernon never did play in a World Series game, but he counted Bill Mazeroski's dramatic series-winning home run as one of his greatest thrills.
He concluded his playing days with several records. He took part in 2,044 double plays at first base, including 10 in a doubleheader played on Aug. 18, 1943. He also set American League marks for first baseman in games (2,227), putouts (19,754) and assists (1,444), according to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
“Mickey was so smooth around the bag that he could have played first base wearing a tuxedo,” a minor-league manager once said.
The Senators moved to Minnesota and became the Twins. Mr. Vernon was hired to manage an expansion team playing in the U.S. capital under the old Senators name, but was fired midway through his third season.
In 1968, the minor-league Vancouver Mounties were suffering on the field and at the turnstile. Ernest (Kit) Krieger, the attendant for the visitors' clubhouse, convinced Mr. Vernon to allow him to take to the mound. After observing him in batting practice, the skipper agreed to the stunt. The teenager fared surprisingly well, surrendering a lone run to Hawaii before being pulled after three innings. He even recorded one strikeout. After the game, a Vancouver victory lasting just 64 minutes, the starting pitcher returned to his usual duties, including handling the soiled laundry of the players he had just faced. Mr. Krieger went on to become a high-school teacher and, eventually, president of the B.C. Teachers Federation.
Mr. Vernon's legion of fans have long insisted he deserved a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y. The 12-man Veterans Committee composed of seven Hall of Famers and five historians considered Mr. Vernon and nine other players whose careers began before 1943. He got five votes, falling short of the nine needed for induction, the hall announced on Dec. 8.
James Barton (Mickey) Vernon was born April 22, 1918, at Marcus Hook, Pa. He died Sept. 24, 2008, a week after suffering a stroke, at Riddle Memorial Hospital in Media, Pa. He was 90. He leaves a daughter, Gay Vernon, of Sharon, Mass. He was predeceased by his wife of 63 years, the former Anne Elizabeth Firth, known as Lib, who died in 2004.
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New mayor is familiar face to Victoria's homeless
Dean Fortin photographed by Deddeda Stemler
The mayor strolled along familiar streets in search of the homeless.
Snow crunched underfoot. Crisp air reddened ears, the chill demanding gloves, scarves and warm overcoats, at least for those of us who owned some. The mayor's bootlaces slipped loose and he seemed in no hurry to remove his gloves to retie the trailing strings.
Dean Fortin, 49, stopped on the sidewalk in front of the Streetlink Emergency Shelter. Men huddled in knots, some whispering, others shouting.
“Not a good time,” the mayor pronounced. “It's the time of day when they're looking for a fix. They're planning and scheming the next score.”
He returned through Chinatown, cutting across Centennial Square on his way to a soup kitchen a few blocks to the east, when he bumped into a man pushing a cart.
“Hi, Mr. Mayor,” Darren Douglas said.
“How're you doing?” the mayor asked.
“As soon as I find a place to live, I'll be okay.”
Those words, or variations thereof, have been part of Mr. Fortin's working day for much of his life.
He is soft-spoken with the looks and manner of a vicar. A lawyer by education and an elected official by the voters' choice, he does not present himself as a boisterous, backslapping politician.
His face – round like Charlie Brown's, offset by stylish eyeglasses, topped by a laurel wreath of well-trimmed hair – is familiar to passersby. He sees in their eyes that they recognize but can't quite place him. For some politicians not to be recognized and afforded the proper respect would be a small death. Not so for Mr. Fortin. He's in this game for other reasons.
Although new to the mayor's chair, he is only too familiar with the city's most pressing issue. For 17 years, he worked as a community organizer in a poorer corner of the city. The locals included homeless families, two generations living in a car, or couch surfing until the welcome ran out.
One lad who sticks out in memory was a Grade 2 student who had already attended 20 schools. Twenty! The boy lacked a peer group and the only adults in his life were his parents, far from perfect models. The Burnside Gorge Community Centre offered hot meals, a warm place, and structure in a young life sorely in need of some.
“Homeless children,” Mr. Fortin said. “That will break your heart. Wonderful, amazing children.”
In his inaugural address to council earlier this month, the mayor told the gathering his daughter was aware of homelessness, a circumstance he thought unfair for a seven-year-old to contemplate, let alone live.
“I want to be able to tell her that we're doing everything we possibly can to find homes for those in need,” he said then.
The city's previous two mayors, both the choice of the business community, failed to stop downtown streets from turning into drug bazaars. As the situation deteriorated, residents and tourists alike began to avoid sidewalks taken over by those struggling with addictions, mental-health issues and poverty.
Where his predecessors were frustrated, Mr. Fortin says he can deliver results in as little as six months. It is a bold statement. The goal is to first get the hardest to house off the street, since they prey on other homeless folks.
A looming concern is whether Vancouver's homeless will migrate across Georgia Strait if Olympic planning forces them from metropolitan streets.
Mr. Fortin has never lacked for a home himself, though he notes he was brought after birth to a home that was a converted chicken coop at Kamloops. His mother was a nurse, his father “a cowboy, a builder, a miner” who prospected for gold.
“Did he have much luck? Nope. I'm sure even though he's dead he's out there looking still for his lucky strike.”
The boy inherited a sense of social justice from his mother, who took him to a political rally at the height of Trudeaumania.
The future mayor worked the green chain at a mill before moving to Victoria to attend university. He articled in Whitehorse, then joined a Victoria firm. Instead of building a career as a lawyer, he became executive director of the community centre, where he found he could directly help improve the lives of local residents.
After two terms on city council, he made an early announcement of his intention to run for mayor. The move convinced other councillors not to risk losing their seat by challenging the labour-backed candidate, though as it turned out, novice politico Rob Reid, a runner who owns stores selling athletic shoes, nearly scored an upset at the wire.
The short walk, bitter in the cold, at last brought Mr. Fortin to the entrance to the Our Place soup kitchen. The mayor had to introduce himself twice before the staff realized who he was. Usually closed on the weekend, the drop-in centre, with the city's help, had secured extra funds to operate during the cold snap. Inside, about 25 people snacked on oranges, bananas and muffins. Some slept on benches, their bindles beside them.
Mr. Fortin was invited to join a table where sat people who did recognize him. He asked after their health, listened intently as they talked. Karley Smith, a young woman whose shock of red hair seemed all the brighter for the paleness of her skin, told the mayor she is looking for a place to live. Pregnant with her fourth child, she is due to give birth in five weeks. Two of her children live with her mother, while a third has been placed for adoption. She is 22. He took her details and said he would do what he could.
He left the table. “Bad decisions,” he said with a what-can-you-do shrug. “She looks healthy, though. That's good.”
Earlier in the month, his wife, Donna Sanford, the daughter of former NDP MLA Karen Sanford, and his daughter, Sophie, joined him in serving turkey dinners at the annual Mustard Seed family Christmas dinner held at the Armoury.
The mayor believes the homeless situation will be solved by incremental change, one program at a time, one person at a time.
The man with the cart in Centennial Square said he was slowly working towards getting a room of his own. The cart he pushed, decorated by red tinsel found in the street, included brooms and brushes with which he cleans the street.
Mr. Douglas, a logger for 17 years until a falling tree injured his back, is paid $10 an hour by the Downtown Victoria Business Association. His route includes Douglas Street, which, he said, cracking a smile, is his responsibility because it carries his name.
Mr. Douglas told the mayor he was having difficulty getting an apartment because he did not have the extra money needed for a damage deposit. As it turns out, the mayor knows of a program that can help.
“You know where to find me,” the mayor said.
The street cleaner swung an arm, pointing to the red building behind him. “Mayor's office,” he said.
They shook on it.
Carlos Santiago, baseball player (1926-2008)
Two years after Jackie Robinson integrated the Montreal Royals, Carlos Santiago signed a professional contract to become the first black Puerto Rican in Organized Baseball.
Mr. Santiago followed Mr. Robinson to Canada, playing infield for the Farnham Pirates, based in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. The short-lived team played in the Class-C Provincial League.
Celebrated for his glove, but not his bat, Mr. Santiago hit a poor .195 for the Quebec team.
The 5-foot-11, 170-pound infielder was known as the “King of the Double Play” in his native Puerto Rico, where he was named to the island’s professional baseball hall of fame in 1993.
Mr. Santiago played for the Mayaguez Indians in his hometown before representing Puerto Rico with an all-star team at the 1944 Caribbean World Series. He was just 18.
He played for the Atlanta Black Crackers and the New York Cubans of the Negro Leagues after being discovered on a barnstorming tour of the United States.
His signing with the Stamford (Conn.) Pioneers of the Colonial League in 1948 was seen as blazing a trail for other black players from the Commonwealth such as Orlando Cepeda and Roberto Clemente.
Mr. Santiago’s baseball career was interrupted for two years when he served in the U.S Army during the Korean War. After being discharged with the rank of sergeant, he returned to baseball. The closest he got to the major leagues was a season spent with the Mexico City Diablos Rojos (Red Devils), two levels below the big leagues.
He later worked as a baseball coach and a scout for the California Angels in Puerto Rico.
“Baseball is a way of life to our young boys,” he said in an interview in 1973.
His death by heart attack was confirmed by his son, Carlos Manuel Santiago Feliciano, according to a report by The Associated Press.
Carlos Manuel Santiago was born on March 2, 1926, at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. He died at his home in that city on Dec. 21. He was 82. — Tom Hawthorn
A 150-year-old newspaper keeps up with the times
Who says newspapers are dying? Just the other day I spent several hours engrossed in the local daily.
The Times Colonist carries a hybrid name adopted in the wake of a shotgun wedding ordered by a new owner. (Please note, dear editor, the paper is an unhyphenated Canadian.) Critics still insist on calling it the Times Communist, which is more laughable than funny.
It boasts solid columnists and a talented reporting staff. On some days it offers almost 20 minutes of good reading.
The edition I couldn’t put down was dated Dec. 11. It remained riveting despite being a few days old. A few days and 150 years.
The inaugural issue of the newspaper now known as the Times Colonist features four pages of dense columns of type. It is unsullied by photography. The lone graphic is a thumbnail sketch of a leaping stag, part of a small notice for the Washington Restaurant on Government Street, whose proprietors “continue to keep their table well supplied with all the substantials and luxuries which the market affords.”
Other advertisers in the debut edition of the British Colonist include a druggist, a shoemaker, a bookseller,an auctioneer, the Victoria Coal Co., and a merchant announcing “GOLD DUST PURCHASED.”
Three years earlier, Victoria counted just 148 adult residents. Reports of gold discoveries along the Fraser River in 1858 caused the rapid construction of a ramshackle city of 20,000 with muddy roads and creaky wooden sidewalks. Among the new arrivals was a 33-year-old dreamer from Nova Scotia formerly known as Bill Smith.
The warehouseman had left the Maritimes to seek his fortune in the California goldfields, where he set up shop as a photographer in Mud Springs. When the settlement changed its name to the evocative El Dorado, plain Bill Smith decided to follow suit. He legally changed his identity to Amor de Cosmos, a name he said expressed what he most loved — “order, beauty, the world, the universe.”
In Victoria, he started a newspaper. The editor promised “an independent paper, the organ of no clique nor party — a true index of public opinion.” A year’s subscription cost $5, a single issue 25 cents.
A history published by the newspaper at the start of the sesquicentennial celebration stated only 200 copies of Vol. 1, No. 1 were produced on an old hand press.
Today, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, the first edition can be read at a computer terminal anywhere in the world at any time of day for free.
Every page of every issue of the Colonist dating from Dec. 11, 1858, to June 30, 1910, has been digitized in a searchable form at www.britishcolonist.ca . That’s more than 100,000 pages to be perused by historians, genealogical researchers and fans of old newspapers. No more scrolling and squinting and scanning reels of microfilm in some dark corner of a library.
The project is a collaboration between the newspaper and McPherson Library at the University of Victoria, with support from other university and public libraries.
Those of us who have spent hours at library microfilm machines know well the joy when a prospector spotted a good-sized gold nugget. Trolling through needle-in-a-haystack film of old newspapers demands a certain but-I’ll-find-it-anyway mania. Now, the thrill of discovery is just a few keyboard clicks away.
Those prospectors, many of them American, brought with them to the colony their passion for a game involving a bat and a ball. The baseball historian Geoff LaCasse has uncovered a recorded game of baseball played in New Westminster on the Queen’s birthday in 1862. A quick search of the Colonist unveils “base ball,” still spelled as two words, being played at Beacon Hill Park in 1863. Coverage includes a basic box score for the 39-33 match.
The first local baseball brawl happened less than a week later.
“Row on Beacon Hill,” the Colonist reported. “A breach of the peace took place on Beacon Hill yesterday. Two men seated in a buggy, and driving round the hill, came in contact with a party who were engaged in play base ball, and after some altercation, one of the base ball players pulled one of the men out of the vehicle, and, as we are informed, presented a pistol at him. Some of the by-standers prevented ay further violence occurring, and quelled the disturbance.”
A hint to the reason behind this puzzling confrontation — why so sudden and why so violent? — can be found a few items further along the column. Another game was to be played that day with the prize for the winner being a keg of lager beer. Hic hic hooray!
Technology is making the fustiest of communication devices — a century-old printed newspaper — as accessible as the most recent Twitter posting. This comes at a time when newspapers are undergoing a crisis — the National Post has axed weekday distribution in Manitoba, even though Canwest, which owns the Post and the Times Colonist, has headquarters in Winnipeg; Sun Media Corp. announced 600 job cuts yesterday; and, the Detroit newspapers are offering home delivery on only three days a week. In Victoria, the local community newspapers sometimes seem to be little more than flyer delivery mechanisms.
These days you wonder which will be the final surviving newspaper to report on the last North American automobile manufacturer to declare bankruptcy.
Mr. de Cosmos sold his newspaper to employees less than five years after launch. An advocate of the colony joining Confederation, he represented Victoria in the House of Commons and also served as British Columbia’s second premier. In the end, he went mad.
Happy 150th birthday, Times Colonist. Here’s to many, many more.
Tom Burgess, baseball player (1927-2008)
Tom Burgess had abandoned a dream of playing baseball for a living when his wife urged him to try one last time.
Her encouragement gave birth to a long career as a player, coach and, most notably, an instructor. Mr. Burgess also had two brief stints as a player in the major leagues, a rare Canadian to earn a roster spot in the mid-1950s.
A lackluster performance — he hit an anemic .177 in 104 games — belied a keen baseball mind.
He helped send to the majors legions of young players who benefitted from the skills he taught. Others praised him for his handling of young athletes. Among them was Tom Henke, the fireball reliever of the Toronto Blue Jays, who credited Mr. Burgess with ushering him through the minors.
The coach’s winning personality could convince even the most headstrong athlete to tinker with their batting stance, or alter their positioning in the field.
Like a mechanic who can fine tune an engine to get extra power, Mr. Burgess eliminated the weaknesses that made hitters vulnerable.
A typical case was that of Chito Martinez, a prospect born in what is now Belize, who languished in the minors with a low average. The free-swinging batter considered quitting until the coach eliminated a long, upper-cut swing in favour of a compact stroke that was both shorter and quicker. Mr. Martinez went on to enjoy two productive seasons with the Baltimore Orioles.
For a time, Mr. Burgess was under consideration to become manager of the Texas Rangers of the American League, which, had it happened, would have made him the first Canadian to handle a major-league club since George (Moon) Gibson guided Pittsburgh in 1934.
Despite a lifetime on the diamond, Mr. Burgess considered himself an outsider among the American baseball fraternity.
“To survive in the U.S. being a Canadian,” he said in a 2003 interview, “you’re getting knocked down and getting back up.”
For all his many seasons in flannels and polyester pinstripes, Mr. Burgess did not earn much attention in his homeland, even as a coach for the Baseball Canada’s national junior and senior teams.
“I am the best-kept secret in Canadian baseball,” he once told the Edmonton Journal.
Born to the postmaster of Lambeth, outside London, Thomas Roland Burgess, who would also be known as Tim in his playing days, interrupted high school studies to pursue baseball. He followed success as a peewee by pitching for the London Majors, a semiprofessional team in Ontario’s Major Intercounty circuit. He also played senior-B hockey in winter.
The St. Louis Cardinals signed him to a pro ball contract, assigning him to their Hamilton farm club. He was promoted to Allentown, Penn., and Columbus, Ga., before winding up at Omaha, Neb., after three seasons in the minors.
Mr. Burgess placed himself on the voluntarily retired list to return to London to complete his education.
After three summers, his wife, the former Dorrie Bates, a school teacher, convinced him to take another shot at winning a big-league job.
“I always thought that maybe later on he would wish he had gone back to baseball,” she told Neil MacCarl of the Toronto Star in 1953. “He had gone halfway up the baseball ladder and to quit then seemed silly to me.”
The couple set a two-year limit to the renewed quest.
The 6-foot, 180-pound left-handed outfielder enjoyed a stellar season with the Rochester (N.Y.) Red Wings, hitting .346 with 22 home runs and 93 runs batted-in. He finished second in batting average in the International League in 1953.
The parent St. Louis Cardinals called him up the following season for spot duty. The Redbirds had a solid outfield with rookie Wally Moon, sophomore Rip Repulski, and the veteran Stan Musial, a future Hall of Famer. Mr. Burgess managed just one hit — a double — in 21 at-bats.
He spent six seasons at Rochester, where his solid production on the field and popularity off it earned him the nickname, The People’s Choice.
Another three seasons in the high minors with the Columbus (Ohio) Jets and the Dallas-Fort Worth (Tex.) Rangers won him another chance in the majors.
The Los Angeles Angels were an expansion team in their second season in the American League when they promoted Mr. Burgess to fill a spot at first base. He displayed a deft glove, making only a single error in 35 games, but struggled at the plate, hitting just .196.
Ted Bowsfield, a pitcher born in Vernon, B.C., was also on the roster. He hit .162.
Mr. Burgess completed his playing days with the Richmond Virginians in 1963 before embarking on an odyssey. He managed teams in different leagues on both American coasts, as well as in the Texas and Appalachian Leagues.
He returned to the majors as a third-base coach, working with the New York Mets in 1977 and the Atlanta Braves the following season.
He was fired often and quickly hired by rival teams.
“It’s like politics,” he told the Globe’s Paul Patton in 1985. “If you’re on the right side, good things will happen.”
His regret at the time was not finding work in his homeland.
“I’m a Canadian and I’m sorry neither the Jays nor the (Montreal) Expos ever had a job for me,” he said.
He got his chance to work with homegrown talent with Baseball Canada. Among those whose raw skills he helped refine were Jason Bay and Justin Morneau, whose batting averages today are significantly heftier than that of their mentor.
In 1992, Mr. Burgess was inducted into the Rochester Red Wings’ hall of fame. The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame at St. Marys, Ont., honoured him the same year.
A decade earlier, Mr. Burgess co-edited a coaching guide to baseball fundamentals. Like all books, it came with a price tag, though the creator was more than willing to share his knowledge for free.
Tom Valcke, president of the Canadian hall, tells a story about the coach’s ceaseless desire to pass on his baseball knowledge. Mr. Burgess was at the head table at a banquet held in Hamilton, the city where he launched his pro career, when approached .at the end of the evening by a prospect seeking tips. The conversation lasted until long after the hall emptied. The information was put to good use, as the prospect, Joey Votto, of Toronto, went on to join the Cincinnati Reds and was runner-up for National League rookie-of-the-year honours announced last month.
Thomas Roland Burgess was born on Sept. 1, 1927, at London, Ont. He died of cancer at Victoria Hospital in that city on Nov. 24. The resident of Lambeth was 81. He leaves a son, Tom Burgess, of St. Petersburg, Fla.; a daughter, Cindy Crawford, of London; a sister, Ruby Astles, of Toledo, Ohio; a brother, Bill Burgess, of London; and, five grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife, Dorrie (nee Bates), who died in 1994. He was also predeceased by sisters Mildred and Violet.
Treasuring the West Coast's anarchic history
Photograph of Allan Antliff by Deddeda Stemler
Camas Books is a busy place.
By day, there’s a children’s free school. By night, teens gather for all-ages gigs featuring ska and punk bands.
Every second Friday is Burning Fort Cinema Movie Night.
On Saturdays, a volunteer from the Devil’s Club Community Apothecary is on hand to answer questions about the contents of the jars in the wooden cupboard that serves as a shared herbal dispensary.
The Victoria Anarchist Reading Circle gathers on Tuesdays. The reading homework for last night’s scheduled meeting was a 16-page essay on the Black Panther Party. Last week they discussed fascism.
Then you have your meetings of the anti-Olympics “No 2010” group, not to mention assorted workshops, benefit concerts, bicycle maintenance demonstrations, and what is billed as a not-so-silent auction.
You wonder how the anarchists ever find the time to smash the state.
The not-for-profit bookstore is operated by a collective. No salaries are paid. Bookkeeping, book ordering and book reshelving is all handled by volunteers. Any revenue from book sales goes back into retaining the space.
The address provided for the store is “Lekwungen territory (colonial jurisdiction of Victoria, B.C.)” The oppressive-reactionary-bourgeois street address is 2590 Quadra St.
Camas Books and Infoshop takes its name from a herb popular with indigenous people, who cooked the bulb to a thick liquid like molasses, or dried and ground it into flour for bread. Camas fields disappeared to grazing cattle brought by settlers. By building neighbourhood autonomy and challenging authority, the collective states, they “envision the camas flower one day being able to blossom forth from beneath the pavement that now restrains it, flourishing on this land once again.”
Among those who helped launch the bookstore a year ago was Allan Antliff, who holds the Canada Research Chair in art history at the University of Victoria. His graduate seminars includes the topic “New York Dada.”
Mr. Antliff, who gives $200 monthly to support the bookstore, has made his own contribution to the shelf of anarchist literature by writing three books. He also donated his personal collection to launch an Anarchist Archive at the university.
“As a historian,” he said, “I was acutely aware that people were not saving their history.”
While researching the modern art movement of the early 20th Century, the professor sought documents seized from Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth magazine. These had been taken by American authorities during the Great War, when the publication’s 8,000 subscribers were investigated and harassed.
Turns out the government destroyed what they had taken.
“I don’t want to see the history of anarchism in Canada pulped by the authorities, or thrown into a garbage bin because they’re moving and don’t have a place to keep it anymore.”
One of the better finds for the Victoria archive came from an editor of the Toronto publication Ecomedia, whose files and correspondence had been gathered because of a court case. The cache was being stored in poor condition in an attic before being donated.
What do donors get for handing over their materials?
“They do what they do because they want to change the world,” Mr. Antliff said. “They get the knowledge that what they’ve done — and the ideas — aren’t going to disappear.”
The archive includes flyers and zines, posters and pamphlets. A stack of newspapers leaves the impression anarchists have black ink for blood. The titles tell the story — “Clash,” “Clamour,” “Class War” are unsubtle calls for strife; “Bulldozer” and “Slingshot” match theory with weaponry; “Endless Struggle” is either a call for never-ending confrontation, or a recognition of the task at hand; “Practical Anarchy” and “Anarcho-Syndicalist Review” promise a less-than-thrilling literary experience; “Strike!” and “Storm Warning!” are exclamatory!; “Demolition Derby” expresses the revolutionary and humourous nature of much anarchist expression.
The political philosophy has deep roots on the West Coast, where a respect for nature and a connection to the indigenous peoples are defining elements. George Woodcock, the prolific writer who in 1962 produced an important overview of anarchism, settled at Saseenos, outside Sooke, before moving permanently to Vancouver after the Second World War. A friend of George Orwell, he also maintained a correspondence with the English anarchist poet and art critic Sir Herbert Read, whose papers are also part of the holdings at the McPherson Library at the University of Victoria. Less literary and more Yippie were the pie-throwing Groucho-Marxists.
Four years ago, Arsenal Pulp Press published “Only A Beginning,” an anarchist anthology edited by Mr. Antliff. Some of the livelier writing is to be found in “Open Road,” which published irregularly from 1976 to 1990. The largest print run was 20,000 copies for an issue dedicated to Bikesheviks, who figured we’d all pedal our way to utopia.
One of the Open Road founders was Bob Sarti, who contributed a short overview to the anthology in which he acknowledged the newspaper’s outsized influence even if the results were thin.
“The environment is still going to hell, racism and authority are flourishing, state-sponsored war never seems to end,” he wrote. “And we really didn’t make much of a difference on the specific stuff we targeted either: Leonard Peltier is still in prison, solitary confinement has not been abolished, our friends got convicted for the Direct Action campaign and sent to prison.”
Still, he found much to cheer in the upcoming generation.
He’d doubtless be impressed by Camas. The anarchists are getting downright organized.
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Bill Parnell, miler (1928-2008)
A cacophony of honking tugboat horns and screaming ferry whistles greeted Bill Parnell on his return home from the British Empire Games in 1950.
The runner brought with him two shiny souvenirs — a bronze and a gold medal — from the competition at Auckland, New Zealand.
After landing at the airport south of Vancouver, Mr. Parnell was escorted through the city in a motor cavalcade. The ferry across the harbour to his hometown of North Vancouver was adorned with flags and bunting. A parade brought the athletic champion to a reception at which the cheers of 500 high school students was all the louder for their having been given the day off in honour of one of their own.
“This is North Vancouver’s hour of triumph,” Mayor Frank Goldsworthy told the crowd. “Our Bill did it.”
Mr. Parnell did not care for the spotlight. One newspaper described him as being “tall, slow-talking and Gary Cooperish.”
He outran the best milers in the British Empire to claim the gold in a record-setting time.
While that would be his greatest achievement on the track, Mr. Parnell’s standing among fellow athletes was reflected in the bestowing of two great honours. In 1952, he carried the Canadian flag in the Opening Ceremonies of the Helsinki Olympic Games. Two years later, he read the athlete’s oath at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games held across the inlet from his hometown.
It was at those 1954 games that his record was shattered in the most celebrated mile-long foot race in history. The Vancouver competition also marked the end of the running career of one of Canada’s best track athletes in the post-war years.
Born on Valentine’s Day in 1928, Comer William Parnell competed as a high jumper as a junior in high school. He switched disciplines after observing the pace of runners at school meets. He felt he ran as fast. To test himself, each morning he deliberately left home late to try to beat the school bell. After school, he also ran home — uphill all the way.
As a senior, he won the city’s senior high school championship in 1945.
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound athlete had difficulty pacing himself while training for the mile, a problem not solved until after he won an athletic scholarship to Washington State University. A coach at the school at Pullman had a simple solution — Mr. Parnell carried a watch as he ran.
At age 20, he qualified for the Olympic Games at London, where he competed in both the 800- and 1500-metre races. He was eliminated after racing one heat in each event.
He set a Canadian mark in the mile that year with a time of 4 minutes 17 seconds. In 1949, he broke his own standard by placing third at the U.S. Nationals with a time of 4:09.6. The Amateur Athletic Union ranked him third in the world in the 800 metres.
He capped a breakthrough year by being named winner of the Norton H. Crow Memorial Award as Canada’s outstanding amateur athlete of the year in 1949.
The journey to New Zealand for the British Empire Games was a marathon. Canada’s team boarded the liner Aorangi in Vancouver harbour on Dec. 22, 1949. The athletes celebrated Christmas and New Year’s while on board, the holidays interrupting the monotony of a voyage lasting nearly three weeks.
Aboard ship was a backstroke specialist from Victoria named Joan Morgan. The swimmer and the miler, who spent many hours in the British Columbia capital training under coach Bruce Humber, would later marry.
Four days before his 22nd birthday, Mr. Parnell took to a soggy grass track at Eden Park at Auckland before 40,000 spectators to face the empire’s greatest milers. The favourite, Len Eyre of England, established a scorching pace over the first three laps. He was followed by Maurice Marshall, running on home soil.
Mr. Parnell ran freely in third place, having pulled away from the rest of the field. A move to grab second place was repulsed by the New Zealander about a furlong from the finish line. As the runners prepared to turn the final corner, found himself trailing the Englishman by 15 yards. Mr. Parnell made his final, desperate and decisive move.
The Canadian’s closing kick closed the gap. He passed both leading runners to breast the tape five yards ahead of his rivals. The time — 4:11 flat — established an empire record. He was six-tenths of a second faster than the previous mark.
“The race went exactly as we planned it,” Mr. Parnell said. “We hoped Eyre would forge his way to the front to enable me to get a final sprint at him and to my glee he did so.”
Auckland Star sports editor E.H. Doherty praised the Canadian’s strategy.
“It is possible Eyre threw away the race by over-confidence,” he wrote. “It is certain he received the biggest fright of his life when the Canadian came pounding up in the run to the tape.”
At a modest home half a world away, the Parnell family gathered around a radio console atop which had been placed a son’s photographic portrait.
“Mother was the one that got excited,” Alfred Parnell, speaking of his wife, told a visiting reporter. “She had her ear glued to the shortwave. When Bill came in first she could hardly speak.”
The runner may have learned a valuable lesson four days earlier. He had led the 880-yard race in the stretch when he was passed by teammate Jack Hutchins, who then was passed near the finish line by John Parlett of England. Mr. Hutchins took the silver, Mr. Parnell the bronze. The latter had been boxed in on the second lap of the race, a frustrating position he avoided in the mile.
The eight-week sojourn ended with a long flight home. The athletes landed at Vancouver airport to be greeted by local mayors and other dignitaries. Mr. Parnell joined fellow gold-medal winner Dr. George Athans (obituary, March 2, 2007), a tower diver, in riding in an open car adorned with a scarlet banner proclaiming, “Our champs.” They were lead car in a cavalcade including such other competitors as the cyclists Lorne Atkinson and Johnny Millman, the boxers Eddie Haddad and Len Walters (obituary, April 2), as well as Mr. Humber, who coached Mr. Parnell.
(The return to home soil was not without tears. Peter Salmon, a Victoria swimmer, was informed on his arrival of his mother’s death earlier that day.)
When he spoke at his former high school, Mr. Parnell said he was overcome by the moment.
“This welcome does something to you,” he said. “I just don’t seem to be able to talk.”
Two years later, he enjoyed the privilege of carrying the Canadian flag into the Olympiastadion in Helsinki during the Opening Ceremonies of the 1952 Olympics. He often described his role as flagbearer as being his proudest moment as an athlete.
He qualified for the semifinals in both the 800- and 1500-metre races before being eliminated.
His status led to another honour closer to home. On July 30, 1954, he stood atop a structure called the Tribune of Honour on the infield grass at new Empire Stadium in Vancouver for another opening ceremony. After an air force fly-past, a fanfare of trumpets sounded, followed by the release of hundreds of pigeons and the firing of a five-gun artillary salute. Mr. Parnell held a corner of the flag in his left hand. He recited, as captain of the host team and on behalf of all the athletes, an oath: “We declare that we will take part in the British Empire and Commonwealth Games of 1954 in the spirit of true sportsmanship, recognizing the rules which govern them and desirous of participating in them for the honour of our Commonwealth and Empire and for the glory of sport.” With that, the greatest sporting event in British Columbia history began.
The official souvenir program of the games featured Mr. Parnell as a star alongside mile rivals John Landy of Australia and Dr. Roger Bannister of England.
The much-awaited showdown came on Aug. 7, the final day of competition. Two days earlier, Mr. Parnell came fifth in his heat, missing by one slot a spot in the final. “I was disappointed that I didn’t run harder,” he told the Globe many years later. “Or couldn’t run harder.” On the day of the big race, he flashed his athlete’s credentials to grab a prized piece of turf on the stadium’s grass infield not far from where he had taken the oath.
The race did not disappoint. Dr. Bannister called on a kick along the final straightaway to pass on the right as Mr. Landy glanced over his left shoulder for his pursuer. The Englishman crossed the finish line in 3:58.8. Mr. Landy also broke the four-minute barrier, earning the race the name the Miracle Mile.
Mr. Parnell’s four-year-old empire mark had been shattered by an astounding 12.2 seconds.
He cheered the runners, knowing he would be hanging up his cleats and picking up chalk as a school teacher. His competitive running career was at an end.
Mr. Parnell taught physical education at North Vancouver schools until his retirement, after which he continued as a coach. He was honoured earier this year for a half-century of coaching.
He was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1977.
Over the years, his accomplishments were forgotten and his achievements overshadowed. He kept his medal, four years older but the same colour as Dr. Bannister’s, in a drawer at his home.
Some years ago, he reminisced how techniques for his students were different than he had known.
“We had our first child and I was trying to train myself, which never works out as well,” he told the sports columnist Archie McDonald in 1990. “We didn’t know as much about running in Canada as we do now. When I think of what high school kids do now compared to what I did I wonder how I managed. We didn’t know much about interval training back then. I guess we ran for fun.”
Comer William Parnell was born on Feb. 14, 1928, at Vancouver, B.C. He died on Sept. 6. He was 80. He leaves his wife, Joan (nee Morgan); two sons; two daughters; seven grandchildren; and, two brothers. He was predeceased by a sister earlier this year.
George Morrison, hockey player (1948-2008)
George Morrison knew triumph on the ice of a hockey arena. He won a championship in college before forging a professional career lasting seven seasons. He also enjoyed the honour of having his stick requested by the Hockey Hall of Fame.
For all that, a certain segment of hockey fans preferred to remember him for an odd incident involving an untimely hunger pang, a hot dog, and an on-ice collision.
The skinny left-winger — he carried just 170 pounds on a 6-foot-1 frame — first won notice as a fleet skater and flashy sniper with the University of Denver. He seemed too callow to be playing so rough a sport. “Morrison has the fresh-scrubbed look and haystack haircut of a farm kid who should be carrying a pitchfork instead of a curved stick,” Sports Illustrated magazine noted.
The Pioneers were a dominant power in American college hockey under the guidance of Murray Armstrong. The Saskatchewan-born coach was seeking his second consecutive national title and fifth overall when Mr. Morrison joined the Colorado school’s team as a freshman for the 1968-69 season.
The Pioneers registered 26 wins against just six defeats. Mr. Morrison recorded 40 goals and 18 assists on a roster including such future National Hockey League players as defenceman Keith Magnuson and forward Craig Patrick.
In the final game of the championship tournament, the Pioneers faced Cornell University and star goaltender Ken Dryden, who would go on to become one of the greatest NHL goalies with the Montreal Canadiens. On this day, however, Denver persevered 4-3, with Mr. Morrison scoring his team’s second goal.
The Pioneers did not repeat as champs in 1969-70, although Mr. Morrison scored 57 points in 32 games in his sophomore campaign. He was dubbed Super Soph.
“He is at his best around the crease,” Sports Illustrated reported. “When traffic gets heavy he looks like Plastic Man, bending and twisting away from big, menacing defenders.”
In his brief university career, he was twice named a Western Collegiate Hockey Association first-team all-star and he was twice named an All-American. He led his association in scoring in both seasons.
Perhaps because of his pacific nature — he earned just 24 penalty minutes in two seasons of collegiate hockey — Mr. Morrison went unselected in the NHL amateur draft. Despite the initial lack of interest, the St. Louis Blues signed him as a free agent days before the puck dropped to start of the 1970-71 season.
His rookie campaign got a boost late in the season when St. Louis acquired Garry Unger from Detroit, where general manager Ned Harkness (obituary, Sept. 30) objected to the young player’s refusal to trim his hair. Mr. Unger centred a line with Mr. Morrison and Wayne Connelly, contributing to a strong 7-2-3 finish to the season.
Mr. Morrison scored 15 goals and added 10 assists. He was named the club’s rookie of the year.
His production lagged the following season and he ran afoul of the Blues’ management. The team traded him to the Buffalo Sabres and, when he refused to report to their minor-league team at Rochester, N.Y., he was suspended.
He sat out the remainder of the season rather than ride the bus around the American Hockey League circuit.
Meanwhile, a group of businessmen, frustrated by the cartel-like operations of the NHL, launched a rival major league. The World Hockey Association began raiding NHL rosters, offering players better salaries and freedom from the whims of managerial edicts about personal grooming.
The Minnesota Fighting Saints signed Mr. Morrison as the club’s eighth player in June, 1972. His former teammate, Mr. Connelly, had earlier signed with Minnesota. Both men were represented by Morden Lazarus, a lawyer who at the time said he was brushing up on his knowledge of contract and anti-trust law because NHL owners were threatening legal action to retain their contracted employees.
On Jan. 7, 1973, a WHA record crowd and a television audience watching on CBS witnessed the national debut of the new St. Paul Civic Center, a $23-million arena notable for dasher boards of clear acrylic. The Sunday afternoon game opened with a goal by Mr. Morrison against Winnipeg’s Joe Daley.
Mr. Morrison delivered the greatest single-game performance of his career in the final game of the 1973-74 regular season. The victims were the visiting Vancouver Blazers, much to the delight of an appreciative hometown crowd.
At 15:42 of the second period, he scored on a powerplay to give the Fighting Saints a 5-0 lead. Fourteen seconds later, he split the Vancouver defence before snapping a shot high over the shoulder of netminder George Gardner (obituary, Dec. 4, 2006). A third goal came at 16:25, the hat-trick in 43 seconds setting a WHA record. All three goals were assisted by Mr. Connelly and Bob MacMillan.
(Bill Mosienko of the NHL’s Chicago Black Hawks established the major-league record by notching three goals in 21 seconds against the New York Rangers on March 23, 1952.)
Nor was Mr. Morrison’s work for the night complete. He pushed yet another puck past the hapless Blazer goalie in the third period for his fourth marker of the night. It was also his 40th goal of the season. Mr. Morrison had never before scored more than two goals in a pro game.
The stick he used for the feat wound up in the collection of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
After another productive season, the Saints traded him to the Calgary Cowboys in a multi-player deal in which they acquired Johnny (Pieface) McKenzie, a one-time rodeo rider from Alberta.
Mr. Morrison spent his final two seasons as a pro in Calgary, scoring 36 goals.
A respectable career as a journeyman with one brilliant campaign has mostly been ignored. However, his role in a bizarre bit of hockey lore has been retold in such trivia books as Floyd Connor’s “Hockey’s Most Wanted” and on such Websites as Joe Pelletier’s GreatestHockeyLegends.com.
While playing with the Blues in his rookie season, Mr. Morrison found himself riding the bench as the clock ticked down in a game against the Los Angeles Kings. Figuring his work was done for the night, he sent an usher in search of a hot dog, surreptitiously swapping one of his sticks for the snack.
He snuck a bite whenever the play took the coach’s attention away from his direction.
He was still chewing when coach Scotty Bowman unexpectedly ordered him onto the ice. Not wishing to be discovered violating an unwritten rule of hockey etiquette by eating on the bench, he shoved the remnants of the sausage down the cuff of one of his hockey gloves.
He was not on the ice for long before being bodychecked by an opposing player. The collision sent flying bits of bun, splashes of condiment, and a half-eaten hot dog.
Mr. Morrison was involved in sports management after leaving hockey. In 2003, he helped bring the Alberta Classic golf tournament to Calgary as a Nationwide Tour event.
Midway through last season, he offered his services as a volunteer coach for the Dutchwoman at Union College at Schenectady, N.Y.
An inoperable brain tumour was diagnosed before the start of this season. His sudden decline and death stunned the team.
“He was everything to our team — a leader, a mentor, a teacher, a father figure and a coach,” said head coach Claudia Asano.
The Dutchwomen held a moment of silence before the puck dropped against visiting Qunnipiac in a game played just two days after Mr. Morrison’s death. The hush was followed by a stirring round of applause.
George Harold Morrison was born in Toronto on Christmas Eve, 1948. He died on Nov. 12 at his home at Schenectady, N.Y. He was 59. He leaves his partner, Ellen Johnston; daughters, Sloane Junge and Keri Lauxman, both of Kansas City, Mo.; parents Harold and Margaret Morrison, of Fort Erie, Ont.; brother Robert Morrison and sister Cathy Gaglia, both of Toronto.
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How a new calling for service grew from a seed
Tom Oshiro photographed by Deddeda Stemler
Folks greeted the small figure by patting his back, or by pumping his hand.
“Bless you, Pastor Tom,” said one woman, looking him in the eye after delivering a hug. “We prayed for you last night.”
It is a busy time at the Mustard Seed. The weather is cold and Christmas approaches. Tis the season for fundraising, as those with are asked to share with those without. Seventy cents of every dollar given to the charity will arrive in these next weeks.
On Friday, a surfboard store is offering discounts in exchange for food. The Salmon Kings hockey team has set up bins for donations at the entrances to their arena, which happens to carry the name of a grocery chain.
There will be a truck parade and food drives and charity events.
In 11 days, the parade grounds inside the nearby Armoury will be filled with paper-covered tables on which roast turkey and mashed potatoes will be served to people who have already begun to anticipate the upcoming feast.
A familiar figure at these Yuletide events is the Rev. Tom Oshiro, a gentle, moon-faced man whose ready grin makes him look like he’s permanently squinting.
The constant need to replenish the larder, which feeds hundreds of hungry citizens throughout the year, can so dominate the discussion that the pastor thought it best to offer a visitor a reminder.
“The Mustard Seed is a church, not a food bank,” he said.
The street ministry opened a generation ago with a prayer closet in a downtown store. The needs of the underprivileged are so great that it is now housed in a former marine garage, where it offers food and clothing banks, as well as offering such services as counseling, advocacy, and prison visits. A 32-acre farm outside Duncan, called the Hope Farm Healing Centre, provides recovering drug addicts a working life on a spread with livestock, orchards and vegetable crops.
The old garage is where services are held, although the room today is filling with donations. Tables in the centre of the room are covered by mounds of discarded pants and blouses and hoodies. Two blue work shirts, still wrapped in cellophane, carry a gas-station logo.
The clinic, a small room not much bigger than a closet, was an untidy mess of tins of formula and medicinal flotsam. A layer of order could be seen behind the disarray.
In the entryway, coffee and carrot cake was being served to visitors. At the food-bank window, a tiny, big-eyed girl in a pink shirt, who looked a lot like Cindy Lou Who from Dr. Suess’s Grinch tale, reached for an overhead box of milk cartons certainly weighing as much as herself. Rev. Oshiro gently warned her away.
Seventeen years ago, as he neared retirement age, the pastor accepted an invitation to help out at Mustard Seed. It has been a consuming passion ever since, an unexpected grace note to conclude a rich life.
Rev. Oshiro wrote a story in the church’s current newsletter about his own background.
“In my lifetime,” he wrote, “I need to confess, I have never known abject poverty.”
He began working at age 9, delivering newspapers. His father, George Oshiro, had come from Okinawa to British Columbia to work on the railroad. An educated man, he soon handled bookkeeping and became foreman of a work crew. With his wife Tsuiru, he settled in Kenora, Ont., where he worked at the Canadian Pacific Railway roundhouse.
Tom was the sixth of seven children. The newspaper gig was followed by work as a caddy. During the war, his family was ordered, as enemy aliens, to stay within the city limits. Two older brothers circumvented the restriction, while also disproving the accusation, by enlisting in the armed forces.
Tom got a job at a 7-Up bottling plant, then joined his father at the roundhouse as lightup foreman, igniting the firebox so locomotives could return to duty.
He used an ax to shop down trees for a hydro right of way, and cut railway ties at a sawmill. He hauled oat sacks filled with stoker coal, building strength in his legs that helped him win a spot as quarterback for the high school team, no small feat for a young man just 5-foot-6.
As a schoolboy curler, his rink came within a few points of representing Northern Ontario at the Macdonald Brier.
Though his parents were not yet converted, he felt the calling.
“In Grade 12, I began to realize as a Christian my main mission was to follow Christ. I had trouble with that because I was having too much fun in high school. Eventually, I realized my life was to be act of obedience.”
After studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, the Baptists assigned him to a pastorage for the Rainy River District. At Emo, a town across the river from Minnesota, he met Vietta Gingrich, a nurse.
The couple married, moving to Southern Ontario in 1966, where Rev. Oshiro began his ministry at the King Street Baptist Church in Preston (now Cambridge). After a decade, he moved to the Baptist church’s headquarters in Toronto, from which he was assigned to be area minister for British Columbia, a high-ranking position he held for nearly five years.
After another six years with a Victoria congregation, Rev. Oshiro accepted the invitation to help out at Mustard Seed.
“I felt the pulsating experience of fellowship, of people who really wanted to get involved in people’s lives, and to serve the poor,” he said.
His wife, known as Vi, worked as lead organizer for the big Christmas banquet. She also offered nursing help from the closet-sized clinic, which she kept tidy and orderly until taking sick three months ago.
She died just before dawn on a chilly morning a fortnight ago.
At the Mustard Seed yesterday, the pastor accepted condolences from volunteers and visitors. He will be flying east today to attend a memorial service to be held Friday at the very church in which he was once the minister.
He will return in time to help organize the banquet. He would not miss it for the world.
As Rev. Oshiro likes to say, the first Christmas was the picture of poverty.
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The term "community health" refers to the health status of a defined group of people, or community, and the actions and conditions that protect and improve the health of the community. Those individuals who make up a community live in a somewhat localized area under the same general regulations, norms, values, and organizations. For example, the health status of the people living in a particular town, and the actions taken to protect and improve the health of these residents, would constitute community health. In the past, most individuals could be identified with a community in either a geographical or an organizational sense. Today, however, with expanding global economies, rapid transportation, and instant communication, communities alone no longer have the resources to control or look after all the needs of their residents or constituents. Thus the term "population health" has emerged. Population health differs from community health only in the scope of people it might address. People who are not organized or have no identity as a group or locality may constitute a population, but not necessarily a community. Women over fifty, adolescents, adults twenty-five to forty-four years of age, seniors living in public housing, prisoners, and blue-collar workers are all examples of populations. As noted in these examples, a population could be a segment of a community, a category of people in several communities of a region, or workers in various industries. The health status of these populations and the actions and conditions needed to protect and improve the health of a population constitute population health.
The actions and conditions that protect and improve community or population health can be organized into three areas: health promotion, health protection, and health services. This breakdown emphasizes the collaborative efforts of various public and private sectors in relation to community health. Figure 1 shows the interaction of the various public and private sectors that constitute the practice of community health.
Health promotion may be defined as any combination of educational and social efforts designed to help people take greater control of and improve their health. Health protection and health services differ from health promotion in the nature or timing of the actions taken. Health protection and services include the implementing of laws, rules, or policies approved in a community as a result of health promotion or legislation. An example of health protection would be a law to restrict the sale of hand guns, while an example of health services would be a policy offering free flu shots for the elderly by a local health department. Both of these actions could be the result of health promotion efforts such as a letter writing campaign or members of a community lobbying their board of health.
FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
The foundations of community health include the history of community health practice, factors that affect community and population health, and the tools of community health practice. These tools include epidemiology, community organizing, and health promotion and disease prevention planning, management, and evaluation.
History of Community Health Practice. In all likelihood, the earliest community health practices went unrecorded. Recorded evidence of concern about health is found as early as 25,000 b.c.e., in Spain, where cave walls included murals of physical deformities. Besides these cave carvings and drawings, the earliest records of community health practice were those of the Chinese, Egyptians, and Babylonians. As early as the twenty-first century b.c.e., the Chinese dug wells for drinking.
Between the eleventh and second centuries b.c.e., records show that the Chinese were concerned about draining rainwater, protecting their drinking water, killing rats, preventing rabies, and building latrines. In addition to these environmental concerns, many writings from 770 b.c.e. to the present mention personal hygiene, lifestyle, and preventive medical practices. Included in these works are statements by Confucius (551–479 b.c.e.) such as "Putrid fish … food with unusual colors… foods with odd tastes … food not well cooked is not to be eaten." Archeological findings from the Nile river region as early as 2000 b.c.e., indicate that the Egyptians also had environment health concerns with rain and waste water. In 1900 b.c.e., Hammurabi, the king of Babylon, prepared his code of conduct that included laws pertaining to physicians and health practices.
During the years of the classical cultures (500 b.c.e.–500 c.e.), there is evidence that the Greeks were interested in men's physical strength and skill, and in the practice of community sanitation. The Romans built upon the Greek's engineering and built aqueducts that could transport water many miles. Remains of these aqueducts still exist. The Romans did little to advance medical thinking, but the hospital did emerge from their culture.
In the Middle Ages (500–1500 c.e.), health problems were considered to have both spiritual causes and spiritual solutions. The failure to account for the role of physical and biological factors led to epidemics of leprosy, the plague, and other communicable diseases. The worst of these, the plague epidemic of the fourteenth century, also known as the Black Death, killed 25 million people in Europe alone. During the Renaissance (1500–1700 c.e.), there was a growing belief that diseases were caused by environmental, not spiritual, factors. It was also a time when observations of the sick provided more accurate descriptions of the symptoms and outcomes of diseases. Yet epidemics were still rampant.
The eighteenth century was characterized by industrial growth, but workplaces were unsafe and living conditions in general were unhealthful. At the end of the century several important events took place. In 1796 Dr. Edward Jenner successfully demonstrated the process of vaccination for smallpox. And, in 1798, in response to the continuing epidemics and other health problems in the United States, the Marine Hospital Service (the forerunner to the U.S. Public Health Service) was formed.
The first half of the nineteenth century saw few advances in community health practice. Poor living conditions and epidemics were still concerns, but better agricultural methods led to improved nutrition. The year 1850 marks the beginning of the modern era of public health in the United States. It was that year that Lemuel Shattuck drew up a health report for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that outlined the public health needs of the state. This came just prior to the work of Dr. John Snow, who removed the handle of the Broad Street pump drinking well in London, England, in 1854, to abate the cholera epidemic. The second half of the nineteenth century also included the proposal of Louis Pasteur of France in 1859 of the germ theory, and German scientist Robert Koch's work in the last quarter of the century showing that a particular microbe, and no other, causes a particular disease. The period from 1875 to 1900 has come to be known as the bacteriological era of public health.
The twentieth century can be divided into several different periods. The years between 1900 and 1960 are known as the health resources development era. This period is marked by the growth of health care facilities and providers. The early years of the period saw the birth of the first voluntary health agencies: the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (now the American Lung Association) was founded in 1904 and the American Cancer Society in 1913. The government's major involvement in social issues began with the Social Security Act of 1935. The two world wars accelerated medical discoveries, including the development of penicillin. In 1946, Congress passed the National Hospital Survey and Construction Act (Hill-Burton Act) to improve the distribution and enhance the quality of hospitals.
The social engineering era (1960–1975) included the passage of amendments to the Social Security Act that set up Medicare (payment of medical bills for the elderly and certain people with disabilities) and Medicaid (payment of medical bills for the poor). The final period of the twentieth century is the health promotion era (1974–1999). During this period it was recognized that the greatest potential for improving the health of communities and populations was not through health care but through health promotion and disease prevention programs. To move in this direction, the U.S. government created its "blueprint for health" a set of health goals and objectives for the nation. The first set was published in 1980 and titled Promoting Health/Preventing Disease: Objectives for the Nation. Progress toward the objectives has been assessed on a regular basis, and new goals and objectives created in volumes titled Healthy People 2000, and Healthy People 2010. Other countries, and many states, provinces, and even communities, have developed similar goals and targets to guide community health.
Factors that Affect Community and Population Health. There are four categories of factors that affect the health of a community or population. Because these factors will vary in separate communities, the health status of individual communities will be different. The factors that are included in each category, and an example of each factor, are noted here.
Physical factors—geography (parasitic diseases), environment (availability of natural resources), community size (overcrowding), and industrial development (pollution).
Social and cultural factors—beliefs, traditions, and prejudices (smoking in public places, availability of ethnic foods, racial disparities), economy (employee health care benefits), politics (government participation), religion (beliefs about medical treatment), social norms (drinking on a college campus), and socioeconomic status (number of people below poverty level).
Community organization—available health agencies (local health department, voluntary health agencies), and the ability to organize to problem solve (lobby city council).
Individual behavior—personal behavior (health-enhancing behaviors like exercising, getting immunized, and recycling wastes; see Figure 2).
Three Tools of Community Health Practice. Much of the work of community health revolves around three basic tools: epidemiology, community organizing, and health education. Though each of these is discussed in greater length elsewhere in the encyclopedia, they are mentioned here to emphasize their importance to community and population practice. Judith Mausner and Shira Kramer have defined epidemiology as the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases and injuries in human populations. Such data are recorded as number of cases or as rates (number per 1,000 or 100,000). Epidemiological data are to community health workers as biological measurements are to a physician. Epidemiology has sometimes been referred to as population medicine. Herbert Rubin and Irene Rubin have defined community organizing as bringing people together to combat shared problems and increase their say about decisions that affect their lives. For example, communities may organize to help control violence in a neighborhood. Health education involves health promotion and disease prevention (HP/DP) programming, a process by which a variety of interventions are planned, implemented, and evaluated for the purpose of improving or maintaining the health of a community or population. A smoking cessation program for a company's employees, a stress management class for church members, or a community-wide safety belt campaign are examples of HP/DP programming.
COMMUNITY AND POPULATION HEALTH THROUGH THE LIFE SPAN
In community health practice, it is common to study populations by age group and by circumstance because of the health problems that are common to each group. These groupings include mothers, infants (less than one year old), and children (ages 1–14); adolescents and young adults (ages 15–24); adults (ages 25–64); and older adults or seniors (65 years and older).
Maternal, infant, and child (MIC) health encompasses the health of women of childbearing age from prepregnancy through pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the postpartum period, and the health of a child prior to birth through adolescence. MIC health statistical data are regarded as important indicators of the status of community and population health. Unplanned pregnancies, lack of prenatal care, maternal drug use, low immunization rates, high rates of infectious diseases, and lack of access to health care for this population indicate a poor community health infrastructure. Early intervention with educational programs and preventive medical services for women, infants, and children can enhance health in later years and reduce the necessity to provide more costly medical and/or social assistance later in their life.
Maternal health issues include family planning, early and continuous prenatal care, and abortion. Family planning is defined as the process of determining and achieving a preferred number and spacing of children. A major concern is the more than 1 million U.S. teenagers who become pregnant each year. About 85 percent of these pregnancies are unintended. Also a part of family planning and MIC is appropriate prenatal care, which includes health education, risk assessment, and medical services that begin before the pregnancy and continue through birth. Prenatal care can reduce the chances of a low-birthweight infant, and the poor health outcomes and costs associated with it. A controversial way of dealing with unintended or unwanted pregnancies is with abortion. Abortion has been legal in the United States since 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that women have a constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 1.6 million legal abortions were being performed in the United States each year during the late 1990s.
Infant and child health is the result of parent health behavior during pregnancy, prenatal care, and the care provided after birth. Critical concerns of infant and childhood morbidity and mortality include proper immunization, unintentional injuries, and child abuse and neglect. Though numerous programs in the United States address MIC health concerns, one that has been particularly successful has been the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known as the WIC program. This program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides food, nutritional counseling, and access to health services for low-income women, infants, and children. Late-twentieth-century figures indicate that the WIC program serves more than seven million mothers and children per month, and saves approximately three dollars for each tax dollar spent.
The health of the adolescent and young adult population sets the stage for the rest of adult life. This is a period during which most people complete their physical growth, marry and start families, begin a career, and enjoy increased freedom and decision making. It is also a time in life in which many beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors are adopted and consolidated. Health issues that are particularly associated with this population are unintended injuries; use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs; and sexual risk taking. There are no easy, simple, or immediate solutions to reducing or eliminating these problems. However, in communities where interventions have been successful, they have been comprehensive and communitywide in scope and sustained over long periods of time.
The adult population represents about half of the U.S. population. The health problems associated with this population can often be traced to the consequences of poor socioeconomic conditions and poor health behavior during earlier years. To assist community health workers, this population has been subdivided into two groups: ages twenty-five to forty-four and ages forty-five to sixty-four. For the younger of these two subgroups, unintentional injuries, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection, and cancer are the leading causes of death. For the older group, noncommunicable health problems dominate the list of killers, headed by cancer and heart disease, which account for almost two-thirds of all deaths. For most individuals, however, these years of life are the healthiest. The key to community health interventions for this population has been to stress the quality of life gained by good health, rather than merely the added years of life.
The senior population of the United States has grown steadily over the years, and will continue to grow well into the twenty-first century. In 1900 only one in twenty-five Americans was over the age of sixty-five, in 1995 it was one in seven, and by 2030 it is expected to be one in five. Such growth in this population will create new economic, social, and health concerns, especially as the baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) reach their senior years. From a community and population health perspective, greater attention will need to be placed on the increased demands for affordable housing, accessible transportation, personal care created by functional limitations, and all segments of health care including adult day care and respite care. Though many communities have suitable interventions in place to deal with the issues of seniors (including meal services like congregate meals at senior centers, and Meals-on-Wheels), the demands will increase in all communities.
The three strategies by which community health practice is carried out are health promotion, health protection, and the provision of health services and other resources. Figure 3 presents a representation of these strategies, their processes, their objectives, and anticipated benefits for a community or population.
As noted earlier, health promotion includes educational, social, and environmental supports for individual, organizational, and community action. It seeks to activate local organizations and groups or individuals to make changes in behavior (lifestyle, selfcare, mutual aid, participation in community or political action) or in rules or policies that influence health. Community health promotion lies in the areas in which the spheres of health action, as shown in Figure 1, overlap.
Two areas in which communities employ health promotion strategies are mental and social health, and recreation and fitness. Though both of these health concerns seem to be problems of individuals, a health concern becomes a community or population health concern when it is amenable to amelioration through the collective actions noted above. Action to deal with these concerns begins with a community assessment, which should identify the factors that influence the health of the subpopulations and the needs of these populations. In the case of mental and social health, the need will surface at the three levels of prevention: primary prevention (measures that forestall the onset of illness), secondary prevention (measures that lead to an early diagnosis and prompt treatment), and tertiary prevention (measures aimed at rehabilitation following significant pathogenesis).
Primary prevention activities for mental and social health could include personal stress management strategies such as exercise and meditation, or school and workplace educational classes to enhance the mental health of students and workers. A secondary prevention strategy could include the staffing of a crisis hot line by local organizations such a health department or mental health center. Tertiary prevention might take the form of the local medical and mental health specialists and health care facilities providing individual and group counseling, or inpatient psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation. All of these prevention strategies can contribute to a communitywide effort to improve the mental and social health of the community or population. During and after the implementation of the strategies, appropriate evaluation will indicate which strategies work and which need to be discontinued or reworked.
As with mental and social health promotion, community recreation and fitness needs should be derived via community assessment. The community or population enhances the quality of life and provides alternatives to the use of drugs and alcohol as leisure pursuits by having organized recreational programs that meet the social, creative, aesthetic, communicative, learning, and physical needs of its members. Such programs can provide a variety of benefits that can contribute to the mental, social, and physical health of the community, and can be provided or supported by schools, workplaces, public and private recreation and fitness organizations, commercial and semipublic recreation, and commercial entertainment. As with all health-promotion programming, appropriate evaluation helps to monitor progress, appropriate implementation of plans, and outcomes achieved.
Community and population health protection revolve around environmental health and safety. Community health personnel work to identify environmental risks and problems so they can take the necessary actions to protect the community or population. Such protective measures include the control of unintentional and intentional injuries; the control of vectors; the assurance that the air, water, and food are safe to consume; the proper disposal of wastes; and the safety of residential, occupational, and other environments. These protective measures are often the result of educational programs, including self-defense classes; policy development, such as the Safe Drinking Water Act or the Clean Air Act; environmental changes,
such as restricting access to dangerous areas; and community planning, as in the case of preparing for natural disasters or upgrading water purification systems.
HEALTH SERVICES AND OTHER RESOURCES
The organization and deployment of the services and resources necessary to plan, implement, and evaluate community and population health strategies constitutes the third general strategy in community and population health. Today's communities differ from those of the past in several ways. Even though community members are better educated, more mobile, and more independent than in the past, communities are less autonomous and more dependent on those outside the community for support. The organizations that can assist communities and populations are classified into governmental, quasi-governmental, and nongovernmental groups. Such organizations can also be classified by the different levels (world, national, state/province, and local) at which they operate.
Governmental health agencies are funded primarily by tax dollars, managed by government officials, and have specific responsibilities that are outlined by the governmental bodies that oversee them. Governmental health agencies include: the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the various state health departments, and the over three thousand local health departments throughout the country. It is at the local level that direct health services and resources reach people.
Quasi-governmental health organizations have some official responsibilities, but they also operate in part like voluntary health organizations. They may receive some government funding, yet they operate independently of government supervision. An example of such a community health organization is the American Red Cross (ARC). The ARC has certain official responsibilities placed on it by the federal government, but is funded by voluntary contributions. The official duties of the ARC include acting as the official representative of the U.S. government during natural disasters and serving as the liaison between members of the armed forces and their families during emergencies. In addition to these official responsibilities, the ARC engages in many nongovernmental services such as blood drives and safety services classes like first aid and water safety instruction.
Nongovernmental health agencies are funded primarily by private donations or, in some cases, by membership dues. The thousands of these organizations all have one thing in common: They
arose because there was an unmet need for them. Included in this group are voluntary health agencies; professional health organizations and associations; philanthropic foundations; and service, social, and religious organizations.
Voluntary health organizations are usually founded by one or more concerned citizens who felt that a specific health need was not being met by existing government agencies. Examples include the American Cancer Society, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), and the March of Dimes. Voluntary health agencies share three basic objectives: to raise money from various sources for research, to provide education, and to provide services to afflicted individuals and families.
Professional health organizations and associations are comprised of health professionals. Their mission is to promote high standards of professional practice, thereby improving the health of the community. These organizations are funded primarily by membership dues. Examples include the American Public Health Association, the British Medical Association, the Canadian Nurses Association, and the Society for Public Health Education.
Philanthropic foundations have made significant contributions to community and population health in the United States and throughout the world. These foundations support community health by funding programs or research on the prevention, control, and treatment of many diseases, and by providing services to deal with other health problems. Examples of such foundations are the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Service, social, and religious organizations have also played a part in community and population health by raising money and funding health-related programs. For example, the Lions Clubs has worked to help prevent blindness, Shriners have helped to provide free medical care through their hospitals, and many religious organizations have worked to feed, clothe, and provide shelter for those in need.
The health services and resources provided through the organizations discussed above are focused at the community level. However, a significant portion of the resources are aimed at personal health care. Figure 4 presents the spectrum of health care delivery in the United States. Some refer to this as the U.S. health care system; others would debate whether any system really exists, referring to this network of services as an array of informal communications between health care providers and health facilities. The spectrum of care begins with public health (or population-based) practice, which is a significant component of community and population health practice. It then moves to four different levels of medical practice. The first level is primary, or front-line or first-contact, care. This involves the medical diagnosis and treatment of most symptoms not requiring a specialist or hospital. Secondary medical care gives specialized attention and ongoing management for both common and less frequently encountered medical conditions. Tertiary medical care provides even more highly specialized and technologically sophisticated medical and surgical care, including the long-term care often associated with rehabilitation. The final level of practice in the spectrum is continuing care, which includes longterm, chronic, and personal care.
Lawrence W. Green
James F. McKenzie
(see also: Behavior, Health-Related; Boards of Health; Citizens Advisory Boards; Community Health Report Cards; Community Organization; Decentralization and Community Health; Environmental Movement; Health Promotion and Education; Healthy Communities; Participation in Community Health Planning; Personal Health Services; Planning for Public Health; Policy for Public Health; Population Policies; Practice of Public Health )
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Community Health Report Cards
There is growing interest at the local, state, and national levels in developing and disseminating profiles of community health. Public health agencies and their community partners use community health profiles to monitor and track health conditions; define community health problems; set priorities; educate professionals, planners, and the public about the health status of the community; initiate policy and delivery system change; facilitate advocacy by local groups; and as a mechanism for social marketing. The production of periodic "community health report cards" is one method used to profile multiple health issues, and their broader determinants, in geographically defined populations. The term "community health report card" refers to a variety of reports, variously termed community health profiles, needs assessments, scorecards, quality of life indices, health status reports, and progress reports. In their various forms, these reports are increasingly cited as critical components of community-based approaches to improving the health and quality of life of communities.
Initiatives to generate report cards proliferated at the national, state, county, and community levels during the 1990s. A noteworthy example at the national level is the Community Health Status Indicator (CHSI) Project, which is a collaborative effort between the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the Public Health Foundation. In 2000, the project published and disseminated community health status reports for all 3,082U.S. counties. These reports provide county-level data, including peer county and national comparisons, for every county in the country. They are designed to support health planning by local health departments, local health planners, community residents, and others interested in community health improvement.
Another example of a national report card is the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT Data Book. The Casey Foundation has produced the national KIDS COUNT Data Book annually since 1990, using the best available data to measure the educational, social, economic, and physical well being of children and families. In 1991, the Casey Foundation began supporting state-level KIDS COUNT projects, and by 1996 there were KIDS COUNT projects in all fifty states and in the District of Columbia. The vision of KIDS COUNT is to raise the nation's awareness and accountability about the condition of children and families in two ways: first, by measuring and reporting on the status of children at the state and local levels; and second, by using the data creatively to inform the public debate and to strengthen public action on behalf of children and families.
In addition, the 1990s saw an explosion of local community health report card projects around the country, both in large cities and small towns, and often as an integral part of local community health improvement initiatives. These community health improvement initiatives have grown out of three major trends: (1) an increasing recognition of the importance of local community action to solve local problems, (2) an increasing emphasis on outcomes and accountability, and (3) the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities movement. Community health report cards can be a useful tool in efforts to help identify areas where change is needed, to set priorities for action, and to track changes in population health over time.
One of the earliest, best known, and continuous community health report card projects is in Jacksonville, Florida: Quality of Life in Jacksonville: Indicators for Progress is coordinated by the Jacksonville Community Council, Inc (JCCI). Jacksonville has published a report on seventy-one indicators every year since 1985, and those reports have served as a model for subsequent report cards produced in other cities. Moreover, the JCCI team has extended its work to link the indicators with performance-based budgeting for the city. Several other well-known and exemplary community health report cards that are linked to local community health improvement initiatives include: The Quality of Life in Pasadena, 1998: An Index for the 90s and Beyond (Pasadena, CA), the Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project (Santa Cruz, CA), the Spokane Community Report Card (Spokane, WA), and Pathways to a Coordinated System of Health Care and Human Services for Children and Families (Rochester, NY). A directory of sixty-five community health report card projects from around the country can be found in The National Directory of Community Health Report Cards, produced by the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities.
A community health report card is a profile of a community's "health" in the broadest sense of the term. More comprehensive report cards include a set of indicators that describe not only the health status and health-risk factors of the total population, but also address quality-of-life issues, the broader determinants of health, and community assets and resources. Many community health improvement efforts, particularly those in the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities movement, view community health and its determinants broadly, and they use a set of indicators (to track their progress) that reflects this broad definition. These indicators might include:
Physical and mental health status;
Educational achievement;
Economic prosperity;
Public safety;
Adequate housing and transportation;
A clean and safe physical environment;
Recreational and cultural opportunities.
NATIONAL STUDY OF COMMUNITY HEALTH REPORT CARDS
A 1996–1997 study by the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities surveyed sixty-five community health-report card projects from across the country. The study sought to better understand: (1) the report card development process, including community participation;(2) report card design and content; and (3) the links between report cards and community health improvement activities. The study found that three quarters of the report card projects were initiated in 1992 or later. Most of the projects planned to produce report cards on an ongoing basis, many at least every one to two years. The purpose of the report cards ranged from increasing public awareness to improving the community health planning and evaluation process and facilitating policy formulation. In three-fifths of the communities, the report cards were part of a larger community health improvement process.
In the study sample, the largest number of report cards (43%) were produced at the county level; others consisted of data from state (22%), regional, or multi-county areas (12%), city, (22%), or, occasionally, a more local neighborhood level. A little over half (54%) included only health indicators, while about one quarter (23%) included a broader set of indicators reflecting multiple aspects of quality of life, including crime, transportation, education, and the environment. Another 25 percent focused on a particular subpopulation such as children, adolescents, Latinos, or elders.
The content and quality of the community health report cards surveyed varied tremendously. Increasingly, communities are using more creative approaches to translate raw data into meaningful and attention-getting information formats designed to appeal to a broader audience and to serve as a catalyst for action. More and more, report-card development draws on the skills of graphic designers and social marketing specialists to communicate messages more effectively.
In the study, problems with data collection and the lack of existing data were the most frequently identified barriers in report-card production. Nearly two-thirds of the projects collected both primary and secondary data to include in their report. Primary data focused mainly on perceived needs, behaviors, and health status, and it was most often collected by survey research firms or the local health department. The most frequent sources of secondary data were the state (62%) and local (31%) health departments and local social service agencies (23%). In fact, local health departments were most likely to initiate and be involved in every stage of the report-card development process. Other partners in the process included hospitals, local governments, state health departments (especially for data collection), local colleges and universities, community residents, nonprofit civic organizations, and social service agencies. The factors most frequently cited as contributing to successful report-card production included: collaboration among different community groups and organizations, community participation, strong leadership, adequate funding, and local/state government support. However, while collaboration and community participation are important in creating an effective report card, about one-fifth of the communities reported that the time and effort required to get all the stakeholders together was their greatest challenge.
The UCLA study also found that community health report card production is a relatively long and resource-intensive process, usually requiring between six and eighteen months from the first organizational meeting to production of the report card. The average cost of report-card production in the UCLA sample was $60,000, with costs ranging from $0 to $1 million.
The following are characteristics of effective community report cards:
The format is clear, well-organized, and "user-friendly."
Multiple forms of data presentation are used, including text, graphs, charts, maps, and quotations.
A geographic/demographic profile of the population is included.
Both primary and secondary data are presented.
There is a clear, balanced interpretation of the data.
There is a clear presentation of community assets as well as needs.
The link between the data and opportunities for action is articulated.
Comparisons to peer communities (counties, states, etc.) are made.
Comparisons to other benchmarks (e.g., state/national data, Healthy People objectives) are made.
Trend data is presented.
Data sources are identified.
Graphic design features are used, including photographs.
Multiple products are developed for different audiences.
Broad and participatory community effort is involved.
THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH REPORT CARDS
The development of community health report cards, for the most part, has been highly local in nature and dependent on local sociopolitical conditions and data constraints. To enhance the effectiveness of community health report cards, there is a clear need for a more supportive infrastructure, including innovative data systems that can provide more data at the local level, more information on disparities in health among different subpopulations, as well as data on community assets and resources. There is also a need for more primarydata collection. Communities also need support with indicator selection. The wide variation in indicators used argues for the development of a conceptual framework to facilitate the selection of indicators that, as a set, present a contextual view of community health and its determinants. Both the Institute of Medicine report, Improving Health in the Community, and the RAND/UCLA report, California Health Report, provide examples of frameworks that use a broad definition of health and account for the role of multiple determinants in health outcomes.
Community health report cards will also benefit from efforts to enhance their presentation and accessibility, including the use of social marketing expertise to create effective messages. Report cards can also make use of technology to communicate to a broader audience. Mapping techniques such as geographic information systems (GIS) and Internet access are two such methods.
Carol Sutherland
Neal Halfon
Jonathan E. Fielding
(see also: Community Health; Community Organization; Health Goals; Healthy People 2010; Healthy Communities )
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Community Health Status Indicators Project (2000). Community Health Status Reports. Washington, DC: Health Resources and Services Administration, CHSIP.
Durch, J. S.; Bailey, L. A.; and Stoto, M. A., eds. (1997). Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.
Fielding, J. E., and Sutherland, C. E. (1998). The National Directory of Community Health Report Cards. Chicago, IL: Health Research and Educational Trust.
Fielding, J. E.; Sutherland, C. E.; and Halfon, N. (July 1999). "Community Report Cards: Results of a National Survey." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 17 (1).
Halfon, N.; Ebener, P.; Sastry, N.; Wyn, R.; Cherman, L.; Hernandez, J.; and Wong, D. (1997). California Health Report. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.
Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. (2000). Life in Jacksonville: Quality Indicators for Progress. Jacksonville, FL.: JCCI.
Kids Count Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being (2000). Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation for Kids.
Monroe County Child Health Initiative (1994). Pathways to a Coordinated System of Health Care and Human Services for Children and Families. Rochester, NY: MCCHI.
Spokane County Health District Assessment Center (1998). Spokane Community Report Card. Spokane, WA: SCHDAC.
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Deputy Prime Minister stresses ecotech cooperation in APEC
Ha Noi, Nov. 16 (VNA) -- Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Manh Cam stressed the importance and role of ecotech cooperation among APEC at the 8th APEC Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei.
Deputy PM Cam on Nov. 16 exchanged views with other APEC member countries' leaders on the negative impacts of the rapid development of the information technology revolution, the emergence and development of a new economy and e-commerce on traditional branches of production and business.
Vietnam supports for UN special session on Children
Nov. 16 (VNA) -- Viet Nam supports the draft resolution to be adopted by the UN General Assembly this year under item 42 relating to preparations for a Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children in Sept., 2001, Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Chau has said.
Mr. Chau affirmed Viet Nam's strong support for and full commitment to making the Special Session a great success at the UN General Assembly in New York on Nov. 15.
The fight against drug trafficking in Vietnam
Ha Noi, Nov.16, (VNA) -- Viet Nam has declared a war against drug trafficking and other social evils at a seminar jointly held here today by the National Committee for AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Control and the daily Nhan Dan.
Fighting drug trafficking and addiction is extremely difficult and requiring more efforts from all government offices as well as relevant organizations, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem told the seminar, stressing this should be considered a regular task with a view to wiping it out of the people's life.
Activities of NGOs in Vietnam
Nov. 14 (VNA) -- More than 100 officials from Ho Chi Minh City's agencies in charge of receiving aid from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been provided with skills on aid mobilization and management.
Vietnam contributes initiatives to APEC Agenda
Nov. 13 (VNA) -- All three initiatives of Viet Nam have been included in the agenda of the 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, on Nov. 12 and 13.
The country is being represented by a delegation led by Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien at the meeting of foreign and economic ministers from 21 APEC member countries.
Vietnam improves investment environment
Ha Noi , Nov. 14 (VNA) - Viet Nam has always done its best to create a favourable environment for foreign investors and businessmen, President of the Japanese Business Association in Vietnam Otani Yasuo told a reporter from Nhan Dan newspaper in a recent interview.
The "Safe Kids Day" launched in Vietnam with UNICEF's assistance
Ha Noi, Nov. 14 (VNA) -- The Nguyen Du Primary School of Ha Noi was the first school chosen as a model of the "Safe Kids Day" launched in Ha Noi on Nov. 13 under UNICEF's traffic safety programme.
The "Safe Kids Day", jointly organized by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Viet Nam, the Committee for Protection and Care of Children, and the U.S Embassy in Ha Noi, aims to promote child safety helmet use to prevent road fatalities and injuries.
Vietnam wins UN award for natural disaster control
Ha Noi, Nov. 14 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's efforts in natural disaster control has won the country the UN special certificate of merit.
The Central Flood and Storm Control Committee (CFSCC) was presented the UN Sasakawa certificate for its achievements in tackling the various calamities which have hit Viet Nam this year.
Foreign investment of 608 million in 10 months
FOREIGN INVESTORS INVEST USD 608 MILLION IN TEN MONTHS
Ha Noi, Nov. 11 (VNA) -- Investment licenses were granted to 245 more foreign-invested projects capitalized at USD 608 million in the first ten months of this year, says the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).
Photo Exhibition on Agent Orange effects in Vietnam on display
Ha Noi, Nov. 11 (VNA) -- Images of Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, taken 25 years after the American war which blighted their lives, are now on display in a European centre.
A photo exhibition of these long-suffering people is being held in the city of Luxembourg, co-sponsored by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg's Ministry of Co-operation and Charitable Activities and Switzerland's Caritas Fund, in co-operation with the Luxembourg Red Cross.
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The Vladimir Putin Timeline
VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN
Russian Orthodox Christmas, and possible day of Putin conception, since he was born 9 months later to a mother named Mariya (similar to Mary). Being conceived on Russia’s X-mas makes sense if Putin is the Antichrist.
A total solar eclipse passed over the Atlantic Ocean off Africa, Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and ending in Siberia. Its interesting that it passed over the Middle East and Siberia. Note that an August 1999 solar eclipse in Europe occured when Putin rose to power to be second in command in Russia.
Related to this date is a prophecy of American psychic Jean Dixon, Jean Dixon is said to have had a vision on July 14, 1952: a vision of a large snake, that was a very wise snake; its eyes were looking toward the East, with great wisdom. She felt that this snake knew all things. The snake told her that she too must look to the East for wisdom. And she felt that this snake was a bringer of peace on Earth and good will and great knowledge. I would connect this snake with Putin, where on July 14, 1952 he would be about 6 months-6 days from conception (similar to 666, the Number of the Beast). Putin connects with the serpent or snake and Ra the Egyptian sun deity; in Hebrew “peten” means “Cobra”.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, now Saint Petersburg, Russia near the time of the first U.S. Hydrogen Bomb test on Nov. 1, 1952. Note that Leningrad is on the ocean, and the Antichrist rises out of the sea in Revelation 13 and that Julian Year 6666 is 1953; Julian time is used in astronomy and science and counts days from Jan 1, 4713 B. C.
666 is the number of the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation, also take a look at the grouping of planets in the sign Libra in his chart. 1952 = 13/.00666 (13: Revelation 13) And see this page on other prophecies, on a Psychic Jean Dixon vision of a snake in 1952.
In J.R. Church’s excellent book “Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms”, (see this page for more discussion of it), J.R. Church discovered a pattern where events in years in the 20th century correspond to Psalms of that year number (Psalm 30 corresponds to year 1930, for example), from the point of view of Israel and the Middle East. This may fit that pattern: note that 1952 saw the birth of Putin the Antichrist, and this Psalm certainly could be talking about the Antichrist.
Psalm 52 (The year of Putin’s birth): Psalm 52:1 – Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually. Psalm 52:2 – The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Psalm 52:3 – Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Psalm 52:4 – Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. Psalm 52:5 – God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living.
Psalm 52:6 – The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him Psalm 52:7 – Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. Psalm 52:8 – But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. Psalm 52:9 – I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints. The words in Psalm 52 certainly would apply to an Antichrist: “O mighty man”, “Thou lovest evil more than good”.
Putin begins law school, at Leningrad State University.
Graduation, Putin joins the KGB which he stayed in until 1991.
Putin marries Lyudmilla, 8 years younger than him. Note that in 1983 the Big Dig project for a highway in Boston was proposed. 1996 (Summer) Putin moves into the house he had built, in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. After building it for 6 years, he just lived in it for 6 weeks before it burnt down, because the sauna was not installed correctly. He rescued his two daughters from the fire, and he barely got out alive himself. Note the number 6 as in 666: he built the house for 6 years, and he lived in it 6 weeks before it burnt down. An interesting event, considering that he is the Antichrist.
Putin is appointed by Yeltsin to be head of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), the Russian successor to the KGB.
Putin becomes Russian Prime Minister at the time of the Aug. 11 solar eclipse over Europe (including part of Germany), and the Aug. 18 Grand Cross Astrology pattern, that I have connected with the rise of the Antichrist.
Putins popularity rose from 5 % in July 1999 to 80% in November 1999 ! Note the Nostradamus Prophecy of the great King of Terror in the 7th month of the year 1999. It’s just a thought but July is the 7th month of 1999 (7/1999) and November is the 11th month, the year is 1999 (11/1999). This is the rise of the Antichrist, the great king of terror.
Putin becomes Acting Russian President with Yeltsin retiring, as the new millennium begins although actually the Millennium didn’t begin until Jan. 1, 2001.
KGB / FSB defector Colonel Stanislav Lunev testifies before Congress In a Congressional hearing in 2000 that Russia placed small briefcase-sized nuclear devices in different US and European Cities, the FSB smuggled the small atomic devices into the United States and Europe, awaiting a future date when they will be used by FSB Russian secret agents already in the USA and Europe (Remember the Spy-Ring discovered in June 2010, read below).
Vladimir Putin is elected head of the 10 nation Commonwealth of Independent States. When you check WikiPedia, you can see that there are 10 nations, not 12 like in the beginning. Remember the beast of Revelation with 7 heads and 10 horns — The 10 horns are the 10 nations in the Commonwealth of Independent states ! These nations are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. All former Soviet Union states, working together to the so-called endtimes OR the ten horns are the 10 leaders of the United Nations, Russia has Veto Power in the UN.
Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. … I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. The beast, which you saw, once was (1999-2008), now is not (2008-2012), and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction (2012-2018 OR 2012-2024). The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come. This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king (2012 Putin Election). He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction. The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom (Former Soviet Union), but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast (Commonwealth of Independent States). They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.(The coming New Soviet Union) …The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire (Revelation 17:3-16).
Acting President Putin announces a new Russian security doctrine allowing Russia to use nuclear weapons first in time of war.
Putin wins the Russian Presidential Elections.
Putin visits London England.
Putin inaugurated as Russian President President, 2 days after the May 5, 2000 rare alignment of the planets in a row.
Putin creates seven districts in Russia, which may be the seven heads of the seven head, 10 horn red beast.
After discussions with Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister, Putin recommends ending U.N. sanctions on Iraq. Also, there was a barely visible comet in year 2000. Comet C/1999 S4 LINEAR was discovered in Socorro New Mexico on September 27, 1999 by the LINEAR team of scientists. In late July 2000 it was barely visible to the unaided eye, much dimmer than Comet Hale-Bopp, and it blew apart and disappeared near July 28 2000. It was closest to the sun on July 26, 2000. This could be related to the inauguration of President Putin in Russia in May 2000, beginning the 7 year End Times period at the end of July 2000.
President Putin suggests that Russia bring back the Soviet National Anthem, and the Czarist flag.
President Putin’s proposal to bring back the old Stalinist National Anthem is approved by the Russian Parliament.
Russian President Putin and German Chancellor Schroeder met in St. Petersburg, Russia. Schroeder’s second visit to Moscow in four months, increasingly close ties between Russia and Germany. Europe I believe is the woman “Babylon” that rides the ten-horn beast of the Antichrist, Putin. So there will be increasingly close ties between Europe and Russia. And its interesting that this conference occurred during Easter week, which relates to he Antichrist idea.
Right before an official visit to Israel his mother gave him his baptismal cross telling him to get it blessed “I did as she said and then put the cross around my neck. I have never taken it off since” — This is the story Putin repeated the story to George W. Bush in June 2001, which might have inspired Bush to make his remark that he had “got a sense of Putin’s soul”.
When asked whether he believes in God during his interview with Time, he responded saying: “… There are things I believe, which should not in my position, at least, be shared with the public at large for everybody’s consumption because that would look like self-advertising or a political striptease”.
Putin and Red China’s leader meet and they sign a Friendship Treaty in Moscow.
Putin on his birthday was presented a multi-million $ crown of gold with jewels, and a cross on it, that is similar to the crown of Czar of Russia Peter the Great. A crown appropriate for an Antichrist.
Vladimir Putin meets with the leaders of France, Germany, in St. Petersburg Russia to discuss the future of Iraq, they all having opposed the U.S. and U.K. invasion of Iraq.
President Putin visited the U.K, the first official visit to England by a Russian or Soviet leader in this century. Note that Saturn (Satan) was then in conjunction with the sun. Sept, 2003 Putin taking on more of a peacemaker role. He says the U.N. must have a greater role in Iraq, and Russia is part of the 4-power quartet (Russia, U.S., China, European Union) that has a meeting at the U.N. on Sept. 26 to help bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Putin said that the oil cartel has set oil prices too high, and Russia the second largest oil exporter, wanted lower prices. This is of great help to the U.S. and the world economies. Here we are beginning to see President Putin as a positive force in the world; as it is said, Satan comes as an angel of light. But also in October 2003, another side of Putin was seen with his arrest of a billionaire oil tycoon in Russia, and a territorial dispute between Russia and the Ukraine over a Crimean island.
We are likely to see Putin gain dictatorial powers in Russia soon, he is strengthening his control on Russia and also trying to gain control over the other Commonwealth of Independent States including Ukraine. Note that Oct. 30 the Constitutional Court in Russia struck down a law that Putin had signed that had greatly restricted media coverage of election campaigns, a case of Putin reigning in freedom of the press in Russia. Also note there was much talk about Russian President Putin’s arrest of an oil billionaire in Russia, which may indicate a return to some degree of state ownership in Russia, and Putin heading towards dictatorship in Russia, and also President Putin getting more actively involved in the Middle East peace process.
And there were two giant solar storm X-ray flares from the sun hitting earth during the week of Oct. 27-31, one of them one of the strongest solar explosions ever seen (October 28), a G5 eruption. The Oct. 28 solar flare was an X17.2 flare, the fourth largest ever seen. It was ejected from the active region 10486 sunspot, the largest sunspot ever seen by the SOHO solar satellite. This is very unusual since the sun is about 3 years past its predicted peak in solar activity.
This Oct. 28 flare sent a particle stream towards earth, resulting in Northern Lights Aurora seen as far south as Virginia. Relate this number X17.2 flare to Revelation 17:2 and the woman who rides the beast (Russia and Putin) in Revelation 17. I think this solar flare relates holographically to the strong Satanic energy then, in the week of the Satanic holiday Halloween, and as indicated by the California forest fires, and President Putin the Antichrist in Russia gaining increased control there over the Russian economy. Below: the sunspot 10486, the Oct. 28 2003 eruption on the sun, and the Oct. 28 solar flare: And on November 4, 2003 there was an even larger solar eruption, with a preliminary magnitude of X-28, later reclassified as X-45, making it the largest ever. But it was not aimed at earth like the Oct. 28, so earth only saw the edge of the burst. Note the cross shape of the eruption in the photo below, connecting it with the Antichrist.
Below: the November 4, 2003 solar eruption on the sun, and the solar flare: Also note: on November 4, the day of this largest solar blast ever measured, the Antichrist Russian President Putin arrived in Rome, for a 2 day visit that included talks with Italy’s President, the Pope, and a summit with the European Union leaders. Rome is connected with the Antichrist because he is said to create a new Roman Empire, and his bride who rides him is the woman Europa, The largest solarflare ever seen on the day putin arrives in Rome was another sign he is the 3rd Antichrist !!! When Putin arrived in Rome, the tremendous Satanic energy resulting from him being there holographically resulted in this giant solar flare. It says in Revelation 13:13 “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,” Could this giant solar flare be a case of Putin bringing fire down from heaven? Also note that the Oct. 28 solar flare was magnitude X17.2, and Revelation 17:2 is about the woman who rides the Antichrist beast, this woman is Europa/Europe. Also, on November 3 Putin met in Moscow with Israel Prime Minister Sharon. In the last week of October, Russia promoted a peace plan for the Israel-Palestinian conflict, that is backed by Russia, the U.S., the European Union, and the U.N., i think that this November 4, 2003, solar flare begins a 7 year (42 month) period where the Antichrist Putin will be at maximum power, ending on Nov. 4 2010, at Armageddon (Baba Vanga Prophesied the “start” of World War III in November 2010.
Note that it is exactly 3 1/2 years (42 months)after the May 5, 2000 alignment of planets, 2 days before the May 7 2000 Putin inauguration as Russian President following his election. Revelation 13:5: “And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.” During the 3 1/2 year from May 2007 – Nov. 2010 expect to see the world hit by all kinds of disasters and the four horsemen of the apocalypse: war, plagues, economic chaos, volcanoes, earthquakes, weather change, Muslim terrorism, meteors or comets hitting earth.
This 3 1/2 year period is in Bible prophecy considered to be the second half of a seven year period of time described in the old testament Book of Daniel. Note also that Daniel 12:11,12 refers to time periods of 1290 days from this midpoint to “the abomination that maketh desolate” (May 17, 2007) and 1335 days to “Blessed is he that waiteth” (July 1, 2007). Also note that on the pages on and on I discuss Putin’s connection to the Egyptian sun god Ra (Rasputin – Ra + Putin) symbolized by a cobra around the sun, “peten” meaning Cobra in Hebrew. So this is another connection of Putin to these solar flares, Putin’s connection to Ra.
And also note that Oct. 28 2003, the first large solar flare, and the day before Devil’s Night (the day before Halloween), was exactly 18648=28×666=21×888 days after the Putin birth date of Oct. 7, 1952; 666 is the number of the Antichrist in Revelation 13 and 888 is the number for Jesus in Greek, see the page for explanation on this. Because of all this, I think somehow Putin gained Satanic power during his visit to Rome of Nov. 4-6 2003, and he actually visited the Vatican on November 6, beginning then the 7 years of the End Times events ending in Nov. 2010.
And a few days later during a Nov. 8 lunar eclipse there was a rare grand sextile diamond shaped astrology pattern called the Harmonic Concordance. Relate it to the diamond shape of geographic coordinates discussed on the Russia page. Note this Astrology pattern has 6 sides (666 again). This Astrology pattern may be a gateway for Putin’s rise as Antichrist. December 2003 Saturn was high in the sky (its highest point in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere in 30 years) and at opposition Dec. 31, 2003. Also on Dec. 6-7 there were Parliamentary elections in Russia that were allegedly rigged by a Putin controlled press, that increased Putin’s control over Russia’s parliament through his party United Russia.
This was a critical step in Putin gaining dictatorial power over Russia. But I think Putin will have state takeover of some major Russian industries. With the planet Saturn representing Satan is at opposition, its brightest, and its highest point in the sky in 30 years,on Dec. 31 as the new year began, this indicated Putin the Antichrist is on his way to becoming a Hitler-like dictator of Russia, and also gaining control over other former Soviet Union countries, as the red 10 horned beast forms. Dec 23, 2003 It was announced that Russia is deploying new Topol-M strategic nuclear missles.
It was announced by Russia that their nuclear forces will stage a large nuclear war exercise in February, with bombers flying and missles test-fired. This is unusual since such a military exercise has no value in the war against Muslim Terrorism, so this indicates Russia is building up its nuclear forces. Note that Jan. 27, 2004, was the 60th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad during World War 2.
This is 42 years since the June 5 1962 astrology alignment that American psychic Jean Dixon connected with the Antichrist. Also on that page about another vision of Jean Dixon about a serpent near the time of Putin’s birth in 1952. 42 years is significant because the number 42 is connected with the Antichrist in Revelation 13, where it says he is in power 42 months.
Putin gave a speech where he called the collapse of the Soviet Union a “national tragedy”.
During a Russian military naval exercise, Putin in a Navy officer’s uniform was on board the Russian nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk, when there was a failed attempt at launching ballistic missles from another submarine. Reminds one of “The Hunt for Red October”. Note the name of the submarine Putin was on; note that Satan is an Arkangel, as well as Gabriel and Michael.
Putin was re-elected in Russia, as there was a large fire in a historic building in Moscow; apparently it symbolized the “fires of Hell” that Putin comes out of. “Beware the Ides of March”.
Putin began his second four year term as President of Russia. Note that this was three days after the May 4 lunar eclipse, and as three comets were visible, possibly representing the Unholy Trinity (the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and Satan the Dragon).
Putin proposed changes to Russia’s political system, as an anti-terror plan, but these changes would concentrate more political power in Putin’s hands. He proposed no longer having elections for the governors of the 89 regions of Russia, but rather have Putin appoint these local governors. This would give Putin much more control over Russia’s local government, and would be a major step in making Russia a Hitler-like dictatorship under Putin.
Iran said it that with its nuclear power plant (built with Russian help) it had reprocessed Uranium, a step toward developing the A-bomb.
Belarus, Russia’s neighbor, has a vote by President Lukashenko to make himself President for life, and therefore dictator of Belarus. Protests result from the rigged election.
Putin said that Russia is developing a new more advanced nuclear missle, that has the ability to maneuver in flight.
A Presidential election crisis in the Ukraine, a country of 48 million near Russia. Thousands of people protested what they saw as a rigged election, because Russian-backed candidate Viktor Yanukovych was declared the winner by the Ukrainian Election Commission, over Western-leaning candidate Viktor Yushchenko, 49% to 46%. Most bizarre was a story that Yushchenko had been poisoned in September by a biological weapon toxin, Dioxin, that affected his health and appearance, causing a disfiguring skin disease, facial paralysis, backaches, and other health problems.
Putin and the European Union ended talks trying to reach a “strategic partnership”, without an agreement.
Protest in Russia over Putin signing into law a change in government, where Putin can appoint local governors. This is seen as a step towards a Putin dictatorship.
The Ukraine rerun election, which Viktor Yushchenko won.
Putin says that Russia will not turn back from democracy.
Putin the Antichrist visits Cairo Egypt and Israel, during Passover. This is very significant, the Antichrist in Israel. And Putin visiting Cairo is significant because of his connection to the Egyptian Sun deity Ra, and the Pyramids are at the base of the “diamond” shape, as explained on this page. On April 29, 2005, Putin offered to the Palestinians security aid, helicopters and other equipment, and offered to host a Mideast Peace Conference.
President Bush and Putin talked in Russia.
Russia and Red China began joint military exercises off a Chinese Peninsula, the first they have ever had joint military execises. Both Russia and China belong to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,which also includes four Central Asian former Soviet nations. This is the Dragon-Bear alliance of the Antichrist.
A meeting in Moscow of the 6 nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), consisting of Russia, China, and 4 central Asian countries. SCO is forming a military alliance led by Russian President Putin, to counter U.S. influence in the world. India, Pakistan, and Iran were observers at this meeting. Likely this is the beginnings of a new 10 horned beast led by the Antichrist Putin.
Putin visited Japan for three days of talks with Japan’s government leaders.
A live 24 hour, English language TV station began broadcasting to the world from Moscow. This gives Putin a worldwide propaganda outlet.
The European Union protested Russia selling advanced missles to Iran. Russia is helping Iran with its nuclear program and selling Iran missles.
Putin’s economic adviser Andrei Illarionov resigned, saying that Putin is turning Russia into a dictatorship, with state takeover of key industries.
Putin is chairman of the G8 organization of industrial nations in 2006, appropriate since 6-6-06 is on June 6. Also, Russia temporarily cut off Natural Gas supplies to Ukraine, resuming on Jan. 5 after a price increase. This shows that Putin will use energy supplies as a means of manipulating Western Europe and former Soviet Union countries such as Ukraine.
Putin has a plan to settle the Iran nuclear dispute, Putin the Antichrist as peacemaker. Uranium from Iran’s nuclear power plants would be sent to Russia for processing and then returned to Iran for nuclear power generation. Supposedly this would keep Iran from developing the A-Bomb with the uranium. Note that Jan. 27 Saturn/Satan was at opposition, closest to earth.
Russian President Putin invited Hamas, the terrorist party winner of the Palestinian election, to Moscow Russia for talks. Putin attempting to bring about an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement; perhaps he will have a role as peacemaker, since he is the Antichrist. A “Man of Peace”?
In the U.S., the Council of Foreign Relations report concluded that Russia is headed for increasing dictatorship with widespread corruption under Putin, and that the U.S. should be careful on partnership with Russia.
Putin said that Russia will increase its military forces and weapons, to keep up with the U.S.. Most interesting was his comparing the U.S. to a wolf, as in Russian Fairy Tales, and his statement: “Comrade Wolf knows how to swallow…He swallows without listening to anyone”. Putin indicated that Russia would modernize its strategic nuclear forces, missles, planes, and submarines, to counter the U.S.. Also, to help stop Russia’s decline in population, Putin proposed payments for new mothers in Russia. Note that Russia’s population is now 142 million, and the last 2 digits 42 are associated with the Antichrist, since he is in power 42 months in Revelation 13.
Putin said he will name his choice of his successor for Russian President in the 2008 Russian election. He indicated that he will not attempt to change the Russian Constitution to allow him to seek a 3rd term as Russian President.
A journalist in Russia got in trouble for ridiculing Putin’s plan to pay Russian women to have more children. This shows that Putin is very intolerant of criticism.
Putin when talking to some tourists in Moscow, sees a boy about 6 years old, and pulls up the boy’s shirt and gives the boy a kiss on his bare stomach. This belly-smooch incident was much talked and laughed about in the news media and talk shows, since it makes one wonder if Putin likes to do other things to little boys. Putin later said he wanted to “squeeze him like a kitten”. Wierd or what?
At a meeting in Russia of religious leaders from around the world, Putin talked about the need for peace and unity between religions, particularly between Christians and Muslims.
The G-8 economic summit began in St. Petersburg Russia, hosted by Russian President Putin. This is a new high point for Putin as the Antichrist, as host of the G8 conference meeting of leading economic powers. The importance of Russia in the economic world is that Russia is the leading Natural Gas supplier for the world.
If Middle East oil supplies get too expensive or cut off then Putin could help the world avoid economic disaster by supplying Natural Gas LNG to the world. By controling Natural Gas supplies to the world, this is a way Putin can control the world economy. Putin also discussed at this summit the Middle East which was then headed towards war, Putin may have a role as peacemaker in the Middle East.
A large fire severely damaged the Trinity Cathedral in St. Petersburg Russia, a large cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church. The main dome of the church collapsed. Putin is from St. Petersburg, and belongs to the Russian Orthodox faith and appears to be very religious, so this fire could relate to Putin rising to power as Antichrist. Also Russia said it opposed sanctions against Iran because of Iran’s nuclear program.
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Russia, shot to death by an unkown assassin. She been a critic of Putin’s abuse of human rights. October 20, 2006 Putin talked about a conflict between Georgia and Russia.
Putin said that at the end of his term as Russian President in 2008, he will leave the Presidency, but may take on a new role in the Russian Government.
In England the police were investigating the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian defector who had previously worked for the KGB and later the FSB in Russia as a spy. He had met a man at a restaurant who had said he had information about the assassination of the woman journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Russia in October, but this man poisoned him, something was “Put in” his food. This definitely sounds like Putin the Antichrist stuff, the P-Man poisoning people who criticize him.
Remember the Ukrainian Presidential Candidate who was poisoned with Dioxin, Viktor Yushchenko, it has been alleged that Putin could have been behind that. A cobra is a snake with a poisonous bite. This poisoning thing seems to be a Putin specialty. Litvinenko had previously accused Putin of being responsible for staging supposed terrorist bombings in 1999 in Russia, that were used as an excuse for war against Chechnya. He had fled Russia for England in 2000.
It was reported that the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko was by putting in his food at a restaurant a radioactive isotope Polonium-210. A high level of it was found in him. In a death-bed statement he said he was sure that Putin was responsible for his poisoning because something was “Put in” his food at the restaurant. Polonium is element atomic number 84, and its normal atomic weight is 209, 210 being the atomic weight of this radioactive isotope.
If we relate the normal Polonium atomic weight 209 to Book of Revelation passage number 20:9, note passages 20:7 – 20:9 about Satan being set free on earth (in the form of Putin?) (King James version): 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Also note: In Hindu mythology, the female demon Putana was a daughter of Bali, the Monkey King. Putana tried to murder the infant Krisna (a Hindu avatar, a Hindu type of Christ-like Messiah figure), by giving him poisonous milk. Krisna later destroyed Putana. Analogous to the Christ and Antichrist in the Book of Revelation. Note the similarity of Putana to Putin.
According to the 2007 reports referring to American counterintelligence sources, Russian espionage under Vladimir Putin had reached Cold War levels.
In Moscow there was an attempted protest against Putin’s retreat from democracy and growing dictatorship. Police cracked down on the demonstration and arrested protestors. Also, the launch of the first new Russian nuclear missile carrying submarine since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Yuri Dolgoruky, the first of the new Russian Borei class subs, it meaning “Arctic Wind”. Sounds like “The Hunt for Red October” book and movie. This new Russian sub the Yuri Dolgoruky carries a new ballistic missile. Putin is in the process of rebuilding and modernizing Russia’s nuclear forces, largely to challenge the U.S.
Russia proposes building floating nuclear power plants that it will sell to the world. And signs in Russia of Putin increasingly making the country a dictatorship with his control of news media and journalists. The takeover of the largest independent radio news network in Russia puts it under the Russian government control of Putin. As part of the new rules at this Russian radio news network, reports on Russia must be at least 50% positive, and the United States must be referred to as the enemy. The three major TV networks were already Russian government controlled. I think that as Putin emerges as Antichrist, he will eventually turn Russia into an absolute dictatorship with himself worshiped as a deity.
Putin said that because the US plans to build a Missle Defense in Eastern Europe, Russia would retaliate by not abiding by a treary on military forces in Europe. May 19, 2007 Two days of talks in Berlin between European Union leaders and Putin ended in disagreement over human rights issues in Russia.
The United Kingdom demanded from Russia the arrest and return to England of a former KGB agent, who they accused of allegedly poisoning Alexander Litvinenko in England in November 2006.
Putin threatened Europe that he will aim missles at European targets, because of US plans of building a Missle Defense system in Eastern Europe. A definite sign of the evil Antichrist side of Putin emerging.
Putin’s approval rating was 81% in June 2007, and the highest of any leader in the world !
(777, “Cross” in Greek!) is 666 months (55.5 years) from the possible Putin conception date of Jan. 7 1952, which was Christmas Day in Russia.
Russia announced that it was suspending the Arms Limitation Treaty with the U.S. because of the U.S. Missile Defense Plan. Note The August 1 2007 astrology chart shows a bent cross pattern, so a Satanic cross. Note that Jupiter and Pluto are both in Sagittarius, so both the first Horseman of the Apocalypse, the Antichrist Putin represented by Jupiter, and the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, Death represented by Pluto, could be riding in 2010 since they are in the horse/man sign Sagittarius.
Note that August 2 2007, two Russian submarines descended to the ocean floor beneath the North Pole, where they planted a Russian Flag. Russia is claiming the arctic seabed which likely has vast reserves of oil and gas. This is an ambitious scheme by Putin to claim much of the Actic Ocean floor as belonging to Russia. And August 17 2007, Russia and China had a joint military exercise in Russia, as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization of Russia, China, and 4 former Soviet Union Central Asia countries, and Putin announced that Russia was resumiong long range bomber flights to intimidate the U.S.. Another sign of Putin emerging as Antichrist. And he gets his power from the dragon, China.
There is a photo in the press of a shirtless Putin showing off his muscular physique. Photographs of Putin were taken while he was vacationing in the Siberian mountains. The Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda published a huge colour photo of the bare-chested president under the headline: “Be Like Putin”.
Putin’s name and image are widely used in advertisement and product branding. Among the Putin-branded products are Putinka vodka, PuTin brand of canned food, caviar Gorbusha Putina, Denis Simachev’s collection of T-shirts decorated by images of Putin.
Putin names Zubkov as the new Premier in Russia, apparently Putin installing a puppet he can control.
Gorbachev speaks of his concern about Putin bringing Russia back to the old ways of the Soviet Union police state, since Putin is portraying the Stalin “Reign of Terror” days as the “good old days”. And Putin has been having his long range bombers fly close to U.S. territory, bringing back the old Cold War games.
Putin announces that he may stay in power in Russia next year as Prime Minister. It appears that Putin will undermine Russia’s democratic system by turning the Prime Minister position into a more powerful one, and possibly succeed the new elected President of Russia next year after the new President steps down from power shortly after being elected. Putin appears to have a plan to make himself a Hitler-like dictator in Russia next year, as part of his rise to power as Antichrist.
Putin visits Iran, and while there with Iran’s President, Putin puts out a warning to the U.S. to leave alone Iran. Putin making clear his military alliance with Iran. Nov 1, 2007 Russia puts out a warning that they do not want foreign interference with the December 2 Parliamentary election.
Putin warns U.S. against military action on Iran, the Russian leader says “Caspian nations shouldn’t be used to stage an attack”, the same day, after the Putin speach US President George Bush warns Putin over “World War III” when Iran is not stopped building nuclear weapons !
In St. Petersburg Russia, a peaceful demonstration against Putin results in police beating up and arresting the protesters.
Dec 1-2, 2007
Putin withdraws Russia from a European conventional arms treaty, that had limited military buildups in Europe. And Putin’s party wins a big victory in the election for Russian Parliament, but it was alleged that Putin rigged the election.
Putin announces that he intends to become Prime Minister of Russia following the March 2008 Russian Presidential election.
In the U.S., Time Magazine chose Putin to be its “Person of the Year”. Note that in 1938 Hitler was Time “Man of the Year”.
Approximate date the world population officially reached 6.66 Billion. A significant milestone for the world, possibly relating to the Antichrist Putin. And note that on April 7, Putin was 666 months old. This could relate to Putin manipulating the government in Russia, to make himself absolute dictator there. And note Revelation 13:18 (King James version): “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (666).”The number of man” is 46, since man has 46 chromosones, and “Adam” the first man totals 46 in Greek, the original language of the Book of Revelation, as shown on the Greek page . So April 6, 4-6, corresponds to 46, when Putin is exactly 666 months old.
So all this adds up to April 6 being a time of Putin receiving Antichrist power, possibly by manipulating Russia’s government to make himself absolute dictator of Russia. April 15, 2008 Putin became head of the United Russia party.
Russian President Medvedev appointed Putin as Prime Minister, second in command in Russia. Putin keeps his power. At this point in history the Antichrist “is not”, like Revelation says : HE IS (1999/2008) IS NOT (2008/2012) AND WILL BE AGAIN (2012/2018).
Russian President Medvedev gives a warning about NATO having countries near Russia join it, and accuses the U.S. of causing a world economic crisis. Sounds like Putin is pulling strings for him now.
Medvedev gives a warning that Russia will defend its interests in other countries. Could this have been a warning of the August 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia.
Chavez of Venezuela visits Russia and agrees to a military and energy alliance with Russia.
Putin accused the Mechel company of selling resources to Russia at higher prices than those charged to foreign countries and claimed that it had been avoiding taxes by using foreign subsidiaries to sell its products internationally. The Prime Minister’s attack on Mechel resulted in sharp decline of its stock value and contributed to the 2008 Russian financial crisis, Putin helps to create what will become a global finiancial crisis 2 months after in September 2008.
8/8/08 (888). See the page on , where I show that “888” in Greek corresponds to the “Jesus”, which is interesting since “666” is the number of the Antichrist in Revelation 13, and “777” corresponds to “Cross” in Greek. Relate this to Putin rising to power as Antichrist (the Satanic imitation of Christ). Note that war broke out between Russia and Georgia on August 8 2008.
And Putin met President Bush at the Olympics in China on 8/8/08, the day Russia started bombing Georgia, making it clear that Putin and the hard-liners are still in power in Russia, with Putin apparently using this as an opportunity to make it clear to President Bush that Putin is still in power in Russia and the present Russian President is a Putin puppet. Putin appears to be on a course of reasserting Russian influence over the former Soviet Union states such as Georgia.
Note that 8/8/08 is 1 week after the solar eclipse over Russia on 8/1/08. Putin the Antichrist appears to have solar eclipses associated with his rise to power, since in August 1999 when Putin first rose to power in Russia as second in command, there was then a total solar eclipse over Europe. I think that Russia will maintain forces in Georgia, since Russia wants to control the oil pipeline in Georgia, and will likely invade 2 more former Soviet Union countries in a similar way. This is a fullfillment of the Daniel 7 Bible prophecy of the Antichrist pulling out by the roots (conquering) three horns of the Red 10 horned beast (Russia and other countries in a loose confederation). Georgia is the first country to be pulled out by the roots or invaded, 2 more to go. See this page on whether Ukraine could be next. And even Finland should watch out for Putin pulling off a sneak attack.
Russia has agreed to send ships and planes to Venezuela for joint military exercies.
Putin said that Russia will make South America such as Venezuela a top foreign policy priority.
Putin makes accusations about Ukraine having helped Georgia during the August 2008 Russia Georgia War, by supplying military supplies. Is Putin preparing to invade Ukraine at some future date?
A Russian missile test. A submarine launched hits a Pacific Ocean target.
During his November 5 state of the nation address, Medvedev proposed extending the current four-year parliamentary and presidential terms to five and six years, respectively. The announcement of the changes, which would apply to the next head of state and legislature, triggered speculation that they could be a pretext for the return to office of his predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin changes the constitution (The Antichrist will change “LAW” and “TIME”). Russian lawmakers gave preliminary approval for extending presidential terms from four years to six years – a move that pave the way for Vladimir Putin to return to the presidency in 2012. The popular Putin, now prime minister, was barred constitutionally from seeking a third straight term as president. His protege, Dmitry Medvedev, resoundingly “won” the post in March 2008 elections. By extending the presidential terms to six years, Putin can become President again in March 2012 for another 12 years in office for a total of 20 years as Kremlin leader including his previous terms.
The Putin tattoo becomes the latest fashion in Russia, makes you think about the mark of the beast.
Dispute over gas supplies from Russia to Ukraine and some European countries. A temporary gas shut-off. The dispute led state-controlled Russian company Gazprom to halt its deliveries of natural gas to Ukraine. During the crisis, Putin hinted that Ukraine is run by criminals who cannot solve economic problems.
Cuba-Russia friendship renewed.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov symbolically pressed a “reset” button. The gag fell short as the Russian text on the button was wrongly translated by the State Department as “overload” instead of “reset”. After making a few jokes, they decided to press the button anyway.
President Obama visited Moscow Russia, and agreed in talks there to negotiate a new nuclear weapons agreement with Moscow.
Putin goes to the breakaway area of Georgia, and promises to have a future military base built to solidify the Russian presence there.
Putin annouces Russia does not want to see sanctions against Iran. And Venezuela will be purchasing missiles from Russia.
A scary announcement from Russia that a first strike nuclear launching cannot be ruled out.
In the Crimea area, increased tension between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine asked for U.S. help.
Putin said that he will consider possibly running for Russian President again in the next election in Russia.
Russia announced that they may send a spacecraft to intercept an that could hit earth in a future year. Could this be a case of Putin the Antichrist doing something to save the world. The Antichrist is expected to at first save the world, just as the Christ attempted to save the world. But also there was a statement by Russian Prime Minister Putin about Russia developing new offensive strike missiles to maintain the balance of power with the U.S.
It was announced that Russia will show posters of Stalin on May 9, the 65th anniversary of World War II victory in Europe. With Putin, a changing of opinion about Stalin, to put Stalin in a more favorable historical light.
The Start Nuclear Weapons Reduction Treaty was signed by Russia and the U.S. and Putin made a statement rationalizing the massacre of Polish Army officers by the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, explaining that Stalin was just reacting to a previous atrocity. Again Putin trying to rewrite history to put Stalin in a more favorable light, despite the fact that Stalin had murdered millions of the Russian people.
The 2nd Battalion of the 18th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army marched across Red Square in Russia’s Victory Day Parade. They were also joined by British, French, and Polish troops as well as detachments from the CIS member states.
Russian mole sleeper agents of a Russian ring of spies were arrested in the U.S.. It looks like the Cold War may be coming back again. The question is, are there hundreds or thousands more of these Russian moles in the U.S., trying to climb their way into positions of power in U.S. government or industry. Definitely this sounds like a Putin scheme. These sleepers can be connected with confession of the FSB defector Colonel Stanislav Lunev : He testified before Congress In a Congressional hearing in Jan 2000 that Russia placed small briefcase-sized nuclear devices in different US and European Cities, the FSB smuggled the small atomic devices into the United States and Europe, awaiting a future date when they will be used by FSB Russian secret agents already in the USA and Europe.
Putin greets the spies who were swapped back to Russia, getting into a songfest fest with them of Russian patriotic songs. Be sure to see the movie “Salt” about Russian sleeper agents in the U.S.
Putin appeared at a Russian-Ukrainian Orthodox Bikers festival in Sevastopol, Ukraine riding a Harley-Davidson tricycle. The high council of Russian bikers movements unanimously voted to elevate him into a Hells Angel range with the nickname of Abaddon. The nickname is influenced by angel of death and destruction Abadonna in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita novel.
7 years since Putin visited Rome on Nov. 4 2003, and there was the largest solar flare from the sun seen in modern times. Since 7 years is a time period related to the Antichrist, watch out for Russia and Putin on Nov. 4 2010.
Dec. 1 2010
The Larry King TV show in the U.S. had Putin on it. In my oppinion Putin wanted to speak to the people of the United States to make him look good after the “Russian Sleeper Agents” affair. Can you imagine : They still are around us, it could be your own neighbour working for the Russians. His and her kids playing in your house with your children. Some agents are grandfathers, with their sons working as a secret FSB agent. I still can’t believe that people can live like this …
Vladimir Putin warns the USA to stay out of Russian internal affairs, angrily deriding a leaked US diplomatic cable that dubbed him ‘Batman’ and President Dmitry Medvedev ‘Robin’ as rude and unethical. (WikiLeaks Source).
Vladimir Putin had prior knowledge of the plot to murder the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London, one of America’s top diplomats alleged in a leaked embassy cable. (WikiLeaks Source).
In the U.K., in Glastonbury, the Holy Thorn Tree, an ancient tree, was cut down by person unknown. According to legend, this tree was planted by Joseph of Arimathea in Biblical Times. The Antichrist connection: note that in “The Omen” movies about the Antichrist, the Antichrist is named Damien Thorne. Somehow the cutting down of this Thorn Tree may be connected to the rise to power of the Antichrist.
Western leaders expressed concern over the conviction in Russia of an oil billionaire who had previously opposed Putin.
Russian Vladimir Putin, at that time at the Davos Switzerland international meeting says the international community has no proof that Iran is building nuclear weapons. Putin told World Leaders and top executives that he spoke recently to Iran’s president and encouraged him to demonstrate that his country’s nuclear activities are peaceful.
Kyrgyzstan parliament named a peak in Tian Shan mountains Vladimir Putin Peak, Putin-worship reaches new heights.
China, the “Red Dragon” in Revelation that will Rise together with AntiChrist Putin starts the crackdown of christian “Shouwang Church”, it came under fire by Chinese authorities three weeks ago, when the government ordered the church to cease all activity until further notice. The Chinese government has stated that Shouwang operates unlawfully. To be recognized, the church must register to be a state-sanctioned operation, which includes censoring of certain religious materials. This could be part of the Third Secret of Fatima.
Russian Vladimir Putin confirms he will visit Iran early August for the opening ceremony of the launch of Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Kasparov called on congressional leaders in the US to take a stand and stop treating Vladimir Putin and other corrupt Russian officials as members of an actual democracy in economic and diplomatic affairs, this makes Kasparov the Number One Enemy of Vladimir Putin in the Race to become Russian President in 2012. But the Antichrist cannot be stopped, Putin will become President of Russia again in 2012 to fulfill the Prophecy. Kasparov has to be carefull, his life is in great Danger !
Three Russian scientists that planned and build Iran’s First Nuclear Power plant die in a plane crash, all three at the same time.
August 21 2011. Putin suggests the idea of a Eurasian Economic Union.
September 1 2011 is 42 years since Omar Kadaffi came to power in Libya on Sept. 1 1969. Significant because of the number 42, the Antichrist is said to rule 42 months in Revelation. This was approximately when when Kaddaffi’s rule ended in Libya, although some fighting continued in Libya for a few more weeks. This could relate to the rise of the Antichrist in Russia as Vladimir Putin! This could be a key event, a key event as predicted by Edgar Cayce! The key to unlocking Baal from his cage, and beginning great chaos in the world and the rise of the evil one! Kaddafi is not the Antichrist, but in prophecy he is related to the one who is the Antichrist, Putin! So watch out for how world events unfold if Gaddafi’s rule in Libya ends exactly on Sept 1 2011, after 42 years in power! Note that the Biblical name for Libya is Put, as in “Put-in”, Putin back in power in Russia, he will be re-elected Russian President in 2012! Note that in Biblical times there was Baal worship in Libya. And note that Tripoli the capital of Libya is at 33N 13E, Revelation 13 being about the Antichrist. Somehow I think Qadafi in Libya could be the key. The “ARAB SPRING” is the Key-Event – Baba Vanga prophesied World War III start in November 2010, the time the Arab Spring started on Facebook (FaceBook is the World Wide Web, remember the HOPI Indian prophecy that during the End Times there will be a “WEB around the WORLD) – Baba Vanga also predicted the killing / murder of 4 heads of state, think about it : The leader of TUNISIA, The leader of EGYPT, the leader of LYBIA and before the start off all troubles; yet to come : The leader of SIRYA !!! These are the 4 heads of state that will be “killed” or “taken off power” before WWIII starts !!! In the future we will say WWIII started with the beginning of the Arab Spring !!!
Also note the Lockerbie bombing, lock as in key. Key to the bottomless pit that the Antichrist comes out of? Gadaffi could be the key to disastrous events occurring, the opening of the bottomless pit, and the rise of the Antichrist Putin. So watch what is happening in Libya. Consider the Lockerbie plane crash trial, of the Lockerbie bomber from Libya. Note that the Lockerbie trial in the Netherlands began near the time of the May 5, 2000, planetary alignment, 2 days before the inauguration of Russian President Putin. Note that Putin is from St. Petersburg, Russia’s sea-port, and note that the Antichrist rises out of the sea in Revelation 13. Note that the Lockerbie trial was held in the Netherlands, which is by the sea. And note that the land of “Put” (sounds like “Putin”) mentioned in the Bible is believed to be Libya, and Libyans were on trial in the Lockerbie trial. So the Son of Satan, the Antichrist, Putin, may have been “unlocked” and set loose on the world in Russia at the time of the Lockerbie trial beginning, in May 2000. And note that although 1 Libyan was found guilty in the trial, the other Libyan was set free. That may be the symbolic meaning of the Lockerbie trial. Also note that “B” may correspond to the evil False God Baal or Beezlebub, in Babylon, as “Alpha” (A) and Omega correspond to Christ.
Baal was locked up in the KGB (“cage” or prison for B- Baal) since the Russians defeated Hitler, put East Germany under the Iron Curtain, and since Putin was in the KGB. So Putin the Baal/ Antichrist was in the KGB cage. “Lockerbie” may represent a “Locker” or “cage” for B-Baal. Once the Soviet Union started to disintegrate, Baal was released from his prison, and now Baal is loose in the world as Putin. And note that in the Bible’s Old Testament in 1 Kings 18, Baal had 450 prophets. And in Russia the State Duma has 450 members. The Lockerbie plane crash occurred on December 21, 1988, when Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York City exploded over Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. All 259 (243 passengers plus 16 crew members) on the aircraft died, and 11 people on the ground died. First consider the name “Lockerbie”. This brings to mind the word “lock”, and the “keys of hell and of death” Biblical quote (King James version) from Revelation 1:18. It could also relate to Satan being “loosed from prison” as the Antichrist. Also, the Lockerbie crash occurred on the day of St. Thomas on the Catholic calendar, December 21.
The significance of the crash being on the day of St. Thomas may relate to the idea that Christ’s disciple Thomas may actually have been the twin brother of Christ, since “Thomas” actually means “twin”. This idea was suggested in early writings from Biblical times that did not become part of the Bible. Another thing I noticed when reading about this plane crash is that a large chunk of it landed intact with the plane’s name “Maid of the Seas” clearly readable on it. This may relate to the idea I discuss in this web site, of the Book of Revelation chapter 13, since the Antichrist (the beast) of Revelation 13 comes from the sea, meaning the sea of politics. Also: What Middle Eastern countries will next see revolution? Where will these revolutions lead? It could work out well, with peaceful democracies in these countries. Or could it lead to disastrous events and war in the Middle East, described in the prophecies of Ezekiel and Revelation 16, the Battle of Armageddon?
Putin presses the button for a new pipeline.
Putin announced that he will run again for Russian President. I think Putin will win this Russian Presidential Election election in Russia in March 2012. Notice that this is happening right after Gaddafi’s fall from power in Libya. Also note that this announcement is a day after the Palestinian state request at the U.N.
The usually popular Putin was booed by the audience at a martial arts event in Russia.
Parliamentary elections in Russia, Putin’s United Russia party won a majority. There were protests in Moscow Russia because of accusations of election fraud. Volcano eruption in Indonesia.
70 years after Pearl Harbor. Gorbachev asked for new election voting in Russia. Putin criticized Hillary Clinton for causing doubts and protests over the Russian Parliamentary election.
Big Moscow Russia protest on election fraud.
Gorbachev had asked for Putin to resign, because of voting fraud in the December election in Russia. Tens of thousands of protestors called for Putin to leave his position of power. (I don’t think so! Putin will be elected Russian President in March 2012, no matter how much ballot-stuffing it takes!
60 years since possible Putin conception on Russian Orthodox Christmas date. Note there is a Grand Air Trine triangle astrology chart with the Moon in Gemini, Saturn in Libra, Neptune in Aquarius with Venus nearby in Aquarius. This gives this day a powerful energy for Putin. Could relate to events in Russia. Air Trine – Note that Satan is known as Prince of the Power of the Air, and Satan is the father of the Antichrist. So watch out for Satanic related events in the world in 2012! Could this relate to election protests in Russia? These protestors should watch out, or Putin could crush them like bugs!
Vladimir Putin was elected Russian President again, to a 6 year term ending in 2018, when he is 66.
March. 5, 2012
As predicted Antichrist Vladimir Putin Retakes Power in Russia, this is a very important happening : “He will be, will be not and will be again” (Bible 3rd AntiChrist). We have got LENIN (World War I) than STALIN (World War II) and now the 3rd and last AntiChrist PUTIN (World War III).
Note that connected with the election of Putin is an unusual and very ominous astrology pattern on March 14 2012 (March 15 is the Ides of March, when Julius Caesar was assassinated, “Beware the Ides of March”) of 4 planets in a Grand Earth Trine, of a triangle pattern with the planets spaced at exactly 120 degrees. 4 planets at 9 degrees, in Earth signs, in a Grand Earth Trine, with Venus and Jupiter at 9 Taurus, Mars at 9 Virgo, Pluto at 9 Capricorn. So 9-9-9 which is 666 upside-down. Definitely an Antichrist-connected Astrology pattern, here possibly related to Putin reelected as Russian President, possibly by a huge amount of election fraud and ballot-stuffing. Also note that the on the Ides of March was a Roman Holiday of celebration for Mars the War deity.
And Jupiter/Mars/Pluto in this trine could mean the Antichrist/War/Death in a trine where their power is amplified, these three horsemen could be riding later in 2012. Note there were 6.1 and 6.9 quakes off Japan, 6.4 quake in New Guinea. And a triangle shape was seen on the sun exactly on this day March 14 2012. See it below, that seems to be connected to the 9-9-9 triangle astrology pattern on the date and the return of Ra the sun deity with Putin back in power “put-in”.
In Russia, women members of the rock band Pussy Riot are imprisoned, for singing anti-Putin lyrics in a Russian Orthodox Church. Accused of desecration of the church. Putin will likely have them jailed for a long time.
A Russian military leader made a threat that Russia may launch a nuclear missile attack on U.S. Antiballistic Missile ABM Systems being deployed as a missile defense in Europe. Notice that this was said as Putin is coming into office again as Russian President. This shows what a scary psycho Putin is, threatening nuclear war.
Putin officially Russian President for a 6 year term.
Worsening economic problems in Europe, as money is withdrawn from banks in Greece. The 3rd horseman of the apocalypse economic chaos rides, European economic collapse possibly in June 2012. Note that this is a case of “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. Good intentions: the Euro single currency seemed like a good idea. Road to Hell: some of the countries (Greece and others) with uncontrolled deficits and borrowing dragged down all of Europe’s economy. Watch out for Russia and Putin taking over some areas of Europe such as Greece if Greece’s economy collapses. The Russians may want to make Greece a Russian naval base, and may be able to purchase some of Greece cheaply because of Greek debts.
Venus crosses the Sun. And note Revelation 13:18 about the Antichrist (King James version): “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (666).” Could “the number of a man” be 46. Note Adam (the first man) in Greek, the original language of the Book of Revelation, where each letter is also a number:
Alpha = 1 Delta = 4 Alpha = 1 Mu = 40 Adam = 46
Note that Adam, the first man in the Bible, totals 46, and man has 46 chromosones, so maybe 46 we can associate 46 with man as the number of man. And 1966 plus 6 months could be 666, if you add 46 years to 1966 plus 6 months you get June 2012. And Putin was officially President of Russia a month before in May 2012. So could the Antichrist Putin be at full power in June 2012 ?
60 years, 6 months, 6 days (666) since possible Vladimir Putin conception date Jan. 7, 1952.
60 years since Putin birth on Oct. 7 1952. Note this is 2 months before the Mayan calendar date Dec. 21 2012. Grand Water Trine, Neptune, Saturn, Moon in water signs Pisces, Scorpio, Cancer at 0 degrees for a powerful triangular pattern. Also Mars enters Sag., war in the horse/man sign, could mean war.
Russia announces it will withdraw from a post-Cold War deal to dismantle nuclear and chemical weapons when it expires next year. This is a “reset” in U.S.-Russian relations.
Putin 3rd on Forbes ‘most powerful’ list !
6 years, 6 months, 6 days (666) after 6-6-06.
Putin will stop U.S. adoptions of Russian children.
A small Asteroid Bomb size explosion was 1908 in Russia, note that this was just before another Antichrist came to Russia with Communism. Strange that both asteroid events occurred on the same day Feb 15, 2013 13 at 9:20 AM local time. Note the numbers relating it to the Antichrist: Year: 2013, Revelation 13 about the Antichrist. Date: 2-15 is the 46th day of the year. Revelation 13: “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man: and his number is 666.” The number of man is 46, since man has 46 chromosones. The next day is 2-16, 216=6x6x6. Time: 9:20 AM local time. Revelation 9:1: “And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth”. Revelation 9:1, 2 could indicate that the bottomless pit has been opened by this meteor hit in Russia, and much more volcano and earthquake activity could occur in 2013-2014.
60 years, 6 months, 6 days (666) since Putin birth date Oct. 7 1952.
Date 6-6 : It was announced that Russian President Putin is getting divorced, interesting that is on 6-6.
Putin in a video spoke in English
Putin allows NSA leaker Snowden to stay in a Moscow Airport.
Putin met Obama at the G-8 economic summit in Northern Ireland.
In Russia, a man who was dead was tried on tax evasion charges.
Snowden requested asylum in Russia. Russia held war games in the Far East of Russia, the largest war games since the Soviet Union fell. Putin’s rise to power as Antichrist. Putin said that Snowden should leave Russia, later to change his mind and let him stay. Putin is manipulating the situation.
There were protests in Russia over the 5 year sentence of Putin critic Alex Navalny. Obviously politically motivated charges and trial. Putin is shutting up critics of him in Russia.
President Obama will not meet Putin in Russia. President Obama, I would advise staying out of Russia and staying away from Putin, I think Putin has evil powers since Putin is the Antichrist. I think Putin can control people with his eyes, with his evil stare.
Putin the Antichrist in a peacemaker role. Putin and Russia proposal to end the crisis over a Syria chemical warfare attack. Russia proposed in a peace bid that Syria’s chemical weapons be monitored by an international team of inspectors, to make sure they are not used again. This is the type of thing the Antichrist is prophesied to do, to bring peace to an international crisis. This may relate to the comet in December 2013, that I think will be a Putin comet, Putin the Peacemaker. Expect to see Putin working apparent miracles over the next 3 months, bringing peace to the world in a time of crisis. Note that Syria in Biblical times was a place where Baal worship was practiced, Baal being a pagan evil deity in the Bible’s Old Testament, see this page on Putin’s connection to Baal. Also refer to the Book of Enoch, where fallen angels (similar to the Antichrist) descended to earth at Mount Hermon, the highest point in Syria at 9200 feet above sea level, refer to Revelation 9:2 where the Antichrist falls to earth. So this is why Syria is where the Antichrist Putin (a type of fallen angel) will work an apparent peacemaking miracle. And Mount Hermon is at 33.3 N (666 x .05). See this video on Putin and Syria.
President Obama stated that the U.S. will wait on a military strike on Syria chemical weapons, to give Putin’s diplomacy plan a chance to work.
Putin in an article in the New York Times, stated his opinions, including that he believes that Syria did not use chemical weapons, and that he sees Americans believing they are exceptional, which is a dangerous thing he said.
Comet ISON passes closest to the sun, about 700,000 miles from it, and apparently blows apart. Refer to Revelation 15 on the 7 destroying angels. Note as well as Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. it was also the first day of Jewish Hanukkah. Note it is closest to the sun at 1:38 PM EST, relate this time to Revelation 13:8 about the Antichrist. Comet Ison was discovered by two Russian astronomers, so connect it to the Antichrist Russian President Putin. Note the unrest and protests in Ukraine over Ukraine tilting to Russia instead of Europe, caused by Putin using his influence over Ukraine. Relate to Nostradamus prophecy Century 2 Number 43:
“At the time the bearded star is seen,
Three great leaders will become enemies,
Earthquakes and disaster falling from the heavens,
The Po and Tiber Rivers,
A serpent is seen on the shore.”
This Nostradamus prophecy may predict that at the time a comet (bearded star) is seen there could be earthquakes and asteroids hitting earth. And there could be giant earthquakes in 2014. The serpent would be Putin, see the Putin page for an explanation of that. Another Nostradamus comet prophecy, Century 2, Number 62:
“Mabus soon dies, and there is a terrible slaughter of people and animals.
There is thirst, hunger, famine when the comet is seen.”
Comet ISON was discovered in Russia (so connect it to the rise of the Antichrist Putin) in September 2012 by a telescope at Kislovodsk Russia, coordinates 43.9 N 42.9 S. It is green in color so could it be the 4th horseman of the apocalypse Death (2014 Flu epidemic?). So a shift of 151 degrees from the Lordsburg midpoint. Corresponding to 151 degrees, Revelation 15:1 “And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues…”. So could these plagues described in Revelation 16 (death in the sea, solar flares, rivers became blood, war, etc.) hit soon starting in 2014? Worsening in 2017-2020?
Ukraine protests protesting Ukraine aligning with Russia, instead of Europe, and the protestors were beaten up by police. This was due to Putin manipulating Ukraine.
In Ukraine protests, over Ukraine aligning with Russia instead of Europe, a statue of Lenin was knocked over.
Putin and Russia releases the Pussy Riot rock band members, and others, from prison, who had been held in prison without reason. Putin acting “Christ-like” at Christmas.
In China, Chairman Mao’s 120th birthday, interestingly the day after Christmas. 120 years could correspond to Revelation 12, Revelation 12:3 is the red dragon. Note that the Antichrist Putin in Russia gets power from the red dragon, China.
Putin cracks down on security in Russia after 2 terrorist bombings in Russia. He said he will “annihilate” terrorists in Russia.
Putin pets a Persian leopard at a zoo in Sochi Russia. Revelation 13:2 “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard…”
Winter Olympics opens in Sochi Russia, it lasts to Feb. 23. There is a lot unfinished at it, including places to stay and the amusement park. Compare this to Hitler hosting the Olympics in Berlin before World War 2.
Violent protests in Ukraine, are getting worse. Is Ukraine headed for civil war or anarchy? These protests and violence resulted from Ukraine President Yanukovych realigning Ukraine with Russia, reversing a decision to have a trade pact with Europe with the EU European Union. Influence of the Antichrist Putin, with the Feb. 21 2014 Antichrist-related astrology alignment. Putin wants to bring former Soviet Union countries under Russia influence and control, starting with Ukraine which he is not going to let drift into the EU zone. Relate to Daniel 7:8 King James version prophecy: “three of the first horns plucked up by the roots”. The Russian led Confederation of Independent States of the 1990s, Ukraine was part of that, 1 of the 10 horns. The Russian Antichrist will get tough with 3 of these 10 countries, including Ukraine, to get them back under his control.
A Grand Cross Astrology pattern of 4 planets and the Moon in a cross shape:
– The Moon and Pluto at 13 Capricorn
– Mars at 14 Libra
– Uranus at 13 Aries
– Jupiter at 13 Cancer
Could relate the the Antichrist Putin, with the number 13, since Revelation 13 is about the Antichrist. Note this is just before the Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia ends. I would say its about Russian invasion of Crimea and the Ukraine.
Russia invades Ukraine, this happens only two days after the most powerfull solar flare of the current cycle !
Beginning of the Russian takeover invasion of Crimea, Russian military exercise near Ukraine. Russian gunmen take over buildings in the Crimea part of Ukraine. Russian invasion of Crimea and the Ukraine may take place now, to reclaim all or part of Ukraine as part of Russia, reclaiming 1 of the 10 horns of the Antichrist red 10 horned beast. Russian troops, tanks, helicopters in part of Ukraine.
Russian ICBM missile was test fired. Somewhat intimidating for Ukraine and the West.
In the Crimea, part of Ukraine, the Crimean Parliament decided to have a referendum vote in Crimea on whether to rejoin Russia, and the vote went to rejoin Russia. So the Russia – Ukraine crisis continues, much of the world objecting to Putin’s manipulating the situation to have Russia take over much of Ukraine.
Russia’s army is stationed near Ukraine in advance of the March 16 vote in Crimea on joining Russia.
Crimea vote on joining Russia, and the vote was for rejoining Russia.
Putin and Russia formally recognized Crimea.
Putin said that Crimea is now officially part of Russia. Putin wants to bring former Soviet Union countries under Russia influence and control, including Ukraine which he is not going to let drift into the EU zone. Relate to Daniel 7:8 King James version prophecy: “three of the first horns plucked up by the roots”. The Russian led Confederation of Independent States of the 1990s, Ukraine was part of that, 1 of the 10 horns. The Russian Antichrist will get tough with 3 of these 10 countries, including Ukraine, to get them back under his control. The first “plucked up by the roots” was Georgia in 2008. Second was Ukraine and Crimea in 2014. So there will be a third former Soviet Union country beat up and annexed by Russia. Later I think Putin will cause a nuclear war, possibly in 2019. Daniel 7:8, where Putin is the “little horn”: “I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” Russia now has deployed in 2014 a new high tech super-silent nuclear missile carrying submarine called “The Beast from Beneath”. Makes one think of Revelation 13:1: “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea…” Also this makes me think of the movie about a Russian submarine “The Hunt for Red October”, and the Russian political officer in that movie was named Putin.
Mars at opposition, closes to earth. War? Trouble continues in Ukraine. Russian warning that civil war could happen in Ukraine.
In Geneva meeting at the U.N. on Ukraine. Some soldiers in tanks in Ukraine held Russian flags. Putin said Ukraine is close to civil war. The question is, will Putin invade Ukraine?
2 bomber planes from Russia passed through Dutch airspace, again showing Putin’s aggressiveness.
The Prime Minister of Ukraine said he thinks Putin wants to start World War 3. I think he is correct, but I think Putin will not start World War 3 with a missile attack on the West until 2019 when he is 66 years 6 months old (666).
Annular solar eclipse seen in Australia and Antarctica. The astrology chart shows that 4 planets form a square – Uranus, 13 Aries; Jupiter, 14 Cancer; Mars, 11 Libra; Pluto, 13 Capricorn. Could relate to the Antichrist Putin, with the number 13, since Revelation 13 is about the Antichrist. Will Putin invade the rest of Ukraine soon?
China recommended a new military alliance with Russia and Iran, against the U.S.. Note Revelation 13, bear, dragon, lion: Russia – bear, China – dragon, and before 1980 the lion was a symbol of Iran.
In Ukraine, 49 dead in a cargo plane that was shot down by Pro-Russian militants. Also, tanks from Russia are in Ukraine aiding Pro-Russia militants.
Putin put Russian Army on full combat alert as chaos continues in Ukraine.
Fighting in Ukraine increases. Malaysia airliner Flight MH17 was shot down by a missile fired by Pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, the missile was supplied by Russia. The plane took off from the Netherlands. The Russians have told incredible lies about this plane crash. More evidence that Putin is the Antichrist, since the Antichrist is the Father of Lies, and the second horseman war is riding as the world approaches the 100th anniversary of World War 1. For Flight MH17: consider the Flight Number 17, relate to Revelation 17 and the woman who I think is Europe, since the plane left the Netherlands. In Revelation 12 the woman in heaven is attacked by the red dragon, this would be the airliner attacked by the red dragon Russia.
Putin the Antichrist is 62 years old. Revelation 6:2 is the man on a white horse, a conquerer. Could that be Putin then?
Art exhibit in Russia has Putin as Hercules, in the “12 labors of Vladimir Putin”, instead of the “12 labors of Hercules”.
Greatly increased flights by Russian military planes near Nato airspace, with Nato planes intercepting the Russian planes. An intimidation game by Putin.
ESA Rosetta Comet Mission Comet Probe Philae landed on Comet 67P. 67 – Revelation 6:7 is the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse Death. Also relate to Revelation 9:1 about the Antichrist, where a star falls from heaven to earth. Russia threatens Ukraine again with attack. On the sun a giant sunspot, the largest seen in 24 years, AR2192, turned to face the earth and could send a giant solar flare at earth. Note that this could relate to Putin the Antichrist attacking Ukraine again, and threatening the U.S., Putin having power over the sun.
Russia is sending bomber planes close to the U.S. in a Putin show of force. Fighting begins again in Ukraine, with Russian intervention again.
It was in the news that Charles Manson is getting married to a 26 year old woman, even though he is 80 years old, and is an alleged mass murderer in prison for life in California. This may be significant in our discussion of the Antichrist Putin. Note that the Antichrist in Revelation 13 has the number of man, and 666. Man-son. And King James version Matthew 25:31, “when the son of man shall come in his glory”, about Christ returning. “son of man” similar to “Manson”. And note that the Manson murders of Sharon Tate and others in LA California was on August 9, 1969. That was exactly 30 years before the Antichrist Putin became Prime Minister of Russia on August 9 1999, at the time of an August 11 1999 solar eclipse over Europe, and the August 18 1999 Grand Cross Astrology pattern of planets in a cross shape. And actress Sharon Tate who was murdered was the wife of Roman Polanski, who in 1968 had made a movie called “Rosemary’s Baby” about the child of Satan. Note that Manson is marrying a 26 year old woman, and Sharon Tate was 26 when murdered. So the date of this marriage could be significant, a “Bride of Satan” date that could somehow relate to the Antichrist Putin.
Putin’s state of the nation speech, as the Russian Ruble dropped in value.
Russian Ruble currency dropped 10% in 1 day. This collapsing of Russia’s economy puts pressure on Putin to do something such as another invasion of Ukraine or another country, watch out for radical actions by Putin. See the King James version Bible Code page on the new nuclear missile submarines Putin has built to threaten NATO and the U.S.
Increased fighting in Ukraine, Russian miltary invades Ukraine. More aggressiveness by the Antichrist Putin. Putin likely to continue invading countries, Ukraine and other former Soviet Union countries.
Russian bomber planes flew near the U.K. over the English Channel, more intimidation by Putin.
Fighting increased in Ukraine. Speculation in the news that Putin has Aspergers Syndrome, a mild form of autism.
Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, a critic of Putin was murdered, shot crossing a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow. Part of a pattern where critics of the Antichrist Putin are being silenced.
Rally in Moscow for murdered Boris Nemtsov, who was a critic of Putin.
Bright auroras seen on earth, there had been strong solar storms earlier in the week, March 15. Note the connection of Putin to solar flares.
Russia signs treaty alliance with Georgia region South Ossetia, that is breaking away from Georgia.
Solar Eclipse in the Far North Atlantic, North of Europe, partial eclipse seen in St. Petersburg Russia where Putin was born. Connect it to the August 11 1999 solar eclipse seen in Europe when the Antichrist Putin first rose to power in Russia, to become second in command in Russia, and there was also a Grand Cross Astrology patter in August 1999. So with the solar flares and aurora of March 20 2015 and a solar eclipse or the most important August 21 2017 Solar Eclipse , connect this to the rise of the Antichrist Putin. Watch what Putin is doing now. This was exactly 5700 days after the August 11 1999 solar eclipse.
Putin fired a number of generals, around 20, in the Russian military. I think that Putin wants just guys as generals that he can totally control as he prepares to launch a nuclear war on NATO. Putin will get rid of guys he thinks would not launch missiles in a nuclear first strike.
In Moscow Russia, Victory Day parade, Russia showed off new weapons, China leader was there.
Putin met with the Pope at the Vatican.
Putin said he will build 40 new ICBM missiles for Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Possibly for a nuclear first strike on NATO and the U.S. in 2017?
Putin sent to Obama his congradulations on July 4 Independence Day. He said he and Obama can find solutions to world problems.
Russia submitted to the U.N. a claim for the Arctic Ocean.
It was announced that Russian hackers had broken into the email of the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
The head of the U.S. Army said that Russia is the “most dangerous threat to the U.S.”
Russia to sell S-300 air defense missile system to Iran. Increasing Russia/Iran alliance. NATO war games in Europe for defense against Russian invasion. Putin went diving underwater in a minisub.
China parade of military equipment in Beijing China, attended by Putin. Russia – China military alliance.
Russia is sending military equipment to Syria.
Putin is sending fighter planes to Syria.
Total lunar eclipse seen in North America including the U.S., the “blood moon”. Brings to mind the Biblical prophecy on signs of the end of the world – the moon turned to blood. Could relate to the Antichrist Putin being in power. Could a giant earthquake occur soon after? Relate to Revelation 6:12 “there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood”. And Old Testament Joel 2:31 “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood…”. Sign of Doomsday in 2016 – 2017? And could there be a giant volcano explosion or asteroid hitting earth that cuts off sunlight? And giant quakes? On Monday Sept. 28 Putin the Antichrist is at the U.N. in New York City and has a meeting with President Obama. Interesting that this ominous total lunar eclipse occurs as President Putin the evil Antichrist 666 is in the U.S. Putin attends the United Nations General Assembly in New York, his first visit to the United Nations in a decade, and later meets with President Obama. The two leaders discuss Ukraine and Syria, according to senior US officials. It is the first face-to-face meeting of any length since Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
Russian planes airstrikes in Syria. Note related to a Syria – Russia alliance is Old Testament Bible prophecies Ezekiel 38 – 39, on Gog and Magog, believed to be Russia. In Ezekiel 38 – 39 Russia has an alliance with Iran and Syria, that results in an attack on Israel. Could it be that Gog of Ezekiel is the same person as the Antichrist of Revelation 13, the Antichrist Putin of Russia. Also on Syria is Old Testament Isaiah 17 on Damascus Syria being destroyed.
Turkey complained about Russian warplanes flying over Turkey’s territory.
Russian warships fired cruise missiles into Syria. A demonstration of Russian missile technology by Putin.
Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Jupiter in the sky. The second horsemen War and the 1st horseman the Antichrist Putin ride in 2016? Possibly a war breaks out then, possibly Putin invades Ukraine then? Or increased missiles attacks by Russia in Syria? Or a Russia – NATO conflict results from Putin aggressiveness?
Russian jet plane was shot down by Turkey over Turkey’s territory. Putin aggressiveness could lead to a nuclear war by 2017.
A UK government inquiry found that Litvinenko was probably poisoned with Polonium 210 because Putin ordered it. Note that there was a previous poisoning incident associated with Putin in Ukraine.
Putin ordered ( part of ) Russian military forces to leave Syria.
A Russian Fighter Plane flew about 70 feet from a U.S. Navy Destroyer in the Black Sea. More intimidating risky behaviour by Russian planes under the direction of the Antichrist Putin.
Putin President of Russia warned the U.S., that the U.S. deployment of missile defense systems in Europe bordering Russia, has started a new arms race with Russia. And that Russia will “neutralize” the U.S. missile defense.
Russian President Putin went to Mount Athos in Greece, a holy center for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Also Putin had a meeting with the Prime Minister of Greece. Also Putin said that Russia will retaliate against the U.S., if the U.S. stations missiles in Romania.
The FBI announces it has launched an investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computer system. Although the statement doesn’t indicate that the agency has a particular suspect or suspects in mind, US officials think the cyberattack is linked to Russia.
Reports that Russia and Putin were behind hacking of the Democrats (DNC) emails.
Putin said the Russian FSB stopped a terrorist attack by Ukraine on Crimea.
Tension escalated between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine military on high alert. Russian Navy war games in the Black Sea. An invasion of Ukraine by Russia could occur soon.
During an interview with Bloomberg News, Putin denies that the Russian government had any involvement in the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails.
Jewish Calendar year 5777 begins. Note that 777 is “The Cross”, in Greek, the original language of the New Testament including the Book of Revelation, and 666 is the number of the Antichrist and 888 is “Jesus” in Greek. End Times events then? Note that 2016 is similar to 216=6x6x6.
Putin the Antichrist is 64 years old. Revelation 6:4 is the man on a red horse, War… The start of something big …?
Putin sent Russian Navy ships to the English Channel near England’s coast.
In Russia there was a practice run drill for a World War 3 nuclear war, with 40 million people participating in this drill. Shows that Putin is thinking seriously about launching a nuclear war.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence releases a declassified report concluding that Putin ordered an “influence campaign” aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
During a news conference, Putin says that a damning dossier on US President-elect Donald Trump is “false” and dismisses allegations that his country’s security services have been monitoring Trump. Donald Trump and President Obama were presented the dossier by senior intelligence officials, who warned that Russia may have gathered compromising material on the President-elect.
Putin orders Russian air force to prepare for ‘time of war’.
Russia ready for war: Putin’s ballistic missile launchers set for combat.
German minister blasts Putin’s ‘irrational’ military build-up as NATO standoff continues.
Zapad 2017’ Exercise —> Putin to send 100 to 200.000 troops to Baltic Borders for exercise !!! The ZAPDA 2017 (WEST-2017) exercise will be held in September 2017.
End Times period begins? 50 years since Jerusalem was conquered by Israel in June 1967. Refer to 12th century prophecy of Jewish Rabbi Judah ben Samuel, predicting that:
– Jerusalem would be ruled by the Ottoman Turks for 8 Jubilees or 8×50=400 years. This was 1517-1917.
– In the 9th Jubilee (50 years) Israel would be a “no man’s land”. It was ruled by the British after 1917.
– Jerusalem would come under Jewish rule at the end of the 9th Jubilee, and this would begin the End Times with the coming of the Messiah. This happened 50 years later on June 10 1967 with Israel conquering Jerusalem.
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Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means of divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events. Astrology has been dated to at least the 2nd millennium BCE, and has its roots in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine communications. Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, and some – such as the Indians, Chinese, and Maya – developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations. Western astrology, one of the oldest astrological systems still in use, can trace its roots to 19th–17th century BCE Mesopotamia, from which it spread to Ancient Greece, Rome, the Arab world and eventually Central and Western Europe. Contemporary Western astrology is often associated with systems of horoscopes that purport to explain aspects of a person's personality and predict significant events in their lives based on the positions of celestial objects; the majority of professional astrologers rely on such systems.
Throughout most of its history astrology was considered a scholarly tradition and was common in academic circles, often in close relation with astronomy, alchemy, meteorology, and medicine. It was present in political circles, and is mentioned in various works of literature, from Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer to William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca. During the 20th century and following the wide-scale adoption of the scientific method, astrology has been challenged successfully on both theoretical and experimental grounds, and has been shown to have no scientific validity or explanatory power. Astrology thus lost its academic and theoretical standing, and common belief in it has largely declined. While polling studies have demonstrated that approximately 25% of Americans, Canadians, and Britons say they continue to believe that star and planet positions affect their lives, astrology is now recognized as pseudoscience.
Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology
Ayurveda is called “the mother of all healing” because it embraces all forms of healing including diet, herbs, bodywork, surgery, psychology and yoga. It accepts anything internally or externally that promotes health, well-being and happiness. Ayurveda explores the qualities and effects not only of foods, medicines and behavior but also of climates, the weather and the stars (astrology).
Ayurveda provides an integral mind-body system of both diagnosis and treatment. First it shows us our individual constitution according to the three doshas or biological humors of Vata (air), Pitta (fire) and Kapha (water), as well as how this constitution is affected by everything from genetics to environment and emotions. Then it outlines various treatment measures to enable us to achieve optimal health and vitality. These range from simple dietary measures to complex herbs and special purification procedures. Ayurveda aims not only at the cure and prevention of disease but also at rejuvenation and longevity. Beyond ordinary health care measures it has special methods to allow us to achieve a higher level of vitality and awareness – a spiritual Ayurveda that is part of the practice of Yoga.
Possessing a similar scope to Ayurveda, Vedic astrology contains all aspects of astrology, including the reading of birth charts (natal astrology), mundane astrology (the effects of astrological on society), astrological timing and forecasting (muhurta), and answering questions (prashna). In addition to these usual astrological considerations, Vedic astrology encompasses all forms of divination, including palmistry and numerology, of which several Vedic forms exist. It also includes astronomy and meteorology, which reflect karmic as well as physical forces.
As a form of natal astrology or the reading of birth charts, the Vedic system helps us understand our personal lives in all areas, including health, wealth, relationship, career and spirituality. Like Ayurveda, it has a broad range of treatment measures including the use of colors, gems, mantras and the worship deities to aid in our greater well-being and life unfoldment. These are called Jyotish-Chikitsa, the therapies of light or astrology.
Ayurvedic Astrology
Yet, though they have their specializations in many areas, both Vedic astrology and Ayurveda have a significant overlap as well. Vedic astrology contains a medical system based upon Ayurveda, while Ayurveda contains a system for the timing of disease and its treatment based upon Vedic astrology. We can designate this combined usage of Ayurveda and Vedic astrology more simply as ‘Ayurvedic Astrology’.
Ayurvedic astrology is the medical branch of Vedic astrology, adding to it the Ayurvedic view of health and healing. It uses the language of Ayurveda to understand the effects of the planets on the body and mind relative to health, disease and longevity. Ayurvedic astrology also uses Vedic astrology as an aid to Ayurvedic analysis, diagnosis and treatment, showing how planetary factors cause disease and balancing them can be an important aid in any cure.
Ayurvedic astrology combines these two great disciplines, using Vedic astrology to plot the influences of time and karma and Ayurveda to show how these relate on to our state of Prana or vital energy. Combining these two great disciplines together, there is nothing that we cannot treat or cannot understand.
Vedic astrology considers that the determination of physical and mental health is the foundation of all astrological analysis. Whatever other indications may occur in a chart – whether for career, wealth, relationship or spirituality – these cannot bear fruit if a person has significant physical or mental impairments. Traditionally, the ascertainment of longevity was the first factor to be examined by a good astrologer. This was not a matter of simply determining how long a person was likely to live, but part of a general determination of the vitality of a person, their energy to use the opportunities afforded them by the chart. In this regard, medical or Ayurvedic astrology is usually the first step of all astrological examination.
However, Ayurvedic astrology is not simply a physically-based medical astrology. It reflects the psychological and spiritual dimensions of Ayurveda as well. It is concerned with our well-being on all levels, which depends upon our connection to the Soul, the real person or Atman within. In this regard, Ayurvedic astrology is concerned with healing body, mind and spirit, using the tools of the entire universe, the foremost of which is the light of the stars and planets. It expands the field of Ayurveda to its broadest possible range.
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Atom Egoyan: The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
The camera slowly pans over a plank of wood. We go along with it, uncertain of the destination or even where we are. A soft green light follows along our vision as shadows dance over the stiff boards. A flute chimes in slowly, joined by a lute and soft drums, leading us to a bed. A man and a woman lie with their child, not a one ashamed of their nakedness, sleeping comfortably among the emerald and brown of their room.
We're intruding. This is overwhelmingly obvious from the opening frames and reinforced throughout the entire film. However they are feeling, we should not be here observing them in so naked a moment. For a moment everything is perfect and our mere presence means that time must continue on and their peace must come to an end.
The first time I watched The Sweet Hereafter I was ripped apart by those opening minutes. In a short span of time Atom Egoyan had managed to point out everything that was wrong with our obsession with death and heedless voyeurism. These are stories of people who deserve their distance, the same as anyone else, and trivializing those moments of pain into entertainment does nothing to grasp the overwhelming presence of death. But that doesn't just trivialize that old fear of dying, it cheapens the strength that we all gain by living through such moments.
The Sweet Hereafter is Egoyan's most successful and widely-known film. It swept the Genie's (Canadian equivalent of the Oscars) in 1997 and was voted in 2002 by the Canadian film publication Playback as the greatest Canadian film ever made. It's also the only film to really receive any sort of American acclaim, claiming Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Actor for Ian Holm. It was also thoroughly trounced at the box office by the very kind of film that The Sweet Hereafter espouses as an emotional hypocrisy, Titanic.
This is the anti-spectacle. It follows characters so deep into their pain that it hurts when we can't follow them in the rest of the way, if only so that we could have the opportunity to reach our hands out and say "It's going to be ok". But it's dangerous to assume that you know how someone else is feeling, especially in the grips of the tremendous pain that clouds the characters of The Sweet Hereafter.
The restraint of Ian Holm's performance as Mitchell is tremendous.
Egoyan pushes his bending chronology to the breaking point as he follows the twisting threads throughout town. After the dreamy opening sequence we primarily follow Mitchell (Ian Holm) a lawyer arriving in Alaska shortly after a bus accident claimed the lives of all the children in town.
See, I'm already avoiding the central point. All of the children died in a horrible accident that no one had control over. There is no avoiding this fact, but there are plenty of people in town that are still looking for someone to blame. So Mitchell hopes to rouse everyone into a class action lawsuit against...who exactly? Who can be blamed for all this?
Off Mitchell goes on his merry quest that services his own pain. In the meantime we get to know Nicole (Sarah Polley) in bits and pieces. She and the bus driver Dolores (Gabrielle Rose) are the only two survivors of the bus accident. Dolores got a neck-brace and Nicole lost her ability to walk. Before the accident she was courting a relationship with her father Sam (Tom McCamus) that seems to be edging perilously close to incest.
How this relates to the central tragedy is revealed slowly, but the important thing to see is that the film has a clear dividing line between Mitchell and Nicole. Ian Holm and Sarah Polley are responsible for carrying the first and second halves of the film and the other members of the town arrange themselves around the two of them accordingly. Mitchell is reliving the pain of the earlier loss of his daughter again and again, assuming (incorrectly) that the next lawsuit will finally give a face to blame for how his daughter (a drug abuser) turned out. Nicole carries the fate of the town on her shoulders as she is the only witness to the tragedy and can point a finger. She must decide whether to give an outlet for their pain or allow the self-deception that anyone can be blamed to continue.
Egoyan trips throughout time in a way that even Speaking Parts barely anticipated. The opening scene is some twenty years before the accident, scenes with Mitchell are years after the main story of the film concludes, others are centered around Nicole are months before, and even the minor characters get their own chronology. This is no gimmick to simply toy with the audience. Tragedy is not something that's remembered as a linear event, the slightest scent or sound can trigger a relapse into pain. Egoyan allows the first half of the film to function like this, allowing one memory to trip into another, finding relations of sex, despair and even pain to play off of each character or curl inside themselves.
Dolores is one of the few people able to remind herself of the pain but never let it consume her.
This is doubled up with some intriguing imagery from Egoyan during the first half. The town is so thoroughly fractured by the loss that it has no idea how to function without its children or how it should remember them. The characters that have a more stable hold on their guilt, even while constantly reminding themselves of this fact, remember the children clearly with photographs on walls. The ones completely lost to their pain see reflections of their children everywhere but do not have the full vision of any of them. In artwork and photography, they appear as Siamese twins facing opposite directions. The parents are divided in terms of how to remember their kids, and adorn their homes appropriately.
In essence, the first half is myth. Nicole reads from The Pied Piper, flutes and lutes follow Mitchell throughout town, and Dolores' dialogue is like a rhyme in meter with the poem that Nicole reads. "By the time I reached the bottom of Bartlett Hill road, I had half my load". But that's the line that kills the music as she realizes all of the children are dead. Then all of the instruments kick in full steam as the bus careens off into the ice and we enter the second half of the film.
The imagery is devoid of some of the same mythical qualities that were present in the first half. Instead we're plunged into the reality of Nicole's situation. The "heroics" of Mitchell look silly from the perspective of the only survivor strapped to a wheel chair. The visuals become colder and more distant, more "realistic". But the town has no reality and Nicole may be the only one strong enough to give a face to the pain everyone feels.
Nicole's plot thread deals with the perversion of innocence in a very direct way. Having been seduced by her father the first thing that she hears him say as she comes to is "Don't even try to remember". Put another way, "Don't even try to cope", "Don't even try to blame", "Don't even try to move on". Her emotions stand in direct defiance to that. She is bound and determined to not allow the pain of remembering to keep her from doing so. Forgetting pain just leads to more problems than trying to remember.
Her actions and testimony I must leave for you to discover, and instead look at the remarkable restraint that Egoyan showcases in denying us the traditional release.
The Sweet Hereafter is one of the few films that deals with the reality of death entirely through the pain of its survivors. Billy (Bruce Greenwood) is important to this. He is the parent who witnesses the accident from the outside and is one of the only people able to fully cope with what happened. He sees the death directly, after what happened, and is able to cope utilizing his own past experiences. But we're spared the sight of the children's bodies, because that would be exploiting their end. Egoyan withholds similar payoffs during many pivotal moments, the most affecting being a monologue of near-death where we see that every event of Mitchell's life is a replayment of the moment where he thought he would need to save his daughter's life by cutting her.
Duality and innocence, plus the too-frequently overlooked Sarah Polley.
Egoyan is eternally respectful of the pain death brings. There are no obvious payoffs, just the drifting pain, the soundtrack that's meant to soothe and provide a narrative but just gives a temporary escape. It's hard to pretend that we're eternal in the face of a tragedy of this magnitude, but we can remember that we're in the here and now. Some may be more fortunate in a place that we can't comprehend.
This is one of the best films ever made. I decided to hone in on the theme of grief and coping, but there are so many different ways to approach the text. It's masterful in it's sound design, rich in it's themes of Lacanian obsession (look up some info on the Primal Signifier for a real head trip) and Oedipus Complex, is an performers showcase in restraint and decency in dealing with seemingly insurmountable pain, and a brilliant refocusing of an already excellent novel.
If there's one thing I bring from The Sweet Hereafter it's this. We will all face pain that leaves us a shallow wreck. The pieces can be rebuilt, not into something new, but something different. Sometimes different is better, even if it offers a reminder of the pain that makes us who we are.
Make a choice. Disguise the pain and live under the illusion of a another life, or face reality and accept life as it comes.
Next week is the similarly complicated Felicia's Journey. You'll forgive me if I don't have as much to say, because this is quite the difficult film to follow-up.
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Written and directed by Atom Egoyan.
Based on the novel of the same name by Russell Banks.
Starring Ian Holm and Sarah Polley.
Atom Egoyan: The Adjuster (1991)
Atom Egoyan: Calendar (1993)
Atom Egoyan: Exotica (1994)
Atom Egoyan: Felicia’s Journey (1999)
Stan Brakhage: The Cat and the Worm’s Green Realm (1997)
Atom Egoyan: Speaking Parts (1989)
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Detroit 9000 (1973) review
DETROIT 9000 (1973)
Alex Rocco (Lieutenant Danny Bassett), Hari Rhodes (Sergeant Jesse Williams), Vonetta McGee (Ruby Harris), Scatman Crothers (Reverend Markham), Robert Phillips (Inspector Morgan Chalmers)
Directed by Arthur Marks
A group of thieves steal $400,000 from a number of supporters at a fund raising event for black congressman, Aubrey Hale Clayton. Tensions rise when racism is questioned as being a key component in the crime being committed as well as it being prevented. Lieutenant Danny Bassett is partnered with Sergeant Jesse Williams to solve the case. With anxieties already high, the strained partnership only adds to the problematic caper.
Arthur Marks strikes again this time delivering a vastly important topical crime thriller with some volatile ideas and performances. Easily one of the best black oriented motion pictures of the 1970's which imports some elements from the exploitation end of black cinema that became popular at the start of the decade. It's a thought provoking, sometimes ferocious, yet quality police procedural with controversial subject matter.
Mark's thought provokingly violent movie is a police thriller with attitude. Possessing an incredibly uncomfortable air of race hate on both white and black, the script is an ingenious concoction of infighting between black pride and white supremacy. But it's not confined to black and white. There's also discussion that the heist was a black on black crime. From start to finish, there are oodles of conversations and heated debates about racial discrimination and how it figures into society, the business world and also the political world.
All sides presented are positive and negative. For every good, honest cop, there's an equally crooked and seedy policeman. Ditto for the politicians. The only constant are the criminals, they're all bad. It's in a similar vein to the correspondingly gut punching, but even more violent police thriller, ACROSS 110TH STREET from the year prior. One of the finest aspects of this production is the amount of subterfuge especially the finale where everything is not as it seems leaving the audience to answer for themselves the question raised during the closing moments. The reason behind a dismembered corpse found inside a trunk in the river is another plot device that turns out to be not as it seems.
DETROIT 9000 (whose title refers to an officers distress call) is often lumped in with the blaxploitation genre of movies. That's not in any way being detrimental to the many mindless action films that propagated during that period, just that there's a lot more going on here than simple blood, guns and breasts that defined the more famous entries the genre was known for. There's still a good number of action scenes including a dynamite shoot out conclusion that's spread out all over Detroit from a railway to a cemetery with cops on foot, in cars and even on horseback!
"There you see'em...the ultimate product of your jive ass honky establishment, your house nigger."--Sgt. Williams is shocked that little has changed with some of the older generation in the way they interact with whitey
It does have some elements you'd expect from the films such as a handful of bloody shoot outs and chases and a risibly funkadelic soundtrack. Also the litany of racial slurs and innuendo are prevalent. In many cases, this is just an extension of the characters expressing their emotional state. One such sequence is when Bassett goes to visit his mentally unstable wife whose in a mental hospital. Needless to say, she has little respect for anyone other than the "right people".
Critical and carefree Lt. Danny Bassett sits in on a radio talk show called "Buzz the Fuzz" and answers a question regarding the heist at the black congressman fundraiser....
Caller: Was it whites rippin' off blacks, or brothers rippin' off brothers?
Lt. Bassett: I don't, uh...really give a damn.
Caller: You mean you a honky racist like the rest o' the pigs! You don't care what happens to black people looong as they keep their place, huh?
Lt. Bassett: No, what I mean is I don't care whether the bastards are black, brown, blue, yellow, or green. When an asshole commits a felony I'm gonna do my goddamndest to bust'em! That's what I mean!
Bassett tries to console his racist and mentally disturbed wife, Maddy, who now resides in an institution
The performances are good across the board with an occasional wooden line exchange here and there. Alex Rocco (THE GODFATHER, RETURN TO HORROR HIGH) is spot on as the begrudging, terminally frustrated Lieutenant with a chip on his shoulder. Foul mouthed and aching to be left alone, the character of Bassett is one of the best parts of the movie. Robert Phillips plays the chief Inspector and 70's action fans will recognize him from a slew of movies playing predominantly bad guys. It's a refreshing change of pace to see him play a good guy for a change.
"Go on, try it. Go for it, you bastard. Gimme an excuse to waste a goddamn cop killer!"
Hari Rhodes is also an imposing presence as the Sergeant assigned to partner with Bassett to crack the caper. His role as Williams is stoic and confident in his resolve. Rhodes was also one of the high marks in another film with racial subtext, CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (1972) where he played the sympathetic human, MacDonald.
Ruby's services are required by the shady Aubrey Hale Clayton. Scatman Crothers (left) plays the not so holy Reverend Markham
Vonetta McGee plays a call girl with a lot of inside information. She's not in the movie much, but is integral to the solving of the big heist. McGee was the object of interest in BLACULA (1972) and also in the ultra violent Italian spaghetti western classic, THE GREAT SILENCE (1967). Bob Minor is on hand yet again in a bloody shootout chase sequence early in the movie.
Stuntman/actor extraordinaire Bob Minor
DETROIT 9000 (1973) is a thoroughly entertaining and stimulating action-police drama. It's subject matter is just as topical today as when the movie was released. It also has elements found in the best of the blaxploitation movies, but Arthur Mark's incendiary police procedural really doesn't belong there. Highly recommended.
This review is representative of the Miramax DVD
Labels: Detroit 9000, Race Hate/Important Black Films
Fazeo said...
I saw this many years ago and I rather enjoyed it. The action setpieces, especially the massive shootout are what I remember most from the film.
Great movie, Fazeo, and that shootout at the end goes on forever.
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Man Injured in Havre de Grace Shooting
December 12, 2020 By Dagger News Service 7 Comments
Form the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Detectives are investigating, and a man is recovering, after a shooting in Havre de Grace late Friday night.
At approximately 11:49 p.m. on December 11, 2020, deputies assigned to the Southern Precinct of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 4100 block of Gravel Hill Road in Havre de Grace for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival, deputies located Paul Hartman, Jr., 31, suffering from gunshot wounds to the upper body. Deputies immediately began rendering first aid until the arrival of medics. He was transported to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center for treatment of what are believed to be a non-life threatening injuries.
The investigation was assumed by detectives from the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division.
Investigators from the Forensic Services Unit responded to the area to collect and preserve physical evidence in support of the investigation.
Initial investigation indicates Hartman, was at home, when he noticed someone outside his residence. When he went to investigate the situation, several more suspects appeared and attempted to gain entry to the residence. The suspects fired at the door, striking Mr. Hartman multiple times.
The suspects were believed to have fled the scene on foot, in the direction of Earlton Road. Patrol deputies, with assistance from the K9 Unit, thoroughly searched the area, but no suspects were located. Initial information obtained by detectives indicates there were a number of suspects. One suspect is believed to be a male in a grey sweatshirt, possibly wearing a black mask.
The investigation remains active and ongoing. There are no further details being released at this time. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Detective Ross at 443-567-7091.
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Holy Shit! After a month, Harford County has something going on!!! Go Dagger Go!!!!
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RISING SUN, Md. (WJZ) — The former president of Cecil Bank has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple charges stemming from a 2012 straw purchase of a foreclosed home the bank owned.
Mary Beyer Halsey, 59, of Rising Sun, will also spend five years on supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland said Friday.
Beyer Halsey pleaded guilty in July to charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, receipt of a bribe by a bank official and false statement in bank records.
Former Cecil Bank President Pleads Guilty To Federal Charges Stemming From Straw Purchase Of Home
Officials said she conspired with an employee of a real estate development company to provide the man and a business partner a line of credit from the bank if he would buy the home for her. The bank sold the man, Daniel Whitehurst, the home for $150,000, which was $145,000 below market value.
In exchange, Whitehurst got a $650,000 line of credit and his business partner got a $500,000 line of credit.
Whitehurst, 36, of Bel Air, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 2018. He faces up to 30 years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
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A man was hospitalized after people shot through the door of his Harford County home Friday night, authorities said. A man was shot outside the city limits in Havre de Grace Friday, Dec. 11, the Harford County Sheriff s Office reported. (Shutterstock)
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When Bias Has Its Own Media
Bias is a normal part of human thought. It is not a good thing, but it exists because we are only human. Our viewpoints influence how we see things. And that in turn influences how we describe them. But just because bias is normal, does not mean that it is acceptable.
A doctor may like one patient better than another. That does not mean that he has the right to provide an inferior level of medical care to one patient. He may not be able to help being nicer to one patient than the other, but he may not actively mistreat a less favored patient. That is medical malpractice. Similarly a reporter who does not simply favor liberal politicians, but actively biases stories against their opponents is guilty of journalistic malpractice. He can no longer claim to be providing a public service, only serving as the mouthpiece for his ideology of choice.
Bias always exists, but journalistic bias has a tipping point at which instead of a free press, we have a propaganda press. When does that tipping point occur? Henry David Thoreau wrote that there is a certain amount of injustice in government, just as there is a certain amount of friction in operating a machine. But when "friction has its own machine", then the injustice is no longer an unfortunate byproduct, it is now the purpose of the machine. That is the case with tyrannical regimes who exist to oppress people, rather than the oppression being an unfortunate by product of the exercise of authority, as was formerly the case in the United States.
When it comes to the media, there is also a point at which "friction has its own machine". That happens when bias is no longer just injected into the reporting of a story, but when bias is the reason for the existence of a story.
It's easy to spot the difference between the two. For example, a reporter who covers a possible teacher's strike might favor the teacher's union and give more time to their grievances than to the plight of the municipal budget and the overburdened taxpayer. This is bias. On the other hand, when that same reporter begins running a series of stories about juvenile delinquency and rising crime connected to school dropout rates in order to warn taxpayers against voting down a proposed school budget-- then "bias has its own media."
The difference is that our hypothetical reporter is no longer only biasing legitimate stories, his stories are part of a narrative that exists for no other purpose than to convince readers to follow his agenda. That is acceptable on the Op Ed page, but not when it is disguised as news. And when entire newspapers, TV stations, magazines and news sites are run in this way, then there is a word for it-- propaganda.
When "Bias has its Own Media", then bias is no longer just the byproduct of journalism, or a symptom of bad reporting. It is the actual product. It is no longer a flaw in the process by which stories are reported. That process has been replaced by a new process in which positive material about liberals and negative material about conservatives is fast-tracked for a purely political agenda. In which news stories exist not to provide information about events, but to manufacture narratives in order to directly or indirectly achieve policy goals.
This is the literal definition of propaganda. The hypocritical mainstream media pretends that it's both independent and patriotic because it bashes the government when it's conservative and then boasts about its crusading independence, and then licks the government boot when it's liberal and boasts about its patriotism. This is a repulsive perversion of both words. The media is not independent, it is dependent. It is dependent on ideology and independent of the truth.
Today when the media pretends to report stories, when it's actually repeating White House talking points, then it is no longer engaged in filing stories, only in manipulating the minds of its readers. It is serving as the conduit for the narrative and agenda of a political party. This alone is not particularly groundbreaking, except for its comprehensiveness. There have always been political newspapers in American history, but they generally tended to self-identify as existing for the purposes of political agitation. And they were balanced out by other rival competitors, and by newspapers which were determined to try their hand at objective reporting, which made for a print landscape that resembled the present day blogsphere more than anything else.
However the corporate centralization of media ownership combined with the transformation of reporting into a field whose training is provided by radical academics looking to radicalize their students has created a structured left wing bias in reporting, that has since thoroughly tipped over into propaganda. And so we no longer have a free press, we have a propaganda press. We no longer have a biased media. Instead bias has its own media.
A single doctor who decided to stop treating Republicans would be a crank. And it would be easy enough to avoid him. However if the entire medical profession were taken over. If the majority of hospitals were owned by a handful of liberal corporations and doctors were trained in Med School that the public good requires letting Republicans die, rather than treating them-- you would have the same mindset in medicine that we suffer from today in journalism.
Media bias is the product of the politicization of a field to such a degree, that this politicization itself becomes the culture of the most influential segment of an entire profession. Rather than fighting for an armed overthrow, the American left sought to work from "within the system". And what that meant was infiltrating, influencing and subsequently radicalizing a country's fundamental institutions so that they would serve their agenda, rather than that of the people.
The left does not follow rules because it does not believe that democracy or a system of checks and balances or any form of rules that allows different political views to have expression is what is in the public interest. They believe that their way and only their way alone, is what is in the public interest. To see what a country run that way looks like, you could go to North Korea and try to sneak across the border. Or you could just make a much shorter trip to Washington D.C. where another Beloved Leader dictates his wishes and the mechanisms of government comply, without regard for what the people want. And if you want to see what a media run by people who think that the public good rests in convincing them to do what they are told looks like, well it's all around you right now.
I was riding in a cab to LAX when a local left wing talk radio station's message blared its motto. "Listen like you mean it." That is the motto not just of that station, but of the entire liberal media. And of their attached politicians as well. Listen like you mean it. That is exactly what they expect. A population of listeners that they will pretend to listen to, but mostly just ignore. Not people who are involved. Not owners. But listeners. Passive. Compliant. Willing to do what they are told for the greater good.
People who think that way do not believe in democracy. They do not believe in plurality. They do not believe in choice, because then people might not choose to do the right thing. Modern liberalism is inherently totalitarian. It is tied up with the belief in Government as God, in central planners and cooperative bodies (under community organizers) replacing individuals and elected officials as the key relationship in American government.
And the media's understanding of its role in such a system is to ensure that the people voluntarily participate in the cooperative bodies, and understand and comply with the instructions of the central planners to insure a positive outcome for everyone. Sure it didn't work under the USSR or China or Cuba or anywhere as a matter of fact, but as they say, "29th Time's The Charm". The future's so bright, you have to wear recycled burlap. And the Collective Compost toilet only overflows on Wednesdays.
But it is inevitable that every ideology whose goal is a political system that attempts to control people "for their own benefit" also believes that the goal of the press is to communicate the intentions of the authorities to the people so that everything flows harmoniously and smoothly with a minimum of gulags. Every time the media began launching into another explanation of why Obamacare was so great, and the only reason anyone thought otherwise was because they were ignorant brainwashed guntoting racists, you could see that same exact dynamic at work. The progressive propaganda machine ranting about reactionaries and blaming them for the lack of progress.
It could have been a newsflash from Moscow in 1929. Unfortunately it was actually a story being run in newspapers, magazines, newscasts and news sites all across America just now. And that shows the tragic degradation of the media, not simply into an organ of political advocacy, but into the lowest sewers of government propaganda.
And when journalists become whores, their government patrons treat them that way. What the media has yet to understand is that no one on the Right has as much contempt for them as their own Obama Administration, which has dispensed with such outmoded relics of journalism Presidential press conferences, access to the press or allowing reporters to interview a Supreme Court nominee. Those were reserved for the days of yore when the media at least tried to pretend that they were independent of the White House. By giving up their independence, the media also gave up the only reason why they should be taken seriously. And so instead the Obama Administration treats the press corps likely badly behaved employees who still haven't learned their place.
The paradox is that neither the Clinton or George W. Bush administrations which were at times authentically under siege by the press, showed this kind of contempt and hostility toward the press. But in 2008, the media gave up any pretense of being anything but carnival barkers for the Barry Hussein Show. And when that happened, they also gave up any credibility they might have had, not just with the Right, but with the White House. They stopped being the Fifth Estate, and became PR people who don't always know how to take orders from Rahm and Dave Axelrod.
The Obama Administration feels free to smack the press around, because by giving up their independence, the press also gave up any of the leverage they used to have. Once the media sold out everything, they have nothing left to offer anymore. As long as they are wedded to promoting socialism at any cost, the White House is the only game in town, and as long as they create the news out of White House talking points, the Obama Administration has the media right where it wants it.
By selling their birthright of objectivity for the pottage of ideology, the media gave up its power, and is now discovering that they man they gave it all up for sees them as nothing more than errand boys to carry his message to the people. By acting like the PR men for Obama, the media were reduced to just that. Bias now has its own media. And so does the White House.
Daniel Greenfield at October 31, 2010
Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon 1/11/10
Ego is a powerful thing.
Both Obama and the media share a lot of traits in common.Big egos for one.
j.c. 1/11/10
This was great Daniel, going to cross blog at www.achargingelephant.com been so busy working on Carly's campaign been letting my sites go south for awhile. Still ready to send you a token of appreciation for helping me, J.C. www.dangersofallah.com
Paul 1/11/10
The only thing the press has to do is tell the truth and tell the whole truth. Anythng else is just lying and we see it in the "right wing" media as much as we do the "left wing" media. It is all politically correct, "left" or "right". It is the fake debate between the fake politics of "conservatives" and "liberals" that prop up the parasite "two party system".
And it is all slipping away, steadily corroded by the new media of the internet and the growing sensitivity of people made more aware by a powerful flow of communications of consumers informing each other. We see struggles to prop up the old order as in the Tea Party, but they are not bound to last.
That is why people go to blogs, but which blogs are reliable?
Brits/Europeans would be angry if they knew that the EU is training its own journalists to spread its propaganda:
http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/1852-ukip-slams-eu-funded-propaganda
and if you go onto the videos check out "Ashton Called On United States of Europe" DCBannerman is correct - listen to Kathy Ashton's example in her answer, she really thinks what she is saying is something good. kate b
Keli Ata 2/11/10
Only the media would try to hijack our critical thinking skills to this extent. Sadly, they have been successful.
Fortunately for me, my college stressed and even tested the students in my program on our critical thinking skills. It was required. Learn it or don't graduate lol.
Public interest has nothing to do with it. Workability has nothing to do with it. The fact of the failure of the idea of a regulated state has nothing to do with it. It's about power - the power to rule by force; to give orders and be obeyed. That's all it has ever been about.
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Dodge football exits state playoffs
Wednesday, November 25. 2015
By Taelor Rye
After an undefeated season, the Dodge County High School Indians football team lost to the Elbert County Comprehensive High School Blue Devils in the third round of state playoffs on Friday, November 20.
In the first quarter of the game, the Blue Devils scored a touchdown with 8:32 left on the clock. The kicker’s attempt at a point after touchdown (PAT) was blocked, however, leaving Elbert County in the lead with a score of 0-6.
With 2:21 left in the first quarter, Elbert scored another touchdown, this time with a successful kick. The score became 0-13 in favor of the Blue Devils. [Full Story »]
Indians football proceeds to second round of state playoffs
Remaining undefeated for the season and potentially despite expectations, the Dodge County High School Indians football team overpowered the Maynard H. Jackson High School Jaguars during the first round of the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) Class AAA state playoffs on Friday, November 13.
In what some predicted to be a tough game, the Indians easily prevailed over the Jaguars, who scored a meager three points versus the Indians’ own 45. [Full Story »]
Lady Indian players make all-region softball team
Saturday, November 14. 2015
By Russ Ragan
The all-region softball team in 1-AAA has been released and it has several Dodge County High School players that made the first team. Leading the way was junior pitcher Haley Holloway, as she was named pitcher of the year. The other Lady Indians that made the first team were junior shortstop Margaret Simmons, sophomore center fielder Allie Varnadoe, and junior catcher Faith Manning. Senior pitcher Lizzie Massingill, sophomore outfielder Julianna Belflower, and freshman third baseman Abby Christian Manning led the second team.
Holloway had a big year for the Lady Indians. She was 11 and 5 on the mound with a 1.24 earned run average (ERA). She had 111 strikeouts in just 96 innings pitched. At the plate she hit .388 with seven doubles, two homers, and 21 runs batted in (RBIs). [Full Story »]
Dodge shuts out Savannah High in region playoff
In its region playoff game on Friday, November 6, the Dodge County High School Indians football team absolutely triumphed over the Savannah High School Blue Jackets 44-0.
In the first quarter, Cameron Young ran the ball for 51 yards, scoring a touchdown with 6:53 on the clock. Peyton Bush, the team’s star kicker, lived up to his record by successfully kicking the ball for an additional point; the score became 7-0.
Following Young was Kyle Glover, who – with 3:09 left in the quarter – ran the ball for six yards and scored another touchdown for a score of 13-0. Quarterback, Clint Thompson attempted a two-point conversion pass to Cade Cranford, but it was unsuccessful. [Full Story »]
Dodge County High School Indians football team trample Pierce County Bears
Wednesday, November 4. 2015
In perhaps its most competitive game yet, the Dodge County High School Indians football team beat opponent Pierce County at the October 30 game.
The game, which took place on Indians’ senior night, was the last regular game of the season.
In the first quarter, Cameron Young ran the ball for 49 yards, scoring a touchdown with 10:07 on the clock. Peyton Bush followed Young’s touchdown with a successful kick, and the score became 7-0. However, Pierce scored a touchdown with 7:27 left, also with a good kick. The score was 7-7. [Full Story »]
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Is peace needed in the climate/conflict debate?
Yes, argues Andy Solow in a comment in Nature today. He bemoans the "fierce battle that has broken out within the research community" over whether there is a link between climate and conflict, highlighting the protracted argument we've been having with Halvard Buhaug and colleagues over whether there is a link between temperature and conflict in Africa (see here, here, and here). Solow's main point seems to be that these sorts of "reduced form" analyses of climate and conflict reveal little about the true underlying processes that drive conflict, and thus that people running these models ("quants") need to engage with folks that are studying individual conflicts in depth ("quals") to make the analyses meaningful.
Overall his comments are quite reasonable, and if I can speak for my co-authors I think we are sympathetic to many of his arguments. I have a few main points of disagreement, however. First, I would not characterize the disagreements between Halvard (and colleagues) and us as a disagreement between "quants" and "quals". We would certainly put ourselves in the former category and I'm guessing Halvard would too. The disagreements between us have really been about how to do the quantitative analysis correctly, something over which we continue to disagree and will continue to disagree as long as folks are estimating panel models without fixed effects, or estimating models that include outcome variables as covariates. But contrary to what Solow suggests, we definitely have been engaging with Halvard and his colleagues. For instance, at Halvard's generous invitation I participated in a couple sessions on climate and conflict at last month's annual meeting of the International Studies Association, sessions organized by Halvard and colleagues.
More importantly, though, I think Solow misperceives what estimating reduced form models is all about in this setting, and does not allow that the very reason a "quants" might want to engage with a "quals" is because a reduced form effect has been established. A typical quant approach would be to start with an initial hunch that conflict and (say) temperature might be related, put together some data, and estimate a regression of conflict on temperature. If there is a relationship in this "reduced form", then this would motivate more careful study of the underlying cases and mechanism - i.e. an engagement with the quals. On the other hand, if there is no relationship in the reduced form, there is arguably no reason to take a "deeper look behind the statistics", as Solow puts it. This is because the reduced form effect is going to encompass all possible ways in which climate will affect conflict (even if it doesn't illuminate them), and a null result in the reduced form would tell you that there is no mechanism linking the two phenomena.
(Some initial hint at the underlying mechanism can certainly motivate how the reduced form is estimated, and this is something people are already attentive to. For instance, suppose you think that shortfalls in income are what link climate variables to conflict events; in a setting where income is earned in agriculture, then focusing on climate during growing season months might make sense. This approach for example is pursued in a nice paper by Harari and La Ferrara, in which they show that drought during the growing season matters a lot more for conflict than drought in the non-growing season.)
The argument with Halvard and colleagues is about whether there is a reduced form effect. Because my colleagues and I think that the reduced form relationship between temperature and conflict in Africa has been pretty well established by different research groups working at multiple scales (e.g. here, here, here, here, and here), we are in full agreement with Solow that a closer look at mechanism is now warranted, and that we need to learn a lot from quals about what might be going on. But if you do not believe this reduced form, then it doesn't make sense to engage with quals on how climate might affect conflict.
But a reduced form relationship is also much more than just a reason to talk to qualitative folks. For the sake of argument, let's imagine that no manner of further engagement with quals is ever able to fully isolate the mechanism linking climate to conflict - perhaps there are just too many factors that are both affected by climate and that are potential contributors to conflict. Does this mean that we learn nothing from the reduced form, or that it should be ignored by policy-makers?
Probably not, for two reasons. First, the reduced form effect of climate on conflict, when properly estimated, is estimating the causal effect of climatic fluctuations (typically inter-annual) on conflict outcomes. This is because year-to-year variation in climate is pretty random and unlikely correlated with other unobserved variables that also affect conflict. We know climate has "caused" conflict, we just don't know why.
Second, even if we don't yet understand the mechanism linking the two variables, the fact that warmer temperatures and conflict are linked would appear useful to policymakers interested in whether we should take action to mitigate future climate change. Clearly, as Solow points out, past responses to year-to-year variation and future response to long-run changes in means are not the same thing. But given that adaptation to long-run temperature changes appears very slow at best, that sensitivity to extreme heat does not appear to be diminishing, and that past relationships are all we really have to go on, then assuming these relationships might carry into the future does not seem like a crazy place to start. Moreover, important decisions are often made solely on "reduced form" evidence. For example, I don't need to know how snake venom kills me to figure that, if I find myself in a room full of poisonous snakes, it might make sense to either invest in snake-proof boots or see if I can find a door. The "adaptation" strategy here - buying boots - does involve knowing a little something about the mechanism: i.e. snake --> bite --> die; the "mitigation" strategy - leaving the room - does not. As a less prosaic example, aspirin was discovered before 1900 and was prescribed for decades before the mechanism underlying its efficacy was understood in the 1960s. Similarly, quinine has been used as a malaria drug since the 1600s although we still do not understand why it works. So failing to understand a mechanism does not typically keep us from taking meaningful action when we've decided a reduced form effect is real.
Nevertheless, I hope (with Solow) that we can stop arguing about a few of the primary reduced forms in question -- e.g. the link between temperature and conflict in Africa -- and do more to understand what's going on and what to do about it. Doing so will help inform adaptation investments in particular, and Solow is right that detailed case-study knowledge from the "quals" will be critical in building this understanding. But moving in this direction involves establishing that there is a reduced form relationship between temperature and conflict, and it is for this reason we are arguing with Halvard and co.
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THOROLD, Sir John, 9th Bt. (1734-1815), of Syston Park, Lincs.
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15 Dec. 1779 - 1796
b. 18 Dec. 1734, 1st s. of Sir John Thorold, 8th Bt., by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Samuel Ayton of West Herrington, co. Dur. educ. Hertford, Oxf. 1752. m. 18 Mar. 1771, Jane, da. and h. of Millington Hayford of Oxton Hall, Notts. and Millington Hall, Cheshire, 3s. 1da. suc. fa. as 9th Bt. 5 June 1775.
Sheriff, Lincs. 1778-9.
Thorold, an independent country gentleman, had opposed Pitt’s administration, seldom speaking, in the Parliament of 1784. He continued in this line, silently, after 1790. He was considered favourable to repeal of the Test Act in Scotland in April 1791. He was in the minorities on the Oczakov question, 12 Apr. 1791, and the Russian armament, 1 Mar. 1792. He was listed a Portland Whig in December 1792 and, it seems, did not again join the minority until the early session of 1795. He then voted against the further suspension of habeas corpus, 23 Jan.; for peace, 26 Jan.; against the imperial loan, 5 Feb.; for Fox’s censure motion, 24 Mar., and for Wilberforce’s plea for peace, 27 May. On Fox’s amendment to the address calling for peace negotiations, 29 Oct. 1795, he was one of several Members who had come to town intending to support it but went away without voting after listening to the debate. He was nevertheless regarded by the Treasury as an opponent to be dislodged at the ensuing election, and rather than face a contest initiated by Sir Gilbert Heathcote with Pitt’s encouragement, he withdrew, after offering his services again. He died 25 Feb. 1815.
Colchester, i. 4; Morning Chron. 23 May 1796; PRO 30/8/144, f. 45.
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Solar energy produces thrives even in the winter
December 16, 2013 0 By Stephen Vagus
Short days do not hamper solar production
Winter days are short, but that does not mean they are bad in terms of solar energy. California has established itself as one of the leaders in solar power, but many believe that photovoltaic systems falls short during the winter, when sunlight is not as abundant as it is during other seasons. According to the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s energy grid, solar energy has not actually fallen short during the winter. In fact, solar power production has increased.
2,800MW added to California grid this week
The California Independent System Operator notes that more than 2,800 megawatts of solar power was introduced to the state’s energy grid this week. The grid operator expects that some 3,000 megawatts of solar energy will be pumped into the California grid by the end of 2013. This is not counting the energy being produced by solar thermal facilities, which is expected to come in at 109 megawatts by the end of this week.
Solar systems manage to overcome issue of limited sunlight
While it is true that solar power production suffers on days where sunlight is not abundant or when light is obstructed, solar systems are still able to produce a significant amount of electrical power while they can access sunlight. Short days may account for less sunlight, but California has shown that its solar systems can produce a significant amount of energy even during the winter months, putting some concerns regarding the year-round viability of solar power to rest.
Solar energy provides economic benefits to California
California has been showing greater interest in solar power recently in order to take advantage of several economic benefits. By adopting renewable energy, the state is able to limit the amount of money it spends on the acquisition and transportation of fossil-fuels. California has established itself as a significant force in the solar industry and has become a home for many projects that are focused exclusively on solar energy.
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Sally Rand
Actress - USA
Born April 3, 1904 in Hickory County, Missouri
Died August 31, 1979 in Glendora, CA, USA
Mini-Biography:
Sally Rand was born on April 3, 1904 in Hickory County, Missouri. She was an American Actress, known for The Sign of the Cross (1932), Fifth Avenue Models (1925), Hotel Variety (1933), Sally Rand's first movie on record is from 1925. Sally Rand died on August 31, 1979 in Glendora, CA, USA. Her last motion picture on file dates from 1934.
Sally Rand Filmography [Auszug]
1934: [] Bolero (Cast: Annette), Directed by Wesley Ruggles, with Carole Lombard, Julanne Johnston,
1933: [] Hotel Variety (Cast), Directed by Raymond Cannon, with Olive Borden, Hal Skelly,
1932: [02.10] The Sign of the Cross (Cast: Crocodile Victim (/xx/)), Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert,
1928: [02.26] A girl in every port (Cast: Girl in Bombay ), Directed by Howard Hawks, with Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks,
1928: [02.15] Nameless Men (Cast), Directed by Christy Cabanne, with , Antonio Moreno, Eddie Gribbon,
1928: [01.01] A Woman Against the World (Cast: Maysie Bell), Directed by George Archainbaud, with Harrison Ford, Georgia Hale, Lee Moran,
1927: [] The Night of Love (Cast: Zigeuner T�nzerin), Directed by George Fitzmaurice, with Vilma Banky, William H. Tooker,
1925: [] Braveheart (Cast: Sally Vernon), Directed by Alan Hale, with Rod La Rocque, Lillian Rich, Robert Edeson,
1925: [04.26] Fifth Avenue Models (Cast: Mannequin (/xx/)), Directed by Sven Gade, with Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Josef Swickard,
1925: [03.17] Dressmaker from Paris (Cast: Mannequin (/xx/)), Directed by Paul Bern, with Leatrice Joy, Ernest Torrence, Allan Forrest,
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MINISTER POPOVIC: AS MANY LOCAL START-UP COMPANIES AS POSSIBLE SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED
28. August 2019.
Nenad Popovic, Minister without portfolio in charge of innovations and technological development in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, spoke with the heads of eight regional innovation start-up centers from all over Serbia about the challenges they face in developing local innovation ecosystems.
Also discussed during the meeting were plans for the further innovation development of the environments in which the start-up centers were established, according to a statement given by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.
Minister Popovic said that start-up centers had the primary task of supporting the establishment of as many local start-up companies as possible, whose solutions would, at present, help boost the competitiveness of the local economy, while they might find application in the global marketplace in the future, changing and facilitating the lives of millions of people worldwide.
The Minister pointed out that Serbia needed a larger number of start-up companies, and stated that between 200 and 400 startup companies operated in Belgrade and Novi Sad, while, for example, in Tel Aviv, which had almost the same number of inhabitants as Novi Sad, 1,300 start-up companies were established per year.
During a discussion with representatives of the innovation start-up centers, he announced that the Government of the Republic of Serbia would continue to implement the program of support to regional innovation start-up centers in the following year, too.
According to him, Serbia is investing 60 million euros in the construction of capital innovation infrastructure, which will enable young people to have the best conditions for innovative development in the most important university centers, such as Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis.
Minister Popovic said that the state also wanted to enable young people in the regions to have the best conditions for developing their innovation and entrepreneurial potential.
“Through the establishment of regional start-up centers, young people not only get the opportunity to work on the most up-to-date technological equipment available in these centers, but, more importantly, they also have the professional and /or mentoring support to develop their ideas into products and services that will be used on the market,” the Minister explained.
He underscored that thanks to a strong partnership with China in the field of innovation and technological development, it was ensured that representatives of Serbian regional innovation start-up centers were sent on a study trip to that country.
The Minister explained that the goal was for our country's representatives, along with their colleagues from all over the world, with the mentorship of Chinese experts, to increase their professional capacity and gain new experience in the field of managing start-up centers and business incubators.
Minister Popovic said that his office had already sent ten representatives of Serbian innovation start-up centers to China for training, and that five more would sent by the end of the year.
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Neus Sabate Vizcarra
Working at:
Barcelona Institute of Material Sciences (ICMAB-CSIC)
ERC Project (STG): “ULRASUPERTAPE: ULTRAfast growth of ultrahigh performance SUPERconducting TAPEs”
Teresa Puig works on developing high temperature superconductor materials with zero resistance and no loss of current. These are materials that help make the electrical network more effective and achieve magnetic fields that cannot be generated otherwise. Right now, the electrical networks lose 10% of the energy being transported. These materials will make it more efficient and therefore cheaper.
The project proposes a new approach to manufacturing high-temperature superconductor tapes with low-cost, high-performance and high service provision for the new energy challenge. The project aims to reach growth speeds 100 times greater than current speeds in thick layers and service provisions never reached before thanks to manipulation of local voltages and electronic densities of the superconductor state. An additive manufacturing platform will be implemented with continuous digital printing techniques for chemical solutions that will guarantee a competitive manufacturing process.
Teresa Puig, researcher in superconductor materials, was born in Terrassa and graduated in Physical Sciences at the Barcelona Autonomous University in 1989. In her third year at university, she came across the high temperature superconductor materials that won the Nobel prize in 1987. This was when Prof. Juan S. Muñoz offered her the chance to form part of his research team. Her first job was to synthesise one of these materials and right during the Midsummer’s Eve celebrations, among fireworks and bonfires, they achieved the first Catalan high temperature superconductor. Ever since, she has known that her passion was for research and she is still studying Superconductivity to this day. She has carried out research in 5 different countries and in 1997, she joined the group run by Prof. Xavier Obradores at the Barcelona Institute of Material Sciences, ICMAB-CSIC.
She currently has a consolidated research group on superconductor materials at the ICMAB and runs a European Research Council project, ERC Advanced, on this topic. She dreams of being able to bring Superconductivity to society.
Prof. Teresa Puig took her PhD in Physical Sciences in 1994 at the Barcelona Autonomous University. She took research positions abroad over 46 months and returned to Spain where she secured a position as a CSIC Tenured Scientist in 2000. In 2010, she became a CSIC Research Professor and since 2008 she has been the director of the Department of Superconductor Materials and large-scale nanostructuring for the ICMAB-CSIC. She has supervised 17 doctoral dissertations, published 300 articles, given 30 guest speeches and plenaries at international conferences, she has organised a variety of international conferences and run a significant number of national, European and international research projects.
She is co-founder of a spin-off, OXOLUTIA S.L. and the inventor of 11 patents. For the last 10 years she has been on the editorial committee of the “Superconducting Science and Technology” journal and she is a member of the executive committee of the European Applied Superconductivity Society.
In 2002, she was awarded the Duran Farell Prize for technological research and in 2015 she won the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona for Experimental Science and Technology.
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Justice Leila Seth A Voice That Broke Many Glass Ceilings
by Editor LU
Justice Leila Seth, who was the first woman Chief Justice of an Indian High Court and the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court, passed away at the age of 86.
Right from the start, Seth was shattering glass ceilings and excelling in her field, beginning with topping the London Bar Exam in 1958.
The day before she passed away, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. Coincidentally, Seth had been a part of the committee formed after the horrific crime to review laws on sexual crimes.
That was one of the many highpoints of her illustrious career. Here is taking a look at Seth’s most important work over the years.
Justice Verma Committee Reforms
After the horrific 16th December gangrape that shook the nation, the Justice JS Verma Committee was formed to strengthen and introduce laws dealing with sexual offences. Seth was named one of the members of the Committee. One of the most important proposals made by it was the rejection of chemical castration as punishment as it failed to treat the social foundation of rape.
It suggested that the punishment for gangrape should be no less than 20 years. In cases of gangrape followed by death, the Committee recommended life imprisonment for the perpetrators.
Seth was a part of the Law Commission from 1997-2000, which is when she recommended equal succession rights for daughters under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956.
The amendment abolished the “limited owner” status accorded to women and finally in 2005, women were allowed an equal share in ancestral property.
Gender Rights Champion
Justice Seth advocated for a Uniform Civil Code stating that marriage, separation, custody, adoption, divorce, a woman’s rights within marriage and inheritance are not Hindu or Muslim or Parsi or Christian demands but “a cry for gender-just laws”.
The gender-just laws she asked for were a move towards a Uniform Civil Code.
LGBTQ Proponent
Leila Seth advocated for equal rights for the LGBTQ community, not just because she happens to be the mother of Vikram Seth, an eminent, openly gay author.
The Supreme Court in its 2013 judgment called the LGBTQ community, a minuscule part of Indian society.
In June 2014, she wrote for an article in The Times of India:
“Supreme Court could not abdicate its responsibilities to protect their fundamental rights, or shuffle them off to Parliament. It would be like saying that the Parsi community could be legitimately imprisoned or deported at Parliament’s will because they number only a few tens of thousands.”
India lost Justice Seth and mourned her loss; the one way to honour her memory would be to follow her trailblazing wisdom to make society a better place for all.
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LAVANDULA x intermedia 'Provence'
Felder Rushing
(Hedge Lavender, Hybrid Lavender)
This famous cultivar sweeps across the flower fields of the Provence Region of France. It is considered among the best varieties for perfume and culinary use. 'Provence' is extra tall and blooms very heavily, so it is a fine landscape plant for dry climates as well as a great source for fragrant cutflowers, fresh or dried.
Hedge lavender is a hybrid between the popular English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia ) and spike lavender (Lavandula latifolia). It is less hardy than...
LAVANDULA x intermedia (Dutch Group)
High vigor and a tough constitution make this lavender an ideal landscape plant for dry climates as well as a great source for fragrant cutflowers, fresh or dried. Hedge lavender is a hybrid between the popular English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia ) and spike lavender (Lavandula latifolia). It is less hardy than Lavandula angustifolia but very drought tolerant and resilient. This beautiful ornamental is technically a subshrub, which means it behaves like a perennial...
LAVATERA 'Barnsley Baby'
Jessie Keith
(Barnsley Baby Mallow, Mallow)
This free blooming, compact perennial tree mallow is a perfect fit for small gardens. In summer it becomes covered with lovely white mallow flowers with purple-red centers. Though the names suggests it, this cultivar is not derived from the popular Rosemary Verey selection, ‘Barnsley.’It was selected by Wilko Karmelk of The Netherlands from open pollinated seed parents of unknown origin.
This shrubby herbaceous plant has three lobed leaves that are soft and fuzzy. In the heat of summer, ‘Barnsley...
LAVATERA 'Red Rum'
PlantHaven
(Mallow, Red Rum Mallow)
The bushy Lavatera 'Red Rum,' is a shrubby perennial admired for its distinctive rose-red flowers, which are supported by even darker, almost black, stems. It has a compact form and flowers profusely in summer. It was bred by Ken Rigney of Southhampton, Hampshire, England as a putative cross between Lavatera ‘Bredon Springs’ and Lavatera ‘Burgundy Wine.’
When mature, this semi-evergreen lavatera is bushy and semi-woody. Its maple-like leaves are three-lobed and soft...
LAVATERA 'Sweet Dreams'
(Mallow, Sweet Dreams Mallow)
The pastel ‘Sweet Dreams’ has a romantic, Old World look. This compact, bushy, mallow was developed in Belgium from a crosses between Lavatera olbiaLavatera thuringiaca. It is an herbaceous perennial with a rounded overall form and soft, lobed leaves.
In the heat of summer, 'Sweet Dreams' becomes covered with five-petaled, hibiscus-like flowers of pale lavender-pink. The petals are notched at the tips and do not overlap. It is very showy at its peak of flower in midsummer...
(Tree Mallow)
Reaching heights more common for its cousin the hollyhock, tree mallow's lobed maple-like leaves nicely accompany the violet-pink flowers with dark center eyes across summer. A short-lived perennial that is usually evergreen in its hardiness range, it is often grown as a biennial or annual elsewhere. Tree mallow is native to the coastland of western Europe and the Mediterranean. Its upright stems become wood-like in their lower portions.
The thick stems are lined with medium green leaves that...
LAVATERA maritima
(Seaside Tree Mallow)
The soft, fuzzy, gray-green foliage of seaside tree mallow is highlighted by lots of single, lavender-pink flowers with violet veins and purple-red centers. This upright evergreen shrub is native to the western Mediterranean where conditions are warm, mild and arid. It is easy to grow and lends a cool, casual feel to the landscape.
The bushy plants are covered with five lobed leaves that are soft gray-green. It blooms heavily throughout summer and will continue to bloom lightly throughout the...
LAVATERA olbia
This shrubby relative of the hollyhock is absolutely beautiful when it blooms in summer. Tree mallow is native to the western Mediterranean where conditions are dry and winters mild. This explains its tolerance of heat and drought. Though technically woody, it may die back to the base if subjected to freezing temperatures for too long.
The semi-evergreen Lavatera olbia has soft, gray-green, maple-like leaves and a tall, upright habit. Throughout summer it offers profuse showy flowers....
LAVATERA olbia 'Eye Catcher'
(Eye Catcher Tree Mallow, Tree Mallow)
This heavy-flowering tree mallow is distinguished by its brilliant rose-pink flowers with ruby eyes. This shrubby relative of the hollyhock is absolutely beautiful when it blooms in summer. Tree mallow is native to the western Mediterranean where conditions are dry and winters mild. This explains its tolerance of heat and drought. Though technically woody, it may die back to the base if subjected to freezing temperatures for too long.
The semi-evergreen Lavatera olbia has soft, gray-green,...
LAVATERA x clementii
(Mallow)
This romantic shrubby perennial of English cottage gardens is closely related to the American hollyhock. It is a sterile hybrid that resulted from the cross of little known Lavatera olbiaLavatera thuringiaca. This and other hybrids became popular at the birth of the English cottage border about a century ago, loved for their casual character and large flowers. It bears its many branches in a starburst pattern to create a rounded form overall. Stems...
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Sagitarius in the sidereal zodiac (December 17 – January 21)
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In ancient times under the influence of the beings and energies of the centaur the human being found for the first time it's upright position, like each single human being does now towards the end of its first year. By leaving the position parallell to Earth's surface and the spheres of Earth's atmosphere and taking up a 90°-position to them we gain a larger independency from Earth's lower energies, rejecting the sole dominance of gravity.
Instead we enter the vertical energies, which, although the stars are all around us, make us able to function as a link between the World of the Stars and the center of the Earth, with a certain independence from both of them, which gives us a close relatedness to the energies of dawn and dusk.
It also allows us the use of our arms and hands in a way impossible in an animal state of being, a way that might well be called the foundation of all genuine human work and civilization. That does not make the animal spirits less evolved then us. We are talking about the evolution of the vessel, the body. Animals and humans have parted ways at earlier stages, but the animal spirits are just as human as we are and often wiser because they haven't descended so deeply into there bodies.
The gesture of Sagitarius is not the upright position, but the way there: The force of liberation, of overcoming gravity, of becoming able to live with a new equilibrium standing on Earth only with our rather delicate two feet.
This act of finding the upright position, which must have been a decisive evolutionary act, without all the ridiculous half-upright positions in between, that older science has assumed, is the foundation of our self confidence. We should therefor allow small children to find the ability of standing and walking on their own, and avoid helping them to get there. In this modern life we need all the self confidence we can get.
Each time we need to liberate ourselves from heaviness, caused by opposition, by fatigue or desparation, even trauma or depression, this basic self confidence can help us. It helps us to find back to ourselves, to regain our power and stand in it, to resurrect our freedom, love and creativity.
Let your eyes read the light of the sun as it is perceived and reflected by Earth's various surfaces during this period when Sagitarius is behind it. Use the time around sunrise to meditate about it. You will open up your spirit and soul for the angels to convey the intuitive wisdom and inspirations you need to understand and it will strengthen the Sagitarius energy within you.
Libra (scales) in the sidereal zodiac - october 31- november 22
While the tropical zodiac through its fixed relationship to Earth is giving us the energies of 'scorpio' and everything related to it, the picture of 'the scales' in its present position behind the sun is modifying the energies Sun sends towards us and adapting the scorpion energies to our present time. What kind of energies do 'the scales' give us?
When we imagine our solar system's early history, we imagine it as something that happened long before we came along and we focus on minerals, water or gasses developing into planets, not on the vast space in between.
The enlightened ones of older times imagined the planets as spheres. What we call the planet was only a sign of the outer edge of the living sphere. What they were interested in were the various energies within these spheres which they could perceive as music.
They beheld with the deepest reverence the divine work of creating and placing these spheres, of getting them aligned, balanced and harmonized, creating the beautiful symphony of our world. They beheld how the lives of our earthly souls, our understanding, feeling and the unfolding of our will were born out of these aligning spheres of music.
These our soul's powers and their organic foundation are, inspite of the high degree of freedom we have reached, still connected to the energies of the planets. The alignment is not as static as we might imagine and the forces which keep it in balance, out there and within us, are coming from the direction of "the scales". They are especially accessable to us when the sun is positioned between "the scales" and earth.
They are hidden inside the sunlight, easiest to access at sunrise through a combination of the impressions of our physical eyes, of sensing the energies of the moment and taking it all into a meditative process, which might be incited by thoughts like the ones above.
The dates given in the beginning are coming from the 'international astronomical union' IAU. They mark the borders of the zodiac picture 'the scales', which is one of the smaller pictures having less then a month of backing the sun in its relationship to earth.
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The virgin in the sidereal zodiac (16th of september - 30th october)
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The energy of the Virgin has prepared the birth of the centered consciousness of modern man with his or her power of enthusiasm, potential for creativity and will to promote change.
The Virgin teaches, how to keep a pure heart, how to develop a clear consciousness. The beauty she reveals is of a spiritual nature - while she keeps her distance from all, that could overwhelm the purity of her soul. She inspires mental and emotional discipline.
You can feel her presence in Buddha's eightfold path and in the wonderous lines of logic of the great philosophers of the classical antiquity and the middel ages. She creates the space into which the modern selfawareness can be born.
She warms and protects her child-to-be-born with her gracefulness, her polite kindness and empathy, until it grows strong enough to meet the vastness of the universe. First then she allows the universe to challenge the child fully and draw out its power.
She carries the child of modern consciousness under her heart and envelopes it into her own purity until it must develop on its own and begin its journey...
...through amazement towards knowledge and enlightenment
...through empathy towards understanding and divine love
...through forceful experience towards acting and creating in harmony with the creator.
The wonderfully gentle and patient energy of the Virgin is one we can always go back to for protection and purification when the challenges or the possibilities we are facing get too big, threatening our mental, emotional or physical health.
Allow yourself to return into this protective shell of sober joy, of gentle growth, of becoming - outside the demands of the world. Soak in this quality through the energy of the sun in this period of the year when the sun is moving in front of the Virgin's stars. Allow the Virgin to embrace you, calm you and wrap you into her sobering protective veil.
This kind of meditating the zodiac is said to come from Chrstian Rosenkreutz. It should if possible be done at sunrise to harness the most of the energy coming from behind and through the sun.
About the tropical and the sidereal zodiac please look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac
Leo in the sidereal zodiac (August 10 - September 16, based on IAU boundaries)
The cosmic Lion is the source of those universal forces, that inspire courage and the heart's strongest will.
The cosmic Lion releases powerful impulses by awakening a high vision of the heart, a vision of goals that may seem out of reach to the mind. To make it work we have to learn how to move with patience, persistance and perseverance, while keeping the flames of enthusiasm strong. We have to realize more and more that the goals we carry in our hearts are inevitable and necessary for the evolution of our world. Only that gives us the assertiveness to move through opposing forces from inside and outside and activates the will to endure maybe more than we would have thought we could.
The cosmic Lion wants to give us trust to the higher beings who guide us, and admiration of those who have preceded us, showing us that the seemingly impossible can be done.
Those high visionary goals, that can keep us going in hope, love and faith, come from the divine. Divine goals can in our time not be reached in the same way as in past historic periods, by submission and obedience or enormous physical challenges. Only those divine beings, whose task it is to oppose human evolution, would work in a way that doesn't honor the free will of modern human beings. We need to anchor our willpower in a higher will by means of our individually gained insights now, our freely given commitment. Those divine beings who carry evolution forward at the right pace respect and support the slow maturation of our free will towards them.
Good role models are inspiring and important. It can make our own will stronger, to feel how they gave to the world the contributions that were their heart's highest desire to give - coming through in the end, after a long journey through self doubt, through being misunderstood and through meeting downright hostility. They can become lighthouses for our will, their example can fuel its strength and perseverance, even though our mission in this life is not the same as was theirs.
Our contribution to the evolution of life on this planet is unique and always relevant in the now. This our mission is connected to us individually. It can't be done by anyone else, and can't be fully understood by anyone else before it reaches maturity. There is an inner experience of a unicorn bowing in front of a lion. It occurs in the very moment when we have achieved so much in becoming our true self, that we are ready to lay down the fruits of our search at the feet of the Lion, joining the powers that govern the evolution of the whole, uniting our efforts with others in courage, with enthusiasm and with the strongest power of will.
Let your eyes rest on the light of the sun, preferably in the morning, make a meditation out of this and allow it all to come together - in these days when the Sun is drawing higher powers from the region where it is most at home.
https://consciousreminder.com/2017/07/25/integrating-cosmic-light-codes-awakening-8-8-gateway-888-lions-gate-activation/
Cancer in the sidereal zodiac - July 20 – August 10
Cancer is a sign of creative wisdom. Under its influence the human aura is gradually transformed, and it starts to be enfolded by a protective "skinn" that will keep the energies inside intact and undisturbed, while serving as a means of conscious communication with the astral and etheric surroundings.
Within this transformed aura the energies of the reawakening lotus flowers are combined and interconnected in a new way. These wonderful organs of higher perception were activ in ancient times before falling into a deep sleep. They will come to life again, nourished and advanced by the healing light of freedom, which man has won through his struggles in the time of spiritual darkness, in the dark night of the soul. They will unfold and function together, nourished by the power of love flowing from the region of the heart that unites itself with the kundaliniforce of the beginning.
This transformation takes a lot of time and commitment from individuals, who chose to seek it. For humanity as a whole it is an evolutionary step that still lies so far ahead, that it isn't even in our thoughts, but that doesn't mean we cannot see the tendency towards ideals that start the process of transformation and inner growth.
It begins by practising our sensitivity for all that is genuinely true and real and seperating it from all that isn't fully true and real, but has a quality of pretence and illusion. - When this becomes more and more natural, a second phase of growth begins. What we have to learn is a deep appreciation for all that is true and real, and understanding how and why it is more valuable than pretence and illusion. By practising these abilities new centers are created within the aura. - A third phase of inner growth replaces fear, anger and doubt with an inner life of emotional purity, consistent logical unfoldment and consequent intentions, that are followed through. In this phase the heart-region is restructured and the aura is enfolded with a protective layer of energy. - As we can see these are qualities, which already are seen as desirable, and we are building towards them. Unfortunately the insight into the importance of these qualities is often turned into systems of control and indoctrination, thereby weakening the source of morality within the individual instead of empowering it, thus not only missing the whole point, but actually creating a hindrance for the necessary development. The longing for freedom, this mysterious gift of divine love, that has to be developed as true human morality against outer and inner resistance, it is what we have to practise during the fourth and last phase of transformation and inner growth. We have to build towards an unwavering will for freedom. Then the heart energy can awaken, permeat the lotus flowers and make the outer "skinn" flexible and recepitive for the surroundings. .. A new stage of human evolution will be born.
This way of approaching the zodiac and using it to understand the whole of earthly evolution is said to come from Chrstian Rosenkreutz.
About the tropical and sidereal zodiac see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac
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Gemini in the sidereal zodiac - in the boundaries set by the International Astronomical Union (20 June – 20 July)
During this time of the year the sun is covering the twins, or rather breathing the energy of the twins towards earth.
The twin-energy gives the third energy of spiritual development, starting in the Lion with an awakening of spiritually based enthusiasm, courage and compassion, that develope a potential within the chakras that is in harmony with modern man's strong individuality. At the same time it reawakens the chakras' power of clairvoyance as it were before they fell asleep to give room for the development of the modern consciousness.
Through the energies of the Crab the chakras are bound together, creating a whole reawakening energy field around them.
From theTwins a quality of spiritual brother- and sisterhood is conveyed through which we become able to support each other in our effort to reclaim the realms of the Spirit. All this lies in many, but not in all ways, still in the future.
A consequence of this is that those, who are entering this field of spiritual evolution, will often be lonely. It is therefor important and a true blessing to meet likeminded people who do understand. To learn how to live a spiritual life is quite a task, and the danger of living in doubt or even giving up, while we in reality are making good progress is there. There are demanding challenges on the way and the support of those, who in their own way are going through the same as we do, helps. This is a phase of evolution only a little part of humanity has reached, but at the same time our numbers are growing, our impact can be felt and we are clearing the way for the whole of humanity in a not so far future.
Think of these things throughout the day. Focus on them before you fall asleep and have them in your heart whilst you meet the sunlight in the morning which is conveying the energy of the twins in this period from June 20 to July 20.
This way of approaching the zodiac is said to come from Chrstian Rosenkreutz.
Picture from https://fineartamerica.com/featured/gemini-ian-herriott.html
The bull - TAURUS - in the sidereal zodiac (14 May – 19 June)
When meditating the morning sunlight, that is backed up by Taurus, we meet the force of pure creativity.
The most natural expression of our human creativity is our speach, our word. While it is an ability we just use without cherishing it much, it is carrying all aspects of human expression: the painter's colors are there, so are the sculpturer's command of forms and the architect's feeling for the wholeness and the details of structures. Music lies under, becoming more expressed in poetry. It moves like a dancer of infinite imagination.
Imagine your word would not be just a word as it is, with some but relatively small consequences in most cases. Imagine your word had divine creative power within itself.
Through Taurus we look at a future time in our evolution in which this will become true. Our word will become the means of forming our creative forces outwards into the world.
The view of that future can inspire us to find our right way towards it, to prepare for it by cultivating the quality and strength of our word, of our expressions in general and thus also of ourselves. We have a lot to learn before our expression can become a part of the creative word of divinity.
Diving meditatively into the quality of the sunlight gives us a stronger connection to this process during this periode of time in which the beings of Taurus send their energy through the depths of the sun's warmth and light. Especially in the early yet silent and innocent morning they are speaking quite clearly.
This kind of meditative approach to the Sidereal Zodiac is said to come from Christian Rosenkreutz.
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Aries in the sidereal zodiac (19th of April - 13th of May)
The ram in nature has two wondrous horns, somehow spiraling inward and outward at the same time. They seem to be ‘listening’ into the infinity of space. There in outer space the ram seems to absorb an energy of life affirming strenght and eternal renewal. It is as if the ram was drawing this energy through his horns into his heart, into his whole inner being.
At the same time, the ram in nature has an incredible earthly strength, courage and readiness to fight. Not only will he stand his ground but he will also attack with a ferocity, that leaves no doubt that he appreciates the value of a good fight and will give every ounce of his power in order to win.
The energies of the sidereal "fish" bring us qualities that are at home in the past, at the very beginning of our world. Slowly adapting to the evolutionary needs, while preserving the original divine gift that became our world’s material basis, they still and forever remind us of our oneness with all beings.
The energies of the sidereal ram on the other hand prepare qualities, which will be fully in place in the far future, when our evolutionary cycle will reach its completion.
The ram’s combination of powerful strength and spiritual awareness will be ours when our evolution on Earth moves towards its end. This combination of concrete action in time and tranquil rest in an infinite affirmation of life, we gain it through the whole process of incarnating in the many cultures that have been and are still to come throughout history. The polarity will be held together by the human heart, that finally will be about to complete its journey towards freedom and freely given love.
The suggested meditation is to open up for the quality of light around dawn. The ideas above might give a direction, while perceiving the unique nuance "the ram" is giving to the light of the sun.
This way of approaching the zodiac is said to come from Christian Rosenkreutz.
About the tropical and sidereal zodiac see:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac
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Pisces in the sidereal zodiac (12th of March –18th of April)
Fish are a lot like the element they live in. Their bodies are pliable. They have skin covered with scales reminding us of the surface of water when it is touched by the wind. Even the way their skin reflects light can remind us of the wondrous effects that appear where light meets water, and there is movement between the related elements of water and air.
Fish do not carry their offspring inside themselves but let it trustfully mature within the water element, which is connected to the wholeness of water on the planet. No other being seems to be so little separated from the element it belongs to like the fish. But at the same time they are distinct living beings with will power, their own way of understanding and with by the lack of lungs somewhat restraint but none the less real emotions.
Imagine our whole planetary system in a state that is similar – swimming within divinity, denser than its surroundings but still very alike… physical, while on the other hand totally mirroring the divine. Imagine this as a first state of existence, which will evolve towards the state of our world now, with its high density and its high degree of differentiation.
The theme of the sidereal Pisces is the beginning of all beginnings, the birth of the physical world out of the divine, the transition from a pre-logical state beyond time and space to a world of time and space, helt together by laws, that appear within us as the idea of the world containing all smaller ideas within its interconnected whole, permeating the world of perception.
Let your soul dive into this holy mystery each morning during this period of the Pisces, who unfold their divine energies behind the sun, who takes them in, translates them and sends them towards us.
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Aquarius in the sidereal zodiac (16th of February - 11th of March)
Aquarius, the water-carrier has his starfield behind the sun from the 16th of February to the 11th of March.
Meditating on the quality of the suns light in the morning we can open up to the energies Aquarius wants to give us, talking to us through the gate of the sun, and we can send our appreciative love towards Aquarius and the principle of life he is governing.
There was a period in very old times when life was touching the physical world for the first time and began to be incorporated as a new universal principle into our world. The tides may be an outer sign for it, the fact that the air pressure has two minima and two maxima in the course of one day might be connected to it, but the basic phenomenon is the plants' rythm between times with little or no water and times with a lot of water, between unfolding and maturation. The energies of the water-carrier organize the water into a healthy rythmic pattern.
From there we can transfer the principle to other areas: The rythm of being awake and asleep, of work and rest, of being together and being alone, of taking in impressions and digest and integrate them a.s.o.
The cosmic aquarius is the carrier of cosmic life energy, like a gardener on earth brings the water as a carrier of earthly life energy. The original abundance of all kinds of biotopes is an expression of the Water-Carrier's art of creating synergetic life by balancing all kinds of qualities in a rythmically structured whole.
We can get a lot of inspiration and support from this kind of living wisdom and power, and we can give something back by looking at how these healing rythms take effect in the world and permeating what we see with our gratitude, love and affirming power. This is best done in a meditative effort around dawn.
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The Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac - january19 - february 15
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The stars that really are behind the Sun in our days are – as widely known – not those which our usual astrological dates indicate. “The Capricorn” for example is usually said to govern the time from the 21st of December to the twentieth of January, but the stars “the Capricorn” is composed of - seen from Earth - are behind the Sun from the 19th of January to the 15th of February. That is so because western astrology has held on to a position of the stars which was real in the first centuries and which is ideally attuned with the seasons in the northern hemisphere, and also - you get valid horoscopes that way. Eastern astrology on the other hand includes often the fact that the stars behind the Sun are very slowly changing their relationship to the seasons.
Some have tried to use the western signs in a way that includes this very slow process of change. The following considerations are made on the basis of inspirations Rudolf Steiner received from Christian Rosenkreutz. In these inspirations Earth's evolution and the development of a complete human being with individualized body, soul and spirit are seen as interconnected.
“The Capricorn's” stars are behind the Sun from the 19th of January to the 15th of February. The Capricorn is here not seen as an abstract twelfth of the whole circle. It is seen as a gift of qualities and energies sent towards us from a fixed direction in Space (not from a fixed place) which is indicated by the stars of “the Capricorn”.
So – what is sent towards Earth then?
“The Capricorn” sends the third main quality in a row of basic natural qualities: It kicks off the wonderful occurrence of the soul in the earthly body, in a way that still can be seen within the animal kingdom: The quality of emotion that just is, of insight that just occurs, of will-power that is integrated into its surroundings.
There can be deep wisdom in the eyes of animals, but it is given, not conquered in an individualized process, leading from not understanding to understanding.
There are deep feelings in animal souls, sometimes even compassion, but it doesn't seem to be dependent on inner maturation and it seems to undergo relatively little change.
There are huge powers of will at work within the animal kingdom, but the will of the individual animal is to a very high degree bound into its species, unless an animal develops a strong relationship to a human being and absorbs the human will into its own.
“The Capricorn” inserts the soul principle into the material world, while still holding back the principle of human individualization, which is received from "Sagittarius".
"The Capricorn" takes the wonder of a compressed material world, “swimming” in the great sea of universal energies, which “the Pisces” have given as a prerequisite. It takes the rhythmical waves of growing and withering, which “the Aquarius” has given as another prerequisite.
"The Capricorn" lifts the bodily evolution to a new level, helping to evolve bodies that are the right tool of movement and self-revelation for beings that include the soul-principle.
The enormous capabilities of climbing and descending that manifest in the capricorns on Earth are here working at a cosmic level, as a part of the creative “Word of God”.
Build your own meditation around this, preferably around the time of sunrise, imagining the qualities of "the Capricorn" as potent within the sunlight while actually feeling the light of the Sun, which "the Capricorn" is backing. It will connect you to these qualities and allow the angels to use them to strengthen the soul quality inside you and to teach you how to use it for your own and the world's best.
Scorpion and Serpent-Baerer in the sidereal zodiac (Scorpio 23 November – 29 November/Serpent-Baerer 30 November – 17 December)
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The scorpion is pointing back to an important moment in the evolution of earth and mankind - a transition during which the human being was deprived of the possibility to give birth to it's own offspring on it's own. Instead the energies of propagation of the human being were dispersed and the unitary androgynous human beings were physically transformed into unilateral beings, only manifesting the feminin or the maskulin part of creative forces.
While this was a great loss, it was also a great chance, opening up a whole new realm of evolution.
- There was and is the richness of experience, that comes with the various ways in which two human beings find togetherness, the ways they have come together throughout history, to make it possible for a new human being to walk on Earth. But there is also much more.
- The part of creative forces, that was not physically used anymore, was set to work to produce the cerebrum, the organ of physical selfawareness and selfaware pursuit of the truth - a pursuit, that in it's slow fully conscious steps cannot compete with the older clairvoyance in capacity or speed. It is however suited to bring forth and empower the selfaware center of the human personality and allows it to ally itself with the truth of the universe in small acts of freedom. 🔹 The loss of clairvoyance, which gradually follows the seperation into genders, becomes thus the basis for the birth of the most wonderful secrets of human beings: Our freedom, our use of the word "I" and our ability to open up this "I" to the voice of the angels, to a clairvoyance which is now carried by selfawareness and carries the gift of love.
- The seperation into genders and the birth of a consciousness able to make considerations also starts up the process of reincarnation and karma for the individual soul. The unilateral experiences as a woman will usually lead to an inkarnation as a man and vice versa. But karma gets of course much more individual and complicated.
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The Serpent-Baerer (Ophiucus) is seen as a healer, as the one who is able to transform the serpent's poison (or maybe even the scorpion's poison) into a remedy to heal illness and sometimes even reverse death. In our time we see the beginning of a huge effort, to transform the poisonous forces of karma, that push us towards conflict and war, into a field of learning for all of humanity, to unblock the paralized clairvoyant abilities of the ancients and unite them with the newborn life we have gained in the long period that was initiated by the powers of the scorpion.
The choice between letting oneself guide by the accumulating forces of untransformed karma on the one side and entering the arena of healing and learning on the other side, seems to be the fundamental choice of our age. Though it seems clear where this has to go, it is not going to happen without full commitment and a lot of love, hope and faith.
Before the time comes in which the seperation into genders wll be overcome and the human being regains it's full creative powers, the darker forces of karma will have to be cleansed and transformed.
Let your eyes read the light of the sun as it is perceived and reflected by Earth's various surfaces during this period, in which scorpion and serpent-bearer are behind the sun, having their energies translated and amplified by it; use the time around sunrise to meditate about it - and you will open your soul's door for the angels to convey the intuitive wisdom and inspirations you need.
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Malta asks Italy to disembark 50 migrants in Lampedusa
May 18, 2020 admin.01
A group of 50 migrants were rescued by a fishing vessel in a rescue operation coordinated by the Maltese authorities. It was also reported that water was entering the boat and the weather conditions were very dangerous.
According to the NGO Alarm Phone, Malta has asked Italian authorities to issue the necessary permits to allow the migrants to disembark at the nearest port in Lampedusa.
On Sunday, the NGO Alarm Phone reported that a group of 50 migrants who fled from Libya, contacted the NGO that they were in the Italian SAR Zone and Alarm Phone reported they were a few miles away from Lampedusa. It then corrected the migrants’ position that they were actually in the Maltese SAR zone.
According to Alarm Phone, the Maltese and the Italian authorities did not provide them with information on whether they will rescue the migrants or not. The NGO also said that the cargo vessel, Fuji Bay has been on the scene for several hours.
(ITALPRESS/MNA)
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Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Mathematics (Zhuhai)
Position ID: 1695-TT1 [#14799]
Position Title: Associate Professor and Professor
Position Location: Zhuhai, Guangdong 519082, China [map]
Subject Area: all areas
Application Deadline: 2020/10/08 11:59PM (posted 2019/10/10)
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The School of Mathematics (Zhuhai) invites applications for faculty positions in all areas of mathematics and statistics at the rank of associate professor and professor. Requirements include a Ph.D in Mathematics, Statistics and related areas. A strong research record with outstanding research potential and excellence in teaching and pedagogy are required. Applications accepted all year. The salary and funding are highly competitive: For professors, it ranges from 470,000 to 680,000 Chinese Yuan(including a bonus 120,000 Chinese Yuan from Zhuhai campus), and for associate professors, it ranges from 340,000 to 380,000 Chinese Yuan(including a bonus 80,000 Chinese Yuan from Zhuhai campus). The university also provides faculty apartments to our professors with a discount on the rent, which are very close to the campus. These apartments are located in a newly built residential community near the coast, including many ocean-view rooms.
To apply, please send curriculum vitae, research statement and other related documents to: Ms. Yingjie Zhou at zhouyj5@mail.sysu.edu.cn. And please indicate the job position, your name and your current university in the title of the email.
For more information, please see http://mathzh.sysu.edu.cn/. The Chinese version of this job advertisement is at http://mathzh.sysu.edu.cn/content/24. About Sun Yat-Sen University Sun Yat-sen University, originally known as Guangdong University, was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen (also called Sun Zhongshan), a great democratic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The University is located in Guangdong Province, an area neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up.
It has about 82,000 students studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Benefiting from its location near Hong Kong and Macao and the regional advantage of opening and economic development, the university has become an important base for training high-level talents, scientific research, providing services to society and inheriting cultural traditions. The University has also successfully built international cooperation and exchange relationships with many top universities in the world. According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking for 2010-2011, Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in the world.
For more information, see http://www.sysu.edu.cn/2012/en/index.htm
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Naked Time
Pregnancy. It feels as though I am nearing the end of my vacation. The end of my, This is really great, why didn't I come here sooner?!, I have to promise myself to come here again, vacation. It's tough to find the right words to describe where I've been. It's been so much fun, it's been scary, it's been eye-opening and it's been defining. And although I love it here, I am preparing myself for when I go back home. The Wizard of Oz didn't lie- There's no place like home, and I can't wait to get there....but that doesn't mean I'm not sad that I'm leaving...
Just like a real vacation, knowing my days are dwindling makes me carpe diem it up a little more. It makes me relish in the spontaneous visit with friends, complete with play grounds and icecream.
Yogurt Land at Riverpark...I think we're gonna be here a lot this summer.
Today we enjoyed our last drops of vacation with Greyson Naked Time- outside of course. Today we dipped our feet in the pool and played outside for hours. You were covered in dirt and happy, and that made me happy.
Dad and I got in on the action, fully clothed of course.
Naked Driving? Why not...
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Choosing to Adopt
Home » Adoption & Fostering » Choosing to Adopt
Three couples who have taken this route are happily raising families.
by Kiera Toffelmire
Wanda and Paul Van Bakel, with (l to r) Claire, Emilee and Ashleigh
The transition to parenthood is often fraught with lifestyle adjustments that seem daunting. Dave and Rita Simcoe,* however, eagerly awaited those changes for almost a decade.
After years of trying to conceive, including three failed attempts at artificial insemination, the Simcoes decided to pursue adoption. Biological brothers Chris*, 4, and Jake*, 3, joined the family two years later. For the first time in their lives, David and Rita, both 39 at the time, tucked their sons into bed and kissed them goodnight. It was an experience they say they will never forget.
Though the road to adoption may seem long and onerous, the Simcoes are part of a wide network of Canadians who are happily raising a family because of it. “There’s never been a moment when it didn’t feel right,” says Dave. “Our boys are our boys, and that’s it.”
The first decision for anyone who chooses to adopt a child – whether married or single – is which avenue of adoption to take. Do you want to adopt through a Children’s Aid Society (CAS) or through the private system?
International adoption is another option.
Public adoptions arranged through the CAS are free, whereas private adoptions can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000.
Both public and private adoptions (including international adoptions) follow a similar process for parents to be, including training (called PRIDE), home study, and more (see sidebar for more details).
“It’s important to be clear about why you want to create a family through adoption, and what your expectations for your family are,” says Ricarda Renner, the regional adoption manager for the Kawartha-Haliburton Children’s Aid Society and Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society.
“The mandatory training program for all persons wanting to adopt in Ontario helps people answer these questions. It also provides families with an opportunity to plan carefully and realistically for the child they want to adopt,” says Renner.
The Simcoes chose to adopt through CAS. Of the 78,000 children currently in Canada’s child welfare system, approximately 30,000 are legally eligible for adoption, according to the Adoption Council of Canada. The majority of these children are over six years old.
While many families request infants and toddlers, there is a need for parents who want to adopt sibling groups and older children, as the Simcoes did. These types of adoption applications get priority, says Renner.
Once a child has been selected as a potential match for your family, visits are arranged so you can get to know each other. These visits can sometimes be hard, says Rita. She vividly remembers Jake lingering at the door of his foster home, his bottom lip trembling, pleading with the Simcoes to come back. “It was heart-breaking,” she recalls. But then came the amazing day when Dave, Rita, Jake and Chris made the drive home as a family.
Three years later, the Simcoes adopted the boy’s newest sibling, Michael,* growing their family even more.
Curious about origins
The CAS supports the continuation of relationships that are meaningful and beneficial to the child, says Renner. “The degree of openness ranges from an exchange of letters or photos to direct contact and is determined through the adoption process.”
Adoption workers and agencies provide families with as much medical and family history as they have and encourage parents to share this information with their children. While the Simcoe boys, now ages 17, 16, and 10, are aware of the basics – that their birth parents loved them, but were unable to parent them – they are currently more interested in sports than discovering their birth origins.
Other adopted kids express a deep desire to learn about their history. Wanda and Paul Van Bakel were taken aback at first when they discovered that adopted daughter, Ashleigh, 12, had contacted her birth mother through Facebook. But Wanda says she understands Ashleigh’s need to connect with her birth mother and encourages this open relationship.
Like the Simcoes, the Van Bakels adopted Ashleigh through the CAS. Five years after making the initial phone call they were selected to be the adoptive parents of an unborn child. Wanda was able to attend an ultrasound with her daughter’s birth mom. “I was thrilled,” she says. “But it was also tough – she was giving us the greatest gift anyone’s ever given us, but she was giving up a piece of herself, and that can never be easy.”
Ashleigh’s first month in the Van Bakel home brought excitement and joy, but her parents couldn’t relax quite yet. That’s because up until the 28th day, the birth mother is legally able to change her mind and take the child back. When the 28th day passed, and the adoption was finalized, the Van Bakels were filled with relief and delight.
Less than two years later, Wanda gave birth to a daughter, Claire. Not long after, they also adopted Ashleigh’s sibling, Emilee. Paul and Wanda were now the parents of three girls, when just a few years earlier the prospect of having one child had seemed like a dream.
Adopting overseas
When Kim and Mike Kalton* decided to adopt, Kim was in her early 30s, and her husband in his early 40s. Unwilling to risk the potential for long wait times, they decided to adopt internationally.
In Canada, around 2,000 children are adopted internationally each year, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The average cost ranges from $35,000 to $45,000.
It was a year before the Kaltons got the go-ahead to travel to China to pick up their daughter, Sarah.* Jet-lagged and tired, they were crammed into a hallway with 16 other couples all waiting to meet their new child. What was it like for Kim to cradle Sarah in her arms for the first time? “Like any new mom you’re counting fingers and toes and checking them out,” remembers Kim.
About a year after adopting Sarah, the Kaltons went to China a second time and brought home adopted daughter Vanessa.* While ecstatic to be their mom, Kim knows there are cultural losses for the girls. “We’re not Chinese, we don’t speak Mandarin.” Her daughters, now ages 10 and 9, are curious about their home country, and “as parents we are open to whatever path life takes them on.”
To her surprise, Kim then became pregnant with Murray* (now 7). Kim is aware of how conspicuous her family may look to outsiders with two, dark-haired daughters from China, and a blond-haired, blue-eyed son. But it doesn’t impact either parents or children. “This is our family,” she says simply.
Successful adoptions share a common thread, says Renner. “The adoptive parents have a desire to meet the changing needs of their child. Utilizing their energy, enthusiasm and love, they want to build a joyful relationship with the child they are parenting.”
Reflecting on the role adoption has played in her life, Kim Kalton says, “We don’t look at our kids as our adoptive kids and our biological kids, they’re just our kids. They’re these people in our lives who we, as parents, get to help shape. I can’t imagine what life would have been like if I hadn’t pursued this opportunity.”
Anyone in Ontario looking to adopt must complete a 27 to 30 hour pre-service training course – PRIDE – to ensure they understand all the adoption options.
Next a home study is conducted. It looks at such things as family history, current family dynamic, and motivations to adopt. The home study also includes interviews with everyone living in the household, a home tour to assess safety for children, and extensive discussion about the child you envision fitting into your family.
Adoptive applicants must also provide a full medical, a police check, and depending on the chosen route, reference letters from employers, friends and family. Once this stage is complete, you will be matched with a child who best suits your family. The wait time varies depending on family requests.
For more information on adoptions through Children’s Aid Societies, visit www.oacas.org
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For more in depth information you may want to visit the Adoption Council of Ontario (www.adoption.on.ca) and it’s child and prospective parent matching program called “Adopt Ontario” (www.adoptontario.ca). There are many resources available including seminars/webinars on “How To Adopt” in Ontario. Also, supports are available for anyone touched by adoption or permanency arrangements. Come see all there is to assist you or your family.
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Huffington Post – ‘World’s Greenest’ Refinery Pitched For B.C. Coast
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CP | By Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press Posted: 06/10/2014 10:51 am EDT | Updated: 06/11/2014 1:59 am EDT
CALGARY – A Vancouver company is pitching a $10-billion oilsands refinery on British Columbia’s north coast that aims to connect Alberta’s vast energy resources with Asian markets while avoiding some of the pitfalls others have encountered.
Pacific Future Energy Corp. says the refinery would be the “world’s greenest” and built in full partnership with B.C. First Nations, many of whom are vehemently opposed to proposals to ship crude to the West Coast for export.
Any day now, Ottawa is expected to decide on one of those proposals: Enbridge Inc.’s (TSX:ENB) controversial Northern Gateway pipeline. One of the biggest concerns with that project is the fact that huge tankers full of diluted oilsands bitumen, or dilbit, would have to navigate the rough waters of the Douglas Channel on their way out into the Pacific.
The Pacific Future proposal — along with others being floated by B.C. newspaper magnate David Black and by aboriginal businessman Calvin Helin — would mean refined products, rather than heavy oil, would be shipped on tankers to Asia, making a potential spill much less environmentally damaging.
“I think everybody knows that it’s in Canada’s strategic national interest to increase and diversify oil production into Asia,” Pacific Future executive chairman Samer Salameh said in an interview.
“But I think everybody in their heart knows that shipping this dilbit is not the answer.”
A dilbit spill from a supertanker off the B.C. coast would make the Exxon Valdez disaster look like a “joke,” he said.
“We think it’s horrible to be shipping bitumen out of B.C. waters. We think that’s not the right thing to do by the environment, it’s not the right thing to do by First Nations and it’s not the right thing to do by the B.C. people. This is a solution to everybody’s problem.”
The Pacific Future leadership team includes venture capitalists and former provincial and federal government advisers. Salameh has experience financing and building telecommunications infrastructure for Mexican conglomerate Groupo Salinas.
B.C. Premier Christy Clark says she’s recusing herself from the bitumen refinery discussions because her former husband, Mark Marissen, has been hired as Pacific Future’s executive vice-president of communications and research. Marrisen has consulted on major infrastructure projects and has worked as a political strategist.
Pacific Future aims to include First Nations in the process from the get-go. One of Salameh’s first hires for the management team was Jeffrey Copenace, who was deputy chief of staff to former Assembly of First Nations chief Shawn Atleo and has worked with the Ontario and federal government on aboriginal issues.
“We hope to have learned from others’ mistakes and we started this thing right,” said Salameh. “We absolutely are convinced we cannot do this project without the full participation of the First Nations.”
Pacific Future plans to build a “near zero net carbon” refinery that will reuse waste products and prevent harmful emissions from entering the atmosphere.
The company says the refinery will be built in 200,000-barrel-per-day modules, with the ability to expand to a total of one million barrels per day.
Within six months, it expects to pick a location for the plant. It’s weighing one site near Kitimat and two further north near Prince Rupert. Safety concerns are causing Pacific Future to lean toward the latter, as it’s a shorter journey out to the open Pacific from there.
The company hopes a pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast will be built by the time the refinery is built seven to nine years from now. But because the refinery can be expanded in increments, rail can be used to feed a smaller-scale facility in the beginning, Salameh said.
The Pacific Future plan is based on a similar premise to Black’s $32-billion Kitimat Clean Ltd. proposal, which would involve a refinery, oil pipeline, natural gas pipeline and tanker fleet. Kitimat Clean is asking Ottawa for a loan guarantee covering about a third of that amount.
Salameh said he’s not concerned about competing with Kitimat Clean.
“David is a wonderful person and has been talking about this for a while. We are acting,” he said.
In April, Helin, along with the Aquilini Investment Group, announced the Eagle Spirit Energy proposal, which would upgrade the oilsands crude into a lighter product in Alberta or northeastern B.C. before sending it by pipeline to the coast.
“I will absolutely tell you there’s no one as far ahead in the process as we are,” said Salameh.
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White Collar Crime Remedy
I have been thinking a lot about the pernicious and insidious effects of white collar crime on so many communities across our country. I started researching Restorative Justice and was thinking about how important it is for us as a nation to demand meaningful judicial reform, judicial reform that holds white collar criminals responsible for making things right for the victims of their fraudulent behaviors. Forget about putting them in prison and using our tax dollars to support them. Put them to work creating jobs for those they have harmed.
Pay to Play. They create jobs, they earn some of their freedom back.
In my research I found a fascinating book on the subject:
The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice
Key restorative justice programs have had their roots in religious or spiritual communities. Victim-offender mediation got its North American start thanks to members of the Mennonite community. Circles were adapted from Native American and First Nations practices. Conferencing was derived from the traditions of the Maori people in New Zealand. While these programs have often been “secularized” for use outside those communities, it is useful to reflect on the spiritual roots of restorative justice. That is the subject of a new book, reviewed in this edition.
Edited by Michael L. Hadley
SUNY Series in Religious Studies (Ed. Harold Coward), Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2001
Reviewed by Gregory Strong
This book consists of a set of papers examining religious and philosophical foundations for restorative justice. The papers grew out of the “Spiritual Roots” project, an interdisciplinary and international research project to explore multi-faith perspectives on crime and punishment, especially the traditional roots of those perspectives and how those roots relate to key ideas and practices of restorative justice. The perspectives examined come from a number of religious and philosophical traditions: aboriginal religion; Buddhism; Chinese philosophy and religion; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism; and Sikhism. The distinctiveness of each tradition is respected, while their fundamental contributions to criminal justice issues are recognized. The collection also contains a substantial introduction by the editor to multi-faith reflection on criminal justice, a paper on philosophical theories of criminal punishment, and an epilogue describing specific instances where restorative practices were employed in aboriginal cases in Canada. Authors include academics and practitioners in the criminal justice sphere. The project and the book constitute a significant contribution to the exploration of religious dimensions in the formation of criminal justice ideas, perspectives, and practices.
Introduction: Multifaith Reflection on Criminal Justice
Restorative Justice and the Philosophical Theories of Criminal Punishment
The Case for Aboriginal Justice and Healing: The Self Perceived through a Broken Mirror
Healing Justice: A Buddhist Perspective
The Spirit and Practice of Restorative Justice in Chinese Culture
Christianity: the Rediscovery of Restorative Justice
Justice in Hinduism
Restorative Justice in Islam: Theory and Practice
Jewish Perspectives on Restorative Justice
Sikhism and Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice
Epilogue: Justice as Hope
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Marvel TV Characters Unlikely to Ever Appear in an MCU Film
If you are a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel Television Universe then you might have noticed something interesting. The Netflix characters have YET to make an appearance in the MCU. They barely even get a halfhearted mention in the movies is any type of recognition. SHIELD and Agent Carter have lots of crossover with the movies but the Marvel Netflix has so far been treated like the Harry Potter of the Dursley family.
However, according to Jeph Loeb, Marvel’s Head of Television, the television Marvel characters are unlikely to ever appear in one of Marvel’s films. He said,
I can tell you that part of the challenge of doing this sort of thing is that the movies are planned out years in advance of what it is that we are doing. Television moves at an incredible speed. The other part of the problem is that when you stop and think about it, if I’m shooting a television series and that’s going to go on over a six-month or eight-month period, how am I going to get Mike [Colter, Luke Cage] to be able to go be in a movie? I need Mike to be in a television show.
It is not completely impossible though, just very unlikely. Loeb adds that part of keeping the worlds mostly separate is that he wouldn’t want any potential crossover to be meaningless such as, “We never want to do Luke Cage gets into a cab as Foggy Nelson and Matt Murdock are getting out of the cab,” he said.
One small bit of good news for Netflix Marvel was hinted by Loeb. He mentioned that Rosario Dawson, who plays Nurse Claire Temple in Daredevil and Jessica Jones, is going to appear in, well, something. (She was recently announced to be appearing in “Luke Cage” and possibly “Iron Fist” as well. If this is the news he was hinting, I will be bummed. Put her in the movies!!!)
We have seen some characters that have appeared and crossed over. Most notably, one of our cast members that isn’t here because she’s working is Rosario Dawson, who continues the character of Claire Temple. So the short answer is we are already doing it. The long answer is as things go by, as the story dictates it, we’ve always been big fans of providing Easter eggs for our fans, but we never want to be known as an Easter egg farm. It has to work within the story.
This entry was posted in NEWS! and tagged Daredevil, defenders, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Netflix, Netflix Original Series on July 30, 2016 by Sarah Sommer.
Daredevil Casts Elodie Yung as Elektra for Season 2
Season 2 of Marvel’s “Daredevil” on Netflix is shaping up to be even cooler than the first one (though that will be tough to beat.) It has already been announced that the Punisher will show up in the second season but it was also announced that Elektra will also appear in season 2.
Marvel revealed this week that French actress Elodie Yung has been cast in the role of the famous female antihero and occasional lover of Daredevil.
Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb said in a statement,
“After a worldwide search, we found in Elodie the perfect actress to embody both Elektra’s impressive and deadly physicality, as well as her psychological complexity. Paired with Charlie as Matt Murdock, the two will bring one of the most beloved and tumultuous comic book relationships to life with all the accompanying sparks and spectacular action sequences the show is known for.”
The last time we saw Elektra onscreen, she was played by Jennifer Garner in the 2005 film Elektra and 2003 Daredevil.
Yung has not appeared much in America when it comes to film and television save for G.I. Joe: Retaliation. But she is poised to make a HUGE name for herself with her upcoming role in “Daredevil.”
Daredevil returns to Netflix in 2016.
This entry was posted in NEWS! and tagged Daredevil, Elodie Yung, Marvel, Netflix, Netflix Original Series on July 8, 2015 by Sarah Sommer.
Netflix Renews ‘Daredevil’ for Second Season — With New Showrunners
Not surprisingly, Netflix has officially renewed “Daredevil” for a second season. The renewal came just 11 days after the Netflix Original Series premiered season one on the streaming service. However season 2 will return with different showrunners.
“Daredevil” stars “Boardwalk Empire” star Charlie Cox. Doug Petrie (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Marco Ramirez (Sons of Anarchy), who will take over for Steven DeKnight. (DeKnight originally took over for the initial showrunner Drew Goddard, who had to leave the series to focus on other Marvel features.)
The series is the first of the five Marvel series to debut on the streaming service.
“Daredevil” will return for a second season in 2016.
This entry was posted in Comic Book Adaptations, TV Adaptations and tagged Daredevil, Marvel, Netflix, Netflix Original Series on April 27, 2015 by Sarah Sommer.
Trailer Premieres for “Daredevil” on Netflix
“Daredevil,” the Netflix Original Series has finally give us a real first look with the premiere of its first trailer.
The series stars “Boardwalk Empire’s” Charlie Cox as the titular hero who spends his days as the blind lawyer Matt Murdock. This iteration of the character is touted as being darker and “grittier” than the movie predecessor starring Ben Affleck. This series is based largely on the comic book arc written by Frank Miller titled “The Man Without Fear.”
The teaser trailer shows the masked hear at the early stages of his vigilantism. He isn’t in his red suit just yet but rather a cobbled together suit by the main character, Matt Murdock. “Daredevil” will explore his origin story along with featuring Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Hell’s Kitchen and Daredevil’s greatest enemy.
Marvel has been expanding its Cinematic Universe into television series and “Daredevil” is the first of four shows slated for Netflix release.
All 13 episodes of “Daredevil” is set to debut on Netflix on April 10. You can watch the debut trailer below:
This entry was posted in Comic Book Adaptations, TV Adaptations and tagged Daredevil, Marvel, Netflix, Netflix Original Series on February 4, 2015 by Sarah Sommer.
Marvel’s Daredevil Gets Netflix Premiere Date
Earlier today, at the Television Critics Association (TCA), Netflix officially announced the premiere date for the upcoming series, “Marvel’s Daredevil.” Turns out the premiere date is earlier than anticipated which is good news for fans. The 13 episode first season will debut on Friday, April 10th and as it is a Netflix Original Series, all the episodes will be available immediately.
“Boardwalk Empire” star Charlie Cox stars in the series as Matt Murdock/Daredevil. He is joined Rosario Dawson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson. Blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, Murdock fights against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the Super Hero “Daredevil” in modern day Hell’s Kitchen, New York City.
Steven S. DeKnight is serving as showrunner. Jeph Loeb (“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and Drew Goddard (Cabin In The Woods) are the executive producers, alongside DeKnight.
This entry was posted in Comic Book Adaptations, TV Adaptations and tagged Charlie Cox, Daredevil, Marvel, marvel's daredevil, Netflix, Netflix Original Series on January 7, 2015 by Sarah Sommer.
New Images of Charlie Cox as Daredevil
Marvel Entertainment and EW has revealed two images from the upcoming Netflix adaptation of the Marvel comic series, “Daredevil.” The series stars Charlie Cox as the titular character and you can his two different personas in the series in the images below!
“Marvel’s Daredevil” follows the journey of Matt Murdock, who was blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, now fighting against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the super hero Daredevil in modern-day Hell’s Kitchen, New York City.
Cox is most known for his role as Owen Sleater in “Boardwalk Empire.” As Matt Murdoch and Daredevil in the series. Cox is joined by Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple, Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsely aka The Owl, Vondie Curtis Hall as Ben Urich, Toby Leonard Moore as Wesley, Wilson Fisk’s right hand man, Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk, and Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk.
Marvel TV’s Jeph Loeb said,
“There aren’t going to be people flying through the sky; there are no magic hammers. We’ve always approached this as a crime drama first, superhero show second.”
Steven DeKnight, showrunner and executive producer, confirmed that Daredevil will wear his iconic red uniform in the series after he wears his black costume.
“Marvel’s Daredevil” is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix and will debut in 2015.
This entry was posted in NEWS! and tagged Charlie Cox, Daredevil, marvel's daredevil, Netflix, Netflix Original Series on December 24, 2014 by Sarah Sommer.
Deborah Ann Woll Joins “Daredevil” on Netflix
“True Blood” star Deborah Ann Woll has joined the cast of the upcoming Marvel and Netflix series “Daredevil.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, Woll will play Karen Page, the lady love of titular character Matt Murdock.
Page is the longest-running love interest for Daredevil. The character was created by Stan Lee and first appeared in the very first issue of Daredevil in April 1964. She’s the secretary at the law firm of Nelson & Murdock who eventually learns of his secret life as a superhero. She was portrayed by Ellen Pompeo in the 2003 Ben Affleck film, though the role was only a minor one.
Murdock/Daredevil, the the blind lawyer by day and crime-fighting hero by night, will be played by “Boardwalk Empire’s” Charlie Cox. Elden Henson will play Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, Matt Murdock’s friend and legal partner; Rosario Dawson in a mysterious role; and Vincent D’Onofrio as the notorious villain “The Kingpin.”
Netflix picked up the 13-episode Daredevil — along with Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, as well as miniseries The Defenders — in a massive pact with Marvel. Daredevil is the first series out of the pack, debuting in 2015. It is produced by Marvel Television and ABC Studios.
This entry was posted in Comic Book Adaptations, TV Adaptations and tagged Daredevil, Deborah Ann Woll, Marvel, Netflix on July 17, 2014 by Sarah Sommer.
Vincent D’Onofrio Boards Netflix’s “Daredevil”
The upcoming Netflix comic adaptation “Daredevil” has added a new cast member by way of Vincent D’Onofrio. Reportedly he will play the foe for the titular character Matt Murdock.
The plot follows lawyer-by-day Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
D’Onofrio will play Wilson Fisk, an antagonist also known as “The Kingpin.” The character was described in the press release as “a powerful businessman whose interests in the future of Hell’s Kitchen will bring him into conflict with Murdock.”
“The Kingpin” was famously played by Michael Clarke Duncan in the 2003 film adaptation starring Ben Affleck.
D’Onofrio will star opposite the “Boardwalk Empire” alum (and my secret boyfriend) Charlie Cox as Murdock. So far no other cast members have been announced.
Steve S. DeKnight will serve as showrunner.
“Daredevil” will premiere on Netflix sometime in 2015 simultaneously like previous Netflix Original Series. It will consist of 13 episodes. The series will be set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“Daredevil” is the first of five Marvel projects that were ordered for Netflix. It is to be followed by “Jessica Jones,” “Iron Fist” and “Luke Cage,” before leading into a “Defenders” miniseries.
This entry was posted in Comic Book Adaptations, TV Adaptations and tagged Daredevil, Netflix, Netflix Original Series, Vincent D'Onofrio on June 18, 2014 by Sarah Sommer.
Netflix Finds Its Marvel “Daredevil” Star
Owen Sleater, or you might know him by his mortal name Charlie Cox, will now be the next Daredevil! According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, Cox will star as Matt Murdock, the blind lawyer by day and crime-fighting hero by night on the Netflix and Marvel produced drama.
Cox becomes the first person cast in the drama series based on the Marvel Entertainment comics of the same name. Netflix picked up “Daredevil “– as well as “Jessica Jones,” “Iron Fist,” and “Luke Cage” and miniseries “The Defenders” — in a massive pact with Marvel.
“Daredevil” will be 13 episodes for season one. Steven S. DeKnight will now oversee the show and Drew Goddard will serve as executive producer and consultant.
Marvel and Netflix declined comment on Cox’s casting. Official confirmation is expected to come shortly.
Cox is most known for the role that broke my heart, Owen Sleater on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.”
This entry was posted in TV Adaptations and tagged Charlie Cox, Daredevil, Marvel, Netflix on May 28, 2014 by Sarah Sommer.
Netflix Orders Four Original Marvel Series
Netflix definitely knows what’s up. They know what their consumers want and how they want it delivered to their eyeballs. The company has officially announced their plans to work with Marvel to develop at least four original series exclusively for Netflix, followed by a miniseries for the streaming service. Marvel will develop series for “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones,” “Iron Fist,” and “Luke Cage,” in that order.
All four shows will have a 12 episode run and will begin streaming in 2015. The plans will culminate with “The Defenders” miniseries event about a dream team of self-sacrificing, heroic characters.
Alan Fine, Marvel Entertainment president said in a statement, said,
“This deal is unparalleled in its scope and size, and reinforces our commitment to deliver Marvel’s brand, content and characters across all platforms of storytelling. Netflix offers an incredible platform for the kind of rich storytelling that is Marvel’s specialty. This serialized epic expands the narrative possibilities of on-demand television and gives fans the flexibility to immerse themselves how and when they want in what’s sure to be a thrilling and engaging adventure.”
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos added
“Marvel’s movies, such as Iron Manand Marvel’s The Avengers, are huge favorites on our service around the world. Like Disney, Marvel is a known and loved brand that travels. With House of Cards and our other original series, we have pioneered new approaches to storytelling and to global distribution and we’re thrilled to be working with Disney and Marvel to take our brand of television to new levels with a creative project of this magnitude.”
The shows will be produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Television Studios. There is no word yet on if/how the new shows and miniseries will tie into the current franchise, The Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This entry was posted in Comic Book Adaptations, TV Adaptations and tagged Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Marvel, Netflix, The Defenders on November 7, 2013 by Sarah Sommer.
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Debbie Flood
Great Britain and N.I., Rower
Olympic bio: Beijing 2008: Silver. Athens 2004: Silver
Also Gold in 2006, 2007 and 2010 World Championships
"...Rowing may define how people see me, but ultimately I’m defined as a child of God..."
Testimony source: Unedited from www.christianity.com
Debbie Flood was born competitive. It’s something that has got her a place on the Team GB rowing squad. But her sporting career could have taken a different route. While at school she got onto the British Judo team after excelling in a number of sports.
She stumbled upon rowing after training on a rowing machine while preparing for a Judo competition. After making the transition – which included numerous falls into the water while picking up the sport – she can now look back at a career which has taken her all over the world, winning a number of medals in all sorts of competitions.
She’s an Olympic veteran after winning silver in the Quadruple Sculls in both the Athens and Beijing Games, but is hoping to go one better in London: ‘Two silvers – they [were] fantastic races but you always want gold. It’s important to aim high and train for the gold medal.’
Debbie puts everything into her sport, training three times a day, seven days a week, for 49 weeks of the year. But she’s keen to point out it’s not her number one priority in life: ‘Being a Christian gives you a bigger perspective on life. Sport can take over your life, but for me, my faith comes first.’
Flood spends time away from sport helping local charities as well as her church: ‘It’s important to know you have a purpose. At the moment rowing may define how people see me, but ultimately I’m defined as a child of God, and when I finish I’ve got something to go on to.’
Rowing is one of the most competitive of all the Olympic sports. Team GB has built a reputation of winning gold after the constant success of people such as Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent. Maybe this year Flood will add her name to that esteemed list.
Debbie Flood (www.christianity.com)
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Charges under study
The new fees will take into consideration the latest developments and the slowing of growth rates due to the international financial crisis.
Suez Canal charges are likely to be reduced
The transit fees for ships using the Suez Canal next year "are still under study", Suez Canal Authority Chairman Ahmed Ali Fadel said.
The new fees will take into consideration the latest developments and the slowing of growth rates due to the international financial crisis, Fadel said in statements.
Fadel has not ruled out cuts in transit fees for specific ships. Yet, he also said that a modest increase could not be excluded.
The assessment of the 2009 transit fees is taken up by technical committees that possess long experience in evaluating the developments of international navigation, he said.
However, he attributed the potential fee changes to other factors.
Oil and gas prices, growth rates, the shipbuilding market are also factors that could affect the assessment process, he said.
Fadel also voiced concern over the impact of the growing phenomenon of piracy, calling for international cooperation to terminate the threat.
He said the steps taken internationally to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden were 'not enough' and that nations affected could 'lose a lot' if they did not co-operate.
He was particularly keen to see nations prevent the spread of piracy into the Red Sea area, warning this would make the threat 'more dangerous'.
The Suez Canal saw record revenues this year, earning $4.57 billion in first ten months of this year, making it the nation's third highest source of foreign currency.
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Capa > A Modified Assay of Carbonic Anhydrase Activity in Tree Species > Comentários do leitor > Australia has conducted 1 MILLION tests for...
Australia has conducted 1 MILLION tests for coronavirus
por Toby Mario (2020-05-24)
Australia is leading the world in coronavirus tests, conducting more than one million since the outbreak began, helping it to smash the deadly virus' infection rate.
The country's widespread, and free, testing has been a cornerstone of its remarkable fight against COVID-19, which has killed more than 300,000 people worldwide.
Deputy chief medical officer, Professor Michael Kidd, confirmed that as of 3pm on Saturday, Australia had administered 1,015,652 tests.
If a resident is concerned about having the coronavirus, they can go to any public testing centre and be seen without charge.
In New South Wales and Western Australia, ?????? even those not eligible for Medicare can get the test for free.
But he warned the public not to be complacent as restrictions are lifted, saying the risk remained 'significant'.
A man is seen being tested by a nurse at Sydney's St George Hospital on Saturday (pictured), with more than one million coronavirus tests having been conducted across Australia
Friends are seen catching up in Brisbane on Saturday (pictured) after some coronavirus restrictions were eased
'The pandemic is not over. The risk to vulnerable people remains significant,' he told reporters in Canberra on Saturday.
'With restrictions being relaxed we still need to be vigilant.
'It's essential that we all continue to do our part.
'What we hope is the measures we have in place in Australia will not result in a resurgence in COVID-19.'
He also revealed that 5.7 million Australians had downloaded the COVIDSafe tracing app so far, heralded as the country's way out of the last restrictions.
The government has set a target of 10 million people downloading the app, which is 40 per cent of the population.
Victoria has ramped up its testing, including at drive through centres such as this one at Highpoint shopping centre (pictured on May 4)
Cafes, public parks and playgrounds also buzzed with activity as Queenslanders headed outside to embrace the sunshine (pictured in Brisbane on Saturday)
The Department of Health confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that it believes there are around 16 million adult smartphone users, which are its target population for the app.
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Tony Gill
Tony Gill is the enterprise specialist for business continuity for the corporate real estate department for BMO Financial Group, which includes the Bank of Montreal, Harris Bank, and BMO Capital Markets. Prior to joining BMO, he was Managing Director of Gill Advisors Inc., a company he founded in 2003, and still serves as its non-operating Chairman. Gill Advisors Inc. remains an independent firm with its own professional staff providing business continuity advisory services to public and private sector clients in the United States and Canada. While managing Gill Advisors, Tony collaborated closely with the Alternative Workplaces Group at the General Services Administration (GSA) and began his work that focused on the strong connection between business continuity planning and telework, and has since been published in several international journals on this emerging topic. Tony received his M.B.A. at the University of Florida and a B.A. at the Florida State University.
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Baby You Can Drive My Car by Bev Vincent
November 17, 2015 Bev Vincent Historical Context Essays
The roaring engine that became Christine rolled off the assembly line as a short story idea inspired by the old, decrepit red Cadillac Stephen King owned in 1978. “One night as I was turning into my driveway, I saw the odometer numbers on my car turn from 9999.9 to 10,000. I found myself wondering if there might not be a story in an odometer that ran backward.”
The book was written in the late 70s (the same era during which the novel is set), before King spent time in the greater Pittsburgh area working on Creepshow, but its location is an homage to his friend, director George Romero, to whom the book is dedicated. King decided to use a 1958 Plymouth Fury because they were “the most mundane fifties car that I could remember,” he told Randy Lofficier.[1] He didn’t want to use a vehicle that had a legend already attached to it.[2]
He thought that the car (and perhaps the kid who owned it) would get younger. As he told Douglas E. Winter: “The kicker would be that, when the odometer returned to zero, the car, at the height of its beauty, would spontaneously fall into component parts. It would echo that Lewis Padgett story, ‘The Twonky’—really funny, but maybe a little sinister, too?”
King says that if you ignore the prologue, the first chapter gives an indication of what the short story was supposed to be like. “As I worked on it I became more and more interested in the interaction between Arnie Cunningham and Dennis, and the difference in their lifestyles. I got entranced with Dennis’s Happy Days sort of lifestyle. In fact, Arnie’s name was originally Randy something, and I changed it to Arnie Cunningham because it was a Happy Days name!”[3]
Christine was also inspired (although perhaps subconsciously) by the hot-rod novels of Henry Gregor Felsen, which King read as a teenager. He was inspired, too, by American Graffiti. He observed that there were no parents present in that movie and he wanted to explore the relationship between his teenagers and their parents as part of the story.
In addition to being a book about a haunted car, the novel is fueled by the rock and roll music King has listened to all his life.[4] He forked out roughly $15,000 to obtain the permissions[5] to use song lyrics at the beginning of each chapter, something he added after finishing the first draft. As he told Charles L. Grant, he was often quoted $50 for the use of a song per thousand copies printed. It didn’t sound like much until he realized there were going to be 300,000 hardcover copies and even more paperbacks.
King considers it his first true horror novel since The Shining because it offers no rational explanation for supernatural events. He surprised himself with how dark the story turned out. “I didn’t like it very much because the whole thing started out to be sort of a joke. It was like Happy Days gone mad: Boy gets car, boy loses car, boy finds car. I thought it was hilarious until the kid started to run people down. Because some stories get out of control and they are like the car itself: They start to run by themselves and they don’t always turn out the way you think they are going to turn out.”[6]
In response to several articles about the huge advances he was getting for his novels, King sold the North American publication rights for Christine to Viking Press and New American Library in the spring of 1982 for an advance on royalties of one dollar from each publisher: “I’ll take the royalties, if the book makes royalties, but I don’t want to hear any more about Stephen King’s monster advances,” he told Douglas E. Winter that same year.
The book has an interesting structure. The beginning and the end are told in first person from the point of view of Arnie’s best friend, Dennis Guilder. However, the middle section is told in third person after Dennis is injured playing football. This was not a stylistic decision. King painted himself into a corner that almost killed the book. At first he attempted to narrate the middle section as “hearsay evidence,” but that didn’t work. After a number of other failed attempts, he finally decided on the published approach—to write it in third person. “I tried to leave enough clues, so that when the reader comes out of it he’ll feel that it’s almost like Dennis pulling a Truman Capote. It’s almost like a non‐fiction novel. I think that it’s still a first‐person narration, and if you read that second part over, you’ll see it. It’s just masked, like reportage.”[7]
In an appreciation King supplied to Locus magazine for Alan D. Williams, his editor at Viking, he recalls his insecurities about the book. The two men were canoeing on the lake at King’s summer house. “I told Alan that I didn’t like the way the book had turned out and said I was afraid no one would like it…I thought the combination [of first and third person] ugly and awkward. I suggested we think about not publishing the book.” Williams, who had originally acquired The Dead Zone for Viking, saw Christine as a love story. “The kids will get it,” he reassured King.
For a number of years, King cited Christine as one of his worst-reviewed novels. “I’ve been very lucky with reviews over the years with the exception of Christine which was just roasted!” he told Lynn Flewelling in 1990. “I must have been totally wrong about that book. It’s like one of those dreams where you’re in a public place and you suddenly realize you don’t have any clothes on. That’s what that experience was like. And I still don’t understand what’s wrong with that book, if anything is…”[8]
Movie rights to Christine were acquired while the book was still in manuscript, and production began four days before the novel’s publication date in 1983. Contrary to his approach with his publisher, King received approximately half a million dollars up front for the adaptation rights. “If you tie them down to a lot of money, you’ve got more assurance that the movie will be made, because somebody wants to get their money back,” he told Paul Gagne.
The proximity of the film’s premiere date to the book’s release was a cause of some concern to his publishers, especially to his paperback publishers who were dealing with a number of other movie tie-in projects at the time.
A signed edition, limited to 1000 trade copies and 26 lettered copies, was published by Donald M. Grant with a wraparound cover by Stephen Gervais.
[1] Interview with Stephen King on Christine, 1984.
[2] The author photo that appears with the hardcover of King sitting on the hood of a “Plymouth Fury” was taken by Andrew Unangst, who liked the car so much he purchased it from the Pennsylvania company that loaned it to them, a business that handled vintage cars for movies. In an interview with Charles L. Grant, King says that he learned through letters he received that the car in the photo was actually a 1957 Plymouth Savoy.
[3] Interview with Paul R. Gagne, reprinted in Feast of Fear.
[4] Soon after the novel was published, King purchased a radio station in Bangor and rebranded it WZON, one of the few hard-driving rock-and-roll stations in the US on the AM band at the time.
[5] He was assisted in this work by Dave Marsh, a former writer for Rolling Stone who would become part of the band The Rock-Bottom Remainders.
[6] Banned Books and Other Concerns: The Virginia Beach Lecture, Secret Windows.
[7] Interview with Stephen King on Christine, Twilight Zone, Vol. 3 No. 6, February 1984.
[8] Interview in Bangor Daily News, Sept 1990.
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Kira dobson
I for one love Christine. It’s has always been one of my favorites of the truly “horror” books King has written. When I was a teen he grasped that experience of being the A student loner with the academic parentage who longs for the girl (or in my case the boy) and the sex and the cool factor. He crafts a great sell your soul to the devil novel and the love story is brilliant! Tell King that this one hits all the right notes for me, from the music, to the angst, to the machine, to the lust, to the fear. Thanks again!
Ron Reese
You said it !
Darren O. Godfrey
Christine ranks in the top 5 of my favorite of King’s horror novels. Not sure why some believe that the 1st-person-to-third-and-back is any kind of detriment. It adds texture, in my opinion, to the overall fulsomeness of the novel.
I love this book. In my top three along with Pet Sematary and Cujo. I avoided it because of the bad reviews so didn’t read until I was in my 30s. It’s a hard driving scary story and quite masterful.
JoDon Garringer
Never realized Christine got bad reviews. It’s easily in my Top 10 and possible top 5 all time for the master… SK is truly at his best when writing about teenagers (and preteens…. IT and The Body are absolute masterpieces…). I’ve never understood just why that car is one of the scariest antagonists King has ever placed in a novel, but that Plymouth Fury has kept me up many nights when I’m reading that book. I’ve read Christine 4 times in my life and the most recent reading was at least as horrifying as the previous three….
I have always loved that book!
Loved this essay, Bev! I’m currently reading this book for the very first time.
Tim Heintzman
Keep bringing us more Bev! We love it!!!
Mel Endick, Educator
It is important that all of our young fans do research and watch some Creepshow episodes to get a feel for what was going on at the time and how horror was evolving. One Step Beyond, The Outer Limits, The Invaders, The Prisoner, Route 66 were all TV shows that brought out tremendous emotion and feeling from their viewers. Christine is a Masterpiece. Professor King hit it perfectly. Your essay is just what I needed to read this morning. Thank you Professor Vincent for bringing those great memories back and sharing them with the new generation of thinkers, poets, and educators. Never stop Rocking!
Great essay Bev. You have brought back so many memories today. I loved it, and I loved the book!
I fell in love with this book as a teenager; it speaks to the teenage mind. When I reread ‘Christine’ a few years ago as a more discerning adult, however, I could better understand where the critics were coming from. The middle section of the book seemed self-indulgent to me and the ‘evil attracts evil’ theme (which King had already used in ‘Salem’s Lot’) over-complicated the haunted car concept. It’s a good book, but nowhere near the caliber of ‘The Shining’ or ‘The Dead Zone’.
Lou W. Sytsma
Baby, you can drive my car.
Guess I’m gonna be a star.
Beep! Beep! Yay!
Well, mark me down as one of those people. I like Christine well enough for the character stuff but the evil car possessed thing never revved up my engine.
Maximum Overdrive/Trucks was a much more entertaining romp for me.
It’s somewhere in the middle of my fav King books.
I loved and reread CHRISTINE many times as a young teenager in the mid 1980s! However, upon reading it as a more, er, seasoned reader just a couple years ago, I found the novel lacking: overstuffed, cliched, sometimes trite and obvious, while the backstory of Roland LeBay just wasn’t as evil as I’d remembered (the scene in which his corpse is Arnie’s co-pilot just made me think of a kinda similar scene from PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES!). Although this time I actually knew most of the classic rock’n’roll songs King quoted from (the copyrights to which cost the publisher some serious change)!
It was King who had to pay for the right to use those lyrics, not the publisher.
There ya go! Just the kinda thing I need to know.
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Murray Porter Lewis
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Murray Porter Lewis 415842 Private 40th Battalion; #2 Company, Transport Section 6th Battalion; 228th Battalion April 19, 1896 Lake George, Yarmouth Co., NS August 12, 1915 Aldershot NS Port Maitland, Yarmouth Co., NS 19 5 feet, 6¾ inches Dark Brown Brown Single Meat Cutter/Chauffeur Baptist Minnie Lewis (Mother) Port Maitland, Yarmouth Co., NS December 20, 1953 Port Maitland Cemetery, NS Murray Porter Lewis was determined to serve his country. He initially enlisted on August 12, 1915 and was considered to be fit for service at his medical on August 11 in Aldershot; however, during a second medical at Valcartier it was determined he had a heart murmur and was given a medical discharge on October 15, 1915. He re-enlisted on December 23, 1916 at Halifax, NS (#513574) and was again given a medical discharge on January 15, 1917 at Toronto. Murray then enlisted on January 18, 1917 at Toronto (#1007120) with the 228th Battalion and on July 8, 1917 passed his medical. He proceeded overseas on the SS Missanabie arriving in England on February 27, 1917 and arrived in France on April 2, 1917he served in France with the Canadian Railway Troops. While serving in France he suffered from a hernia after April of 1917; however, he carried on until the end of war serving in France until February 1919. On May 10, 1919 he refused treatment for the hernia in England as he wished to return to Canada, indicating he was willing to be treated in Canada. He returned to Canada, sailing on July 28, 1919 and was discharged on August 5, 1919. Library and Archives Canada
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Survey: Is It Ever Okay To Talk Politics In The Office?
With the Presidential election less than 90 days away, politics is on a lot of folks’ minds. But is it ever okay to talk politics in the office? Well, according to a new survey, there are some very differing opinions on the subject.
A new Robert Half survey finds:
22% of workers say it is appropriate to talk politics with colleagues in the office.
Meanwhile 26% say it’s NEVER okay.
Then there are 53% of workers who say it all depends on the situation.
Where you live may play a role in how you feel about office political talk.
Of 28 states surveyed, those in San Francisco are the most likely to be in favor of political talk in the office (83%).
New York is in second, although only 34% are in favor of it, followed by Los Angeles (33%).
On the flipside, professionals in Cincinnati and Phoenix are the most opposed to politics being discussed in the office (35% each), followed by Cleveland and Philadelphia (33% each).
The survey also notes:
Women are more likely than men to find office political talk inappropriate (30% vs. 20%).
Younger professionals are more in favor of it, with 32% of 25 to 40-year-olds finding it acceptable, as opposed to 13% of those 41 to 51 and 9% of those 55 and older.
Those without children are more likely than working parents to say political discussions are not okay (31% vs. 20%).
Source:Robert Half
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2 Chainz, Drake, and Quavo: "Bigger Than You"
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 16: Rapper 2 Chainz attends the Def Jam Celebrates NBA All Star Weekend at Milk Studios in Hollywood With Performances by 2 Chainz, Fabolous & Jadakiss, Presented by Patron Tequila at Milk Studios on February 16, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Def Jam )
2 Chainz, Drake, and Quavo: “Bigger Than You”
The trio threw down a new song called “Bigger Than You,” a track that will be off 2 Chainz upcoming album ‘Rap Or Go To The League.’
Drake‘s verses are extra hot as of late, considering all the feuding he’s been doing. Check out the bangin’ track here and see what you think!
2 Chainz - Bigger Than You (Audio) ft. Drake, Quavo
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Brick & Mortar Books Turns a New Page at Redmond Town Center
Written By Todd Matthews
Brick & Mortar Books will open at Redmond Town Center in May
Nearly six years have passed since Borders Books & Music closed its 25,000-square-foot location at Redmond Town Center, the result of its parent company, Borders Group, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company eventually closed all its stores and went out of business, leaving Redmond readers with Half Price Books and McDonald’s Book Exchange to meet their local reading needs.
That will change in May when Dan Ullom and his parents, Tina and John, open Brick & Mortar Books at Redmond Town Center. It’s a career change for Ullom, 40, a Sammamish resident who has called the Eastside home since moving here from Orcas Island as a teenager. He graduated from Eastlake High School, and spent the past 14 years as an elementary school teacher in the Issaquah School District.
The Ulloms were inspired two years ago to open a bookstore after they read a newspaper article about Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, opening his own bookstore, An Unlikely Story, in Plainville, Massachusetts. “We secretly harbored this collective dream of running a bookstore,” Ullom said. “We kind of thought this is a guy who can afford to open a bookstore and take his punches. That’s probably not us. But the more we looked into it, the more we thought this was a time that independent bookstores were actually doing OK, and maybe this is a way that we can do what we love and make a living.”
The 4,000-square-foot shop will move into about half the space formerly occupied by Eddie Bauer. It will carry approximately 20,000 new book titles, with about one-third of the inventory geared toward kids and young adults. Three to five people will work in the store (including Dan and his mother, a former librarian, full-time; and his father, an environmental cleanup consultant, part-time), and the Ulloms envision it as a community hub for story times, book clubs, discussion groups, and author appearances.
“We’re not going to do coffee (or have a café) because there are four coffee places that are so close and already do a great job,” Ullom said. “We want to be in the business of books. I love drinking coffee, but I love everything about books.” A soft opening is scheduled for late-May, with a grand opening planned for June.
425 Business spoke with Ullom to discuss his family’s decision to open Brick & Mortar Books.
425 BUSINESS: How did you settle on Redmond Town Center as the location for your store?
DAN ULLOM: Originally, we thought about doing this in Sammamish because we thought we wouldn’t be able to get into Redmond. But rents were more in Sammamish than they were in Redmond, and Redmond had more people. The team at Redmond Town Center was amazing. A bookstore in 2017 really needs to be a community hub. That coincides with what (Redmond Town Center) is interested in. They know that a mall in 2017 needs to find creative ways to bring people in. We were all on the same page.
425 BUSINESS: There is a precedent of Borders Books being at Redmond Town Center but going out of business in 2011. Does that give you pause?
ULLOM: That’s a fair question. There have been a ton of questions like that that we have thought about. The Borders chain went out of business, but (the Redmond Town Center) Borders was one of the last stores to go because it was a successful Borders. If it wasn’t the Borders chain, and if it was just a (stand-alone) bookstore, I think the store would still be there. When we tell people that we are opening a bookstore in Redmond Town Center, a lot of them say, “I still miss the Borders. I still haven’t found a way to replace that experience.”
425 BUSINESS: We hear a lot about e-commerce and online retail. The name of your store, Brick & Mortar Books, seems to be going against all of that. Is that a misread? Or are you embracing the idea of physical bookstores?
ULLOM: We’re not going to change anybody on e-commerce and online retail, but people want to get together and talk about books. That’s what we believe. I think e-commerce and online retail are great if you are looking to save a couple bucks. Maybe if you know the book you are looking for already, that’s the way you’ll go. But I miss places where you find what you weren’t looking for. I used to work at a video store and it’s so sad to me that I can’t just go and find a classic movie that I have never heard of or get a recommendation from the quirky clerk or the person who that’s their passion. We don’t want to see that go away. We met with somebody today for a management position and she said, “You know what I miss about (working in a bookstore)? I miss putting a book in a kid’s hand. They weren’t a reader, and now they are a reader. They found that love of books through one book and a recommendation.”
More information about Brick & Mortar Books is available online at https://www.brickandmortarbooks.com/.
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All Four Former Officers in George Floyd Case Have Been Charged
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Minneapolis, MN (KROC-AM News) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison this afternoon announced charges have been filed against three former Minneapolis police officers accused of being involved in the death of George Floyd.
Ellison says Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Keung, and Tou Thao are facing charges of aiding and abetting second-degree felony murder. Ellison also announced he has amended the criminal complaint against former officer Derek Chauvin to include a second-degree felony murder. Chauvin was previously charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter stemming from Floyd's death, which occurred last Monday while Chauvin was pressing one of his knees against the 46-year-old man's neck.
The other former officers were participants in the tragic incident, which was captured on a viral cell phone video that has sparked both peaceful and violent protests around the world. All four men were fired by the Minneapolis Police the following day.
Still shot from Instagram Footage of George Floyd being detained by four Minneapolis police officers
Earlier today, the attorney for the family of George Floyd issued a statement about the arrests and new charges in the case. The Floyd family and attorney Benjamin Crump spoke today during a visit to the Minneapolis street corner where George Floyd died and an ever-growing memorial is located.
This is a bittersweet moment for the family of George Floyd. We are deeply gratified that Attorney General Keith Ellison took decisive action in this case, arresting and charging all the officers involved in George Floyd’s death and upgrading the charge against Derek Chauvin to felony second-degree murder. This is a significant step forward on the road to justice, and we are gratified that this important action was brought before George Floyd’s body was laid to rest. That is a source of peace for George’s family in this painful time. Attorney General Ellison has informed the family that his office will continue to investigate and will upgrade the charges to first-degree murder if the evidence supports it.
The arrests and prosecution of all four former officers have been a key demand of protest organizers in the Twin Cities.
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3 Questions: Fotini Christia on new deal-making in Afghanistan
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MIT professor of political science discusses a new U.S.-Taliban agreement and whether it will bring peace to the Afghan people.
More than 18 years ago, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States sent troops to Afghanistan with NATO as a measure to protect the U.S. homeland and its allies from the threat of terrorism. Now, the Trump administration hopes to bring an end what is referred to by many as an “endless war.” On Feb. 19 in Doha, Qatar, the United States signed an accord with the Taliban, the Islamic fundamentalist political and military organization that has been active within Afghanistan. The agreement calls for a cease-fire, withdrawal of foreign forces, intra-Afghan talks, and an end to terrorist activities.
The parties are moving ahead — in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic — by connecting remotely, says Fotini Christia, a professor in the MIT Department of Political Science. On March 19, Afghan government officials had a two-and-a-half-hour Skype video call with their Taliban counterparts to reach an agreement on prisoner exchange. A U.S. envoy facilitated these discussions, highlighting a committed effort toward a lasting cease-fire. The peace talks will continue virtually for now. Christia recently discussed the U.S.-Taliban agreement and whether she believes it will bring peace to the Afghan people.
Q: You wrote in a 2009 article in Foreign Affairs that to win the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. strategy should include the reconciliation of the Afghan government, NATO allies, and Pakistan, and enable the Taliban to realign with the Afghan government. Is this finally happening?
A: Not quite. What we are seeing now is very much a top-down agreement involving the Taliban and the U.S. What is agreed is a withdrawal of 12,800 U.S. forces within 14 months; a Taliban commitment not to conduct attacks against the U.S.; and a cessation of attacks between the Taliban and Afghan forces while U.S. forces withdraw. But there has been no clear discussion on what life will be like for Afghans after the peace deal. The intra-Afghan peace talks are supposed to get at that and to hammer out the details of a negotiated settlement.
These talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government were supposed to start on 10 March, but were delayed as the Afghan government is in disarray. There were parallel swearing-in ceremonies for the presidency held on March 9 by incumbent Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah. Even the Taliban spokesman pleaded with them to put their disagreements aside and focus on the peace talks.
The truth is that the Afghan government has been fearful of a possible peace agreement with the Taliban, as that would allow for the military withdrawal of its main backer, the United States. U.S. Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, an American of Afghan descent who has been heading the negotiations with notable canny, has been working hard to keep the intra-Afghan negotiations on track. For instance, even though the U.S. had refused to recognize the results of the recent Afghan presidential election, recently we declared the incumbent Ashraf Ghani as the winner. In his inauguration speech, he in turn announced the gradual release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners, a precondition for the next step in the peace negotiations.
It is unclear how long the intra-Afghan talks will take, especially since it is not clear whether the rival camp of Tajik leader Abdullah Abdullah will accept a place on the table in the Afghan government negotiations led by President Ghani or will choose to boycott them. But there will likely be a lot of U.S. pressure to reach an agreement that would expedite our exit. The U.S. State Department recently announced that it will cut $1 billion in aid in 2020 and potentially another in 2021. And even though withdrawal is supposed to be conditional on events on the ground (i.e., Taliban compliance with U.S. demands), the U.S. is seen determined to go ahead with troop withdrawal irrespective of how things play out.
Q: Protecting Afghan women's rights was a part of the rationale for our fight against the Taliban, yet human rights were not a consideration in the peace agreement. Furthermore, the Taliban does not recognize the civil liberties enshrined in that country's constitution. Is this a concern?
A: This has always been a concern. It has been clear from early on that any peace agreement with the Taliban will involve a regression on human rights and civil liberties. The U.S. does not want to formally recognize that risk, as it would go against our values and what we have claimed to have been fighting for all along. It chooses to go by vague Taliban pronouncements that all Afghans, men and women, will have due rights. What those rights would be is clearly open to interpretation. For now, the Taliban leader has provided an aspirational declaration that they “shall work towards providing quality (religious and scientific) education, employment, trade opportunities, development, and growth in all public sectors because this is the basic right of all Afghans and a fundamental need for our national progress, prosperity, and well-being.”
Despite the lack of rights-related guarantees, the U.S. desire to withdraw now is stronger than ever, and that means exit will proceed despite the collateral damage on individual freedoms and women’s rights that will inadvertently follow. After all, these gains always felt extremely tentative and were only experienced by a limited subset of urban Afghans. People on the countryside have only witnessed violence and economic insecurity. They want peace at any cost.
Any hopes for some semblance of respect for human rights and civil liberties will end up depending on the U.S. making its post-withdrawal economic and development aid contributions conditional on guarantees for inclusion and respect for women’s rights.
Q: Are you optimistic that this agreement will be effective in providing a path to peace in Afghanistan?
A: The agreement will certainly enable rapid U.S. withdrawal. But it is very much an open question as to whether it will bring about peace.
The day the U.S. and the Taliban signed the peace agreement, Taliban leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a message on the “Termination of Occupation Agreement with the United States.” There he declared the “collective victory of the entire Muslim and Mujahid nation” to drive out U.S. forces after 19 years of “Jihad and struggle.” In that message he made it clear that the Taliban, referred to as the Islamic Emirate, has an intent to govern.
Beyond making a call to all internal actors to find a “rational and just solution” and announcing a call for national unity and prosperous life, including amnesty for all that fought against the Taliban, the message signaled its stately aspirations by declaring that the Islamic Emirate is keen to maintain good relations with its neighbors and the international community.
It is unclear what a negotiated settlement could look like between the Afghan government and the Taliban, given the latter’s clear desire to head the state. Whether the Taliban can commit to power sharing is a highly doubtful proposition, as many expect it to get military emboldened as soon as the U.S. withdraws, and to become the de facto ruling power. The 1988-89 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan saw a continuation of low-level fighting during Soviet withdrawal and an all-out civil war in the years that followed. We will have to hope that we can get it done better than the Soviets.
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David Bullock is Deputy Headteacher at Verulam School. He is currently responsible for pastoral welfare and staff development. David has led a number of sessions through the Alban TSA to established middle leaders as well as contributing to the NQT and schools direct trainee programme. He has recently completed a MEd through HertsCam at Cambridge University in Leading Teaching and Learning which focussed on developing an effective Sixth Form learning culture. David is a leader who believes that unlocking the potential of teachers is the key to school improvement.
Sam is currently Director of Learning of a large Science faculty at Sandringham School. He was KS4 Coordinator at a school in west London as well as Assistant Head of Year. Sam moved back to Hertfordshire in 2015 where he became ADoL at Sandringham with responsibility for KS4, before progressing to Head of Department. Sam has been teaching for eight years and has worked at three different schools in his career. He has also been a member of many working parties and whole school projects in that time.
Joanna is Head of Philosophy, Religion and Ethics at Sandringham School, an SLE for the Alban TSA and has taken the lead on a number of professional learning and INSET events during the last year. Jo’s experience as an examiner for the past 3 years has also enabled her to confidently support non-specialists in delivering RS as well as giving her a deeper insight into the process of this assessment.
Karen teaches at Sandringham School and has a wealth of experience teaching and learning strategies. She is an experienced teacher of both Sociology and Geography and has been a pastoral leader for 8 years.
Cathy has been a Primary teacher for 20 years, working in central London, Buckinghamshire and St Albans. She became Head Teacher at Mandeville Primary School in 2013 and has recently been designated NLE. She works closely with the Alban TSA, facilitating the local Primary NQT cluster group and providing a primary perspective for ATSA's CPD planning. This year she has been involved in a cross phase project looking at the mental health and wellbeing of children in St Albans from Y5 to Y10 which has included discussions with young people about the transition from Primary to Secondary amongst other things. In September she was asked to deliver at an INSET day at Marlborough Science Academy on describing what good practice in Primary Schools looked like and what Secondary colleagues need to know in order to build on that practice.
Laura is a Science teacher at Sandringham school and is currently a member of the Professional Learning Team and a Head of House. She has a wide range of experience of teaching and learning strategies and has been responsible for running successful CPD sessions for Sandringham's twilight and conference events.
Alan has been headteacher of Sandringham School, St. Albans for 15 years and was previously headteacher at The Hemel Hempstead School. He studied Chemistry at Exeter University before completing a PGCE and entering the teaching profession. He has worked at all leadership levels in a range of schools prior to gaining headship. He has significant experience of working with governing bodies and has led major capital projects at Sandringham to improve the quality of educational facilities at the school.
Alan is a National Leader of Education and has worked closely with headteachers and senior staff at a number of secondary schools in this capacity to improve the quality of leadership and strategic planning. Alan has trained and served as an additional OFSTED inspector. He currently chairs Hertfordshire Schools Forum, the Alban Federation (ITT provider) and the Alban Teaching School Alliance and has previously chaired other local and Hertfordshire Headteacher groups. He also served as a member of the DfE Secondary Headteacher Reference Group for six years, supporting the DfE with guidance on education strategy.
He is proud to lead one of the first schools nationally to gain the coveted ‘World Class Schools’ mark and won the TES Headteacher of the Year Award in 2017. Most recently, Alan has helped form the Alban Academies Trust, a MAT serving schools in Hertfordshire. He is executive lead for the trust and responsible for the improvement in education across member schools. He has significant experience of school leadership and how to create an outstanding learning environment for all.
Claire began teaching in Cheshunt in 1994, then worked at various Hertfordshire schools before becoming Deputy Head at Sir John Lawes School in Harpenden in 2003. During this time she completed the NPQH and a Masters in Teaching and Learning.
In 2006 Claire became Headteacher of SJL and the school achieved an Outstanding OFSTED judgement in 2008. Claire was appointed NLE in 2009 and in 2011 SJL became sponsors of the Samuel Ryder Academy creating the Scholars’ Education Trust which currently consists of SJL, Samuel Ryder Academy, Robert Barclay Academy and the Harpenden Academy.
Claire is a director of the Harpenden Secondary Education Trust, which is in the process of setting up a secondary Free School in Harpenden (opening Sept 2019). A member of the NCTL Fellowship Commission in 2013-14 Claire has visited Singapore and Shanghai on educational research programmes. With Sandringham School, SJL is joint lead school of the Alban Teaching School Alliance and Claire has been a member of the Regional Schools’ Commissioner’s Headteacher Board for the last 4 years. Claire was awarded an OBE for services to Education in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
During her career, Tessa has held a number of roles: Head of History, Head of House, Head of Faculty and Professional Learning Mentor. She was awarded AST status in 2008 and has since used her skills and knowledge to support NQTs in Hertfordshire as well as colleagues in her own school to develop their teaching and learning strategies.
As an SLE in World War I Education she has worked with the government funded Centenary World War I Battlefields Programme developing resources for visits to the historic sites.
Tessa’s passion is making teaching interesting for the teacher and thus learning exciting for the students and she is an advocate of using student-led learning to promote progress for all.
Margaret began her teaching career in 1988 in north London, becoming Head of Geography and leading assessment in two schools, introducing a range of measures to track student performance and raise standards, prior to appointment as deputy head of The Priory School in Hitchin. Having introduced the raising boys' achievement programme and successfully written Specialisms bids in 2003, the school profile and outcomes gained considerable strength, culminating in an Ofsted Good Rating. During this time Margaret began her school improvement work within the Local Authority which she continues today.
Margaret has been Headteacher at St Albans Girls' School since 2010 and following an Outstanding judgement in January 2013, has led the team to further raise standards and challenge underperformance. Appointed as a National Leader in Education and national Pupil Premium Assessor, Margaret and her team have supported a number of schools to raise standards. SEND provision is devolved within Hertfordshire and Margaret leads the Higher Needs allocation for the St Albans and Harpenden areas for all young people aged 0-25. In addition, she is governor at a Local PRU Academy as well as being a Board member of the local Teaching School's Alliance.
Elaine is currently Associate Head and Senco at Fleetville Junior School. An SLE for SEND, Elaine has an MA in Education and Leadership of SEN and supports new SENCos completing the National Award through her role as a Tutor with the Eastern Partnership and Herts for Learning. Elaine is also the co-Manager and Primary SEND lead for DSPL7 and the School Improvement Lead for SEND with the Spiral Partnership Trust.
Elaine is passionate about supporting the needs of pupils with SEND and is keen to share outstanding practice wherever possible. A forum will be hugely beneficial for new to role and recently qualified SENCos, providing a support network through which they can continue to develop knowledge and skills.
Paul Kershaw is Assistant Head at St Albans Girls' School where he has responsibility for KS4 and learning and teaching.
Dr Sue Attard began teaching in Essex in 1977, then worked at various Primary and Special schools in Essex, Barnet and Hertfordshire prior to becoming Deputy Head at Chalfont St Giles First School in 1992. During this time she completed her MA In Educational Leadership prior to gaining the Headship at Lark Rise Lower School In Bedfordshire in 1995.
During the time under the leadership of Sue, Lark Rise went from Requires Improvement in 1995 to Outstanding in 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2011. The school has sustained the high standard under the leadership of the next Headteacher due to the sustainable structures already in place. In 2008 Sue became an NLE to support other Primary schools in their leadership developments.
In 2012 Sue opened Hatfield Community Free School (HCFS) as founding Principal which gained outstanding at the first OFSTED inspection in 2014 allowing Sue to regain her NLE status to continue the support work rated highly by other schools. In 2014 Sue opened Jupiter Community Free School as part of a Multi Academy Trust and for three years became Executive Principal.
Currently Sue is back leading HCFS and pursuing further her Doctorate studies in pupil voice which is a great passion to her. She is totally happy in the midst of pupils debating a better way forward to achieve the school aims. Sue supports other school leadership teams in developing the essence of their curriculum to match the individualism of the setting. Sue understands the core purpose of leadership is to place the pupils at the centre of decision making and then to analyse critically outcomes as the journey progresses. Sue is a member of the Partnership Board for ITT at the University of Hertfordshire. HCFS has a wide team of excellent leaders who support schools well to engage in systems leadership.
Amanda Godfrey has 23 years' experience as a Headteacher in Hertfordshire. During that time Amanda has successfully led and transformed several schools. Most recently leading Mandeville Primary School in St Albans for 16 years, a period in which the school moved from special measures to outstanding, whilst serving a challenging and diverse community.
In Amanda's current role, as joint CEO of Spiral Partnership Trust she uses her skills and experience to lead the improvement journey of 6 primary schools. Using the expert knowledge of teaching and learning she has developed over many years Amanda supports Headteachers and leadership teams to develop and improve their schools; focussing on high standards in every area of school life to meet the needs of every child in the diverse communities we serve.
As a Headteacher, Amanda has always been outward looking and worked closely with other Headteachers in a number of roles, including being a founder board member of Herts For Learning, an Ofsted inspector, an active member of Primary Heads Forum Executive for many years and a Governor at Edge Grove School. Through these roles she has developed a deep understanding of schools as complex organisations - efficient businesses and providers of learning and enjoyment for children.
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The symptoms of typhoid fever usually develop 1 or 2 weeks after a person becomes infected with the Salmonella typhi bacteria.
With treatment, the symptoms of typhoid fever should quickly improve within 3 to 5 days.
If it isn't treated, it'll usually get worse over the course of a few weeks, and there's a significant risk of life-threatening complications of typhoid fever developing.
Without treatment, it can take weeks – or even months – to fully recover, and symptoms can return.
The main symptoms of typhoid fever are:
a high temperature, which can reach up to 39 to 40C
a headache
general aches and pains
a cough
Later, as the infection progresses you may lose your appetite, feel sick and have a tummy ache and diarrhoea. Some people may develop a rash.
Getting medical advice
See your GP as soon as possible if you have symptoms of typhoid fever (even if you have been vaccinated against it), particularly if you have recently returned from travelling abroad.
It's unlikely that your symptoms will be caused by typhoid fever, but it's best to get them checked out in case you need treatment.
If you become ill while travelling abroad, you can get help by:
contacting a representative of the travel company you booked with
contacting your travel insurer
contacting the British consulate in the area you're visiting or, if you're feeling very ill, the local emergency services
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) provides travel advice by country and the contact details of all the British consulates and embassies in foreign countries.
Before you travel, it's a good idea to make a list of relevant contact details and telephone numbers in case of an emergency.
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This Is a Warning About the 2 Sides of White Nationalism
The white supremacist terrorists and the white supremacist policymakers share the same mission.
A law enforcement officer outside the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso. John Locher/Associated Press
By Charles M. Blow
Be warned: There is nothing soothing and uplifting in this column. I will not somberly mourn and point to our better angel and American resilience. This is not that kind of column.
I have a warning to deliver, a truth to tell, and it is as unsettling as it is obvious.
First, let’s start with the carnage that has unfolded over the last few days.
On July 28, a 19-year-old white man named Santino William Legan opened fire at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., killing three people and injuring 13 others before taking his own life.
As the Daily Beast reported, just before the shooting Legan “posted a picture with a caption that told followers to read a 19th-century, proto-fascist book.” As the site explained:
“The book, which is repeatedly recommended alongside works by Hitler and other fascists on forums like 8chan, is full of anti-Semitic, sexist and white supremacist ideology. The book glorifies ‘Aryan’ men, condemns intermarriage between races, and defends violence based on bogus eugenicist tropes.”
Saturday, a 21-year-old white man identified by the police as Patrick Crusius walked into a crowded Walmart in El Paso and opened fire, killing 20 people and injuring more than two dozen others, some children. It was a massacre.
As The New York Times reported, “Nineteen minutes before the first 911 call” about the shooting at the Walmart, “a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto appeared online.” CNN reports that authorities are investigating the racist screed which “police believe” was posted by Crusius.
The manifesto is heavily anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic. It’s riddled with the fear of white “displacement” and fear that changing demographics will favor Democrats and turn America into “a one party-state.”
And then on Sunday, a 24-year-old man named Connor Betts opened fire in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine people and injuring at least 27 others. Most of those killed were black.
Are these shootings a gun control issue? Of course. We have too many guns, and too many high-capacity guns. We sell guns first designed for soldiers to civilians. We don’t do enough to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them and we do next to nothing to track guns once they are sold.
Is this stochastic terrorism at play in which rhetoric by some incites action by others? Possibly. There is no doubt that Trump and Republicans are making poisonous anti-immigrant rhetoric part of their platforms.
But, I think laying all the blame at their feet is too convenient and simplistic.
I think a better way to look at it is to understand that white nationalist terrorists — young and rash — and white nationalist policymakers — older and more methodical — live on parallel planes, both aiming in the same direction, both with the same goal: To maintain and ensure white dominance and white supremacy.
The policymakers believe they can accomplish with legislation in the legal system what the terrorists are trying to underscore with lead. In the minds of the policymakers, border walls, anti-immigrant laws, voter suppression and packing the courts are more prudent and permanent than bodies in the streets. But, try telling that to a young white terrorist who distrusts everyone in Washington.
As the writer of the El Paso manifesto points out, “The Republican Party is also terrible.” The writer goes on to explain:
“Many factions within the Republican Party are pro-corporation. Pro-corporation = pro-immigration. But some factions within the Republican Party don’t prioritize corporations over our future. So the Democrats are nearly unanimous with their support of immigration while the Republicans are divided over it. At least with Republicans, the process of mass immigration and citizenship can be greatly reduced.”
This is a reason these groups are often at odds. The white nationalist policymakers are annoyed and even incensed by the terrorists because they believe they besmirch the mission.
These terrorists want to do quickly what the policymakers insist must be done slowly, so the terrorists stew in their anger.
They are angry at immigrants because their numbers are ascendant — through both immigration and higher birthrates — and, those immigrants threaten an even more accelerated displacement of white people from a numerical majority.
They are angry at white liberals for courting the demise of white supremacy. They are angry at white liberal white women in particular for championing a woman’s right to choose and for not having more babies.
They are angry at black people for even existing.
It is not lost on me that this summer is the 100th anniversary of the “Red Summer,” when violent anti-black white supremacists rioted in cities across the country, killing many, just as the Great Migration — the mass migration of millions of black people mostly from the rural South to the urban North — was getting underway. Violence is the way the white terrorists respond to demographic shifts and demographic threat.
It’s not simply a matter of whether Trump’s rhetoric, or that of any other politician, led these shooters to do what they did. Maybe. It is also about recognizing that all of these people are on the same team and share the same mission and eat from the same philosophical trough. It’s just that their methods differ. The white supremacist terrorists and the white supremacist policymakers are bound at the hip.
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Antonio Gallonio
St Philip Neri and the Sick
May 25, 2020 / Rick Yoder / 1 Comment
San Filippo Neri in Glory, Francesco da Mura (Source)
In this year of pestilence, I am reminded that St. Philip Neri began his good works in Rome by, among things, tending to the sick. The hospitals of sixteenth-century Italy were houses of profound mortification and little hope, not much more than palaces of death. They were chronically understaffed and overwhelmed with the indigent and the ill, who rarely recovered. The conditions were extremely unsanitary: the beds were filthy, the air putrid, the din of agony unremitting. Into these seething crowds of the desperate came St. Philip. He assisted the sick as best he could. His first biographer reports that, once he began to gather a following of disciples,
It was Philip’s custom on weekdays to divide his children in Christ into three or four groups and send them to the city hospitals. To begin with, he would himself go after dinner [lunch – RTY] to visit the sick in hospitals, to enkindle by his example in his followers a great desire to do this work; he would speak to the patients, tend them and do all sorts of things for them, which encouraged in his disciples an ardent desire to do the same. One example will serve to show you how devoted they were to the sick. Giovan Battista Salviati, being very dedicated, was in the hospital called the Consolazione, and headed straight for a patient intending to make his bed, asking him politely to get up so that he could do so. The patient thought he was being mocked. “No, my Lord,” he said, “don’t make fun of me, I’m a poor man.” He knew all about Giovan Battista’s licentious way of life, but was unaware of his marvellous change of character, by which he had wholeheartedly turned away from material concerns to the love of heaven. But what next? Giovan Battista urged him most earnestly, and the sick man was struck not only by his air of authority but even more so by his humility, and got out of bed, lost in admiration. Giovan Battista retained that style of life with an unwavering intent until the day of his death, and having once put his hand to the plough, he never looked behind him.
Antonio Gallonio, The Life of St. Philip Neri
Trans. Fr. Jerome Bertram Cong.Orat.
St. Philip inspired others to help the sick in whatever way the could manage. These works of mercy were the fruit of the genuine conversion he wrought in their hearts by that peculiar influence he possessed. The palpable indwelling of the Holy Ghost in his heart turned him into a living fountain of graces whose streams brought miracles to many souls. Some of these miracles healed the sick and even raised the dead. Yet we must never forget that it was not these extraordinary moments but, rather, the graces of repentance, of conversion, and of final perseverance that were truly the greatest fruits of St. Philip’s particular sanctity. St. Philip’s true fame rests in those whom he carried with him to Heaven, not in the strange and marvelous works that he effected while on earth. The story of Giovan Battista Salviati is one example among many of those who tasted of such sweet fruits. He actualized the grace of his conversion through works of charity towards the sick.
Subsequent writers have retained this act as a sine qua non of the Oratorian life, and then only because St. Philip so clearly demonstrates how essential it is to the Christian life per se.
The Vision of St. Philip Neri, Florentine School, 17th c. (Source)
And it seems to me that on this, St. Philip’s feast day, we would be well-advised to do the same. We find ourselves in the midst of a new and terrifying pandemic. Death is everywhere. In the United States alone we have lost 100,000 souls with almost no public mourning. Many of these people have died alone, afraid, in pain, and deprived of the comfort of God’s Church. The nature of the disease means that most of us cannot actively assist in the hospitals for fear of transmission. All we can do is show kindness to our neighbors, help each other obtain the necessary supplies to stop the spread of the disease, and give blood if we have survived the sickness ourselves. That’s as far as practical action goes for most of us. So much for the corporal works of mercy.
But a Christian is never without a way to directly help his brethren. The first and last resort of the faithful must be prayer. Here, too, we can take St. Philip as our model. Lest we place too much emphasis on St. Philip’s merely material acts in visiting the sick, let us turn to the testimony of Giuseppe Crispino,
When we enter a sick-chamber, let us imitate the holy Father Philip, who was accustomed, immediately upon his arrival, to pray for the patients in their own room and to make the bystanders do the same, especially in the case of the dying. The Saint was also accustomed to retire into another room, and there to pray for the sufferer.
Giuseppe Crispino, The School of Saint Philip Neri, pg. 174
Trans. Frederick William Faber
As I have written elsewhere, we must offer intercession for our suffering fellows now more than ever. And we must do so in union with the whole communion of saints. Indeed, one small blessing of this crisis is that it can, if we let it, draw us closer to the “great cloud of witnesses” ever ready to help us. One of St. Philip’s spiritual sons, Fr. Agostino Manni, made special prayers to the Blessed Virgin whenever he went to the hospitals; the Blessed Juvenal Ancina likewise sought the prayers of the living when he ministered to the sick (Crispino 174-76). And that most perfectly Philippine of English Oratorians, Fr. Faber, conceives of intercession for the dying as an intrinsically Marian act. He tells us that
We learn [a lesson] from Mary about the deaths of others. It is, that devotion for those in their last agony is a Mary-like devotion, and most acceptable to her Immaculate Heart. There is not a moment of day or night in which that dread pomp of dying is not going on. There are persons like ourselves, or better than ourselves, and whose friends have with reason loved them more than ever ours have loved us, who are now straitened in their agony, and whose eternal sight of God is trembling anxiously in the balance. Can any appeal to our charity be more piteously eloquent than this?…Are not the dying our brothers and our sisters in the sweet motherhood of Mary? The family is concerned. We must not coldly absent ourselves. We must assist in spirit at every death that is died in the whole world over, deaths of heretics and heathens as well as Christians. For they, too, are our brothers and sisters; they have souls; they have eternities at stake; Mary has an interest in them…How much more must they need prayers, who have no sacraments!…How much more earnest must be the prayers, when not ordinary grace, but a miracle of grace, must be impetrated for them!
Fr. Frederick William Faber, The Foot of the Cross
I cannot help but hear a ringing call to intercession for our own times in these words of Fr. Faber. A greater and more fearsome calamity of general death demands a greater and more dedicated oblation of prayer. Especially when even our brethren in the Faith are so often deprived of the Sacraments that should be their final stay and consolation. Yet the power of God to furnish extraordinary grace is far mightier than any earthly sickness. Healing, protection, mercy, conversion, and consolation: let us boldly ask for these gifts on behalf of the ill, the dying, the dead, their caregivers, and their families…while we still can. The hour is late. Tomorrow we may be struck ill with the dread and deadly pestilence. And then, our every thought diverted, our breath failing, our bodies plunged into the depths of a fatigue from which we shall never rise again, we will be grateful for those pious souls who lift us up to the face of the Father in prayer.
So let us pray while we still can. If we do this in a spirit of charity, we will become true Sons and Daughters of St. Philip and more perfectly emulate the Divine Physician who desires to heal us in soul as well as in body.
May St. Philip Neri pray for us all in this troubled time.
St. Philip Neri, Italian School, 18th c. (Source)
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Stephen Hillenburg, Creator of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” 1961 – 2018
Ed Liu - November 27, 2018
Stephen Hillenburg, creator of Nickelodeon's hit animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, passed away on Monday, November 26, 2018, at the age of 57. He died of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which he was diagnosed with last year. Hillenburg moved...
Boom Studios To Produce New Rocko’s Modern Life Adventures
Peter Paltridge - September 18, 2017
Could there possibly be more new Rocko-related material coming our way than previously assumed? The wallaby is already returning to TV -- is he coming back to comics too? Boom Studios will be resurrecting the world of O-Town this December...
SDCC 2017: First Look At “Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling”
Peter Paltridge - July 20, 2017
Rocko's Modern Life is about to get more modern. Nickelodeon let loose over two minutes of clips from the highly-anticipated new TV special, Static Cling, during San Diego Comic-Con. As Rocko says, "I don't think we're in the 90's...
SDCC 2017: Nickelodeon Brings O-Town, Hillwood, Bikini Bottom, and More to San Diego
Ed Liu - June 27, 2017
NICKELODEON BRINGS O-TOWN, HILLWOOD, BIKINI BOTTOM, AND MORE TO LIFE AT COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: SAN DIEGO JULY 20-23, 2017 Network Offers Immersive Fan Experience Based on Its Iconic Rocko’s Modern Life, Hey Arnold!, SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and More Share it:...
Nickelodeon Announces Title to Upcoming “Rocko’s Modern Life” One-Hour Special
NICKELODEON’S BRAND-NEW TV SPECIAL ROCKO’S MODERN LIFE: STATIC CLING REUNITES ORIGINAL VOICE CAST TO REPRISE ROLES BURBANK, Calif.--Thursday, June 22--Nickelodeon announced today that its brand-new, original one-hour TV special Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, based on the classic ‘90s hit...
Nickelodeon Announces “Rocko’s Modern Life” TV Movie
Peter Paltridge - August 11, 2016
Today, August 11, 2016, is the 25th anniversary of Nicktoons! It was during this very morning that Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy premiered on the kids' cable channel, the first completely original cartoons to be created specifically for...
Nickelodeon Goes Back to the 90’s by Launching “The Splat”
Ed Liu - September 25, 2015
NICKELODEON TAKES FANS BACK TO THE ‘90S WITH THE LAUNCH OF “THE SPLAT,” BRAND-NEW DESTINATION FOR ICONIC NICK CONTENT, STARTING MONDAY, OCT. 5, ON TEENNICK *Follow “The Splat” on Twitter @thesplat, Instagram @thesplatgram, Facebook, YouTube, Vine, Tumblr and Pinterest. #TheSplatIsComing NEW YORK...
Review: “Rocko’s Modern Life”: Complete Series: Not a Very Dangerous DVD
Classic Speedy - April 3, 2013
(Note: Since this Complete Series package features every episode from seasons 1-4 and I already reviewed seasons 1-3 separately, I will only focus on volume 4 to reduce redundancy.) Rocko's Modern Life has been a fun nostalgia trip, but luckily...
"Rocko’s Modern Life" Season 3: Better than Both Salami and Bologna Combined
Classic Speedy - July 6, 2012
Watching Rocko's Modern Life's third season, I'm continually impressed with how well the show has held up in the years since it originally aired in the mid '90s. The characters are still engaging, the artwork is still unique, and...
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Five student-athletes' names appeared on rosters this year at CSU, but they are no longer there. However, it isn't because they graduated or suffered career-ending injuries. It was because they no longer wanted to be part of some aspect of CSU's athletic department.
Dwight Boatner started the trend when he quit the basketball team in January. Stephen Verwers and Phillip Thomasson followed at the end of the season. All three players expressed discontent with the coaching staff as reasons for leaving.
Annika Walseth requested a transfer last week after the "mutual agreement" between women's basketball head coach Chris Denker and athletic director Mark Driscoll resulted in Denker's departure. Walseth had a few reasons for wanting to leave, but toward the top were to escape a situation that she was "not proud to be a part of." Then, over the weekend, Kristen Karlik left the volleyball team, calling CSU an "unhealthy environment."
So what's going on that would make five student-athletes, all of whom started at least one-third of the games for their respective teams this past season, upset with CSU and asking to transfer?
It is safe to say that CSU teams did not have the most successful seasons in the 2004-05 year, but if we can't keep athletes happy, things will only get worse before they get better. Inexperienced players will have to jump into roles they are not ready for, and CSU won't look very appealing if the number of transfers outweighs the number of team wins.
The CSU athletic department needs to figure out what is going on, hire coaches who can make teams win and have student-athletes who are proud to be here.
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