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Michigan basketball's senior class leaves substantial legacy
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Michigan’s senior class wanted to leave a legacy.
Though this season ended abruptly with Thursday’s 69-68 Sweet 16 loss to Oregon, these seniors felt they made an impact.
“Obviously we didn’t want the season to end this early, but to win a Big Ten championship outright (in 2014), to win a Big Ten tournament championship, go to the Sweet 16 our senior year, I think there’s a lot of achievements these five seniors have had, I think that’s something we should be proud of,” U-M senior Zak Irvin said.
This will be the end of the road for Irvin and Derrick Walton Jr., having exhausted their four years, and likely for Mark Donnal, Sean Lonergan and Andrew Dakich, who will play their fifth years elsewhere.
Midway through their senior season, Walton and Irvin were questioned as leaders, with little tangible progress to show for their final three seasons.
But then they led one of the great finishes in program history, winning 12 of 14 games entering Thursday, including seven straight to win the Big Ten tourney title and the first two NCAA tournament games.
And in the final game of their careers, where the Wolverines were outplayed by Oregon, the seniors gave them a chance, scoring 23 of Michigan’s final 29 points.
“It’s not about how you start, it’s how you finish,” Dakich said. “Derrick and Zak are the guys in this senior group that everyone’s going to talk about. But they were leaders and they just stuck with it, through adversity when it got bad when we weren’t performing the way people expected us to. We kind of proved people wrong in a sense.”
The chemistry of this team was unique, which is part of what the leaders felt fueled their late season run.
“It's the tightest bunch I've been around in all my years of playing basketball,” Walton said. “Just a very selfless group. I had the joy of being a part of it and being one of the leaders. Like I said, I wish we could have more games to play together because I think a couple minutes throughout the game we didn't show the type of team we were becoming and overall just thank them for allowing me to be part of such a great team.”
Three-point barrage: Part of Thursday’s Michigan frustration was the massive three-point barrage, as U-M took 31 threes, trying to shoot itself into the lead. After hitting 11 (35.5%), it wasn’t an ideal strategy.
“We shot 14 the first half.” U-M coach John Beilein said. “It's difficult in that defense to do that. Jordan Bell is a great defensive player (down low.) We tried to do that a little earlier with Mo (Wagner). Didn't work out so well. It's really hard to get that type of look that you would like to get. While we are growing in that area.
“I didn't think that was a strength against certain defenses, didn't feel it was today. Those 31 threes we took, about five or six of them we would like to have back. I don't know why we did it, but we did it and that's part of these guys growing as a team and growing as players.”
Turnovers: While Michigan missed a number of opportunities in the first half with an uncharacteristic seven turnovers – U-M had 10 combined in the previous two games – the second half was impressive the other way.
Each team only had one turnover in the 20-minute second half.
Michigan basketball players Derrick Walton Jr., left, and Zak Irvin talk with reporters March 22, 2017 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. (Photo: Kirthmon F. Dozier, DFP)
Michigan basketball's Moe Wagner shouldn’t go pro ... yet
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Moe Wagner shouldn’t go pro. Not now. Not after Thursday night at the Sprint Center.
Not after he fumbled and stumbled and shot his way to the bench, where he sat, helplessly, as his Michigan Wolverines lost a heartbreaker to Oregon in the Sweet 16.
Wagner will be in the NBA someday. That day shouldn’t come this summer. He is not ready. This loss reminded us of that.
Not that the loss is his fault. It is not. His frontline mate, and fellow emerging NBA prospect – D.J. Wilson – struggled at times, too.
Most obviously when Wilson missed a wide-open lay-up with eight minutes left in the game. That lay-up should’ve been a dunk. And maybe next year it will be. Which is why Wilson should consider sticking around Ann Arbor for another year as well.
He is not a certain first-round pick yet. Sure, it’s possible a general manager falls in love with him later this spring and takes a chance. It’s just as possible, however, that Wilson would be a second-round pick. And that’s too bad. Because he has first-round talent.
So does Wagner. In fact, Wagner might have lottery-pick potential. With another 15 pounds, another summer in the gym, another year in America learning and studying the culture of the game here, who knows how good he could be?
His coach, John Beilein, likened his sophomore center – Wagner is 6 feet 11 – to a blank canvas.
“He’s gonna be able to paint that canvas in any way he wants as he goes forward,” said Beilein. “He’s a tremendous student of the game. He’s so talented.”
Beilein is right, of course. Wagner is extraordinarily gifted. He’s also got a lot to learn. As Beilein will tell you. As Wagner will tell you, too.
That may be his most impressive gift: self-awareness.
“So many mistakes,” Wagner said. “Sometimes you just have a bad day,”
Both are true. Bad days happen … even to LeBron James. Some nights, the shots don’t fall. Thursday was that sort of night for Wagner.
But if we break down why, we weren’t just looking at a shooter on an off night. We were looking at a multi-dimensional big man with guard skills who struggled – at times -- to combat the physicality of his defender – Jordan Bell.
This is not a reason for Wagner to be embarrassed. Bell is the Pac-12’s defensive player of the year. He is 6 feet 9. He is strong and explosive and athletic.
The problem is, nearly every NBA team has a Bell. So when Wagner missed his first two shots on the low block against Bell’s strong-armed defense, well, it just got worse from there.
Wagner lost his rhythm. Or, more accurately, never found one.
“Shots weren’t falling,” he said.
And while that’s true – in the technical sense that shots weren’t falling – Wagner’s attempts weren’t rimming out, either. They weren’t hitting the actual rim. A couple of them, anyway.
Because he was worried about Bell from those opening couple of minutes. The early struggle rippled throughout the game, and Beilein had no choice but to pull Wagner down the stretch.
To his credit, Wagner said his defense was the bigger issue.
“How many points did we score? Sixty-eight? We average 74? To be honest, it’s not about our offense,” he said.
This is where Wagner’s relative lack of strength and bulk make a difference. This what NBA scouts most want to see him add. That and experience, and the ability to pull up off one hard dribble and knock down a jumper from the elbow.
That’s the next step for him on the court. Beyond that, he’s got about everything else. The long-range jumper. The cross-over. The post moves. The galloping runs to the rim.
He also has some fire. A lot of it, in fact. So much that his coaches occasionally have to throw a little water on him. This drive and desire and competitiveness are qualities scouts love, because they’re so hard to coach into a player.
The weight and footwork he can work on. He has the heart. You could hear that in the postgame locker room, as he stood – red-eyed -- and took questions for nearly 20 minutes, ever deferential to his seniors, owning his off night, talking about the journey and this team and how it was like a family.
“Losing always sucks,” he said.
The coaches told him to remember the feeling for next year. Not long after that, someone asked him what his plans were now that the season was finished.
“Well, I just lost 20 minutes ago,” he said. “I haven’t really thought about that. And I don’t really see a decision either. All that I’m worried about is my seniors, my staff. That’s the beauty of the off-season. It’s far away still. Not right now, I’m gonna reflect on this season.”
And reflect on his night. What he did. What he didn’t do. What he might have done.
Like his coach said, Wagner can be as good as he wants. All he has to do is keep painting.
At Michigan.
For one more year.
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Grand jury indicts two suspects in child sexual assault case
Posted: Apr 18, 2019 / 10:16 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 19, 2019 / 03:41 PM CDT
Two suspects in the alleged repeated sexual assaults of a 12-year-old girl are now indicted by the grand jury.
Shannon Wells is indicted on four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child as is his co-defendant, Casey Chapman, 36.
Police officers said Wells is the boyfriend of Chapman and they both had sex with a young girl over the course of several months last year.
They said the victim said to police she at first had only been having sex with Chapman, but then Wells found out about it and demanded sex too.
Chapman reportedly told officers the assaults by Wells took place several times between Halloween and Thanksgiving of last year and her sexual relationship with the girl began before that in March.
Chapman was indicted previously on four counts of aggravated sexual assault.
She remains jailed on $850,000 in bonds.
Wells is no longer listed on the jail roster.
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One person is dead and another person was transported to United Regional after an ATV accident near Kamay Rd.
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Health official: Trump rally ‘likely’ source of virus surge
by: SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 8, 2020 / 03:30 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 9, 2020 / 03:40 AM CDT
FILE – In this March 17, 2020, file photo, Tulsa Health Department director Dr. Bruce Dart takes part in a news conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa that drew thousands of people in late June, along with large protests that accompanied it, “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP, File)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa in late June that drew thousands of participants and large protests “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday.
Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday. By comparison, during the week before the June 20 Trump rally, there were 76 cases on Monday and 96 on Tuesday.
Although the health department’s policy is to not publicly identify individual settings where people may have contracted the virus, Dart said those large gatherings “more than likely” contributed to the spike.
“In the past few days, we’ve seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,” Dart said.
Trump’s Tulsa rally, his first since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., attracted thousands of people from around the country. About 6,200 people gathered inside the 19,000-seat BOK Center arena — far fewer than was expected.
Dart had urged the campaign to consider pushing back the date of the rally, fearing a potential surge in the number of coronavirus cases.
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the campaign went to great lengths to ensure that those who attended the rally were protected.
“There were literally no health precautions to speak of as thousands looted, rioted, and protested in the streets and the media reported that it did not lead to a rise in coronavirus cases,” Murtaugh said in a statement. “Meanwhile, the President’s rally was 18 days ago, all attendees had their temperature checked, everyone was provided a mask, and there was plenty of hand sanitizer available for all.
“It’s obvious that the media’s concern about large gatherings begins and ends with Trump rallies,” he said.
Although masks were provided to rally goers, there was no requirement that participants wear them, and most didn’t.
A reporter who attended the Trump rally is among those who have tested positive for COVID-19, along with six of Trump’s campaign staffers and two members of the Secret Service who worked in advance of the rally.
Statewide, Oklahoma health officials on Wednesday reported 673 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, the state’s second-highest daily total since the start of the pandemic.
The new cases reported by the Oklahoma State Department of Health follow a record high of 858 cases that were reported on Tuesday and bring the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 17,893. The actual number of infections is thought to be much higher because many people haven’t been tested and some who get the disease don’t show symptoms.
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Explainer: Why Winter is the Most Polluted Time of Year in China
By Jonty Dixon, January 6, 2021
The Explainer is where we explain an aspect of Chinese life. Simple. So now you know.
Pollution season is here — that time of the year when China’s major cities become shrouded in a blanket of thick smog.
If you’ve ever lived in China or followed news reports from around the country during the winter, you’ve likely seen all those ‘Airpocalypse’ photos.
In addition to the dense, grey skies, pollution also brings real health problems. PM2.5 particles, which can be found in the air on smoggy days, are small enough to penetrate deep into the bloodstream through the lungs and have been known to cause serious health issues. The impact of PM2.5 particles was responsible at least in part for around 1,420,000 deaths in China in 2019.
China ranked 11th in the world for highest average conentration of PM2.5 particles in 2019, a problem which worsens during winter.
Why Winter?
China’s smog is a big problem during the winter. The coldness of the winter months means that more coal and other fossil fuels are burnt during this time of the year. Central heating, which is usually powered by coal, is used in individual homes as well as commercial businesses during these months. The demands for energy soar in the colder months, while the naturally overcast weather traps the pollution beneath the cloud line, thus creating smog.
READ MORE: Greenwave's David Wang on COVID-19 and Winter Health Problems
The COVID-19 Effect
In addition to China’s far western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomou Region, air pollution tends to be particularly acute in northern and east coast cities. During January and February 2020 however, satellite data mapped a noticeable drop in harmful nitrogen dioxide pollutants. The drop has been attributed to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.
Satellite images show a dramatic drop in nitrogen dioxide across China from January to February last year as a result of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.
Further research also showed a drop in PM2.5 particles during the same period, although there was an increase in harmful O3 particles.
Check out live updates on air quality in China and elsewhere.
What Can You Do To Protect Yourself from the Smog?
Facemasks and air purifiers are an absolute must during this time of year. The masks will usually form part of your daily outfit when the smog levels get really bad. From cheap disposable masks to high end fashionable masks, you have to make sure you’re getting one which filters out harmful PM2.5 particles. Those are the particles which can enter your bloodstream and cause health problems after prolonged exposure.
Check out the best facemasks here.
Air purifiers for your home and office are also important, as the small particles can find their way indoors. For small kids as well as adults, air purifiers can be a little thing which can make a big difference on days with particularly bad air.
What is Being Done to Improve China’s Air?
The Chinese government has made reducing smog levels a priority. In addition to short term solutions – including the temporary closure of factories, switching from coal to gas (with mixed results) and construction bans – the government has also invested in clean energy. There has also been a movement towards hybrid and electric vehicles.
Government policy in China has also centered largely around the China Air Pollution and Control Action Plan (APPCAP) established in 2013. Amongst other measures, the number of China National Environmental Monitoring Centers has increased to more than 2,000 nationally.
Improvements have been made in Beijing. In 2019, the city was at 201 on the list of the world’s most polluted cities, an improvement in recent years. Many other Chinese cities remain high on the list, however. The government is under no illusion that improving air quality remains a challenge.
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[Images via Greenpeace, The Guardian, China News, The Verge, Netease]
This article was originally published on November 11, 2016. It has been updated and republished on January 6, 2021.
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Trump Can Never Go Too Far for Republicans
Even the most serious GOP senators were willing to take the president at his word on Russia—no matter how transparent his excuses.
Senator Rob PortmanAaron P. Bernstein / Reuters
Give Donald Trump and his team this much: They didn’t have a lot to work with.
Facing an uproar even among allies, the president on Tuesday sought to reverse the controversial comments he’d made alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland. Speaking before a meeting with members of Congress, Trump said that in contrast to his remarks in Helsinki, he accepted the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion blaming Russia for election interference—though he immediately undercut that by saying others might have been involved. (“Could have been other people also. There’s a lot of people out there.”) He also claimed that he had misspoken.
“In a key sentence in my remarks, I said the word would instead of wouldn’t,” Trump said. “The sentence should have been ‘I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t or why it wouldn’t be Russia.’”
Even by the standards of the chronically dishonest Trump White House, this was flimsy. For one thing, Trump has repeatedly said he did not believe that Russia had interfered, though he’s waffled on occasion. For another, he immediately undermined his own statement. But the most audacious claim was that he had meant “wouldn’t” instead of “would,” which required discarding the president’s long history of casting doubt on Russian interference, the immediate context for his remarks in Helsinki, and his insistence that he intended to use a double negative.
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The obvious, immediate question was: Who would ever believe this?
The answer came almost as immediately: Republicans in Congress.
As I wrote Tuesday, the main goal of Trump’s comments seemed to be to quiet friendly fire from the GOP. To do that, the president had to offer just the slightest cover to Republican leaders. Even if his denial wasn’t credible, it was at least a denial. If Trump’s would/wouldn’t excuse was cynical, it also proved effective, at least before a New York Times report Wednesday night revealed that the president knew all along about Putin’s direct involvement in the meddling.
“I’m glad he clarified his comments today,” Senator Rob Portman of Ohio said Tuesday afternoon on Fox News. “But I wish he had said it in front of President Putin and the world yesterday. I take him at his word if he said he misspoke, absolutely.”
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida agreed.
“I’m just glad he clarified it,” he said. “I can’t read his intentions or what he meant to say at the time. Suffice it to say that for me as a policy maker, what really matters is what we do moving forward.”
Senator John Thune of South Dakota said, “Ahh, well, I mean, I guess it’s probably the best we’re going to be able to get.” Give Thune credit for candor, or at least for a Kinsley gaffe: Intentionally or not, he made clear that the game was getting the best available walk-back and moving on.
None of these senators is a particularly strong ally of the president. In 2016, Portman withdrew his support of Trump over the Access Hollywood tape, and Thune called on him to withdraw from the election. Rubio savaged Trump when they were rivals during the GOP primary, though he later aligned himself with the nominee. While all three have since reached accommodations with Trump, it’s striking that the senators, all of whom have reputations for sobriety and seriousness, were willing to accept such a thin excuse and take the president at his word—or even treat his word as reliable.
Just as the waters were settling, the president roiled them a bit more on Wednesday, after a reporter asked him whether he believes Russia is still trying to interfere with American elections, as Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats has said. Trump said no to something—reporters in the room believed he was answering the question, while Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted the “no” was not in response to that query. The White House has done little to deserve the benefit of the doubt, but video of the incident is ambiguous. While Trump has made clear in the past that he doesn’t believe Russia meddled or is currently interfering, this moment is less clear.
Trump’s apparent “no” restarted the chorus of critics. Senator Susan Collins tweeted, “The Russians continue efforts to undermine Western democracies, including ours. The President is wrong and needs to heed the warnings from our Intelligence Community, including DNI Dan Coats.” Senator Lindsey Graham, who was one of the most strident critics of Trump’s comments in Helsinki, said he was “dumbfounded,” and added that the president “owes it to the country to tell us why he doesn’t believe Russia is doing what the intelligence community says they’re doing. I think he owes it to the country and to the Congress to explain this discrepancy.”
Yet after the White House reached out to him, Graham announced he was ready to believe the president:
I have just been reassured unequivocally by the White House legislative team that the President’s ‘no’ response today to shouted questions was not intended to suggest that President Trump doubts the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia is continuing to attack....
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 18, 2018
In the hours immediately after Trump’s press conference with Putin, pundits wondered whether this moment was different from the president’s previous meltdowns, and whether Republicans would truly turn on him this time.
The fact that leading Republicans signaled their willingness to accept Trump’s would/wouldn’t excuse should put that notion to rest. There will always be a few outspoken critics in the GOP—Jeff Flake or, on occasion, Bob Corker—but this episode suggests that there may be no turning point when the president says something that’s simply too far for his allies in Congress to accept.
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California's marijuana banking group to discuss challenge in San Diego
Starting a business is difficult, even under the best of circumstances.
But starting a business without access to banking services puts even the most well-funded start-up in a real bind.
That’s the situation facing many in the cannabis industry, even though California voters passed Proposition 64 — legalizing recreational use of marijuana for those 21 and older — by a wide margin and some have predicted the nascent cannabis market in the state may soon be worth $4 billion to $7 billion.
“It definitely needs a resolution,” said California state Treasurer John Chiang. “America operates on cash and credit. Most of the world operates on cash and credit. And here we have an industry (in which) the cash economy doesn’t work properly.”
Within weeks of Prop 64’s passage, Chiang formed the Cannabis Banking Working Group to try to clear up the uncertainty surrounding financing for legal marijuana businesses.
The group has met four times across the state since last December and its next stop is Friday at the Town and Country Hotel on Hotel Circle North in San Diego, at 9:30 a.m.
Representatives from the financial sector and the cannabis industry are scheduled to speak and the public is invited to attend.
So why do cannabis business owners have so much trouble getting banks to take their business?
Many financial institutions resist because marijuana is still illegal on the federal level. It’s listed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as a “Schedule I” drug — the same classification as LSD, ecstasy and heroin.
While the federal government allows banks to work with cannabis businesses in states that have passed laws approving recreational marijuana, banks still have to file suspicious activities reports in addition to following standard banking guidelines. That means extra costs.
And since the federal prohibition against marijuana is still in effect, banks fear they could be held criminally liable should a marijuana business run afoul of the law.
As a result, many cannabis businesses become an all-cash enterprises, with stories abounding of business people hauling duffel bags filled with cash, making them targets for robberies.
One of the solutions discussed by the working group is getting the federal government to respect the laws of states that have passed recreational marijuana laws.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, has introduced legislation on Capitol Hill that would prevent the feds from interfering with the “production, possession, distribution, dispensation, administration or delivery of marijuana” in states like California.
Rohrabacher will take part in Friday’s meeting in San Diego.
“We’re spending law enforcement dollars not on protecting people from criminals but instead to try to protect people from themselves, to prevent an adult from having smoking weed in their backyard,” Rohrabacher said in a telephone interview. “We’ve spent billions trying to stop that and it’s ridiculous.”
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memorandum called the Cole Memo that was designed to provide greater access between banks and the cannabis industry but Chiang said the disconnect remains.
“We want to put a road map in place as to how to address cannabis banking,” Chiang said. “It’s the biggest issue that’s been left unaddressed” since voters approved Prop 64 last November, 57 percent to 42 percent.
By statute, state officials are required to have a regulatory and taxation framework in place by Jan. 1, 2018.
“You can’t have what we have today and we can’t have (the banking situation) getting worse next year, where you have an incredible black market, where you have people operating underground,” Chiang said.
Chiang has written to California’s congressional delegation and President Trump, asking for guidance. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a harsh critic of legalized marijuana.
Rohrabacher said Sessions “is an old friend of mine” but said time was on his side.
“As the cannabis industry gets legalized across more states, more and more members of Congress are finding themselves in a state where voters have legalized the medical or the adult use of marijuana,” Rhorabacher said.
“When your voters vote by a significant margin to make something legal … that’s something a lot of members of Congress are faced with right now and we’re actually picking up supporters over the years.”
Cannabis Banking Working Group
When: Friday, July 7, 9:30 a.m.
Where: Town and County Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle North, California Room, San Diego
Who: Open to the public; attendees will include California state Treasurer John Chiang; Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach; John Hudak, Brookings Institution
How much: No admission charge
© 2017 San Diego Union Tribune (San Diego, Calif.) Visit The Union Tribune at www.sandiegouniontribune.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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500 Americans Unaccounted For in Nepal
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 11:24AM ET / Published Apr. 29, 2015 9:57AM ET
Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
Nearly half of the 1,000 inquiries made about Americans missing in Nepal remain unresolved, according to U.S. officials in the country. “We get information, or families show concern that someone might be missing,” Ambassador Peter W. Bodde told ABC News. “We immediately start putting them into our database and look at what information we have.” Officials are primarily concerned with those stranded at higher elevations, however, and are wary of citing the 500 as an absolute number: It may include wrong or duplicate inquiries, they say. Meanwhile, the death toll has risen to more than 5,000 people as the result of this weekend’s earthquake.
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Justin Baldoni
Photograph by TJ Manou
Actor Justin Baldoni
Making a Difference Through Entertainment and Social Media
Born in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, Justin Baldoni was raised in Medford, Oregon with a Jewish and Italian background. Raised in the Bahá’í Faith, Baldoni strives to make his work a form of service. He has appeared in television shows and films including Disney Channel’s e Suite Life of Zack & Cody and NBC’s Heroes, which led to a leading role in the award-winning TV show, Jane the Virgin. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie spoke to Baldoni about his experience taking part in the Youth and Leadership Panel at the Dalai Lama’s Global Compassion Summit, the importance of his Bahá’í Faith and how it has become the basis for a few of his current and upcoming projects.
TJ: Why do you think you were recommended to be part of the Youth Leadership Panel at the Global Compassion Summit?
BALDONI: From what I heard, the panel was looking for celebrities — people who are somewhat recognizable, that have some sort of influence on social media and that are trying to do good with what their platform is. For me, I had been trying to figure out a way to be of service and effect change before I had any sort of platform. About three years ago I started my production company, Wayfarer Entertainment, with the mission to create content — television, film and digital, that reminds us how beautiful life can be and inspires us to be the best versions of ourselves. I am so thrilled to announce that we have a three-night television event coming to The CW in August called My Last Days. It is an inspirational look at life told by incredible people who are living with a terminal illness. Creating and shooting this show has been one of the greatest and most difficult experiences of my life. The first season premiered online and became one of the most watched digital documentary series ever with over 30 million views. Now we are taking it to broadcast television airing in conjunction with The CW network launching their new digital platform (in partnership with Wayfarer) called “CW Good” on CWTV.com.
TJ: What inspired you to get involved with that work?
BALDONI: I was raised in the Bahá’í Faith, and as Bahá’í’s we believe in the unity of all the religions as if we are all different chapters in the same book. We believe in one God, and the foundation of the entire faith is simply love. So whether it’s acting or producing or whatever company I’m trying to do, my goal is to make that work as a form of service to mankind. I’ll never forget the moment I told the Dalai Lama I was a Bahá’í, he got very excited. What the Dalai Lama is preaching and what Bahá’ís believe are so similar. The Bahá’ís believe that the underlying, fundamental truth of all the religions is the same. There are just different social principles that change throughout time.
TJ: How did you feel when you asked the Dalai Lama how you could be a good father and he replied, “Good question ... Wrong person, I have no experience with that.”
BALDONI: Well, I guess I can pride myself in accidentally being one of the only people to stump the Dalai Lama. In his presence, which is so powerful yet humble, I just didn’t feel that what I had to ask or say would be really worthy of taking his time or taking away from the other speakers. At the time, my daughter was maybe seven days old and I was so enraptured and in love with being a new father. I figured, “Let me ask something that nobody is going to ask.” If he was going to answer me, it would be profound and it would be a wonderful story that I could tell my daughter one day — that the Dalai Lama helped me become a better dad. But in reality, his answer was hilarious and fun.
TJ: Is there anything that His Holiness speaks about that you may disagree with?
BALDONI: I’m not one to focus on the points of disagreement. I like the points of agreement; I think that’s where unity starts. If the world could follow one one-hundredth of the teachings of the Dalai Lama or even the Bahá’í faith or Islam or Christianity or whatever it is, then I think that we would actually find peace and unity quicker than we realize. tj
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Press Release: From Parachute Regiment to fundraising London cabbie
Born in 1959 in Kensington, Dennis Hayes is a London Cabbie and sits on the committee of a charity very close to his heart, the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans.
Before becoming a cabbie, Dennis had a 26-year career with the military and then worked in the security business in the UK and abroad, before doing The Knowledge.
Dennis Hayes, London cabbie, said: "I had an amazing career in the Parachute Regiment between 1977 and 2003, as both a Regular and a Reservist, and saw active service in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Iraq, completing three tours with 1 Para and three tours with The Pathfinder Platoon. While in the elite force Pathfinder Unit, I learnt the special skills of halo (military freefall) which led me to join the Red Devils Parachute Team."
Dennis was very honoured to be part of the Red Devils Competition Team and in his final tour with them, was promoted to Team Display Leader.
Dennis travelled all over the world with them doing demonstrations and competitions, including competing in the Nationals where the team performed well enough to go to the World Championships in 1991, representing Great Britain in former Czechoslovakia and finishing in the top ten.
Dennis continued: "In 1987, during my first tour with the Red Devils, I jumped out of a Chinook into Greenwich to represent the army and met Her Majesty the Queen. In the 90s, I parachuted into Wembley, in full England kit carrying the match ball before an England v Georgia game and had a penalty shootout against my childhood hero, Chelsea and England goalkeeper, Peter Bonnetti."
In 2013, when Denis was a Yellow Badge, he picked up a Chelsea Pensioner from the Putney Rank who was wearing a Parachute Regiment staple belt which signified he had been in the Paras. Dennis asked which Battalion he had been in and he had been in 1 Para, the same unit as him. At the end of their long conversation, the Chelsea Pensioner suggested that Dennis find out about the Taxi Charity, and liking what he heard, Dennis became one of their regular drivers, volunteering for charity events across the UK and in the Netherlands and France.
Dennis said: "With my military background, it was great to be part of the Taxi Charity family, and I was delighted when just a year later, in 2014, I was asked to join the committee and some six years later I’m still helping them to support veterans."
Every year, Dennis plans a fundraising Golf Day at Cuddington Golf Club in Surrey to raise much needed money for the Taxi Charity and in the last three years has raised an amazing £40,000. This year, the charity had to cancel the fundraising day due to Coronavirus, but Dennis is already planning next summer's event.
Dick Goodwin, vice president of the Taxi Charity, said: "The success of the Taxi Charity relies on the goodwill of our volunteer cabbies like Dennis. The fundraising golf days he organises have raised an incredible amount of money which helps towards the costs of taking veterans to WWII commemoration events throughout Europe."
If you are able to help the Taxi Charity by donating, please click here.
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Intellectual property licences under German insolvency law
Dr. Dirk Wieddekind
Dr. Benedikt F. Flöter
Download - July 2020 – 6 of 7 Insights
Consequences and contractual options
Staff shortages, liquidity bottlenecks and supply chain disruptions are not the only direct impacts of the corona-crisis on businesses. Wherever companies depend on the use of IP rights of third parties or generate income from licensing them, any economic distress on the part of the contractual partner can have severe effects on the company. The insolvency of a licensor can result in the termination of the licence agreement and the risk of losing the right to manufacture or sell key products or goods. The insolvency of a licensee on the other hand, can mean the loss of substantial revenue and create the risk of losing control over the licensed IP.
Insolvency of the licensor
German law does not generally protect a licence against the insolvency of the licensor. While certain lease or rental agreements are protected from insolvency by statue under the German Insolvency Code (InsO), this is not the case for licence agreements.
If the licensor becomes insolvent, the licence agreement does not simply continue. Instead, the insolvency administrator of the licensor will decide in each individual case whether a continuation of the licence agreement is economically viable (section 103 InsO). Should the administrator elect to continue the licence agreement, the rights and obligations under the agreement will remain in place. The administrator can also choose to discontinue the licence agreement in which case, the licensee will no longer have a right to exploit the licensed rights.
The licensee can assert claims for non-fulfilment, but such claims, including damages claims, will be treated as unsecured claims against the insolvent entity. Their value will therefore generally be low. Because the licence has ended, the administrator will then be free to pursue the exploitation of the IP rights in other ways, for example by granting other licences or selling the rights to the highest bidder.
This outcome is a deliberate decision by the German legislator. Several attempts at passing statutory provisions that expressly deal with the fate of licences in insolvency situations have been introduced, but ultimately abandoned. For now, this leaves licensees with little protection under statutory law.
In order to mitigate this situation and protect the licensee’s business in the event of an insolvency of the rights owner, appropriate contractual safeguards should therefore be provided for in the licence agreement. The following issues should be covered.
Licence or purchase of rights?
Not all assignments of IP rights are equally affected by the insolvency of the licensor. If the right is not licensed but has been assigned by the original owner, it will generally have been transferred to the purchaser before the insolvency event. One of the regular features of such a purchase of rights is that a lump sum remuneration is agreed for the use of the right for an unlimited period of time.
A full assignment of an IPR by way of purchase will generally not be affected by the insolvency of the seller, unless there is a right for the administrator to rescind the transaction retroactively. A general right for the administrator to choose whether to continue an agreement only exists for reciprocal contracts which have not been completely fulfilled at the time the insolvency proceedings are opened. This will generally be the case where licence agreements featuring continuing obligations are concerned. A limited term, regular royalty payments or reporting obligations are examples of such ongoing obligations.
Licence or sub-licence?
Where a licence is granted in the form of a continuing obligation, a distinction needs to be made as to whether the licence originates directly from the rights owner or has been acquired by a principal licensee.
Insolvency of the rights owner as licensor
If the licence originates directly from the rights owner who then becomes insolvent, the insolvency administrator has the right to elect whether to continue the licence for the insolvency estate or to refuse its continuation (section 103 InsO).
While many details are disputed, the prevailing view is that this does not apply where the licensee holds an exclusive licence. The German courts have considered such an exclusive licence – at least where a patent was concerned – as a property right rather than merely a contractual right. Consequently, the licensee should enjoy a right to separate the exclusive licence from the remaining insolvency assets (section 47 InsO). In effect, this means that the holder of an exclusive licence can raise an objection with the administrator that the licence is not part of the assets involved in the insolvency proceedings, whereas a non-exclusive licence is not a property right and will generally be subject to the administrator’s right to choose or refuse performance of the contract.
If the insolvency administrator refuses the continuation of a (non-exclusive) licence, for example because the licence fees are not economically beneficial or an even more lucrative alternative exploitation of the property right is expected, the licence ends.
The licensee can claim for non-performance, which mostly means claiming for damages (section 103 (2) InsO). However, as insolvency claims, these will generally only be satisfied proportionally, which means that the licensee can only rarely obtain compensation for the actual loss resulting from the termination of the licence.
In order to avoid these disadvantages, the licensee should include a clause in the licence agreement which provides for the continuation of the licence beyond the insolvency event.
Although the German courts strengthened the position of the licensee in the event of the insolvency of the licensor in several decisions, none of these judgments provides a reliable contractual formula for protecting the licensee. The main obstacle here is the provision of section 119 InsO, according to which all agreements purporting to restrict the insolvency administrator’s right to choose to continue or abandon ongoing contracts pursuant to section 103 InsO are invalid.
One option is to extend a non-exclusive to an exclusive licence. This may be considered in cases where the licensor has not already granted further licences. Of course, a licensor can be expected to charge a significantly higher licence fee for such an upgrade. Often, the added security in the case of an insolvency will not justify paying substantially higher royalties where no exclusive rights would otherwise be required.
A further possibility suggested by case law is to provide for a transfer of the full rights subject to a condition precedent, such as the termination of the contract because the licensee cannot reasonably be expected to continue the agreement. Ideally, such a termination right should not expressly refer to the case of an insolvency. In this case, the licensee acquires a contingent right before the insolvency, which matures into a full right upon realisation of the condition precedent. The disadvantage of this solution is that it will encumber the licensor’s rights with the contingent right which may result in a significant reduction in its value.
Insolvency of the principal licensee
A sub-licensee (ie the party deriving the right of use from a principal licensee) will be in a stronger position in the event of an insolvency. According to the majority view in case law and legal writing, the sub-licence is considered to be bankruptcy-proof, regardless of whether the rights owner as the principal licensor or the principal licensee as the person who granted the sub-licence becomes insolvent.
The reason for this different treatment is that many IP laws do expressly protect sub-licences against assignments or other forms of succession concerning the main right. They stipulate that the fate of the sub-licence should be independent of that of the principal licence. If, for example, the principal licence is transferred to a third party after a sub-licence has been granted, this transfer does not affect the validity of the sub-licence. The outstanding licence fees are then payable to the rights owner as the principal licensor or the insolvency administrator of the insolvent principal licensee.
This protection from succession can also be used to secure licences in the event of the insolvency of the licensor. In the context of company groups, it is possible to obtain licences to a subsidiary acting as a licence holder and to grant a sub-licence to the respective operative subsidiaries. Should the licensor become insolvent, the continuation of the main licence agreement with the licence holder can be refused by the insolvency administrator pursuant to section 103 InsO. The sub-licence between the licence holder and the subsidiary will, however, remain unaffected.
Another possible solution is to agree on a beneficial use or usufruct right (Nießbrauch) in the licensed rights subject to a condition precedent. The condition precedent is the refusal of the administrator to continue the licence agreement. If the condition occurs, a usufruct right is created in favour of the licensee, which is a right in rem pursuant to section 47 InsO that does not belong to the insolvency estate. The content and scope of the right must be agreed in a separate agreement, which will follow the terms of the licence agreement closely.
Insolvency of the licensee
If insolvency proceedings cover the assets of the licensee, the licensor is faced with the question of compensation for lost licence fees and the fate of the licensed right. Here too, section 103 InsO grants the insolvency administrator a right to choose or refuse the continuation of the licence agreement. The fate of the licence is thus initially in the hands of the insolvency administrator, which can prevent the licensor from a potentially more lucrative alternative exploitation of the licence.
Right of election of the insolvency administrator
Refusal of performance
If the insolvency administrator refuses to continue the licence, the right of use under the licence ends and the licensor can exploit the licensed rights in other ways.
The licensor is in principle entitled to claim damages for non-performance of the licence agreement, including lost licence fees. However, this claim, as well as any outstanding licence fees from the period prior to the opening of the insolvency proceedings, is to be regarded as an insolvency claim; the claims will therefore only be satisfied on a pro rata basis.
If the insolvent licensee has legitimately granted sub-licences, the prevailing view is that these sub-licences are not affected by the termination of the principal licence. The fees for sub-licences are then due to the principal licensor.
Continuation of the licence agreement
If, on the other hand, the licence administrator decides to continue the licence agreement, the licence fees accruing in future are to be regarded as preferred liabilities of the insolvency estate pursuant to section 55 (1) no. 2 InsO, and must be satisfied from the insolvency estate with priority over any insolvency claims.
Possibility of termination by the licensor
Of course, the licensor may have a strong interest in terminating the licence agreement with the insolvent licensee itself.
The contractual options are significantly restricted here by the provisions of sections 112, 119 InsO, according to which insolvency-related terminations of rental and lease agreements (and by extension of licence agreements) are not permissible after the opening of insolvency proceedings due to a previously occurring default in payment or a deterioration in the debtor’s financial circumstances. In addition, agreements which serve to circumvent this provision are null and void.
A contractual right of termination must therefore be structured in such a way that it is not linked to insolvency as such, but to typical events associated with it, in particular, termination for breach of a contractually defined obligation to operate or for falling short of contractually defined sales figures. If the insolvency administrator does not continue the business operations of the insolvent licensee, these grounds for termination may exist.
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Harp Mcguire
Harp McGuire made his mark in the world of entertainment when he worked on "On the Beach" (1959) with Gregory Peck. In 1953, he made his screen debut in "Captain Thunderbolt."...
Incident in an Alley (1962)
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The Walking Target (1960)
Max Brodney
Harp McGuire made his mark in the world of entertainment when he worked on "On the Beach" (1959) with Gregory Peck. In 1953, he made his screen debut in "Captain Thunderbolt."
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Uganda: Boat Trip on the Kazinga Channel
Adventure Travel, Affordable Travel, Uganda, Wildlife & Nature
Separating Lake George and Lake Edward, the Kazinga Channel runs for about 20 miles between the two African lakes. For many visitors to Queen Elizabeth National Park, a boat trip on the Kazinga Channel is a must, providing a contrast to a land-based safari with different animal life concentrated near the water. After our less-than-ideal journey across Lake Kivu, I had mentally calculated whether I could swim the width of the channel before embarking. If need be, I decided that yes, I most definitely could save myself if it came down to me vs. the channel. I wasn’t quite as sure about my ability to outswim hippos, crocs and water buffalo but that was a different issue. Fortunately for us, this wasn’t a dinky little boat for two; this was a large double-decker boat with about 40 people on board, and we were going on a leisurely sightseeing mission at just a few miles an hour so we could take it all in.
There are a few available departure times throughout the day, but we set off for about two and a half hours on a 2PM departure from the jetty adjacent to Mweya Safari Camp. We’d already had such luck with our land-based game drives on safari in Uganda that we were excited about seeing something different from the boat. We also realized that we were spoiled from our up-close encounters with lions and a leopard and that what we would see on the channel would be a different experience entirely. The Kazinga Channel is ideal for spotting water buffalo, crocodiles and hippos, but people have also mentioned seeing elephants and waterbucks. As we discovered, it’s also a haven for bird watchers.
We happened to be on the boat with an entire busload of birdwatchers from the UK on a bird lovers expedition to Africa and I was simultaneously impressed, fascinated and perplexed by the level of knowledge and the birding obsession of this mass of people.
Don’t get me wrong, I like a pretty bird as much as the next girl, but I learned more about bird species, birding habits and the rarity of birds on this brief boat trip than I ever thought I would know in my life. The couple behind us was quick to assist us by pointing out elusive bird species – malachites, mostly – that were playing hide-and-seek and there were many conversations about weaver birds (“we must check the book!” they would say in their posh British accents, referencing the birders’ Bible that they carried on the boat with them). For the record, we did see a white malachite – not an albino, just a white one – which we were told by the birding community is extremely rare. It’s allegedly the only one of its kind on the Kazinga Channel. Naturally, I had to take a photo when the bird brigade hustled to the front to snap a photo of their unicorn. I had proof to all other birders that I, too, saw this elusive white malachite. I’m being cheeky about this, but even for a non-birder the birdlife on the channel really is pretty spectacular, and the guide on board had an incredible amount of knowledge to share. In some ways, it was a bonus having the birders on board since it made the ride a bit more entertaining.
The elusive white malachite ?
Beyond birds and the usual suspects (water buffalo, hippos and crocodiles), we boated past a fishing village on the banks of the channel. The area is a conservation site now, but was essentially built around this community which allows the original inhabitants to continue living there and working the water. Some of the income received by the park goes to assist the community and social development initiatives for the population.
Members of the community that reside near the Kazinga Channel
If you’re in Queen Elizabeth National Park, the boat trip is something that you have to put on your radar simply because it’s one of the must-do activities in the area. To be honest, it was a good experience but it wasn’t a highlight for me and I found it to be a bit long. What I would prefer? A sunset cruise on the channel with a sundowner while glimpsing nearby wildlife, naturally.
If you’re doing a boat trip on the Kazinga Channel, try to get seats in the front left upper deck of the boat for optimal viewing (this is was a sage piece of advice from our guide). We were the second row back but the first row has great views all around, ideal for taking pictures of the wildlife on the banks. It’s also worth noting that we did see smaller vessels go out on the channel and it appeared as though private charter opportunities were available for those looking for something more intimate or more customized. Read more about the Kazinga Channel and boat cruises here.
Have you done a boat safari before? How was your experience vs. a land-based safari?
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After Record 2018 Box Office, 2019 Is Off to Sluggish Start
January’s monthly gross hits a six-year low
Jeremy Fuster | February 3, 2019 @ 10:52 AM
With several major films coming down the pike, 2019 could still be as big a year for the box office as 2018 was. But first, it’s going to have to get out of this sluggish start.
While Super Bowl weekend typically sees a drop in ticket sales, this weekend’s $67 million combined total was the weakest the box office has seen since August 2017, and the worst Super Bowl weekend since 2000. That comes after a January in which monthly grosses only reached $814.9 million. That’s the lowest since 2013 and ranks outside the top 10 among all January monthly totals.
“We were celebrating an incredibly strong finish to a record 2018, and then a big breeze came in,” said comScore’s Paul Dergarabedian.
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Several factors are to blame for this weak start, the main one being, as always, the movies that are being offered. December was a far busier year than recent holidays, as every studio had a major release to take advantage of the absence of a “Star Wars” in the marketplace.
With so many films released in December, there was a bigger incentive for most studios to keep most of their early-year releases away from January to both allow their December films to leg out and to stay away from competition like “Aquaman,” which grossed $119 million last month.
In fact, the highest grossing new release in January was “Glass,” grossing $88 million through this weekend. That was a film that came from Universal, which needed a rebound from December after “Mortal Engines” and “Welcome to Marwen” bombed.
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“If you put out all your big products in December, it generates a lot of foot traffic and a big end-of-year boost,” said Dergarabedian. “But when you don’t have a big, $100 million-plus hit film coming out in January or one that expands well like ‘American Sniper,’ the market just ends up treading water until Valentine’s Day.”
For the films that were in theaters, some external factors also kept audiences away. Some analysts and distribution chiefs who spoke with TheWrap pointed to the government shutdown, which forced a lot of wallet tightening not just among furloughed government workers, but also for employees of businesses that rely on government work and employees for revenue.
Dergarabedian notes that severe winter storms in large regions of the country also slowed down cinema business, particularly this weekend, as the polar vortex slammed into the U.S. from the Northeast to the Dakotas.
“Usually when studios blame weather for a slowdown, I see it as a ‘dog ate my homework’ excuse, but this time it’s perfectly valid,” he said. “When it’s just six degrees Fahrenheit outside, you’re not going to go out of your house for anything, let alone to go to the movies.”
Also Read: 2018 Domestic Box Office Finishes With Record $11.85 Billion
Business should pick up next week, starting with the release of “The Lego Movie 2,” which is expected to open to at least $45 million and as much as $60 million. Other films like “Happy Death Day 2U” and “How to Train Your Dragon 3” will also stem the tide. However, 2019’s year-to-date total will continue to fall behind last year’s pace, as there are no films that will come close to the record-shattering performance of “Black Panther.”
Still, one distribution chief who asked to remain anonymous says there’s no reason for concern. With superhero films ready to dominate the market with the likes of “Shazam” and “Avengers: Endgame,” the big boom is still coming… just a bit later than it did last year.
“When you’re in distribution and you have a slow release period like this, it just comes down to the production schedule and when films are ready to be put out,” he said.
“As I projected out the year both for our studio and overall, I still see 2019 being just as strong as 2018, with a big summer slate and a lot of interesting movies in Q4. ‘Lego Movie 2’ will be the start of a return to business as usual and lead into what should be a great March.”
Top 10 Box Office Predictions for 2019 (Photos)
2019 has just gotten started, and it's already looking like it could very well bring a box office as big as 2018. That's thanks in large part to Disney, which is sporting six -- yes, SIX -- films that could make a bid to earn over $1 billion worldwide this year. That's why the company dominates our predictions for the top 10 highest global grossing films of 2019, including the top five slots.
10.) "Spider-Man: Far From Home" (July 5) -- Sony will get in on the Marvel Studios money train with this sequel to "Spider-Man: Homecoming," which made $880 million worldwide in 2017. With "The Lion King" hitting theaters two weeks after this film, it's possible that "Far From Home" could see a smaller total figure due to the competition. What could counter that is if "Avengers: Endgame" leaves an intriguing narrative thread for the (currently dead) Peter Parker to pick up, creating more interest among fans to see the first post-Thanos chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
9.) "Captain Marvel" (March 8) -- Again, the connection to "Avengers" will play a factor here. Of the potential billion-dollar Disney releases, "Captain Marvel" seems the least likely simply because recent MCU films that introduce new heroes like "Doctor Strange" don't perform as well as the "Captain Americas" and "Avengers" of the franchise. "Black Panther" was the exception, but "Captain Marvel" isn't showing signs of the same cultural momentum. On the other hand, Carol Danvers is supposed to play a major role in "Endgame," so that might make this essential viewing for even casual MCU fans.
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8.) "Jumanji 3" (December 13) -- "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" ended with the titular magical game being destroyed. But then the film made $962 million, so get ready for a plot loophole and a third jungle adventure. There's little reason to doubt that "Jumanji 3" will perform well again against "Star Wars." The question is whether the incredible chemistry between Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart and Jack Black will be enough to push this threequel even further and give Sony its second billion-dollar hit in the studio's history.
7.) "The Secret Life of Pets 2" (June 7) -- Illumination may not yet have Pixar's pedigree, but it is now a box office force beyond just the Minions. The first "Secret Life" was one of the top 10 films of 2016 with $875 million, and even though "Toy Story 4" comes out two weeks later, this sequel should have strong enough name recognition to have a solid hold with family audiences in June.
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6.) "Hobbs & Shaw" (August 2) -- The full name of this film is "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw," and it's probably going to be essential for Universal to put this spinoff's connection to its car franchise right in the title. The last "F&F" film, "The Fate of the Furious," made $1 billion in overseas grosses alone, and Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham have become as strong a draw as Vin Diesel and the franchise's original cast. Now it's time to see if Dominic Toretto and the Family can be removed from the equation without a drop in the numbers.
5.) "Star Wars: Episode IX" (December 20) -- This will be the most scrutinized release of the year. After "Solo" became one of the biggest disappointments of 2018, there will be many eyes on the final chapter of the Rey/Finn "Star Wars" trilogy and how it performs compared to the polarizing "Last Jedi." The popularity of both the old and new characters should push "Episode IX" back to $1 billion. But films like "Jumanji 3" show other studios aren't afraid of "Star Wars" anymore, and the standard of success for the godfather of movie franchises is higher than any other.
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4.) "Toy Story 4" (June 21) -- Can you believe it's been nine years since "Toy Story 3" grossed $1 billion and earned a Best Picture nomination? Much like "Incredibles 2" last year, Buzz and Woody's fourth adventure should score a huge opening weekend. But word-of-mouth will determine how the film performs going into a July with "Far From Home" and "Lion King."
3.) "Frozen 2" (November 22) -- Six years after its release, "Frozen" has become the Disney classic for Gen Z in much the same way the Disney Renaissance and Pixar formed the childhood memories of countless Gen Xers and Millennials. Released ahead of Thanksgiving weekend, the sequel should hit theaters with overwhelming hype and a chance to pass the original's $1.27 billion global total.
2.) "The Lion King" (July 19) -- Nostalgia for "Beauty and the Beast" pushed its 2017 remake to $1.26 billion worldwide. "The Lion King" arguably has an even bigger nostalgia factor...and this remake has Beyonce and Childish Gambino in it. With no major family-film competition from mid-July through the end of the summer, this film is going to make incredible amounts of money.
1.) "Avengers: Endgame" (April 26) -- Is there any real doubt? Marvel has left its fans babbling about the "snap" since "Infinity War" came out last April, and every single one of them will be back in theaters to see how Captain Marvel and the remaining Avengers warp time and space to undo Thanos' genocide. The question isn't whether "Endgame" will be the top box office hit of 2019, but whether it will beat the $2.04 billion global total made by "Infinity War" or its record $257.4 domestic opening.
Just like 2018, Disney is going to be all over this year’s box office
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It’s as selfless an attitude as you can find, and in addition to fighting being a way out for Brazilian athletes looking for better lives, The Ultimate Fighter has proven to take that idea up several notches, as it quickens the process for those who have the talent and determination to make it through the tournament.
“To me, this (TUF) is like forcing the door open to a new life story,” Lopes said. “Everyone dreams of this in Brazil and believes they are the right one.”
Making it to TUF and then through six weeks in the house isn’t a given though. Lopes, despite his stellar record and top-notch training with the Manaus branch of the Nova Uniao team, still had to win a fight over Renato Monaco to get into the house, then spend nearly two months away from home in Las Vegas and win two more fights to make it to this point.
“It was very important to have lived a new experience in the TUF house and I am very happy for it,” he said. “I learned a lot being there and living with other people, but the most difficult part for me was the distance (from home) and not having communication with family. You’re confined inside the house, wondering about the family’s news. I wanted to talk to my wife and I missed my daughter, wondering if everything was okay with them.”
A former TUF coach, Chael Sonnen, described it as the toughest tournament in sports, and in a lot of ways he’s spot on with that assessment. But at least one stressor was removed from TUF Brazil, as the lack of interpersonal drama was at a bare minimum, letting the fighters concentrate on their training and their fights.
“We had a lot of respect for each other,” Lopes said. “We all had one goal for the show, which is being champion, and all of us were well prepared psychologically and focused on what we were doing there.”
Lopes’ group on Team Shogun may have been even better prepared, as they roared through the competition, putting six squad members in the eight semifinal slots before Team Nogueira was able to get two fighters in Saturday’s two final bouts. The 30-year-old Lopes gives a lot of credit to team coach Mauricio “Shogun” Rua for the team’s performance.
“It was great to have this immense opportunity to work alongside the legend ‘Shogun,’” he said. “He is a great fighter and captain, and I was very happy when he called my name to be on his team. He is a great inspiration as a fighter, and it was an honor to have him as captain on TUF Brazil 4.”
Lopes will be back with his usual team this Saturday on the highly-anticipated UFC 190 card, and it’s business as usual for the Manaus native, who has won six straight leading into the bout with Vieira, three by knockout, one by submission. So he can get rid of you with strikes (four) or submissions (12), and it’s this versatility that makes him dangerous.
“I have an unpredictable style because one time I can knock out my opponent or I can submit them another time,” Lopes said, but ultimately, it doesn’t matter how he gets the job done, as long as it finishes with his hand raised. 19 times in 20 fights that has been the result, and despite a long wait, he’s here now and expecting to keep his place for a long time.
“I always believed that one day I would have my chance and my time,” he said. “And this time has arrived and it’s my turn to compete in the world's biggest event, the UFC.”
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IN CONVERSATION WITH Abraham Olivier - B-Rated Researcher and Professor of Philosophy
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Abraham Olivier is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Bayreuth University.
He is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa (http://saphenomenology.wordpress.com/) and former Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy.
Olivier obtained his PhD from the University of Tübingen and has held lecturing and research posts at the Universities of Tübingen, Stellenbosch, Padua and the Evangelical University for Social Work, Hamburg.
He is the author of Being in Pain (2007) and editor/co-editor of several special journal issues, including, Phenomenology and Naturalism for the International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2016), Identity and Difference for the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2016), The African Other for Angelaki (2019), and Philosophy and Laughter for The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2020).
He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics relating to phenomenology, philosophy of mind and African philosophy. He has organized/co-organized 18 conferences and presented 58 conference papers, 25 at international conferences.
Prof Olivier is rated by the National Research Foundation of South Africa as a researcher with considerable international recognition (B3).
Please share some information about your research field, including past and current projects:
My research focus is on topics relating to the fields of Phenomenology, African Philosophy, and Philosophy of Mind. This has resulted in three major projects.
The first project involves ongoing work on pain and suffering, which combines phenomenology and philosophy of mind. This has resulted in numerous accredited papers and a book publication. An extract of the book has recently been published on the official blog of the Australian Pain Society, which is the Australian Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) – see https://blog.apsoc.org.au/2016/07/05/la-doulou-provencal-word-for-pain/. Other recent accredited publications include: The Problem of Defining Pain; Racism, Speciesism and Suffering; and forthcoming are, Forces of Suffering and Why Meaning can Change Pain.
2. The second project deals with work on the philosophy of place, combining African philosophy and phenomenology of mind.My aim has been to develop a contextual phenomenology of the mind with specific focus on problems of situated consciousness, place, displacement, and personal identity. This is mainly reflected in invited publications in collaborated edited collections together with other prominent African scholars, and papers published in accredited international journals, with titles such as On Being an African; Heidegger in the Township; Contextual Identity; Understanding Place; The Place of Philosophy in Africa; Place and Displacement and Displacement and Decolonisation.
The third project is on African Phenomenology. This is a novel field in philosophy. A major result of this project is a recent international colloquium, “Contributions to African Phenomenology”, of which I was the main organizer, and a resultant edited collection of which I am the main editor together with Dr M. John Lamola (University of Johannesburg) and Dr Justin Sands (North-West University). This collection has drawn some of the most important scholars in the field of African and Africana philosophy, including Professors Lewis Gordon, Paulin J. Hountondji, Rozena Maart, Mabogo More, Achille Mbembe, and Tsenay Serequeberhan. In addition to the above, I have a forthcoming paper introducing the field, and am working on a book as well.
What do you think are your most significant research accomplishments?
A milestone in my research in phenomenology is the launch of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa (CPSA) – see: http://saphenomenology.wordpress.com/. I started working on founding this centre in 2011 and launched it as its co-founder and co-chair together with Prof Rafael Winkler (University of Johannesburg) in March 2013. Since its launch, we have co-organised eight international conferences hosting numerous internationally acclaimed keynote speakers. In addition, I organised 10 annual national Wild Coast Philosophy symposia. The CPSA conference proceedings are published in journals of high international ranking, including the International Journal of Philosophical Studies,Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Angelaki, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.
My current project on African Phenomenology is definitely also a milestone in my research, and opens a number of future venues involving the collaboration of top experts in this field as mentioned before.
How do you ensure your research is well communicated, digested and acted on?
Mainly through peer-review publications, organising conferences, symposia, colloquia and postgraduate projects.
What has been the greatest impact of your work?
Through organising public conferences, symposia and colloquia, I succeeded in drawing together a number of scholars, resulting in widespread networking and collaborated publications. For instance, as already mentioned, I organised 10 local symposia and co-organised eight international conferences, with proceedings published in renowned international journals.
My research focus on African philosophy has drawn a number of black African postgraduates and generated scholarships for such students. In collaboration with Dr John Lamola from the University of Johannesburg, I have offered external funding for four MA scholars in African Philosophy.
Lastly, my focus on African philosophy and phenomenology has generated international student exchanges between the University of Fort Hare and the University of Bayreuth (Germany) for the past six years.
The University of Bayreuth hosts one of the largest centres for African studies in Europe. This exchange resulted in an MoU between the two institutions, and offering three Fort Hare MA students an opportunity to study for a semester in the Departments of Philosophy and African Studies at the University of Bayreuth. As part of this exchange we had nine Bayreuth exchange students visiting our department. Two others will visit soon.
What advice would you give to Young Researchers out there?
Perhaps the following practical tips might help some postgraduate students and other young researchers.
Identify a clear problem and project that you personally find important and can be passionate about, something that drives you and gives you energy.
Believe in what you do and that you can do it. Some philosophers say: “You are your possibilities”. Think of your project as a way to realise your possibilities.
Maintain a daily routine of focused hard work. Take regular breaks, take no vacation!
Make critique your best friend. Share your work with your peers and mentors regularly and ask for their critical input.
Keep an open mind for any research opportunities, even if they might not appear directly relevant to you, and go for them! Go to conferences, look out for possibilities to take part in collaborative projects such as edited collections. Try to visit other institutions, nationally and internationally. If possible, go for a degree in another country – but come back again!
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INTERVIEW: Ben Montague
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Ben Montague chats with Kevin Cooper about his Pledge Music experience, going to his first gig, his fondness for Nottingham, his as yet untitled new album and his forthcoming tour.
Ben Montague is a young British musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Farnborough, Kent. Best known for his single ‘Haunted’ from his first full length album Overcome, he received high praise from UK Radio Stations, when his single from the same album; ‘Can’t Hold Me Down’ was added to the BBC Radio 2 playlist for 5 weeks.
It is to his credit that as an independent artist he has managed to have his follow up single, ‘Haunted’, similarly recognised when it became Radio 2’s Record of the Week, followed in June 2010 by ‘Broken’ which also topped the Radio 2 A List for 6 weeks.
After successful tours supporting The Wanted, Shane Filan and Amy MacDonald, the time has come to tour on his own. With established tour dates and the release of a new album early next year, Kevin Cooper caught up with him whilst he was having a few days holiday in France, and this is what he had to say:
Hi Ben, how are you?
Hey Kevin, how are you mate, are you alright?
I’m good thanks, so what are you doing over here in France?
I’m just taking a few days out to relax and hopefully get to do some surfing before my tour starts in September.
I have to tell you that I have seen you twice previously; once supporting The Wanted and the other supporting Shane Filan. So it is time that we saw you out there on your own tour.
That’s fantastic Kevin (laughter). I am really looking forward to doing my own thing and it’s happening in September. After that I am going back out on the road with Shane. That’s going to be another really good tour I think.
So you are looking forward to doing it on your own?
I really am, I can’t wait. It’s been a long time since I have been out on the road on my own and it feels as though the fans really want me to see me. I am really excited.
What can we expect from the tour?
I have to say that after supporting Shane Filan on his tour, I kind of fell in love with the intimacy of just me and my acoustic guitar, a stomp-box and a piano. I think that for this tour I am pretty much going to do the same thing. I’ve got my friend Charlie Grant supporting me, and who is going to get up on stage and play a couple of tracks with me. So generally speaking I am just going to strip all of the tracks right back to their very basics and come out a bit Ed Sheeran style and just do it with one man and a guitar.
You recently got involved with the Pledge Music scheme and it only took 30 days to raise the cash for your new album. How did that feel?
I think that is was actually a little less than that Kevin. It was an incredible experience and I couldn’t believe just how quickly we hit the 100%. Pledge Music are an amazing company to be working with. As amazing as the pledges are, it is really all about the fans Kevin, and I was overwhelmed at just how quickly the fans responded to the campaign, and how they all wanted to be a part of it. That’s the best thing about it, it is so instant and you are immediately interacting with your fan base. It really is an incredible experience.
So taking that on board, when will the new album be ready?
Well, I have written the album. It’s all done now and I am now at that tricky stage of picking all of the songs, which is always a very difficult thing to do. You write a whole bunch of songs and then you try to pick the ones which you think are going to be the stand out ones and those which the fans will like the best. I am doing that bit as we speak but the album is set to be recorded during the first three weeks of October so I have now got a pretty full-on schedule (laughter). I don’t have a single day off in September because obviously throughout the whole of September I am on tour, and then I go into the studio the first three weeks of October. After that I go straight out on tour with Shane (Filan) for about 30 days until December. So it is a busy time for me (laughter).
The main bulk of the album will be recorded during the first three weeks of October and then whilst I am out on the road touring, the album will be mixed, and hopefully it will be set to be released in either February or March next year (2015).
Will you be showcasing the album on the tour?
Oh yes, definitely Kevin, definitely. I have got to get my teeth into the songs (laughter). I will probably pick the main four or five potential singles that may be included on the album, and play them on the tour. It is always good playing them live on the road because you then get a feeling for how the audience reacts to them. Hopefully it will be a good reaction (laughter).
Have you got a title for the album yet?
Do you know what Kevin, I don’t have one yet. I have got a couple of titles that I am playing with but I can’t say yet as I don’t want to give the game away (laughter). This album is going to be very personal to me lyric wise. I have lost a grandparent and there are a few other things that have been happening in my life so it is going to be quite an emotional album. I have got a couple of track titles that I think will be the name of the album. I don’t think that I will do what I did last time, which was Tales Of Flying And Falling. I don’t think that I will go for something that isn’t a lyric. I think that I will either pick a lyric or a song title. You will have to wait and see (laughter).
Please don’t take this the wrong way but you seem to be in Nottingham all of the time. Am I to take it that you like our fair city?
Kevin I love Nottingham. I have always had really great gigs in Nottingham. The reaction that I got from the gig that I did with Shane (Filan) was incredible; absolutely incredible. When I came out to do my signings the queue was just so long and was going back up the stairs. Everyone who works at the Royal Concert Hall are really lovely. I have done a whole bunch of gigs in Nottingham but I have never played The Maze so I am quite excited about that. All of my gigs have been great. I even did a gig for Smooth FM on the beach in front of the Council House up there which was a lot of fun. I love looking around the shops in Nottingham and I have to say that I have never had a bad experience when visiting.
At least you didn’t say that Nottingham has some fantastic curry houses
(Hysterical laughter) I’m always so blooming busy that I never get to eat out, I just do a gig and then I’m out. Maybe this time around you can recommend a good curry house for me to visit (laughter).
You have supported both Shane Filan and Amy Macdonald. What experiences have you gained from that?
The thing is, for artists that are coming through the independent route, it is all about playing live really. For me personally it is all about building a live following which is possibly at the top of the list of things that you are wanting to achieve, because that means that your career can go on a lot longer. The one thing that was really incredible supporting Shane and Amy was that it has enabled me to play in front of their big crowds; some of whom have now become fans of my music which I am very grateful for.
You mention big crowds; you have been playing the Festivals this year. How has that gone?
I have Kevin, I have played a number of Festivals this year actually. It has been a real mix; I have played some big ones like the Isle of Wight Festival, and I have done a whole bunch of little ones too. I have done a lot of work with the Hard Rock Cafe this year, so I did a gig in Rome which was quite a big one. I then did another one in the O2 Arena in London which was really great. And then I did lots of little ones like the Hazlemere Festival and the Fringe Festival which I really love. The smaller ones are just as much fun as the larger ones. It doesn’t matter if it’s a big stage or a small stage Kevin; it’s just nice when there is a crowd of people there who have all come to listen to your music.
On the subject of large and small crowds, do you have to adjust the set to suit the occasion?
Do you know what, I used to think that you did, if I am being really honest. I used to think that when you went out in front of a big crowd, that you need to go out with a big band and be really full on. However, we have got such great singer songwriters now who are really doing well; the likes of Passenger, Ed Sheeran, Ben Howard and Amy Macdonald. All of these singer songwriters do not necessarily go out with a massive band; they are quite stripped back. So I think that as you do more and more gigs, you adjust your set naturally to the size of the crowd and what they are going to want to expect from you. So in a word, no really (laughter). It’s actually quite an organic thing, you just go out there and you just do your thing. I think that if you are doing it genuinely and honestly then people will fall into that and appreciate it.
You have mentioned singer songwriters, does the song writing side of the business come easy to you?
To be honest with you Kevin, I have good days and bad days (laughter). It’s like any other job in the world, some days you feel like you are on top of it whilst others are a bit of a struggle. I have written a song for the new album called My Father Said and I literally wrote that song in an hour. I just sat down with the guitar one morning and the lyrics and melody came out very, very quickly. But then you have days when you have written the track and you have written the melody, but you are just not quite happy with the lyrics and you want to tweak them. So I would say that it’s never something that I struggle with, because I think that if it doesn’t come out organically as in the melody and the music, I will put it to one side and start something fresh. I don’t think that you should ever really thrash something out for too long otherwise you will get too caught up in it you know.
How did you get started in music?
To be honest Kevin I landed on my feet in many ways. I came out of University and did the whole working thing in the pubs and clubs. I was doing jobs to try and keep music going, working in bars and playing on live music nights, all that kind of stuff. Then when I had got a bit of money together I made an E.P. with my Manager at that time, and then we met a radio plugger who said that the songs were really good. He advised us to take them to the radio stations. I told him that at that time I didn’t have much money in order to do that. He said that if the songs got played on the radio then we could work something out then.
So taking his advice we put together Haunted as an E.P. and the first song was a song called Can’t Hold Me Down which went straight onto the C List on Radio 2 and we were all like “wow we can’t believe it”. None of us ever expected that as we didn’t have a label behind us and everything was being done independently. And then I went in with the next single which was Haunted and we got record of the week. And it all sparked from there Kevin. And here we are (laughter).
Who were you listening to when you were growing up?
I suppose that I was influenced by what my dad listened to really and he was listening to rock such as Cream, The Who, (Eric) Clapton, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, all of those guys. So I listened to a lot of that whilst I was growing up together with Buddy Holly and all those types of classics. They would always be playing in the car. But then my mum always loved the slightly more soulful stuff, like Stevie Wonder, Prince, George Michael, so it was quite an eclectic mix. I would have to say that for me Kevin it was always slightly more the singer / songwriter roots so more The Beatles and The Rolling Stones that were really my passion.
What was the first record that you ever bought?
Wow Kevin, good question (laughter). I think that would be (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis (laughter). You really made me think about that (laughter).
That’s not a bad first record (laughter). And who did you first see perform live in concert?
That would be Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall in London with my dad. I do remember that; my dad was pretty good and he would take me to a lot of gigs. I remember going to that one and listening to all of the songs in the car; White Room, Lay Down Sally, Layla and all those kind of songs that when you see him play them live it was like “oh my goodness me, that is what I have got to do, I want to be like that” (laughter).
Who has influenced you most in your music career?
It’s a funny one that Kevin. I always say the same thing; I was just always influenced by really good song writers such as John Lennon and Paul McCartney. There are so many, even the likes of Prince with his lyrics and melodies but I guess growing up, it would be people like Noel Gallagher from Oasis, who is a phenomenal songwriter. Even down to songwriters like Gary Barlow, he has had an effect on me definitely. It’s quite a wide range really.
What has been the highlight of your career so far?
The highlight for me has to be getting Album of the week on Radio 2. That was probably the highlight for me.
Ben thanks for taking the time to speak to me. I am sure that you will be successful in everything that you do in the future and that the tour will be a great success.
Thanks Kevin; that’s nice of you to say and I look forward to seeing you at The Maze. Thanks mate, cheers.
Ben Montague Solo Tour Dates
Date Venue Location
Sep 04 Boileroom Guildford
Sep 05 Gorilla Manchester
Sep 06 Junction 2 Cambridge
Sep 11 Komedia Brighton
Sep 12 Mr Kyps Poole
Sep 13 The Louisianna Bristol
Sept 14 Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff
Sep 19 Cluny 2 Newcastle
Sep 20 Kings Tuts Glasgow
Sep 21 The Maze Nottingham
Sep 25 Arlington Arts Newbury
Sep 26 Chequer Mead East Grinstead
Sep 27 The KPH London
Sep 28 The Brook Southampton
Oct 02 Academy 2 Dublin
Oct 03 The Empire Belfast
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Nothing But Nets To Aid Refugees in Africa
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New initiative to protect over 600,000 refugees in East Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
NEW YORK, NY: The Nothing But Nets anti-malariacampaign has announced a new initiative to help eliminate malaria deaths in the next generation. Responding to an urgent and immediate need, Nothing But Nets is working with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to send long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets (bed nets) to the more than 630,000 refugees living in 27 temporary camps in East Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
An initial $2 million donation from the United Nations Foundation to UNHCR will help launch the refugee bed net initiative. The initiative will mobilize global engagement through Nothing But Nets' partner organizations including the people of The United Methodist Church, the National Basketball Association, the Union for Reform Judaism, as well as supporters of UNHCR's Human Race and ninemillion.org campaigns to promote awareness about malaria, raise funds to purchase the bed nets needed to protect the refugees, and distribute the nets in UNHCR temporary camps.
"This partnership extends a life-saving safety net to some of the world's most vulnerable refugees," said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation. "This initiative represents another step toward covering the continent of Africa with anti-malaria bed nets. Malaria is a preventable disease and our growing coalition of UN agencies, faith communities and major companies are determined to reach our goal of eliminating malaria deaths in this generation."
"Malaria is the single highest killer disease in East Africa," said Bishop Daniel Wandabula of the East Africa Episcopal Area."The people living in the settlement camps in northern Uganda, in temporary structures, do not have access to basic health care and sanitation facilities. The incidence of malaria among expectant mothers and children is exceedingly high despite the fact that the disease can be prevented by using mosquito nets."
Wandabula said The United Methodist Church in East Africa, with support from partners and agencies, has attempted to provide some emergency relief to the refugees and displaced persons, but the need is overwhelming."We call upon all peace loving people to support our efforts in promoting the welfare of the innocent people who have been forced out of their homes and rendered destitute, especially in their own country," he said.
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More than 275,000 bed nets are needed to protect the refugees living in temporary camps many have been displaced as a result of the spreading crisis in Darfur. One bed net can protect a family of four and lasts 3-5 years. Each net costs $10 to purchase, distribute and educate about its proper uses.
To date, Nothing But Nets has raised more than $20 million, and has successfully distributed nets across Africa, including Gabon, Chad, Mali, and Nigeria. The first Nothing But Nets-UNHCR bed net distribution will take place in Uganda in fall 2008. Nothing But Nets will also distribute bed nets in Côte d'Ivoire and the Central African Republic in 2008.
To get involved or make a donation, visit www.NothingButNets.net. Multi-media downloads and pictures are also available at www.unfoundation.org/multimedia.
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W O R L D
Yameen upsets Nasheed, elected Maldives Prez in run-off
Male, November 16
Former President Mohammed Nasheed with nearly 48.5 per cent of votes was trailing his rival Abdullah Yameen with 51.5 per cent of votes in the controversy-ridden presidential run-off in the Maldives today, according to initial trends in the media.
Cameron sets March deadline for rights probe in Sri Lanka
CHOGM: Colombo rejects demand for international inquiry panel
Colombo, November 16
After an unprecedented visit to Jaffna, UK Prime Minister David Cameron today set a deadline of March for Sri Lanka to set up an independent inquiry commission failing which he will move the UN Human Rights Commission seeking an “international probe” into alleged rights abuses in the last phase of the war against the LTTE.
Maldivian President steps down amid global pressure
Bombers kill 43 in Iraq
Pak secretly backs drone attacks: Ex-envoy
Maldivian President’s stay beyond term upsets US
Philippines struggle to help typhoon victims
10,000 feared dead in typhoon-hit Philippines
Over 130 dead as typhoon rips through Philippines
Year’s strongest typhoon batters Philippines
Britain’s spy chiefs give first-ever public testimony
Germany summons British envoy over spy claims
US teen gets 15-year jail for Indian-origin scientist’s murder
New York, November 16
An American teenager has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating to death an Indian-American scientist in 2010. Julian Daley was among five New Jersey teenagers charged in connection with the death of Divyendu Sinha. Sinha, 49, his wife, Alka, and two sons were out for a late-night walk on June 25, 2010, near their home when they were attacked, Hunterdon County Democrat reported.
US-Afghan pact draft ready: Karzai
Kabul, November 16
Afghan and US negotiators have finished a draft of a contentious security pact to be presented to a traditional council next week, President Hamid Karzai said today, but added that there remain disagreements between the two countries over the final content of the accord. Without approval of the Loya Jirga, Afghanistan will likely refuse to sign the so-called Bilateral Security Agreement, Karzai said.
Blast near talks venue; 6 killed
Afghan President Hamid Karzai addresses a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on Saturday. — AFP
Army deployed in Rawalpindi after clashes
Islamabad, November 16
The army was deployed today in Rawalpindi and Multan after at least nine persons were killed in sectarian clashes, prompting authorities to impose a curfew in the Pakistani garrison city.
White House defends secret service over sex claims
Washington, November 16
The White House has said President Barack Obama had “absolute confidence” in the Secret Service leaders, despite new reports of misconduct by agents, including extramarital affairs and visits to prostitutes.
Yameen upsets Nasheed, elected
Maldives Prez in run-off
Abdullah Yameen, half-brother of former autocratic ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, today clinched an unexpected victory in the presidential run-off elections by defeating former President Mohamed Nasheed, who had led in two recent aborted polls.
The winning candidate, a 54-year economist also known as Yameen Abdul Gayoom, contested as a Progressive Party of Maldives candidate. He bagged 51.39 per cent of the votes, compared to 48.61 per cent ballots secured by Nasheed, senior government official Masood Imad told PTI.
Over 90 per cent of eligible voters exercised their franchise in the second round of the much delayed election to choose a new president amidst a constitutional crisis.
Imad said the new President would be sworn in after the announcement of official results by the Elections Commission on Sunday.
The Majlis or Maldivian Parliament has scheduled a special session on Sunday for the swearing-in ceremony. The results are likely to end more than a year of political turmoil since 46-year-old Nasheed resigned under duress in February 2012 in a controversial transfer of power.
The current polls mark the Maldives' third attempt to elect a new President since September.
The Maldives has been in a state of political flux since Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected leader, was forced to resign in February 2012.
The first election on September 7 was annulled by the Supreme Court, citing the rigging of voters' lists, while the Elections Commission's attempt to hold polls on October 19 was thwarted by police after a Supreme Court ruling.
In a crucial re-vote on November 9, Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) chief Nasheed bagged 46.4 per cent of the votes, a marginal increase from his previous tally of 45.45 per cent votes in the September 7 polls.
Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) leader Yameen made a significant gain of nearly five per cent over the 25.35 per cent of votes he secured in the annulled polls and managed 30.3 per cent of the votes.
A run-off scheduled for November 10 by the Elections Commission was postponed till today by the Supreme Court.
After casting his vote today, Yameen, the half-brother of former autocratic ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, had said he would accept the result of the run-off and expects a victory with 55 per cent to 60 per cent of the vote.
“I came to vote absolutely confident. Because we have a very grand coalition. Except the MDP, all the other political parties and leaders are together with us," he said. At a rally last night, Nasheed had claimed his party was set to establish a "people's government". He said, "The Maldivian citizen's hopes will become reality. We will establish a citizens' government, a government by you.” — PTI
Cameron sets March deadline for rights
probe in Sri Lanka
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron hits a ball during his visit to the Colombo Cricket Club on Saturday. — Reuters
The demand was, however, instantly rejected by the Sri Lankan government which ruled out any inquiry under “pressure” or allows an independent international probe.
Three Sri Lankan Ministers - Himal Sripala de Silva, Keheliya Rambukwelle and Douglas Devananda - addressed the international media to say that the Commonwealth cannot become an "international" policeman. Rejecting the demand for an international probe into the alleged war crimes, they said, "We will resist any international inquiry. There is no reason for an international inquiry. In a short time, we had done our best. We have already done internal inquiry and some indictments have been done."
Cameron, who met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa last night after returning from a historic visit to war-ravaged Jaffna, is the first foreign head of government to be there since the island’s independence from Britain in 1948. He said the two had a "free and frank" discussion on all issues, including an independent and credible probe, reconciliation and rehabilitation of Tamils.
“I told President Rajapaksa that there is a need for a credible, transparent and independent internal inquiry into the events at the end of the war (against LTTE) by the end of March. If that does not happen I will use our position to move the UN Human Rights Commission and work with the Rights Commissioner for an independent inquiry,” Cameron said on the sidelines of the CHOGM summit here. — PTI
US teen gets 15-year jail for Indian-origin
scientist’s murder
An American teenager has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating to death an Indian-American scientist in 2010.
Fatal attack
Divyendu Sinha, 49, his wife Alka and two sons were out for a late-night walk on June 25, 2010, near their home when they were attacked by convict Julian Daley and other four New Jersey teenagers
Julian Daley was among five New Jersey teenagers charged in connection with the death of Divyendu Sinha. Sinha, 49, his wife, Alka, and two sons were out for a late-night walk on June 25, 2010, near their home when they were attacked, Hunterdon County Democrat reported.
Sinha was punched in the head and died three days later at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. His two sons had minor injuries, and his wife was not hurt.
Daley, who was 16 at the time of the crime, was sentenced to the maximum of 15 years in prison by New Brunswickon Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz on charges of aggravated manslaughter and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
During sentencing, Ferencz said given Daley's history, he was not convinced that he would not re-offend. "It is important also to note that there must be a clear, concise message sent to the community that one should be free to walk in one's community, to walk with one's family, free from physical attack," Ferencz said.
He also was sentenced to five years on an unrelated burglary charge, which will run concurrent to the 15-year sentence.
Afghan and US negotiators have finished a draft of a contentious security pact to be presented to a traditional council next week, President Hamid Karzai said today, but added that there remain disagreements between the two countries over the final content of the accord.
Without approval of the Loya Jirga, a gathering of several thousand prominent figures from across the country, Afghanistan will likely refuse to sign the so-called Bilateral Security Agreement, Karzai said. And if the Loya Jirga does approve it, the agreement still will require a final nod from Parliament.
US officials refused to comment on what they described as an ongoing diplomatic process. Karzai provided few details regarding how and when the draft was finalised.
Negotiations have been protracted and often acrimonious.
In the end it took a surprise visit to Afghanistan in October by US Secretary of State John Kerry to produce the outlines of a deal. After a lengthy meeting with Karzai, the two announced that an agreement had been reached in principle on the major elements of the pact.
The sweeping document incorporates the usual Status of Forces Protection Agreement, which the United States signs with every country where its troops are stationed, along with a wide range of other clauses. It covers everything from customs duties on goods the US imports for its troops and development projects to the question of whether a US service member can be prosecuted for criminal offences in Afghanistan.
“Because this is an ongoing diplomatic discussion, we're declining to comment on the state of the text or the process that got us to this point," said Robert Hilton, US Embassy spokesman in Kabul. — AP
Kabul: A suicide bomber tore through the Afghan capital today, killing at least six people near the site where thousands of elders are to gather next week to discuss a controversial security agreement with the United States, officials said. Authorities said 22 people were wounded in the powerful blast, which mangled a dozen cars and destroyed shops nearby. — AP
Curfew was imposed within the limits of 19 police stations of Rawalpindi after Shias participating in a Muharram procession clashed with students from a Sunni seminary yesterday. Eight persons were killed and over 40 injured in the violence.
The Police and a large number of soldiers patrolled various areas in Rawalpindi today. In Multan city of Punjab province, the administration summoned the army today after a clash between two groups left one person dead and two others seriously injured, media reports said. Following the clash in Nala Wali Muhammad area of Multan, the situation in the city became tense.
Mobile phone services were suspended and is expected to remain in force till tomorrow afternoon, officials said. — PTI
“The President believes deeply that the vast majority of the men and women who work for the US Secret Service exemplify the highest standards of service," White House spokesman Jay Carney said yesterday.
"He believes that the leadership at the Secret Service, including the new director, will address matters as they arise, appropriately," said Carney.
"But it is important to note that the president believes very strongly that these men and women are professionals and that they put their lives on the line to protect the commander in chief, protect the president, protect his or her family." The Washington Post reported that agents had misbehaved in 17 countries in recent years, according to accounts given by whistleblowers to a Senate committee that oversees the Secret Service.
The Post said two people briefed on the accounts said they include agents and managers hiring prostitutes and visiting brothels during official trips. They also allegedly had extramarital affairs on the road, and had one-night stands or long-term relationships with foreign nationals that were not properly reported, the Post said. — AFP
40 killed in street fights
Libya: At least 40 people were killed and 400 wounded in gun battles between Libyan militiamen and armed residents in Tripoli on Friday in the worst street fighting for months. Prime Minister Ali Zeidan is struggling to control militias, Islamist militants and other fighters who refuse to surrender two years after helping to overthrow Muammer Gaddafi. — Reuters
A woman feeds a rat during Autumn Footprints — 2013, an international exhibition of rodents, in Minsk on Saturday. — Reuters
19 killed in floods
Vietnam: Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam have killed 19 people and forced about 80,000 from their homes, disaster officials said on Saturday. The floods forced 64,500 people from their homes in Quang Ngai province, provincial officials said. The military and police were rushing aid and food to villagers cut off by the floodwaters, they said. — PTI
Indian-origin doc gifts $2m
Washington: Indian-American doctor Vijay Sanghvi has gifted $2 million to the University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine to establish the ‘Drs Vijay and Khushman Sanghvi Endowed Chair in Cardiac Imaging’, or the Sanghvi Chair. Dr Sanghvi is the first American of Indian origin to endow a chair position at the University. — PTI
5.5 quake hits Japan
Tokyo: A 5.5 magnitude quake struck eastern Japan on Saturday evening, according to the US Geological Survey, causing skyscrapers to shake in Tokyo and temporarily halting high speed trains. The service was resumed after an inspection of the rail lines. — PTI
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Lee Mi Sook
이미숙
Lee Mi Sook is a South Korean actress. She was born in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea on April 2, 1960 and made her acting debut in 1979. One of the most well-known South Korean film actresses of the 1980s, she has appeared in numerous films and television dramas, including “East of Eden” (2008), “Cinderella’s Sister” (2010), “You Are the Best” (2013), “Wok of Love” (2018), and “Let Me Introduce Her” (2018).
Apr 2, 1960 (age 60)
SidusHQ (Korea)
Let Me Introduce Her
Wok of Love
Money Flower
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V AUSTRALIA AND DELTA AIR LINES SIGN INTERLINE AGREEMENT
23 March, 2009 (Sydney, Australia) – Virgin Blue’s international airline V Australia and Delta Air Lines have negotiated and signed an Australia-U.S. interline agreement offering seamless travel on the networks of each carrier and across the trans-Pacific route.
Effective immediately, the agreement allows travellers to purchase a single ticket from their Travel Agent, V Australia or Delta for travel between the U.S. and Australia on either carrier.
Delta Air Lines is the world’s largest airline and the second largest domestic US carrier. The airline operates a vast domestic network in the USA including major destinations such as New York City, Washington D.C., Orlando, Salt Lake City and Atlanta. V Australia commenced flying between Los Angeles and Sydney on 27 February, 2009. The airline will commence direct flights from Los Angeles to Brisbane on 8 April, 2009 offering a convenient service to the Sunshine State, gateway to the world famous Great Barrier Reef. The airline will also commence services from Los Angeles to Melbourne in September, 2009^.
Delta will begin daily non-stop services on the Sydney - Los Angeles route from 1 July, 2009.**
V Australia is a part of the Virgin Blue Group of airlines. The Australian based airline group also includes Virgin Blue, second largest carrier in Australia www.virginblue.com.au and short haul international airlines Pacific Blue www.pacificblue.co.nz Polynesian Blue. Together they operate a fleet comprising of 80 modern Boeing 737-NG’s, Boeing 777 and Embraer E-Jet aircraft flying to 28 Australian and 13 international destinations in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia.
V Australia http www.vaustralia.com.au is a three class boutique style airline offering the acclaimed service for which the Virgin Blue Group is renowned and a unique Australian style. On board the airline’s brand new 361-seat 777-300ER aircraft, configuration includes Business Class cabin with 33 fully lie-flat beds, Premium Economy with 40 International Club seats and 288 International Economy seats. All cabins offer state-of-the-art personal seat back entertainment, seat to seat 'chat' or competition connectivity. The airline also has two in-flight bars, mood lighting including twilight and sunset, bathrooms with piped music including a "ladies only" bathroom and other touches of Australiana from salt and pepper shakers to hidden wallpaper murals.
Delta Air Lines is the world’s largest airline. From its hubs in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York-JFK, Salt Lake City and Tokyo-Narita, Delta, its Northwest subsidiary and Delta Connection carriers offer service to 379 destinations in 66 countries and serve more than 170 million passengers each year. Delta’s marketing alliances allow customers to earn and redeem either SkyMiles or WorldPerks on more than 16,000 daily flights offered by SkyTeam and other partners. Delta‘s more than 70,000 employees worldwide are reshaping the aviation industry as the only U.S. airline to offer a full global network. Customers can check in for flights, print boarding passes, check bags and flight status at delta.com.
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** Subject to Australian Government approval.
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Born: Saturday, 30 December 1865
Died: Saturday, 18 January 1936
Rudyard Kipling was a world-famous author, journalist, storyteller, poet, and Freemason who inspired and elevated the reputation of the Fraternity.
As Freemasons, Brothers are called to be the builders of Universal Religion. While a belief in God is required for initiation into the fraternity, each member is at liberty to assign Him whatever attributes they choose. In the ideal, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, etc. would happily work together to uplift humanity and improve the world. This ideal was the reality of Brother Rudyard Kipling – a world-famous author, journalist, storyteller, poet, and Freemason.
Born in 1865, Rudyard was blessed with nurturing and gifted parents. The family lived in Bombay, India until he was five, when they moved to Southsea, England. Returning to India after College, Kipling was thrilled to return to his childhood home and joined the editorial staff of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore. Frustrated by the confines of India's Caste system, Rudyard was drawn to Masonry which transcended caste rules. Freemasonry's dedication to Equality fascinated him, and he was eager to join an organization where all brothers could meet and work together as equals, putting aside the divisions of religion, politics, and social status. Thus, in 1885, Kipling was initiated into Freemasonry, receiving special dispensation to join at the age of twenty and a half. He joined the Hope and Perseverance Lodge, No. 782, in Lahore. He later wrote of his Masonic experience: "I was entered by a member of the Brahmo Samaj (a Hindu), passed by a Mohammedan, and raised by an Englishman. Our Tyler was an Indian Jew. We met, of course, on the level…"
Brother Rudyard's participation in Freemasonry was extensive, traveling and participating in Masonic work around the world. He received the Mark Degree in a Lahore Mark Lodge and later the Ark Mariner Degree. affiliated with a Craft Lodge in Allahabad, Bengal, became an honorary member of the Motherland Lodge, No. 3861 in London, became a member of Authors Lodge, No. 3456, and served as a founding member of the Lodge Builders of the Silent Cities, No. 4948. Brother Kipling eventually became Poet Laureate of the famous Canongate Kilwinning Lodge, No. 2 in Edinburgh. A writer of unparallel narrative skills, Rudyard's deep and loving affection for Freemasonry shone through and augmented his already brilliant writing, inspiring Masons and elevating the reputation of the Fraternity for generations to come.
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Technical preparatory talks for the next International Syria Support Group meeting are taking place in Geneva, at an undisclosed location, between representatives of the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the United Nations. The meeting is not being held at the Palais des Nations.
Vienna, November 14, 2015
Meeting in Vienna on November 14, 2015 as the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), the Arab League, China, Egypt, the EU, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the United States to discuss how to accelerate an end to the Syrian conflict. The participants began with a moment of silence for the victims of the heinous terrorist attacks of November 13 in Paris and the recent attacks in Beirut, Iraq, Ankara, and Egypt. The members unanimously condemned in the strongest terms these brutal attacks against innocent civilians and stood with the people of France.
Subsequently, the participants engaged in a constructive dialogue to build upon the progress made in the October 30 gathering. The members of the ISSG expressed a unanimous sense of urgency to end the suffering of the Syrian people, the physical destruction of Syria, the destabilization of the region, and the resulting increase in terrorists drawn to the fighting in Syria.
The ISSG acknowledged the close linkage between a cease fire and a parallel political process pursuant to the 2012 Geneva Communique, and that both initiatives should move ahead expeditiously. They stated their commitment to ensure a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition based on the Geneva Communique in its entirety. The group reached a common understanding on several key issues.
The group agreed to support and work to implement a nationwide cease fire in Syria to come into effect as soon as the representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition have begun initial steps towards the transition under UN auspices on the basis of the Geneva Communique. The five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council pledged to support a UNSC resolution to empower a UN-endorsed cease fire monitoring mission in those parts of the country where monitors would not come under threat of attacks from terrorists, and to support a political transition process in accordance with the Geneva Communique.
All members of the ISSG also pledged as individual countries and supporters of various belligerents to take all possible steps to require adherence to the cease fire by these groups or individuals they support, supply or influence. The cease fire would not apply to offensive or defensive actions against Da’esh or Nusra or any other group the ISSG agrees to deem terrorist.
The participants welcomed UN Secretary General Ban’s statement that he has ordered the UN to accelerate planning for supporting the implementation of a nationwide cease fire. The group agreed that the UN should lead the effort, in consultation with interested parties, to determine the requirements and modalities of a cease fire.
The ISSG expressed willingness to take immediate steps to encourage confidence-building measures that would contribute to the viability of the political process and to pave the way for the nationwide cease fire. In this context, and pursuant to clause 5 of the Vienna Communique, the ISSG discussed the need to take steps to ensure expeditious humanitarian access throughout the territory of Syria pursuant to UNSCR 2165 and called for the granting of the UN’s pending requests for humanitarian deliveries. The ISSG expressed concern for the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons and the imperative of building conditions for their safe return in accordance with the norms of international humanitarian law and taking into account the interests of host countries. The resolution of the refugee issue is important to the final settlement of the Syrian conflict. The ISSG also reaffirmed the devastating effects of the use of indiscriminate weapons on the civilian population and humanitarian access, as stated in UNSCR 2139. The ISSG agreed to press the parties to end immediately any use of such indiscriminate weapons.
The ISSG reaffirmed the importance of abiding byall relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including UNSCR 2199 on stopping the illegal trade in oil, antiquities and hostages, from which terrorists benefit.
Pursuant to the 2012 Geneva Communique, incorporated by reference in the Vienna statement of October 30, and in U.N. Security Council Resolution 2118, the ISSG agreed on the need to convene Syrian government and opposition representatives in formal negotiations under UN auspices, as soon as possible, with a target date of January 1. The group welcomed efforts, working with United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and others, to bring together the broadest possible spectrum of the opposition, chosen by Syrians, who will decide their negotiating representatives and define their negotiating positions, so as to enable the political process to begin. All the parties to the political process should adhere to the guiding principles identified at the October 30 meeting, including a commitment to Syria’s unity, independence, territorial integrity, and non-sectarian character; to ensuring that State institutions remain intact; and to protecting the rights of all Syrians, regardless of ethnicity or religious denomination. ISSG members agreed that these principles are fundamental.
The ISSG members reaffirmed their support for the transition process contained in the2012 Geneva Communique. In this respect they affirmed their support for a cease fire as described above and for a Syrian-led process that will, within a target of six months, establish credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance, and set a schedule and process for drafting a new constitution. Free and fair elections would be held pursuant to the new constitution within 18 months. Theseelections must be administered under UN supervision to the satisfaction of the governance and to the highest international standards of transparency and accountability, with all Syrians, including the diaspora, eligible to participate.
Regarding the fight against terrorism, and pursuant to clause 6 of the Vienna Communique, the ISSG reiterated that Da’esh, Nusra, and other terrorist groups, as designated by the UN Security Council, and further, as agreed by the participants and endorsed by the UN Security Council, must be defeated. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan agreed to help develop among intelligence and military community representatives a common understanding of groups and individuals for possible determination as terrorists, with a target of completion by the beginning of the political process under UN auspices.
The participants expect to meet in approximately one month in order to review progress towards implementation of a cease fire and the beginning of the political process.
MR. STAFFAN DE MISTURA
Cairo, 13 September 2015
Mr. [President], Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby, distinguished ministers,
1. It is with a great sense of responsibility that I address you today – for the first time in Cairo – about what has become the world’s largest humanitarian disaster and perhaps one of the most complex political and security challenges of our times. History will judge us. I have said this at every occasion – the scope, danger and threat of the Syrian tragedy should force all of us to leave no stone unturned in trying to end this bloodshed helping Syrians to set their country on a path to healing and reconstruction.
Mr. [President],
2. Let me take a moment to recall my Office’s efforts to-date before we can address the way forward. I took on this assignment a few months after the end of the Geneva II process and the departure of Joint Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi, a person I respect a lot. At that time, the Secretary-General undertook a deep assessment of the situation in Syria. On 20 June 2014 he made a quite important policy speech to the Asia Society where he outlined six UN priorities on Syria.
3. He emphasised the importance of saving lives and protecting the most precious for the Syrians, the dignity of the Syrian people. He called for new efforts to start a serious political process for a new Syria, and use the roadmap offered by the Geneva Communique for that purpose. The Communiqué is the roadmap. He urged regional and international players to lend their support to his Envoy in this respect. The Secretary-General also highlighted the importance of accountability for serious crimes, which we all know are being committed in Syria – and one day serious crimes need to be considered in the context of accountability -, and of addressing the regional dimensions of the conflict, including the extremist threat.
4. Guided by these priorities, I started my mission last September. Very quickly it became clear to me, as it remained so for you, that the political complexities of the Syrian conflict are such that there was no prospect for any political process at that time, and we needed to break this sense and not give up. Regretfully, Syrian, regional and international players, despite continuously repeating their support for a political solution. Everybody wished me good luck, saying there could only be a political solution. But other agendas were being moved forward away from the negotiations table.
5. Meanwhile Daesh took advantage of the chaos in Syria, set roots and started to expand, as well as threaten the entire region and beyond. Many, across all the political divides around the Syrian conflict, agreed on the urgent need to halt Daesh. I had hoped that this new factor, the threat of Daesh, would be enough to have a proactive discussion on fighting terrorism and the need for a political solution, as the two aspects go together. It should not be one before the other.
6. I sincerely hoped then that this unity against a common enemy could be taken to the next level. I proposed the Aleppo Freeze. In that proposal, I was guided by only one objective – saving lives from being killed by a barrel bomb or a stray mortar or gas, giving hope. Many were skeptical and remain so. Where they were right to a certain degree was that any such initiative could not work absent a political horizon. I got that message. That sense of urgency for a political horizon only intensified as horrifying images of Daesh continued atrocities, aerial bombardment by the Syrian Government, rockets by armed opposition groups affecting civilians.
7. Against this background, back in March in Sharm el-Sheikh addressing the League of Arab States, the Secretary-General instructed me to intensify efforts towards a political process. There was no indication of anything new, but he felt it essential after five years of war, 20 years after Srebrenica and as the UN was celebrating its 70th anniversary. He asked me to consult broadly with Syrians, and told me to look around to come up with recommendations on how to operationalize the Geneva Communique. On 5 May, I rolled-out a process of separate meetings with Syrian, regional and international stakeholders. We did my best to talk to all who could share any valuable analysis , and ensure that no Syrian could say he or she had not been heard.
8. As a result of over [200] meetings, in early July, I reported back to the Secretary-General my own analysis. As requested, we put forth a way to operationalize the Geneva Communique. This is the famous paper that was leaked, referencing the TGB. But unfortunately there was not enough critical mass to support this. Then I presented a process, although I do not like the term because of MEPP connotations, but it is needed to work on non-controversial issues, and maintain the pressure for a real political dialogue, regionally and beyond.
9. The themes are not new, but they require a new way to address them. They can be the beginning of a discussion. They include: safety and protection for all Syrian people; military, security and counter-terrorism issues; political and legal issues (and these two must start together, avoiding, with all due respect, what has happened in Libya), and this also include the whole essence of the TGB; and maintaining state institutions. The Secretary-General further stressed that no effort could be successful absent the substantive support from the region and the international community, except if we have a contact group to put political pressure fro countries with and influence on the situation. The plan is to start the working groups, but not giving up establishing the contact group.
10. The Security Council has since taken a constructive look at what can be done politically for with a feeling of urgency. As such in its Presidential Statement adopted on 17 August, the Council endorsed the UN proposals for a way forward and themselves “emphasize[d] the need for robust international and regional assistance”.
11. We are now in a new phase. There is a massive movement of refugees. There is a danger of further militarisation. We have a clear vision of the Security Council for a way forward, that includes progress on both the political track and the fight against terrorism, not one at the expense of the other. I have a clear task to make the thematic working groups happen and establish dialogue with the countries that have an influence – some of them are in this room.
12. Over the past two months, Deputy Ramzy and I have visited several capitals and engaged all the major Syrian interlocutors – and consultations continue to-date. We have worked out the internal organizational, but also conceptual, aspects of this next phase. From Cairo, I will have further discussions in Damascus and Istanbul to prepare the announcement of the working groups. We are ready to roll-out the working group process soon. But without a contact group we have no teeth.
13. I trust you have all noted the extensive media coverage of the exacerbating suffering in Syria. Barrel bombs, gas canisters and many other nasty weapons continue to be used on human beings in Syria. Thousands of years old world heritage artefacts are being blown up in pieces. Women, men, children, elders, doctors, farmers, engineers, teachers are running away from Syria. These are the middle class, those who can contribute to the future of Syria. Some of our humanitarian colleagues assess that only some 16 million people, out of 23 million originally, are now left in Syria – with several millions living in the Daesh-controlled area.
14. This situation is a defining humanitarian challenge of our times. It is now affecting Europe and has long been affecting the neighbourhood , which has been generously welcoming large numbers of refugees, such as in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey and Iraq. This requires us to move faster and to be more serious about helping the Syrians. Most importantly, we must share more effectively the burden of the humanitarian crisis - for which only 37% of the appeal has been covered so far -, many of you have been generous but if the Syrian people lose hope because of a harsh and cold winter ahead of them they will only be moving to more despration.
15. Things are also changing, including in this region. I hope that the forthcoming developments would help Iran engage its neighbours in order to provide together regional support for a political solution. We hope Iran’s neighbours would also reciprocate. The United States and Russia have also started to talk to each other more about Syria than before, but so far inconclusively. There will be more opportunities during the GA One must remember where the refugees come from. They are not fleeing a sudden rain or a terrorist group. They are leaving because of war.
16. Syria is at the heart of the Arab world. Today, Syria is bleeding. It has been for the past four years. I cannot but believe all of us have an interest – moral and political - to put an end to this human tragedy and political disaster.
17. A political solution to the Syrian problem – a very complicated one, I have never seen such a complex conflict in my career over four decades and twenty conflicts - cannot be resolved without active Arab participation. Almost every Syrian I have come across yearns for a unified country – they are proud of their country and they love it - in which its citizens, regardless of the religious or ethnic affiliation, live in freedom and dignity, but also a Syria that regains its historic position at the centre of the Arab world.
18. In sum, three new 'accelerators' have appeared on the scene: the advances of ISIL; the sudden / massive movement of refugees – which culd become more massive; and the potential military escalation, are all additional stimuli for a political process. The UN Secretary-General’s proposal includes two complementary tracks: (a) thematic working gorups in recognition that Syrians need to have their say on the Geneva Communique; and (b) a Contact Group in recognition of the regional and international dimensions of the conflict and their collective and individual responsibilities to see this conflict resolved. This will require the support of all around this table.
19. In concluding, I would lijke to invite all of us to observe a minute of silence in tribute to the martyrs of Syria. Many have died in Syria and in the Mediterranean, as symbolised by the picture of the child.
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura ended his visit to Cairo where he met with the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Mr. Sameh Shoukry and the National Security Adviser Mrs. Fayza Aboulnaga.
The discussions revolved around the way forward to support Syrian parties in their search of a political solution to the conflict and the relevance of all international efforts exerted to put an end to the suffering of the Syrian people.
Mr. de Mistura also met with several members of the Syrian opposition who were present in Cairo.
The Special Envoy will be continuing his consultations with Member States in the region in the coming few days.
11 July 2015, Cairo
أنهى مبعوث الأمم المتحدة الخاص لسوريا ستيفان دي ميستورا زيارته إلى القاهرة حيث التقى مع وزير الخارجية المصري سعادة السيد سامح شكري ومستشار الأمن القومي السيدة فايزة أبو النجا.
تمحورت المناقشات حول الطريق إلى الأمام لدعم الأطراف السورية في بحثهم عن حل سياسي للصراع وأهمية كل الجهود الدولية المبذولة لوضع حد لمعاناة الشعب السوري.
كما التقى السيد دي مستورا أيضا مع عدد من أعضاء المعارضة السورية الذين كانوا موجودين في القاهرة.
يواصل المبعوث الخاص مشاوراته مع الدول الأعضاء في المنطقة في الأيام القليلة القادمة.
11 يوليو 2015، القاهرة
Within the framework of the Geneva Consultations, Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura met today with a delegation of the Syrian National Coalition of Revolutionary and Opposition Forces led by Coalition President Khaled Khoja. Mr. Khoja and other members of the delegation briefed on the latest efforts of the Coalition and the situation in and around Syria. They also discussed perspectives for a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
In the coming days, Special Envoy de Mistura intends to travel to New York to report to the Secretary-General on his findings from the initial phase of the Geneva Consultations. He will undertake further meetings in New York and regional and international capitals with a view to prepare for the planned Security Council meeting at the end of July.
في إطار مشاورات جنيف، التقى المبعوث الخاص ستيفان دي مستورا اليوم مع وفد من الائتلاف الوطني السوري لقوى الثورة والمعارضة التي يقودها رئيس الائتلاف خالد خوجة. أطلع السيد خوجة وأعضاء آخرين من الوفد السيّد دي مستورا على آخر الجهود التي يبذلها التحالف والوضع في سوريا وحولها. كما ناقشا آفاق التوصل إلى حل سياسي للصراع السوري.
في الأيام المقبلة، يعتزم المبعوث الخاص دي مستورا السفر إلى نيويورك ليقدم تقريرا إلى الأمين العام عن النتائج التي توصل إليها من خلال المرحلة الأولى من المشاورات في جنيف. وقال انه سوف يجري المزيد من الاجتماعات في نيويورك والعواصم الإقليمية والدولية بهدف التحضير لاجتماع مجلس الأمن المزمع عقده في نهاية يوليو.
In the framework of the Geneva consultations, U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Mr. Staffan de Mistura met today with a delegation from The Day After Association, led by Mr. Murhaf Joueijati, and a delegation from the Cordoba Working Group, led by Mr. Mohamed Ahmed Barmou.
Both delegations shared with the U.N. Special Envoy their perspectives for a political solution in Syria and discussed the worsening situation on the ground.
At the end of his meetings, Mr. de Mistura reiterated his strong conviction that only a political solution can address the root causes of the ongoing conflict in a sustainable manner and bring it to an end.
On 21 May, Mr. de Mistura received a delegation from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, led by Mr. Nawaf Al Tal, Adviser to the Foreign Minister. Mr. Al Tal shared his Government’s assessments of the situation in Syria, the extent of the humanitarian suffering and its impact on the neighboring countries, as well as ways to end the conflict there through diplomatic efforts. In his separate meeting with a delegation of the European Union, led by EEAS Managing Director Mingarelli, the Special Envoy heard the EU’s emphasis on a search for a political solution to the Syrian crisis. Mr. Mingarelli reiterated the EU’s full support for the OSE-led effort to create a conducive environment for the resumption of a meaningful political process. The Special Envoy also met with Ms. Basma Kodmani, Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative, Mr. Samir Aita, member of the Syrian Democratic Forum, and Mr. Nabil Kassis of the Al-Waed party. At the end of the day, Mr. de Mistura observed that, “deepening humanitarian and security concerns, as well as the evolving priorities of the people in Syria, are outpacing discussions over a political solution in Syria. The ISIL/Daesh offensive on Palmyra is a stark reminder of that”, he stressed. Mr. de Mistura also took note of calls on the United Nations to redouble efforts to help Syrian and regional actors reach an agreement on a peaceful future Syria.
The UN Spokesperson told reporters on 12 May that Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, held consultations with the Chairman of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), Hassan Abdel Azim, as well as with the Chairman of the Building the Syrian State political party, Louay Hussain. At the conclusion of these consultations, Mr. de Mistura stressed that it was critical to reach out to Syrian political actors. “No one more than the Syrians themselves recognize the urgency of bringing the conflict to an end”, he stated. As part of ongoing consultations, the Special Envoy met over the past week with delegations from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and France as well as with former Special Envoy Kofi Annan. Mr. de Mistura also met with various Syrians, including representatives of civil society and religious leaders to hear further views and perspectives on ways to resolve the conflict.
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Physical Therapy and Nutrition: 4 Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
Diet and nutrition have a major impact on overall health, including our ability to maintain healthy muscle tissue and recover well. Evidence suggests that a plant-based diet––one that emphasizes whole foods and that is free of animal products––is a powerful way to achieve optimal health. Physical therapists can offer dietary guidance to their patients as a complement to their traditional interventions. This post discusses the relationship between nutrition and physical therapy, as well as the benefits of a plant-based diet.
The Role of Nutrition in Physical Therapy
The goal of every physical therapist is to help people gain mobility and function at their highest potential. To that end, some in the PT profession believe that it’s the role of PTs to guide their clients in making healthy lifestyle choices, including nutritional ones. “My career, of course, is focused on the benefit and practice of exercise and overcoming movement impairment,” notes Rachel S. Worman, PT, DPT, MPT. “But movement is not optimal without optimal nutrition.” Dr. Worman makes a strong case for the involvement of nutrition in physical therapy and for physical therapy degree programs to include nutrition coursework.
Research suggests that most chronic illnesses result from poor nutrition and physical inactivity.1 PTs can offer dietary guidance as a way to manage and treat conditions that are caused in part by poor diets. For example, obesity is a contributing factor in causing osteoarthritis of the knee.2 When physical therapists treat patients using a more holistic approach that includes diet, this can have a positive impact on exercise, as certain foods fuel energy for activity.
Physical therapists ought to consider the role diet plays in certain patient health conditions. For example, consuming nitrate-rich juices and vegetables can improve blood flow to the muscles and the brain. Antioxidant-rich foods can decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease. By contrast, just one high-fat meal can increase blood pressure and insulin resistance.3
In light of scientific evidence demonstrating the impact of diet on reducing disease symptoms such as pain, joint stiffness, swelling, and tenderness, dietary solutions are appealing for patients and clinicians alike. Good nutrition is also relatively affordable and accessible compared with other healthcare interventions.4
What Is a Plant-Based Diet?
A plant-based diet is one that is free of animal products (meat, fish, dairy, and eggs) and that is composed predominantly of whole foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Overall, a plant-based diet maximizes the consumption of nutrient-dense plant foods while minimizing or eliminating animal-based, refined, and processed foods. As always, you should consult a physician prior to beginning any diet, nutrition, or fitness plan.
It’s worth noting that a plant-based diet is not synonymous with a vegan diet. A vegan diet, which people usually adopt for ethical reasons, seeks only to exclude animal products and does not necessarily minimize the intake of processed foods, such as refined grains and sugar.
4 Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
Poor diet is a major challenge facing the United States and many other countries.5 A 2017 study found that a diet consisting of excessive unhealthy foods, and not enough healthful foods, is associated with one in five deaths worldwide. This study ranked the United States 43rd out of 195 countries in the number of diet-related deaths.
Below, we share the key health benefits associated with plant-based diets, including improved athletic performance and mobility as well as reduced risk of disease.
1. Boosts Athletic Performance
Plant-based diets can improve athletic performance thanks to their positive physiological effects, which include:6
Leaner body mass. Reducing excess body fat helps to boost endurance and increase aerobic capacity.
Ease of glycogen storage. Plant-based diets are typically high in complex carbohydrates, which can help the storage of glycogen and modulate its depletion.
Improved tissue oxygenation. Given that plant-based foods are typically low in saturated fat and do not contain cholesterol, a plant-based diet can lead to better tissue oxygenation and blood flow.
Reduced oxidative stress. Thanks to higher intakes of antioxidants, such as vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta carotene, plant-based diets may promote increased antioxidant activity, which can decrease muscle fatigue and improve recovery.
Reduced inflammation: Plant-based diets may have anti-inflammatory benefits stemming from their antioxidant content and absence of inflammatory food products, such as sugars and fats.
These physiological effects can help athletes and non-athletes alike improve their exercise performance and overall health.
2. Reduces Risk of Disease
Author Michael Greger, M.D., notes in his Evidence-Based Eating Guide, “Many people assume that our manner of death is preprogrammed into our genes. High blood pressure by fifty-five, heart attacks at sixty, maybe even cancer at seventy, and so on…. But for most of the leading causes of death, the science shows that our genes often account for only 10–20% of the risk at most.”
Lifestyle changes, such as switching to a diet higher in whole plant foods, may lower your risk of developing illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, and certain types of cancers.7 Plant-based diets have been shown to help reduce body mass, blood pressure, hemoglobin A1c, and cholesterol levels. Patients who are on medications for chronic conditions may be able to reduce their medication intake by adopting a plant-based diet.8
Nutrition is a non-invasive, non-pharmacological way to alleviate pain. Physical therapists can use nutritional guidance to help patients prevent and overcome diseases, particularly those that cause chronic pain.9 While providing guidance on nutrition is part of the professional scope of practice for PTs, each state has its own rules for what PTs can and cannot do, so it’s important to review individual state practices before providing expert diet advice.
3. Fosters Brain Health
Studies show that plant-based diets can improve mental health, including depression, anxiety, stress, and mood disturbances.10 Additionally, plant-based diets aim to reduce the amount of sugar and refined carbs which are linked to depressive symptoms.
Since mental health issues can greatly interfere with patients’ physical health, including their interest in exercise, clinicians can help them to maintain or improve mental health through good nutrition. This can, in turn, improve physical outcomes and expedite recovery from injury.
4. Improves Gut Health
An imbalance of the gut microbiota has been linked conditions such as obesity, atherosclerosis, Type 2 diabetes, cancer, and autism spectrum disorder, as well as to various gastrointestinal conditions such as:11
Gastrointestinal conditions can interfere with patients’ ability to remain active and meet their physical therapy goals. A plant-based diet may be an effective way to promote a diverse and stable ecosystem of beneficial microbes that support overall health. In particular, high-fiber intake encourages the growth of species that ferment fiber into metabolites as short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which can lead to improved immunity against pathogens and regulation of
critical intestinal functions. Further, polyphenols, which are abundant in plant foods, can have anti-pathogenic and anti-inflammatory effects and can offer cardiovascular protection.
NutritionFacts.org: a nonprofit organization and science-based public service providing free updates on the latest nutrition research in short videos and articles
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and improving lives through plant-based diets
The T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies (CNS): a nonprofit organization with a mission of increasing awareness of the impact food has on our health, communities, and planet
For more information on the benefits of plant-based diets, check out the visual below.
By offering nutrition recommendations, physical therapists can further aid patients in reducing pain levels, regaining or improving freedom of motion, and living life to their fullest potential.
The largest PT school in the United States,* the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) offers a hands-on Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree. Join a collaborative cohort of peers who learn under the mentorship of expert faculty-practitioners. Practice with mock and real patients in our state-of-the-art simulation centers and learn anatomy with our high-tech tools. Prepare for clinical practice with a wide range of patients, as well as for advanced roles in research, practice leadership, and policymaking. Residential (online coursework + in-person labs on weekdays) and Flex (online coursework + in-person labs on weekends) formats are available.
*Based on total DPT degrees conferred, as reported by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Data is captured by IPEDS through interrelated surveys conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/
Cleveland Clinic, “Study: One in Five Deaths Linked to Poor Diet,” April 3, 2019: https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2019/04/03/study-one-in-five-deaths-linked-to-poor-diet/
Plant Based Food Association, “Consumer Insights”: https://plantbasedfoods.org/marketplace/consumer-insights/
Balazs I. Bodai et al., “Lifestyle Medicine: A Brief Review of Its Dramatic Impact on Health and Survival,” The Permanente Journal, Sept. 20, 2017: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5638636/ [↩]
Rachel S. Worman, “Lifestyle Medicine: The Role of the Physical Therapist,” The Permanente Journal, Dec. 30, 2019: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7015533/ [↩]
Chetan P. Phadke, “Why Should Physical Therapists Care about Their Patients’ Diet?” Physiotherapy Canada, Spring 2017: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5435402/ [↩]
Stewart Rose and Amanda Strombom, “Rheumatoid Arthritis: Prevention and Treatment with a Plant-Based Diet,” Orthopedics and Rheumatology, Oct. 5, 2018: https://pbdmedicine.org/rheumatoid-arthritis-plant-based-diets-can-help/ [↩]
The US Burden of Disease Collaborators, “The State of US Health, 1990–2016: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States,” JAMA Network, April 10, 2018: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2678018 [↩]
Neal D. Barnard et al., “Plant-Based Diets for Cardiovascular Safety and Performance in Endurance Sports,” Nutrients, Jan. 10, 2019: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/1/130/htm [↩]
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, “Plant-Based Diets: The Power of a Plant-Based Diet for Good Health,” https://www.pcrm.org/good-nutrition/plant-based-diets [↩]
Phillip J. Tuso, et al., “Nutritional Update for Physicians: Plant-Based Diets,” The Permanente Journal, Spring 2013: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662288/ [↩]
Joe Tatta, “Can Physical Therapists Give Nutritional Advice?” Integrative Pain Science Institute: https://www.integrativepainscienceinstitute.com/can-pts-give-nutrition-advice-what-the-law-says-about-physical-therapists-providing-nutrition/ [↩]
NutritionFacts.org, “Mental Health”: https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/mental-health/ [↩]
Aleksandra Tomova et al., “The Effects of Vegetarian and Vegan Diets on Gut Microbiota,” Frontiers in Nutrition, April 17, 2019: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478664/ [↩]
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By Sgt. Bethany Huff | 99th Readiness Division | Dec. 14, 2018
U.S. Army Reserve family members throw paper airplanes during one of the classes held during a retreat like training called Strong Bonds, Dec. 7. Strong Bonds is a U.S. Army program, designed to increase individual Soldier and family member readiness and resiliency through relationship education and skills training. (Photo by Sgt. Bethany Huff)
U.S. Army Reserve Deeb family works together on a puzzle during a retreat-like training called Strong Bonds, Dec. 7. The family had to put the puzzle together without knowing what the picture was. This drill is used to demonstrate “keep the end in mind” which is one of the seven habits taught during the weekend retreat. (Photo by Sgt. Bethany Huff)
U.S. Army Reserve family members post their various family concerns on the board during a retreat like training called Strong Bonds, Dec. 7. The concerns were then categorized into two circles: one that is a circle of no control, or concern; and circle of control, or influence. This is one of many skills that were sharpened during the weekend. (Photo by Sgt. Bethany Huff)
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The echoes down the hall carry laughter of small children enjoying much-needed time away from their parents. With eager smiles and a small fort created in the center of the room, the little ones have found refuge in the small hotel ballroom.
These resilient military kids have created a magic world inside their ballroom, while their parents and older siblings enhance their resiliency skills.
With 15 couples and nine families attending, the first Strong Bonds event of the new fiscal year kicked off. Participants, much like their younger children, focused on building better communication skills, and for some building a better foundation for their families.
“I felt that this would be a good opportunity to strengthen our marriage since we’re somewhat newly married,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Richard Clowser, the division sergeant major for the 78th Training Division, who attended his first Strong Bonds event this past weekend.
“This is an awesome program, with some valuable tools that Soldiers and their spouses can take back home with them and continue to work on,” said the Harleysville, Pennsylvania native. “It’s not just like, ‘hey here’s a presentation,’ there’s actually a tool kit that’s easy to understand and follow. If you actually put the things into practice you can strengthen your relationship.”
Focusing on strengthening the Army Family, the Strong Bonds program amplifies the individual Soldier and their family members’ readiness through a retreat format, allowing Soldiers to train while spending time with their families.
“One of the biggest things that Soldiers face with deployments, even [Battle Assembly] weekends, is that you’re away from your spouse, or your family,” said Clowser. “But coming to events like this gives the spouses an opportunity to learn a little bit more about what we do, and how much we actually do care about them when we’re not there. It gives them some tools to help communicate those things when you’re going to be away.”
In order to ensure success of the Strong Bonds program, the 99th Readiness Division has cultivated a unique staff made up of volunteers from across the division, which includes Army Civilians, spouses and other family members.
“We want families to be together, we want examples of families working together, and that’s something we even build in to the structure or fabric of the program itself,” said Chaplain (Maj.) Tim Elliott, the 99th Readiness Division training and resources chaplain.
“For instance, we might have somebody helping with finance whose wife may be helping as one of the class helpers or you may have somebody on staff whose kids are helping in one of the classes,” explained the Lexington, Kentucky native. “The families actually see families working together so it’s a way of encouraging what we want.”
This blended family-style retreat isn’t limited to families and couples, it stretches out to single Soldiers as well. The program likes to enhance the individual resiliency as well as family resiliency.
“What we’re trying to give people tools to accomplish is to have better relationships across the board,” said Elliott. “We’re teaching them about relationships, healthy relationships, not necessarily marriage relationships, but just relationships. How do they get along with people around them? How can they become a better individual and build better relationships at work and school or personally.”
The biggest struggle for the Strong Bonds program is getting Soldiers to come to these events. To combat this issue, Elliott’s team researches best places to host events as well publishing schedules well in advance for Soldiers to be able to participate.
“There are some great locations, it’s some awesome training, the instructors are very knowledgeable and caring, they make sure they get the point across,” said Clowser. “We all say we don’t have time; there are training events that take us away from our family. This is an opportunity to come and do something great with your family.”
Working on resilience is one of the U.S. Army’s core foci as of late for all Soldiers. The Strong Bonds program is one of many programs that have been designed to help Soldiers enhance their own resiliency skills.
“In order to fight and survive on the battle field, they need to not have to worry about what’s going on with their families. Family issues can really tear a Soldier down.” said Clowser. “So having a stronger relationship, being able to communicate better, is all part of that total Soldier. This program is called Strong Bonds, so you’re building strength, you’re strengthening your family, you’re strengthening your own resilience. That’s what we need Soldiers to do.”
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Bruno Mars is an artist that every artist dreams of working with. His claim to fame was based on his hooks for songs. He was there, at times, to sing the chorus. Over time her signature mark became a back and forth sing song banner between him and rappers that needed his skills. The rapper B.O.B introduced Bruno Mars in a unique music video with the crossover hit single "Nothing on You" one summer. He won his first award, a Soul Train Music award, with this collaboration. When this faded he transitioned to another song. So many people called upon him make provisions for their music. In time Mars found ways to make provisions for his own. The solo career of Bruno Mars made him an ever hotter commodity in the world of music. He became a teen sensation to many young girls as he performed at intimate festival venues. He has recorded with Eminem, Lil' Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Travis McCoy and a host of others. The road has been paved for Bruno Mars because he came into the music game with pen and paper. He was churning out hits for artists long before he did his first tour. This is what has allowed him to last in the music industry. He knows how to write his own songs in an industry that is crowded with concert performers and few songwriters. This sets him apart from the masses. It has given him an edge continues to attract new fans. Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHezVTUhSQ
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Winckelmann's Images from the Ancient World / Dover Publications
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Compiled by the father of modern art history, this landmark 1767 publication boasts more than 200 outstanding engravings of ancient monuments. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, an eighteenth-century scholar who devoted his life to the study of ancient art, was...
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Compiled by the father of modern art history, this landmark 1767 publication boasts more than 200 outstanding engravings of ancient monuments. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, an eighteenth-century scholar who devoted his life to the study of ancient art, was the first to outline the distinctions between works of Egyptian, Etruscan, Roman, and Greek origin. Drawing upon his encyclopedic knowledge of ancient literature, Winckelmann explained the origins and significance of each of these previously unknown and unpublished images from historic buildings and monuments.
These finely engraved illustrations of figures from ancient religion and mythology offer a compelling study, particularly in the light of the details imparted by the German scholar's commentary. In addition to reproductions of all the images from the original volume, this edition includes newly translated text and captions and an Introduction that relates fascinating details concerning the author's life. This is the first English-language version of Winckelmann's classic, presenting not only a panorama of captivating sights from classical civilizations but also a major contribution to the literature of art history.
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Harrisburg Ice and Fire Festival delighted for another year
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Harrisburg’s the Ice & Fire Festival took place on Saturday. On Friday, WGAL received a preview of the ice carving demonstration. The event ran until 9 p.m. and also included an ice skating rink on second street, a 50-foot snow mountain slide, and live music. Ice carvers said they enjoy their craft because of the smiles it puts on people's faces. "For me it's a labor of love,” said Ernie Dimartino of Dimartino Ice. “I like the excitement from the crowd watching us do it." All of the performances and activities were free, including ice skate rentals.
Harrisburg’s the Ice & Fire Festival took place on Saturday.
On Friday, WGAL received a preview of the ice carving demonstration.
The event ran until 9 p.m. and also included an ice skating rink on second street, a 50-foot snow mountain slide, and live music.
Ice carvers said they enjoy their craft because of the smiles it puts on people's faces.
"For me it's a labor of love,” said Ernie Dimartino of Dimartino Ice. “I like the excitement from the crowd watching us do it."
All of the performances and activities were free, including ice skate rentals.
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Reasons why Derby and Derbyshire put in Tier 3 revealed
The reasons why Derby and Derbyshire have been put into Tier 3 by the Government have been revealed.
Concerns over the “very high” number of Covid-19 cases, particularly in people over the age of 60, played a part in the decision.
In addition to this, worries about the amount of pressure being put on the NHS in the county also informed the decision to put it under the most restrictive measures.
Derbyshire, as well as large parts of the East Midlands, will be put into Tier 3 when lockdown ends on December 2.
The tier each local area has been placed in is set to be reviewed by the Government every two weeks – with the first on December 16.
The reasoning behind the decision was revealed on Twitter by Lilian Greenwood, the MP for Nottingham South.
Referring to the situation in Nottingham, she wrote: “Update from the meeting with Health Minister, Jo Churchill, and Public Health England earlier: yes your efforts have brought cases down across all age groups but concerned that releasing too early while case rates still high = potential for rapid spread.”
The Labour MP then went on to share an image of a document purporting to be an explanation from the Health Secretary about why he made the decision.
In the document, which splits the East Midlands into it’s ceremonial counties and city regions, it details why each area has been placed in a specific tier.
For Derby and Derbyshire it states: “There has been an improvement in this area, but case rates remain very high at 275 per 100,000 and in those over 60 it is 220 per 100,000.
“The pressure on the local NHS remains high.”
The document also shows similar reasoning was used to inform the decision to place Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire in Tier 3 as well.
All of these areas also have more infection rates of more than 200 per 100,000 people.
Meanwhile, it states that Northamptonshire and Rutland both have lower rates than this, and as a result have been placed in Tier 2.
In this tier hospitality settings in the county, including pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants., will not be allowed to serve the public on their premises when for at least an extra fortnight.
The new rules also mean people must not meet socially indoors with people they do not live with, unless they are in a support bubble.
This extends to private gardens, while people should not congregate in groups of more than six in parks or any other outside setting.
The news has angered many local people and business owners, with pub owners decrying the move as “killing the industry”.
Meanwhile public health officials, MPs and councillors in Derbyshire urged people to abide by the new restrictions when they come into force in an effort to drive infection rates down.
Dozens of cars caught flouting new restrictions in city centre
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15-year-old boy charged with murder in shooting of retired Chicago firefighter
by: Nexstar Media Wire and WGN Web Desk, Jenna Barnes
CHICAGO (WGN) — A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a retired Chicago firefighter during an attempted carjacking, police said.
The teen faces charges of first-degree murder and attempted robbery/armed with a firearm.
Dwain Williams, 65, was fatally shot during an attempted carjacking on Dec. 3 in the Morgan Park neighborhood of Chicago.
Police said Williams was leaving a popcorn store around 2 p.m. when he was approached by four people, one of whom had a gun and fired shots, striking Williams in the abdomen.
1 in 5 prisoners in the US has had COVID-19, 1,700 have died
Williams was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Williams was a highly decorated fire lieutenant who retired just two years ago.
The teen was arrested Wednesday after being identified as an offender in the fatal shooting.
Police said they were questioning one adult and were actively looking for two other adults in the case.
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“Every country needs a ministry of gender equality”
Kim Soo-hee Women news reporter / Trans by Lee Kyo
ICAPP Special Conference in Seoul
Country report on women’s political and economic empowerment
The 7th ICAPP (International Conference of Asian Political Parties) Special Conference on Women’s Leadership and Empowerment opened in Seoul on September 13. Around 110 representatives from 41 political parties from over 20 different countries joined the conference.
Since its inception and the creation of the ICAPP Women’s Wing(Co-chaired by Dr. Park In-sook and Dr. Malahat Ibrahimqizi), the ICAPP held its first Special Conference on women’s issues.
In his opening remarks, Jose de Venecia (founding chairman of the ICAPP and co-chairman of the Standing Committee) said, “Taking this opportunity, let us unanimously pass a resolution under which every nation would establish a ministry of gender equality. This will help women across the world.”
Hwang Woo-yea (the chairman of the ruling Saenuri Party) said, “The future of a nation lies in women who have a key role to play in a time of low birth rates and rapidly aging population. In light of this, the Saenuri Party will strive to empower women in the male-dominated world of politics." Main opposition Democratic Party floor leader Jeon Byung-hun said, “I hope today’s conference would be a great opportunity for us to seek ways to create a better world for four billion Asians.” Park Byung-suk (Vice chairman of the National Assembly) said, “Although women’s political representation in Australia is considerably high (24.7%) in the Asia-Pacific region, it ranks only 45th in the world. Asia needs more female leaders.”
In her congratulatory remarks, President Park Geun-hye said, “I hope that the ICAPP Special Conference would bring about meaningful change not only for women, but for everyone.” The U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a message saying “We have to work together to correct laws and policies, and assign the appropriate budgets in order to eliminate discrimination against women and help women and girls contribute to our society.”
During plenary sessions, participants discussed over topics of “Women’s Leadership in Politics,” “Women’s Participation in Economy,” and “Women’s Role in Peace-building.” During the closing session on September 14, “Seoul Declaration on Women’s Leadership and Empowerment” was adopted.
The 7th Special Conference was hosted by the ICAPP Parliamentarians’ Union in the Korean National Assembly (Chairman Hwang Jin-ha, Vice chairman Kim Choon-jin) under the co-sponsorship of the National Assembly, the governing Saenuri Party, the opposition Democratic Party, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
The ICAPP was established in Manila, Philippines in 2000. It is a forum of about 340 political parties from 52 Asia-Oceanian countries. The objectives of the conference are to promote exchanges and cooperation between different political parties and to enhance democracy. Since 2008, Special ICAPP Conferences have been held to discuss specific topics.
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Naked men and drunks: England assesses the reopening of pubs
by: PAN PYLAS, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 5, 2020 / 06:58 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 5, 2020 / 12:39 PM EDT
Members of the public are seen at a bar in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, England, Saturday July 4, 2020. England is embarking on perhaps its biggest lockdown easing yet as pubs and restaurants have the right to reopen for the first time in more than three months. In addition to the reopening of much of the hospitality sector, couples can tie the knot once again, while many of those who have had enough of their lockdown hair can finally get a trim. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
LONDON (AP) — It seems to have been more like a typical Saturday night than a drunken New Year’s Eve.
The reopening of pubs in England does not seem to have overwhelmed emergency services as many had feared ahead of the biggest easing of Britain’s coronavirus lockdown. But one senior police officer said Sunday it was “crystal clear” that drunk people struggled, or ignored, social distancing rules.
For the most part, people appeared to abide by the rules and rejoiced at the chance Saturday to lift a pint in the company of their mates. but in some places large crowds raised concerns that the deadliest outbreak in Europe may find fresh legs.
Chris Newell, a 33-year-old courier, traveled to trendy Shoreditch in east London to see friends.
“As long as everyone’s keeping their distance, we’re going to have a few drinks and just enjoy it and try and get back to a bit of normality,” he said.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the vast majority of people did “the right thing” and abided by social distancing rules to stay at least one meter (over 3 feet) apart from members of another household if other safety measures were in place such as hand sanitizers.
“It was really good to see people out and about and largely, very largely social distancing,” he said on Sky News.
Police forces across the country said on the whole there were no significant issues.
“It’s vital that we don’t lose track of how far we have come and all act responsibly and play our part to minimise the spread of coronavirus,” said Bas Javid, a commander at London’s Metropolitan Police.
John Apter, chair of the Police Federation, who was on patrol in the southern England city of Southampton, said it was a busy shift, one that saw officers having to deal with naked men, “happy” drunks as well as “angry” drunks. He said the shift “managed to cope” but it was “crystal clear” that those who have imbibed one too many cannot, or won’t, socially distance.
Pubs and restaurants worked hard to get ready for the moment, spacing tables, putting some staff behind plastic counters and registering customers upon arrival. The wearing of masks is optional though, even for staff.
Rafal Liszewski, a store manager in the London district of Soho, voiced concerns about the swelling crowds on Saturday.
“Quickly everything got out of control and by 8-9 p.m. it was a proper street party with people dancing and drinking,” he said. “Barely anyone was wearing masks and nobody respected social distancing …. to be honest with that many people on one street it was physically impossible.”
Some fear the British government is being overly hasty, even reckless, in sanctioning the changes. The U.K.’s confirmed virus death toll of 44,220 is the third-highest in the world, behind the United States and Brazil. The reopening of bars and restaurants in the United States and elsewhere has been blamed for a spike in new infections.
David King, a former chief scientific adviser to the British government, criticized the latest lockdown easing. He said it looked like the strategy is to “maintain” the current level of about 3,000 new coronavirus infections per day across England in order to open up sections of the economy.
“We need to look at the fastest route out of COVID-19 and that is not the current route, and that means a better economic recovery as well,” he told Sky News.
The four nations of the U.K. — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — are moving at different speeds out of the coronavirus lockdown. The restrictions in England, with a population of around 56 million, have been lifted the most, triggering concerns that Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being unduly influenced by a desire to kickstart Britain’s ailing economy.
Johnson’s office at No. 10 Downing Street, among many other places across the U.K., was lit up blue overnight to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the formation of the country’s beloved National Health Service, which gives free health care to residents.
People across the country paid tribute to the NHS at 5 p.m. to say “Thank you” to the hundreds of thousands of staff who have worked selflessly throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
A Spitfire, the iconic World War II fighter plane, flew over several eastern NHS hospitals, finishing over Cambridge, with the message “Thank U NHS” painted on its underside.
After coming down with coronavirus himself, Johnson credited NHS workers with saving his life. He was hosting a garden party for the NHS later Sunday.
Follow AP coverage of the pandemic at https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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BERLIN — Austria is extending its lockdown until Feb. 7 in an attempt to bring down still-high infection figures, as authorities worry about the possible impact of more infectious variants of the coronavirus.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Sunday that distancing rules will be toughened, with people asked to stay 2 meters apart instead of 1 meter. They will also be told to wear full protective masks in public transport and shops, rather than just fabric face coverings.
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How Pacific Island Missile Tests Helped Launch the Internet
Noah Shachtman
There are a thousand stories about the origin of the internet, each with their own starting point and their own heroes. Charles Herzfeld's tale began in 1961 on a series of tiny islands in the South Pacific.
ARPA's Charles Herzfeld (center, in white shirt) and other military researchers visit the Kwajalein Atoll for missile defense tests. The problem of processing the trials' data would help lead to the creation of the Arpanet.Photo courtesy of Charles Herzfeld
Updated 8/31/12 5:12 p.m.
There are a thousand stories about the origin of the internet, each with their own starting point and their own heroes. Charles Herzfeld's tale began in 1961 on a series of tiny islands in the South Pacific. The U.S. military was test-firing a series of ballistic missiles at the island chain, known as the Kwajalein Atoll, with an array of radars and optical infrared sensors recording every re-entry. Herzfeld, the Vienna-born physicist and newly installed chief of the Advanced Research Projects Agency's missile defense program, was trying to figure out how to make sense of the vast amount of data generated by all of those incoming missiles. The computers he had at the time weren't up to the task.
Herzfeld, in search of solutions, asked his colleague J.C.R. Licklider out to lunch. They met at the "Blue Room," an exclusive dining hall in the Pentagon's D Ring -- you could even get a martini there. Over a series of meals talked through ideas that would transform computing forever.
Licklider, the head of of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office, was already one of computer science's leading thinkers. ("Licklider was our prophet. I signed onto his vision from the beginning," Herzfeld says.) Not only did Licklider predict that one day "human brains and computing machines will be coupled" into a partnership that would surpass either component's ability to process information. Licklider theorized that people could one day interact with all sorts of computers at once -- even though each machine had its own programming language and its own control scheme. They would all be part of a single network.
"Most people don't understand the experience of doing something absolutely new," Herzfeld says, more than 50 years after the fact. "This was a new idea, and very radical."
Over their D Ring lunches, Herzfeld told Licklider about the mass of data he was generating at the Kwajalein Atoll as his machines tried to discriminate between chaff and missile, between countermeasure and target. Herzfeld funded the development of broadband receivers, electronics that could accept data at an unheard-of rate: 150 megabits per second. He backed new storage media, including a magnetic tape that would one day lead to video cassettes. It wasn't enough.
"Look, Lick," Herzfeld said, "If your [network] idea could be done, it would make all of this much easier." Researchers could rely on a whole network of machines, not just a single one.
"You're right," Licklider answered. "But it's too soon."
Six years later, the time was right. Herzfeld had ascended to the top position at ARPA. He hired Bob Taylor, a specialist in human-computer interaction, and together they began talking about steps to make Licklider's vision concrete. That led to a million-dollar grant to begin work on the Arpanet, the internet's direct predecessor. For funding that all-important work, Herzfeld was inducted earlier this year into the Internet Society's Internet Hall of Fame, alongside such pioneers as Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
In some ways, the internet was as much a product of an institution as of a group of people. ARPA -- later renamed DARPA -- plucked visionaries like Licklider and Taylor from industry and academia, sucked up their best ideas, and then returned them to their home institutions a few years later. ARPA directors like Herzfeld had a tremendous amount of leeway to set priorities and to spend money as they saw fit; few others in the military research community enjoyed that kind of flexibility. (To this day, that freedom to kill an artificial intelligence project one minute and launch a new soldier enhancement program the next continues to periodically enrage Congress and the Pentagon brass.) Herzfeld believes it's one of the reasons why his agency -- and not some other government group -- gave rise to the internet.
Still, major projects needed to be justified to his Pentagon bosses and to the Congress. ("We needed a story and it had to be plausible," Herzfeld remembers.) The story also had to be big. ARPA, in Herzfeld's opinion, wasn't designed to take on minor matters. It was supposed to study strategic, Presidential-level issues -- at the time, missile defense, nuclear test verification, and mastery of counterinsurgency were the big ones. Then, ARPA was meant to find solutions to those most important and most vexing of problems. Even in an age of ambitious government projects (think Apollo 11), it made ARPA unique.
The key to unlocking these big ambitions, according to Herzfeld, was to put together a family of research projects that could address a major topic all at once. "Large programs do better when they have a theme. Most times, there's a bowl full of beautiful jewels, but there's no necklace," Herzfeld says.
Project AGILE studied every aspect of counterinsurgency -- from social dynamics in potential hotbeds like Thailand to new tools of infantry warfare like jet packs. The nuclear inspection programs, VELA and LASA, built satellites to monitor above-ground atomic blasts and revolutionized geophysics by training a series of first-of-its-kind phased array radars to look for hints of tests beneath the Earth's surface.
Licklider's idea -- of a computer network as easy to operate as the telephone -- was a necklace all by itself.
"There were about 100 mainframe computers in the whole country, and about 1,000 to 10,000 people to use them. When it came time to explain why we wanted to do the Arpanet, I told [the Pentagon brass]: I want every investigator to have a console at their desk, where they can find all the tools, all the programs, and all the data to do their work."
In a small space next to Taylor's Pentagon office, there was a kind of advertisement for why such a project was needed. Taylor had three computer terminals, each connected to a separate mainframe. One could communicate with MIT, another with a University of California, Berkeley machine, and a third with an Air Force-built mainframe in Santa Monica, California. Taylor could only interact with one remote site at a time. None of those other researchers could easily pass information to one another. And even if there were such a connection, one machine couldn't comprehend what the other was saying; each computer was programmed with its own boutique language. The result: wasted time and duplicative research. What they needed was a network, instead.
Taylor's $1 million was quickly approved, and he got to work writing a request for proposals for what would become the Arpanet.
Over the years, the project accumulated all kinds of origin myths. In one version, the Arpanet was supposedly developed as a tool for communicating after a nuclear holocaust. (Not true, but one of the men who came up with the idea of packet-switching, which became the internet's method for passing along data, was so motivated.) In another version, recounted in the fabulous history Where Wizards Stay Up Late, Herzfeld okayed the Arpanet million after a single, 20-minute pitch from Taylor. "That makes me sound like an easy spender, which I was not," says Herzfeld.
But maybe all the stories make sense. They are, after all, about a global network-of-networks -- a way to connect machines (and people) with different languages, different functions, different points of view. So maybe the tale can begin at all sorts of nodes. Even one as distant as the Kwajalein Atoll.
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39080 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 11:19:50.448 +27:09:02.58 2019-05-31 06:24:28.000 20.92 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpt Pan-STARRS1
39900 AT 2019iqx 1 12:57:55.932 -21:42:48.45 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpw PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.4 w-PS1 2019-05-31 07:24:57.000 PS1_Bot1
39081 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 12:57:55.932 -21:42:48.45 2019-05-31 07:24:57.000 21.4 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpw Pan-STARRS1
74389 2019-05-31 07:24:57 21.4 0.2 22 ABMag w-PS1 PS1_GPC1 45 Robot
39901 AT 2019iqy 1 14:32:29.484 +34:24:30.75 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpv PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.92 w-PS1 2019-05-31 09:43:12.000 PS1_Bot1
39082 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 14:32:29.484 +34:24:30.75 2019-05-31 09:43:12.000 21.92 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpv Pan-STARRS1
39902 AT 2019iqz 1 16:19:18.697 -05:17:20.98 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19brf PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.42 w-PS1 2019-06-28 08:23:59.000 PS1_Bot1
39083 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 16:19:18.697 -05:17:20.98 2019-06-28 08:23:59.000 19.42 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19brf Pan-STARRS1
39903 AT 2019ira 1 15:41:08.681 +06:15:04.09 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19brg PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.55 w-PS1 2019-06-28 07:26:24.000 PS1_Bot1
39084 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 15:41:08.681 +06:15:04.09 2019-06-28 07:26:24.000 21.55 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19brg Pan-STARRS1
39904 AT 2019irb 2 16:15:30.121 +47:47:43.40 Pan-STARRS1, ATLAS Pan-STARRS1, ATLAS ATLAS, Pan-STARRS1 PS19bqz ATLAS1 - ACAM1, PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.62 i-Sloan 2019-06-22 10:26:24.000 PS1_Bot1
40346 2019-07-01 13:24:02 ATLAS_Bot1 J. Tonry, L. Denneau, A. Heinze, H. Weiland, H. Flewelling (IfA, University of Hawaii), B. Stalder (LSST), A. Rest (STScI), C. Stubbs (Harvard University), K. W. Smith, S. J. Smartt, D. R. Young, S. Srivastav, O. McBrien, D. O'Neill, P. Clark, M. Fulton, J. Gillanders (Queen's University Belfast), T.-W. Chen (MPE), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) ATLAS ATLAS 16:15:30.127 +47:47:43.63 2019-06-30 08:12:28.000 19.225 cyan-ATLAS 2 PSN ATLAS19odz ATLAS
75967 2019-06-30 08:12:28 19.225 0.104 19.85 ABMag cyan-ATLAS ATLAS1_ACAM1 30 Robot
39085 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 16:15:30.121 +47:47:43.40 2019-06-22 10:26:24.000 20.62 i-Sloan 1 PSN PS19bqz Pan-STARRS1
74393 2019-06-22 10:26:24 20.62 0.16 20.7 ABMag i-Sloan PS1_GPC1 45 Robot
39905 AT 2019irc 1 17:53:03.175 +39:29:58.49 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bra PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.58 w-PS1 2019-06-25 10:14:52.000 PS1_Bot1
39086 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 17:53:03.175 +39:29:58.49 2019-06-25 10:14:52.000 21.58 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bra Pan-STARRS1
39906 AT 2019ird 1 14:10:56.410 -16:51:49.34 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19brd PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.67 w-PS1 2019-06-23 06:30:14.000 PS1_Bot1
39089 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 14:10:56.410 -16:51:49.34 2019-06-23 06:30:14.000 21.67 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19brd Pan-STARRS1
39907 AT 2019ire 1 15:35:52.708 +04:50:00.56 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bre PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.08 w-PS1 2019-06-28 07:24:57.000 PS1_Bot1
39090 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 15:35:52.708 +04:50:00.56 2019-06-28 07:24:57.000 21.08 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bre Pan-STARRS1
39908 AT 2019irf 1 14:20:11.728 -09:55:22.69 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19brb PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.45 w-PS1 2019-06-25 06:31:40.000 PS1_Bot1
39091 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 14:20:11.728 -09:55:22.69 2019-06-25 06:31:40.000 21.45 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19brb Pan-STARRS1
39909 AT 2019irg 3 16:28:24.085 +37:52:23.81 Pan-STARRS1, ZTF Pan-STARRS1, ZTF Pan-STARRS1, ZTF PS19brc P48 - ZTF-Cam, PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.39 i-Sloan 2019-06-22 10:17:45.000 PS1_Bot1
42189 2019-07-21 16:26:50 ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, M. Giomi, J. van Santen (HU Berlin), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron, S. Schulze (Weizmann) on behalf of ZTF ZTF ZTF 16:28:24.085 +37:52:23.84 2019-07-08 05:11:24.000 19.59 r-ZTF 3 PSN ZTF19abavull ZTF See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.
79937 2019-07-08 05:11:24 19.59 0.14 20.49 ABMag r-ZTF P48_ZTF-Cam 30
79936 2019-06-26 05:52:50 20.7625 ABMag r-ZTF P48_ZTF-Cam 30 [Last non detection]
39092 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 16:28:24.085 +37:52:23.81 2019-06-22 10:17:45.000 21.39 i-Sloan 1 PSN PS19brc Pan-STARRS1
39910 AT 2019irh 1 15:02:05.446 +11:40:04.08 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19boa PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.93 w-PS1 2019-05-02 12:33:07.000 PS1_Bot1
39093 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 15:02:05.446 +11:40:04.08 2019-05-02 12:33:07.000 20.93 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19boa Pan-STARRS1
39911 AT 2019iri 1 11:50:27.616 -10:34:54.15 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19boe PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.47 w-PS1 2019-05-01 07:48:00.000 PS1_Bot1
39094 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 11:50:27.616 -10:34:54.15 2019-05-01 07:48:00.000 21.47 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19boe Pan-STARRS1
39912 AT 2019irj 1 12:27:13.813 +10:57:15.17 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpi PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.09 w-PS1 2019-05-27 08:06:43.000 PS1_Bot1
39095 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 12:27:13.813 +10:57:15.17 2019-05-27 08:06:43.000 21.09 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpi Pan-STARRS1
39913 AT 2019irk 1 13:45:42.886 -16:02:36.25 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bph PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.47 w-PS1 2019-05-27 06:59:02.000 PS1_Bot1
39096 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 13:45:42.886 -16:02:36.25 2019-05-27 06:59:02.000 21.47 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bph Pan-STARRS1
39914 AT 2019irl 1 14:50:55.693 +14:54:00.58 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpc PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.94 w-PS1 2019-05-08 11:55:40.000 PS1_Bot1
39097 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 14:50:55.693 +14:54:00.58 2019-05-08 11:55:40.000 21.94 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpc Pan-STARRS1
39915 AT 2019irm 1 14:28:43.663 +14:20:14.43 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpb PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.94 w-PS1 2019-05-08 11:47:02.000 PS1_Bot1
39098 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 14:28:43.663 +14:20:14.43 2019-05-08 11:47:02.000 21.94 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpb Pan-STARRS1
39916 AT 2019irn 1 14:35:42.420 +11:46:39.99 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpa PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 18.83 w-PS1 2019-05-08 11:48:28.000 PS1_Bot1
39100 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 14:35:42.420 +11:46:39.99 2019-05-08 11:48:28.000 18.83 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpa Pan-STARRS1
39917 AT 2019iro 1 15:19:17.731 +24:31:30.48 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpf PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.19 w-PS1 2019-05-09 11:47:02.000 PS1_Bot1
39102 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 15:19:17.731 +24:31:30.48 2019-05-09 11:47:02.000 21.19 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpf Pan-STARRS1
39918 AT 2019irp 1 14:08:06.661 -10:26:43.66 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpe PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.4 w-PS1 2019-05-09 08:13:55.000 PS1_Bot1
39103 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 14:08:06.661 -10:26:43.66 2019-05-09 08:13:55.000 21.4 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpe Pan-STARRS1
74411 2019-05-09 08:13:55 21.4 0.15 22 ABMag w-PS1 PS1_GPC1 45 Robot
39919 AT 2019irq 1 15:08:58.255 +27:34:58.48 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bpd PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.44 w-PS1 2019-05-09 11:44:09.000 PS1_Bot1
39104 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 15:08:58.255 +27:34:58.48 2019-05-09 11:44:09.000 21.44 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bpd Pan-STARRS1
39920 AT 2019irr 1 15:47:31.351 -10:27:40.36 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bqd PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.54 w-PS1 2019-06-02 09:46:04.000 PS1_Bot1
39105 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 15:47:31.351 -10:27:40.36 2019-06-02 09:46:04.000 21.54 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bqd Pan-STARRS1
39921 AT 2019irs 1 11:54:22.608 -12:55:08.65 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bqe PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.65 w-PS1 2019-06-02 06:30:14.000 PS1_Bot1
39106 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 11:54:22.608 -12:55:08.65 2019-06-02 06:30:14.000 20.65 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bqe Pan-STARRS1
74414 2019-06-02 06:30:14 20.65 0.1 22 ABMag w-PS1 PS1_GPC1 45 Robot
39922 AT 2019irt 1 20:26:41.388 -04:35:23.29 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bqf PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.6 w-PS1 2019-06-03 12:27:21.000 PS1_Bot1
39107 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 20:26:41.388 -04:35:23.29 2019-06-03 12:27:21.000 21.6 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bqf Pan-STARRS1
39923 AT 2019iru 1 16:20:11.155 +15:56:03.26 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bqg PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.05 w-PS1 2019-06-05 11:32:38.000 PS1_Bot1
39108 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 16:20:11.155 +15:56:03.26 2019-06-05 11:32:38.000 21.05 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bqg Pan-STARRS1
39924 AT 2019irv 1 23:40:10.450 +03:44:47.00 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bqh PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.43 w-PS1 2019-06-07 13:46:33.000 PS1_Bot1
39109 2019-06-29 21:36:25 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 23:40:10.450 +03:44:47.00 2019-06-07 13:46:33.000 21.43 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19bqh Pan-STARRS1
39925 AT 2019irw 1 21:56:07.092 +07:05:38.17 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19bqi PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.13 w-PS1 2019-06-09 13:17:45.000 PS1_Bot1
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Ring in the New Year with a new career
I hope you had a joyful holiday season and wish you a happy New Year. This time of year is a culmination of sorts for many Mid-State Technical College students. An impressive class of 142 graduates gathered Dec. 19 for fall semester commencement ceremonies to celebrate a transition from their MSTC hands-on college education to new beginnings and enhanced opportunities in the workforce.
The solid reputation of this college and the impressive skill set of MSTC graduates are well documented. Nearly nine out of 10 MSTC graduates are employed within six months of graduation, and 95 percent of employers who hire MSTC graduates are satisfied or very satisfied with their education, training and skill set. These are some of the reasons why nearly 9,000 people make MSTC their preferred choice for education and training each year.
Yet statistics alone will not ease fear of the unknown. Anxiety sometimes can hinder our desire to achieve the skill set that enhances our career options. Fear ultimately “… holds us and binds us and keeps us from growing.”
However, success is often driven by a willingness to step out of our comfort zones and try something new. The following stories show how two students faced fear, made sacrifices, rolled up their sleeves and tackled the unknown.
Nancy, a 27-year-old mother of three from Stevens Point, was a small-business owner before undergoing an organ transplant, forcing her to give up her business to focus on her recovery. While taking classes on Stevens Point campus in spring 2012, she realized she wanted to pursue a career that empowered her to help others feel good about themselves; cosmetology was a natural fit. She graduated in December with a technical diploma in cosmetology and is currently readying to take her State Board licensing exam. Nancy isn’t going anywhere though; she plans to continue taking classes this semester in MSTC’s business management program.
Dan also stepped away from the status quo. While still a senior in high school, Dan completed paramedic technician program classes at MSTC. Dan since has finished his paramedic core courses, passed his National Registry exams and became licensed in Wisconsin as a paramedic — all before celebrating his 19th birthday. He subsequently was hired as a full-time paramedic, where he works today.
Maybe you know someone who needs encouragement overcoming a fear of trying something new, someone who will benefit from enriching skills they need to be successful in the local workforce. MSTC is the first stop on a path to a new or enhanced career. Our helpful and caring employees provide the custom support and assistance each person needs.
Ring in the New Year with small class sizes, hands-on instruction and engaging faculty with real-world experience. It’s not too late to register for MSTC’s spring semester — classes start Jan. 13. Stop by any of our four locations, call 888-575-MSTC (6782), or visit www.mstc.edu to learn more.
Read more: From wisconsinrapidstribune.com: "Column: Ring in a New Year with MSTC"
NWTC unveils Health Sciences Center expansion
GREEN BAY – The future of training health care givers is looking a little brighter at an area college.
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College unveiled its 13,000 square foot expansion Monday to its Health Sciences Center.
The expansion includes three new learning labs, a wellness lab, a simulation center, and caregiver learning center.
NWTC’s health services dean says the addition means more learning for students.
“Now with this expansion we’re capable of providing more opportunities for our students,” said Kay Tupala.
“We have an incredible workforce, trained, motivated, interested in improving the care that we’re giving, working together very well with one another,” said George Kerwin, president and CEO of Bellin Health.
The expansion cost about $3.5 million. It was made possible through business partners and community support.
$15 million in grants available to businesses
From biztimes.com: “State program to boost worker training: $15 million in grants available to businesses” – The need to improve worker training in Wisconsin is so significant that even Democrats and Republicans are in agreement. It’s a rare occurrence lately for the Wisconsin State Senate to pass a bill unanimously with bipartisan support. But the Wisconsin Fast Forward bill became that rare occurrence last March when all 33 Wisconsin senators and 94 of 98 state Assembly representatives voted to approve the workforce initiative.
Gov. Scott Walker and Secretary of the Department of Workforce Development Reggie Newson at a recent press event for Wisconsin Fast Forward at Northcentral Technical College.
The legislation was the first to pass in Gov. Walker’s $100 million workforce agenda over the 2013-15 biennial budget period, passing even before the budget did.
“(Wisconsin Fast Forward) is the cornerstone of the state’s workforce investment strategy,” said Reggie Newson, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
“It’s the most proactive and most aggressive investment in worker training that I can remember,” said Bryan Albrecht, president of Gateway Technical College.
Wisconsin Fast Forward is a $15 million worker training grant program and it’s kicking into gear in 2014.
“The ultimate goal is to develop talent to fill existing jobs and create new ones,” Newson said.
Applications for the first round of worker training grants were due in mid-December, and DWD – and its new Office of Skills Development that was also created as a part of the Fast Forward initiative – is currently in the process of evaluating those grants, which are set to be announced in January.
The first round of grants amounts to $2.7 million, and focuses on worker training in three areas – manufacturing, construction and customer service.
Scott Jansen, director of the Office of Skills Development, said $400,000 of the grant money will go to customer service, $300,000 to small manufacturers (with less than 50 full-time employees), $1 million to manufacturers of any size and the remainder will go toward construction. The grants are set to be announced in late January, and the earliest training grant implementations could be up and running as soon as March 2014, Jansen said.
A key aspect of Wisconsin Fast Forward, Jansen said, is the program’s requirement to hire the employees being trained.
“We don’t just want to throw public money at additional training,” Jansen said. “We want (businesses) to be able to make the hire at the end of the program.”
Jansen said businesses applying for these grants must prove a commitment to hire.
Newson said that with this program using “demand-driven” requirements, it is focusing on “underemployed, unemployed and incumbent workers.”
The $12 million that remains after the first round will be allocated each quarter, as the DWD will announce a new round every three to four months until June 2015, Newson said.
The Office of Skills Development is currently analyzing which occupations and sectors to focus on for the program’s second round, which will be announced in late January, Jansen said.
Wisconsin Fast Forward is built to be an inclusive, collaborative process, Jansen said, with input and expertise from strategic partners, including the Wisconsin Fast Forward Grant Evaluation Committee, which includes panel members from the DWD, the Wisconsin Technical College System, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, as well as the employers applying for the grants.
“This whole process allows us to be nimble and flexible to be able to meet employers’ needs and incentivize and develop talent in high demand areas of the state,” Newson said. “It also does something impactful that goes along with what the governor wants to do, which is aligning education, workforce development and economic development to create an economic development outcome.”
Newson said the Wisconsin Fast Forward grant programs will be “employer-driven,” “demand-driven” and “customized based on their specific needs.”
In the grant applications themselves, Jansen said, “employers need to identify what the curriculum is, and they’re the ones writing the curriculum.”
“Wisconsin Fast Forward is based on models from other states – Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, Minnesota – creating a demand-driven program that employers can access…to do customized worker training to be able to meet the skills gap,” Newson said.
Pat O’Brien, president of the Milwaukee Development Corporation and the Milwaukee 7, said there’s been a lot of discussion on the issue of the skills gap, noting that many companies complain that they can’t find employees while at the same time the unemployment rate is 7 to 8 percent, and higher for people of color. It is a challenge to the region, he said, with companies getting pickier to compete in a world economy and lower-skills jobs going to Mexico and overseas.
Albrecht said the issue of a “skills gap” is more of a moving target because of rapid changes in new technology.
“There is a skills gap, but there is probably a larger skills mismatch, where (current) skills may not align with new skills that are necessary,” he said, giving automated manufacturing and other computer-related skills as examples. “That second-tier skills training is where we see the gap. The effort now is to close a higher-level skills gap.”
“We need to make sure people are wired into the jobs of the future,” O’Brien said.
The Office of Skills Development was created as a part of this initiative to oversee the grants and programs and to be a collaborative, convening force to align the efforts of the state’s education, workforce development and economic development, Newson said.
“It’s been a very good resource because it provides a communication network,” Albrecht said. “The Office of Skills Development pulled several offices together so it can have a greater impact on the dollars that are invested.”
O’Brien said Jansen, who’s most recent job before becoming the director of the Office of Skills Development was with the Greater Milwaukee Committee, is the right person to be leading this initiative, citing previous workforce development initiatives with the GMC.
“I have a lot of faith in Scott Jansen,” O’Brien said. “He’s been a cornerstone of this project. I really respect Reggie (Newson) for putting this together.”
Jansen said the office currently has four employees, and completes tasks like writing administration rules, designing the grant process, building the website (Wisconsinfastforward.com), marketing the initiative, managing the grant application process and auditing the training program.
It was through the new office’s efforts that DWD was able to identify construction, manufacturing and customer service as the fields for the first round of grants.
“We saw from our strategic partners, from technical colleges and from our employer inquiry that those three are in high demand right now,” Jansen said.
“This is all strategic,” Newson said. “At the Job Center of Wisconsin website, there is somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 available jobs listed at any given time. At any one point in time, there’s between 100,000 and 150,000 jobs going unfilled in the state of Wisconsin. These programs will help us fill those jobs.”
Jansen said that 1,200 to 1,400 customer service jobs are available on the Job Center’s website on a weekly basis.
“Customer service is the number one requested job position in the state,” Newson said.
Any specific connections from this program to the Milwaukee area remain to be seen, but Jansen said there have been many applicants within the Milwaukee area for Fast Forward grants, and that there will be a regional focus.
“You’ll see in grant program announcements that employers will validate request with places like the M7,” said Jansen. “(They) need to validate that those are legitimate skill needs.”
Jansen said one area in Milwaukee where a need for skills development has been identified is in automated manufacturing.
“Population-wise, we’re 36 percent of the state in the M7 region, and we’re 38 to 40 percent of the state’s gross product,” O’Brien said. “On any measure, we’re 35-40 percent of the state’s economy. Any program the state does that’s statewide has a big impact on us. On average, (the Milwaukee 7 region) should get 35 to 40 percent of those dollars.”
Albrecht said his greatest hope for the program is for it to put people back to work.
“In southeastern Wisconsin, with new job areas coming to be available – like the 2,100 new jobs in Kenosha County – we’re going to have to find a way to invest in training to meet that demand,” he said.
Read more: From biztimes.com: "State program to boost worker training: $15 million in grants available to businesses"
Students explore career interests at LTC
Career Expo, hosted at Lakeshore Technical College, will be assisting more than 1,000 Manitowoc County high school sophomores in exploring future career interests while promoting the development of our future workforce.
This event is held in cooperation with the Manitowoc County public and private high schools, University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc, Lakeshore Technical College, Lakeland College and Silver Lake College of the Holy Family.
The high school sophomores will be involved in the following events:
• Career Exploration in 16 various Career Clusters
• Career Fair representing area Manitowoc County businesses
• Employability Skills Session
• Career Mapping Session
• Career Activities with their high school guidance counselors
Over 95 volunteers from across Manitowoc County will speak to students about their respective careers and opportunities for the future. The day program includes career presentations, employability workshops and a Career Fair.
At the Career Fair the students will be instructed to interview three representatives from the 22 businesses showcasing their career opportunities. The students will discuss potential careers, skills required in the field and the advantages and disadvantages of the careers.
The third workshop entitled “You, You, You” will focus on employability skills.
2014 Career Expo is being held Thursday and Friday beginning each day at 9 a.m. and concluding at 11:30 a.m.
It will be held at Lakeshore Technical College, 1290 North Ave., Cleveland. Career Expo will host Two Rivers, McKinley, Reedsville, Brillion, Kiel, Lutheran and Valders students on Thursday and Lincoln, Hilbert and Mishicot students on Friday.
Read more: From htrnews.com: "Students will explore career interests"
MATC pastry instructor learned from one of the best
World renowned pastry chef Jacquey Pfeiffer, co-founder of Chicago’s French Pastry School and author of the new book “The Art of French Pastry,” has won countless accolades for his tireless pursuit of perfection in pastry.
He has also been recognized for his exceptional mentorship, which he has extended to dozens of pastry students from Wisconsin. Some, like Chef Kurt Fogle of SURG Restaurant Group, who Pfeiffer mentions by name as a star pupil, have gone on to make their own marks on the world of pastry.
On January 12, Fogle and a team of some of the city’s finest culinary talent – including Chefs Justin Carlisle of Ardent, Matt Haase of Rocket Baby Bakery, Andrew Miller of Hom Woodfired Grill and Jarvis Williams of Carnevor — will host a dinner honoring Pfeiffer. The five course dinner will serve as a celebration of his life, his work, and his new book.
The menu is being kept under wraps, but Fogle says each chef will be pulling out the stops in an effort to pay homage to Pfeiffer.
“We all work together, and we’re all a little competitive,” Fogle remarks, “So, you know everyone is bringing their A-game. There’s something–without trying to sound like too much of a weirdo — about watching five guys really going for it. To be a person in the room experiencing those dishes.”
Fogle has a particular investment in the dinner, since Pfeiffer was a key influencer in setting the direction of his career.
During his tenure with Pfeiffer, Fogle was one of very few Americans who had the privilege of taking part in the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition (Best Craftsmen in France), a competition captured in the documentary, “Kings of Pastry.”
NPR’s Ella Taylor remarked, “Kings of Pastry is about the craft, the teaching and learning, the collaborative work, the tedium, the heartbreak and emotional backbone it takes to make something lovely, even if that something is destined to disappear down a gullet in seconds — and even if the maker ends up a noble failure.”
“The whole damn experience was indelible,” Fogle says. “Working with Pfeiffer was two years of just having my mind blown day after day. And it was exhausting. Nothing will ever be harder than that. Nothing. I’m going to continue to challenge and push myself, but that’s the highest level.”
Working together created a professional and personal bond between the two chefs. Fogle says Pfieffer continued to be his mentor even after he left Chicago. In fact, it was Pfieffer who encouraged Fogle to move back to his home state of Wisconsin after completion of the competition.
“Since I was 15 working at O&H Danish Bakery in Racine, I had a passion for this part of the culinary world, and Pfeiffer encouraged me to come back and see where I could enhance pastry here,” he says.
He credits Pfeiffer with launching his career, as well as setting the direction for his art.
“To sum it up,” Fogle tells me, “He’s one of the best pastry chefs on the planet, and in turn I’m one of the luckiest apprentices to walk the planet.”
He went on to talk about some of the things he took away from his experience.
“I don’t want to say I didn’t learn to cook from him,” Fogle explains. “But what I really learned is how to think, how to be organized. He didn’t teach me how to bake, he taught me how to think.”
And for Fogle, part of that experience was learning that he could do anything to which he set his mind.
“One of the first things you learn from him is that anything is possible, because if it’s impossible we’re just going to create a technique or a tool or a trick to make it happen,” he tells me. “It wasn’t how to hold a spatula and fold mousse. It was the commitment and philosophical aspect I gained – learning to be tenacious and resourceful so that when I get out into the real world… when I don’t have a proofer or a sheeter– and I have an oven with hotspots hotter than Mercury — that I could still put out a great croissant.”
Fogle, who has known Pfeiffer since 2006, says he’s more than just a great teacher and pastry chef.
“He’s really really good at foozeball and ping-pong,” Fogle goes on. “Like he makes me feel bad about even playing against him.”
But, Fogle says his gentle disposition is what really makes Pfeiffer exceptional.
“In all the time I’ve known him, he’s never raised his voice,” he explains. “He’s the sort of guy who just makes you want to do things better – whether it’s pastry or what it is… he just never loses any steam. He’s ok going back and back and back and making things better and better. That’s really what rubbed off the most.”
Fogle, who teaches part-time at MATC in their culinary department, says he learned a great deal about teaching from Pfeiffer.
“I think the most important thing that I learned from him is that you have to be patient, and you have to let people struggle through it… a good example is that he was trying to teach me how to pipe something. I was struggling with holding the bag and not moving it. A couple of years later I realized I was doing it properly. But, I don’t know when it happened. He instilled in the idea that you just need to do it and do it again.”
So, when he teaches, Fogle says he always keeps that in mind.
“The fact is, I can’t talk you into being a good pastry chef, and I can’t make you into a great chef. But, I can be there for you and work with you and help you get there.”
Sounds like the sort of teacher we’d all love to have had.
Read more: From onmilwaukee.com: "Through the eyes of an apprentice"
FVTC students learn precision in wood manufacturing
With each lesson in the Wood Manufacturing Technology Program at Fox Valley Technical College, students routinely pull out calipers to check their work.
The goal: “To develop their sense of precision,” says instructor Mark Lorge. By the end of the full-time, year-long program, “The students are not finished products,” Lorge says, but they are “conversant in the language of the industry.” They finish the program with a .003″ sense of precision. While they are not expert cabinetmakers, Lorge adds, “If given a task, they should be able to do it.”
This sense of precision, paired with the students’ broad understanding of secondary wood processing, creates a well-rounded knowledge base, which Lorge believes is essential for a career in the industry. An alumnus of the program himself, Lorge graduated in 1983 and went on to work with production and millwork companies such as Morgan Products Ltd., Elipticon Wood Products, and Valley Planing Mill. In 2013, Lorge celebrated his 20th year of instruction at Fox Valley Technical College.
Associate instructor Glenn Koerner leads the program with Lorge. Also a grad of the course, Koerner returned to Fox Valley Technical College after more than 14,000 hours of working wood industry experience. He has been teaching with Lorge for seven years.
Lorge and Koerner work with approximately 20 students each year, guiding them through five nine-week units of instruction.
“Some students come in with no prior understanding,” Lorge says. During the first nine weeks, they are introduced to the groundwork of every project—planning. They learn to read blueprints before preparing a parts list and production estimate. They also get acquainted with basic machining and wood identification.
The second block further develops students’ understanding of material, terminology, hand tools, portable and stationary power tools, and processes in the woodworking industry through a variety of curriculum methods. Through these methods, they develop the habits required to safely and efficiently perform machining tasks. They are introduced to an advanced level of setup and operation on machines, and they demonstrate their psychomotor and cognitive competency of the process through a series of operation exercises.
During the third nine-week block, students become familiar with the process of cabinetry. Though the instruction does not include formal certification (such as Woodwork Career Alliance, the Carpenters Union apprenticeships, or Cabinet Makers Association certification), it does help students develop the knowledge needed to design and build face-frame cabinetry. They design doors and drawers, they build jigs and fixtures, and they process materials to create laminate countertops. Cabinets completed in the course have been donated to Habitat for Humanity for use in homes built by the organization and its partner families.
After approximately 36 weeks, students learn the principles of veneering, advanced machine joinery, and CNC routing.
Through a partnership with Komo Machinery, the Wood Manufacturing Technology Program at Fox Valley Technical College has been provided with a VR510 Mach 1 S router, software for 21 seats and upgrades of RouterCIM and two seats of AutoNEST applications to operate the machinery. Fox Valley Technical College maintains and insures the CNC equipment while using it to instruct students about current machining technology.
“Most students embrace the CNC technology with enthusiasm,” Lorge says. The program language can be intimidating to students with little experience in computerized equipment, he adds, but they generally do well once they become familiar with the software. By writing G-code, programming the router, setting tools, developing multiple tool programs, and creating a gasketed fixture, students gain an understanding of the machine and its capabilities.
According to Lorge, Komo leads the industry in CNC technology and the partnership is not only beneficial for Fox Valley Technical College and its students, but also for Komo and for local manufacturing companies as well. After graduating from the program, students go on to work in these facilities, where they recommend Komo routers.
The most recent hiring rate for students is “100%,” Lorge says, with the program consistently seeing more than 90% of its graduates landing careers throughout the years. Some graduates even go on to start their own businesses, whereupon they hire more graduates from the Wood Manufacturing Technology Program.
“Fox Valley Technical College is successful because of the feedback it gets from the industry,” says Len Riebau, owner of wood finishing firm WDL of Wisconsin, and a member of the advisory board for Fox Valley Tech. “A company needs employees who possess technical ability and a good work ethic, and good training is one of the keys to success.”
Lorge, who has seen the program develop since he began his first planning lesson in 1983, continuously looks ahead for ways in which it can continue to grow. He and Koerner have been revising the curriculum for web-based delivery and they are currently working to require tablet access for each student by August of 2014.
Read more: From woodworkingnetwork.com: "CNC Wood Manufacturing Training at Fox Valley Technical College"
BTC student receives IT scholarship
Tony Reynolds, an information technology student at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville, is the first BTC student ever to be awarded the Betty Stevens-Frecknall Scholarship from the Foundation for Information Technology Education.
Reynolds is a member of the BTC chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals. Membership is one of the criteria for the scholarship.
Other criteria include a declared major in a computer technology discipline and GPA of 3.0 or better, at least one full semester of post-secondary education, and enrollment as a fulltime student at an accredited institution.
In addition to a full course load, Reynolds works full time as a developer at Foremost Media in Janesville.
Read more: From gazettextra.com: "BTC's Reynolds awarded Betty Stevens-Frecknall Scholarship"
Top welding student credits instructors
Three weeks after starting Nicolet College’s welding program, Chad Lawfer, of Minocqua, was ready to quit.
Learning the tig welding process was proving to be more than a challenge.
“I have to say, there was one point where I had just had it,” Lawfer said. “I was ready to walk.”
But he didn’t, digging deep to persevere.
On Dec. 17, Lawfer was named Nicolet’s Welding Student of the Year.
“Lawfer definitely deserves it,” welding instructor Warren Krause said. “He could have taken the easy way out and just quit, but he didn’t. He stuck with it and one day everything just clicked for him and he was able to do all of welds.”
Not only was he able to do the welds, he did them to a very high standard, earning straight As.
As good of a student as he is technically and academically, he also has other talents called soft skills which employers seek out, according to Chuck Kopp, adjunct welding instructor.
“Lawfer always comes in with a positive attitude and is always willing to help other students,” Kopp said. “He has a strong work ethic, knows how to communicate well, and is just a great guy to be around. Manufacturers today want new employees with these traits and skills.”
Lawfer said his instructors deserve the credit for his success. “They’ve just been fantastic,” he said. “They take the time to work with you until you really understand what they are teaching. I owe it all to them.”
Read more: From yourdailyglobe.com: "Nicolet College names welding student of the year"
Instructors bring industry insider knowledge
EAU CLAIRE — With a few fresh faces on its agricultural staff, Chippewa Valley Technical College is looking forward to a bright future in 2014. In the past year, the college hired three new agriculture instructors. CVTC horticulture instructor Susan Frame said the new additions bring industry knowledge that will help students excel in their fields.
“One of the advantages Chippewa Valley Technical College students have is that the instructors have been in the industry,” Frame said.
Among the new arrivals are animal science instructor Adam Zwiefelhofer, agronomy instructor Jon Wantoch and farm business instructor Maria Bendixen. All three are UW-River Falls alumnus.
Zwiefelhofer, who majored in agricultural education, hails from the Eleva-Strum area.
The former Genex breeding specialist said teaching was a natural transition, noting, “I always knew I wanted to teach.”
Wantoch, a Mondovi native, majored in agricultural studies with minors in dairy science and biology and was previously employed by Lakeland Cooperative.
The switch to teaching was an easy one, he said, adding, “Helping others fits who I am.”
Bendixen taught high school agriculture in Colby and spent a year serving as UW-Extension agriculture agent for Taylor and Marathon counties before signing on as Clark County’s agent, a position she held for seven years.
Though she worked directly with producers as an ag agent, Bendixen said she was interested in being able to work with them on a more continual basis.
“I’m excited to be able to work with farmers for an extended period of time and to be able to follow up,” she said.
Bendixen joins veteran farm business instructor Mark Denk in aiding farmers in continuing education throughout western Wisconsin.
Zwiefelhofer said many people don’t realize the extent of continuing education CVTC offers.
The ag programs have 80 students on campus. Another 160, mainly farmers, are enrolled in the Farm Business and Production Management program, which offers resources to improve management skills. The program features part-time instruction with topics rotating over six years, versus the typical time-intensive 32-week school year.
Students range from high schoolers (enrolled in the youth option) to farmers in their 70s, Denk said, noting the broad variety of ages and backgrounds creates a unique peer setting not found at larger educational institutions.
“There’s a lot of knowledge transfer that comes into play there,” Bendixen said. “It leads to some lively discussions — which is fortunate, because in agriculture, there’s no one right way to do things.”
Zwiefelhofer said the school has adjusted its curriculum for the ever-diversifying niches of Wisconsin agriculture.
“I think we’ve flexed with the times,” he said. “If there aren’t jobs for our students, we’re not going to be around in the future.”
Though their three main program areas are agriscience technician; landscape, plant and turf management; and farm business and production management, Denk said the instructors have helped students branch out into other topics.
“We’ve had students interested in hops, for example,” he said. “In that case we end up working with them on a more individualized basis or connect them with an industry partner, but the backbone of what they need to learn remains the same.”
That backbone is rooted in ag-focused marketing, sales, equipment and facility courses. From there, students can branch out into the varying tracks.
Industry partners, such as Case IH and John Deere, have been instrumental in CVTC’s ag programs, Denk said.
“I personally feel like we touch on community more than the larger universities,” Zwiefelhofer said. “The labs we do are mostly on farms or businesses in our local community.”
The college has an active biofuels program in which students grow the crops used to generate biofuels. Students can also become certified in skills such as commercial pesticide application, skid-steer operation and performing animal ultrasounds.
Two greenhouses on campus allow students to grow produce, which this year was sold in an on-campus farmers market.
“We also do hydroponics and work closely with cooperating farms and the local farming population,” Frame said.
Students also benefit from a strong internship program, Zwiefelhofer said.
“The internships they take between their first and second year are really what separate us from the larger schools,” he said. “A lot of times it leads into employment.”
Those interested in learning more about the ag programs are welcome to shadow classes.
CVTC also has a transfer agreement that allows students to carry credits into the UW system.
Denk is eager to see how the ag programs develop with the influence of the new instructors.
“We’ve got a great staff here,” he said. “We’re committed to working together for the students’ success.”
Read more: From thecountrytoday.com: "New CVTC instructors bring industry insider knowledge"
Experts say Hispanic students need more cultural lessons, college options to succeed
WIND POINT – Something must be done about the low educational outcomes of Hispanics, experts said Tuesday at a local conference on the subject.
Only 12.7 percent of the about 51 million Hispanics in the U.S. are college graduates, the experts said.
They didn’t provide a specific blueprint for raising that percentage but they did offer several ideas to start making changes for today’s Hispanic students in Racine County and elsewhere. They suggested more college options for Hispanics, more classes that incorporate Hispanic culture and more community collaboration, among other ideas.
“It’s not a matter of reinventing the wheel but a matter of looking at things and saying, ‘What can we do differently?’ ” said conference speaker Arturo Martinez, a Horlick High School graduate and the associate dean of pre-college and bilingual education at Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Martinez spoke with two others during the conference on strategies to improve educational outcomes for Hispanics. The conference, held at The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, 33 E. 4 Mile Road, was attended by about 60 educators and community members.
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It’s Recycle Week 2013
As Scotland celebrates its third annual Recycle Week, people in Scotland are being urged to consider the things they throw away both in the home, and when out and about or in the workplace.
The week, which runs from 17 – 23 June, offers the opportunity to launch or raise awareness of recycling initiatives, boost recycling rates and encourage everyone to recycle more. Hundreds of partners have already signed up to take part, including local authorities, businesses, schools and community groups.
Iain Gulland, Director, Zero Waste Scotland, said:
“Recycle Week highlights the importance of recycling wherever we are, and is a great time to reflect on how well Scotland is doing in using all the facilities on offer at home, through central collection points, when we’re at work, shopping or anywhere else.
“Scottish households are already helping to reduce landfill costs by £20 million a year by putting items to be recycled in their kerbside recycling collection. We’ve seen councils introduce collections for materials such as plastic bottles, cans, and even food waste, and the support people in Scotland have shown for this is fantastic.
“However there’s still more we can do to help capture the value of unwanted materials. Recycling when we’re away from the home could help us to move towards our zero waste ambitions. In fact, if everyone in Scotland recycled just one extra can a month we could make carbon savings equivalent to making over 115 million cups of tea.
“Recycle Week offers a great opportunity for us all to join together and celebrate how far we’ve come already, and to make an extra effort to recycle more.”
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said:
“Scotland has made great progress in recycling and cutting waste in recent years thanks to the efforts of individuals, councils and businesses up and down the country. Before devolution Scotland’s recycling rate was under 5%. Scottish households now recycle over 40 per cent and we are already seeing the economic and environmental benefits.
“We have very high ambitions in this area. The Zero Waste Plan has set Scotland on the path to 70% recycling. I know we can do even better and events like these are a great way to drive further progress. That’s why I want to pay tribute to all those making the effort to organise local action for Scotland’s Recycle Week. And to urge anyone who can to take part – your efforts really do make a difference.”
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ZACK MUFASA
Zack Mufasa is a Kansas City-based Singer, Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Audio Engineer. Zack performs regularly as a One-Man-Band live looping an eclectic blend of original music and covers of all genres, and he also performs with several bands in a variety of roles; including his own Zack Mufasa Band. Following the success of his first full length album "Make It Right," which debuted at #10 on the Billboard Reggae Charts, Zack has stayed busy working on new music and regularly performing in the Kansas City area, and around the country. Listen to Zack's original music available on most streaming services and digital retailers, and check his performance schedule to find a show near you!
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Japanese horror tale of a haunted high-rise block. When a young woman takes up residence on the 13th floor of an apartment block, she thinks she's fallen on her feet. Unfortunately for her, she soon wishes she had. As her boyfriend approaches the entrance, his attention is drawn to the top floor where he sees her screaming as she falls from the balcony. This chain of events is repeated with the next female resident, Sayaka, whose sister Mariko (Noriko Nakagoshi) begins to establish a pattern to the events. It transpires that a single mother and daughter, who shared an abusive relationship, once occupied the apartment. When the daughter, after years of abuse, finally snapped, she killed her mother, throwing herself from the balcony in fear of arrest. Mariko, failing to convince the police of her discoveries, returns to apartment 1303 expecting to find her mother. She's not there - but something else is.
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Borderless crime must be addressed through partnerships – Dr. Errol Cort
On Jun 2, 2010
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – The Caribbean Region has welcomed the security cooperation Dialogue with the United States aimed at further strengthening relations between the two parties and forging a strategic partnership to tackle crime and security threats which were not restrained by borders.
These sentiments were expressed by Senator Dr. the Honourable Errol Cort, Chair of the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) and Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of National Security and Labour. He was speaking at the Caribbean-United States Security Cooperation Dialogue, held Thursday 27 May, 2010 in Washington D.C, United States (U.S.) to formalise the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).
Dr. Cort said that the Caribbean Region was faced with increasing crime and violence driven by the cultivation, manufacture and transportation of narcotic drugs, illicit sales and trafficking of weapons and the trafficking of persons.
Against this backdrop, he said, “it is essential that the Caribbean States work together to coordinate their respective resources to counter the multidimensional threat to our security.”
Emphasising that partnerships were imperative to combat cross-border security threats, he stated “the criminal world has no borders, no bureaucracy, and will operate with relative impunity.”
“We now have to respond to the threats of that borderless world through partnerships,” he said, adding that the Caribbean- U.S. security talks were steps in the right direction.
The CBSI is a “multi-year, multi-faceted” US$30M investment pledged at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in April last year, by United States President Barack Obama to develop “a joint regional citizen safety strategy to tackle the full range of security and criminal threats to the Caribbean Basin.”
As the Caribbean forged this partnership with the U.S., Dr. Cort said that its strategic priorities were: Border Security, Crime Prevention, Crime Management, Small Arms and Light Weapons, Counter Narcotics, Counter Terrorism, Maritime and Airspace Security Cooperation, Disaster Management, Anti-Corruption, Human Resource Development, Intelligence and Information Sharing, and Criminal Deportation.
Describing the cooperation as a “historic phase in an already strong relationship between the two parties,” he said the U.S. was always an “important partner” assisting Caribbean States to strengthen their economies and security.
There was now need, he added, for “a more institutionalised security arrangement much like what is being developed between the U.S. and Central American States.” Hence, he noted, the Dialogue was “very timely and most appropriate.”
The CONSLE Chair said that it would “strengthen cooperation with an understanding of mutual responsibility and mutual respect in order to secure and preserve the peace, security and socio-economic development of the citizens of the Caribbean and by extension the United States.”
He said that with security established as the fourth pillar of the Caribbean Community, the Dialogue would serve “to advance and reinforce the efforts already underway to secure the Region.
Chief among those efforts was a management structure for crime and security which included CONSLE; the Bureau of the Council or Sub-Committee of CONSLE; the Security Policy Advisory Committee (SEPAC); the Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS); and Standing Committee of Operational Heads including Commissioners of police, military chiefs, chief of immigration and comptrollers of customs, to provide technical advice to the policy and political levels of the Caribbean Community.
With the regional framework for the management of crime and security in place, he said, the Caribbean had demonstrated its “readiness to share in the responsibility for hemispheric security and reaffirmed its commitment to constructing a safer hemisphere,” adding that it was heartening that the partnership sought to address threats to vulnerable groups also.
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Brazilian army occupies Rio shantytown ahead of World Cup
Rio de Janeiro (CNN) — Soldiers in full combat gear move silently through a sprawling shantytown in northern Rio de Janeiro, pointing weapons down narrow alleys and poking through sacks of cement in search of drugs.
Residents walk by, barely looking at the troops sent in to occupy the Complexo da Mare as an emergency response to escalating violence in the city’s notorious favelas.
Some 2,500 army troops and marines have moved in to reinforce police in an operation aimed at securing the slum, home to 130,000 people, ahead of the World Cup, which runs from June 12 to July 13.
Seizing control from drug gangs was deemed a priority because the shantytown lies just a few kilometers from Rio’s international airport.
“It’s not a peaceful operation because we have three different criminal gangs here and they are rivals,” Gen. Roberto Escoto told CNN.
The Rio state government requested the army occupation after a series of attacks against police posts. The troops will remain until at least July 31, after the World Cup ends, Escoto said.
“It’s an emergency,” Escoto said. “The state police so far don’t have enough policeman and enough equipment to operate in all the city.”
It’s also the latest campaign in Rio’s so-called “pacification” program launched in 2008. Officials say that after neglecting security in the city’s poorest neighborhoods for decades, police have now seized control from drug gangs in dozens of slums.
While soldiers have provided support during the initial campaign, they have been replaced by police posts in most operations.
But for the Complexo da Mare, officials decided more drastic measures were needed.
Unlike many of the favelas that cling to the hills near Rio’s picturesque beaches, the Complexo da Mare is a sprawling, mostly flat shantytown that combines 15 different neighborhoods in the city’s smoggy north zone.
Cement-block houses are covered with colorful graffiti and loops of tangled wire hang overhead, evidence of the do-it-yourself electricity that powers most homes.
Schoolchildren play soccer on a synthetic-turf court while residents sit at plastic tables set up in the street, drinking beer and listening to music blast over speakers, seemingly oblivious to the heavily armed soldiers who march by.
When asked, they refuse to talk about the military occupation.
Troops have set up checkpoints at the entrances to the favela and patrol the streets on foot and in armored personnel carriers. Soldiers with metal detectors and trained dogs search for hidden caches of arms or drugs.
So far, they have registered more than a half dozen gun battles.
The resurgence in violence in some of the favelas already pacified has raised alarms in a city that will host many of the 600,000 international fans attending the World Cup. Rio also will host the Olympic Games in 2016.
Tourists strolling along Copacabana Beach at the other end of the city said they were taking precautions, but not overly worried.
Peter, a Belgian businessman in town for a conference, said he was given a brochure with a list of security suggestions when he arrived. “I feel safe here, but I know where not to go,” he said.
Simon, a Danish exchange student, agreed that a little knowledge goes a long way. “Use common sense, grab a cab in the evening,” he said. “Don’t use public transportation at night.”
In the Complexo da Mare, Escoto said the military will have everything under control.
“I can assure you that Brazil has conducted a very well-planned operation to secure the 12 cities,” he said.
“Rio de Janeiro will be prepared for the World Cup,” he added, before his aides whisked him off, part of their policy never to let their top commander stay in one place for long in hostile territory.
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Foreign national shot and killed in Afghanistan
(CNN) — A foreign national was shot in the head with a pistol in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday, police said.
The hospital said the man was already dead when he was brought to the hospital.
Two suspects have been arrested, according to authorities.
There was conflicting information on the man’s nationality.
Police said he carried a British passport, but was a reporter for Swedish television. The hospital said he was Swedish.
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Barbara Rubin And The Exploding Ny Underground
Made when she was just 18 years old, Barbara Rubin's art-porn masterpiece Christmas On Earth (1963-65) shocked NYC's experimental film scene and inspired NYC's thriving underground. For the next four years her filmmaking and irrepressible energy helped shatter artistic and sexist boundaries. A mythical "Zelig" of the sixties, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan to the Kabbalah. But beyond shaping the spirit of the sixties, Barbara was seeking the deeper meaning of life. After retiring to a farm with Allen Ginsberg, she shocked everyone by converting to Hasidic Judaism, marrying and moving to France to live an anonymous life. Tragically, she died in 1980 after giving birth to her fifth child. For years, Jonas Mekas treasured all of Barbara's letters and films and cherished her memory. Working with Mekas' footage, the film takes us inside the world and mind of Barbara Rubin; a woman who truly believed that film could change the world. Critics have christened her The American Rimbaud, for the poetry of her work, the trajectory of her life, and her legacy. This bold, enthusiastic documentary details the unsung yet important role played by Barbara Rubin in the 1960s artistic counterculture and provides an evocative portrait of a vibrant and mysterious artist.
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Home Gallery About Blog
I am a painter from Austin, Texas. In 2013, I earned a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting and Drawing with a minor in Art History from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. During my studies, I traveled abroad to Italy and Ireland, where I developed my artistic practice amidst rich European cultures.
Since graduation, I have exhibited works at international venues, as well as local galleries, museums, and universities. Notable exhibitions include The 2017 Biennial: Origins in Geometry at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas, The 2014 Minnesota Biennial at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul, The 20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition at the Burren College of Art in Ireland, and The Nasty Women Exhibition at the Knockdown Center in New York. My work is also a part of the MADI Museum's permanent collection and has been exhibited with Bridget Riley in the juried group exhibition A Fresh Look: A Selection of Women from the MADI Collection.
I recently completed artist residencies at Starry Night Retreat in New Mexico, The Banff Centre, The Vermont Studio Center, and Kleindorf Art in Germany. I am represented by CAMIBAart Gallery, where I have had two major solo exhibitions, Zoë Shulman: Circuit Topology and Zoë Shulman: The Allegory of Good and Bad Government. The Allegory of Good and Bad Government was recently named a top pick for Print Austin 2018 by Sightlines Magazine and was also featured as a must-see exhibition in the statewide Arts + Culture Texas Magazine. According to The Austin Chronicle, it was "like something a more skilled and less gonzo John Dee might've come up with between bouts of angelic possession. Phenomenal work and perfectly displayed." After the 2018 midterm elections, I was honored to be able to gift The Rosette of Hope to presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.
My third solo exhibition, Neuroplastic, is currently set to open at CAMIBAart Gallery in Summer 2021. In addition to my work as a painter, I am also pursuing a Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling. It is a vision of mine to use art as an integrative therapy tool for helping patients explore the relationship between images and words, identify problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and ultimately reframe fears, frustrations, and traumas in a healthier light.
For collector inquiries and exhibition information, please check my blog or visit CAMIBAart.com. And for the newest studio updates, please follow me on Instagram!
Photo credit: David Bailie
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Montana Book Award : Uncommon Women, Unmarked Trails: The Courageous Journey of the Catholic Missionary Sisters in Frontier Montana by Suzanne H. Schrems, Ph.D.
January 26 2004--Books abound that tell the story of women who migrated to the American West in the nineteenth century. But very few of these histories include the experiences of Catholic nuns. Yet, it was these women who made the most significant contribution to western settlement. Sue Schrems in Uncommon Women, Unmarked Trails reveals the untold story of the women who struck out on their own in the Montana wilderness, where they built convents and schools and brought education and Catholicism to Native American children.
The Sisters of Providence and the Ursuline nuns pioneered women's missionary activities among the Flathead, Blackfoot, Crow, Cheyenne, and Gros Ventre-Assiniboine Indians. They were nineteenth-century women from America and Canada who made a conscious decision to lead a life uncommon to most women of the time. They traded marriage and family for a religious environment that offered opportunities to engage in work they believed would reward them eternally by bringing the children and the needy to God's love.
The Catholic sisters' experiences were different than most western women because the sisters did not work within the structure of normal domestic roles. Unencumbered by the responsibilities of husband, home, and family, the sisters were more independent in their affairs and could devote themselves to the accomplishment of personal and professional goals. But, the frontier environment presented challenges for all women; and, like other women, the sisters found new strengths and abilities in response to frontier life. Often, unpredicted hardships forced these uncommon women to find within themselves the courage, the endurance, and the will to continue their work, and perhaps most importantly, the humor to ease difficult situations as they journeyed down unmarked trails to realize their goals to bring Christianity and civilization to the inhabitants of the frontier West.
This 128-page book, with historic photographs, is uniquely original and includes information never published before.
Suzanne H. Schrems holds her doctorate degree in history and she is the author of the forthcoming book, Who's Rocking the Cradle? Pioneer Women of Oklahoma Politics from Socialism to the KKK, 1900-1930.
Available from www.horsecreekpublications.com, Amazon.
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Page 2, 15th April 1977
Page 2, 15th April 1977 — Project for young black people is threatened
Organisations: Catholic Commission for Racial Justice, and Cardinal Hume
People: Alex Cosgrave, Roddy Kentish
Locations: London
London Training
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Alex Cosgrave Writes Of A Workshop Being Built By Young...
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Government Back Workshop Project
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Priests Join Project To Help Young Jobless
Project for young black people is threatened
Keywords: Films, Notting Hill, Motorway, Workshop, Technology, Social Issues
A PROJECT designed to train young black people in the Notting Hill area of London in woodwork and electronics will be forced to close within the next two weeks unless L19,000 can be raised towards the capital cost of completing the workshop building.
The Community Action Workshop Project is sponsored by the Catholic Commission for Racial Justice, and Cardinal Hume recently donated £1,000 to the project's running costs. The Westminster diocese has also contributed £700.
The wages of the 10 young people who work on the project are, however, paid by the Government's job creation programme, and this grant is now to be withdrawn unless the project can guarantee to raise the £19,000 necessary to complete the conversion of the motorway bay in which they work.
For many laf the trainees the project is their first regular employment since leaving school at 15. Most are now in their late teens.. At present they divide their time between building the workshop and lessons in English, maths and black culture.
When the workshop is complete, professional instructors will be brought in to teach the trainees carpentry, electrical wiring and related skills up to the level of City and Guild examinations.
To date the project has been financed by grants from charities and donations from individuals, and finance has always kept ahead of building costs, Inflation, and a request by London Transport to sink the foundations deeper to prevent damage to the motorway, have already added £10,000 to the project's building costs and the job creation p`rogramme's demand that a substantial part of the project's expected costs should be raised immediately is now likely to put the workshop out of business.
Mr Roddy Kentish, the project's co-ordinator, said this week that it would be a tragedy
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if the project had to close. "I would show that all the talk about wanting to combat racism and give young black people a decent future is a lot of hot air," he said.
"This project means something concrete to the people in Notting Hill: they can see that something is happening. Take it away and you say to the black community yet again that nobody cares about their future."
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La Fortuna Info
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La Fortuna has many streets that are full of all sorts of boutiques, restaurants and shops. La Fortuna is one of Costa Rica’s most visited towns by local and foreign tourists.
Where to eat while you are in La Fortuna.
La Fortuna and Arenal Volcano Restaurants. Listing of the best restaurants in La Fortuna San Carlos.
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Lava Rock Cafe, Nenes Restaurant
Costa Rica has a democratic government. Its current constitution was adopted in 1949. In Costa Rica, the president serves as the chief executive and head of state. The president is elected to a four year term. The legislative assembly has fifty-seven deputies that are elected for a four year term. The supreme court has seventeen justices appointed by the legislature. Costa Rica's army was abolished in 1948. However, they do have a national guard that can fight in a time of war. Costa Rica's seven provinces each have a governer appointed by the president. All citizens 18 years of age or older are required to vote in the national election. The country's two main political parties are the National Liberation Party and the Social Christian Unity Party.
Population and Ancestry
In 1994, Costa Rica's population was about three and one quarter of a millon people. It is estimated to be growing at a rate of about two and one quarter percent. At this rate, Costa Rica's population will double in 30 years. Costa Ricans take great pride in their country's heritage of government and social equality. They do not take for granted their personal dignity and strong family ties. Almost all of Costa Ricans speak Spanish but some blacks speak with a Jamaican dialect. About 90% of the people belong to the Roman Catholic Church.
About 50% of the Costa Ricans live on farms or in rural towns. A lot of farmers live in Adobe cottages with thick, white stucco walls and red or pink-tiled roofs. Most of Costa Rica's city people live in row houses. Many Costa Ricans like to decorate their homes with plants and flowers. Wealthy familys live in large ranch-style homes surrounded by huge gardens.
Parts of the diet of many Costa Ricans can include beans, coffee, corn, eggs, rice, and tropical fruits like bananas, guaves, mangoes, oranges, and pineapples. Many Costa Rican families also serve beef, fish, poultry, and many kinds of soups. Tamales and tortillas are also foods that are often prepared.
About 90 to 93% of Costa Rica's people can read or write. This is a higher percentage than any other country in Central America. Law requires all children to complete elementary school and then they may choose whether or not to continue on with their education. Costa Rica has several universities which include the National University in Heredia and the University of Costa Rica by San Jose.
Most Costa Ricans enjoy spending their leisure time outdoors. Soccer is the national sport and playing fields can be found everywhere. Basketball, tennis, and swimming are also popular. On some religious holidays, bullfights, fireworks, and masked parades can attract thousands of Costa Ricans and foreign tourists. The only 18-hole golf course in Costa Rica is at the Cariari Country Club, just west of San Jose. However, there are many 9-hole courses. The country's national gymnasium is in Sabana Park. Many tennis courts are also in Sabana Park. Rodeos and bullfights are held at Santa Cruz. In a bullfight, the bull chases men around. During Christmas festivities, there are also Mexican style bullfights in which the person tries to kill the bull.
The most valuable natural resource in Costa Rica is the fertile volcanic soil. Trees such as oaks, pines, and tropical hardwood cover about 1/3 of the land. About 1/4 of Costa Rica's workers are in farming or ranching. Bananas, beef cattle, coffee, corn, rice, and sugar cane are the country's leading agricultural products. Some farmers also grow oranges, beans, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables. Costa Rica's leading manufactured products include cement, clothing, cosmetics, furniture, machinery, and medicines. Costa Rica's economy depends a lot on foreign trade.
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IWF REFORM AND GOVERNANCE COMMISSION ESTABLISHED
The first meeting of the IWF Reform and Governance Commission was held over the weekend of Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October, with Darren Charles Kane of Australia selected to start as Chair. The Commission will now be responsible for developing a new constitution and bylaws with a deadline of 22 January 2021. The new governing documents are to be circulated to IWF Member Federations two months prior to the IWF Electoral Reform Congress scheduled for 24 March 2021.
“I am very grateful to the leading independent experts who have agreed to support the IWF with the huge undertaking ahead of us: revising our governance in just three months,” said IWF Interim President Dr Michael Irani. “The goal of complete reform for the IWF’s governance is ambitious but also achievable. It is also overdue, notably in areas like athlete representation, term limits, accountability and transparency. Fortunately, we have reason to be optimistic. The successful reform of the IWF’s anti-doping procedures, based on principles of independent expertise and wide-ranging consultation, points to what can be achieved and how.”
Alongside Kane, who also sits on the Legal Committee of FINA, will be Damaris Itzel Young Aranda of Panama, a former international athlete who is also a sports law expert and member of the IOC Athletes’ Entourage Commission. They will be joined by Ximena Restrepo, an Olympic medallist for Colombia who in 2019 became the first ever female Vice President of World Athletics. They will be advised by James Carr of ASOIF, whose work has included responsibility for the delivery of governance measurement and improvement. The independent experts will also be joined by IWF officials.
“It’s a great honour to have this chance to help another of the select number of sports to have been part of the Olympic Games ever since they were reborn in 1896,” said IWF Reform and Governance Commission chair Darren Charles Kane. “It’s too early to tell exactly how the IWF’s governing documents will change in the coming months, but we already know the principles we want to see being applied to the reform process, with consultation, best practice, transparency and accountability key among them.”
Next steps for the IWF Reform and Governance Commission will include consideration of proposals from IWF Member Federations, consultation of external bodies (including the IOC, ASOIF, GAISF, WADA and the ITA) and the drafting of new documents.
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Movie Review: “The Gambler”
Posted by Jason Zingale (12/25/2014 @ 6:00 am)
Mark Wahlberg, Brie Larson, Michael K. Williams, John Goodman, Jessica Lange
Rupert Wyatt’s “The Gambler” is a curious beast. It’s based on a film that’s just obscure enough that a remake wouldn’t ruffle too many feathers, yet is well-regarded by those who have seen it. In other words, the 1974 original starring James Caan isn’t exactly holy ground, but there’s not much to improve on either, which makes this Mark Wahlberg vanity project feel every bit as irrelevant as the story it’s trying to tell. There’s nothing wrong with flawed characters – in fact, that’s what makes some of the best movies – but when they’re as irredeemable as the one that Wahlberg plays in “The Gambler,” it makes it very difficult to give a damn what happens to him.
Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a college English professor who gave up on his literary dream after his first novel was met with little fanfare. The grandson of a banking magnate, Jim partly attributes his privileged upbringing to becoming the degenerate, high-stakes gambler that’s led him to his current predicament. After falling into debt with a Korean mobster (Alvin Lee), and then borrowing money from nefarious loan shark Neville Baraka (Michael K. Williams) that he promptly loses on the blackjack table while trying to win back what he owes, Jim is given seven days to pay or else. When his mother (Jessica Lange) eventually caves in and gives him the $260,000 to clear his debt, vowing that it’ll be the last time she bails him out, Jim blows it at the casino instead, putting him in a precarious position when Neville threatens the lives of his two students.
Jim is a creature of habit, so it doesn’t make sense why people would continue to give this guy money when they know exactly what he’s going to do with it. You might be thinking, “Well, that’s what loan sharks do,” but while the fear of punishment, or the punishment itself, is what ultimately motivates these degenerates to pay off their debts, Jim is so blasé about the whole situation that it never seems like he’s in any actual trouble, especially when Neville and the Koreans go so easy on him over the course of the film. You’re almost rooting for the bad guys to break a few bones and show that they mean business, if only because Jim is such a smug, spoiled brat that his destructive tendencies feel less like a disease than the ill-fated actions of an adrenaline junkie. Being unlikable isn’t Jim’s problem, however, but rather the way in which he sabotages relationships and drags people into his mess with selfish disregard. That not only makes him an asshole, but one that the audience can’t identify with, despite some smart and punchy dialogue from William Monahan.
Wahlberg reportedly dropped 60 pounds for the movie (likely all muscle, since his transformation isn’t nearly as unsettling as other actors who’ve shed similar weight), but while his commitment can’t be faulted, he’s simply miscast in a part that required a more nuanced actor. It’s a soulless performance in desperate need of a little soul. Michael K. Williams and John Goodman both shine in supporting roles, particularly the latter, whose ruthless but funny loan shark is the film’s highpoint, but the rest of the cast is wasted, none more so than Brie Larson. The actress plays a student in Jim’s class that discovers his dark secret early on, and although it appears like she’s going to play an integral part to the story, her character serves no real purpose.
At least the gambling scenes are handled with style and verve, dripping in tension and absolutely painful to watch. But while the movie does a great job of illustrating Jim’s self-destructive nature, it never digs any deeper into the root of the problem, which makes it seem fairly hollow as a result. Perhaps that’s the point that Wyatt is trying to make (Goodman’s character even goes on a long rant about how addiction isn’t really a disease at all, but a weakness that he refuses to feel sorry for), though it doesn’t make the film any less of a drag to sit through at times. “The Gambler” had all the right ingredients – a great cast, a talented director and source material that’s already proven to work – but it’s a disappointing misfire that fails to capitalize on its intriguing premise.
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Who are the winners of the 16th Uzbekistan Cup?
The Uzbekistan Cup in ten-pin bowling ended with the Queen’s immortal hit called “We are the champions”. This music piece is symbolic for the two winners given their athletic achievements. Bakhtiyor Dalabayev became the winner in the men’s category. Tatiana Lefter was the best among women for the second consecutive year.
In the final game, Bakhtiyor Dalabayev met with the champion of the capital, Bakhodir Arifov. In the game for the third place, Ravshan Abdusamadov was stronger than Arthur Zarbaht. In the main match between women, Tatiana Lefter won the victory over Sayera Makhmudova. The third place was taken by Elena Kasymova.
Complex track architecture approved by the UPSF management did not allow the participants to make any mistakes and pushed the bowlers to think each of their rolls through. For this reason, the audience couldn’t observe any outstanding results. As the organizing committee noted, the goal at the current stage of sport development in the country is to allow players to learn how to show a stable game with any oil pattern. It is important for our athletes to know how to adapt quickly to new conditions when they participate in various international events.
A year ago, Davron Tuychiev unexpectedly won the game and showed a professional level. However, this year, the cup was not rich in surprises. The winners of the competition were the players who occupied the highest positions in the rating. They were considered the favorites of the event. A few days ago, Dalabayev topped the general classification and sustained his leadership position throughout all the 24 games. Athletes Arifov and Abdusamadov also showed good results and took second and third places respectively. Nevertheless, one of the participants showed a particularly strong result – Arthur Zarbaht took the fourth place. He managed to improve his game from day to day – after eight games he was the seventh, after 16 – the sixth, after 24 games – the fourth. Unlike many other bowlers, he did not lose faith and continued fighting and went into the semifinals due to his confidence. This semifinal was the first for him in a few years. It is interesting that Arthur met with Ravshan Abdusamadov (his partner in doubles) in the match for the third place.
In the final part, the intrigue between the top two bowlers of the 2017-2018 season was as follows: Arifov, just like many other athletes, was desperately trying to achieve a double. He was unable to become the first player in history to win both the city championship and the country’s cup within one season. We are looking forward to the end of the next season to learn if someone will be able to achieve the double. The audience could observe intense rivalry, as both players got 200 points; however, Dalabayev was more accurate when making complex rolls. Throughout the entire season, the two athletes were competing with each other. In All events, Dalabayev also became the first.
Semifinal. Men
Dalabayev Bakhtiyor: 360 (161, 199) – Zarbaht Arthur: 311 (145, 166)
Arifov Bakhodir: 407 (174, 233) – Abdusamadov Ravshan: 325 (169, 156)
Third place playoff
Abdusamadov Ravshan: 427 (188, 239) – Zarbaht Arthur: 282 (156, 126)
Dalabayev Bakhtiyor: 439 (215, 224) – Arifov Bakhodir: 428 (211, 217)
Dalabayev says: “It was important to show a stable game given the complex oil pattern. Classification showed that the one who shoots more spares will make it to the next round. The format of the game was also difficult as I prefer 3D-diagrams. Any error affected the result. I managed to find the best solution to this problem. This format made me feel tense; nevertheless, I played calmly and had the confidence that I could win. In general, the season was successful even though I did not manage to win the two trophies. I will continue refining my technique further, because I have a goal that I have not yet achieved.”
Having won his trophy, Dalabayev broke his own record on the number of victories – it was his fourth victory. The previous victories were in 2010, 2012, and 2014. The closest rivals are Sergey Sapov and Bekzod Tukhtaniyazov. They will have to win two times in a row in order to reach Dalabayev’s result in regards to the number of gold medals. It is important that Bekzod started his game well enough right from the beginning, and he was in the top four for two days. However, Sapov improved his result during the tournament – first he was the 14th, then he became the ninth, and after 24 games, he became the 5th.
Athlete Arifov also achieved excellent results and won points not only for himself but also for his partners during pair and team championships. His support team can be proud of him for sure.
Arifov says: “The season was quite successful. With this level of rivalry, winning becomes even more significant for me; I am satisfied with my result in the cup. I was a little unlucky in the final, though. Each time, the last pin would stand still despite my efforts; I was unable to knock it down. I congratulate Bakhtiyor Dalabayev on his well-deserved victory.”
For 16 years, no one of male players could achieve a double; meanwhile, Tatiana Lefter keeps the status of the best athlete for the second year. The key to her success lies in stable training. Previously, no one of female players could win in the two main UPSF competitions. It is interesting that not everything developed in her favor – after 24 games, Tatiana was not on the top of the list in the general classification. Athlete Makhmudova got to the finals straightaway; Kasymova and Lefter had to compete for a spot in the final game. According to the regulations, they had to play up to two wins.
Semifinal. Women
Kasymova Elena: 549 (191, 179, 179) – Lefter Tatiana: 558 (200, 168, 190)
Mahmudov Sayer: 262 (128, 134) – Lefter Tatiana: 356 (181, 175)
Lefter says: “A year ago, I set myself the task to repeat the double. I trained hard to achieve it, and this victory is very significant for me, because my rivals were training just as hard. There were few female players in this season, but the competition was still high. Classification results were poor, and the tension grew. Oil pattern was complex, and I needed to understand what I should do in every frame. Our coach Andrey Suslov gave some important instructions for which I want to thank him. He taught us that each pin was important. This season was very interesting as new conditions were constantly introduced, which allowed us to evolve and grow professionally. In general, I want to note that we have become even more united. I hope that new athletes will join us next season.”
The crew of “Sport” TV channel visited the final part of the competition. The broadcast of the final meetings (for both men and women) will be shown on June 26 at 6:45 pm. The main hero of the Uzbekistan Cup-2017, Davron Tuychiev, tried himself in a new role and commented on the game of his colleagues together with a TV journalist.
At the end of the final matches, the ceremony of awarding the winners of the Uzbekistan Cup-2018 was held. Also, the winners in other competition types (the Tashkent Individual Championship, the doubles championship, and All events) were awarded.
Tashkent Championship
Men: 1 – Bakhodir Arifov, 2 – Bakhtiyor Dalabaev, 3 – Davron Tuychiev.
Women: 1 – Tatyana Lefter, 2 – Sayera Makhmudova, 3 – Elena Kasymova.
Doubles championship: 1 – Bakhtiyor Dalabaev/Kudrat Khilyamov, 2 – Tatyana Lefter/Olim Mukhtarov, 3 – Ravshan Abdusamadov/Arthur Zarbaht.
All events: 1 – Bakhtiyor Dalabaev, 2 – Bakhodir Arifov, 3 – Tatyana Lefter.
See you in the new season, dear pin sport fans! Play bowling and stay healthy!
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William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin: The Spoken Word (2012)
Audio (CD, 66 minutes), £10.00
This collection of recordings features the American writer William S Burroughs and the British-born artist Brion Gysin: the man Burroughs credited with the invention of the ‘cut-up’ literary technique....
Travel Writers: The Spoken Word (2012)
This 2 CD compilation features some of best-known literary adventures and explorers of the 20th century in their own words. The recordings are a mixture of radio broadcasts and live talks and readings. None...
Tom Stoppard: Radio Plays (2012)
Charles Lefeaux; John Tydeman
English language and literature; Literature
This five CD set collects the original BBC broadcasts of four of Tom Stoppard’s most important radio plays: ‘Albert’s Bridge’, ‘Artist Descending a Staircase’, ‘The Dog It Was That Died’ and...
British Poets: The Spoken Word (2010)
From Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Ted Hughes, this three CD compilation offers a survey of some of the greatest British poets of a century and more. 30 poets are included, each reading from their own work, often...
American Poets: The Spoken Word (2010)
This three CD set is a companion to the British Poets compilation. Around 30 poets are included, from Gertrude Stein, born in 1874, to Amiri Baraka, born in 1934. The 20th century was a time of enormous...
Bloomsbury Group, The (2009)
Arts and Humanities; Literature
The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art, literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. Recordings of this informal association of writers, artists and...
Stevie Smith: The Spoken Word (2009)
This CD collects 50 poems and songs read by Stevie Smith and recorded for the BBC over the period 1956-1968. It includes many of Smith’s best-known titles, including Not Waving but Drowning, Thoughts about...
Robert Graves: The Spoken Word (2009)
Over a long career Robert Graves proved a prolific writer across a variety of genres, producing historical novels, classical translations and criticism, but he regarded himself as primarily a poet. Drawing...
Coastal Birds (2009)
Sale, Audio (CD), £9.70
An audio guide to the calls of 50 species of birds found along the British coastline, compiled from recordings in the British Library Sound Archive. The 50 tracks include a range of seabirds, waders,...
Countryside Birds (2009)
An audio guide to the sounds of birds of the British Countryside. The British countryside is renowned for its natural beauty and diverse wildlife and any walk, whether it be in woodland, wetland or open...
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Kwame Harris And That Tenth of A Second
May 30, 2013 - by Danelle
Writing this story about Kwame Harris’ life as a closeted athlete for ESPN magazine, I learned about the intricate relationship that offensive linemen have. To succeed, they must be so attuned to each other that they can communicate without speaking, making it that much harder for a gay athlete to keep a secret from the “brothers” on the line with whom he spends most of his year. I spoke with other offensive linemen for this story to get a sense of what is at stake at that moment when the ball is snapped.
Kwame Harris on the 49er offensive line
When the huddle breaks and the offensive line jogs to the scrimmage line, most are silent and few look their opponents in the eyes. Instead they scan the other team’s bodies, comparing what they see in front of them with what they learned watching hours and hours of film. They know who is the tallest, who the strongest and who the fastest. And each player knows well the idiosyncrasies of the guy whose nose is inches from his own. He knows if he is early or late on the snap, has studied the way he cranes his neck before a blitz, and he knows his injuries. He also knows the injuries of the men on his side of the line, who is feeling strong that day and whose shoulder is bothering him, so that the whole line coordinates to cover that weakness, a weakness the defense is sure to pick up on pretty fast.
“If he speed rushed you last time, he’s going to come on the inside or bull rush you the next time,” said Bob Whitfield, an offensive tackle who played most of his career for the Atlanta Falcons. “You’ve got to push him out. You’ve got to push him. If he’s got a bad shoulder and every time I pop that shoulder he’s wincing, guess what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna whop that shoulder.”
At the snap, the offensive line punches up while running backwards as the defense presses into the pocket around the quarterback. Former Buffalo Bills left tackle Steve Hoyem called it, “a Sumo wrestling match. Whoever has the most push will win that battle. You target the numbers on his jersey. You try to get your hands inside under his pads. If the ref sees your hands holding on to his shoulder pads you’ll get called on holding. But if you get up under those pads, you can get away with a lot.”
In the screaming in the stadium before an important play, the offensive linemen can’t hear the snap. Sometimes to stay in sync, as they line up they hold hands. At the drop of the hand, they surge together. The goal is to hold that line just four seconds, enough time for the quarterback to step back and the receiver to get down field. Both teams are usually so evenly matched, the advantage one has over the other is slight. With everything on the line in those four seconds, a slightly sharper focus, or a stronger bond between the players provides that tenths of a second edge.
“Where is the game played the fastest? It’s not at the wide receivers, not at the running back. It’s at the line,” said Tyrone Willingham, former Stanford head coach. “You ask a lot and expect a lot from your offensive line.”
Despite how much is asked of them, the offensive line doesn’t get much glory. Their success is measured by their failures: how many times they draw the team off sides and how often the quarterback gets sacked. This anti-hero status is part of what binds them. They’re a band of brothers who make a stand against the onrushing forces; each movement has to be carefully choreographed for the whole unit to succeed.
They train together, eat together, recreate together on the road and during the holidays and in the summers. They are the groomsmen at each others’ weddings and godfathers of each others’ children. Knowing each other in this way builds cohesion, and the warrior mentality. “We practice, bleed, sweat and hurt together,” said Kwame Harris, former offensive tackle for the 49ers. “For defensive linemen it’s a you vs. me battle. With offensive linemen it’s us vs. him.”
Kwame Harris knows about the intense bonds of brothers in arms. Among him and his two athletically gifted brothers, Duevorn and Orien, and all of whom played professional football, Kwame was the best. A unanimous All-American selection in high school, the most sought after college recruit, winner of the Morris Trophy as the top offensive lineman in the Pac-10, and selected 26th in the first round of the 2003 NFL draft. In his third year at the 49ers, Kwame’s game started to fall apart. He allowed nine sacks and committed fifteen penalties including seven false starts in 2005, and allowed eight sacks with four holding penalties and one false start the following year. While Kwame tried a number of things to improve his game, as I described in the ESPN magazine article, this once promising player’s career sputtered to a close. He had a disappointing 2008 at the Oakland Raiders after the 49ers let him go, retiring from football at the age of 29.
What few people outside Kwame’s family knew is that he blamed this downturn on staying in the closet. As I quoted him in the ESPN magazine article about his football career, “If the world had been more comfortable with gay players on the football field, it wouldn’t have been so consuming when it came up,” he said, with an edge of fury in his voice. “Everything would not have been filtered through that, being gay. Like when I had a bad game or if we lost or if I did something awful, it was because I was gay. It was the easiest way for me to beat myself up, being gay. I know it affected my play,””
NFL players will tell you that a homosexual cannot be a warrior. Although Kwame Harris is outraged by this prejudice, his personal experience supports it. In a battle where a tenth of a second is the margin between success and failure, for Kwame that tenth of a second was the fact that he was scared that someone in football would find out he was gay. Or that tenth of a second was that his fellow linesman already knew and hated him for it.
To me, this is one of the many costs of the Don’t Ask/Don’t tell attitude of the NFL. The coaches spend a lot of time building this wordless cohesion between the players, creating this brotherly bond, but if one of them is keeping a secret despite the intense forced intimacy of the offensive line, does that hamper his ability to get that 10th of a second advantage? By making the players’ homosexuality something that cannot be discussed and therefore is not tolerated, that tenth of second becomes the moment when all of it is on the line.
Interviewing Kwame Harris
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President Annouces NIH Campaign To Fight The Crippling Epidemic of Affluenza
July 23, 2014 July 23, 2014 - by Danelle
WASHINGTON DC –Declaring the rampant spread of Affluenza “a national state of emergency,” today President Obama signed into law a new $212 billion National Institutes of Health initiative to fight the nation’s crippling, and often fatal, epidemic of Affluenza.
President Obama announcing the Affluenza initiative in the East Room
Affluenza has long been a problem in the U.S. but recent advances in early detection have determined that it is much more widespread than previously believed. While studies show that 47 percent of Americans are inoculated from it by a pre-existing condition known as poverty, this leaves more than half of the country vulnerable.
Researchers define Affluenza as a serious cognitive disorder that alters the way our bodies respond to widespread prosperity. As the Affluenza hormone floods the bloodstream unchecked it distorts sufferers interaction with objective reality, as evidenced by a lack of empathy and generosity, and general anti-social behavior. Instead of driving down anxiety, general prosperity fills Affluenza sufferers with a desperate craving for more possessions and bigger tax breaks. This can lead to manic acquisitions of jewels and luxury properties, delusions of wisdom and, in the most acute cases, a run for national public office.
President Obama praised the bi-partisan support for the bill.
“Members on both sides of the aisle see Affluenza every day. More than half of your representatives — your congressmen, your senators — have symptoms. It’s rampant among my cabinet appointees, heads of think tanks, lobbyists, CEOs, limousine liberals and union bosses. This is a first bold step to eliminating Affluenza and the stigma that surrounds it.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called “groundbreaking” the new public/private partnership between the NIH and the Donald Trump Capital Preservation Institute, home to cutting edge research in this field.
Affluenza has long gone undiagnosed. Until as recently as 2007 it was common for Affluenza sufferers to be labeled as sociopaths, psychopaths, or narcissists. When virulent clusters first were detected in Darien, Connecticut and Palo Alto, California in 1998, researchers believed the disease targeted only white male Americans. As scientists from the Trump Institute isolated Affluenza’s symptoms, they identified undiagnosed cases throughout the NBA, in Kim Jung-Un’s family and among most of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, proving that Affluenza strikes all races and genders.
The Trump Institutes initial case-control study of the pathology paired individuals who suffer from Affluenza with a control group of asymptomatic individuals, nicknamed “suckers” by the researchers. The researchers plotted subjects’ activities of daily living on a six-pronged matrix consisting of general douchebaggery, insufficient tipping, number of Malcolm Gladwell books read, teeth whitening, frequency of attendance at destination weddings and times the charges were dropped without having to go to trial. At the conclusion of a six-year longitudinal study, Trump scientists identified two types of Affluenza: the rare Type One and the more widespread Type Two, comprising 95 percent of the cases. Type Two sufferers have the same acquisitive impulses as Type One but do not have the money to pay for their purchases.
“We used to think of these people as the backbone of our economy,” said President Obama. “Now we understand they are suffering too.”
Aversion therapy for Affluenza suffers has met with limited success.
The research grant will fund a clinical trial on a new drug, The Donald, that is a competitive receptor for the Affluenza hormone. This psychoactive topical medication can be transmitted trans dermally through a hairpiece, or applied directly to the scrotum by specially trained masseuses. The NIH will also be funding research on a different drug delivery system being tested at the Mitt Romney Research Institute and Equestrian Center at the Cayman Islands. The Romney team is experimenting with distributing the medicine through the climate control systems of all luxury vehicles with a list price above $46,000.
The mood during the signing ceremony in the East Room was one of triumph after the long hard fight for the bill. President Obama handed out memorial pens to Koch Brothers, 25 members of the Walton Family, the Clintons, Larry Ellison, Robert Redford, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Elon Musk, and Oprah. All in attendance sported plump gold moneybags on their lapels, the worldwide symbol of Affluenza awareness. At the close of his remarks, Obama reached into his suit jacket pocket and affixed one to his lapel.
“Ich ein bin Affluenza,” he said with moist eyes.
The room erupted in applause.
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Scholars on the Relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and Non-Governmental Organizations
According to a research summary published on Study Times, Chinese scholars are doing academic research on the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] and non-governmental organizations [NGOs], a topic that is believed to be the key to understand the role of NGOs.
Briefings | | November 24, 2007 | Government/Politics
Chinese Communist Party Criticized for Continuing Behind-the-Scenes Politics
At the end of the Chinese Communist Party’s 17th Congress, the General Secretary, Politburo and Bureau members were all made public. Out of the 9 Politburo members, 4 faces are new. They are – Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang. One public figure commented, "This was expected to be the natural outcome of Communist rule."
The Role of China’s Civil Defense System
On October 16th, the Study Times, published an article titled "The Functions of the Civil Defense System and Its Role in Social Harmony" by Li Hang, Bureau Chief of the Civil Defense Bureau of Zhejiang Province. Study Times is a newspaper sponsored by the "Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China" and is distributed mainly to all levels of party leaders, as well as to intellectuals.
Hong Kong Experts: High Level Communist Party Members Feel a Strong Sense of Crisis
Cai Yongmei, executive editor of Hong Kong’s Open Magazine, and others, had some observations after the close of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 17th National Congress. Cai expressed the belief that the overwhelming lineage in the makeup of both the new Politburo and the new Central Committee of the CCP shows a strong sense of crisis in the CCP at the highest level. Open Magazine‘s editor-in-chief, Jinzhong, believes the current election policy is really the tenure system in disguise, and has analyzed the new successors as well as the internal struggles between President Hu Jingtao and former President Jiang Zemin on the issue of Zeng Qinghong’s stepping down. Liu Dawen, editor-in-chief of Hong Kong’s Frontline Magazine, criticized what has been touted as the increased democratic elements of the 17th National Congress as just empty talk. [1]
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CIVITAS TRENDSETTER
The five cooperating cities in TRENDSETTER — Graz (Austria), Lille (France), Pecs (Hungary), Prague (Czech Republic) and Stockholm (Sweden) — worked together to ameliorate urban air quality and reduce noise levels and congestion while supporting sustainable mobility and improving quality of life. By establishing examples of good practice, the five participating cities were able to show other cities the way towards sustainable mobility solutions.
About CIVITAS TRENDSETTER
In the framework of TRENDSETTER, 52 specific measures were implemented in different thematic areas. The complementary, mutually reinforcing measures focused on advanced mobility management schemes and clean vehicle fleets. The project also promoted the use of public transportation and other alternatives to the private car and illustrated new approaches to improve logistics and the efficiency of goods distribution. In addition, TRENDSETTER increased public acceptance of bio-fuels and encouraged operators, politicians and social groups to use innovative, low-noise and low-emission technologies.
TRENDSETTER’s overall strategy was to achieve both short-term energy and emissions reductions and long-term shifts to greater use of public transportation and efficient urban goods flows. The project focused both on heavy vehicles (buses, lorries and vans) and private cars. The project included eight work packages in two major fields:
better transport mobility management; and
fleets of clean, cost-effective and energy-efficient vehicles.
These two major fields each covered public, commercial and private transportation. TRENDSETTER built on a mix of policy-based measures and technologies that combined the following activities:
stimulating the use of public transportation through packages of measures that included new pricing strategies, bus priority systems, innovative information technologies, improved intermodal interchanges and transport demand systems;
improving efficiency in urban freight transportation through logistics and information provision;
achieving a higher market penetration for cleaner buses, lorries, vans and cars operating on renewable fuels by coordinated procurement to reduce prices, improved infrastructure;
promoting alternatives to the private car through innovative services; and
encouraging policy changes towards more sustainable urban transport systems.
Implementing sustainable mobility
Stockholm’s environmental zone was enlarged and other cities were provided with best practice strategies to develop environmental zones; decrease emissions, noise and energy consumption; and increase acceptance of clean vehicles.
In Prague, access restriction zones for heavy vehicles of over 6 tonnes were enlarged and optimised. As a result, the emissions and noise decreased in the city, the energy consumption was reduced due to a shift of vehicle fleets towards cleaner and more efficient vehicles. Besides reducing emissions, noise and energy consumption, the expansion of access restriction zones contributed to making the city centre more attractive.
Four pedestrian zones were established in central Graz, improving quality of life in the city. Sustainable alternatives to the private car were promoted, including walking and cycling, and other cities were provided with best practice examples. This measure was complemented by an extensive marketing campaign.
A new car-free zone was established in Pecs, and the existing pedestrian area was extended. Plans for a bicycle route in the city centre were also prepared. These activities led to a reduction in the volume of traffic in the historical city centre, thereby reducing air pollution and noise.
A second measure implemented in Pecs focused on obtaining information about existing traffic conditions and the status of public transportation in the city centre. Based on this information, a new integrated strategy was prepared, covering parking management, traffic planning and the development of the public transportation system.
The city of Stockholm was helped to prepare its congestion-charging scheme and to demonstrate its potential to reduce the volume of traffic on the most frequented roads during peak hours. Besides reducing congestion and increasing accessibility, the measure promoted the use of public transportation and provided other cities with best practice strategies. Research and studies were carried out on the design of the congestion charge zone and possible technical systems.
One of the TRENDSETTER outputs was a series of studies about the environmental and socioeconomic effects of introducing new transport technologies and management solutions. The studies focused on both the short-term local effects of the TRENDSETTER project and on the potential exploitation of technical and policy measures across Europe.
In terms of quantitative results, the reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide was calculated as approximately 57,000 tonnes a year as a result of the project. The reduction in emissions of nitrogen oxide was calculated as 315 tonnes a year. In terms of indirect effects, the actual reduction is likely to be far bigger, at around 900 tonnes a year. The reduction in emissions of particulate matter was calculated at 50 tonnes a year, and energy savings in TRENDSETTER cities totalled over 250 TJ a year.
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Bicycle training for children in a real traffic environment, Graz
Graz, the capital of the Austrian province of Styria, is a city of cyclists. Children, who use the bike for going to school and in their leisure time, make up a large proportion of cyclists. In Austria, however, only children aged 12 and over are...
Lower parking tariff for low emission vehicles in Graz
Drivers of non low emission vehicles have to pay € 1,20 per hour, whereas low emission vehicles pay € 0,80 per hour. Hence, the new scheme gives real benefits to low emission vehicles and provides a popular selling point of the new system.For...
Advanced traffic management system, Graz
The core element of the new system are the more than 200 vehicles of the taxi fl eet 878. They are all GPS-equipped and act as permanent traffic observers that report the actual traffic data to the taxi headquarters. This so called “Floating Car...
Car free zone, Pecs
In different parts of the inner city 20 to 80% reduction has been measured in the number of cars, and with the additional measures of limiting speed, limiting freighters’ access and re-organizing city traffic policy, the environmental conditions in...
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The Reconstructionist by Nick Arvin
Posted on March 27, 2012 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment
Few books packed the punch that Nick Arvin‘s Articles of War did for me. I really enjoyed it and was fortunate enough to have the author participate in a Q&A as well. So I was excited about the release of his latest novel The Reconstructionist.
It turned out to be a very interesting blend of psychological mystery, literary and philosophical exploration and road trip story. This is not a fast paced thriller by any means but it does pack an emotional punch and there is an undercurrent of tension that drives the story forward.
More after the jump.
First, a little about Arvin:
Nick Arvin is an American engineer and writer. Born in North Carolina, he was raised in Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan and Stanford University with degrees in mechanical engineering, and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has worked in forensic engineering and accident reconstruction.
And with that in mind, the plot blurb:
At a loose end after college, Ellis Barstow drifts back to his home town and a strange profession: reconstructing fatal traffic accidents. He seems to take to the work immediately , and forms a bond with his boss and mentor, John Boggs, an intriguing character of few but telling words.
Yet Ellis is harbouring a secret. He was drawn to the reconstructionist’s grisly world by the fatal crash that killed his half-brother Christopher and that still haunts him; in fact his life has been shaped by car accidents. Boggs, in his exacting way, would argue that ‘accident’ is not the right word, that if two cars meeting at an intersection can be called an accident then anything can – where we live, what we do, even who we fall in love with.
For Ellis these things are certainly no accident. And he harbours a second, more dangerous secret, one that threatens to blow apart the men’s lives and which, as the story’s quiet momentum builds, leads to a desperate race towards confrontation, reconciliation and survival.
As the above indicates, there is a mystery of a sort at the heart of the plot but the focus is really on the relationships and each character’s struggle to make sense of them; and to understand how they got to where they are in life and in these relationships.
Arvin clearly used his extensive knowledge of accident reconstruction to build a convincing plot element and hook. You are quickly pulled into the world of accidents and the very technical process of trying to make scientific sense of these seemingly random events. The human explanations and testimonies are not reliable so investigators are forced to fall back on the science to bring some semblance of order and meaning to the accidents they study (pushed and pulled by lawyers and insurance companies). They attempt to explain what actually happened but of course guilt and innocence hover in the background.
And you can’t really remove the human element from the accidents and humans look for things like meaning, intention, fate. Ellis, Boggs and Heather are in a psychological sense careening towards each other at very high speeds. Is what happens an accident? Is it fate? And, Arvin asks, is there really such a thing as an accident? Can we escape the choices we have made and the events that make up our lives?
I noted above that the novel is a blend of psychological mystery, literary and philosophical exploration and road trip story. It leans heavy on the literary and psychological/philosophical side in my opinion. In particular the middle section of the book, the road trip part, is heavy on psychological and philosophical exploration and lean on plot. It shares its feel with the sleep deprived constant driving of Ellis.
Ellis is trying to deal with all of the pressure that builds up in his life – from his family, his career, his relationship with Heather and Boggs. He seeks to be more intentional more rational. But as his life seems to be splintering around him he can’t bring the cold rationality of his work to his life – so he takes refuge in his skills as a reconstructionist. But will this destroy the one thing he cares about?
As you can see, the story is driven more by questions than answers. But if you find the literary and psychological exploration of these questions interesting then I think you will enjoy the novel. If you want a neat plot and steady style and structure than you might be frustrated with this one. I am not sure it all works together seamlessly, or that the attempt to build a literary novel around a made for TV type plot hook like accident reconstruction quite works, but I found the characters and their emotions interesting and the questions explored worth thinking about. Enough of it “worked” that I enjoyed it but I have a feeling reactions will vary widely by taste.
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Protecting Chavez, Endangering America?
By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. on April 12, 2011 Government & Politics
President Obama’s recent trip to three Latin American nations was absolutely surreal. For one thing, he launched a war against Libya from there. For another, he lauded and pledged support for offshore drilling in Brazilian waters that he has shut down in our own. And he spoke glowingly of the progress of democracy as though its forces were on the march in the region, rather than those of enemies of freedom.
What might have passed for Mr. Obama’s willful blindness with respect to the rising threat posed by Chavismo – the rabidly anti-American regional campaign named for and sponsored by the dictator of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez – was revealed last week as perhaps something far more worrying, if not downright sinister: A deliberate effort by the Obama Justice Department to impede U.S. access to a key witness to Chavez’s multifaceted malevolence.
If any reminder were needed of the threat posed by Chavez, Sunday’s election in Peru would provide it. The top vote-getter in the first-round of presidential balloting there was Ollanta Humala, a military officer cut from the same radical leftist cloth as his ally and enabler who runs Venezuela increasingly with an iron fist. If Humala prevails in the run-off, his increasingly prosperous nation will join Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua in moving squarely into Chavez’s orbit.
Add in the mentoring of the Castro brothers in Cuba and close working relationships with Brazil and Argentina through, among other channels, the insidious Forum of San Paolo, and you have a Latin America in which hostility towards the United States is fast becoming the norm, and freedom imperiled to a degree not seen since Ronald Reagan took on the Sandinistas in the 1980s. Mexico, long a buffer, is now embroiled in what some consider a civil war, effectively removing whatever impediments – however inadequate – previously existed there to migration into our country of dangerous elements from further south.
Meanwhile, unfriendly foreign powers – including China, Russia and Iran and terrorist groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad – are, with the active assistance of Chavez and his allies, establishing beachheads throughout the region. Beijing is buying up resources and establishing intelligence operations; Russia is selling arms and reestablishing its Soviet-era influence operations; and Middle Eastern terrorists, both state-sponsors and their proxies, are joining forces with narco-traffickers to make money, convert locals to shariah and run smuggling operations into the United States.
An indication of just how serious a problem all this can become was revealed recently in an op.ed. in the Washington Post by one of the United States’ top hemispheric diplomats, former Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega. In it, he revealed that Hugo Chavez convened a terror summit in Caracas in August 2010, attended by senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah. The precise upshot of this secret meeting has not yet been revealed. Suffice it to say though that no good can come of such brazen associations and that we should be doing everything possible to ascertain what they will precipitate.
The good news in that department is that Colombia has managed to apprehend a man who may be able to shed much light on just such questions: Walid Makled. A Venezuelan of Syrian descent but known as “the Turk,” Makled was arrested on a U.S. warrant in connection with his role as what has been described by InterAmerican Security Watch as “one of the world’s most important, yet little known, drug lords.”
In a recent television interview with Univision, Makled described Chavez’s Venezuela as a “narco-state” in which the government was “100 percent” involved in narco-trafficking. He implicated “40 generals” and “ministers, congressmen [and]governors” – including two top Chavez allies, Commander-in-Chief Henry Rangel Silva and intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal – in such activities. The drug kingpin also claimed that the military was protecting Hezbollah’s Venezuelan operations.
U.S. prosecutors have made clear their desire to extradite “the Turk” to the United States to stand trial for his crimes and to provide incriminating testimony against others. In an interview last week on Secure Freedom Radio, Michael Braun, a former top Drug Enforcement Agency official, declared that such testimony could be absolutely indispensible to American efforts to protect our nation against the various threats of which this top drug-trafficker has first-hand knowledge.
The bad news is that on Friday, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) revealed on Secure Freedom Radio that he had confirmed an astounding, indeed scandalous, development: Eric Holder’s Justice Department had declined Colombia’s offer to extradite Makled to the United States. In that case, it seems “the Turk” will be sent back to Venezuela. At that point, he will clearly be beyond the reach of American jurisprudence, assuming he is not simply liquidated in short order.
If Rep. Diaz-Balart’s information is correct, the question occurs: Why would the Obama administration not want to have the ability to interrogate comprehensively a man who purportedly knows a lot about one of this country’s most determined adversaries and his far-flung network of criminal, terrorist and other anti-American allies? A possible explanation is that President Obama would find it inconvenient to have to come to grips with the reality of what Hugo Chavez is about. Is there another?
One thing is clear: We as a nation cannot afford to be willfully blind about Chavismo and its architect. Consequently, every effort must be made to get Walid Makled to the United States – and to withhold Miranda rights until he has been fully and competently debriefed.
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Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy (www.SecureFreedom.org), a columnist for the Washington Times and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio, heard in Washington weeknights at 9:00 p.m. on WRC 1260 AM.
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According to a report by Russian satellite network on May 5, a new report released by Arctic Council Arctic Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (AMAP) Working Group said that the Arctic is rapidly melting and may be completely ice-free by 2040. In the meantime, a study by the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom found that in Antarctica, ice melts at a rate of about one-third of its expected value.
Why Arctic ice and snow melted so fast, and Antarctic ice and snow melting speed so slow? Reported that the reason for this problem is more complicated. On the surface, there are many similarities between the North Pole and the Antarctic: both are cold, sparsely populated, snow-covered wastelands at two levels of the Earth. But they are also fundamentally different: the Arctic is a sea surrounded by land (such as Alaska, Canada and the northern part of Russia), while the Antarctic is a land surrounded by the sea. The Arctic is thought to be essentially a giant ice mass in the Arctic Ocean, while Antarctica is land covered by snow and ice.
The report said that "essentially, the two effects of global warming can be offset by each other in the context of Antarctica. Both polar sea ice are melting at a faster rate (the number of sea ice both hit a record low in February ), The snow cover in Antarctica has resulted in the formation of ice sheets in some areas. "
Climatologists point out that increasing snowfall is another side effect of climate warming. One of the consequences of global warming is the increase in ocean evaporation, as the heat of the ocean sends water vapor into the atmosphere. As the water vapor in the atmosphere increases, rainfall and snowfall will also increase accordingly.
In the past, snowfall in Antarctica was rare, but the warming of the mainland led to a wider range of frequent snowfalls in Antarctica. In contrast, however, the amount of ice in the Arctic has been steadily declining since the early 2000s.
Simply put, since the Arctic is cold, only less water vapor can enter the atmosphere. This means that there is very little snowfall in the Arctic and snowfall is scarce.
Antarctica has its own wind and ocean current, and thus isolated from the trend of global warming, while the Atlantic Ocean winds and the Arctic Ocean has brought a greater impact.
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Eli Simon
Power Speech
New Swan
Simon is a Chancellor’s Professor of Acting at the University of California, Irvine. During his tenure at UC Irvine, he served for five years as Chair of Drama and, prior to that, for eleven years as Head of Acting. Simon has directed productions across the country and overseas, specializing in the development of original clown shows, commedias, American classics, Shakespeare, and musicals. Theatres include the National Theater of Romania in Cluj, New Swan Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, PCPA Theatrefest, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Rude Guerilla Theatre, Magic Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, La Mirada, Western Stage, One Act Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Critically acclaimed productions include War of the Clowns, CLOWNZILLA: A Love Story (Critic’s Choice, LA Times), CLOWNZILLA: A Holiday Extravaganza, Illegal Aliens, The 39 Steps, On Borrowed Time (nine Drama-Loge awards including best direction and production), As You Like It, Fiddler on the Roof, Death of a Salesman, Merchant of Venice, City of Angels, Twelfth Night, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Golden Boy, Rimers of Eldritch, The Time of Your Life, as well as Three Penny Opera, Victor/Victoria and Noises Off, which were voted “Show of the Year” by theatre critics. Interdisciplinary productions pooling the talents of the Drama, Dance, and Music departments in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts include Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Victor/Victoria, City of Angels, and Guys and Dolls.
Simon is the artistic director of The New Swan Shakespeare Festival at UCIrvine, an annual summer event, featuring the Bard’s finest plays under the stars in a mini-Elizabethan space: The New Swan Theater. Summer, 2014, featured sold-out productions of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet. In 2013: King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The inaugural season, 2012: The Merchant of Venice and The Comedy of Errors. For more information: http://www.newswanshakespeare.com.
Simon is the author of The Art of Clowning, first edition, 2008 and second edition, 2012, published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book illuminates a complete system of clowning that encourages the exploration, expansion, and fortification of your distinct clown persona. A natural result of these investigations will be the development of original clown routines performed alone or in partnership with other clowns. If you are interested in exploring and inhabiting your unique clown persona, the techniques described herein demystify the process, yielding swift and deep access to the clown in you. For more information about The Art of Clowning, second edition: http://us.macmillan.com/theartofclowning/EliSimon
Simon is the author of Masking Unmasked, Four Basic Approaches to Acting, published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book articulates four systems of mask acting – clowning, full face, half-face, and bag masks – that were developed and are currently taught by Simon at UC Irvine. Masking allows actors to experience one of the central objectives of high-level acting: the physical, vocal, emotional, and psychological inhabitation of another person. These techniques enhance an actor’s range of playable characters by heightening spontaneity, vulnerability, and truth.
Simon is artistic director of CLOWNZILLA, an original clown troupe that creates silent clown shows. Their first production, CLOWNZILLA: A Love Story, premiered at Rude Guerilla Theatre in Santa Ana and subsequently toured to the Arezzo International Theatre Festival in Italy and the Gwacheon International Theatre Festival in South Korea. It has also played at PCPA Theatrefest and The Muckenthaler Cultural Center. The troupe’s second show, CLOWNZILLA: A Holiday Extravaganza premiered at Rude Guerilla Theatre and UCIrivne. Watch a video here.
Simon served as artistic director of the California Commedia Troupe, dedicated to the creation and international touring of original commedias and masked performances. The troupe’s first production, The Venetian Physician’s Magician toured to the Brouhaha International Street Theatre Festival in Liverpool, El Centro De Nuevos Creadores at La Sala Mirador, Madrid, and enjoyed a successful run at the Brea Improv in California. The troupe’s second show, Vaudevillo II, returned to La Sala Mirador, where Simon created Vaudevillo III with a mixed cast of Spanish and American actors. Simon’s adaptation of Servant of Two Masters, was produced at the Shakespeare Festival LA, Orange County Shakespeare Festival, the Court Theatre in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and invited to the International Theatre Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Simon was the co-founder of Pan Pacific Players’ original touring production of Aristophanes’ Birds in the DMZ. This project was created and performed over a three-year period with prominent South Korean director, Suk-Man Kim and the Korean National University of Arts. The play, set in Korea’s DMZ, explored the struggle for sanctity in the face of international strife and misunderstanding. It fused traditional Korean Mask Dance Drama and music, with commedia, traditional and contemporary masks, and a myriad of diverse languages. Simon received a Pacific Rim Grant to support performances in South Korea and Italy.
Simon received a BA in Drama from UC Davis and an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University. He was a visiting professor of acting at UC Davis before joining the faculty at UCI. Current courses include scene study, auditioning technique, mask acting, comedy, and clowning.
Email: esimon@uci.edu
Address: 12 Whistler Court,
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A high school student films and interviews protesters against the Henoko relocation
With a video camera and tripod, Sosi Nobu of the Okinawashogaku High School filmed the protesters in Henoko.
August 11, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The U.S. and Japanese governments are preparing to build a new base to replace U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko in the Nago district. While the Japanese government was not carrying out the work on August 10, many citizens who oppose plans to build the base, visited from in and outside Okinawa to see sit-in protesters gathering in a tent at the base gate. One of the visitors was Soshi Nobu of the Okinawashogaku High School who filmed the protesters with his video camera.
Nobu was born in Hiroshima Prefecture. Influenced by his father, he became interested in the base issues in Okinawa and the peace movement, and joined a high school in Okinawa. Although Nobu opposes the U.S.miliary bases in Okinawa, he has mixed feelings about the issue because one of his dormitory friends has a parent working on one of the bases. Nobu said, “I feel that it is hard to express my opposition against the bases.” However, he went on to say, “This is one of the difficulties Okinawa faces.”
After acting as a guide for a peace tour, Nobu realized he wanted to tell others living in the main islands of Japan how Okinawan people feel about the bases. He and his friends set up a plan to upload movies about the base issues in Okinawa on a website and social media. They plan to ask for airline companies to screen what they filmed in the airplanes bound for Okinawa.
Nobu filmed the people protesting on the night of August 10, and interviewed those visiting the tent. He said, “Some of the people distance themselves from the protest movement because they do not know why the participants are protesting.” He continued, “Our role as young people is to show how the protesters feel. I think our projects will encourage more young people to take part in the protest movement.”
(English translation by T&CT)
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The Entomology department has established an endowed scholarship fund in honor of Dr. Allen L. Steinhauer (1931 - 2008), Professor Emeritus, who was a member of the Entomology faculty from 1958 - 1993 and served as the Department Chair from 1975 - 1993. Al was internationally renowned for his contributions to the development of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), and he left a rich legacy as a teacher, scholar, scientist, administrator, and cherished friend to many. The Steinhauer Fund helps to support our graduate program.
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Al arrived at Maryland as an assistant professor in 1958, advancing to associate professor in 1964. From 1966 to 1968 he de-camped to the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he set up a still-thriving entomology graduate program with support from USAID. For this and other contributions he was honored by the Academy of Sciences in Brazil and had a Brazilian mite named for him. Returning to Maryland, Al became a full Professor in 1971, and served as Chair from 1975 until his retirement in 1993, a period during which the department’s reputation increased greatly.
Al is one of the most distinguished entomologists ever to grace this department. He was internationally renowned for his contributions to the development of Integrated Pest Management, exemplified by the fact that at one point he was invited to address the United Nations on this subject. One of Al’s early successes was the development of an innovative control strategy for the Mexican bean beetle. His team introduced the idea of “nurse plots” of snap beans. These plots allow the biological control agent to build up large populations before the bean beetles attack their main economic host, soybean.
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In praise of Caryl Churchill
Published in The Independent on Sunday on April 12, 2015
Who is Britain’s greatest living playwright? Tom Stoppard has often been bestowed with this honour, as he was, again, in the barrage of press marking his comeback play The Hard Problem earlier this year. But, for many, there’s another clear candidate, Caryl Churchill – and her claim to the title is set to be showcased in the months ahead, with three major revivals of her work.
First, a production of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, her early play about the English Civil War, opens next week at the National Theatre. Then in July comes Manchester International Festival’s take on her 1994 twisted fable The Skriker, starring Maxine Peake and with music by Antony Hegarty and Nico Muhly, followed by the transfer to the Young Vic of Michael Longhurst’s acclaimed production of cloning drama A Number.
But while her work fills stages yet again, we can expect the woman herself to remain elusive: she has long refused to give interviews. Lucky, then, that those who have worked with her are happier to discuss her work.
“Without doubt she is the most eminent playwright that we have at the moment,” says Max Stafford-Clark; his Joint Stock theatre company’s famous workshop methods helped give birth to Light Shining, as well as other works including Cloud 9 and Fen.
“She’s a major player and we don’t have many,” is the definitive view of David Lan, artistic director of the Young Vic, who collaborated with Churchill on 1986’s A Mouthful of Birds, a dance theatre piece inspired by Euripides’ The Bacchae.
What’s most remarkable about the 76-year-old’s long career is, perhaps, its restlessness: unlike most writers, she has never fallen into a groove of identifiable tactics or a predictable voice. Rather, her plays have continued to knock audiences sideways with their inventiveness – from deploying pioneering cross-gender, race and age casting in 1979’s Cloud 9 to using blank verse to satirise the greed of City stockbrokers in 1987’s Serious Money to highlighting the shrinking attention spans of the Noughties by creating 57 micro-plays in 2012’s Love and Information.
“Famously, it’s the form of the play she explores in almost every piece, but not in an academic way or for the sake of it,” says Stephen Daldry, who’s directed several Churchill premieres for the Royal Court. “The form will always fit the play.”
Daldry’s point is echoed by Lyndsey Turner, who is directing the National’s revival of Light Shining, a sort of historical verbatim play drawing on the 1647 Putney Debates, which saw the radical groups of the English Civil War debate with Cromwell about society’s future. “Her focus as a dramatist has never been an inward-looking one – her plays aren’t essays,” says Turner, “but living, breathing, red-blooded works.”
Manchester Royal Exchange’s Sarah Frankcom is directing The Skriker, a play certainly red in tooth and claw; Peake plays the title character, a shapeshifting spirit speaking in linguistically cartwheeling rhymes, who lures two teen mothers into a macabre, musical underworld. “When you’re in the hands of a playwright [who can] challenge your expectations of what theatre can be and do on a moment-by-moment basis, there’s nothing more thrilling,” Frankcom claims. “None of her plays could exist anywhere else but a theatre, and I don’t know you could say that about many other playwrights.”
The Skriker, with its musical overlay and supporting cast of strange, silent, dancing figures, was developed in 1994 with frequent collaborator, choreographer Ian Spink. It is rare that such an eminent writer is also so open to collaboration, but Spink chalks it up to a fidgety mind. “Generous and fearless in workshop and improvising stages, she was always open to some rather surreal ideas…,” he says, “[and] I think she has always been attracted by the way movement can convey so much ambiguty.”
Churchill often works closely with directors too; Daldry recalls her having a keen eye for everything from lighting to casting and adds that “she’s the most gorgeous woman in the world – the most fun you could have with anyone in the rehearsal room.”
Not that she does anyone’s job for them: her plays demand big staging decisions, and serious directorial nous. “She might apparently give you almost impossible things to achieve, but working with her you discover they are all achievable,” says Daldry, though Stafford-Clark is less sure about this last point.
“Certainly there were some plays that I couldn’t get a grip on,” he confesses, before adding modestly that when you are directing a modern classic like Top Girls – her 1982 hit that famously opens with a surreal dinner party of significant women from history – “you know that you’ve got your hands on a Rolls Royce. It makes even the most callow driver look good.”
Meanwhile, experiencing Churchill’s plays is rarely less demanding for her audience. If there is a thematic thread to her word, it’s her unflinching interest in the human capacity for violence, be that domestic (neglectful parents and abused children are a recurring theme) or geo-political, or both, such as in 1991’s Mad Forest and its examination of Ceausescu’s’ Romania or her short 2009 play Seven Jewish Children. Her most terrifying skill is to link societal ills to the individual human condition – however dark – in us all, suggests Lan, who has also been a close friend of Churchill’s since they met in 1972.
“She touches something very deep in people’s sense of who they are; a poetic truth which is also an emotional truth which is also a political truth.” Ah yes, the politics. Another feature of Churchill’s left-leaning work is that she has not mellowed with age. Quite the reverse: “She’s a liberal humanist – and she’s become more radical,” claims Stafford-Clark. “It’s extraordinary, the way she’s kept abreast of the times.” Consider Seven Jewish Children, written in response to Israel’s assault on the Gaza strip, which became one of the most controversial plays of recent times, with critics of it slamming it as an “anti-Israeli rant” and “wantonly inflammatory”.
By straddling so many concerns, politically, formally and otherwise, Churchill – unsurprisingly – has had an enormous impact on contemporary drama. And it reaches far beyond these shores, Daldry points out: “She’s been one of the major influences over the last 40 years, not just in this country but across the world.” Turner, too, acknowledges that her generation owes Churchill “an enormous debt: we see in her an artist who asks as many questions of form as she does about content, who realises that it ain’t just what you say, it’s the way that you say it.”
And then of course, there’s the impact she’s had in shattering gender stereotypes when it comes to playwriting: that’s to say, she’s produced expansive plays for big stages – sometimes explicitly “feminist”, sometimes not. More fundamentally, she’s simply proved it can be done: she’s a leading playwright, and she happens to be a woman. “Caryl is like this beacon,” says Frankcom. “Until relatively recently, playwriting has been pretty male – she’s always been the playwright that says that there’s another way.”
In this respect, she’s “beyond-words important…” says playwright April De Angelis. “Women are taking over British stages and she’s the precursor. I was talking to a visual artist the other day who said there are no great women painters. You can’t say that with playwriting: there’s Caryl Churchill.”
‘Light Shining in Buckinghamshire’ is at the National Theatre, 15 Apr-22 Jun; ‘The Skriker’ is at Manchester Royal Exchange, 1-18 July; ‘A Number’ is at the Young Vic, 4 July-8 Aug. Stafford-Clark’s ‘Crouch Touch Pause Engage’ tours till 20 June; Daldry’s ‘The Audience’ is at the Apollo Theatre, 21 Apr-25 July; De Angelis’ ‘After Electra’ is at the Tricycle, London, 7 Apr-2 May
April 19, 2015 May 26, 2015 by holly in Theatre Tagged badass women, classics, Manchester International Festival, National Theatre, Royal Court
Review: At Hawthorn Time, Melissa Harrison
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“But a consensus appears to be building that treating your workers terribly is not necessarily a sign of success or realism. It’s just bad business.”
“Shah, who serves as social innovations director for the workers’ group, believes the growing use of employees is part of a broader shift taking place in the on-demand economy. “I think what’s really happening is a larger shift toward focusing on workers, and this is just one way that it’s taken root,” Shah said.”
“Palak Shah, the social innovations director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, is trying to help service platforms like Alfred and Honor provide jobs that provide stability and solid pay through emphasizing the value that qualified, dedicated workers provide.”
“The National Domestic Workers Alliance, which organizes nannies and housekeepers, recently produced what it calls the Good Work Code, which it has urged gig economy companies to adopt.”
“Last week marked an important step forward as the NDWA unveiled the Good Work Code, a new initiative to promote good work in the online economy and change the conversation about labor in the 21st Century.”
“We think Silicon Valley has done a brilliant job in solving our convenience and efficiency challenges,” said Palak Shah, social innovations director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance. “But now we think there is a way to solve for equity.”
“We did a whole round of innovation to solve for efficiency and convenience. Let’s now do a round of innovation for solving for equity and derivatives of equity.”
“Now momentum is building for broad-based nationwide efforts to improve the lives of independent workers.”
“Flexibility, livable wages and room for growth. These are just a few things that make up a “good” job.”
“Today, (NDWA) announced the first 12 companies to sign (the Good Work Code.) Each company will share initiatives that they are launching under at least two of the principles on the Good Work Code website.”
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BORN OUT OF PO-WAL: HAM SUP'S HANJI WORKS
Um Ki-Hong
In offering this commentary on Ham Sup's works, I want to present my thoughts in the form of a comprehensive study, rather than a conventional critique. Let me begin with my ideas on Ham Sup's aesthetic attitude, cultivated over the thirty years of his artistic career.
An Artist of Po-Wal
Modern art began in the 19th century with early Romanticism. As art from that time on came to determine its own rules, artists endowed with self-consciousness began measuring their own existence against the existence of the world, dreaming of absolute ideals such as Transcendence. While those Romantic dreams of transcendence still continue today, they are obliged to compete with the symbolic figures of popular culture, movie stars and celebrity athletes who can attract audiences of thousands, and who occupy our collective imagination.
The philosopher Kim Jin-Suk has written about something he believes could follow the development of the Internet and electronic media: the possibility that we might find, in this era of nomadicity, a new kind of rootedness. The rootedness of the past is a passive phenomenon, the direct antithesis of nomadicity. The new rootedness refers to a state whre motion is very slow, but still faster than usual. The transcendent nomadicity dreamt of during the old era of nomadicity reappears in the nomadicity of what he has termed po-wal—a play on the Korean word for transcendence, cho-wal, which literally means, “leaping beyond.” By contrast, the “po” of po-wal denotes “crawling” as in “crawling beyond.”
Crawling. For a long time, for a lifetime [...] crawling. Crawling with such effort, one realizes that a long period of time has passed [...] It seems as though one has stayed in one place, but then you realizes you are crossing some immemorial border [...] It seems that you won't make much more progress, forward or upward, but then time passes and you recognize its passing. Po-wal.
Even while adopting this provisional definition of po-wal, we need not hesitate to claim that Ham Sup is an artist who works in the spirit of po-wal. Just as Park Su-Geun, a mythic figure in Korean art, lived in the spirit of po-wal and crossed the “immemorial border” with his art, Ham Sup's life and art have explored a similar realm.
He is diligent. It's true there is something unbecoming about an artist who works too hard, but Ham Sup is a hard-working artist. I've had several meetings with him, but he has never been late or shown any laziness at work. To put it more precisely, he is diligent, rather than tenacious. One is bound sometimes to fall into slump while working on a piece. There can be occasional departures from tasks that have grown too repetitive. This isn't the case with Ham Sup, however. He is in the studio by nine o'clock every morning, without exception, ready to resume his tedious, daily grappling-sessions with hanji. He is truly an artist full of tenacity.
As Walter Benjamin once pointed out, the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction has an aura that rises from extinction. Artists today either build and deploy grand meta-languages or make a big show of everyday gestures of transcendence. In this way, the artist is able to create a sense of mythology around himself, thereby surrounding himself with a sense of aura. The reality is that such an aura, rather than being existential, is an effect of spectacle. But this aura of spectacle, which benefits many artists today, is not inferior to the aura known to the past. With Ham Sup, however, one doesn't find any such kind of holy aura. That is because he is unfamiliar with transcendence. Long before Deleuze or Kim Jin-Suk began theorizing about po-wal, Ham Sup was probably dreaming about it. That is what makes his tenacity possible. If one studied Ham Sup's output throughout his brilliant career, one might conclude that he has already arrived at the state of po-wal. Even so, he is still unfamiliar with transcendence as a definitive condition. Without awareness, but with creaturely persistence, he resumes the process of crawling-beyond.
In transcendent art, we might conceive a vertical orientation between the peak and the ground—a kind of pyramid structure with the fixed point at the top, which is absolute. The structure provides rank and hierarchy, which can be beautiful. The legitimacy of that hierarchy is guaranteed by genius, artistry, or some grand discourse such as philosophy (. . .) However, po-wal should not be belittled. With transcendent art, inseparable from the idea of rank, there is only the peak, from where the slightest movement is sure to mean a precipitous fall to the bottom. For in this “blind” art, instead of doubt-filled eyes bodies aflame with passion collide together and spread fragrance abroad. To put it another way, the path of contemporary art, which has favored performativity over intellect or theory, is in harmony with the concept of po-wal. Let us examine an excerpt from Deleuze's Nomadology:
Among all methods, you have one (or perhaps many). But it does not have pre-existence nor is it given to you pre-made. [...] It is waiting for you. It is a kind of training, an experiment of necessary evil. The moment you plan for the experiment, it is already made, but if you do not plan for it, it is not made. It is not certain. You could fail. Or it could be brutal. You could die. It is at once a craving and a disgust. It is not, in the end, a notion or a concept. It is, rather, a practice, a collection of practices. [...] It is a kind of limit. People ask: What is CsO? But people are already either crawling over the thing like a bug, or stumbling over it like a blind man, or running like a traveler on a desert, a nomad on a plain.
If we substitute what Deleuze calls “it” with “art,” it becomes clear why, during the current era of the Internet and nomadicity, there might be a demand for the sort of performativity that can be offered by the artist of po-wal. An artist of po-wal doesn't abide by widely accepted concepts of art, or operate within a safe territory of conventions only to reaffirm their boundaries. Like a maggot or an insect, he creeps ahead, with his belly close to the earth, a body without organs, creeping ahead at gruelingly slow speeds.
The object of the po-wal aesthetic is not merely to praise the tenacity of hard-working artists. It is intended to help us overcome, as a culture, the limitations and influences set by the hegemonic ocularcentricism of the West, and from the will and wisdom of ourselves open up new ways of seeing. If an artist finds a brick rolling around on the ground, he must recognize its worth, and pursue the possibility of building a wall around himself against everything else, so that, with obstinacy and courage, he can separate himself from truths that seem universal, and alone challenge and devote himself to tackling the impossible. It demands a superhuman will power. While Ham Sup is much older than Lee Sun, he pays little attention to the memoir he's been keeping over the years. Most of his mental and creative energy is spent on his work, grabbing hold of a stack of hanji, immersed in thought about the future he'll bring forth with it.
Art with reasons
At a glance, from a Western point-of-view, Ham Sup's works bear a strong stylistic resemblance with abstract expressionism. Though his automatic technique can produce a stripped-down look reminiscent of Joan Miro's Surrealism, his roots lie closer to principles of Formalism, which developed prior to Abstract Expressionism. When Ham Sup first began his career as an artist, his aesthetic sensibility was already informed by Formalism. Accordingly, we should investigate his work with that in mind.
Looking at the physical quality of Ham Sup's works, one sees that their underlying principles are close to those of Formalism. In an effort to provide support for a new kind of Formalism, art critic and philosopher Clive Bell stated in his Aesthetic Hypothesis that the usage of pure lines and pigments in a “peculiar way” would enable genuine aesthetic feeling, helping to form organic wholes, with shapes or objects he called Significant Forms. Hence, the work of Ham Sup has a closer relationship with Platonic, metaphysical Forms, or aesthetic universals, rather than just sensible shapes.
This formalist school of thought, which begins with Bell's assumptions, were also inherited by the practitioners of Modernism in the 1950's. The renowned art critic Clement Greenberg stated in his Modernist Painting that through the method of “immanent critique” one could investigate a painting directly as a thing without substance. They perceive the medium itself to be the essence of a picture, but of course by medium they are not so much indicating the material used, but rather the “text within” conceealed by the visible illusionism, the pure picture itself. In the end, the medium itself was brought to the fore. What was not essential was excluded; what was thought to be essential was to be opened up . . . .
Late modernism's great Frank Stella said, regarding such works, “What you see is what you see.” However, if we remove Modernism's idealistic and purist sense of Formalism from these paintings, then pure painting-itself, or what we might ironically call a kind of “text-within” disappears, leaving behind we might call “text-without”—an art work's materiality—which remains like an empty husk. (This was known as Minimalism in the 1960's.) In the end, we reached a limit to what the canvas and pigments could reveal truthfully about human life. From this recognition, artists moved forward to experiment with new kinds of media, thereby discovering the molding possibilities of paper.
During the 1970's, after Minimalism and Conceptual Art had already entered the vocabulary of criticism, some American artists who were endowed with a subtle, spiritual sensibility rediscovered the value of paper made out of natural fiber. The 20th century was reaching a cultural saturation-point. The common view was to see paper as a simple material, merely a way of communicating ideas or images by the use of its surface. But then artists began to see in the often neglected medium of paper both a humanistic and a naturalistic quality.
However, their methodology of paper molding had strong roots in pop, conceptual, minimalist art, as well as post-painterly color field abstraction. From the point of view that the sensual faculties were sent reeling, their aesthetic agenda seemed less concerned with opening up and making innovative usage of paper's unique qualities as a medium; rather, its goal appeared to be furthering and improving existing ideas and methods in American contemporary art.
Around the same time, Korean artists began to take a greater interest in paper molding As a result, a kind of movement formed, comprising artists who worked with hanji (a general term for Korean paper), many of whom remain active today. A common quality in all their works is summed up succinctly by Suh Sung-Rhog; he explains well how the works of the Korean artists working with paper are distinct from their American counterparts.
The artists who fully grasp hanji's exquisite sensitivity can work within the material's physical constraints, quietly molding and painting without damaging its unique property. Hanji is intrinsically a perfect molding material . . . depending on the artist, it can be converted to a rubbing or a reproduction, and as an embossed carving and collage, it can be transformed into a variety of shapes. In emphasizing the material's intrinsic property, hanji pieces can resemble works of potent materiality or those employing a monochrome system.
From such statements, we can conclude without difficulty that just as modern artists recognized and objectified the medium-itself as painting's original property, hanji artists sought to objectify the material nature of hanji. Consequently, the chief interest of working with hanji became, despite the fact it was a unique medium and could undergo diverse modifications, to methodologically align and develop the operation in accordance with Western Modernism, more specifically, with Reductionist Art. However, even if paintings of Western Reductionist Modernism are similar to the works of hanji artists methodologically, it doesn't follow that the meaning of hanji art should also be similar. This is because there are intrinsic differences between the materials in question.
If we can compare the Western reductionist work of art to the sun’s unchanging uniformity, then the work composed using hanji can be compared to the moon, distinguished by a harmonious cosmic integrity and conviviality. The moon is maternal and plentiful. As it changes daily, it dies but is revived daily. In that sense, it is one, but also exists as many. However, ultimately, it does not die. In fact, the moon, with its aura of nomadic identity, has strong similarities with working with hanji. The medium of hanji, taken by itself, gives off a strong sense of materiality. Of course, this commonly shared quality of the material, that is unique to hanji, can easily be see in Ham Sup's work. Even then, one can easily discern, simply from the overall look of his work, and the process from which the work is made, some quality unique to him as an hanji artist.
Again, let us examine this from an aesthetic point of view. As I mentioned earlier, even if his work deals with hanji, Ham Sup's beginnings in art was affected by Formalism. As a result, at a fundamental level, his art cannot help but be, in some sense, Western . . . . To him, more important than being an artist of hanji, he must be an artist who emphasizes the importance of a picture's foundation or material, and thoroughly puts his trust in its essence. Of course, the language of the foundation he is using does not conclusively point to any fixed idea. There is progress in science but in art there is only taste, no progress; an authentic modernist painter believes this. In this respect, he can be considered as one of the Modernist artists, despite the fact that he also belongs among the anti-modern hanji artists.
We might try to analyze his work process. Hanji, which is the medium which he uses to create, can be put roughly into three categories: dyed hanji, bark from hanji's original source, mulberry, and fabric woven out of mulberry paper. The process begins with a naturally dyed hanji. In the early stages of the process, layers of hanji are overlapped over a large piece of paper or conjoined forming grids similar to those seen in Mondrian’s paintings. In the next stage, mulberry paper soaked in water is torn into little pieces and woven in, horizontally and vertically. To instill a fabric-like quality, the surface is rendered so that it feels at the same time like paper and a thick, blended weave. This way the support is completed.
So far the procedure is pre-determined. The point of departure comes when the paper grows thicker and the artist beats it with a club or a large brush to make the material adhere better. At this point, the process can be more spontaneous. The artist uses the mulberry bark's thick fiber or textiles made out of mulberry for a collage effect. Though a certain form or molding is intended, a large part of the process is much like the automatic method, as practiced by surrealists; in this way, the artist is able to commit gestural accidents or “mishaps” that lie outside of the his intentional field. That these accidental occurrences on his canvas inevitably bring about a formless and confused state is an important phase of Ham Sup's process. . . .
The artist's memory, imagination, artistic desire, and his substances intersect in a disorderly fashion, and an atypical canvas is converted suddenly into an operational situation, as the canvas subverts itself. This kind of subversive process arises because hanji has a uniquely, intimate relationship with water. The moment hanji is submerged in water, its original form begins to melt and is transfigured into material, the intensity of which is nearly zero. The hanji (or mulberry fiber) soaked in water is identical to its anti-essence; the intensity might begin at zero, but once stuck to a support, the intensity slowly decreases, and when the moisture has dried up, what could not have been anticipated or planned for at the beginning of the process has been brought into actual form. This is, indeed, a “spectacle of nothingness.”
A special quality in Ham Sup's paper art is (quite different from what happens when we sit in front of a canvas ready to draw) that no definite result can be predicted in advance. Moreover, Ham Sup's process does not rely on a method designed to bring us to any predictable outcome. The artist can only predict using his gut feeling, but the piece always becomes a thing that was not expected. . . . Therefore, the artist who had sovereignty over the canvas is overthrown, to make room for the principle of intuition and feeling. But in casting aside his sovereignty, the artist earns the ability to break through the integument, or the outer covering, that conceals the essence of objects. From here, matter is destabilized. That is because his artistic territory exists beyond the realm of what people are familiar with.
Through such subversive methods, the forms woven in disorderly patterns have national, primitive, and naturalistic aspects that are brought to the fore. In the final step of the process, he endows the piece with the aforementioned grid-like quality. In other words, his grid is formed from a molding, as a kind of accent inside the canvas. The grid also functions as a contrivance designed to quietly diminish the naturalistic aspects of the piece. Grid is a disapproval of speech or transcription. Also, it is an emblem of Modernity in today's paintings. Especially in works that are brought to existence using spontaneous methods, it restores strength to the idea of naturalistic space, by transfiguring it into a culturally-inflected one. That is why Rosalind Krauss has argued that modern art's original disposition and symbol of oneness with the self are allegories made functional. However, according to Krauss, oneness and original disposition, as well as repetition and reproduction, are also simultaneously contained in the grid.
Just as the idea of grid so conceived reveals a two-sided nature, we might say that Ham Sup's works, rather than symbolizing rules that are ideologically absolute, instead reveal a worldview that seeks to unify binary oppositions, such as mind and matter, nature and art, reason and emotion, east and west, modern and pre-modern, essence and appearance, present and past, reappearance and expression, accident and necessity. This point-of-view stems from his attitude towards life that is informed by po-wal. Or, perhaps, a path of wisdom discovered by awaking from the fallacy of a single ideology. More than shallowness of knowledge, he stands for the depths of experience; more than truth of categorical reason, truths of some conceivable reason, which can be arrived at everyday, by anybody.
Expressionist Index – Two
Color theorists say coloration is divided into two categories: natural pigments and synthetic pigments. The colors we encounter daily on television are representative of the synthetic pigments. Synthetic pigments are made artificially, and designed to be sensational, stimulating and provocative.
In post-industrial society, the development of digital technology brought about a revolution of coloration even before a revolution of shapes and forms. Synthetic coloration could have hallucinatory effects. It could also be useful in creating images that encouraged excessive consumption. It is true that even before the industrial era, brilliant and splendid colors were already in use in advertising. But today, every corner of our living-space is besieged by synthetic pigments. In visual arts, even outside the realm of digital arts, the use of natural colors has been in radical decline since the emergence of pop art. If we call culture our evolution away from nature, then shouldn't Ham Sup's consummate attempt to return to nature from the saturating effects of culture rightfully be called a work of art?
Ham Sup's works only make use of natural pigments. They are not pigments that resemble nature; they are nature itself. In returning to nature in this way, his wish must be that we pay attention to his work.
Texture or Tactility
The texture of a painting, the work's “sensible quality of the supporting surface,” is inherited from the art of Romanticism, a period that primarily celebrated genius and creativity. As modern art developed, however, a steadily increasing desire for opticality was expressed on the canvas, and people began paying greater attention to a painting's surface quality.
By 1960's, as staining and color-field painting became popular, texture disappeared entirely. But in late modern art, hapticality became just as significant as visibility, and texture and tactility once again became important features of painting. Benjamin noted that after Dadaism, the work of art went from being an object of quiet observation to becoming primarily a medium of shock. From that point on, rather than expecting a beautiful illusion from a work of art, the spectator began to expect some kind of shock or astonishment.
The work of Ham Sup without a doubt exhibits a dual-nature . . . . As an object observed, the surface of his works give off a vivid sense of texture, but there is also a sense of tactility, which emerges in the work's rough woven fibers, resembling dissected muscles that are battered and contorted.
In his recent work, one can see what Bataille called “base materialism” and more recently Julia Kristeva has called “abject art”. In this case, the sense of touch can seem decayed, but this can also be interpreted as a case of artistic transgression or a conscious violation of received ideas about painterly conduct. If a taboo is the result of man's escape from an animal state, the violation is a kind of eroticism, a disguised effort to return to the animal life.
One might wonder if the tactile aspects in Ham Sup's works function as a bridge from his Abstract Expressionist tendencies to an authentic Expressionism. However, prediction in art is also taboo. We might just say that today too he is engaging, as always, in po-wal.
by Um Ki-Hong (Professor of Art at Chongju University)
Translation: Jae Won Chung
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Keynesian Liberal
Christine Lagarde, Greece and Niger
From the content of last Monday''s letters page I must be one of only a few (maybe the only one) Guardian readers who has some sympathy with Christine Lagarde's statement that she thinks "more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education" and who "need even more help than the people of Athens."
Yes, I know that it is the policies of the IMF (of which Lagarde has only just taken charge) that have been a major cause of world poverty: I have spent much of my life teaching about and campaigning for more enlightened policies. But Lagarde can hardly be blamed for the past, and there are signs that the World Bank, almost certainly, and the IMF, possibly, are learning from past errors.
The fact it that the per capita income of Niger (in US$ using the purchasing power parity measure) is $800, whilst that of Greece is over 34 times higher at $27 600. ( For comparison the UK's is £35 900 and that of Malawi, where I worked as a VSO for a couple of years, is $900 - all figures estimates for 2011, source CIA World Factbook, which in spite of its dubious ownership, is regarded as reliable)
Those of us in the developed world should stop moaning, stop blethering on about austerity (few of us have experience of real austerity, and that is a far cry from abject poverty), and by sharing our wealth more equitably we could all live in a state of luxury undreamed of by our grandparents, and still have plenty left over to help countries with real economic problems achieve a decent level of comfort.
If the Greeks paid their taxes (and yes, I know, as here, it is mostly the rich ones who do the evasion and avoidance) then there is no need for any of them to suffer real hardship, and the same goes for the rest of Europe and the developed world. It is high time we changed our use of language and began speaking, not of the burden of taxation, but of the privilege of having enough income and welath to contribute to the maintenance of the civilised society which makes our wealth creation possible.
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Close the Coalhouse Door
Last Saturday in Huddersfield I watched Northern Stage's splendid revival of Alan Platter' musical drama on the history of mining. Although I rather balked at the £3 price, the programme is packed with valuable nuggets of information. It took a strike in 1831 to bring the length of a shift down form 18 hours to 12hours (which puts today's mutterings about austerity, in Greece or here, in perspective.) These shifts often involved children as young a s six. In spite of regular deaths on an almost daily basis (only major incidents hit the headlines) there was no official inspection of mine safety until 1842. After an accident in 1862 which killed 220 boys and men aged 10 to 71, largely through suffocation, mines were forced to have two shafts, so that if the way to one was blocked air might still get in and there was a possibility that trapped miners might be able to get out by the other.
I have no doubt that, had the phrases then been invented, mine owners would have muttered about the "nanny state" and the "red tape" which interfered with the free operation of the market and hampered their competitiveness.
A major grievance of the miners in the early 19th century was the "Bond", which gave he coal owners the "power to lay men idle and discontinue their wages on the most trifling of pretexts." Nearly two centuries later, from 6th April this year, the period during which an employer can sack someone without recourse to an industrial tribunal has been extended from one to two years, and there are provisions in the Queen's Speech for "consultations" regarding the removal of all employee protection from companies with 10 or fewer staff..
As economic professor and former member of the Bank's monetary policy committee David Blanchflower confirms, "There is absolutely no evidence to support the idea that sacking people boosts the economy." Liberal Democrats in the government should take heed rather than take our labour laws back into the dark ages just to placate those guided by the whims and anecdotes of the tabloids
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There have been no posts for the past week as I've spent it walking in mid-Wales with Anglo-French Walks(for details of which please see earlier post). I have not therefore been able to keep a close eye n the news but have picked up the following:
Last Sunday a bishop called for prayers for the Olympic flame. What on earth is the point of prayers for a flame? (If they are that it doesn't blow out than they've obviously failed.) I think this is a rather sad attempt to link the Church to the Olympic razzmatazz. The Church should think itself fortunate that we are inextricably linked with the Queen's Jubilee and leave it at that, rather than try to jump on a bandwagon which is nothing to do with faith, Christian or otherwise. There seem to be rather desperate attempts by the Olympic organisers to whip up enthusiasm for this "jamboree for sponsors, providing unhealthy food and with a large proportion of the tickets for corporate use," as a letter in the Guardian put it. I know it sounds a bit "dog in the manager" but I hope they fail. I'd have more enthusiasm if the Olympics were to be held in the North East, or some other part of the the UK that really is in need of regeneration, and not just another fancy facility for the already over-provided London.
Nick Clegg has been accused by the head of a posh fee-paying school of using communist-style tactics to promote social mobility. Good for Nick: he must be doing something right if his critics, those with a vested interest in preserving and benefiting from inequality, can challenge him only through vacuous smears.
The resuscitation of Vince Cable continues apace. The messages from the Leveson enquiry indicate that he was the only politician prepared to resist overtures from the Murdoch camp. Now, although he still seems a bit more wedded than I should like to the dilution of the Working Time directive, he has at least refused to allow employers to hire and fire at will. As becomes increasingly evident, though the Tories in the government wilfully refuse to notice, what the British economy needs to revive is not more job insecurity, but more demand.
Vast and very beautiful areas of Wales are uninhabited other than by sheep, have heavy rainfall (though happily not last week) and are ideally suited for the building of more dams on the lines of the 19th century development of the Elam Valley. A Wales enjoying home rule (now called "independence lite" in the Scottish context) could solve some if its immediate economic problems by investment in dam building programmes, become "water-rich" and live in comfort for the future by exporting its water, at a price, to London and the South East.
Jesus, the Sabbath, Man and the Economy
Jesus taught that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. In my view much the same applies to the economy: it exists to serve men and women - men and women do not exist to serve the economy.
In this context I'm not too enthusiastic about the government's proposals to scrap "red tape", including parts of the Working Time Directive. We have to remember that although some "red tape" is a bit odd (eg the rule that prevents shops displaying liqueur chocolates in their windows for fear of turning the young to drink) most exists to protect our health, safety and security. The Working Time Directive places a limit on, for example, the number of hours that lorry and bus drives can work without a rest. Presumably we can all see the sense of that.
More generally, the limit of 48 hours in a working week may infringe the liberty of someone who wishes to work more, but it is possible, voluntarily, to opt out. The danger of removing the pre-supposition that 48 hours is the maximum, is that it then becomes very easy for employers to require more.
When Sunday trading became the norm there were many assurance that no-one would actually be required to work on a Sunday. Although I have no personal experience I suspect that that guarantee, though it may still exist in theory, has become a hollow sham, and those who want to opt out of Sunday work either don't get employed in the first place or remain shelf-stackers all their days, with management posts beyond their reach.
In any case, the idea that Britain is full of eager entrepreneurs anxious to to invest in all sorts of exciting innovations which will bring joy and prosperity to all, but are held back by excessive regulation, is a convenient Tory myth. As the distinguished Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang pointed out in the Guardian on 30th April ,the requirement for 299 permits in order to establish a new factory in South Korea in the 1990s did not prevent their investing 35% of GDP and growing at 10% per annum.
What holds entrepreneurs back is not over-regulation but lack of demand. It is high time the government accepted this basic Keynesian premise. Then we can all enjoy the very comfortable standard of living, with plenty to spare, and leisure to boot, which our still very high per capita income makes possible.
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The Home Office - fit for purpose yet?
Yesterday I attended a training session on the workings of the immigration/asylum system in the UK. I heard that one chap, who claimed at his hearing to be a Christian, was asked to prove it by a) naming the date for Easter next year* and b) describing how to cook a turkey. Another chap's claim to have been tortured was turned down because he couldn't state the colour of the torturer's tie. His explanation that his mind was filled with other things at the time was not accepted.
*Had this unfortunate person been, like me, a choirboy in his youth, and whiled away the sermons by flicking through the Book of Common Prayer, he would have known that the date for Easter (the Sunday following the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox) can be found using the Golden Number and the Sunday Letter.
To find the Golden Number, add One to the Year of our Lord, and then divide it by 19; the remainder, if any, is the Golden Number; but if nothing remaineth, then 19 is the Golden Number.
To find the Sunday Letter, add to the Year of our Lord its fourth part, omitting fractions, and also the number six: divide the sum by seven; and if there is no remainder, then A is the Sunday Letter: but if any number remaineth, then the letter standing against that number in the small annexed table (below), is the Sunday Letter.
(0/A;1/G;2/F;3/E;/4/D;5/C;6/B)
Or he could buy a diary.
But if he were an Orthodox Christian it would be different.
The Basildon Tractor Factory Relaunch
The venue was more prosaic than the rose garden of 10, Downing Street, and there were fewer smiles and other overt signs of cloying matiness. But David Cameron and Nick Clegg were united in claiming that the coalition's first priority is to get rid of the deficit and put the economy back on its feet. Quite right too, but the question is, and the difference should be, how do you do it? And which is the horse and which the cart?
The Tory policy is that the first prerequisite is to get rid of the deficit by cutting government expenditure and then the economy will revive. When government expenditure is no longer hogging the resources available for investment and "crowding out" the initiatives of innovative private enterprise, then go-getting entrepreneurs will move in to set up bright new industries, rebalance the economy and, hey presto, jobs are created, growth is restored and joy and prosperity abound.
Keynesians put it the other way round: revive the economy and then, as the tax take increases and welfare expenditure falls, the deficit will correct itself. Keynes also pointed out the obvious: that entrepreneurs will not invest unless they can be reasonably sure of a demand for their products. In a depression, therefore, the government can and should inject demand into the economy by public works (a massive house-building programme, infrastructure improvements, green energy technology - there is no shortage of projects). The income generated will have a multiplier effect as demand stimulates the private sector and, hey presto, jobs are created, growth is restored and joy and prosperity abound.
In spite of his greater coolness Clegg seems still wedded to the Tory view, at least on the surface. However, a "body language" expert observed, that "while (Clegg) gave Cameron lots of attention and nodded in all the right places, a look at his feet showed his weight was often on the foot furthest from the prime minister. Consciously he was being supportive , but his body was secretly trying to distance him from Cameron." (Peter Collett, Guradinan,09/05/12)
On such slender threads hang the hopes of a revival of the Liberal Democrats, and, more importantly Britain's economy.
Forming a government - what we can learn from the French.
François Hollande was elected President of France on Sunday 6th May but will not take office until Tuesday 15th. What a sensible way to go about things, and what a stark contrast to the ridiculous British convention by which, if there is to be a change of party, the new PM enters No10 by the front door and the old one leaves by the back, all on the morning after the election,and the new PM sets about forming a government in a state of dazed exhaustion.
This silly situation is even worse when no party has a clear majority, as in 2010, and it is my belief that one of the problems of the coalition is that it was cobbled together without sufficient time to appreciate and remedy its flaws. More time would have enabled Liberal Democrat negotiators to realise that an agreement to abstain from voting on student fees was an insufficient concession when nearly all MPs had signed pledges to vote against, and made this a major feature of their campaigns. More time would have enabled us to probe the attitude of the Tories to electoral reform rather than assume, bathed in the good will of the Rose Garden, that they were "vaguely in favour." More time may have enabled Liberal Democrats MPs in the Social Liberal mould to negotiate an agreement which would have enabled us to stand aside from destructive monetarist policies rather than be fully associated with them, and, indeed charged with implementing them by accepting the appointment of a Liberal Democrat as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Instead a deal was struck in haste on the pretext, almost certainly false, that "the markets" were baying for a decision. Now around 1000 former Liberal Democrat councillors have plenty of leisure in which to repent.
We like to think we can teach the rest of the world about democracy. We need to become more humble and see what we can learn from others, in this case the French. And this "pause" between an election and the taking of office of a new government, would be a valuable import.
Vive la République socialiste
Congratulations to the French on having elected a president determined to challenge the monetarist hegemony and introduce policies designed to produce growth and create employment. All Keynesians will watch his progress with rather more than sympathetic interest, as his success or otherwise will have reverberations far beyond France. Interesting that the French electors have supported a politician who is not afraid to propose a marginal income tax rate of 75%. Cowardly Liberal Democrats, who were once proud to be the only party proposing a 50% rate, please note. If the new Greek government, when it is formed, can persuade its richer citizens to pay their taxes rather than export their wealth, there is some hope for recovery there too.
Whereas the French have elected the "dull" M Hollande rather than the flamboyant Sarkozy, London has done the opposite (though I suppose it is rather unfair to describe Ken Livingstone as dull.). This is surely an object lesson in the dangers of introducing show-biz style contests into serious politics. I do not follow London politics all that closely but I understand that whereas Livingstone has introduced various schemes which have benefited ordinary Londoners (eg lower Tube fares, the congestion charge) Johnson has done little other than provide entertainment. Even his iconic bicycles were actually planned under Livingstone. Thank goodness all the other cities except Bristol have voted against having a directly elected mayor.
Rose Garden 2 - ouch!
Apparently Nick Clegg and David Cameron are to hold a joint event, dubbed "Rose Garden 2", to show that the collation (oops, "coalition" - see comment) partners are determined to stick together, united by the "glue" of taking tough decisions to rescue the economy.
This is about the last thing Liberal Democrats need, and one wonders what on earth Nick Clegg and his advisers are thinking about. The "tough decisions" policy, in other words public expenditure cuts, has been opposed by we so called "Social Liberals" from the beginning and, after two years the failure of the austerity approach which we predicted is now amply evident, as we endure the "double dip" recession and unemployment is now predicted to reach 3 million by the end of the year. Those who claim that the policy is on course for success are as Panglossian as the famous Comical Ali, the Iraqi Minister of Information, who resolutely proclaimed massive glorious Iraqi victories against a background of American gunfire as they approached the gates of Baghdad.
After Thursday's humiliating but not unexpected defeats, Clegg needs to distance us as far as possible from the destructive Tory economic policy, and repeat and repeat and repeat that they have 306 MPs and we have only 57. So we can't stop them from implementing their principal ideology, all we can do is ameliorate it and introduce some of our own priorities such as the pupil premium, raising of the income tax threshold, and long-overdue constitutional.reform
Thursday, 3 May 2012
How on earth can that be?
There's a BBC radio programme called "The Unbelievable Truth" in which contestants make up improbable stories which contain a number of facts which are actually true, which other contestants are challenged to spot.
However, with surprising regularity "facts" which seem absurd emerge from our highly sophisticated democracy, allegedly in the hands of the best and most highly educated brains in the country for decades, which would challenge the inventiveness of these radio comedians.
Last week we learned that policemen involved in public disorder incidents give written evidence on what they have observed but cannot be questioned on their statements. This seems an absurd exemption. Who on earth thought of it and why? Since the police are frequently accused of provoking or contributing to the disorder, and reacting disproportionately or even illegally, this is a particularly serious breach of the concept of our equality before the law.
Yesterday it was revealed that more than 2 000 senior civil servants, mostly on long term engagements, have designated themselves as private companies in order to minimise their tax bills, and that the Treasury, surely the department most responsible for seeing that we all pay our fair dues, has so far sanctioned these measures.
It is indeed an Alice in Wonderland world.
Disrctly elcted mayors - just say no.
On Thursday next 10 English cities are forced by the central government to run referendums on whether or not to have a directly elected mayor who will wield (very limited) executive authority over the city. This is the latest of a series of measures designed to put a bit more vigour into our democracy without actual changing anything, such as Harold Wilson's decision to extend polling hours from 9pm to 10 pm in the evening in the hope of increasing the Labour turnout, putting polling booths into supermarkets, and the highly damaging extension of the postal vote to anyone who asks rather than just those who need one, which has so extended the possibilities of fraud.
I hope the referendums will each record a resounding "No" because:
1. These referendums are imposed from above: once again central government bossing local people on what they are to do and how they are to do it. (I am reminded of the Stanley Holloway monologue on Magna Carta which concludes with the couplet that the charter shows;
"... that in England today we can do as we lake
So long as we do as we're told.")
2. They place emphasis on "big personality politics (which) appeals to testosterone-charged male egos" rather than reasoned policies. The present London "X-factor" style contest between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone is an apposite illustration.
3. The claim that only a directly elected leader can achieve national prominence and speak with power on behalf of the locality is false. Livingstone was nationally known when he was the indirectly elected leader of the Greater London Council (so much so that Mrs Thatcher abolished it) and the most famous and effective mayor in our history , Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham, was indirectly elected by the council. Bizarre is the argument put forward by Lord Heseltine, leading proponent of directly elected mayors, that Alex Salmond is a good example of what these direct elections will produce, since Salmond is indirectly elected and speaks on behalf a country rather than a city.
4. The system will increase the opportunity for croneyism and corruption. I think at least two of the deputies (each paid over £90 000 a year) appointed by Johnson were forced to resign.
5. With no possibility of executive power, there is little incentive for able people to put themselves forward as councillors. I do not necessarily see local government service as a pre-requisite for national government, but one of the weakness of the present government is that it is lead by young men who have never run anything of importance before.
The way to revitalise local government , and public interest in it, is to return genuine power back to it, including the power to set, keep and spend its own taxes, to introduce a fair and representative system of elections and to insulate local government from Whitehall and Westminster interference by a written constitution.
The proposed cosmetic will mean another change for the worse.
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The Eid of Sacrifice
Categorised Understanding Islam
Selfish people cannot sacrifice, and hence cannot truly love. True love always requires sacrifice. The greater and more profound the love – the greater the sacrifice it commands. In this sense it is only the brave and courageous, only those who can ‘give’, and ‘take’ nothing in return, who can truly love, for only they can truly sacrifice. What do they know of love who only ‘take’, and ‘give’ nothing in return? In fact, loving a woman is like loving God, which makes the subject easy to understand. He who can sacrifice can also be faithful, whereas he who cannot sacrifice can surely betray! It is in this context that we can now understand the implications of those memorable words: “If you love me, then keep My commandments”. Sacrifice was thus instituted as an integral part of the religious way of life, for Abraham, the Prophet, truly loved his God, and when Allah Most High tested that love with the supreme sacrifice, it was love that strengthened him and gave him ‘wings with which to fly’ to fulfill the divine commands.
Eid al-Adha is the Eid of the sacrifice, and hence it is the Eid for those who love their Lord-God and are prepared to sacrifice for Him. It has its origin in that supreme test to which father Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) was subjected: “Oh my son”, he said to his only son, Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam), “I have seen in my sleep that I (must) sacrifice you. What is your response?” Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) interpreted the nocturnal vision as a divine command to be literally fulfilled, i.e., that he was supposed to take his beloved son’s life by cutting his throat. The son, also, understood the vision in the same literal way. “Oh my father”, he responded, “do as you have been ordered. You will find me patient, if God so wills.” And so he prepared himself to give up his life in submission to a divine command. When Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) placed his son in the position for sacrifice the Lord-God called out to him: “Oh Abraham. You have (already) fulfilled the vision (which involved the sacrifice of your son).”
How could the vision be fulfilled when the actual sacrifice of Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam) had not as yet taken place? It should be clear that the vision was not to be understood literally. In fact the command to sacrifice was never meant to perforrned literally. Rather it was another instance of the use of religious symbolism which had to be interpreted with what the Qur’an has described as t’aweel al-ahadith (the interpretation of religious symbolism). Well then, what was the meaning of the vision that was fulfilled when both Abraham and Ishmael submitted in their hearts to the sacrifice? What ‘sacrifice’ was there which involved Ishmael and, hence, the seed of Ishmael (i.e., the Arabs)? Indeed that ‘sacrifice’ is being enacted today before the eyes of the whole world. The Gog and Magog world-order’s slaughter of Arabs in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Holy Land, and elsewhere, is now reaching its climax as the Euro-Jewish State of Israel prepares itself to ‘rule’ the world.
The Qur’an went on to inform that Allah Most High ransomed Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam) with zibhin ‘azeem (a momentous sacrifice). What this meant was firstly, that a ram appeared and it was that animal which was sacrificed instead of Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam). The Qur’an also declared that the sacrifice of the ram was to be preserved for ages and ages to come as a sign to mankind. But secondly, and just as important, what it meant was that there would be sacrifice of the seed of Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam). That sacrifice would take place in the Last Age and it would be part of the divine plan through which Allah Most High would finally deliver victory to Islam and would punish those Jews (who rejected Jesus as the Messiah and conspired tro crucify him) with the greatest punishment ever.
That divine declaration, which was made thousands of years ago, finds spectacular fulfillment to this day. Believers who follow the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) have consistently sacrificed animals to commemorate that momentous sacrifice. Right here in this tiny island of Trinidad, located thousands of miles away from the Arabian desert where the sacrifice took pace, thousands of animals will be sacrificed this day of Eid, and the following two days, just as they have been sacrificed in Arabia for the last few thousand years.
It is, of course, quite sinister that a new development is taking place in the world which is likely to relegate the actual sacrifice of animals to the poor masses around the world, while the rich would abandon it in favor of just writing a check for the money to purchase an animal to be donated instead to the poor. If this diabolical innovation in religion persists, then it would only be a matter of time before the sacrifice of animals in affluent countries on the occasion of Eid al-Adha would become a thing of the past. Already this innovation has taken roots in North America and is gaining ground every year.
But why, we ask today, would an Arab people who had filled the Temple in Makkah with idols which they worshipped, and whose economic life was based on the economic exploitation of slavery, preserve and reenact Abraham’s sacrifice on this particular day every year for thousands of years before Prophet Muhammad was even born? And why would those same idol-worshipping Arabs also preserve the symbol of Abraham’s covenant with Allah, i.e., male circumcision, as they have also done for thousands of years? And, finally, why would they preserve the annual pilgrimage to the House of Allah in Makkah (Hajj) that Abraham himself had established? There can be only one answer to those questions, and that is to recognize that the Arabs were clinging to remnants of Abraham’s religion.
When Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) emerged in Arabia all that he did was to call the Arabs back to the religion of father Abraham so that it could be restored in its original purity. Hence Islam is not a new religion at all! Islam is but a name that was given to one true religion of our father Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam). The essence of Abraham’s faith in his Lord-God is his submission to the Lord. And that is precisely the meaning of the Arabic word ‘Islam’— i.e., submission (to Allah Most High).
The implications of the preservation in Arabia, and now elsewhere in the world where Muslims reside, of this momentous sacrifice, as well as male circumcision and the annual pilgrimage (Hajj) to the ancient temple (Masjid) in Makkah, are startling. They are as follows: Abraham did journey to Arabia; it was to Arabia that he took Hagar and Ishmael; it was there that he built the first temple and he established the worship of the One God; it was there that he instituted the annual pilgrimage to that temple (i.e., the Hajj); the child of the sacrifice was indeed Ishmael; and the place of the sacrifice was indeed Arabia; and hence the Qur’an is truly the uncorrupted word of God; and hence Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) is truly the Prophet of that One God. And praise is due to Allah. There is no God but He!
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Philip Townsend
Philip Townsend’s own life reads like a picaresque novel. His well-born mother inherited a fortune in trust but spent a lifetime trying to prise it from the clutches of reluctant trustees. She blagged money ostensibly for the welfare of her six children but used it instead to feed her gambling habit. Philip, the youngest, trailed in her wake to most of the casinos in Europe, waiting outside while she worked the gaming tables – or they worked her. He attended 27 different schools and lived in a succession of houses because the fees and the rents were never paid.
In one of those fortuitous encounters which have peppered his life, the teenage Townsend teamed up with Lord Christopher Thynne, brother of the Marquess of Bath, and the two toffs toured the country photographing young debutantes. A year later he was working for Tatler magazine, and by the age of 20 he was an agency stringer based in the South of France.
Over the next two years he photographed the beautiful people who wintered and watered on the Riviera: Prince Rainier and his Hollywood wife, Princess Grace; a rare photo of Sir Winston Churchill with Aristotle Onassis; Marlon Brando and Joan Fontaine. Years later, when the sixties were losing their swing, he returned to capture a memorable shot of a visibly out-of-love Richard Burton at a party with Elizabeth Taylor. Townsend was always much more than a party snapper: he had a journalist’s flair for a good story. When Rex Harrison was marrying for the fourth time, to actress Kay Kendall, Townsend door-stepped his home in France and followed him to Italy, eventually bagging a picture which earned him one of many highly paid exclusives in the Daily Express.
The Bunny Girl
A Limited Edition Photograph
Signed & Numbered by Philip Townsend
An edition of 50
“Helga Schramm was the first bunny of the Playboy Club in Park Lane, London. She was born in Germany but soon left and was asked to come to London by Victor Lownes, head of Playboy Club in Europe to train the bunnys. While working there she met Scott Walker and translated a lot of Jacques Brel songs which he used in his next career as a more serious songwriter and performer. In the bio film ’30 Century Man’ he said he had a one night stand with Helga. Helga replied “How could I have translated lots of song in one night?”. – Philip Townsend.
Susannah York (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011) was an English film, stage and television actress. Her appearances in various hit films of the 1960’s formed the basis of her international reputation,and an obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as “the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the Swinging Sixties.
Nico (born Christa Päffgen; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988) was a German singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress who became famous as a Warhol superstar in the 1960’s. She is known for her vocals on The Velvet Underground’s début album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), and her work as a solo artist. She also had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol’s, Chelsea girls (1966).
Rolling Stones in front of Graffiti Wall
Sure enough, he came up trumps with the Rolling Stones, five fresh faced lads breaking into the music scene.
Townsend’s first encounter with the band was a memorable one, most notably for a young Mick Jagger’s demands.
The young singer, who was only 19, complained of being hungry and made the photographer head to a local barbecue to pick up chicken before the shoot could start.
The Swinging Sixties produced two of the most enduring bands ever: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Celebrity photographer Philip Townsend got up close to the excitement of the era, and took many iconic images of the sixties. Townsend is thought to captured the very first picture of the Rolling Stones ever taken, shortly after they formed in 1962.
A chance meeting in Monte Carlo with Andrew Loog Oldham, the band’s first manager, led the celebrity photographer to land the first ever snaps of the rockers.
Recalling his encounter with the teenage Loog Oldham, Townsend said: “He told me ‘I’m going to back to England, I’m going to find a rock and roll band and I’m going to turn them into the greatest rock and roll band in the world.
“We asked what they were called. He said: ‘I don’t know yet, I haven’t found them. But when I go back to England I’m going to find them – and you can photograph them if you like.’”
The Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
This image was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery
Left to Right: Mal Evans, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Pattie Boyd, Mike McCartney, Neil Aspinall, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Maureen Starr, George Harrison, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
This portrait was taken in London, a few days after the Maharishi had lectured on Transcendental Meditation, at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane. The band, their wives, girlfriends and several other friends attended a weekend seminar led by the Maharishi in Bangor, North Wales. During their stay in Wales, the band received the news that their manager, Brian Epstein, had been found dead in his London home.
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Andrew Loog-Oldham holding The Stones
It has been said that while the Beatles, whom Townsend also photographed in their first flush of fame, were bad boys turned good through the influence of their late manager Brian Epstein, the Stones were goodies who became stage baddies. Their first manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, who has remained a lifelong, off-on friend, instructed Townsend to make them look “cruel, tough and streetwise”.
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No apology can compensate for their humiliation – britain must pay its debts to the Windrush generation
7th October 2019 Opinion 17935
Sixty years ago, when Caribbean migration to the UK peaked, the BBC produced a handy little booklet – Going to Britain? – as a guide to what new arrivals might expect. “In the shop or in the store, wherever you go you will most likely find people standing one behind the other waiting for service,” readers were told. “They call this line a queue, and your place in this ‘Q’ is Z – that is at the end of the line.”
The black and white cover photo featured a neat, pensive young woman at a London train station, beside a pile of suitcases that seem suddenly to have become too cumbersome for her to carry. She has the bearing of a schoolteacher, but the suggestion of fastidiousness draws attention to the one real oddity: her overcoat is two or three sizes too big. She is emblematic of the times and of the women I interviewed for Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation. The book will be published into an environment that is still full of toxic narratives around immigration, and at a time when the Home Office has failed to learn lessons from what has become known as the -Windrush scandal.
Setting out from the Caribbean in the 1950s and 60s, many could not conceive of snow, and winter coats were almost impossible to acquire. Such women remind me of my mother, Ethlyn, and all of her Caribbean peers memorialised in the book. These giants of my childhood were extraordinary dreamers and romancers who had dared to travel 4,000 miles to a place they had only imagined from arcane ceremonies carried out by governors and other colonial officials, from Pathé newsreels and from the West Indian Reader textbooks sent from England. Some, such as George Mangar, were better prepared. Mangar’s mother packed 100 shirts into a travelling trunk when he left British Guiana (now Guyana). In his first winter in frosty Britain, he wore three at a time. Others were more cavalier. “Summerwear” got his nickname following his determination on leaving Jamaica to wear light summer suits in England no matter the weather, come hail or storm. “Whatever became of Summerwear?” I asked Ethlyn when researching the book. “Well,” she said, “within a few months he caught a chill and died.”
Growing up in 1970s Luton, I was always impressed by what I considered a West Indian code – the phlegmatic shrug and the great store of humour that eased their passage through life. Struggling to find work in a prejudicial environment, one man was often informed that it was “a terrible shame but you’ve just turned up a little too late”. His wry assessment of the news was typically West Indian: “Boy, the Englishman is the nicest man out when he’s telling you ‘no’.”
Faced with rejection, West Indians mostly pulled up the collar of their coats and walked on – at least that was their initial remembrance as I sat down with them. The palpable veil of respectability, which descended almost as soon as I began to record them, was testament to the peculiar reserve and reticence among West Indians of my parents’ generation to share information. “Me don’t like chat people’s business” is a phrase you’ll often hear in West Indian households. But perhaps because of my Jamaican background, when interviewing these octogenarians that guardedness dissolved as they immersed themselves in reminiscences. They soon reverted to the kind of salty, mischievous and thrilling behaviour that took me back to the 60s and 70s.
The poet Derek Walcott once asserted: “All Port of Spain is a noon-day show.” As a child that same vibrancy was evident at almost any gathering I attended of Caribbean people. They were a contrast to the British, who seemed to have worked out that the whole point to life was to proceed, with as little fuss as possible, towards death. Yet in the 70s, our Caribbeanness rarely found expression outside of the four walls that bound us.
Even so, I’ve long felt the Caribbean influence in Britain. Recently my ears pricked up when listening to PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake. One of that album’s most stunning tracks derives its power from the reggae chorus of Niney the Observer’s Blood and Fire: “there is no more water to put out the fire, let it burn, let it burn”. It might very well be an anthem for our times, heralding the embrace of chaos which borders on nihilism.
Going to Britain? could not have prepared the West Indian pioneers for this moment, nor for the fact that, 60 years after their arrival, some of them would be scandalously deported. Joyce Trotman, now aged 91, gives an overview of how British West Indians have been cast since her arrival in 1954. “First we were children of empire, then citizens of the Commonwealth, and now foreigners and immigrants.” Those who found themselves ejected from the bosom of the motherland were further insulted by the cultural advice offered by British officials about what to expect on arrival back in Jamaica. Lesson one was how to “sound Jamaican” and not to attract attention to their Britishness. The sense of shame of these insulted black Britons is compounded by the notion that you left the Caribbean poor, with a desire to travel to Britain to better yourself; you were not expected to return empty and broken.
“Respect” is the most important word in the Jamaican lexicon. To ensure that a mess like the Windrush scandal never happens again, the government should empty the coffers of the Treasury and give the forced returnees whatever sum might assuage their pain. The financial consequences must be such that officials would think twice in the future. And while we’re at it, let’s strip those enforcers of the hostile environment policy of any honours they may subsequently have received.
Perhaps no level of apology can compensate for the humiliation inflicted. But 60 years on from Going to Britain? we will have reached a dangerous point if there’s an absence of water to put out the fire of resentment that burns in the bosom of all of us, ashamed at the reckless and callous treatment of the most vulnerable members of the Windrush generation.
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Geert Wilders was beaten, but at the cost of fuelling racism in the Netherlands
17th March 2017 Politics 31097
In the Netherlands, the defeat of Geert Wilders’ anti-EU, anti-immigration, anti-Islam Freedom party is a pyrrhic victory. The cost of this victory was that the country’s centre-right party appropriated the rhetoric of Wilders to beat him. Mark Rutte, who leads the VVD party, which won the largest number of seats in the election, talked of “something wrong with our country” and claimed “the silent majority” would no longer tolerate immigrants who come and “abuse our freedom”.
The Guardian view on Geert Wilders’ defeat: good news, to be treated with caution.
Rather than challenge racists, Rutte has boosted their confidence, pouring arsenic into the water supply of Dutch politics. He’s been happy to play the tough guy – as prime minister in the last week of the election campaign Rutte burnished his populist credentials through a fractious dispute with Turkey. He calculated it was in the interests of the Dutch prime minister to be tough on Turkey, and in the interests of the Turkish president to be tough on the Netherlands. He happily sparked a mini-international crisis for the sake of votes. Rutte said stopping Wilders was about stopping the “wrong sort of populism”. The Dutch prime minister will learn that he can’t run the rhetoric of reaction; it will end up running him.
Dealing with the populists who deal in fear offers three options: ignore, co-opt or confront. The surging force in rightwing politics is a form of ethno-populism, driven by heightened concerns over immigration and terrorism. When the right adopts the far-right’s language and policies, the only victory is for the hardliners. Supping with the devil can mean you enter the room as a guest and end up as dessert. Look at France, where Marine Le Pen could end up in the second round of the presidential election leading a party with no significant presence in the National Assembly. She would then have a chance to peel off members of the centre-right Republican party by offering the premiership and other ministerial posts in her putative government.
Power is enormously seductive. Just ask Donald Trump. He first upended the US Republican establishment and now sits atop it. In the White House Trump models himself on America’s first populist president, Andrew Jackson. Jacksonian America is a paranoid place: under siege, with its values undermined either by an elite cabal or by immigrants and its future under threat by arms of government that oppress voters rather than protect them. Even US neoconservatives, who thought they were advancing a liberal agenda through war, recoil from the noxious racism.
If recent history is any guide, trying to ignore rightwing populists and the issues they raise does not work
Trump, Wilders and Le Pen are all part of a pitchfork rebellion on the right. It is a historically novel conservative movement. Margaret Thatcher would never have attacked the British intelligence services, nor would Ronald Reagan have traduced the family of a US soldier killed in action.
If recent history is any guide, trying to ignore rightwing populists and the issues they raise does not work. The policy flip-flops over immigration while Ed Miliband was leading Labour revealed to voters a vacillating streak over an issue that was rising to the top of their concerns; the party lost ground. The Dutch Labour party in this election framed their anti-migration arguments as protecting workers – but the party’s real problem was that it was in coalition with the centre-right government until 2014 and pushed through painful cuts to pensions and healthcare. Voters have not forgiven it.
What is lacking here is context. Technology has helped populists frame their messages to appear more in tune with the zeitgeist than established political parties, at a time when globalization has made many feel insecure about their position in society.
Political parties, and the system of representative government, grew out of a more restrained politics, where voters decided which package of policies they wanted. With the rise of social media and single-issue campaigning, parties lost their monopoly on information. This at a time when people are more and more interested in single issues, causes and individual campaigns. These lend themselves to rightwing demagoguery, which trades in unsubstantiated claims.
The change in politics is happening as poorer workers see their governments not bothering to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Ahead of them are white-collar workers, who are frightened of being downsized themselves and are wary of paying taxes to provide benefits for anyone else.
In the Netherlands, which appears a competitive and productive economy, real household consumption is still lower than a decade ago. Only last year, the head of the government’s think-tank said prosperity was not being widely shared and a yawning gap was opening up between old and young, white and non-white as well as lowly-qualified and highly qualified people. Kim Putters of the Dutch Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) warned people were being left powerless and sought control over their lives. Sound familiar?
This is the bumpy terrain over which the populist tweeters – including Le Pen, Wilders and Trump – ride. They play on the idea that the system has failed and once elected only they will deal with “problems”: the non-whites, non-Christians and other cultural deviants along with the smug bureaucrats, lawyers and professors. Populist movements want to overturn constitutional governments so that the groups they define as enemies of the people can be targeted. That’s why they need to be confronted. That’s why the progressive success story of the Dutch elections was the Green Left party, whose leader Jesse Klaver preached the virtues of an open, fair society: “stand for your principles,” he told voters. “Be straight. Be pro-refugee. Be pro-European”. With 14 seats, he can play kingmaker in coalition talks.
Klaver, the 30-year-old son of an absentee Moroccan father and part-Indonesian mother, was canny enough to use social media and rallies to build support, but his breakthrough was largely down to the fact he was the anti-Wilders candidate. Klaver, who looks like Canada’s Justin Trudeau and sounds like America’s Bernie Sanders, sold an optimistic vision of tolerance, equality and environmentalism, through a slick, web-driven campaign strategy. His message to Wilders: “I want my country back”. He was given to slapping bigots down, saying he had had enough of hate. In TV debates he told Wilders that Islam wasn’t the problem in Holland, Wilders was. Klaver’s right: the way to take on the far-right is not to imitate racists but to fight them.
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The In Character Interview with Lana Pesch
Submitted by Grace on January 19, 2016 - 5:14pm
Lana Pesch's Moving Parts (Arsenal Pulp Press) is full of characters neurotic and bizarre, yet strangely relatable in their longing to connect and belong. Bootleggers, artists, caretakers, arm wrestlers and, of course, a man with a hoof come together in this irresistible collection. Lana's fresh, innovative writing is anchored by an emotional core that makes these stories not only creative but heartbreaking and memorable.
Today we speak with Lana as part of our In Character interview, and she tells us about juggling a whopping thirteen main characters, how to craft great dialogue to create great characters and what she has (and doesn't have) in common with her colourful characters.
Lana Pesch:
My book is a collection of nine short stories with thirteen main characters throughout the book so I will focus on one that was particularly challenging to write: Cody, from the story, "Brotherhood".
The story originated from a newspaper article I read about a man who asks his best friend to kill him because he is in love with his best friend’s girlfriend. I couldn’t shake the story, I was so struck by the bizarre scenario and had a strong sense of this main character, this man who wanted to die.
I wrote a first draft and my mentor at the time, Sarah Selecky, suggested a revision while “steeped in self-loathing” to get deeper into the consciousness of Cody because he didn’t feel fully formed. She was right. To tell the story, I needed to truly understand what was going on for him. What had happened to him? Why did he want to die? What experiences led him to come up with this scenario?
So I wrote from a dark, desperate place and it was difficult and sad and exhausting. But had I not explored Cody’s character in this way, I wouldn’t have learned what he needed to say, or done justice to the story. Issues of abandonment, parental neglect, low self-esteem and guilt bubbled to the surface and the story took a new shape.
In one of my stories, "Landing Area", there is a bootlegging lesbian pilot named Steph. I am none of those things. Steph became her own person as I was writing her. I let her do what she needed to do and if that meant masturbating against a tree then eating a pound of bacon, well, that’s Steph, not me. It’s about being truthful to who the character is, what they would do or not do, say or not say. At one point, in "Deffer’s Last Dance", Deffer takes the lid off a jar of peppers in the grocery store, takes a sip and puts the back on the shelf. That’s Deffer for you.
There is plenty more to every character than what is on the page, but my job as a writer is to be in control of the details and include what is necessary to tell the story and toss the rest to the curb.
At some point, when I am deep inside a character’s consciousness, it becomes a relief to not be responsible for them anymore, in a way. This is the “life of their own” part of the process. They will tell me what they need to say (or not say) and do. The story too, reveals itself it this through enough revision. It might sound corny but this is my experience.
If I need a name for a character who is a certain age or ethnicity or from a specific region, I’ll do a Google search. For example: popular names for females born in 1993. Sometimes I use people I know by looking around the office or scanning my friends and family. (You know who you are Christie, Mrs. Greening, Riley, Wiz.) I’ll also flip through newspapers for ideas, including The Melville Advance, the newspaper from my hometown in Saskatchewan where they come up with some of the wackiest baby names.
The key to writing good dialogue, I think, is to be a good listener. And I read dialogue aloud. It’s the only way to know for sure if it’s believable, and not too stagey or trying to do too much. For any of my main characters, I try to use language that is appropriate to who they are, things they would truly say.
I also include mistakes. We all make mistakes when we talk. We stumble, fumble, pause, say the wrong thing, search for a better word, swear, all of that makes this makes the dialogue believable, in my opinion.
For the aspiring writer I recommend two things:
1) Carry a notepad at all times and write down juicy bits of dialogue when you hear them. I do this. I’ll jot down parts of conversations I hear on the street, on a flight, on the streetcar, stopped at a red light on my bike, anywhere.
2) Take Sarah Selecky’s Story Is a State of Mind writing course. The lesson on dialogue includes an assignment of eavesdropping in a public place which is fun. In addition to be an amateur sleuth, if anything is going to make your dialogue realistic, it’s real dialogue.
I think I have bits and pieces in common with a lot of the main characters in my book. There are slices of me, and people I know, woven into the fabric of my characters. The character traits of my characters come from actual character traits. How could they not?
Let’s just say I have been known on occasion to be neurotic and indecisive and confused, as well as proud, forgiving and sarcastic. These are a few parts of me that find their way into characters throughout my book.
So many!
Off the top of my head:
Morris in "The Falls", by George Saunders
Winky, from "Winky" by George Saunders
The narrator in Julie Hecht’s Do the Windows Open — she doesn’t have a name and I think that’s an interesting choice
Almost every character in Jessica Westhead’s books — Pulpy and Midge for sure, from the novel, Pulpy and Midge, and Shelley from the story "Coconut" in And Also Sharks
Orange, from Kathryn Kuitenbrower’s All The Broken Things — a perfect name and unforgettable, non-speaking but highly communicative character
Ellen from Ellen in Pieces by Caroline Adderson
Lily from Anne Marie McDonald’s Fall on Your Knees
Will Bird from Joseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce
Aminata Diallo from The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Keane from the story "One Thousand Wax Buddhas" from the collection, This Cake Is for the Party by Sarah Selecky — one of my favourite characters, and stories
Ignatius C. Reily from The Confederacy of Dunces
Lionel Essrog from Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem — the orphaned New Yorker with Tourette’s Syndrome working for a small-time mobster
I recently read So Much for That, an entertaining and heartbreaking novel by Lionel Shiver that is filled with a bunch of memorable characters (and names) The protagonist Shep Knacker, his wife Glynis, his sister Beryl, Shep’s friends Jackson and Carol and their daughters Flicka and Heather, Shep’s idiot boss, Randy Pogatchnik and many more.
A novel, some more short stories, and a bit of haiku.
Lana Pesch is an alumna of the Banff Wired Writing Studio and her short fiction has been published in Little Bird Stories: Volumes I and II. She was longlisted for the 2014 CBC Short Story Prize and won the Random House of Canada Creative Writing Award at the University of Toronto in 2012. Moving Parts is her first book. She lives in Toronto.
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On Writing, with Charis Marsh
Submitted by Grace on January 9, 2012 - 9:29am
Vancouver-based author and lifelong dancer Charis Marsh is the author of Love You, Hate You (Dundurn), the first instalment in the Ballet School Confidential series. Set in a prestigious Vancouver ballet academy, the book follows four young students struggling to fit in and stand out at the same time.
A second book in the series, You're So Sweet, is forthcoming in July.
Charis talks with Open Book about the dancer's life, her CanLit reading recommendation and her plans for the Ballet School Confidential series.
Lana Pesch (Arsenal Pulp Press)
From Arsenal Pulp Press: Darkly off-kilter stories about the moving parts to being human. A blind date blooms in a grocery store parking lot. Lake Erie forms the backdrop to a botched assisted suicide. A neurotic, dog-loving caretaker writes a complaint letter after an unfortunate leg-waxing incident. While his uncle lies in a coma, a young man befriends a dead homeless guy. A coming-of-age road trip leads to encounters with a gang of costumed lesbian arm wrestlers and a man with a hoof. A plane crash on the BC coast brings an artist and a bootlegger together in a dire situation. These flawed, often broken characters seek meaning, acceptance, and closure under extraordinary circumstances ... though not necessarily in that order.
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Icelandic Companies Required By Law to Show They Pay Men, Women Fairly
From today’s National Public Radio:
Starting this week, companies in Iceland are required to demonstrate that they pay male and female employees fairly — without gender discrimination. Failing to do so can result in daily fines.
The law, which was passed last year and went into effect on Monday, is believed to be the first of its kind in the world and covers both the private and public sectors.
Some headlines have claimed that the new law makes it illegal to pay men more than women. That is not exactly what happened. In Iceland — as in many countries, including the U.S. — it was already illegal to pay men and women differently on the basis of their gender. (And, to be clear, it was and is legal to pay a man more than a woman, or vice versa, provided there is a valid reason.)
As the Icelandic Women’s Rights Association notes, equal pay for equal work has been mandated by Icelandic laws since 1963.
What is remarkable about the new law in Iceland is how it enforces equal pay standards. It does not rely on an employee to prove she was discriminated against. Instead, the burden is on companies to prove that their pay practices are fair.
The policy change comes after years of discussion and pilot testing, based on frustration with the fact that several gender-equity laws were not budging the actual pay gap.
Iceland has the best track record on gender equality in the world, according to the World Economic Forum. But the country still had a persistent pay gap just over 16 percent as of last year. The gap exists across all occupational groups. According to the Nordic Labour Journal, figures from 2010 showed about 8 percent of that year’s gap remained “unexplained” after factoring in possible justifications.
Iceland’s new law applies to companies with 25 employees or more. Every three years, the companies will need to confirm that they are paying men and women equally for jobs of equal value. If they aren’t certified, a daily fine will stack up.
Read the complete article here.
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Disproportionate Responses
by Jad Ziade
My plane landed midday and in the back seat of the taxi I read the article my brother had sent me. “Lebanese reconstruction commences,” the author wrote. “Corruption rife, one mile of highway more expensive in Beirut than in Los Angeles.” The Israelis had destroyed the country again and an enlightened liberal was explaining the faraway war to America, leading us to the only respectable truth: the Israeli government had found itself in an unfortunate situation and might have gone too far in its reaction. Whatever horrors the Arabs suffered, they had only themselves to blame.
I was back at Mom’s house before dinner, hugging her as she pulled me through the house to the garden. First she showed me her five new lettuce plants, explaining the difference between each. Then she took me to the carrots, tomatoes, grapes, and yams. I feigned interest as best I could and she laughed. “Your mother is now an old lady.” She nudged me to pick the lettuce and we ate it with tabouli alongside her latest triumph — vegetarian nouilles. The dogs waited at her feet as we ate and she proudly insisted I meet the new cat, the one in the garage who was too afraid to greet anyone but her. I lifted my plate to show her my unfinished meal and she pointed to the small birds outside. She reminded me of each of their names as they visited the various contraptions she had built for them. “You want to know more?” she said.
“Yalla,” I said, affecting an accent, “Tell me more.”
It did not surprise me that the kitten trusted only her. We left the dishes and went to find him, my mother leading slowly, whispering softly, looking between the boxes and stacks of canned tuna that she always kept piled in the garage. “There he is,” she said, gesturing for me to stay back as she bent down and picked him up. “Say hello.”
Afterward we washed the dishes and when we finished she tapped me on the shoulder. “I’m going to see if Jim needs anything. You must call Fawwaz.”
“I don’t know,” I said. “We barely know each other. What am I supposed to say to him? Especially now.”
“He needs family,” she replied, “He’s lost everything and you’re his cousin. Call him. You can use my phone.” She left to see what my step-father might want and instead of following her orders, I walked out to the backyard where the birds were still singing and had a cigarette.
When I returned she was back in the kitchen with the phone against her ear, nodding and speaking quickly. Then, she thrust the device into my hand. “Fawwaz is on the line. He wants to say hello.” I put the phone to my ear.
“How are you?” I asked, keeping my voice as even as I could. Something came back but I couldn’t make out what it was. Then, another attempt.
“Hi, Nabil. This is your cousin. Do you remember me?”
“Of course I remember,” I said. I tried to recall his face but I couldn’t. The last time I had seen him we lived in the homeland. I was five years old and he was fifteen. He took me fishing. “My mother told me you left Lebanon,” I said. There was a pause.
“Yes, I’m in Canada. Did she tell you that?”
“She told me everything,” I said. There was another pause and then a long string of words, some English, some Arabic, all unintelligible. Fawwaz cleared his throat.
“I’m drunk,” he said. “Everyone is gone, and I’m drunk.” I rushed to think of something to say that wouldn’t sound contrived. Before I could, he continued. “I had to leave. I couldn’t stand it there anymore. I’ve been drinking since she died. Nadine got sick of it and left me. I don’t have money anymore. I’ve been here for one week and my sister already wants me gone. I don’t blame her.”
“She doesn’t want you gone,” I said.
“How do you know?” he replied, his voice suddenly sharp. At first I thought to acquiesce.
“She’s your sister.”
“Yeah, you’re right,” he said, “but habibi, you know nothing.”
He started laughing then, and wouldn’t stop so I went to find my mom on the couch and she smiled. “Speak to him,” she said. “He only wants someone to talk with him.”
I covered the receiver. “What the hell do I say to him?”
Fawwaz’s laughter turned to muffled sobs.
“What was it like?” I asked, more loudly than I intended.
“Thunder,” he said, “for hours. Rolling up and down the street. And in between, everyone screamed. It didn’t matter if you were hit. After two weeks of it, you screamed. Then after every bomb, I counted the buildings from memory. Then I counted them again, and then again.”
“Wow,” I said, “I don’t know . . .”
He ignored me. “One night I came home from work. That’s how crazy I was — I still went to the paper. But that day she died. The bomb hit across the street. Nothing hit her. Not even scratches, but the sound stopped her heart and she fell over dead. She was ten. We weren’t sending her to school anymore.”
“Haram,” I said. “I’m sorry, Fawwaz.” He laughed, and suddenly embarrassed, he mumbled something as if to apologize, then demanded I give the phone back to my mom. I left her to speak to my cousin.
Outside, it was quiet. I lit another cigarette and searched for the moon. The dogs followed me out and chased each other around Mom’s bird bath, and when I didn’t join them, they loped back and sat at my feet. The moon was rusty-red from the brush fire some miles north. Mom told me they’d have to evacuate once the ash rain reached them.
“I told him goodbye for you.” She appeared behind the screen door. “Don’t get smoke inside the house.”
“I won’t,” I said. “Mom?”
“Yes, my dear.”
“How many of these phone calls are left?”
She nodded. “That was probably the last. Everyone else is gone or dead. But it’s important to talk. Otherwise you forget who you are and when you lose your courage you lose those you love. Then one day you are old and weak and no one will remember you or love you.”
I laughed. “Let’s say hi to that cat again.”
“His name is Felix,” Mom said.
“Felix,” I repeated.
“You can say hi to him as often as you want, but in the morning, when your cousin has his head again, call him and talk.”
“I will,” I said.
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NATIONAL NEWS FOR MEN'S LACROSSE!!
NJCAA Men's Lacrosse Players of the Week (March 25, 2009)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. --- Genesee Community College (N.Y.) midfielder Cory Blackburn and goalie Coty Brawdy have been named the NJCAA Lacrosse Player and Goalie of the Week, for contests ending March 22.
Cory Blackburn (Hilton High; Hilton, N.Y.) recorded 10 goals off 16 shots last week in two wins for Genesee Community College. In a 9-6 win over Cayuga on March 19, Blackburn had two goals off four shots with two assists. On March 21, he added eight goals and an assist with 12 shots in an 18-6 showing against Tompkins-Cortland Community College. A very versatile player, Blackburn is on the field for all units. The sophomore also grabbed five ground balls in each game.
Coty Brawdy (Eden High; Angola, N.Y.) posted a .710 save percentage over two games last week for Genessee Community College. In a 9-6 win over Caguga, Brawdy made 17 saves on 23 shots and in the 18-6 win over Tompkins-Cortland he added 10 saves on 15 shots. The sophomore is 2-0 on the season.
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Author’s new Memoir book “Where is My Happy Ending?” receives a warm literary welcome
Readers’ Favorite announces the review of the Non-Fiction – Memoir book “Where is My Happy Ending?” by Karen Harmon, currently available at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0228829496.
Reviewed By Mamta Madhavan for Readers’ Favorite
“Where Is My Happy Ending? A Journey of No Regrets by Karen Harmon is the poignant and heartbreaking story of living in a family plagued by mental illness and how she leaves home at the age of seventeen and goes to Vancouver to embrace a new life filled with dreams. The memoir chronicles her story of hard knocks, the highs and lows of her life, the adversities and challenges she faced while living alone in Vancouver, and also getting involved with different men, drugs, and alcohol. It is a story of courage, hope, heartbreaks, love, and healing as readers get glimpses of her life filled with hardships and the difficulties she endures being a single parent.
“Where Is My Happy Ending? is raw and honest and is also an inspiration for readers to look at life with a positive perspective, just like the author did with hers. What makes Karen Harmon’s story appealing is her honesty when it comes to sharing her life with readers. She speaks about it in detail and it is heartbreaking to note her vulnerability, sadness, and pain as the memoir progresses. What has to be admired is her attitude of taking life in her stride, not complaining, and not having any regrets over what she suffered. Her story is real and relatable, and many readers will be able to connect with her experiences and stories and be inspired to look at the hardships and adversities in their lives from a different perspective. More than her story, what impresses readers is the determination to take control of her life and deal with it without complaining.”
You can learn more about Karen Harmon and “Where is My Happy Ending?” at https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/where-is-my-happy-ending where you can read reviews and the author’s biography, as well as connect with the author directly or through their website and social media pages.
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Winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson prize
What if the nightmare imagined by George Orwell in 1984 were real? What if you had to live in a country where radio dials were fixed to a single government station? Where the surroundings were entirely black-and-white except for the red lettering of the propaganda signs? Where you were required to keep a large portrait of the president on your living room wall and bow to it on national holidays? Where sexuality was repressed except for purposes of reproduction? Where spies like Orwell’s Thought Police studied your facial expressions during political rallies to make sure you were sincere not only in your speech but your thoughts?
This is a real place – the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea or North Korea. The Communist regime that has controlled the northern half of the Korean peninsula since 1945 might be the most totalitarian of modern world history.
George Polk Award and Robert F. Kennedy Award-Winning Journalist Barbara Demick’s NOTHING TO ENVY: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau; On Sale December 29, 2009) offers a never-before-seen view of a country and society largely unknown to the rest of the world.
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“Elephant” – Bird to Beast
I saw Bird to Beast live for the first time in November 2013 supporting Black Casino and the Ghost at The Finsbury in north London and they were excellent, performing stripped-back arrangements of their album material to an enthusiastic audience. The single “Elephant” is the second release from Bird to Beast’s debut album, following “To Lips from Lungs” in September 2013.
“Elephant” is a joyously over-the-top mixture of vocal stylings from the 50s and 60s (the intro could be the Andrews Sisters or an arrangement from “Glee”) and a production which Joe Meek would have been proud of. The first two verses feature Sam Hird’s high tenor vocals set against Hannah Hird’s beautiful harmony backing vocals before moving into a middle eight (ok, middle sixteen) built around 60s organ(Farfisa rather than Hammond) arpeggios. The outro is a series of choruses with a couple of upwards modulations building up to a proper ending (no fade-out copout here).
This single is melodic, nostalgic, packed with ideas and is just great fun. I can’t think of anything better to start the year with; you really should give it a listen.
Physical release January 13, 2014.
Posted by mckaya on Friday, January 10, 2014 at 6:07 pm
Filed under Featured, Singles · Tagged with andrews sisters, bird to beast, black casino and the ghost, elephant, glee, hannah hird, sam hird, the finsbury, to lips from lungs
Allan’s Tips for 2014
We promised to point you in the direction of some great music that we think will break through this year and I think it’s about time we started. A couple of these groups have been mentioned on MusicRiot in 2013, but we think they’re on the verge of national recognition this year, so I make no apologies for bringing them to your attention again.
Canterbury’s Coco and the Butterfields kept us entertained for a few nights last year in various venues across London and Brighton and were well worth seeing each time. The band came together on the busking scene in Canterbury and their live shows still have the feel of a very intimate interaction between audience and performers. The line-up is unusual (double bass, banjo, guitar, fiddle and human beatbox with two very strong lead vocals with occasional help from trombone and trumpet) and the band are tremendous in the live setting but they have a lot more going for them. They have some very innovative cover versions and some outstanding original material (the single “Warriors”, for example) and they win over audiences wherever they play.
Which brings me to my second tip: I saw Gentlemen of Few supporting Coco and the Butterfields upstairs at The Garage in Islington, and they were tremendous. They play country bluegrass, they’re young, they’re enthusiastic, they’re from south Kent and they’re a joy to see live. They play a wide variety of traditional instruments and they play them really well. The vocal harmonies are the icing on the cake; they have great voices and the four-part harmonies are superb. They might not break through this year, but it’s only a matter of time. Go out and see them in 2014 if you can.
Two of the Riot Squad have been following Black Casino and the Ghost very closely this year. I’ve reviewed a couple of singles (as well as their contribution to the “Radio (in my) Head” album) and Klare reviewed their debut album; we’re both very impressed. Fronted by the powerful and dynamic vocals of Elisa Zoot, BCATG are superb as a studio and live act with a bunch of powerful and original songs and varied live arrangements and visuals. They attracted some national attention towards the end of the 2013 in The Guardian and it’s only a matter of time before they break out from the London scene.
Another band I saw as a support in 2013 was Bird to Beast (supporting Black Casino and the Ghost at The Finsbury) in November. The core of the band is Sam and Hannah Hird from Colne in Lancashire and their own description of the band’s sound is psych-folk although there’s an awful lot more going on there. The songs are very good (certainly strong enough to stand up to a stripped-down live performance) and the vocal harmonies give them a huge lift. Their new single “Elephant” is released officially on Monday 13th January and has already had plays on 6 Music and Radio 2. I think we’re going to hear a lot more from Bird to Beast in 2014.
The final tip for 2014 is an artist that I listened to for the first time today and had to listen a few more times because he was so good. Noel Cowley is a London-born singer-songwriter with very pronounced Celtic influences and inspiration. His songs are introspective and sometimes nostalgic and he knows how to write a good melody and a very good chorus. His second EP, “Home is Everywhere” is released on Tuesday January 14th and the title track caught my attention immediately because the vocal had a very strong feel of one of my favourite singers, Iain Matthews and that has to be a good thing.
We’ll be publishing more detailed reviews of the Bird and the Beast single and the Noel Cowley EP in the next few days, so keep an eye out for those.
Posted by mckaya on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 7:04 pm
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Subjugating APA Women One Meal At A Time
‘Cuz when I go out to dinner, I’m looking for a little bit of racism with my sushi entree.
The Asian American community is no stranger to offensive Asian-themed restaurants. Here in Tucson, the Asian American community successfully lobbied a local restaurant named “Eggrolls, Etc.” to change multiple anti-Asian references in their menu. Last year, this blog was involved in lobbying a restaurant on the East Coast in an effort to raise awareness about advertisements that exotified and objectified the Asian female form.
But, here we go on: a restaurant that has yet to open in the Oakland area is raising more than mere eyebrows. This restaurant will be named “Geisha”.
Yes, you read that right: “Geisha”.
As an Asian American woman, I am deeply offended by the title of this proposed restaurant, and am even more insulted by the nerve of the restaurant owners to open such a derogatorily-named establishment in the heart of one of the nation’s more populous Asian American communities. The last thing that Asian American women and girls need is to be walking down the street and get exposed to yet another example of mainstream exotification and subjugation of our bodies. America’s fascination with the geisha image is not for merely due to the rampant sexuality of the stereotype; no, it is an obsession with a distinctly racialized image of an Asian woman as existing purely for pleasure and domination by men. We’re not merely talking about simply hypersexualizing the Asian/Asian American woman (as if that weren’t bad enough) — we’re talking about glorifying the sexual slavery of the Asian/Asian American female body by rendering her nothing more than a meek, demure and ultimately silent sexual plaything. The persistence of the geisha image in the American cultural landscape is a daily affront to strong and empowered Asian American women, and takes the cause of Asian/Asian American feminism several steps backwards.
But, before I go on waxing philosophical, check out this incredible letter by professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, Dianne Wu. Wu breaks down the argument against “Geisha” poignantly and eloquently in her letter to the Oakland Planning Commission, urging them to deny a permit for “Geisha”. You can read the full text at Angry Asian Man, but I’ll quote my favourite part regarding microaggressions:
A recent study conducted by Derald Wing Sue et al (2007) from the Teachers College at Columbia university identified 8 major types of microaggressions commonly experienced by Asian Americans. Of the 8, 2 are relevant to the issue at hand today.
First is the exotification of Asian women, where Asian and Asian American women are perceived as being available for sexual favors for men. As Jessica Tan and Jen-Mei Wu’s testimonials also concur, these incidents are not isolated to academic books and journals and radical social justice circles, but a salient feature of Asian American women’s lives in Oakland, in downtown, in the United States every day. I would hope and expect that the Oakland in which I live, work, love and play would absolutely reject any role in allowing this stereotype to live or become in any way a feature of the physical or psychological landscape of this city.
Second was the widespread denial of Asian Americans racial realities. This included messages being conveyed were that Asians are not an ethnic minority group, experience little or no discrimination, and that their racial concerns are unimportant. In this case, the group’s prior attempted exchanges with Perry were met with absolute denial that our concerns about the name of the bar-restaurant-lounge could possibly be reinforcing a racist and sexist stereotype, nor even that geisha itself was a racist and sexist stereotype in the US and Western context.
According to Wing Sue et al, microaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to people of color because they belong to a racial – and this case, racial and sex-based – minority group. These exchanges are so pervasive and automatic in daily interactions that they are often dismissed and glossed over as being innocuous.
Sadly, the Oakland Planning Commission confirmed the perceived innocuousness of these kind of anti-Asian stereotypes by voting in favour of “Geisha”. Here are the names of the four commissioners who voted “yes” (kindly collected by spamfriedrice over at Asian Americans for Progress) — Act Now! and write a letter expressing your displeasure at their votes:
Michael Colbruno
Clear Channel Outdoor
Email: michaelcolbruno@clearchannel.com
C. Blake Huntsman
SEIU, Local 1021
155 Myrtle Street
452-2366, ext. 522
Email: Blake.Huntsman@seiu1021.org
Douglas Boxer
Boxer & Associates, Inc.
300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 500
Email: dboxer@gmail.com
Vince Gibbs
250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Ste. 3315
Email: VinceGibbs.opc@gmail.com
In addition, write about how you find the restaurant’s name offensive on Yelp, where the restaurant’s owners are trying to stir up some good press for their future establishment. And of course, if you live in the Oakland area, boycott the living hell out of the place.
Categories Categories Act Now!, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, Feminism
Judge Denny Chin Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals
The White House announced today that Judge Denny Chin, the accomplished judge who presided over the infamous U.S. vs. Madoff case earlier this year, has been nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Here’s Chin’s biography, as released by The White House:
Judge Denny Chin: Nominee for United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judge Denny Chin was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong. His family moved to the United States when he was 2 years old. Judge Chin was raised in New York City, attending Stuyvesant High School, a New York public school specializing in math and science, before attending Princeton University. He graduated from Princeton magna cum laude in 1975 and from Fordham Law School in 1978 where he was the managing editor of the Fordham Law Review.
After graduation, Judge Chin clerked on the Southern District of New York for Judge Henry F. Werker. He then spent two years at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1982. When he left the U.S. Attorney’s office in 1986, Judge Chin started a law firm with two colleagues: Campbell, Patrick & Chin. Four years later, he joined the law firm of Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., where he specialized in labor and employment law.
In 1994, Judge Chin was nominated and confirmed to the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, where he currently serves. He was the first Asian-American appointed as a U.S. District Court Judge outside of the Ninth Circuit.
Judge Chin has served as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law teaching legal research and writing since 1986. He is currently the Treasurer for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Judicial Council, and he has served as the President of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court and the President of the Asian American Bar Association of New York. He also currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the Fordham Law School Alumni Association and the Fordham Law School Law Review Association and as the Co-Chair for the Fordham Law School Minority Mentorship Program. Judge Chin is a member of the Federal Bar Council Public Service Committee, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Judge Chin is being nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Why is this a significant step?
The Asian American Bar Association (AABA) openly discusses the lack of representation of Asian Americans in the upper tiers of the judicial system. They write:
At the federal level, the number of Asian Pacific American judges is miniscule. In the Northern District of California, which includes San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Alameda counties among others, there has never been an Asian American district court judge pursuant to Article III of the U.S. Constitution. As to all Article III federal courts, the number of active Article III judges who are Asian Pacific American is:
• Zero in the Northern District of California
• Zero in the federal circuit courts of appeal
• Zero on the U.S. Supreme Court
In addition, former AABA president Celia Lee and Judge Ken Kawaichi wrote a compelling argument lamenting the embarrassing lack of diversity of judges in the federal courts system for the San Francisco Chronicle, with a specific focus on the state of California.
The absence of an Asian Pacific American jurist on the federal bench is a stark contrast to the Asian Pacific American jurists who sit on the state courts in Northern California, where there are 27 Superior Court judges, two commissioners, a justice on the Court of Appeal and two justices on the Supreme Court. Even with that number of Asian Pacific American jurists on the bench, state courts have not achieved parity with the Asian Pacific American population, which constitutes 33 percent of San Francisco’s population and about 20 percent of the Bay Area population. But at least there is progress. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appointed five Asian Pacific American judges in Santa Clara, Alameda and San Francisco counties.
Lee and Kawaichi go on to state the case for why having equal representation among judges is critical; many of the country’s landmark civil rights cases throughout history were brought by Asian Americans against the state of California or the federal government. Here are those listed by Lee and Kawaichi in their article:
In Yick Wo vs. Hopkins, one of the earliest civil rights cases in American history, the Supreme Court in 1886 struck down a discriminatory San Francisco ordinance targeting Chinese Americans.
In Wong Kim Ark vs. the United States, a landmark immigration case in 1898, the Supreme Court applied the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to an American of Chinese ancestry born in the United States.
In Korematsu vs. United States, one of the most infamous civil rights cases in American history, the Supreme Court upheld the forced exclusion and detention of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II without the right to notice of charges, the right to attorneys or the right to a trial. Forty years later, in 1984, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the Northern District court overturned Korematsu’s conviction, ruling that there was no good justification for the internment.
In Lau vs. Nichols, a suit brought by Chinese American students living in San Francisco, the Supreme Court expanded the rights of all students throughout the country with limited English skills by requiring language accommodation.
Asian Americans are not merely impacted by decisions made in federal courts, we have been instrumental in changing the face of the United States for the better throughout this nation’s history. Yet, Asian Americans are yet to be adequately represented in the positions that actually make these critical rulings.
Earlier this year, President Obama took a major step towards rectifying this disturbing lack of representation of Asian Americans among federal jurists; in August, Obama nominated Judge Edward Chen to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where he is now the first Asian American to serve as a federal judge overseeing a region encompassing some of the country’s largest Asian American populations.
If I read the AABA’s website correctly, if Judge Denny Chin were confirmed to the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, he would be the only Asian American currently serving in the federal court of appeals system. In other words, even with Judge Chin sitting on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Asian Americans would still only represent 1% of judges in the federal circuit courts of appeal compared to representing more than 4% of the population.
Nonetheless, I applaud President Obama for this important step towards improving diversity in this nation’s courts. When Obama was campaigning for the presidency, he took a stance towards improving representation of underrepresented minorities in the judicial system, and it’s good to see that he has been true to his word when it comes to the Asian American community.
Act Now! The Asian American Bar Association has a number of recommended actions you can take if you want to let your elected representatives know you want more Asian Americans in the federal courts.
Send an email to Senators Feinstein and Boxer letting them know this is an important issue, letting them know that it is important for Asian Americans to be represented on the federal bench. For Senator Feinstein, click [here], and for Senator Boxer, click [here].
Become an AABA member and join our committees, including our Judiciary/Public Appointments Committee.
Support AABA, NAPABA, and other organizations seeking to diversify the judiciary.
Come to our Annual Dinner and other events to learn more.
Categories Categories Act Now!, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, Politics
International Non-Violence Day
Today is the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, and is marked by International Non-Violence Day. Today is a day for remembering the lives lost in social oppression and violence, and a day to appeal to the better nature in all of us. Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence as a method for resistance and uprising inspired political leaders around the world, including Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yet, International Non-Violence Day falls this year during a time when America is still fighting wars in the Middle East. More than 5,000 troops have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. At home, men and women still suffer and die every day due to social injustice: the sick are denied life-saving healthcare while politicians quibble in Washington, inner-city children don’t have access to adequate public education, and people of colour are shot to death by those who are sworn to protect us.
The anger I feel at these injustices challenge the principles of non-violence; yet it is imperative that the anger that would tempt us away from non-violence be used to funnel political activists towards effective, and yes peaceful, action. I think what that action is can differ for everybody. However small the act, a protest is still a protest: the important thing is that one acts, and does not remain passive. For me, this blog is my protest — sparking discussion, I believe, can overthrow a system of inequity by helping raise awareness and stir political activism.
President Obama released a statement today about Gandhi’s influence on modern world history:
Statement by President Obama on
Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary
On behalf of the American people, I want to express appreciation for the life and lessons of Mahatma Gandhi on the anniversary of his birth. This is an important moment to reflect on his message of non-violence, which continues to inspire people and political movements across the globe.
We join the people of India in celebrating this great soul who lived a life dedicated to the cause of advancing justice, showing tolerance to all, and creating change through non-violent resistance. Americans owe an enormous measure of gratitude to the Mahatma. His teachings and ideals, shared with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his 1959 pilgrimage to India, transformed American society through our civil rights movement. The America of today has its roots in the India of Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent social action movement for Indian independence which he led. Tomorrow, as we remember the Mahatma on his birthday, we must renew our commitment to live his ideals and to celebrate the dignity of all human beings.
What are you doing to end social injustice, today?
Categories Categories Act Now!
Bao Phi on Race, Violence, and Police Brutality
Hat-tip: Racialicious
Bao Phi writes about the little-known stories of victims of police brutality. Here’s an excerpt:
We all have our fears. Some of these fears are consciously and subconsciously taught to us by society, some of them may be reinforced by personal experience. And these fears are absolutely impacted by race, gender, class, sexual orientation. Those of us who are people of color, women, from poor and GLBTT communities have the added fear that if we are victimized by violence, we will be harmed more than helped by law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Take the case of Michael Cho, a 25 year-old artist who was shot 10 times and killed by two La Habra police who claimed he was unresponsive to their demands and was threatening them with a tire iron. However, Michael Cho was physically disabled and found it difficult to walk quickly, let alone threaten two police officers.
Or Marlo and Romel Custodio, who were shot with tasers and beaten by 8 San Jose police officers for allegedly possessing less than half an once of marijuana, and who were cooperating with their arrest. They managed to call their 50 year-old mother, Marilou Alvarado Custodio, who was violently restrained when she arrived on the scene, her head repeatedly banged into a squad car’s door.
And “The Quincy 4,” young Asian American activists who were brutalized by Boston police as they returned from an engagement party. They were talking to a state trooper in the parking lot of a supermarket when a police squad car rolled up and without warning they were pepper-sprayed and attacked. One of the victims, a young woman named Karen Chen who is just above 5 feet tall, was tackled and beaten by three male police officers, giving her a black eye and numerous bruises. Not only were the police officers unpunished, they filed false charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, of which a Boston judge found them guilty and sent one of these young people, who had done no wrong, to prison.
Unfortunately, we don’t have to look far for incidents involving police brutality.
Read the full column here: Fong Lee, and Violence
Act Now! Bao Phi, along with other artists and poets, are putting on a fund-raising performance for the family of Fong Lee, a Hmong-American boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Proceeds from the performance will go towards legal costs for the Lee family. Here are the details:
UP IN ARMS: A Night of Hip Hop and Spoken Word to Honor Fong Lee and End Police Brutality
Saturday, October 3rd, 8 p.m. (doors at 7:30)
Kagin Commons at Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
Featuring performances by Magnetic North (NY), Nomi of Power Struggle (Bay Area), Michelle Myers of Yellow Rage (Philadelphia), Maria Isa, Blackbird Elements, Guante, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, e.g. bailey, Tou SaiKo Lee with PosNoSys, True Mutiny, Shá Cage, Kevin Xiong with Pada Lor, Tish Jones, Maipacher, Logan Moua, Bobby Wilson, Poetic Assassins, Hilltribe, and special guests. Tou Ger Xiong and Amy Hang will emcee and DJ Nak will be on the one’s and two’s.
$5-$10 suggested donation. All proceeds go towards legal costs for the Family of Fong Lee.
Categories Categories Act Now!, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, Guest Contributors
Congratulations, John Liu!
John Liu isn’t Asian America’s singular political leader (do we even have one?), but he’s pretty dang close. Those of us who have been around the politically active wing of the APA community have seen how John Liu, a New York City councilman, is omnipresent in virtually every major political action that our community has involved itself in. Councilman Liu has made a career of encouraging Asian Americans to be more politically involved, more vocal, and more strategic in our demands for improved political representation and civil rights.
This year, Councilman Liu rallied the national APA community in support of his race for NYC comptroller, a position responsible for overseeing billions of dollars of city funds. Yesterday, the votes in the Democratic primary were cast, and when the dust settled, Liu became NYC’s Democratic candidate for this position. And with NYC the left-leaning city that it is, there’s little doubt that Liu and other Democrats who won this tough primary race are going to emerge victorious against their Republican competitors in November.
But the real victors here are the Asian American community, who worked vigorously to help Liu become the first Asian American elected to city-wide office in New York City. Daniel Collins at The Huffington Postsardonically attributes Liu’s win to the APA community’s “hunger” for representationdespite what Collins characterises as Liu’s lacklustre qualifications for the job as comptroller. Nonetheless, Liu has been an incredible advocate for his constituents, Asian American and otherwise, and I personally see no reason to suspect that Liu, power-drunk with the new position of comptroller, will bankrupt the Big Apple.
Meanwhile, there’s one inescapable fact here: how is it that New York City, with one of the oldest, largest and most vibrant Chinese communities in the country, is only now — in 2009 — capable of electing an Asian American to a city-wide public office? Yesterday’s election results in NYC are a blow to the rampant political underrepresentation of Asian Americans in this country, and I hope that pundits nationwide are finally sitting up and taking notice: in the new millennium, Asian Americans are –as we should be — a political force to be reckoned with.
Act Now! The race isn’t over for John Liu: he goes against Republican opponent Joe Mendola on November 3rd. And while Liu is the front-runner in that race, now is not the time to get lackadaisical. Whether an NYC resident or clear across the country, volunteer for and contribute to Liu’s campaign at his campaibn website.
Posted on September 30, 2009 November 2, 2020
Categories Categories Act Now!, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, Elections, Politics of Race
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Alphabet’s Loon deploys internet connectivity balloons to Kenya for first commercial service launch
Alphabet-owned Loon, the high-altitude broadband connectivity company for hard-to-reach places, has launched the first balloons that will provide its first ever commercial connectivity services to Kenyans following the approval of its service deployment by the government of Kenya a couple of weeks ago. The balloons are now in testing, but pending the results of those […]
Alphabet-owned Loon, the high-altitude broadband connectivity company for hard-to-reach places, has launched the first balloons that will provide its first ever commercial connectivity services to Kenyans following the approval of its service deployment by the government of Kenya a couple of weeks ago. The balloons are now in testing, but pending the results of those tests, they’ll turn on service “in the coming weeks,” according to the company.
Loon is working with partner Telkom Kenya to provide services to that network’s subscribers in the country. Its balloons fly at a height of roughly 65,000 feet, in the Earth’s stratosphere, with the goal of providing stable, reliable and fast connectivity to a specific area without requiring satellites and with access for remote areas not served by ground cell tower infrastructure.
The Loon balloons actually have quite the journey to make to get to the area they’ll service in Kenya, taking off from either Puerto Rico or Nevada, as Loon CTO Sal Candido explains in a Medium post. From there, they navigate on air currents to make their way to their target destination, using “the fastest route that drifting on the stratospheric winds allow,” to traverse upwards of 6,800 miles through a somewhat circuitous route, which is determined by Loon’s automated navigation software.
Upon arrival in Kenya, those same machine learning powered-algorithms are used to help the balloons maintain a relatively stable position over the target coverage area. Balloons move up and down in the stratosphere to catch different air currents, taking short trips in a fixed geographic area to provide 24-hour coverage to customers on the ground.
Loon’s model and partnership with Telkom means that it can provide access through Telkom’s network to that company’s customers instantly once the system is tested and proven, but that also means Telkom sets the rates, which African internet accessibility startup BRCK has noted might be a barrier to some. Still, this first commercial deployment is a significant milestone for Loon, and should help make the case for more and more varied deployments to follow, including a range of different business model approaches.
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Category Archives: MathStream
In MathStream articles, we delve into the details of mathematical ideas that surface in MakeStream projects.
Insubordinate Integral
How does the value of the following improper integral compare to 1? I.e., is it smaller, larger, or exactly equal to 1?
(This problem was proposed to Math Horizons Playground by Mehtaab Sawney of Commack High School. And for all of you $\pi$-ists out there, $\tau$ is of course just the radian measure of a full circle, i.e., $\tau=2\pi$.)
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Troubling Triangle
What is the area of the pink shaded triangle (as a fraction of ABC)?
For definiteness, the unlabeled points do in fact trisect each of the sides of the triangle.
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Smallish Sequence
What are the next few terms in this sequence of smallish numbers?
1 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 ? ? ?
(And, of course, what’s the rule generating the sequence?)
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Side of Spherical Square
This post contains the details of the claim made in “More Spherical Construction” that you can determine the side length of a spherical square from the ratio between the lengths of its diagonals. We’ll do this on a sphere of radius one; everything scales by a factor of the radius for a general sphere.
The advantage of working on a sphere of radius one is that then the side length is nothing other than the measure of the central angle (in radians) between two adjacent vertices of the square. Similarly, the diagonal is the central angle between opposite vertices of the square.
The easiest way to construct a square on the unit sphere is to place its center at the intersection of the sphere and the x-axis, and then choose a (positive) angle $\theta \leq \tau/4$ (where $\tau = 2\pi$ is the radian measure of a full circle) and place two vertices at plus or minus $\theta$ (from the square’s center) in the longitudinal direction and two vertices at plus or minus $\theta$ in the latitudinal direction. In spherical coordinates, the center is at $(1,0,\tau/4)$ and the four vertices are at $(1,-\theta,\tau/4), (1,\theta,\tau/4), (1,0,\tau/4-\theta), (1,0,\tau/4+\theta)$. For this square, the diagonal is obviously $2\theta$; it remains only to compute the side length of the square.
Using the great-circle distance formula on the two points $(1,\theta,\tau/4)$ and $(1,0,\tau/4-\theta)$ yields a side length of \[\arccos(\cos(\tau/4)\cos(\tau/4-\theta) + \sin(\tau/4)\sin(\tau/4-\theta)\cos(\theta)\;).\]
Since $\cos(\tau/4)$ is 0 and $\sin(\tau/4)$ is 1, this expression equals \[\arccos(\sin(\tau/4-\theta)\cos(\theta)).\]
And further, $\sin(\tau/4-\theta) = \cos(\theta)$, so the side length is just \[\arccos(\cos^2 \theta).\]
Therefore, the ratio of the diagonal to the side of the square is $2\theta/\arccos(\cos^2 \theta)$. Graphing this on the allowed interval $(0,\tau/4]$ for $\theta$ immediately demonstrates the claims made in the referring post: no value of the ratio is repeated for different values of $\theta$, so the ratio determines the diagonal (and side length) of the square; the maximum value is 2; and any value greater than $\sqrt2$ is achievable.
If you’d rather not rely on graphing software to extract these facts, but rather demonstrate them just from the formulas, here’s how you can proceed. The value 2 at $\theta=\tau/4$ comes from straight substitution. The value at 0 by substitution is the indeterminate 0/0, so we obtain the value by L’Hôpital’s rule: the derivative of the numerator is 2, but the derivative of the denominator is \[\frac{2\cos \theta}{\sqrt{1+\cos^2\theta}},\] so the diagonal-side ratio has the limiting value $\sqrt2$ at $\theta =0$. Finally, we need to show that the ratio is monotone increasing on the interval of interest. By the quotient rule, this is equivalent to showing that on this interval \[\arccos(\cos^2\theta) > \frac{2\theta\cos\theta}{\sqrt{1+\cos^2\theta}}.\] Both sides are 0 at $\theta=0$, so we can take derivatives one more time; the derivative of the left-hand side is of course $2\cos\theta(1+\cos^2\theta)^{-1/2}$ again, which on this interval is always larger than the derivative of the right-hand side, namely $2\cos\theta(1+\cos^2\theta)^{-1/2} – 2\theta\sin\theta(1+\cos^2\theta)^{-3/2}$. So the left-hand side is also always larger than the right hand side, i.e., the derivative of the diagonal-side ratio is positive on this interval.
Gengzhi Goblets: height and radius
To compute the height $H$ of the Gengzhi Goblets so that the 13-gon prism has volume 1 cup ≈ 236 cubic centimeters, and the radius of the pentagon goblet so that its maximum cross section is the same as the 13-gon (and hence its volume is exactly one quarter as large, or 59 cc):
Note that we assume that the height of the 13-gon prism will equal the distance from one vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side. Referring to the Wikipedia page on regular polygons for formulas, that is to say that the height will equal the circumradius plus the apothem. Now the volume $V$ of the 13-gon prism is the height times the area of the 13-gon, which is $\frac{13}2r^2\sin(\tau/13)$. (As usual we use $\tau$ for the radian measure of a full circle, namely $2\pi$, as it makes most formulas clearer in terms of fractions of circles.) Combining these two observations, we get that
\[V = \frac{13}2r^2\sin(\tau/13)(r + r\cos(\tau/26)) = r^3(\frac{13}2\sin(\tau/13)(1+\cos(\tau/26))).\]
Setting $V$ equal to 236 and solving for $r_{13} = r$, we get $r_{13} = \sqrt[3]{472/(13\sin(\tau/13)(1+\cos(\tau/26))} \approx 3.41$cm. The height is then $H = r_{13}(1+\cos(\tau/26)) \approx 6.72$cm.
Finally, to find the radius $r_5$ such that pentagon with circumradius $r_5$ has the same area as the 13-gon with circumradius $r_{13}$, we set the respective area formulas equal and solve: $r_5 = r_{13}\sqrt{13\sin(\tau/13)/5\sin(\tau/5)} \approx 3.84$cm.
Archimedean Variations
So I had zeroed in on the proof of the Archimedean volume relationship as the source of my giveaway for G4G13. But how to create an interesting variation?
The first thing to notice is that the function of h that appears in the proof in the cross-sectional area of of the cone, namely h², could be any function f(h) whatsoever, and the proof would be just as valid — solids where the cross-sectional areas went as f(h) and 1 – f(h) would have volumes that add up to that of a cylinder.
So, in some sense the simplest example would be solids with cross-sectional area going as h and 1-h. What would they look like? Well, they would correspond to radii at height h of √h and √(1-h). In other words, they would be solids of revolution about the z-axis of the graphs of √h and √(1-h), like so:
First, these two objects look identical (just one is upside down as compared to the other). But that’s no surprise: as h goes from 0 to 1, 1-h goes from 1 to 0, and at the same rate. But that means that each one must have half the volume of the corresponding cylinder. And further, since the graph of √h is a parabola (on its side), these objects are paraboloids. So we’ve established
the paraboloid of unit height and radius has half the volume of the cylinder with unit height and radius,
which is kind of cool already. So should this be the giveaway?
It was time to figure out what the giveaway items would actually be. Since the principle was about volumes, they needed to be something which was related to volume, but I didn’t want to create another hourglass. So the obvious answer was that they should be measuring cups. And that decision suggested that I shouldn’t use f(h) = h, since two identical measuring cups would be boring.
Since I’d now looked at h and h², the natural next choice would be h³. Here’s what the corresponding solids look like:
Those look pretty interesting. So if I used these shapes, what would the volumes be? Now it’s by far easiest to go ahead and use that late-17th-century invention, calculus. The volume of the “pointy” shape should be $\int_0^1 \pi h^3 dh = \pi \left.h^4/4 \right|_0^1 = \pi/4$. In other words, if the cylinder were scaled to have a volume of one cup, say, then the pointy shape would have a volume of 1/4 cup and the rounded one would have a volume of 3/4 cup. That seemed pretty good: since most measuring cup sets do not include one with volume 3/4 cup, the resulting set might actually be useful.
But there’s another place you can vary the construction in the proof: the shape of the cross-sections. There’s no requirement that they be circles; you can scale any shape, and the overall volume will scale by the area of the largest cross section. (That’s the $\pi$ in the above formulas, namely the area of the top circle of the pointy shape or the bottom circle of the rounded one.) So I decided to use this flexibility to create one more link to G4G13: make the cross section of the “cylinder” be a regular 13-gon, the 3/4-cup measure a regular octagon, and the quarter-cup measure be a regular pentagon. These shapes echo the Fibonacci decomposition 13 = 8 + 5 where the mathematical free association began.
So although that brings us to the shapes that actually went into the G4G13 giveaway, this exploration wouldn’t be complete without emphasizing that there’s no reason f(h) has to be a power of h at all. We’re literally free to use any function at all, so long as it takes values between 0 and 1. In particular, why not try the most famous pair of functions that sum to 1 for the cross-sectional areas of the two cups, namely cos²(h) and sin²(h)? That would produce these shapes:
As in the first case, the shapes are identical, although in this case because of the identity sin(x) = cos(π/2 – x). So again, this shape has half the volume of the corresponding cylinder, even though it is clearly not a paraboloid (as you can see, for example, by the fact that it comes to a point at its apex; a paraboloid is smooth there). We could spend forever exploring different combinations of functions that would give Archimedes-like decompositions of a cylinder, but it’s time to turn attention to fabricating the G4G13 giveaway.
Mathematical Free Association
So it became time to decide on Studio Infinity’s giveaway at the 13th Gathering for Gardner (G4G13). By tradition, at least, it’s considered a plus for giveaways to connect with the number of the conference — 13 in this case. So this mathematical free association starts with the number 13.
What thoughts does 13 evoke? First and foremost, it’s a Fibonacci number, 13 = 8 + 5. So something about breaking something down by addition? Addition is so simple, what could an interesting giveaway to do with addition be like? What if it’s not just addition of numbers, but addition of something more involved? Like addition of volumes? Is there an interesting instance of volumes adding up nicely?
Well, in fact there is: the so-called Archimedes hourglass, which I had seen people make and show at previous G4Gs, such as this beautiful example by Rod Bogart:
The reason this works is that Archimedes determined that the volume of a cylinder of unit radius and two units height is equal to the sum of the volumes of a sphere of unit radius and a cone of unit base radius and two units height. Is there some variation on that which could be interesting? To try to find something like that, maybe we should look at how the proof of that fact goes.
But first, those occurrences of “two” seem a bit out of place. It seems a much more natural statement to say that the volume of a cylinder of unit radius and unit height is equal to the sum of of the volumes of a hemisphere of unit radius and a cone of unit base radius and unit height. And indeed, that statement has a simple and natural justification. Archimedes looked at it differently, but the 5th century Chinese mathematician Zu Gengzhi elucidated a principle (not rediscovered in Western mathematics until Bonaventura Cavalieri in the 17th century, and so sometimes called the “Cavalieri Principle”) that makes this straightforward, the Gengzhi Principle:
If the cross-sectional areas of two solids along every plane parallel to a fixed plane are equal, the solids have equal volume.
How does this apply to the cylinder, cone, and hemisphere? Let’s place them side-by-side this way:
The yellow plane is at height h above the x–y plane (light blue), which is the common base of all three volumes (well, actually, we’ve placed the apex of the cone at z=0). The yellow plane cuts the cylinder in a circle with radius 1, the cone in a circle with radius r, and the hemisphere in a circle with radius s. Moreover, since the width of the cone increases linearly from 0 at the blue plane to 1 at a height of 1, r = h. And since the equation of the red semicircle (which is the vertical cross-section of the hemisphere) is h² + s² = 1, we have that s = √(1-h²).
Therefore, the area of the horizontal cross section (in the yellow plane) of the cylinder is π·1² = π, while the areas of the cross sections of the other two solids are πh² for the cone and π(√(1-h²))² = π(1-h²). The latter two obviously sum to the former, since h² + (1-h²) = 1. Since this holds for any plane parallel to the light blue plane, we conclude by the Gengzhi Principle that the volume of the cylinder is the sum of the other two, just as Archimedes established. (Living six centuries earlier than and half a world away from Gengzhi, Archimedes of course had to rely on other methods, considerably more complicated, to justify this relationship.)
But now, as we will see in the next post, there is a great deal of flexibility in this proof of the Archimedes relationship — plenty to create an interesting G4G13 giveaway.
GGSF: Calculations
This post just takes care of some of the calculations used in planning the Golden Gate STEM Fair event. First, the plan was to make the structure shown at the right: a regular tetrahedron on top of a regular octahedron. Moreover, the resulting construction was intended to be five meters tall. Hence, the question arises: How long should each truss of the structure be to achieve the desired height?
It’s easier to work in the other direction. Assume that each edge of the structure has length s; how tall is the overall structure? Let’s start with the tetrahedron part. The apex lies directly over the center of the equilateral triangular base of the tetrahedron. We know the side length of the that triangle is s so we use the formula relating the radius r of a circle and the side of an inscribed regular polygon: s = 2rsin τ/2n, where n is the number of sides of the regular polygon, in this case three (and τ is the full circle constant, equal to 2π). So we get sin τ/6 = sin 60°, which is √3/2, from which we conclude that s = √3 r or r = s/√3.
Now we have a right triangle from the base of the tetrahedron to its apex, from which we conclude that h = √(s²-s²/3) = s√2/√3.
That tells us the height of the tetrahedron on top, but what about the octahedral base? We could go through a similar sort of calculation, albeit more involved, but we can also save ourselves a lot of trouble by noticing that if we lay the whole structure down on its side, we get a tetrahedron nestled up against the side of an octahedron, which makes it clear that the regular octahedron and regular tetrahedron are the same height. Thus, the tower overall has height s2√2/√3. Solving this for s when the height is 500 centimeters yields about 306 cm. And since we’re using boxes measured in inches and a foot is about 30cm, it’s easiest to think of that as 10 feet. So the moral of the story is that we need each truss to be ten feet long.
How many boxes will that take? Well, the boxes are 6 inches on a side, but they lie on the trusses along a face diagonal, which is 6√2 or about 8.5″. So we need the trusses to be 120/8.5 = 14.1 boxes long, or say 15 boxes long to be on the safe side. Extending a truss by one unit typically takes four boxes (one on the top and bottom and two in the middle), so that’s roughly 60 boxes per truss. With 15 trusses in the whole structure (just by counting in the diagram at the top), we can estimate about 900 boxes in the entire structure. And we know that’s an overestimate, because the trusses overlap each other where they join. So it’s a safe number to use for planning.
An Oct-Tet of Cubes
In the last MathStream post, we concluded that if you took spheres with holes at the points indicated by black dots in the diagram below, you could connect them with struts to form a lattice composed of alternating octahedra and tetrahedra.
But for building large-scale constructions, we’d like something comprised of components that are a little easier to make or obtain. The goal of this post is to show how that same oct-tet lattice can be constructed simply from cubical boxes.
The first step is to notice that we could shrink the struts to be as short as we like, or even do away with them altogether. If we had a whole lot of spheres just touching (or rather, glued together) at the black spots, they would form an oct-tet lattice.
But spheres are a bit hard to work with. Instead of thinking of them as points on a sphere, instead connect those same twelve points with straight lines and planar faces:
That produces a shape called a cuboctahedron, and what we have established is that cuboctahedra joined vertex-to-vertex form an oct-tet lattice.
But where do cuboctahedra come from? If we read much of the way down the Wikipedia page, we see the statement that “a cuboctahedron is a rectified cube.” Unraveling that word “rectified,” this statement just means that if you start with a cube, take the midpoint of every edge, and then connect the new points when the edges they correspond to connect, you get a cuboctahedron. Or we can “undo” the rectfication and re-create the cube from the cuboctahedron we have.
Therefore, connecting cuboctahedra vertex-to-vertex is the same as connecting cubes edge-to-edge, so we have established that cubes joined edge-to-edge form an oct-tet lattice. We’ve taken enough steps that this statement may now seem a bit mysterious, but hopefully this final image will help tie the whole thing together; notice that each strut in the oct-tet lattice passes through the midpoint of an edge of the cube.
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Terri Nunn-led Berlin returns to Orange County
Berlin, one of the most successful and influential bands to emerge out of the Orange County music scene, will headline at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano on Friday night, Nov. 28.
Terri Nunn, lead singer of the techno-pop group that formed in Orange County in the late 1970s and rose to international fame in the early 1980s, reflected in a recent e-mail interview how much she enjoys returning here to perform.
"Orange County had a very open ear to new music and still does," noted Nunn, who now lives in the Los Angeles area.
"The people there were situated in an area that could get two extremely influential stations, KROQ in Pasadena and 91X in San Diego; both amazing stations for new, cutting-edge music. So we had an audience and two radio stations willing to take a chance on us. Without you guys, we would never have happened. There is nothing like playing your hometown and I am honored to get the opportunity to play for the people of Orange County especially."
Berlin's first release with Nunn on vocals was 1982's "Pleasure Victim," a seven-song disc that featured a number of groundbreaking new wave tracks, including "The Metro," "Masquerade" and the controversial "Sex (I'm A …)."
"Sonically, we were inspired by the European synthesizer bands Kraftwerk and Ultravox, and found other musicians to work with who felt like we did," Nunn explained. "It took writing and arranging a lot of songs to find the right balance of sounds that became the Berlin sound. I would have to say it was 'The Metro' that finally defined it for us. When we finished that, all of us were literally, "Wow! That's what we want the rest of this record to be like!'"
When Berlin hits the stage in San Juan Capistrano on Nov. 28, fans can expect to hear many of the tracks off "Pleasure Victim," as well as subsequent hits such as "No More Words" and "Take My Breath Away," the latter from the 1986 movie "Top Gun."
Although Berlin disbanded in 1987, Nunn reformed the group in 1999 and since has seen acclaim and recognition for the important musical outfit only grow. In addition of 2002's "Voyeur" focusing on new material, Berlin's full-length 2005 effort "4play" featured the band delivering a number of energetic covers of tracks such as Prince's "Erotic City" and David Bowie's "Fashion."
Nunn says fans of Berlin can look forward to several new projects she is working on that should see the light of day in 2009.
"A new album is happening, and it doesn't have a title yet. But I am very excited by the new writers I am working with now. It is still very electronic, with a little goth edge at times. There is also a concert event I'm putting together called 'Girls Night Out.' I am bringing together the best women artists in music today to sing not just on the same bill, but sing together. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event and I am thrilled," Nunn said.
Nunn said she is thrilled to still be performing with Berlin, almost 30 years after bassist John Crawford saw her ad placed in the Musician's Contact Service in Hollywood in which she said she was looking to sing in a "unique" band.
"I am very fortunate to still be able to do this as my job," Nunn acknowledged.
"I enjoy it more now than I ever did. Someone asked me the other day, when in my career did I finally feel I could sing? God, it took me 10 years just to feel like I had a tiny handle on it. … Now I feel like back at the beginning when I sang for fun, without an agenda. I can create whatever I want, and now I get to do it without being so freaked out all the time. It pays to stick with something."
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The Bacon Brothers: Music now taking center stage
Photo credit: Paul La Raia
The Bacon Brothers, from left, Kevin and Michael Bacon.
Keanu Reeves, Kevin Costner, Billy Bob Thornton, Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix are among the growing number of successful actors who have also pursued secondary careers playing music.
But none of those film stars has enjoyed the well-deserved critical praise for their music that has greeted the Bacon Brothers, the group featuring acclaimed actor Kevin Bacon and his older brother, Emmy Award-winning composer Michael Bacon.
The Bacon Brothers have just released "New Year's Day," the siblings' sixth album. The duo will feature songs from that release in a headlining show at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano on Nov. 21.
From the infectious countryfied power pop of "Tell Me What I Have To Do" and authentic reggae-fueled "Bunch Of Words" to the lush melodic rock of "Architeuthis" and rocking title track, "New Year's Day" is an album that captures the brothers' collective talents as singers, songwriters and musicians.
"Every time I record something, I think that's the last one (song); the (tap) has been turned off. But the songs have kind of just kept coming," Kevin Bacon said in a recent phone interview. "I feel really good about the songs."
Michael and Kevin Bacon were raised in Philadelphia, so it's not surprising that soul is a part of their sound. As evidenced by the tracks on "New Year's Day" and 2005's "White Knuckles," country, folk, reggae, funk and an increasing number of other styles fit into a sonic brew that sounds both classic and contemporary.
"In some ways, this album feels a little bit more cohesive than the last one," said Kevin Bacon, a gifted actor whose range of eclectic performances have been featured in well-known movies including "Apollo 13," "JFK," "Footloose," "The Woodsman," "Tremors" and "A Few Good Men." His real-life role in the Bacon Brothers finds him sharing lead vocal duties with his brother. Both Bacons play guitar, while Kevin also plays harmonica and Michael plays cello.
The Bacon Brothers' top-notch band features Paul Guzzone (bass, guitar), Ira Siegel (guitar, mandolin), Frank Vilardi (drums, percussion) and Charlie Giordano (keyboards, accordion, melodica).
Michael Bacon, whose professional music career began in the late 1960s as a member of the Philadelphia band Good News, said the brothers share a life-long bond of making music together.
"Kevin was probably still in diapers. I don't ever remember a time where I didn't think it was a really good idea for us to play music together," said Michael Bacon during the interview, noting he bought Kevin his first guitar when he was young and taught him how to play his first song, the Beatles' "Hey Jude."
When the Bacon Brothers released their debut "Forosoco" in 1997, it was common for music writers to cover the group only because Kevin Bacon was a member. Today, the focus is usually on the depth and range of songs that the brothers play.
"If you want something, you have to work long and hard for it. We certainly didn't expect any shortcuts (because of his fame)," Kevin Bacon said.
Many local musicians will relate to Kevin's story about some of the Bacon Brothers' early shows.
"We were moving our own gear in Michael's station wagon," Kevin said.
"For one thing, it sort of keeps you about (realizing) how difficult this thing is. And I think people appreciate that you are not that (conceited) because of the movie star thing."
Both brothers said their primary objective when they play the Coach House is to put on a great concert.
"The most important thing is to have a great live show because you cannot digitize, you cannot download a live show," Michael noted.
Online: www.thecoachhouse.com
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Big game hunting I think they call it........
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GOD'S A SPORTS FAN?
ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ARE WAR CRIMES
Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank violate international law, and the country must "immediately" withdraw all settlers from such areas, UN human rights investigators have said. Israel has not co-operated with the inquiry, set up by the Human Rights Council (HRC) last March to examine the impact of settlements in the territory, including East Jerusalem. "Israel must ... cease all settlement activities without preconditions [and] must immediately initiate a process of withdrawal of all settlers" from the occupied territories, the fact-finding mission concluded in a report released on Thursday. Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reports from Jerusalem.
DEFENDING DRONES
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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In this interview MIT professor and former fighter pilot Missy Cummings attempts to gloss over the growing opposition to drone warfare.
She punks out on the moral and ethical questions. She does effectively plant the seed that when "smaller" countries get their hands on these drones and put weapons, or anthrax, on them ....well, we are going to have to defend against those.....!!!
I can hear the cash register ringing now.
See segments 2 and 3 here
OBAMA LEADS RESOURCE WARS TO AFRICA
I emailed around a John Pilger article this morning that began with: "A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger.... The invasion has almost nothing to do with 'Islamism', and almost everything to do with the acquisition of resources, notably minerals, and an accelerating rivalry with China. Unlike China, the US and its allies are prepared to use a degree of violence demonstrated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine. As in the cold war, a division of labour requires that western journalism and popular culture provide the cover of a holy war against a 'menacing arc' of Islamic extremism, no different from the bogus 'red menace' of a worldwide communist conspiracy."
When you really study this map you can see why the corporations are willing to kill in order to control the continent. There is huge profit at stake. So the African-American president leads the US into war on the African continent. It's all very convenient. If George W. Bush was pushing the Pentagon's Africa Command (AfriCom) into war operations the black leadership class might speak out but with Obama in office they are largely silenced. Very sad. I hope readers can see the cynical calculation being undertaken by the corporate oligarchy in this evil story.
Nile Bowie (Malaysian journalist) concludes an article posted on Global Research with, "The ostensible role of the first African-American US President is to export the theatresque War on Terror directly to the African continent, in a campaign to exploit established tensions along tribal, ethnic and religious lines. As US policy theoreticians such as Dr. Henry Kissinger, willingly proclaim, 'Depopulation should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World,' the vast expanse of desert and jungles in northern and central Africa will undoubtedly serve as the venue for the next decade of resource wars."
In the end one must surely understand that Africans know their land is being raped for profit and they will fight for it. They will be called terrorists. Why do we let the capitalists play this game year in and year out? Why do we remain silent as our national budgets are drained in order to pay for another war zone? How could anyone justify supporting Obama today? How?
NONVIOLENCE SPIRIT WALK
An invitation to join a journey of transformation, the Nevada Desert Experience Sacred Peace Walk, from Las Vegas, NV to the Nevada National Security Site ( aka the Nevada Test Site) March 23 - 29, 2013. Complete information may be found at www.nevadadesertexperience.org
PROFESSOR YANG BACK TO JAIL
Paco reports from Gangjeong village on Jeju Island:
Very bad news from Gangjeong today! Film critic Yang Yoon-Mo's most recent trial has finished today and he was sentenced to 1 year & six months imprisonment, unsuspended. He was arrested and imprisoned directly from the court. More details on the case and verdict later. Yang Yoon-Mo has been one of the longest protestors the base and has previous spent several months in prison on two different occasions for his protests. He brought much attention to the struggle in 2011 when he fasted for more than 70 days almost dying.
Judge Oh Hyeon Gyu said that his sentence was changed from probation to imprisonment because the judge "doesn't see a will for self-reflection" (meaning Prof. Yang is not sorry for his courageous actions). What an absurdity! What arrogance! Today is also Prof. Yang's birthday.
See an incredible interview with Yang here
LOSING THE CAPACITY FOR THE SACRED
In this lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges examined how America has devolved, economically and politically, into a Third World country and the role that inverted totalitarianism plays in consolidating the control of rapacious elites over our political and economic systems.
PUT THE BANKSTERS ON ICE
Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera's Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran "irresponsibly" go bankrupt.
Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Grimsson also held his country as a model of economic recovery after its near-collapse four years ago.
"We didn't follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies. And the end result four years later is that Iceland is enjoying progress and recovery."
ASSORTED BAD NEWS
The National Weather Service says Wednesday's high temperatures set records across Maine. We had temps in the 50s all over the state. Two days prior we had zero degrees weather. A 50 degree shift in two days is unreal. Tomorrow it will drop back down to 25 degrees. The wind is blowing outside at 60 mph - power lines are down across the state. The tarps on our wood piles are flapping like flags in the wind. Our right-wing governor still denies that climate change is happening. I bet though he won't step out onto the thin ice at any local ice fishing spot.
I've been watching the confirmation hearings for former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel who was nominated as Obama's next Secretary of War. He's pledging that "all options are on the table" which is Washington code for keeping nuclear attack on the agenda. He also pledges full support for Israel. He supports expansion of Cyber warfare and he is worried about cuts in the Pentagon budget. In other words Hagel is in the mainstream of US military empire decision making. So what confuses me is the amount of emails I've seen from peaceniks who are urging people to support Hagel's nomination. Why? There has been some right-wing push back against Hagel (for being a too tough on Israel) but I think it is all a good cop-bad cop show. When the pro-Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance sends around the following message of support for Hagel you know to watch out: "We endorse the confirmation of Senator Chuck Hagel for the position of United States Secretary of Defense for his support of our nation's missile defense and growth of it with our allies."
Israel hit Syria today. Peace Association of Turkey has issued the following statement.
We strongly condemn Israeli assault against Syria. The air strike by Israel to Syria has no legal basis or excuse. The statement that Syria has been sending weapons to some forces in Lebanon and these are even chemical weapons is a totally unsubstantiated claim. The reality is; 2 were dead 5 were injured during the air strike!
The reality is; Israel carried out this attack under the approval by USA!
The reality is; Israel is trying to intervene in the Syria equation in its own way!
The reality is; Syrian Islamist terrorist groups, Islamist AKP Government in Turkey, anti-Syria Islamist Arab regimes have taken position on the same side with Zionist Israel against the people of Syria!
It is impossible to assume the fact that the strike is carried out at a time when for the first time the Syrian opposition has given the green light to the negotiation calls by Damascus is a coincidence. Israel is now coming to the stage once more as the main provocateur in a regional war.
Peace Association condemns aggressive Israel in the strongest terms and conveys its solidarity feelings to the people of Syria, who have been exposed to the strike by the Israeli aircrafts, as if being under the threat of reactionist terror is not enough.
NOW THEY WANT TO RAPE MOTHER EARTH
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians mobilized for the Idle-No-More movement's Global Day of Action this week. Activists have vowed to continue protests until the Harper government repeals legislation which legal experts have called unconstitutional.
Activists accuse the Harper government of lacking concern for the environment.
A global protest against Canada's government is unprecedented in Canadian history.
Analysts say that the international outcry indicates that the Harper government is shredding up Canada's once good reputation in the world.
OBAMA'S PIVOT ONTO A PACIFIC CORAL REEF
Tubbataha Reef off the southern Philippines is home to some of the richest marine life on the planet. It's much deserving of its world heritage site status. But it's now under serious threat since a US Navy minesweeper ran aground on a coral wall on January 17th. Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan reports from Palawan.
DOES THE CIA RUN THE SHOW?
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
– William Colby, former CIA director
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
CYBER SPACE: THE NEW WAR ZONE
At a time many are talking about cutting the size of the US military, the Department of Defence has signalled it will dramatically increase the size of its Cyber Command over the next few years.
The Pentagon is working overtime to ensure that cyber war becomes the next great fear in the minds of the American people - coming after the Red scare of the Cold War and the present "terrorism" freak-out with the Muslim world.
The US Cyber Command is headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland which also houses the NSA.
The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines all have Cyber command structures that fall under the national. US Cyber Command reports directly to US Strategic Command (StratCom) based at Offut AFB, Nebraska.
The Washington Post this morning reports: "President Obama is riding a wave of personal popularity into his second term, with his highest favorability ratings since his first year in office...Fully 60 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of Obama in the new poll, up slightly from October but a clear shift in opinion from an election year in which his ratings hovered in the mid-to-low 50s."
What would make those polled so favorable toward Obama? The economy better? Climate change taken care of? Wars over and military spending reduced? Our civil liberties restored? Guantanamo closed? Banksters jailed? It appears that people's standards for success have dramatically fallen.
I occasionally correspond with a Catholic priest who lives and works in Brazil. His recent letter included the following news: "We are suffering the worst drought of the past 50 years here in the Northeast. There were no crops of corn or beans. Most of the dams are dry or very low on water. There is very little in the way of forage for the livestock. The cashew tree didn't even flower this year in this region. A nearby municipality had a thriving industry of honey production. Because there were so few flowering plants around, the hungry bees fled the hives for other regions. We heard here that 60% of the USA, Canada, and Central America all suffered severe droughts too."
Long-time Global Network board member Karl Grossman has written an important article entitled Will the Internet Remain Free? Worth checking out.
Increasingly we are hearing that the big Internet corporations want to make users pay for various levels of access to the world wide web. That would mean that the wealthy could afford unlimited access to knowledge and communication while the poor would live inside a box. All Internet users should be able to access any web content they want, post their own content, and use any applications they choose, without restrictions or financial limitations imposed by their service providers.
McClatchy newspapers report:
In a letter last month to Obama and congressional leaders, 11 Democratic and 11 Republican lawmakers asked that Defense Department spending be put squarely on the table in the coming clashes over debt reduction..... Who are these unlikely partners? Democrats who want to preserve social programs, tea party-backed Republicans focused on slashing the debt and libertarians aligned with Rep. Ron Paul – the Texas Republican and 2012 presidential candidate – who generally oppose U.S. military ventures abroad.... Some independent studies have indicated that Pentagon funding of big weapons systems has diminishing returns when it comes to job creation. Total federal money to the five biggest defense contractors – Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon – increased by 10 percent from 2006 to 2011. But their combined number of employees dropped by 3 percent during the same period, according to a report last year by the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group in Washington. See the full story here
KILLING THE STORY ABOUT INDONESIAN SLAUGHTER
Excellent documentary film about western efforts to put anti-communist dictator Suharto into Indonesia in 1965 and the resulting years of repression and chaos.
Throughout the film the narrative is supplemented by official government cables that arrogantly bragged about the western role in installing Suharto.
Media in the UK reported the coup d' etat by Suharto as "The Gentlemanly Affair" while in the US newspaper headlines declared "Gleam of Light in Asia".
Researchers estimate that from 1 to 3 million "suspected communists" were killed by the brutal Suharto regime with full backing from the west - particularly the US, UK, and Australia.
Each of the nine YouTube segments of the film are about 10 minutes long and once one of them is finished find the next one on the top right side of the screen.
ROCKET LAUNCH HYPOCRISY
The self-righteous, hypocritical bullshit is heating up on the US, Japanese, and South Korean side. Even the United Nations is involved. They are all once again lecturing and threatening North Korea about launching a rocket into space. The message is - you are not allowed because you are bad!
Forget the fact that the US launches more military rockets than anyone else in the world. What right does the US have to say who can - and who can't - launch rockets into space? Are we king of the world?
How come the US can invade all kinds of countries, lead the world in arms exports, overthrow governments and install puppet regimes - and then is allowed to launch all the missiles it wants? No one says a word about US rocket launches.
It's a double standard.....
The US has no right to tell other nations what they can launch. As long as the Pentagon has nuclear weapons that can be fired at any moment, and is developing the world's most technologically advanced space warfare system, it has no legitimacy on the subject.
The progressive South Korean newspaper The Hankyoreh reports today:
With North Korea declaring its intention to push ahead with a third nuclear test following the United Nations Security Council resolution on its launch of a long-range rocket, it seems hardly a coincidence that the US, China, and Japan have launched their own interceptor missiles and spy satellites. As the intensity of the North Korean nuclear crisis soars and the strategic competition between the US and China, and between China and Japan, heats up in the Asia-Pacific region, military tensions are on the rise in Northeast Asia.....
On Jan. 26 (local time), the US Defense Department announced that it had succeeded in a test of a missile defense system that can intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that are aimed at the continental US while they are still outside the atmosphere.....
On Jan. 27, Japan launched the Radar-4 information-gathering satellite, which functions as a spy satellite, from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. Now that the satellite, delivered on an H-2A rocket, has entered its planned orbit, Japan’s surveillance network has expanded to five information-gathering satellites three optical satellites and two radar satellites that are capable of monitoring every spot on earth once each day.
North Korea is not going to attack anyone. If they did they'd be buried in conventional and nuclear responses. North Korea knows it's on the US list of nations to be taken down. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Iran, Syria and North Korea. The North Koreans can see that the list is getting shorter and shorter.
To this very day the US has not agreed to a peace treaty with North Korea. After 60 years of an "armistice" the war is officially still on. (The definition of armistice: temporary suspension of hostilities by mutual agreement.)
North Korea has to wonder when "temporary" is over?
The people in the US need to stop buying the mafioso bravado from their so-called government. We are the global bully and nothing changes until the citizens here deal with the fact that our country is, as Martin Luther King so rightly said, "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
It's time to get real.
JEJU FILM WINS BIG AT SUNDANCE
Timely and great news has hit the media on the 8th Anniversary of Jeju’s designation as ‘The Peace Island” and the same day as the new declaration of Jeju as the “Demilitarized Peace Island”.
Jeju filmmaker O Muel‘s based-on-a-true-story film, Jiseul, which takes place during the 4.3 Jeju Massacre has won the Grand Jury Prize in the “World Cinema Dramatic” section of the Sundance Film Festival.
Jeju was originally designated the “World Peace Island” on January 27, 2005 as a formal governmental apology for the terrible 4.3 massacre which took place from 1947-1954. Hopefully this Sundance award will help to bring 4.3 the attention of more people.
Jiseul will make its out-of-festival Korean premier on Jeju Island on March 1st. Previously Jiseul was chosen as Korea’s Best Indie Film of 2012 by the Association of Korean Independent Film and Video.
The film’s title “Jiseul” means potatoes in Jeju dialect. During the massacre it was the only food the villagers had while hiding together in the cave.
More details about the Sundance win can be found in this article.
An interview with the director about the film can be found here.
WHY DO WE NEED A NAVY BASE ON JEJU ISLAND?
Bruce Cumings is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, and specializes in modern Korean history and East Asian-American relations.
He shares his views with Regis Tremblay about the Navy base now being built on Jeju Island in South Korea.
Bruce is arguably one of the leading experts on Korean History and the Korean War. His book, The Korean War, A History, is a must read for anyone interested in discovering the truth about Korea and the Korean War. He revealed the previously untold stories of the bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and exposes the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides.
WHO REALLY RUNS THE SHOW?
Years ago I read a book by former CIA agent Miles Copeland who had "retired" and gone to work for oil corporations as their Middle East operative. He essentially carried on the same covert ops that he had done for the CIA but was working for private interests. He described, with great pride, how often the local CIA offices in various oil rich nations were the last to know about his activities. The privatization of foreign and military policy. A very dangerous but real trend. How can we claim to be a democracy when corporations are running their own spy teams and increasingly corporate mercenaries are hired to carry out various military operations? In the end the taxpayers are paying in more ways than one can imagine.
In his book The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's original political operative, Miles Copeland shares many hair raising stories. Here is one that stands out: "Naturally, we had some trouble in getting clearance for projects involving the use of Nazis and ex-Nazi, but our difficulties disappeared when our friends in Israel's Mossad admitted that they, too, were using ex-Nazis for a number of nefarious purposes, and for the same reasons that they were attractive to us."
The Washington Post reported last December that, "Two of the Americans killed in Benghazi [Libya] were members of the CIA’s Global Response Staff, an innocuously named organization that has recruited hundreds of former U.S. Special Forces operatives to serve as armed guards for the agency’s spies....The security apparatus relies heavily on contractors who are drawn by relatively high pay and flexible schedules that give them several months off each year....who often earn $140,000 or more a year and typically serve 90- or 120-day assignments abroad."
Active duty service members committed suicide during 2012 at a record pace: more than 349 took their own lives across the four branches, or one every 25 hours, a Department of Defense spokesperson recently confirmed. One of the darkest undercurrents of the glaring statistics is that one suicide in a family boosts future suicide risks for everyone else inside the home. They can be contagious.
BREAK THE CENSORSHIP INSIDE ISRAEL
The award-winning documentary “Five Broken Cameras” tells the story of Emad Burnat, a Palestinian farmer, who in 2005 picks up a camera to film the nonviolent movement that erupted in his village, Bil’in, to stop the confiscation of their lands. For the next 6 years, Emad documented the growing movement, which was joined by Israeli and international peace activists. He also filmed his private life, his family and especially his son Gibreel who was growing up in this violent reality. Emad partnered with Israeli filmmaker and activist Guy Davidi to create this inspiring and engaging film.
“Five Broken Cameras” achieved major worldwide success due to its sensitive tone and sincere storytelling. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Oscars; won 30 awards worldwide including Sundance Film Festival 2012 Directing Award, International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) Audience Award and Jury Mention and Best Documentary in Michael Moore’s Documentary Festival in Traverse City.
In Israel, the film won Best Documentary in Jerusalem Film Festival; was shown in one of the two Israeli documentary channel (Channel 8) and in cinemas across the country. Despite international and local acclaim, Five Broken Cameras will not be screened as part of the educational cultural program in Israel.
An effort is underway to raise funds to show this great film to Israeli youth. To make a donation toward that end click here
This film is now available on Netflix
COAL IS KILLING US
Searching for Occupy went to St. Louis to see what Veterans for Peace, Occupy St. Louis, RAMPS and Indigenous People from areas affected by Peabody Coal Mining had to say to the corporate energy giant that has raped the land and displaced people for generations.
Veterans for Peace dropped the first banner. Two more were dropped during the demonstration. 10 protesters were arrested outside Peabody Corporate Headquarters.
CORPORATE CORRUPTION IN SOUTH KOREA
This from the Ssangyong Motors workers:
South Korean auto company, Ssangyong Motor fabricated its accounting books to justify the mass layoff of 3000 workers in 2009. The labor union protested the layoffs with a 77 day long sit-in strike, but its desperate outcry was brutally crushed by riot police. Due to economic hardships, post-traumatic stress, and severe depression, 24 workers and family members have died since, 13 committing suicide.
While campaigning for presidency in 2012, the ruling Saenuri Party had promised to carry out a parliamentary investigation to expose and correct the massive injustices, but ever since its election victory, the Saenuri Party has refused to keep its word.
We call on the ruling Saenuri Party to keep its promise and carry out a transparent parliamentary investigation.
We call on Mahindra(Indian conglomerate) to live up to its responsibility it has assumed by taking over Ssangyong Motor by :
- Engaging in dialogue with the Korean Metal Workers' Union,
- Apologizing to the bereaved families, and
- Reinstating all the Ssangyong Motor workers unjustly pushed out of the company in 2009.
Further, we call on the South Korean government to :
- Apologize for the state violence against the workers in the 77-day strike in 2009 and punish those responsible
- Apologize for the 24 deaths and reinstate all the dismissed Ssangyong Motor workers
- Stop labor repression such as the damage claim suits and provisional seizure of workers' assets.
Please spread this video to help reinstate the dismissed Ssangyong Motor workers.
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A virtual Historical Society for Springfield, MA. We will present stories about Springfield's history, advocate for historical preservation, and provide a place for users to contribute their own knowledge of Springfield's past.
Support the CPA in Springfield!
Submitted by Ralph Slate on Wed, 09/28/2016 - 12:01
General Preservation
Springfield CPA
On November 8, 2016, voters in Springfield will have the opportunity to support the Community Preservation Act. If passed, this will set up a fund in the city dedicated to Historic Preservation, Open Space/Recreation, and Housing.
Historic Preservation has taken a back seat in the city for far too long. We have a tremendous amount of historic properties, but many are neglected, and have been neglected for decades. Unfortunately, Springfield has had perennial budget constraints for decades, and historic preservation is always put on the back burner in favor of things like public safety, employee raises, and even deferred pension liabilities.
The CPA would create a separate stream of revenue from a small 1.5% surcharge on property taxes. For the average house (valued at $134,806), it comes to approximately $10 per year, or less than $1 per month. When everyone contributes, this raises a total of $1 million per year, and this triggers a state match which can be up to 100% per year (though in 2015 the match was about 29%).
I encourage every Springfield voter to vote yes on Question 5, for the CPA!
Submitted by jimboone on Thu, 09/18/2014 - 07:26
Have a friend with a Stain Glass window in need of repair/restoration. Any one know of anyone doing that work in the greater Springfield Area? Let me know at jimboone@hotmail.com Thanks
jimboone's blog
Sumner Ave in 1899 with Faith Chapel visible
This is a picture of Sumner Avenue. It is allegedly from 1899, though nothing on the photo positively dates it. (Click on the photo for a larger size)
Submitted by jimboone on Sat, 01/05/2013 - 10:09
The Allis Mansion 1867
Carew Street, Springfield Ma.
Magnolia Lions Update
For those who remember my original article wondering where the Magnolia Lions went...
I came across an article in the Springfield Republican, April 21, 1957. At this point in time, the Magnolia Lions were no longer in existence, and in fact, people were remembering them with nostalgia, so they likely hadn't been around for a while.
Historical Resource: MACRIS
Submitted by Ralph Slate on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 11:57
Lately, I have tended to only write blog entries when I am wowed by something, and lately, nothing has wowed me. But today, I realized that the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) has digitized its historical inventory files and is making them available to the public.
What wowed me was a photo of the West Union Street school, taken in the 1970's. The building is no longer standing, and I had never seen a photo of it before.
West Union St. School
Submitted by jimboone on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 17:34
Winchester Square Fire Station
Photo added by Ralph Slate
I am doing some research on this venerable piece of land and am trying to figure out when the names were changed. This is what I know.
Springfield's original North Church
North Church (original)
Every now and then I come across photographs which are marked as being from Springfield, but upon further research, they are not. They are either from another state's Springfield, or sometimes are from another town in the region.
I thought that would be the case when I came across this stereoview, marked "North Church", published by Milton Bradley & Co, Springfield. I didn't recognize the church, and to me, "North Church" was the church that sits on the corner of Salem & Elliot Streets. Still, the identification wasn't written in pencil -- it was printed on a label affixed to the card, so I went ahead and bought it, puzzled as to its location.
The short list of 19th century schools left in Springfield
Submitted by Ralph Slate on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 10:33
Someone asked me when schools were built in Springfield, so I decided to consult some prior research that I had compiled. When I looked at the list of Springfield Schools that stood in 1900, I was surprised at just how few of them are still standing. Of the approximately 40 Springfield Public Schools that existed in 1900, just 10 11 remain standing -- 75% of them have been demolished.
Update: Springfield Historical Commissioner Bob McCarroll has told me that I missed a school -- Alden St. School, which was converted into a church. I was confused because the school was built in 1890, but the city had the building present on the site listed as being built in 1910.
Only one school stands from Springfield's first school building boom in the 1860's, only 2 schools from the city's second school building boom in the 1880's stand, only one single-room ungraded school still stands, and only two schools from the 1890's stand largely unmodified.
Here are the ten eleven schools, ordered by year of construction.
Indian Orchard Grammar
Built in 1868, this is Springfield's oldest standing school, although it has been significantly modified to the point where it is unrecognizable from its original design. It was renamed Myrtle Street School and the original school had another building built in front of it. Then a second building was built in the front, a twin of the first. The school was later converted into housing, I'm not sure when.
Republican archives now online
Submitted by Ralph Slate on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 13:54
There is an exciting new development for people interested in researching Springfield and Springfield-area history: The Republican has digitized many of its back issues and is offering them online on a subscription basis.
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Stories from Friday, November 4, 2005
NMCC closes out season with victory (High School Sports ~ 11/04/05)
KENNETT -- The final game of the season for the Kennett Indians, Senior Night, was not a pretty game to watch from either teams' perspective. The final score was New Madrid County Central 37 and Kennett 20. By the end of the contest the officials and coaches appeared close to losing control of the players. ...
Reed runs through Eagles (High School Sports ~ 11/04/05)
CARUTHERSVILLE - The East Prairie football teams' dream of a playoff birth was cut short on Friday night at Hopke Field in Caruthersville as the Tigers defeated the Eagles 50-35. The Eagles fought hard but in the end it was too much Caruthersville running back Kendrickus Reed. After the dust had settled, Reed rushed for 379 yards on 35 carries and scored four rushing touchdowns...
Tigers flip Sikeston, 33-20 (High School Sports ~ 11/04/05)
CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Sikeston Bulldogs' disappointing season came to an end on Thursday night with a 33-20 loss to Cape Central at Houck Stadium in Class 4, District 1 action. The Bulldogs lost fumbles on their first two offensive plays leading to two Cape Central touchdowns right off the bat...
SHS soccer team wins second straight title (High School Sports ~ 11/04/05)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Nothing was decided after two hours of intense action between No. 2-seed Sikeston and top-seed Notre Dame in the Class 2, District 1 championship game. After a scoreless 80-minutes of regulation and four 10-minute sudden victory overtime periods, the Sikeston Bulldogs netted four penalty kick goals to two for Notre Dame in a shootout to capture the district title on Thursday...
SIKESTON - The Sikeston Kiwanis Club celebrated its 10th anniversary Friday night with a special program and "ladies night" at the Dunn Hotel. --- SIKESTON - Miss Vida Harper entertained a group of friends with a Halloween party at her home on Daniel Street Monday night where 24 young people were present to enjoy it with her...
I was sick Friday afternoon and I went to Super D and Mike came out to help me get some medication that made me feel a lot better. I would just like to say thanks to him, he is such an angel. And, they are all very nice people and will help you in any way they can. Thank God for people like these...
City now accepts credit and debit card payments (Local News ~ 11/04/05)
SIKESTON -- Those paying taxes, fines and other fees in Sikeston will now hear the familiar question: Will that be cash or charge? "We are now accepting most major credit cards," said Vicky Jordan, city collector. Accepted are American Express and Discover in addition to MasterCard and Visa...
Local writer pens suspense thriller (Local News ~ 11/04/05)
SIKESTON -- Anyone who remembers Sikeston in the 1970s may recognize some of the streets and neighborhoods depicted in Brad Bloemer's first book, "Shattered Lives." But what won't trigger any memories is the murder mystery that unravels in the Sikeston native's work of fiction first published by Authorhouse in August...
Charges filed after meth lab found (Local News ~ 11/04/05)
BRAGGADOCIO - Two men are facing drug charges following their arrest by agents from the Bootheel Task Force with the assistance of deputies from the Pemiscot County Sheriff's office. Jerry Boone Jr., 27, of Kennett and Timothy Sweet, 20, from Blytheville, Ark. were arrested Tuesday after a consensual search of a shed located at County Highway 407, east of Braggadocio...
Bicyclist, 13, killed by car (Local News ~ 11/04/05)
MALDEN -- A 13-year-old bicyclist was fatally injured after he was struck by a vehicle Thursday in Dunklin County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports at 6:09 p.m. on Route J, about two miles west of Malden, an accident occurred as bicyclist Edwin L. ...
William Acord (Obituary ~ 11/04/05)
DEXTER - William E. Acord, 73, died Nov. 1, 2005, in the John Cochran Veterans Administration Medical Center at St. Louis. Born March 13, 1932, at Dexter, son of the late Arthur Bertis and Pearl Mae Howell Acord, he had worked for over 30 years for Adams and McCord Paint Contractors in Dexter and was a veteran of the U.S. Army having served in the Korean War...
James Lankford (Obituary ~ 11/04/05)
DELTA -- James Lankford, 48, died at 4:55 a.m. Nov. 3, 2005, at Beverly Health Care Center in Bloomfield. Born Aug. 4, 1957, at Fort Worth, Texas, son of the late William James and Janet White Lankford, he was employed as a truck driver for Convanant Trucking. He was a U.S. Army veteran and a member of the General Baptist Church in Chaffee...
Shirley Tidwell (Obituary ~ 11/04/05)
SIKESTON - Shirley L. Tidwell, 74, died Nov. 2, 2005, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Born Jan. 1, 1931, in Fayette, Ala., son of the late Lewis and Mamie Fowler Tidwell, he was a retired farmer and factory worker and a member of the American Legion and Eagles in Sikeston...
Kathryn Matthews (Obituary ~ 11/04/05)
DEXTER - Kathryn Lucille Matthews, 66, died Nov. 3, 2005, at her home near Dexter. Born March 22, 1939, at Parma, daughter of Madge Brown Noyes of Cape Girardeau and the late Drexel Noyes, she was a member of the New Hope General Baptist Church near Essex and a bookkeeper for 33 years with the Production Credit Association...
Vera Warren (Obituary ~ 11/04/05)
DEXTER - Vera Mae Warren, 84, died Nov. 3, 2005, in the Missouri Southern Healthcare. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home.
Lela Mann (Obituary ~ 11/04/05)
DEXTER - Lela Mann, 88, died Nov. 4, 2005, at the Cypress Point Healthcare. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.
Burl Vines (Obituary ~ 11/04/05)
SIKESTON - Pallbearers for services scheduled at 10:30 Saturday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel for Burl O. Vines, 79, who died on Nov. 3, 2005, will be: Jim Null, Tom Ayers, Jim McNiell, Ed Patterson, Harold Beaird and Keith Bateman. Honorary pallbearers will be: Chuck Grant, Leonard Barnes and Jerry Shy...
Therman King (Obituary ~ 11/04/05)
DEXTER -- Rev. Therman Lee King, 81, died Nov. 3, 2005, at his home. Born Aug. 4, 1924, at Swinton, son of the late Herman and Edith Proffer King, he had served as a pastor for 47 years, the past 20 years as pastor for the Faith General Baptist Church in Morehouse. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Okinawa during World War II and received the Purple Heart. He had worked as a farmer, business owner and had been a member of the ASCS County Committee...
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Stories from Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Commission forwards levee information to FEMA (Local News ~ 03/25/09)
BENTON -- Scott County commissioners are sending off a package with information about the Commerce to Birds Point Levee they hope will satisfy FEMA officials. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials have asked commissioners to sign documents by April 21 stating the levee is sound. ...
Sikeston resident will tackle new job leading state's GOP (Local News ~ 03/25/09)
SIKESTON -- In just one week, Sikeston resident Lloyd Smith will begin his first new job in 28 years, as head of Missouri's Republican party. "When you've been doing this as long as I have, it is a big change," said Smith, 57, current chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson and served a total 28 years with her and her late husband, U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson. "But at this point in my career, I'm reminded as much about where I've been as where I'm going."...
Spring brings yard sales (Local News ~ 03/25/09)
SIKESTON -- Warming weather plus spring cleaning add up to one thing for bargain hunters: yard sales. "They are starting to come out in the paper so it won't be long now," said Rhonda Hardin of rural Bertrand, a yard-sale enthusiast. Advertisements for garage sales and yard sales "start picking up in April -- about 30-40 a week," said Shawn Crawford, classified advertisement manager for the Standard Democrat newspaper. "The first week in May is when they really start full fling."...
A hill of daffodils (Local News ~ 03/25/09)
Eight-year-old Emma Wilhelm of New Hamburg takes advantage of a warm spring afternoon as she picks daffodils on the family farm near Benton. While the weather today is expected to be partly sunny with highs in the 60s, the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky., reports a chance of rain tonight through Saturday. Highs will remain in the lower 60s for the remainder of the week...
Joseph Rennier (Obituary ~ 03/25/09)
SIKESTON -- Joseph F. Rennier, 84, retired farmer from near Sikeston, died March 23, 2009, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Icel Campbell (Obituary ~ 03/25/09)
DEXTER -- Icel Lee Campbell, 86, died March 23, 2009, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Wilma Acord (Obituary ~ 03/25/09)
SIKESTON -- Wilma Acord, 92, died March 23, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are with the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Brenda Banks (Obituary ~ 03/25/09)
NORFOLK, Neb. -- Brenda O. Banks, 50, formerly of Haywood City, Mo., died March 21, 2009, as a result of an automobile accident. B Funeral arrangements are with the Williams Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Mildred Ault (Obituary ~ 03/25/09)
CHARLESTON - Mildred Ault, 91, died March 25, 2009, at her home. McMikle Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.
Tom Coin (Obituary ~ 03/25/09)
NEW MADRID -- Tom Coin, 83, died March 19, 2009, at the Golden Living Center in New Madrid. Funeral arrangements are with the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Lowell Pettigrew (Obituary ~ 03/25/09)
RISCO -- Lowell Pettigrew, 81, died March 23, 2009, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.
Tony Acton (Obituary ~ 03/25/09)
DEXTER -- Tony Acton, 48, of Dexter, died March 24, 2009, at the Herrin Hospital in Herrin, Ill. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.
Lady Bulldogs looking to youth in '09 (High School Sports ~ 03/25/09)
SIKESTON -- The Sikeston Lady Bulldogs soccer team will look to continue to make progress as the program enters its eighth season. Sikeston head coach Derrick Long feels the program has come a long since the program was started. For more pictures and stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
NMCC holds off Tigers for victory (High School Sports ~ 03/25/09)
NEW MADRID -- Mother Nature must have been a New Madrid County Central Eagles fan on Tuesday afternoon as both lightning and rain hit just at the perfect time. With runners at the corners for the Caruthersville Tigers in the top of the sixth inning and only one out the Tigers needed only one run to tie the game at seven runs apiece. ...
SHS drops opener to Notre Dame 9-5 (High School Sports ~ 03/25/09)
SIKESTON -- Opening Day has come and gone for the Sikeston Bulldogs baseball team as they fell in defeat to the visiting Notre Dame Bulldogs by a final score of 9-5. Despite the four-run loss, Sikeston led halfway through the contest 3-1 and had the fifth inning not taken a toll on the home team then the outcome would've been different...
SHS netters lose first match (High School Sports ~ 03/25/09)
SIKESTON -- The Sikeston tennis team got off to a rocky start Tuesday afternoon, losing to Marion, Ill. 7-0 in a rain-shortened match. "The weather conditions were tough for both teams today," said Sikeston coach Russ Dial. "This was Marion's second match and they have an experienced team. I believe they adjusted much better to the windy conditions than we did. Our inexperience showed today."...
Ferguson is named Tri-County Player of the Year (High School Sports ~ 03/25/09)
COOTER -- The Tri-County Conference has selected it first, second and honorable mention teams for the 2008-09 basketball season. Senior Dustin Ferguson of Clarkton was chosen as the Conference player of the year while senior Aaron McCaig of Cooter, junior Justin Fowler of Campbell, junior Brandon Bennett of Risco and senior Justin Brown of Clarkton made up the rest of the first team selections...
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Tolomato Cemetery Times
The Past and Present of Historic Tolomato Cemetery, St. Augustine, Florida.
Looking for the Lost Chapel
As all Tolomato fans know, the cemetery was originally a “refugee Indian mission.” After the British Colonial Governor James Moore of South Carolina wiped out the Florida mission chain in attacks over a several year period, mostly notably 1704 and 1706, the few surviving Indians were brought into St Augustine and settled in five different villages, which were served by the Franciscans from what is now the St Francis Barracks. We know the locations of three of them: La Leche, La Punta and Tolomato, but there are two others in what is now Lincolnville whose exact location is unknown.
The villages were small, and Tolomato was probably the largest but nonetheless had fewer than 100 people or so in its heyday. They were mostly Guale Indians who had actually first been moved over a century earlier, during an Indian rebellion on the Georgia coast near their original home, and had spent almost 100 years living on a river that was known, of course, as the Tolomato River, which runs past today’s Guana River Preserve.
They were attacked by Moore, and in 1706, the Spanish governor issued an order calling the Indians into St Augustine and they fled to the city. Tolomato was located just at one of the west-facing city gates, near the redoubt where the cannons were, and was a safe location…although at least one of the Tolomato Indians was killed in the 1740s, defending the city against another wave of British-allied Indian attackers.
Above are two maps of St Augustine, the first by the Spanish engineer Juan Elixio de la Puente in 1764, and the other by the British engineer Moncrief in 1765. Tolomato would be at the upper right, outside the city walls and near the Cubo Line that went along today’s Orange Street.
We have virtually no other visual or archaeological records of the missions, except for a 1726 mention of a wooden chapel with a four-story stone bell tower at Tolomato. When the British arrived in 1763, the Spanish citizens, including the Indians, went to Cuba and abandoned their properties. The British took over and used the chapel for firewood, but they left the bell tower, and in describing his journey through Florida in the 1760s, the naturalist Bartram mentions the tall but narrow (about 20’ on each side) bell tower.
It stood until somewhere between 1793 and 1800, when it was taken apart so that the stones could be used in building the current Cathedral. One of the blocks of stone fell on the vault or grave of Fr. Pedro Camps, the Minorcan priest, and crushed it, leading to his reburial at the Cathedral in 1800.
But we have one question: Where exactly was the Franciscan chapel?
It was not located where the current Varela Chapel is located, because that piece of land was bought in 1853 specifically for building the chapel. And looking at the maps, it seems that the chapel was not even in the center of the Indian village. The de la Puente maps of the 1760s show it as a little northeast of the center of the modern cemetery, and one map shows it with another structure joined to it like an ell – this may have been the belltower joined to the chapel.
So the long and the short of the story is that we’re looking for any trace of the bell tower. But …GPR to the rescue!
Then last week, FPAN’s Kevin Gidusko, shown above, came out with his GPR equipment – and we think we’re getting close. If you want to know more about it, come out and visit us this Saturday, March 21, and ask us where we think it was.
And if you’re interested in the Indian population, go to the Flagler College conference on the Yamasee Indians to be held on April 17-18th. You can sign up here: http://yamaseeconference.weebly.com/. Meanwhile, look at those little red flags…and wonder.
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Connections and Coincidence?
Every year around this time, St. Augustine receives a visit from a group of delegates from our Sister City, Avilés, Spain. It is also, of course, the birthplace of our founder, the Adelantado Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, so it’s extra-special to us.
This year, the group consisted of Councilman Román Alvarez, who has visited us often and is a scholar of the history of St Augustine and Avilés, and representatives of a project dedicated to the building of a scale model of the San Pelayo, the ship that brought Menéndez to these shores in 1565. The purpose of the visit was to present this remarkable replica in a public unveiling at the Visitor Information Center, and below you see the group from Avilés flanking this beautiful (and carefully researched, extremely accurate) model of the San Pelayo.
You’ll also see members of the city government of Avilés, including the Mayor, Pilar Varela. Of course, having the last name Varela meant that she would have to visit the burial place of our most famous Varela, Father Felix Varela, who died in 1853 and was buried at Tolomato Cemetery. Naturally, we had to take a photo of Alcaldesa (Mayor) Pilar Varela standing in front of the commemorative stone set in the wall of the chapel.
We were intrigued: were they related? Felix Varela’s father, Don Francisco Varela y Pérez, was a military man from Northern Spain who had been stationed in Cuba, where Fr. Varela was born. The last name Varela is widespread in the northern part of Spain where Avilés is located. This region is known as Asturias, and the name is also found in Galicia and parts of Castilla. So we had great hopes that we would find a connection.
But alas – diligent Internet research turned up the fact that Francisco Varela was born in Tordesillas, Castilla, and therefore was probably not related – or certainly, not very closely – to Pilar Varela, whose family was from Asturias/Galicia. Nonetheless, there were some odd coincidences on the visit. When Mayor Varela read the stone that is set over the crypt and saw that Fr. Varela died on February 25, she looked up, amazed, and exclaimed that February 25 was her birthday! If Fr. Varela is ever canonized, the day of his death would be his feast day (the day he is celebrated on the church calendar), so she will be able to say she was born on the feast of St. Felix Varela. Not a bad coincidence at all.
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Tolomato Cemetery Preservation Association
Welcome to news about St. Augustine's historic Tolomato Cemetery brought to you by the TCPA (Tolomato Cemetery Preservation Association), a group dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the cemetery. Tolomato is the oldest extant planned cemetery in Florida, starting life as a mission Indian village and eventually becoming the parish cemetery for what is now the Cathedral Basilica of St Augustine. It was closed to new burials in 1884 but preserves its connection to remarkable moments and individuals in the history of St Augustine and of the Catholic Church in Florida.
For more information, please visit our website.
In Rememberance of Minorcan Headstones
As everybody certainly must know by now, there are about 1,000 people buried in Tolomato Cemetery. There are probably Christian Indian gr...
Greene-Miller Cemetery, Cumberland Island, Georgia
Tolomato Docent Louise Kennedy recently made a trip to Cumberland Island, a Georgia location a couple of hours north of St Augustine that is...
Don Juan McQueen…at last!
One of the most frequent questions of our visitors is about John McQueen, aka don Juan McQueen. He was one of our many colorful 18th and 19t...
Just where is Minorca, anyway?
This is a frequent question when we discuss the Minorcans at Tolomato Cemetery, and I’ve never been sure that people can really visualize it...
A Hidden Cemetery at Mepkin Abbey
On a recent trip to South Carolina, I made my usual visit to beautiful Mepkin Abbey, and this time I saw something new. Because the trees ar...
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Red Williams calls for our remaining grasslands to be protected
image courtesy of Hamilton Greenwood
I have written before in this space about how people of all political stripes are concerned about the disposal of the former PFRA pastures. (Here is a post based on a conversation I had with Rick Swenson, former Agriculture Minister under Grant Devine's Progressive Conservative government.)
Well, this week a friend forwarded to me a newsletter written by Charles Melville Williams, who most of us know as "Red" Williams, Professor Emeritus of Animal Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Widely respected in Agricultural research circles, Red is a Member of the Order of Canada (1989), and a Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada. Red ran for the Liberal Party of Canada in 1988 and continues to be involved. (Here is a link to a page in the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan about Mr. Williams.)
At 87 years of age, Red is still very interested in public life and agricultural policy, writing and distributing a brief newsletter which he calls "The Monday Morning Memo". In his September 30th dispatch, he wrote some strong statements on the PFRA grasslands that bear repeating.
I contacted Red this week to get his permission to publish his comments in Grass Notes. Here they are (boldface added for emphasis):
When it comes to protection of the native prairie grasslands it is” now or never”. You get “one kick at the can” and then it is wishful thinking of those that regret not having made the right decisions. It is necessary to put the remaining native grasslands into protection in perpetuity now because it is the last chance.
We have statements from Saskatchewan Agriculture that ranchers are good stewards and on average that is true, but there will be some who will not always voluntarily meet that high standard and the chain is broken forever.
It is important that the provincial government puts a protection codicil on all the lands it releases to individuals, but more important the PFRA pastures must be put into permanent preserve. The failure of the federal government is no excuse for the provincial government to not pick up the responsibility.
It is not often that I find myself on side with those that “ are against everything”, but the simple fact that there is no second chance to get it right makes protection of the remaining natural grasslands and the associated wild life an easy issue to support.
Of course there are established ranchers that want to get their hands on some of these parcels, although there are others that need access to managed pastures. The pasture management committees are not always perfect in their practices so some overview is desirable. It all proves that ranchers, large or small are not always perfect stewards of the public’s land. It is hoped that this small missive and any responses that readers may provide will stiffen the back of Saskatchewan Agriculture in order to act for all citizens.
image courtesy of University of Saskatchewan "On Campus News"
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I say prairies, you say pastizales
Today I am posting an announcement from a friend at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), which since 1994 has brought Canada, Mexico and the United States together to collaborate in protecting North America's environment through the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC)--an adjunct to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The announcement, regarding a new focus on grasslands for the Commission, is good news for those of us who want to see our native prairie landscapes and ecologies receive more attention and protection. The following text was written by staff at CEC:
North America’s Central Grasslands stretch from Southern Saskatchewan all the way to Northern Mexico, supporting many rural communities and their economies. Today, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) released North American Grasslands Alliance: A Framework for Change, the joint vision of over 70 grasslands experts from across the continent that provides strategies for all actors on the landscape, be it ranchers, conservationists or public agencies, to come together to preserve the continent’s only shared terrestrial ecoregion.
Over a year and a half, these experts zeroed in on what’s needed to conserve grassland biodiversity while also supporting vibrant rural communities across North America. At the heart of the framework is the understanding that to do so, innovative solutions are needed to meet a broad range of challenges such as conversion to cropland, food security, climate volatility, rapidly declining grassland-dependent species, and uncertain economic returns. These challenges are complex and their solutions often require cooperation from diverse actors at multiple geographic and time scales.
Thankfully, the integrated planning and management approach of the North American Grasslands Alliance framework is illustrated in a simplified graph featured in the report. This makes it easy for any individual or organization to see how their actions can help sustain North America’s grasslands as environmentally healthy and productive ecosystems, engage the public and institutional support needed to build momentum for grasslands conservation, or increase the awareness of the ecological and economic values of sustainable grasslands. Indeed, the goal of the report is to spur greater stewardship of the North American grasslands, “as part of a collective voice and strong alliance”.
Using this framework to guide its work, the CEC is pursuing its grasslands focus through their 2013-2014 Catalyzing North American Grasslands Conservation and Sustainable Use through Partnerships project.
The full CEC report can found here.
More information on the Commission for Environmental Cooperation can be found here.
Fall Morning at Cherry Lake: and an invitation to participate in a citizen's discussion of wetland drainage
Wetlands like the one in these images are being affected by agricultural drainage in Saskatchewan. The Province's new "Water Security Agency" is inviting us to all participate in a citizens panel that will help determine how agriculture affects our remaining natural wetlands.
The website (link here to participate) asks,
"Are you interested in providing input on a drainage policy for Saskatchewan? Do you want to know what other residents’ thoughts are on drainage in Saskatchewan?
The Water Security Agency is developing a new agricultural drainage policy and beginning the process of updating its regulatory approach to drainage."
Farmers are draining and ditching in Saskatchewan without proper licensing or permission and conflicts over illegal drainage will only increase as we continue to experience wet springs and summers.
We have to ensure that the wider public interests in the health of our wetlands are properly represented in this discussion. The forum was launched September 1 but continues all winter. I encourage anyone concerned about our wetlands in this province to join the forum and let your voice be heard.
The bees and the birds--former CWS scientists speak out on Neonicotinoids
our honeybees at Cherry Lake
The following came to my email in-box via a friend. It is a call to action on the issue of Neonicotinoid insecticides, the toxin that has been associated with the decline of honeybees and native pollinators.
The original notice was written by Glen Fox, a retired biologist raised in Saskatchewan who worked for the Canadian Wildlife Service in its toxicology division. Here is what Glen had to say [comments in square brackets added by me]:
As most of you know, I spent my entire career in CWS's Wildlife Toxicology Division. I am very grateful for that opportunity and proud of what we achieved. However, as a grandfather and lover of justice and this planet, I am very disturbed about the shift to prophylactic use of systemic insecticides that has occurred during our "watch". It's totally unacceptable and is a global ecological disaster in the making. The honey bees are serving as the canary in the coal mine. Friends, this is the Silent Spring that Rachael Carson foresaw! Although death of pollinators, and honey bees in particular, have received most of the attention, there is strong evidence that the Neonicotinoid insecticides are also very toxic to birds, and that they reach toxic concentrations in surface waters. Our own Pierre Mineau [recently retired and now free to speak his mind] has done a terrific job of reviewing the hazards of these insecticides [here is the publication he did for the American Bird Conservatory on Neonicotinoids]!
The good news is the US EPA is currently conducting a regulatory review of this class of insecticides, and Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency has just acknowledged that the majority of examined pollinator mortalities were the result of exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides, and more importantly, have admitted that "current agricultural practices related to the use of neonicotinoid-treated corn and soybean seed are not sustainable" and has issued a Call for Comments. [See this web page for details on how to participate in the PMRA's Call for Comments.]
I believe we need to expand our concerns beyond pollinators (the bees are just "the canary in the coal mine) if we want strong regulatory action. We need to bring an end to the prophylactic use of systemic insecticides.
This is our window of opportunity to make our concerns known as scientists, concerned citizens, parents and grandparents. I urge you to do so, and to distribute this e-mail to others who you think might be so inclined.
Thank you for your consideration. This planet can't afford our letting the regulatory agencies shuffle chairs on the deck of the Titanic when we have already collided with the iceberg. We can comment as informed private citizens. This IS a democracy although Stephen Harper has tried to make it otherwise.
My very best to you all,
Glen A. Fox, M.Sc
A scientist like Glen does not put out this kind of call without giving it a lot of thought. We would all do well to listen to him and the many other scientists like Pierre Mineau who are trying to bring this to the attention of the public.
Here is a petition from the Ontario Beekeeper's Association that we can all sign, and a link to send an email calling for a ban to Neonicotinoids. And here is a web page they made that provides a lot more information.
At the very least, write your Member of Parliament and send emails and letters to the Minister of Health at
The Honourable Rona Ambrose, P.C., M.P.
Brooke Claxton Building, Tunney's Pasture
Postal Locator: 0906C
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9
or email her using this web page's feedback form.
Birds such as this male Mountain Bluebird (a species in rapid decline in farmland) may also be affected by Neonicontoids
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Running the gauntlet--Environment Canada study shows 269 million birds killed each year in Canada
The endangered Loggerhead Shrike is affected by habitat loss and perhaps pesticides but today's study listed more immediate causes of death, such as collisions with vehicles, buildings, power lines, and predation by cats
Today a study by Environment Canada (Birdlife International summary here) in Avian Conservation & Ecology released estimates of the number of birds killed in Canada by human-related activities. Assimilating data from a variety of bird research sources, the scientists determined that we are killing roughly 269 million birds and destroying 2 million bird nests in Canada each year.
That is nearly 5% of the estimated total number of birds we have in Canada during a given year.
And that does not include the loss of birds from habitat destruction--undoubtedly a more serious concern but one that is harder to quantify. The report does, however, estimate that between 1200 and 5,200 nests are destroyed as forests are felled for tar sands each year. Less direct causes of bird decline related to oil and gas exploration and other industrial activity are not included in the study.
Birds that breed in farm land such as this Brewer's Blackbird and this Swainson's hawk are vulnerable to pesticides, electrical transmission lines, and collisions with vehicles
Perhaps most alarming to some will be the figures on the numbers of birds killed by cats. Studies in other countries have made it clear that our cats are killing more native birds than any other single direct cause of anthropogenic (human related) mortality. This new Canadian study confirms what has been proven in the U.S. Cats are NOT native to any North American ecosystem and both pets and feral animals receive a boost in their predator efficacy by being fed and sheltered by people.
Tomorrow (October 2)on CBC Blue Sky at noon I will be with Garth Materie discussing the new report and what Canadian individuals and communities can do to help. Though habitat loss and degradation (serious but more indirect causes of long term bird decline) are beyond the scope of the study, it is worth seeing what we can do to limit causes that are in some ways more easily addressed. Everyone can control their cats, bylaws can be passed and enforced to control cat populations and shut off lights in highrises, and our buildings and electrical transmission lines could be designed to reduce bird mortality.
between 76 million and 416 million birds like this Northern Waterthrush are killed by cats in Canada each year
Nature Canada has responded to the report by calling on all levels of government and Canadian citizens to take some simple measures:
neuter your cats
keep them indoors, especially at dawn and dusk and especially during the peak migration periods of April 10 to June 1 and August 15 to October 15.
enforce bylaws that control stray cat populations. Neutering them is not enough--more than 60% of the birds cats kill are taken by the 25% of cats that are feral.
Civic governments need to look at building design standards to protect bird mortality from collisions with windows and building lit up needlessly at night.
Both Federal and Provincial governments need to consider bird mortality when doing the environmental assessments for any new energy projects and transmission lines (in Saskatchewan right now SaskPower is designing a major transmission line directly across the continent's primary Whooping Crane flyway. Collisions with electrical lines is the number one cause of Whooping Crane mortality in migration. All to serve the potash industry which should be helping to reduce the risks.)
This lovely creature, the Black-necked Stilt deserves some legislation
and regulation to reduce all of the direct and indirect
causes of mortality--including the habitat loss that is not
discussed in the Environment Canada report.
Red Williams calls for our remaining grasslands to...
Fall Morning at Cherry Lake: and an invitation to ...
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The other poll fraud EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 11/11/2011
The other poll fraud
It is quite ironic that the current administration is running after Gloria, Mike and some former Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials over massive and orchestrated fraud in the 2004 elections while Noynoy hasn’t come clean yet on similar allegations of computerized large-scale cheating to win the presidency.
The ghost of the 2010 automated fraud returned to haunt Noynoy the other day after the group called Tanggulang Demokrasya (TanDem) enumerated clear pieces of evidence that were already raised in the past but nonetheless remained unresolved until now.
It cited several violations of the automated election law, including the Comelec’s decision to disable digital signatures in violation of the requirement in the law that election returns be transmitted electronically and digitally to be considered as official election results and shall be used as the basis for the canvassing of votes and the proclamation of a candidate..... MORE
From WMD to ‘laptop WMD’ DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 11/11/2011
From WMD to ‘laptop WMD’
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
This century began with hopes of lasting peace as the threat of a nuclear MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) came to an end. Only one superpower was left; and in its hands, the peace that could prosper. But no sooner had the new century limped through toddlerhood that this lone superpower staged a “false flag” operation against its own people.
Supposedly to avenge the three-building 9/11 World Trade Center “terror attacks,” the US pounded heavily on the medieval nation of Afghanistan in order to flush out the attacks’ alleged mastermind, Osama bin Laden. But it was too small a war.
In his 2002 State of the Union Address, then US President George W. Bush lashed out against the “Axis of Evil,” shattering all dreams of world peace. The following year, his country attacked another nation (Iraq) under the pretext of securing Saddam Hussein’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction” (WMD), which scenario turned out to be a “Weapon of Mass Distraction.”
Ten years later, and with $1.2 trillion spent, 30,000 civilian casualties (including disproportionate number of children and women); 20,000 Taliban and 2,700 coalition forces’ deaths in Afghanistan; 650,000 (according to a Lancet study) to 1.5 million dead Iraqis; mounting Pakistani civilian drone killings; and an expansion of the conflicts into Côte d’Ivoire and Libya, now coming to be known as the new colonial resurgence, there is no end in sight to the Western powers’ 21st Century wars.
The peoples of the world should take heed: There is planning for all these wars and more to come. This was already detailed in the 1990s by US neoconservative think tank, PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which drafted the plan “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” that called for a “New Pearl Harbor” to justify US military resurgence.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), a military alliance against a bygone Soviet regime, then shifted its support to US military aggression and went off to start its own adventures in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya, with current US President Barack Obama “leading from behind.” The whole of Africa is now even threatened by the US’ own Africom (Africa Command) as interventions in Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Yemen loom.
Even the much ballyhooed “Arab Spring” was a component of the plan with Arab Spring NGOs and “civil society” now shown to be funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and Freedom House, and trained in Serbia’s CANVAS (Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies), with experience in the Balkanization of Serbia.
Now, Egypt is far more repressive than ever, with sham elections bringing in worse dependency on the West, as in Tunisia and Libya. Then there’s the US-Israeli thrust through Syria and then Iran.
The drums of war against Iran have been beaten for years now. Previous IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) heads, though, from Hans Blix to Mohamed El Baradei, have never given credence to claims of Iran’s nuclear capability for military use.
But suddenly, with a new Japanese nuclear watchdog chief who was aggressively lobbied for by the US, the agency is now producing a “laptop” of weapons of mass distraction.
The latest came in 2004 when “a mysterious figure handed over to the CIA a laptop he had purloined from an Iranian technician, purportedly working at a nuclear plant in Iran. (It was) said to contain pages and pages of top-secret information in English detailing Iran’s lust for attaining technical knowhow to produce nuclear payroll for Shahab III missile” — this, according to Iranian scholar and author Ismael Shalabi on the Center for Research on Globalization Web site.
Furthermore, “non-proliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis of the New America Foundation says the biggest loophole in the claim is the crude manner in which the laptop documents were constructed… (with reports indicating that) ‘some of the view graphs were done in Power Point, which suggested to me that the program was not terribly sophisticated.’ Another fault… is that the documents were written in English, a language barely used in official Iranian documents, let alone in documents of such paramount sensitivity. In 2005, the US officials briefed the IAEA of the contents of the documents, but they declined to provide the IAEA officials with any actual documents. In 2008, a battle ensued between IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei and George W. Bush… (as El Baradei) thought Iran should be given a fair chance to see at least some of the invisible documents” (Inter Press Service, Dec. 9, 2006; New York Times, Dec. 4, 2007). But the US would not oblige.
According to a cable released by WikiLeaks in October 2009, “(Yukiya) Amano (current IAEA chief) reminded (the US) ambassador on several occasions that he would need to make concessions to the G-77 (the developing countries group), which correctly required him to be fair-minded and independent, but that he was solidly in the US court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.”
Furthermore, “Amano recently delivered, reporting that Iran had carried out activities ‘relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device’ with ‘evidence’ provided by ‘more than 10 member states as well as its own information’ which turns out to be the US ‘laptop of WMD.’”
All these remind us of Bush’s infamous “Sixteen Words” in his 2003 State of the Union speech: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Those 16 words were about the Niger “Yellow Cake” Colin Powell said before the UN that Saddam obtained for his WMDs. After, the CIA sent US Ambassador Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate and found the allegation to be false, the US eventually had to admit that Saddam had no WMDs. It was a barefaced lie told to 300 million Americans and 6 billion people of the world.
We have an obligation today to inform our fellow human beings of this new US lie for war — this “laptop Weapon of Mass Distraction.” We must take our role seriously as peacemakers and stop the warmongers-for-profit from destroying more than they already have. A war on Iran will raise oil to $300 per barrel that would devastate our already suffering nation.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)
Noy in big Blunderland FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 11/11/2011
Noy in big Blunderland
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
It has been one big blunder after another that Noynoy and his Palace aides have been committing, giving themselves more problems they themselves create.
The latest blunder is the way Noynoy and his Injustice Secretary Leila de Lima have been handling the case involving the travel appeal of Gloria Arroyo for her medical needs.
If they don’t know it yet, the whole shebang is boomeranging on them. Not only are they being seen by many Filipinos as being vindictive, but also that they are being seen as usurpers of judicial power, making it appear that a Department of Justice (DoJ) circular is higher than the law and the Constitution.
It has been noted that while Noynoy and De Lima keep on claiming that there are pending charges of plunder and electoral sabotage against her which are all non-bailable crimes, the nation knows that this is not so, because there have been no charges filed in court at all against Gloria and even her spouse, Mike Arroyo. What exists are complaints and even in the case of electoral sabotage, the preliminary investigation on this has not even been finalized..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111111com2.html/
W/ Video: Make money, make war: UK profits from Libya mess
NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence is far from over, with big companies replacing the warplanes. The countries that bombed the oil-rich state are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it.
First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will get paid to put it back together. Libya is open for business, and UK firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush.
“Libya is a relatively wealthy country with oil reserves, and I expect there will be opportunities for British and, indeed, other companies to get involved in the reconstruction of Libya,” British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond has said. He is urging CEOs and sales directors to “pack their suitcases” and head to the North African country..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/profit-libya-companies-british-067/
11/11/11: Eleven craziest facts you need to know about it
From Freemasons, spiritualists to RPG-fans around the world, this day has something to offer to everyone.
1) First and foremost – the date’s number is a full palindrome (reads the same from left to right, and right to left), which occurs only once per century. Nothing crazy about this one, it's just plain math. Rather, it’s the date’s palindromic qualities that get people stirred up. Occultists, Freemasons and numerologists each have their own connotation for the number. Oh, and lotto players often refer to 11 as “the drumsticks”. The Last time a full double-figure palindrome date occurred (November 11, 1911), US citizens in Missouri witnessed an extraordinary temperature drop from 80F to 10 F. Friday will show if it had anything to do with the date or was mere coincidence.
2) Russians get married en masse. Registry services in various Russian towns will be working overtime and setting up additional offices to cater for all the couples who wish to tie the knot. The other popular wedding days – like January 1st, or August 28th – are given a run for their money, as the trend doesn’t stay exclusively Russian. There was also a funny coincidence concerning divorce: trying to stand out in the happy crowd, one Russian couple got married on 09/09/09…and got divorced on 11/11/11!.... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/11-november-date-numerology-freemasons-041/
The right to travel C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 11/11/2011
The right to travel
Jonathan De la Cruz
The 1987 Constitution upholds the right to travel as inviolable subject only to considerations of national security, public safety and public health as maybe determined by competent authorities. International law recognizes this right as well as provided in Article 12, Section 3 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which states in part that “...everyone shall be free to leave any country including his own and return to it...” save only in “...times of emergency which threatens the life of the nation and the existence of which is officially proclaimed...” So, what compelling reason or reasons within the ambit of these “prohibitions” have P-Noy and his advisers offered thus far to bar former President Gloria Arroyo from availing of her right to travel? Well, despite their best efforts we have yet to be shown one..... MORE
Happy birthday, Mr. Vice President NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 11/11/2011
Happy birthday, Mr. Vice President
NO HOLDS BARRED
Armida Siguion-Reyna
Today, we do the 73rd episode of what first started as your pet project as mayor of your beloved city, an early National Heroes Month production, entitled Aawitan Kita sa Makati: Mga Bayani ng Bayan, at the program’s regular venue at the University of Makati’s 6th floor auditorium, 5:30 p.m., featuring the talents of Bimbo Cerrudo, Cris Villonco, Richard Reynoso, Bayang Barrios, Miguel Castro, Bangge Mabanta, Joel Villaflor and I. The decision to do an advance show was to accommodate our Middle East performances in December, but as it falls also on your birthday, how perfectly right to likewise have it as a tribute to you.
AKSM has gone a long way since you first put it on stage, in July of 2005, at around the same time the nation was glued to the revelation of the “Hello Garci” CDs. It is almost seven years old..... MORE
Reds score Noy for not filing single case vs GMA 11/11/2011
Reds score Noy for not filing single case vs GMA
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has scored the administration of President Aquino for not filing a single case against former President, Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo despite so much noise and after more than 500 days in office.
In a statement, the CPP noted that the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) denial of Arroyo’s request to travel abroad to seek medical treatment only opened the possibility that the former President could leave the country for good and evade criminal proceedings following the filing for a temporary restraining order before the Supreme Court.
“The more important issue is that the Aquino regime has wasted its almost 500 days in office in failing to file a single case against Gloria Arroyo and prosecute her for the high crimes of plunder and electoral fraud as well as war crimes committed against the Filipino people during her nine-year rule,” said the CPP..... MORE
Discontentment in AFP brass feared over Noy’s top Army pick By Mario J. Mallari 11/11/2011
Discontentment in AFP brass feared over Noy’s top Army pick
By Mario J. Mallari 11/11/2011
President Aquino’s appointment of Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Bautista as commanding general of the 86,000-strong Philippine Army has drawn some questions on how he would lead officers in the field who are mostly his upperclassmen in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) where seniority is “sacred.”
As Army chief, Bautista has supervision of the 10 Infantry Division (ID) commanders throughout the country and all major support units of the Army such as the Army Support Command (Ascom), Light Armor Division (LAD) and the Special Operations Command (Socom), among other units.
At present, all division commanders except one, 6th ID commander Brig. Gen. Rey Ardo, are senior than Bautista, a member of the PMA Class of 1981 where Ardo also belongs..... MORE
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VP Binay marks 11-11-11 birthday with Marines, Navy boodle fight 11/11/2011
VP Binay marks 11-11-11 birthday with Marines, Navy boodle fight
Vice President Jejomar Binay will celebrate his birthday today, Nov. 11, 2011 — or “11-11-11” — with a boodle fight with 1,111 Marine and Navy personnel at the Marines headquarters in Fort Bonifacio.
Binay is a reservist colonel in the Marines.
The boodle fight will be followed by the awarding of financial assistance from the Alay sa Kawal (ASK) Foundation, which Binay chairs, to families of 69 Marines who were killed in action.
The Vice President said he intends to celebrate his next birthdays with the military..... MORE
LTFRB hailed for suspending franchises of striking buses 11/11/2011
LTFRB hailed for suspending franchises of striking buses
Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco yesterday lauded the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board’s (LTFRB) decision penalizing the bus lines which participated in a strike on Nov. 15 last year in protest of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA)’s new number coding scheme implemented on that same day. The strike resulted in hundreds of commuters stranded along Edsa.
“It was a fair decision,” said Tiangco on the LTFRB decision cancelling the franchise of Philippine Corinthian Liner as well as suspending the licenses of 15 other bus liners that also participated in the strike..... MORE
Archbishop warns lawmakers vs betting in Pacquiao fight 11/11/2011
Archbishop warns lawmakers vs betting in Pacquiao fight
A ranking official of the Catholic Church has advised lawmakers, who will watch the boxing match of their colleague, Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao on Sunday (Manila time), to refrain from using public funds in placing their bets.
Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles said instead of engaging in gambling, solons should just allot their money to help the poor.
“Hindi natin sila hinuhusgahan pero sana lang huwag naman sa ganitong sitwasyon na kung saan hinirang sila ng bayan, dapat maging mabuting ehemplo pero ipinapakita pa nila na sila ang nangunguna sa sugal (We are not prejudging them, but they should set a good example as they were elected by the people),” Arguelles said over Church-run Radyo Veritas..... MORE
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Health and Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century
Added by Laurelyn Douglas '91 (English 264, 1991)
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In The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture, Bruce Haley asserts that the Victorians were concerned with health over almost all, if not all, other issues. The following passages are excerpted from his book:
Nothing occupies a nation's mind with the subject of health like a general contagion. In the 1830s and the 1840s there were three massive waves of contagious disease: the first, from 1831 to 1833, included two influenza epidemics and the initial appearance of cholera; the second, from 1836 to 1842, encompassed major epidemics of influenza, typhus, typhoid, and cholera. As F. H. Garrison has observed, epidemic eruptions in the eighteenth century had been "more scattered and isolated" than theretofore; and in the early decades of the nineteenth century there had been a marked decline in such illnesses as diphtheria and influenza. Smallpox, the scourge of the eighteenth century, appeared to be controllable by the new practice of vaccination. Then, in the mid-twenties, England saw serious outbursts of smallpox and typhus, anticipating the pestilential turbulence of the next two decades.
The first outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Britain was at Sunderland on the Durham coast during the Autumn of 1831. From there the disease made its way northward into Scotland and southward toward London. Before it had run its course it claimed 52,000 lives. From its point of origin in Bengal it had taken five years to cross Europe, so that when it reached the course of Durham, British doctors were well aware of its nature, if not its cause.
The progress of the illness in a cholera victim was a frightening spectacle: two or three died of diarrhoea which increased in intensity and became accompanied by painful retching; thirst and dehydration; sever pain in the limbs, stomach, and abdominal muscles; a change skin hue to a sort of bluish-grey. The disease was unlike anything then known. One doctor recalled: "Our other plagues were home-bred, and part of ourselves, as it were; we had a habit of looking at them with a fatal indifference, indeed, inasmuch as it led us to believe that they could be effectually subdued. But the cholera was something outlandish, unknown, monstrous; its tremendous ravages, so long foreseen and feared, so little to be explained, its insidious march over whole continents, its apparent defiance of all the known and conventional precautions against the spread of epidemic disease, invested it with a mystery and a terror which thoroughly took hold of the public mind, and seemed to recall the memory of the great epidemics of the middle ages."
The cholera subsided as enigmatically as it had flourished, but in the meantime another sort of devastation had taken hold. The previous June, following a particularly rainy spring, Britain was visited by the first of eight serious influenza epidemics in the space of sixteen years. In those days the disease was often fatal, and even when it did not kill, it left its victims weakened in their defenses against other diseases. Burials in London doubled during the first week of the 1833 outbreak; in one two-week period they quadrupled. Whereas cholera, spread by contaminated water, affected mainly the poorer neighbourhoods, influenza was limited by no economic or geographic boundaries. Large numbers of public officials, especially in the Bank of England, died from it, as did many theater people.
At that time the term "fever" encompassed a number of different diseases, among them cholera and influenza. In the 1830s the "new fever," typhus, was isolated. During its worst outbreak, in 1837-38, most of the deaths from fever in London were attributed to typhus, and new cases averaged about sixteen thousand in England in each of the next four years. This happened to coincide with one of the worst smallpox contagions, which killed tens of thousands, mainly infants and children. Scarlet fever, or scarlatina as it was then called, was responsible for nearly twenty thousand deaths in 1840 alone.
Although mortality rates for specific diseases were not compiled for England and Wales between 1842 and 1846, we know that during this period there was a considerable decline in epidemics. It has been surmised that one reason was the expansion of railroad building, with the consequent increase in wage levels and a better standard of living. A hot, dry summer in 1846, however, was followed by a serious outbreak of typhoid in the fall of that year. Enteric fever, as it was then called, is a water-borne disease like cholera and tends to flourish when people are not particular about the source of their drinking water.* That same year, as the potato famine struck Ireland, a virulent form of typhus appeared, cutting down large numbers of even well-to-do families. As Irish workers moved to cities like Liverpool and Glasgow the "Irish fever" moved with them. By 1847 the contagion, not all of it connected with immigration, had spread throughout England and Wales, accounting for over thirty thousand deaths. As had happened a decade earlier, typhus occurred simultaneously with a severe influenza epidemic, one which carried off almost thirteen thousand. There was also a widespread dysentery, and as if all this were not enough, cholera returned in the autumn of 1848, assailing especially those parts of the island hardest hit by typhus and leaving about as many dead as it had in 1831. This was the epidemic which took the lives of one-fifth of the thousand children housed at the institution for the poor at Tooting.
Diseases like cholera, typhus, typhoid, and influenza were more or less endemic at the time, erupting into epidemics when the right climatic conditions coincided with periods of economic distress. The frequency of concurrent epidemics gave rise to the belief that one sort of disease brought on another; indeed, it was widely believed that influenza was an early stage of cholera. There were other contagions, however, which yearly killed thousands without becoming epidemic. Taken together, measles and "hooping cough" accounted for fifty thousand deaths in England and Wales between 1838 and 1840, and about a quarter of all deaths during this general period have been attributed to tuberculosis or consumption.
It is not hard to see why the idea of disease had such an impact in the last century. In his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Gt. Britain, Edwin Chadwick included figures to show that in 1839 for every person who died of old age or violence, eight died of specific diseases. This helps explain why during the second and third decades of the nineteenth century nearly one infant in three in England failed to reach the age of five.
Generally throughout the 1830s and the 1840s trade was off and food prices were high. The poorer classes, being underfed, were less resistant to contagion. Also, during the more catastrophic years the weather was extremely variable, with heavy rains following prolonged droughts. Population, especially in the Midlands and in some seaport cities and towns, was growing rapidly without a concurrent expansion in new housing. Crowding contributed to the relatively fast spread of disease in these places. The Registrar General reported in 1841 that while mean life expectancy in Surrey was forty-five years, it was only thirty-seven in expectancy in London and twenty-six in Liverpool. The average age of "labourers, mechanics, and servants", at times of death was only fifteen. Mortality figures for crowded districts like Shoreditch, Whitechapel, and Bermondsey were typically half again or twice as high as those for middle-class areas of London.
Such statistics as these not only made Britons aware of the magnitude of disease in their own time, but served as effective weapons for sanitary reformers when they brought their case before Parliament. Two reports by the Poor Law Commission in 1838, one by Dr. Southwood Smith, the other by Drs. Neil Arnott and J. P. Kay (later Kay-Shuttleworth), outlined causes and probable means of preventing communicable disease in poverty areas like London's Bethnal Green and Whitechapel. Chadwick's Report broadened the scope of inquiry geographically, as did a Royal Commission document in 1845 on the Health of Towns and Populus Places. What we learn from these and other sources gives a depressing picture of early Victorian hygiene.
During the first decades of Victoria's reign, baths were virtually unknown in the poorer districts and uncommon anywhere. Most households of all economic classes still used "privy-pails"; water closets were rare. Sewers had flat bottoms, and because drains were made out of stone, seepage was considerable. If, as was often the case in towns, streets were unpaved, they might remain ankle-deep in mud for weeks. For new middle-class homes in the growing manufacturing towns, elevated sites were usually chosen, with the result that sewage filtered or flowed down into the lower areas where the laboring populations dwelt. Some towns had special drainage problems. In Leeds the Aire River, fouled by the town's refuse, flooded periodically, sending noxious waters into the ground floors and basements of the low-lying houses.
As Chadwick later recalled, the new dwellings of the middle-class families were scarcely healthier, for the bricks tended to preserve moisture. Even picturesque old country houses often had a dungeonlike dampness, as an visitor could observe: "If he enters the house he finds the basement steaming with water-vapour; walls constantly bedewed with moisture, cellars coated with fungus and mould; drawing rooms and dining rooms always, except in the very heat of summer, oppressive from moisture; bedrooms, the windows of which are, in winter, so frosted on their inner surface, from condensation of water in the air of the room, that all day they are coated with ice."
In some districts of London and the great towns the supply of water was irregular. Typically, a neighbourhood of twenty or thirty families on a particular square or street would draw their water from a singly pump two or three times a week. Sometimes, finding the pump not working, they were forced to reuse the same water. When a local supply became contaminated the results could be disastrous. In Soho's St. Anne's parish, for example, the faeces of an infant stricken with cholera washed down into the water reserve from which the local pump drew, and almost all those using the pump were infected. Millbank Prison, taking its water from the sewage-polluted Thames, suffered greatly during every epidemic of water-borne disease.
The Public Health Bill, passed in 1848 because of the efforts of reformers like Smith and Chadwick, empowered a central authority to set up local boards whose duty was to see that new homes had proper drainage and that local water supplies were dependable. The boards were also authorized to regulate the disposal of wastes and to supervise the construction of burial grounds. Simply bringing this last problem to public attention was a great service: the New Bunhill Fields burying ground in the Borough, less than an acre in size, was at that time the depository of over fifteen hundred bodies a year, though Chadwick estimated that only one hundred and ten could be "neutralized" per acre of ground. When more room was needed, the older skeletons and coffins were incinerated. The graveyard of St. Martin's, Ludgate, had long since filled, and hundreds more were interred in church vaults; the resulting stench drove the regular worshippers from service.
Since it was widely believed that disease was generated spontaneously from filth (pythogenesis) and transmitted by noxious invisible gas or miasma, there was much alarm over the "Great Stink" of 1858 and 1859. The Thames had become so polluted with waste as to be almost unbearable during summer months. People refused to use the river-steamers and would walk miles to avoid crossing one of the city bridges. Parliament could carry on its business only by hanging disinfectant-soaked cloths over the windows. It should have been a blow to the theory of pythogenesis when no outbreak of fever ensued from this monstrous stench. As late as 1873, however, William Budd could reluctantly report in his important book on typhoid that "organic matter, and especially sewage in a state of decomposition, without any relation to antecedent fever, is still generally supposed to be the most fertile source."
Throughout most of the century, doctors can be said to have been conceptually helpless about the cause and treatment of the disease. A glance at the contents of a typical volume of the Lancet (1849) tells the melancholy story: "On the Advantage of Copious Bleeding in Inflammatory Diseases"; "Report of a Case of Cholera Treated by Transfusion"; "Treatment of Cholera by Small and Repeated Doses of Calomel"; "On the Employment of Embrocations and Injections of Strong Liquid Ammonia in the Collapse Stage of Cholera." One title begins promisingly, "On the Production of Cholera by Insufficient Drainage", but continues, "with Remarks on the Hypothesis of an Altered Electrical State of the Atmosphere."
No doubt the resistance to the theory of polluted water as a source of infection contributed to the steady prevalence of typhoid in the second half of the century as well as to the high mortality rates from cholera in epidemics as late as 1854 or 1865-6. The general cleaning up of the cities and towns, however, produced a marked reduction in deaths from typhus, a disease, we now know, transmitted by lice. Although a systematic control of contagious disease had to await the introduction of preventive inoculation in the eighties and nineties, after mid-century the general health of the country measurably improved. In the 1850s and 1860s there came into common use such diagnostic aids as the stethoscope, the ophthalmoscope, and the short clinical thermometer. Meanwhile the employment of general anaesthesia and antiseptic surgery was reducing considerably the number of hospital deaths.
Improved hygiene, diagnosis, and treatment in the past century have given people a certain emotional security even in the face of serious disease. Throughout much of the Victorian period, however, with both the causes and the patterns of disease very much matters of speculation, it was difficult ever to feel comfortable about one's state of health. The behaviour of the sever contagions of the time had a special way of intensifying anxiety. They would appear, then perhaps subside for a month or two, only to reappear in the same locality or somewhere else. Also, the individual sufferer had no way of predicting the outcome of the disease in his own case. Influenza patients, observed the London Medical Gazette during the 1833 epidemic, "might linger for the space of two or three weeks and then get up well, or they might die in the same number of days." Just as frightening was the uncertain progress of typhoid. For the first week the victim would feel listless and suffer headaches, insomnia, and feverishness. His temperature would gradually increase over this period, though fluctuating between morning and evening hours. His stomach would be painful and distended. Probably he would have diarrhoea and perhaps red patches on his skin. Typically there would be an intensification of these symptoms for a few weeks. In most cases the patient would recover, but convalescence might take additional weeks. Depending on the severity of the attack, however, and the patient's ability to resist, he might die from exhaustion, internal haemorrhaging, or ulceration of the intestine.
The beginnings of such a disease as typhoid were so mild and gradual as to be subjectively indistinguishable from, say, a cold or a moderate case of influenza, of from any number of nonfatal complaints. Deficiency diseases, both glandular and dietary, were but dimly understood in those days. Proper diagnosis and effective treatment of goitre, diabetes, and the various vitamin deficiencies belong to the twentieth century, as is true with allergies, many of which must also have imitated the early symptoms of acute diseases. Thousands of sufferers from eczema, hives, or asthma not only were given superficial relief but were ignorant of the nature of their maladies.
The number of unknowing victims of chronic food poisoning must also have been great. Mineral poisons were often introduced into food and water form bottle stoppers, water pipes, wall paints, or equipment used to process food and beverages. Moreover, the deliberate adulteration of food was a common and, until 1860, virtually unrestricted practice. For example, because of the Englishman's dislike for brown bread, bakers regularly whitened their flour with alum. Conditions for the processing and sale of foods were unsanitary. An 1863 report to the Privy Council stated that one-fifth of the meat sold came from diseased cattle. In 1860 the first pure-food act was passed, but, as was often the case in these early regulatory measures, it provided no mandatory system of enforcement. In 1872 another act was passed, this time considerably strengthening penalties and inspection procedures. But in the meantime, and throughout most of the nineteenth century, Britons had little protection against unwholesome food and drink. We can only guess at how many tons of adulterated tea, rancid butter, and polluted meat were sold and consumed monthly throughout the kingdom.
Whenever Parliament debated some labor-reform bill, Victorians were reminded that the Industrial Revolution had brought as an unwelcome by-product the proliferation of occupational diseases. Testimony from medical investigators and workers alike included gruesome stories of "black-spittle" among miners, of grinder's rot and potter's asthma. Those looking into conditions among milliners and dressmakers found much higher than average rates of anaemia, deteriorating vision, and various lung diseases caused by breathing dust and fine particles of fiber. In many places of work, ten to twelve hours a day standing or sitting in one spot, often in an unnatural positions, damaged the spine, the digestion, and the circulation.
With the prevalence of these occupational ailments, as well as of contagions, deficiency diseases, and food poisonings, George Henry Lewe's remark that "few of us, after thirty, can boast of robust health" is understandable. Their correspondence reveals that many prominent Victorians were constantly afflicted. --Bruce Haley. The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.
What sort of insight does this information yield into the Victorian period, which was obviously a time of both medical progress and intense human suffering and physical pain?
Could it help to explain certain elegies, or a prevalence for grieving or ruminations on death, in poetry?
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Sunday 22 November 2020 (other days)
Jesus Christ is the King of kings: come, let us adore him.
Year: A(II). Liturgical Colour: White.
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925, the sixteenth centenary of the Council of Nicaea at which the doctrine of the consubstantiality of Christ with the Father was defined. Its eschatological character was confirmed by its move, in the calendar reforms of the Second Vatican Council, to the final Sunday of the liturgical year.
The Pope asserted that the most effective defence against the destructive forces of the age is the recognition of the kingship of Christ; and, furthermore, a feast which is celebrated every year by everyone is a far better way of deploying that defence than any number of books written by learned people. First, we do; then we come to understand what it is that we are doing.
Each of us has been anointed with holy oil at baptism, as priest, prophet and king. The feast of Christ the King is thus a good moment to reflect on our kingship and on what “king” means and how to be one. Understanding the feast makes us understand our own call better.
One possible point of entry is in Genesis, where Adam sits in state and God brings him all the animals for him to give them names. To give names to one’s subjects is the act of a king. The responsibility of a king is then to care for his subjects, which is why we are obliged to act as custodians of creation: something no other creature is. How far that responsibility takes one can then be seen in the King of the Universe, who is simultaneously the ruler of all and the servant of all. He rules in triumph; and he rules from the Cross.
Perhaps a way into a meditation on all this would be to ask, “Over whom am I, personally, king?” and hence “Whom am I called to serve?”
In other years: St Cecilia
Devotion to St Cecilia, in whose honour a basilica was constructed in Rome in the fifth century, has spread far and wide because of the Passion of Saint Cecilia, which holds her up as a perfect example of a Christian woman, who embraced virginity and suffered martyrdom for the love of Christ.
As with early martyrs, nothing much is known about Cecilia except her existence and her name; with the additional complication that so many stories have grown up round her that any remaining historical facts are obscured. No-one knows quite why she should suddenly have become popular in the middle of the sixth century, some 200 years after her death, and her association with music is also a mystery. It may be real, or it may come from the description in the Passion of Cecilia singing to God “in her heart” while the musicians were playing on her wedding day, or it may come from a linguistic confusion: where the Passion describes her being stifled to death candentibus organis, “with the pipes glowing red-hot,” this could have been misread as cantantibus organis, “with the organ playing.”
See the article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.
Second Reading: Origen (184 - 254)
Origen is a giant among early Christian thinkers. He was knowledgeable in all the arguments of the Greek philosophical schools but believed firmly in the Bible as the only source of true inspiration. He is thus a representative of that curious hybrid called “Christianity”, which on the one hand maintains (like the Jews) an ongoing direct relationship with the living God, who is the principle and source of being itself, but on the other hand maintains (like the Greeks) that everything makes sense rationally and it is our duty to make sense of it. As the Gospels say (but the Pentateuch does not), “You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind”.
A first stage in this, when it comes (for example) to disputations with the Jews over their view of Christianity as a recently-founded syncretizing heresy of Judaism, is to decide what Scripture is and what it says. If I argue from my books and you argue from yours, we will never meet; but if we share an agreed foundation, there is some chance. Accordingly Origen compiled a vast synopsis of the different versions of the Old Testament, called the Hexapla. Not all Origen’s specific judgements on soundness were generally accepted, even at the time, but the principle remains a necessary one, indispensable for any constructive meeting of minds.
Origen’s principle of interpretation of Scripture is that as well as having a literal meaning, its laws, stories and narratives point us to eternal and spiritual truths. The prime purpose of Scripture is to convey spiritual truth, and the narrative of historical events is secondary to this. While we still accept that “Scripture provides us with the truths necessary for salvation”, this view does leave room for over-interpretation by the unscrupulous, and in the controversies of succeeding centuries people would either claim Origen as an authority for their own interpretations or accuse their opponents of Origenizing away the plain truths of Scripture. Even today, the literalist view taken by some heretics of narratives in Genesis which most of us accept as allegorical shows that this controversy will never die.
As part of his programme of founding everything on Scripture, Origen produced voluminous commentaries – too many of them for the copyists to keep up, so that today some of them have perished. But what remains has definite value, and extracts from his commentaries and also his sermons are used as some of our Second Readings in the Office of Readings.
(Colossians 1:12-13) ©
We thank the Father who has made it possible for us to share in the saints’ inheritance of light. He has taken us out of the power of darkness and created a place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves.
Colossians 1:16-18 ©
All things were created through him and for him. Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity. Now the Church is his body, he is its head. As he is the Beginning, he was first to be born from the dead, so that he should be first in every way.
God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things to be reconciled through him and for him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross.
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Hilda Winifred D'Arcy Hutton1
Hilda Winifred D'Arcy Hutton is the daughter of John Timothy D'Arcy Hutton.2 She married Edward Hyde Hamilton Gordon, son of Maj.-Gen. George Hamilton Gordon and Blanche Emma Beatrice Case, on 14 October 1897.1 She and Edward Hyde Hamilton Gordon were divorced.1
From 14 October 1897, her married name became Gordon.
Child of Hilda Winifred D'Arcy Hutton and Edward Hyde Hamilton Gordon
Hermione Harriet Gordon2 b. 11 Sep 1898
Hermione Harriet Gordon1
F, #400022, b. 11 September 1898
Hermione Harriet Gordon was born on 11 September 1898.1 She is the daughter of Edward Hyde Hamilton Gordon and Hilda Winifred D'Arcy Hutton.2
William Alexander Gordon1
M, #400023, b. 9 May 1869, d. 18 May 1936
William Alexander Gordon was born on 9 May 1869.1 He was the son of Maj.-Gen. George Hamilton Gordon and Blanche Emma Beatrice Case.2 He died on 18 May 1936 at age 67.1
He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, Kent, EnglandG.1 He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, EnglandG.1 He was Aide-de-Camp in 1900.1 He fought in the Boer War between 1900 and 1901.1 He was Private Secretary to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in 1905.1 He was appointed Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) in 1909.1 He gained the rank of Colonel War 1900 in the Worcestershire Militia.1 He fought in the First World War.1 He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) in 1916.1 He was appointed Companion, Order of the Indian Empire (C.I.E.) in 1919.1
Mabel Antoinette Gordon1
Mabel Antoinette Gordon is the daughter of Maj.-Gen. George Hamilton Gordon and Blanche Emma Beatrice Case.2 She married Reverend Charles William Bennett on 20 April 1909.1
From 20 April 1909, her married name became Bennett.
Reverend Charles William Bennett1
Reverend Charles William Bennett married Mabel Antoinette Gordon, daughter of Maj.-Gen. George Hamilton Gordon and Blanche Emma Beatrice Case, on 20 April 1909.1
He was the Rector between 1906 and 1932 at Woolstone, Gotherington, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1
Vice-Admiral William Elrington Gordon1
M, #400026, b. 20 May 1831, d. 7 July 1897
Vice-Admiral William Elrington Gordon was born on 20 May 1831.1 He was the son of Robert Cumming Hamilton Gordon and Frances Freer.2 He married Emily Barbara Lowndes, daughter of Sir Edward Chaddock Lowndes, on 19 October 1865.1 He died on 7 July 1897 at age 66.1
He was commissioned in 1844, in the service of the Royal Navy.1 He gained the rank of Lieutenant in 1854.1 He fought in the Crimean War, in the Baltic.1 He fought in the China War in 1860.1 He gained the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1885.1 He was Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard between 1888 and 1891.1
Child of Vice-Admiral William Elrington Gordon and Emily Barbara Lowndes
Reverend William Hamilton Gordon+2 b. 22 Aug 1866, d. 31 May 1935
Sir Edward Chaddock Lowndes1
Children of Sir Edward Chaddock Lowndes
Emily Barbara Lowndes+2
Rt. Hon. Sir John Eldon Gorst+1 b. 24 May 1835, d. 4 Apr 1916
Emily Barbara Lowndes1
Emily Barbara Lowndes is the daughter of Sir Edward Chaddock Lowndes.2 She married Vice-Admiral William Elrington Gordon, son of Robert Cumming Hamilton Gordon and Frances Freer, on 19 October 1865.1
She was Queen's Counsel (Q.C.)1 She was Privy Counsellor (P.C.)1 From 19 October 1865, her married name became Gordon. She graduated in 1937 with a Master of Arts (M.A.) (see BLG LYSLEY (formerly LOWNDES) of Castle Combe.)1
Child of Emily Barbara Lowndes and Vice-Admiral William Elrington Gordon
Reverend William Hamilton Gordon1
M, #400029, b. 22 August 1866, d. 31 May 1935
Reverend William Hamilton Gordon was born on 22 August 1866.1 He was the son of Vice-Admiral William Elrington Gordon and Emily Barbara Lowndes.2 He married Anna Margaret Holloway on 10 April 1895.1 He died on 31 May 1935 at age 68.1
He was educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, EnglandG.1 He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG, in 1892 with a Master of Arts (M.A.)1
Child of Reverend William Hamilton Gordon and Anna Margaret Holloway
Evelyn Margaret Hamilton Gordon2 b. 21 May 1896
Anna Margaret Holloway1
Anna Margaret Holloway married Reverend William Hamilton Gordon, son of Vice-Admiral William Elrington Gordon and Emily Barbara Lowndes, on 10 April 1895.1
From 10 April 1895, her married name became Gordon.
Child of Anna Margaret Holloway and Reverend William Hamilton Gordon
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Section 28 and 2A – England, Wales and Scotland
What were Section 28 and Section 2A?
This is difficult to explain! They were sections of different Local Government Acts.
Section 28 was part of the 1988 Local Government Act. It explained how local authorities must not ‘promote homosexuality’. However, Section 28 said this requirement should be added to Section 2 the earlier 1986 Local Government Act. So the requirement was added as Section 2A of the 1986 Act.
Section 28 and Section 2A said the same thing. They said local authorities must not ‘promote homosexuality’. Lesbian and gay groups in England and Wales used Section 28 as the focus of their campaigning. Lesbian and gay groups in Scotland used Section 2A. So below we talk about Sections 28/2A. The Act did not apply in Northern Ireland.
The new law came into force on the 24th May 1988.
Why was the new law introduced?
It can be seen as part of an angry response to recent improvements in equality for lesbian and gay people. In the 1970s and 1980s the lesbian and gay community became more confident and organised. It became more visible. (We should remember that, at the time, bisexual and trans issues were not usually recognised). Trade unions had improved workplace rights before there was any legal protection. Some local authorities had lesbian and gay support teams. Some schools recognised lesbian and gay families. Also, in the 1980s the HIV/AIDS epidemic arrived. As well as devastating the community it led to more homophobia.
How did the lesbian and gay community respond?
Sections 28/2A sparked activism among lesbian and gay people. At the time the Act came into force 10,000 people protested in London and 15,000 in Manchester. They were joined by allies such as the National Union of Miners at protest events. Several protests were staged by lesbian women, including abseiling into Parliament. There was a famous invasion of the BBC’s Six O’Clock News. One woman managed to chain herself to camera equipment. Another was sat on by Nicholas Witchell. Witchell was a newsreader.
What impact did Sections 28/2A have?
It was never clear how you could ‘promote homosexuality’. The Act did not create a criminal offence. There was no successful prosecution using the clause. However, it did cause misunderstanding and misinformation.
Local authorities cut funding for many lesbian and gay groups. Other groups self-censored and activities stopped. Sections 28/2A did not apply to what was taught in schools. But newspapers and the general public believed that it did. Teachers who might have talked about healthy relationships were discouraged. So another generation of children grew up without a rounded education. They grew up in a national and local culture of homophobic bullying.
You can read about the campaigns to repeal Section 28 and Section 2A in this Legal Dateline
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Benjamin L Anderson 安理纯 (1873-1962) and
Julia Peterson Anderson 彼珠丽 (1868-1958)
by Bruce W.N. Lo, 2012
Benjamin Anderson and Julia Peterson Anderson went to China in 1905. They dedicated over 40 years of service in southeast China as evangelist, educators, fund raisers, and mission administrator. They are best remembered as the founders of Meihua (Bee Hwa) School (美華中学) in Xiamen.
Basic Biographical Data
B.L. Anderson was born in 1873 in Denmark; died on Oct 4, 1962 at Takoma Park, MD, USA.
Parentage: Father Neils Andersen (1827-1916) and mother Karen Andersen (1834-1906)
In 1905 he married Julia Peterson, a nurse from Poy Sippi, WI.
Siblings: The three brothers, Jacob N. Anderson (eldest), Benjamin L Anderson (next), Hans P. Anderson (youngest) in total served over 100 years with the SDA church.
Education: Trained in Milton College, Milton, WI, Battle Creek College, MI, and Union College, NE. Later received a Master degree from University of Colorado.
Service: He and his wife went to Kulangsu, Amoy as missionaries in 1906. They worked in south China for over 40 years as evangelist, educator, and mission administrator.
Pre-Mission Period
Benjamin L. Anderson (安理纯) was born in Denmark to the home of Neils and Karen Andersen. There was some uncertainty about his birth year. According to the obituary in Review and Herald (November 1962) and the Seventh-day Encyclopedia, he was born in 1873. But in an article written by Florence Nagel in (Young 2002), she reported his birth year as 1872. In this article, we shall use the year 1873. Benjamin is the middle of the three Anderson brothers from Denmark, who had served in total over 100 years with the SDA church. His older brother J.N. Anderson, was the first SDA commissioned missionary to China; while his younger brother Hans P. Anderson was a missionary to their homeland Denmark. The three brothers followed their parents to migrate to the United States during their early childhood. Benjamin studied at Milton College, Milton, Wisconsin, Battle Creek College, Michigan, and Union College, Nebraska for his undergraduate degree. Later, he also obtained a Master degree from University of Colorado.
After graduation, he entered into the ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Wisconsin Conference in 1900, and was ordained to in 1905. That year he married Julia Peterson, a recent graduate of the Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Nursing in Michigan.
Julia Peterson (彼珠丽) was originally from Poy Sippi, WI. She was born on January 6, 1868 to the Peterson (彼得遜) family in Denmark, who also moved to the US. At an early age, she mastered the art of home making and culinary, and was fluent in both Danish and English. These skills together with her nursing training at Battle Creek Sanitarium Nursing School, have proved to be invaluable for her future missionary work in China.
After their wedding, upon hearing the urgent need in China from brother Jacob, the newly wedded decided to accept a call from the General Conference in late 1905 to go to China as missionaries. Their destination was the small off-shore island of Kulangsu (鼓浪嶼), just east of Xiamen (廈門) or formerly known as Amoy, in the Fujian (福建) province. Kulangsu is a beautiful tropical island. There was a private beach on the island. It was on the slop beyond the private beach that they, together with another missionary couple, Elder and Mrs W.C. Hankins (漢謹思) built their homes.
Mission Service at Southeast China
They left the US in late 1905 and arrived at Hong Kong about March of 1906 and met up with Bejamin's brother, Jacob Anderson, who had been in China for about four years. Without waiting too long, Benjamin and Julia Anderson proceeded to the island of Kulangsu to start the mission work in the Xiamen district. Together they established a strong Adventist presence in the China southeast province of Fujian.
One of the first tasks that B.L. Anderson did was to form the Bee Hwa School (Meihua 美華中学) for boys at Kulangsu to train local nationals to share the gospel message among their compatriots in southern China. At that time the mission treasury was not able to provide a lot of money for such project. B.L. Anderson often had to sacrifice his own money to purchase lands and build buildings. After acquiring small parcel of land at Kulangsu piece by piece, B.L. Anderson dug out the stones from the land to build the school buildings. The boy school was a success, and was popular not only among locals but also among overseas Chinese in southeast Asia. As a result Bee Hwa School played an important role in the training of many early Adventist national workers of the SDA church in China and in southeast Asia.
As the work of the Adventist church continued to grow in southeastern China, B.L. Anderson took on a number of responsibilities. In 1908, he took up the position of the educational secretary for the China Union Mission, 1912 to 1914 he was Fujian mission president cum treasurer, and in 1915 to 1917 became the president of the South China Union.
Throughout those year, Mrs. Julia Anderson labored untiringly to assist her husband in the work of the mission, trying to raise money for the church and at the same time applying her nursing skills to take care to sick Chinese patients. In one occasion she contacted smallpox from one of the patients that she cared for. That incident nearly caused her own life. But she would not allow any sickness to prevent her rendering her service to the Chinese women.
Helping the Women of China
Once the Bee Wha School for boys was built, "Aunt Julia" (as Mrs Julia Anderson was affectionately known among the younger generation of missionaries), persuaded her husband to purchase another piece of land on top of hill at Kulangsu to build a school for girls. At that time, co-education was unheard of in China. Again the challenge of financing such a new venture entailed a lot of work.
Initially, Julia Anderson taught the Chinese ladies to do fancy needlework and crochet to make pillow cases, napkins, and small table top covers. She asked her friends in the US to sell those products. The proceeds were saved in a bank for the new girl school. But the saving did not grow fast enough. So she started a dairy business in the (boy) school ground and started to sell fresh milk to the Europeans and rich Chinese living in the region. But the milkman that she employed decided to cheat by mixing more water with the milk, so that he could pocket the milk money. When Aunt Julia found out, she immediately dismissed the local milkman and got up a 3.00am each morning to supervise the work of pasteurizing, bottling, and sealing the milk containers, to ensure the quality of their milk. At the bottom of the hill where the buffaloes took their baths, Aunt Julia planted some lotus flowers. She would harvest the flowers and the lotus seeds and sold them for income. In addition to being a diligent missionary's wife, she was a real entrepreneur looking for every possible means to raise funds for the girl school.
After 32 years of labor, the Bee Hwa Girls' School was completed and turned over to the mission free of debt by Mrs Anderson. This is her greatest gift to the women of China.
Sino-Japanese War
When the Sino-Japanese war broke out, Xiamen soon fell into the hands of the Japanese Imperial army. While Mrs. Julia went to Hong Kong, Elder B.J. Anderson was visiting some church members in the Xiamen area separated from his wife. While there, he was interned by the Japanese army by placing him under house arrest in his own home in Kulangsu. Although his movement was restricted by Japanese soldiers, he was able to get some food and cooked his own meals. He remained in interment at Kulangsu until the end of the Second World War, virtually isolated from the rest of the world.
Soon Hong Kong was also occupied by the Japanese military machine. Julia Anderson was not as fortunate. Since America is at war with Japan, she was taken to the Stanley Concentration Camp, on the south side of the Hong Kong island. There, together with all the internees, she was subject to the starvation diet which caused her already weaken health condition to deteriorate. Furthermore, inmates in the Stanley Camp were rarely allowed to communicate with the outside world. So loneliness and isolation increased her worry about her husband who was in inland China, as she had not heard from him for many years.
When the ship "Cripsholm" took the first batch of prisoner of war exchange back to New York harbor, the first thought and request that Julia Anderson made was, where was her internee husband in China? The friends who met her in the New York harbor took her back to their Washington home, where she rejoined her husband. With love, care, freedom, and nutritious food, she regained her health and strength within three months. But her eye sight continued to fade as a result of the ordeal that she went through during the war.
Final Years
Benjamin and Julia Anderson both gave over 40 years to mission service. After World War II, even when they returned to the US, their hearts were with the many Chinese youths they educated, who they urged to return to China to serve their own people. This was the reason for their sacrifice.
Julia Anderson passed away on June 30, 1958 in Licoln, NE, while one of her "Chinese son" Timothy Ling (林德泉) and his wife were by her side. Though Elder B.L. Anderson lived for another 4 years, he too lost his memory, and was taken care of by Brother and Sister Timothy Ling in Takoma Park, MD. Our pioneer missionary, B.L. Anderson passed away on October 4, 1962 in Takoma Park, MD.
Elder Benjamin Anderson and Mrs Julia Peterson Anderson
Two missionary families in Amoy: BJ Anderson and WC Hankins
The island of Kulangsu, viewed from Xiamen
SDA Mission Chapel, Tsoam Chow, Fukien Autumn 1908 NP Keh WC Hawkin IH Evans JN BL Anderson Evang Tan Khi T Ang Chhun Tan Chheng Tek
School in Kulangsu, Xiamen
Baptism on the beach in front of the Kulangsu school by BL Anderson
Mission office in Amoy
BL Anderson having dinner with local family
Amoy Meihua girl school, 1924
Amoy Meihua School turned co-ed in 1925
When was this taken?
R&H (1962), Obituary of Benjamin L. Anderson, Review and Herald, p.24, December 6, 1962. See also, Far Eastern Division Outlook, November, 1962, p.15.
R&H (1958), Obituary of Julia Peterson Anderson, Review and Herald, p. 26, August 28, 1958.
Deming, M.W. (1958), Obituary of Julia Peterson Anderson, Central Union Reaper, p.7, October 7, 1958.
Van Dolson, B.J & Van Dolson, L.R. Editors (1996) "Anderson, Benjamin L.", Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Vol A-L, Second Revised Edition, Commentary Reference Series, Vol. 10, Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Press.
Negal, Florence (2002), "Benjamin L. Anderson" pp.703-705, in Chines SDA History, S. Young (editor), Chinese Union Mission of SDA: Shartin, Hong Kong.
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The hits just keep coming in 'Million Dollar Quartet'
Jaake Margo, Jessica LaFever, Tarif Pappu, Greg Zema and Nick Kenrick join voices. (Joyce Goldschmid photo)
Four of the biggest names in ‘50s music got together on Dec. 4, 1956, and recorded a jam session that became a hit record and now a rollicking musical, “Million Dollar Quartet,” presented by Palo Alto Players.
Gathering in the Sun Records recording studio in Memphis, Tenn., Carl Perkins (Tarif Pappu), Johnny Cash (Greg Zema), Jerry Lee Lewis (Nick Kenrick) and Elvis Presley (Jaake Margo) sang and played some of their biggest hits.
Director Jeffrey Bracco has assembled this multi-talented cast to regale the audience for about 90 minutes without intermission.
And the hits just keep coming. They include “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Memories Are Made of This,” “Down by the Riverside,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Peace in the Valley,” “I Walk the Line,” “I Hear You Knocking,” “Hound Dog,” “See You Later Alligator,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” and more.
One of the brightest highlights of this evening of highlights is “Fever,” sung by Jessica LaFever as Dyanne, Elvis’ girlfriend. In her form-fitting red dress, she turns the heat up to incendiary pitch.
Kenrick channels Jerry Lee’s virtuosic, athletic piano playing, especially in “Great Balls of Fire.”
Completing the cast is Jeremy Ryan as Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records.
Daniel Murguia on bass and Ryan Stohs on drums accompany the guitars and piano. Katie Coleman serves as musical director.
The book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux is fairly thin, focusing mainly on Sam’s hopes to have all four men under contract to Sun in order to keep them away from rival Columbia Records. There’s also Carl’s animosity toward the brash Jerry Lee.
The Southern accents sometimes hinder comprehension of lines, but that’s a minor concern. Music is the centerpiece, and what terrific, uplifting music it is.
“Million Dollar Quartet” will continue through Oct. 1 at the Lucie Stern Theater, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. For tickets and information, call (650) 329-0891 or visit www.paplayers.org.
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The Vladimir Putin Timeline
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.
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.
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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Name : Dr. Zaki Taher, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Zaki Taher is proud to offer a full service Dermatology clinic. He is a proud Edmontonian and was previously practicing in south Edmonton and the Edmonton North PCN clinic. He is currently the medical director of Lucere Dermatology & Laser Clinic near South Edmonton Common.
Dr. Z.Taher completed his dermatology residency at the University of Alberta and went on to complete a Laser Surgery and Cosmetic Dermatology fellowship at the University of Ottawa. His areas of special interest include general medical dermatology, precancers and skin cancer management as well as medical and cosmetic applications of lasers in cutaneous surgery and rejuvenation.
Dr. Z.Taher is frequently invited to speak nationally about advanced neuromodulator and filler techniques as well as laser and cosmetic surgery. He is well known for his comprehensive approach to facial rejuvenation. Dr. Z.Taher is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta.
His areas of research interest include vascular lesions, pigmentation, and malignant and premalignant cancer management.
Name : Dr. Mike Kalisiak, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Mike Kalisiak an Assistant Clinical Professor of dermatology at both the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta. His focus is on skin cancer prevention, early detection and treatment.
He completed his medical degree as well as a residency in dermatology at the University of Alberta. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is certified in both Canada and the United States, and is also a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology.
Dr. Kalisiak believes in the importance of prevention as an integral aspect of health care. He was previously involved in strengthening provincial anti-tobacco laws and, more recently, laws protecting youth from indoor tanning. He is a member of numerous committees including the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Dermatologic Surgery and Alberta Medical Association’s Health Issues Council. He served as a councilor at the College of the Physician and Surgeons of Alberta in 2012-2014.
He has received Members Making a Difference Award from the American Academy of Dermatology, Young Dermatologists’ Volunteer Award from the Canadian Dermatology Association, Award for Young Leaders from the Canadian Medical Association and Prix d’excellence (Specialist of the Year) award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, among other recognitions.
He has published several peer-reviewed articles, numerous continuing medical education features, and articles on prevention in popular press.
Name : Dr. Susan Poelman, M.Sc., MD, FRCPC, DABD
Dr. Poelman is a Canadian and U.S. board-certified Dermatologist specializing in medical and surgical care of the skin, hair, and nails. She has a special interest in melanoma and other forms of skin cancer. Her other interests include acne, rosacea, and psoriasis. Dr. Poelman completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1997.
She subsequently was involved in clinical and translational research in Oncology for 2 years at the University of Chicago and then completed a Master’s degree in Medical Science with a specialization in Cancer Biology at the University of Calgary. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Calgary and then completed a 5 year residency training in dermatology at McGill University and the University of British Columbia’s Department of Dermatology and Skin Science. During residency, she did translational melanoma research at McGill for which she received the McGill Department of Medicine award for research by a subspecialty resident. She also received the Canadian Dermatology Foundation’s Dr. Frederick Kalz Bursary and Women’s Dermatologic Society Mentorship grants to study with world melanoma experts at the Sydney Melanoma Unit and Yale University, respectively.
After residency, she practiced general dermatology in Vancouver as well as serving as a clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia Department of Dermatology and Skin Science before moving back home to Calgary in 2010. With her extensive background and interest in cancer research, she currently has her sights set on establishing a pigmented lesions clinic. This would offer high-risk melanoma patients screening with total body imaging and dermoscopic evaluation (“mole mapping”), and she hopes it will be operational this fall.
Dr. Poelman is currently a clinical lecturer in the Division of Dermatology at the University of Calgary in addition to her work as a general dermatologist at ENT Plus. She has numerous publications and has presented at National and International meetings.
Dr. Poelman is passionate about educating the public regarding the prevention of skin cancer and has given lectures to various groups including Canadian Postal Services on sun safety in outdoor workers, and has volunteered in the Canadian Dermatology Association’s annual sun awareness public screening campaigns in Ottawa, Vancouver, and Calgary. She helped develop the American Academy of Dermatology’s “skincancernet” website, and sits on various committees including the Women’s Dermatology International Affairs Committee and Young Physicians Task Force Committee.
In her spare time, Dr. Poelman enjoys playing the piano and various sports including tennis, rollerblading, and hiking with her husband and 2 children.
Name : Dr. Todd Remington, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Todd Remington is a board-certified Dermatologist in Canada and the United States. He has been in private practice at the Remington Laser Dermatology Centre in Calgary, Alberta since 2002.
Taking a patient-centered approach, Dr. Todd Remington is adamant about only recommending treatments optimized for individual patients, while avoiding unnecessary or suboptimal treatments altogether. He is passionate about dermatology and is committed to providing state-of-the-art dermatologic care. He has worked hard to build a team of dedicated patient-focused registered nurses and medical assistants who share this philosophy.
As an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Dr. Todd Remington is actively involved in medical education. He serves on the University of Calgary dermatology residency committee and is dedicated to training Dermatology Residents. He also teaches medical students at the University of Calgary Medical School and participates in educational programs for non-dermatology physicians.
Name : Dr. Thomas G. Salopek, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Salopek has a special interest in dermatologic oncology including melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer, cutaneous lymphoma, and skin disorders with systemic implications (immunobullous, collagen-vascular disorders, psoriasis, etc).
Name : Dr. Paul Lubitz, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Paul Lubitz is a Royal College accredited Dermatologist, Board Certified in both Canada and the United States who currently practices in the beautiful mountain town of Canmore Alberta at his Art of SKIN Dermatology and DermaSpa.
Extensively trained by national and international masters in all areas of modern Dermatology, from medical management and disease prevention, to cancer surgery, to the most advanced techniques of cosmetic and laser surgery and skin enhancement, Dr. Lubitz provides his patients with a wide range of advanced diagnostic and treatment options for a variety of medical, surgical and cosmetic skin diseases and concerns. He has particular interests in skin cancer detection and surgery, advanced laser surgery, skin rejuvenation with volumetric fillers, neuromodulators and skin tightening procedures in addition to both surgical and nonsurgical fat reduction techniques.
Dr. Lubitz was educated at Laval and McGill Universities for his dual undergraduate degrees, followed by Queen’s University to complete his Doctor of Medicine studies where he graduated with Distinction. He completed his core dermatology training at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, and he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Dermatology in 2001. Following his general dermatology training, Dr. Lubitz completed additional advanced training in skin cancer surgery, laser surgery and cosmetic surgery with several renowned international experts in these fields, prior to commencing his private practice. He remains at the forefront of advanced skin rejuvenation procedures and technologies and he has lectured at meetings nationally and internationally on a variety of subjects including laser assisted liposuction, vascular and CO2 lasers, neuromodulators and fillers.
He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Calgary and he regularly trains Dermatology residents, Family Practice residents and medical students at his Art of SKIN facility in Canmore. He is currently the President of the Alberta Society of Dermatologists.
Name : Dr. Patricia Ting, MD, FRCPC
Name : Dr. Parbeer (Perry) Grewal, MD, FRCPC, FAAD
Originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta, Dr. Grewal now resides and practices Dermatology in the community setting in Edmonton, Alberta. He enjoys a full practice with a wonderful patient population. He is also a proud husband and father of two children.
In 2002, Dr. Grewal completed his Bachelor of Science (BSc) undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta with a Specialization in Psychology and graduated with Distinction. He then went on to complete his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree at the University of Alberta in 2006 and graduated with Special Training in Research. In 2011, he subsequently completed his Dermatology training at the University of Alberta and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) and also went on to become a board certified Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology (FAAD).
Dr. Grewal, along with his partner Dr. Norman Wasel, has participated in numerous clinical research trials for a multitude of dermatology products, including biological and non-biological systemic and topical therapies for psoriasis and topical products for onychomycosis, actinic keratosis, acne and rosacea. His research is conducted under the auspices of Probity Medical Research and he is listed on the researchtrials.org website.
Dr. Grewal enjoys a community practice focused on general dermatology. He particularly has an interest in psoriasis and also deals with numerous other issues including acne, eczema, warts, skin cancers, rashes, moles, etc… He offers a wide range of topical and systemic therapy and also a specialized form of phototherapy which has helped many patients in his practice.
Name : Dr. Norman Wasel, MD, FRCPC, FAAD
As an experienced practitioner and researcher in both private and academic settings, Dr. Norman Wasel has made innovations in treatment, care and curing of skin disease the focus of his life’s work. He invites you to join him at Stratica, and as always, welcomes new patients and referrals. Dr. Wasel is a certified specialist in Dermatology, and is board-certified in both Canada as well as the United States.
He trained in Dermatology at the University of Alberta, following medical school at the University of Manitoba, and pre-medical studies at the University of Winnipeg where he received the Gold Medal in Sciences. Dr. Wasel continuously keeps himself up-to-date in the latest developments in Dermatology by frequently attending national and international conferences, as well as by maintaining active membership in the:
– Canadian Dermatology Association
– American Academy of Dermatology
– Alberta Society of Dermatology
– Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
– Canadian Medical Association
– Alberta Medical Association
Dr. Wasel is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta and is a licensed Dermatologist in both Alberta and the Northwest Territories. He is also a proud husband and father.
Name : Dr. Muba Taher, MD, FRCPC
Dr.Taher completed medical school and dermatology residency training at the University of Alberta. He then completed fellowship training in skin cancer and skin reconstructive surgery in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California where he was on staff at the University of Southern California (2006). His interests include medical dermatology and skin cancer surgery including Mohs micrographic surgery.
Dr.Taher is currently an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine (Dermatology) at the university of Alberta. He is a member of the University Multidisciplinary Melanoma Group, and the medical advisory group for the Canadian Skin Cancer Foundation.
Name : Dr. Marlene Dytoc, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Marlene Dytoc is a Clinical Professor of Medicine (effective July 1, 2015) in the Division of Dermatology of the University of Alberta. She is the Interim Section Chief for Dermatology in the Edmonton Zone. She also serves in the Residency Program Committee for Dermatology at the University of Alberta.
She is certified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. She is a member of the Alberta Society of Dermatologists, the Canadian Dermatology Association, and past president and current secretary of the Chinese Canadian Medical Society in Edmonton.
A graduate of the Medical Technology program in Rochester, New York, USA, Dr. Dytoc pursued studies in Microbiology and Immunology and was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Toronto, Canada.
She earned her medical degree at the University of Toronto, and completed her Dermatology residency at the University of Alberta with additional training in Toronto, Vancouver, Boston, Los Angeles and North Carolina.
In her clinic, Dr. Dytoc specializes in General, Women’s Health/Vulvar and Cosmetic Dermatology. Dr. Dytoc also has special interests in acne and hair loss.
Dr. Dytoc teaches medical students and residents in Dermatology, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Plastic Surgery. She is an invited speaker for continuing medical education of family physicians.
Name : Dr. Mariusz Sapaijaszko, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Mariusz Sapijaszko is a nationally and internationally trained Dermatologist, Cosmetic Surgery and Laser Surgery Expert. He is a Medical Director of the Western Canada Dermatology Institute and the Youthful Image Clinic, a Non-Hospital Surgical Centres. He is a lecturer at national and international events presenting topics in the fields of skin cancer as well as cosmetic surgery.
Name : Dr. John F. Elliott, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Elliott is an alumnus of the University of Alberta, where he completed an MD in 1982 and a PhD in Molecular Immunology in 1987. Following postdoctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine he returned to the University of Alberta in 1990, where he currently works as a Researcher and Professor. In 2004 Dr. Elliott returned to clinical work at the University of Alberta, where he completed residency training in Dermatology. In September 2008 he established a sub-specialty Contact Dermatitis/Allergy Patch Test Clinic within the Division of Dermatology.
Name : Dr. Loretta Fiorillo, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Loretta Fiorillo is the divisional director of pediatric dermatology at the University of Alberta.
Name : Dr. Jaggi Rao, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Jaggi Rao is a double board certified dermatologist (Canada and USA) and a certified cosmetic surgeon.
Name : Dr. Kirk Allen Barber, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Kirk Barber is a Calgary dermatologist who has been in clinical practice for over 30 years. There are very few skin diseases he has not seen before, but every day he is interested and excited by the patients who seek his help.
Name : Dr. Habib Kurwa, MD, M.B.B.Ch., FRCP (UK), FACMS
Born in the United Kingdom, Dr. Kurwa obtained his medical degree (M.B.B.Ch) from the University of Wales, College of Medicine, UK in 1988 and his Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 1993. In 1997, as a Senior Registrar in Dermatology at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, London, England, he qualified as a Specialist in Dermatology. In 1999 he completed an American College of Mohs’ Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology Fellow ship (ACMMSCO) at the University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Name : Dr. Kent Remington, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Kent Remington received his medical degree from the University of Alberta. He did his post-graduate dermatology training in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Remington is an internationally known dermatologist who specializes in laser surgery and comprehensive approaches to the “Aesthetic Face” using energy devices, fillers and neuromodulators.
The Remington Dermatology Centre, which he established in Calgary in 1971, became the Remington Laser Dermatology Centre in 1979, the first of its kind in Canada. During the past 36 years, Dr. Remington has treated more than 85,000 patients with lasers and other energy devices. Dr. Remington has helped train hundreds of physicians from around the world in the art and science of laser surgery and the aesthetic use of HA fillers for the global approach to facial reflation and contouring.
It is Dr. Remington’s philosophy to provide patients with state-of-the-art dermatological care using the best technology as soon as it becomes available. To meet this objective, the Remington Laser Dermatology Centre operates as a private facility complete with its own operating rooms and 23 different lasers and other energy devices.
Name : Dr. Gregory Storwick, MSc, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Storwick is the founder of Storwick Dermatology & Laser Clinic, where he and his colleagues work with a team of dedicated, experienced individuals who assist him in meeting the needs of his patients
The atmosphere at Storwick Dermatology & Laser Clinic is one of caring, concern and professional competence. The staff is attuned to the needs and concerns of the patient from the first phone call through to the final visit.
Dr. Storwick earned his fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC), with a specialty in dermatology, in 1993, and has since focused on providing leading-edge laser technology to provide the very best in safe, proven and effective skin-care treatments.
Dr. Storwick earned his doctorate in medicine from the University of Calgary in 1988, and performed his dermatology residency at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Dermatology and a member of the Canadian Dermatology Association.
Name : Dr. Kenneth Alanen, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Ken Alanen is an authentic expert in the diagnosis and treatment of skin disease. He has special interests in skin cancer, lasers, cosmetic dermatology, acne tattoo removal and dermatopathology. He has seventeen years of post secondary education, spanning from 1987 to 2004.
Dr. Alanen received his Bachelor of Science (molecular biology) and Doctor of Medicine degrees at Western University followed by a five year residency in Pathology / Laboratory Medicine with specialty certification from the Royal College of Physicans and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in 1999. Subsequently, he completed a two year fellowship in Dermatopathology (the art and science of microscopic diagnosis of skin disease) at the University of Colorado under Dr Loren Golitz . He passed the subspecialty Dermatopathology examination, jointly administered by the American Boards of Pathology and Dermatology.
Dr. Alanen completed his residency in Dermatology with FRCPC certification in 2004. He has approval from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta for Mohs’ Micrographic Surgery. His clinic, Derm.ca, is a certified Non-Hospital Surgical Facility.
Dr. Alanen has been an invited speaker at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Annual Meeting and has spoken many times on the international, national, provincial and local levels. He has co-authored numerous peer reviewed studies as well as a textbook in Dermatology. He is a member of the province-wide multidisciplinary skin cancer group of Alberta.
Name : Dr. Gordon E. Searles, OD, MD, FRCPC, FACP
Dr. Gordon Searles is a dually-certified Internal Medicine Specialist and Dermatologist that practices with the objective of treating each patient as an individual with unique needs. As the founder of Searles Dermatology & Aesthetics, it is his goal to provide compassionate and effective care in an environment that encourages each patients’ understanding of their disease and its management. Dr. Searles welcomes a diverse group of patients with general dermatology needs or conditions that require subspecialty expertise.
Dr. Searles has been practicing in the Edmonton area for the past 22 years. He founded Searles Dermatology & Aesthetics in Fall 2009. He completed his Internal Medicine training at the University of Ottawa, and his Dermatology training at University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, and also completed his Master of Science in Experimental Medicine. He was Programme Director of Residency Training for Dermatology for ten years. Currently, Dr. Searles participates in the training of primary-care and dermatology resident physicians in the Edmonton area.
Name : Dr. Eunice Chow, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Chow graduated from UBC Medicine in 2004, and from University of Alberta Dermatology in 2011.
She is also Assistant Clinical Professor at University of Alberta, Division of Dermatology and Cutaneous Sciences as of July 2014.
Name : Dr. Christine Malcolm, MD, FRCP(C), FAAD, DABD
Dr. Malcolm is a Canadian and US board-certified Dermatologist and the only Dermatologist in Grande Prairie. She has been practicing in Grande Prairie for the past 5 years.
Dr. Malcolm completed her Dermatology residency at the University of Toronto. She received her certification in Dermatology from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Dermatology in 2010.
Dr. Malcolm completed her Dermatology residency at the University of Toronto. She completed her medical school training at the University of Alberta. She received her M.D. with the designation ‘Special Training in Research’ to acknowledge her extra training in medical research, both clinical and bench research. She was awarded the Dean’s Honour List for being within the top 15% of her medical class. Dr. Malcolm received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Calgary.
Dr. Malcolm’s interests include: skin cancer, pigmented lesions, psoriasis, and cosmetic procedures including: Botox, Juvederm, and laser treatments.
Dr. Malcolm’s clinic is Rejuvaderm Cosmetic Dermatology & Laser Center and is Grande Prairie’s leading center for cosmetic dermatology and laser technology. It is the only cosmetic and laser clinic in Grande Prairie run by a Dermatologist. Rejuvaderm provides the full spectrum of cosmetic and laser procedures including: Botox Cosmetic, Juvederm, Laser hair removal (Alexandrite & Nd-Yag), Pulse Dye laser (VBeam) for redness and rosacea, Fractionated CO2 laser for skin resurfacing and acne scarring, and Coolsculpting. We have recently obtained the new PicoWay laser for the treatment of sun spots and laser tattoo removal. Rejuvaderm offers narrow-band UVB treatments for psoriasis, Botox for hyperhidrosis and Botox for chronic migraine headaches.
Dr. Malcolm lives in Grande Prairie with her family. She is married and has a little girl and baby boy. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, taking her children swimming and to the park, watching movies, and travelling.
Name : Dr. Chuck Lortie, MD, CCFP, FCFP, FRCPC, FAAD
Dr. Lortie is a published author, a board certified dermatologist both in Canada and the United States and is accredited by the American College of Mohs Surgery.
Name : Dr. Chris Keeling, MSc MD, FRCPC, FAAD
Dr. Keeling is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Dermatology at the University of Alberta in the Department of Medicine. He has a private practice in an accredited Non-Hospital Surgical Facility in south Edmonton.
He completed his undergraduate training at the University of New Brunswick and University of Maine at Orono site and graduated with honours. His Masters in Biology was done travelling to Scotland out of the University of New Brunswick and he did Ph.D. work at the University of Connecticut before moving to Halifax for his undergraduate training in Medicine at Dalhousie University.
He completed his Dermatology Residency at the University of Alberta and then pursued a Fellowship in Surgical Dermatology at McGill University training in Mohs Micrographic Surgery.
His practice is focused on cutaneous oncology and Mohs Surgery but runs a full adult and pediatric dermatology practice in south Edmonton.
Name : Dr. Thomas C. Nakatsui, MD, FRCPC, FAAD
Dr. Thomas Nakatsui is the medical director of Nakatsui DermaSurgery, a certified non-hospital surgical facility. He took over the Groot DermaSurgery Centre from long-time associate Dr. Don Groot who was a pioneer in laser technology. Upon his retirement, Dr. Nakatsui took over the centre in 2014. He holds a Fellowship in Dermatology in Canada and is Board certified in the United States.
Dr. Nakatsui is an internationally known dermatologist skilled in all areas of dermatology, including laser surgery and hair transplantation. In addition to medical dermatology, his cosmetic interests include hair transplantation, laser surgery, fillers, neuromodulators, non-surgical fat reduction, and facial rejuvenation. He has authored numerous textbook chapters in the field of hair restoration. He completed his medical training and residency in Dermatology at the University of Alberta and received additional training at several Centres of Excellence including Harvard, the Johns Hopkins Medical Centre, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Mayo Clinic.
Name : Dr. Janice Liao, MD, FRCPC (C)
She trained at the University of Toronto and obtained her Dermatology specialty (F.R.C.P. (C)) in 1976. Started practice in Edmonton in 1976 and is associated the University of Alberta. She has been a past president of the Alberta Society of Dermatology, was a board member of the Canadian Dermatology Association, and was a board member of the Canadian Society of Dermatological Surgery.
She is still an active member of American Academy of Dermatology. She attends meetings regularly to update and learn the latest and safest methods and therapies. Dr. Liao is very interested in the area of hair growth and skin rejuvenation.
Name : Dr. Andrei Metelitsa, MD, FRCPC, FAAD
Andrei Metelitsa, MD, FRCPC is a board-certified dermatologist in both Canada and United States. He is a co-Director of Beacon Dermatology clinic in Calgary, Alberta and serves as a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Calgary. He completed his dermatology training at the University of Alberta, followed by 1 year fellowship training in Lasers and Cosmetic Surgery with SkinCare Physicians in Boston, under the direction of world-renowned faculty from Harvard University and Yale University. Dr. Metelitsa is an author of a dermatology book, as well as more than 40 book chapters and articles. His major cosmetic interests include laser surgery, non-surgical fat reduction and facial rejuvenation with injectables. He conducts numerous dermatology clinical trials, exploring new treatment options. Dr. Metelitsa has received more than 35 academic, research, leadership and volunteer awards throughout his career.
Name : Dr. Adrian Gili, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Adrian Gili is a Board Certified Dermatologist in both the U.S. and Canada.
Name : Dr. Alim Devani, MD, FRCPC, FAAD
Dr. Alim Devani, MD, FRCPC, FAAD is a double board-certified dermatologist in both Canada and the USA and graduated from the University of Alberta Dermatology program in June 2012. Dr. Devani completed his medical school at the University of Alberta in 2007 and was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha [AOA] honor medical society during his graduating year for his academic accomplishments. He also completed his undergraduate degree with distinction from the University of Calgary in 2003.
Name : Dr. Allan Behm, MD, FRCPC (C)
Dr. Behm is a dermatologist in Calgary, Alberta and specializes in general dermatology and laser surgery.
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SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE MEDIA DAYS
Mike Slive
CHARLES BLOOM: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to another edition of Southeastern Conference Football Media Days. We're pleased to have you with us. We look forward to three days of interviews and all kinds of notes and quotes.
We are going to get started with Commissioner Slive.
Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER SLIVE: Thank you, Charles.
Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to the 2010 SEC Football Media Days. As we say every year, there's really none other like it. You are again part of one of the largest crowds we've ever had. There are over a thousand of you here, including print media, electronic media, bloggers, Bowl representatives, corporate sponsors, as well as nearly 30 radio stations broadcasting live from Radio Row downstairs.
As it is every year, it's my privilege to kick off these three days with my remarks about the past year, including my inevitable and annual 'Brag Bag,' then followed by some observations about several of the issues of the day.
Last year, I said that we were witnesses to a period of competitive success that might be called the SEC's Golden Age. Once again this year, the extraordinary accomplishments of our student-athletes have added to this success.
The 2009 football season culminated with the two top-ranked teams in the country - Alabama and Florida - playing each other for the SEC championship in Atlanta. It was the first plus-one in BCS history.
Alabama then beat Texas to win the 2010 BCS National Championship. It was the fourth straight BCS National Championship and the SEC has won all six of the 12 national championship games in which we have played.
Strikingly, and uniquely, Alabama was the fourth different SEC team to win a BCS National Championship, and the third different team to win it in the last four seasons.
South Carolina gave the SEC its second consecutive baseball national championship. And sandwiched between these two championships were two more: one by Florida in men's indoor track and Florida in women's swimming and diving. 40% of the sports sponsored by the SEC were either the national championship or the national champion runner-up.
In football, the conference had 13 first-team All-Americans led by Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram, as well as six other players who were winners of the Butkus, Mackey, Ray Guy, Jim Thorpe, Remington, and Campbell awards.
Another measure of success used by some is how the conference and student-athletes fare in the NFL Draft. The SEC had 49 players selected in this year's draft, the most, as I understand it, ever taken from a single conference. Each of the 12 SEC institutions had at least one player selected with seven players taken in the first round.
As of last week, we had three head coaching changes in the SEC. Robbie Caldwell at Vanderbilt and Joker Phillips at Kentucky were named to succeed the retiring Bobby Johnson and Rich Brooks, respectively. Congratulations to both of them on their well-deserved promotions.
The other head coaching change took place at Tennessee when Derek Dooley's predecessor left to return to his western roots (smiling). I want to welcome Coach Dooley back to the SEC. And when I say 'welcome,' I mean welcome.
Regional pride and a sense of family are characteristics that set the SEC apart from other conferences. Our fans have made the SEC part of the fabric of their daily lives. In a difficult economic time, the fans continue to follow their teams in person as passionately and as intensely as ever.
For the 29th consecutive year, we have recorded the largest total attendance of any conference in the nation. 6.6, a million people came to our games, and we filled our stadiums to astonishing 98% of capacity for each home game.
While I, and we, continue to marvel at the extraordinary achievements of our student-athletes and the loyalty of our fans, there are several other matters I want to briefly touch on this afternoon.
Last summer, we began negotiations for the next four-year Bowl cycle that begins this fall. We had several goals, including having at least three Bowl games on January 1st, making provision for the runner-up of our championship game, providing nine Bowl opportunities for our Bowl-eligible teams, and keeping our Bowl games in or as close to the southeast region for the convenience of our fans.
We achieved each and every one of these objectives by entering into agreements, in addition to the BCS, with the Capital One Bowl, the Outback Bowl, the AT&T Cotton Bowl, the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, the Gator Bowl, Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, AutoZone Liberty Bowl, and the Papa Johns Bowl.
Bowl seasons have been going good to the SEC over the past few years. We have won at least six Bowl games during each of the last four seasons, and at least five each year since expansion in 1992.
In the BCS, we have the most wins and the highest winning percentage among the conferences who have participated with three or more appearances in the BCS.
Last year's national championship season concluded with the first year of our 15-year television agreements with ESPN and CBS. By any measure, it was a successful start.
Ratings for the 14 regular-season games televised on CBS were up over 20%. The SEC Championship Game achieved an 11.1 rating, up 18% from the prior year's game. It was the highest-rated non-Bowl game on any network since 2006, and the highest rated regular-season game on CBS in 21 years.
The combination of 19 SEC games televised on ESPN and ESPN 2 was the highest rated conference of any. ESPNU, in large part due to the SEC, tripled its distribution for the 16 SEC football games from 23 million homes to 73 million homes in one year.
The games played in our early window, 12:30 eastern and 11:30 central, were carried over the air on the SEC Network, reaching 74 million homes, making the SEC Network, ESPN's third most widely distributed network after ESPN and ESPN 2 on Saturday. Additional 14 games were carried on our regional cable networks, FSN and CSS, throughout our footprint.
Our goal was to make the SEC the nation's most widely distributed conference. We succeeded.
We talked about television and Bowls, and the revenue provided from television and Bowls provided the basis for the distribution of $209 million to our 12 institutions in this fiscal year. This distribution's the highest total distributed in SEC history and represents a 57.7% increase from the record amount distributed last year.
This distribution does not include over $14 million retained by our institutions that participated in Bowl games. That's in accordance with our revenue-sharing formula. Also not included in this amount are the revenues derived by institutions from their local multimedia packages.
As most of you know, one of the important reasons we chose not to do an SEC channel was to permit our conferences to retain local packages. The revenue distributed by the conference, coupled with revenue retained from Bowl participation, is supplemented by the value of local institutional multimedia packages which vary from institution to institution, but on average well exceeds $20 million per institution.
Up to now, our athletic departments have been fortunate to have experienced limited impact from the current economic difficulties faced by our institutions as a whole. A noteworthy part of our dynamic financial situation is the ongoing commitments of funding that flow from the SEC's athletic programs to the university's educational and scholarship budgets in the amount of approximately $30 million a year.
During the coming year, we will continue to monitor the national conversation regarding financial issues while continuing our efforts to maintain a strong financial base to support our broad base athletics programs.
One area of concern recently has been the off-the-field behavioral issues. We are confronted with the reality that not all student-athletes fulfill the expectations we have for them. As a whole, the problematic behavior of a few casts a dark cloud over many. While a few student-athletes garner headlines with their occasional thoughtless and highly visible, often nocturnal activities, the fact is that the vast majority of these young people, including the nearly 5,000 SEC student-athletes, conduct themselves appropriately.
While there are occasional high-profile situations where an institution and the conference are tarnished by a student-athlete's bad behavior, there are far more circumstances where our student-athletes exemplify the character we expect from them.
To name a few. Auburn swimmer Jordan Anderson, a Rhodes scholar. The six SEC student-athletes who have been awarded NCAA post-graduate scholarships, the over 2400 SEC student-athletes who earned academic honor roll recognition this year. And in the case of an individual last year, Tim Tebow, National Football Foundation's scholar athlete of the year. The sixth SEC football players to be honored by the National Football Foundation as the scholar athlete of the year in the last 14 years of the award.
These extraordinary accomplishments don't usually make headlines. They do, however, provide the necessary perspective when contrasted to the undesirable behavior of a few.
Behavioral issues are, first and foremost, campus matters to be resolved by institutions and their student-athletes. But the SEC is unique among conferences in that we have established an ongoing relationship with a program we call 'Branded A Leader' sponsored through the National Consortium of Academics and Sports.
The thousands of our male and female student-athletes who participate in this leadership program are challenged to take the responsibility for their own decisions and for the decisions of their teammates. No program is a panacea, but the feedback is good. And in cooperation with our campuses we will continue to explore programs that help to establish clear expectations and to make individuals accountable when behavior falls below legitimate expectations.
Over the past few days, we have been reading reports concerning allegations of improper contact between agents and student-athletes. The SEC's task force on compliance and enforcement report, adopted in 2004, sets forth the process by which these allegations are to be handled on each campus. This process requires that our institutions fully and completely investigate its allegations, either separately or in conjunction with the NCAA where appropriate, and then report the results of the investigation to the conference and to the NCAA for review.
At the conclusion of the process, when the facts are known, appropriate determinations will be made as to the amateurism status of the student-athlete and whether the institution was aware or should have been aware of the improper conduct based on existing NCAA rules.
Given the surreptitious nature of these matters, it is difficult, if not impossible, for institutions to know what might have taken place.
We're mindful of the complexities involved in a young person's transition from collegiate participation to the role of professional athlete. While it is true that most of our student-athletes will go pro in something other than sports, we need to be able to assist those who choose sports as their profession, just as students receive counseling guidance as they choose medicine, business, dance, law, music or any other path as their profession.
As a conference, we have spent considerable time discussing this issue and we have heard from experts in the field in an effort to determine how best to manage these transition issues.
These discussions include a review of current NCAA rules, which in my view may be as much a part of the problem as they are part of the solution, because the rules make it difficult for student-athletes to seek and obtain the kind of advice in the context in which they need it to properly evaluate potential opportunities for a career in professional sport.
Dealing with improper agent conduct has been a challenge for a long time, but not only for intercollegiate athletics, but also for the many good agents who try to follow the rules. It is time to reexamine the NCAA rules that relate to agents.
By saying that, I don't mean in a moment to excuse conduct that's inappropriate by student-athletes. This is a national problem that calls for a national agent strategy for college athletics. In calling for this strategy, our intent is not to eliminate NCAA oversight of agent issues, and not to excuse improper student-athlete behavior, but rather to change the NCAA's philosophical basis for these rules from enforcement to an assistance-based model.
An NCAA committee has been established to look at this issue. It's a good beginning. It's a good beginning so long as the committee is composed of individuals who deal with this problem on a regular basis, including coaches, conference personnel, compliance officers, athletics directors, faculty members and former student-athletes who have been through the process.
The review should include a fresh analysis of all issues impacting the transition of student-athletes from the collegiate level to the professional competition. We in the SEC look forward to being active participants in this review.
As the 2009/2010 academic year came to an end, we witnessed events that had the potential to redefine the landscape of intercollegiate athletics. The very public efforts to create 92 conference alignments and to reshape long-accepted geographical conference boundaries captured the nation's attention.
In April, amidst the speculation related to conference membership and expansion, I repeatedly stated that, and I quote, Given the success we've experienced over the decade, we are comfortable with the position in which we find ourselves. Having said that, if there is a significant shift in the conference paradigm, the SEC will be strategic and thoughtful to maintain its position as one of the nation's premiere conferences, end quote.
The Southeastern Conference was not and is not interested in initiating or provoking membership changes in light of our membership's commitment to the conference, the support of the conference and the satisfaction with the conference as it is currently constituted.
My statement made it clear that any membership discussions in which we participate would be consistent with our statement that we would be strategic and thoughtful to protect our interest in light of the actions of others to alter the conference landscape.
As it turned out, the paradigm shift never materialized, which afforded us the opportunity to remain comfortable in the position in which we find ourselves.
In the future, there may well be continued interest in conference expansion by some. If that happens, we should take the opportunity to assess the values shared by intercollegiate athletics and higher education. This assessment needs to go beyond television sets, contract revenues, and market share. It needs to include the potential impact on conference cultures, on the lives of student-athletes, on the impact to our respective communities, and on the collegiate model as we have come to know and appreciate.
We have accepted the stewardship of the sensitive and delicate marriage of higher education and intercollegiate athletics. It is our obligation to discharge it responsibly. The untimely passing of NCAA president Myles Brand was a significant loss to the higher education and intercollegiate athletics community. He passionately and articulately argued the case for the values of intercollegiate athletic competition within the mission of higher education. He will be missed.
We again look forward to working with new NCAA president Mark Emmert, who in the early years of my tenure served as the chair of the SEC strategic task force when he was LSU's chancellor. His background and experience, coupled with his belief in the positive values of intercollegiate athletics, make him an outstanding choice to succeed Dr. Brand and we wish him success.
Ladies and gentlemen, in closing, permit me a point of personal privilege. Today marks the beginning of my ninth year as commissioner of the Southeastern Conference and the ninth time I have stood up here to kick off media days. Each year I look forward to talking about the extraordinary accomplishments of our student-athletes while at the same time touching on the important issues of the day.
Many of these issues are difficult, issues related to officiating, credentials, behavior, expansion, agents, violations, but a few.
There are times when I hope you won't call to ask me questions about something I'd rather not discuss and I know there are times you wish I didn't speak in Stengel-ese, which I often do.
In either case, we, I, realize that much of the interest in the SEC comes from the extensive coverage you provide as you tell the stories of the SEC, of its coaches and its players.
We appreciate you and the work that you do. Thanks for being here. As always, may the muse be with you.
Q. How did you play?
COMMISSIONER SLIVE: Okay.
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GME Leo M. Giron
GM Antonio E. Somera
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Biography of Grand Master Emeritus Leo M. Giron (1911 - 2002)
Leovigildo "Leo" Miguel Giron was born in Bayambang a little barrio in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines on August 20, 1911. Young Giron first started his training in the Filipino arts because of the neighborhood children and bullies that would take advantage of him and others. Giron soon learned, however, that if he stood up to hem and made one of them cry, the rest would run away and leave him alone.
All of Giron's early training was with family members. They would train under the mango tree late at night. Giron would first hold the lantern for the training until his father had asked the teacher to train young Giron. His training started in 1921 and lasted until 1926 until Giron would set sail on the USS President Lincoln for America.
Giron landed in San Francisco in November 1926 and was picked up by his cousin and brought to Stockton, California. During this time Stockton, California had the largest population of Filipinos in American that it would earn the nickname "Little Manila". Young Giron would work in various areas in Stockton until in 1929 when he would move to Meridian, California to pick prunes. During this time he would meet a man by the name of Flaviano Vergara. Vergara was from the town of Santa Cruz in Ilocos Sur Luzon, Philippines. Vergara was the top student of Dalmacio Bergoina who defeated the great champion Santiago Toledo. Giron and Vergara would "play" deep in the orchards so no one would be able to watch the secret training of the deadly art of Arnis / Escrima. There training would last from 1929 until 1932. Vergara and Giron would meet again directly after the outbreak of World War II. They would train again for the last time from October 1942 until January 1943.
In 1937 Giron was initiated into the Legionarios del Trabajo in America. The Legionarios del Trabajo is a fraternal order or lodge, they would be known as one of the most powerful and riches of any other Filipino lodge. This organization with membership at the time would top over 3,000 members, 86 men's lodges and 12 women's only lodges.
On September 24, 1942 he was inducted into the United States Army and would be attached to the 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiment and would later be assigned to the famous 978th Signal Group and The Allied Intelligence Bureau. This was a select group of men that served as secret operatives for General Douglas Macarthur. Then Sergeant Leo Giron would be dropped behind enemy lines by submarine nearly one full year before any America Soldier would set foot on Philippine soil. It was there assignment to search out the enemy, extending lines of communication, securing vital weather data and obtaining military information and not to be detected by the enemy. Sergeant Giron lead a group of American and Philippine soldier's through the most hazardous conditions of Would War II deep in the jungles of the Philippines. Many encounters are documented in the United States Library of Congress in Washington DC. Because of his contributions during World War II Sergeant Giron would receive, The Bronze Star Medal, The Philippine Liberation Ribbon, The Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, The American Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and a letter of commendation ordered by the President of the United States of America.
Giron would return to civilian life as World War II hero and a part of America's Greatest Generation. But, without anyone knowing he would return too live a new and normal life in America as a Filipino American, not pondering on his heroics during the War. After the war Giron would return to Stockton, California to raise a family.
Because of a person back East that had killed several nursing students, most of them Filipino women this would enrage Giron that only if they would know self defense they could have try to subdue this maniac. So in 1968 Leo Giron would open his first licensed Bahala Na club in Tracy California.
In 1970 Grand Master Leo M. Giron and wife Alberta would move to Stockton along with his Bahala Na Club. And in 1973 the first student to graduate from his system would be Stockton born and World Renown Martial Artist Dan Inosanto. Along with martial art greats such as Dentoy Revillar, Richard Bustillo and Ted Lucaylucay. In 1979 the first meeting was called to order of the Bahala Na Filipino Martial Arts Association. Grand Master Giron was the founder and leader of this Association that is governed by a Constitution and by laws.
Grand Master Giron's contributions to the Filipino Martial Arts in general were enormous. He was known as the Father of Larga Mano in America. A World War II veteran that knew how to use his weapon and will be always remembered as a great man, a humble man, with dignity, love in his heart, a living legend and martial art Icon. He was a super star, he was our star and he was our shinning light of life. He gave us all the liberty of freedom to learn of life and the arts, Equality in having the necessary ability and strength, Fraternity in which the same beliefs in work along with fellowship and family.
Grand Master Giron left us with a legacy that we must all carry on with all of those that would like to share in his system.
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