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Human Trafficking: Vulnerabilities That They Can Exploit
November 14, 2017 Ryan Martin Podcast
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The fourth episode of season 2 of All the Rage focuses on the perpetrators. To cover such a broad topic, we broke it into three segments: slave owners internationally, sex traffickers here in the US, and the johns.
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Dr. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick (Kroc School of Peace Studies at the
University of San Diego)
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is a writer and professor at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. He is the author of What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do(2017) and co-editor of From Human Trafficking to Human Rights (2012). His newest book Protest Tech: How Social Movements Use Disruptive Technology, explores the ways movements use tools and technologies to bring social change. Shorter work has appeared in Slate, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Huffington Post, and Aeon (as well as in academic journals most people have never heard of).
Rachel Thomas (Ending the Game)
A graduate of UCLA with a Masters in Education and a personal survivor of human trafficking, Rachel has extensive experience teaching, training, curriculum writing, public speaking and mentoring. As Director of Sowers Education Group, she has educated and inspired a wide range of audiences including teens, social service providers, churches,
teachers, college students, and law enforcement. Sowers’ intervention curriculum Ending The Game is being used by over 170 facilitators in 8 states and helps survivors break the bonds of attachment to traffickers and the trafficking lifestyle.
Since 2012, Rachel has reached over 36,000 live audience members and millions more through numerous media outlets including The T.D. Jakes Show, The New York Times Upfront Magazine and ABC’s Newsmakers. Rachel was also honored by Congressman Ed Royce of California’s 39th district and Los Angeles Supervisor Don Knabe for her leadership and trafficking prevention efforts. To learn more about Sowers or Rachel Thomas, please visit www.SowersEducationGroup.com.
Jody Haskin (International Organization For Adolescents)
Jody Haskin is the Program Director and Anti-Trafficking Specialist at IOFA. Jody has worked to support and lead various anti-trafficking programs for IOFA since 2013. Currently, Jody leads the Training and Technical Assistance initiative funded through the Department of Justice Office on Violence against Women. Jody has trained both professionals and community leaders on the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSE) and child labor trafficking through the Asian American Trafficking Outreach Project (AATOP) in Chicago, and has contributed to curricula and handbook development to guide child welfare professionals in identifying and responding to child trafficking for the New York Office of Children and Family Services. Jody graduated from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (JKSIS) at the University of Denver with a Master’s degree in International Human Rights with a concentration in Human Trafficking and Public Policy. While attending JKSIS, Jody was a member of the Human Trafficking Center, in which she completed research on human trafficking in Canada, as well as its effects on the security of the U.S. and Canadian border. Jody was also a Fellow at Polaris in Washington D.C., where she worked to support the training and technical assistance department in its human trafficking trainings to community members, law enforcement, and the hotel industry. Jody’s foundation of her passion for social justice and human rights stems from her education in Social Work at Western Michigan University.
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Matthew Wilson is a Sergeant Investigator for the Brown County Sheriff’s Office. Matthew was hired in 2006 and has worked in the Patrol Division, Court Security and the multijurisdictional Drug Task Force before being promoted to his new position in January, 2017. Matthew’s current assignment is to investigate human trafficking as well assist with Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC).
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The launch of the book 'The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story'. Palestinian author Dr. Ramzy Baroud
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He has just recently written a book "The Last Earth - A Palestinian Story" which tell the stories of dispossession, exile, and loss of ordinary Palestinians.... but it is also about hope and residence in modern Palestine.
The war ahead: Netanyahu's election gamble will be costly for Israel
Published in Israel
By Ramzy Baroud
On 1 September, the Lebanese group Hizbullah, struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese attack came as an inevitable response to a series of Israeli strikes that targeted four different Arab countries in the matter of two days. The Lebanese response, accompanied by jubilation throughout that country, shows that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may have overplayed his cards. However, for Netanyahu it was a worthy gamble, as the Israeli leader is desperate for any political capital that could shield him against increasingly emboldened contenders in the country’s 17 September general elections.
A fundamental question that could influence any analysis of the decision to strike Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Gaza is whether the strategy originated from the Israeli government or the limited personal calculations of Netanyahu himself. I contend that the latter is true.
Israel has already violated the sovereignty of all of these states and territories, bombing some of them hundreds of times in the past; but striking all at once is unprecedented. Since neither Israel nor its US allies offered any convincing military logic behind the campaign, there can be no other conclusion than that the objectives were entirely political. One obvious sign that the attacks were meant to benefit Netanyahu, and Netanyahu alone, is the fact that the Israeli prime minister violated an old Israeli protocol of staying mum following this type of cross-border assault. It is also uncommon for top Israeli officials to brag about their country’s intelligence outreach and military capabilities. Israel, for example, has bombed Syria hundreds of times in recent years, yet has rarely taken responsibility for any of these attacks.
Compare this with Netanyahu’s remarks following the two-day strikes of 24-25 August. Only minutes after the strikes, he hailed the army’s ‘major operational effort’, proudly declaring that ‘Iran has no immunity anywhere’. Regarding the attack in the southeast region of Aqraba in Syria, Netanyahu went into detail, describing the nature of the target and the identities of his enemy.
Two of the Hizbullah fighters killed in Syria were identified by the Israeli army, which distributed their photographs while allegedly travelling on the Iranian airline, Mahan, ‘which Israel and the United States have identified as a major transporter of weaponry and materiel to Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies in Syria and Lebanon,’ according to the Times of Israel.
Why would Israel go to this extent, which could surely help the targeted countries to uncover some of Israel’s intelligence sources? The Economist revealed that ‘some…in Israel’s security and political establishments are uncomfortable’ with Netanyahu’s tireless extolling of ‘Israel’s intelligence-gathering and operational successes in surprising detail.’
The explanation lies in one single phrase: the 17 September elections.
In recent months, Netanyahu has finally managed to wrestle the title of israel’s longest-serving prime minister, a designation that the Israeli leader has earned, despite his chequered legacy dotted with abuse of power, self-serving agendas and several major corruption cases that implicate netanyahu directly, as well as his wife and closest aides.
Yet, it remains unclear whether Netanyahu can hang on for much longer. Following the 9 April elections, the embattled Israeli leader tried to form a government of like-minded right-wing politicians, but failed. It was this setback that resulted in the dissolution of the Israeli Knesset on 29 May and the call for a new election. While Israeli politics is typically turbulent, holding two general elections within such a short period of time is rare, and, among other things, demonstrates Netanyahu’s faltering grip on power.
Equally important is that, for the first time in years, Netanyahu and his Likud party are facing real competition. Their rivals, led by Benjamin Gantz of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, are keen to deny Netanyahu every possible constituency, including his own pro-illegal settlements and pro-war supporters.
Despite Gantz’s attempt to project his party as centrist, his statements in recent months are hardly consistent with the presumed ideological discourse of the political centre anywhere. The former Chief of General Staff of the Israeli army is a strong supporter of illegal Jewish settlements and an avid promoter of war on Gaza. Last June, Gantz went as far as accusing Netanyahu of ‘diminishing Israel’s deterrence’ policy in Gaza, which, he said, ‘is being interpreted by Iran as a sign of weakness’. In fact, the terms ‘weak’ and ‘weakness’ have been ascribed repeatedly to Netanyahu by his political rivals, including top officials within his own right-wing camp. The man who has staked his reputation on tough personal or unhindered violence in the name of Israeli security is now struggling to protect his image.
This analysis does not in any way discount the regional and international objectives of Netanyahu’s calculations, leading among them being his desire to stifle any political dialogue between Tehran and Washington, an idea that began taking shape at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France. But even that is insufficient to offer a rounded understanding of Netanyahu’s motives, especially because he is wholly focused on his own survival, as opposed to future regional scenarios.
However, the ‘Mr Security’ credentials that Netanyahu aimed to achieve by bombing multiple targets in four countries might not yield the desired dividends. Israeli media is conveying a sense of panic among Israelis, especially those living in the northern parts of the country and in illegal Jewish settlements in the Occupied Golan Heights. This is hardly the strong and mighty image that Netanyahu was hoping to convey through his military gamble. None of the thousands of Israelis who are currently being trained to survive Lebanese retaliations are particularity reassured regarding the power of their country.
Netanyahu is, of course, not the first Israeli leader to use the military to achieve domestic political ends. The late Israeli leader, Shimon Peres, did so in 1996 and failed miserably, but only after killing over 100 Lebanese and United Nations peacekeepers in the Southern Lebanese village of Qana.
The consequences of Netanyahu’s gamble might come at a worse price for him than simply losing the elections. Opening a multi-front war is a conflict that Israel cannot win; at least, not any more.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story, and his forthcoming book is These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons. Baroud has a PhD in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter. His website is www.ramzybaroud.net
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Theatrical Review: The Bourne Ultimatum
In what seems to be right on the heels of The Bourne Supremacy, Jason Bourne is still on the run in Russia and now having flashbacks to his early indoctrination. A British reporter gets wind of everything going on with everything with the CIA and the program that gave us Bourne and is trying to uncover everything, leading to a new category of covert ops called Blackbriar within the CIA, but the CIA is on to that as well and thus begins the cat-and-mouse chase with The Bourne Ultimatum.
Paul Greengrass is back at the helm for this movie after handling the last film in the series. Greengrass gave us what I thought was last years best movie of the year with United 93. For the most part, I think he’s in fine form here, particularly with many of the film’s set pieces. The chases and fight scenes in this movie are absolutely convincing as hell, filmed in Greengrass’ shaky handheld camera style, they’re just a lot of fun to watch.
Unfortunately, there are some points in the movie where it just falls on tired Hollywood cliches- particularly that the people in charge of the CIA are, of course, older white men, that any of the women involved here are automatically good, and that the project that created Jason Bourne is intrinsically wrong by the fact of the remorse that he’s suffering from all of the killing that he’s done.
I look at the creation of Jason Bourne to have a lot of similarities with a comic book character, Captain America, except that Cap’s missions have always been portrayed as noble, whereas in the space of the Bourne films, there’s nothing that shows that any of the missions that Bourne performed before his memory loss had any good to them at all. Now for these movies, and Bourne’s state of mind within these films, that’s fine, but to just leave it at that to me anyway falls into a cliche (and make no mistake, the third film leaves it at that). The end result could still be the same, but ignoring the fact that under this project that Bourne may have indeed done good for the country, just seems to push an idea of governmental pessimism that’s certainly popular for the time, but still becoming now an endlessly tired cliche. Personally, I feel that as a citizen of this country, I want agents like Jason Bourne out there in the world.
No fault at all of the cast, all of whom are very good here. Matt Damon continues to show why he’s as good as he is with his earnest portrayal of Bourne and watching him in the action scenes he’s totally convincing that he can do all of the stuff that he’s doing. Joan Allen and Julia Stiles are back from the previous film and joining in with this film are actors David Strathairn, Albert Finney and Scott Glenn, all of course playing the “bad guys” of the piece, and I think doing a great job, but that little bit of balance that I mentioned above just isn’t present.
This is fine as it is, I know with the exception of a particularly bad audience that we had, I had a pretty good time overall with the film. But one wonders just how much more meaty this could’ve been had there been a little more balance shown to the ideas and execution of the ideas that created the project that created Bourne. This is a good series and it wouldn’t hurt it at all to do that, to gray the line more than to draw it out in pure black and white.
About Darren Goodhart
Darren Goodhart is a 44-year old St. Louis-based Graphic Designer and Illustrator (and former comic book artist) who's been seeing movies all his life, but on an almost weekly basis in theatres for the last 20 years and owns nearly 1,000 DVDs for his home theatre. He's learned a lot about film over the 20 year period, and has taken his appreciation beyond the mainstream. His favorite types of film are mostly genre entertainment, but he also enjoys a wide range of drama, action and cult-y stuff from around the world, and is currently re-discovering a love affair with lower budget exploitation and genre films from the 70s and early 80s. He doesn't try to just dismiss any film, but if there's a bias against one, he'll certainly tell you that in the space of his reviews.
08. August 2007 by Darren Goodhart
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Glam rock emerged from the English psychedelic and artwork rock scenes of the late Sixties and can be seen as both an extension of and reaction in opposition to those trends. Musically diverse, various between the straightforward rock and roll revivalism of figures like Alvin Stardust to the advanced art rock of Roxy Music, and can be seen as a lot as a fashion as a musical subgenre.
The first group to advertise themselves as psychedelic rock have been the 13th Floor Elevators from Texas. The Beatles launched lots of the main elements of the psychedelic sound to audiences in this period, similar to guitar suggestions, the Indian sitar and backmasking sound effects. Psychedelic rock significantly took off in California’s emerging music scene as groups adopted the Byrds’s shift from folks to folks rock from 1965. The psychedelic lifestyle, which revolved around hallucinogenic drugs, had already developed in San Francisco and significantly prominent products of the scene have been Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
In Detroit, storage rock’s legacy remained alive into the early Nineteen Seventies, with bands such as the MC5 and the Stooges, who employed a way more aggressive strategy to the shape. These bands began to be labelled punk rock and are actually typically seen as proto-punk or proto-hard rock.
It can also be heard as an influence on artists as diverse as Billy Joel, Kid Rock and the Killers. A unusual time, 1971—though rock’s balkanization into genres was nicely underway, it was usually hard to tell one catch-phrase from the next. “Art-rock” could imply something from the Velvets to the Moody Blues, and though Led Zeppelin was launched and Black Sabbath celebrated, “heavy metallic” remained an amorphous concept.
He later released a collection of four albums that all achieved gold standing; Welcome, Borboletta, Amigos, and Festivál. Al Hurricane Jr. would additionally started his profitable rock-infused New Mexico music recording career in the Nineteen Seventies, together with his 1976 rendition of “Flor De Las Flores”. Los Lobos also gained recognition right now, with their first album Los Lobos del Este de Los Angeles in 1977.
Later in the decade this fashion, which contained a mix of grunge, punk, metallic, rap and turntable scratching, spawned a wave of successful bands like Linkin Park, P.O.D. and Staind, who had been often categorised as rap metal or nu metal, the primary of which are one of the best-promoting band of the genre.
Among the first wave of performers to achieve mainstream success as rap rock had been 311, Bloodhound Gang, and Kid Rock.
A extra metallic sound – nu metal– was pursued by bands including Limp Bizkit, Korn and Slipknot.
Alternative steel emerged from the hardcore scene of other rock within the US within the later 1980s, but gained a wider viewers after grunge broke into the mainstream within the early Nineteen Nineties.
Glam is most famous for its sexual and gender ambiguity and representations of androgyny, beside intensive use of theatrics. It was prefigured by the showmanship and gender-identity manipulation of American acts such because the Cockettes and Alice Cooper. Psychedelic music’s LSD-inspired vibe began within the folks scene.
After the early successes of Latin rock within the Nineteen Sixties, Chicano musicians like Carlos Santana and Al Hurricane would proceed to have successful careers all through the Nineteen Seventies. Santana opened the decade with success in his 1970 single “Black Magic Woman” on the Abraxas album. His third album Santana III yielded the single “No One to Depend On”, and his fourth album Caravanserai experimented along with his sound to blended reception.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s lead guitarist, Jimi Hendrix did prolonged distorted, feedback-stuffed jams which turned a key feature of psychedelia. Psychedelic rock reached its apogee in the final years of the decade. Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow and the Doors’ Strange Days. These developments peaked in the 1969 Woodstock festival, which saw performances by a lot of the main psychedelic acts.
These acts instantly influenced British performers like Donovan and Fairport Convention. In 1969 Fairport Convention abandoned their combination of American covers and Dylan-influenced songs to play conventional English folks music on electrical instruments. The folks rock movement is often thought to have taken off with The Byrds’ recording of Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” which topped the charts in 1965. With members who had been a part of the cafe-based folks scene in Los Angeles, the Byrds adopted rock instrumentation, together with drums and 12-string Rickenbacker guitars, which became a major factor within the sound of the style. Later that year Dylan adopted electric devices, much to the outrage of many folk purists, together with his “Like a Rolling Stone” becoming a US hit single.
The British Invasion tremendously influenced storage bands, providing them with a national audience, leading many (typically surf or scorching rod groups) to adopt a British influence, and encouraging many extra groups to form. Thousands of storage bands had been extant in the US and Canada through the era and tons of produced regional hits. Despite scores of bands being signed to main or massive regional labels, most were industrial failures. It is generally agreed that garage rock peaked both commercially and artistically round 1966. By 1968 the style largely disappeared from the nationwide charts and at the local degree as amateur musicians faced faculty, work or the draft.
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Abstract: As Americans, we take for granted the idea of a government that is both free and yet strong enough to preserve the security of its citizens. But the fact is that such a government is a recent invention, first emerging as a result of political thought and practice in eighteenth century England and only coming to full flower in Philadelphia with the drafting of the American Constitution of 1787. As Harvey Mansfield wrote in his book Taming the Prince, “the combination of freedom and strength does not arise easily or naturally,” a fact confirmed “both by the grand outline of modern history and the experience of the ancients.” Throughout history, strong governments have generally been monarchies, but at the expense of freedom. It was in republics that freedom was supposed to reside but, before the creation of the American Republic, the republican form of government had a mixed record at best. Ancient republics were characterized by constant struggle between the few (oligarchs) and the many (the demos) that led to instability and weakness. Modern republics also either came to grief (the German cities) or faded into irrelevance and obscurity (Venice and the Dutch Republic). But in Philadelphia, the Founders created a government that combined the freedom of republics with the strength of monarchies. The Founders’ innovation that permitted this pairing of freedom and security to work was the “executive.” In Mansfield’s words, “the executive provided the strength of monarchy without tolerating its status above the law, so that monarchy would not only be compatible with the rule of law and the supremacy of the Constitution, but would also be expected to serve both. Furthermore, the recasting of monarchy as executive power made it dependably democratic as well as legal and constitutional.”
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4. The Gulf Cooperation Council's Unified Military Command
Author: Brahim Saidy
Abstract: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which brings together the countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, took an unprecedented step during its 34th Summit (held in Kuwait City on December 10-11 2013) by setting up a unified military command structure for its member states. This move reflects the commitment of the GCC to establish a credible joint defense force able to advance the goal of collective security in the region. This military command will have a force of around 100,000, half of which would be contributed by Saudi Arabia, the main advocate of this initiative. GCC members will coordinate air, land, and marine forces under one common structure. In this regard, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, has stated: “We want to create a central command that coordinates between all sub-commands and makes them work under one umbrella. But, the new structure [the Unified Military Command] won’t replace the Peninsula Shield forces.”[1] In terms of collective defense, the core purposes of this command structure are to provide strategic and operational command for all GCC missions and prepare members for operational employment as interoperable multinational forces. This command is expected to have a minimum number of operational commands (land, air and maritime command) as well as joint intelligence system and integrated missile defense in order to execute essential operational and peacetime missions. The challenge for this plan is to be able to undertake command and control of the full range of the military missions, including command and control multinational and multiservice forces, but more importantly to be able to support operations under the political and strategic direction of the GCC. This means that the main goal is not limited to improving coordination between different parts of existing national defense systems, but rather to establishing a real joint operational command structure. The progress towards a fully integrated defense system would allow the GCC to become a real military alliance along the lines of NATO.
Topic: Security, Defense Policy, Economics, Politics
Political Geography: Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf, Gulf Cooperation Council
5. The West and the Muslim Brotherhood After the Arab Spring
Author: Lorenzo Vidino
Abstract: Few observers foresaw the Arab Spring, but it should not have surprised anyone that the Islamist movements - the most organized movements in the Arab world - became the main beneficiaries of the turmoil that ensued. Islamism, in its gradualist and pragmatic approach embodied by the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots worldwide, seems ready to reap the rewards of its three decades-old decision to abandon violence and focus on grassroots activities. This monumental change has created many concerns among liberals, religious minorities and, more generally, all non-Islamists in the countries where Islamists have won. In addition, Arab states ruled by non-Islamist regimes have expressed concern. The former worry that Islamist ideology - even in its more contemporary, pragmatic form - remains deeply divisive and anti-democratic, often at odds with their values and interests. The latter believe that on foreign policy issues, most of the positions of various Brotherhood-inspired parties are on a collision course with the policies of established regimes in the region.
Topic: Foreign Policy, Political Violence, Islam, Self Determination, Political Activism, Elections, Democracy
Political Geography: Middle East, Egypt
6. Transforming the Philippines’ Defense Architecture: How to Create a Credible and Sustainable Maritime Deterrent
Author: Felix Chang
Abstract: This paper argues that to adequately defend its maritime claims, the Philippines should consider an external defense architecture designed around mobile coastal defense batteries equipped with long-range anti-ship missiles and protected by an integrated air defense umbrella. Such an architecture would provide the Philippines with an effective means to not only counter surface combatants and improve the survivability of its own forces against naval aviation or ballistic missiles, but also do so with lower procurement, maintenance, and operational readiness costs than a traditional force would require. The Philippine government’s new capabilities-based defense budgeting process offers the country an opportunity to study and adopt this sort of defense architecture, which has become increasingly necessary as rising powers, such as China, have begun to test Philippine maritime sovereignty at places like Scarborough Shoal and the Spratly Islands.
Topic: Defense Policy, Emerging Markets, Political Economy, Maritime Commerce, Natural Resources
Political Geography: China, Philippines
7. The Foreign Fighters Problem, Recent Trends and Case Studies: Selected Essays
Author: Michael Noonan
Abstract: On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have confronted third-party national combatants. Known as “foreign fighters,” these individuals have gained deadly skills and connections that can be exported or exploited to devastating effect in other locations. Over the past two decades, the foreign fighters phenomenon has grown after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979—to the ethnically cleansed fields of the Balkans to Chechnya and beyond. But this is not a new problem. This report is the second volume of findings from an important series of FPRI conferences on the so-called foreign fighter problem. These conferences have brought together leading experts in the field to examine and discuss this phenomenon from different ideational and disciplinary perspectives. While the first volume dealt primarily with functional areas of the phenomenon, this edition focuses primarily on the case studies of al Qaeda franchises or allied affiliates in Somalia, the Maghreb, Yemen, and Afghanistan/Pakistan. Today, the outcomes of the geopolitical revolution unfolding across North Africa and the Middle East are far from clear, the problems associated with al Qaeda and its affiliated movement are likely to breed havoc for the foreseeable future across the region. Furthermore, the veterans spawned by such conflicts undoubtedly will present problems for international security writ large, too. The cases and phenomenon analyzed here may well provide important lessons for both those interested in the regions under examination here, but also for others who examine international challenges far removed from the study of radical extremism of the al Qaeda variety.
Topic: War, International Security, Insurgency, Violent Extremism
Political Geography: Arab Countries, North Africa
8. The Constitutional History of U.S. Foreign Policy: 222 Years of Tension in the Twilight Zone
Author: Walter A. McDougall
Abstract: In 1973, Congress passed the infamous War Powers Resolution (WPR), over Richard Nixon’s veto. It was perhaps the most ambitious Congressional effort to bridle the President since the battle with Andrew Johnson over Reconstruction. The WPR is worth reading—once—then forgetting, because its convoluted, contradictory, and doubtless unconstitutional mix of instructions, restrictions, and ticking clocks has never been honored by any administration or upheld by any court. Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush all dispatched U.S. forces into combat situations without paying more than lip service to the WPR. In 1990, following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, President Bush stationed 100,000 personnel in Saudi Arabia. He sought no authorization and, in fact, informed just one member of Congress: Senator Sam Nunn (D., Ga.). When he then prepared Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait, 54 Congressmen led by the chairman of House Armed Services Committee, Berkeley radical Ron Dellums (D., Calif.), filed for an injunction to stop the war. U.S. District Judge Harold H. Greene ran for cover. Noting that 54 fell far short of a majority, he judged the case “not ripe for judicial determination.”
Topic: Foreign Policy, War, Governance, Law, Constitution
Political Geography: United States
9. Abraham Lincoln: Leadership and Democratic Statesmanship in Wartime
Author: Mackubin Thomas Owens
Abstract: No president in American history has faced a greater crisis than Abraham Lincoln confronted in 1861. Although sections of the country had threatened disunion many times in the past, the emergency had always passed as some compromise was found. But in 1861, Lincoln, who had won the election of 1860 because of a split in the Democratic Party, faced a rebellion “too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings.” By the time of his inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven states had declared their separation from the Union and had set up a separate provisional government called the Confederate States of America. A little over five weeks later, at 4:30 am on April 12, 1861, rebel gunners opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. In response, Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to serve ninety days. Denouncing the president’s policy of “coercion,” four more states left the Union. The ensuing war, the most costly in American history, would last for four agonizing years. When it was over, some 600,000 Americans had died and the states of the South had suffered economic losses in the billions of dollars when measured in terms of today’s currency
Topic: Civil War, Politics, History, Elections
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The Grail Quest Series by Bernard Cornwell
Posted on June 1, 2006 by Jeff Grim / 3 Comments
As a huge fan of the Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell (Richard Sharpe is a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars – a must read for all military history fiction fans – the first book is Sharpe’s Tiger), I decided to explore some more of Cornwell’s writings. As a result, I came across the Grail Quest Series (book titles include The Archer’s Tale, Vagabond, and Heretic). As you can tell from the Series title, the books concentrate on the mystery of the whereabouts of the Holy Grail. This Series is as well written and researched as the Sharpe Series. They are well worth a look.
Rather than try to give you my poor attempt at explaining the plots of each book, I will paraphrase from Publisher’s Weekly:
The Archer’s Tale
The young archer Thomas of Hookton joins the forces of King Edward III to fight against France, which takes place in the mid-14th century at the beginning of the Hundred Years War. Thomas, excellent skill with the bow, survives the pillaging of his village to become an archer and then rescues a female counterpart known as the Blackbird after she’s nearly raped by Sir Simon Jekyll during one of the troop’s raids in France. The nobleman becomes Thomas’s chief rival as Jekyll continues to pursue the Blackbird, and Thomas is finally cast out of his unit after failing to kill Jekyll in an ill-conceived assassination attempt. He recovers and is able to get a royal pardon. The three members of Cornwell’s romantic triangle eventually meet during a huge climactic battle at Cr‚cy (sic), where Thomas must face up to a demanding family legacy involving a quest for a special lance.
The novel follows Thomas of Hookton, the bastard son of a recently murdered priest whose family claims it once possessed the Holy Grail. No one is certain the Holy Grail actually exists, but many believe it does, and kings are waging war and committing murder in the search for it. Thomas has a book of his father’s, which might reveal clues to the Grail’s location, if only he could make head or tails of it. But others are aware of the book’s existence, and Thomas’s motley enemies and rivals – including Guy Vexille, the French cousin who murdered his father; a Dominican Inquisitor who loves his job; and a treacherous English knight – are all hot on his trail. Thomas must also fight mercenaries, Scots and Frenchmen in gruesome, long-drawn-out battles.
For years, English archer Thomas of Hookton has been searching for the Holy Grail. Thomas is not certain it ever existed, but obscure clues link his family to the mysterious vessel. In 1347, driven by his desire to plumb the truth of the Grail as well as to earn money from the plunder of French lands and property, Thomas and a small group of soldiers capture a castle in Gascony, the homeland of Thomas’s father. Thomas hopes to hold the castle against the French, raid the countryside for loot and draw the attention of his evil cousin Guy Vexille. Vexille appears, but so does the army of a local lord, sent to besiege the castle, and the vicious brother of a treacherous and cunning bishop who is determined to secure the Grail. Fighting honorably amid extreme brutality, Thomas is aided by loyal English archers, English and French men-at-arms, local bandits, a Scottish mercenary and a heretic girl with unusual powers. Outnumbered by his enemies, he faces the might of a huge cannon and the power of the Church’s greed-not to mention the dreaded Black Death. Most daunting of all, however, is the decision Thomas must make when he finally discovers the truth about the Holy Grail.
With all of that said, I thoroughly enjoyed the books. Cornwell’s style is fast-paced with many twists and turns to keep you guessing. The style is not formulaic like so many other book series that I have read. As a result of the twists and turns, you can never get truly attached to characters because you do not know if they will killed on the next page. Despite this, it is still hard to read about how some characters are eliminated.
I like how Cornwell fleshes out the main characters and their backgrounds. This is particularly true for Thomas and Guy Vexille. You get little details about the history of the Vexille family in each of the books to where, by the end of the last book, you fully understand the family’s connection with the Grail.
As is par for the course with Cornwell, you get an excellent feel for the time period. You understand the major political figures and events of the time period. You also get a front seat description of some of the major battles that occurred during the time the books are written. For example, Cornwell thoroughly and easily explains why the English were able to defeat the French at the Battle of Crécy – two words – English archers.
If you like to read about the effects of weapons on the human body, Cornwell is particularly adept at explaining this. He explains what different types of arrows do to different armor and the human body. Some of his descriptions are not for the weak hearted, but I doubt those types of people would be reading his books anyway.
In sum, Cornwell delivers another masterful series on a time period that many Americans know little about.
The Hidden by Kathryn Mackel
Lull or hiatus?
Lars Walker says:
What about the religious element? I read and enjoyed THE ARCHER’S TALE, but have avoided the later because because I thought I smelled a Code. Are the books based on a conventional postmodern view of the church, that is, one that sees it as wholly corrupt, destroying freedom and suppressing truths preserved by heretics? Dan Brown stuff?
I don’t think Cornwell takes a postmodern view of the church. Yes, there are some bad people who represent the Church (the Dominican Inquisitor and the French Archbishop), but their are also good people who represent it as well (the monk in the first and second books and the Abbot in the third book). Also, even though Thomas is not a saint by any means, he still believes in an all-knowing, all-powerful God. I hope this helps.
That’s good to know, because I really enjoy Cornwell’s work.
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BENCKENDORFF (v. Benckendorff) Alexander Khristoforovich (Konstantin Alexander Karl Wilhelm Christopher) (1781, St. Petersburg 1844), Count (1832), statesman and military officer, Infantry General, Cavalry General (1829), honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1827). Brought up and educated in the boarding school of abbot C.D. Nicholas. From 1798 was on military service, took part in the Russo-Prusso-French War (1806-07) and Russo-Turkish War (1809-11). At the time of the Patriotic War of 1812 and campaigns of 1813-14 commanded an independent cavalry detachment, operating at the enemy rear. In 1814 appointed Brigade Commander, in 1816 - Division Commander, in 1819 — Chief of Staff of the Guards Corps. In the 1810s became a mason, and member of the St.Petersburg Masonic Lodge "United Friends". His conduct during the disorders in the Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment (1820) caused the displeasure of Emperor Alexander I, who disregarded his memorandum on secret societies and the organisation of secret police (1821). Appointed Division Commander in 1821. From 10 November 1824 to 14 March 1825 served as acting Military Governor of Vasilievsky Island, was in charge of the recovery and rebuilding of this district after a devastating flood on 7 November 1824. Exerted himself in suppressing the insurrection on the Senate Square 14 December 1825, member of the Investigation Commission on the case of Decembrists, from then onwards enjoyed confidence and favour of Emperor Nicholas I. In June 1826 was appointed Gendarme Chief, initiator of establishment and Chief of the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (secret police), from December 1826, senator, and from 1831, member of the State Assembly and the Cabinet of Ministers. Despite the common misconception, Benckendorff took little interest in the activities of secret police, leaving it to his subordinates. In 1839 was elected honorary member and trustee of Demidov's Charity House for Workers. From 1841, chairman of the Committee of the Prison Welfare Society. From 1842, chairman of the Building Commission for Construction of the St. Petersburg - Moscow Railroad. In 1831-44, patron of St. Catherine's Lutheran Community in St. Petersburg. One of the founders, and, from 1835, chairman of the board of the Second Russian Fire Insurance Society and Life Insurance Society. In St. Petersburg resided in the house of Baron Chabeaut on Fontanka River Embankment, later in a state apartment in the house of Gendarme Chief (10 Panteleymonovskaya Street). He left behind him his personal papers (some of which have been published).
Work: Benckendorff's notes: 1812 Patriotic War. 1813 Liberation of the Netherlands. Moscow, 2001.
References: Олейников Д. И. Александр Христофорович Бенкендорф // Российские консерваторы. М., 1997. С. 63-94.
D. N. Shilov.
Alexander I, Emperor
Benckendorff Alexander Krristoforovich
Nicholas I, Emperor
Nicolle Charles Domenique
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Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Pestelya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Олейников Д. И. Александр Христофорович Бенкендорф // Российские консерваторы. М., 1997
Записки Бенкендорфа: 1812 г. Отеч. война. 1813 г. Освобождение Нидерландов. М., 2001
The subject Index
Guards Corps Staff
Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment
Decembrist Revolt of 1825
Chancellery, His Imperial Majesty's Personal
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Beyond the grid in Africa
Andrew Herscowitz and Katrina Pielli
On June 30, 2013, in Cape Town, South Africa, US President Barack Obama announced Power Africa ‒ an initiative to bring together technical and legal experts, the private sector and governments from around the world to work in partnership to increase the number of people with access to power in sub-Saharan Africa.
Rooted in partnerships, Power Africa is working with African governments, the private sector and other partners in sub-Saharan Africa to add more than 30,000 megawatts (MW) of cleaner, more efficient electricity generation capacity as well as increase electricity access by adding 60 million new home and business connections. To date, Power Africa has assisted with the financial closure of transactions expected to install over 4,100MW of new, cleaner power generation capacity when fully online. Power Africa has also made progress toward its connection goals. The additional 4,100MW of power has the potential to enable approximately four million new connections through increased availability of power.
While grid expansion quickly reaches urban and peri-urban areas, the deep rural areas may remain unserved for decades. For this reason, Power Africa is helping to advance off-grid and small-scale solutions (e.g., solar lanterns, solar rooftop systems, mini-hydro, mini-grids) to increase access to underserved areas through Beyond the Grid. Beyond the Grid is a Power Africa sub-initiative that drives private investment in off-grid and small-scale energy solutions to ensure that people living in remote areas also get access to power. This sub-initiative utilizes Power Africa’s innovative transaction-focused model to accelerate transactions and drive systemic reforms to facilitate future investment for off-grid and small-scale renewable energy solutions under 10MW. Beyond the Grid focuses on two strategic priorities driving toward achieving the goal of adding 60 million new home and business connections:
1. Addressing recurring market constraints in the household energy market by increasing access to financing and providing technical assistance.
2. Striving to achieve scalable, cleaner community-level solutions that offer electricity access greater than the first tier of task lighting. Ensuring enabling environments are supportive through regulatory and policy regimes is critical to facilitate private sector success.
First, sustainable, private sector-led business models for off-grid and small-scale energy solutions are beginning to succeed in the marketplace ‒ bolstered by decreasing costs of technology, innovative financing options, and a growing cohort of entrepreneurs meeting the demand of sub-Saharan Africa’s underserved populations. Building on this momentum, Beyond the Grid utilizes the full suite of tools and resources of the many US Government agencies and other donor and private sector partners, working together as part of the Power Africa team to mobilize finance to small-scale energy projects, as well as partner with our international partners to coordinate and leverage activities.
Second, growth and successful scaling of the small-scale renewable energy sector hinges on the public sector providing transparent regulatory and policy regimes that provide clear, predictable rules for project development, investment and operation. However, existing policies and regulatory frameworks are not always primed to support new and emerging business models enabled by rapidly transforming technologies like mobile money.
To catalyze the private sector’s significant resources, Beyond the Grid supports activities that create an enabling environment for development and investment in this space. For example, Power Africa, the World Bank Group, and the Government of Ghana are collaborating on sector reform issues, including tariff reform, private sector participation, and securitization for natural gas and electricity supply chains. In August 2014, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed the Ghana Power Compact, an investment of up to $498.2 million to support the transformation of Ghana’s electricity sector and stimulate private investment, which has bolstered the Electricity Company of Ghana and transparent quarterly updates for cost-reflective tariffs. Ensuring that tariffs fully reflect the cost of producing power is critical to the liquidity of the institutions in the sector and helps attract investors who can be confident that their investments will yield a return.
Through the Power Africa Toolbox, Beyond the Grid makes use of services across US-government and other donor partner agencies to fulfill its objectives. For example, the US-Africa Clean Energy Financing initiative (ACEF) and the US African Development Foundation (USADF) have funded companies and projects expected to reach one million new connections. There are many opportunities for Power Africa to work with the private and public sectors, as well as the financial sector, to reach our goals. The following are several examples of such opportunities.
USADF, in partnership with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and General Electric Africa, supports the Off-Grid Energy Challenge. The Challenge provides $100,000 grants to entrepreneurs and private organizations developing innovative off-grid technologies. The Challenge is entering its third round, having already provided support to 28 small enterprises over the past two years. In addition to providing 11 grants, the third round is also opening entries to three new countries in East Africa ‒ Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) provides grants for early-stage project development. For example, USTDA has funded feasibility studies for mini-hydro projects in Rwanda and Tanzania, project development support for grid-connected solar in Rwanda, and isolated solar diesel hybrid mini-grids in Lake Victoria in Tanzania.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has a long history of working in Africa and supports Power Africa by providing financing and political risk insurance to on-grid and off-grid power projects. In addition, OPIC also seeks to develop new partnerships and processes to support investors.
• OPIC is part of the ACEF program, which provides project preparation support to help get early-stage projects off the ground. This program has committed more than $9 million so far to early-stage solar, wind, biomass and hydropower projects in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Senegal.
• OPIC has developed a new process called the Innovative Financial Intermediary Program (IFIP) to help us support atypical deal structures and propose pooled capital, such as an investment fund, as well as debt financing, such as OPIC’s traditional loans and guaranties.
• OPIC has also developed a new tool called Portfolio for Impact (PI), which essentially helps facilitate highly impactful early-stage projects.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) worked with Power Africa’s private sector partners and the African Development Bank to create a book on Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). This book is facilitating and expediting private investment in renewable energy. CLDP brought together African government lawyers who are directly involved in drafting these documents with the lawyers who represent banks and project developers to come up with a clear guide in both English and French that will help reduce the time it takes to negotiate deals.
The USAID develops the off-grid and small-scale renewable energy sectors through its instruments:
• Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), a competitive grants program for innovative ideas that provides support to innovations that, through rigorous analysis, demonstrate real-world viability and convincing evidence that the private sector will invest in scaling up their scheme.
• The Development Credit Authority (DCA), a facility that provides risk guarantees to financial institutions to ensure that otherwise unsupported enterprises can receive financial assistance.
• Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER), a competitive grants program which supports development-centered, in-country research and capacity-building in partnership with US-government supported facilities.
• CTI-Private Financing Advisory Network (CTI-PFAN), a facility that provides guidance and financial support to projects in the renewable energy environment, from early stages to financial closure.
• Power Africa Transaction Advisors, who provide project development advisory support to project sponsors in the public and private sectors. This support can extend beyond project-specific assistance to technical advice on national renewable energy programs and regulatory refinement to promote private investment in off-grid cleaner energy solutions, encourage and support rural electrification and reduce restrictions on importation of renewable energy sector equipment.
Beyond the Grid’s current project portfolio of over 100 projects spans the full range of off-grid solutions and small-scale renewable technologies, and touches countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Several examples include:
In Kenya, a biomass project rids the environment of an invasive tree species and generates electricity for a village and local industry. The intention is to expand this program to up to 15 systems which will make use of locally available invasive species or biomass waste, such as macadamia shells, coconut shells and bagasse from other industries.
● In Tanzania, Beyond the Grid is working closely with the government and a project developer to develop a portfolio of several mini-hydropower schemes. Through the Off-Grid Challenge, USADF is supporting mini-hydro and solar mini-grids, as well as a solar lantern franchise focused on the development of women entrepreneurs.
● In Ethiopia, USAID is supporting the development of a mini-grid using a small wind turbine and solar PV; USADF is working on an innovative financing scheme for solar home systems; and USAID PEER is supporting a local university in research on the development of micro-grids.
● In Ghana, USADF is supporting the development of a portable solar charging system for mobile phones, allowing the vendor to set up the system which forms part of his storefront.
● In Liberia, USAID is supporting a run-of-river mini-hydro project and a biomass to biodiesel project using palm oil that will run a small generator.
● In Rwanda, an 8.5MW grid-connected solar PV system has been installed at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) by Gigawatt Global with support from ACEF. Apart from the supply of electricity, the ASYV is providing jobs, ongoing education in solar PV, and a steady rental income for the solar farm. The system occupies 17 Ha and is shaped like the African continent.
A look ahead for Beyond the Grid
As the cost of solar PV reduces, so too does the ease with which solar home systems can be installed and maintained in remote areas. There is a large market opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, which makes this technology a natural focus area for Beyond the Grid to rapidly scale up and increase rural electrification. Power Africa is working with partners to develop a targeted effort to scale up household solar solutions.
Power Africa’s over 100 private sector partners have committed more than $20 billion toward specific projects, including $1 billion in commitments under Beyond the Grid to ensure that people living in remote areas have access to power. Beyond the Grid will continue to galvanize collaboration, engage in critical actions to accelerate transactions, and drive systemic reforms to facilitate future investment in off-grid and small-scale energy solutions.
Web: http://www.usaid.gov/powerafrica
Email: powerafrica@usaid.gov
Power Africa
Andrew M. Herscowitz is the coordinator for President Barack Obama’s Power Africa and Trade Africa initiatives. Katrina Pielli is a Senior Energy Advisor to Power Africa at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), secunded from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Ms. Pielli focuses on energy access issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Show 544/545: Raoul Martinez on “Creating Freedom”
Raoul Martinez on “Creating Freedom” (Two-Parter)
Oddly enough, on Equal Time for FREEthought, the term freedom doesn’t come up too often. Well, not in an affirmative fashion, at least. We’ve been around too long to believe in things like the free market, free elections, or free media (though on WBAI, we come the closest to this). But we do tend to advocate for free speech and, of course, free thought. But what does freedom mean? Are we free in modern Western societies and to what degree? Can freedom be created out of non-freedom? And what can our understanding of all this help us to build a healthier, more humanistic society?
Today we will talk with Raoul Martinez about these questions and more. Raoul is a writer, artist, and award-winning filmmaker. His documentary, ‘The Lottery of Birth‘, premiered in 2012 as episode one of a series entitled Creating Freedom. It was nominated for Best Documentary at London’s Raindance Film Festival and went on to win the Artivist Spirit 2012 Award at Hollywood’s Artivist Festival. Accompanying the series is Raoul’s first book, also called Creating Freedom, written over four years and informed by over a decade of research.
Audio for part-one can be found here!
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Show 601: Riane Eisler and Douglas Fry on Nurturing Our Humanity
Show 600: Jacques W. Martiquet on VYVE!
Show 599: HSPs: Highly Sensitive Persons
Show 598: Naturalistic Xmas Special 2019!
Show 597: Darcia Narvaez
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Celebrity Chef Mario Batali Officially Fired from ABC Show 'The Chew'
The move follows sexual misconduct allegations by several women
Earlier this week, celebrity chef, restaurateur and TV personality Mario Batali took a step back from his empire following allegations of sexual misconduct. Now, ABC has officially cut ties with him and announced that he will no longer appear on daily daytime talk show The Chew.
"Upon completing its review into the allegations made against Mario Batali, ABC has terminated its relationship with him and he will no longer appear on The Chew," an ABC spokesperson said in a statement. "While we remain unaware of any type of inappropriate behaviour involving him and anyone affiliated with our show, ABC takes matters like this very seriously as we are committed to a safe work environment and his past behaviour violates our standards of conduct."
News of Batali's inappropriate behaviour broke when Eater published allegations from four women accusing the chef of sexual misconduct over at least the past two decades.
In interviews, the women described incidents involving groping, unwanted touching and sexual innuendo both in and out of the workplace.
Batali didn't deny the allegations, admitting that they "match up" with how he has behaved.
"That behaviour was wrong and there are no excuses," Batali told Eater. "I take full responsibility and am deeply sorry for any pain, humiliation or discomfort I have caused to my peers, employees, customers, friends and family."
At the time of that statement, Batali said that he was going to "step away from day-to-day operations of my business."
His restaurant company B&B Hospitality Group has committed to implementing additional independent sexual harassment training, though at the time of the allegations Batali remained the owner of his restaurants.
Market chain Eataly USA, which Batali was a minority shareholder in, has since severed ties with the chef, removing all books and products bearing his name and likeness from their locations.
The Food Network, meanwhile, has put plans to revive the celebrity chef's show Molto Mario on hold.
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World bodies establish fund for rebuilding Lebanon
10:25 03 December 2020 Author : Staff
PARIS(AA)
French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that the World Bank, the UN and the EU have decided to establish a humanitarian fund for the reconstruction of Lebanon.
Macron made the announcement during the second virtual aid conference organized by France and the UN since the disastrous Aug. 4 explosion that destroyed Beirut's port and wrecked large parts of the capital.
He said the pledged aid on Aug. 9 was fulfilled and that 280 million euros (US$339.4 million) had been collected.
Noting that 12,500 tons of flour were distributed to the Lebanese people and 73,000 people had received financial aid, Macron said around 30 hospitals were provided with medical equipment and 25,000 people were allocated a place to stay.
He pointed out that 20% of Lebanon’s population lives below the poverty line and that aid should continue.
Macron said that without the rapid establishment of a government in Lebanon to enable reforms, there would be no international help for the country. He added that he will pay a new visit to Lebanon this month.
The Aug. 4 blast came at a time when the country was reeling under a crippling economic crisis amid the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
The explosion killed at least 192 people and injured more than 6,000.
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Thai Woman, 19 Rohingya Arrested For Illegal Entry in Thailand
19 Rohingya and a Thai woman accused of housing them have been arrested for illegal entry to
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Ramelli's Bookwheel presents an interesting historical paradox. On the one hand, it demonstrates an immense technological breakthrough that combines engineering techniques (epicylic gears, horizontal axle, shelves that don't drop objects when spun around) that had immense ramifications on later conceptions of how to view and access information (the ability to easily cycle through various texts or windows of information) and incorporating epicyclic gears in more objects besides clocks, to name a couple of examples. On the other hand, it is an example of sheer engineering arrogance on the part of Ramelli. The Bookwheel, as it is presented by Ramelli himself, is a testament to his own self indulgence. Much like a Guitar Virtuoso, like Jimi Hendrix or Yngwie Malmsteen, who uses guitar solos as opportunities to demonstrate the limits of their manual dexterity and speed (often at the expense of good taste), Ramelli’s Bookwheel is an impractical showcase of Ramelli’s ability to implement complex engineering techniques to accomplish tasks that could have been done much more simply and efficiently. In fact, the Bookwheel’s ultimate impracticality is demonstrated by the fact that it was never constructed. Ramelli himself never made any actual specifications for how it should have been made. [[Image:ramelli2.jpg|thumb|right| Ramelli's Bookwheel (Gnudi)]] ==Biography== Agostino Ramelli was born in Como, Italy in 1531. He grew up amidst war and political turmoil. Wars for independence as well as wars for position and power occurred all around him. Growing up, he was trained in the arts of war and mathematics by warlord Gian Giacomo de’ Medici. He soon developed into a key military engineer in the Italian military where he provided his expertise in fortification and machinery used for assaulting enemy cities. He was involved in the battles and was even captured by an opposing army once. The French King Henry III hired Ramelli briefly. “The Great Engineer”, as he was called, served the French magistrate until the death of Henry III. Coming back to work for his native Italy for some time, died somewhere in his late 70s. Although the date of his death is unknown, property documents with his signatures have been found dated as late as August of 1608, although it is not believed that he lived for terribly long after that. (Gnudi 11-19; Gille 199-200) ==The Various and Ingenious Machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli== Agostino Ramelli wrote and published “The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli” in 1588 in both French and Italian. Printed on 195 silver plates, Ramelli’s book illustrated inventions and mechanisms for raising water, milling grain, and war time machines. Noted for originality, these inventions are also known for being virtually unrealistic. Other inventors of this time care to show off their talents in creative engineering. “”Besson, Ramelli, and a few others have given us machines invented by them on paper, but few of them can be at all effective,” said Salomon de Caus, an early seventeenth-century engineer (Gille 199). They emphasized play and amusement. Another problem with the book is that it made it difficult for anyone to reproduce any of the actual machines or wheels/pulleys. There were no instructions on how to build these inventions nor were their any sorts of measurements or lists of materials included. One would have to study the sketch shown and the bit of text Ramelli provided. (Gille 199; Gnudi 15-17) [[Image:ramelli.jpg|thumb|left| Ramelli (Gnudi]] ==The Book That Never Happened== He drew sketches in preparation for another book on fortifications, but “wrote with bitterness and…disdain of the trusted member of his household who ‘…appearing to praise by giving me the title of expert…furtively robbed me of many special drawings…an published them as his own.’ (Gnudi 17)”. Some experts believe that person to be Ambroise Bachot, an architect and engineer to Henry IV whose work has always been related to Ramelli’s, although Ramelli never named his suspected thief. (Gnudi 17-19) ==Ramelli’s Design== Ramelli’s revolving bookcase had a circular structure that was built around a horizontal axis, which meant that the shelves on the wheel could be rotated up or down. This gave it the look of a Vetruvian Water wheel (or a ferris wheel) as opposed to the merry-go-round design that had been popular earlier. Each shelf is set at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the floor at all times. (Hall 389) This prevents the books from falling of the shelves during rotation. This design was also capable of saving space because all the information was moved vertically. This choice actually following the western tradition of axle design, although Ramelli was unique for applying this method to the book wheel. (Hall 390) ===The Chinese revolving bookshelf and early European bookshelves=== Ramelli’s use of a horizontal axle was in contrast to the Chinese model of rotating bookshelves which work with a vertical axle. The earlier Chinese Bookcases dated as far back as the 6th century and they were massive structures as opposed to the Book Wheel designed by Ramelli. (Hall 390-1). This model has been speculated to have come about due to the translation work done by Buddhists in China at the time (Needham 553-554). Ramelli’s wheel also differed greatly from earlier European made devices. An earlier model designed by Bocaccio during the early 15th Century consisted of a round table that could be raised or lowered by rotating a central screw that is fixed to the base. The main purpose seemed to focused on raising or lowering the table between eye level and average table height. (Clark 307) Other examples demonstrated the ability to be manipulated with or without the ability to adjust the height and or the position of objects on the table. Almost all of these however required the device to be turned along a vertical axis (meaning the movement took place on a horizontal plane, excluding the ability to increase or decrease its height. [[Image:Bookwheel.jpg|thumb|right|Another version of the bookwheel (Hall)]] ===Epicyclic gears=== One of the more ingenious parts of the construction of the wheel was Ramelli’s incorporation of Epicyclic gears. This helped keep the angles of each of the shelves constant with respect to the floor, so that any book resting on a shelf would not fall off as one spinned the device. (Hall 392) The basic concept behind epicyclic gears is that it consists of several jagged edged gears (with “teeth”) that stem from a central position. The gears vary in radius. The motions of the gears can be described by a caption written for a prototype of a model of Dante Gnudi in folio 112r of Codex Madrid I.: “Wheel a turns to the right. And b to the left, and c also to the right, wheel m turns to the left, that is, opposite to a, because even if the axle of a is square, it is round inside wheel m. Wheel b has no axle, while one arm of the axle of wheel m rotates and turns b and c around a. the last revolves in the direction opposite to b.” [[Image:Snapshot 2008-12-03 14-15-54.jpg|thumb|left| Epicyclic gears (Reti)]] Although seemingly convoluted, the epicyclic gear model was capable of achieving the feat of maintaining the angles of the bookshelves on Ramelli’s wheel at a constant 45 degree angle in relation to the floor. This might not have been possible with a simpler axle design. It is fascinating that he used this particular gear system, which featured a set of Idler gears that were needed to reverse the rotation of the outer set of gears. (Hall 396) This particular particular type of gearing had existed in ancient times, for example in the Antikythera machine, which was, if the reconstruction of it was accurate, an ancient greek predecessor to the computer which incorporated this method of using gears in parallel motion. It was also featured in 14th century geared astrolabes. . It is, however, not clear how Ramelli came into contact with this particular principle of gear design. Some scholars believe that he adapted it from horology or from a clock that he might have come across, which featured the system, and then applied it to his book wheel. (Hall 394) Then there is also the importance of Ramelli’s predecessor, Leonardo Da Vinci. ===The Da Vinci Connection?=== Many parallels have been drawn between the work of Ramelli and Leonardo Da Vinci. It isn’t that far of a leap considering that the two were both interested in engineering and Da Vinci did have a major impact on those who came after him. Scholars have made a particular connection between them because of their shared interest in epicycle gear trains. Leonardo had experimented with the notion of utilizing the epicycle gear system for some unknown device. As Ladislao Reti points out, Leanardo’s design is very similar to the one Ramelli intended to use for his bookwheel. The difference was that Da Vinci’s outer gears did not match the central gear in terms of the amount of teeth they had. Also, unlike Ramelli, Da Vinci did not have a specific device in mind as he was making this model. He was more interested in the actual mechanism rather than a specific use for it. (Reti 578) Da Vinci also was considering a manner in which to have the elements of the gear train maintain at a constant angle relative to the floor. (Reti 579) However, Ramelli’s use of the Epicyclic gear system does not necessarily mean that he was copying or deriving his invention from Da Vinci. It is possible that the two were both just studying the knowledge that had been accumulating since ancient times. (Reti 580) One could go even further and say that Ramelli was neither completely original in his ideas nor was he merely copying the work of those who came before him. He was, as Reti pointed out, incorporating “not only his own ideas and fantasies but also the sound technical tradition of his time and the experience and dreams of his predecessors in the invention of machines" (581). ===Design for Showmanship’s Sake?=== Excerpt from Ramelli's book, The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli, specifically the description he gives of the Bookwheel: <i> “This is a beautiful and ingenious machine, very useful and convenient for anyone who takes pleasure in study, especially those who are indisposed and tormented by gout. For with this machine a man can see and turn through a large number of books without moving from one spot. Moreover, it has another fine convenience in that it occupies very little space in the place where it is set, as anyone of intelligence can clearly see from the drawing. This wheel is made in the manner shown, that is, it is constructed so that when the books are laid on its lecterns they never fall or move from the place where they are laid even when the wheel is turned and revolved all the way around. Indeed, they will always remain in the same position and will be displayed to the reader in the same way as they were laid on their small lecterns, without any need to tie or hold them with anything. This wheel may be made as large or small as desired, provided the master craftsman who constructs it observes the proportions of each part of its components. He can do this very easily if he studies carefully all the parts of these small wheels of ours and the other devices in this machine. These parts are made in sizes to proportionate to each other. To give a fuller understanding and comprehension to anyone who wishes to make and operate this machine, I have shown here separately and uncovered all the devices needed for it, so that anyone may understand them better and make use of them for his needs.” </i> (508) One of the main complaints made about Ramelli is that he made his devices, like the bookwheel, more complex than they needed to be. He would utilize “ gears to perform even such tasks as converting rotary to reciprocal motion, where a simple crankshaft would do” (Hall 392). There was an inherent artistic arrogance involved in both his design and in his presentation of it. He would speak about the bookwheel in his own book in hyperbolic terms as well as delving into a condescending tone towards the reader. This seems to be typical for him and other authors of “Theater of Machines” type books. The goal was to show off the ‘virtuosity’ of their engineering skill (much like a guitarist would during a solo) in terms of their ability to manipulate systems to accomplish extraordinary feats. (Hall 392) Ramelli did not even include any specific measurements in his design. This isn’t to suggest that Ramelli was untalented and simply full of outlandish ideas. That wasn’t the case. But to an extent, his ego came to the surface more often than the rational practical ability to help humanity. ==Influence== Ramelli’s bookwheel was for the information savvy people of the day. Today there is technology that allows us to cross reference more things quicker, observe multiple things at once, and feed our ADD minds. ===Memex=== Conceived by Vannevar Bush in the 1940's, the memex continued the same logic as the Bookwheel, in terms of being able to keep track of information and be able to easily access that information while researching. The memex was essentially conceived as a self contained research library contained within a desk. On top of the desk are translucent screens for reading the material being studied. There is also a keyboard and sets of buttons and levers. One part of the desk is for storage of information using microfilm. (Bush 149) The user is able to store books under code numbers for easy access. They can also use the keyboard to skip through pages. (Bush 150). This descendant of the bookwheel was the predecessor of hyperlinks and works using the concept of associative thought. (Bush 148) ===Computer Screen Viewing=== In today's age, we want to be able to multitask as much as possible. When using computers, it is no different. It used to be that you needed to open up separate windows for each function, program, or web page on your screen. If you wanted to view a different window, you had to click and drag it away or minimize it. Then web browsers made it possible for multiple tabs to be opened up in the same internet window, making it easier and faster to view multiple web sites at once. Now you can cross reference windows even quicker. Both Mac and PC operating systems have functions that clear away the screen, moving all the windows to the edges so you can view your desktop with the push of a key or swipe of a mousepad. Or you can view all of your open windows and programs and documents at one time so to be able to switch from window to window faster. This makes it even possible to view multiple pictures and/or videos at the same time. [[Image:screenshot.png|thumb|right|MAC Screenshot (Procida). ]] ===Dual Screens=== The information technology and need for a vast view of things has called for computers to be capable of being set up with multiple screens. Some people have two, three, and sometimes even four screens paneled side by side to give the user a wider, more vast view of their computer activities. More extreme examples of multi-monitor set-ups can be seen in fictional settings such as <i>The Dark Knight</i>, where Batman has a large amount of computer screens to form a large image or virtual workspace. ===Car Transmissions=== Ramelli's epicyclic gear train used in his bookwheel to keep the books in place while rotating have been used in modern engineering. "The trasnmission gears of the Model T Ford automobile, for example, were epicyclic." (Gnudi 558) =Bibliography= *Aiken, John, William Enfield, Nicholson, Thomas Morgan, and William Johnston. General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order. G.G. and J. Robinson, 1807. *Bush, Vannevar. As We May Think. 1945 *Clark, John Willis. The Care of Books. Cambridge, 1909. P. 307, fig. 148 *Gille, Bertrand. Engineers of the Renaissance. 1966. 199-200. *Gnudi, Martha T., trans. The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli (1588). Great Britain: Johns Hopkins University, 1976. *Hall, Bert S. and Ramelli, Agostino. A Revolving Bookcase by Agostino Ramelli. Technology and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jul., 1970), pp. 389-400 *Ladislao Reti. Leonardo and Ramelli. Technology and Culture, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 577-605 *Needham, Joseph and Ling, Wang. Science and Civilization in China. Cambridge, 1965. *Platts, John. A new universal biography, chronologically arranged; containing interesting accounts, critical accounts, critical and historical, of the lives and characters, labours and actions, of eminent persons, in all ages and countries, conditions and professions,. Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1826. *Procida Jr., William P. MAC Screenshot. 3 Dec. 2008.
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Around the World with Corey Sandler
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Tag Archives: Rhode Island
4 November 2018:
Newport, Rhode Island, US:
Winter Coming
November 4, 2018 Corey Sandler
By Corey Sandler
We sailed out of Boston last night and into the teeth of a storm headed up the coast. To get from Boston to Newport, our course was essentially this:
west to exit Boston Harbor and its many islands and to get far enough out to sea to be clear of Provincetown on the hook of Cape Cod, then
south, past Provincetown and thirty more miles to the east coast of the island of Nantucket and an additional 30 miles below Nantucket to stay clear of the shoals and rocks, then
west in the main transatlantic channel about 60 miles until we were in line with the entrance to Narragansett Bay, and then finally
north, back up to Aquidneck Island, the home of Newport, Rhode Island.
If that sounds like a complicated route that includes all four cardinal points of the compass, that’s because it is. The waters around Cape Cod and Nantucket are very hazardous to uninformed mariners.
In any case, we arrived at midday in Newport, to a beautiful fall day. This is the last day of this cruise, which began in Montreal, and a fitting end.
Here are some scenes from Newport. You can read more about this special place by entering Newport in the search bar of this blog.
All photos and text Copyright 2018 by Corey Sandler, all rights reserved.
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Modest Abodes
October 17, 2018 Corey Sandler
We have been coming in and out Newport all season, and for many years in the past, and always concentrating on the magnificent “cottages” built by the very wealthy industrialists and financiers of America’s Gilded Age that followed the American Civil War and continued into the early decades of the 20th century.
On this visit, a glorious fall day, we returned to one of the most elegant and meaningful houses in Newtown. Not a cottage, but a house of worship: the Touro Synagogue, the oldest Jewish temple in North America, built in 1763.
It is an extraordinary place, emblematic of the origins of Newport as a place of tolerance for most people, including Jews, Quakers, and other religious denominations who were not always welcome elsewhere in the colonies.
At Touro Synagogue is displayed a copy of George Washington’s famous letter to the congregation, one of the most magnificent pieces of writing and expressions of tolerance by an American president.
He wrote:
“May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.”
We are once again in the beautiful town of Newport on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.
We have not been enjoying the best weather for much of the last few weeks with the exception of a superb day yesterday in Boston.
Today, Newport was cold and windswept but still beautiful. The mansions, which were called with a wink and a nudge “cottages” are preparing to close for the winter but the major cottages are still open.
We went for a walk in the rain to The Elms, and here are some of the pictures I took. Inside.
A NEWPORT ALBUM
On a previous, sunny day:
The Big Bay
September 26, 2018 Corey Sandler
We are headed back to the north, but first we have pulled into Narragansett Bay on the south shore of Rhode Island for a return visit to Newport.
Narragansett Bay encompasses about 147 square miles of handsome shorefront, islands, and shores. Seven waterways enter into the bay, including the Taunton, Pawtuxet, and Blackstone rivers.
Within the bay are Newport at the south end of Aquidneck Island on the ocean. At the northeasternmost reach is Fall River (where Lizzy Borden cut her teeth). And the northernmost part of the bay is home to Providence, the capital of Rhode Island.
Just for the record: most of Rhode Island is on the mainland, not on an island.
Once again we went for a visit to one of the less-known historic houses of Newport: Hunter House, built about 1748 by a prosperous local merchant and Colonial Deputy Governor.
With the outbreak of the American Revolution, the governor was forced to flee and the home was used as headquarters for the French forces in Newport assisting the American rebels.
We sailed into the bay in a deep fog and mist, which deepened the sense of history here.
Here is the fog, the Hunter House, and the nearby Brenton Counting House of the same time: 1748, Newport’s Golden Era, more than 130 years before the second wave of money have rise to the Gilded Age.
NEWPORT THIS MORNING
Here’s a glimpse of The Breakers, one of the most famous of the “cottages” on Newport, built during the Gilded Age by some of the aged gilded of the time.
You can read even more about Newport in my posting from September 24.
The Cottage Industry
Newport, Rhode Island was where the rich came to play.
One game, at the peak of the Gilded Age, was a grand form of one-upsmanship, a competition to impress, astound, and outspend each other.
They built “cottages”, a word some used with a wink and a nod.
After the Civil War came the Gilded Age, a time of great wealth and expansion.
Bar Harbor in Maine, and the Adirondacks of upstate New York boomed: a surge of privately owned American castles, if you will. Newport was perhaps the greatest beneficiary.
Fall in New England in town and at the Tennis Hall of Fame. All photos by Corey Sandler, all rights reserved.
The Breakers is the grandest of the summer “cottages.”
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt established his fortune in steamships and later the New York Central Railroad, which was key to the nation’s industrial growth in the late 19th century.
His grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, became Chairman and President of the railroad in 1885, and purchased a wooden house called The Breakers.
After a fire in 1892, he commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a replacement.
Hunt created a 70-room Italian Renaissance-style palazzo inspired by the 16th century palaces of Genoa and Turin.
It’s a pleasant little cottage.
CHATEAU-SUR-MER
On this visit we took the opportunity to visit a lesser-known gem of the Newport properties: Chateau-sur-Mer.
This home, erected in 1852, was a product of the China trade. It predates most of the Gilded Age Cottage of Newport, but in many ways outshines cold and formal marble with its warm carved wood interior including hand-carved Italian woodwork, Chinese porcelain, and other treasures.
The Mansion was home to three generations of the Wetmore family.
9 October 2013: Newport, Rhode Island
October 9, 2013 Corey Sandler
When Fall Comes to New England
By Corey Sandler, Destination Consultant Silversea Cruises
Our sail-away from New York was, just as we hoped, spectacular. Silver Whisper backed out of Pier 88 at 5 pm, and we moved majestically down the Hudson River toward its exit to the sea.
The gangway from Pier 88 to our ship during the quiet morning before guests came aboard. Photo by Corey Sandler
The view from the Bridge of Silver Whisper as we backed out of the pier. Photo by Corey Sandler
On our port side was Manhattan; to starboard, the Statue of Liberty. I was up on the bridge giving commentary, but—as always—I had my camera with me.
Scenes from our sailaway. Photos by Corey Sandler
And then we sailed into New England. One of my favorite songs is When Fall Comes to New England, by the singer-songwrite Cheryl Wheeler. She has a lovely line about autumn colors; she says that the leaves turn “Irish Setter red.”
Newport, Rhode Island is where the rich came to play.
One of their games, at the peak of the Gilded Age, was a grand form of one-upsmanship.
The colors of New England. The Newport Museum of Art, and the gardens at the historic Touro Synagogue. Photo by Corey Sandler
It was a competition to impress, astound, and outspend each other.
They built “cottages”, a word they used with a wink and a nod.
Downtown Newport. Photo by Corey Sandler
In some ways, Newport and the rest of Rhode Island was a model for the ideal of America, a place where freedom of conscience and religion was paramount.
They had been all but driven out of Boston by strict and punitive laws and discrimination.
A year later, the original settlement of Pocasett divided, and a group moved south to found Newport.
By this time, many had become Baptists.
Their political beliefs had been shaped by the difficulties of Boston.
At the heart of their plans was separation of church and state, codified in the Newport Town Statutes of 1641.
Newport became one of the first secular democracies in the world, certainly one of the first in the Americas.
Newport’s Redwood Library, and an old hotel in town. Photos by Corey Sandler
The original settlers were soon joined in the 1650s by others including Jews and members of the Religious Society of Friends: the “Quakers.”
In the years leading up to the American Civil War, Newport began to attract influential artists, writers, scientists, educators, architects, theologians, architects, and landscape designers.
Summer residents included the activist and poet Julia Ward Howe, the famed Unitarian preacher William Ellery Channing, the author Henry James and his psychologist brother William James.
Bar Harbor in Maine, and the Adirondacks of upstate New York boomed: a surge of privately owned American castles, if you will.
Newport was perhaps the greatest beneficiary.
The Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport. Photos by Corey Sandler
My wife and I live in this part of the world, on the island of Nantucket about 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. And so we know Newport and southern New England quite well.
On this visit, I chose to go on a photo safari. I concentrated on the glorious details of Fall in New England.
Silver Whisper at anchor, offshore of Newport. Photo by Corey Sandler
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Art Terminology
Intaglio - The process of incising a design beneath the surface of a metal or stone. Plates are inked only in the etched depressions on the plates and then the plate surface is wiped clean. The ink is then transferred onto the paper through an etching press. The reverse of this process is known as relief printing.
Planographic - The process to print impressions from a smooth surface rather than creating incised or relief areas on the plate. The term was devised to describe lithography.
Relief - All printing processes in which the non-printing areas of the block or plate are carved, engraved or etched away. Inks are applied onto the projected surface and transferred onto the paper. The reverse process is known as intaglio printing.
Printmaking Techniques
Aquatint – A printing technique capable of producing unlimited tonal gradations to re-create the broad flat tints of ink wash or watercolor drawings. This is achieved by etching microscopic cracks and pits into the image on a master plate, typically made of copper or zinc. Spanish artist Goya used this technique.
Blind - Printing using an uninked plate to produce the subtle embossed texture of a white-on-white image, highlighted by the shadow of the relief image on the uninked paper. This technique is used in many Japanese prints.
Collograph - Printing technique in which proofs are pulled from a block on which the artwork or design is built up like a collage, creating relief.
Drypoint - Printing technique of intaglio engraving in which a hard, steel needle incises lines on a metal plate, creating a burr that yields a characteristically soft and velvety line in the final print.
Engraving - Printing technique in which an intaglio image is produced by cutting a metal plate or box directly with a sharp engraving tool. The incised lines are inked and printed with heavy pressure.
Etching - Printing technique in which a metal plate is first covered with an acid-resistant material, then worked with an etching needle to create an intaglio image. The exposed metal is eaten away in an acid bath, creating depressed lines that are later inked for printing.
Iris or Giclée - A computerized reproduction technique in which the image and topography are generated from a digital file and printed by a special ink jet printer, using ink, acrylic or oil paints. Giclée printing offers one of the highest degree of accuracy and richness of color available in any reproduction techniques.
Lithography - Printing technique using a planographic process in which prints are pulled on a special press from a flat stone or metal surface that has been chemically sensitized so that ink sticks only to the design areas and is repelled by the non-image areas. Lithography was invented in 1798 in Germany by Alois Senefelder.
Mezzotint - A reverse engraving process used on a copper or steel plate to produce illustrations in relief with effects of light and shadow. The surface of a master plate is roughened with a tool called a rocker so that if inked, it will print solid black. The areas to be white or gray in the print are rubbed down so as not to take ink. It was widely used in the 18th and 19th centuries to reproduce portraits and other paintings, but became obsolete with the introduction of photo-engraving.
Monotype - One-of-a-kind print made by painting on a sheet of metal or glass and transferring the still-wet painting onto a sheet of paper by hand or with an etching press. If enough paint remains on the master plate, additional prints can be made, however, the reprint will have substantial variations from the original image. Monotype printing is not a multiple-replica process since each print is unique.
Offset Lithography - A special photo-mechanical technique in which the image to be printed is transferred to the negative plates and printed onto paper. Offset lithography is very well adapted to color printing.
Serigraphy (Silk-screen) - A printing technique that makes use of a squeegee to force ink directly onto a piece of paper or canvas through a stencil creating an image on a screen of silk or other fine fabric with an impermeable substance. Serigraphy differs from most other printing in that its color areas are paint films rather than printing ink stains.
Woodcut - Printing technique in which the printing surface has been carved from a block of wood. The traditional wood block is seasoned hardwood such as apple, beech or sycamore. Woodcut is one of the oldest forms of printing dating back to the 12th century.
Common Art Print Terms
Acid-free Paper or Canvas - Paper or canvas treated to neutralize its natural acidity in order to protect fine art and photographic prints from discoloration and deterioration.
Canvas Transfer - Art reproduction on canvas which is created by a process such as serigraphy, photomechanical or giclée printing. Some processes can even recreate the texture, brush strokes and aged appearance of the original work.
Color-variant Suite - A set of identical prints in different color schemes.
Impression - Fine art made by any printing stamping process.
Limited Edition – A limited number of identical prints numbered in succession and signed and supervised by the artist. Any additional prints have been destroyed.
Monoprint - One-of-a-kind print conceived and printed by the artist and or under the artist's supervision.
Montage (Collage) - An artwork comprising of portions of various existing images such as from photographs or prints and arranged so that they join, overlap or blend to create a new image.
Multiple Originals - A set of identical fine prints in which the artist personally conceived the image, created the master plates and executed or supervised the entire printing process. Example: etching.
Multiple Reproductions - A set of identical fine prints reproducing the image of an original artwork created by a non-printing process. Example: serigraph of an oil on canvas.
Open Edition - A series of prints or objects in an art edition that has an unlimited number of copies.
Original Print - One-of-a-kind print in which the artist personally conceived the image, created the master plates and executed the entire printing process.
Provenance - Record of ownership for a work of art, ideally from the time it left the artist's studio to its present location, thus creating an unbroken ownership history.
Remarque – Additional enhancements by the artist on some or all of the final prints within an edition.
Restrike - Additional prints made from a master plate, block, lithograph stone, etc. after the original edition has been exhausted.
Print Proof Types
Proofs are prints authorized by the artist in addition to the limited signed and numbered edition. The total size of an art edition consists of the signed and numbered prints plus all outstanding proofs. If a set of proofs consists of more than one print, numbers are inscribed to indicate the number of the prints within the total number of the particular type of proof, (e.g., AP 5/20 means the fifth print in a set of twenty identical prints authorized as artist proofs). Proofs are generally signed by the artist as validation of the prints.
Artist's Proof (AP) - Print intended for the artist's personal use. It is common practice to reserve approximately ten percent of an edition as artist's proofs, although this figure can be higher. The artist's proof is sometimes referred to by its French épreuve d'artist (abbreviation E.A.). Artist's proofs can be distinguished by the abbreviation AP or E.A., commonly on the lower left of the work.
Cancellation Proof - Final print made once an edition series has been finished to show that the plate has been marred/mutilated by the artist, and will never be used again to make more prints of the edition.
Hors d'Commerce Proof (HC) - Print identical to the edition print intended to be used as samples to show to dealers and galleries. These proofs may or may not be signed by the artist.
Printer's Proof (PP) - Print retained by the printer as a reference. Artists often sign these prints as a gesture of appreciation.
Trial Proof (TP) - Pre-cursor to a limited edition series, these initial prints are pulled so that the artist may examine, refine and perfect the prints to the desired final state. Trial proofs are generally not signed.
Abbreviations Used in Art
2nd Ed - Second edition: prints of the same image as the original edition but altered in some way (as in change of color, paper or printing process).
2nd st - Second state: prints of proofs which contain significant changes from the original print.
AP - Artist's Proof (see definition)
Del - (Latin, delineavit) He (she) drew it. Generally inscribed next to the artist's signature.
HC - (French, Hors d'Commerce) Prints from an edition intended to be used as samples to show to dealers and galleries.
PP - Printer's proof (see definition)
TP - Trial proof (see definition)
Miscellaneous Art Terminology
Abstract - A 20th century style of painting in which nonrepresentational lines, colors, shapes, and forms replace accurate visual depiction of objects, landscape, and figures. The subjects often stylized, blurred, repeated or broken down into basic forms so that it becomes unrecognizable. Intangible subjects such as thoughts, emotions, and time are often expressed in abstract art form.
Abstract Expressionism - 1940's New York painting movement based on Abstract Art. This type of painting is often referred to as action painting.
Acrylic - A fast-drying paint which is easy to remove with mineral spirits; a plastic substance commonly used as a binder for paints.
Action Painting - Any painting style calling for vigorous physical activity; specifically, Abstract Expressionism. Examples include the New York School art movement and the work of Jackson Pollock.
Art Nouveau - A painting, printmaking, decorative design, and architectural style developed in England in the 1880s. Art Nouveau, primarily an ornamental style, was not only a protest against the sterile Realism, but against the whole drift toward industrialization and mechanization and the unnatural artifacts they produced. The style is characterized by the usage of sinuous, graceful, cursive lines, interlaced patterns, flowers, plants, insects and other motifs inspired by nature.
Bauhaus - A design school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 in Germany. The Bauhaus attempted to achieve reconciliation between the aesthetics of design and the more commercial demands of industrial mass production.
Chiaroscuro - In drawing, painting, and the graphic arts, chiaroscuro (ke-ära-skooro) concerns the rendering of forms through a balanced contrast between light and dark areas. The technique that was introduced during the Renaissance, is effective in creating an illusion of depth and space around the principal figures in a composition. Leonardo Da Vinci and Rembrandt were painters who excelled in the use of this technique.
Classical Style - In Greek art, the style of the 5th century B.C. Loosely, the term “classical” is often applied to all the art of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as to any art based on logical, rational principles and deliberate composition.
Cubism - An art style developed in 1908 by Picasso and Braque whereby the artist breaks down the natural forms of the subjects into geometric shapes and creates a new kind of pictorial space. In contrast to traditional painting styles where the perspective of subjects is fixed and complete, cubist work can portray the subject from multiple perspectives.
Dadaism - An art style founded by Hans Arp in Zurich after WW1 which challenged the established canons of art, thoughts and morality etc. Disgusted with the war and society in general, Dadaist expressed their feelings by creating "non-art."
Expressionism - An art movement of the early 20th century in which traditional adherence to realism and proportion was replaced by the artist's emotional connection to the subject. These paintings are often abstract, the subject matter distorted in color and form to emphasize and express the intense emotion of the artist.
Fauvism -A short-lived painting style in early 20th century France, which featured bold, clashing, arbitrary colors - colors unrelated to the appearance of forms in the natural world. Henri Matisse was its best-known practitioner. The word fauve means “wild beast.”
Fine Art - An art form created primarily as an aesthetic expression to be enjoyed for its own sake. The viewer must be prepared to search for the intent of the artist as the all-important first step toward communication and active participation.
Futurism - Art movement founded in Italy in 1909 and lasting only a few years. Futurism concentrated on the dynamic quality of modern technological life, emphasizing speed and movement.
Gouache -Opaque watercolors used for illustrations.
Hard-Edge Painting -A recent innovation that originated in New York and was adopted by certain contemporary painters. Forms are depicted with precise, geometric lines and edges.
Harmony - The unity of all the visual elements of a composition achieved by repetition of the same characteristics.
Hatching - A technique of modeling, indicating tone and suggesting light and shade in drawing or tempera painting, using closely set parallel lines.
Iconography - Loosely, the “story” depicted in a work of art; people, places, events, and other images in a work, as well as the symbolism and conventions attached to those images by a particular religion or culture.
Impasto - A thick, juicy application of paint to canvas or other support; emphasizes texture, as distinguished from a smooth flat surface.
Impressionism - An art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the ways it transforms the visible world. This style of painting is characterized by short brush strokes of bright colors used to recreate visual impressions of the subject and to capture the light, climate and atmosphere of the subject at a specific moment in time.
Mannerism -A term sometimes applied to art of late 16th early 17th century Europe, characterized by a dramatic use of space and light and a tendency toward elongated figures.
Maquette - In sculpture, a small model in wax or clay, made as a preliminary sketch, presented to the client for approval of the proposed work, or for entry in a competition. The Italian equivalent of the term is bozzetto, meaning small sketch.
Medieval Art - The art of the Middle Ages ca. 500 A.D. through the 14th century. The art produced immediately prior to the Renaissance.
Medium - The material used to create a work of art. Also, a term used for the binder for paint, such as oil.
Minimalism - A style of painting and sculpture in the mid 20th century in which the art elements are rendered with a minimum of lines, shapes, and sometimes color. The works may look and feel sparse, spare, restricted or empty.
Mixed Media - Descriptive of art that employs more than one medium – e.g., a work that combines paint, natural materials (wood, pebbles, bones), and man made items (glass, plastic, metals) into a single image or piece of art.
Monochromatic - Having only one color. Descriptive of work in which one hue - perhaps with variations of value and intensity - predominates.
Monotype - A one-of-a-kind print made by painting on a sheet or slab of glass and transferring the still-wet painting to a sheet of paper held firmly on the glass by rubbing the back of the paper with a smooth implement, such as a large hardwood spoon. The painting may also be done on a polished plate, in which case it may be either printed by hand or transferred to the paper by running the plate and paper through an etching press.
Montage - A picture composed of other existing illustrations, pictures, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. that are arranged so they combine to create a new or original image. A collage.
Mosaic - An art form in which small pieces of tile, glass, or stone are fitted together and embedded into a background to create a pattern or image.
Mural - Any large-scale wall decoration done in painting, fresco, mosaic, or other medium.
Museum - A building, place or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical or artistic value. The word Museum is derived from the Latin muses, meaning "a source of inspiration," or "to be absorbed in one's thoughts."
Narrative Painting - A painting where a story line serves as a dominant feature.
Naturalistic - Descriptive of an artwork that closely resembles forms in the natural world. Synonymous with representational.
Negative Space - The space in a painting around the objects depicted.
Neoclassicism - “New” classicism - a style in 19th century Western art that referred back to the classical styles of Greece and Rome. Neoclassical paintings have sharp outlines, reserved emotions, deliberate (often mathematical) composition, and cool colors.
Neo-Expressionism - “New” expressionism - a term originally applied to works done primarily by German and Italian artists, who came to maturity in the post-WWII era; and later expanded (in the 1980’s) to include certain American artists. Neo- Expressionist works depict intense emotions and symbolism, sometimes using unconventional media and intense colors with turbulent compositions and subject matter.
Neutral - Having no hue; black, white, or gray; sometimes a tannish color achieved by mixing two complementary colors.
Op Art - Short for Optical Art, a style popular in the 1960s that was based on optical principles and optical illusion. Op Art deals in complex color interactions, to the point where colors and lines seem to vibrate before the eyes
Overlap Effect - Spatial relationships are achieved by placing one object in front of another. The object closest to the viewer blocks out the view of any part of any other object located behind it (or, where the two objects overlap, the one in back is obscured).
Painterly - Descriptive of paintings in which forms are defined principally by color areas, not by lines or edges. Where the artist's brushstrokes are noticeable. Any image that looks as though it may have been created with the style or techniques used by a painter.
“Pep Art” – An amalgamation of Pop Art and energy painting, pioneered by modern American artist David Willardson.
Perspective - The representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface so as to produce the same impression of distance and relative size as that received by the human eye. In one-point linear perspective, developed during the fifteenth century, all parallel lines in a given visual field converge at a single vanishing point on the horizon. In aerial or atmospheric perspective, the relative distance of objects is indicated by gradations of tone and color and by variations in the clarity of outlines.
Photorealism - A painting and drawing style of the mid 20th century in which people, objects, and scenes are depicted with such naturalism that the paintings resemble photographs – an almost exact visual duplication of the subject.
Pictoral Space - The illusory space in a painting or other work of two-dimensional art that seems to recede backward into depth from the picture plane, giving the illusion of distance.
Picture Plane - An imaginary flat surface that is assumed to be identical to the surface of a painting. Forms in a painting meant to be perceived in deep three-dimensional space are said to be “behind” the picture plane. The picture plane is commonly associated with the foreground of a painting.
Pointillism - A branch of French Impressionism in which the principle of optical mixture or broken color was carried to the extreme of applying color in tiny dots or small, isolated strokes. Forms are visible in a pointillist painting only from a distance, when the viewer's eye blends the colors to create visual masses and outlines. The inventor and chief exponent of pointillism was George Seurat (1859-1891); the other leading figure was Paul Signac (1863-1935).
Polychromatic - Having many colors, as opposed to monochromatic which means only one hue or color.
Pop Art - A style of art which seeks its inspiration from commercial art and items of mass culture (such as comic strips, popular foods and brand name packaging). Pop art was first developed in New York City in the 1950's and soon became the dominant avant-garde art form in the United States.
Post Impressionism - A term applied to the work of several artists - French or living in France - from about 1885 to 1900. Although they all painted in highly personal styles, the Post-Impressionists were united in rejecting the relative absence of form characteristic of Impressionism and stressed more formal qualities and the significance of subject matter.
Prehistoric Art - Art forms predating recorded history, such as Old, Middle, and New Stone Ages.
Pre-Columbian - Art created in the America's by native people that pre-dates the discovery of the new world
Primary Colors - Any hue that, in theory, cannot be created by a mixture of any other hues. Varying combinations of the primary hues can be used to create all the other hues of the spectrum. In pigment the primaries are red, yellow, and blue.
Print - An image created from a master wood block, stone, plate, or screen, usually on paper. Prints are referred to as multiples, because as a rule many identical or similar impressions are made from the same printing surface, the number of impressions being called an edition. When an edition is limited to a specified number of prints, it is a limited edition. A print is considered an original work of art and today is customarily signed and numbered by the artist.
Primitive Art - Paintings and drawings of and by peoples and races outside the influence of accepted Western styles. Also, works by artists with a "naive" style often due to little, if any, training (or works intentionally made to look this way).
Realism - Any art in which the goal is to portray forms in the natural world in a highly representational manner. Specifically, an art style of the mid 19th century, which fostered the idea that everyday people and events are worthy subjects for important art.
Renaissance - The period in Europe from the 14th to the 16th century, characterized by a renewed interest in Classical art, architecture, literature, and philosophy. The Renaissance began in Italy and gradually spread to the rest of Europe. In art, it is most closely associated with Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
Representational - Works of art that closely resemble forms in the natural world. Synonymous with naturalistic
Rococo - A style of art popular in Europe in the first three quarters of the 18th century, Rococo architecture and furnishings emphasized ornate but small-scale decoration, curvilinear forms, and pastel colors. Rococo painting has a playful, light-hearted romantic quality and often pictures the aristocracy at leisure.
Romanesque - A style of architecture and art dominant in Europe from the 9th to the 12th century. Romanesque architecture, based on ancient Roman precedents, emphasizes the round arch and barrel vault.
Romanticism - A movement in Western art of the 19th century generally assumed to be in opposition to Neoclassicism. Romantic works are marked by intense colors, turbulent emotions, complex composition, soft outlines, and sometimes heroic subject matter.
Salon - Fashionable gathering of artists, writers, and intellectuals held in a private home.
Scale - Size in relation to some “normal” or constant size. Compare with proportion.
Sculpture - A three-dimensional form modeled, carved, or assembled.
Secondary Colors - A hue created by combining two primary colors, as yellow and blue mixed together yield green. In pigment the secondary colors are orange, green, and violet.
Sfumato - From the Italian work for “smoke,” a technique of painting in thin glazes to achieve a hazy, cloudy atmosphere, often to represent objects or landscape meant to be perceived as distant from the picture plane.
Simultaneous Contrast - The tendency of complementary colors to seem brighter and more intense when placed side by side.
Still Life - A painting or other two-dimensional work in which the subject matter is an arrangement of objects - fruit, flowers, tableware, pottery, and so forth - brought together for their pleasing contrasts of shape, color, and texture.
Stippling - A pattern of closely spaced dots or small marks used to create a sense of three-dimensionally on a flat surface, especially in drawing and printmaking. See also hatching, cross-hatching.
Study - A detailed drawing or painting made of one or more parts of a final composition, but not the whole work.
Style - A characteristic, or a number of characteristics that we can identify as constant, recurring, or coherent. In art, the sum of such characteristics associated with a particular artist, group, or culture, or with an artist’s work at a specific time.
Surrealism - A painting style of the early 20th century that emphasized imagery and visions from dreams and fantasies, as well as an intuitive, spontaneous method of recording such imagery, often combining unrelated or unexpected objects in compositions. The works of Magritte and Dali, and Picasso are included in the genre.
Symbol - An image or sign that represents something else, because of convention, association, or resemblance.
Symbolism - An art style developed in the late 19th century characterized by the incorporation of symbols and ideas, usually spiritual or mystical in nature, which represent the inner life of people. Traditional modeled, pictorial depictions are replaced or contrasted by flat mosaic-like surfaces decoratively embellished with figures and design elements.
Triptych - A three-part work of art; especially a painting, meant for placement on an altar, with three panels that fold together.
Trompe-L’oeil - A French term meaning "deception of the eye." A painting or other work of two-dimensional art rendered in such a photographically realistic manner as to ‘trick’ the viewer into thinking it is three-dimensional reality.
Underpainting - The traditional stage in oil painting of using a monochrome or dead color as a base for composition. Also known as laying in.
Value - The relative lightness or darkness of a hue, or of a neutral varying from white to black.
Vanishing Point - In linear perspective, the point on the horizon line where parallel lines appear to converge.
Vehicle - The entire liquid contents of a paint.
Wash - Used in watercolor painting, brush drawing, and occasionally in oil painting and sculpture to describe a broad thin layer of diluted pigment, ink, glaze or patina. Also refers to a drawing made in this technique.
Watercolor - A painting medium in which the binder is gum arabic. Water is used to thinning, lightening or mixing.
A signed print is one signed, in pencil or ink, by the artist and/or engraver of the print. A print is said to be signed in the plate if the artist's signature is incorporated into the matrix and so appears as part of the printed image.
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Tag: Get On Up
August 8th, 2014 — 10:31pm
Get On Up –rm This is the story of a young boy from rural Georgia who was abandoned by his parents, raised by madam from a brothel, fascinated by the gospel music in the local church and ultimately became the godfather of soul music. It is about a young man who spent time in jail, who essentially only had himself to rely on and yet always had tremendous belief in himself to the point of being self-centered, egotistical or narcissistic if you will. But in this case, he had the goods. He became a music legend he of course is James Brown.
The film is the brain child of Brian Glazer who is a well known movie and television producer who combined his talent with the skills of another music legend Mick Jagger, who has acknowledged being a great fan and being influenced himself by Brown. Jagger brought his music skills to the film as producer and music director. There are at least two more essential ingredients to this biopic and that would be director Tate Taylor (The Help) and Chadwick Boseman who previously starred as Jackie Robinson in 42.and now becomes James Brown. He does this by his speaking voice, mannerisms and learning the distinctive choreography of Brown’s movements during song and everyday life. This includes his swagger as well as his splits and the special way he whipped a microphone around. There also was some very skillful lip-synching accomplished by Boseman and the actors who played his band and backup singers since the great singing in this movie was the original voice of James Brown.
In addition to Boseman there was some great acting that needs to be acknowledged. Lennie James play Brown’s tough and angry father while Viola Davis was the woman inside the mother of Brown who loved him. yet abandoned and rejected him but still tried to come back when he was a success. Octavia Spencer was the madam in the brothel who took him in and more or less had the heart of gold. Dan Aykroyd was Ben Bart the white Jewish agent who became very close to Brown throughout much of his career and was called papa by him. Neisan Ellis was Bobby Byrd one the most loyal members of the original Flames which was Brown’s first groupbefore Brown became a phenomenon by himself. Brown’s complicated relationship with Byrd reflects his self-image of seeing himself as something very special but yet having a lingering need for close friendship that he may never have found.
On one hand the film used flashbacks to effectively show the genesis of Brown’s unique character but yet they seemed to abruptly pull us away from the engrossing music and the story of how Brown was rising to the top, dealing with racial issues including the country’s response to the death of Martin Luther King as well as how Brown faltered in his personal life. There were many backup players moving in an out of Brown entourage as well as various women and children We could not always be sure who they were in his life which might be defect in the film. In addition, we and at least one other person agreed that the conversations of Brown and some others were not always understandable which could be the dialect, or an audio problem but would seem to be a flaw. The running time of the film was 2 hours and 18 minutes and while we can’t say what should have been cut, it probably could have been shorter. However,we have no complaints in re-experiencing the great music and moves of the incomparable James Brown.(2014)
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ALEXANDER, 8TH LORD REAY
When Lord Eric sold the estate in 1829, no proper provision was made for his brother and successor in the title, the Hon. Alexander. This is what the Rev. Dr. Macintosh Mackay, an intimate acquaintance of Lord Alexander, writes in the Ben Reay Notes : -
"Lord Eric's younger brother, Alexander, then a Major in the army, with a numerous family, got not one farthing of the proceeds of the sale. He was left destitute and worse than destitute - he was imposed upon by being made to believe that his brother purchased an estate for him in Demarara, a Negro estate ! But on that estate being examined, it was found pledged to the teeth, and was sold by judgment of the Court for its debts - debts which were not covered by the sale. A natural daughter of Eric's married a baronet in Hertfordshire. She was dowered by her father and made very rich, while his brother Alexander, with his whole family, was left pennyless."
His Lordship served for some time in the Gordon Highlanders, but on the embodiment of the 93rd or Sutherland Highlanders he joined that corps as a captain, and in 1815 was retired on half-pay and the rank of major. He afterwards held the rank of Barrack-Master of Malta.
Lord Alexander married, 8th Apr 1809, Marion, daughter of Colonel Gall, Military Secretary to Warren Hastings, and widow of David Ross, Calcutta, eldest son of Lord Ankerville, a judge of the Court of Session.
Lord Reay, who died in 1863, had by her the following children: -
George Alexander, died 1811
Eric, who succeeded
Anne Marion, died 1852
Sophia, married in 1852 Charles Arthur Aylmer, and died in London without issue in 1866. As she had expressed a desire to be buried beside her great-grandfather, Am Morair Mor, her body was re-interred in the Reay vault at Tongue on Monday, 9th Sep 1867, when a huge concourse of people attended the obsequies from all parts of Strathnaver. It was the last burial in the Reay vault; and on the preceding Sabbath the Rev. Dr. Macintosh Mackay preached the funeral sermon, which was afterwards published, in the Free Church of Tongue to as many people as could be packed into the building.
Mary, died 1852
Clara, died 1862
Elizabeth, died 1862
Charlotte, married John Drever of the India Civil Service, and died without issue in 1852.
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Michael Takeo Magruder
Resident Artist
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Michael Takeo Magruder (b.1974, US/UK) is a visual artist and researcher who works with new media including real-time data, digital archives, immersive environments, mobile devices and virtual worlds. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic journalism to digital formalism and computational aesthetics, deploying Information Age technologies and systems to examine our networked, media-rich world.
In the last 15 years, Michael’s projects have been showcased in over 250 exhibitions in 34 countries, and his art has been supported by numerous funding bodies and public galleries within the UK, US and EU. In 2010, Michael was selected to represent the UK at Manifesta 8: the European Biennial of Contemporary Art and several of his most well-known digital artworks were added to the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University. More recently, he was a Leverhulme Trust artist-in-residence (2013-14) collaborating with Professor Ben Quash (Theology, King’s College London) and Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, Mostyn) to research and develop a new solo exhibition – entitled De/coding the Apocalypse – exploring contemporary creative visions inspired by and based on the Book of Revelation. In 2014, Michael was commissioned by the UK-based theatre company Headlong to create two new artworks – PRISM (a new media installation reflecting on Headlong’s production of George Orwell’s 1984) and The Nether Realm (a living virtual world inspired by Jennifer Haley’s play The Nether). The following year, he was awarded the 2015 Immersive Environments Lumen Prize for his virtual reality installation A New Jerusalem. Michael is currently artist-in-residence at the British Library, undertaking an arts-research project – entitled Imaginary Cities – that involves the creative examination of digital map archives drawn from the Library’s 1 Million Images from Scanned Books collection.
For further information about Michael’s work, visit www.takeo.org.
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High Heat, Humidity Could Affect More Than 1.2 Billion People by End of Century
TUESDAY, March 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As the Earth continues to warm from climate change, an estimated 1.2 billion people will be affected by heat stress from extreme heat and humidity by 2100, a new study predicts.
That is four times more people than are affected today and over 12 times more than would have been affected if climate change hadn't happened, researchers say.
"When we look at the risks of a warmer planet, we need to pay particular attention to combined extremes of heat and humidity, which are especially dangerous to human health," senior author Robert Kopp said in a Rutgers University news release. He is a professor and director of the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences in New Brunswick, N.J.
Heat stress occurs when the body can't cool down properly through sweating. When body temperature rises quickly, the brain and other organs can suffer damage. Heat stress can cause heat rash and heat cramps or heat exhaustion. But heat stroke can be deadly.
For the study, researchers modeled various climate simulations.
They found that if the planet warms by 3 degrees Fahrenheit, extreme heat and humidity could affect places where about 500 million people live today. If temperatures rose 4 degrees Fahrenheit, nearly 800 million people would be affected.
The planet has already warmed 2 degrees Fahrenheit above levels from the late-19th century, the researchers noted.
An estimated 1.2 billion people would be affected if the Earth warmed by 5 degrees Fahrenheit, which is expected by the end of the century.
"Every bit of global warming makes hot, humid days more frequent and intense. In New York City, for example, the hottest, most humid day in a typical year already occurs about 11 times more frequently than it would have in the 19th century," said lead author Dawei Li, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The report was published recently in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
For more on heat stress, head to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCE: Rutgers University, news release, March 12, 2020
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Pandemic Having More Impact on U.S. Hospitals Than Thought: Study
FRIDAY, May 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the United States spend more time in the hospital and are more likely to require intensive care than patients in China, a new study says.
The findings suggest that the coronavirus pandemic may be putting greater strain on U.S. hospitals than previously assumed, according to researchers.
"The hospital resources needed to meet the needs of severely ill patients are substantial," said lead author Joseph Lewnard, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley.
"We found that observations from China may not provide a sufficient basis for anticipating the U.S. health care demand," he said in a university news release.
Lewnard and his colleagues analyzed the medical records of nearly 1,300 Kaiser Permanente members in California and Washington state who were hospitalized with confirmed cases of COVID-19 between the start of the year and early April.
Of those, 42% required intensive care, and 18% died of COVID-19. Estimates from China suggested that about 30% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients will require intensive care.
The researchers said their findings show the need to gather data in different regions and health care settings worldwide. They warned against relying on models based on data from other countries.
"The spread of COVID-19 and its impact on local health care systems show differences across the world," said study co-author Vincent Liu, a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Northern California.
He pointed out that health care systems differ and their capabilities and structure affect local response. As a result, it's important to understand how local data compare to the experience seen in other countries.
The study also provided more evidence that older people are hit hardest by COVID-19. About 50% of hospitalizations were among adults 60 and older, and 25% among adults 73 and older.
And men seemed to be at greater risk than women. Hospitalized men older than 80 had a 58% risk of death, while the risk was 32% among hospitalized women of the same age.
The study did have some positive findings, showing that social distancing measures are successfully "flattening the curve" of new coronavirus transmission.
"Those efforts are going to be critical for this next phase, in which social distancing measures are gradually relaxed," Liu said in the release. "We need our communities to stay really engaged, because these data show that even the actions of individuals and small groups can really impact the spread of the virus."
The study was published online May 26 in the BMJ.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on COVID-19.
SOURCE: University of California, Berkeley, news release, May 26, 2020
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Larry Preddy, BSP
Larry was born in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Estevan. Larry lived in Tribune, Saskatchewan until 1961 when the Preddy family moved to Estevan. Larry graduated from Estevan Collegiate Institute in 1965 and entered the College of Pharmacy at the University of Saskatchewan, graduating with his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy in 1969. After graduation Larry began his pharmacy career at the Estevan Co-op Pharmacy, leaving there to manage the White Cross Drug Store in Estevan. Larry went on to work for Federated Co-operatives in Saskatoon and eventually returned to White Cross Drugs in Estevan. After a brief stint working for Bi-Rite Drugs in Estevan Larry and Allen purchased Henders Drugs on January 1, 1985 and he has worked there ever since.
Larry has been involved with many local and provincial organizations over the years. He spent almost 10 years on the Southeast Health District Board of Directors, has spent many years on the PharmaChoice Board of Directors and is currently the chairman of the Economics Committee for the Pharmacist’s Association of Saskatchewan.
Larry is a PACT trained pharmacist (trained to aid with smoking cessation) and is trained in the area of Prescriptive Authority for Pharmacists, including Emergency Contraception.
Away from work, Larry enjoys fishing, gardening, walking, volunteering at Woodlawn Regional Park and spending time with his 3 Miniature Schnauzers – Jake, Rx and Bella.
Allen Miller, BSP
Allen was born in Carlyle. He graduated from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Saskatchewan in 1970. He has worked at Henders Drugs since he was an apprentice in 1965.
Allen is a PACT certified pharmacist and qualified for Prescriptive Authority, including emergency contraception.
Allen enjoys golfing, belongs to the Estevan Elks club and is an avid Saskatchewan Roughrider fan.
Dawn Marie Sloan-Beahm
Dawn Marie graduated from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Saskatchewan in 1989. Originally from Fairholme, Sk., she worked at a variety of locations during her apprenticeships including: Anderson Pharmacy in North Battelford, Maidstone Pharmacy in Maidstone, Leonard Fysh Drugs in Moose Jaw and Shoppers Drug Mart in Saskatoon. Upon graduation, she was recruited by the Federated Co-op Management Training Program. After spending six months training in Rosetown, Sk., she served a short-term staff pharmacist position at the Lloydminster Co-op before taking over as Pharmacy Manager at the Estevan Co-op (now known as the Southern Plains Co-op) in January of 1990. She stepped down to the staff pharmacist position in 1995 due to a desire to reduce her work hours to allow for marriage and a family. In February of 2003, the pharmacy department at the Co-op was closed due to the pharmacist shortage issues of that time, and Dawn Marie came to work at Henders Drugs.
During her time at the Estevan Co-op, Dawn Marie recruited and trained several new pharmacy graduates, initiated an “Ask Your Pharmacist” column in the local newspaper, and was twice published in the Pharmacy Post magazine. She has spent volunteer time in the Quota Club of Estevan, the Estevan Golden Eels Swim Club, St. John the Baptist Parish, is a member of the Catholic School Community Council for her childrens’ school and holds a seat on the Urban Aboriginal Grant Committee. She has spoken as an educator for various groups on many issues including “Mr. Finley’s Pharmacy” which educates grade-school children about what a pharmacist does, safe medication use at the senior housing complexes, contraception options for a high school sex education class, “Brand vs Generic” to a high school economics class, what it takes to become a pharmacist at Career Days, smoking cessation for the Relay for Life fundraisers, and “Arthritis Medications” for the Arthritis Society of Saskatchewan.
Dawn Marie has a special interest in Pediatric Medicine. Because two of her children have asthma, she has paid particular attention to keeping up to date on the latest asthma treatment protocols. She has also been trained as a PACT pharmacist for smoking cessation and as a Pharmacist Prescriber.
Dawn Marie is married and has four children. Her very busy family have been able to take advantage of the many sports, cultural and arts activities available within this diverse community. Her hobbies include camping with her family, reading, singing, sewing and photographing her family.
Travis Maley
Travis enjoys practicing pharmacy which stems from a lifelong passion for science and the pursuit of knowledge. He is also proud to be a part of the community of Estevan. To have a job that not only provides new challenges each day, but also allows him the opportunity to work with and interact with such amazing people makes him feel very fortunate.
Marcy joined the Henders staff in 2017 as a pharmacy assistant. She now has over 15 years experience in compliance packaging, filling prescriptions, cycle counting & customer service in a pharmacy setting. Marcy and her husband moved to the Estevan area in 2006. They both enjoy camping, boating and working around the yard in their spare time.
Joanne has been with Henders forever (over 25 years). She works the front store and takes care of deliveries and numerous other jobs. Customer service is her specialty. People come in just to say hello and visit with her. In her downtime you will find her at the golf course , in her beautiful yard, crocheting, or doing puzzles.
Peggy and Jean
Jean and Peggy were both hired by Henders Drugs in 1985. They are responsible for the daily operation of the front store, sharing management duties including staffing, ordering all front store products, giftware and customer relations. They have worked as a team for the better part of 26 years. They bring a wealth of experience in operating the front store. Peggy does the decorating, painting and general handyman work around the store making her a great asset. Jean works in the pharmacy doing patient compliance packs and does general administration such as received on accounts, accounts paid, payroll and daily upkeep.
Peggy enjoys running in marathons, gardening and painting for hobbies.
Jean does volunteer work with several organizations, gardens and spends time with her grandchildren.
Marty Miller is the Nurse Manager of the Health and Wellness Clinic at Henders Drugs. She brings a varied background both in education and job experience to the position.
Marty graduated as an LPN from the Saskatchewan Institute of Arts and Science, Kelsey Campus, nursing program in 1972 and worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital in a variety of departments from the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Centre to an Obstetrics/Surgery Rotation from 1972-1995.
Marty received her Social Work Designation from the University of Waterloo, 1994.
She filled the position of Coordinator Victim Services South East Regional Victim Services from 1995-1998. Her next position was Parent Resource Coordinator for Estevan from 1998-2006.
Marty manages the Health and Wellness Clinic at Henders Drugs.
1220 – 4th Street
Estevan, SK S4A 0W9
Email: henders@pharmachoice.ca
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