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Ep. 645: Tarra Mitchell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Tarra Mitchell’s new book is “The Yoga of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Health, Happiness, And Inspiring Total Team Engagement.” Her work digs deep into the psychological benefits of practicing yoga and the benefits it provides for overall life wellness.
Tarra made a pivot in her career after the 2008 financial crisis. She was working to raise money for a fund of funds and decided she wanted to set off on her own – become an entrepreneur. Her new business was set to get off the ground just as the 2008 crisis was unfolding – tanking her new business opportunity. Tarra then set off on different ventures, eventually leading her to yoga. Yoga quickly became a part of her weekly routine. She decided to go through yoga teacher training, not to become a teacher, but rather to learn more about the practice. Through that experience, she realized she wanted to give back to the world by bringing the benefits of yoga into the finance industry.
Stress, loneliness, happiness, depression – it’s all contagious. Tarra saw yoga as a great way to counter some of the negativity in everyday life. Breathing and moving on a yoga mat settles the nervous system and helps quiet the mind. Yoga also helps bring students to an ongoing place of greater consciousness. Waking up each morning and doing an assessment of what’s needed for the day helps give the mind balance and power over the senses. With Tarra’s previous ties to the finance world, she quickly saw how valuable it could be to the industry.
Tarra not only see’s yoga as a way to settle the mind, but also as a healing agent. Too often, people turn to drugs and alcohol as coping mechanisms. They turn to pills for anxiety, depression, or other ailments rather than trying to develop real skills to help. Tarra teaches her students how to strengthen the mind through practice and gives students a sense of community.
Ep. 644: Calm Down with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
When everything is going great in the market, that’s when it is time to make sure that you have a plan for when it all goes downhill. Michael reads a piece from Ben Hunt titled, “The Icarus Moment,” adding commentary throughout. Michael and Ben may have differing views on trading styles, but philosophically they are aligned.
Everyone, on some level, is stuck on a wheel. People are literally baring their souls on a daily basis. Do you want to hear everyone’s daily fears? Their daily drama? Who we are and what we do has become completely separated. What can we do about all this? Start asking the “why.” Trust your biases. Wisdom comes from the ability to think critically. Think of the why, and not just the what.
Michael ends the podcast with a bonus interview with Anders Ericsson author of “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise.” Ericsson is a psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He is an internationally recognized researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He studies cognitive ability, personality, interests, and other factors that help researchers understand and predict deliberate practice and expert performance.
Ep. 643: Robert Kurson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Robert Kurson is the author of “Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon.”
How did Robert get hooked on space exploration? He was born in 1963, just five years before the Apollo 8 mission. Some of his first memories were watching rockets take off. He realized he knew a lot of Apollo 11 and 13 but not much about Apollo 8. As he researched the mission he quickly learned that NASA, astronauts, and experts in the field had all talked about this mission being the most astonishing and important of all Apollo missions. Why? Apollo 8 became the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth’s orbit, reach the Earth’s Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth. The three astronaut crew consisted of Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders.
The U.S. had historically always been behind in the race to space. With Russia continuously one step ahead, Apollo 8 gave us the advantage of having the first crew to reach the moon and paved the way for Apollo 11 to successfully put the first man on the moon.
Ep. 642: Eyes Wide Open with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Where do you pull your inspiration from? Michael opens the podcast quoting Nassim Taleb addressing bullies: Do you throw punches for the sake of throwing punches? No, you throw punches when it will set a standard for others not to mess with you. Michael also pulls inspiration from the 1980’s Dunbar High School basketball team. The 1981–1982 team finished its season undefeated and the 1982–1983 team continued the tradition with a 31–0 record and a #1 national ranking. They produced three first round NBA basketball draft picks. That team has become legendary.
Inspiration can be pulled from extraordinary athletes, writers, singers, and even architecture. Michael recently visited Singapore for a presentation. He has been there many times and describes it as “San Diego on steroids.” He describes the architecture and beauty of the city as awe-inspiring.
Michael ties the podcast together talking trend following and what inspires him about this style of trading compared to fundamental trading.
Desert island trading
Toxic masculinity
Noise elimination
Ep. 641: Josef Marc Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Josef Marc is an author, entrepreneur, and CEO of Publica developing in the publishing world via blockchain. Publishing companies are some of the most inefficient businesses around today. Josef not only has cultivated a strategy to work around many of the hang-ups created by working with publishers, but has re-imagined the process altogether.
We have reached an era where people no longer care who the publisher is. Buyers can do their own research, read reviews and decide if they want to buy. How does blockchain technology help with this process? During an author’s campaign period, excitement can be generated through blockchain. Searching the content of books is easier through blockchain and there is a deeper sense of engagement throughout the community. Blockchain developments not only supply a platform for an author to get their name out, but it also creates a unique vehicle for payment. Josef also explains how blockchain can help with the re-sale of books and track when, what and who is buying a book or product.
For years Amazon has had a monopoly on book sales. Amazon relies on customer reviews to promote books and get others to buy. There is one small problem with this process – it is almost impossible to track the legitimacy of these customer reviews. How are reviews more accountable through blockchain? Everything is tracked and users have “tokenized” accountability.
Ep. 640: Alison Gopnik Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Alison Gopnik is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning. Her primary study is looking at how we learn and grow from the earliest years of our lives.
How did Alison get started down this path? She is the eldest of 6 children brought up in a bohemian style family. Being the oldest of 6 she had a deep understanding of children at a young age. She saw relationships between play and learning in babies first hand and was intrigued early on.
Alison also looks at the relationship between how long a baby is a baby before adulthood and how that relates to the rest of their life that follows. Humans generally have twice the amount of childhood than any of our animal relatives. If we have these extended periods of learning, compared to other mammals, what are human babies doing in that time? What are the other animal babies doing in that time? How does this time shape the rest of our lives in comparison?
Why is Alison so passionate about her work? She works with children everyday. She observes, plays and sees first hand how important they are. Other fields of science, particularly the artificial intelligence community, is beginning to take notice of her work. They are starting to look at children and cognitive development to help advance their programming. Introducing play and adaptation to their systems is one thing scientists have taken away from observing children. The more you play around and experiment in your childhood, the more you are able to adapt and adjust to the unknown environments. How do you go about taking on new challenges? Exploring and having fun with things often helps to solve problems quicker.
What are some lessons we are learning about kids and technology? Will this generation’s technology ruin the world? Michael and Alison end the podcast discussing the ever changing technological advances and what impacts it may or may not have on the world and the children living on it.
Thu, 8 March 2018
Ep. 639: Martin Bergin and James Dailey Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Martin “Marty” Bergin and James Dailey are on the podcast today. Bergin is the President and owner of DUNN Capital Management. He began working with DUNN in 1997 and took over the day-to-day operations of the firm in 2007. He became owner in 2015 (Bill Dunn remains Chairman). James Dailey became CEO of Dunn Capital in March 2016. DUNN has a track record that spans over 40 years.
Today’s podcast was recorded the week after the February 2018 volatility. Inevitably, when there is volatility in markets, machines are blamed. DUNN Capital is a trend following trading firm who uses computers for everything they do. They know fintech well. That said, there is a difference between DUNN Capital and “the machine” traders.
DUNN Capital trades from a higher volatility perspective and it has worked out well for them. They don’t charge management fees, but rather are completely incentive fee based. Further, at DUNN Capital they don’t reduce volatility for the sake of possibly reducing bad events–they still want strong profits and that is the only way they make money. Unfortunately, investors always remember drawdowns and they do try to minimize those without compromising their core system.
Finally, and this a surprise for many, DUNN Capital’s office is quiet and not very exciting. Trend following after all is about discipline and blocking out all of the media noise and information. DUNN’s investors get that. DUNN is managing money for the long term, not short term. Their trend following is geared toward data and everything in their research shows that long term trend following trading is their best opportunity.
Sun, 4 March 2018
Ep. 638: I Walk the Line with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel walks the line on trend following.
Ep. 637: Oliver Hart Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Oliver Hart is the 6th Nobel Prize winner to appear on Trend Following Radio. He is a British-born American economist, and currently the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016 for his work on contract theory.
Oliver is an expert on contract theory, theory of the firm, corporate finance, law and economics. He studies how ownership roles, structure and contractual arrangements are used in the governance and boundaries of corporations. How did he get his start? After receiving his PhD from Princeton in 1974, he began studying general equilibrium under uncertainty – particularly the behavior of firms when under uncertainty. Summer of 1983 was when his career path shifted – specifically to contracts. He became less interested in what firms should do, and more interested in how firms align with what shareholders want them to do.
Following the 2008 financial crisis, Oliver believed it was dangerous to start intervening in such a fragile economy. Yes, it was an unprecedented crisis but, Oliver believes it was totally overblown. No physical or human assets were disappearing and we had mechanisms such as bankruptcy to fall back on. What was the reasoning behind some banks beings saved and others not? Wall Street was bailed out but mainstream was not? Oliver looked at the crisis as arbitrary and rigged. Michael and Oliver wrap the podcast up discussing the differences in block chain and bitcoin and end the podcast with a 6 minute bonus Q&A.
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Mgr Georges Tutto RIP
Date: 7th December 2017 @ 16:00
Our beloved Mgr Georges Tutto, died aged 92 years very peacefully on Monday 13th November 2017 and is now in the arms of Jesus Merciful Saviour. A faithful and committed priest has gone back to his Lord who he served and loved so well. Jesus, His Blessed Mother and all of Heaven will be rejoicing to receive him into Eternal Glory. Let us be joyful for a life well lived on this earth and now to continue in its wonderful fulfilment. He was such a dear and close spiritual friend and shared our mutual love and zeal for Our Blessed Lady’s plans for these times. He was an inspiration to us all and a rock of support and encouragement. He will now be a wonderful intercessor for all our needs here.
Mgr Georges Tutto was Chaplain to the Roman Catholic Hungarians in Great Britain and has lived and worked in the Catholic community in Britain since 1953, after training in Hungary and Austria. He has been Ecclesiastical President of the Association of Roman Catholic Hungarians in Great Britain since 1986, and has published widely on Medjugorje spirituality.
In Medjugorje, in 1984, he made a vow to the Blessed Mother that he would spend the rest of his life spreading her messages. He was a towering figure in promoting the Messages of the Queen of Peace. He led a Medjugorje evening in London for 17 years. Every month from 1987 he celebrated the Holy Mass for us and gave us profound insights as to her Messages, which eventually became a book called “Living the Gospel with Our Lady.” This was the first of several books and pamphlets, which informed our spirituality and helped to deepen our relationship with Jesus our Lord and Saviour Christ and His holy Mother. He was a great spiritual leader and director to many of us and we will always be immensely grateful to him.
Mgr Georges Tutto’s love for the Lord and his Holy Church led him to a deep and profound devotion and understanding of “England as the Dowry of Mary” and of the importance of Our Lady of Walsingham and her beloved Shrine for the eventual Conversion of England. A Hungarian priest who had a far greater understanding of England’s grace, than most English priests and faithful! You will remember well his many articles and letters in the catholic press.
What he did for Our Lady's Shrine in Walsingham and especially in remembrance of Charlotte Boyd and her cause is to be greatly commended for it was Mgr Tutto who cared for the grave of Charlotte Boyd for over 20 years and who championed her cause. I know so as I worked with him ... and I have Mgr Tutto's entire Walsingham/Charlotte Boyd file and all the letters of correspondence he had with numerous cardinals, bishops and priests!
Fr Tutto loved Our Lady of Walsingham and never ceased to speak of and pray for her intercession. His great hope was that one day the mortal remains of Charlotte Boyd would be laid to rest in Walsingham besides the Slipper Chapel, which she so generously gave to the Catholic Church and which eventually became our National Marian Shrine. For this we pray!
Fr Tutto was a great support and encouragement for the Pilgrim Statue Tour of Our Lady of Reconciliation which toured throughout the Dioceses of England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland for 16 years following its blessing by His Holiness Pope John Paul II on 24th September 1997 in St Peter’s Square. It initiated a mission of ‘Reconciliation through Reparation’ embracing the reconciling Mission of Our Lady of Walsingham for the re-evangelisation of these Isles. Fr Tutto was involved with setting up and helping to initiate a movement of spirituality of Reparation & Atonement to repair the damage of the English Reformation, which eventually led to Pilgrimages of Reparation and Consecration being set up in the various Marian National Shrines. There is so much more I could write here. Bishop Leo Parker, the Bishop of Northampton once said in 1951: “When the many pilgrimages of reparation shall bear fruit and England makes restitution by rebuilding and restoring to Our Lady her Holy House of the Annunciation.” Mgr Tutto deeply understood this need for Reparation.
As a Hungarian National Mgr Tutto had a great love for Hungary and her beloved Church and never ceased to pray and work on her behalf. He was in direct contact with the three contemporary 20th century Hungarian mystics whose spirituality of reparation and atonement he greatly embraced. He translated into English their publications and one, which is an especial jewel for my apostolic work is “Adoration, Reparation, Intercession – Prayers and devotions before the Blessed Sacrament with our Lady.”
I had the privilege of being present when Mgr Georges Tutto was granted the highest award possible from the land of Hungary, from the Hungarian Ambassador, for Mgr Georges Tutto's services to his Nation and Church and for his great role in bringing down the Iron Curtain and the end of Communism. Fr Tutto was held as a prisoner of war for nearly three years and we only learnt of this terrible ordeal during this ceremony.
For a while Fr Georges had not known who any one was… yet on my last visit he certainly knew how to give me his priestly blessing which I received three times! I will always greatly treasure this last visit. He also never forgot to pray the Hail Mary! He would often in previous visits express how impatient he was to go to the Lord! He was happy to be in Maryville Care Home in Brentford in Middlesex, run by the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, which he said had such a beautiful and tender Marian spirit. It was a joy to visit Fr Georges so obviously at peace even as his memory was fading. Kathy Kelly of the Padre Pio bookshop visited him on Sunday 12th November the day before he died. As often happens before someone dies, Fr Tutto was totally lucid… Kathy had the grace of praying the Chaplet of Mercy with him and much more. That night Kathy pleaded with the Lord to take him soon!
Thank you Fr Georges for your great love for Our Lady in which we participated through your prayer, spiritual leadership, talks and books. Please keep us in your heart so that we may continue to grow closer to Jesus and to Mother Mary.
A great priest Son of Holy Church, a great son of Hungary and also a great son of the UK! I know he will be praying for all of us and for the Conversion of our land.
Like you all, I give thanks for this beautiful and holy priest and for knowing him. He was a real gift from God to the world. It is with great gratitude that I pray for his soul and plead with him to continue to pray for Our Lady of Walsingham's mission for the Conversion of England.
May God grant him eternal rest and may His reward be very great. He was much loved.
Rest in peace dearest Fr Georges.
By Antonia Moffat
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Fanciful 'Tolkien' emphasizes romantic fantasy over fact
By Ryan Painter 1557427061000
Nicholas Hoult in the film TOLKIEN. Photo Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved{ }(Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)
Director: Dome Karukoski
Writer: David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney
Genre: Biography, Fantasy
Rated: PG-13 for some sequences of war violence
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) – Synopsis: The formative years of famed writer J.R.R. Tolkien explored through a collection of fantasy-filled moments.
Review: I have a tactile memory of holding a copy of “The Hobbit” in my elementary school library. I’d see the Rankin-Bass adaptations of “The Hobbit” and “The Return of the King,” but was most fascinated with Ralph Bakshi’s “The Lord of the Rings.” In time, I would fall in love with Peter Jackson’s trilogy.
That said, I never knew much about J.R.R. Tolkien beyond the fact that he loved language so much that he had created his own. I hoped that “Tolkien” would offer insight into the mind of the man who created the wondrous world of Middle-earth. The film presents a fascinating argument about how the events of Tolkien’s twenty or so years greatly influenced the work that he would produce decades later. Tolkien apparently wasn’t keen on trying to find meaning in a fictional text by studying the factual life of its author. However, the film does draw parallels that make sense on an artistic level, but that doesn’t make “Tolkien” true.
It is, however, a fantastic love story enhanced by the beauty of Lily Collins and Nicholas Hoult. It is a romance built within a fantasy world where light and dark wage war upon each other and themselves. There is sadness and intermittent joy. Still, it never feels more real than a deathbed hallucination or the sort of daydream you might have looking back on things that were and things that might have been. It reminds me of Peter Jackson’s “Heavenly Creatures,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” or J.A. Bayona’s “A Monster Calls,” a place where the line between real and imagined is blurred. It is a place I often visit in my own writing.
The problem here being that there is little known about Tolkien’s early years and David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford’s script is nothing more than an educated guess, a story crafted from gut instinct. To that end it is more like “The Imitation Game,” where truth isn’t nearly as important as message.
Were someone to make a movie about my life, I wouldn’t mind if it was as fanciful as this. However, if you’re looking for something definitive or concrete when it comes to Tolkien’s life and how reality influenced the imaginary, “Tolkien” will not provide that for you.
KUTV Facebook Live Stream featuring film critic Ryan Painter recorded with co-worker Larry Curtis, a huge J. R. R. Tolkien fan and expert.
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Screenwriting is a Collective Dream
Christopher Gist and Sarah Mayberry Interviewed by Christy Collins
Christopher Gist
Young Writers: School Holiday Program: Writing for the Screen
CC: The move away from commercial to network television has allowed TV writing to break out of some of its traditional boundaries in terms of format and audience. What are the results of this for aspiring TV writers?
CG: The multiple platforms offer a wider range of opportunities for different voices and different types of programmes. Even the length of the programmes - there are many more shorter series, or shorter length programmes than there used to be. It's a good time to break into TV.
CC: New formats also include web-series. Are there new opportunities emerging writers should be aware of?
SM: Web series are increasingly a launching pad for TV, but also are commissioned series in their own right. Chris commissioned Wastelander Panda when he was at the ABC, and a number of ABC comedy series have sprung from the web. It's a great, much-lower cost way to show what you can do, and you can compete at notable Academy Award credentialed festivals like SXSW and the Austin Film Festival.
CC: What are the particular challenges of writing for very long running television series, such as Neighbours?
SM: Obviously keeping a track of the backstory/history of the many characters and even the neighbourhood itself is a challenge on a show that has been going for more than 30 years. There are also a lot of other production constraints that viewers aren’t aware of - everything from restrictions on what can be shown during the time slot (i.e. until recently, we couldn’t show blood on screen), to cast restrictions due to scheduling and budget issues, with a whole bunch of other things to consider in between. The story team are very creative at finding ways to tell stories within the many constraints.
CC: What are your favourite aspects of writing for the screen?
CG: Screen writing is everything: it's pictures, it's music, it's explosions, it's car chases, it's tears, it's the world. It is creating a dream that we can all sit together in a room for and participate in.
CC: Can you give us a couple of recent examples of writing for the screen that you’ve found really engaging or innovative?
CG: We both really enjoyed 'Huge in France', a Netflix original comedy series. BBC’s 'The Bodyguard' was also really compelling, especially in terms of the way they just didn’t hold anything back in terms of story. 'Avengers: Endgame' was a great exercise in balance - a good mix of emotion, action and comedy, with some genuine surprises in terms of cast departures. 'The Favourite' featured some really interesting directing choices and amazing performances from the three leads. And we really enjoyed 'The Death Of Stalin', a great arthouse satire.
CC: Why might writers consider expanding their “toolbox” to include skills for writing for the screen?
CG: Screenwriting teaches dialogue writing like nothing else. It teaches writers to be really clear in their descriptive writing, and to learn how to "leave a space" between sentences that allows the audience to make connections for themselves. Screenwriting is used in gaming, in animation, and it also prepares writers for the style of writing required in graphic novels.
CC: For writers starting out, what clues might indicate that they might be well suited to screen writing?
CG: If you love movies or TV or games, if you love dialogue, if you want to see the imaginative world on a screen, then this amazing work sounds like it could be for you.
About Christopher Gist
Christopher Gist has been Drama Commissioner for ABC-TV and Television New Zealand where he Executive Produced both networks' highest rating dramas. He has written theatre, television, print, and internationally awarded short film. He has assessed Melbourne University VCA Masters of Production graduates, mentored VCA Screenwriting undergraduates, been Industry Member for Deakin University's Academic Advisory, and guest lecturer at multiple universities. He is developing a feature film and is currently an Honours Supervisor for VCA Screenwriting.
About Sarah Mayberry
Sarah Mayberry is a New York Times best-selling author, screenwriter, Story Editor, and Script Editor. She has worked in print, one-hour series television, half-hour series television, and edited several feature films. Her acclaimed television teen series Karaoke High has been distributed internationally, and she is Neighbours' longest continuous screen writer. She is currently working in-house as a Senior Storyliner for Neighbours and has a feature film under consideration with one of Australia's State funding bodies.
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Army confirms huge loss to school
Ajay Sura, Times of India (TNN, Chandigarh, 7 August 2010) download article in PDF format - Army sources confirmed the huge loss to the Druk Pema Karmpo School known for its architecture and meant to educate deprived children of Ladakh region.
During the film crew's visit, Aamir Khan wrote in the school visitor book on September 15, 2008: "What a wonderful school. The kids seem very happy, and such a great location. Keep up the good work. Regards, Aamir."
The school came into limelight after '3 Idiots' hero Rancho disappeared and was tracked down by his former classmates in Ladakh. They found that it was here that all his dreams and inventions were being brought to life.
A film crew of about 130 people had descended on the school for a three-day shoot. They auditioned the students, selected a couple of boys for small roles and a alarge group to take part in the crowd scene when the stars arrived at the school. Inspired by the vision of His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa, spiritual leader of Ladakh, the school aimed to provide a modern education for Ladakhi children - an education grounded in their own culture and which could prepare them to lead happy and productive lives.
The school was started at the request of the people of Ladakh who wanted an institution that would help maintain their rich cultural traditions, based on Tibetan Buddhism, while equipping their children for a life in the 21st century.
Residential blocks allow children from Ladakh's remote areas to attend and a programme of sponsorship ensures that the poorest are not excluded. It is managed by the Druk Pema Karpo Educational Society and funded by international aid.
Print Media Army confirms huge loss to school
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Product Liability Lawyers Representing People in Traverse City and Grand Rapids
A hernia occurs when an organ or tissue passes through a weak spot in a person’s muscle or connective tissue. There are several types of hernias, including hiatal, umbilical, incisional, ventral, inguinal, and femoral. Sometimes, hernias happen because of a muscle weakness that was present at birth, but hernias can also be caused by heavy lifting, obesity, and even coughing or sneezing. Doctors often attempt to repair hernias by using hernia mesh, but such repairs can fail and lead to additional, sometimes life-threatening complications. At the Neumann Law Group, our Grand Rapids and Traverse City hernia mesh lawyers can assist Michigan residents who have been injured by these defective medical devices and others, such as transvaginal mesh or faulty hip replacements.
There are several companies that manufacture hernia mesh. These include Johnson & Johnson, Bard, Davol, Covidien, Ethicon, Atrium, B. Braun, Gore, Medtronic, LifeCell, and TELA Bio. Hernia mesh comes in several forms (patches, plugs, sheets, etc.) and is sold under many different brand names, such as C-QUR, Ventralex, Parietex, ProGrip, Proceed, Physiomesh, OviTex, Strattice, Premilene, and Prolene. Hernia mesh may be absorbable or non-absorbable, and it may be animal-derived or synthetic. It may be coated or composite.
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People who have suffered complications from hernia mesh should discuss their situation with an experienced attorney. There is both a statute of limitations and a statute of repose that limits the time in which a person injured by a dangerous or defective product can file a claim against the manufacturer, distributor, or seller of the product. There are also time limitations applicable to wrongful death actions, which offer legal remedies to family members of a person who has died due to another party’s negligence. In some cases, a claim for medical malpractice may also be worth exploring. These claims are also controlled by a strict statute of limitations and statute of repose.
Seeking counsel early in the process is advisable in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits, since the plaintiff has the burden of proof. Your Grand Rapids or Traverse City hernia mesh attorney must convince the jury by a preponderance of the evidence that you are entitled to compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and other damages. This requires proof that a product was negligently designed, manufactured, or marketed, that an express or implied warranty was breached, or that the defendant engaged in misrepresentation or fraud concerning the product. Most product liability lawsuits involve expert testimony regarding the manufacturer’s conduct and the plaintiff’s damages.
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The Esperanto Language
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Last year; the United Nations, Education, Scientifics and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) honored Mr. Ludwik Zamenhof; for trying to create a universal language; The Esperanto.
100th anniversary of the death of Ludwik Zamenhof, physician and linguist (1859-1917) (with the support of Germany and Slovakia) (2017)
“Born inside the multinational community of the city of Białystok, L. Zamenhof (1859-1917) created the first version of his Lingwe Uniwersala already at a young age. In 1885 Zamenhof decisively finished his project of the international language as we know it today. In 1887 he published a textbook in Russian: “The international tongue – Preface and complete method”, under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto. The pseudonym means “The Doctor who hopes” and has caught on as the name of the language. In the same year the textbook was published in Polish, French, German and English.
If you are interested in information like this, you may read our Edition 34.
The first Esperanto clubs started to come into being, and the advantages of the language were recognized by linguists too. In 1905 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, the first World Congress of Esperanto took place. While staying in France, Zamenhof was decorated with the National Order of the Legion of Honour. In 1906 Zamenhof published humanitism (homaranismo), which is the idea of the union of all the nations communicating in a common language.
The Esperanto movement he initiated has spread all over the world, while the creator released all his rights, liberating Esperanto for every human’s use. The work of L. Zamenhof is known worldwide reaching over 120 countries. The idea of a common language has fascinated many people and lots of them made similar attempts at creating one, but Zamenhof’s case is the only one to have achieved world success”
Source: UNESCO
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02/27/2019 ANONYMOUS DONOR GIVES ANIMAL-RIGHTS GROUP $10K TO END THE SLAUGHTER OF CHICKENS
An anonymous donor made a $10,000 donation last week to animal-rights group Mercy For Animals (MFA) with a mandate to use it toward the fight to eliminate forms of factory farming involving chickens. Through its corporate engagement program, MFA will work to persuade the largest food companies and new restaurants to adopt meaningful animal-welfare standards for chickens. The donation was made in honor of Dr. Elliot Katz, veterinarian and founder of animal-rights organization In Defense of Animals, who has worked to protect animals, people, and the environment for more than 30 years. According to MFA, chickens make up 98 percent of the animals raised and killed for food in the United States, and, due to genetic manipulation and drugs, are bred to grow so large so fast that they suffer heart attacks, organ failure, and become immobilized under their own weight. (vegnews.com)
02/25/2019 TRUMP ELIMINATES ANIMAL-WELFARE REGULATIONS
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) overturned the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP), a rule that regulates welfare standards for farmed animals whose meat can be sold as "organic." The Obama-era rule was created in 2016 after lengthy lobbying from a number of groups, including animal-rights organizations, to implement better standards for farmed animals, which included the freedom for chickens to spread their wings and for other farmed animals to have access to the outdoors. The USDA delayed voting on the implementation of OLPP three times and ultimately overturned it despite nearly 47,000 consumer comments in support of expanding protections for farmed animals."This is a case of the fox guarding the henhouse," Lindsay Wolf, Vice President of Investigations for animal-rights group Mercy For Animals, told VegNews. "The government officials responsible for regulating the agricultural industry are bending over backwards to protect corporate agribusiness profits at the expense of animals, food safety, and workers' rights. As a result, millions of farmed animals are being deprived of the benefit of modest laws and regulations designed to protect their welfare and promote the public interest." (vegnews.com)
02/22/2019 2019 OSCARS AFTER-PARTY MENU IS VEGAN PARADISE
Hollywood celebrities will have more vegan options than ever at this year's Oscars Governors Ball, the official after-party of the 91st annual Academy Awards. On February 24, a team of 200 culinarians will serve 70 dishes created by chef Wolfgang Puck for the event, many of which will be vegan. The "amuse-bouche" course features vegan avocado tostadas topped with crunchy cabbage and drizzled in a chipotle glaze, while vegan hors d'Oeuvres passed on trays include wild mushroom potstickers with black truffle ponzu dipping sauce; mini taro root tacos with miso glazed eggplant and smoked soy mushrooms; apple-wrapped summer rolls; and "tartare" made with heirloom carrots, pickled mustard seed, horseradish, and sunchoke bark. The event will feature a 2,000-pound hand-carved ice bar where vegan guests can opt for vegetable rolls. A variety of hot and cold small plates will be passed around the party with several vegan options. The Oscar menu also features several specialty cocktails and a variety of vegan dessert options. Similarly, the menu at this year's Grammy Awards was the most vegan-friendly in its 61-year history thanks to a partnership with PETA, which ensured that every food station offered a substantial vegan option. (vegnews.com)
02/20/2019 TEEN LAUNCHES ON-DEMAND VEGAN "MILKMAN" SERVICE
Nineteen-year-old Steven Macedo recently launched Leche, a monthly plant-based milk subscription service in Los Angeles. The service allows customers to sign up for doorstep delivery of fresh, made-to-order vegan milk or pick up at designated LA locations. A $40 subscription price amounts to five quarts of dairy-free milk each month. The milk is made using organic, non-GMO nuts, seeds, and fruit such as oats, pecans, Brazil nuts, sesame seeds, cashews, bananas, and sunflower seeds, with the option to add additional flavors such as cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, cacao, or guava. "Dairy is terrible for the environment and so I set out to create a sustainable, delicious alternative while challenging the stereotypes of what Latinx flavors are," Macedo told VegNews. "I wanted to show the wide variety of flavors and ingredients in our culture—I was raised on oat, rice, and pumpkin-seed milks." Leche also strives to be 100-percent sustainable by reusing all of the waste from milk production to create bath bombs, lip balms, body and face scrubs, and body butters. (vegnews.com)
02/18/2019 AUSTRALIA OFFICIALLY ENDS COSMETIC ANIMAL TESTING
Last week, Australia's Senate passed the Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017, effectively banning cosmetic animal testing nationwide. The bill was first introduced by the House of Representatives in June 2017 and supported by animal-rights group Humane Society International (HSI). Hannah Stuart, HSI campaign manager for #BeCrueltyFree Australia, said: "This week's commitments by the government to further restrict the use of new animal test data for cosmetic uses, and to reduce reliance on animal testing more broadly as well, come as a product of nearly three years of intensive negotiations with Humane Society International." HSI worked with the Australian government to ensure that 11 reinforcement measures are put in place to assure that every ingredient is covered under the animal-testing ban. Moving forward, Australia's government will no longer accept animal testing as proof of safety or efficiency of cosmetic ingredients or products. Instead, HSI will work with the government to develop non-animal based testing methods. Worldwide, recent legislation has made it more difficult for companies that continue to test on animals to sell their products, including in California where the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act will prohibit the sale of products tested on animals after January 1, 2020. (vegnews.com)
02/15/2019 VICTORIA BECKHAM DITCHES EXOTIC ANIMAL SKINS
Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has become the latest fashion designer to pledge to stop using exotic animal skins in her designs. Beckham's line has never used animal fur, but her latest pledge means clothing and accessories made from alligator, crocodile, ostrich, and snake skins will be discontinued as of the Fall 2019 collection. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) prompted the pledge after it conducted several exposés into the exotic-skins industry. "Behind every crocodile, alligator, snake, or lizard handbag or pair of shoes is a violent death," PETA UK Director Elisa Allen said. "Victoria Beckham's decision to ban exotic skins will spare countless remarkable animals immense suffering, and PETA UK calls on other luxury brands to follow her kind example." Beckham joins a growing list of fashion labels that have banned the use of exotic skins or other animal materials in recent years, including Chanel, Gucci, and Michael Kors. (vegnews.com)
02/13/2019 STARTUP DISCOVERS GROUNDBREAKING VEGAN PROTEIN INSIDE YELLOWSTONE HOT SPRINGS
New startup Sustainable Bioproducts announced that it raised $33 million in funding to aid in its mission of creating plant-based and lab-grown foods using a microorganism sourced from a volcanic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. "These extremophiles learned to be extremely efficient in using their resources," Sustainable Bioproducts CEO Thomas Jonas said about the microorganisms, which contain all nine of the essential amino acids. "They are very relevant at a point in time when humanity already uses tremendous amounts of resources to support the highly inefficient animal-protein model." The company isolates the microorganisms, feeds them glycerin and starches, and ferments them in a laboratory setting to create a base that can be used for various applications. Sustainable Bioproducts recently raised its Series A funding from a number of investment firms, including those led by business magnates Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, yogurt brand Danone, and agricultural giant Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. The company plans to use its funding to create prototypes that could include vegan dairy and meat products, and protein-rich additives to foods such as yogurt. "What we have here is a super protein," Jonas said. "And it comes from one of the most pristine wild places on the planet." (vegnews.com)
02/11/2019 VEGAN-LED CHILDREN'S PROTEST DEMANDS ADULTS TAKE CLIMATE ACTION
The School Strike for Climate Change is scheduled to take place for the first time in the United States in New York City on March 15. Originally started by vegan teen activist Greta Thunberg, the campaign urges students to walk out of classes to encourage world leaders to make meaningful commitments to fight climate change. The US-based arm of the protest is the work of 13-year-old student activist Alexandria Villasenor, who has personally protested climate-change inaction in front of the UN office every Friday. Villasenor decided to take action after witnessing climate-related events such as the California wildfires. Politicians have criticized young climate activists for skipping classes in favor of protesting for climate action, to which Villasenor responded, "If we're not going to have a future, then school won't matter anymore." Villasenor partnered with climate-advocacy group This is Zero Hour to organize the event—which is expected to have support from other groups, including 365, Extinction Rebellion, and The Sunrise Movement. Villasenor's protest has already garnered interest from student groups in Australia and Europe, with students expected to participate in Thailand and Uganda, as well. (vegnews.com)
02/08/2019 12-YEAR-OLD ACTIVIST CHALLENGES POPE FRANCIS TO GO VEGAN FOR $1 MILLION
Genesis Butler—a 12-year-old vegan activist—presented Pope Francis with a tempting offer, asking him to go vegan for Lent in exchange for a $1 million charity donation of his choosing. Butler is leading the Million Dollar Vegan (MDV) global campaign to urge the Pope to "help fight climate change with diet change," and is supported by animal advocates Sir Paul McCartney, actress Mena Suvari, musician Moby, and more. MDV asks the Pope—a vocal supporter of climate-change action—to set an example for his followers during Lent, a holiday that promotes discipline and the avoidance of "sinful" foods such as meat. "We're launching this bold campaign to jolt our world leaders from complacency. For too long they've failed to act on evidence of the damage caused by animal agriculture; many have subsidized that very industry, but we cannot afford for them to remain silent," MDV CEO Matthew Glover said. "We're thankful Pope Francis has spoken on these issues, which is why we're asking him to try vegan for Lent, and set an example of how we can align our principles of compassion with our actions." Last year, Butler—who went vegan at age six—launched nonprofit organization Genesis for Animals, an organization that raises funding to benefit the work of farmed animal sanctuaries. (vegnews.com)
02/07/2019 BRITISH VEGAN POPULATION TO SKYROCKET BY 327 PERCENT IN 2019 ALONE
The vegan population in the United Kingdom will increase by 327 percent in 2019, according to data collected by personal finance website finder.com. The report is based on a survey of 2,000 UK residents that represent the average population in terms of age, gender, and region. The survey found that 2.2 million Brits plan to follow a plant-based diet in 2019, the most popular of the three diet trends (vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian) that pathfinder.com observed. While the poll found that a plant-based diet is more expensive than the others, the difference amounted to only an extra £2 ($2.62) per week. The new predictions build on an already booming vegan population in the UK. In 2016, The Vegan Society found that only one percent of Brits (542,000) identified as vegan—a number that then represented a 360-percent increase since 2006. Last year, consumer research company Compare the Market Ltd. found that the UK vegan population had grown by 600 percent to represent seven percent of the country's total population. (vegnews.com)
02/05/2019 ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CALL FOR STRICTER LAWS AGAINST ANIMAL ABUSE
Croatian animal rights activists released on Monday a list of 45 high-profile cases of animal torture and killings in 2018, calling for the government to form an animal protection inspectorate and adopt a comprehensive animal protection law. The non-governmental organisation Animal Friends Croatia said that although misdemeanour and criminal offences reported against animals in 2018 had not increased in frequency compared to previous years, such cases were more publicised, leading to more awareness in the general public of the need to prevent and punish such acts of cruelty. "In addition to cases of sadistic abuse, animals often suffer or die due to irresponsible treatment, and many are killed in attempts to get rid of unwanted newborns, by drowning, suffocating, burying them alive, and other brutal methods," said Ivana Lunka of Animal Friends Croatia. She added that the only way to reduce the frequency of animal abuse would be an animal protection law. "Even though the proscribed fines for animal abuse are up to 80,000 kuna (€10,800), fines actually dished out to animal abusers are still low. Although the criminal code sets jail terms of up to one year for abusers of animals, most cases end with only conditional sentences for perpetrators," the group said. (hr.n1info.com)
02/04/2019 TESCO TO CLOSE ITS MEAT, DELI, AND FISH COUNTERS
Tesco, the United Kingdom's largest supermarket chain, is expected to close its meat, fish, and deli counters as part of its plan to create a more efficient business operation. The supermarket is also reportedly reducing its staff by 15,000 and replacing staffed canteens with vending machines. Despite cuts, the chain more than doubled its Wicked Kitchen vegan prepared food line last fall to meet the growing demand for plant-based food after sales increased by more than 25 percent last year. The line, which was created by Tesco executive chef and Director of Plant-Based Innovation Derek Sarno and his brother Chad Sarno includes items such as Spicy Veg and Mushroom Sourdough Pizza, Pesto Lasagna, and Charred Pineapple Dream Cake. In addition to the Wicked Healthy line, Tesco recently added vegan steak Vivera and vegan pizzas made by European brand Oumph! to its shelves. (vegnews.com)
02/01/2019 DOCTORS FIGHT MCDONALD'S "BACON HOUR" WITH SCIENCE
McDonald's recently launched a "Bacon Hour" promotion where customers can receive a side of bacon with any purchase, and doctors from medical group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) aren't "lovin' it." On Tuesday, members of PCRM protested outside of a Washington D.C. McDonald's, highlighting the devastating medical effects of consuming processed meat such as bacon. The World Health Organization classified processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen in 2015 after comprehensive scientific studies proved that consuming just one 50-gram portion of the animal product increases colorectal cancer risk by 18 percent. Doctors held signs that read "Colorectal Cancer: I'm Riskin' It," "#BreakUpWithBacon," and "Bacon Causes Butt Cancer," while handing out cancer screening kits to McDonald's customers. (vegnews.com)
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Newspapers That Once Called Upon Clinton To Resign Are Silent On Bush
By MARC McDONALD
"Has the President so failed in his duties to the nation that he should leave office? The answer to that question is yes, and the time for the President to leave is not after months of continued national embarrassment but now. Clinton should resign."
---USA Today editorial, Sept. 15, 1998
George W. Bush is a crook.
He has violated the Constitution. He has violated his oath of office. He lied America into a disastrous war of aggression that killed 650,000 Iraqi men, women and children. He made the United States the most feared and hated nation on the planet.
By contrast, all Bill Clinton did was lie about a blow job.
Guess which president our nation's media called upon to resign?
In 1998, Kenneth Starr released his special counsel's report, the product of a $50 million, blatantly partisan GOP witchhunt aimed at bringing down the Clinton presidency. Despite this incredibly intense probe into every detail of his life, the only real "dirt" the report had on Clinton was that he lied about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Americans never really gave a damn about the Lewinsky affair. Even at the height of the impeachment "crisis," Clinton enjoyed strong approval ratings in the high 60s. I always got the feeling that the American public just wanted Congress to move on from this silly affair and get back to the real business of the nation.
What's remarkable is the American people believed this way despite the fact that, day after day, the "liberal media" was desperately hyping the Lewinsky story and trying to convince the public that it was a serious "crisis" for the White House.
In fact, after Starr released his report, dozens of major U.S. newspapers called upon Clinton to resign. The biggest circulation newspaper in America, USA Today, led the way.
In a Sept. 15, 1998 editorial, USA Today said:
Many other major newspapers joined in the call for Clinton to resign, among them The Seattle Times, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Des Moines Sunday Register, The San Jose Mercury-News, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Looking back on all this eight years later, it's difficult to fathom what the fuss was all about.
Today, America is saddled with an unbelievably corrupt occupant in the White House. Bush is guilty of a long list of serious crimes, from embracing torture as official state policy to illegal wiretaps to lying America into a war that has turned out to be the biggest strategic blunder in U.S. history.
And what's the U.S. media's reaction to all this? (You know, the same "liberal media" that was screaming and hollering for Clinton to resign for lying about a blow job?)
Not one major newspaper has called for Bush to resign.
In fact, since Bush first took office six years ago, the nation's media has fallen into an eerie slumber. From GannonGate to PlameGate to the Downing Street memos, the media has snoozed through one major Bush scandal after another.
Not to worry, though. With the Dems now back in power in Congress, we can expect the media to shake off the cobwebs and go back to its watchdog role of holding Democratic politicians' feet to the fire (even if this "watchdog" role will consist of non-stories with no basis in fact: see HairCutGate, Whitewater, etc.)
It's great to live in a democracy with a free press. Someday I hope I have such an experience.
alex race said...
it's break up the media time. no more corporate concentration in every town and across the country. give 'em 1 year to divest, then penalties (big ones) and do it ourselves. then, keep it that way.
good job.the big lie that the corporate media is liberal is the basis for all this country's problems
The American media needs a serious lesson in what their responsibilities are to the public. Once upon a time, news reporters did not offer their own views on the events of the day; they simply reported it. Those days ended with the advent of 24/7 cable news channels with a lot of hours to fill with something they hope will draw viewers and the real biggie...sponsors, and we are far worse off for it.
But something important is happening now, and that's the internet news sites as well as the blogosphere. There are leftie bloggers who have a huge following, and these are people who have nothing to lose by telling the truth about the things that are going on in Washington and Iraq. As more and more people turn to the internet for balanced news and views (in the sense that they can access both left and right blogs) it may eventually occur to corporate news bosses that if they're going to retain any credibility, they're going to have to compete with the internet. And that's a good thing.
The commoners finally have a public voice, and it's being heard all over the world.
D Gary Grady said...
There's one reason for the difference: If Clinton had resigned, Al Gore would have become president. If Bush resigned, Dick Cheney would (still) be president.
I knew that Howard Dean was doomed after he said quite clearly on the Chris Matthews show that the media conglomerates should be broken up. I am convinced that the news coverage turned hostile towards him after that, culminating in the fake story about the scream. It is all over now, we will never have a media again that would investigate real crimes, not Whitewater or Travelgate.
Since 2000, we no longer live in a democracy and the pro Bush media has been silent about that as well. Our country wouldn't now be in this disaster if all of the uncounted Florida votes had been counted as Florida law clearly required. Had that happened, Bush would've spent the last 6 years back in Texas where we the people had voted for him to be.
Bill the spinman from Fox stated last night that america needs another 9/11. All Americans should be outraged at that comment.
reno said...
http://archives.cjr.org/year/98/6/boylan.asp
Here's a partial list of those papers calling for Clinton's resignation.. A good story to boot.
Only hours after the release of the report of the Office of the Independent Counsel on Friday, September 11, editorial writers sprang to their terminals. Over the weekend, a hundred or so daily newspapers (out of the country's fifteen hundred) called on the president to resign. By the end of September, resignation.com, a site created by the political freebooter Arianna Huffington, listed 181 publications favoring resignation, most of them dailies.
This was not a partisan outburst. Newspapers of all sizes, regions, and political coloration joined in. They ranged from USA Today to Nevada's Daily Sparks Tribune, and included a share of the traditionally moderate, pragmatic press -- the Des Moines Register, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Chicago Tribune. I read twenty-two of them.
Exactly, its all about money. And how so much more today than yesterday. The impeacment of Clinton was funded by a few filthy rich right wing nuts the same people protecting BUsh.
Clinton only screwed Monica. Bush has screwed the whole country.
cwazycajun said...
This is one of the reasons why I am so pissed off about Pelosi declaring that there would be no impeachment of Bush or Cheney.
The republicans began their attack on Clinton as soon as he took office in January of 1993.
Then once they stole the White House their mission was to completely sideline and marginalize us Democrats. They were relentless on this right up until they lost the House and Senate.
I do not believe we should be so eager to work in a bipartisan manner, if the shoe were still on the other foot they would still be treating us the same way.
I say it is time for the republicans to get a taste of their own poison and see how they like it.
MAYBE, and that's a big maybe, after that they will never attempt to treat us that way EVER again.
Indy6 said...
You know, I had forgotten all about this. Bear in mind, that I turned off the "news" long before Starr's Porno Report, and only read the NYT, skipping all the Monica BS.
This should be sent to Olbermann. Think I will, if the author doesn't mind. I am not a huge Clinton fan, but what was done to him was an abomination in a Democracy, and he was so far superior to Chimpy, as a president, that there just simply is no comparison.
Still, there is another reason, other than the corporate-whore MSM that no one is calling for Chimpy's resignation. We are at war, haven't you heard? We were attacked by a religious nutcase living in a cave in Afghanistan!
9/11, 9/11, 9/11, Blah, Blah, Blah!
Until there is a REAL investigation of the excuse for all the insanity which has ensued since, meaning since 9/11, the American people will never fully comprehend what has happened and why.
At the very least, they allowed 9/11 to happen for their hidden agenda.
May they rot in GITMO
the French knew what to do.
the Saudis still do it. Clearly it is a method approved of by their closest friends in the Bush familia. The Queen of Hearts said
it best. Let's redeem ourselves before the world. Let justice be done.
Notwithstanding Nancy Pelosi (impeachment is off the table) I believe she has acted prematurely...I say Bush needs to be IMPEACHED along with Cheney, Gonzales, Rice, and others...The American people demand this procedure..Bush refuses to listen to folks and the Iraq Study Group..he is still fantasizing about victory in Iraq...throw the bum out!
John Hanks said...
The media and most of the Dems have always driven the getaway car.
The bigs should be broken up with extreme prejudice.
Forget impeachment, and move straight to war crimes tribunals.
True, all of those papers are hypocritical and the ones that aren't calling for impeachment of Bush are simply wrong. The only ironic element in all such discussions about Clinton's impeachment is that, had Clinton been convicted, we might have all been better off with Gore as president.
Life's a mess.
For those of you who don't know, it is difficult, if not impossible, for Pelosi to call for the impeachment of
Bush and Cheney.
Because as majority leader, she would become President. Study your Constitution people. Everyone else should call for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, but not Pelosi.
I long have predicted Bush would leave office with an approval rating in the 20s. He's almost there now with a 30 percent mark. None of this is surprising for a guy whose two "victories" are at best questionable. He had a 47 percent approval rating prior to the 2004 election, then a 47 percent approval rating after. Surprise!
Steal resident Bush's P back before it's too late!
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The bigwig Editorial boards have lost all credibility with their readership. Thank you for stating what I have been thinking for years now. Their complicity and silence during this horrible crisis known as the Bush/Cheney years will not soon be forgotten by those paying attention.
"You are wrong"
The length of your comment with all its citations completely distorts the facts.
The majority of voters DID elect Gore in 2000. So, I guess Clinton's reputation was not bad enough for the PEOPLE to want change. It was just that the Supreme court, manned by prior republican presidents' appointees, wanted the son-of-a-Bush in office.
Consequently and unfortunately, Bush and his henchmen stole the election. This is the first and most outrageous crime committed by Bush and the Bush dynasty.
The cowardice of the MSM seems to revolve around the idea that "9/11 changed everything," (not to mention that only the so-called liberal media and only Democrats received anthrax right after 9/11 as a "warning.") The American fascists have capitalized on 9/11 the way the Germans did with the Reichstag fire in Germany in the 1930s. After 9/11 everything about our democracy did change. In fact it has been used to destroy the democratic process, civil liberties, and to stage wars of imperalism instead of justice. Justice, (or even revenge), is what the American people were conned into believing they would get. If someone on your block killed several people you would hope the authorities would capture and punish them, not invade and destroy everything on the next block over. Last I checked Osama has still not been captured "dead or alive." For the American people, (to hell with a complacent and fearful press), not to be demanding, if not rioting in the streets, for this administration to be investigated and punished is why we are where we are right now.
Terry Lamb said...
I too believe the so-called "Liberal Media" is complacent and has been 'aiding and abetting' the Crimes of the bush Misadministration/ Gang of Thieves---TOTALLY due to the Corporate Ownership, and the Owners' Reich-Wing Mentality--I, for one, write my local papers, as well as USA Today (my favorite rag) to continually voice my Displeasure!! One thing works in America--Money Talks!! That--and an Independendent Internet--which will be the NeoCons' next target!!
Perhaps all should read the "Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush" compiled by The Center for Consitutional Rights. This document also contains the Articles filed against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and WIlliam Jefferson Clinton. I leave it to you to compare and assess who committed the most egregious violations of his oath of office.
To the anonymous right wingers who have posted since my comment... The Clinton "scandals" were the product of right wing fantasies. The scandels of the Bush Administration are no fantasy! My littlest brother is currently serving in Iraq and rather than blame Clinton for where we are now I suggest you walk away from your computer right now and enlist. Yes, the country did have scandal fatigue only because they were bombarded with fake scandels of little importance that were harped on daily by corporate media whores. The crimes of the Bush administration are crimes against humanity and the Constitution. Real Americans and patriots would want those crimes to not go unpunished.
Furthermore, the media whores themselves have ignored the facts that the Anthrax attacks were specifically directed at ONLY the so-called liberal media and Democrats. Nobody at Fox news received the deadly spores and NO Republican received them either. (even though, oddly enough, administration officials were already taking Cipro prior to the first case) Was this to silence them? Was this a warning? I also found it curious that the very first case was in Florida at the building where the National Enquirer and other tabloids are published. Who cares about tabloids? They are definitely not part of the Liberal media. Or are they? Even more curious is the fact that those tabloids are far removed from politics. HOWEVER, they were printing about the scandals of the Bush twins and ran a story on Prescot Bush's financing of the Nazis. It seems to me these are obvious signs it was a right wing hit job meant to silence critics of the administration. The corporate media DOES have financial reasons for spewing right wing propaganda, but there are still REAL journalists around who want to report and investigate the truth. The question is - Are they fearful of doing so?
John N Missouri ,
I didn't talk about why there was a Clinton scandal.
But that the Clinton scandal was the main reason why Gore was 15% behind Bush in early 1999, why he was the underdog despite his high job rating and the CW that the country was on the right track.
Why did 56% of voters choose Bush in 1999?
Why was Clinton himself losing to Bush in the polls?
Certainly not because the economy was bad. There had to be something else. If not the scandals then what? How do you explain that?
Kerry was only a few points behind Bush when he started his campaign.
So the fact that Gore was 15% behind him was because of what if not the scandal? Do you have an alternative explanation?
I'm not a right winger. I supported Gore and would support him again if he ran.
But the Republicans didn't have an affair with that woman and they didn't lie about it to everyone, including Gore. Clinton did it and for that he and only he is responsible.
John N Missouri,
Why do you think Gore was 15% behind Bush in early 1999?
If not because of Clinton fatigue then what?
Gore's job approval was 62%.
Most thought the country was on the right track.
And still when asked wbo they want to see as the next president 56% chose Bush and only 41% chose Gore.
Why, if not because of the scandals?
Who gives a rat's ass about the Clinton psuedo scandals at this point? These posts were supposed to be in response to WHY the media is not reporting on the ACTUAL scandals of the Bush Administration. I am glad you supported Gore and I am certainly not intending to attack you personally. In fact personal attacks are better left to the hypocrites on the right. Yes, there are some brave reporters out there who are FINALLY reporting on these issues, (Obermann comes to mind first), but they are being attacked by the right wing propaganda machine. Not only with verbal B.S., but also with fake anthrax. My point is that until there is massive outrage that the media can no longer ignore we will be stuck in the same status quo.
let's join the world court and see what happens to bush and company
I just want to thank Marc McDonald for such a succinct and right-on post. Wouldn't it be nice if we did have a free press and honest, fair elections and a responsible government of the people and for the people, and peace and a healthy planet, and education and good jobs and care for all who need so much? And maybe even a culture and art and community and some intelligence and fun in life?
tornado said...
Thanks for a very insightful post. Yes, the "liberal media" will do exactly as you have stated, once the Democratic Congress is in full swing.
I argued forever with certain individuals when the Clinton debacle was taking place, that it was a partisan witchhunt. And now here we are with the most corrupt individual imaginable sitting in the White House and pretending to be president.
What will it take to impeach Bush and Co., as well as the "liberal media?"
I like the idea that someone had to send this to Keith Olbermann.
I think he would enjoy this article and feature it on his show. I am listening to him right now. I like how he ends his show. He does a count down since Mission Accomplished has been declared. Keith O is my hero.
It's very simple to understand: OBL tried to destroy, GWB is! And he's done it with the help of the MSM.
The media isn't what it used to be. They were the policemen. Now they are the mouthpiece. True journalism no longer exists today just as the Republican Party of 50 years ago doesn't exist today. Show me a Goldwater Republican and I'll show you a modern day liberal.
Mainstream Libertarian said...
No, show me a Goldwater Republican and I'll show you a libertarian Republican.
You've never heard of the Republican Liberty Caucus? The RLC represents the growing libertarian wing of the GOP. Sorry to hear you libs think that every Republican is a conservative.
There are libertarian Republicans too. And we want nothing to do with liberal Nanny Staters who want to tax us to death, take away our guns, force us to wear seat belts, and appease the Islamo-Fascists.
Eric at www.mainstreamlibertarian.com
How about a billion dollar class action lawsuit against certain participants of the MSM for their complicity in intentionally covering up the misdeeds of the Bush admin including election theft, the false flag 911 event, ensuing war, war profiteering, depleted uranium, rape of the constitution etc. Bush was allowed to steal 2 elections. If 911 was a contrived event, the Afghan and Iraq wars would not have happened. Maybe the proceeds could be used to fund independent media.
As another alternative the word "NEWS' should be renamed under some kind of consumer disclosure statement. TV watchers have a false sense that they are being informed when they are being lied to and manipulated. The word "NEWS" should be reserved for objectively verifiable information and not politically motivated opinion.
Reporters used to do some investigation.
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Chicago AIA Awards 2003
Logical / Ecological Design
Wood Design Awards 2003
by Nancy Novitski
"Most buildings are terrible. They're unhealthy, and they're bad for the soul." Fred Stitt, director of the San Francisco Institute of Architecture, didn't mince words as he officiated over "Ecological Design: The Unstoppable Wave." The conference, held in Oakland, California in August 2003, aimed at improving architecture through a better understanding of its relationship to the natural environment.
Over 200 working architects, students, and environmental professionals gathered to hear from the visionaries and practitioners in this burgeoning field. The Eco Wave conference, like the concept of ecological design itself, ran the gamut from the supremely practical to the resolutely idealistic.
One speaker provided a framework for understanding this range of approaches. Thomas J. Hahn, Jr., R.A., president of Sol Source Architecture in Phoenix, Arizona, presented "Conspiring With Nature: Employing Ecological Awareness toward a Design Methodology." He said it's important to understand the distinction between "organic" architecture and the merely "amorphic."
Organic architecture, in Hahn's view, evolves through a process that is responsive to nature and results in an architecturally efficient yet engaging form. By contrast, amorphic forms made up of conceptually derived curvilinear geometries often lack resource efficiency and environmental responsiveness. >>>
Discuss this article in the Architecture Forum...
The daylit gymnasium of Calvary Presbyterian Church in Berkeley shows how Todd Jersey Architecture "collaborates with nature."
Photo: Todd Jersey Architecture
An example of "simulation" features an inappropriate use of heavy timber in an effort to look "green." The application is decorative, not structural, as evidenced by the metal straps suspending the logs.
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New proposal would make it easier to deport immigrants who use public benefits
The Trump administration is considering reversing policy to make it easier to deport US legal permanent residents who have used public benefits, part of an effort to restrict immigration by low-income people.
US President Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border in Calexico California, US, April 5, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo/File Photo
A Department of Justice draft regulation, seen by Reuters, dramatically expands the category of people who could be subject to deportation on the grounds that they use benefits.
Currently, those legal permanent residents who are declared to be a “public charge,” or primarily dependent on the government for subsistence, can be deported - but in practice, this is very rare.
The draft regulation would use a more expansive definition to include some immigrants who have used an array of public benefits, including cash welfare, food stamps, housing aid, or Medicaid.
While the plan is at an early stage, might not become official government policy, and is likely to attract lawsuits, it is one part of efforts by the Trump administration to restrict legal immigration, in addition to its efforts to reduce illegal immigration to the United States.
The full possible impact is not known, but the change in policy could affect permanent residents - also known as “green card” holders - who are legally entitled to use public benefits soon after their arrival in the United States, such as refugees.
Department of Justice spokesman Alexei Woltornist said the agency “does not comment on or confirm draft regulations.”
US law allows for the deportation of immigrants who have become “public charges” within five years of admission if their reason for seeking help preceded their entry to the United States - for example, if they had a chronic health condition that was not disclosed.
But due to a 1948 ruling, the deportation of immigrants for using public benefits has been strictly limited to cases in which the government has demanded payment for public services, and the person has failed to pay. Immigration lawyers said they have rarely if ever heard of someone being deported for using public benefits.
The draft rule indicates the government would override that precedent to allow for deportation of some permanent residents who have used certain public benefits within five years of admission.
For the plan to go into effect, it would be subject to public comment, after which it could be revised. Attorney General William Barr would then have to sign off on it.
The public benefits in question include Supplemental Security Income (SSI), given to disabled and older people; the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps; Section 8 housing vouchers; many Medicaid benefits; and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a cash assistance program.
According to federal policy, many permanent residents do not qualify for public benefits unless they have had a green card for five years, making it unlikely they could be targeted for deportation on the basis of “public charge” even under the draft rule.
But dozens of states have looser rules - for instance, allowing pregnant women and children who are permanent residents to access Medicaid without a waiting period.
And the effort to tighten the rules could affect thousands of immigrant veterans, refugees and asylees, who are eligible to receive many benefits without time restrictions. Active members of the military would not be affected.
Administration officials had earlier indicated that the Justice Department, which oversees U.S. immigration courts, planned to issue a regulation on who can be deported for using public benefits, but its details were not previously known.
‘NEW TERRITORY’
Immigrant advocates said the impact of the possible change is unclear, because it would be such a departure from long-standing practice.
“We’re in new territory here because this has never been tested,” said Charles Wheeler, an attorney with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network non-profit group. “I’m concerned that it’s going to be targeted at permanent resident aliens who otherwise thought they were free and clear to receive SSI and other public benefit programs.”
The change, if implemented, fits with broader Trump administration efforts to squelch legal immigration by transforming public-charge rules. The administration has also slashed refugee admissions and imposed a broad travel ban on citizens of several mostly Muslim countries.
The Justice Department’s draft proposal is based on a similar plan by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to significantly broaden the definition of what it means to be a public charge.
While DHS can decide whether to grant or deny immigration benefits, DOJ’s immigration judges can also decide whether a resident ought to be deported.
The DHS is expected soon to tighten regulations so that a “public charge” would be any foreigner “who receives one or more public benefits,” including an array of cash and non-cash benefits, such as food stamps, housing vouchers, and Medicaid.
The DOJ’s draft proposal mirrors that and also directs immigration judges to consider the use of public benefits as a heavily weighted negative factor when determining whether to admit a foreigner to the United States.
The State Department is also trying to restrict entry to the United States of people it suspects might use public benefits.
Last year, it gave US consular officers more discretion to reject visas for people they believe may become public charges. The number of people refused immigrant visas on public-charge grounds was four times higher in 2018 than in 2017, and the highest total since 2004.
In addition to considering new standards for deporting legal residents, the DOJ is also looking at requiring foreigners seeking permanent residency status to submit a declaration to an immigration judge that demonstrates their self-sufficiency. The form asks for a detailed listing of assets, income, and debts, among other information. /.
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Schrodinger Erwin
The Founder of Quantum Wave Mechanics
“The introduction of wave mechanics stands…as Schrodinger’s monument and a worth one.”
“Schrodinger never liked the generally accepted dual description of atomic physics in terms of waves and particles, as proposed by Bohr, Heisenberg and Born. He tried to set up a theory in terms of waves only. Like Einstein, he sought throughout all his life to unify gravitation and electromagnetism.”
Mauro Dardo
“His (Schrodinger’s) private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent, amusing, temperamental, kind and generous, and had a most perfect and efficient brain.”
Erwin Schrodinger was one of the main architects of quantum mechanics. Schrodinger developed the wave mechanics. It became the second formulation of quantum mechanics. The first formulation, called matrix mechanics, was developed by Werner Heisenberg. Schrodinger’s wave equation (or Schrodinger equation) is one of the most basic equations of quantum mechanics. It bears the same relation to the mechanics of the atom as Newton’s equations of motions bear to planetary astronomy. However, unlike Newton’s equations, which result definite and readily visualized sequence of events of the planetary orbits, the solutions to Schrodinger’s wave equation are wave functions that can only be related to probable occurrence of physical events. Schrodinger’s wave equation is a mathematically sound atomic theory. It is regarded by many as the single most important contribution to theoretical physics in the twentieth century. Schrodinger’s book, “What is Life?” led to progress in biology.
Schrodinger was an unconventional man. Throughout his life he traveled with walking-boots and rucksack and for this he had to face some difficulty in gaining entrance to the Solvay Conference for Nobel laureates. Describing the incident Paul Dirac wrote: “When he went to the Solvay Conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel…carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.”
Schrodinger was born on August 12, 1887 in Vienna. His father Rudolf Schrodinger, who came from a Bavarian family, which had come to Vienna generations ago, was a highly gifted man. After studying chemistry at the Technical College in Vienna, Rudolf Schrodinger devoted himself for years to Italian painting and then he decided to study botany. He published a series of research papers on plant phylogeny.
Rudolf Schrodinger had inherited a small but profitable business manufacturing linoleum and oilcloth. Schrodinger’s mother, Georgine Schrodinger (nee Bauer) was the daughter of Alexander Bauer, an able analytical chemist and who became a professor of chemistry at the Technical College, Vienna. Schrodinger was always grateful to his father for giving him a comfortable upbringing and a good education. He described his father ‘as a man of broad culture, a friend, teacher and inexhaustible partner in conversation.’
Schrodinger was taught by a private tutor at home until he entered the Akademisches Gymnasium in 1898. He passed his matriculation examination in 1906. At the Gymnasium, Schrodinger was not only attracted to scientific disciplines but also enjoyed studying grammar and German poetry. Talking about his impression at the Gymnasium Schrodinger later said: “I was a good student in all subjects, loved mathematics and physics, but also the strict logic of the ancient grammars, hated only memorizing incidental dates and facts. Of the German poets, I loved especially the dramatists, but hated the pedantic dissection of their works.” He was an outstanding student of his school. He always stood first in his class. His intelligence was proverbial. One of his classmates commenting on Schrodinger’s ability to grasp teachings in physics and mathematics said: “Especially in physics and mathematics, Schrodinger had a gift for understanding that allowed him, without any homework, immediately and directly to comprehend all the material during the class hours and to apply it. After the lecture…it was possible for (our professor) to call Schrodinger immediately to the blackboard and to set him problems, which he solved with playful facility.”
In 1906, Schrodinger joined the Vienna University. Here he mainly focused in the course of theoretical physics given by Friedrich Hasenohrl, who was Boltzmann’s student and successor. Hasenhorl gave an extended cycle of lectures on various fields of theoretical physics transmitting views of his teacher, Boltzmann. Schrodinger received his PhD in 1910. His dissertation was an experimental one. It was on humidity as a source of error in electroscopes. The actual title of the dissertation was “On the conduction of electricity on the surface of insulators in moist air.” The work was not very significant. The committee appointed for examining the work was not unanimous in recommending him for the degree. After receiving his PhD, he undertook his voluntary military service. After returning from military service in autumn 1911, he took up an appointment as an assistantship in experimental physics at the University of Vienna. He was put in charge of the large practical class for freshmen. Schrodinger had no love for experimental work but at the same time he valued the experience. He felt that it taught him “through direct observation what measuring means.” He started working in theoretical physics by applying Boltzmann-like statistical-mechanical concepts to magnetic and other properties of bodies. The results were not very significant. However, based on his work he could earn his advanced doctorate (Habilitation).
At the beginning of the First World War, Schrodinger was called up for active service. He was sent to the Italian border. It was at the warfront that Schrodinger learned about Einstein’s general theory of relativity and he immediately recognized its great importance. While in war field it was not possible for Schrodinger to keep him fully abreast of the developments in theoretical physics. However, he continued his theoretical work. He submitted a paper for his publication from his position on the Italian front. In the spring of 1917, Schrodinger was transferred to Vienna, where he again could start scientific work.
The First World War resulted in total collapse of the economy of Austria. It also ruined Schrodinger’s family. Schrodinger had no option other than to seek a career in the wider German-language world of Central Europe. Between spring 1920 and autumn 1921, Schrodinger took up successively academic positions at the Jena University (as an assistant to Max Wien, Wilhelm Wein’s brother, at the Stuttgart Technical University(extraordinary professor), the Breslau University (ordinary professor), and finally at the University of Zurich, where he replaced von Laue. Soon after arriving at Zurich, Schrodinger was diagnosed with suspected tuberculosis and he was sent to an alpine sanatorium in Arosa to recover. While recuperating at Arosa, Schrodinger wrote one of his most important papers, “On a Remarrkable Property of the Quantised Orbits of an Electrn.’ At Zurich he stayed for six years. This was his most productive and beautiful period of his professional life.
It was at Zurich that Schrodinger made his most important contributions. He first studied atomic structure and then in 1924 he took up quantum statistics. However, the most important moment of his professional career was when he came across Louis de Broglie’s work. On November 03, 1925, Schrodinger wrote to Einstein: “A few days ago I read with great interest the ingenious thesis of Louis de Broglie, which I finally got hold of…” And then on 16th November he wrote: “I have been intensely concerned these days with Louis de Broglie’s ingenious theory. It is extraordinarily exciting, but still has some very grave difficulties.” After reading de Broglie’s work Schrodinger began to think about explaining the movement of an electron in an atom as a wave and eventually came out with a solution. He was not at all satisfied with the quantum theory of the atom developed by Niels Bohr, who was not happy with the apparently arbitrary nature of a good many of the quantum rules. Schrodinger did not like the generally accepted dual description of atomic physics in terms of waves and particles. He eliminated the particle altogether and replaced it with wave alone. His first step was to develop an equation for describing the movement of electrons in an atom. The de Broglie equation giving the wavelength ?=h/mv (where h is the Planck constant and mv the momentum) represented too simple a picture to match the reality particularly with the inner atomic orbits where the attractive force of the nucleus would result in a very complex and variable configuration. Schrodinger eventually succeeded in developing his famous wave equation. His equation was very similar to classical equations developed earlier for describing many wave phenomena—sound waves, the vibrations of a string or electromagnetic waves. In Schrodinger’s wave equation there is an abstract entity, called the wave function and which is symbolized by the Greek letter ?(psi). When applied to the hydrogen atom, Schrodinger’s wave equation yielded all the results of Bohr and de Broglie. However, despite the considerable predictive success of Schrodinger’s wave mechanics, Schrodinger’s had to overcome certain problems. First how he as going to attach some physical meaning to the ideas of an electron if it was nothing but wave and also he had to show what exactly represented by the wave function.
Schrodinger unsuccess- fully tried to account these. He tried to visualize electron as `wave packets’ made up of many small waves so that these wave packets would behave in the same way as a particle in classical mechanics. However, these packets were later shown to be unstable. He interpreted the wave function as a measure of the spread of an electron. But this was also not acceptable. The interpretation was provided by Max Born. He stated that the wave function for a hydrogen atom represents each of its physical states and it can be used to calculate the probability of finding the electron at a certain point in space. What does it mean? It means that if the wave function is nearly zero at a certain point then the probability of finding the electron there is extremely small. But where the wave function is large the probability of finding the electron is very large. The wave mechanics cannot be used to determine the motion of a particle or in other words its position and velocity at any given moment. The wave equation simply tells us how the wave function evolves in space and time and the value of the wave function would determine the probability of finding the electron in a particular point of space.
He published his revolutionary work in a series of papers in 1926. Schrodinger’s wave equation was the second theoretical explanation for the movement of electrons in an atom, the first being Werner Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics. Schrodinger’s approach was preferred by many physicists as it could be visualized. On the other hand Heisenberg’s approach was strictly mathematical and it involved such a complex mathematics that it was difficult to understand. Physicists appeared to be divided into two groups. However, soon Schrodinger showed that the two theories were identical but expressed differently.
Schrodinger’s students at Zurich found his lectures ‘extremely stimulating and impressive.’ One of his students, who attended his lectures, later recalled: “…At the beginning he stated the subject and then gave a review of how one had to approach it, and then he started exposing the basis in mathematical terms and developed it in front of our eyes. Sometimes he would stop and with a shy smile confess that he had missed a bifurcation in his mathematical development, turn back to the critical point and start all over again. This was fascinating to watch and we all learned a great deal by following his calculations, which he developed without ever looking at his notes, except at the end, when he compared his work on the blackboard with his notes and said ‘this is correct’. In summertime when it was warm enough we went to the bathing beach on the Lake of Zurich, sat with our own notes on the grass and watched this lean man in bathing trunks writing his calculations before us on an improvised blackboard which we had brought along. At the time few people came to the bathing beach in the morning and those that did watched us from a discreet distance and wondered what that man was writing on the blackboard!”
After the retirement of Max Plank from Berlin University as Professor of Theoretical Physics, three persons were short-listed for the post—Sommerfeld, Schrodinger and Max Born. Schrodinger’s testimonial drawn up for the purpose beautifully summarised his academic achievements till that time. It said: “For some years already he has been favourably known through his versatile, vigorously powerful, and at the same time very profound style in seeking new physical problems that interested him and illuminating them through deep and original ideas, with the entire set of techniques which mathematical and physical methods at present provide. He has proved this method of working to be effective in the treatment of problems in statistical mechanics, the analysis of optical interference, and the physical theory of colour vision. Recently he has succeeded in an especially daring design through his ingenious idea for the solution of the former particle mechanics by means of wave mechanics in the differential equation he has set up for the wave function….Schrodinger himself has already been able to deduce many consequences from this fortunate discovery, and the new ideas that he has inspired with it in many fields are even more numerous…it may be added that in lecturing as in discussions Schrodinger has a superb style, marked by simplicity and precision, the impressiveness of which is further emphasized by the temperament of a South German.” Sommerfeld was the first choice and when he declined to leave Munich the offer went to Schrodinger. Even for Schrodinger it was not easy for taking a decision to leave Zurich. Ioan James has written: “Every effort was made to persuade him to stay in Zurich. The physics students organized a torchlight parade around the university to the courtyard of his house, where they presented him with a petition. Schrodinger was deeply moved, but in the end it was a personal appeal from Planck that persuaded him to accept the Berlin offer; as the result of doing so he automatically became a German national.” Before taking up the appointment at Berlin, Schrodinger traveled to Brussels to attend the Solvay physics conferences. This time the topic was electrons and photons. Schrodinger was invited to deliver one of the prestigious lectures. He took this opportunity to elaborate on his wave mechanics. His views caused considerable debate. Born and Heisenberg attacked it quite vehemently.
Schrodinger joined the Berlin University on October 01, 1927, where he became a colleague of Albert Einstein. The course given by him at the Berlin University was considered the best among the science courses at the University. His style of lecturing was informal. He lectured without notes while many professors at the University practically read their lectures. His dress was also quite informal compared to other professors. He was elected to the Berlin Academy of Science at the age of forty-two. He happened to be youngest member of this august body.
Like many other scientists Schrodinger had to leave Germany after the Nazis seized power. The Nazis had no problems with Schrodinger but it was Schrodinger who did not like policies pursued by the Nazis. In fact Schrodinger’s disgust for the Nazis was so strong that he was prepared to leave Germany. Initially Scgrodinger thought the Nazi madness will pass over within a couple of years but soon he realized that the Nazis are going to stay in power for a long time. Finally Schrodinger left Germany for Oxford. It was possible for intervention of Frederick Alexander Lindemann (1886-1957), the head of the physics department at Oxford University and a close friend of Winston Churchill who could persuade Magdalen College, Oxford, to offer Schrodinger a Fellowship. Lindemann had visited Germany in the spring of 1933 to try to arrange positions in England for some young Jewish scientists from Germany. Schrodinger’s appointment at Magdalen was to be supplemented by a research appointment in industry so that his income became comparable to that of an Oxford professor. The confirmation of his appointment was accompanied by the news that he had just been awarded Nobel Prize in physics, jointly with Paul Dirac. Schrodinger reached Oxford on November 04, 1933. Lindemann and other tried their best to make Schrodinger’s stay at Oxford comfortable. However, Schrodinger was not satisfied with his status at Oxford. He had received an offer of a permanent position at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton during his visit there in the spring of 1934 for giving an invited lecture. However, finally Schrodinger did not accept the offer.
In 1935 Schrodinger’s published a three-part essay on The present situation in quantum mechanics. It is in this essay the much talked about Schrodinger’s cat paradox appears. This paradox was a thought experiment, where a cat in a closed box either lived or died according to whether a quantum event occurred or not. Schrodinger’s appointment at Oxford was extended for another two years. But he did not stay there. He left for his own country Austria to take up an appointment at the University of Graz. While waiting for the official confirmation of his appointment at Graz he received an offer of a professorship at Edinburgh. However, the necessary permission for permanent British residence did not come before the official confirmation came from Graz. He finally moved to Graz where he was given a full professorship and also an honorary professorship at Vienna.
While working at Graz, Schrodinger was hoping that eventually he would get an appointment at Vienna. But this did not happen. In 1938, the Nazis extended their anti-Semitic policies pursued in Germany to Austria. The newly appointed Nazi Rector of the University of Graz persuaded Schrodinger to make a ‘repentant confession’. The ‘confession’ began as follows: “In the midst of the exultant joy which is pervading our country, there also stand today those who indeed partake fully of this joy but not without deep shame because until the end they had not understood the right course….” And it continued in more or less in the same vein. The confession duly appeared in the press. Many of his friends thought that Schrodinger could write such a confession only under pressure. But there was no pressure.
Afterwards Schrodinger, of course, always regretted his decision to write such a confession. Explaining the reason for writing such a confession to Einstein, Schrodinger wrote: “I wanted to remain free—and could not do so without great duplicity.” Schrodinger attended the celebration of the eightieth birthday of Max Plank, where he was warmly welcomed. But he was no longer acceptable to the Nazi authorities because they did not forget the insult he caused to them by fleeing from Berlin in 1933. His so-called ‘repentant confession’ was of no use. First he was dismissed from his honorary position at Vienna and then on August 26, 1938 he was also dismissed from his regular post at Graz. The reason cited for his dismissal was his ‘political unreliability.’ The official in Vienna, whom Schrodinger consulted, advised him to get a job in industry. They also told him that he will not be allowed to leave the country. Schrodinger immediately realized the danger of staying in Austria. So he hurriedly left for Italy. They had no time even to take their belongings with them. They boarded the train to Rome with a few suitcases. Schrodingers were received at the station in Italy by Enrico Fermi, who also lent them some money. From Rome Schrodinger wrote to the Irish statesman Eamon de Valera (1882-1975), then President of the League of Nations (predecessor of the United Nations). Schrodinger met De Valera at Geneva. Devalera offered Schrodinger a position at the Institute of Advanced Studies that he was trying to set up at Dublin. De Valera also advised Schrodinger to leave Italy at the earliest and go for Ireland or England, as according to him the war was imminent. Schrodinger accepted de Valera’s offer of appointment at the proposed Institute at Dublin. However, he did not directly proceed to Dublin. Instead he went back to Oxford, where he received an offer of one year visiting professorship at the University of Ghent in Belgium. At Ghent he wrote a significant paper on the expanding universe. From Ghent Schrodinger alongwith his family went to Oxford. Lindemann and others who had earlier welcomed Schrodingers at Oxford was no longer ready to welcome them again. Now Schrodingers were classed as enemy aliens. But Lindemann made it possible for Schrodingers to reach Dublin in October 1939. Schrodinger adjusted well in the new environs and under his leadership the Institute of Advanced Studies of Dublin became an important centre of theoretical physics. He remained in Dublin until he retired in 1956
At the beginning of his stay at Dublin, Schrodinger studied electromagnetic theory and relativity and began to publish on unified field theory. As we know Einstein was also working on the same problem at the similarly named Princeton University. In 1947 Schrodinger believed that he had a real breakthrough in his efforts toward creating unified field theory. Schrodinger was so excited about his new theory that he decided to present it to the Irish Academy without examining it critically. Schrodinger’s announcement was widely publicized in the media as an epoch-making discovery. However, after seeing Einstein comments Schrodinger realized his folly. He was really devastated by the episode. It was certainly a great embarrassment. After this debacle Schrodinger turned to philosophy. His study of Greek science and philosophy is summarised in Nature and the Greeks, which was published in 1954.
Schrodinger’s most important contribution at the Dublin Institute was his book called What is Life? This was the result of a series of lectures given at the Institute in 1943. The book was published in 1944. It is regarded as one of the most important scientific writings of the twentieth century. Francois Ducheseneau wrote: “As a contribution to the Dublin Institute’s series of public lectures, Schrodinger, who was an engaging speaker, delivered several in February 1943 under the title “What is Life?” In these popular scientific lectures Schrodinger, who had only a very slight knowledge of the literature on the physical bases of life, dragged his audience into and then out of a series of blind alleys, leaving them at the end just about where he began. Nonetheless these lectures, printed the following year, achieved an immediate and great reputation with both physicists and biologists, and rank still today as one of the most overrated scientific writings of the twentieth century.” The book influenced a good many talented young physicists particularly those who were disillusioned by the destruction caused by atom bombs in Japan and wanted no part in atomic physics. Schrodinger showed these physicists a discipline, which was free from military applications and at the same time very significant and largely unexplored. The book represented the transfer of new concepts of physics into biology.
Schrodinger presented a determinist vision of the role of genes. He wrote: “In calling the structure of the chromosome fibers a code-script we mean that the all-penetrating mind, once conceived by Laplace, to which every causal connection lay immediately open, could tell from their structure whether the egg would develop, under suitable conditions, into a black cock or into a speckled hen, into a fly or a maize plant, a rhododendron, a beetle, a mouse or a woman”. It was Schrodinger who first used the word “code” to describe the role of gene. He also observed that “with the molecular picture of the gene it is no longer inconceivable that the miniature should precisely correspond with a highly complicated and specified plan of development.” The book with such passages, written with more insight than that contained in most contemporary biochemical works inspired a generation of scientists to look for such a code and which was eventually found. The book helped to shape the discipline that we call today molecular biology. Michel Morange wrote: “Schrodinger’s book was a remarkable success. Many of the founders of molecular biology claimed that it played an important role in their decision to turn to biology. Gunther Stent, a geneticist (and a historian of genetics), has argued that for the new biologists it played a role like that of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Schrodinger presented the new results of genetics in a lively, the book has lost none of its seductiveness: its clarity and simply make it a pleasure to read.”
In 1955, Schrodinger returned to Vienna. On his arrival he was treated as a celebrity. He was appointed to a special professorship at the University of Vienna. Though he retired from the university in 1958, he continued to be an emeritus professor till his death. In Vienna he wrote his last book describing his metaphysical views.
Schrodinger died on January 04, 1961. Commenting on Schrodinger’s personal traits his biographer Walter Moore wrote: “…[Schrodinger] was a passionate man, a poetic man, and the fire of his genius would be kindled by the intellectual tension arising from the desperate situation of the old quantum theory…It seems also that psychological stress, particularly that associated with intense love affairs, helped rather than hindred his scientific creativity…”
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Farm to table: the Guardians (edited)
CharityCommunityUncategorized October 24, 2016 VN Staff
By Danielle Ozbat After Chris and Stacy Lane’s 18-year-old son, Dakota, was shot and killed last March, the couple decided to turn their grief...
By Danielle Ozbat
After Chris and Stacy Lane’s 18-year-old son, Dakota, was shot and killed last March, the couple decided to turn their grief into something positive by dedicating their lives to helping the less fortunate.
“We really decided at that point instead of focusing on the
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tragedy and all the bad stuff to really celebrate his life,” Chris Lane said, “and we made this mission, as far as community organizing, our laser focus.”
The couple started Guardians, a non-profit charity that provides resources for the homeless in Chesterfield County, and last week, they were joined by employees from Dominion Virginia Power at a ‘Farm to Tent’ event. The Lanes (who were once homeless) and the volunteers’ mission for the day was to build a compost system for their organic gardens that will eventually feed the poor.
According to Kimberly Ohrum, a Dominion employee and volunteer, there has already been a harvest this year and they were able to feed 200 people. Ohrum found out about the Guardians when she saw a story about the Lanes on television and organized the event.
“I actually watched a broadcast … earlier in the year that featured Chris Lane and the [Guardians],” Ohrum said, “and after I watched that interview, I felt very compelled to contact Chris and see what … I could do to assist.”
Ohrum, who used to be homeless, said next year’s goal is to be able to feed 500 to 700 people and that they eventually hope to have multiple greenhouses so they can plant fruits and vegetables year round. For their last harvest, they planted tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, watermelon, cucumbers, onions and cantaloupe; everything the Guardians and their volunteers plant is organic, of which Chris Lane is an avid advocate.
“If you look at some of the underlying symptoms of processed food and sugars,
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kids aren’t getting good sleep, they’re not focused in school, [and] their system is completely out of whack,” Lane said. “I’ve seen the positive results through our daughter … we changed her diet completely to fresh organic produce … [and] it was life changing. The families and kids in these impoverished communities … don’t have access to fresh organic produce and when they start getting that in their system and filtering out some of the bad stuff, it’s just amazing to see that change. They just have a different glow about them.”
In addition to providing the homeless with organic produce, Stacy Lane said they have a backpack program (for children who are on the free and reduced lunch program) and they hope to have an after school program for children who cannot afford tutoring.
Lane said there are also plans to update the property, which they refer to as the Hope (Helping Others Positively Evolve) Center: there is a library with computers that the homeless can use to apply for jobs or look for information about housing, a mail center so that they can have a physical address, and shower facilities in case they need to clean up.
“Everybody needs just a little bit of hope and if you get that little bit of hope, it just changes your life, and we feel like we’ve been blessed with this center here in order to do that,” Lane said.
Chris and Stacy Lane. they founded the Guardians last year and have reached out and pulled at the heartstrings to many to help their cause.
“I see [it being a place that] people [can run] around and kids [can have] fun and [find] a place they can go [to] that they can feel love, they can just be free and do what they want to do in a safe environment.”
For Lane’s husband, he said he was excited to have the support of Dominion volunteers and the community to aid in the Guardians’ continued mission to provide for the homeless.
“Our mission is to love, serve, protect and inspire, [and] our goal is to truly give people Chris and Stacy Lane.a hand up, teach them how to fish and see them get into the fight with us,” Lane said. “It’s basically about community organizing, one person in the community at a time.”
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Griffintainment - The Best Movies of 2014
Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 05:00 PM
The Best Movies of 2014
Review by Griffintainment X CalgaryMovies.com
Although there were more than enough good movies to make this list, I have to say that 2014 wasn't an exemplary year in movies. Even the top movies on this list weren't as good as the top movies of the last few years. That being said, 2014 was the year of the soundtrack. So many movies, good and bad, had such good soundtracks, that the soundtracks often eclipsed the movies they were meant to complement. Still, I hope the decline in content in 2014 means that everyone is saving their best stuff for next year. Time will tell. Until then, these were the best flicks I crammed into my overfilled noggin this past year.
*A note about the films of 2014: different people feel different ways about this, but for me, for a movie to qualify as a 2014 movie, it means it had to have its theatrical release in 2014. So movies like Inherent Vice, Selma, American Sniper and Unbroken, which had festival releases in 2014, didn't hit the multiplexes until early January, so are therefore 2015 movies and have a shot at next year's list.
20. Life Itself - Of course the first thing one wonders when watching a documentary about Roger Ebert's life and career, is whether it would've made his best of list if he were alive to see it. As a celebration of his life, and to an extent of the movies themselves, this is a moving, touching and ultimately very sad snapshot of a very influential voice in entertainment. The thank you of the year.
19. Locke - This was a hard movie for some to swallow. It literally involves nothing more than Tom Hardy in a car on his way somewhere, on the phone trying to deal with a work issue. That's about it. But the mixture of the writing, Tom Hardy's magnetic performance and some intelligent editing, makes this a far more compelling film that it has any right to be on paper. The cinematic one man band of the year.
18. Pride - I think with repeated viewings, this film would've found itself higher up on the list. As it is, it may be the most under seen and under appreciated film of the year. A beautiful, touching and funny story that speaks volumes about the importance of tolerance and unity. Well made in all respects. The feel good movie of the year.
17. We Are The Best! - I saw this little gem at a film festival earlier in the year and was blown away by it. A film that will hold special resonance with anyone who grew up with punk, ever started a punk band, or knows anything about how most punk bands are formed. Coming of age at its finest. The nostalgia of the year.
16. Boyhood - The most ambitious film of the year. Hell, of the decade, Boyhood solidifies Richard Linklater's position as one of most intelligent and exciting filmmakers alive. A film that will truly make you feel the blink of an eye that is life itself, and the importance of making every moment of it count. The time capsule of the year.
15. The Babadook - Horror movies, let's be honest, suck these days. Cheap shocks and 'scares' that involve nothing more than loud bursts of shrill stringed instruments and some demonic shadow popping in and out of the background of the frame. Making people jump is not the same as scaring them. The Babadook is the first horror film I've seen in years that works on you where it counts, under the skin. It's a slow burning creep out that works on the viewers most rudimentary nerve centre, attacking childhood ideals like innocence and loss. The goosebump of the year.
14. Edge of Tomorrow - 'Groundhog Day in the future' is an easy tagline, but is an oversimplification. This is an endlessly exciting, inventive thriller that keeps the viewer guessing and keeps the energy high. The first two thirds are so good, they forgive the somewhat lacklustre third act. That last scene though...perfect. The deja vu of the year.
13. 22 Jump Street - There aren't many situations where peeing your pants is a good thing. But when it's caused by fits of continuous and uncontrollable laughter, as it nearly was for me watching this hilarious sequel, then you welcome that warm liquid like an old friend. Better than the first in a number of ways. 22 Jump Street, the funniest film of the year.
12. The Homesman - Despite the resurgence in the last decade, Westerns are still a fairly rare occurrence in theatres every year. Even The Homesman, which deserved a wide release, was only rolled out on a handful of select screens around North America. Which is a pity, because as unpleasant as it is in subject matter throughout, it's also a top shelf film in acting, writing and the beauty conveyed by director Tommy Lee Jones. Old school storytelling on a grand level. The throwback of the year.
11. Gone Girl - I said this in my original review, but this is why I don't read the book before I see the movie. Because then all the suspense, the intrigue, the ingenious twists the story provides, would've been spoiled before the film's first images flickered onto the screen. There are people who like to rip the corners of the wrapping paper off their presents in an attempt to see what awaits them Christmas morning, and there are those that leave the wrapping paper be, savouring the surprise. The twist of the year.
10. The Imitation Game - Some films feel built for awards sweeping as intricately as the machine on the poster of this fine film. It is apparent to anyone who see's it, that The Imitation Game will sweep all of the major awards ceremonies in the next few months. And that's fine with me. This is a fascinating, more or less untold story about a sad, brilliant man who in WWII built a machine that saved millions of lives and in doing so laid the foundation for the computers, and phones, and iPods, and every other electronic convince you use on a daily basis. It also says powerful things about the sorry state of tolerance towards sexual orientation found in previous generations. The enigma of the year.
9. Filmage / Nas: Time Is Illmatic - Number nine is a tie. Two of the best music related documentaries in many years, they also happen to be about two of my favourite artists. Yes that means I'm biased, but they are also both so well done, so compelling, that even if you aren't partial to punk rock or hip hop, respectively, there is more than enough to keep you entertained throughout. A fantastic double bill that examines two truly historic snapshots in music history. The soundtracks of the year.
8. Whiplash - In case the overdose of ecstatic quotations of praise on the poster didn't clue you in, Whiplash is a good movie. It's also the most intense, anxiety inducing film of the year. A film of such acute power and focus, it's hard to shake off for days after seeing it. Features two of the year's best performances in J.K. Simmons' frothing, maniacal music teacher and Miles Teller's focused drummer with dreams of grandeur. A powerhouse film in every way. The panic attack of the year.
7. Nightcrawler - Talk about powerhouse performances. Jake Gyllenhaal, dropping weight and growing his hair out in greasy strands, has created a character that is hard to forget and given a performance that is a career best. The film itself is a unique exploration of sociopathic ambition and creepy magnetism. A truly unique film about a sleazy career field we haven't seen before. The most original film of the year.
6. The Lego Movie - Everything (about this movie) is awesome. The awesome of the year.
5. Calvary - Is God dead? Calvary examines such a statement. A spiritual exploration wrapped in a murder mystery. A film that gets better and better with repeated viewings, this Irish gem has such truth within its frame, when the final act peaks, you feel it in your gut in a very real way. Brilliant writing, brilliant acting, gorgeous photography of the rolling Irish countryside. It won't give you warm fuzzies like Waking Ned Devine, but it's a classic of Celtic cinema nonetheless. The most honest movie of the year.
4. Interstellar - Interstellar got a bad rap this year. People were far too hard on it. It provided me with, bar none, the most exciting, elating filmgoing experience of the year. How well it translates to the television screen remains to be seen, but as far as going to the movies is concerned, this was one of the best uses of the medium I've ever seen. Nitpick about the occasional instances of narrative cheese all you like, this is a far more intelligent, thought provoking and touching story than I could ever hope to be smart enough to think up. The visual marvel of the year.
3. Birdman - A hyperactive expression of breathless cinematic exploration and filmmaking magic. See it the first time for the endlessly entertaining story. See it again to catch the parts of the story you missed the first time. See it a third time to marvel at the way the camera moves, and doesn't stop moving (the first cut comes an hour and forty five minutes in) throughout. After that you still haven't seen all there is to see. I have no idea how they pulled this off, visually and otherwise and in a way, I don't want to. The fever dream of the year.
2. Foxcatcher - Dark, dark, dark. You know those cloudy days that are so cloudy that it feels like five o'clock all day long? Foxcatcher is a hard film to watch at times, but it's also got a magnetism about it. And the sheer craft that is on display here, in the precise voyeurism by director Bennet Miller, and the career defining performances by Channing Tatum, Steve Carrell and Mark Ruffalo, is jaw dropping. Difficult subject matter, exemplary filmmaking and storytelling. The best most difficult film of the year.
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel - Take the exquisite framing of Stanley Kubrick, the quirky characterizations of the Coen brothers, the Martin Scorsese-like brilliance in the use of sound and music and the wholly original way of telling a tale that is all his own, and you have yourself a Wes Anderson film.
I've seen The Grand Budapest Hotel four times now and discover something I hadn't caught before in every viewing. Like looking at a photograph, only to discover that every time you do, while the composition remains the same, something within it has changed. That's a Wes Anderson film and that's what The Grand Budapest Hotel provides. It's one of his best. And the best film of the year. Bar none.
Let's not forget...
0. The Other Woman - There were a lot of crappy movies this year. I generally try to avoid the films that get rotten ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but I usually manage to catch a few. Left Behind deserves a mention in this category, but by far the worst movie of 2014 was The Other Woman. So corny, so juvenile, so annoying, so unfunny, you start to feel embarrassed for the actors on screen. Then you remember how much they're getting paid and that feeling goes away.
At any rate, The Other Woman: the worst film of the year.
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Police recruits fail drug test
Caribbean360 February 27, 2006
What took place
Required height, good health and other physical requirements. In some cases good academic qualification. They have them. Yet many of these prospective recruits are not accepted to join the Royal Bahamas Police Force. Why? A lot of them are failing the drug test!
They are failing-on-the-spot drug tests and are turned away, according to the Nassau Guardian.
A senior Police Officer, who requested anonymity, admitted the problem is on the rise.
“In a lot of cases it is true,” he said. “It’s not true with every applicant, but it has been a problem for us to find people to recruit, because the drug tests do come up positive for a number of our applicants. Such tests show that they have drugs in their system.” The senior officer explained that every year, there are about two to three squads where nearly 150 applicants are vetted for those squads. Out of that number he said, “quite a lot” of them are turned down from entering the force for failing the mandatory drug exam.
But despite the officer’s claim, The Police Training College refused to confirm or deny that drug abuse among potential recruits is on the increase, and blames the dwindling number of police recruits on the lack of education. “The guys who know that they have drugs in their system don’t come to us because they know they will be tested,” Police Training College officials said. “But the problem we really face is with the educational level. They seem to find it difficult to pass the entrance examinations.”
He added that in a male dominated field, most of the applicants who qualify, passing both drug and academics tests are female.
“It’s a sad situation,” he said. “Because there is extreme difficulty with recruiting male officers.”
The senior officer who insists that the force is facing a problem with potential recruits being drug users, said that many of the hopeful officers use various methods, in a bid to clean the traces of drugs our of their system, but warned potential recruits, “it doesn’t go away as quickly as they would think.”
He added that the force keeps secrets and covers up for its members, so issues like this one would be swept under the rug.
“Some of them tell you what they want to tell you and give you what they want to give you,” he said. “They’re not going to give you everything, and they’re just going to keep the rest.”
Commentators’ views
Shocked was how many commentators reacted when they heard the news. They couldn’t believe that people seeking to join the police force, would be drug users. “It’s inconceivable that these youngsters could believe that they use drugs and that it wouldn’t show up:” said Chester Radcliff on a radio call-in programme.
Most commentators criticised the applicants for using drugs and for thinking that they could get away undetected. “They must be naive:” said Pauline Manchester.
Many called for a more rigid substance abuse programme to be carried out. They recommend that the powers that be make a concerted effort to target young people – in schools, community groups, sports organizations and elsewhere.
Back to school for mini-bus drivers
Cricket: Kiwis Take Three ODI’S
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Artist: White Stripes
Label: Warner/Reprise/Maverick
Genre: Popular Music
Released: July 2008
Info: Reissued
1 You're Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)
2 Let's Build A Home
3 Jumble, Jumble
4 Why Can't You Be Nicer To Me?
5 Your Southern Can Is Mine
6 Hello Operator
7 Little Bird
8 Apple Blossom
9 I'm Bound To Pack It Up
10 Death Letter
11 Sister, Do You Know My Name?
12 Truth Doesn't Make A Noise
13 Boy's Best Friend, A
Muze Genre-sub class : Rock & Pop
Review Expert : Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.107) - Ranked #34 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...Sexy, raw, weird, pretty..." Spin (5/03, p.108) - "...The first three songs on DE STIJL are as good as modern music gets..." Spin (p.116) - "DE STIJL nails the Stripes' expansion-by-subtraction MO."
Misc Note : The White Stripes: Jack White (vocals, guitar, piano, acoustic bass); Meg (drums, tambourine). Additional personnel: Paul Henry Ossy (violin); John Szymanski (harmonica). Recorded at Third Man Studio, Detroit, Michican. Detroit's own "brother and sister" drum-and-guitar duo broke out of local obscurity with their eponymous debut, a primitive garage romp that borrowed liberally from Led Zeppelin, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, various American bluesmen and other rock & roll stalwarts. With DE STIJL, the band eschews its earlier raw posings in favor of blues with a hint of art rock. DE STIJL (literally translated, "the style," a European art movement that praises the virtue of simplicity in design), hints at a band that plays its music guided by simplicity in form and function. The 13 songs on DE STIJL show this stripped-down duo coming into their own with more complex arrangements and more varied instrumentation. DE STILJ features an electric violin, harmonica, and piano (played by singer Jack White). All in all, DE STIJL offers more dynamic range and melody than the band's debut and a (comparatively) slick production. From the confectionery pop bounce of "You're Pretty Good Looking," to the blues howler, "Hello Operator," to the dirge-like "Death Letter," DE STIJL is one step forward for a band deserving of a wider audience.
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Bosnalijek Donates New Equipment to the Spid Swimming Club
By providing new sports equipment to members of the Spid swimming club (Spid SC) Bosnalijek continued its successful cooperation and support for the work of the swimming club and its instructor Amel Kapo and his associates for the second year running.
Jasmina Korda, spokesperson at Bosnalijek, delivered the equipment on behalf of Bosnalijek at the Olympic Swimming Pool Sarajevo on 29 June 2017. At this occasion, Jasmina stated for the media that Bosnalijek was proud to continue its support for the successful accomplishments of Spid SC.
Miss Korda emphasised to the media that, "We are glad to be able to help such a project and make it easier both for the instructors and parents who bring their children to the trainings. We shall strive to continue to do this in the future, because our society needs positive examples like this one. Bosnalijek, as a socially responsible company, is the first to recognise its significance and remains the largest donor of Spid SC.”
Three members of the Spid Swimming Club to take part in an International Competition in Berlin
Spid Swimming Club is the only one in BiH that works with disabled children and adults. After more than a year of work, three members of the club will participate in an international competition to be held in Berlin from the 3 - 9 July.
Amel Kapo, who is the founder and an instructor at Spid SC, stressed to the media that his main goal is to pass international classification, which is a prerequisite for European, world and Paralympic competitions. Amel could not hide his joy at receiving so many new members over a relatively short period: presently, Amel and the other instructors work with 53 disabled members. Summing up his impressions, Amel pointed out that together they have already accomplished things that previously he could only have dreamt of achieving.
Amel stated, "I am happy because some things happened quickly in the sense that we were admitted to the Swimming Association of the FBiH. Now we can compete with typical children and have already participated in two competitions, in Split and Zagreb, where we won gold medals.”
Selma Gušo and Damir Muratović will take part in the competition in Berlin. They could not hide their excitement; both have been attending the trainings for more than a year.
Selma, when asked what she expected from this competition, said, "Our expectation is to achieve good results. We have invested a lot of effort, work and energy into the trainings and we hope to win some medal, off course. As much as this is a group sport, the medal you win contributes to one’s feeling of satisfaction, self-esteem and it is confirmation of everything that you invested.”
Damir added, "We will do our best. Medals do not matter that much, but obtaining classification does as well as to continue competing.”
Today, Spid Swimming Club has members from the whole of BiH. Yet as the only swimming club that works with disabled adults and children it still does not have any form of continuous support from any level of government. This swimming club has only survived thanks to donations provided by responsible companies and individuals.
At the end of his talk to the media, Amel Kapo stressed, "We have had support from Bosnalijek from the very beginning and thanks to this company we have greater opportunities for more successful work. We thank Bosnalijek, which has been with us from the very beginning. In my opinion, this project, although I do not like to use the word, must not end. I believe that BiH needs more similar clubs.”
Bosnalijek Opens New Facility for Manufacturing Liquid and Semisolid Pha ... Two Bosnalijek Teams Won Valuable Prizes at Dolorex B2B Night Relay Race ... Professional Lecture for Doctors and Patients Held On the Occasion of th ... Bosnalijek signs cooperation agreement with Mylan, a global healthcare c ... Bosnalijek Appoints US Major General David L. Grange (Ret.) as the Board ... The Third Congress of Pharmacists from Montenegro held in Bečići Foreign markets recognize the quality of our products Bosnalijek won the prestigious industry award Bosnalijek is again the best employer in the pharmaceutical sector in 20 ... Successful Two-Day Roundtable of Psychiatrists Held
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Speakers Profile - Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson was living and working in Darwin when cyclone Tracy hit in 1974. It was this that prompted Ron to move south and launch his highly successful career as a news presenter for Network TEN.
Born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Ron came to Australia with his family at the age of six, settling first in Victoria. On leaving school, he moved to Darwin and began study for a law degree. However, he decided to try for a career in television and won a job at the local channel as a newsreader.
Ron began his career in Sydney with a position as the midnight to dawn announcer with radio station 2WL Wollongong. In 1977, Ron moved to Wagga and back into television as a newsreader. After marriage and an overseas trip, he settled back in Sydney once again, working first for 2SM and, then 2UE.
Part-time voice over work for Channel Ten led him to join the station's full-time in October 1979, initially as a journalist and then as newsreader.
Good Morning Australia secured Ron to present the news for TEN's national breakfast program from 1982 - 1993. Since 1994, Ron has co-presented TEN's FIRST AT FIVE Sydney bulletin with Jessica Rowe.
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Weekend Box Office Report: April 5-7 2013
By Kip Mooney • On April 7, 2013 December 30, 2015 • In News News 0
BOX OFFICE REPORT "” April 5-7, 2013(estimates from BoxOfficeMojo.com)
1. Evil Dead ($26 million)2. G.I. Joe: Retaliation ($21.1 million)(tie) The Croods ($21.1 million)4. Jurassic Park 3D ($18.2 million)5. Olympus Has Fallen ($10 million)
I should never bet against horror, especially that of the ultra-violent variety. I mean, there were seven Saw movies and two Hostels. Whether a movie needs to be remade or not has never been the issue. That's why we've seen all the landmark horror films (Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street) get remade and lose any sense of what made the originals so special. And so another classic chiller has been redone with a younger, prettier cast with all the humor and weirdness removed, replaced with gallons upon gallons of gore.
But audiences seem to love that, so Evil Dead opened in first place with an estimated $26 million. That's actually down among recent horror remakes, but still better than bottom-feeders like My Bloody Valentine, Prom Night and When a Stranger Calls. This makes sense, as Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series has always had more of a cult following than iconic films featuring Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy Krueger.
Second place was locked in a dead heat between Retaliation's second weekend and The Croods third. The latter will likely be the winner since family movies tend to perform better on Sundays than any other type of film.
Jurassic Park 3D didn't do quite as well as I thought it would, but $18.2 million and fourth place is quite impressive for a 20-year-old movie on a very busy weekend. Plus, it already made a killing during its initial run. In 1993, it made $357 million and became the year's top-grossing movie. That's the equivalent of nearly $700 million today.
Outside the top 5: - Big weekend for the arthouse as well. Danny Boyle's mind-bending Trance won the weekend, averaging $34,000 on each of its four screens. It expands next weekend.- Shane Carruth's self-released low-budget sci-fi head-scratcher Upstream Color made $31,500 on its lone screen. He's only made one film before this, the Dallas-shot Primer, about two dudes who accidentally create a time machine. It's absolutely worth watching, and it's available on Netflix Instant. - Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines (my review will be up later this week) still managed to do impressive business in its first weekend of expansion, taking in $23,167 on each of its 30 screens. It's expected to go into wide release next weekend.
Next week: We'll be treated to another unsubtle, glossed-over biopic of athletes who had to overcome racism, that will somehow still manage to be inspirational. See also: The Express, Glory Road. I fully expect 42 to just be white players saying things like, "You don't belong here," before Jackie Robinson hits a bunch of home runs in a montage set to Jay-Z's "Brooklyn Go Hard." It will be the No. 1 movie with $18 million. There's also, uh, Scary Movie 5, which expects us to laugh at a Black Swan parody in 2013, and expects us to be interested when Anna Faris isn't even around. I'm predicting $9 million at best.
Weekend Box Office Report: March 29-31 2013
Video: The Kings of Summer Making-Of Featurette
About Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.
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Stories from Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Relay for Life this Saturday (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
The fourth annual Clay County Relay For Life will kick off at 10 a.m. Saturday with the survivor's walk at Heritage Park in Piggott. The ceremony salutes cancer survivors and is sponsored by Piggott State Bank and Hoggard and Sons Funeral Home. Registration begins at 9 a.m. at the survivor's hospitality tent...
Piggott has easy win over Manila (High School Sports ~ 04/24/02)
Piggott took an easy win Monday in fast pitch softball defeating Manila 18 -3. Lauren Watson picked up the pitching victory for the Lady Mohawks. Piggott's catcher Krista Winchester pounded out three triples with four RBIs. Mandy Cale and Stephanie Hoggard each had two singles with Hoggard picking up two RBIs. Lauren Watson's single scored two RBIs in the win...
Seegraves named as coach of the year (High School Sports ~ 04/24/02)
PIGGOTT For the third time since 1993, Piggott head tennis coach Paul Seegraves has been named as coach of the year. In addition, coach Seegraves has also been nominated to sit on the state's seeding committee for his fourth consecutive year. Seegraves was named the district coach of the year in 1993, 1999 and 2002...
Lady Mohawks capture 3AAA-North district title (High School Sports ~ 04/24/02)
The Piggott Lady Mohawk tennis team came away with the 3AAA-North Ditstrict Championship by edging Highland 9-8 in team points. The team finishes the regular season with a 9-4 record. In singles play, Meagan Swann was the top seed and received a first round bye. ...
Opal Hanna (Obituary ~ 04/24/02)
Opal Hanna, 82, of St. Francis died Friday, April 19, 2002, at Piggott Community Hospital. She was born May 16, 1919, in Carryville, the daughter of the late Thomas and Effie Mae Hardin Moore. She married James B. Brawner on Aug. 11, 1936. To this union four children were born. He preceded her in death...
Jesse James Cullum (Obituary ~ 04/24/02)
Jesse James Cullum, 92, of Piggott died Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at Piggott Community Hospital. He was born Sept. 30, 1909, in Bee Branch, Ark., the son of the late William Jasper and Lura Mae Lunsford Cullum. He married Imogene Hooks on Nov. 17, 1934. To this union two children were born...
Democratic candidates draw for ballot positions (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
Democratic candidates met with the Clay County Central Democratic Committee Tuesday, April 16, to draw for positions on the May Primary ballot. Democratic nominees from the May Primary will face Republican and independent candidates in the November General Election...
Power rate study completed (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
The Piggott City Council heard the Southwestern Power Administration has completed its power repayment study for fiscal year 2002. During Monday night's utility meeting, utilities administrator Ted Bellers said the study indicates a 5.6 percent increase is needed in gross revenue...
Hemingway-Pfeiffer will celebrate wedding anniversary (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Paris wedding of Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer, the Arkansas State University Museum and the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center will present two special events in May. The featured speaker for both will be Cornelia Powell of Atlanta. ...
Bright little boy' will lead survivor's walk (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
Cancer does not discriminate in its choice of victims. Nine-year-old Kegan Burdin of Piggott is an example of this as he has battled brain cancer that robbed him of his eyesight. He will serve as this year's honorary chairman of the Clay County Relay For Life, which will be held Saturday at Heritage Park in Piggott, will lead the survivor's walk around Heritage Park Lake...
Lady Cougars wrap up regular season (High School Sports ~ 04/24/02)
The Rector Lady Cougars finished their slow pitch season last week splitting a doubleheader with the Corning Lady Bobcats. The Lady Cougars won the afternoon's opening game, 8-3, and dropped the nightcap, 4-1. Danielle Rose was the winning pitcher in the first game and also suffered the loss for Rector in the second game...
Action One edges ASB in pre-season Little League tourney (High School Sports ~ 04/24/02)
A masterful pitching performance by Andrew Mitchell and a clutch fifth inning RBI by Chris Winn enabled Action One to defeat American State Bank in the finals of the Marmaduke Pre-Season Little League Tournament Saturday morning. This, the 17th and final game of the tournament that started Monday April 15, began play just before 11:00 p.m. Friday night, but was not completed until Saturday morning...
Glen B. Stokes (Obituary ~ 04/24/02)
Glen B. Stokes, 81, of Warren, Mich., a native of Rector, died Sunday, April 7, 2002. He was born Oct. 1, 1920. He was reared in Rector and worked many years in Michigan. He is survived by his wife, Betty; granddaughter, Sara; one sister, Marie Powell of Rector; one brother, Joe Stokes and wife of Sterling Heights, Mich., and lots of nieces, nephews and friends...
Betty Sue Walker (Obituary ~ 04/24/02)
Betty Sue Walker, 71, of Marmaduke died Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at her home. A homemaker, she was born Dec. 10, 1930, in Greene County. She was of the Church of Christ faith. Survivors include seven sons, Larry Walker, Terry Walker, Billy Walker and Jimmy Walker, all of Marmaduke, Allen Walker of Rector, and Danny Walker and Clinton Walker, both of Paragould; five daughters, Patsy Phillips, Joella Carter and Barbara Bryant, all of Marmaduke, and Paula Rogers and Nancy Storms, both of Paragould; one brother, Clyde Stricklin of Grand Blanc, Mich.; one sister, Ruby Chamberlain of Rector, 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.. ...
Ballot positions drawn for primary (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
Peoples recognizes area's top graduates at dinner (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
Top graduating seniors from Rector and Marmaduke were among students honored when Peoples Bank held its seventh annual Academic All Star Banquet Tuesday night, April 16, at the Paragould Country Club. Rector seniors honored included Nicole Beacham, Cassie Palmer and Nichole Sears. Honored Marmaduke seniors were Cody Ashby, Tiffany Wallace and Valerie Keene...
Jessie is honored for her service, work (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
There were lots of smiles and lots of tears when Jessie Malin was honored Sunday afternoon as the Rector Woman's Club's 2002 Honored Lady of the Year. A large number of friends and family members were on hand to offer their love and congratulations to Mrs. Malin, and to share in the Rector Public Library's celebration of National Library Week...
A sojourn to the past (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
Did you ever wonder what life was like 50, 60 or even 80 years ago? Like many other communities, Marmaduke has a number of older citizens who can readily tell what life was like in the past. The Clay County Democrat recently tapped this priceless treasure by interviewing some of them. Their quotes and comments vividly recall another time long gone...
Local cell phone service slated to improve (Local News ~ 04/24/02)
Alltel customers are having a difficult time using their wireless service in and around Rector, and many want to know why. Jason Rupert, vice president of general management at Alltel in Jonesboro, says that the company currently is taking the steps necessary to greatly improve service...
Cougars hot heading into postseason (High School Sports ~ 04/24/02)
The Rector Cougars closed out their regular season in fitting fashion this past week posting wins and outscoring their opponents 29-2. "W're really playing well right now," head coach Jason Lance said Monday. The younger guys are really stepping up and playing good. We've been practicing nearly every weekend and the effort is now paying off."...
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Lawrence v. Rector, 137 U.S. 139 (1890)
Lawrence v. Rector
Argued November 6-7, 1890
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
The Court adheres to the views of the law expressed in its opinion delivered at the former trial of this case, Rector v. Gibbon, 111 U. S. 276, and finds that the decree below was made in accordance with them.
Under the peculiar circumstances of this case, having reference to the doubt as to title and to the evident good faith of the parties, the true measure of liability is the actual receipts from the property, and not its rental value, and in that respect the decree below is held to have been erroneous.
In equity. The case is stated in the opinion.
MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is the second time this case has been to this Court. It came first on demurrer to the bill, and the decision is reported in 111 U. S. 111 U.S. 276. The demurrer, which had been sustained in the circuit court, 9 F. 16, was overruled by this, and the case remanded with instructions to permit answer and proceed to proof. Obediently thereto, answer was filed in the circuit court and the case proceeded to proof and hearing. The history of the "Hot Springs" litigation, of which this is but a fragment, has been so often referred to in the opinions of this Court, particularly in the case in 111 U.S., supra, that reference thereto now is superfluous, and in reference to the principal matter in controversy here, the title to the lots, it is enough to say that every material fact alleged in the bill was proved, and that nothing was developed in answer or testimony to disturb the conclusions of law heretofore reached by chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
this Court. The matter of title was established by the decree of the circuit court in accordance with the views of the law entertained and announced by this Court, and there is nothing in the testimony to withdraw the case from the scope of that conclusion.
The circuit court entered a decree for title and also directed an accounting. That accounting, as finally settled, credited the defendant with the amount of taxes and assessments paid by him, the amount of purchase money paid to the United States for the lots, and the expenses incurred in obtaining the patent, and the amount due for improvements, on the basis of the lease which established the rights of the parties, and charged him with the money received on certificates from the government for buildings condemned and destroyed, and also the rental value of the premises from the time of the award of the commissioners to the date of the decree. We are of opinion that the rental value ought not to have been charged; that, under the peculiar circumstances of this case, having reference to the doubt that must have arisen as to the matter of title, to the prima facie effect of the award given by the commissioners, and to the evident good faith of all the parties in reference thereto, the true measure of liability is not the rental value, but the actual receipts. This account, as stated by the circuit court, was as follows:
To rent of premises . . . . . . . . . . . $ 9,541.66
To amount due on certificates for
condemned buildings . . . . . . . . . . 10,737.86
By amount of taxes and
assessments paid. . . . . . $ 2,306.98
By amount purchase money
paid for lots . . . . . . . 1,528.00
By amount expenses in
getting patent 112 35
By amount for improvements
as per covenant . . . . . . 8,666.67
Balance due Rector $ 7,665.52
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This account should be modified so as to charge defendants with amount received on certificates for condemned buildings, $10,737.86, and other amounts actually received from the property, $5,659.07; total, $16,396.93. From which, deducting the credits allowed, there remains a balance of $3,782.93.
The decree of the circuit court will therefore be modified, and the case
Remanded with instructions to enter a final decree, as heretofore, establishing the title of the complainant, and decreeing to him possession, and adjudging that he recover of the defendants the sum of $3,782.93, with interest from the 11th day of November, 1886, the time of the final decree.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1957)
B+ SDG Original source: National Catholic Register
Despite the formidable star power of no less than Julie Andrews, this original version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s made-for-TV musical Cinderella has been astonishingly neglected, overshadowed by the 1965 version starring Lesley Ann Warren.
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Directed by Ralph Nelson. Julie Andrews, Howard Lindsay, Dorothy Stickney, Ilka Chase, Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley, Edie Adams, Jon Cypher. CBS (TV).
Artistic/Entertainment Value
Moral/Spiritual Value
Age Appropriateness
Kids & Up
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Nothing objectionable.
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This oversight was largely due to technology; the 1957 version, broadcast live, was preserved only as a black-and-white kinescope (i.e., a film recording made directly from a television screen, intended for studio use rather than viewing purposes; ironically, the broadcast was in color, but the kinescope was made from a black-and-white television).
Now at last the kinescope has been remastered for home video, and Andrews’ first screen performance is finally available for her fans to enjoy. Already a stage star in the Cinderella role of My Fair Lady’s Eliza Dolittle, Julie Andrews as Cinderella is a no-brainer, and the 1957 version is worth seeing for her performance and singing alone. At the same time, it’s fair to note that the 22-year-old star lacks the wide-eyed ingenue quality the 19-year-old Warren brought to her debut role in the 1965 version.
The 1957 version opens on a strong note with a rousing rendition of “The Prince is Giving a Ball,” and benefits from charming material involving the Prince’s royal family cut from later versions. But Edith Adams’s baton-twirling fairy-godmother-as-cheerleader dates poorly, and moving the glass-slipper scene from Cinderella’s house to the palace (almost making Cinderella a sort of royals stalker) is a bad idea. On the other hand, I like the way the denouement of this version softens Cinderella’s stepfamily and their ultimate fate.
Tags: Fairy Tales, Family, Musical, Romance
Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella is such a gallant anachronism, such a grandly unreconstructed throwback, that it offers, without ever raising its voice, a ringing cross-examination of our whole era of dark, gritty fairy-tale revisionism.
There may be no dethroning the Disney cartoon as the definitive musical retelling of the story of Cinderella in the popular imagination; but for my money Rodgers & Hammerstein’s made-for-TV musical is a better take on the timeless fairy tale set in stone by Charles Perrault, and a better introduction to the story for children.
Coming in the wake of a string of early classics — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi — Disney’s Cinderella represents, alas, the early stages of Disney-itis.
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The Basic Pleasure Model
Saturday 13th February 2016. To the British Library for the exhibition West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song. I allow an hour but it’s still not enough. This is something I forget is often the case with the big BL shows. The gallery numbers only a few rooms yet it’s always crammed full of intriguing displays, virtually all of them demanding careful consideration. As the staff usher the visitors out at 5pm, I glance in frustration at the items I have to miss, feeling somehow punished. It’s the last week of the show, too.
What I do see are craved Adinkra stamps from Ghana, used to hand-print symbols on fabric. One stamp is a star-like symbol, meant to ward off jealousy. The full translation is: ‘Someone’s wish is to see my doom’. All that in a star.
I’m also fascinated by a letter from Laurence Sterne to his friend Ignatius Sancho, the former slave turned London writer and composer. In 1766, while Tristram Shandy was published in serial form to huge acclaim, Sancho asked Sterne if he’d consider writing something to raise awareness of slavery. Sterne replied that, by a ‘strange coincidence’, the chapter of Shandy he’d just finished included ‘a tender tale of the sorrows of a friendless poor negro-girl.’
The novelist went on to affirm his solidarity: ‘If I can weave the Tale I have wrote into the Work I’m [about]— ‘tis at the service of the afflicted—and a much greater matter; for in serious truth, it casts a sad Shade upon the World, that so great a part of it, are and have been so long bound in chains of darkness & in Chains of Misery.’
When Sterne’s correspondence was published in 1775, it aided the anti-slavery campaign and made Sancho a literary celebrity. When he died, he was the first African to receive an obituary in the British press.
Sunday 14th February 2016. Valentine’s day. I enjoy an animated GIF of an elderly William Burroughs talking to Alan Ginsberg.
Ginsberg: Do you want to be loved?
Burroughs: Oh… (lugubrious pause) Not really…
I think I’ve seen the full clip in a documentary. Burroughs goes on to add, ‘By my cats, perhaps.’ I don’t believe his not wanting to be loved, but it’s a good answer.
I also learn that February 14th 2016 is the ‘inception’ day in Blade Runner for Pris, the blonde ‘basic pleasure model’ android. As played so wonderfully by Darryl Hannah. I like to think of myself as a ‘basic pleasure model’ too.
Evening: I watch the Film BAFTAs, hosted by Stephen Fry, now pretty much the British Oscars. The Revenant triumphs, with Leo DiCaprio taking Best Actor. A mistake, in my view. His character is barely a character at all. He’s more of a generic everyman that a couple of unkind things happen to. First an unkind bear, then an unkind Tom Hardy. As far I remember, most of his performance consists of grunting, wincing and looking pained. I get enough of that on the Northern Line.
Monday 15th February 2016. Modern priorities. The big news story on the electronic board at St Pancras is that Stephen Fry has left Twitter.
Apparently, his quip at the BAFTAs about the Best Costume Design winner looking like a ‘bag lady’ produced something of an angry reaction from people on Twitter. For Mr Fry it was the last straw, and he closed down his account.
I sympathise, having just re-read Jon Ronson’s book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, now reissued with an extra chapter about the book’s reception. Essentially Ronson received Twitter attacks himself, for daring to call for empathy for people like Justine Sacco. Sacco was an American PR woman who posted a joke on Twitter, intended to mock ignorance over AIDS in Africa. Instead, it lost all context (context being the first casualty of social media). By itself, the tweet ended up looking like a straightforward racist joke. Thousands of people on Twitter roasted her alive. She was sacked from her job and spent a year rebuilding her reputation. Ronson’s book about showing compassion for such cases has now been seen by some – incredibly – as a defence of white privilege. Those who attacked Ms Sacco regard her as deserving of being ‘called out’. The trouble is, as the book puts it, ‘the snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche’.
This is what seems to have happened with Stephen Fry. Lots of people thinking that, because he’s in a position of privilege, he needs to be held to account for his public remarks. The problem is, Twitter can turn well-intentioned criticism into an out-of-control, disproportionate firestorm of raw hatred. People are not to blame: it’s really the fault of the medium. A virtual reality founded on a frustration of space – 140 characters at a time – can only engender a distortion of meaning. If I were firestormed with angry messages, I’d close my account too. Life’s too short.
Thursday 18th February 2016
Evening: seminar at Birkbeck on Jonathan Lethem’s inspired novel Motherless Brooklyn, about a detective with Tourette’s syndrome. We discuss it in relation to Sontag’s book Illness as a Metaphor. One essay on the Lethem book suggests Ian McEwan’s Saturday as an example of how not to do illness as a metaphor. McEwan’s hoodlum, Baxter, has a convenient neurological condition that screams ‘metaphor for violence!’ to the reader. Lethem’s protagonist, meanwhile, is a more fleshed-out character who is fully aware where his personality ends and his condition begins.
More interesting, though, is Lethem’s referencing of pop single remixes, such as the extended 12” version of Prince’s ‘Kiss’. His Tourette’s hero, Lionel Essrog, hears the extra minutes of the Prince remix as ‘a four minute catastrophe of chopping, grunting, hissing and slapping sounds… apparently designed as a private message of confirmation to my delighted Tourette’s brain… The nearest thing in art to my condition’. It’s like a healing version of American Psycho.
Saturday 20th February 2016. The back pain persists. I go to a flat in King’s Cross to take up Ms Dorcas Pelling’s offer of massage therapy. This turns out to be a combination of reflexology, Swedish massage, deep tissue, and trigger point. Dorcas adds her voice to the conclusion of the osteopaths: muscular rather than spinal. Forty-four years of knotted tension. As I write this, I’m still very sore from the treatment. The pain of removing pain.
Tags: back pain, birkbeck, British Library, dorcas pelling, jon ronson, jonatham lethem, stephen fry, twitter
The American Way Of Shame
Saturday 7th March 2015.
An article in the Guardian profiles Ed Miliband on the campaign trail. With his second-class train travel and his unexpected love of snooker, he finally comes across a real person, even likeable, rather than as a collection of learned PR tactics. Though that too is a PR tactic. It’s like Hollywood giving Debbie Reynolds the image of the girl next door. As the old joke goes, the secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Meanwhile the Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, has reached a higher plateau of public visibility. A professional look-a-likes company has added a Natalie B impersonator to its books. Success of a kind.
Monday 9th March 2015.
In the evening: to Birkbeck’s Keynes Library for an event about postgraduate courses.
The difference between BAs and MAs is reflected in the racks of leaflets available in the Gordon Square lobby. The BA leaflets are A4 and bright pink, suggesting the courses are cute, childlike, even huggy. The leaflets for the MA courses, meanwhile, are A5 and battleship grey. It implies they’re all about increased concentration, seriousness, no waste, no mucking about.
What throws me for six is that tonight I find out that applications for MA bursaries, as in grants to fund a Master’s this autumn, have to be in by the end of April. Which means applying for the course itself earlier than that.
So much of my week is spent worrying about MAs, which I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do until the summer. The funding alone seems to be a complete minefield: it’s not helped by ‘part-fee waiver’ bursaries, which don’t actually tell you the sum you are applying for. As with so much of modern life now, getting paid at all is meant to be a delightful surprise.
Many bursaries seem to be outrageously narrow in their requirements: ‘Applicable only for students from Tanzania, with a first class degree, who are looking to do an MA in Postal Museum Management. In Hull. Must love dogs.’
Tuesday 10th March 2015.
Still worrying about what to do with myself after the degree. I ask some friends. Some say it’s better to go straight into an MA, others recommend taking a year off. Some think I should get a job alongside it, to cover the inevitable shortfall in funding. Though no one has said what job.
Still, they pretty much all agree that academia is something I should pursue in the long run. It is, after all, the one thing in my recent life where I’ve actually been a success (if an unpaid one).
The question now is: which MA course, which institution, and when? This autumn, or defer to the year after that? And should I stay in London or look further afield?
My answer today is, pathetically, I don’t know. My mind is too full of the dissertation and the remaining BA essays to think about anything else. I’ve spent a few cursory hours looking courses up, but nothing yet takes my interest.
However, I have at least applied to do a Birkbeck MA that does leap out at me: Contemporary Literature and Culture. Whatever happens, it’ll be good to have that set up as an option for this autumn. I don’t have to formally commit until then.
Tonight I start to fill out the huge online MA application form. It’s one of those with Mandatory Asterisks of Doom, where the page won’t let you proceed until you enter something in a box. This one wants me to upload my GCSE certificates, as they are still my most recent formal qualifications. The BA’s not done yet, and I never took A-levels.
I never feel that a set of dusty acronyms acquired decades ago have any bearing on a much-changed person today. I’m not even the same person I was at the beginning of this sentence, frankly. And that’s not flimsiness, that’s evolution. No, really.
Wednesday 11th March 2015.
Reading Jon Ronson’s latest book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. A fascinating and copiously-researched work, which asks if social media has brought about an atavistic return to public executions, if figurative ones. Certainly, there’s been an almost daily occurrence of stories in the UK news, where someone has had to apologise for something they said on the internet. But many of the people in this book aren’t politicians or public figures, merely members of the public who were crucified online after posting ill-advised tweets.
I think it’s significant that the majority of Mr R’s subjects are American. Americans do shame so much bigger and better than the British. The way the people in the book react when speaking to Mr R is often acutely emotional and over-the-top: a touch of the Hollywoods. One talks about his shame being ‘radioactive’ – that it might be catching. He is called ‘tainted’ by other Americans.
The British, meanwhile, are far more circumspect with their shame. They secretly think it’s shameful to be British at all.
I wonder if the book’s long list of acknowledgments is Jon R’s safeguard against not falling into the trap of two of his subjects: journalists caught fabricating the truth in their work. I’m reminded of the case of Johann Hari, the crusading Independent journalist who was found to have made up quotes, and was soon shamed out of his job, albeit in a quieter, British way.
But Jon Ronson’s style is very different to Hari’s: he questions his own reactions at every stage, and keeps the tone (mostly) compassionate, rather than judgemental. If anything is being shamed in his book, it’s not people, but the internet.
Thursday 12th March 2015.
Tea at the Wolseley with Lawrence Gullo and Fyodor Pavlov, visiting from NYC. Also present: the cabaret artiste Vicky Butterfly and my rock musician neighbour, David R-P. Fyodor is Russian, and gives David and myself a huge bag of Russian sweets. Some are chocolates, some are wafers, some are mini versions of Penguin biscuits, and some are boiled sweets.
The sweet wrappers have Cyrillic script alongside different baffling images: swans, masquerade masks, scary doll-like children in headscarves, and lobsters.
Haven’t been to the ornate Wolseley in years. Delighted to see that their straightforward Cream Tea is still affordable, at £10.75 for a plate of scones, jam and cream, and a pot of tea, with refills. Cheap classiness – very me.
The discussion turns to aging. Learned today: Crispin Gray, the guitarist of the early 90s band Daisy Chainsaw, and currently in The Dogbones, is a descendant of the Victorian poet John Gray. As in the rumoured inspiration for Wilde’s Dorian. Fittingly, Crispin doesn’t seem to have aged since 1991.
Friday 13th March 2015.
I fear I am developing a brioche habit.
Tags: birkbeck, fyodor pavlov, jon ronson, Lawrence Gullo
The Best Thing About You Is That You Remind Me Of Me
Friday 9th May 2014. This week’s work: drafting the final essay for the third year. For me it’s the most difficult part of the process, the writing from scratch. Once it moves into the editing and polishing side of things I’m far more confident.
When I edit, it’s like the text has been supplied by someone else – the Dickon Edwards of a few days before. This Dickon used to get upset when Dickon The Ruthless Editor butchered his work, cutting whole paragraphs and moving them around. But now he accepts that his raw creativity must look its best for the reader. Perhaps in my case editing is like putting an awkward body into a nice suit. With a bibliography as a pocket square handkerchief.
I’ve tried to bring this latest essay right up to date by discussing The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wes Anderson’s film uses a triple frame device about authors. The effect lends credibility to the surreal tale which takes up most of the film. It’s the storyteller as authority figure, which goes back to the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights and the Indian Panchatantra before that.
One theory why the ancient love of stories-within-stories went out of fashion is the Renaissance’s focus upon the individual, as a unified, separate whole. What’s changed now is that people are encouraged to see themselves as splinters of a community again, albeit the virtual community of the internet. Instead of nested narratives we have networked narratives. One especially sees this on Twitter, where the urge to ‘retweet’ takes us right back to sharing tales around the campfire. Except that the campfire is now the size of the world.
To the basement of the Atlantis Bookshop, in Museum Street, for a private view. The exhibition is Stephen Harwood’s ‘Visions of England’. The paintings are landscapes in vivid and fiery oils. What’s unusual is that Harwood has not visited the places himself. Instead, they are recreations of stills taken entirely from the films of Derek Jarman, particularly The Garden (1990) and A Journey To Avebury (1971). Mr Harwood makes the connection between the Neolithic standing stones of Wiltshire and Jarman’s driftwood posts, punctuating his shingle garden at Dungeness.
The Atlantis Bookshop specialises in the occult. A poster announces that its next event is the launch of a pack of Tarot cards based on the stories of Sherlock Holmes. Fan fiction, just as Harwood’s paintings are Jarman fan fiction. But then, fan fiction is an occult practice in itself: the alchemy of transforming old magic into something new.
Saturday 10th May 2014. To the National Portrait Gallery with Mum, for the exhibition David Bailey: Stardust. The photographer as party animal. It’s a huge exhibition that takes up the entire ground floor of the NPG. Many of the photographs are blown up to beyond life-size. The one that sums Mr Bailey up is a portrait of him with Salvador Dali. Dali too liked being around celebrity and glamour as much as he did making art, but then party-going is an important art form too, if it’s the right party.
There’s also a magazine cover which puts the young Bailey next to Cecil Beaton, with quotes by each one upon the other. To his credit, Bailey is thoughtful and accurate about Beaton’s talent. Beaton just uses Bailey to talk about himself. ‘The best thing about you is that you remind me of me.’
Monday 12th May 2014. I have a phone landline in my home, but like a lot of people I mainly use it for access to the internet. If I do make the mistake of answering the phone, it’s nearly always a sales team. I realise there are services to prevent these calls, but I’ve tried them all. I still get the calls.
The person on the other end always begins their onslaught with ‘how are you today?’ It is the most depressing phrase in the English language. Not ‘how are you’, which a friend might say, but ‘how are you today’. Only the cold world of commerce adds the ‘today’.
I used to reply to this with ‘Well, Dear Heart, the ‘how’ that I am today is considerably less happy, now that I‘ve realised your sole interest in me is for my money, and not, as I was hoping, for the beauty of my eyes.’ But now I just hang up and put on the answering machine.
Tuesday 13th May 2014. To the Barbican cinema to see the film Frank. It’s my first visit to the cinema (now retitled Cinema One), though I’ve been going to the Barbican centre since a school trip in 1983. Back then, the Barbican’s brass banisters produced a loud crackle of static under one’s hands, something which provided endless pleasure for us children. We were really there to learn about the changing face of London, coupling this visit with one to the Museum of London next door. But the lesson which most remained was that statically charged banisters are a lot of fun. The banisters are now long gone. Or perhaps, long properly earthed.
The cinema screen is on floor Minus Two, on a level beneath the underground car park. As it was opened in the early 80s it makes me think of nuclear bunkers, Protect and Survive, and Threads. I wonder if it was ever on a list of places in which to take refuge during a nuclear attack. It wouldn’t be so bad, stuck down there as the bombs fell. A capacity of 280, a bar and an ice cream kiosk.
The film Frank turns out to be highly enjoyable and inventive, though the ending is incredibly sad. It’s the tale of a young Englishman – based on Jon Ronson, who co-wrote the script – who joins an eccentric American rock band, where the lead singer, Frank, constantly wears a huge papier-mâché head. There’s lots of ingenious uses of Twitter and You Tube – it’s possibly the first film that successfully depicts online life in that way. The young Englishman is played by the likeable ginger boy from About Time, while the man inside the fake head is Mr Fassbender, who has a track record of playing troubled yet charismatic men – he was Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre. The intrigue of the film is, as the ginger boy says, to work out ‘what goes on inside that head, inside that head’.
At the end, the film announces that it was inspired by the cult comedy-rock star Frank Sidebottom. It should add, ‘but only a little’. As Mr Ronson’s accompanying book Frank explains, there’s also aspects that draw on the story of Daniel Johnston. And there’s bits of Captain Beefheart and The Shaggs in there, too.
The film’s Frank is, like Johnston, a child-like Texan with mental health problems. Sidebottom, on the other hand, was a fictional character from the Manchester suburb of Timperley, played by a man who may have been devoted to his art, but who certainly didn’t live with the head always on. And Sidebottom was as much defined by his nasal Mancunian accent as he was the head.
In 1991 I witnessed Chris Sievey performing Frank Sidebottom for Marc Radcliffe’s BBC Manchester radio show. The head was nowhere in sight. Instead, there was just a brown-haired, ordinary-looking man in his thirties, speaking in a radio studio, albeit with a clip on his nose.
As it is, the real Frank Sidebottom has already appeared in a film. In Filth, James McAvoy watches an old Sidebottom TV show, then impersonates the voice for a phone prank.
Thursday 15th May 2014. I’m in the café of John Lewis, with its views across rooftops. As I wait to pay for my pot of tea, a man in a suit comes over to the cashier from the table area. He complains that none of the available tables have been cleared of their dirty cups. Moments later, he comes over again, this time asking for a wet cloth with which to clean a coffee stain on his shirt. He adds that this was their fault, as it was caused (somehow) by his trying to move the dirty plates while he was still holding his own tray. Shortly after that he comes over again, this time because his food isn’t hot enough. I look around. There are plenty of empty tables, with no dirty cups on them.
There is a moment when I wonder if he is acting for a hidden camera prank, so great is his umbrage. Or that he is doing it as part of a ‘social experiment’, which is really just a prank with a good lawyer.
When I used to watch those Jeremy Beadle TV shows, I envied the reactions of the people who were duped. Not their reactions as the prank was going on, but their reactions afterwards, the expressions of relief when all was revealed. I wondered if some people reacted more like me. Their confusion might turn not to relief but to even more confusion.
‘You don’t understand, Jeremy. I have a slippery enough grasp on reality as it is.’
Tags: atlantis bookshop, barbican, birkbeck, daniel johnston, david bailey, fan fiction, frank, frank sidebottom, john lewis, jon ronson, mum, national portrait gallery, npg, the grand budapest hotel, wes anderson
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Happy? Blocked!
Like a fool, yesterday I let temptation get the better of me. I went on one of those ‘Who Unfollowed Me On Twitter’ sites. Such a Pandora’s box. I suppose the emotion behind doing so comes from the game-like nature of Twitter, which insists on associating one’s name with a total number of ‘followers’. As if to say, ‘this is your score in life’. So when you see the number going down, and you know there’s a site which tells you just who has had enough of you, Dame Insecurity takes over. And there they are. Sometimes it’s just strangers trying you out, and realising you’re not for them. But sometimes it’s people you were following back, people you thought were kindred spirits. Friends in real life, sometimes. One shouldn’t take it personally, but of course, one does.
On this occasion, I discovered I’d been not just unfollowed but ‘blocked’. Blocking is a Twitter button usually reserved – as far as I understand it – for those who have been actively spamming or abusing or otherwise pestering someone – it completely cuts off further contact either way. The person who’d blocked me was a music journalist I rather liked, whom I’d chatted to a few times in the Twittery way, enthusing about shared interests. I’d never had any kind of arguments with him, or bombarded him with unasked-for Tweets, and I hadn’t even Tweeted “at” him directly for a week or so. So now I’d instantly became steeped in Kakfa-esque paranoia – what had I said? It’s the not knowing that irks the most.
In order to stop myself going completely insane with worry, I did the other Pandora’s box thing (in for a Pandora’s penny, in for a pound) – I logged out of my own Twitter account in order to look at his public timeline. And there it was, a Tweet referring to blocking someone who had annoyed him because… they had Tweeted about their essay marks. I instantly knew, with a horrible sinking feeling, that he must have meant me.
What can I say? I’d managed to get some very good marks and was really happy about doing so, and I shared this fact on Twitter. Not directly to Mr Blocker (that’s the bit I don’t get), but generally, openly. Why? Because I like it when other people do the same – I like hearing of their successes, book deals, appearances on TV & radio, babies, marriages, running marathons, all of it. I like people to be happy! And I suppose I naively thought people on Twitter thought the same.
Clearly not…
I guess one person’s idea of spontaneously expressing happiness is another’s person idea of a nauseating, undignified and smug boast.
But then again, perhaps my blocker didn’t realise how much it meant to me. Or perhaps he saw my Tweets while having a particularly bad day. Or perhaps he doesn’t realise that blocking is not the same as unfollowing. The element of not knowing goes further still, and it goes both ways. Oh well.
I don’t bear him the slightest ill-will, mind, because it was really my fault for going on that website in the first place. In fact, I’d like to apologise for annoying him, only I can’t, because he’s blocked me.
At least I’ve learned a couple of lessons, though. One is to never go on those ‘who unfollowed me’ sites ever again – it only ends in tears. Another is that I should restrain from Tweeting things about my college life – if it drove him to blocking me, it must have annoyed a few others too.
Besides, I have this diary for such things.
So, readers who find accounts of college work annoying or just boring might want to look away. For the next three and a bit years. Sorry.
This time last year I was approaching forty, and was wondering what the hell I should do with myself. My attempts at a sustainable career as a musician & songwriter, or a freelance writer, or a DJ, or a club promoter, or working in offices and shops and museums, had all fizzled out. Either I wasn’t good enough at them, or I just didn’t have the enthusiasm to keep at them for very long, or I just wanted to try something else. I was beginning to question if I was actually good at anything at all, to be honest.
Then a kind friend – Emily B – pointed out a journalism course for postgraduates, not realising I didn’t even have an A level to my name. I told her I wasn’t qualified, but thanks, and… wait a minute, that reminds me! A mothballed ambition at the back of my mind came alive, and I realised I really, really, really wanted to do a degree. I’d dropped out of A-levels after an unhappy episode at school, meaning I couldn’t do a degree at the time most people do them. Since then, it was always something I knew I wanted to do. I just had forgotten about it. Until now.
Such a wonderful feeling, to actually know what you want to do.
(oh, and there was that business about the fees going up if I left it any longer)
I’m not doing much else in my life at the moment – the degree is pretty much what I’m living for. Since starting the course last October my essay marks have been, in order, 69, 69, 70, 71, and 75. I’m putting the work in, and it’s paying off – I’m improving as an academic. For an English Literature degree, a First is 70 or above. I don’t find the work easy in the slightest – it’s hard and riddled with frustration, not least because I have dyspraxia (essentially meaning I’m slower and more scatterbrained than the average student), and it’s been over 20 years since I was last in formal education. So, yes, I’m quite happy about my marks. If that’s all right with the rest of the world.
As it is, I worry of the common British Twitter emotion of Default Scorn. It’s actually more exhausting than cathartic, to have to join in with collective knee-jerk umbrage about some article in the Daily Mail (don’t link to it then!), or fixating on this columnist or that columnist or whatever it is today.
(stomach still aching, getting very boring now)
P.S. A few people have now told me they do like hearing of how I’m doing at college. And yes, I know this is a very petty story, and I’m being a bit thin-skinned and over-sensitive on this. It’s just being honest. Which is what got me blocked in the first place. But this is my first awareness of being blocked on Twitter, and my first and last comment on the unhappy, if ultimately ephemeral experience. I just needed to, well, unblock my thoughts on it.
Tags: annoying people, college, stomach, twitter
Friday 6 April 2012
Maundy Mopping-Up
I’m spending Easter writing essays for college and hoping a rather painful stomach ache goes away. Think it’s a return of the dreaded IBS, made worse by stress over the essays. Am hitting the peppermint capsules and hoping for the best.
Recent outings…
Saturday 31 March was another stint of DJ-ing for the Last Tuesday Society, at the Adam Street club off the Strand. After I’d finished I stuck around and caught a performance by an excellent African band, Kasai Masai. Their giddy, hypnotic music fitted the atmosphere perfectly.
Sunday: tea in Highgate with Ella Lucas, then we both wandered into town, taking in the National Portrait Gallery and South Bank. I’d been reading Virginia Woolf – Icon by Brenda Silver (1999), which claimed Ms Woolf’s photo (this one) was the best selling postcard in the NPG shop. I ask the NPG staff whose postcard sells the most today. They’re not sure, but reckon it to be between Kate Moss, Prince William & Prince Harry, the Queen by Warhol, Lily Cole, and Darcey Bussell. Ms Woolf’s face still does well though – a Woolf-branded notebook has sold out.
Monday last was the launch of Richard King’s book about the story of British indie labels, How Soon Is Now. I was kindly invited by Richard himself, and I asked my old bandmate Simon Kehoe along (from the first Orlando line-up), seeing as he’d just moved to London and was looking for things to go to. Turns out Simon had been invited too – he and Richard were once in the Bristol band Teenagers In Trouble during the 90s. Simon also brought another bandmate along, Kevin from The Foaming Beauties, whom I met for the first time. So at some point Simon managed to assemble representatives of all his past bands in the same room – and got a photo of all of us too.
Simon, Kevin and myself started the evening in Soho with drinks at the French House and dinner at the Stockpot (a deliberate attempt to have an Old Soho evening), before going on to the launch event at the Social in Fitzrovia. The launch included Bob Stanley DJ-ing, a chat about the nature of indie music between Messrs King and Stanley with Owen Hatherley, and a short but utterly fantastic acoustic set by Edwyn Collins, backed by James Walbourne and Andy Hackett. They performed dazzling versions of ‘Falling And Laughing’, ‘Rip It Up’, ‘A Girl Like You’ and ‘Blueboy’.
Chatted to Grace Maxwell (Edwyn Collins’s partner, whom I’ve met before when my brother Tom was playing for Edwyn) and Jeanette Lee (from Rough Trade, who signed Orlando to Warners, and was once in PiL). Bought a copy of the book from a lady who later turned out to be Louise Brealey, the actress who plays Molly From The Morgue on Sherlock. Just as well I didn’t realise this at the time, as I’d downed rather a lot of wine by this point and had reached that stage of solipsistic drunkenness which is just about acceptable for friends, but deeply tiresome for strangers. I realise now I must have annoyed Lee Brackstone from Faber Books too, which I’m rather shamefaced about (sorry, Mr B). Still, it was a rare event; a class reunion of a kind, and a celebration of past lives and passions.
Tom is currently playing guitar for Adam Ant in Australia (photo of him onstage in Perth here). So proud of him.
Some new works by other people worthy of greater exposure:
New albums:
CN Lester – Ashes (available here).
Stunning debut collection of haunting, late-night torch songs. I first saw the androgynous CN play at a Transgender Day Of Remembrance service, and am so pleased they’ve released an album. Here’s to many more.
The Monochrome Set – Platinum Coils. (available here)
An unexpected, wonderful surprise; a brand new CD by the MS, their first since the mid 90s. Arch, crooning, twangy guitar pop, sounding just as fresh as their late 70s and early 80s records.
New books:
Richard King – How Soon is Now? The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music 1975-2005. (Richard has a blog here)
As bought at the above launch. Satisfyingly doorstop-sized, engrossing account of the history of labels like Mute, Factory, Creation and Rough Trade. Focuses on tales of music and money (the lack of it, the making of it, the wasting of it) and the way indie labels and artists took on the mainstream, not always certain of what they were doing. The notorious appearance of the KLF at the Brit Awards being a case in point.
Jen Campbell – Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops (Jen’s blog is here). Jen C works at Ripping Yarns, the used and antiquarian bookshop down the road from me in Highgate. The book collects some of the strange requests and utterations that she’s heard, illustrated with line drawings which are also rather weird, in a sweet sort of way.
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A Short History of Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash rivers. Several other rivers traverse its countryside, including the Big and Little Muddy, Little Wabash, Saline, and Cache rivers. The southern part of the state is characterized by wooded hills, farms, underground coal mines, strip mines, and low marsh lands.
The Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois covers over 277,500 acres of the region. The Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuse contains many different wildlife including deer, geese, ducks, owls, wild turkeys, and many other bird species. Fifteen State Parks, recreation, and conservation areas are located within the region (see Sites and Recreation.)
The earliest inhabitants of Illinois were thought to have arrived about 12,000 B.C. They were hunters and gatherers but developed a primitive system of agriculture and eventually built rather complex urban areas that included earthen mounds. Their culture seemed to die out around 1400-1500 A.D.
The Illini Indian tribes, after whom the state is named, and other Indian tribes arrived in Illinois around 1500 A.D. Archeologists are not certain if these Indians are were related to the previous inhabitants. They left behind all manner of artifact including burial sites, burned-out campfires along the bases of bluffs, pottery, flints, implements, and weapons. Interesting structures that were built by Indian tribes are known as stone forts or pounds. Visitors can see a stone fort built in Giant City State Park near Makanda. At least eight other structures are known in the region.
The French were the first Europeans to reach Illinois in about 1673. When they arrived, the Indians welcomed them. It was French explorers who gave Illinois its name by referring to the land where the Illini Indians lived as the Illinois.
The French explored the Mississippi River, establishing outposts and seeking a route to the Pacific Ocean and the Orient. Because of increasing Indian unrest and warfare in northern Illinois, the French concentrated on building outposts in the southern part. The earliest European settlers in Southern Illinois concentrated along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash rivers at the southern end of the state. Their settlements became important way stations and supply depots between Canada and ports on the lower Mississippi River. Important early outposts in Southern Illinois were located at Shawneetown and Fort Massac on the Ohio River.
The English ruled the Lower Great Lakes region after defeating the French in the French and Indian War and with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Their rule of this area was short lived.
During the American Revolution in 1778, the state of Virginia backed a military expedition led by 23 year old George Rogers Clark. Landing at Fort Massac in Illinois (which was abandoned a decade earlier), his force of 175 soldiers marched across Southern Illinois and defeated the English at forts in Kaskaskia, Illinois and Vincennes in western Indiana. This laid the claim by the Americans to this territory. When news of the conquest by Clark reached Virginia, it claimed Illinois as one of its counties. Virginia ceded the county of Illinois to the federal government in 1784 when it realized that it could not govern so sparsely populated and distant land.
Non-French speaking settlers were slow to arrive in Illinois probably less than 2,000 non-Indians lived in Illinois in 1800. But soon thereafter many more settlers came from the backwoods areas of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. These early settlers were of English, German, Scottish, and Irish descent. They chose to settle in the southern part of Illinois as its wooded hills reminded them of the mountains they left behind. They found an abundant amount of wood and lived off the land; growing some crops, fishing, and hunting for game.
In 1787, the federal government included Illinois in the Northwest Ordinance that included Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Illinois became a part of the Indiana Territory in 1800. Illinois settlers wanted more control over their own affairs and Illinois became a separate territory in 1809.
On December 17, 1811 a great earthquake awakened the settlers in Illinois with a violent trembling. Fields rippled like waves on an ocean. Trees swayed, became tangled together, and snapped off with sounds like gunshots. In some places sand, coal, and smoke blew up into the air as high as thirty yards. People as far away as Canada and Maryland felt the tremors. It was reported that the earthquake shook so violently that tremors were felt as far away as Boston.
It was reported that this earthquake made the Mississippi River flow backward momentarily. The river changed its course in several spots as a result of the earthquake as new islands appeared and others disappeared in the river. The earthquake is estimated to have been equivalent to an 8.0 on the Richter scale, although the Richter scale did not exist at that time. Fortunately, few people lost their lives because the quake centered in a sparsely populated area. Called the New Madrid fault, seismic activity is a threat to this region today.
There was very little violence in the Illinois frontier. Murders and violent assaults were rarely reported. However, for a few decades there were bandits and river pirates operating along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. On the Ohio River, these bandits and pirates often located in or near Cave-in-Rock, a natural cave facing the river. The bandits and pirates added to the hazards and uncertainties of pioneer life and made settlers eager to have law enforcement agencies nearby.
In 1818 the U.S. Congress approved an Act that enabled the Illinois territory to become the 21st state of the Union. Immigration to Illinois increased after it became a state as more settlers arrived from New England and foreign countries. These settlers tended to migrate to central and northern Illinois, causing a noticeable Yankee influence in northern Illinois as opposed to the southern influence in the southern region due to a majority of settlers coming from southern states. The states population exploded from 40,000 people in 1818 to 270,000 in 1835. The 1850 census reported that 900,000 people lived in Illinois.
Early statehood problems engulfed Illinois. In the 1830s the state was near bankruptcy because of government financing of canals and railroad construction. The national financial panic of 1837 added to the states problems before the prosperity of the 1850s relieved this situation. Railroads, such as the Illinois Central Railroad, were built to allow the state's agricultural products to be shipped to market.
Sometime in the 1830s, Southern Illinois became known as Egypt or Little Egypt. The most likely reason this region is known as Little Egypt is because settlers from northern Illinois came south to buy grain during years when they had poor harvests in the 1830s just as ancient people had traveled to Egypt to buy grain (Genesis 41:57 and 42:1-3). Later, towns in Southern Illinois were named Cairo, Thebes, and Karnak, just as in the country of Egypt.
In 1830, Congress passed a bill permitting the removal of all native Indians living east of the Mississippi River. For the next 20 years, Indians were marched west to reservations in Arkansas and Oklahoma, including the bands of the Illini Indians in Illinois. In the Fall and Winter of 1838-39, Cherokee Indians were marched out of Georgia and the Carolinas across Southern Illinois to reservations in the west. It was estimated that 2,000 to 4,000 Cherokee men, women, and children died during this 1,000 mile journey west. It became known as the Trail of Tears due to the many hardships and sorrows it brought to the Indians.
The first bank to be chartered in Illinois was located at Old Shawneetown in 1816. The first building used solely to house a bank in Illinois was built in 1840 in Old Shawneetown and was used until the 1920s. The Old Shawneetown State Bank has been restored as an historical site.
Cotton and tobacco was grown in the extreme southern region of Illinois. Cotton was grown mostly for the home weaver, but during the Civil War enough cotton was grown for export since a regular supply of cotton from the South was not available. Enough tobacco was grown to make it a profitable crop for export. Cotton and tobacco are no longer grown for export in the region. Other crops grown for export included maple syrup, honey, grapes, roots, berries, crab apples, plums, persimmons, mushrooms, nuts, fish, deer, fowl, hogs, cattle, and poultry. The invention of the steamboat greatly expanded the profitability of crops exported from Illinois.
The County of Saline was named for its ancient salt works along the Saline River. It attracted deer, buffalo, and antelope that obtained salt simply by licking the mud banks along the river where Indians and the French made salt. From 1810 until 1873 their was commercial production of salt that produced as much as 500 bushels a day. The owner of one of the salt works built a large house in the 1830s on the Saline River near Equality, known today as the Old Slave House. Still standing, its small attic rooms were thought to be used to house slaves or indentured servants who toiled in the salt works.
Even though it was prohibited since the 1780s under the Northwest Ordinance that established the territory, slavery continued in Illinois. Indian tribes were the first to have slaves (usually captives from another tribe) and the French introduced it in the 1700s. Laws were passed in Illinois after it became a territory in 1809 and later when it became a state, which allowed people to own indentured servants in Illinois, an equivalent to slavery, and other laws were enacted that prohibited people from coming to Illinois for the purpose of freeing their slaves. Many of these Black Laws or codes remained on the books until the end of the Civil War.
As many of the original settlers in Southern Illinois came from southern states, many had pro-southern sympathies and a fear that freed blacks would flood into their new homeland. The underground railroad existed in Southern Illinois but was not as active as in other parts of the state. The Civil War caused many families to have divided loyalties.
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Home / News / China prohibits the distribution of games developed in South Korea
China prohibits the distribution of games developed in South Korea
March 10, 2017 Leave a comment 7 Views
In an era in which the Chinese Government has not stopped giving show some opening and allowing video games, its more conventional aspect and industry, to enter finally naturally and will progressively (through special trade areas) in the domestic market, this week seems to that the issue of the games in China has taken a step backwards for reasons other although not quite : Xi Jinping Government has banned the distribution in the country of games produced in South Korea.
The ban has not so much to do with cultural or ideological factors as far, as with a directly diplomatic issue. Apparently the new protection system missile THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area) that South Korea is installing in its military bases with the help of United States has generated important tensions on the peninsula. Both Korea North as allies of China and some voices from the Government of Russia considered the THAAD a «direct threat against security”, a weapon of mass destruction masquerading as a defensive shield. In fact even some South Koreans see a danger in the THAAD: consider it the perfect excuse to make his enemies decide to attack.
The Chinese stance, beyond that can feel threatened by a system that only has a range of 3,000 kilometers, it makes sense for a key factor: the involvement of the United States. The crux of the matter is completely tactical: in the event of a U.S. attack with long range missiles of China, these missiles would just pass that detection of the THAAD radio and could be neutralized in the air automatically before even reaching the Pacific Ocean. Chinese intelligence believes that the shield is not a South Korean prevention against a possible North Korean bombardment both a first line of covert defense of United States, which in addition also would limit the air defense capability of China part of its own territory.
So China has been playing in the Pocket, which is where it hurts, by blocking not officially part of the entertainment industry Korean in his country, which moves millions in series dorama and commercial films, to base remove Korean streaming services content. As a result, gamers also have finish suffering the same fate: have stalled because of new licenses to distribute games developed in Korea of the South, which has a sector of software development very based on its enormous sphere of influence in the Asian market. At the moment this decision is already affecting Nexon, one of the major developers based in Seoul, whose shares in stock market fell sharply during days and begins to speculate with the possibility of the company to drastically alter its expansion plans in China, market that generates each year 40% of profits. Little joke.
In principle the only veto affects games by launch, not to those who already obtained permission to be distributed before the ban, so projects like Lineage 2: Revolution, which is in the process of localization to Chinese, time will be slowed their launch plans.
As explained in PocketGamer, the Chinese Government has been allowing the arrival of foreign games in its territory using a licensing system which obliges the developers and publishers to partner with local companies who are responsible for overseeing that everything is in order (the requirements to leave a game in China are quite strict) and take care of the distribution process. It is a way to do a little more Chinese the games that are not Chinese and one of the reasons why Tencent is a giant beast that grows like crazy.
It is unknown how long it can last this block as a result of the diplomatic conflict, and indeed the experts do not rule out that at some point the Ministry of public security decided to also revoke licenses already approved games that are sold in China or who are about to do so.
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China Angered As US Considers Navy Visits To Taiwan
BEIJING / TAIPEI: China accused the United States on Thursday of interfering in its internal affairs and said it had lodged a complaint after U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law an act laying the groundwork for possible U.S. navy visits to self-ruled Taiwan.
Tensions have risen in recent days after a senior Chinese diplomat threatened China would invade Taiwan if any U.S. warships made port visits to the island which China claims as its own territory.
On Monday, Chinese jets carried out "island encirclement patrols" around Taiwan, with state media showing pictures of bombers with cruise missiles slung under their wings as they carried out the exercise.
On Tuesday, Trump signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for the 2018 fiscal year, which authorises the possibility of mutual visits by navy vessels between Taiwan and the United States.
Such visits would be the first since the United States ended formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979 and established ties with Beijing.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said while the Taiwan sections of the law were not legally binding, they seriously violate the "One China" policy and "constitute an interference in China's internal affairs".
"China is resolutely opposed to this, and we have already lodged stern representations with the U.S. government," Lu told a daily news briefing.
China is firmly opposed to any official exchanges, military contact, or arms sales between Taiwan and the United States, he added.
Proudly democratic Taiwan has become increasingly concerned with the ramped up Chinese military presence, that has included several rounds of Chinese air force drills around the island in recent months.
Taiwan is confident of its defences and responded quickly to the Chinese air force drills this week, its government said, denouncing the rise in China's military deployments as irresponsible.
Taiwan presidential spokesman Alex Huang, speaking to Taiwan media in comments reported late on Wednesday, said the defence ministry had kept a close watch on the patrols and responded immediately and properly.
Taiwan "can ensure there are no concerns at all about national security, and people can rest assured", Huang said.
Both sides of the narrow Taiwan Strait, which separates Taiwan from its giant neighbour, have a responsibility to protect peace and stability, he added.
"Such a raised military posture that may impact upon and harm regional peace and stability and cross-strait ties does not give a feeling of responsibility, and the international community does not look favourably upon this," Huang was quoted as saying.
Relations have soured considerably since Tsai Ing-wen, who leads Taiwan's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party, won presidential elections last year.
China suspects Tsai wants to declare the island's formal independence, a red line for Beijing. Tsai says she wants to maintain peace with China but will defend Taiwan's security.
Taiwan is well equipped with mostly U.S. weapons but has been pressing for more advanced equipment to deal with what it sees as a rising threat from China. The United States is bound by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
China has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
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Nigerian President Buhari wins re-election – but opposition cries foul
Source:AFP Published: 2019/2/27 21:58:40
Supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress celebrate with party flags in Abuja, Nigeria, after candidate President Mohammadu Buhari was re-elected on Tuesday. Photo: AFP
Muhammadu Buhari was on Wednesday re-elected Nigeria's president after a delayed poll that angered voters and raised political temperatures - but the opposition immediately vowed to challenge the "sham" result in court.
It was a second win for Buhari, a one-time military ruler who in 2015 was elected to lead Africa's most-populous nation and leading oil producer.
With ballots counted in all of Nigeria's 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Buhari, 76, triumphed with some 15.2 million votes over his nearest rival Atiku Abubakar, who trailed by nearly four million votes.
"Muhammadu Buhari... is hereby declared winner and is returned elected," Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission said early Wednesday.
Abubakar on Wednesday rejected the vote, which has been marred by claims of rigging and corruption.
"If I had lost in a free and fair election, I would have called the victor within seconds of my being aware of his victory to offer not just my congratulations, but my services to help unite Nigeria by being a bridge between the North and the South," he said in a statement.
"I hereby reject the result of the February 23, 2019 sham election and will be challenging it in court."
Buhari, meanwhile, thanked Nigerians for re-electing him "for the next four years," saying he was "deeply humbled and profoundly grateful."
Addressing supporters and party leaders at his All Progressives Congress campaign headquarters, he called his win "another victory for Nigerian democracy."
"The new administration will intensify its efforts in security, restructuring the economy and fighting corruption," he said.
Supporters had gathered outside the party's offices in the capital Abuja late Tuesday as it became clear that Buhari had an unassailable lead, dancing and singing "We're popping champagne!"
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo appeared in a video clip singing "Up we go!" in a reference to Buhari and his "Next Level" campaign slogan.
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Single-Game Sensations Snare Player Of Week Selections
Hommes (left) scored 37 points in Western Washington's 80-76 win over Harding in Hawaii on Saturday. Williams set a UAF record with nine three-pointers in the Nanooks' Saturday win over Multnomah.
PORTLAND, Ore. – A pair of outstanding single-game performances for Western Washington’s Daulton Hommes and Alaska’s Cassi Williams has earned the duo selection as the GNAC’s Players of the Week.
Hommes was honored as the Men’s Basketball Player of the Week after he averaged 19 points per game and shot 45.7 percent from the field and 88 percent from the free throw line as the Vikings went 2-1 last week. He punctuated the week, however, with an outstanding 37-point performance that lifted Western Washington to an 80-76 win over Harding on Saturday at the Hoops in Hawaii Holiday Classic. In 38 minutes, Hommes made 11 of 18 from the field and 15 of 16 from the free throw line to go along with 12 rebounds, three assists and a block.
Hommes followed the 37-point effort up with 13 points in Sunday’s 86-77 win over Tampa on Sunday. He made 5 of 7 from the free throw line to go along with seven rebounds.
Williams was tabbed as the Women’s Basketball Player of the Week after a record-setting performance in the Nanooks’ 90-42 rout of Multnomah on Saturday. Williams scored 29 points in the contest and set a UAF record with nine three-pointers, bettering the mark of seven set by Amy Woodruff during the 2000-01 season. Williams made 10 of 14 from the field, with all but one of her shots coming from beyond the arc, to go along with four rebounds in 24 minutes of action.
The 29 points was a career high for Williams, who sat out the 2016-17 season. She had played in a total of 46 minutes over five games before Saturday’s breakout performance.
GNAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK SELECTIONS – WEEK 16
Daulton Hommes (Western Washington, F, 6-7, So., Lynden, Wash. – Lynden Christian): Hommes averaged 19 points per game in three contests for the Vikings, shooting 45.7 percent from the field and made 22 of 25 from the free throw line. In Saturday’s 80-76 win over Harding at the Hoops In Hawaii Holiday Classic, Hommes came alive for 37 points on 11 of 18 from the field and 15 of 16 from the free throw line to go along with 12 rebounds and three assists. He followed that up with a 13-point performance in Sunday’s 86-77 win over Tampa, which included seven rebounds and a 5 for 7 effort from the free throw line. Also Nominated: Michael Kluting (Alaska), Jarrett Gray (Concordia), Zharon Richmond (Montana State Billings), Vince Boumann (Western Oregon).
Cassi Williams (Alaska, G, 5-10, Sr., Klawock, Alaska – Klawock): Williams set a UAF single-game record for three-pointers made as she led the Nanooks to a 90-42 rout of Multnomah on Saturday. She led all scorers with 29 points on 24 minutes off the bench, connecting on 10 of 14 from the field and 9 of 13 from the three-point arc. Also Nominated: Rylee Kane (Montana State Billings).
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Lobbying for improvement of human rights legislation
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Published by HRA at 17/10/2016
The shutdown of applications “Viber” and “WhatsApp” on the day of parliamentary elections by telecommunication operators in Montenegro and the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services, because a number of users of these applications received a message that the ruling political party was allegedly buying votes, was contrary to the freedom of expression and the Constitution of Montenegro, which says that only a competent court may prevent dissemination of information and ideas via public media according to narrowly defined reasons by the Constitution.
HRA believes that shutdown of applications was not necessary in a democratic society and was not proportional to the objective – preventing unsolicited communication of political messages in order to protect the honor and reputation of one political party.
We believe that the fact that a number of users of these applications received (unwanted) political message, is not sufficient justification to resort to such drastic measures and suspended all users from all communications without their will and even without notice.
Nevertheless, the Article 145, paragraph 4 of the Law on Electronic Communications allows national regulator (the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services) to order the operators to suspend internet and telephone communication without restriction, if it finds such action “justifiable in the cases of deceit or abuse.”HRA finds that this Article of the Law on Electronic Communications in principle allows for arbitrary and unlimited restriction of internet and telephone communications in Montenegro, and is therefore contrary to international human rights agreements and the Constitution of Montenegro. HRA will therefore submit an initiative to the Constitutional Court to declare it unconstitutional. In the meantime, we urge the Agency to take into account that over the Law on Electronic Communications there are the Constitution of Montenegro and international human rights agreements and to refrain from applying of this Article until the decision of the Constitutional Court.
The attitude of the Committee for Human Rights (CCPR, General Comment 34 on Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, para. 43) and the European Court of Human Rights (see the judgment in the case of Ahmet Yildirim v. Turkey, 2012 para. 64) is that restricting access to the internet, including work of the operators who provide such access, must be in accordance with international standards of freedom of expression, proportionate to the legitimate aim and necessary in a democratic society. This means that restrictions must be precisely regulated, must provide judicial review to prevent abuses and “should not, for example, enable you to ban publication of material just because it criticizes the government” (CCPR, see above).
The Montenegrin media reported that the operator Mtel announced that “by order of the Agency, operators were required to implement a measure of a temporary ban on the use of those applications, because they are used for unwanted communication, and in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Electronic Communications. The Act provides that the communication for direct marketing purposes is allowed only with the prior consent of users.” The director of the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services said in a statement for the portal Antena M that the order for shutdown of Viber and WhatsApp’s was brought because operators cannot control messages with propagandistic content, which in unlimited quantities arrive via these services and in a statement to daily Pobjeda today confirmed that the Agency applied the Article 145 HRA assesses as unconstitutional.
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TheoThought 300
David W. Hegg
Canonicity
Introduction: That Scripture claims to be God’s Word is evident. As well, both logic and church history testify that God’s Word must be both inerrant and infallible. But the bigger question then is this: What makes something “Scripture?” Who decides? The answers to these questions fall into the theological area of canonicity.
1. Definitions:
Canon: This word derives from an ancient Hebrew form of qaneh meaning “reed or stalk (see 1 Kings 14:15; Job 40:21). Reeds were often used as “measuring sticks” and one use of the word came to mean “rule” or “standard.” The Greeks incorporated this word (kanon) into their language using it to mean any kind of standard or guideline.
Today, in theology, canon refers to a “collection or list of books accepted as an authoritative rule of faith and practice” (R. N. Soulen, quoted by Wegner in Journey, pg. 101) and describes that collection of books considered Scripture.
Canoniziation: The process by which an ancient book or writing is determined to be part of the canon; that is, is affirmed as divinely inspired Scripture.
Canonicity: The inherent quality of Scripture by which it is self-authenticating as divinely inspired.
Summary: The process of canonization has, as its purpose, the affirmation of the canonicity of texts that come to be included in the canon of divinely inspired Scripture.
Excursus: The Self-Authenticating Nature of Divinely Inspired Scripture:
Since the Reformation the idea of a self-authenticating canon has been foundational in the Protestant church although the doctrine itself can be traced back to the early church fathers. This doctrine is known as autopistic (auto = self; pistic = from Greek pistis, faith).
Calvin: God alone is a fit witness of himself in the Word … Scripture is indeed self-authenticated.” (Institiutes, 1.7.4,5).
(For an excellent treatise on this important doctrine see:
Canon Revisited; Michael J. Kruger; Crossway, 2012)
“The argument of the self-authenticating model so far is that we can know which books are canonical because God has provided the proper epistemic environment where belief in these books can be reliably formed. This environment includes not only providential exposure to the canonical books, but also the three attributes of canonicity that all canonical books posses – divine qualities, corporate reception, apostolic origins – and the work of the Holy Spirit to help us recognize them.” (Kruger, Canon Revisited, pg. 113)
“We may well believe that those early Christians acted by a wisdom higher than their own in this matter, not only in what they accepted, but in what they rejected. Divine authority is by its very nature self-evidencing; and one of the profoundest doctrines recovered by the Reformers is the doctrine of the inward witness of the Holy Spirit, by which testimony is borne within the believer’s heart to the divine character of Holy Scripture. This witness is not confined to the individual believer, but is also accessible to the believing community; and there is no better example of its operation than in the recognition by the members of the Early Church of the books which were given by inspiration of God to stand alongside the books of the Old Covenant, the Bible of Christ and his apostles, and with them to make up the written Word of God.” (Bruce, The Books and The Parchments, pg. 104).
“It seems to follow from what has been said, that the Bible contains in itself the fullest witness to its Divine authority. If it appears that a large collection of fragmentary records, written, with few exceptions, without any designed connexion, at most distant times and under the most varied circumstances, yet combine to form a definite whole, broadly separated from other books; if it further appears that these different parts when interpreted historically reveal a gradual progress of social spiritual life uniform at least in its general direction; if without any intentional purpose they offer not only remarkable coincidences in minute details of facts, for that is a mere question of accurate narration, but also subtle harmonies of complementary doctrine; if in proportion as they are felt to be separate they are felt also to be instinct with a common spirit; then it will be readily acknowledged that however they came into being first, however they were united afterwards into the sacred volume, they are yet legibly stamped with the Divine seal as ‘inspired by God’ in a sense in which no other writings are.” (Westcott, The Bible in the Church, pg. 15).
2. Two Views of Canon and Canonization:
Protestant View Roman Catholic View
• Inspired Texts were re- The Church determined which
cognized by the church as such. books were divinely authored.
• The Bible and God’s Word The Church created the Bible.
created the church.
• The Bible alone is inspired. The Bible & Church Tradition
are equally authoritative.
• Revelation has ceased. Revelation is ongoing through
the Church.
• The Apocrypha is not inspired. The Apocrypha is accepted as
authoritative.
Summary: The primary difference (and it is significant!) is that Protestants believe Scripture comes with its own self-authenticating nature as divinely inspired, and is recognized as such by the church. This means the Bible has authority over the church (though sadly it must be admitted that too often human leaders assert their opinions above the truth of Scripture.)
Roman Catholicism believes the church determines what is Scripture, and therefore, shares the authoritative platform equally with the Bible. In practice, however, church hierarchy often is recognized above Scripture.
3. The Idea of Canonicity and Canon in Scripture:
The central element in canonicity and canon is the recognition on the part of those receiving communication is that it is inherently recognized as coming from God and therefore, divinely inspired, inerrant, and authoritative.
Deut. 4.2 You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.
Deut. 12.32 “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.
Jer. 26.2 “Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the LORD all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.
2Pet. 3.15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
Rev. 22.6 And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.” 7 “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. 8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me,
Rev. 22.18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
4. Three Important Occasions in Old Testament History
There are 3 times when certain writings were recognized as having divine authority:
1) Moses: When Moses brought the Book of the Covenant down from Mt. Sinai the people recognized it as from God:
Exodus 24:7: Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
2) Josiah: When the young king discovered the Book of the Law of God all the people recognized it as from God:
2Kings 23.3 And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.
3) Nehemiah: When Ezra read from the Book of the Law, the people recognized is as from God:
Neh. 8.1, 2, 5, 6, 9: 1 And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel. … 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. 6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands … 9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe … said to the people “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
5. Formation of the OT Canon
“There is a great deal of uncertainty regarding when the Old Testament canon was formed. Scripture itself is almost silent regarding how or when the books were assembled … What can be pieced together of its history is gleaned from the few references found in Scripture and other literature. (Wenger, pg. 104,105).
• Oral Transmission: At first, God’s Word was transmitted from one generation to the next orally:
Deut. 4.9 “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children— 10 how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’
At some point the orally transmitted material was committed to writing for broader study and to ensure accuracy. Scholars agree the oral tradition of the Hebrew people was incredibly accurate. (e.g. Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah is almost identical with Masoretic text dating hundreds of years later.)
The Collection Process: There are several biblical texts that show at a very early stage various books and parts of God’s Word were recognized as from God, treated with reverence, and gathered together for safe-keeping. Further, they were forbidden to add to, or subtract from, the books that came from God:
Ex. 17.14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner, 16 saying, “A hand upon the throne of the LORD! The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Ex. 24.3 Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do.” 4 And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel … 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
Ex. 25.16 And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you.
Ex. 25.21 And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
Deut. 10.2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.’ 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. 4 And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me. 5 Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”
1Kings 8.9 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Heb. 9.4 having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
Deut. 31.24 When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book to the very end, 25 Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, 26 “Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
Josh. 24.26 And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
1Sam. 10.25 Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.
• The Destruction of the Temple: It seems certain the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586BC caused the collection and safe-guarding of Israel’s sacred texts to take on greater urgency.
“It was because of the cataclysmic event of the destruction of the First Temple that what we now know as the Law and the Prophets first came to be collected and galvanized into the shape they now have.
• The Division of the Hebrew Canon: The Hebrew canon, or Old Testament was made up of 3 Sections:
• The Torah (Law): = Genesis – Deuteronomy (5)
• The Prophets: = Joshua – Esther; Major &Mi nor Prophets (29)
• The Writings: = Job – Song of Solomon (5)
Luke 24:27, 44, 45 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself … 44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
• Evidences of the Old Testament Canon:
The Septuagint: (LXX: 250-100BC) This Greek translation of the Hebrew canon stands as very early evidence that an OT canon was already in existence.
The Prologue to Ecclesiasticus: (2nd century BC). This ancient book was translated into Greek in 130BC and refers to the Old Testament several times using the 3-fold division described above.
The New Testament: Several times in the New Testament the Hebrew canon is mentioned and described:
Matt. 23.34 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. (Note: the historical reference is to the first and last murders recorded in the Hebrew canon, and implies that biblical history spans from Genesis to Chronicles, likely the last book in the original order of the Hebrew Bible).
Philo (c. 20BC – AD 50): This learned Alexandrian Jew quotes extensively from the Hebrew canon, but never from the Apocryphal books.
Josephus (37 – 100AD): “We have given practical proof of our reverence for our own Scriptures. For, although such long ages have now passed, no one has ventured either to add, or to remove, or to alter a syllable; and it is an instinct with every Jew, from the day of his birth, to regard them as the decrees of God, to abide by them, and, if need be, cheerfully to die for them.” quoted by Wenger, Journey, pg. 117)
• Criteria: It appears the following were the criteria by which the Old Testament Canon was affirmed:
1. It does not contain contradictions.
2. It was written by a prophet or someone recognized as having divine authority.
3. It originated through inspiration from God.
4. It was accepted by the Jews as authoritative material.
(taken from Wenger, Journey, pg. 117)
Of these, the last is the most important for it shows divinely inspired material comes with its own self-authenticating ethos. The Spirit who inspired Scripture makes its acceptance as Scripture guaranteed.
6. Formation of the New Testament Canon
The early church, having already recognized the Old Testament collection as canon, was no stranger to the need to gather, clarify, and affirm those new writings that came with a self-authentication canonicity, and gave witness to their being divinely inspired Scripture.
The issue of the New Testament canon is much more difficult than that of the Old Testament simply because we do not the strong history of the Israelite people in their receiving and securing divinely inspired texts. However, this does not put the NT canon in doubt, as we will see.
• New Testament Evidence: Already in the NT itself we have evidence that the writings of the apostles had been received as divinely inspired Scripture:
1 Timothy 5:18: For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
Notice: Paul here quotes from “Scripture”. The first quote comes from Deut. 25:4, but the second is from Matthew 10:10 and Luke 10:7. This means Paul considered the Gospels (either Matthew or Luke) to be Scripture already by 50-60AD.
2 Peter 3:15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
• The Role of the Holy Spirit: When Jesus told his disciples he was returning to heaven, he also promised to send them the Holy Spirit who would bring to their remembrance all he had taught them. We also find it was this Spirit who was responsible for superintending the writers of the New Testament insuring what they wrote to be a “one-for-one” with what God had breathed out.
John 14.26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 15.26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 16.13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
2Pet. 1.20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Note: God the Spirit was instrumental both in the production of Scripture (through his superintendency of the human writers) and the reception of Scripture by the church (whom he indwells individually) as divinely inspired. Simply put, the author recognizes and receives that which he was instrumental in producing.
• From Oral Transmission to Written Material: the beginning of the NT era the church learned from eyewitnesses (e.g. The Apostles and their companions, etc). But as these began to pass away the need became apparent to record the doctrines and sacred traditions of the church to safeguard their accuracy. Thus, the church set about to collect and secure those writings the various churches had received and affirmed as divinely inspired.
During the first century the Apostles began writing the New Testament, and there is strong evidence many of their writings were immediately copied and distributed to the churches. These books were received, affirmed, collected and added to the authoritative collection of Scripture that already contained the Old Testament canon. It seems very unlikely that the Apostles would have written fabricated accounts of Jesus’ life and teachings while there were still eyewitnesses around to refute them.
• Dating the New Testament Books: All of those books now included in the NT canon were written between 48AD and 100AD. Yet, while these books were certainly copied and distributed, some were more widely known than others. It seems each church maintained its own collection of divinely inspired books but collections varied according to which letters/books each church had received.
• The Rise of Early Heresies: It became clear, as rival movements attempted to undermine Christianity, that written materials would help solidify the church’s doctrinal stance and defend the truth against error. These included Gnosticism, Docetism, and Montanism. More than anything else, it was the rise and spread of error that galvanized the early church to formalize the canon of the New Testament.
Montanism: Montanus (late 2nd Century) was a convert to Christianity from the mystical religion of Cybele. He claimed to be the “Promised Paraclete and began declaring his words to be divinely inspired.
Chadwick states “The chief effect of Montanism on the Catholic Church was greatly to reinforce the conviction that revelation had come to an end with the apostolic age, and so to foster the creation of a closed canon of the New Testament.” (The Early Church, Henry Chadwick; Penguin, 1990, pg. 53)
•The Process of Canonization of the New Testament: There are great similarities between the processes of canonization of the OT and NT. In both cases, the texts were written by those understood to have divine authority. In each case the texts were received as God’s Word, divinely inspired, and as such were treated with reverence as authoritative. There is good evidence that, already by the mid-2nd century many of the NT books were already being collected into some form of canon.
• Early Church Fathers:
Clement of Rome (c. 60-100AD), Ignatius (c. 60-117AD), Polycarp (c. 69-155AD) all quote from NT books asserting their divine origin and authority. While no definitive collection is mentioned, already by this time the books that would later be affirmed to form the NT canon were being accepted and affirmed as divinely inspired. To this list could be added Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Origen, and Eusebius – all of which quoted extensively from NT books as divinely inspired and authoritative. In their writings we can find various lists of books which they accepted.
• The Muratorian Canon:
An 8th century Latin manuscript that contains an early list of NT books containing 20 of the 27 now recognized as canon. Its beginning is mutilated and so Luke is seen as the first book although it is said to be the “third Gospel.” It is probable that Matthew and Mark were originally part of the list. It does not list Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, or 3rd John.
The author of this fragment speaks throughout it of these books being received through general affirmation of the church.
• Athanasius (c. 296-373AD); While Bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius is credited as being the first to list all 27 books of what we now know as the NT canon. He listed them in an Easter letter to his congregation in 367AD.
• Church Councils: During the 4th and 5th centuries the rise of heresy continued unabated. The deity of Christ, the nature of man, and other essential issues threatened to divide the church. The ecumenical councils were called to allow the church leaders to affirm biblical doctrines and identify error. This necessarily led to the discussion of what books made up the NT canon of divinely inspired and authoritative Scripture.
While the majority of the NT was already widely accepted as canonical by the mid-2nd century, there remained uncertainty concerning the General Epistles (Hebrews, James, 1,2 Peter, the Epistles of John, and Jude).
Questions about the authorship of Hebrews, James and Jude, the vocabulary of 2 Peter, and the brevity of 2nd and 3rd John caused some hesitation concerning their canonicity. Yet, over time these difficulties were resolved as those who had initially received these writings as divinely inspired were able to answer the questions posed.
Note: As the Canon came to be recognized, some books were left off of some of the lists of the early church leaders. The best explanation is some of the shorter books, and some with more targeted audiences, had a much narrower distribution. As such, they were not included in many of the individual churches’ collections. Being less widely distributed and less widely used and affirmed, they took longer to gain general acceptance.
In A.D. 363, the Council of Laodicea affirmed the 27 books of the New Testament were to be read in the churches. The Council of Hippo (A.D. 393) and the Council of Carthage (A.D. 397) also affirmed the same 27 books as authoritative.
• The New Testament Canon:
“It is important to remember that the Christian church did not canonize any book. Canonization was determined by God. But the early church needed to know how to recognize canonicity.” (Wenger, Journey, pg. 147)
From the writings of the church fathers, and leaders up through the 5th century, we can derive the criteria by which the early church determined the canonicity of the 27 books that now make up the New Testament Canon:
1. Was the book written by an apostle, or by someone associated with an apostle, and recognized as an authority?
2. Did the writing agree with the canon of truth (The OT Canon and the oral witness of the early Christians)?
3. Was it received by the church generally?
4. Was it recognized as having a self-authenticating divine nature?
“In fact, no body of literature has been subjected, over the past two centuries, to more intensive and critical analysis than the New Testament writings in general and the four Gospels in particular. it is on the basis of such scientific enquiry, not in despite of it, that such a credible account of Jesus as that given by C. H. Dodd … is constructed.” (quoted by Wenger, Journey, pg. 132).
7. Is The Canon Closed?
It would seem clear that, if one of the criteria by which the Spirit enables the church to discern the inherent canonicity of Scripture is authorship by an apostle or apostolic assistant, then with the death of the apostles the writing of divinely inspired Scripture has ended.
Thus, we can conclude the New Testament canon was completed by the end of the first century, even though it took considerably longer for the church to recognize the canonicity of the 27 divinely inspired NT books.
“The earliest documents in the New Testament are letters written by apostles to their converts and other Christians imparting this teaching and applying it to the various situations that arose in the infant churches. As the apostles did this, we believe, they experienced the fulfillment of their Lord’s promise that his Spirit would lead them into all the truth. But it is a remarkable fact that there is no teaching in the New Testament which is not already present in principle in the teaching of Jesus himself. The apostles did not add to his teaching; under the guidance of the promised Spirit the interpreted and applied it.” (Bruce, The Books and The Parchments, pg. 97).
Given that neither Paul or the other NT writers claimed to offer new revelation but asserted only that they wrote and taught what God had already revealed in the OT and finally, in Jesus Christ.
1Cor. 15.3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
2Tim. 1.9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 10 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher …
This means that those, such as Muhammad, Joseph Smith, and Sun Myung Moon, who lay claim to bringing new revelations from God to man are false prophets, and are to be pointed out and opposed as harmful to the church and the testimony of God.
Gal. 1.8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
What if another book was discovered …
It is possible an ancient book could be discovered, perhaps authored by Paul. After all, we believe the Epistles to the Corinthians we have in our canon are actually 2nd and 4th Corinthians! If a copy of Paul’s first letter to Corinth was to be found, it could be recognized as Scripture if:
• it were verified as authentically Pauline (apostolic authorship)
• it aligned with canonical truth
• it garnered widespread acceptance by the church
• it bore the marks of self-authenticating divine inspiration.
Given all this, such a situation occurring is extremely unlikely. It is far better for us to concentrate on reading, studying, understanding, and obeying the canon as we now have it rather than speculate on the possibility of divinely inspired Scripture remaining hidden for 2000 years.
• Canon Revisited; Michael J. Kruger; Crossway, 2012
This is one of the best resources on the subject, and chapter 3 on Canon as Self-Authenticating is certainly worth the price of the whole book. But all of it is top notch.
• The Journey from Texts to Translations; Paul D. Wegner; Baker, 1999.
This very helpful and accessible book is a magnificent study of both the canonization of the Bible, and the transmission of the ancient text up to the present day. It has many illustrations, lists, and other helpful material, including information on English translations of the Bible.
• The Bible in the Church; B. F. Wescott; Baker, 1864.
This is a classic of Christian scholarship that claims to be “a popular account of the collection and reception of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Churches.”
• The Books and The Parchments, 2nd Edition; F. F. Bruce; Revell, 1950.
Written by the “father” of modern textual criticism, this is the standard text on the transmission of the biblical text from its production to the first English translations.
http://jamesmgrier.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/self-witness-of-scripture.pdf
This article, while deep and philosophical, is an excellent treatise on the autopistic nature of Scripture.
http://www.bible-researcher.com/canon.html
This site has several articles and lists that are helpful in studying and learning about the canon, and the process of canonization. Highly recommended.
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No. 48 team working to get 'back in our dominant ways'
48 March 16, 2018
By Catherine Hogue
FONTANA, Calif. -- It's been an interesting start to the 2018 season for Jimmie Johnson and his No. 48 Lowe's for Pros Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 team.
Following a string of bad luck during Daytona Speedweeks, circumstances have continued to plague the team throughout the first four races of the NASCAR Cup Series circuit.
Johnson has yet to log a top-10 finish, his best result of the season so far being a 12th-place result at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
"I feel it’s more of a carryover from last year," Johnson said Friday afternoon prior to first practice at Fontana. "I’m fighting very similar issues that I did have last year. Yes, we are still sorting out a new car and some new rules, so I think we will continue to evolve that side of it from an aero standpoint, but I feel there is a little more to it than just that. We’re working hard."
The 2017 season proved to be one of Johnson's toughest in his then 17-year career, following up his 2016 championship-winning season by logging just three wins, four top-five finishes and 11 top-10s.
Johnson feels as though the No. 48 team is headed in the right direction, although the progress may be a bit slower than in the past.
"We’ve been chipping away at things and of course would love to look at a win and capitalize on opportunities there," the driver said. "We hopefully will have a very strong day today and be inside the top 10 solidly and hopefully can run there throughout the course of the race and come that last pit stop, be in the running."
However, the California native said the team is keeping their goals "realistic."
"There isn’t a magic button or an easy button to this that’s all of a sudden going to put us back in our dominant ways," Johnson explained. "We need to methodically chip away at this and make our cars better and better and execute from the start of a race to the end of a race from where I sit inside the car to what happens on pit road, and race strategy and all that."
As the series races at the track where Johnson claimed his first career Cup win, Johnson has no doubt the Lowe's for Pros team will wind up back in Victory Lane soon.
"Yes, I want to win," Johnson said. "I want to win right now. But realistically we need to just keep improving week after week. Once we get in the top five on a regular basis, wins are right around the corner.”
It was also announced Wednesday that Lowe’s Companies Inc., which has been the No. 48 team’s only primary sponsor since 2001, will not return to Hendrick Motorsports in 2019.
In 2017, Johnson signed a three-year contract extension with Hendrick Motorsports and when asked today if the announcement would lead him to step away from the sport early, the driver was quick to express his desire to continue racing.
“I guess maybe it’s the eternal optimist that I am," Johnson said. "I have more to do and I enjoy the process and Hendrick (Motorsports) is home and retirement hasn’t been on my mind. I want to win. I want to win an eighth championship. But I guess at the end of the day it’s really my desire to compete and to compete at a high level. I’m not done yet.”
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Category Archives: Featured Stories
Dad and Daughter Deliver Gifts…
February 19, 2011 Featured StoriesWebmaster
Dad and daughter deliver gifts to Ukrainian children
By: Teresa Fillmon
Tallahassee Democrat Northeast Chronicle
Several orphanages in Ukraine had two unlikely visitors over the holidays.
Under the direction of the local charity His Kids, Too!, Tallahasseeans Rich Fillmon and his daughter, Lydia, a Lincoln High School senior, flew to Ukraine on Christmas Day for a two-week stay in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dzerzhinsk.
Hundreds of Christmas boxes from six states, valued at more than $8,000, were waiting to be distributed when they arrived. Hundreds of Ukrainian orphans received these goodie-filled boxes, their only Christmas gifts.
In September, His Kids, Too! will be collecting boxes to send to orphans in Ukraine for Christmas. Contact the organization for more information at 524-5437 or view the Web site at www. hiskidstoo.org.
Christmas Giving!
Special thanks to the wonderful outpouring of love and donations from Raa Middle School. Geography teacher Jane Walker spearheaded the 5th clothing drive. Below is the article from the Tallahassee Democrat .
Other schools pitch in
By: Marci Elliott, Tallahassee Democrat, December 24, 2006
Several Leon County schools have been helping work holiday miracles in recent weeks.
Leon High was among many schools that collected tons of food for needy families at Thanksgiving.
The Raa Middle School Junior Beta Club gathered and distributed Christmas gifts for children in that community.
"I am so very proud of Raa's Junior Beta Club," club sponsor Lynne Harris said. "The students are so kind-hearted to share with others during this special time of year."
In October, Raa teacher Jane Walker's sixth-grade geography classes participated in a service project to benefit orphans in Ukraine.
"The students were very touched by the plight of these orphans when Mrs. Teresa Fillmon, the director of a nonprofit organization called 'His Kids, Too!', spoke to them," Walker said. "The students opened up their hearts and purses and collected about 575 pounds of clothing, personal-care items and toys to be sent to the Ukraine. They also donated $645 for His Kids, Too!"
The teenagers in Swift Creek Middle School's Student Government Association adopted three families through the "Creek Holiday Connection, said Debbie Gibson, intensive math teacher. They provided the families with warm jackets and clothes, food, household needs and gifts.
"This is the second year the (Swift Creek) Wolves have adopted families for the holidays," Gibson said, "and it looks as if it will become an annual project."
His Kids, Too! receives Grant!
Because of your support His Kids, Too! has grown, and others see this growth and continue to bless this ministry. We thank you. This will allow us to reach more and
more children for Christ. Below is the report from the Tallahassee Democrat .
Local charity receives grant
Tallahassee Democrat, December 20, 2006
His Kids, Too!, a Tallahassee-based nonprofit organization that helps thousands of orphans in Ukraine, has received a $20,000 grant from the Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Ala.
This is the second year the charity has been a recipient of an award from the Independent Presbyterian Church, according to Teresa Fillmon, executive director of the charity.
This year, the grant has been designated for salary support for the director and for providing humanitarian aid in Ukraine in 2007. For more information about His Kids, Too!, visit www.hiskidstoo.org or call (850) 524-5437.
His Kids, Too! was recently featured in Charisma Magazine, November 2006. Volunteer Domini Hedderman of PA wrote the wonderful article after interviewing Teresa Fillmon about orphans in Ukraine. His Kids, Too! would like to thank Charisma Magazine for their committment to providing an outlet to the world to read about the plight of orphans in Ukraine.
http://www.charismamag.com/toc.php?MonthID=cm1106
By Kathy Grobe, Tallahassee Magazine, July/August 1999
Rich and Teresa Fillmon became acquainted with Ukraine and its people through the Meridian Woods Church of Christ, where they are members. They came to know a people who need much and ask for nothing after missionary trips to the area; they soon realized that, as Teresa Fillmon says, “the key is to get those kids out of there.” A family of deep faith, the Fillmons acknowledged the Scriptural admonition in James 1:27 to “look after orphans and widows” as further motivating them to adopt a Ukrainian child.
Fellow church members Faye Howell and Michael Webb and Howell’s daughter, Lauren, joined the Fillmons in their Ukrainian odyssey. To adopt 4-year-old Artur, the Fillmons and their friends surmounted bureaucratic snafus, state holidays, a language barrier and several 22-hour train rides.
“A Ukrainian adoption actually takes only 3 1/2 weeks,” Teresa says, “but we were at a time disadvantage from the start because we missed our plane (in Tallahassee), and then they lost our luggage.”
As annoying as all that was, it was just the beginning. The previous October, Teresa had traveled to Ukraine with a shipment of humanitarian aid – medicine, toiletries and other simple necessities that we often take for granted. “What about adopting a Ukrainian child?” Rich had asked her before the trip. He urged her to “look around, be open” to the possibilities.
All Ukrainian adoptions start at the Adoption Center in Kiev, the capital, Teresa relates. The normal procedure is to inform officials the age range of the children you’re interested in and to let them know if you prefer to adopt from a specific region of the country. Then you see pictures of children from that area who might meet your criteria; you’re invited to visit the children and make your selection.
“Although you are not allowed to pre-select a child for adoption,” Teresa says, “I felt that (in October) the Lord had led me to a boy in Dzerzhinsk named Anatoly. Our church supports the orphanage there, and I had every intention of going over and picking up Anatoly.” To begin with, the Fillmons traveled to Ukraine and their friends, the Howell-Webb family, journeyed as far as Prague, in the Czech Republic, where they waited to learn how they might help out.
The Best-Laid Plans
Although the Fillmons had no way of knowing it, the Ukrainian bureaucracy would quickly quash Teresa’s original plan to adopt Anatoly. Because someone at the orphanage in Dzerzhinsk had placed a child with no regard to the official guidelines, the government downgraded it to a foster home. Children from Dzerzhinsk were no longer eligible for adoption.
Not to be deterred, the Fillmons decided to travel to Dzerzhinsk first to drop off seven 70-pound bags of humanitarian aid they were carrying. The trip had a second purpose as well, they say. “Someone told us that since there had been a bad adoption out of that orphanage, we should talk to the mayor.” Perhaps he would be willing to help them circumvent normal channels and adopt the child Teresa had met earlier. The plan was a miserable failure. For Teresa, it was back to Kiev and the Adoption Center following a passionately negative response to their proposal.
“We knew from the beginning that this (the adoption) was God’s will,” Rich Fillmon says. “We also knew that these obstacles were put in our way just to distract us.” Reassurance also came from another front. When Teresa called Howell in Prague and mentioned that the adoption might have to wait until a later trip, Howell urged her to go somewhere else. “There’s got to be a boy for you somewhere,” she urged her friend. Another traveling companion, Lyuba Yenatska, a Russian translator from Gainesville, pushed the Fillmons to at least try other cities.
Back in Kiev, following her first shower in six days, Teresa Fillmon visited the Adoption Center again, trying to determine her options and make some decisions. Tamara Kunko, the center’s administrator, was adamant that the orphanage at Dzerzhinsk was no longer an option. “It was the Ukrainian equivalent of ‘What part of no don’t you understand?’” Teresa recalls.
Twenty-Two Hours on a Train
Mrs. Kunko offered pictures of several 3- and 4-year-old boys, children of the Fillmons’ target age and gender. The orphanage in Mariupol had six boys who qualified, Teresa says; she felt as if that would give them a greater chance to find the child they were seeking. It was back to the station for another train ride, this one 22 hours long. Rich and the children remained in Dzerzhinsk after deciding it would be easier if only one person made the return trip.
The Ukrainian adoption system had Teresa on a tight schedule. All paperwork related to adoption is processed in Kiev, and once she selected a child, she was responsible for delivering the necessary papers to the Adoption Center. Since faxing was out of the question (the group saw only one fax machine during its entire stay in Ukraine), that meant another grueling train ride back to Kiev as soon as the child was chosen. There were other challenges as well – Teresa arrived in Mariupol around 4:30 on a Thursday afternoon; the last train of the week returned to Kiev at 5:50! “I had 20 minutes to select my child.”
Because she wanted to observe them in as natural an environment as possible, Teresa asked the boys’ teacher to simply lay her hands on those children who were eligible for adoption. One by one, she pointed out the children from whom Teresa could choose. Some did not look well, and others seemed to have difficulty relating to their peers. Soon Artur, a small boy with gleaming eyes and a captivating smile, entered the room. His self-confidence and personality were readily apparent. When the teacher indicated that he could be adopted, Teresa quickly chose him as her son.
With Artur’s paperwork in hand, Teresa made it to the train station just in time to send the papers on the 22-hour journey back to Kiev. They arrived on a Friday afternoon, too late to be processed. Then Rich and the children took the 2 a.m. train to Mariupol to join Teresa. They met their new son and brother for the first time when Teresa arranged for Artur to spend the night with them in a hotel.
Learning the Art of the Deal
The whirlwind of paperwork and legal approvals intensified. Next, the Fillmons needed a court date before a Ukrainian judge so that the adoption could be approved. March 8 was their target, but that was Women’s Day, a national holiday in Ukraine. (Because many men work hazardous jobs and die young, the role of women assumes great significance in Ukraine. Women fill many essential government positions.) They finally were scheduled to meet the judge March 9 to finalize Artur’s adoption.
Even securing the appointment proved to be a lesson in negotiating, Ukrainian style. “At first, we thought the judge looked solid,” Rich recalls, “but then he started throwing up stumbling blocks – ‘I’m a very busy man; I can’t possibly work you in.’ – things like that. I began to realize he wanted a gift!”
Giving a gift isn’t all that unusual in Ukraine, but it does take a little finesse, Rich says. While public officials may appreciate a little extra money now and then, they are highly insulted if you just offer it to them up front. With a little help from their translator, Lyuba, the Fillmons compensated the judge and got a 4 p.m. appointment the following day. When Artur’s adoption was finally approved at 5:30, they knew they were coming down the home stretch.
Thanks to the delays as the trip began, it was time for Rich, Dallas, Lydia and Haley Fillmon to return home. Rich was expected back at work as security director for the J.C. Penney store in Governor’s Square, and the children had exhausted their leaves of absence from Gilchrist Elementary and Raa Middle School.
Artur Meets Arthur
“Before we left, Teresa was sorting through a suitcase of clothes we had brought with us for the child we’d adopt,” Rich says. “All of a sudden I heard her gasp – she said something like, ‘Oh, my goodness!’” While sorting out the clothing she would keep for Artur, Teresa had found a T-shirt decorated with Arthur, the bespectacled aardvark familiar to so many American children through television. Ironically, the Fillmons say, Artur is Russian for Arthur.
Teresa, by now on her own, stayed in Mariupol to finish the legal work. (“I got his passport at 4:45 and had to be on the train back to Kiev at 5:55.”) When she went to pick up her son for the trip home, she worried how well he would make the transition. Would he miss his schoolmates? Would he cry after being separated from his caregivers?
“When Teresa arrived at the orphanage to pick him up,” Rich says, “she was worried that he might cry or want to stay with his classmates. Instead, she told me, he put his hand firmly in hers and never even looked back.” He remained cheerful even during the long train ride back to Kiev and the ensuing trip through Poland (where Teresa had to pick up Artur’s visa) and on to Atlanta and Tallahassee.
Today, the Fillmon family is settling in. A sunny child, Artur is learning English and, for the time being, he communicates well either in Russian or with a wide smile and lots of hugs. Based on their experience, Rich and Teresa say it’s possible to adopt a child from outside the United States without an attorney’s assistance, and they plan to share their knowledge with others interested in international adoption. “We know that you can do it yourself,” Teresa says, “for relatively little money.”
Remember, they say, “The key is to get those children out of there.”
Postscript:
The Fillmons returned in December of 2002, returning in January 2003 with their daughter Alla.
An Interview with Teresa Fillmon
By: Leslie Battiste – June 2004
How did you become involve in the Ukraine ministry and what prompted you to start His Kids Too!?
My background is Psychology and Social Work. My occupation was in helping people. When the opportunity arose to help people with a clothing ministry through Rich’s job at J.C. Penney, we started helping here in the community. That was in 1986. We still continue this ministry, under the name of Captital City Clothing Connection. When I met some missionaries from Albania, they asked for assistance and I could not refuse them. Then, other local people who support missionaries in many places started asking for help. We began this ministry in boxes and now we have distributed a material inventory of over $400,000 and have served over 50,000 people in 18 years. Who knows the domino effect. We do not receive any government funding and rely solely on private donations for our funding.
In 2000, people wanted to start providing funds so that I could make purchases in-country for the orphans and people. Some in-country purchases can be made and this helps generate the local economy. It is VERY important that ‘locals’ see that you believe their products are worthy of your ‘American dollars’, and not just ship everything to the country you are serving. We formed His Kids, Too! in 2000 so that people could receive a tax benefit for their donations.
We presently serve people in: Ukraine, Albania, Russia, Nigeria, Kazakhstan. In the past we have also served in: Mexico, Cuba, China, Italy, and Bosnia. If the Lord opens a door, we will gladly go back to any country.
Explain the goals of His Kids Too!
The goal of His Kids, Too! is to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to people while meeting their most basic needs. It is hard to talk to someone about God, or show them the love of God, if they are sick, unclothed and hungry. They just can’t ‘hear’ the message.
Tell what types of facilities you support with humanitarian aid (i.e. orphanages, etc.) and in what cities.
In Ukraine alone, His Kids, Too! supports, hospitals (both adult and children’s), children’s shelters, several orphanages, Internat (this is for children 5-17 yrs. of age), mental hospital, aids children’s hospital, orthopedic hospital, Cerebral Palsy Group in Kyiv, widow feeding program in Donetsk and Dzerzhinsk. In total we are working in 11 facilities with over 2500 children and hundreds of adults. In Albania, we support three orphanage facilities with over 300 children.
Tell in general about the people who benefit from the aid and give an example of someone who you have assisted.
The people who benefit are people just like you and I. They want to wear clean clothes, want food for their children and medical care, they want a future…….they are no different from us. It is our God given opportunity to serve them. We have placed special needs children in loving Christian homes whereas they would have been placed in a horrid institution. We have helped children without wheelchairs have mobility by providing a wheelchair. Children without clothing, coats, shoes, boots, personal care products, are all provided with these items…….because of donations. His Kids, Too! is just the messenger of your love for Christ. We can’t do this alone.
Who else is involved in His Kids Too! and what do they do?
Board Members, are: Lynn Allison, Donetsk, Ukraine; Ray Grayham, Donetsk, Ukraine; Nikka Donetsk, Ukraine. In-country aid distribution; Rich Fillmon, Tallahassee; Organization Communication Director, Teresa Fillmon/ Founder/Director. Additionally, we have over 20 active volunteers in several roles: donation collections, grant writing, sorting items, fundraising, letter writing, and more.
Tell something about yourself – when & where baptized. Other businesses. Hobbies (if you have any spare time!), how long married.
I was born and raised in Clearwater, Florida. I graduated from University of South Florida in Tampa with a double major in Psychology and Sociology. I met Rich on Thanksgiving Day 1982, and we married Sept. 3, 1983. I worked in my field for several years, but after having children, I went back to cleaning houses, which is what I started when I was 13 yrs. old. I was baptized May 28, 1989, in the University Church of Christ. I have 3 biological children, Dallas, 17, Lydia, 14, Haley 13, and we adopted Artur, and Alyssa (Alla) from Ukraine. Lena joined our family in January 2003 and she is also from Ukraine. I LOVE to fish, but don’t get to go enough……
Tell something about Dallas, Lydia and Haley including their work with the ministry.
Dallas, Lydia and Haley are great kids. Dallas and Haley have a wonderful nurturing side to them, whereas Lydia is more outgoing and playful. They each play a vital and important role in the ministry. Each LOVES to go to Ukraine, and hold, play and interact with the children. Dallas is wonderful for carrying all the heavy boxes; Lydia and Haley for sorting and sizing up kids for clothes. Each have their special stories about individual kids that they have grown attached to.
Tell about adopting Artur and Alla. Also Lena.
Originally, we wanted to adopt from Albania, but it was closed to Americans adopting for quite sometime. Then I was invited to Ukraine, and we decided that this may be a good international adoption choice. We started the process, and then I traveled to Ukraine in October 1998. We completed our paperwork and travel in Feb. 1999 to adopt Anatolyi, but after arriving the officials said we could not adopt this child (giving no reason). It was extremely difficult not to just leave, but we knew that God had put us there to adopt a child, and He directed us towards Artur. Artur is doing well, but has abandonment issues, since his biological mother left him at 14 months. The transition has had its ups and downs and we appreciate the kindness and encouragement we have received from our church friends. We still think about Anatolyi and pray for him. As far as we know, he is still in Ukraine.
After meeting Alla in 2000, we just prayed for this cute little girl. Each time I visited the orphanage I would specifically ask about her, and they would tell me, ‘no one wants her…just look at her….’ It was very sad, and time after time, I would see her, and she was VERY sad. I never saw her smile. During our summer trip of 2002, I was told she would be sent to an institution until at least 18 yrs. of age due to her disability and lack of adoptability. When Rich saw my grief over knowing that Alla would be institutionalized, he said, ‘let’s adopt her.’ We finally got to Alla on Christmas Eve 2002, and asked her if she wanted a ‘mom and dad, and a big family’ (It was important that she wanted to go with us, and that we just not make her). She smiled for the first time, and said, hesitantly, ‘yes, I want a family.’ I cried, as did many others in the room. The worst part of that day (Christmas Eve), was leaving her. She looked at us, and you could see that she didn’t think we were going to return, even after much assurance. Christmas Day, could not have been better, as we went to the orphanage, and waited for Alla. When she came into the room, she just ran into my arms, saying, ‘mama, mama, you came back.’. I said, ‘I told you I would, I love you!’. Haley took her and started to play with her, and that day, for the very first time, Alla laughed! It was a wonderful Christmas, even though we were 7000 miles from Lydia and Dallas (which was EXTREMELY hard for us). She left that orphanage on December 28th with many tears from the workers and director. Alla was smiling ear to ear, saying, ‘I’m going to America with my family!’.
I met Lena in 1998 on my first trip to Ukraine. She and I had an instant ‘bond’ and with each visit we grew closer. When she was able she started translating for me, and that drew us closer. She was granted the visa, and has been living with us for 16 months going to school at TCC. She will start FSU in the fall, where she has received a partial scholarship in music.
How can people assist in your ministry? I know you need volunteers.
His Kids, Too! always need volunteers to assist with donation collection, fundraising efforts and networking supplies. New and used items are frequently needed, but funds are also needed for the ongoing programs that we have in Ukraine. Additionally, making in-country purchases is vital to their economy.
All His Kids, Too! staff are volunteers. We pay for our own travel expenses and any other expenses of His Kids, Too!. All donations to His Kids, Too! are tax deductible and benefit widows, orphans and other needy people. We encourage people to review the website (www.Hiskidstoo.org) for detailed reports on how the funds are spent, and view the hundreds of photos of my frequent trips to Ukraine.
His Kids, Too! is an avenue to take the word of God to the lost of this world, by meeting their individual needs while showing them the love of the Lord. Many times we think of people in far away lands and think they are unreachable………just a long way away. His Kids, Too! tries to bring a face to those people, and provide others with an opportunity to serve them, changing lives one at a time …….because remember even though you may not know them personally, and they don’t live around the corner, or in another state, but across the world, they are His kids….too!
In 2004 it came to our attention that a young girl, Natasha was in dire need of medical attention due to Treacher Collins Syndrome.
Treacher Collins Syndrome is a rare inherited disorder characterized by distinctive abnormalities of the head and facial (craniofacial) area due to underdevelopment (hypoplasia) of certain portions of the skull (e.g., supraorbital rims and zygomatic arches). Although the symptoms and physical characteristics associated with Treacher Collins Syndrome can vary greatly in severity from patient to patient, craniofacial abnormalities tend to involve the cheekbones, jaws, mouth, ears, and/or eyes. If Natasha did not receive medical assistance she would have eventually gone blind due to the lack of cheek bones to support the eye sockets.
His Kids, Too! started investigating medical resources to assist with this problem, and Fresh Start Surgical Gifts in San Diego California gladly accepted her as a case. After a host family was secured with, George and Helen R. of San Diego, Natasha and her grandmother made the 8500 mile trek to California. Arriving in April of 2005, Natasha's treatment plan was started and she has progressed. The treatment will continue for at least the next 36 months.
Fresh Start has been wonderful, and the host family totally accommodating to their needs. Even after arriving and 'grandma' having a terrible growth in her upper arm, the host family, though able to secure some medical treatment for this cancerous growth, the grandmother decided to return to Ukraine for treatment. She is presently in Ukraine.
We would like to thank Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, the wonderful host family, Canyon View Church of Christ, and the donors who have specifically supported this medical need. Your funds went directly to help with airfare, and for their living expenses. We encourage anyone wanting to support this extension of the ministry to contact us directly.
December 2006 – Updated Photos of Natasha – surgery is still in progress:
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Rivers and Rainfall
An ancient Indian text says this about rivers and rainfall: "Waters, you are the ones who bring us the life force. Help us to find nourishment so that we may look upon great joy." The people of ancient India knew that their rivers made life possible. Because of water's importance, India's people have always thought of their rivers as holy Ancient India's holiest river, the Ganges, is also one of the longest rivers on the Indian subcontinent. This river stretches for 1,560 miles (2,512 km). An Indian poet named Jagannatha (JAHG.nuh.tuh), who lived in the 1500s, called its water the "blessing of the world," which would "soothe our troubled souls." Even today followers of the Hindu religion come to bathe in the Ganges River. They believe that its waters will wash away their sins.
Besides rivers, the other major source of water for India is rain. Almost all of India's rain falls during the summer monsoon, the season when moist winds blow from the Indian Ocean toward the subcontinent. In the winter, the winds reverse direction. The winter winds bring no rain, because they come from a dry inland area of Asia.
The shifting of the winds usually follows a regular pattern. But some years the monsoon rains begin late or never arrive at all. This affects crops and sometimes leads to famine. At these times, the people of India turn to the gods they believe in. One of the most important gods is Indra, the god of thunderstorms. When rain is needed, they ask the god to "draw up the enormous bucket and pour it down."
Once the monsoon rains begin, they continue for four months. This constant rain has surprised visitors to India for centuries. One such visitor to the land was Aristobulus (uh»ris»tuh»BYOOluhs), from Greece, who traveled there in 327 B.C. He wrote that in India the rains poured "violently from the clouds both day and night." Even armies at war in ancient India stopped fighting during the monsoon season because the roads got so muddy.
Why did the people of ancient India think of rivers as holy?
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West Coast Strike - 2012
From the American Shipper (11/28/2012):
A strike by longshoremen in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has now spread to about 10 terminals in the ports.
The strike began Tuesday at noon when clerical workers representated by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 Office Clerical Unit set up pickets at a single facility, the APM Terminals (APMT) Pier 400 facility in the Port of Los Angeles.
Those workers do office work for the company, but other ILWU longshoremen who handle containers at the terminal honored the pickets and joined the strike.
By Wednesday afternoon, John Fageaux Jr., president of ILWU Local 63, told American Shipper members of his local had gone on strike against all 14 of the steamship agencies and terminals at which it represents workers, shutting down terminals in Los Angeles and Long Beach...
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Irish Release Date Announced for Irish-Australian Co-Production 'Animals' – August 9th
20 Jun 2019 : Nathan Griffin
Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat in 'Animals'.
Break Out Pictures has confirmed that it will release ‘Animals’ across Irish Cinemas on August 9th.
Award-winning director Sophie Hyde (‘52 Tuesdays’, ‘Life in Movement’) helms the feature adaptation of author-turned-screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth’s best-selling novel ‘Animals’, an unconventional female-driven comedy starring Holliday Grainger (‘Tulip Fever’, ‘My Cousin Rachel’) and Alia Shawkat (‘Arrested Development’, ‘Search Party’).
Grainger and Shawkat star as Laura and Tyler respectively, best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim — an ambitious pianist who decides, unfathomably, to go teetotal.
Speaking about the upcoming release, Nell Roddy of Break Out Pictures said:
“We are thrilled to be working with Picturehouse Entertainment on the release of the wild and utterly hilarious ANIMALS, it went down a storm in Sundance earlier this year and we hope Irish audiences will enjoy it as much as we did when it hits Irish cinemas later this summer.”
‘Animals’ shot in Dublin early last year, after secured production investment from Screen Ireland and Screen Australia in association with the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) and the Adelaide Film Festival.
British actress, Holliday Grainger’s credits include ‘My Cousin Rachel’, Disney’s live-action film ‘Cinderella’, and Emmy® Award-winning drama series ‘The Borgias’. Alia Shawkat is an award-winning actress best known for her work on cult TV series ‘Arrested Development’ as well as roles in ‘Search Party’ and Amazon’s Emmy® Award-winning series ‘Transparent’.
The film made its European Premiere at Sundance Film Festival: London late last month
Sophie Hyde is also producing alongside Rebecca Summerton for Closer Productions, BAFTA-nominated Sarah Brocklehurst (‘Black Pond’), and Cormac Fox for Vico Films, who featured among the EFP 2019 Producers on the Move at Cannes Film Festival in May. Emma Jane Unsworth wrote the screenplay based on her novel which was first published in 2014 in the UK, followed by editions in the USA, Canada, Germany, France, and Spain.
‘Animals’ marks the sixth official co-production to date from Australia’s co-production treaty with Ireland, signed in 1998. ‘Animals’ is the first feature film drama made under the treaty, which has produced one TV miniseries, two children’s drama series, one feature-length documentary, and one documentary series thus-far. The Competent Authorities tasked with administrating the Co-production Program in Australia and Ireland are Screen Australia and the Screen Ireland, respectively.
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The State of Jefferson
I grew up Northern, Northern, California right on the Oregon border in a county the size of Massachusetts but with a population of only around 40,000. In the 1940's it broke away along with the northern most counties in CA and the southern most in Oregon to form the State of Jefferson. They used theatrics like shutting down all the roads in and out of the area on the first Thursday of every month and riding out with horses to distribute information to stopped cars. Their grievances were that there was a lack if good roads to the area so they were cut off during the winter months, they were tired of having their needs ignored in favor of places with higher populations, they wanted no tax on booze, and no gun restrictions. They managed to wear down the state legislatures, and rumor has it that they were going to sign off on the new state. We inaugurated a governor (the celebration even had a grizzly bear in attendance). Then December 7th 1941 happened and the idea was abandoned for the sake of national unity during WWII.
But the State of Jefferson has not been forgotten. Passion for it amps up every time another government initiative effects the area negatively. In my lifetime, support for the separatist movement has never been as strong as it is now. My hometown has become a battle ground over water-rights in the state. The rivers are home to an endangered species of Coho salmon. The local Native American tribes, the farmers, the coastal fishermen and environmental policy makers have endless fights and lawsuits over how the water from the rivers that the fish spawn in is used. This is just icing on the cake for an area that has been struggling with unemployment rates of 20% since before the recession. The logging industry diminished in the early 1990's and farms that have split into smaller and smaller parcels as they are passed on through the generations or bought up by retirees from urban areas who aren't always as invested in the community and schools.
Personally, I would like to see a unified California, but I agree that the voices of the people in my hometown are buried by the urban majority. The media coverage either glorifies the farmers "calloused hands" or ridicules them as crazy rednecks. Thus, people in urban California are largely unaware of the real struggles facing my community members or think they are crazy vigilantes.
Having grown up in Siskiyou County and then lived in San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles, I have a deep desire to bridge the rural/urban divide in California. I feel that my community needs a platform other than the media to speak about the complexity of their lives.
I'm always felt the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov resonated with the issues in my hometown. It's about a family that is close to losing their land. Yet, it's not only about the loss of land, it's the loss of a culture and an end of an era as well. I want to bring professional actors from cities around CA to my hometown to live with residents and rehearse The Cherry Orchard. With guidance from a community advisory board, we will adapt the play to more closely resemble the community, then present the play in a farmhouse in my hometown. This is the first level of exchange between urban and rural communities. I'll also ask local high school students to interview community members and film their stories. These stories will be screened when The Cherry Orchard production tours to urban areas in CA.
In the future, I hope to expand the program to include an exchange of high school students between urban communities and my rural community. The rural kids would get a chance to go to baseball games, museums, plays, and music concerts while the urban kids would get to work with horses, learn local crafts, and spend time in the wilderness.
Source: http://www.artstrategies.org/programs/crea...
← The Cherry Orchard in Scott Valley
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Mallika joins the Army!
June 2006 - Hindi film music suffered an irreparable loss when legendary music director Naushad Ali breathed his last on May 5
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L.A.’s Police union demands Rams pay for their own security
Published on Thursday, 04 August 2016 14:40
Written by City News Service
City News Service
The Los Angeles Police Protective League this week demanded that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at the team’s home games as long as it plays at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
“The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year,” LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said.
“Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city,” DeRollo said. “The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayers for the NFL team.”
The temporary location of the Rams in Los Angeles has created a need for more than 200 police officers to ensure adequate safety at every home game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, DeRollo said. A stadium scheduled to open in 2019 is being built for the Rams in Inglewood.
“This comes at a time when the LAPD has critically low staffing levels and the city of Los Angeles has experienced a dramatic increase in violent crime and property crime over the past two years,” DeRollo said.
The Rams issued a statement saying the team is “working with the LAPD to find solutions that work for everyone — in fact, we have a few meetings already scheduled with LAPD and USC leadership in the coming weeks.”
“The safety of fans attending our games is a priority and we are appreciative of the great team at LAPD and other agencies that will be part of our game-day security operation for helping ensure a safe environment for our guests.”
The LAPPL union represents the more than 9,900 sworn members of the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Housing Act 1988
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specified provision(s) savings for amendments by 2018 anaw 1, s. 6, Sch. 6 by S.I. 2019/110 reg. 5
[F17(1)In section 9 (control by Corporation of disposition of land by housing associations) for subsection (1) there shall be substituted the following subsections—E+W+S
“(1)Subject to section 10 and sections 81(7), 105(6) and 133(7) of the Housing Act 1988, the consent of the Corporation is required for any disposition of land by a registered housing association.
(1A) Subject to section 10, the consent of the relevant Corporation is required for any disposition of grant-aided land (as defined in Schedule 1) by an unregistered housing association; and for this purpose “ the relevant Corporation ” means,—
(a)if the land is in England, the Housing Corporation;
(b)if the land is in Scotland, Scottish Homes, and
(c)if the land is in Wales, Housing for Wales.”
(2)In subsection (3) of that section—
(a)for the words “the consent of the Corporation”, in the first place where they occur, there shall be substituted “consent”; and
(b)for the words “the consent of the Corporation”, in the second place where they occur, there shall be substituted “that consent”.
F2(3)]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F1Sch. 6 para. 7 repealed (S.) (1.11.2001) by 2001 asp 10, s. 112, Sch. 10 para. 15(8); S.S.I. 2001/336, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. II Table (subject to transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)
F2Sch. 6 para. 7(3) repealed (1.4.2010) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), s. 325(1), Sch. 16; S.I. 2010/862, arts. 2, 3 (with Sch.)
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Part IVE+W+S Sunday working for shop and betting workers
Protected shop workers and betting workersE+W+S
36 Protected shop workers and betting workers.E+W+S
(1)Subject to subsection (5), a shop worker or betting worker is to be regarded as “protected” for the purposes of any provision of this Act if (and only if) subsection (2) or (3) applies to him.
(2)This subsection applies to a shop worker or betting worker if—
(a)on the day before the relevant commencement date he was employed as a shop worker or a betting worker but not to work only on Sunday,
(b)he has been continuously employed during the period beginning with that day and ending with the day which, in relation to the provision concerned, is the appropriate date, and
(c)throughout that period, or throughout every part of it during which his relations with his employer were governed by a contract of employment, he was a shop worker or a betting worker.
(3)This subsection applies to any shop worker or betting worker whose contract of employment is such that under it he—
(a)is not, and may not be, required to work on Sunday, and
(b)could not be so required even if the provisions of this Part were disregarded.
(4)Where on the day before the relevant commencement date an employee’s relations with his employer had ceased to be governed by a contract of employment, he shall be regarded as satisfying subsection (2)(a) if—
(a)that day fell in a week which counts as a period of employment with that employer under section 212(2) or (3) or under regulations under section 219, and
(b)on the last day before the relevant commencement date on which his relations with his employer were governed by a contract of employment, the employee was employed as a shop worker or a betting worker but not to work only on Sunday.
(5)A shop worker is not a protected shop worker, and a betting worker is not a protected betting worker, if—
(a)he has given his employer an opting-in notice on or after the relevant commencement date, and
(b)after giving the notice, he has expressly agreed with his employer to do shop work, or betting work, on Sunday or on a particular Sunday.
(6)In this Act “opting-in notice”, in relation to a shop worker or a betting worker, means written notice, signed and dated by the shop worker or betting worker, in which the shop worker or betting worker expressly states that he wishes to work on Sunday or that he does not object to Sunday working.
(7)[F1Subject to subsection (8),] in this Act “the relevant commencement date” means—
(a)in relation to a shop worker, 26th August 1994, and
(b)in relation to a betting worker, 3rd January 1995.
[F2(8)In any provision of this Act which applies to Scotland by virtue of section 1(5) of the Sunday Working (Scotland) Act 2003 (extension to Scotland of provisions which refer to shop workers and betting workers), “the relevant commencement date” means, in relation to Scotland, the date on which that section came into force.]
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E1S. 36, which previously extended to England and Wales only, extends to England and Wales and Scotland from 6.4.2004 by virtue of the amendment to s. 244(2) by Sunday Working (Scotland) Act 2003 (c. 18), ss. 1(5), 3; S.I. 2004/958, art. 2
F1Words in s. 36(7) inserted (6.4.2004) by Sunday Working (Scotland) Act 2003 (c. 18), s. 1(2)(a); S.I. 2004/958, art. 2
F2S. 36(8) added (6.4.2004) by Sunday Working (Scotland) Act 2003 (c. 18), s. 1(2)(b); S.I. 2004/958, art. 2
37 Contractual requirements relating to Sunday work.E+W+S
(1)Any contract of employment under which a shop worker or betting worker who satisfies section 36(2)(a) was employed on the day before the relevant commencement date is unenforceable to the extent that it—
(a)requires the shop worker to do shop work, or the betting worker to do betting work, on Sunday on or after that date, or
(b)requires the employer to provide the shop worker with shop work, or the betting worker with betting work, on Sunday on or after that date.
(2)Subject to subsection (3), any agreement entered into after the relevant commencement date between a protected shop worker, or a protected betting worker, and his employer is unenforceable to the extent that it—
(a)requires the shop worker to do shop work, or the betting worker to do betting work, on Sunday, or
(b)requires the employer to provide the shop worker with shop work, or the betting worker with betting work, on Sunday.
(3)Where, after giving an opting-in notice, a protected shop worker or a protected betting worker expressly agrees with his employer to do shop work or betting work on Sunday or on a particular Sunday (and so ceases to be protected), his contract of employment shall be taken to be varied to the extent necessary to give effect to the terms of the agreement.
(5)For the purposes of section 36(2)(b), the appropriate date—
(a)in relation to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, is the day on which the agreement is entered into, F4. . .
F3(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F3S. 37(4)(5)(b) repealed (15.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, s. 9, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 6(a)(c), Sch. 9(2); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II, Sch. 2 Pt. II (with Sch. 3 paras. 10, 11)
F4Word “and” after s. 37(5)(a) repealed (15.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, s. 9, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 6(b), Sch. 9(2); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(2)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II, Sch. 2 Pt. II (with Sch. 3 paras. 10, 11)
38 Contracts with guaranteed hours.E+W
(1)This section applies where—
(a)under the contract of employment under which a shop worker or betting worker who satisfies section 36(2)(a) was employed on the day before the relevant commencement date, the employer is, or may be, required to provide him with shop work, or betting work, for a specified number of hours each week,
(b)under the contract the shop worker or betting worker was, or might have been, required to work on Sunday before that date, and
(c)the shop worker has done shop work, or the betting worker betting work, on Sunday in that employment (whether or not before that day) but has, on or after that date, ceased to do so.
(2)So long as the shop worker remains a protected shop worker, or the betting worker remains a protected betting worker, the contract shall not be regarded as requiring the employer to provide him with shop work, or betting work, on weekdays in excess of the hours normally worked by the shop worker or betting worker on weekdays before he ceased to do shop work, or betting work, on Sunday.
(3)For the purposes of section 36(2)(b), the appropriate date in relation to this section is any time in relation to which the contract is to be enforced.
39 Reduction of pay etc.E+W
(a)under the contract of employment under which a shop worker or betting worker who satisfies section 36(2)(a) was employed on the day before the relevant commencement date, the shop worker or betting worker was, or might have been, required to work on Sunday before the relevant commencement date,
(b)the shop worker has done shop work, or the betting worker has done betting work, on Sunday in that employment (whether or not before that date) but has, on or after that date, ceased to do so, and
(c)it is not apparent from the contract what part of the remuneration payable, or of any other benefit accruing, to the shop worker or betting worker was intended to be attributable to shop work, or betting work, on Sunday.
(2)So long as the shop worker remains a protected shop worker, or the betting worker remains a protected betting worker, the contract shall be regarded as enabling the employer to reduce the amount of remuneration paid, or the extent of the other benefit provided, to the shop worker or betting worker in respect of any period by the relevant proportion.
(3)In subsection (2) “the relevant proportion” means the proportion which the hours of shop work, or betting work, which (apart from this Part) the shop worker, or betting worker, could have been required to do on Sunday in the period (“the contractual Sunday hours”) bears to the aggregate of those hours and the hours of work actually done by the shop worker, or betting worker, in the period.
(4)Where, under the contract of employment, the hours of work actually done on weekdays in any period would be taken into account in determining the contractual Sunday hours, they shall be taken into account in determining the contractual Sunday hours for the purposes of subsection (3).
(5)For the purposes of section 36(2)(b), the appropriate date in relation to this section is the end of the period in respect of which the remuneration is paid or the benefit accrues.
Opting-out of Sunday workE+W+S
40 Notice of objection to Sunday working.E+W+S
(1)A shop worker or betting worker to whom this section applies may at any time give his employer written notice, signed and dated by the shop worker or betting worker, to the effect that he objects to Sunday working.
(2)In this Act “opting-out notice” means a notice given under subsection (1) by a shop worker or betting worker to whom this section applies.
(3)This section applies to any shop worker or betting worker who under his contract of employment—
(a)is or may be required to work on Sunday (whether or not as a result of previously giving an opting-in notice), but
(b)is not employed to work only on Sunday.
41 Opted-out shop workers and betting workers.E+W+S
(1)Subject to subsection (2), a shop worker or betting worker is to be regarded as “opted-out” for the purposes of any provision of this Act if (and only if)—
(a)he has given his employer an opting-out notice,
(b)he has been continuously employed during the period beginning with the day on which the notice was given and ending with the day which, in relation to the provision concerned, is the appropriate date, and
(2)A shop worker is not an opted-out shop worker, and a betting worker is not an opted-out betting worker, if—
(a)after giving the opting-out notice concerned, he has given his employer an opting-in notice, and
(b)after giving the opting-in notice, he has expressly agreed with his employer to do shop work, or betting work, on Sunday or on a particular Sunday.
(3)In this Act “notice period”, in relation to an opted-out shop worker or an opted-out betting worker, means, subject to section 42(2), the period of three months beginning with the day on which the opting-out notice concerned was given.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 41(3) modified (E.W.) (1.5.2012) by Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Act 2012 (c. 12), s. 3(3)
C2S. 41(3) modified (E.W.) (1.5.2012) by Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Act 2012 (c. 12), ss. 2(1), 3(1)
42 Explanatory statement.E+W+S
(1)Where a person becomes a shop worker or betting worker to whom section 40 applies, his employer shall, before the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which that person becomes such a worker, give him a written statement in the prescribed form.
(a)an employer fails to comply with subsection (1) in relation to any shop worker or betting worker, and
(b)the shop worker or betting worker, on giving the employer an opting-out notice, becomes an opted-out shop worker or an opted-out betting worker,
section 41(3) has effect in relation to the shop worker or betting worker with the substitution for “three months” of “one month”.
(3)An employer shall not be regarded as failing to comply with subsection (1) in any case where, before the end of the period referred to in that subsection, the shop worker or betting worker has given him an opting-out notice.
(4)Subject to subsection (6), the prescribed form in the case of a shop worker is as follows—
“ Statutory Rights in Relation to Sunday Shop WorkE+W+S
You have become employed as a shop worker and are or can be required under your contract of employment to do the Sunday work your contract provides for.
However, if you wish, you can give a notice, as described in the next paragraph, to your employer and you will then have the right not to work in or about a shop on any Sunday on which the shop is open once three months have passed from the date on which you gave the notice.
Your notice must—
be in writing;
be signed and dated by you;
say that you object to Sunday working.
For three months after you give the notice, your employer can still require you to do all the Sunday work your contract provides for. After the three month period has ended, you have the right to complain to an [F5employment tribunal] if, because of your refusal to work on Sundays on which the shop is open, your employer—
dismisses you, or
does something else detrimental to you, for example, failing to promote you.
Once you have the rights described, you can surrender them only by giving your employer a further notice, signed and dated by you, saying that you wish to work on Sunday or that you do not object to Sunday working and then agreeing with your employer to work on Sundays or on a particular Sunday.”
(5)Subject to subsection (6), the prescribed form in the case of a betting worker is as follows—
“ Statutory Rights in Relation to Sunday Betting WorkE+W+S
You have become employed under a contract of employment under which you are or can be required to do Sunday betting work, that is to say, work—
at a track on a Sunday on which your employer is taking bets at the track, or
in a licensed betting office on a Sunday on which it is open for business.
However, if you wish, you can give a notice, as described in the next paragraph, to your employer and you will then have the right not to do Sunday betting work once three months have passed from the date on which you gave the notice.
say that you object to doing Sunday betting work.
For three months after you give the notice, your employer can still require you to do all the Sunday betting work your contract provides for. After the three month period has ended, you have the right to complain to an [F5employment tribunal] if, because of your refusal to do Sunday betting work, your employer—
Once you have the rights described, you can surrender them only by giving your employer a further notice, signed and dated by you, saying that you wish to do Sunday betting work or that you do not object to doing Sunday betting work and then agreeing with your employer to do such work on Sundays or on a particular Sunday.”
(6)The Secretary of State may by order amend the prescribed forms set out in subsections (4) and (5).
F5Words in s. 42(4)(5) substituted (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2)(a) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
(1)Where a shop worker or betting worker gives his employer an opting-out notice, the contract of employment under which he was employed immediately before he gave that notice becomes unenforceable to the extent that it—
(a)requires the shop worker to do shop work, or the betting worker to do betting work, on Sunday after the end of the notice period, or
(b)requires the employer to provide the shop worker with shop work, or the betting worker with betting work, on Sunday after the end of that period.
(2)Subject to subsection (3), any agreement entered into between an opted-out shop worker, or an opted-out betting worker, and his employer is unenforceable to the extent that it—
(3)Where, after giving an opting-in notice, an opted-out shop worker or an opted-out betting worker expressly agrees with his employer to do shop work or betting work on Sunday or on a particular Sunday (and so ceases to be opted-out), his contract of employment shall be taken to be varied to the extent necessary to give effect to the terms of the agreement.
F6S. 43(4)(5)(b) repealed (15.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, s. 9, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 7(a)(c), Sch. 9(2); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(1)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II, Sch. 2 Pt. II (with Sch. 3 paras. 10, 11)
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Innovation in Exhibition Making: the Blurred Boundary Between Exhibition and The Rest of The World
Innovation in Exhibition Making: The Blurred Boundary Between Exhibitions and The Rest of The World
Participating Nodes: Jaewook Lee, Raimundas Malašauskas, Charlie Hahn
Date: 8.22.2015 2-5pm
Location: Seoul Museum of Art
Curating has dramatically changed over the last decade, becoming more and more creative, imaginative, and even artistic. The role of a curator is expanding, becoming user-friendly and reaching beyond the walls of institutions. It has evolved beyond the selection and the placement of art or artifacts in a space; it has become about empowering the audience, collaboration, communication, and innovation. It often allows the audience to encounter unexpected works of art in unexpected places. We will discuss the key concepts and distinctions that are central to the understanding curatorial innovation within which exhibitions and the rest of the world operate hand-in-hand.
Jaewook Lee is an artist, writer, amateur scientist, semi-philosopher, and sometime curator. Lee takes exhibition-making as his primary medium. He is the recipient of the 2014 Sindoh Artist Support Program (SINAP), and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts(SVA) in New York City. His projects can be found at: www.jaewooklee.com
Raimundas Malašauskas curates often, and writes occasionally. Recent projects include In My Previous Life I Wanted to be a Tablet, Instituto de Vision, Bogota (2015), Tomorrow night I walked into a dark black star, Universidad Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2014), and Oo, Lithuanian and Cyprus pavilions at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). He has co-written the libretto of an opera, produced a monthly television show, and was an agent for dOCUMENTA (13). Paper Exhibition, a book of Malašauskas' selected writings, was published by Sternberg Press: www.rai.lt. Iterations or documentation of his projects can be found at: www.rye.tw
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Finding the Perfect Green Countertop
These days, there's a nearly endless array of options on the market if you're looking for a stylish, green countertop. Availability varies and transportation costs — in more ways than one — so you might stop by the local green building store to see what's being made locally. You might see some of the products discussed below.
Some of the green countertops that we've discussed in the past include Eco by Cosentino, IceStone, Elements, Trend Q, PaperStone, and Bio-Glass.
Sunset Magazine recently published an article entitled "Earth-friendly Kitchen Counters" highlighting the following 10 countertop options. Here's some of what they say.
BottleStone – made with no-VOCs and 80% recycled content for about $68 per square foot. This product is currently in development by Fireclay Tile.
Durapalm – made of old, non-fruiting palms for about $23 per square foot.
EcoTop – made of a 50/50 blend of FSC-certified post-consumer recycled paper and bamboo fiber while bound in a water-based resin for about $35 per square foot.
Endura – custom surfaces made of reclaimed, FSC-certified, and regional woods and bamboo and agrifibers.
Fuez – made with fly ash, recycled materials, stone, and shells in a wind-powered facility for about $80 per square foot.
Seeta by TorZo – made with over 70% sunflower seed hulls and a non-hazardous acrylic polymer in Onyx, Cocoa, Copper, and Natural.
Squak Mountain Stone – made of fly ash, post-industrial crushed glass, and low-carbon cement for about $50 per square foot.
Teragren – countertops made of bamboo with traditional, butcher block, and strand patterns.
Vetrazzo – made of recycled glass, cement, and a strengthening mix for a price from about $45 per square foot.
Windfall Lumber – butcher block countertop made from reclaimed Douglas Fir and sustainably harvested woods.
When pricing information is discussed above, it's very general. You'll want to get in touch with the company or dealer for specifics.
What's your favorite green countertop brand or material?
By Jetson Green|2011-11-09T01:03:52+00:00March 2nd, 2010|Materials, Recycled|4 Comments
Eric Edelson March 3, 2010 at 2:14 pm - Reply
Preston – great blog post and very relevant. My company, Fireclay Tile, makes BottleStone but I wanted to mention that we are still further refining the product and have not launched it commercially (as of 3/2010). Sustainable ceramic tile is always another option and potentially worth checking out for many individuals looking for an economical solution to the countertop issue. Our Debris Series (over 60% recycled materials) retails for about $25 / sq ft.
Thanks for taking an interest in this subject matter as it is great for consumers to know what the options are.
Preston March 4, 2010 at 8:02 pm - Reply
Eric, thanks for the heads up, I’m updating the article. I look forward to seeing the commercial launch of BottleStone.
metrohippie March 3, 2010 at 10:02 pm - Reply
Glad you mentioned ECO by Cosentino… just used that product on a project of mine and was really impressed… it also is Cradle to Cradle certified so ya can’t get much greener than that!
Justin April 21, 2010 at 8:33 pm - Reply
Every Squak Mountain Stone concrete slab is hand-finished so it has a unique character similar to that of natural stones such as marble, travertine, and limestone. Squak Mountain Stone is generally used in kitchens and bathrooms as a counter top, table top or vanity top. If you haven’t seen the “new” Squak Mountain stone you really don’t know what you are missing out on! Tiger Mountain Innovations, LLC has recently made some great product improvements to their Squak Mountain Stone product. The coal fly-ash previously contained in the material has been substituted out with more recycled glass. Portland cement was substituted for low-carbon cement over 2 years ago as low-carbon cement releases much less co2 into the atmosphere during the manufacturing process. Furthermore, the slabs are available in a nominal 56″x96″ size at 1-3/8″ thickness. Slabs are gauged on the backside to ensure consistent thickness and ease of seaming for fabricators. A state-of-the-art vibration technology is used to minimize pinholes and give a more consistent character from slab to slab.
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Home Culture Classical Dance forms of India
Classical Dance forms of India
Dance in India, is rooted to age-old tradition. This vast sub-continent has given birth to varied forms of dancing, each shaped by the influences of a particular period and environment. The nation offers a number of classical dance forms, each of which can be traced to different parts of the country. Each form represents the culture and ethos of a particular region or a group of people.
Indian dances and music were not only seen as ways to celebrate, but also as offerings of worship and thanks giving to the deity. All the dance forms were structured around the nine ‘Rasa’ or emotions, Hasya (happiness), Shoka (sorrow), Krodha (anger), Karuna (compassion), Bhibatsa (disgust), Adhbhuta (wonder), Bhaya (fear), Viram (courage) & Shanta (serenity).
Bharatanatyam
Bharatanatyam is a classical dance form originating from Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India. This popular South Indian dance form is a 20th century reconstruction of Cathir, the art of temple dancers. Cathir in turn, is derived from ancient dance forms. The word Bharata, some believe, signifies the author of the famous Sanskrit treatise on stagecraft, called NatyaShastra, and the word Bharatanatyam is sometimes given a folk etymology as follows:Bha for Bhava or abhinaya and expression, Ra for raga or melody, and Ta for tala or rhythm. Bharata refers to the author of the Natya Shastra, and natya is Sanskrit for the art of sacred dance-drama brought to the stage at the beginning of the 20th century.
Kathakali
A rich and flourishing tradition of dance drama belongs to the South-Western state of Kerala. Kathakali means a story play or a dance drama. Katha means story, here actors depict characters from the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata and from the Puranas (ancient scriptures). It is extremely colourful. The dancers adorn themselves with billowing costumes, flowing scarves, ornaments and crowns. They use a specific type of symbolic makeup to portray various roles which are character-types rather than individual characters.
Various qualities, human, godlike, demonic, etc., are all represented through fantastic make-up and costumes. The most striking part of this dance form is that its characters never speak, its just the lexicon of a highly developed hand-gestures language and facial expression which unfolds the text of the drama. The macro and micro movements of the face, the movements of the eyebrows, the eyeballs, the cheeks, the nose and the chin are minutely worked out and various emotions are registered in a flash by a Kathakali actor-dancer. Often men play the female roles, though of late women have taken to Kathakali.
Present day Kathakali is a dance drama tradition, which evolved from centuries of highly stylised theatrical traditions of Kerala, especially Kudiyattam. Ritual traditions like Theyyams, Mudiyattam and the martial arts of Kerala played a major role in shaping the dance into its present form.
The word Kathak, derived from ‘Katha’, literally means storyteller. In ancient times, storytellers used song and dance to embellish their narration. This took the form of Kathakalakshepam and Harikatha in Southern India, and the form of Kathak in the north. Around the 15th century, the dance form underwent a drastic transition due to the influence of Mughal dance and music. By the sixteenth century, the tight churidar pyjama became the staple attire of a Kathak dancer.
The Kathak dance form is characterized by rhythmic footwork danced under the weight of more than 100 ankle bells, spectacular spins, and the dramatic representation of themes from Persian and Urdu poetry alongside those of Hindu mythology. Kathak originated in the North, but Persian and Muslim influences later altered the dance from a temple ritual to a courtly entertainment.
The origins of the kathak style lie in the traditional recounting of Hindu myths by Brahmin priests called kathiks, who used mime and gesture for dramatic effect. Gradually, the storytelling became more stylized and evolved into a dance form. With the arrival of the Mughals in northern India, kathak was taken into the royal courts and developed into a sophisticated art form; through the patronage of the Mughal rulers, kathak took its current form. The emphasis of the dance moved from the religious to the aesthetic.
Odissi
Odissi is considered to be one of the oldest surviving dance forms based on archaeological evidence. The traditional dance form of Orissa, Odissi owes its origin to the temple dances of the devadasis (temple dancers). Odissi has been mentioned in inscriptions, depicted on sculptures, in temples like the Brahmeswara and the dancing hall of the Sun Temple at Konark. In the 1950s, the entire dance form was revitalised, thanks to the Abhinaya Chandrika and sculpted dance poses found in temples.
Like other Indian classical dance forms, Odissi has two major facets: Nritta or non-representational dance, where ornamental patterns are created using body movements in space and time. Another form is Abhinaya, or stylized mime in which symbolic hand gestures and facial expressions are used to interpret a storyline or theme.
While the form is curvaceous, concentrating on the tribhang or the division of the body into three parts, head, bust and torso; the mudras and the expressions are similar to those of Bharatnatyam. Odissi performances are replete with lores of the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, Lord Krishna. It is a soft, lyrical classical dance which depicts the ambience of Orissa and the philosophy of its most popular deity, Lord Jagannath.
Odissi is based on the popular devotion to Lord Krishna and the verses of the Sanskrit play Geet Govinda are used to depict the love and devotion to God.
Manipuri is the classical dance from the Manipur region in the north-east. Manipuri is different in many ways from the other dance forms in India. The body moves with slow, sinuous grace and the undulating arm movements flow into the fingers. The dance form evolved in the 18th century with the advent of the Vaishnava faith, from earlier ritual and magical dance forms. Themes from the Vishnu Purana, Bhagvata Purana and compositions from the Gitagovinda predominate the repertoire.
According to the legends of the Meitei tribes of Manipur, when God created Earth, it was lumpy. The seven Lainoorahs danced on this newly-formed sphere, pressing gently with their feet to make it firm and smooth. This is the origin of Meitei Jagoi. To this day, when Manipuri people dance, they do not stamp vigorously but press their feet gently and delicately on the ground. The original myths and stories are still practiced by the cultist Maibis, or Meitei priestesses in the form (Maibi) that is the root of Manipuri.
The female ‘Rasa’ dances, based on the Radha-Krishna theme, feature group ballets and solos. The male ‘Sankirtana’ dances, performed to the pulsating rhythm of the Manipuri dholak are full of vitality.
The musical forms of Manipuri dance reflect the culture of the state of Manipur. The art form primarily depicts episodes from the life of Vishnu and is paradoxically a most tender and vigorous form of expression. Balance and a restraint of power are the predominant features of this dance style.
Mohiniattam
Mohiniattam is derived from the words “Mohini” and “attam”. Mohini means a beautiful woman and attam means dance. So this dance is an exquisite feminine style with undulating flow of body movements. The theme of the dance is generally “sringara” or love. Delicate themes of love are performed with suggestive abhinaya, subtle gestures, rhythmic footwork and lilting music.
After almost virtual extinction early this century, it is gratifying to note, that Mohiniattam survived its difficult phase and emerged as a full fledged dance form and credits itself to be one of the most exquisite dance styles of India.
The theme of Mohiniattam is love and devotion to god. Vishnu or Krishna is more often the hero. The spectators could feel his invisible presence when the heroine or her maid details dreams and ambitions through the circular movements, delicate footsteps and subtle expressions. The dancer in the slow and medium tempos is able to find adequate space for improvisations and suggestive bhavas. In format, this is similar to Bharatanatyam. The movements are graceful like Odissi and the costumes sober and attractive. It is essentially a solo dance, but in present times it is performed in groups also. The repertoire of Mohiniattam follows closely that of Bharatanatyam. Beginning with Cholkettu, the dancer performs Jathiswaram, Varnam, Padam and Thillana in a concert. Varnam combines pure and expressional dance, while Padam tests the histrionic talent of a dancer and Thillana exposes her technical artistry.
Kuchipudi
Kuchipudi, the indigenous style of dance of Andhra Pradesh took its birth and effloresced in the village of the same name, originally called Kuchelapuri or Kuchelapuram, a hamlet in Krishna district. From its origin, as far back in the dim recesses of time as the 3rd century BC, it has remained a continuous and living dance tradition of this region. The genesis of Kuchipudi art as of most Indian classical dances is associated with religions. For a long time, the art was presented only at temples and that too only for annual festivals of certain temples in Andhra.
According to tradition, Kuchipudi dance was originally performed only by men and they all belonged to the Brahmin community. These Brahmin families were known popularly as Bhagavathalu of Kuchipudi. The very first group of Brahmin Bhagavathulu of Kuchipudi was formed in 1502 AD. Their programmes were offerings to the deities and they never allowed women in their groups.
In an era of the degeneration of dance due to exploitation of female dancers, an ascetic, Siddhendra Yogi redefined the dance form. Fifteen Brahmin families belonging to Kuchipudi have carried on the tradition for more than five centuries. Renowned gurus like Vedantam Lakshminarayana, Chinta Krishna Murthy and Tadepalli Perayya enriched the dance form by bringing women. Dr Vempati Chinna Satyam added several dance dramas and choreographed many solo performances, thus broadening the horizons of the dance form. The transition has been great from a time when men played female parts to the present when women play even the male parts.
Kuchipudi art, to be noted was intended as a dance drama requiring a set of character, never as a mere dance by a soloist which is common in present times. This dance drama are sometimes known as Ata Bhagavatham. The plays are in Telugu and traditionally all roles are taken by men alone.
Kuchipudi plays are enacted in the open air and on improvised stages. The presentation begins with some stage rites which are performed in full view of the audience.
Kutiyattam
Kutiyattam, the classical theater form of Kerala is second to none in terms of its antiquity. It claims to date back to 2000 years of antiquity and is the enactment of Sanskrit plays and is India’s oldest theatre to have been continuously performed.
King Kulashekhara Varman reformed the Kutiyattam in the tenth century AD, and this form continues the tradition of performing in Sanskrit. The Prakrit language and Malayalam in its ancient form have also been kept alive through this medium. The repertory includes plays written by Bhasa, Harsha and Mahendra Vikrama Pallava..
Traditionally, the actors have been members of the Chakyar caste and it is the dedication of this group that is responsible for the preservation of Kutiyattam through the centuries. Nambiars, a sub-caste of drummers, have been associated with this theatre as players of the mizhavu ( a pot-shaped, large drum unique to Kutiyattam). It is the women of the Nambiar community who act the female characterizations and play the bell- metal cymbals. While individuals of other communities do study this theatre and participate in stage performances, they do not perform in temples.
Performances usually last several days, the first few being devoted to introductions – of the characters and incidents from their lives. The complete performance – from beginning to end – is performed on the last day. However, it does not necessarily mean that the entire written text of the play will be enacted. An evening of Kutiyattam begins at 9 p.m. after the close of rituals in the sanctum sanctorum of the temple, and continues till midnight, sometimes till 3 am, before the commencement of the morning rituals.
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AMORGES
AMORGES, Greek form of the name of several notable Iranians of the Achaemenid period. This, and the Lycian Humrkhkha (variant Umrgga) attested in a text from around 400 B.C. on the “Inscribed Pillar” at Xanthus, render an Old Iranian *Humarga “having excellent meadows” (cf. Av. “marəga; Sogd. mrγ and NPers. marḡ “meadow;” see Justi, Namenbuch, pp. 14-15; E. Benveniste, Titres et noms propres en Iranien ancien, Paris, 1966, p. 101; W. Hinz, Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen, Wiesbaden, 1975, p. 125; M. Mayrhofer and R. Schmitt, Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Vienna, 1977ff., V/4, no. 13). The personages known under this name are as follows: 1. A king of the east Iranian Sakas, probably fictional, contemporary with Cyrus the Great. According to Ctesias (Persica, ed. R. Henry, La Perse, l’Inde. Les Sommaires de Photius, Brussels, 1947, epitome 3), Cyrus subjugated the Medes, received the submission of the Bactrians and then waged a campaign against the eastern Sakas in about 548 B.C. He defeated them and captured their king, Amorges. But the latter’s wife, Sparethra, rallied the Sakas, collected an army of 300,000 men and 200,000 women (!), and routed the Persians, taking so many of Cyrus’ men captive, including three of his cousins, that he was only too happy to arrange for an exchange of prisoners. Amorges, once freed, became a friend of Cyrus. Ctesias adds that the Saka king even participated, as an ally of Persia, in Cyrus’ expedition against Lydia (epitome 4). Later, Cyrus made war upon the Derbicians (a Saka tribe of Central Asia), who were aided by an army from India. Upon engagement, Indian elephants frightened the Persian horses, causing them to stampede; the Persians were defeated, and Cyrus was mortally wounded by an Indian javelin. Summoned to help, Amorges arrived with 20,000 men at the crucial moment and with the Persians annihilated the Derbicians and their Indian allies. Before his death, Cyrus divided his empire between his two sons and urged them to respect above all their mother and Amorges (epitomes 6-8). There are so many historical inaccuracies in the Ctesian narrative (for an evaluation see J. Marquart, “Die Assyriaka des Ctesias,” Philologus, Suppl. Bd. 6, 1895, pp. 609ff.) that it borders on fiction. Most probably, Ctesias invented this Amorges by confusing *Humarga with Haumavarga (Gk. Amorgioi), a Saka tribe allied to the Persians (cf. A. Sh. Shahbazi, Cyrus the Great, Shiraz, 1970, pp. 262, 371ff.).
2. An eastern Saka king conquered by Darius the Great. According to Polyaenus (Strategica 7.11.6), Darius early in his reign waged a campaign against the eastern Sakas, who opposed him with three armies led by three kings, one of them Amorges. Darius engaged them separately, defeated one group, annihilated the second, and captured the third. In Darius’ own account of his expedition of 520-19 B.C. against the “Pointed-hat Sakas” (Saka Tigraxauda) of Central Asia (Behistun, 5.22ff.), the enemy leader he captured is named Skunxa. The two versions agree sufficiently, however, to warrant the conclusion that Polyaenus’ source was based on a sound Persian authority (Shahbazi, “Darius in Scythia and Scythians in Persepolis,” AMI 15, 1982, pp. 189-235, esp. pp. 215ff.).
3. A Persian general under Darius the Great. When a group of the Carians joined the Ionian Revolt (498 B.C.), Darius sent against them one of his sons-in-law with several other commanders, among them Amorges. The Persians twice defeated the Carian rebels, but the latter ambushed them on the road to Pedasus and succeeded in destroying the whole force (Herodotus 5.118-21).
4. The natural son of an Achaemenid prince named Pissuthnes who was satrap of Lydia but rebelled against Darius II and was vanquished by Tissaphernes (Thucydides 3.31; Plutarch Pericles 25; Diodorus 12.27.3). Amorges continued the rebellion, gathering a force of Greek mercenaries, and occupied Iasus, an old, rich, and strongly fortified town on the north coast of Caria (413 B.C.). Despite their treaty of friendship with Darius II, the Athenians supported Amorges, and Tissaphernes was ordered to crush the rebellion (Thucydides 8.5.5; 54.3). He enlisted the help of some Peloponnesians with their fleet. The inhabitants took the ships for their own and were surprised. The Peloponnesians captured Iasus and plundered its treasure; Amorges and his supporters were taken prisoner. “The town they delivered to Tissaphernes, together with all the captives, both bond and free, agreeing to accept from him a Daric stater for each one of them” (Thucydides 8.23.2-4; for historical analysis see D. M. Lewis, Sparta and Persia, Leiden, 1977, pp. 81, 85ff., 90ff.). Amorges’ fate is not recorded, but rebels were usually punished with death.
Among the 5th-4th century B.C. “Xanthian marbles,” which reveal strong Iranian influence (see in general A. Sh. Shahbazi, Irano-Lycian Monuments, Tehran, 1975; and W. A. P. Childs, “Lycian Relations with Persians and Greeks in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries Re-examined,” Anatolian Studies 31, 1981, pp. 55-80), one is the pillar (originally surmounted by a statue) inscribed with a long Lycian text which, although not fully deciphered, certainly relates in its last part (2.50-55) the history of Amorges. This is shown by the fact that some Iranians—including Tissaphernes—are here named in close proximity to Iasus and Amorges (Shahbazi, Irano-Lycian Monuments, pp. 64ff, 107). Another Xanthian memorial is the so-called Nereid monument, which is adorned with long, sculptured friezes (ibid., pp. 75ff.). One of these shows the siege and capture of a city and the seizure of its notables by a Greco-Persian force led by an Iranian senior general (ibid., pls. XLIV-LVIII). It is suggested that the monument was the mausoleum of Keriga, a Xanthian prince who served as an ally of Tissaphernes (ibid., pp. 108-09). Since the “Inscribed Pillar” also recorded the exploits of Keriga and his close relatives (ibid., pp. 57ff.), it is concluded that the sculptured narrative depicted the story of Tissaphernes’ capture of Amorges at Iasus (ibid., pp. 104ff.).
Bibliography: Given in the text.
(A. Sh. Shahbazi)
Vol. I, Fasc. 9, pp. 986-987
A. Sh. Shahbazi, “AMORGES,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, I/9, pp. 986-987, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/amorges (accessed on 30 December 2012).
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Rola, originally from Haifa, was born and raised in Dubai. She currently lives in Amman, Jordan. 5 years ago, Rola had no clue what a startup was. A friend of hers, had a startup, but she never quite realized what it actually was until she was able to catch a glimpse into her friend’s struggle to promote his business. Still, she never really understood the challenges startups faced and how a successful startup was achieved. But also, for her, the notion of a 9:00-5:00 job, didn’t seem thrilling, especially as a lifelong career. This is Rola’s story.
One of the first attempts for her, was an event planning startup MCIET.co, which didn’t reach the level of success she had hoped for. The reason for its lack of success? The technology wasn’t up to par with the current market needs. After two years of struggling to keep her business afloat, she decided to call it quits. While her first attempt at a startup proved unsuccessful, she described the experience as a disheartening learning experience, one in which, if she had the chance to offer a fellow mentee a piece of advice, she’d advise, to first, “never start a startup before working for one. Understanding the market, and the current ecosystem, is crucial for any startups success”. Rola took a break from the startup world to enhance her knowledge of the startup world, and get a better understanding of the ecosystem, she desired to be part of. She channeled her newfound drive into the launching of “Friendture”, her second startup. She describes the experience as facing many of the same mistakes which happened the first time, but, this time around, she found it especially difficult to find the technical resources, and getting people on board. After losing nearly $40,000, she realized the ultimate success factor lied in the technology. Thus, she focused her energy on learning the technological logic, flow, scalability and infrastructure of the technology. Most recently, Rola hired a co-founder that would take over the technical aspects of the work. With her newfound hope for her startup, Rola took the decision to quit her 13 year career, to focus on her startup.
Initially, she found it extremely difficult to obtain funding to start the business. She described the ecosystem in the Middle East, as very ‘uninviting’, with many people hesitant to to get on board. The main reason for this being the high level of uncertainty that comes with a startup. “Many people in the Middle East, are already come from financially difficult backgrounds and really need a steady income”, she added.
So how did Rola manage to come up with her successful business idea? She took her love for her friends, and fun experiences to another level. She realized, she couldn’t find an app that could plan all aspects of the perfect outing, or perfect trip, all in one. So she created Friendture, an app geared as a group activity planner, similar to Tilt. The app itself, aims to help people who find it difficult to plan outings with their friends easier. “Initially, the mere idea of my startup, was unconvincing to Middle East investors; and as a woman aiming to launch an event planning app… Let’s just say it wasn’t easy”.
What makes Friendture, different than its competitors? Frienture pivots its target users to a travel marketplace region, similar to the Airbnb experience, but with more of a focus on interests. With Friendture, you can look at different travel destinations and experiences in your chosen area of interest. Rola describes its utility as such: “We want people to land in their destination, open the app, and find an abundance of activities to do. The uniqueness of our app is the ‘slack for travelers’ aspect, which is catered towards groups”. Currently, Friendture, has 1600 beta users, which is great for the Middle East. Local communities, especially the youth, are really interested in using this type of app. Friendture, also has an algorithm that authenticates your interests and matches you to things of interest to you.
Rola realized, that what Facebook groups, google drive, Whatsapp and similar apps lacked, was a more formal ‘stay in touch’ aspect, which she describes as another success factor of Friendture’s. Another element she incorporated into the app, is money management, which can prove especially advantageous during trips. This is where FinTech, or P2P lending, comes in. Through P2P lending, people are able to lend one another money through the app, and keep track of it, in order to get it back. What makes the money-lending factor in Friendture better, is its cost-saving nature. In other apps, business providers are charged anywhere up to 30 percent, which is relatively expensive, for the Middle East. “With Frienture we take up to 10 percent from business providers, which is a lot more affordable for our users”.
Since the app was launched in Jordan, Rola highlighted the importance of grant raising, for travel experiences in Jordan, not only Amman, but to focus on building a model where people are able to increase their visibility and use of the technology, to make money, which Friendture is able to do through its partners. As most of its partners are Jordanian, experience providers are recommended through companies like Zain and Telcom.
Currently, the technology is primarily utilized by expats, therefore Friendture, took the decision to change its target to the GCC countries, as “locals, don't even realize such technology exists”, Rola highlighted. “We currently are planning to scale out of the Middle East market, to a more extensive market. Many of our apps features can be stand alone apps, which we believe would benefit us for our exit plan out of the Middle East”, she added.
Some advice for other striving entrepreneurs - “Patience, you have to be determined, set the goal and focus on that goal. You really have to be a hustler, Rola says. “When I won Challenge 20, I was up against startups with 20 patents. Out of 25 startups, the ones that won, were the ones that hustled. The only highlight of the feedback the judges gave me, was that I was a hustler. Being a hustler, is so important in the startup world. The ones that hustled and never gave up are the only ones that are raising money and successful”.
As for her mentor, Rola paid tribute to one of her best mentors, Mr. Samih Tucan -the ex founder of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon, and Maktoub. With that, Rola expressed how hard it was to find mentors in the travel industry. Currently, they are looking for Saudi mentors for help, as they have extensive experience in the travel industry.
Rola expressed interest in helping other startups in Palestine, particularly in Gaza, who she describes as, “being war torn and still managing to awe everyone with their innovativeness, creating amazing products with the little resources they have”.
Currently, Friendture is being labeled as a Silicon Valley startup, and not a Middle East startup, which wasn’t exactly the goal Friendture was aiming for. “Sadly, we realized in order to make it, we need to leave the Middle East region”, Rola says.
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Greater Crenshaw
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Greater Crenshaw and African American/Hispanic samples
The Metamorphosis Project has conducted two rounds of research in the Greater Crenshaw area. The 1999 study area was 9 square-miles, and lies 6.0 miles from the Civic Center, and included the residential areas of Arlington, the Crenshaw District, Jefferson Park, Ladera Heights, Leimert Park, Windsor Hills, and View Park. African Americans constituted 80 percent of the population, according to the 1990 Census. African American respondents reported relatively high rates of homeownership, and residential tenure similar to the Westside and South Pasadena study areas.
The Greater Crenshaw area has historically been a majority African-American community but has undergone significant changes in recent years. With increased middle-class African American migration to newer neighborhoods such as the Antelope Valley and Moreno Valley, and with a significant increase in Latino immigration, Greater Crenshaw no longer has a clear racial/ethnic majority.
In 2005, the Metamorphosis Project returned the Crenshaw area, this time to research both African American and Hispanic residents. The research area was expanded to include some contiguous residential areas that were predominantly Hispanic. The 2005 Greater Crenshaw study area covers an area of 27.4 square miles, and is home to over 376,000 people. According to the 2000 Census, 49 percent of the population is African American and 38 percent identifies as Hispanic. The remainder identify as Caucasian and Asian. Thirty percent of the total population of the area is foreign-born, and 43 percent speak a language other than English at home.
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Our Family interviews Chief Apostle Wilhelm Leber: "This method of handling it seemed the most sensible to us"
Zürich. The Church magazine "Our Family" will publish an interesting interview with Chief Apostle Wilhelm Leber in its April edition. In it, the church leader states his reasons for beginning a new chapter in the Church's communication policy with the information evening that took place in Uster, Switzerland on 24 January.
"Our Family" is the name of the magazine of the New Apostolic Church. The international publication appears once each month. The edition of 5 April 2006 will publish a comprehensive interview with Chief Apostle Wilhelm Leber. In the course of this interview, the president of the international church explains, among other things, why the book "Questions and Answers" will be replaced with a more exhaustive catechism over the next few years. In extensive detail, he also elaborates on his expectations of this new work on the principles of our faith, and explains how he envisions its presentation.
With the kind permission of the editors of Our Family, we share a few selected passages from the interview here:
Why were only ministers, retired ministers, and teachers invited to the information evening? How are the rest of the members to be informed? Chief Apostle Leber: In the preliminary stages we had actually thought about involving all the members right from the start. However in the circle of the district apostles we finally chose to inform the ministers and teachers first because it is very demanding and because it is important that they understand it first. There are various ways in which the members can be informed: they can read the official positions on these subjects at www.nak.org, and in addition, there are two articles that will appear in the Our Family magazine in March and April, which deal with the subject matter. This method of handling it seemed the most sensible to us.
Would the subject matter be suitable for a so-called discussion panel? Chief Apostle Leber: Yes, absolutely, with the proper preparation. The subjects could also be further explained in the context of a congregational evening. Nevertheless we must take into account that only a limited number of our members would likely be interested in the details of this subject matter and go into it deeply. For such members, a discussion panel would be a good additional opportunity. [...]
When you develop doctrine you need a particular mode of expression, otherwise you couldn't declare any doctrinal statements or any doctrine at all. If emotionality was the only thing that mattered, we wouldn't need this, would we? Chief Apostle Leber: Emotionality is admittedly not everything. In addition we must see that there are new developments. This is evident, for example, in our teaching materials. The book Questions and Answers was a product of its time. Today these answers would in many cases no longer suffice. [...]
Is the NAC on its way to becoming a "normal church"? Chief Apostle Leber: What is a "normal church"? For years it has become clear in many respects that we are capable of dialogue. If you regard having dialogue and discussing things with one another as normality then, yes, in this respect I would go along with that. But on the other hand we don't want to create the impression that all the contours are being blurred to make room for one big "unity stew". [...]
Earlier you mentioned the book Questions and Answers. In the meantime work has progressed on a new catechism. What do you expect from this work? Chief Apostle Leber: I would like it to portray a sound basis for our faith. The manual Questions and Answers was written in the context and depth of its time. Today our doctrine must be put on a different level where it is very precisely defined and supported. For this we must also ask and answer many detailed questions that arise in Christianity and society in our time. In other words, we have to do much more than we have in the past. [...]
How does this time schedule look, and would you introduce this catechism in a manner similar to your presentation of the subjects of exclusiveness and following? Chief Apostle Leber: We aren't that far yet. The idea is to publish the new catechism in the year 2008. It will be splendid if we manage that. Then we would have to contemplate how best to present it. I could certainly envisage a presentation such as the one we just had. [...]
The entire interview is contained in the "Our Family" edition of 5 April 2006. You can link to the magazine's website by clicking here.
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Good looks are not enough in remake
Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette 10.10.2014
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Directed by: Christophe Gans.
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier.
Running time: 112 minutes.
You really have to wonder why any filmmaker would want to remake La Belle et la Bête. Jean Cocteau’s 1946 version is considered to be one of the classics of 20th-century cinema and a whole generation was entertained by the Disney animated take on the French fairy tale in the early ’90s (a movie that also happened to kickstart a certain Céline Dion’s career in Hollywood).
So at least give kudos to French director Christophe Gans — best-known for the French hit Le pacte des loups and the video-game adaptation Silent Hill — for daring to take another shot at bringing to the big screen the revered tale penned by 18th-century novelist Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. But unfortunately, ambition isn’t enough to guarantee a great film.
The result is visually stunning and that’s about it. Gans and co-screenwriter Sandra Vo-Anh attempt to stay truer to the original story than previous versions but the narrative never really comes to life, all the characters are remarkably one-dimensional, and in the end the striking visuals and veteran actors aren’t enough to salvage this one.
At the start, a well-to-do businessman (André Dussollier) loses nearly everything he has after two of his cargo ships are lost at sea. He is forced to sell his large house in the big city and move with his six children to more modest dwellings in the country. The two older daughters, Anne (Audrey Lamy) and Clotilde (Sara Giraudeau), are completely miserable with this state of-affairs, but the youngest daughter Belle (Léa Seydoux) is loving life out in the great outdoors.
Out one day, the dad goes flying down a cliff, ends up in a snowy ravine and wanders over to a mysterious château that’s full of riches. He has a splendid feast there that appears to have been left just for him. Of course there’s a catch (there’s always a catch in these fairy tales). This is, of course, La Bête’s castle — and after the father takes a rose from the beast, he’s told that he’s going remain La Bête’s prisoner forever.
As you know — hey, you’ve seen the Cocteau film or the Disney ’toon or the touring musical — Belle decides to go to the castle and offer herself as prisoner in exchange for her pop’s freedom. And, well, you also know that the ugly monster and the gorgeous captive will end up all lovey-dovey by the time the final credits roll.
For the first half, the look is enough to distract from the story’s weaknesses. It was shot mostly at the Babelsberg Studio in Germany and Gans and his visual-effects wizards have done a tremendous job of creating a magical universe.
But there’s no drama in the drama, even less romantic spark between beauty and beast, and the less said about these computer-generated creatures in the château — goofy dogs with giant heads — the better.
bkelly@montrealgazette.com
Twitter: brendanshowbiz
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New Whitney Houston remix by DJ-producer Kygo released
by mowet|Published June 28, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — You can dance to a new-ish Whitney Houston song this weekend.
Houston originally released a cover of Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” as a Japan-only bonus track on her 1990 album “I’m Your Baby Tonight,” but the song has been given an upbeat, dance remix by Norwegian DJ-producer Kygo.
The new version of “Higher Love” was released digitally on Friday. Winwood’s original version was released in 1986 and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Kygo, best known for his Top 10 hit “It Ain’t Me” with Selena Gomez, will perform the new “Higher Love” at the PrideFestival Utopia on Sunday in New York City.
Houston died at the age of 48 in 2012.
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Marvel's Runaways Star Ariela Barer Opens Up About Activism, Anxiety, And Representation
The actor tells MTV News that she wanted Gert's anxiety to be 'dealt with head on' in Season 2
Crystal Bell crystalbell 12/21/2018
The good superhero stories aren't actually about people with cool superpowers. While that's certainly part of the winning formula — Marvel's $18 billion at the worldwide box office doesn't lie — it's not the most essential. Because a good superhero story is actually just a good human story; it's someone struggling with a very-real problem, be it inequality, the universal pangs of adolescence, or, in Gertrude Yorkes' case, anxiety.
In Season 2 of Marvel's Runaways, premiering on Hulu on December 21, Gertrude — or Gert, for short — comes face to face with her anxiety. Now that Gert and her rag-tag group of superhero SoCal friends are on the run after being framed for murder by their supervillain parents and their cult-like charity known as The Pride, that leaves little time for the teenage activist to focus on her mental and emotional health. Though fiercely independent, Gert's journey this season will find her opening up more to her friends — and her new maybe-boyfriend Chase (Gregg Sulkin).
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"Last season was about her learning to open up and be vulnerable, and now, it's also about being independent without pushing people away, learning that healthy in-between," actor Ariela Barer told MTV News.
And it's finding that healthy in-between that's so essential to Gert's story because the best superheroes never stop learning. (Otherwise, we'd be stuck with some very boring and insufferably righteous heroes.) In a conversation with MTV News, Barer opened up about Gert's mental and emotional health journey this season, being a young activist, and putting a label on Gert and Chase's relationship.
MTV News: Now that the Runaways are officially on the run in Season 2, it's a very exciting place to be, storytelling-wise. Did you guys feel that new energy when you were filming those first few episodes? Because it's a different vibe than Season 1.
Ariela Barer: Definitely! I don't think we've ever had so many group scenes. Basically every scene in the first couple episodes, if not most of them, are group scenes, which is definitely a new dynamic. On the positive, I love being with the group that we have, and it's so much fun on set. And then on the downside, those scenes take forever to film, so the days were longer. But I also feel like we bonded next-level this season, way more than we ever got to last season, which was visible in the chemistry.
MTV News: So the group chat got even more insane.
Barer: It was very active.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcnf8vBFciM/
MTV News: What's your most overused emoji in the group chat?
Barer: I think maybe the upside down smiley face. That one that's like, "I'm fine. I'm not dying." I think Lyrica [Okano] and I were pretty heavy handed on Bitmojis when the group chat first started. But then I got a new phone, and my Bitmojis got deleted, and then that just died.
MTV News: In Season 1, we see Gert's passion for social justice issues. And in Season 2, we find her confronted, quite literally, with issues like poverty, homelessness, and inequality. She's seeing things from the other side now. What was that like?
Barer: It's something that I think every young activist can relate to, particularly those who come from positions of privilege. People use their privilege to speak up and make a change, which is great, and I support that completely, but the reality of the situation is always going to be a lot more intense than what you read about online. I've even confronted this. I work with an organization in L.A. that feeds homeless people once a month in downtown, and going there is always the most intense experience. It's like, I'm online, and I'm active in different activist circles, but then just sitting down for a day and talking to people is always so different, and so, so, so effective in its own way. Gert comes from way more privilege than I come from. So for her, it's an even bigger culture shock to now be on the streets.
MTV News: Gert's struggling a lot too, because she's off her anxiety medication. You see the effects of that, especially in those first few episodes. I know that's an important story line for you.
Barer: That was something I took very seriously, and I knew about this plot line from last year. It was actually going to be a Season 1 plot line. It was established in our pilot, and then they realized it would be much more effective once we went on the run, so I was in the know about this a year before we started shooting it. I remember talking to [series creators] Josh [Schwartz] and Stephanie [Savage] when I first found out about it and asking them if she could be off her medication for a while, and if there could be some resolution and growth within not having her medication. The reality of the situation is that a lot of people don't have access to mental health care, especially homeless youths. A lot of people don't take it as seriously as physical health care. So I wanted that to be dealt with head on.
MTV News: And it's handled responsibly.
Barer: They were very responsible and in the know about handling it. I was really happy what this plot line ends up meaning for Gert, and for Gert and Chase. There was a scene in Episode 2 that ended up being cut, that I think speaks volumes about where she is, and where Gert and Chase are, because he says something about like, "Don't worry, I'm gonna be here to protect you." And she says something like, "I don't need to be protected. I just need you to be here with me." It's her own battle that she's coming to terms with, but she also is taking help from the people around her.
MTV News: Sometimes you just need someone to listen.
Barer: And she's not pushing people away, but she's also not completely dependent on the people around her. She's an individual who can also connect with people.
MTV News: Speaking of Gert and Chase, if you had to define their relationship status in Season 2, what would it be?
Barer: It really depends at what point in the season you would ask me that question. It's both of them learning to make an effort and be part of a relationship in a new way, to not always have their best interest in mind, but instead have the other in mind, which is very sweet. And they both learn a lot about each other and themselves, but I couldn't give you a definitive answer about their relationship, at least not yet.
MTV News: What about at the very start of Season 2?
Barer: I would say at the very start there needs to be the "define a relationship" conversation. They both haven't yet learned how to be vulnerable with each other. They've tried it. It went OK last season, at best. So now they're figuring it out for real. They realize they both feel very seriously about one another... It's vague, but it's an answer!
MTV News: Now that you are in Season 2, you know Gert at this point. Do you feel like you can advocate on her behalf with the writers and with the showrunners?
Barer: Absolutely. Luckily, this team of writers that Josh and Stephanie have put together are amazing. It's a very diverse room with equal parts men and women, and people of color, and every character has someone in the writers' room on their side. For me, I have Tracy, who's amazing. We have a lot of conversations, and she's a feminist, and she's a relationship expert, and she's a woman of color. And her story's amazing. I'm a huge Tracy fan. So she's a really great resource on set, and Josh and Stephanie, themselves, they're very informed people. So I never feel like I really have to stand up for Gert, but it is nice to be able to have conversations with them about Gert and her story.
MTV News: That open dialogue is important.
Barer: There were some writers who came to me privately and spoke to me about their struggles with anxiety. It was cool knowing that I had people like that in the room. It was really nice knowing that we each had people in the writers' room who were fighting for us and for these stories.
MTV News: Overall, would you say Season 2 is darker than Season 1?
Barer: Absolutely. The scenes that we explore are definitely darker. Lyrica some of the darkest work. The poor girl was going a little crazy by the end of the season, but it was so worth it. I hung out with her yesterday, and we were reflecting on it, and just so excited to watch it, because it definitely took a toll with how dark it gets, but also from what I've seen, just little scenes here and there, I am so excited. And she did a great job, and so does Allegra [Acosta], who also gets some pretty intense material to work with. They're both just incredible.
MTV News: Molly is always going through it!
Barer: But she's Molly. She's a tough cookie.
MTV News: I feel like so many young women see themselves in Gert. Do you feel that way, too?
Barer: I love the fan base that's gathered around her. It's really nice that they seem to have not only found Gert and some sense of representation in her, but then they have found a community in each other, and it's very heartwarming to see the online fan base that Gert has, and that I have because of her.
MTV News: I really hope she's inspiring fans to dye their hair purple. I recently dyed my hair pink, and it's liberating.
Barer: Oh my God. That's so cool. I actually ran into someone on the street recently who had purple hair, and I noticed it. I was like, "That's cool." And then she walked up to me, and was like, "I love Gert." And I was like, "Yes, it's real."
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Pure Oil Company
The Oil Region’s independent producers and refiners met in January 1895 in Butler to discuss consolidation of their interests. As a result of those Butler meetings, the Pure Oil Co. was formed in the autumn of 1895 as a marketing company to serve the business interests of the independent refiners, producers and pipeline operators of the Pennsylvania Oil Region.
The independent refiners and producers completed a gathering pipeline in early 1893 from Coraopolis north through Allegheny County and Butler County to the refineries in the Oil Creek Valley from Oil City to Titusville. This pipeline was called the Producers’ & Refiners’ Oil Co. Pipe Line. In 1893, the Oil Creek refiners received 2,500 to 3,000 barrels a day of crude from this line. The Producers’ & Refiners’ Oil Co. Pipe Line was connected to independent producers in the McDonald Field and in Butler County. This line was built so that the independent refiners could pay a lower gathering pipeline fee, 15 cents, rather than the prevailing 20 cents per barrel charged by Standard Oil’s National Transit Co. The Producers’ and Refiners’ Pipe Line pumped crude from the McDonald Field that was piped to the firm’s Coraopolis terminal by a second independent pipeline, the Producers’ Oil Co. Pipe Line.
To connect the independent Bradford and Warren refineries with the Producers’ & Refiners’ system, a third independent pipeline was built by Bradford and other Oil Region investors in 1892 southwest from Bradford through Warren and Titusville terminating in Oil City. This line was called the United States Pipe Line. Bradford’s Lewis Emery was the leader of the effort. Emery announced his intention of extending the United States Pipe Line east to the seaboard, thus giving the Oil Region independent oil interests a trunk line that would be cost competitive with Standard Oil’s trunk pipelines out of the Region. The United States Pipe Line actually consisted of two parallel lines, a four inch crude line and a separate five inch refined product line.
Pure Oil was formed to market a consortium of independent refiners’ oil to East Coast markets and to Europe. The firm’s first President was David Kirk, elected in 1895. He was replaced in 1896 by James W. Lee. The firm was incorporated as a New Jersey corporation. To fulfill the requirements of New Jersey corporate law, Pure Oil met once a year in Taylor’s Hotel in Jersey City for the corporation’s required annual meeting. The actual executive headquarters were established in Pittsburgh with operational headquarters in Oil City.
Beginning in March 1896, Pure Oil marketed illuminating oil by tank wagon on the streets of Philadelphia and New York in direct competition with Standard Oil. The firm also competed vigorously with Standard’s South Penn Oil for available crude in the Appalachian Field. The organizers of the firm were politically savvy and connected. They used a committee of the Congress, the Industrial Commission, to advance their competitive position. The firm built in April 1896 bulk terminals in Amsterdam and Hamburg and established extensive marketing networks in the Netherlands and Germany. In the Netherlands and Germany, Pure Oil competed with Standard Oil, the Nobels, the Rothchilds and the Deutchbanke for market share.
Pure Oil by way of a 1900 consolidation became the holding company for the three independent pipelines: the Producers’ & Refiners’ Co. Pipe Line, the Producers’ Oil Co. Pipe Line and the United States Pipe Line. In addition to originally marketing the unbranded refined output of fifteen or so existing independent refineries in the Oil Region, Pure Oil operated a refinery, the former Foggan Refinery, under the Pure Oil name in Titusville. These Oil Region refineries by 1900 had a combined capacity of 12,000 barrels a day. Pure Oil completed a refinery at Marcus Hook on the Delaware River in 1904. The United States Pipe Line delivered its first crude, 600 barrels a day, to the site in 1904. By 1906, the pipeline was delivering 1,800 barrels a day. Pure Oil operated their own tanker, the Pennoil, between Marcus Hook and Europe and expanded its marketing along the Rhine and in Holland.
To ensure a supply of crude, Pure Oil incorporated the Pure Oil Producing Co. in 1902. The firm drilled a good number of wells in Southeastern Ohio and in West Virginia. Pure’s producing company added 1,900 barrels a day to the total of 6,000 collected at the time by Pure Oil’s gathering system.
Pure Oil enjoyed notable success in the United States and Europe for over two decades. The firm withdrew completely from Europe by 1917. New York investors perceived the Pure Oil owners might be in a mind to sell. These New York investors asked a Columbus, Ohio firm, Ohio Cities Gas, to evaluate the Pure Oil property. The New York investors backed out of pursuing Pure Oil. Beman Dawes of Marietta, Ohio and his brothers, who owned Ohio Cities Gas, instead made an offer of $24.50 a share for Pure Oil. Beman Dawes believed Pure Oil’s existing gathering pipelines and producing properties complimented his own growing oil production and marketing very well. Additionally, Dawes was building a refinery in Oklahoma that could use the crude production of Pure Oil property in that state. The Pure Oil investors accepted, realized a net gain of $22,000,000, and the Pennsylvania Pure Oil firm in 1917 passed into history.
Aware of a pressing need to establish a brand and corporate identity more competitive in the marketplace, Dawes renamed Ohio Cities Gas in 1920. The Ohio firm adopted the old Pennsylvania name, Pure Oil.
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Archive for the ‘Non-compete Provisions’ Category
By: John N. Fleming
Non-Compete clauses have long been an important part of transactions involving the purchase of a business. Much of what is often purchased in a business acquisition includes the relationships, contracts and goodwill built-up and established by the seller. Often, the non-compete restrictions imposed upon and agreed to by the seller and its owner protect and preserve the value of what is being purchased.
North Carolina courts have held that a non-compete restriction that is part of the sale of a business is valid and enforceable if the written non-compete restriction: (1) is reasonably necessary to protect the legitimate interest of the purchaser; (2) is reasonable with respect to both time and territory; and (3) does not interfere with the interest of the public. Further, traditionally in North Carolina, when courts have been asked to interpret overly-broad restrictive covenants, they have been limited to applying what is called the strict blue pencil doctrine. Under the blue pencil doctrine, a court may cross out or choose not to enforce a distinctly separable part of a covenant to render the remainder of the provision reasonable. However, under this theory, a court may not otherwise revise or rewrite the restrictive covenant to make it reasonable.
Recently, in the case of Beverage Systems of the Carolinas, LLC v. Associated Beverage Repair, LLC, Ludine Dotoli and Cheryl Dotoli, the North Carolina Court of Appeals went beyond, the strict blue pencil doctrine because the buyer and seller had expressly granted the court the power to revise the restrictive covenant in the asset purchase agreement. More specifically, the non-compete clause in the agreement gave the court the authority to revise the restrictive covenant to cover the maximum period, scope and area permitted by the law. The North Carolina Court of Appeals found that the trial court had the power to revise the restriction regarding territory to make it reasonable and thus enforceable. As a result of this decision, and when expressly directed by the buyer and the seller, the court could do more than cross out a distinct provision, but it could now revise or re-write a restrictive covenant to determine reasonableness. It is important to note that this expansion of a court’s authority from the limitations of the blue pencil doctrine to allowing revisions by the court is limited to the interpretation of restrictive covenants that are part of the sale of a business and in situations where the purchaser and seller expressly grant the court such authority. At present, the expansion of a court’s authority so that it may revise a restrictive covenant has not been interpreted in the context of an employment agreement.
Although this expansion of court authority has yet to be interpreted by the North Carolina Supreme Court, it does have implications for buyers and sellers of businesses and their attorneys. When negotiating the agreement to buy or sell a business, attention should be placed on whether a clause should be included to empower the court to revise an otherwise unenforceable provision of a restrictive covenant. Including such a provision may result in a court revising an overly-broad restrictive covenant and preserving for the buyer the value of what was purchased.
John Fleming is a general practitioner in corporate law with an exceptional knowledge of Health Care Law. For help concerning the sale or purchase of a business, or for more information, contact John Fleming at jfleming@mwbavl.com or (828) 254-8800.
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The Court of Appeals Clarifies the Level of Judicial Scrutiny for Non-Competition Provisions in Franchise Agreements
By Joseph P. McGuire
On August 6, 2013, the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued an opinion clarifying whether the level of judicial scrutiny for a non-competition provision in a franchise agreement should follow the standards for such a provision in an employment contract or the standards for such a provision in a contract for the sale of a business. The issue is significant because it is well-established under North Carolina law that non-competition agreements contained in an employment contract are more closely scrutinized than those contained in a contract for the sale of a business, due to concerns that employees have only their labor to sell and may more readily accede to an unreasonable restriction at the time of their employment than franchisees.
In the case before the Court of Appeals, Outdoor Lighting Perspectives Franchising, Inc. v. Harders, (No. COA12-1204), the plaintiff franchisor appealed an order from the North Carolina Business Court declining to enforce a non-competition provision in a franchise agreement authorizing franchisees to engage in the design, construction, and installation of residential and commercial outdoor lighting products. The franchise agreement prohibited the defendant franchisees from operating another outdoor lighting business within a specified area for a period of two years beginning on the date upon which the franchise agreement terminated or expired.
After expiration of its franchise agreement and upon learning that the defendants were operating an outdoor lighting business, the plaintiff franchisor filed suit to recover damages and injunctive relief. The defendants successfully moved to have the dispute designated for hearing by the Business Court, which is a trial court with offices in Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte that specializes in deciding complex business cases. Upon hearing the plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction, the trial court ordered the franchisees to return and refrain from using certain allegedly proprietary information of the franchisor, including customer-related information, manuals and similar protected items. However, the trial court denied the plaintiff’s request for the issue of a preliminary injunction prohibiting the former franchisee from operating an outdoor lighting business. The franchisor appealed the denial of a preliminary injunction.
On appeal, the franchisor urged the Court of Appeals to adopt the standard generally utilized in cases arising from the sale of a business to evaluate the non-competition provision in the franchise agreement, while the franchisees argued that the greater scrutiny applicable to non-competes in employment contracts should govern. Finding that the franchisor-franchisee situation is a hybrid that differs from both the employer-employee and the sale of business arrangements, the Court pointed out that a franchisee is likely to possess a skill set that makes him capable of earning a livelihood in a variety of different businesses, and yet a franchisor is likely to retain and sell to a new franchisee some portion of the good will built up by the departing franchisee. Accordingly, the Court adopted elements of the tests utilized in both the employee-employer and the business sale contexts to analyze the validity of a non-compete in a franchise agreement.
The Court of Appeals concluded that the proper standard in the franchisor-franchisee context is whether the non-competition provision is no more restrictive than is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the franchisor, with the relevant facts to be considered being the reasonableness of the duration of the restriction, the reasonableness of the geographic scope of the restriction, and the extent to which the restriction is otherwise necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the franchisor. In applying this new standard, the Court determined that the geographic scope of the restriction at issue was not reasonable in prohibiting the defendants from engaging in the outdoor lighting business within the territory assigned to any of the franchisor’s affiliates, especially since two of the affiliates were engaged in lines of business totally unrelated to outdoor lighting. In that the non-competition agreement was impermissibly broad, the Court of Appeals concluded that the trial court correctly determined that the franchisor had no likelihood of success on the merits and affirmed the denial of the franchisor’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
The analysis by the appellate court indicates a flexibility to consider the substance of a hybrid contract that does not fit neatly within prior case law involving either the employer-employee or the sale of business situations, and provides helpful guidance to franchisors and franchisees in evaluating non-compete provisions in their franchise agreements
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Press Center/2012 News Releases/Mazda test drive program pledges $1 million for nation’s public school libraries
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Mazda test drive program pledges $1 million for nation’s public school libraries
NEA‘s ‘Read Across America Tour – Driven by Mazda’ visits 20 cities
WASHINGTON - February 21, 2012 -
Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) has teamed up with Universal Studios, NEA’s Read Across America, and the NEA Foundation to benefit public school libraries nationwide. Mazda has pledged up to $1 million in support of the nation’s public school libraries through a unique test drive program. For each test drive of a Mazda vehicle between Feb. 21 and April 2, Mazda will donate $25 toward public school libraries nationwide, up to $1 million. Administered by the NEA Foundation, this donation will provide vital funds to help the nation’s struggling public school libraries.
To participate, consumers must first visit: http://www.mazdatestdriveoffer.com/lorax to obtain a certificate and take it to any Mazda dealer in the U.S. The dealer will then validate the certificate upon completion of the test drive. Funds raised through the test drives will be donated to the NEA Foundation and will be awarded to public school libraries nationwide through an application process in the spring. Additional donations for public school libraries can be made at: https://www.neafoundation.org/donations/
To drive awareness of the national test drive for libraries program, the “NEA’s Read Across America Tour – Driven by Mazda,” kicked off today. The tour will visit more than 20 cities, stopping at public schools and Mazda dealerships across the country to bring the gift of reading to thousands of public school students. NEA’s “Read Across America Tour - Driven by Mazda” will focus on sharing the story of Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” with students, raise awareness for public schools in need and provide an opportunity for consumers to show that they care – as the Lorax teaches us – “a whole awful lot.”
NEA’s Read Across America Program is the organization’s signature literacy effort to help children develop a love of reading during their early years. Studies show that students who enjoy reading perform better in school, boast higher test scores, develop comprehension proficiency and improve analytical skills faster and better than their peers who read less frequently.
“Every Mazda blends an envious combination of environmental, driving and safety performance,” said Don Romano, chief marketing officer, Mazda North American Operations. “But the greater importance of our work this summer is our partnership with NEA’s Read Across America tour. With the involvement of every one of our 640-plus U.S. dealers, we have raised our long-standing commitment to support literacy across the U.S., helping our nation’s children achieve peak performance through the gift of reading.”
“Mazda is a different kind of car company,” added Romano. “Our pledge to help raise up to $1 million for public school libraries and our ‘Truffula Tree’-approved SKYACTIV® TECHNOLOGY are just a couple of ways Mazda expresses its commitment to our communities and the future of our natural resources.”
“NEA’s national Read Across America celebration is not just about one hour or one day of reading,” said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. “It is about cultivating a lifetime of good reading habits in students that will translate into academic success.”
“NEA’s Read Across America Tour brings students, parents, educators and the entire community together to share the joy of reading,” added Van Roekel. “At a time of budget cutbacks in education resources, including reading resources, NEA appreciates Mazda’s unique partnership to help raise $1 million to support our nation’s public school libraries and ensure all children have access to the gift of reading.”
NEA’s “Read Across America Tour - Driven by Mazda” will travel through both the West and East Coasts, visiting schools and Mazda dealerships, and culminate with a final stop in New York City on March 2 to celebrate “Read Across America Day,” Dr. Seuss’ birthday and the opening of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s 3D feature Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax.
Superstar Zac Efron, who lends his vocal talents to the animated adventure, will serve as a celebrity guest reader at The New York Public Library for the March 2 national reading event that celebrates “Read Across America Day.” Star voices from the film – including Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Taylor Swift, Rob Riggle and Betty White – will join Zac Efron as co-chairs of this year’s Read Across America Program.
As the first and only carmaker to receive The Lorax’s honor of the “Truffula Tree Seal of Approval,” Mazda will power the reading tour by providing Mazda CX-5 and Mazda3 vehicles, equipped SKYACTIV® TECHNOLOGY and wrapped with the colorful graphics of the program.
The Mazda CX-5 boasts 35 MPG, the highest highway fuel economy of any SUV sold in America and the highest combined fuel economy of any non-hybrid SUV, while the Mazda3 with SKYACTIV® TECHNOLOGY delivers up to 40 MPG highway. With NEA’s Read Across America Tour being “Driven by Mazda,” it can deliver the love of reading to children across the country and make the Lorax proud by treading lightly on the Earth.
The NEA’s “Read Across America Tour - Driven by Mazda” schedule is as follows. Please note dates and locations are subject to change.
Visit http://www.mazdatestdriveoffer.com/lorax to download the test drive donation form and learn more about the test drives for public school libraries program.
For more information on NEA’s Read Across America: www.nea.org/readacross
For more information on the NEA Foundation: https://www.neafoundation.org/donations/
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Follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/NEAMedia
The National Education Association is the nation’s largest professional employee organization, representing more than 3 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.
About the NEA Foundation:
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About Mazda North American Operations:
Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States, Canada and Mexico through nearly 900 dealers. Operations in Canada are managed by Mazda Canada Inc., located in Ontario; and in Mexico by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City.
About Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax:
From the creators of Despicable Me and the imagination of Dr. Seuss comes the much anticipated feature Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, a 3D-CG adaptation of the classic tale of a forest guardian who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for a real Truffula Tree, the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To get it he must find the story of the Lorax, the acerbic yet charming character who fights to protect his world.
Lending their vocal talents to the project are Danny DeVito as the iconic title character of the Lorax and Ed Helms as the enigmatic Once-ler. Also bringing their voices to the adventure are global superstars Zac Efron as Ted, the idealistic youth who searches for the Lorax, and Grammy Award winner Taylor Swift as Audrey, the girl of Ted’s dreams. Rounding out the cast are Rob Riggle as the villain O’Hare, Jenny Slate as Ted’s protective mother and beloved actress Betty White as Ted’s wise Grammy Norma.
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is the third feature created by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, Hop). www.theloraxmovie.com
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GOVT INCREASES CIVIL SERVANTS PAY OFFER
Thursday, March 14, 2019 NewsdzeZimbabwe 0
Government has further increased its salary offer to civil servants from $300 million to $350 million amid reports that a deal is likely to be hammered when the two parties meet again on Tuesday.
The employer met civil servants’ representatives on Tuesday and yesterday under the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) to continue with their salary negotiations.
Yesterday’s meeting included officials from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, who were unpacking the monetary policy the central bank presented recently and the current exchange rates.
Government tabled an improved offer of $350 million which is set to shared by workers in the civil service as an increment from April to December this year. The employer is also working on increasing sector-specific allowances for its workers beginning April.
Apex Council chairperson Mrs Cecelia Alexander said discussions were still ongoing.
“We have not yet finalised and we still hope that there will be some improvement,” she said, declining to reveal the new Government offer.
“It is our hope that on Tuesday we are going to bring finality to this issue of the cost of living adjustment. In today’s (yesterday) meeting we invited the RBZ which was unpacking the Monetary Policy Statement and issues around the exchange rate. We hope the presentations made will guide our members.”
A source who attended the NJNC, however, said: “Government brought a revised figure of $350 million and the workers are likely to put pen to paper on Tuesday when we meet again,” said the source.
“The workers appreciate Government efforts in trying to give the best to its workers. Various non-monetary incentives are being worked on and they are coming into fruition with the latest being that of duty-free cars.”
Government has given civil servants the green light to import cars duty-free. A Statutory Instrument to that effect has been put in place by Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube.
Those who have been in the service for 10 years qualify to import motor vehicles up to a maximum of US$10 000. Government recently unveiled a $60 million housing facility for civil servants as part of the non-monetary incentives.
A Memorandum of Agreement between the employer and the National Building Society (NBS) on the rollout of the project is in place.
This is part of Government’s commitment to provide decent and affordable housing to the people, mostly civil servants and among President Mnangagwa’s interventions to alleviate hardship among citizens on the back of austerity. Herald
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You are here: Home / All News / Domino’s Pizza to create up to 35 new jobs in Romsey with new store opening
Domino’s Pizza to create up to 35 new jobs in Romsey with new store opening
April 24, 2012 by Ian
Filed under All News, Domino's Pizza, Franchise News, General News
Leading home pizza delivery expert, Domino’s Pizza, will create between 25 – 35 new jobs for local people in Romsey, Hampshire, after getting the green light to open a new store in the area.
Domino’s have successfully obtained permission for change of use for a former Italian restaurant which will become the site for the new branch of Domino’s. Work has already begun on transforming the former eatery into a takeaway outlet with a new shop front and kitchen area being constructed to facilitate the site’s change of use.
With construction work on the new site already underway, Domino’s plan to have the new franchise up and running by early summer. News on the available vacancies at the new Domino’s franchise, including managerial positions, pizza making vacancies and pizza delivery driver jobs, will be advertised along with information on how to apply in the coming weeks.
Domino’s say that all of their franchisees work hard to be “responsible neighbours” in the communities they operate within, with most taking an active role in the community supporting local projects, charities and events. The leading home pizza delivery provider now boasts a staggering 726 outlets in the UK and Ireland with number of new sites earmarked for new stores in the coming year.
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^ Ketogenic "eggnog" is used during induction and is a drink with the required ketogenic ratio. For example, a 4:1 ratio eggnog would contain 60 g of 36% heavy whipping cream, 25 g pasteurised raw egg, saccharin and vanilla flavour. This contains 245 kcal (1,025 kJ), 4 g protein, 2 g carbohydrate and 24 g fat (24:6 = 4:1).[17] The eggnog may also be cooked to make a custard, or frozen to make ice cream.[37]
Short-term results for the LGIT indicate that at one month approximately half of the patients experience a greater than 50% reduction in seizure frequency, with overall figures approaching that of the ketogenic diet. The data (coming from one centre's experience with 76 children up to the year 2009) also indicate fewer side effects than the ketogenic diet and that it is better tolerated, with more palatable meals.[18][50]
Anticonvulsants suppress epileptic seizures, but they neither cure nor prevent the development of seizure susceptibility. The development of epilepsy (epileptogenesis) is a process that is poorly understood. A few anticonvulsants (valproate, levetiracetam and benzodiazepines) have shown antiepileptogenic properties in animal models of epileptogenesis. However, no anticonvulsant has ever achieved this in a clinical trial in humans. The ketogenic diet has been found to have antiepileptogenic properties in rats.[56]
When you’re eating the foods that get you there (more on that in a minute), your body can enter a state of ketosis in one to three days, she adds. During the diet, the majority of calories you consume come from fat, with a little protein and very little carbohydrates. Ketosis also happens if you eat a very low-calorie diet — think doctor-supervised, only when medically recommended diets of 600 to 800 total calories.
The brain is composed of a network of neurons that transmit signals by propagating nerve impulses. The propagation of this impulse from one neuron to another is typically controlled by neurotransmitters, though there are also electrical pathways between some neurons. Neurotransmitters can inhibit impulse firing (primarily done by γ-aminobutyric acid, or GABA) or they can excite the neuron into firing (primarily done by glutamate). A neuron that releases inhibitory neurotransmitters from its terminals is called an inhibitory neuron, while one that releases excitatory neurotransmitters is an excitatory neuron. When the normal balance between inhibition and excitation is significantly disrupted in all or part of the brain, a seizure can occur. The GABA system is an important target for anticonvulsant drugs, since seizures may be discouraged by increasing GABA synthesis, decreasing its breakdown, or enhancing its effect on neurons.[7]
Because people with type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, there’s a specific concern that the saturated fat in the diet may drive up LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol levels, and further increase the odds of heart problems. If you have type 2 diabetes, talk to your doctor before attempting a ketogenic diet. They may recommend a different weight-loss diet for you, like a reduced-calorie diet, to manage diabetes. Those with epilepsy should also consult their doctor before using this as part of their treatment plan.
If you’ve decided to move forward in trying the keto diet, you will want to stick to the parameters of the eating plan. Roughly 60 to 80 percent of your calories will come from fats. That means you’ll eat meats, fats, and oils, and a very limited amount of nonstarchy vegetables, she says. (This is different from a traditional low-carb diet, as even fewer carbs are allowed on the keto diet.)
Because some cancer cells are inefficient in processing ketone bodies for energy, the ketogenic diet has also been suggested as a treatment for cancer.[59][60] A 2018 review looked at the evidence from preclinical and clinical studies of ketogenic diets in cancer therapy. The clinical studies in humans are typically very small, with some providing weak evidence for anti-tumour effect, particularly for glioblastoma, but in other cancers and studies, no anti-tumour effect was seen. Taken together, results from preclinical studies, albeit sometimes contradictory, tend to support an anti-tumor effect rather than a pro-tumor effect of the KD for most solid cancers.[61]
On the ketogenic diet, carbohydrates are restricted and so cannot provide for all the metabolic needs of the body. Instead, fatty acids are used as the major source of fuel. These are used through fatty-acid oxidation in the cell's mitochondria (the energy-producing parts of the cell). Humans can convert some amino acids into glucose by a process called gluconeogenesis, but cannot do this by using fatty acids.[57] Since amino acids are needed to make proteins, which are essential for growth and repair of body tissues, these cannot be used only to produce glucose. This could pose a problem for the brain, since it is normally fuelled solely by glucose, and most fatty acids do not cross the blood–brain barrier. However, the liver can use long-chain fatty acids to synthesise the three ketone bodies β-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone. These ketone bodies enter the brain and partially substitute for blood glucose as a source of energy.[56]
Keto breath, on the other hand, is less of a side-effect and more of a harmless inconvenience (your breath literally smells like nail polish remover). Basically, when your body breaks down all that extra fat on the keto diet, it produces ketones—one of which is the chemical acetone, Keatley previously told WomensHealthMag.com. (Yes, the same stuff that's in nail polish remover.)
But people who started following the keto diet noticed weight loss for a few reasons: When you eat carbs, your body retains fluid in order to store carbs for energy (you know, in case it needs it). But when you’re not having much in the carb department, you lose this water weight, says Warren. Also, it's easy to go overboard on carbohydrates—but if you're loading up on fat, it may help curb cravings since it keeps you satisfied.
Milestone 2: recalibrating portion sizes. After a while you'll notice yourself feeling full and theres still food on your plate. Well that's never happened before. Mentally you'll need to readjust what you're serving yourself. After almost 20 years you think you know how much food you need and that's what you continue to serve yourself, but you'll need to recalibrate your portions at some point and readjust to your new body and new lifestyle.
But beyond that, experts aren't convinced that the keto diet has any other scientifically-proven health benefits. In fact, it may have some distinct downsides. If you follow the keto diet incorrectly, for example (like by eating lots of saturated fats, versus healthy unsaturated fats), you're at risk of raising your cholesterol levels. “The best strategy to keep your heart healthy is to get as much fat as possible from unsaturated sources such as olive, avocado and canola oils, nuts, seeds, avocados, and olives," says Ansel.
It is possible to combine the results of several small studies to produce evidence that is stronger than that available from each study alone—a statistical method known as meta-analysis. One of four such analyses, conducted in 2006, looked at 19 studies on a total of 1,084 patients.[23] It concluded that a third achieved an excellent reduction in seizure frequency and half the patients achieved a good reduction.[18]
Before starting, ask yourself what is really realistic for you, Mattinson suggests. Then get your doctor’s okay. You may also work with a local registered dietitian nutritionist to limit potential nutrient deficiencies and talk about vitamin supplementation, as you won’t be eating whole grains, dairy, or fruit, and will eliminate many veggies. “A diet that eliminates entire food groups is a red flag to me. This isn’t something to take lightly or dive into headfirst with no medical supervision,” she says. https://www.instagram.com/philosophy_of_health/
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Winterscape Photography
I have a great love of landscape photography, and what better time than New Year's Eve to enjoy some awesome winterscape shots!
Have a safe and Happy New Year!
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Crater Rim Moonbase?
NASA is on a flight path to replant astronauts on the Moon, looking to sustain a human presence on that cratered, airless orb on a "go-as-the-nation-can-afford-to-pay" basis. That approach is seen as letting people step back onto the lunar surface no later than 2020.
Space engineers have honed in on one possible site for a lunar outpost: the Moon's south pole.
It's a tactical setting on the rim of Shackleton Crater, a feature some 12 miles (19 kilometers) in diameter.
There's real estate here that basks in near-perpetual sunlight. Also, it's a region that is a doorway into the depths of always dark, Sun-deprived, territory.
What's possibly lurking there in that super-cold darkness is water ice — portrayed by some researchers as the gold standard for future exploration on and from the Moon. Yet there is considerable debate about this resource. If there, such a raw storehouse might be processed into usable oxygen and hydrogen.
Ample evidence
According to NASA Moon outpost thinkers, there are five key reasons for building up an encampment near a lunar pole:
Polar sites have plenty of sunlight, which lessens concerns about energy storage. It would be possible to operate a polar outpost on solar power. While not highlighting it as such, NASA's go-solar tactic also doubles as a non-nuclear, perhaps more politically correct approach.
The environment at the poles of the Moon is relatively benign, making it easier to design a habitat. Temperatures at the poles vary no more than about 50 degrees Celsius all year round, while temperatures at the equator can vary 250 degrees Celsius from day to night.
At the Moon's south pole there is "ample evidence," NASA planners point out, of enhanced hydrogen — an important natural resource for future development for energy generation, propellant production and other potential uses.
The poles can teach robotic and human explorers volumes about the Moon. This landscape is among the most complex of regions, yet very little is known about them.
To land equipment and scientific payloads near the lunar south pole, specifically, as opposed to another location, will require less propellant and could be more cost effective.
This is getting more and more interesting! I can't wait until this comes to fruition, then I can talk to my travel agent about lunar tourism!
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Christmas is the most magical time of the year - the holiday itself centers around the most wonderous story ever told. This story has inspired countless other stories of holiday miracles. Long before the advent of motion pictures and television, the magic of Christmas was shared with the world through the written word of such classics as O. Henry's Gift of the Magi and Dicken's A Christmas Carol. In the spirit of those classic Christmas tales, we proudly present this collection of original Christmas stories. We hope that these stories brighten your holiday and help you to rediscover the spirit of Christmas... when miracles happen and dreams come true.
Check out these Christmas Stories.
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Taking the Christ out of Christmas?
This is the season to be jolly, but you’d never know it, considering all the attacks on Christmas. In a well-intended but misguided effort to be more inclusive of other religions, some government units, businesses and civic groups are urging everyone to stop saying, “Merry Christmas” and replace it with a bland, and presumably more acceptable, “Happy Holidays.”
As a Christian, I make no apologies for celebrating my faith. There is no getting around it: Christmas is about the birth of Christ. Period. It would be the ultimate insult to relegate Jesus to the background in an effort not to offend non-Christians. We can celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ while wishing our Jewish friends, for example, a Happy Hanukkah. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Like it or not, the reality is that this nation was founded by Christians and established, at least in principle, on Judeo-Christian values. The Founding Fathers, most of whom owned slaves, did not always exhibit the Christian spirit but they at least held it up as an ideal. So much so that our currency still reads, “In God we Trust.” At Christmas, the last people that should be offended are Christians. But that is exactly what’s been happening in recent years.
Here's a great example of exactly what I'm talking about... it seems this Jewish Rabbi just couldn't be happy until the Seattle airport put up a Minora along with all of the Christmas trees, and threatened to sue them if they didn't! The Seattle airport officials responded by taking down all of the holiday decorations... it seems they were worried that if they put up a Minora, then they would have to play cultural anthropologist or every other religious group would threaten suit if they weren't represented, too. Since then, the Rabbi has retracted his threat due to all of the bad press it caused. He said that he didn't want the decorations to come down, just that he wanted the Minora added to the holiday decorations. The trees have been put back up, without a Minora accompanying them... WAY TO GO, SEATTLE AIRPORT! Don't bow down to that BS, you display what you want and they can go to Israel if they don't like it!
Remember Jesus Christ this Christmas... after all, that's what it's all about!
Check out Defending Christmas
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Underwater Hotel
Bruce Jones has spent much of his career designing underwater toys for the rich and famous. The 50-year-old president of U.S. Submarines is best known for building ultraluxe custom subs, $80-million vessels that feature private staterooms, paneled interiors made from exotic hardwoods, plush carpeting, and enough onboard oxygen to keep you and 10 friends breathing easy for three weeks of cruising at depths of nearly 1,000 feet. Now Jones is redirecting his expertise in undersea opulence toward the hotel industry. His plan: to open the Poseidon Mystery Island, the world’s first major resort at the bottom of the ocean, by September 2008.
The hotel, which will sit in about 40 feet of water, will boast individual suites, as well as a library, a wedding chapel and a restaurant. In addition to scuba diving, the guests will be able to cruise around the lagoon in either a 16-person submarine capable of 300-foot-depths, or learn to pilot a three-person Triton sub, which can reach 1,000 feet.
Jones designed Poseidon to provide guests—scuba aficionados and landlubbers alike—with an all-inclusive vacation package: fine dining, stunning views of the surrounding lush coral habitat, and the opportunity to dive directly from the hotel’s airlock, a hatch that lets divers out but keeps the sea from flooding into the hotel. Once the resort opens, visitors staying in one of the 550-square-foot guest rooms will enjoy a 270-degree view of the vibrant coral reef and tropical fish, visible through floor-to-ceiling windows and illuminated by external flood lighting. Guests will access the hotel through two elevators. Because the interior pressure will be held at one atmosphere (the same pressure as onshore), they won’t have to worry about getting decompression sickness. A Frisbee-shaped module at one end of the resort will house a kitchen, reception lounge and 3,000-square-foot rotating restaurant and bar. A second saucer will enclose a library, a conference room, a wedding chapel, a spa and the largest underwater accommodation in the world, the 1,200-square-foot “Nautilus” suite priced at $15,000 a night. To ensure that guests always have a crystal-clear view of the teeming marine life, Poseidon will have an automatic window-cleaning system (barnacles, algae and other marine creatures cling to just about anything in the sea). High-powered water jets will glide along tracks mounted to the sides of the resort, spraying the windows with high-pressure seawater, filtered so as not to coat the acrylic with barnacle larvae or other critters—a mechanism modeled after the cleaning jets in an automated car wash.
If the windows of a guest module become damaged, or if the room requires other repairs, maintenance workers can detach it from the main body of the resort and bring it to the surface. To loosen the joint that connects each suite to Poseidon’s “spine,” workers will close the watertight doors separating the guest module from the spine and then pump the joint full of seawater. As the hydrostatic pressure increases inside the coupling, it will force the suite loose so that an overhead crane can hoist it out of the water.
Like so many other ambitious hotel-resort plans, Poseidon must overcome unenviable logistical hurdles before the first guest walks through the door. Other promising underwater projects have ground to a halt because of budget overruns and legal wrangling. Even funding and lagoon space isn’t a surefire guarantee that Poseidon will ever be completed, although Jones’s decision to pre-fab the hotel, rather than risk the vagaries of underwater construction, tips the odds in his favor. Finally, some industry analysts are skeptical that the pool of potential guests is large enough to keep the hotel afloat. But Jones is confident that he will be taking guest reservations for Poseidon—and that guests will pony up the $15,000-per-person, per-week reservation fee—for a long time to come.
Check out the article and slideshow or the photo gallery at Popular Science.
What a cool idea! Not only will it be great for tourism, but in an overpopulated future this technology may become a lifestyle for some groups of people.
I'll just settle for the underwater vacation, and keep my house on solid ground.
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No Blank Check for you Governor Blanco!
After fussing and fighting all week, local Republicans and Democrats finally found something to agree on: The week-long special session accomplished little.
The Senate and the House, after much debate, agreed to set aside $300 million in hopes of attracting a German steel mill and provided a way for property owners to get repaid for a hurricane-related surcharge on their insurance bills.
But the special legislative session dissolved Friday as the Senate and House adjourned early without finishing work on legislation to cut business taxes and income taxes for some, and to give parents a $125 tax credit for each child.
Most of the Democratic governor’s original agenda failed to get anywhere. Republicans in the House blocked her billion-dollar plan to fix highways and give pay raises to government workers.
Blanco was roundly criticized for calling lawmakers to the Capitol without consulting them first about her agenda.
“We all advised against the special session — Democrats, Republicans. We thought there was no real emergency,”
said Rep. Don Cazayoux, D-New Roads. “We didn’t want to come.”
Cazayoux said the Republicans “were trying to hurt the governor.”
“It was doomed from the beginning,” said Rep. Bodi White, R-Central. “There was no input, and key chairmen lacked information. The lack of communication almost doomed the whole process.”
“I don’t think it was a very productive session. I think what we did was draw attention to some things we have to deal with,” said Rep. Carl Crane, R-Baton Rouge.
One bill Blanco pushed through was the creation of a $300 million fund that would spend the cash on infrastructure, such as pilings, that will be necessary if German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp Steel AG decides to build a factory along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish.
“That was the most important thing passed. Really that was the only thing passed,” said Sen. Jody Amadee, D-Gonzales, in whose district the mill would be built. “If we land that project, it was worth every minute, but otherwise I don’t know.”
Rep. Ernie Alexander, R-Lafayette, said he didn’t like Blanco tying the spending for pay raises to the lifting of the state expenditure limit.
“I would like to have voted for the pay raise package, especially for teachers. But she made it an all-or-nothing-at-all, take-it-or-leave-it deal,” he said.
House Speaker Pro-tem Yvonne Dorsey, D-Baton Rouge, said the remaining issues will be settled in the regular session or another special session, “when people have had time to absorb what happened and evaluate it.”
“Hopefully, we will come back in a better frame of mind,” Dorsey said.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, visibly angry at her evening press conference, accused House Republicans of reneging on an agreement to salvage her stalled legislative package.
“It’s just the most-amazing thing I’ve ever seen a group of people do,” Blanco said as she left the State Capitol. “They’re going against their own people."
She said Republican obstruction will hurt teachers, law enforcement, the road system and especially an attempt to attract a steel mill that would employ thousands.
“If we lose this business deal,” she said, “the blame will lie squarely in their laps.”
"The Republicans in the House set a sour tone and decided that partisan politics was more important than their own people."
The governor said she hadn't thought her proposals would be difficult to pass because lawmakers have said year after year that they support teacher pay raises, road repairs and other concepts included in her spending plans.
"I thought it was an easy vote," she said.
Check out the article at The Advocate.
Well, Governor... It's real convenient how you included teacher/firefighter/police/DPW pay raises in with your spending cap increase proposal... all the better to get the public into an outrage when you're blank check gets bounced by Republicans, right?
I guess we're not as dumb as you thought! We know that the pay raises will come, we just don't need to hand over $800,000,000 to you to get them!
You know, maybe when faced with a temporary surplus we should try to shore up some of our debt... instead, you treat it like a shopping spree!
Speaking of shopping sprees, I was appalled when I read how much state money the Governor spent while on her Far East Trip... $16,000! And we're not just talking about coach airfare and your average hotel room... we're talking First Class all the way, including a suite at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Wow! I guess we really do have a surplus, but how long could it possibly last with her in office?
Tsk tsk, Governor Blank-Check-Blanco... there's no way in hell you'll be back for a second term!
Wreaths Across America
At the Wreaths Across America event in Baton Rouge, six wreaths placed at the cemetery represented each branch of the military, and all prisoners of war and people missing in action.
The brief ceremony included a moment of silence for soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines past and present and the playing of taps by an American Legion Post 38 representative.
Janet Broussard, president of Louisiana Blue Star Mothers, said the ceremony provided the chance to take a few minutes during the busy holiday season and remember the sacrifices. Blue Star mothers, who date back to World War II, have sons and daughters in combat zones.
“We just want people to be aware there are so many people who have given their lives for our freedom,” Broussard said.
Broussard’s son, Lt. Mark St. Romain, is serving in Kuwait with the Louisiana Army National Guard’s 256th Infantry Brigade, and should be home either in May or October, she said.
Vicki Adams of Greenwell Springs, almost lost her son to the war in Iraq.
1st Lt. Jeffrey Adams, a soldier with the Louisiana Army National Guard 1088th Engineer Battalion, lost his leg two years ago.
Lt. Adams is home, but Vicki Adams said her son came too close to death.
“It’s something that’s been needed for a long time,” Vicki Adams said of the wreath-laying event, “to remind everybody that our freedom is because of others that served or are serving now.”
“It’s too easily forgotten when you’re in your every day routine,” she said.
Adams said she does not blame anyone for what happened to her son in Iraq.
“He wanted to help, for the children,” she said. “Those people have never known freedom.”
“Nobody likes war. It’s an ugly word,” Adams said, but “I don’t think the United States would have gotten where it is today without war.”
Ann Comeaux is a Gold Star mother, a designation for mothers who have lost children in combat. She plans to make the holiday season as normal as possible. She’ll take flowers to her son’s grave Christmas Day.
“I wish they could have come home yesterday,” Comeaux said of the troops still in the Middle East. “But, it’s impossible.”
She said she understands that the fight against the terrorists is necessary.
“They’re fighting to help the people in Iraq,” she said. “We don’t want our soldiers’ lives to be in vain.”
Speaking as a mother, and not in her role as a Blue Star mother, Broussard said, she understands that the situation in Iraq is not ideal.
“I think people need to stop with the negative comments and get behind the troops, get behind the president,” Broussard said.
People who say they support the soldiers, but not the war, “they send the wrong message to our troops when they make those comments,” she said.
Support Our Troops!
Do not forget about them as the holidays come near!
Check out the Wreaths Across America Website.
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Solar Storm!
Space weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess after a major flare erupted on the Sun overnight threatening damage to communication systems and power grids while offering up the wonder of Northern Lights.
"We're looking for very strong, severe geomagnetic storming" to begin probably around mid-day Thursday, Joe Kunches, Lead Forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center, told SPACE.com this afternoon.
The storm is expected to generate aurora or Northern Lights, as far south as the northern United States Thursday night. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are not expected to be put at additional risk, Kunches said.
Radio communications, satellites and power grids could face potential interruptions or damage, however.
Solar flares send radiation to Earth within minutes. Some are also accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CME), clouds of charged particles that arrive in a day or two. This flare unleashed a strong CME that's aimed squarely at Earth.
However, one crucial component to the storm is unknown: its magnetic orientation. If it lines up a certain way with Earth's magnetic field, then the storm essentially pours into our upper atmosphere. If the alignment is otherwise, the storm can pass by the planet with fewer consequences.
Kunches and his team are advising satellite operators and power grid managers to keep an eye on their systems. In the past, CMEs have knocked out satellites and tripped terrestrial power grids. Engineers have learned to limit switching at electricity transfer stations, and satellite operators sometimes reduce operations or make back-up plans in case a craft is damaged.
Another aspect of a CME involves protons that get pushed along by the shock wave. Sometimes these protons break through Earth's protective magnetic field and flood the outer reaches of the atmosphere—where the space station orbits—with radiation. The science of it all is a gray area, Kunches said. But the best guess now is that there will only be a slight increase in proton activity. That's good news for the astronauts.
"When the shock goes by, we don't expect significant radiation issues," he said.
The astronauts were ordered to a protective area of the space station as a precaution last night.
Now that sunspot number 930 has flared so significantly—after several days of being quiet—the forecast calls for a "reasonble chance" of more major flares in coming days, Kunches said.
Check out the article at Space.com.
If we could figure out a way to harness all of that energy, it would solve fuel problems for the entire globe!
We'll have to develop better radiation-shielding technology if we ever want to make significant ventures into space.
Check out the Solar Flare and Geomagnetic Storm articles at Wikipedia
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Megapixels!
In each issue, PopSci features the month's most astounding photos in the magazine's opening pages. Here, see the most recent additions to our collection of the best sci-tech images around.
Check out the slideshow at Popular Science.
Some more really cool images from PopSci... just imagine what you're missing if you don't get the magazine.
How We'll Get Back to the Moon
NASA has announced plans to establish a permanently-occupied lunar base with manned missions starting in 2020, a key step in further human exploration of the solar system.
The project, which would send humans back to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972, is a long-term joint effort of 14 of the world's space agencies, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Monday.
According to the current plan, which NASA described as a "blueprint for a return to the moon," robots would travel to the lunar surface ahead of manned missions to study the best landing sites and determine what natural resources would be available.
Then, starting in 2020, four-person crews bringing lunar exploration vehicles would be dispatched on a series of week-long missions to build living quarters equipped with their own power units.
Once permanent housing is established the program envisions lunar missions lasting 180 days.
NASA plans to set up a solar-powered base on one of the moon's poles that, once construction is completed, could serve as a forward base for manned missions to Mars.
"With such an outpost, NASA can learn to use the moon's natural resources to live off the land, make preparations for a journey to Mars, conduct a wide range of scientific investigations and encourage international participation," NASA said.
In 2004, US President George W. Bush had raised the idea of sending a manned exploratory mission to the red planet.
To help set out the goals of the lunar station, NASA consulted more than 1,000 experts. NASA officials talked to members of 13 other space agencies — including those of China, India, Russia and Ukraine — as well as experts from academic, public and private groups, and business interests.
This strategy will be "making optimum use of globally available knowledge and resources to help energize a coordinated effort that will propel us into this new age of discovery and exploration," said NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale.
NASA is developing a new crew capsule, the Orion, and new rocket engines, the Ares, for the mission. Test flights for the new rockets are scheduled for within two and a half years, and the Orion capsule is scheduled to be first flown around 2012.
In the meantime the space agency plans using the current space shuttle fleet until it is retired in 2010, with a focus on completing the building of the International Space Station.
NASA, Russia and the European Space Agency are currently constructing the ISS, in orbit around the Earth, which could itself be a springboard and operations base for the moon program.
Check out the article at Discovery News.
I really am looking forward to this! Just imagine how much more we will learn about the moon and surviving in space! It's going to be good practice for Mars.
Check out the really cool NASA feature: How We'll Get Back to the Moon!
NASA is looking at the possibility of locating the first Moon Base on a crater rim at the South pole of the Moon.
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A Date Which Lives in Infamy
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – This will be their last visit to this watery grave to share stories, exchange smiles, find peace and salute their fallen friends.
This, they say, will be their final farewell.
With their number quickly dwindling, survivors of Pearl Harbor will gather Thursday one last time to honor those killed by the Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark a date that lives in infamy.
"This will be one to remember," said Mal Middlesworth, president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. "It's going to be something that we'll cherish forever."
The survivors have met here every five years for four decades, but they're now in their 80s or 90s and are not counting on a 70th reunion. They have made every effort to report for one final roll call.
Nearly 500 survivors from across the nation were expected to make the trip to Hawaii, bringing with them 1,300 family members, numerous wheelchairs and too many haunting memories.
Memories of a shocking, two-hour aerial raid that destroyed or heavily damaged 21 ships and 320 aircraft, that killed 2,390 people and wounded 1,178 others, that plunged the United States into World War II and set in motion the events that led to atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The attack may have occurred 65 years ago, but survivors say they can still hear the explosions, smell the burning flesh, taste the sea water and hear the cries.
"From the time the first bomb dropped and for the next 15 minutes, it was complete chaos," Edward Chun said. "Nobody knew what was going on. Everybody was running around like a chicken with their head cut off."
Chun saw the Oklahoma and West Virginia torpedoed by Japanese aircraft. He heard the tapping of sailors trapped in the hulls of sunken ships. He escaped death when Ten-Ten was strafed, leaving behind dead and wounded.
Many of the dead were teenage sailors and Marines away from home for the first time. They died before they had an opportunity to get married, have children, build lives.
Four in five servicemen on the USS Arizona — 1,177 in all — did not survive the day. It was the greatest loss of life of any ship in U.S. naval history. They remain entombed in the battleship's sunken hull, which still seeps oil every few seconds, leaving a colorful sheen on the harbor water.
The survivors say they have more than horrific memories to offer. "Remember Pearl Harbor" is just the first half of the association's motto; the rest is "Keep America alert."
Martinez said many Pearl Harbor survivors were disheartened by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, "as if they had not done their job hard enough."
Once again, it seemed that America had been caught sleeping. Interest in Pearl Harbor and its aging survivors surged. The old soldiers are much in demand _ to sign autographs, walk in parades, speak to classrooms and pose for pictures. Visits to the USS Arizona Memorial are at record levels.
Not that everyone sees similarities between the two attacks. "There is no comparison," Hyland said. "That was terrorists killing a pile of civilians. Here, you had professional fighters versus professional fighters. Two different things."
There are those who are unable to forgive the Japanese, But others testify to the power of reconciliation.
"There are some guys that are going to die with hate in their heart. I don't have in me any hatred in my heart," said 87-year-old survivor Lee Soucy, of Plainview, Texas. "They were doing their job just like we were."
Hyland, who was almost killed in the attack, married a woman from Japan. They met at the 50th Pearl Harbor anniversary and wed the following year.
"I got over it a long time ago," he said.
Never forget what our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers went through for this country! Learn their history, or it will fade away...
Check out the Pearl Harbor Multimedia Map and Timeline at National Geographic.
Check out the article at Wikipedia.
Get the historical facts surrounding Pearl Harbor at The Naval Historical Center.
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Bittersweet Bowl
Instead of playing in the Rose Bowl for the first time, the LSU Tigers will play in the Sugar Bowl for a record 13th time. Instead of playing Michigan or USC, as LSU seemed destined for during most of the last week, the Tigers will play Notre Dame.
“You want to celebrate a great season with a quality opponent,” LSU coach Les Miles said, “and Notre Dame, any way you cut it, is a quality team: Two losses to nationally ranked teams, great teams, and one of those traditionally historic football programs. It’ll be a great matchup.”
Two games Saturday made it happen. UCLA’s 13-9 upset of USC knocked the Trojans out of a probable berth in the national championship game. Florida’s 38-28 victory over Arkansas in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game impressed enough voters — and the BCS computers — to let Florida move ahead of USC and, by a razor-thin margin, Michigan in the BCS standings.
That means Florida, No. 2 in the BCS, will play No. 1 Ohio State for the championship Jan. 8 in Glendale, Ariz.
The shuffle in the standings cleared the way for the Rose Bowl to have what it wants every year — a matchup of teams from its traditional partners, the Big Ten Conference and Pac-10 Conference — and gave the Sugar Bowl the chance to select LSU as an at-large BCS participant.
Paul Hoolahan, the CEO of the Sugar Bowl, said he was excited to have the Tigers and Fighting Irish in the Jan. 3 game in the Louisiana Superdome, a game that should provide a welcome financial and festive boost to the rebuilding city of New Orleans.
“We feel like we have two of the absolute best teams to help provide a little jumpstart for this local region,” Hoolahan said.
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis thanked Hoolahan for the invitation and said he’s glad the Irish will be playing in the Sugar Bowl.
“I can’t say enough about our affinity for the city of New Orleans,” Weis said. “The last highlight I can remember is watching that early NFL game when the Saints came back to New Orleans, to the Superdome, and we’re really looking forward to the challenge of going against LSU and bringing our troops en masse down to New Orleans to enjoy the festivities.”
The game is a sellout, LSU and Sugar Bowl officials said Sunday. LSU senior associate athletic director Herb Vincent said LSU will try to secure more tickets this week for its fans but couldn’t promise the university will succeed in that quest.
Notre Dame is 2-1 in previous Sugar Bowl games, including a dramatic victory over Alabama in the 1973 game for the national championship. Georgia won a national championship by defeating the Irish in the 1981 Sugar Bowl. Notre Dame defeated Florida in the 1992 Sugar Bowl.
LSU is tied with Alabama for the most appearances in the Sugar Bowl (12). The matchup against Notre Dame will break that tie.
Miles, one of 62 coaches who voted in the USA Today Top 25 poll that is a one-third component of the BCS formula, helped make the Notre Dame-LSU matchup possible by voting Florida at No. 2 on his ballot Sunday. That knocked Michigan out of the national title game and LSU out of the Rose Bowl.
Florida, Miles said, deserved a shot at Ohio State, and he voted accordingly.
Florida is one of two teams that defeated LSU this season. Miles said it eases the blow a bit to know the Gators will play for a national championship.
“We’re represented in that game,” Miles said. “We have to represent ourselves in our own game now, but we enjoy what the country sees as the strength of our conference.”
Well, the BCS pairings have been announced:
National Championship Game (Jan. 8th):
#1 Ohio State vs. #2 Florida
Allstate Sugar Bowl (Jan. 3rd):
#4 LSU vs. #11 Notre Dame
Rose Bowl (Jan. 1st):
#3 Michigan vs. #5 USC
It would have been nice to see the Tigers in the Rose Bowl for the first time, but the powers that be decided to take #5 USC instead of #4 LSU against #3 Michigan. Go figure.
The Sugar is a helluva lot more convenient trip for us anyway! Besides, I'm pumped that there's an SEC team in contention for a national championship once again. It just goes to show which conference is the toughest... nobody has a conference championship game like the SEC!
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
UPDATE 1-9-07: The Top 5 rounded out at:
#1 - Florida Gators (SEC)
#2 - Ohio State Buckeyes (Big Ten)
#3 - LSU Tigers (SEC)
#4 - USC Trojans (Pac-10)
#5 - Boise State Broncos (WAC)
Check out the AP Poll article at Fox Sports.
Check out my 2007 Sugar Bowl post: SWEET Domination!.
Check out my 2007 National Championship post: Welcome to SEC Football, Buckeyes!.
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Super Scout!
Baton Rouge Boy Scout earns all 121 merit badges
and reaches the Eagle Scout rank!
Like most teenagers, Marshall Watts was looking forward to his 18th birthday.
But this year, Oct. 21 came with a deadline for a Boy Scout who had set his mind on achieving a rarely achieved goal.
Watts didn’t just want to make Eagle rank — he wanted to earn all 121 possible merit badges, 100 more than needed for advancement.
Official rules say that merit badges and advancement of rank may be earned until a Scout’s 18th birthday, so time was running out.
He earned most of his badges by participating in weekly meetings with Troop 1 and attending summer and winter camp Scouting programs. Beginning last summer, Watts said he had earned a little more than 60 badges and had almost decided that was good enough.
“Fortunately, my parents encouraged me,” he said.
That, coupled with favorite quotes from his role model, Gen. George S. Patton, began to inspire him.
“I kept thinking about the one, ‘Accept the challenges so you can feel the exhilaration of victory,’” he said.
“With eight weeks left, I had 33 badges left to complete. I had a whole list made and I divided up the merit badges. My goal was to finish four per week,” he explained.
During this time, Watts also had to complete his Eagle Scout project which involved helping to refurbish grave sites at Port Hudson National Cemetery.
“Patton said, ‘Pressure makes diamonds,’ ” said Watts.
A couple of badges, Aviation, American Business and Entrepreneurship sparked hobby and future career interests. Watts needs five more solo hours to finish his pilot’s license and upon completing the Entrepreneurship badge, he started a profitable pressure washing business. He is also in the final stages of starting his latest business venture, producing biodiesel fuel.
Scout officials say that attaining the rank of Eagle Scout is laudable, but earning all of the 121 possible merit badges makes him unique among his south Louisiana peers.
“Most Scouts who have earned their Eagle rank do so with a lot of prodding from their parents and Scout leaders and even then only earn the minimum 21 required badges plus a few other fun ones,” said Joe Farlow, director of programs for the Boy Scouts Istrouma Area Council. “He definitely overachieved.”
According to National Boy Scout statistics, only 4 percent of all Boy Scouts who participate in the program attain the rank of Eagle Scout, a number that has increased during the past few years.
Farlow said he thinks that Watts’ achievement is a first for this area.
None of the area Scout leaders were aware of a similar feat, “and there are people who have worked here for over 20 years,” Farlow said.
Watts said he decided he wanted to earn all the merit badges years ago after seeing an older Scout with a sash full. “At that time there were only 119.”
Throughout his high school career, in addition to Scouting, Watts has been a member of the football, soccer, tennis and track teams and participated in concert and jazz band.
“The discipline that this young man had to focus on completing the badge requirements is commendable,” Farlow said. “Some of the badge requirements take a couple of hours work; some take weeks and some take months.”
“Merit badges offer a variety of subject matter and career fields. He probably achieved much more than a normal high school education,” Farlow said.
Watts birthday also proved especially memorable.
A mayor’s proclamation decreed the day as “Marshall Henry Hays Watts’s day” in Baton Rouge. His family and friends attended a ceremony at First Presbyterian Church honoring him for achieving one of Boys Scouts highest ranks, Eagle Scout, and for the incredible feat of earning 121 merit badges.
Watts said he advises Scouts to continue to pursue as many badges as possible. “Everybody shoots for Eagle, but I think they should set higher goals.”
WOW! What an impressive accomplishment! This young man will go far in whatever career he chooses. Many of those merit badges are very hard to earn... believe me, I know. Seeing this makes me wish I would've stuck it out all the way to Eagle.
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Home/The Blog/Take off at Turweston!
RAF Turweston served as a bomber training school during the Second World War. Opened on 23 November 1942 it had three concrete runways and one T1 hangar. At the end of the Second World War, the RAF had a surplus of facilities, and many including Turweston were scheduled for closure.
Turweston closed on 23 September 1945, but was retained by the Air Ministry. The land was used for private vehicle storage and agriculture.
In the 1950s, it was knownas MTSSD TURWESTON, and was a sub-depot of COD Chilwell, housing the Army’s stocks of Bren Gun Carriers. The maintenance staff consisted mainly of female civilians.
For some time prior to 1994 the airfield was in use as a gliding training airfield at weekends only. Turweston
Aerodrome re-opened for business in 1994, having been rebuilt as a combined airfield, aero-club, flight school and rally track. The new conference facilities were opened in 2004, and the location has also served as a dance or rave venue, including the Gatecrasher Summer Soundsystem festival in 2008 and 2009.
Until 2011, Turweston hosted an annual Wings & Wheels event, which in addition to aircraft, showcases vintage cars, motorbikes, tractors and farm machinery. Also run annually is the overland Fast-Track service into the British Grand Prix.
Turweston airfield is now a thriving hub of aviation and event activity. Stafford Rainwater were appointed to install a bespoke Fascia & Capping Detail to the new prestigious tiered flight centre. The flight centre is scheduled for a grand opening in March hosting some of the UK’s finest pilots and local dignitaries. After receiving a significant acknowledgement and compliments, Phil Stafford (Stafford Rainwater Systems Director) has been invited to the event to explain how the aluminium system compliments the aerodynamics and aesthetics of the building.
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The first step to overcoming procrastination: Know thyself
By: Dr. Drew Appleby
Do you have a procrastinator personality?
Procrastination is one of the most damaging characteristics that students display because it robs them of good grades and prevents them from maintaining productive and healthy relationships with their teachers, families and friends. Procrastination can have both external (e.g., situations involving work overloads) and internal causes (e.g., personality characteristics).
The following six procrastinator personalities identified by Sapadin (2012) in her book "How to Beat Procrastination in the Digital Age: 6 Unique Change Programs for 6 Personality Styles" are examples of the internal causes that can fuel procrastination. I highly recommend Sapadin’s book because it provides thinking, speaking and action strategies tailor-made for each of the six personality styles designed to help students lessen their tendency to procrastinate. If you are a procrastinator, these six descriptions will help you to know thyself better, the action strategies from Sapadin’s book will teach you how to be true to thyself, but it will be your responsibility to just do it.
Here are the six styles. Do you recognize yourself in one or more than one?
The perfectionist believes that her value as a human being is at stake every time she undertakes a task. The world is an all-or-nothing place for the perfectionist, which means that if the project she is working on fails, or is not the best, then she is a failure too. Her greatest fear is that she will not measure up to her own expectations or the expectations of others, a belief which may have its origin in a parent who looked at the 98 percent on her term paper and asked what happened to the other 2 percent. Procrastination allows the perfectionist to postpone completing an assignment because if it’s not complete, it can’t be judged.
The dreamer yearns for an easy, painless and nonthreatening life. When the world disrupts this dream by presenting difficult challenges, the dreamer retreats into his mind, creating an ideal world in which he is a "special" person who does not have to play by the same rules as everyone else. This dream is very comforting, but it also creates damaging academic, occupational and social/romantic consequences by producing late assignments, unfinished tasks and broken promises.
The worrier has an overpowering need to feel safe, but pays a high price for this feeling. Her most fearsome foes are risk and change, which paralyze her because she fears they will push her outside of her narrow comfort zone. Expecting the worst, she creates a stream of negative “what ifs” that predispose her to assume that taking an action will produce a disastrous outcome. The worrier has "better safe than sorry" tattooed on her soul. Hence, worriers experience less joy and fun in their lives than most other people; but they believe it is an acceptable price to pay for feeling safe.
The crisis-maker creates lots of drama in his life by waiting until the last minute to get things done. He under-reacts to situations that provide plenty of time to work by saying, "I don’t work well until I really start to feel the pressure," and then over-reacts with great frenzied bursts of activity just before the deadline. This burn-the-candle-at-both-ends strategy may work for the young, but over time it will fail because it will become harder and harder to transform yourself into superman/woman with jolts of adrenaline and caffeine.
The defier harbors a deep resentment toward authority, and has learned that the safest way to rebel is to use passive aggressive techniques. When asked to perform a task, a defier will almost always say “sure, I can do that,” but then “forgets” to do what he promised. This strategy provides the defier with a sense of power over others, but unfortunately it often leaves the important people in his life feeling betrayed, manipulated and/or used. When this strategy produces its inevitable negative consequences (e.g., failing a course), the defier consoles himself by thinking that this is the inevitable price he must pay if he wants to do things his own way.
The pleaser is always busy, so it doesn’t seem like she is procrastinating. Her focus, however, is not so much on getting her work done, but on pleasing others so they will like her. There is really no problem with that strategy unless she gets distracted from focusing on her own obligations. Pleasers may think they can do it all, yet, over time, they lose the balance between school and fun, work and leisure, and the professional and the personal. Soon she is disappointing not only those she wants so desperately to please, but also herself by producing mediocre work and making up excuses to explain why her work is late.
Do you recognize yourself in one or more of these descriptions? If your answer is yes, then you have taken the first step in a journey that can transform you into a happier and more productive person. But don’t forget that this journey has the following three parts:
Be true to thyself, and then.
Just do it today, not tomorrow.
The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage
By: Dr. Susan David, TED Talks
"Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth and discusses the powerful strategies of emotional agility."
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Home >> May 2017 Edition >> Making More Money via Satellite
Making More Money via Satellite
An SSPI Perspective
The mobile phone is much more than a status symbol in your pocket or a handy way to order take-away food. Around the world, it has become a powerful driver of economic growth.
A 2005 study concluded that boosting mobile penetration by just 10 phones per 100 people increases GDP per capita growth by 0.6 percent—and by up to double that in developing nations.
In lands where economic growth struggles to keep up with population growth, the impact is vast. A 2007 study of fishermen in Kerala, India, where mobile phones became available starting in 1997, showed that their profits rose percent on average once they could call ahead to find out which coastal markets had the biggest need for fish.
Fishermen benefited—but so did consumers, who saw their average price fall by 4 percent as markets became more efficient.
However, much of the planet offers stiff geographic challenges to mobile phone penetration. The base stations that serve those phones need power and backhaul connections to the network, and these can be nearly impossible to bring to deep forest, vast desert or rugged mountain ranges. Unless, that is, the satellite does the job.
The Caribbean’s Largest Mobile Carrier
Since this company’s founding in 2001, the Digicel Group has become the largest mobile carrier in the Caribbean and has extended service into Central America and Pacific Islands, including Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. A systems integrator and service provider, Globecomm, has designed and installed many of its systems.
“Our first assignment was a satellite terminal for ‘trunking’ over C-Band from their GSM switch in Jamaica,” said Gerard Johnston, Globecomm’s vice president for the Americas. “That means aggregating all the international traffic on that switch and routing it in and out of the country. We used robust, reliable C-band technology called SCPC, and we went on to build similar gateways for them in markets like Trinidad, Aruba, and St. Lucia.”
Satellites proved cost-effective for this kind of service. Mobile communications traffic throughout the island was carried on ground-based circuits or microwave to the main GSM switch. Calls and data destined to leave the island were routed to the satellite transmitter, while the rest of the traffic stayed local.
Technology for Growth
When Digicel targeted Honduras and Panama for network growth, however, the company faced a different challenge. In rural service areas, the investment required to connect base stations on the ground was far too high to justify introducing service. No base station connections meant no network.
Globecomm’s solution was to connect the individual base stations via C-band satellite, using a technology called TDMA, instead of on the ground.
The first base station network went into Honduras and was followed by another one in Panama, each using satellite to connect the base stations to the country switch, as well as to provide access from the switch to the international phone network.
“One thing about mobile traffic: it’s really dynamic,” said Jaime Rodriguez, Globecomm’s senior director for the Americas. “We designed the base stations to share a pool of satellite bandwidth. This saved money and provided great flexibility. But there is always the possibility that one or two of the circuits will get really busy and soak up most of the bandwidth, starving the others. So we designed the system to let Digicel assign priorities to the base stations. If one part of the service area is spectacularly successful, it shouldn’t bring down the whole network.”
Service Where Needed the Most
The new locations were truly in need of service. Reaching some sites required travel in a chartered plane and canoe, with a long walk at the end.
“It was incredibly difficult getting equipment into some of these locations,” said Rodriguez. “We’re talking about antennas, racks of equipment and outdoor enclosures, everything designed to use the minimum power, because generators are the only source of electricity.”
Globecomm’s work with Digicel ultimately led the firm to develop a way to power the base stations with solar panels, reducing the need for fuel.
Digicel went on to see strong growth in its new markets. By 2010, mobile phone penetration in Honduras exceeded 93 percent and Digicel decided to sell their Honduras unit to América Movil, which operates the Claro brand, and the company pocketed a tidy sum.
Mobile penetration in Panama reached an astounding 185 percent in the same year, almost 50 percent higher than Europe.
Without access to satellites, operating in the C- and Ku-bands, mobile service in these rainy regions would be restricted to the cities. Rural populations—50 percent of the total in Honduras, 25 percent in Panama—would be denied access to the economic growth and quality of life improvements that their fellow citizens enjoy.
Produced for SatNews by the Society of Satellite Professionals International (www.sspi.org).
See the video “Making More Money by Satellite” at http://www.sspi.org/cpages/making-more-money-via-satellite.
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History of Sirenella Ristorante
Italo Marzari opened the Sirenella Ristorante in Charlottetown in 1992, continuing a rewarding career in a profession he has grown to love.
Italo left his home in northern Italy in 1967 to make his way to Canada and a promising future. He spoke little English or French and though trained as an engineering technician, took work as a restaurant busboy. His career path changed forever.
As his language skills improved, Italo progressed from busboy to waiter and eventually he became maitre d' of the prestigious Royal York in Toronto.
By the early 1980's, Italo was managing a successful restaurant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and just a few years later, he opened his own restaurant, The Continental, in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Seeking yet another challenge, Italo moved to Prince Edward Island to become an instructor at the respected culinary institute in Charlottetown. When a downturn in the economy occurred, Italo was faced with two options - move off the Island or create his own employment.
He decided to open Sirenella Ristorante, a dining room specializing in Northern Italian dishes and seafood.
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Formula 1 truly misses people like Ken Tyrrell
Featured, Spotlight
Robert Kenneth ’Ken’ Tyrrell (1924-2001) was a British racing driver best known as the founder of the Tyrrell Formula 1 team. He was one of the enthusiasts who contributed to the progress and popularization of the sport at an early stage.
As a driver, Ken Tyrrell couldn’t achieve what he wanted
Ken Tyrrell was born in East Horsley in Surrey, England, on May 3, 1924. During the World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force and after that, he became a timber merchant. In 1952, he began racing, driving a Cooper in Formula 3. Six years later, he made his debut in Formula 2, with variable success.
Ken Tyrrell poses in front of Tyrrell 002 Ford Cosworth V8, 1971
However, when he concluded that he was not good enough to reach the top of the racing world, Tyrrell decided to run the Cooper Formula Junior team in 1959. By 1961, he was also managing Mini Coopers and was a deputy to the injured John Cooper in Formula 1.
Making of Matra team
Finally in 1968, with the help of few prominent sponsors, he moved up to Formula 1 as the team principal for Matra International, a team formed from Tyrrell’s own team and the French manufacturer. Tyrell persuaded them that Cosworth DFV engine is better than their own, and it all resulted in the making of Matra MS10.
Ken Tyrrell with Jackie Stewart, legend of Formula 1 racing
A couple of years earlier, Tyrrell spotted the talent of Jackie Stewart and brought him into the team. Success was imminent as Matra International became the runners-up in the Constructors’ Championship in 1968 and the next year Stewart won the Drivers’ Championship title.
However, the best was still to come. In 1971 and 1972, the team achieved eight wins with Tyrrell 003 car , and Jackie Stewart took the title in 1971.
Video – Tyrrell F1 tribute
Tyrrell had an eye for the talents
The early years in Formula 1 world were the peak of the career for ‘Uncle Ken’, as Tyrrell was often known. In 1973, Stewart announced retirement, while the second pilot Francois Cevert died during the practice session of the US Grand Prix. After that, the results weren’t as good as the previous ones, but the team promoted some talented drivers, like the future Formula 1 champion Jody Scheckter or Ronnie Peterson.
Tyrrell with Patrick Depailler and Ronnie Peterson, Buenos Aires
In the 1980s, Tyrrell’s team was left without sponsors. They were still running Cosworth engines, while all the others had switched to turbocharged ones. With some talented drivers like Michele Alboreto and Martin Brundle, Tyrrell tried all that he could do for his team to stay competitive. The last win the team scored was in 1983 by Alboreto, but the next year, the team was excluded from the championship after it was found that they ran underweight cars. Of course, Tyrrell denied it claiming that his team was being singled out for refusing to run more expensive engines.
Probably the last enthusiast in Formula 1
In the last decade of the 20th century, Ken Tyrrell left most of the control of the team to his sons and Harvey Postlethwaite. Until 1997, when the team was bought by British American Tobacco, a few good results were achieved by Jean Alesi, Mark Blundell and Mika Salo.
Ken Tyrrell, one of the most influential British people in the history of Formula 1
The new owners of the team didn’t have so much passion for racing, enthusiasm and experience to spot talented drivers, which left Tyrrell quite disappointed before he died of cancer on 25th of August, 2001.
Tyrrell had some revolutionary concepts in Formula 1
Tyrrell’s legacy and desire to push the limits made him a kind of legend in the history of Formula 1 racing. His team created the six-wheeled P34, with four front wheels and was the first to introduce the high-nose concept in the 1990 Tyrrell car.
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Tyrrell 006 – A Story of Success and Tragedy
Tyrrell 003 and Jackie Stewart Were the Perfect Match
Tyrrell P34 – the Only Six Wheeled Car to Win F1 Grand Prix
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• Fireproof in SF
Fireproof in SF
Six fires between 1849 and 1851 destroyed large parts of rapidly growing San Francisco. Clearly fires were a significant hazard for a town filled with structures made of wood. Local attorney (and future Chief of Staff of Lincoln's armies) Henry Wager Halleck felt that public confidence needed to be bolstered by building a structure that would be impenetrable to fire or flood. A civil engineer trained at West Point military academy, Halleck was very able to guide the development of San Francisco's first fireproof building, the Montgomery Block, located at 628 Montgomery Street at Washington Street. A new style of architecture for office buildings inspired by the .....
• Kezar Pavilion - An Ongoing Legend
Kezar Pavilion - An Ongoing Legend
I remember one of my first visits to the legendary Kezar Pavilion. It was the early 90s, and I must've been around 8 years old. My father took my two brothers and me to the Pavilion for a Pro-Am summer basketball game. The fans were going crazy, the game was great, but amidst all of this I remember one moment quite clearly. After the game my older brother came running back to the rest of us. "I got to shake hands with Tim Hardaway!" a Golden State Warriors legend from the glorious TMC* days of the late 80s and early 90s. I was full of jealousy. But this was the kind of place Kezar was: an intimate sports venue where a kid could get close and personal with his .....
• The Castro: One Neighborhood, Many Names
The Castro: One Neighborhood, Many Names
Among San Francisco's rich tapestry of neighborhoods, one particularly colorful patch stands out. Today we commonly refer to it as The Castro, but over the years this chameleon of a community has had many monikers. For centuries, the gentle slopes leading up to Twin Peaks proved a fertile foraging ground for indigenous Ohlone Indians based in the diminutive village of Chutchui on the shores of a lagoon. In 1776, the de Anza expedition arrived and established the site of the first Mission de San Francisco de Asis, or Mission Dolores, as well as the Presidio. The Mission Trail, which connected the two encampments, intersected existing Ohlone hunting trails at what is now Castro and Market.....
• Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge, which was opened to pedestrian traffic on May 27, 1937, and to vehicular traffic the following day. Pictured here is the festive celebration featuring three sawyers who competed to be the first to cut through the final Marin barrier to the Golden Gate Bridge. With the logs sawed through, automobiles rolled onto the bridge. Chief Engineer Joseph P. Strauss wrote a poem for the occasion, which begins: At last the mighty task is done; Resplendent in the western sun The Bridge looms mountain high; Its titan piers grip ocean floor, Its great steel arms link shore with shore, Its towers pierce the sky. Bridging the Golden Gate Strait had been proposed as ear.....
• Katrina Cottages and SF Earthquake Cottages
Katrina Cottages and SF Earthquake Cottages
On the Gulf Coast, an entrepreneur has manufactured "Katrina cottages" to sell to hurricane victims as a permanent alternative to FEMA trailers in which many are still housed. How do these Katrina cottages compare to the San Francisco earthquake shacks, provided as alternatives to tents a hundred years ago? The new cottages range in size from 308 to 1,175 square feet compared to earthquake shacks that were 140 to 252 square feetóbut today's cottages are meant to be permanent housing, whereas the earthquake shacks were built as temporary refugee camps. However, just as ultimately many of these shacks later served as the basis for larger structures, the Katrina cottages are designed as "Gro.....
• Grauman's Theaters
Grauman's Theaters
One of Hollywood's early theater impresarios created his first theaters in San Francisco. Sid Grauman (1879-1950) is best known for Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. This lavish 1927 movie palace is famous for its celebrity handprintsóalso footprints, hoofprints, knees, and legsóthe in the cement in front of the building. Grauman was also one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Born on St. Patrick's Day to Jewish parents, he was named Sidney Patrick Grauman. "I owe my tremendous success to the Man Upstairs," Grauman frequently said, "but having a name that got the Jews and the Irish behind me was what cinched things." He was born in Indiana i.....
• The Fairmont Hotel Celebrates 100
The Fairmont Hotel Celebrates 100
She is a Grand Dame, the jewel in the crown of Nob Hill. She is the Fairmont Hotel, and she is turning 100 this month. When Silver King James Fair purchased the hillside at Mason and California Streets back in the late 1800s, his intent was to build the largest mansion in the neighborhood. However, when he died in 1894 this lot was still undeveloped. It remained so until 1902 when his daughters Tessie Fair Oelrichs and Virginia Fair commissioned the architectural firm of Reid & Reid to develop plans for a large hotel with the look of an Italian Renaissance Palace. By 1906, the Fairmont Hotel, 600 rooms, seven stories high, made of gray granite, cream marble, and terracotta stone, st.....
• Craftsman Building on S. Van Ness Avenue
Craftsman Building on S. Van Ness Avenue
An unusual American example of Craftsman design principles applied to housing for the urban working class stands at South Van Ness Avenue and 26th Street. Built by the T.B. Potter Realty Company in 1905, it is a clinker brick and shingle building consisting of 16 attached cottages. Curiosity about this structure led Bathsehba Malsheen to delve into its history – and ultimately to gain San Francisco landmark status for the structure. The units originally contained Craftsman detail such as coffered redwood ceilings and leaded glass cabinets. And each unit has a small private courtyard in the back. The mystery is why there is no other example of this style of building in San Franciscan Ameri.....
• San Francisco’s Le Petit Trianon
San Francisco’s Le Petit Trianon
San Francisco has several representations of European landmarks, including Marie Antoinette's Le Petit Trianon. The original building at Versailles Palace in France was built between 1763 and 1768 for Louis XV’s favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour (Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson). Unfortunately for her, she died before the estate was completed. Louis then gave it to his next favorite mistress, Madame du Barry (Jeanne Bécu). When Louis XVI became monarch, he gave the estate to his wife, Marie Antoinette, who used it as a retreat from palace life. The architecture was called the Greek style, a transition between the Rococo of the early 18th century and the Neoclassical of the later part .....
• The Saga of Sutro Library
The Saga of Sutro Library
Adolph Sutro is obviously one of the towering figures of San Francisco history, and his legacy is indelibly enshrined in our landscape and several important institutions. The Sutro Library, located at San Francisco State University since 1982, houses approximately 40% (about 100,000 volumes) of the original legendary massive Sutro collection, salvaged from the fire-proofed Montgomery Block after the destruction of 1906. Stored in warehouses on Battery Street, the balance of the collection was destroyed. Sutro had initially planned to build a library at Sutro Heights, then decided to use half the acreage subsequently given to the University of California, on Mount Parnassus (now Mount Sut.....
• Lighthouses Around San Francisco Bay
Lighthouses Around San Francisco Bay
Our friends from other locations think of this area as sunny California. But if you live around San Francisco Bay, you know about the fog. And there are other dangers for ships, including strong gales, rocks, and shoals. Lighthouses were built here since Gold Rush times to warn ships of the dangers. I spoke with City Guide Patricia Duff, who works for the United States Coast Guard in their Lighthouse Divestiture program. As Patricia told me, the lighthouses were operated by the U. S. Lighthouse Service until 1939, when the Coast Guard took control. By the 1970s, most lighthouses were automated, mariners were using GPS systems, and the keepers were not needed at these sites. The keepers’ qu.....
• Vermont Street - Is it the Crookedest?
Vermont Street - Is it the Crookedest?
Did you know that there are two crookedest streets in San Francisco? Yes, you know about Lombard Street--but did you know about Vermont Street on Potrero Hill? Running between 20th and 22nd Streets, Vermont is a 14.3 percent grade and has five full turns and two half turns. But other than those facts, your intrepid editor could not find much else. In various newspaper articles it is cited as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) building project. However, the WPA was created in 1935, and the San Francisco History Center digital photography collection shows a photo dated from 1928 with the existing curves. Also in the S.F. Public Library is a reference book listing all the WPA projects i.....
• Tom Maguire: A Colorful Character in SF’s Theatrical Past
Tom Maguire: A Colorful Character in SF’s Theatrical Past
In her book The San Francisco Stage: From Gold Rush to Golden Spike, 1849-1869, Misha Berson remarks on the beginnings of theatrical life in San Francisco: Theater was only getting its start in the Atlantic states when San Francisco was founded during the Gold Rush. Thus, the far frontier city began its theatrical life as an equal among equals as far as theatrical experience was concerned. Given San Francisco’s importance in the development of the theater in the United States, it is interesting to examine the background and life of one of those who produced and directed on those early stages. Tom Maguire ran San Francisco’s first legitimate house for serious actors, the Jenny Lind. Th.....
• Old Vedanta Temple
Old Vedanta Temple
Its roofline an architectural confection of fanciful domes and graceful galleries, the Old Vedanta Temple at the corner of Webster and Filbert Streets is a vibrant landmark of the Cow Hollow neighborhood. The spirited architecture of this building, however, has a firm spiritual foundation. The structure is said to be the first Hindu Temple in the Western Hemisphere. From 1905 until the community outgrew the space and dedicated the “New” Vedanta Temple in 1959 at Fillmore and Vallejo Streets, just a few blocks away, the Old Temple served as the home for what became the Vedanta Society of Northern California. An early pamphlet published by the Society noted that the Temple “…may be consider.....
• San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks
San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks
Congratulations to City Guide Jacquie Proctor on the publication of her book, San Francisco’s West of Twin Peaks, by Arcadia Press. This neighbor-hood, home to the city’s highest hill, Mount Davidson, and the 103-foot-high cross at its summit, also has links to the creation of San Francisco’s first railway and water systems, its tallest buildings and longest bridges, and a number of men who held the City’s highest office. First owned in 1846 by the last Mexican alcalde, Jose Noe, it was later purchased by the City’s fourth mayor, Cornelius Garrison, as well as its 21st, Adolph Sutro. Sutro had made his fortune digging a seven-mile long tunnel to mine the Comstock Lode beneath another Mount .....
• Who Knows About 650 Geary?
Who Knows About 650 Geary?
While traipsing around the Tenderloin, researching another project, your editor sighted a very interesting Moorish style building at 650 Geary Steet. GuideLines put out a call to see if anyone knew the history of this building. Thank you to all who responded including Bob Bowen, Don Andreini, Peter Field, Gary Holloway, Ulla Kaprielian, and Ernie Ng. The building, San Francisco Landmark #195, is today the location of the Alcazar Theater. It was built in 1917 at a cost of $150,000 as the Islam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The Shriners, a men’s social and charitable organization of the Freemasons, used the building until 1970. The building was designed by Scott.....
• West side known as city's playground
West side known as city's playground
(Reprinted from the Sunset Beacon, August 2014) The Richmond and Sunset neighborhoods are often seen as sleepy, quiet communities for families, immigrants, surfers and college students. People from outside the area rarely visit for entertainment unless they are attending a concert in Golden Gate Park or spending the day at the beach on a rare warm day. However, this part of the City has changed dramatically since San Francisco's early days. At one point, it was a hotbed for amusement and leisure.
On the evening of July 15, the SF Public Library hosted a lecture at the Anza Branch about the area's history. Presenting a slideshow titled "The Outside Lands: A History of Ent.....
• Where Was the Valencia Hotel?
Where Was the Valencia Hotel?
Little did I know when I entered Cherin’s Appliance store on Valencia Street that I would find answers to a question I hadn’t been able to solve. Luckily, Michael Cherin waited on me. During our conversation I asked him if he know where the Valencia Hotel had been. He said, “Right here,” but then for validation he asked his grandfather, Lou Cherin, who is the family historian. Lou said no, the Valencia Hotel was across the street. Built in 1898, the Valencia Hotel was a four-story wood frame structure with a brick foundation. The Mission district was originally a marshland with creeks and shallow lakes. Landfill began in the 1860s, and in 1888 four hundred acres of solid ground had been.....
• Eureka Benevolent Society and Henry Mauser in San Francisco
Eureka Benevolent Society and Henry Mauser in San Francisco
When the ground started shaking at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the three-story frame building at 436 O’Farrell, which housed the administrative offices of the Eureka Benevolent Society, was empty of workers, so no lives were lost at the site. However, after the fire raged throughout so much of San Francisco on that inauspicious day and the two that followed, only portions of the front and rear exterior walls remained standing. Having to start over was nothing new for the members of the Eureka, first organized in 1850 to provide financial assistance to “Israelites landing here, broken in health or destitute of means.” Founder August Helbing, only 25 years old when he convince.....
• In Case of Fire, Look to Twin Peaks
In Case of Fire, Look to Twin Peaks
Andy Rooney’s voice lives in my head. Yeah, that unmistakable cranky whine from CBS TV’s 60 Minutes seems to be always asking, “Do you ever wonder why...?” Do you ever wonder why San Francisco has two sizes of fire hydrants? You sometimes see them facing each other across an intersection, one Stan Laurel to the other’s Oliver Hardy. And my inner Andy wanted to know why. A fireman once gave me the first piece of the puzzle. Skinny Stan is a fairly standard model that in San Francisco runs the drinking water pumped from Chain of Lakes, a.k.a. the San Andreas Fault. Husky Oliver, on the other hand, spouts a high-pressure stream that is essentially driven by gravity through its own.....
• Landmarks Versus National Historic Places
Landmarks Versus National Historic Places
Did you know that the Mission Dolores is both a San Francisco Landmark and a California Historical Landmark, and also holds a place on the National Register of Historic Places? And do you know the difference in these designations? Many buildings on our tour routes display plaques indicating landmark status, but the process for achieving each form of recognition is different. National Historic Places and Landmarks The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) includes over 80,000 listings, of which over 2,400 are designated as National Historic Landmarks. Landmarks are designated by the Secretary of the Interior for their national significance. Historic places are nomi.....
• Hollywood Stars Visit San Francisco's Chinatown
Hollywood Stars Visit San Francisco's Chinatown
In 1947, near the end of an unhappy five-year marriage, Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth sat in a dark theater and tensely watched a Chinese opera production. Only four years earlier, Hollywood’s “Boy Wonder” had married “The Love Goddess,” but whatever happiness they had once enjoyed was short-lived. They had come to San Francisco’s Chinatown not for the theater, but to make a film of their own, Lady from Shanghai. In the movie, Orson Welles’s character gets caught up in a murder scheme, and he confronts Rita Hayworth’s character in a pivotal scene that takes place during the Chinese opera performance. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll likely remember that the climactic last scene takes .....
• SF Theater Quiz
SF Theater Quiz
1. What father and son both played roles in the San Francisco theater scene?
a. James and Eugene O’Neill
b. William and Jack Ball
c. Stephen and Jonathon Massett
d. George Walker and Bert Williams
2. American Conservatory Theater originated in what city?
a. San Francisco
b. Boston
c. Pittsburgh
d. Baltimore
3. At what hotel did Enrico Caruso stay when he was in San Francisco in April 1906?
a. Baldwin Hotel
b. Fairmont Hot.....
• Castro Movie Makeover: Glimpses of the Castro from 30 Years Ago
Castro Movie Makeover: Glimpses of the Castro from 30 Years Ago
Guides for the Castro: Tales of the Village tour have been able to observe the ongoing retrofit to the Castro as its appearance from 30 years ago is brought to life. The time warp is all part of the Gus Van Sant film entitled Milk. The biopic on the life of the first openly gay man elected to office in the United States stars Sean Penn as Harvey Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White. Filming began on January 22, 2008, and is slated to continue until March 15th. For those of us who walk the Castro and, through our stories, evoke the images of decades ago, these are exciting times! Construction workers have altered the Castro Theatre marquee to use the color palette from the late seventies. The.....
• Wayside Chapel of St Francis
Wayside Chapel of St Francis
The City’s smallest and largest churches once stood side-by-side atop Nob Hill. Perched in the shadow of Grace Cathedral, the Wayside Chapel of St. Francis opened on May 28, 1945. When the Episcopal Bishop wanted a chapel where people could come 24 hours a day to pray for their loved ones at war, the bishop’s chaplain suggested they convert a tiny construction shed on the California Street side of the still-unfinished cathedral. Built in 1932, the wooden structure had been used as the fund-raising office for the cathedral building campaign, and subsequently as Dinwiddie Construction’s on-site office. And thus in the waning years of World War II, generous donors helped to convert it i.....
• Baroness von Schroeder, Rambling Bits of History
Baroness von Schroeder, Rambling Bits of History
This article began as a search to learn more about Baroness von Schroeder, the developer of a Mission district residential area. Her trail proved to intersect with many of the movers and shakers of San Francisco at the turn of the last century. Between 1889 and 1894, Baroness Mary Ellen von Schroeder developed 27 houses on South Van Ness (then called Howard Street) between 22nd and 23rd Streets and the backing lots with houses facing Capp Street. Designed by architect Thomas J. Welsh (1845-1918), the Eastlake or American Stick style houses sold for around $5,000. Many of the existing houses have the original flash glass—small colored glass squares surrounding the main window pane. Welsh d.....
• Crystal Palace Market
Crystal Palace Market
“The Palace was an emporium dedicated to the palates of the cosmos. It probably had food from Saturn. It was the FAO Schwarz of the stomach.” Thus author Gus Lee describes the Crystal Palace Market of his youth in China Boy, the fictionalized account of his boyhood that was San Francisco’s choice for this fall’s “One City/One Book” shared reading experience. His description is no exaggeration. During its 36-year run, the 71,000-square-foot market imported goods from at least 37 countries to provide the most varied offerings in the country. Its 65 shops included four dairy stands – selling 36,000 eggs daily –, four poultry stands, six butcher shops, three fish markets, and seven fruit.....
• Swensen’s Ice Cream: Looking Back at a Neighborhood
Swensen’s Ice Cream: Looking Back at a Neighborhood
In 1948 Earle Swensen opened his ice cream store on Hyde and Union Streets. Since then, more than 180 flavors have been created, Swensen's franchises have opened worldwide, and Swensen became a multimillionaire. Earle Swensen, the son of a Norwegian brick mason, started making ice cream on a Navy troop ship in the South Pacific during World War II. He only had the ingredients for vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, but he said the sailors didn't care what flavor he made – they just wanted something cold in the hot climate. Back in San Francisco, he became a Deputy City Assessor. When a small store became vacant on Russian Hill, he started his empire with $750. Realizing he needed more cap.....
• Albion Castle – San Franciscans, their Beers, and the Story of One Brewery
Albion Castle – San Franciscans, their Beers, and the Story of One Brewery
Nineteen-year-old John Burnell, already an experienced brewer trained in London, came to San Francisco in 1868. He bought a parcel of land with large flowing springs in an area where brothers Robert and Philip Hunter managed real estate transactions for the new city – an area known today as Hunter’s Point. Here in the 1870s Burnell established the Albion Porter & Ale Brewery. The building he erected, featuring a three-story tower reminiscent of a Norman castle from Burnell’s native England, has always been known as the Albion Castle. The Castle was recently in the news when it was auctioned off for $2.1 million. The building has walls two to three feet thick and was built with stone t.....
• The SF Chronicle Building Restored
The SF Chronicle Building Restored
San Francisco’s first skyscraper, whose original façade has been hidden for more than 40 years, is presently undergoing restoration. Located at 690 Market Street at the corner of Kearny and 3rd Streets, the structure was originally the Chronicle Building, but has been known in recent years by its tenant, Washington Mutual. It was the Chronicle's home until 1924 and shares the important “newspaper corner” intersection with the Hearst and former Call buildings. The building’s 1889 brick and stone façade was covered with white enamel sheets in a 1962 modernization, but at least some of the original material was preserved underneath. Interestingly, although it is historically known as the Ch.....
• Old Mt. Sutro, Reborn!
Old Mt. Sutro, Reborn!
Mt. Sutro – where is that? This is a question that I often get from San Francisco natives and long-time residents. After over 20 years spent growing up high up on Sutro’s southern slope, even I didn’t know precisely until recent years, although I knew that it was somewhere in that dense forest up behind UCSF. The summit of Mt. Sutro lies in Sutro Forest, which is to the south of UCSF’s main campus at Parnassus Heights, west of Cole Valley, east of the Inner Sunset, and north of the Sutro Tower and Twin Peaks. Mt. Sutro is San Francisco’s fourth highest summit at 904 feet. Nearby Twin Peaks and Mt. Davidson are much more visible, partly due to the remnants of Sutro’s Giant Forest, w.....
• Graffiti in San Francisco
Graffiti in San Francisco
City Guide's North Beach by Night guides are saddened every time they lead walkers past the marvelous mural on Romolo Place off Broadway between Columbus and Kearny. Created by artist Ann Sherry in 1994, the 200-foot-long mural entitled “Gold Mountain” depicts the history of the Chinese in San Francisco. It includes such Chinatown icons as Donaldina Cameron, who rescued Chinese girls forced into prostitution, Edsel Ford Fong, the famously rude waiter at Sam Wo’s restaurant, and Betty Ong, a flight attendant on the first plane to hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, who was painted into the mural in 2003. Chinatown native Betty Ong, a flight attendant whose plane was flown into the World Tr.....
• Jack Kerouac Alley Mural
Jack Kerouac Alley Mural
Perhaps as you stroll along Columbus Avenue in North Beach, you pay little attention to the sixty-foot-long Jack Kerouac Alley, aptly situated between the landmark City Lights Bookstore and legendary Vesuvio Café. The passageway that served as a transportation shortcut from Chinatown to North Beach was once a refuge for back-alley drinkers and rotting garbage. Today, Jack Kerouac Alley is transformed into an inviting pedestrian-only thoroughfare complete with decorative lampposts and poetry from eastern and western cultures inscribed on the brick walkway connecting the two neighborhoods. The renovated alley was opened to the public on March 31, 2007, under the funding and direction of the Ch.....
• Secret Places to Go in San Francisco
Secret Places to Go in San Francisco
City Guides know that San Francisco holds a plethora of delightful surprises beyond the cable cars and Fisherman’s Wharf. But could there be some FREE hidden gems you haven’t discovered yet? With map in hand and a bit of Internet route pre-planning, I recently set off to see some of San Francisco’s non-traditional sights. First stop was the City College campus on Ocean Avenue to view Diego Rivera’s Pan American Unity mural, painted in 1940 for the Golden Gate International Exposition. Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo lived in San Francisco while he created this stunning work combining the art, culture, history, politics, religion, and technology of the Americas. City Guides will offer a t.....
• San Francisco Armory in the Mission
San Francisco Armory in the Mission
City Guides offers three different tours in the Mission. None venture remotely near the hulking ugly pseudo-Moorish Armory building at 1800 Mission Street. With clinker brick exteriors, four octagonal towers, and 200,000 square feet of space, this forbidding structure was built in 1912-14 as an arsenal for the US National Guard, replacing one in the Western Addition destroyed in 1906. Its ultimate cost, including land, was $500,000. Besides its official function as a military training and storage facility, it was used frequently for sporting events and prizefights. Said to be the largest building of architectural importance in the Mission, it has the largest unsupported enclosed volu.....
• Ella Castelhun - A Lesser Known Woman Architect
Ella Castelhun - A Lesser Known Woman Architect
In 1901, the State of California adopted a law that required all practicing architects to be licensed, either demonstrating their experience in the field of architecture or passing an exam and fulfilling requirements in education and experience. Julia Morgan was the first woman to appear on the roster of licensed architects, receiving license number B344 in 1904. The second woman licensed to practice architecture in California was Ella Castelhun, who received license B358 in 1905. In contrast to Morgan, she remains little known. Unfortunately, her file is not available at the State of California Architects Board. The last record of her architectural career is her inclusion in the 1920 r.....
• The Russian Connection in San Francisco
The Russian Connection in San Francisco
We all know about Fort Ross in 1830, Sebastopol, the Russian River, and Russian Hill, where artifacts of buried Russian sailors have been found. Perhaps we also know that the founding of the Presidio may have been inspired by Charles III of Spain because of concern about Russian incursions from the north. A few of us know about the Russian exploration of San Francisco Bay in 1812, when the Russian-employed botanist von Chamisso first described the California poppy, took a specimen back to St. Petersburg, and enshrined it in the Russian Museum, where it still resides as the “type specimen,” the original. Most of us have heard the romanticized love story of Count Rezanov and Concepcion Arg.....
• San Francisco Coffee Roasters
San Francisco Coffee Roasters
Coffee is one of the most exported commodities in the world. It originated in Yemen and by the 1400s trading brought it to Africa, Arabia, and the Mediterranean. After achieving popularity in Europe in the 1600s, “the Wine of Araby” traveled to America, where by the end of that century it overtook beer as the favorite breakfast drink. During the Mexican-American War in 1846, it was a ration for soldiers. Traders spread coffee to other hot climate growing areas, including the East and West Indies. And just like the Gold Rush immigrants traveling to California, green coffee beans also came by ship. San Francisco became a center for coffee roasting businesses, with coffee a main part of t.....
• San Francisco Emporium Rooftop Holiday Tradition
San Francisco Emporium Rooftop Holiday Tradition
A ferris wheel, merry-go-round, train, and visit with Santa Claus and his elves – all these treats and more awaited visitors to the rooftop holiday carnival presented every Christmas by the Emporium on Market Street. Once upon a time this venerable department store also boasted an indoor ice rink and an auditorium for lectures and concerts by The Emporium Orchestra. The last Christmas carnival was held in 1995, the Emporium’s 100th anniversary year and the year the store closed. A reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle interviewed visitors and quoted an Emporium employee who boasted, “Our Santa is the best Santa in the Bay Area.” (In fact, there were two Santas, separated by screens.....
• The San Francisco Ferry Building Clock
The San Francisco Ferry Building Clock
Ferry Building Guides were recently treated to a talk by Dorian Clair, a specialist in antique clocks who in 2000 began working on the Ferry Building’s famous timepiece. Today the Ferry Building still boasts its original Special #4 clock made by the Boston clock maker E. Howard in 1898. It is the largest dialed, wind-up, mechanical clock in the world. Before the ’06 quake, this top-of-the-line clock lost only two seconds a week. Although the clock is now powered by an electric motor installed by Dorian, the old weight and pendulum system is still in place and could be hooked up in a few hours. This system’s one-ton weight, which dropped 48 feet in 8 days when it powered the clock, now.....
• Visitacion Valley
Visitacion Valley
Editors Note: City Guide Cynthia Cox fell in love with Visitacion Valley after purchasing a wonderful old fixer-upper there six years ago and hearing tales of the community’s past from her octogenarian neighbor. Cynthia incorporated this information into her two-part City Guides Special Visitacion Valley May/October Neighborhood Walk. GuideLines is grateful to Cynthia for sharing the following Viz Valley historical overview: For thousands of years, today’s southern San Francisco neighborhood nestled between Bayview Heights and John McLaren Park was inhabited by Native Americans who hunted in the hills and fished in the nearby bay. But with the July 2, 1777 “discovery” and nami.....
• Art Deco in San Francisco's Downtown
Art Deco in San Francisco's Downtown
One day in the spring of 2003, fellow City Guide Bob Bowen and I visited the lobby of the Telephone Building on New Montgomery Street. We were on a trial walk for a revived Downtown Deco Tour, which a few of us had decided to bring back to life after conducting Art Deco Marina for several years. A security guard working for SBC, which then owned the building, kindly allowed us into the inner sanctum. We stood in the wide lobby of San Francisco’s first real high-rise, with its dark marble walls, occasionally accented by shiny metal trim. A glorious multi-colored ceiling in the pattern of a Chinese quilt brightened the space, and various animal forms seemed to float overhead. Above the elev.....
• Yerba Buena Lane: San Francisco's Newest Street
Yerba Buena Lane: San Francisco's Newest Street
Although open since 2002, the pedestrian-only thoroughfare named Yerba Buena Lane is finally coming into its own. With the recent opening of the Contemporary Jewish Museum and Jessie Square, many people are now taking notice of this lively and interesting area for the first time. Yerba Buena Lane allows pedestrians to flow from the Union Square area north of Market Street to the museums and public landscapes of Yerba Buena Gardens south of Market (SoMa), without a long detour down to Third or Fourth Street. At 550 feet long, it is designed to provide a convenient corridor for over 5 million people annually, fulfilling a vision of urban planners over 50 years in the making. Historical.....
• Archbishop’s Mansion in San Francisco
Archbishop’s Mansion in San Francisco
The handsome French Second Empire structure was built in 1904 for San Francisco’s second Archbishop, Patrick Riordan (1841-1914). A major architectural asset and anchor to the Alamo Square Historic District, it was at the turn of the century an important symbol of the Catholic Church’s prominence in San Francisco’s religious, social and cultural life. The Mansion’s architect was Frank Shea, who worked on several projects for the Catholic Archdiocese, including St. Vincent de Paul on Steiner Street and Holy Cross on Eddy Street. Archbishop Patrick Riordan played an important role in San Francisco history. Arriving in 1882, he set about building churches, schools, and hospitals. The Arc.....
• San Francisco’s Mount Davidson
San Francisco’s Mount Davidson
Centered in the crossroads of Portola Drive, O’Shaughnessy Boulevard, and Monterey Boulevard, Mount Davidson is near the geographic center of the city. You can walk up to the trailhead on Juanita Street. The walk winds up the hill, through overhangs of pine and eucalyptus trees, to the top of the mountain, at 938 feet it is the highest peak in San Francisco. As you wind around the hill towards the west, you come upon solemn and lonely trees. Once known as Blue Mountain thanks to its profusion of colorful wildflowers, the peak was part of Don Jose de Jesus Noe’s 4,443-acre San Miguel Rancho granted in 1845 by Mexican governor Pio Pico. After California gained statehood, French naval ca.....
• Emporium Dome Celebrates 100
Emporium Dome Celebrates 100
Editors’ Note: The October 2004 GuideLines featured a story on the Emporium dome when it was hoisted on a perch for a year during construction of the Westfield Centre. The following article revisits the story with some new information and permission from the Bancroft Library to publish another photo. September 2008 was the 100th birthday of the dome in the Westfield Centre. In 1896 a cooperative of merchants rented space at the Parrot Building at 835 Market Street and called their venture the Emporium. As its signature feature, the building contained a magnificent dome. The Parrot Building was designed by Albert Pissis, who also designed the James Flood Building across t.....
• Court of Appeals and Old Main Post Office Building
Court of Appeals and Old Main Post Office Building
Penny Bradshaw had the wonderful idea for the Class of 2008 to keep in touch on a regular basis by meeting for lunch once a month to discuss and share experiences, and Tuesday, October 7th, was scheduled for our “first date.” When I discovered that the United States Court of Appeals and Old Main Post Office were offering a docent tour that day (and had a café on site!), seven of us met on the steps of this most beautiful example of an American Renaissance / Beaux Arts classical style building and took the tour given by Ms. Ellie Foster, docent since ’97, who had previously volunteered at various museums in Washington, D.C. This building has a special meaning for me since it was here, .....
• The Call Building of San Francisco
The Call Building of San Francisco
San Francisco’s Call Building shared the spotlight with the Ferry Building as the city’s most notable landmark at the turn of the twentieth century. San Francisco’s first skyscraper, it was depicted by Thomas Kinkaid in his nostalgic painting San Francisco Market Street, and it stands as a point of reference in locating other structures in historic photographs. We can credit the very public feud between two leading San Francisco families for the construction of this grand building. Claus Spreckels dominated the sugar industry from the 1860s until 1905, when the new C&H co-op broke his monopoly. After gaining control of Hawaiian cane sugar production through his ownership of the Hawaii.....
• The Old Mint Building in San Francisco
The Old Mint Building in San Francisco
City Guide Larry See recently joined the San Francisco Museum & Historical Society’s members-only tour of the Old Mint and shares this report: Built in 1874, at one time the Old Mint held about one-third of all of the gold in the nation. It sits on bedrock just ten feet below the surface. The foundation is four feet thick, with two-inch reinforcing iron bars interlaced all though it. The walls are a combination of very thick sandstone on the outside with granite and brick in the interior. Huge heavy iron shutters protect the windows. The ceilings are approximately 20 feet high, with graceful brass lighting hung from the ceiling. There was only one "slightly" successful known inc.....
• Lombard Street
Lombard Street
The block of Lombard between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets began as a straight, cobblestone street with a 27% grade. In the 1920s the people living on this street wanted cars, but the street was too steep for vehicles. Carl Henry, insurance and drug business executive, is credited with initially proposing the idea of a curved street. Henry owned half of the lots on the 1000 block of Lombard and land all around the street. He created a lily pond and rose gardens, and had planned to give his land to the city as a park. However, when he died his widow sold the property to pay off debts. Since the Lombard Street lots were inaccessible by autos, the property values were not as high as on ne.....
• Timothy Pflueger Gets a Street
Timothy Pflueger Gets a Street
Thanks to City Guide Therese Poletti, on December 16th the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, at their last meeting of the year, passed a resolution to rename the former Chelsea Place, a short alley behind 450 Sutter, Timothy Pflueger Place, honoring the city's great architect of the 20s, 30s, and 40s. Therese brought the resolution to outgoing Board President Aaron Peskin, who reported that the resolution was passed in a unanimous vote. In fact, Supervisor Jake McGoldrick was so enthused about the proposal that he asked to be a co-sponsor. Therese, author of the recently released book Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger, became interested in Pflueger's work.....
• Dearborn Garden
Dearborn Garden
Joni Mitchell’s well-known lyric “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” is a rueful sentiment about the destruction of our natural environment. But there is at least one place in San Francisco where that process was actually reversed. The Dearborn Community Garden is located on a quiet street about two blocks northeast of Dolores Park, adjacent to 43-49 Dearborn Street. It was formerly an employee parking lot for the Pepsico bottling plant situated at the southwest corner of 17th and Valencia Streets. This is also where the police station is now. As the plant's business started to wane, the parking lot stood virtually empty for many years. Neighbors started to garden there, taking.....
• St. Dominic’s Church
St. Dominic’s Church
Dominicans first arrived in San Francisco from Spain in 1850, and established their first priory in 1863 at Van Ness and Broadway. That same year, the Dominican Friars paid $6,000 for the city block bounded by Steiner, Bush, Pierce, and Pine Streets, anticipating the future development of what was still the largely open country of the Western Addition. picture1left300 The first St. Dominic’s Church, blessed in 1873, was a small, unpretentious wooden church at the corner of Bush and Steiner Streets. To accommodate a rapidly growing congregation, a second, much larger church was built of brick on the same site; this church opened in 1887 but was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. During the.....
• St. Rose Academy
St. Rose Academy
From January 1906 until June 1990, St. Rose Academy shared with St. Dominic’s Church the city block purchased in the Western Addition by the Dominican friars in 1863. picture1left300 The oldest private girls’ school in San Francisco when it closed in 1990, St. Rose was founded by the Dominican sisters of San Rafael in 1862. It soon outgrew its first convent on Brannan Street between Third and Fourth Streets, and moved into its new St. Rose Academy on Tyler Street (later renamed Golden Gate) between Steiner and Pierce in 1878. After this building was consumed by fire in 1893, the school found temporary quarters at two other sites before constructing their new academy on the land owned by .....
• 2830 Pacific Avenue House
2830 Pacific Avenue House
This house is one of the spectacular Georgian brick mansions atop the Gold Coast Hill. It is the westernmost of a pair of twin homes designed in 1910 by Nathaniel Blaisdell for George Lingard Payne, a manufacturer of carriage bolts. Payne shared the $42,500 residence with his wife, five children, chauffeur, cook, and four lodgers, but only for the winter seasons; they summered in Mill Valley. picture1left300 2830 Pacific boasted up-to-the-minute conveniences, like an early Otis elevator, laundry and trash chutes, and two walk-in Hermann safes. It featured a ground floor ballroom, landscaped garden terrace, and an unusual side driveway commodious enough for up to ten vehicles, leading to .....
• Missing Features in Golden Gate Park: Why is this Mound Here?
Missing Features in Golden Gate Park: Why is this Mound Here?
In its 140-year history, Golden Gate Park has contained many features that have moved, been reconstructed, or disappeared. picture1right300 For the 25 years he has walked in the park near his home, Eric Bennion had always wondered why there was a man-made earthen mound around the tennis courts. It is filled in with trees and shrubs with a path on top. There does not seem to be a particular architectural reason to enclose tennis courts with this landscape feature. picture2right300 I joined Eric in exploring this mystery, and we discovered that the tennis courts site was once the location for the park’s second bandstand, the New Music Stand, located where the clubhouse is now. Th.....
• 826 Valencia: Pirates and More
826 Valencia: Pirates and More
Last year while doing one of my walks in the Mission Dolores Neighborhood, I suddenly realized that I had been bypassing one of San Francisco's most interesting and famed addresses, 826 Valencia, now listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark. picture1right300 This relatively modest storefront exterior masquerades as a pirate supply store, providing a commercial “front” for its real business, which must be seen to be believed. If you can get past the tantalizing random and eclectic pirate supplies, such as spyglasses, eye patches, wooden legs, a fish tank, and an infamous tub of lard, the rest of the facility is dedicated to a vibrantly unique tutoring enterprise, now in its ninth .....
• Our Day with Huell Howser
Our Day with Huell Howser
Huell Howser, creator and host of California Gold on Public Broadcasting affiliates, contacted City Guides seeking people for two episodes of the program in 2008. This included the 75th Anniversary of Coit Tower, and a story on which street is the crookedest. picture1right300 Laura Schoeder recruited Mary Nell York and Masha Zakheim for Coit Tower. City Guide Emeritus Mary Nell led this tour for many years, and Masha, an author and educator, is the daughter of Coit Tower muralist Bernard Zakheim. Because of a GuideLines article, I became the subject matter expert on Vermont Street. Phil Noyes, the show’s producer, asked me to give some history on Lombard Street. He said, “Just read a .....
• Sutro’s Triumph of Light Statue
Sutro’s Triumph of Light Statue
San Francisco maps from the early 1900s show a depiction of the Statue of Liberty on a hill above 17th Street, near Clayton Street. This rise is called Mount Olympus, and at the time, was considered the geographic center of San Francisco. Adolph Sutro—silver baron, philanthropist, and one-time mayor—owned the land. And, as he did on his other property, Sutro installed a statue. picture1right300 Like Sutro’s other statuary, this was a Belgian copy of something he saw on his travels. The Triumph of Light depicted Lady Liberty victorious over Despotism. picture2right300 On Thanksgiving Day, 1887, a crowd congregated at the no-longer-existing intersection of Ashbury and 16th Streets f.....
• Treasures at Mission High Museum
Treasures at Mission High Museum
Sometimes an era or institution is forgotten when not enough resources are available to collect and memorialize artifacts or stories from the past. This is not the case for Mission High School, whose rich history has been preserved in a museum located right inside the school. The idea for the museum was initiated and eventually implemented by a group of volunteers in the Mission High School Alumni Association. This included Ted Scourkes and Walter Swan, who previously served as principal and teacher at the school, respectively, and now are active volunteers at the museum. Tucked inside a rectangular room, the museum’s artifacts include antique school furniture and equipment, photogra.....
• Crocker’s Spite Fence
Crocker’s Spite Fence
If you look up “spite fence” in the Wikipedia you will read: “A spite fence is an overly tall fence typically constructed between adjacent lots by a property owner who is annoyed with, or wishes to annoy, a neighbor or who wishes to completely obstruct the view between lots.” Just below the definition you see a picture of the top of Nob Hill before 1906 that includes one of the most famous (or shall we say infamous?) spite fences ever built. picture1right300 The story has been told a number of ways, but generally goes like this. Charles Crocker, one of the “Big Four” partners in the Central Pacific Railroad, had become a multi- millionaire and wanted to build a mansion at the to.....
• The Prelinger Library
The Prelinger Library
Last month while visiting the show Green Dimensions at Lower Fort Mason, Building D, I came across an exhibit in the lobby, a fascinating continuously changing video about the history and landscape changes in the Bay Area coastal regions. This display was produced by the Prelinger Library, a facility unknown to me, and to everyone else in my vicinity. I decided to investigate, and thus spent several hours one Sunday afternoon, on site. The Prelinger Library is a unique private collection located in a faceless obscure building just off Folsom Street at 8th. It is staffed by the Prelingers, a welcoming and helpful couple, who are solely responsible for the collection, retrieval, classificat.....
• Terra Cotta in SF
Terra Cotta in SF
There is a multitude of terra cotta building decoration in San Francisco, and much of this is thanks to the town of Lincoln, 30 miles northeast of Sacramento. The town began in 1861 as a railroad terminus on land owned by railroad pioneer Theodore Judah. Civil War veterans settled in the area to raise cattle and orchards, and coal mining began in 1873. In 1874, when a source of high quality clay was discovered nearby, several Chicago businessmen decided to open a clay products manufacturing plant. A year later Gladding McBean opened as the first producer of clay sewer pipe west of the Rockies. Sewer pipe was, and continues to be, Gladding McBean’s main product. In 1884 the company began .....
• Opera in North Beach
Opera in North Beach
GuideLines frequently receives emails from people who have read our articles on the City Guides website, and request information. This includes:
A KALW radio producer wanting more information from Mary McCloy after reading her article, The Irish in San Francisco. The producer was creating a St. Patrick’s Day show.
Someone who read Chicken Tetrazzini searching for the original recipe for a birthday dinner for her son.
A man hoped to find the true location of the Ferries and Cliff Trolley Line station at Land’s End because his grandfather had worked on its construction.
One inquiry recently came from a couple looking for the name of a restaura.....
• Bay Bridge Climb
Bay Bridge Climb
Elaine Molinari, former City Guides Director (1985 - 1990) contributes a story this month on San Francisco Bay Bridge shenanigans. No matter that it was illegal, I was too old for such things, and my husband was a cop - it was an adventure we couldn't miss. This was acute urban daring, and we were being challenged. Twenty-five years ago, when the world was not yet afraid of terrorists, a group of five friends led by an intrepid urban cowboy, planned a surreptitious nighttime exploration of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Gary, our trusted leader, had climbed the bridge before, and had encouraged us to conquer our fears and join him (Gary was a City Guide and was a founder of t.....
• Harold G. Stoner and Adolph G. Sutro
Harold G. Stoner and Adolph G. Sutro
Adolph Sutro is well known as a former Mayor of San Francisco, owner of the Cliff House, and builder of the Sutro Baths. His lesser known grandson, Adolph G. Sutro, teamed up with one of San Francisco's most prolific - yet largely unknown - architects, Harold G. Stoner, to bring their own legendary landmarks to the "City by the Bay." It was Sutro's grandson who commissioned Harold G. Stoner to design the magnificent medieval mansion that once stood high above San Francisco on Mt. Sutro. Built for $250,000 in the middle of the Great Depression, it was called "La Avenzada." Two decades after being sold to ABC in 1948, the City deemed it a firetrap and required its demolition as part of th.....
• GuideLines Quiz
GuideLines Quiz
Do you know what and where this building is? picture1left250 The building is the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, a gift to the City from Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, and home of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums. The building is based on the Palais de la Legion d’Honneur in Paris, France. This is the back of the building. The sculptural figures on the dome are based on the gods and goddesses: Jupiter, Mars, Apollo, Minerva, Diana, and Ceres. The busts (thirteen in all) are based on unidentified people of their day. GuideLines heard that the sculptures are made of fiberglass and contacted Elisabeth Cornu, retired conservator, to confirm. She told us: They a.....
• Marines Memorial Theater
Marines Memorial Theater
If you've recently seen a show at Marines, you probably noticed that although it's a plain auditorium, it's in pristine shape. This is due, in large part, to the current manager, Roxanne Goodfellow. She was also instrumental in redoing the Post Street Theatre some years ago, but unfortunately, that space has closed. These are both important houses in San Francisco theatre history, but Marines holds an especially pivotal place in the history of regional theatre in the United States. picture1left300 Until the 1920s, regional theatre was alive and well in San Francisco. Then the Shubert brothers, among others, came on the scene, and bought and built theatres where they brought shows f.....
picture1left600 The photo is taken from the top floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) looking out the window facing Minna Street. You can find Waldo, the creation of author Martin Handford. SFMOMA is the first museum on the West Coast devoted to modern and contemporary art. In 1935, art patron Albert Bender donated 36 artworks, including The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera, to begin the museum's collection. GuideLines discovered that the museum has nothing to do with Waldo. People at the business located at 170 Minna believe that the building owner put Waldo on the roof......
• A Note On Speakeasies
A Note On Speakeasies
During a recent Palace Hotel tour, a guest asked if there was a speakeasy in the hotel during Prohibition. Author and GuideLines contributor James R. Smith gave us some information on speakeasies: Every hotel had a speakeasy of some sorts. There were a couple of federal arrests at the Palace, so they did have one but I don't know exactly where. The Sir Frances Drake built a speakeasy between floors, although no one drank there. Liquor was sent up to the rooms. Prior to Prohibition, no respectable woman would drink in a bar. San Francisco speakeasies were usually restaurants, and that's when women first drank in public. Playland had a speakeasy as well.
• Willis Polk – His Work is Everywhere!
Willis Polk – His Work is Everywhere!
My interest in the architect Willis Polk began when I trained as a docent at Filoli, a mansion he designed in Woodside. It continued when I became a guide for the tour City Scapes and Public Places. On that tour, the number of Willis Polk designed buildings is remarkable. Of course, I had seen a house he designed on Russian Hill, but I did not realize how much he was a part of the Arts and Crafts movement. A number of individuals were involved in that movement and worked together including Joseph Worcester, A. Page Brown, Ernest Coxhead, and Willis Polk. The first houses Polk designed in San Francisco showed that he was aware of the Shingle Style popular on the East Coast, had .....
• Coffee Dan’s - Most Popular SF Speakeasy
Coffee Dan’s - Most Popular SF Speakeasy
No one should forget San Francisco’s riotous Coffee Dan’s. The original club opened in 1879 as a cabaret located in the basement below Daniel Davis’ restaurant on the southeast corner of Sutter and Kearny. After the earthquake and fire of 1906, Dan moved his club to Powell and O’Farrell Streets. Like its predecessor, it opened for breakfast, serving customers long past dinner with entertainers that belied the apparent low station of the café. Posh city magazine The Wasp proclaimed Coffee Dan’s the rendezvous for San Francisco’s elite in their May 20, 1916 issue.
picture1left250 Dan died in 1917 and son John Davis took over management. It was Prohibition and Coffee Dan’s was now.....
• Pier 70 – A View from Inside
Pier 70 – A View from Inside
Pier 70, which lies on the cusp of the Dogpatch Historical District, is not your typical pier - it is almost 70 acres in size. The long wharf, made of timbers that at one time extended from 20th Street into the bay, is now mostly gone. It is a place I discovered not long after moving from New York to San Francisco five years ago. I was attracted to the area because of its similarities to the waterfronts of port cities located on the east coast. It is also one of the few remaining spots in this city where brick industrial buildings continue to stand their ground - even after earthquake, fire, and the decline of industrialization.
Shipbuilding and repair thrived here for over 150 .....
• Golden Gate Bridge Tower
Golden Gate Bridge Tower
When I was 8 years old, my mother took me to the Statue of Liberty. I was so afraid looking down as we were ascending to the crown, that I would not budge after the second level. But when Cynthia Gregory asked if I would accompany her on a trip in the teeny tiny elevator to the top of the Golden Gate towers, well....I jumped at the chance.
Daniel Belman, who works security on the Bridge, offered Cynthia the trip after she performed his marriage. He met us in the parking lot. We got hard hats, signed releases (and probably a criminal background check), and then Daniel took us in a small Cushman cart to the south towers along the bridge walkway. This was a navigational feat itself ar.....
• The Octagon House
The Octagon House
2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the (McElroy) Octagon House, owned by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in California (NSCDA-CA). It is located on the corner of Gough and Union Streets in Cow Hollow.
Octagonal structures have been documented as early as 300 B.C. Early North American examples include Thomas Jefferson’s private retreat Poplar Forest, built in Virginia in 1806, and the Octagon House in Washington, D.C. built in 1801. This building served as a temporary White House during the War of 1812, and formerly served as the headquarters for the American Institute of Architects.
These buildings were popularized in North America and Canada in t.....
• Carl G. Larsen: The Gentle Dane
Carl G. Larsen: The Gentle Dane
Sometimes called the “Gentle Dane,” Carl Gustav Larsen was born in 1844 in Odense, Denmark. He came to San Francisco in his late 20s and worked as a carpenter. In 1879, he started the popular Tivoli Café downtown on Eddy Street. When the Tivoli Café was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906, Larsen was undaunted; he rebuilt and opened it as the new Hotel Larsen, where he lived.
Carl Larsen’s first venture into Sunset District real estate was in 1888, when he bought one block at an auction. The area was still dominated by sand dunes and was largely inaccessible. Larsen continued to buy land in the Sunset, and by 1910 he owned fourteen city blocks and scattered lots that tota.....
• The Missing Mission Lake
The Missing Mission Lake
Well…..we are all embarrassed about this. The Mission Dolores Neighborhood and Mission guides held a special workshop with Christopher Richard. He is the Associate Curator of Aquatic Biology at the Oakland Museum of California, and has researched what he thinks is the story of the San Francisco mission founded on the shores of a "now-vanished" lake. Guides have all been telling our walkers about this lake on the Mission tours. He thinks it is a misconception.
In his research, Christopher has come to the conclusion that there was no lake where Mission Dolores was founded. He has arrived at the position that:
Missionaries may have romanticized descriptions of the geography to.....
• San Francisco’s St. Francis Wood
San Francisco’s St. Francis Wood
In my current work, San Francisco's St. Francis Wood, the history is told of one of the country's most successful examples of a City Beautiful "garden suburb" through historical images and photographs. Known for 100 years as one of San Francisco's finest residential neighborhoods, early visitors were impressed with the graceful streets, parks, and landscaping designed by the renowned Olmsted Brothers and the classically-inspired public monuments designed by the prominent architect John Galen Howard of the University of California. The houses reflect many period revival styles and the talents of dozens of architects, yet the effect is homogeneity of scale, color, and style.
This .....
• From Nickelodeons to Movie Palaces
From Nickelodeons to Movie Palaces
The following is an excerpt from Therese Poletti's book, Art Deco San Francisco, The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger.
In the spring of 1920, a trio of brothers-William, Elias, and George Nasser-came to see Timothy Pflueger. They had got Pflueger's name from the Humboldt Bank, where they had obtained a loan to expand their growing neighborhood theatre on Castro Street.
The Nassers owned two small theatres in the Mission district where Pflueger lived and a larger theatre on Castro in the Eureka Valley neighborhood. In 1907 their father, Abraham, an immigrant from Lebanon, turned the family market on Collingwood and Eighteenth streets into the Liberty. In its first incarnati.....
• Pied Piper Returns to Palace
Pied Piper Returns to Palace
Public reaction was swift and vocal when the Palace Hotel in March announced plans to sell its Maxfield Parrish painting “The Pied Piper” at Christie’s auction house. Twitter feeds streamed, online petitions popped up, and the hotel switchboard began buzzing relentlessly. Even San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee called, asking hotel management to reconsider.
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How could a “mere” painting generate such passion and affection? The main reason probably is its longevity. It’s been hanging behind the bar at the hotel since 1909, with a brief interruption during Prohibition when it moved to a ballroom after the bar was closed. The painting returned to the bar a.....
• KIDS ROCK
picture1right250 “California, here I come,” thought Jolene Babyak as her family traveled from Indiana to San Francisco in 1954. Her mother promised her an airplane ride, boat ride, and chance to live on an island. But after stepping off the Van Ness dock and onto the boat, they were lost in fog. Minutes later the jagged cliffs of Alcatraz appeared. “My mother oversold us,” laughs Jolene, who lived on the island from ages 7 to 9, and again at 15. Her father was the prison’s Associate Warden when 60 families lived on the 22-acre rock. The place was teeming with kids. It was like living in a small town with a jail on top, report alumni who gather on Alcatraz every August to celebrate the pr.....
• Celebrating Our Survivors
Celebrating Our Survivors
The eight buildings here are among the few that survived the 1906 disaster and are still standing today. The Ferry Building has gone through several renovations, but now – restored and repurposed – it’s back and better than ever. Only the Call Building, once called “the handsomest tall building in the world” by architectural critic B.J.S. Cahill, is unrecognizable in its current form. In the late 1930s, the dome was removed to permit the addition of six additional floors and the entire building received an Art Deco makeover.
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• Modern Engineering for Earthquake Safety
Modern Engineering for Earthquake Safety
A conversation with Robert Reitherman, Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE), a non-profit organization devoted to the advancement of earthquake engineering research, education, and implementation. For information on CUREE and their research go to: www.curee.org. What was learned from the 1906 disaster that helped engineers make buildings safer? The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake occurred a little too early in history for major engineering lessons to be learned. Today we know that unreinforced masonry buildings -- buildings with brick walls that have .....
• At Last: Julia Morgan receives AIA Gold Medal
At Last: Julia Morgan receives AIA Gold Medal
The American Institute of Architects Gold Medal is considered to be the profession’s highest honor. The Gold Medal honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. In December 2013, the AIA Board of Directors voted to give the 2014 award to Julia Morgan. picture1right300 Recognition from AIA for her architectural achievements would come 57 years after her death. Morgan’s grandniece received the award on her behalf at the AIA 2014 National Convention and Design Exposition in Chicago on June 28. Morgan, who died in 1957, won a litany of firsts and established a new precedent for greatness in the field. A build.....
• The Emporium: Grand Dame of Market Street
The Emporium: Grand Dame of Market Street
Many native San Franciscans have fond memories of the “Big E.” It was the place where you got your first grown-up jacket, did your back-to-school shopping, and rode the big slide on the roof or, at Christmas time, the train. Christmas also meant a visit with Santa and a photo. A trip downtown was something special that you dressed up for, and in the 1950s that meant gloves and a hat. picture1left350
The Emporium aimed for a middle-class clientele, and for over 100 years after its founding in 1897 it not only succeeded but thrived, despite near total destruction in the 1906 earthquake. The Union Square stores — Magnin, the City of Paris, and the White House — catered to the hig.....
• Preserving Downtown Open Spaces
Preserving Downtown Open Spaces
Hidden throughout downtown San Francisco are dozens of small parks, rooftop gardens, indoor atriums, plazas and other restful spaces known to city planners as POPOS – Privately Owned Public Open Spaces. SF City Guides’ City Scapes tour takes walkers into some of these spaces in the Financial District, and other tours like South of Market Architecture Stroll visit them. Although there are specific regulations regarding public access to these spaces, several building managers and property owners have recently been testing the boundaries of the law. picture2right200 First some background on POPOS. In 1961, New York City passed the nation’s first comprehensive zoning ordinances designed to .....
• Legendary Locals of the Outside Lands
Legendary Locals of the Outside Lands
These profiles are from Legendary Locals of San Francisco’s Richmond, Sunset, and Golden Gate Park (Arcadia Publishing), by City Guide Lorri Ungaretti, who leads tours of the Sunset, Richmond, and Stern Grove. Her book includes many more remarkable people from the city’s west side. Three distinct areas — the residential Richmond and Sunset Districts, separated by Golden Gate Park — were once considered the western desert of San Francisco. At one time, much of this land was inaccessible sand dunes, and many people believed it was uninhabitable. Over time, however, visionary people moved sand, created a great park, constructed roads, laid water and sewage lines, and built h.....
• Ferry Building Clock Springs Forward
Ferry Building Clock Springs Forward
“If you want to join us, you need to be there at 1:15am sharp. We change the clock precisely at 2am,” said Paul. I thought, this is going to be interesting. I had just met Paul Bailey-Gates at History Days at the Old Mint. He had stopped by my table, which was piled high with copies of my book, San Francisco’s Ferry Building. While chatting, he mentioned that he goes up into the Ferry Building tower every spring to help Dorian Clair, who maintains the 1898 clock, and adjust the time for Daylight Savings Time. Paul asked if I’d like to accompany them, and I leapt at the chance. He would have to get permission for me to go, and a few days later the chief en.....
• Frank Lloyd Wright and Nick’s Merchandise
Frank Lloyd Wright and Nick’s Merchandise
As with a lot of research, this article began as a hunt for something else: Why is there a city street only existing enclosed in the Safeway parking lot on Market Street in San Francisco? Named Reservoir Street, it is near the San Francisco Mint on Hermann Street. I discovered that this location was once a reservoir in the mid-1860s, built as part of the plan to develop what are now the Castro and Noe Valley districts. Then I came across the gem that the area behind the Safeway and adjacent to the Mint was a proposed site for a Frank Lloyd Wright designed mortuary.
In the 1940s, Frank Lloyd Wright was approached about designing a mortuary complex for Nicholas Dap.....
by Dan Tussey
Six fires between 1849 and 1851 destroyed large parts of rapidly growing San Francisco. Clearly fires were a significant hazard for a town filled with structures made of wood. Local attorney (and future Chief of Staff of Lincoln's armies) Henry Wager Halleck felt that public confidence needed to be bolstered by building a structure that would be impenetrable to fire or flood. A civil engineer trained at West Point military academy, Halleck was very able to guide the development of San Francisco's first fireproof building, the Montgomery Block, located at 628 Montgomery Street at Washington Street.
A new style of architecture for office buildings inspired by the fires featured block-like structures with thick walls, deep-set windows, and iron shutters and doors, like the fortresses with which Halleck was familiar. Halleck hired architect Gordon P. Cummings, who had recently designed the Parrott Block at California and Montgomery, to work on the structure that was to become the tallest and grandest building west of Chicago. After 14 months of careful construction, the name Washington Block was prominently placed on the front of the building, along with a bust of George Washington. Almost immediately, however, everyone referred to it as the Montgomery Block, and the name stuck. The housewarming of the Block was held two days before Christmas 1853.
During its construction the project was known as "Halleck's folly." The extravagant four-story building spread across a city block. People must have thought Halleck daft when they learned that the $3 million building was built upon a raft of redwood logs 122x138 feet bolted together with iron. Those along with a layer of 12x12 foot ship's planking from abandoned ships in the harbor formed the foundation that was sunk into the sand and mud to a depth of 22 feet by hundreds of Chinese laborers. It is challenging for one to remember that Montgomery Street ran along the city's shoreline at that time.
Halleck had that last laugh, however, when the building filled quickly with lawyers, engineers, scientists, and business and professional men who paid approximately $1,000 per month for the prestigious address. Their names read like a Who's Who of California history and include such famed attorneys as Hall McAllister, George Peachey, Frederick Billings, and Halleck himself. These men were chiefly engaged in settling the nearly irresolvable disputes before the land claims court following the War with Mexico that had ended in 1848. The building was also home to stock speculators who became the "silver kings" during the Comstock era.
Perhaps the most famous street shooting of the city's early history occurred in front of the Montgomery Block on May 14, 1856. James King of William, editor of the Daily Evening Bulletin, had just left his office in the Block when he was shot by City Supervisor James Casey for revealing that Casey had been imprisoned in Sing Sing back East. Mortally wounded, King was taken back into the Block, where he died six days later. Public outrage at the crime led to the formation of the Second Committee of Vigilance, which quickly tried, sentenced, and publicly hanged Casey, along with Charles Cora, who had shot a U.S. Marshal.
Bars were important places in the post-Gold Rush days, and the Bank Exchange, located in a corner of the Montgomery's Block ground floor, was a popular gathering place for lawyers and politicians. It is credited for inventing Pisco Punch, a drink made with Peruvian brandy. The concoction was so potent that proprietor Duncan Nicol allowed only two drinks per customer. After consuming his two glasses, one customer said, "I felt that I could face smallpox, all the fevers known to the faculty, and the Asiatic cholera combined, if need be." The Bank Exchange, with its Wedgwood porcelain beer pumps, black and white checkered floor, overstuffed cowhide chairs, and mahogany bar, existed until 1919, when it was closed during the prohibition era.
Endearing Emperor Norton, who had named himself "Emperor of these United States" and later "Protector of Mexico," chose the lobby of the building to call a public meeting to renounce his protectorship of Mexico because Maximilian had made his territory impossible to govern. Mark Twain spent time in the Montgomery Block, where he met and befriended a fireman named Tom Sawyer whose name he used for a novel some years later. A.P. Giannini started the Bank of Italy in the building in 1904 and moved it next door to 550 Montgomery in 1908.
The Montgomery Block survived the 1906 earthquake and fire, largely due to Oliver P. Stidger, an attorney who managed the building for more than 50 years. When the flames of the fire were moving up Montgomery Street, Stidger narrowly persuaded a military officer not to dynamite the Block, pointing out that the building with its yard-thick, brick-filled walls was a good firebreak.
Some say the Monkey Block, as it was often called, was the most important literary site of the 19th and 20th centuries. It became headquarters for the San Francisco Argonaut. Writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Charles Norris, and George Sterling found their way into the building. In the 1930s, as many as 75 artists and writers, attracted by rents as low as $5 per week, had studios or apartments there. In one of the Montgomery Block's rooms, architect Willis Polk and artist Bruce Porter designed the memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson that stands today in Portsmouth Square. They first drew the plan on a tablecloth while lunching at the Palace Hotel and then took the tablecloth with them to Porter's studio to finish the design.
In 1959, the Montgomery Block was demolished to create a parking lot. To avoid public complaints, the wreckers planned to make quick work of the demolition, but they found it rough going. The building's iron framework and massive brick walls resisted, and the demolition process lasted many weeks and produced a mass of historic used brick. The plaque naming it an historic location is now found in the lobby of the Transamerica Building which was built on the site in 1972. A replica of the Bank Exchange bar existed in the pyramid in 1974. Redwood Park behind the building provides a lasting memory of Halleck's redwood log foundation for the Montgomery Block building.
Those desiring a detailed account of the Montgomery Block's 100-year existence should read Ark of Empire by Idwal Jones, available in the SF Public Library. Additional sources: --Historic Walks in San Francisco by Rand Richards
--Suddenly San Francisco: The Early Years of an Instant City by Charles Lockwood
--National Trust Guide, San Francisco by Peter Booth Wiley
--The building file folder offered by the History Center of the San Francisco Public Library --http://baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/zpub 2000/sfentries (interesting pictures and details on both the building and Halleck)
The Montgomery Block in 1880
In 1955, Oliver P. Stidger, who had saved the Monkey Block from dynamiting in 1906, unveiled a plaque naming the building an historic site.
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Trailer: Crazy Rich Asians
Photo: Crazy Rich Asians
Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), an American-born Chinese economics professor who lives in New York, has been dating her boyfriend Nick Young (Henry Golding) for over a year when he invites her on a trip to his home country of Singapore to attend his friend Colin's wedding and meet his family. On the trip, when they're booked into first class on the plane, Rachel soon finds out Nick comes from a very wealthy family.
In fact, he's one of the most sought-after unmarried men back home — and probably throughout the rest of Asia. When Rachel meets Nick's mother, Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh), it quickly becomes clear that the woman thinks Rachel isn't good enough for her son and never will be. Even though Nick is crazy about Rachel and is considering marrying her, Eleanor does everything she can to come between them. Knowing that his family is very important to Nick, Rachel feels she either has to stand up to Eleanor — or let Nick go.
Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding
Jon M. Chu
Mild themes and coarse language
Rated MA15+ (Strong violence and coarse language), 161 mins
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FIVE QUESTIONS WITH PATRICK TROTTI, "COME TOMORROW YOU’LL REGRET TODAY: COLLECTED STORIES"
Patrick Trotti's new collection of short stories launches today. Here's an interview with this exciting new writer!
Q: How did you come to writing? Did you always want to do this?
A: I never wanted to be a writer growing up. I wanted to be a professional baseball player. When I realized that I couldn't hit a curveball, that kind of burst that bubble. I stumbled into journalism in community college. It was good, and I was enjoying myself, and then I came across a quote that said, “Do something worth writing about instead of just writing about the accomplishments of others.” It's probably written differently but that was the gist of it. I started with a few creative writing classes, was lucky enough to have incredible teachers, and found myself doing something for school credit that I would be willing to do on my free time.
Q: Your stories deal frankly with the recurring themes of mental illness, addiction, and recovery. Why?
A: I deal with these topics daily. Sadly, drug addiction and mental illness come in pairs. Long story short, I managed to ruin my life by the end of high school. I was always an all-or-nothing personality, and by the time I was eighteen, I'd been through multiple rehabs, detoxes, arrests, and overdoses and seizures. Once I got far enough away from the crack and cocaine and heroin and alcohol, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Later on I was also diagnosed with severe anxiety. I've managed to stay out of trouble for almost a decade. I'm lucky and for me that luck comes with responsibility, because something out there was looking after me for all those years. I guess my way of paying it forward is to find something I love doing and do it to the max. Does that make sense?
While a lot of my writing comes from what I've gone through, I'm by no means a memoirist. Parts of my writing are therapeutic and parts are just a product of my “glass is half empty” life view. I'm not really interested in the feel-good stories where everyone ends up great. That's not life; at least not to me.
Q: What are your main inspirations?
A: As far as authors go--Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, George Saunders, and David Foster Wallace. The person who inspired me the most was my paternal grandmother. She lived the majority of her life with multiple sclerosis, and did so with a grace and charm I thought only classic movie actresses possessed. She introduced me to Frank Sinatra and always believed in me.
Q: Tell us about some of your recent projects.
A: I've just completed a collection of stories that all center loosely on my childhood. They deal with place and its impact on character, as well as with poverty. I'm also working on a novel about a couple that experiences problems shortly after getting married, and on an epic (only in the sense of length!) poem that I hope will materialize into something book-length.
Q: What are you reading now?
A: Binary Star by Sarah Gerard and Made to Break by D. Foy. Actually, I'm rereading Gerard's. Both texts are lovely.
Scott Burr
Patrick Trotti
Haruki Murakami (II)
Karl Ove Knausgaard (II)
Laura Marello
Hou Chien Cheng
Kathie Giorgio
Said Sayrafiezadeh
KJ Hannah Greenberg
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June 28, 2018 by Victoria Noe 2 Comments
Remembering the Dead, One Name at a Time
I was watching Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt the other day. The documentary was made in 1989, when the Quilt was fairly new. It was still small enough – small being a relative term – to be fully displayed on the National Mall. Now the Quilt contains over 48,000 panels, each measuring exactly 3’x6’.
I moved on to a newspaper interview with a woman who helped make her son’s panel. She remarked that every panel, every name, represented not just someone who died from AIDS, but all the people who loved them. That’s true of other memorials.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, also in Washington, was controversial when the design was first unveiled. A 21 year old woman, Maya Lin, daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed it (not a man, not a veteran) and many were determined to hate it from the beginning. The nicest response I remember hearing was that it was depressing instead of uplifting like other, more traditional memorials.
Then the memorial opened and though there were still those who demanded – and got – representational statues added to the area, most everyone else was amazed by the power of what they saw: 58,148 names, every American who died in that war, etched into a stark, black wall.
The 9/11 Memorial in New York City also lists the names of all those who died that day (as well as those who died in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993) on the footprints of the twin towers.
All three memorials – two fixed in place, one too large to display in its entirety – are largely comprised of names. All, like that mother said, are reminders of the friends and family members left behind.
It seems normal now, to build a memorial to a battle or terrorist attack or even a natural disaster with the names of those lost. It wasn’t always like that. Inspiring, towering sculptures meant to evoke determination, patriotism and optimism were what we came to expect.
The Vietnam Memorial (the “Wall”) lists the dead in chronological order. That’s it: no service branch, no location, no age, no hometown. Just the names. You have to check the kiosk or go online to find out more.
During the years of heated debate over the 9/11 Memorial, designs listing the names of those lost were highly favored. But how to list them became a contentious discussion. The Families Association finally won: the names are listed in what is now called a “relational” way. Some sections of the Memorial make that clear by indicating why those names are together: Port Authority officers, airplane passengers and crew, FDNY ladder and truck houses. Most of the names do not. So they are listed with their coworkers in the Twin Towers. That means everyone who worked for, say, Cantor Fitzgerald is grouped together. Efforts were even made to put best friends close to each other.
The AIDS Quilt is a bit more problematic. They’ve accepted panels for thirty years now and it’s not always possible to position friends and lovers close to each other. That’s because each panel is sewn together into a group of eight to make a square that measures 12’x12’. I found out I guy I knew from college died from AIDS when I saw his panel on the cover of the first book about the Quilt. But it was years later when I found out the significance of the placement: his panel is next to his lover’s (the bottom two in the photo above).
I keep thinking about that woman’s comment, that each name represents more than just that person. It’s certainly true for me. I know people whose names are displayed on all three of these memorials: one at 9/11, two on The Wall, God only knows how many on the Quilt. And I’m not the only person who remembers them.
These memorials are their own cemeteries, a place to visit, especially for those who had no body to bury. They are a way of ensuring that these people are not forgotten.
If you have a chance to visit the memorials in Washington and New York, or catch a display of a small section of the Quilt, do it. Most of the people there will have no personal connection to the names on view. But some will. They’re the ones who crouch down in front of a panel, or run their fingers over the engraved names. They’re grieving and remembering and celebrating, all at the same time. That’s the power of these tributes, a power that will last long after anyone remembers the lives behind those names.
Filed Under: 9/11 Memorial, AIDS Quilt, friend grief, grief, grieving
P.M Genovese says
Nice piece. Your personal connection is evident, & that comes through.
Victoria Noe says
Thanks, Mike!
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From Torres del Paine (Chile) we hit the road, spending a few very windy nights in Puerto Natales and continuing south towards Tierra del Fuego.
I love that the Chileans have dubbed this lonely stretch of highway the “End of the World Road”. Fitting, yes?
At Punta Delgada, we took the ferry across to Isla Grande Terra del Fuego.
The route from Torres del Paine is mostly in Chile but dips into Argentina only after crossing the famed Strait of Magellan. Isla Grande (most often simply referred to as Terra del Fuego) is jointly occupied by both Chile and Argentina.
The Strait of Magellan lies almost entirely within Chilean waters and today remains an important navigable sea route separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south. Indigenous peoples have inhabited the area for thousands of years, relying on fire (hence the name Tierra del Fuego) to stave off the bitterly cold weather. Since its (European) discovery by Magellan in 1520, it was considered a safer route than the treacherous Drake Passage around Cape Horn. It was an especially vital link between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans before the completion of the Panama Canal.
Even with modern technology and maps, it remains an unforgiving climate.
We spent a few nights in the sparsely populated landscape – oil extraction and sheep seem to be the main productions on the island currently.
A sad-looking fox begging for scraps.
Farther south the land turns mountainous and suddenly you emerge into the bustling town of Ushuaia, Argentina. This is, quite literally, the end of the road.
The Bottom of the World!
The town is a busy tourist hub; a shock to the system after three days of meandering through wind-swept and desolate countryside. It is from Ushuaia that most of the Antarctica cruise ships depart. We considered doing a tour but heard it was hard to find ships that accommodate very young children – and they were shockingly expensive. Another time, perhaps.
We promptly hightailed it out of town to Parque Nactional Tierra del Fuego and spent a few days enjoying the surroundings. It was the height of summer and the land had shaken off its winter cloak: the grass was green, the skies were blue, and we were happy to be at the tail end of a long adventure.
A band of horses roamed the nearby pasture and would saunter by nightly in search of fresh veg.
Tourists travel to the park via a tiny steam train that was originally built to bring supplies to a prison colony in the early 1900s. Today it is the southern-most railroad on the continent.
Daily visits from the horses.
Sibs.
Nightly visits from a family of grey foxes
We also had a big milestone while at the park: Our little Emma turned 4.
Happiest of birthdays, sweet girl.
On our last night we got to meet up with a close family friend who was in town for a Patagonian vacation; the world is a small place and it was truly lovely to see her.
We also met up with our new camper buyers! (This was very exciting for us but I’ll save that for the next post).
The adventure was almost complete.
Argentina, Chile, Featured
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Feds: Mexican cartel member gets 33 ¾ years
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal prosecutor in New Orleans says a Mexican drug cartel member has been sentenced to serve 33 years and nine months in prison for getting cocaine into the U.S.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite says District Judge Sarah Vance found that Efrain Grimaldo was responsible for bringing in 3,600 pounds of cocaine as a member of Los Zetas Cartel.
Investigators testified that the conspirators supplied cocaine to a Houma street gang called the "Up Da Bayou Boyz."
Polite says the cartel sent cocaine throughout the U.S., including New York, Detroit, Baltimore, Jackson, Mississippi; Pensacola, Florida; and Dover, Delaware.
Grimaldo was convicted in February of conspiracy to possess and distribute at least 5 kilograms of cocaine. One codefendant has pleaded guilty and another was recently extradited from Mexico for trial.
Posted on Fri, September 5, 2014 by Associated Press
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South Lafourche golfer signs with Millsaps
GALLIANO – Baseball was Kyle Estay’s first love, but driving golf balls between camps on Grand Isle led him directly to a college scholarship.
Estay, a South Lafourche senior, signed to play golf with Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., in a ceremony at the South Lafourche cafeteria last Wednesday.
“He started swinging clubs on Grand Isle when he was about four,” Estay’s grandmother Donna Estay said. “We lived on Grand Isle, and we had a golf cart. And he would ride the golf cart back and forth out there, at four years old.”
Estay got at least somewhat serious about golf, playing in several youth tournaments. His mother said his biggest influence was television.
“I remember when he was a kid and he would just sit in the front of the TV and watch the Golf Channel. That’s where he learned,” Kyle’s mother Jennifer Estay said.
Kyle liked golf, but he loved baseball.
“I always loved baseball,” Estay, 18, said. “I played every year. I played travel. I played all-star. I fell in love with the sport of baseball. Golf was just sort of a hobby, I never really took it seriously.”
That changed a couple of years ago.
“I decided that I wanted to play collegiate golf,” Estay said. “It was the easiest sport that I had played to make it in, so I concentrated on that, and now I’ve fallen in love with golf.”
Estay, who played multiple sports, said concentrating on one was a new experience.
“It was kinda hard,” Estay said. “I was playing basketball, cross country, stuff like that. And it was tough because when I was little, I played all the sports. I loved to play. Any sport at all.”
Estay was not a year round golfer when he decided to change his focus, but he soon became one.
“I figured if I put my mind to it and practiced it,” he said. “I played mostly in the summer. I didn’t play much in winter. But now I’m playing in winter as much as I can, almost every day of the week is practice. And I started getting lessons. I didn’t get my first lesson until I was about 14 or 15 years old. It was all natural.”
First-year golf coach Tommy Boudreaux said Estay impressed him from the beginning.
“From day one, I thought he was a really good golfer,” Boudreaux said. “He’s very consistent, and probably the key aspect that I saw was that he’s very hard on himself on his shot. But if he hits a bad shot, he moves onto the next one, and that’s his new focal point.”
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About the Republic of Moldova
Interregional cooperation in the Euro-Asian region within the Vienna Programme of Action are on the discussion of the international communities, organizations and bodies: UNESCAP, UN-OHRLLS, UNECE, TRACECA and etc.
The Landlocked Developing Countries face too many challenges due to their geographical situation. To address the challenges of the LLDCs, the international community adopted in 2014 the Vienna Programme of Action (VPoA) for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024. Nearing the halfway in the implementation of the VPoA, the LLDCs exhibit mixed results in their progress in achieving the priorities of the Vienna Programme.
In this regard, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the UN Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) organized the Euro-Asian Regional Midterm Review of the implementation of the VPoA on 11-12 February 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Upon official invitation of Mrs. Fekitamoeloa Utoikamanu, High Representative and Under-Secretary-General for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, Mr. Mircea Ciopraga has also been participated and involved to the UNESCAP/UN-OHRLLS/UNECE Euro-Asian Regional Midterm Review of the Vienna Programme of Action for the Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024.
The meeting was attended by senior government policymakers and other stakeholders from Euro-Asian LLDCs, transit countries, development partners as well as participants from the UN system, relevant international and regional organizations, including TRACECA, civil society representatives and the private sector from the Euro-Asian region.
The progress on implementation of the VPoA made by LLDCs and transit developing countries of the region was assessed along the six priority areas and based on the national reports, substantive regional report and through presentations from participating countries and work undertaken by UNESCAP, UNECE and UN-OHRLLS and other relevant organizations and discussions conducted during the meeting.
LLDCs and transit countries are encouraged to adopt an integrated and sustainable approach to transport corridors to maximize the contribution of transport connectivity to sustainable development. OHRLLS, UNESCAP and UNECE and other development partners are invited to support those efforts by providing policy, analytical and technical support.
During the meeting, Mr. Ciopraga stressed that the improvement of transport component is of key importance for TRACECA countries most of which are landlocked countries and TRACECA fully interested in successful realization of the Vienna Programme of Action for 2014-2024. “Facilitation of regional trade and trans-boundary traffic is one of the key factors of the economic development which in its turn promotes strengthening of regional stability and cooperation. Besides, ensuring regular trans-boundary traffic and reliability of the regional transport networks within the framework of the improvement of international transport corridors play a significant role in overcoming the difficulties typical of our region like for example the lack of direct access to the world ocean and as a consequence leading to the geographic dependence on transit services through the territory of the adjacent countries. We appeal to the international financial institutions to participate in this dimension” – mentioned by TRACECA Secretary General.
In addition, cooperation of the UN-OHRLLS and TRACECA to be built up on the basis of corresponding memorandum of understanding between two organizations in the future will create significant opportunities to mutually discuss the issues of employment of unused resources, increase of the volumes, diversification of trade, to achieve arrangements on intensification of joint activity in transport and economic cooperation, holding of joint working sessions on a regular basis.
On the results of the Meeting in Bangkok, the participants adopted the outcome document with the related assessment and recommendations for each priority area.
It should be noted that in order to address the challenges of the LLDCs, the international community adopted in 2014 the Vienna Programme of Action (VPoA) for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024. The VPoA, which is also an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Development, offers a holistic approach to improving the integration of LLDCs into the global economy through the following priority areas: Fundamental Transit Policy Issues; Infrastructure Development and Maintenance; International Trade and Trade Facilitation; Regional Integration and Cooperation, Structural Economic Transformation, and Means of Implementation.
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Blade Runner 2049 - Denis Villeneuve
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is a neo-noir science-fiction masterpiece. It's a film that has inspired countless since. And it's a film that really didn't need a sequel.
And yet! Somehow, against the odds, Denis Villeneuve has directed a magnificent follow-up that feels, if not wholly necessary, both authentic and respectful to the original. He takes everything that made Scott's film so special and builds upon them - expansively.
Firstly, there's the visuals. The original's rain-soaked, neon-lit dystopia is now groan-inducingly overused. Yet here it seems fresh all over again. Roger Deakins (cinematographer for Villeneueve's Sicario and Sam Mendes' Skyfall amongst others) has crafted a stunning chiaroscuro: the deep blacks of stormy nights juxtaposed with vivid neon and bright apocalyptic orange. It's a much lighter film than its predecessor - the light of day seems almost eye-opening and miraculous in this context - allowing for more variety in its visuals, while maintaining the trademark pristine noir interiors. This isn't just a fictional metropolis, it's a visual representation of the downfall of America. Every single frame is a piece of art.
And then there's the narrative. 2049 repeats many characters, themes and tropes from the original. There's the almost silent protagonist, a detective questioning his own humanity (Ryan Gosling, in typically stoic form). There's the female A.I. coping with her existence. There's detective work through technology, megalomaniac corporations, comparative use of symbolism, and Harrison Ford. Though familiar, they're all subtly updated to fit this new take on a recognisable world, with the film's first half almost replicating the original in microcosm. In its second, all is cleverly flipped on its head.
As the film slowly and meticulously unravels, the narrative forms a rich texture. There may visually be more light, but this remains a dark dystopian future built upon exploitation: child labour, corporate greed, prostitution. Racism is also addressed more explicitly here - replicants are, after all, slaves used by humans - yet sexual intimacy is handled with care for a genuinely touching scene, unlike the misogynistic mess of the original.
This tapestry combines to form the film's central theme: what it means to be human. Love. Intimacy. Procreation. Family. Memory. Death. If all these things can be artificially replicated, then what even is humanity? It's a theme that's overdone in science fiction, but here it's wonderfully anthologized and drenched in thought-provoking ambiguity.
Like the original, 2049 is a slow-burning film of creeping anxiety. But with its expansiveness, it does lose some of the brooding intimacy and tightly-woven elegance of Scott's film. The main disappointment though is Jared Leto's Wallace, an underdeveloped villain spouting pop theology. And although the soundtrack, from Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch, is beautiful with its great yawning bass and unresolving synth lines, Vangelis' original score is sorely missed.
Comparisons to Blade Runner are inevitable, but 2049 is an outstanding piece of cinema in its own right. It repackages the original, along with its imitators, to form a new standard. It is, simply, the ultimate science-fiction film and between this and Arrival, Villeneuve is the new master of the genre.
Watch: Blade Runner 2049 is out now.
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NGT to take up ban on coal mining today
By By Our Reporter On Jun 9, 2014
SHILLONG: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Special Circuit Bench of the Eastern Zone will hold its hearing at the High Court of Meghalaya on Monday from 10 am onwards.
The NGT will conduct a hearing on the interim ban on rat-hole coal mining and transportation of coal, alleged presence of child labourers in the coal mines, and the July 6, 2012, incident in South Garo Hills where 15 miners were reportedly trapped in a mine.
Earlier, the hearing was supposed to be held at the State Convention Centre, Shillong.
Sources revealed that besides the State Government, the hearing will also have representations from the Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board, State Coordination Committee of Coal Miners’ and Dealers’ Forum, Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council, Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Union Coal Ministry.
The hearing will be chaired by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar who will be accompanied by NGT expert member Ranjan Chatterjee, former Meghalaya Chief Secretary.
Both Kumar and Chatterjee have already arrived in Shillong on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Coal Miners’ and Dealers’ Forum (a conglomerate of coal mine owners and dealers’ associations) have collected data about the total quantity of extracted coal which are lying in various coal depots across the State.
Sources on Sunday informed that as per the assessment, around 85 lakh tonnes of extracted coal is lying in thousands of coal depots spread across the State.
“The forum will present the data to the NGT during the hearing,” sources said.
According to people engaged in the coal trade, it would take at least one year to dispose of the extracted coal at prevailing market rates.
“If we are given less than one year we will be subjected to tremendous price undercut by buyers as they know we cannot sell so much coal in a short span of time,” a coal mine owner said adding, “I pray and hope that the NGT understands this and grants us the concession. We cannot sell our product like rotten vegetables.”
Earlier, the HNLC had threatened a 24-hour bandh on June 10 from 6 pm to the next day 6 pm if the National Green Tribunal (NGT) does not lift the ban on rat hole mining during its hearing on June 9 in Shillong.
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You Are Here: Home » News » Exeter smooths out concerns over Rocky Hill bike/ped plan
Exeter smooths out concerns over Rocky Hill bike/ped plan
Posted by: Paul Myers Posted date: May 15, 2019 In: News | comment :
By Paul Myers @PaulM_SGN
EXETER – Rocky Hill is a natural asset for the entire county, but while it sits in Exeter’s easterly backyard, the City has an interest in seeing it revitalized. Fortunately for them, and the rest of the county, plans are well underway.
Last month the County of Tulare rolled out their proposal to widen Rocky Hill’s roadway to make room for pedestrians and casual cyclists separated from the traffic of serious cyclists and passing motorists. The first step toward that goal came on March 19, when 4-Creeks, Inc. presented a feasibility study on a plan to create pedestrian/bike lanes on 3.35 miles of Rocky Hill Drive between Spruce Road (Road 204) and Yokohl Valley Drive.
Design Option 1, the preferred option for cyclists and motorists, would create a 39-foot right-of-way that would include (from hill to hillside) a 8-foot wide, two-lane Class I bike/ped path and a 20-foot, two-lane roadway shared by bicycles and cars, also known as a Class III bikeway, separated by a five-foot buffer with a fence. The Class I paths will be used by casual cyclists and pedestrians while the Class III will be reserved for experienced riders more comfortable sharing the road with cars than people. The cost is an estimated $3.1 million.
Richard Walker, Chief Planner for 4 Creeks in Visalia, presented the Rocky Hill path feasibility study to the Exeter council at their April 23 meeting. Walker outlined that Design Option 1 was the overtly preferred over Design Option 2 that included a 5-foot Class I bike paths on both sides of a 20-foot wide, two-lane roadway as well as a Class I bike/ped path separated from the road and adjoining bikeway by a 3-foot buffer and fence would have required an additional 4 feet of right-of-way. The cost is an estimated $3.3 million. Annual maintenance on both projects would cost between $14,500 and $19,200.
One of the more important questions Mayor Mary Waterman-Philpot raised was how to separate the experienced from inexperienced cyclists.
Walker simply said the advanced cyclists using Rocky Hill for recreational biking have little interest in using the pedestrian/bike trail.
“Based on all the consultation we had with the advanced cyclist group, … most advocated for this project and most involved in the public consultation process…said they will not use [that path], they will utilize the roadway,” Walker said.
Former mayor of Exeter and avid cyclist Ted Macaulay spoke up during the meeting to shed some light from the cyclist perspective. He noted that difference between advanced and novice cyclists are practically defined by how comfortable they feel sharing the roadway and riding with traffic. Macaulay added that the walk/bike path is more for kids with training wheels.
Also, as a member of the Active Transportation Advisory Committee for the Tulare County Association of Governments (TCAG), Macaulay said it is up to the County to do the maintenance.
Councilman Jeremy Petty asked about the cumulative half acre needed to make the 4 Creek’s design come to life. Walker noted all that is needed are slivers of property along the southern portion of the 3.35 miles of road.
“As far as the property owners are concerned, the primary objective was to prevent any on road parallel vehicular parking that could potentially interrupt with ongoing cattle and agriculture activities,” Walker said.
The plan recommended that all proposed parking and restroom facilities be provided off-site. Restroom facilities and additional parking may be developed at the south-east corner of Spruce Avenue and Rocky Hill Drive. According to 4 Creeks, the property owner intends to develop the site with neighborhoods serving commercial services, and is interested in making an agreement with the County to include public parking and restroom facilities in that development.
Exeter city manager Adam Ennis, along with Mayor Waterman-Philpot discussed their concern about crossing Rocky Hill at the top where it bends toward the summit. Ennis noted that the sight distance is very low, meaning that it is difficult to see around the corner.
“If you do a crossing there you might want to consider a push button with the lights down the hill a little ways because right at the top there isn’t much of a sight distance,” Ennis said.
Executive director of TCAG, Ted Smalley told the council that if they want to see the project move forward, they should formalize their intentions in a letter to the Board of Supervisors.
“I would recommend you write a letter to the [Board]…that this project should move forward, outlining those bullet points that this is a project, and not just an Exeter project, but it’s to the benefit of the whole county,” Smalley said.
Last month, during the initial presentation over Rocky Hill’s remodel, supervisor Kuyler Crocker, who represents District 1 encompassing the Exeter area, said the area was a great natural asset for the county to highlight. Albeit in need of safety improvements.
“This is something I initiated at the request of constituents,” Crocker said. “There have been fatalities on Rocky Hill. Some walk in the middle of the street and there have been quite a few cyclists versus pedestrian accidents.”
Earlier this month he noted in an interview with the Sun-Gazette that this is not going to be a project that spends 15 years on the backburner. Instead, he hopes it at least gets started in the next three years.
In order to design both options 4 Creeks held four outreach meetings in Exeter and Visalia to help narrow the design of the project. At the first two meetings held last August, attendees were surveyed about how often they use Rocky Hill Drive, what they use it for, and what kinds of improvements they would like to see.
Three-quarters (77%) of those surveyed said they used the road (driving, walking, or cycling) at least once per month, 42% used it at least once per week, and 6% used it daily. More than half (51%) said they used the road both weekdays and on the weekend. Just under half (47%) said they used the road for health and exercise and over a third (34%) said they used it for recreation. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (63%) said they would like to see Rocky Hill Drive become a two-lane road and 19% said they would like a two-lane road with an adjacent trail. Sixty-two percent wanted public parking, 43% wanted washroom facilities, and 40% said they would like to see benches.
At a final public outreach meeting on Jan. 16, 2019 at Exeter City Hall, attendees selected Option 1 because Option 2 would put cyclists on the edge of the road and a scenic outlook, which could potentially attract illicit activity.
Paul Myers
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Home » blink I bmobile Foundation helps Cunaripo Sports Club as they aim for six
blink I bmobile Foundation helps Cunaripo Sports Club as they aim for six
Caption: Some members of the Cunaripo Sports and Cultural Club
‘The community that plays together stays together;’ an adage which the Cunaripo Sports and Cultural Club has successfully operated by for the last six decades and the reason the blink I bmobile Foundation was proud to lend a hand to help their ongoing efforts.
The Sports and Cultural Club was launched over sixty three years ago in the rural community of Cunaripo which is about five miles from Sangre Grande. Their goal has always been to provide an avenue for youth to display their talents in the field of cricket, to motivate them to excel and to provide the necessary training and discipline to help them achieve their dreams.
Assisting the club was an easy decision for the blink I bmobile Foundation as the two bodies share the same objectives; to contribute to the sustainable development of the nation’s youth. According to Camille Salandy, Head Public Relations & External Affairs at TSTT, “Community groups who take the initiative to help mould our young people into strong minded, disciplined team players for the future should always be commended. This club has worked tirelessly over the years to ensure that the children in their community are a part of the success story of their village and the Foundation is therefore happy to reach out to Cunaripo to assist.”
The club does not just play cricket for fun. Their collection of accolades accounts of their ongoing success. The team recently won the North Eastern Zonal Cricket Competition and will now face clubs from zones throughout the country. For other tournaments hosted by the North East Zone of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board, the Cunaripo Sports and Cultural Club took home the winning title for the Under 19 Competition and placed third in the three day competition. The team has also reached the quarter finals in the zonal T/20 competition currently taking place. The club also boasts of having the youngest team of players in the North Eastern Zone of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board presently.
When asked about the club, Arjune Bhagaloo, Public Relations Officer - Cunaripo Sports and Cultural Club explained: “The club constantly tries to inspire our members to strive for the best. We not only compete at all levels in cricket but we encourage giving back to our community. Members hold fundraisers for needy causes and the club partners with other community groups annually to host cultural events. We believe focusing on the all rounded development and passing on the true spirit of the community to the youth has ensured our long successful life. Getting support from corporate T&T from the likes of blink I bmobile also proves to us that we continue to be on the right track.”
blink I bmobile congratulates the Cunaripo Sports and Cultural Club for all of their ongoing achievements over the decades. The approach used and the commitment of its members will guarantee the club’s continued long and healthy life.
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Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears
My my, did this franchise run out of gas in a desert, or perhaps underwater. When it comes to Anthony Horowitz, I have a mixed relationship with his novels. They're not badly written for sure and Horowitz seemed to do a lot of traveling because his descriptions and use of geography usually end up conveniently revealing. It's just sometimes, with Granny, he doesn't utilize that to tell a nice story. Spoiler alert!
So now Alex Rider is in a much bigger relationship with Sabina Pleasure, spending New Year's Eve in Scotland with her family, and the first thing Alex knows, he's up against a multi-millionaire Desmond McCain in a game of poker and all of a sudden their car gets attacked and thrown into a frozen lake. While I questioned McCain about the incident, there weren't any other characters that could be the suspects. Afterward, a journalist named Harry Bulman comes into Alex and Jack Starbright's life, saying he wants to write, ironically, a book about all of Alex Rider's adventures; he'd be known as the kid who survived gunpoint more times than my fingers can count, survived a terrorist shot from Scorpia and was the first teenager to leave the planet. What would you do if someone came up with an offering like that? It'd be dangerous but would it make your life seem more dangerous when you were already targeted by Scorpia and already got tired of working for MI6? Whatever I would have done, it's not what Alex does. It's not what MI6 did. And Alex is forced to, or forces himself, to go on one last mission to get Harry off his back, or maybe to make up for being shoved into the frozen over lake and told us to hum when underwater and in a freezing occurrence.
Now, I admired the scene where Alex has to compromise a computer and doesn't have time to switch back a fading but informative detail that I'm glad Horowitz and the bad guys didn't get. But really, apart from that clever act, there's nothing new here in this Alex Rider, at least nothing worth remembering. There's a whole chapter with Harry Bulman that is utter exhaustion and craziness, and I hated every second of it, making me kind of judge the entire book. It's also pretty much just about Alex reluctantly going to a mission, escaping before getting drugged and captured, this time even more excruciating than Skeleton Key's, and in the end, the bad guy doesn't keep up on his deal, this time leaving no twists and turns when Alex is sentenced to death and rescued, except for this moment where a man on Alex's side encourages him to hurry up and leave whatever it is he cares about getting, and after his death, I couldn't help but agree with him.
But you know what? In my opinion, you could just forget this book existed and go to Scorpia Rising, which I still haven't read, and I read this back in 9th grade in 2013. So I don't really remember the escape scene well and looking back on the last Alex Riders, I probably enjoyed it, so I might read it again and see if I hate it as much as I say I did. I just only remember most of the bad scenes. But my next review is of Catching Fire, and that book I reread because THAT was back in 7th grade. I reread it just for you, so stay tuned. And you can read the Alex Rider books, I won't diss you. It's just...this is the eighth book.
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Expansion of CHIP sought despite threats of funding cuts
Written by Radio Pennsylvania | May 19, 2018 8:35 AM
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks before he signs legislation reauthorizing Pennsylvania's Children's Health Insurance Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
(Harrisburg) -- The state Department of Human Services has launched a new campaign to raise public awareness about the Children's Health Insurance Program.
More than 180,000 Pennsylvania Children are enrolled in the Children's Health Insurance Program, also known as CHIP.
But Department of Human Services Secretary Teresa Miller says the CHIP Strong campaign is seeking to get as many more children as possible enrolled in the program, which provides free or low-cost health insurance for kids up to age 19 who are not eligible for or enrolled in Medicaid.
"We've got a very low uninsured rate for kids, but there's still kids out there without insurance, so we're just trying to reach everyone we can and make sure all kids have access to the healthcare they need," she said.
While CHIP was re-authorized by Congress in January for six years, Miller says Governor Tom Wolf, Senator Bob Casey and the department are pushing back against a Trump Administration proposal to cut the program's funding in half.
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Classic 80’s Hip Hop Documentary Wild Style Reviewed
Written by Johnny Proctor
When Charlie Ahearn, along with co creator Fab 5 Freddy, in the early 80’s started work on writing,
producing and directing their vision of bringing an insight into the graffiti art & Hip Hop subculture of New York City they couldn’t have began to imagine just what an important and inspirational piece of work they were about to gift to the world.
Their plan to give a global audience the opportunity to witness first hand the revolutionary movement that was happening inside The Bronx was to prove to be the catalyst for a stratospheric explosion across the culture. Outside of that specific area of New York the rest of the world knew very little (if at all) of the craft of graffiti artists, rappers & break dancers, then came Wild Style.
All too often when a so called secret society is exposed to the mainstream and the cat is let out of the bag the community is normally never the same again and forever tainted. These kind of reveals generally come over as heavily commercialized and watered down for the general public to digest. There’s always exceptions to the rule in life however, Wild Style was just that.
As much as Ahearn was making a film to show the masses just what was in the air at this moment in time in the still very much early days Hip Hop and graffiti communities, he was making it on his own terms. By doing so capturing a truly magical, all planets aligning moment in time when New York’s subculture was at it’s most raw, primitive and energetic and allowing the watching audience to see it for exactly that.
A time where it was unimaginable that Hip Hop would go on to change the face of the musical landscape while becoming a billion dollar business in the process. Set in early 80’s derelict South Bronx, Wild Style, a film which has more of a documentary feel to it than actual film, the loosely based plot tells the story of the young mythical graffiti artist, Zoro. An early days Banksy of sorts with the touch of an angel when holding a spray can in his hand, tagging the NY subway trains at night while ducking and diving from the law in addition to trying to find the path to turning his sublime talent for spray painting into something more lucrative.
The part of Zoro, played by “Lee” George Quinones, himself already a respected figure in The Bronx graffiti art scene. Along with Quinones the cast is littered with non actors with Ahearn instead choosing to cast what was almost the entire Bronx community of rappers, dancers and spray painters to play themselves.
As a result, acting in the conventional and academic sense is dangerously at a minimum but if you’re watching Wild Style and you find yourself critisizing the acting in front of you then you’ve already missed the point in the exercise.
Put simply it was the first film to dedicate itself to the inner workings of the Hip Hop and graffiti art world at the ground level and more than 30 years later it is still the most important and vital to the scene. The three decades plus that have passed since it’s release has seen the soundtrack alone persistently sampled by big hitters such as Nas, Tribe Called Quest, Big Daddy Kane, Beastie Boys and Jurassic 5 to offer up some examples.
With a stellar assortment of practically every rapper, B boy, emcee, and spray painter that mattered in the early days of the South Bronx scene, the lack of real plot can leave Wild Style appearing as nothing other than a mechanism to piece together a collection of scenes showcasing this urban musical and artistic subculture at work, and with the talents on show that really isn’t a bad thing
Quinones joined by fellow South Bronx graffiti artist, the legend, Zephyr to represent the spray painting community, it’s the hip hop and breakdancing contingent which takes Wild Style to a whole new level. With seminal figures of the scene at the time such as Cold Crush Brothers, Rocksteady Crew, Busy Bee, Grandmixer DST Double Trouble, Fantastic Mc’s and Grandmaster Flash all playing themselves the cast is the equivalent of a browse through the family tree of Hip Hop royalty.
When you can sit back and watch the epic Mc Battle between Busy Bee and Rodney Cee live at The Dixie you can’t help but give Wild Style a pass when it comes to it’s lack of real dialogue and acting of any high standard. That’s not to suggest that it is lacking completely in an acting sense, that’s where Fab 5 Freddy comes in.
His character “Phade” steals the scene any time he appears on screen and is without a doubt one of the coolest and charismatic characters ever committed to celluloid. Jeff Bridge’s “Dude” from The Big Lebowski generally gets everyone’s vote as the coolest film character in movie history. The reason for this is that there simply hasn't been enough people who have seen Phade at his best!
I’m not even sure if it’s possible for something to appear as beautiful while symmetrically gritty but Wild Style just about pulls it off. From the opening credits, showing you a montage of artistically spray painted subway trains riding through the bleak and run down South Bronx accompanied by DJ Grand Wizard’s – Subway Theme, you know you’re being sucked into a world that you won’t want to depart until Ahearn says it’s ok to do so.
His work is a piece of genius that effortlessly encapsulates the basic and primitive experimental values that Hip Hop had at it’s inception, and those same values it misses today . As “real” a film you’ll ever see. Yes there was a plot but due to most of the cast not even being actors, Charlie Ahearn allowed most shots to be left open for improvisation.
Even the scene where Zoro and the journalist he’s heading to a party with are accosted by a stick up crew, for this part of the film, Ahearn used three members from an actual South Bronx gang to perform the stick up, even allowing one of them to use his own shot gun for the scene! But that’s what makes it, it’s realness and honesty. This isn’t some after the event cash in when Hip Hop has already reached success as a form of music.
This is an almost fly on the wall look at a musical and artistic scene that had already had its foundations laid and was now figuring out what to do with itself. Knowing that the main character Zoro was actually a real life graffiti art legend, knowing that when seeing a rap battle in the basketball court between Cold Crush Brothers v Fantastic 5 you were watching two sets of rappers who actually DID have a hated rivalry between each other and that they weren’t just playing up for the cameras.
Watching Fab 5 Freddy practically playing himself on screen due to him already being in real life a rap concert promoter, known spray painter and quintessential key figure inside the community who had his fingers in many of Hip Hop’s pies.
Everywhere the camera takes you, you’re left with the impression that all of this would be going on at that exact moment in time regardless if there was a camera around or not. During those days in the early eighties South Bronx residents were having the time of their fucking lives right under most people’s noses and thanks to Ahearn we all got an invite to the (bloc) party.
With so many iconic and memorable images it will be a movie that will forever keep a tight grip onto its cult following while adding new recruits as the years pass.
The unforgettable and iconic images like Grandmaster Flash, mixing it up in the kitchen, a scene that Kanye West & Common recreated for the Dave Chappelle show. Double Trouble sitting on the steps rapping back and forward in a scene that was subsequently re-enacted in a Sprite commercial starring Nas and AZ decades later. The previously mentioned rap battle between Cold Crush & Fantastic, a scene also parodied by Sprite in a commercial starring Missy Elliot and NBA heavyweights Kobe Bryant & Tim Duncan.
Any scene at The Dixie which looked like the equivalent of an indoors block party any-time the cameras walked through the door. Inside the place, a case of Heineken beer, weed, Kangol hats as far as the eye can see and free styling ( the first time ever seen in a film ) up on stage with a menagerie of New York’s finest rappers.
Wild Style isn’t old skool, in the scheme of things it’s more like fucking kindergarten. The graffiti art / Hip Hop documentary that officially isn’t even a documentary that went on to become the inspiration and launchpad for a generation of rappers and graffiti artists. It isn’t just a film, it’s way more than that in the sense of what way it paved for those influenced by it.
Film? It should be looked upon more as a historical time piece where a musical and cultural movement in its infancy was captured on film at the exact right place at the exact right time and for those reasons, is a work of art that should be eternally cherished in the annals of Hip Hop’s story.
If you like Hip Hop then I won’t insult you by telling you to watch it, most of you will have done so already. If you’re not into Hip Hop? I would still urge you to watch it if you want to be see just how the biggest selling genre of music arrived at where it is today.
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5 Crazy Stories from Eddie Van Halen’s Weekend With Thomas Dolby
Matthew Wilkening
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A stone statue, the film This is Spinal Tap and the ozone layer all took a beating when Thomas Dolby spent a weekend at Eddie Van Halen's home, as the pop star explains in his new book.
You may know only know Dolby from his 1982 pop smash "She Blinded Me With Science," but as The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology makes clear, he's led a remarkably diverse and successful career as a composer, performer, producer and technology pioneer. He's also collaborated with a dizzying array of musicians, including the Grateful Dead, David Bowie, George Clinton and Def Leppard.
The story of his collaboration with Van Halen's resident guitar genius begins innocently enough, with Eddie being asked to contribute to two songs ("Eastern Bloc" and "Close But No Cigar") on Dolby's 1992 album Astronauts & Heretics. Van Halen explained that his group was in the middle of recording their 1991 effort For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, but invited Dolby up to his home recording studio to squeeze in a couple days of work. Dolby says he soon realized, though, that "every hour of [Van Halen's] day was like a scene from Spinal Tap." Here's five of the best examples:
First Rule: No 'Spinal Tap' Jokes
When Dolby tried to break the ice by quoting a famous This is Spinal Tap line about sustain to Van Halen, he was met with a blank stare. When he asked if the guitarist had ever seen the famous rock music mockumentary, Eddie replied, "Yeah, dude, we saw that piece of s---." He then went on to explain, "We didn't think it was funny. It was like, someone followed us around with a camera, put it up on a screen, and everybody fell over laughing."
Andy Johns Vs. The Statue
Legendary producer and engineer Andy Johns (Exile on Main Street, Physical Graffiti and many, many more) was working with in the studio with Van Halen when Dolby visited. Apparently having overindulged a bit, Johns excused himself from the session early. Soon after he left, there was a "deafening crash." Dolby and his host ran outside, to see that Johns had reversed his large mauve Cadillac convertible into a stone statue. "He's knocked an arm off one of the statues," Van Halen complained, adding that his then-wife, actress Valerie Bertinelli, "[is] gonna kill me."
No Privacy
Dolby was surprised to learn that even in his secluded home property, rock's most famous guitarist was under surveillance. As the pair took the short drive from Eddie's 5150 home studio to his house in a custom-painted golf cart, Dolby "suddenly heard the honking of horns and shrill distant cries of 'EDDIE! EDDIE! YEAH!!' High up above his property a group of fans had parked their trucks and hot rods on a scenic overlook... and they were screaming and flashing their headlights, amazed to get an actual sighting of their favorite guitar god."
Eddie Vs. The Environment
Apparently, the importance of energy conservation hadn't hit home with Eddie just yet. Dolby says as soon as they arrived home from the studio, Van Halen plopped down in an oversized armchair and hit the remote control to turn on the massive gas fireplace "with a loud whooooomf!" This prompted a swift rebuke from Bertinelli: "Eddie! It's ninety degrees out!" "Crank up the AC then, would you babe?" Eddie replied, "I'm beat."
Alex Van Halen Vs. Outside Interests
Prior to his visit, Van Halen had warned Dolby that his bandmates, in particular his drummer brother Alex Van Halen, wasn't thrilled with the notion of Eddie working on other people's albums. During a chance meeting with Alex in the kitchen, Dolby decided to find out the truth for himself. "I hear you're not nuts about Eddie playing on my album?" He asked. "You got that right, bro," the drummer responded. "Last time we let him do that, he did a solo on that little f---er Michael Jackson's [Thriller] record. That was the only reason [Van Halen's subsequent album] 1984 got stuck at No. 2."
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On June 3, 2000, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw were headlining a show together in Buffalo, N.Y. It was business as usual, but the two friends would wind up in jail before the day was over. An incident with a horse led to charges of assaulting a sheriff's deputy.
According to news reports from the time, Chesney asked the daughter of a sheriff's deputy if he could ride his horse. He then rode away, ignoring orders to stop. Two officers tried to remove him, and McGraw and his manager got involved. A minor scrum broke out and the lawmen suffered minor injuries.
"But because they had sustained the injuries, the law in New York State says assaulting a police officer is a felony, regardless of the extent of the injuries -- from a minor bruise to lacerations and broken bones," Erie County Sheriff Patrick Gallivan told CMT two days after the melee.
The country music icons were arrested, arraigned and released on bail. A year later, all three men were found innocent of any wrongdoing. McGraw and his manager faced up to a year in jail, while Chesney was ultimately charged only with disorderly conduct.
McGraw and Chesney later toured together on the Brothers of the Sun tour in 2012 without incident.
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Student Calls ISS to Discuss His Design After Astronauts 3D Print It in Space
June 16, 2016 by Hannah Rose Mendoza 3D Design3D PrintingAerospace 3D Printing
We tend to dismiss distances these days as we can easily make phone calls halfway around the world and the internet has put down roots nearly everywhere. There is, however, still something awesome, in the true sense of the word, about being able to make a phone call to outer space. Not only is the fact that we can make it astounding, but that there can actually be someone on the other end is amazing.
On June 15, University of Alabama Huntsville student R.J. Hillan had the opportunity to make such a phone call and the photos show him smiling from ear to ear. Hillan is a big fan of the work done by NASA, as evidenced by the seven times he returned to Space Camp. But his call was about more than just expressing his enthusiasm for the space program. Instead, he was connecting with the International Space Station to talk about a tool that he designed and that was printed on the ISS’ 3D printer.
Hillan designed this tool as a response to the very first Future Engineers challenge, which asked for designs that could be useful to the astronauts on the ISS. The reward for winning was to have it 3D printed in space and now that the tool has been created, it’s only natural that its designer would want to follow up. The contest, a partnership between NASA and the ASME Foundation, has received such a supportive response that it is now in its fourth run.
The ergonomically designed piece, the Multi-Purpose Precision Maintenance Tool (MPMT), includes a variety of size sockets to allow the user to adapt to any number of size or shape objects. Recognizing that the 3D printed plastic versions are often just prototypes, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra praised the current version in his conversation with Hillan:
“One thing that often times comes with prototyping with 3D printing is there’s a plastic version. But even this plastic version I think would work up to a certain torque value, so well done, I think it’s really cool…I think this tool will be useful, we were just talking about it, Jeff and I, you know, what’s cool about it is oftentimes you’re having to look for a deep well socket, well, you don’t need a deep well socket when you have this!”
Hillan — who is the only student to ever have his design 3D printed in space, and is among a very small group of students to have ever spoken to astronauts while they are in space — positively glowed during his conversation with the astronauts.
The next step in the development of Hillan’s tool would be to produce a version in metal, but this is still a challenge to undertake in space. Currently, Made In Space has plans to send a metal recycler and possibly a metal printer to space, but because of the difficulties involved with 3D printing in these materials in zero gravity, it will still be some time before such operations can be realized.
Deanne Bell, the founder of Future Engineers, wants to be right there with them on the cutting edge as these developments continue to happen:
“That challenge was such a huge success that we’ve continued and we’re now on our fourth challenge, and we’re going to continue. It’s a really healthy partnership between NASA and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It’s not just about a STEM challenge, it’s not just about a 3D printer going to space, it’s about how do we harness this and think about the future of space travel together?”
Below is a time-lapse video of the tool being 3D printed on the ISS. Discuss further in the Winning Design on ISS 3D Printer forum over at 3DPB.com.
[Source: WAAYTV / Images: NASA]
Tagged with: 3d print design winners • 3D Printed Space Tools Challenge • 3d printer in space • 3d printing in space • 3D Printing in Space Challenge • ASME • ASME foundation • future engineers • Future Engineers for the ASME Foundation • international space station • iss • made in space • nasa
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Social media platforms must do more to prevent election attacks
It’s pretty clear that social media attacks have a real potential to affect not just elections, but political life in general. That’s why Facebook’s ‘two steps forward, one step back’ strategy is so disappointing. They – with their subsidiary WhatsApp – are the biggest players in the social media market and they have a responsibility to act. Only when platforms are completely transparent will election authorities be able to act and we, the voters, will have confidence that our elections are not being distorted.
How election regulations work
Different countries have different laws regarding elections and this applies to online campaigning and social media too. In most countries, the principle means of regulating election campaigns is via spending limits – although there may be a range of other controls. Parties and candidates are required to submit a spending return after the election (and sometimes interim returns mid-campaign). They may have to open a dedicated bank account and there may be limits as to who can contribute and how much.
Many countries view day to day non-commercial uses of social media as being essentially free and so they do not fall under the scope of election expenses. Even websites are often viewed as being low cost and are an under-regulated form of influencing votes.
Such ‘free’ uses include:
Setting up a Facebook page to promote a candidate or party and gather ‘likes’ for them. People who have ‘liked’ the candidate can then be sent messages and other information. Likers and other users can view live streams of campaign events
A twitter account to promote the candidate, to encourage retweets and to retweet others (endorsements, party leaders etc)
A WhatsApp account to create groups and to share information among those groups and encourage other group members to forward the information to others.
An Instagram account to share images and engage in conversation with followers and others.
There are, of course, many other social media platforms, but they broadly fall into one of these basic use profiles.
Increasingly, social media is also being used to host paid-for advertisements of a political or campaign nature during elections. These may come from parties or candidates themselves and can be positive or negative in nature. Or they can come from third party actors within the country or from outside. Different rules apply in each country with some countries permitting third party groups to spend money campaigning during an election either for or against a candidate or on the basis of issues. And whilst some countries permit funding by citizens living overseas, broadly speaking no country permits out of country election spending by non-citizens.
Why parties use social media
The advantage of social media advertising is that it allows an advert to be targeted at a specific audience. To take Facebook, the company knows enough about its users that it can sell advertising so that it reaches a very specific group. It is easy to target, for example, women aged 24-35 in a particular city. And, the company knows much more than simple demographics. They also know about an individual’s likes and dislikes (quite literally because of the ‘like’ buttons clicked). So Facebook can sell advertising enabling very precise targeting. And because the user data is not shared with the advertiser – they only receive personal information if the recipient of the advert chooses to share it with them – this practice is seen as compliant with data laws around the world.
The attractiveness of social media to parties, candidates and other political campaigners is obvious and not a bad thing. Lots of voters complain they don’t know enough about what politicians or parties stand for, so this means of communication should help. But a platform that allows genuine communication is also open to fake news and outside interference.
A disclaimer here: As a campaign manager in the 2016 EU referendum, I commissioned and paid for Facebook adverts on a number of occasions. I was able to define the audience I wanted to see these and I thought they were good value for money. I didn’t of course, have access to the private data that the platform used to target that audience. Our advert spending was properly declared to the Electoral Commission.
The Cambridge Analytica/AIQ case is something different. In this case data was harvested for one reason and then given or sold to political advertisers for completely different reasons. Facebook has been shown to have known about this illegal transfer to the extent that they have been fined the maximum amount permitted in the UK. But even if the company acted illegally in that case, it does not currently inhibit the legal act of selling advertising by Facebook and other social media companies.
There have been a number of scandals to hit election related social media in recent years:
During the 2016 UK referendum on membership of the EU the Electoral Commission found that the Vote Leave campaign illegally co-ordinated their campaigning with BeLeave by passing on funding which was spent on social media advertising;
During the 2016 US Presidential Election, it is alleged that Russia (and possibly China) sought to interfere with the contest through the promotion of fake news and the use of ‘bots’ to spread false information. (Other claims about Russian interference have been made but they don’t come under the heading of social media;
During the 2018 Brazillian Presidential Election, it is claimed that fake news aimed at both candidsates has been spread via WhatsApp groups;
During the 2018 Macedonian name referendum, it is alleged that many hundreds of websites, Facebook groups and other means were created from outside the country to promote a boycott and therefore to lessen the credibility of the outcome which was expected to be a Yes vote;
Allegations of foreign interference have also been made about French, German and other elections in Europe and elsewhere.
In addition to social media, voters may see election related content on news sites, gossip sites, blogs and so on. Frequently, these sites encourage interaction via comments and these are often un-moderated. Whilst parties can campaigns will endeavour to push messages out via these sites – as they do through mainstream media – the comments sections are often the territory where activists and others will seek to promote points of view and stories which are less factually robust.
So what action have Facebook taken?
They have made two significant changes which are broadly positive. They have required that every political advert carries a form of identification so the viewer can see who produced it. However this ‘imprint’ is often not as clear as one might like, providing little real clue as to who is behind it. A recent example are adverts urging constituents to contact therir MP and ‘stand up for Brexit’. A number or groups have produced these and some are clear whilst others are far from.
Second, Facebook will periodically release the details who who has spent what on political advertising. That’s great, but it won’t be linked to specific content.
They have also announced a ‘war room’ to tackle fake news during there EU elections.
On the downside, Facebook appears to have restricted the ability of plug-ins to monitor advertising content. This has hit the Who Targets Me platform even though the use of plug-ins in that case is entirely consensual. So one of the prime investigators of shady political advertising is no longer able to undertake its investigations.
And, as I’ve previously written, WhatsApp in India has restricted the ability for users to forward messages. However this make the spreading of fake news slightly harder rather than eliminating the possibility entirely.
Has fake news swung elections?
It’s impossible to tell. Governments do not like to admit that they might have come to power or their course of action might have been set via a referendum that was fundamentally flawed. And courts and election commissions have been very reticent in declaring a ballot to be void. That is not to say that it has never happened, but these remedies do not appear to be the most reliable.
Whilst in the past a second country (or people based in a second country) might have sought to influence the conduct of an election by means of radio broadcasts and the like, the advent of the internet, and particularly of social media, has made it much easier to seek to influence an election in another country whether through ‘fake news’ or truthful campaigning.
There is also a question as to how much a vote is actually changed by a piece of fake news. In most cases it appears that a voter is likely to cast their ballot in a certain way and the information they choose to listen to or accept (whether fake or otherwise) simply confirms their choice.
And what constitutes ‘fake’? An outright lie or doctored photo such as the one claiming that the former Brazillian President Dilma was a prodigy of Fidel Castro is simple to categorise. But the ‘£350m for the NHS’ slogan on the side of the Vote Leave bus during the UK’s referendum is not so obviously fake. Had politicians decided to do so, they could have made this come true, regardless of the impact of Brexit on public finances. It is fair to point out that the pretext of the claim – that Brexit would make the UK better off – is probably not the case, but we are then into a political debate – something that should not be policed in a heavy handed fashion, if at all.
However, it does seem probable that there have been significant numbers of votes affected by fake news or international campaigning in various elections and that this is something that should be taken seriously. Respected NGOs in various countries have raised concerns about this issue.
Governments across the world have been reluctant even to address this issue. But some have and they have chosen different approaches. In the UK, ministers have said that recognising and ignoring fake news is the responsible of the individual. They don’t propose to take any action to stamp it out. France, however, has indicated that it might try to set up an official body to make rulings. The difficulty here is that such rulings are likely to come after the horse has well and truly bolted.
What seems logical as a first step is for platforms such as Facebook to be much more open about who is funding political advertising and what it says to whom. It is not necessarily for social media executives to do the work of electoral commissions, but they need to enable the official regulators to do their jobs properly. If an individual, organisation or even foreign country is trying to influence elections then this should be clear and, if it is against the law, then action should be taken. But until the social media platforms come clean, this can’t happen.
Tagged: Elections, EU, Facebook, fraud, India, social media, WhatsApp
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Can You Trademark a Hashtag?
01 Dec Can You Trademark a Hashtag?
Posted at 18:35h in Uncategorized by Adam Freedman
Recently, hashtags have become important tools for driving online interaction between entertainers and consumers on social media. The law is still being developed in this area, but the increased use of hashtags has nevertheless gotten the attention of brands and companies, who have rushed to trademark hashtags in an effort to stake a claim to this gray area. There are constant stories of athletes and entertainers trademarking hashtags that went viral on social media, but I often hear questions about the purpose of actually doing so.
What Is a Hashtag? A hashtag is a word or phrase preceded by the hash character or pound sign (#) that is used to categorize the content of the accompanying text. See hashtag definition, MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hashtag. Hashtags are used in social media to facilitate searches by keywords and to group topics of interest. Hashtags allow businesses to promote products and services, share news, and otherwise engage with their audiences on social media. The USPTO’s Treatment of Hashtag Marks is Just Like Its Treatment of Traditional Marks In 2013, the USPTO recognized that a term containing the hash symbol or the term “hashtag” may be registered as a trademark, but “only if it functions as an identifier of the source of the applicant’s goods or services.” See TMEP §1202.18. Since then, examples of trademark registrations accepted by the USPTO include: #HOWDOYOUKFC for “restaurant services” (U.S. Reg. №4,695,901); #MYCHASENATION for “entertainment services, namely, conducting motorsports racing events; regulating, governing and sanctioning motorsports racing” (U.S. Reg. №4,699,905); In each of these cases, the USPTO concluded that the specimen submitted in support of the registration application evidenced use of the hashtag mark as a trademark, not merely as a means of facilitating online searching. These applicants generally displayed the hashtag mark in a non-Internet context, such as on advertisements or other signage in connection with the goods or services being offered.
Additionally, the USPTO will not allow registration of marks which consist only of the hash symbol or the term “hashtag” combined with merely descriptive or generic wording for goods or services. Examples of marks that were refused federal trademark registration include: #PINUPGIRLCLOTHING for “online shopping site and retail stores featuring women’s vintage inspired clothing, swimwear, footwear, cosmetics, handbags, purses, wallets, belts, jewelry, sunglasses, scarves, and headwear” (U.S. App. Ser. №86/496,212); and HASHTAGSKATE for “skateboards, skateboard decks, skateboard grip tapes, skateboard rails, skateboard riser pads, skateboard trucks, skateboard wax, skateboard wheels, bags for skateboards, ball bearings for skateboards, nuts and bolts for skateboards…” (U.S. App. Ser. №85/848,661). It appears that the USPTO’s treatment of hashtag marks is similar to its treatment of domain names, which it generally regards as addresses on the Internet but which can sometimes serve a source-identifying function. A domain name will be registered only if the “mark, as depicted on the specimen, [is] presented in a manner that will be perceived by potential purchasers to indicate source and not as merely an informational indication of the domain name address used to access a website.” TMEP § 1215.02(a). Courts and the USPTO Appear to Not Be on the Same Page on This Issue While the USPTO holds that hashtags can sometimes qualify as protectable trademarks, at least one court has suggested that hashtags may never be protectable as trademarks. In Eksouzian v. Albanese, 116 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1972 (C.D. Cal. 2015), the district court considered whether the use of “#cloudpen” in social media posts and promotional contests violated a settlement agreement that prohibited the use of “CLOUD PEN” as a trademark. The court held that the “#cloudpen” hashtag was being used functionally, to direct consumers to the location of the promotion, and therefore was not actually violating the trademark. Although the court quoted the TMEP section that recognizes the possibility of hashtags serving as source identifiers, it continued to state that “hashtags are merely descriptive devices, not trademarks… in and of themselves.” Id. at 1979. The latter is much broader, and may have far reaching consequences given the lack of case law on the subject. Conclusion While the USPTO allows for the registration of hashtags where they function as a source identifier of a party’s goods or services, the Eksouzian decision may have actually stripped away any power to that idea. Until the law becomes more settled in the area, trademark owners should develop other strategies to minimize the risk of their misuse on social media.
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Islam and Freedom: The Challenge and The Hope
In the past few decades, grim news from the Muslim world has raised an important question in the West: Is Islam a religion compatible with the idea of individual freedom? Does Islam allow, for example, Muslims to change their religion, or critics of the faith to express their thoughts? Does it treat non-Muslims or women as equal human beings? Does it merely propose itself, or rather impose itself?
These are legitimate questions, as Islam’s legal tradition includes many elements of religious coercion, supremacism and even violence. However, reformist trends in Islam reinterpret religious law by referring to the moral teachings at its core. The result is an intellectual battle going on in the Muslim world, where some of the faithful condemn freedom as a Western invention while others praise it as Allah’s blessing. Come join us for a lecture and conversation on this fascinating topic.
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Mustafa Akyol
The Cato Institute
Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. A Turkish journalist and author, he is a regular contributing opinion writer for the New York Timessince 2013, and has been a regular opinion columnist for Turkish publications such as Hurriyet Daily News, and for the Middle-East focused Al-Monitor.com.
Akyol is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty praised by The Financial Times as “a forthright and elegant Muslim defense of freedom.” The book was longlisted for the 2012 Lioner Gelber Prize, and has been published in Turkish, Malay and Indonesian. (It was subsequently banned in Malaysia in 2017 after Akyol’s short arrest by the country’s “religious police” merely because Akyol delivered a public lecture defending religious freedom.) He is also the author of The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims and of six books in Turkish, including Rethinking the Kurdish Question.
Over the past two decades, Akyol’s articles have also appeared in a wide range of other publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy,Newsweek, First Things, The Weekly Standard, The Financial Times, The London Times, The Guardian, The Washington Times, and The Forward. He has appeared frequently on CNN, BBC, NPR, and Al-Jazeera English, and on prominent TV shows such at Fareed Zakaria GPS and HARDtalk. His TED talk on “Faith versus Tradition in Islam” has been watched by more than a million viewers.
Before joining the Cato Institute, between January 2017 and June 2018, Akyol was a senior visiting fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College. He studied political science and history at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
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2010 Golden Globes
Posted in Comedy, Entertainment, Movie/Film/Motion Picture, Television, tagged "30 Rock", "Avatar", "BIg Love", "Crazy Heart", "Dexter", "Glee", "Grey Gardens", "Inglourious Basterds", "Julie & Julia", "Mad Men", "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire", "Sherlock Holmes", "Taking Chance", "The Blind Side", "The Good Wife", "The Hangover", "The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)", "The White Ribbon", "United States of Tara", "Up In The Air", "Up", Alec Baldwin, Chloe Sevigny, Christoph Waltz, Drew Barrymore, Fox, Golden Globes, HBO, James Cameron, Jane Lynch, Jason Reitman, Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, Julianna Margulies, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Morrison, Meryl Streep, Michael C. Hall, Michael Giacchino, Mo'Nique, NBC, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Bingham, Sandra Bullock, Sheldon Turner, T Bone Burnett, Toni Collette on January 17, 2010| 1 Comment »
Here at “Adaumbelle’s Quest” we try to make everyone feel a part of the entertainment we deliver. So we are covering the 2010 Golden Globe awards live and up to the minute…sit back, relax, and enjoy:
Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture: Mo’nique “Precious: Based Upon The Novel Push By Sapphire”
Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series-Comedy or Musical: Toni Collette “United States of Tara”
Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie: John Lithgow, “Dexter”
Best Animated Feature Film: “Up”
Best Performance By An Actor In a Television Series-Drama: Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”
Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series-Drama: Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”
Best Original Song-Motion Picture: “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)”, “Crazy Heart,” Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
Best Original Score-Motion Picture: Michael Giacchino, “Up”
Best Mini-Series or TV Movie: “Grey Gardens” (HBO)
Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical: Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”
Best Performance By An Actor In A Mini-Series or TV Movie: Kevin Bacon, “Taking Chance”
Best Performance By An Actress In A Mini-Series or TV Movie: Drew Barrymore, “Grey Gardens”
Best Screenplay-Motion Picture: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner “Up In The Air”
Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series-Comedy or Musical: Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
Best Foreign Language Film: “The White Ribbon” Germany
Best TV Series-Drama: “Mad Men” (AMC)
Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie: Chloe Sevigny, “Big Love”
Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Director-Motion Picture: James Cameron, “Avatar”
Best TV Series-Comedy or Musical: “Glee”
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical: “The Hangover”
Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture-Drama: Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical: Robert Downey Jr. “Sherlock Holmes”
Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture-Drama: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
Best Motion Picture Drama: “Avatar”
Congratulations to all the winners tonight, especially “Glee” for you deserve nothing but the best!
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Six McCourters Selected for Prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship
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Black Student Alliance Celebrates 50-Year Legacy of Community and Support
Georgetown’s Black Student Alliance marks history and milestones on its 50th anniversary.
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A HISTORY OF LYMAN WARD MILITARY ACADEMY
formerly THE SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, INC.
Presented by: Colonel Wesley P. Smith
Chancellor Emeritus
Lyman Ward Military Academy
A young boy once said to Dr. Lyman Ward, "You have been the best friend to the poor boys and girls of Tallapoosa County of 'ary' man in it." Dr. Ward looked at the lad and saw that his shining eyes were filled with tears. This emotional moment choked Dr. Ward a little and in blunt fashion he said, "I will take you in my school. You report to me Monday morning. Hereafter, you will be my boy."
Those simple words reveal more of the basic philosophy upon which The Southern Industrial Institute at Camp Hill was founded by Dr. Lyman Ward in 1898 than all the eloquent rhetoric ever could.
Dr. Lyman Ward was born in Watertown, New York. He was graduated from Watertown High School and St. Lawrence University. He became a Universalist minister and was sent to Alabama on a church survey. While in Camp Hill, he became interested in a school for boys and girls of limited means. On a sunny Spring day in 1898, young Lyman Ward, a visiting minister, stood in the pulpit of the Camp Hill Universalist Church and told the congregation of his discussion with the church trustees and of the conclusion that it would take a minimum of $5,000.00 to establish a greatly needed high school in the community. The small rural congregation was stunned at the suggestion of raising what seemed a staggering sum, and when the young minister asked for contributions and invited the congregation to come forward to sign a pledge book prepared for the occasion, an embarrassing hush fell over the chapel. For a moment, no one spoke or moved. Finally, a dainty, bonneted little lady, the mother of seven children, arose and made her way to the aisle.
"I want to make a pledge," she said as she proceeded forward, self-consciously, to take the extended hand of the minister.
"Yes, yes! Thank you, Madam, and how much will you pledge?
"Twenty-five cents," she said almost apologetically, and added hastily, "Payable in the fall."
Money was dear and not to be had until fall when the cotton crop was sold. With no funds, no permanent buildings and no staff, the new school did open. After operating for two years in a rented house, now known as the Leroy Langley home, the school was moved to a magnificent site that Dr. Ward had taken half in desperation. A real institution thus had come into being. A less determined man would have sunk, but Dr. Ward possessed an iron determination and an unselfish devotion towards his fellow men and he made what he started out to make - a place where poor boys and girls could be given a chance. For long years the school was more or less an experiment, living from hand to mouth, kept alive by the money Dr. Ward went everywhere to raise. A prospectus of The Southern Industrial Institute dated 1901 states that the school was located in Camp Hill in Tallapoosa County on a beautiful plantation of four hundred acres of land. It was opened September 21, 1898, and was chartered by the General Assembly of Alabama, February 8, 1901, as a non-denominational, private school for the training of white boys and girls in all useful industries and in primary and secondary academic courses. Tuition at that time was $20.00 a year. Each student was required to work five hours a day and on Saturday. The school operated its own farm, sawmill, carpenter shop and laundry. The first building was put up with student labor and was named Ross Hall for the' Honorable D. A. G. Ross, who made the donation sufficient to build it.
In the ensuing years, Dr. Ward began his work of traveling, publicizing the school, asking for scholarships, donations of money for equipment and current expenses. In later life, nothing was more certain to bring a hearty laugh from Lyman Ward than for one of his old Camp Hill friends to recount stories reflecting the suspicion with which his travels were originally viewed by some of the local townspeople. For example, when the youthful minister would drive through town in his open surrey on his way to the railroad station, some observer, noting the small trunks with which it was customary to travel in those days, was sure to express the consensus by the remark, “There goes that damn Yankee - You'll never see him again - watch what I tell you!" Actually, of course, Lyman Ward was off to raise funds to meet the steadily increasing demands of his school. Language and cunning were his tools. Some of his friends in the North even said he was a tyrant.
Actually, he was a strong, agreeable, likeable man and a force to be reckoned with everywhere in the state. And he had an unshakable faith in what he was doing. In later years he was to admit there was not much planning and very little vision in the beginning, but through it all, the basic philosophy of the school never changed - to help deserving young men and women to help themselves.
Indicative of the character of this man was the fact that he accomplished so much while in a land of strangers. Not only was he a Yankee in a South with memories still vivid of the tragic reconstruction era following the War Between The States, but he was a Universalist in a land of political and religious conservatism and he was a Republican. That he won the ungrudging respect and sincere admiration of all who came within the sway of his influence is evidenced by the fact that when he was seventy-eight years old he was honored by the Republican Party by nomination for Governor of Alabama, and even in the land of "Dixiecrats," polled an unbelievable number of votes in the general election.
Many years earlier Dr. Ward had brought his lovely bride, the former Mary Smith, to Camp Hill and they lived on the campus in what came to be known as The Haunted House, an antebellum mansion erected about 1828.
While the practical needs of the school were always pressing, Dr. Ward managed to assemble an impressive faculty. The school became the cultural center of the community with many concerts and plays given on its campus.
In 1899, 0. C. Ferrell, of North Carolina, inquired if he could enter the school and pay his way by printing a paper. And so, the first printing press came to Camp Hill, it proved to be one of the best assets of the school, for Dr. Ward used his paper, called The Industrial Student, in his never-ending quest for funds. The paper regularly went out to friends and alumni and somehow the needs were met, as indicated by the following - taken from the February 1924 issue of The Industrial Student - "We have needed $86.66 for dishes and the same friend who gives the tablecloths has given us money for the dishes, for which we were in great need."
So, the school enjoyed satisfying success for many years, reaching a peak in 1927 when the State provided $50,000.00 to build stately Tallapoosa Hall, which was dedicated in 1930. Shortly thereafter, the great depression began to take its toll. Dr. Ward's legion of supporters were no longer able to help. Throughout this dangerous financial crisis, Lyman Ward remained undaunted. His characteristic faith in a better day for The Southern excluded any thought of closing. His teachers shared his faith and stood loyally by his side - content with token payments. And thus, while public schools in the State were closing their doors from lack of funds, Lyman Ward and The Southern carried on. On Faith!
By 1942, Dr. Ward had given Southern his best for forty-four years and he brought back J. Brackin Kirkland and made him President. Mr. Kirkland was a Southern Alumnus who when on to Cornell to earn his B.S. and Master’s Degrees.
Mr. Kirkland was an energetic and resourceful man and in those first years he surely must have had to call upon all his resources for he was faced with decaying buildings and a dwindling enrollment - he and his lovely wife, Eleanor, had arrived on The Southern campus thirty days before Pearl Harbor. Mr. Kirkland plunged ahead, however, to repair buildings, build new ones and to improve and enlarge the work-study program.
Dr. Ward had stayed on as Chairman of the Board, and with Mr. Kirkland, appealed again to friends, alumni and supporters for help. From friends in Camp Hill, and some large industrialists in the state, came pledges of $50,000-00. The school was also now getting a small appropriation from the state. Gradually, the school took on new life and prospered once again. Among Mr. Kirkland's major achievements were a new dormitory, football stadium, well-stocked lake, and perhaps that of which he was most proud - a new barn - at the time thought to be one of the finest in the county. Mr. Kirkland's aim was to make the farm furnish one quart of milk, an egg, one-half pound of meat and fresh vegetables per student per day. Often, Mr. Kirkland could be found working side by side with his students.
Dr. Ward's legion of friends and alumni were greatly saddened when he passed away suddenly on December 17, 1948. He was laid to rest by his beloved Mary in a grove of trees on The Southern campus. Those who remember say the people came from far and near to pay homage to this distinguished man.
On May 21, 1948, Mr. Kirkland was elevated to Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Eli Howell, also a Southern alumnus, was named President. Mr. Howell graduated from The Southern in 1933 and had received the L.L.B. Degree from John Marshall Law School. He had served in World War II and was wounded in the invasion of Holland. He had married the former Elizabeth Henderson of Camp Hill.
For a time, Mr. Howell continued the work programs that had always been such an integral part of the school. But once again, the school fell victim to the changing times. The public-school system was now flourishing and the once crying need to help the poor rural children simply no longer existed. How proudly one could look back over the years. The Southern had reached thousands of boys and girls - giving the ideals, aspirations and education to make their lives successful and well balanced. It is never easy to change traditions and how Eli Howell must have agonized over the decision that it must be done. Finally, in 1955, with foresight and with great courage, he recommended to the Board of Trustees that the school drop the elementary school, no longer be co-educational and that a military program should take the place of the old work program. In keeping with the new outlook, it was decided to change the name of the school to Lyman Ward Military Academy, in honor of its founder.
Mr. Howell brought in retired military personnel to get the new program going. But the school's financial situation was already critical, and it took time to build the new program, become known to the clientele who were interested in a military school, and to prove that it could compete with the other long-established and well-known military schools. Time certainly was not a friend, and by 1959 the situation was indeed desperate. It began to look as though this time the school might not survive.
Mr. Howell resigned the presidency in 1959 amidst increasing indebtedness. Again, the school would be placed in a precarious financial struggle, but one thing in its favor was that the school once again would be directed by one of Dr. Ward's students and a graduate of The Southern. The new President, Wesley P. Smith, married to Peggy Joyce Pickren from Lafayette, Alabama, had joined the faculty at Lyman Ward in 1954 after receiving the B.S. and Master's Degrees in Psychology from Auburn University. There was no doubt that many who knew the pitiful financial condition of the school, and the age of its new President, considered the new appointment foolish. But sentimental feelings for the school and an unwillingness to see an institution that had been loved and cherished by so many fades into nothing helped to overcome what at that time seemed an insurmountable task.
From this new beginning, the determination was made that if Lyman Ward was going to be a military school, it was going to be the best military school, if not in the country, at least in the South. The potential was there. A beautiful campus, plenty of room to grow, and the opportunity to offer a good, sound curriculum coupled with the discipline and regulated routine of the military program. All that was needed was telling the public what Lyman Ward Military Academy had to offer.
The first years of the Smith administration were frustrating because the old debts had to be paid off before new projects were begun. One of the key administrators in the new administration was Brig. General T. L. Futch, a retired Army General, who was hired as Commandant. Nothing upset General Futch and often he was called on for his wise counsel.
All the buildings, with the single exception of Tallapoosa Hall, were in very bad shape. The old dormitories were firetraps, furnishings were badly worn, there were no paved roads and student enrollment was at an all-time low. History repeated itself, however, when Mr. Robert Russell, a good friend and member of the Board of Trustees, through The Benjamin and Roberta Russell Foundation, gave $23,600.00 to rebuild Goodwill Hall. This was one of the original structures, built in 1909, and was made of handmade brick. The building was renamed for Mr. Russell. The Foundation continues today in support of many activities at the Academy.
Slowly things began to improve, and by 1962 enrollment had increased more than 100% and old debts had been greatly reduced. The time had come to really look to the future and a long-range expansion program was begun. Application to the Department of the Army was made and approval received for membership in The National Defense Cadet Corps, thus enabling cadets to receive units of credit toward college ROTC.
By May 1964, new entrances to the campus had been built, a new lighted football stadium had been completed, and a new rifle range had been erected, but more important, a new two-story modern dormitory was under construction. In 1967 an identical new dormitory was constructed on the opposite side of Russell Hall and a new dining hall, necessary because of the increase in enrollment, erected.
With the increase in students, the school became eligible in 1966 to apply for membership in the ROTC program. This was approved and added much to the school's growing prestige. As an ROTC unit, MI Division, the school was assigned two active duty personnel by The Department of Army.
Academics had always taken priority and Lyman Ward very early set as its goal accreditation by The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. A loyal and hardworking faculty pursued this goal with diligence. Again, the school became the cultural center of the community as -10 of 13-plays, concerts by the Lyman Ward Band, and art shows became a regular part of the program.
During a temporary slump in the school year 1970-71, experienced nationally by all military schools, the decision was made to establish a Junior School. Lyman Ward would now have grades 6-12.
1972 was a banner year. The ROTC Unit received the Honor Rating with Distinction, the highest rating the Army awards to ROTC Units. The school also attained the long-sought-after accreditation in The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
In 1973 a much-needed gymnasium was constructed, and once again entirely financed by contributions from parents, alumni and friends. This provided a much better athletic program for the school and added greatly to the morale of its cadets. The Russell Foundation provided funds for an indoor swimming pool adjacent to the new gym.
Anyone who visits other military schools over the country will tell you quite frankly and proudly that Lyman Ward is second to none. While the basic concept upon which the school was founded had to change, it is still policy today to take any student who needs help. For example, the “A" student will make it anywhere, but Lyman Ward gives the others a chance, and the school awards thousands of dollars in scholarships every year to deserving boys.
It must be said at this point that The Southern or Lyman Ward Military Academy never would have made it without the support, often financial, and faith of a long list of distinguished men who have served, and still serve, on its Board of Trustees. They have given their time, their loyalty and their wealth of knowledge and experience. Words could never adequately express the gratefulness they so richly deserve.
In the early 1980's an event of great significance occurred. Colonel Smith contacted Mr. Solon Dixon, of Andalusia, and invited him to be the honored guest at Military Day. Mr. Dixon accepted and returned to the school for the first time since his graduation in 1922. Mr. Dixon had amassed great wealth during his lifetime, and the changes he saw at the school renewed his interest. Consequently, through the Solon and Martha Dixon Foundation, the chapel, the administrative building, a new supply building, and the Martha Dixon Library were built, and now an auditorium is to be added to that list.
Following Mr. Dixon's death in 1987, Mrs. Dixon has continued the Dixon legacy.
In June of 1994, the school opened with the largest number of students in its history and was completely free of indebtedness. After forty years of service to his alma mater, Colonel Wesley Smith chose this time to retire from the school. Colonel Smith was given the title of Chancellor Emeritus and still has an office at the school. He assists in fund raising, is a member of the Board of Trustees, and works with the alumni.
Colonel Albert Hovey, a member of the faculty and administration for 28 years, succeeded Colonel Smith as President, and the school has prospered under his leadership.
Now, as Lyman Ward nears its 100th year, the future has never looked brighter. The military school may soon be the only place where patriotism is taught, and emphasis placed on academic excellence and a disciplined way of life. The years ahead will be challenging, just as they were ninety-nine years ago, but today's leaders of Lyman Ward look forward to them with anticipation. To walk in the footsteps of a great man like Dr. Ward and to be given the opportunity to perpetuate his ideals begun so long ago, are the guiding principles of all hopes.
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Will the Real Traitors Please Stand Up?
By FRANK RICH
WHEN America panics, it goes hunting for scapegoats. But from Salem onward, we've more often than not ended up pillorying the innocent. Abe Rosenthal, the legendary Times editor who died last week, and his publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, were denounced as treasonous in 1971 when they defied the Nixon administration to publish the Pentagon Papers, the secret government history of the Vietnam War. Today we know who the real traitors were: the officials who squandered American blood and treasure on an ill-considered war and then tried to cover up their lies and mistakes. It was precisely those lies and mistakes, of course, that were laid bare by the thousands of pages of classified Pentagon documents leaked to both The Times and The Washington Post.
This history is predictably repeating itself now that the public has turned on the war in Iraq. The administration's die-hard defenders are desperate to deflect blame for the fiasco, and, guess what, the traitors once again are The Times and The Post. This time the newspapers committed the crime of exposing warrantless spying on Americans by the National Security Agency (The Times) and the C.I.A.'s secret "black site" Eastern European prisons (The Post). Aping the Nixon template, the current White House tried to stop both papers from publishing and when that failed impugned their patriotism.
President Bush, himself a sometime leaker of intelligence, called the leaking of the N.S.A. surveillance program a "shameful act" that is "helping the enemy." Porter Goss, who was then still C.I.A. director, piled on in February with a Times Op-Ed piece denouncing leakers for potentially risking American lives and compromising national security. When reporters at both papers were awarded Pulitzer Prizes last month, administration surrogates, led by bloviator in chief William Bennett, called for them to be charged under the 1917 Espionage Act.
We can see this charade for what it is: a Hail Mary pass by the leaders who bungled a war and want to change the subject to the journalists who caught them in the act. What really angers the White House and its defenders about both the Post and Times scoops are not the legal questions the stories raise about unregulated gulags and unconstitutional domestic snooping, but the unmasking of yet more administration failures in a war effort riddled with ineptitude. It's the recklessness at the top of our government, not the press's exposure of it, that has truly aided the enemy, put American lives at risk and potentially sabotaged national security. That's where the buck stops, and if there's to be a witch hunt for traitors, that's where it should begin.
Well before Dana Priest of The Post uncovered the secret prisons last November, the C.I.A. had failed to keep its detention "secrets" secret. Having obtained flight logs, The Sunday Times of London first reported in November 2004 that the United States was flying detainees "to countries that routinely use torture." Six months later, The New York Times added many details, noting that "plane-spotting hobbyists, activists and journalists in a dozen countries have tracked the mysterious planes' movements." These articles, capped by Ms. Priest's, do not impede our ability to detain terrorists. But they do show how the administration, by condoning torture, has surrendered the moral high ground to anti-American jihadists and botched the war of ideas that we can't afford to lose.
The N.S.A. eavesdropping exposed in December by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The Times is another American debacle. Hoping to suggest otherwise and cast the paper as treasonous, Dick Cheney immediately claimed that the program had saved "thousands of lives." The White House's journalistic mouthpiece, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, wrote that the Times exposé "may have ruined one of our most effective anti-Al Qaeda surveillance programs."
Surely they jest. If this is one of our "most effective" programs, we're in worse trouble than we thought. Our enemy is smart enough to figure out on its own that its phone calls are monitored 24/7, since even under existing law the government can eavesdrop for 72 hours before seeking a warrant (which is almost always granted). As The Times subsequently reported, the N.S.A. program was worse than ineffective; it was counterproductive. Its gusher of data wasted F.B.I. time and manpower on wild-goose chases and minor leads while uncovering no new active Qaeda plots in the United States. Like the N.S.A. database on 200 million American phone customers that was described last week by USA Today, this program may have more to do with monitoring "traitors" like reporters and leakers than with tracking terrorists.
Journalists and whistle-blowers who relay such government blunders are easily defended against the charge of treason. It's often those who make the accusations we should be most worried about. Mr. Goss, a particularly vivid example, should not escape into retirement unexamined. He was so inept that an overzealous witch hunter might mistake him for a Qaeda double agent.
Even before he went to the C.I.A., he was a drag on national security. In "Breakdown," a book about intelligence failures before the 9/11 attacks, the conservative journalist Bill Gertz delineates how Mr. Goss, then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, played a major role in abdicating Congressional oversight of the C.I.A., trying to cover up its poor performance while terrorists plotted with impunity. After 9/11, his committee's "investigation" of what went wrong was notoriously toothless.
Once he ascended to the C.I.A. in 2004, Mr. Goss behaved like most other Bush appointees: he put politics ahead of the national interest, and stashed cronies and partisan hacks in crucial positions. On Friday, the F.B.I. searched the home and office of one of them, Dusty Foggo, the No. 3 agency official in the Goss regime. Mr. Foggo is being investigated by four federal agencies pursuing the bribery scandal that has already landed former Congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham in jail. Though Washington is titillated by gossip about prostitutes and Watergate "poker parties" swirling around this Warren Harding-like tale, at least the grafters of Teapot Dome didn't play games with the nation's defense during wartime.
Besides driving out career employees, underperforming on Iran intelligence and scaling back a daily cross-agency meeting on terrorism, Mr. Goss's only other apparent accomplishment at the C.I.A. was his war on those traitorous leakers. Intriguingly, this was a new cause for him. "There's a leak every day in the paper," he told The Sarasota Herald-Tribune when the identity of the officer Valerie Wilson was exposed in 2003. He argued then that there was no point in tracking leaks down because "that's all we'd do."
What prompted Mr. Goss's about-face was revealed in his early memo instructing C.I.A. employees to "support the administration and its policies in our work." His mission was not to protect our country but to prevent the airing of administration dirty laundry, including leaks detailing how the White House ignored accurate C.I.A. intelligence on Iraq before the war. On his watch, C.I.A. lawyers also tried to halt publication of "Jawbreaker," the former clandestine officer Gary Berntsen's account of how the American command let Osama bin Laden escape when Mr. Berntsen's team had him trapped in Tora Bora in December 2001. The one officer fired for alleged leaking during the Goss purge had no access to classified intelligence about secret prisons but was presumably a witness to her boss's management disasters.
Soon to come are the Senate's hearings on Mr. Goss's successor, Gen. Michael Hayden, the former head of the N.S.A. As Jon Stewart reminded us last week, Mr. Bush endorsed his new C.I.A. choice with the same encomium he had bestowed on Mr. Goss: He's "the right man" to lead the C.I.A. "at this critical moment in our nation's history." That's not exactly reassuring.
This being an election year, Karl Rove hopes the hearings can portray Bush opponents as soft on terrorism when they question any national security move. It was this bullying that led so many Democrats to rubber-stamp the Iraq war resolution in the 2002 election season and Mr. Goss's appointment in the autumn of 2004.
Will they fall into the same trap in 2006? Will they be so busy soliloquizing about civil liberties that they'll fail to investigate the nominee's record? It was under General Hayden, a self-styled electronic surveillance whiz, that the N.S.A. intercepted actual Qaeda messages on Sept. 10, 2001 — "Tomorrow is zero hour" for one — and failed to translate them until Sept. 12. That same fateful summer, General Hayden's N.S.A. also failed to recognize that "some of the terrorists had set up shop literally under its nose," as the national-security authority James Bamford wrote in The Washington Post in 2002. The Qaeda cell that hijacked American Flight 77 and plowed into the Pentagon was based in the same town, Laurel, Md., as the N.S.A., and "for months, the terrorists and the N.S.A. employees exercised in some of the same local health clubs and shopped in the same grocery stores."
If Democrats — and, for that matter, Republicans — let a president with a Nixonesque approval rating install yet another second-rate sycophant at yet another security agency, even one as diminished as the C.I.A., someone should charge those senators with treason, too.
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Choose two scenes from “An Inspector Calls” and explore their dramatic effectiveness, showing an awareness of the historical context and the impact of that on these and on the play as a whole In the play “An Inspector Calls”, the playwright, J.B. Priestley describes, and refers to actual historical events and life in the Edwardian era. Throughout this essay, I will be focussing on two separate scenes from the play, and analysing certain revealing lines. The first scene is the celebration scene at he start of the play, including Birling’s speech of congratulations, which turns out to be more about his outlook on life, and the future. The second scene is the Inspector’s interrogation of Mrs Birling. I chose these two scenes because they deal largely with important, fact of life issues for the era.
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The playwright, J.B. Priestley was born in 1894 in Bradford to middle class parents. Later in 1901, Queen Victoria died and the Edwardian era began. Life in this era was hard, cities being laden with paupers and continuous strikes at places of employment, particularly at mine-pits where tragedies were frequent. This is probably why Priestley became a socialist. “An Inspector Calls” is set in 1912. It was a week before the Titanic sank, and within two years of World War 1’s beginning; a time of endless nightmares, in which one would not like to live. The upper middle class citizens would have no problem with the way the live, their money catering for their every need, but the people of the lower classes would be severely affected by the ongoing troubles. Priestley wrote this play in 1945, so all the happenings would have already occurred when this play was being written and completed.
The first scene starting in Act One features a joyous and memorable occasion. It is the engagement dinner of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. We learn, via stage directions (which Priestley uses frequently) that there are four Birlings (Arthur, Sybil; the parents, and Sheila and Eric; their children) at the table along with Gerald Croft. All are in formal clothing and drinking port, appropriate for the Edwardian times.
Mr Birling is described as a portentous man in his middle fifties with easy manners. He is heavy looking and provincial in his speech. He, as we find out, is not afraid to speak his mind, which is weighed-down with assumptions of the world and others around him. He is a businessman at heart, and feels he is important. He “clears his throat” (on page three) to draw attention to himself despite there being only four other people present. This shows he feels his superiority as paramount. Later, he remarks, “It’s a pity Sir George and Lady Croft can’t be with us … it can’t be helped!” This tells us he considers himself and his Birling family name worthy of attention, and that he is practically a snob.
We can see when reading the text that Birling’s character dominates the page. The occasion is meant to be that of enjoyment, and yet Birling takes up half a page discussing the future possibility of a business merging of Crofts Limited, and his own business. He wants this to happen for “lower costs and higher prices.” This tells us of his political view, as a capitalist. This is a person who is extremely interested in creating profit out of a business for the smallest fees possible. This therefore shows us the contrast between his and Priestley’s political view, as a socialist. This is a person who (with the support of a group) aims for the decrease or elimination of the differences caused by economic power, by means of a political power.
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Just as Mrs Birling goes to retreat into the drawing room with Sheila (customary in those times), Mr Birling abruptly announces “rather heavily”: “I just want to say this… Are you listening? This concerns you, I don’t often make speeches at you…” This is, in effect, attention seeking. It also gives us the assumption of male superiority, which was typical of the time. Birling’s next speech is probably the most flawed of them all, and reveals Priestley’s effective use of dramatic irony. Such revealing lines are: “Last month the miners were on strike. We’ve passed the worst of it”, and “We’re in for a time of increasing prosperity”.
The way in which Birling says both lines, he sounds very sure of himself, as if he genuinely believes what he is ‘preaching’, but in reality he demonstrates na�vet�. The 1945 audience would see the because they knew of the upcoming troubling times, of many more strikes and much more poverty. He also says “Fiddlesticks!” to a possibility of war. “Nobody wants war.” he continues. In short, how wrong he was! There was not one, but two world wars since his speech (one in 1914, and the other in 1939).
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ITANAGAR, Aug 28: The National People’s Party (NPP) has said it would extend its full support to the passing of the bills relating to the introduction of the Staff Selection Board (SSB) and the Indian Stamp Act (ISA) of 1899 in the state, and reorganisation of three districts of Arunachal Pradesh.
Addressing reporters at the press club here on Tuesday, NPP MLA Mutchu Mithi said the introduction of the SSB would help the government in eradicating corruption and nepotism.
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“They have their right to add their views. If some changes have to be made, that can be discussed in the assembly.
But this is the best bill placed by the government and we are going to support it. I hope the PPA also gives its consent to the bill,” he said.
“We hope that with the passing of this bill, the system will totally change. The NPP will be supporting the bill thoroughly,” Mithi said.
Congratulating the people of Mechukha, Lepa Rada and Pakke Kessang on getting new districts, Mithi said, “This bill has been brought forward based on discussions with various stakeholders. As the state faces geographical constraints, the reorganisation of districts would alleviate some of it.”
The NPP said it is upto the wisdom of the government to decide whether a particular area requires a separate district or not.
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Earlier, the state NPP congratulated Meghalaya Chief Minister and NPP national president Conrad K Sangma for his huge electoral victory in the South Tura by-election.
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Not to be confused with Kenneth Clarke. For other uses, see Kenneth Clark (disambiguation).
The Right Honourable
The Lord Clark
OM CH KCB FBA
Clark photographed in 1934 by Howard Coster
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark
(1903-07-13)13 July 1903
Mayfair, London, England
21 May 1983(1983-05-21) (aged 79)
Hythe, Kent, England
Trinity College, Oxford
Author, broadcaster, art historian
Elizabeth Winifred "Jane" Martin
(m. 1927; died 1976)
Nolwen de Janzé-Rice
(m. 1977–1983)
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark OM CH KCB FBA (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. After running two important art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts during the 1950s and 1960s, culminating in the Civilisation series in 1969.
The son of rich parents, Clark was introduced to the fine arts at an early age. Among his early influences were the writings of John Ruskin, which instilled in him the belief that everyone should have access to great art. After coming under the influence of the connoisseur and dealer Bernard Berenson, Clark was appointed director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford when he was twenty-seven, and three years later he was put in charge of Britain's National Gallery. His twelve years there saw the gallery transformed to make it accessible and inviting to a wider public. During the Second World War, when the collection was moved from London for safe keeping, Clark made the building available for a series of daily concerts which proved a celebrated morale booster during the Blitz.
After the war, and three years as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, Clark surprised many by accepting the chairmanship of the UK's first commercial television network. Once the service had been successfully launched he agreed to write and present programmes about the arts. These established him as a household name in Britain, and he was asked to create the first colour series about the arts, Civilisation, first broadcast in 1969 in Britain and in many countries soon afterwards.
Among many honours, Clark was knighted at the unusually young age of thirty-five, and three decades later was made a life peer shortly before the first transmission of Civilisation. Three decades after his death, Clark was celebrated in an exhibition at Tate Britain in London, prompting a reappraisal of his career by a new generation of critics and historians. Opinions varied about his aesthetic judgment, particularly in attributing paintings to old masters, but his skill as a writer and his enthusiasm for popularising the arts were widely recognised. Both the BBC and the Tate described him in retrospect as one of the most influential figures in British art of the twentieth century.
1 Life and career
1.1 Early years
1.2 Early career
1.3 National Gallery
1.3.1 Wartime
1.4 Postwar
1.5 Broadcasting: administrator, 1954–1957
1.6 Broadcasting: ITV, 1957–1966
1.7 Civilisation, 1966–1969
1.8 Later years: 1970–1983
2 Family and personal life
2.1 Beliefs
3 Honours and legacy
3.1 Awards and memorials
3.2 Reputation
4 Books by Clark
5 Notes, references and sources
5.3 Sources
Early years[edit]
Clark was born at 32 Grosvenor Square, London,[n 1] the only child of Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (1868–1932) and his wife, (Margaret) Alice, daughter of James McArthur of Manchester.[2] The Clarks were a Scottish family who had grown rich in the textile trade. Clark's great-great-grandfather invented the cotton spool, and the Clark Thread Company of Paisley had grown into a substantial business.[1] Kenneth Clark senior worked briefly as a director of the firm and retired in his mid-twenties as a member of the "idle rich", as Clark junior later put it: although "many people were richer, there can have been few who were idler".[1][3] The Clarks maintained country homes at Sudbourne Hall, Suffolk, and at Ardnamurchan, Argyll, and wintered on the French Riviera.[2][4] Kenneth senior was a sportsman, a gambler,[n 2] an eccentric and a heavy drinker.[2][6] Clark had little in common with his father, though he always remained fond of him. Alice Clark was shy and distant, but her son received affection from a devoted nanny.[7]
An only child not especially close to his parents, the young Clark had a boyhood that was often solitary, but he was generally happy. He later recalled that he used to take long walks, talking to himself, a habit he believed stood him in good stead as a broadcaster: "Television is a form of soliloquy".[8] On a modest scale Clark senior collected pictures, and the young Kenneth was allowed to rearrange the collection. He developed a competent talent for drawing, for which he later won several prizes as a schoolboy.[9] When he was seven he was taken to an exhibition of Japanese art in London, which was a formative influence on his artistic tastes; he recalled, "dumb with delight, I felt that I had entered a new world".[10][11]
John Ruskin, whose writings inspired the young Clark
Clark was educated at Wixenford School and, from 1917 to 1922, Winchester College. The latter was known for its intellectual rigour and – to Clark's dismay – enthusiasm for sports, but it also encouraged its pupils to develop interests in the arts.[12] The headmaster, Montague Rendall, was a devotee of Italian painting and sculpture, and inspired Clark, among many others, to appreciate the works of Giotto, Botticelli, Bellini and their compatriots.[13] The school library contained the collected writings of John Ruskin, which Clark read avidly, and which influenced him for the rest of his life, not only in their artistic judgments but in their progressive political and social beliefs.[14][n 3]
From Winchester, Clark won a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied modern history. He graduated in 1925 with a second-class honours degree. In the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Sir David Piper comments that Clark had been expected to gain a first-class degree, but had not applied himself single-mindedly to his historical studies: "his interests had already turned conclusively to the study of art".[2]
While at Oxford, Clark was greatly impressed by the lectures of Roger Fry, the influential art critic who staged the first Post-Impressionism exhibitions in Britain. Under Fry's influence he developed an understanding of modern French painting, particularly the work of Cézanne.[16] Clark attracted the attention of Charles F. Bell (1871–1966), Keeper of the Fine Art Department of the Ashmolean Museum. Bell became a mentor to him and suggested that for his B Litt thesis Clark should write about the Gothic revival in architecture. At that time it was a deeply unfashionable subject; no serious study had been published since the nineteenth century.[17] Although Clark's main area of study was the Renaissance, his admiration for Ruskin, the most prominent defender of the neo-Gothic style, drew him to the topic. He did not complete the thesis, but later turned his researches into his first full-length book, The Gothic Revival (1928).[2] In 1925, Bell introduced Clark to Bernard Berenson, an influential scholar of the Italian Renaissance and consultant to major museums and collectors. Berenson was working on a revision of his book Drawings of the Florentine Painters, and invited Clark to help. The project took two years, overlapping with Clark's studies at Oxford.[18]
Early career[edit]
Leonardo da Vinci: Head of Leda, in the Royal Collection
In 1929, as a result of his work with Berenson, Clark was asked to catalogue the extensive collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings at Windsor Castle. That year he was the joint organiser of an exhibition of Italian painting which opened at the Royal Academy on 1 January 1930. He and his co-organiser Lord Balniel secured masterpieces never seen before outside Italy, many of them from private collections.[19] The exhibition covered Italian art "from Cimabue to Segantini" – from the mid-thirteenth to the late-nineteenth century.[20] It was greeted with public and critical acclaim, and raised Clark's profile, but he came to regret the propaganda value derived from the exhibition by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who had been instrumental in making so many sought-after paintings available.[21] Several senior figures in the British art world disapproved of the exhibition; Bell was among them, but nevertheless he continued to regard Clark as his favoured successor at the Ashmolean.[22]
Clark was not convinced that his future lay in administration; he enjoyed writing, and would have preferred to be a scholar rather than a museum director.[23] Nonetheless, when Bell retired in 1931 Clark agreed to succeed him at the Ashmolean. Over the next two years Clark oversaw the building of an extension to the museum to provide a better space for his department.[24] The development was made possible by an anonymous benefactor, subsequently revealed as Clark himself.[25] A later curator of the museum wrote that Clark would be remembered for his time there, "when, with his characteristic mixture of arrogance and energy, he transformed both the collections and their display."[26]
National Gallery[edit]
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London (2013 photograph)
In 1933 the director of the National Gallery in London, Sir Augustus Daniel, was aged sixty-seven, and due to retire at the end of the year. His assistant director, W. G. Constable, who had been in line to succeed him, had moved to the new Courtauld Institute of Art as its director in 1932.[27] The historian Peter Stansky writes that behind the scenes the National Gallery "was in considerable turmoil; the staff and the trustees were in a state of continual warfare with each other."[28] The chairman of the trustees, Lord Lee, convinced the prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, that Clark would be the best appointment, acceptable to the professional staff and the trustees, and able to restore harmony.[29] When he received MacDonald's offer of the post, Clark was not enthusiastic. He thought himself too young, aged 30, and once again felt torn between a scholarly and an administrative career. He accepted the directorship, although, as he wrote to Berenson, "in between being the manager of a large department store I shall have to be a professional entertainer to the landed and official classes".[30]
At about the same time as accepting MacDonald's offer of the directorship, Clark had declined one from King George V's officials to succeed C. H. Collins Baker as Surveyor of the King's Pictures. He felt that he could not do justice to the post in tandem with his new duties at the gallery.[n 4] The king, determined to succeed where his staff had failed, went with Queen Mary to the National Gallery and persuaded Clark to change his mind.[32] The appointment was announced in The London Gazette in July 1934;[33] Clark held the post for the next ten years.[34]
Clark believed in making fine art accessible to everyone, and while at the National Gallery he devised many initiatives with this aim in mind. In an editorial, The Burlington Magazine said, "Clark put all his insight and imagination into making the National Gallery a more sympathetic place in which the visitor could enjoy a great collection of European paintings".[35] He had rooms re-hung and frames improved; by 1935 he had achieved the installation of a laboratory and introduced electric lighting, which made evening opening possible for the first time. A programme of cleaning was begun, despite sporadic sniping from those opposed in principle to cleaning old pictures;[35][36] experimentally, the glass was removed from some pictures.[35][n 5] In several years he had the gallery opened two hours earlier than usual on the day of the FA Cup Final, for the benefit of people coming to London for the match.[38]
Clark wrote and lectured during the decade. The annotated catalogue of the royal collection of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, on which he had begun work in 1929, was published in 1935, to highly favourable reviews; eighty years later Oxford Art Online called it "a work of firm scholarship, the conclusions of which have stood the test of time".[39] Another 1935 publication by Clark offended some in the avant-garde: an essay, published in The Listener, "The Future of Painting", in which he rebuked surrealists on the one hand and abstract artists on the other for claiming to represent the future of art. He judged both as too elitist and too specialised – "the end of a period of self-consciousness, inbreeding and exhaustion". He maintained that good art must be accessible to everyone and must be rooted in the observable world.[40] During the 1930s Clark was in demand as a lecturer, and he frequently used his research for his talks as the basis of his books. In 1936 he gave the Ryerson Lectures at Yale University; from these came his study of Leonardo, published three years later; it too, attracted much praise, at the time and subsequently.[39]
One of four paintings by Andrea Previtali which Clark attributed to Giorgione in 1937
The Burlington Magazine, looking back at Clark's time at the gallery, singled out among the works acquired under his leadership the seven panels forming Sassetta's San Sepolcro Altarpiece from the fifteenth century, four works by Giovanni di Paolo from the same period, Niccolò dell'Abate's The Death of Eurydice from the sixteenth century and Ingres' Madame Moitessier from the nineteenth.[41] Other important acquisitions, listed by Piper, were Rubens's Watering Place, Constable's Hadleigh Castle, Rembrandt's Saskia as Flora, and Poussin's The Adoration of the Golden Calf.[2]
One of Clark's least successful acts as director was buying four early-sixteenth century paintings now known as Scenes from Tebaldeo's Eclogues.[42] He saw them in 1937 in the possession of a dealer in Vienna,[42] and against the united advice of his professional staff he persuaded the trustees to buy them.[2] He believed them to be by Giorgione, whose work was inadequately represented in the gallery at the time. The trustees authorised the expenditure of £14,000 of public funds and the paintings went on display in the gallery with considerable fanfare.[42] His staff did not accept the attribution to Giorgione, and within a year scholarly research established the paintings as the work of Andrea Previtali, one of Giorgione's minor contemporaries.[42] The British press protested at the waste of taxpayers' money, Clark's reputation suffered a considerable blow, and his relations with his professional team, already uneasy, were further strained.[2][n 6]
Wartime[edit]
The approach of war with Germany in 1939 obliged Clark and his colleagues to consider how to protect the National Gallery's collection from bombing raids. It was agreed that all the works of art must be moved out of central London, where they were acutely vulnerable. One suggestion was to send them to Canada for safekeeping, but by this time the war had started and Clark was worried about the possibility of submarine attacks on the ships taking the collection across the Atlantic; he was not displeased when the prime minister, Winston Churchill, vetoed the idea: "Hide them in caves and cellars, but not one picture shall leave this island."[44] A disused slate mine near Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales was chosen as the store. To protect the paintings special storage compartments were constructed, and from careful monitoring of the collection discoveries were made about control of temperature and humidity that benefited its care and display when back in London after the war.[44]
Myra Hess, inspiration and mainstay of the National Gallery's wartime concerts
With an empty gallery to preside over, Clark contemplated volunteering for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, but was recruited, at Lord Lee's instigation, into the newly-formed Ministry of Information, where he was put in charge of the film division, and was later promoted to be controller of home publicity.[45] He set up the War Artists' Advisory Committee, and persuaded the government to employ official war artists in considerable numbers. There were up to two hundred engaged under Clark's initiative. Those designated "official war artists" included Edward Ardizzone, Paul and John Nash, Mervyn Peake, John Piper and Graham Sutherland.[46] Artists employed on short-term contracts included Jacob Epstein, Laura Knight, L. S. Lowry, Henry Moore and Stanley Spencer.[47]
Although the pictures were in storage, Clark kept the National Gallery open to the public during the war, hosting a celebrated series of lunchtime and early evening concerts. They were the inspiration of the pianist Myra Hess, whose idea Clark greeted with delight, as a suitable way for the building to be "used again for its true purposes, the enjoyment of beauty."[48] There was no advance booking, and audience members were free to eat their sandwiches and walk in or out during breaks in the performance.[49] The concerts were an immediate and enormous success. The Musical Times commented, "Countless Londoners and visitors to London, civilian and service alike, came to look on the concerts as a haven of sanity in a distraught world."[50] 1,698 concerts were given to an aggregate audience of more than 750,000 people.[51] Clark instituted an additional public attraction of a monthly featured picture brought from storage and exhibited along with explanatory material. The institution of a "picture of the month" was retained after the war, and, at 2018, continues to the present day.[52]
In 1945, after overseeing the return of the collections to the National Gallery, Clark resigned as director, intending to devote himself to writing. During the war years he had published little. For the gallery he wrote a slim volume about Constable's The Hay Wain (1944); from a lecture he gave in 1944 he published a short treatise on Leon Battista Alberti's On Painting (1944). The following year he contributed an introduction and notes to a volume on Florentine paintings in a series of art books published by Faber and Faber. The three publications totalled fewer than eighty pages between them.[53]
Postwar[edit]
Piero della Francesca, subject of Clark's 1951 study
In July 1946 Clark was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford for a three-year term.[54] The post required him to give eight public lectures each year on the "History, Theory, and Practice of the Fine Arts".[55] The first holder of the professorship had been Ruskin; Clark took as his first subject Ruskin's tenure of the post.[56] James Stourton, Clark's authorised biographer, judges the appointment to be the most rewarding his subject ever held, and notes how, during this period Clark established himself as Britain's most sought-after lecturer, and wrote two of his finest books, Landscape into Art (1947) and Piero della Francesca (1951).[56][n 7] By this time Clark no longer hankered after a career in pure scholarship, but saw his role as sharing his knowledge and experience with the wide public.[57]
Clark served on numerous official committees during this period,[n 8] and helped to stage a ground-breaking exhibition in Paris of works by his friend and protégé Henry Moore. He was more in sympathy with modern painting and sculpture than with much of modern architecture. He admired Giles Gilbert Scott, Maxwell Fry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and others, but found many contemporary buildings mediocre.[59] Clark had been among the first to conclude that private patronage could no longer support the arts; during the war he had been a prominent member of the state-funded Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. When it was reconstituted as the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1945 he was invited to serve as a member of its executive committee, and as chairman of the council's arts panel.[60]
In 1953 Clark became the Arts Council's chairman. He held the post until 1960, but it was a frustrating experience for him; he found himself chiefly a figurehead. Moreover, he was concerned that the way the council went about funding the arts was in danger of damaging the individualism of the artists whom it supported.[2]
Broadcasting: administrator, 1954–1957[edit]
The year after becoming chairman of the Arts Council, Clark surprised many and shocked some by accepting the chairmanship of the new Independent Television Authority (ITA). It had been set up by the Conservative government to introduce ITV, commercial television, funded by advertising, as a rival to the British Broadcasting Corporation. Many of those opposed to the new broadcaster feared vulgarisation on the lines of American television,[61] and although Clark’s appointment reassured some, others thought his acceptance of the post a betrayal of artistic and intellectual standards.[62][n 9]
Clark was no stranger to broadcasting. He had appeared on air frequently from 1936, when he gave a radio talk on an exhibition of Chinese Art at Burlington House; the following year he made his television debut, presenting Florentine paintings from the National Gallery.[63] During the war he appeared regularly on BBC radio's The Brains Trust.[63] While presiding over the new ITA he generally kept off the air, and concentrated on keeping the new network going during its difficult early years. By the end of his three-year term as chairman, Clark was hailed as a success, but privately considered that there were too few high-quality programmes on the network. Lew Grade, who as chairman of Associated Television (ATV) held one of the ITV franchises, felt strongly that Clark should make arts programmes of his own, and as soon as Clark stood down as chairman in 1957, he accepted Grade's invitation. Stourton comments, "this was the true beginning of arguably his most successful career – as a presenter of the arts on television".[64]
Broadcasting: ITV, 1957–1966[edit]
Rembrandt, the last of Clark's "Five Revolutionary Painters" series (1960)
Clark's first series for ATV, Is Art Necessary?, began in 1958.[65] Both he and television were finding their way, and programmes in the series ranged from the stiff and studio-bound to a film in which Clark and Henry Moore toured the British Museum at night, flashing their torches at the exhibits.[66] When the series came to an end in 1959, Clark and the production team reviewed and refined their techniques for the next series, Five Revolutionary Painters, which attracted a considerable audience.[67] The British Film Institute observes:
With the television camera strolling among the paintings (by Goya, Breughel, Caravaggio, Van Gogh and Rembrandt) and the urbane, confident Clark conveying his tremendous knowledge in exceptionally clear English, the viewer was treated to the essence of what the painter saw in his creation (not an easy task in the era of black and white television).[68]
By the time in 1960 when he presented a programme about Picasso, Clark had further honed his presentational skills and came across as relaxed as well as authoritative.[67] Two series on architecture followed, culminating in a programme called The Royal Palaces of Britain in 1966, a joint venture by ITV and the BBC, described as "by far the most important heritage programme shown on British television to date".[69] The Guardian described Clark as "the ideal man for the job – scholarly, courtly and gently ironical".[70] The Royal Palaces, unlike its predecessors, was shot on 35mm colour film, but transmission was still in black and white, at which Clark chafed. The BBC was by this time planning to broadcast in colour, and his renewed contact with the corporation for this film paved the way for his eventual return to its schedules.[69] In the interim he remained with ITV for a 1966 series, Three Faces of France, featuring the works of Courbet, Manet and Degas.[71]
Civilisation, 1966–1969[edit]
Main article: Civilisation (TV series)
I had no clear idea what "civilisation" meant, but thought it was preferable to barbarism, and fancied that this was the moment to say so.
Clark on the genesis of Civilisation[72]
David Attenborough, the controller of the BBC's new second television channel, BBC2, was in charge of introducing colour broadcasting to the UK. He conceived the idea of a series about great paintings as the standard-bearer for colour television, and had no doubt that Clark would be much the best presenter for it.[73] Clark was attracted by the suggestion, but at first declined to commit himself. He later recalled that what convinced him that he should take part was Attenborough’s use of the word "civilisation" to sum up what the series would be about.[74]
The series consisted of thirteen programmes, each fifty minutes long, written and presented by Clark, covering western European civilisation from the end of the Dark Ages to the early twentieth century. As the civilisation under consideration excluded Graeco-Roman, Asian and other historically important cultures, a title was chosen that disclaimed comprehensiveness: Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark.[n 10] Although it focused chiefly on the visual arts and architecture, there were substantial sections about drama, literature, philosophy and socio-political movements. Clark wanted to include more about law and philosophy, but "I could not think of any way of making them visually interesting."[75]
After initial mutual antipathy, Clark and his principal director, Michael Gill, established a congenial working relationship. They and their production team spent three years from 1966 filming in a hundred and seventeen locations in thirteen countries.[76] The filming was to the highest technical standards of the day, and quickly went over budget; it cost £500,000 by the time it was complete.[77] Attenborough rejigged his broadcasting schedules to spread the cost.[78]
Scholars and academics had their understandable quibbles, but for the general public the series was something like a revelation. Art-museum exhibits in both England and the U.S. reported a surge of visitors following each episode.
The New Yorker on Civilisation[79]
There were complaints, then and later, that by focusing on a traditional choice of the great artists over the centuries – all men – Clark had neglected women,[80] and presented "a saga of noble names and sublime objects with little regard for the shaping forces of economics or practical politics".[68] His modus operandi was dubbed "the great man approach",[80] and he described himself on screen as a hero-worshipper and a stick-in-the-mud.[81] He commented that his outlook was "nothing striking, nothing original, nothing that could not have been written by an ordinary harmless bourgeois of the later nineteenth century":[82]
I hold a number of beliefs that have been repudiated by the liveliest intellects of our time. I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.[81]
Detail from Raphael's The School of Athens, reproduced on the cover of the book and DVD versions of Civilisation
The broadcaster Huw Wheldon believed that Civilisation was "a truly great series, a major work ... the first magnum opus attempted and realised in terms of TV."[83] There was a widespread view among critics, including some unsympathetic to Clark's selections, that the filming set new standards.[n 11] Civilisation attracted unprecedented viewing figures for a high art series: 2.5 million viewers in Britain and 5 million in the US.[75] Clark's accompanying book has never been out of print, and the BBC continued to sell thousands of copies of the DVD set of Civilisation every year.[86] In 2016, The New Yorker echoed the words of John Betjeman, describing Clark as "the man who made the best telly you’ve ever seen".[79]
The British Film Institute notes how Civilisation changed the shape of cultural television, setting the standard for later documentary series, from Alastair Cooke's America (1972) and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man (1973) to the present day.[68]
Later years: 1970–1983[edit]
Clark made a series of six programmes for ITV. They were collectively titled Pioneers of Modern Painting, directed by his son Colin. They were screened in November and December 1971, with a programme on each of Manet, Cezanne, Monet, Seurat, Rousseau, and Munch. Although they were shown on commercial television, there were no advertising breaks during each programme.[87] With the aid of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC acquired copies of the series and distributed them to colleges and universities throughout the US.[88]
Five years later, Clark returned to the BBC, presenting five programmes about Rembrandt. The series, directed by Colin Clark, considered various aspects of the painter's work, from his self-portraits to his biblical scenes. The National Gallery observes about this series, "These art history lectures are an authoritative study of Rembrandt and feature examples of his work from over fifty museums".[89]
Clark was chancellor of the University of York from 1967 to 1978 and a trustee of the British Museum.[2] During his last ten years he wrote thirteen books. As well as some drawn from his researches for his lectures and television series, there were two volumes of memoirs, Another Part of the Wood (1974) and The Other Half (1977). He was known throughout his life for his impenetrable façade and enigmatic character, which were reflected in the two autobiographical books: Piper describes them as "elegantly and subtly polished, at times very moving, often very funny [but] somewhat distanced, as if about someone else."[2]
In his last years Clark suffered from arteriosclerosis. He died at the age of seventy-nine in a nursing home in Hythe, Kent, after a fall.[90]
Family and personal life[edit]
In 1927 Clark married a fellow student, Elizabeth Winifred Martin, known as "Jane" (1902–1976), the daughter of Robert Macgregor Martin, a Dublin businessman, and his wife, Emily Winifred Dickson. The couple had three children: Alan, in 1928, and twins, Colette (known as Celly) and Colin, in 1932.[2]
Away from his official duties, Clark enjoyed what he described as "the Great Clark Boom" in the 1930s. He and his wife lived and entertained in considerable style in a large house in Portland Place. In Piper's words, "the Clarks in joint alliance became stars of London high society, intelligentsia, and fashion, from Mayfair to Windsor".[2]
The Clarks' marriage was devoted but stormy. Clark was a womaniser, and although Jane had love affairs, notably with the composer William Walton, she took some of her husband's extramarital relationships badly.[91] She suffered severe mood swings and later alcoholism and a stroke.[92] Clark remained firmly supportive of his wife during her decline.[2] The Clarks' relations with their three children were sometimes difficult, particularly with their elder son, Alan. He was regarded by his father as a fascist by conviction though also as the ablest member of the Clark family "parents included";[93] he became a Conservative member of parliament and junior minister, and a celebrated diarist.[94] The younger son, Colin, became a film-maker, who among other work directed his father in television series in the 1970s.[95] The twin daughter, Colette, became an official and board member of the Royal Opera House; she outlived her parents and brothers, and was the key source for James Stourton's authorised biography of her father, published in 2016.[96]
Saltwood Castle, Kent, bought by Clark in 1953
After the war, the Clarks lived in a large house in Hampstead. They moved in 1953 when Clark bought the Norman castle of Saltwood in Kent, which became the family home.[97] In his later years he passed the castle to his elder son, moving to a purpose-built house in the grounds.[98]
Jane Clark died in 1976. Her death was expected, but left Clark devastated. Several of his female friends hoped that he would marry them. His closest female friend, across many years, was Janet Stone, wife of the engraver Reynolds Stone; in common with Clark's daughter and sons, she was dismayed when he announced his intention to marry Nolwen de Janzé-Rice (1924–1989), daughter of Frederic and Alice de Janzé.[99] The family felt that Clark was acting precipitately in marrying someone he had not known well for very long, but the wedding took place in November 1977.[99] Clark and his second wife remained together until his death.[90]
Beliefs[edit]
Clark's political views were moderately left-of centre; he was a lifelong Labour voter.[80] This was consistent with his upbringing, despite the family wealth: his parents were Liberal in outlook, and Ruskin's social and political views influenced the young Clark.[100] His religious outlook was unconventional, but he believed in the divine, rejected atheism, and found the Church of England too secular in its outlook.[101][n 12] Shortly before his death he was received into the Roman Catholic Church.[102][103]
Honours and legacy[edit]
Awards and memorials[edit]
State and other honours received by Clark included Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1938; Fellow of the British Academy, 1949, Companion of Honour, 1959; life peerage, 1969; Companion of Literature, 1974; and the Order of Merit 1976. Overseas honours included Commander of the Legion of Honour, France; Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland and the Order of Merit, Austria.[104]
Clark was elected a member or honorary member of the Conseil Artistique des Musées Nationaux of France; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the American Institute of Architects. the Swedish Academy; the Spanish Academy; the Florentine Academy; the Académie française; and the Institut de France.[104] He was awarded honorary degrees by the universities of Bath, Cambridge, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Oxford, Sheffield, Warwick, York, and in the US Columbia and Brown universities.[104] He was an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal College of Art.[104] Other honours and awards included Serena Medal of the British Academy (for Italian Studies); the Gold Medal and Citation of Honour of New York University; and the US National Gallery of Art Medal.[104] Clark's old school, Winchester College, holds an annual art history speaking competition for the Kenneth Clark Prize. The winner of the competition is awarded a golden Lord Clark Medal sculpted by a fellow Old Wykehamist, Anthony Smith.[105] At the Courtauld Institute in London, the lecture theatre is named in Clark's honour.[106]
Reputation[edit]
In 2014 The Tate held the "Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation" exhibition, highlighting Clark's impact "as one of the most influential figures in British art of the twentieth century". The exhibition, drawing on works from Clark's personal collection and many other sources, examined his role as "a patron and collector, art historian, public servant and broadcaster ... bringing art in the twentieth century to a more popular audience".[107] The BBC called him "arguably the most influential figure in 20th century British art".[108]
Clark knew that his broadly traditional view of art would be anathema to the Marxist element in the artistic world, and was unsurprised when he was attacked by younger critics, notably John Berger, in the 1970s.[75] Clark's reputation among critics in the twenty-first century is higher for his books and television series than for his consistency as a collector. At the time of the Tate celebration of Clark in 2014, the critic Richard Dorment commented that both in his public and private capacity Clark made many fine purchases but also many errors. In addition to the Previtali Scenes from Tebaldeo's Eclogues, Dorment lists works misattributed by Clark to Michelangelo, Pontormo, Elsheimer and Claude, and a Seurat and a Corot that were genuine but poor examples of the artists' work.[16] Other critics agreed with the conclusion that Clark's most lasting achievements were as a writer and populariser.
Among his books is "the best introduction to the art of Leonardo da Vinci ever written".[16] Piper singles out, in addition to the Leonardo monograph, Clark's Piero della Francesca (1951), The Nude (1956, based on his Mellon lectures in Washington in 1953), and Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance (1966 from his Wrightsman lectures in New York).[2] The critic Jackie Wullschlager wrote in 2014 that it was as a writer rather than a collector that Clark excelled: "unrivalled since Ruskin for lucidity, erudition, moral conviction".[109] James Hall, in The Guardian, expressed a similar view, calling Clark "the most seductive writer on art since Ruskin and Pater ... Today, when most art historians write as joylessly as lawyers and accountants, such verve is sorely needed."[110]
Books by Clark[edit]
The Gothic Revival (1928)
Catalogue of Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle (1935, 2 vols)
One Hundred Details in the National Gallery (1938)
Last Lectures by Roger Fry, edited with an introduction (1939)
Leonardo da Vinci: An Account of his development as an Artist (1939, rev. ed. 1952 and 1967)
Constable’s Hay Wain (1944)
L. B. Alberti on Painting (1944)
Florentine Painting: The Fifteenth Century (1945)
Introduction to Praeterita (1949)
Landscape into Art (1949, adapted from his Slade Lectures)
Piero della Francesca (1951)
Moments of Vision (1954, the Romanes Lecture for 1954)
The Nude: a study in ideal form (1956 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered in 1953)
Looking at Pictures (1960 and 1972)
Ruskin Today (1964)
Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance (1966)
A Failure of Nerve (1967)
The Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle (1968–1969, with Carlo Pedretti, 3 vols)
Civilisation: A Personal View (1969, book version of the television series)
The Artist Grows Old – Rede Lecture (1972)
Westminster Abbey (1972)
Blake and Visionary Art (1973)
Romantic versus Classic Art (1973)
The Romantic Rebellion (1973, book version of the television series)
Another Part of the Wood: A Self-Portrait (1974 )
Henry Moore Drawings (1974)
The Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante’s Divine Comedy (1976)
The Other Half: A Self-Portrait (1977)
Animals and Men (1977)
The Best of Aubrey Beardsley (1978)
An Introduction to Rembrandt (1979)
What is a Masterpiece? (1979)
Feminine Beauty (1980)
The Art of Humanism (1983)
Source: Who's Who.[104]
Notes, references and sources[edit]
^ Clark noted in his memoirs that his birthplace later became the site of the American Embassy[1]
^ Clark senior is thought by some to have been the inspiration for the popular song The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.[5]
^ Clark's biographer James Stourton writes, "His debt to Ruskin can never be sufficiently emphasised, and it informed many of his interests: the Gothic Revival, J. M. W. Turner, socialism, and the belief that art criticism can be a branch of literature. But above all, Ruskin taught Clark that art and beauty are everyone's birthright – and he took that message into the twentieth century.[15]
^ At the National Gallery, Clark was responsible for a collection of about 2,000 paintings: the royal collection numbered 7,000.[31]
^ In their letter of congratulation on his appointment as director, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant had expressed the hope that he would remove the glass from every picture in the gallery.[37]
^ Relations between Clark and his subordinates had been tense for some years: two of his senior officials, Harold Kay and Martin Davies, felt their autonomy undermined by what they saw as Clark's dictatorial management style.[43]
^ In 1961, by when the appointment was for an annual term, Clark was again Slade Professor at Oxford.[2]
^ Stourton lists the British Committee on the Preservation and Restitution of Works of Art; the governing council of the Bath Institute of Art; the governing body of the Courtauld; the Council of the Festival of Britain; and the Royal Fine Art Commission.[58]
^ Clark recalled being booed at his London club, the Athenaeum, after the appointment was announced, although some doubt has been cast on the reliability of his memory on this point.[2]
^ In the book derived from the series Clark wrote, "I didn’t suppose that anyone would be so obtuse as to think that I had forgotten about the great civilisations of the pre-Christian era and the East. However, I confess the title has worried me. It would have been easy in the eighteenth century: Speculations on the Nature of Civilisation as illustrated by the Phases of Civilised Life in Western Europe from the Dark Ages to Present Day. Unfortunately, this is no longer practicable."[74]
^ The series was described as "visually stunning" by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, including Paul B. Harvey in the US and Mary Beard in Britain.[80][84] In 2011 Jonathan Jones wrote in The Guardian of Civilisation's "sheer visual beauty ... the camerawork and direction ... rise to the poetry of cinema".[85]
^ Clark's widow said that her husband always had a profound Christian sensitivity, and that whenever he went into a church in search of works of art he would first kneel and pray.[102]
^ a b c Clark (1974), p. 1
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^ Stourton, p. 7
^ Secrest, p. 18
^ Secrest, p. 6
^ Clark, (1974), p. 25
^ Coleman, Terry. "Lord Clark", The Guardian, 26 November 1977, p. 9
^ "Obituary: Lord Clark", The Times, 23 May 1983, p. 16
^ Hotta-Lister, pp. 183–184
^ Stourton, p. 15
^ Torrance, p. 13; and "Battlefields of Winchester", Country Life, 6 April 1989, p. 183
^ Secrest, p. 39; and Stourton, p. 25
^ a b c Dorment, Richard. "Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation, review" Archived 14 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The Telegraph, 19 May 2014
^ "The Gothic Mood", The Observer, 24 February 1929, p. 6
^ "Berenson, Bernard", Dictionary of Art Historians, retrieved 18 June 2017
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^ Stourton, pp. 80–81
^ Clark, (1974), p. 201
^ "Term Opens at Oxford", The Observer, 1 October 1933, p. 24
^ "Ashmolean Museum: Lord Halifax Opens New Gallery", The Observer, 3 June 1934, p. 24
^ Harrison, Colin. "Kenneth Clark at the Ashmolean", The Ashmolean, Spring 2006, quoted in Stourton, p. 83
^ Clifton-Taylor, Alec, rev. Rosemary Mitchell. "Constable, William George (1887–1976)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, retrieved 18 June 2017 (subscription or UK public library membership required); and Stourton, pp. 89–90
^ Stansky, p. 189
^ Stansky, pp. 189–190; and Stourton, p. 90
^ Cumming, p. 144
^ Stourton, p. 100
^ Stourton, pp. 1–2
^ "Surveyor of the King's Pictures", The Times, 4 July 1934, p. 14
^ "The King's Pictures", The Times, 28 April 1945, p. 4
^ a b c "Kenneth Clark at 70" Archived 27 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 115, No. 844 (July 1973), pp. 415–416 (subscription required)
^ Constable, W. G. "Cleaning and Care of the National Gallery Pictures", Nature, 31 July 1948
^ "News in Brief", The Times, 17 April 1936, p. 10; and 30 April 1937, p. 13
^ a b Cast, David. "Clark, Kenneth", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 18 June 2017 (subscription required)
^ Clark, Kenneth "The Future of Painting", The Listener, 2 October 1935, pp. 543–545
^ Watson F. J. B. "Kenneth Clark (1903–1983)" Archived 27 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 125, No. 968 (November 1983), pp. 690–691 (subscription required)
^ a b c d "Scenes from Tebaldeo's Eclogues" Archived 7 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine, National Gallery, retrieved 18 June 2017
^ Conlin, p. 158
^ a b "The Gallery in wartime" Archived 5 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The National Gallery, retrieved 18 June 2017
^ Stourton, pp. 178–179, and 184
^ Foss, pp. 196–201
^ Foss, p. 202
^ "The Myra Hess Concerts: How the concerts started (1)" Archived 30 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, National Gallery, retrieved 18 June 2017
^ "The Myra Hess Concerts: How the concerts started (2)" Archived 5 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, National Gallery, retrieved 18 June 2017
^ Ferguson, Howard. "Dame Myra Hess" Archived 27 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The Musical Times, Vol. 107, No. 1475 (January 1966), p. 59 (subscription required)
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^ "Sir Kenneth Clark's Appointment", The Times, 25 July 1946, p. 4
^ "Slade Professorship of Fine Art" Archived 25 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine, University of Oxford, retrieved 21 June 2017
^ a b Stourton, pp. 224–225
^ Rothenstein, p. 48
^ Stourton, pp. 234–235
^ "Sir Kenneth Clark", The Manchester Guardian, 24 June 1945, p. 4; and "The Arts Council", The Manchester Guardian, 29 August 1946, p. 4
^ Secrest, p. 196
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^ "Sir Kenneth Clark", The Observer, 30 March 1958, p. 3
^ "The Spotlight on Statuary: Museum at midnight", The Manchester Guardian, 18 March 1958, p. 7; and Stourton, pp. 282–283
^ a b c Vahimagi, Tise. "Clark, Sir Kenneth (1903–1983)" Archived 8 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine, British Film Institute, retrieved 22 June 2017
^ Grigg, John. "Beyond the balcony", The Guardian, 29 December 1966, p. 12
^ "A Little Learning is an Entertaining Thing", The Times, 23 April 1966, p. 7
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^ a b Clark, (1969), p. xvii
^ a b c Hearn, p. 16
^ Hearn, p. 11
^ Hearn, p, 12
^ a b Meis, Morgan. "The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation" Archived 27 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine, The New Yorker, 21 December 2016
^ a b c d Beard, Mary, "Kenneth Clark by James Stourton: review" Archived 21 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 1 October 2016
^ a b Clark, 1969, pp. 346–347
^ Harvey, Paul B. "The Art of Being Civilised" Archived 27 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Archaeology, Vol. 59, No. 5 (September/October 2006), pp. 52–53. (subscription required)
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Armenian parliament is the highest legislative branch of the government of Armenia. The history and formation of this body comes from ancient times.
National Assembly of Republic of Armenia, or as we call most frequently, the Armenian Parliament is called “Azgajin Zhoghov” in Armenian.
You’ll know more details of the highest legislative branch of Armenia in this article, including its formation history, legislation, members and elections.
There is more to know. In December 2015, after the national referendum, Armenia changed its constitution and became a parliamentary republic, instead of former semi-presidential. But you probably wonder when exactly the new constitution starts to work?
These changes bring tones of question concerning the role of the head of the state, MPs, etc. So, let’s answer them all!
Some Must-Know Facts about Armenian Parliament
Armenian Parliament hall after being remodeled
Armenian Parliament was known as Supreme Council of Armenia until 1995, as Armenia was a part of the Soviet Union.
Nowadays Armenian Parliament is a unicameral body, which consists of 131 members.
The members of Armenian Parliament are comprised by elections, which are held every 5 years.
The current speaker of Armenian Parliament is Galust Sahakyan.
As a whole, according to the latest changes in constitution, Armenian Parliament must consist of at least 101 seats. In some rare extreme cases, there might be 200 seats.
Those parties who want to be included in the mandate distribution must pass the threshold of 5 % and coalitions 7% in order to be included in mandate distribution.
The election system reserves 50% of votes.
By the way, the representatives of the same sex must not be more than the 70 % of all members.
Another 50% of votes received by each party is distributed among their territorial lists, which is submitted in 13 electoral districts.
However, the process of elections sometimes gets complicated. If none of the parties wins the 50% of votes, there must be the 2 round of elections carried out.
Already in the 2nd round of elections, the party which wins and gains the majority of votes, receives access to Armenian Parliament.
Ruling Parties in the Armenian Parliament and Committees
(From left to right) Logos of Republican party and Prosperous Armenia Party
Today the overwhelming majority party in Armenian Parliament is the Republican party. On the second place is Prosperous Armenia.
Though there are quite a lot of parties in Armenia, only few of them are represented in National Assembly of Armenia. This is because, either they are not active, or they are not able to gain vote during the elections.
There are number of committees in Armenian Parliament, which are specialized in some definite issues. Besides the main committees there are also temporary committees, which are called Ad-hoc committees. These committees are created to discuss issues which are not covered by the existing committees.
Armenia is on its Way to Becoming Parliamentary Republic
Current Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan. In case the Republican Party gains the majority in Parliament after the elections, Karen Karapetyan will become the most powerful political leader of the country. Since the role of prime-minister is more crucial than president’s according to new constitution.
According to the constitutional referendum in 2015, Armenia is planned to become a parliamentary republic.
The latest parliamentary elections were held in 2 April 2017. Only four parties/alliances made it to the new parliament. The results are the following:
Republican party (49.15%)
“Tsarukyan” alliance (27.37%)
“Yelq” alliance (7.78%)
Armenian Revolutionary Federation (HHD-Dashnaktsutiun) (6.58%)
Before the election, Armenia is considered to be a semi-presidential republic yet. According to these changes, the head and the main power of the governing of the country is passed to the parliament of the country.
Consequently, the party members which gain the most of the votes have special advantage of majority in the Armenian parliament.
As the process of passing the law and gaining special decisions from now on will be held by the elections, those parties which are majority in the parliament, can easily pass their will with the help of votes.
The members can introduce themselves either as parties or coalitions. Several parties may gather under the same idea and form coalition. In this case, gaining votes will be much easier.
The upcoming parliamentary will include 101 seats. The special privileges gained during the elections will give the parties and members of coalitions introduce their benefits in Armenian Parliament and foster their further progress in fulfilling them.
The latest referendum of December 2015 reduces the seats of Armenian parliament from 131 to 101, all of which will be elected by proportional representation.
The change from the presidential republic to parliamentary was not accepted by Armenians unanimously. The changes raised two different opinions in the society. Some were for the changes and others preferred to remain in semi-presidential republic. Even though, the referendum proved that still the majority of population was for passing into the parliamentary republic system.
Armenian Parliament and Foreign Relations
Current Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Galust Sahakyan
Armenian Parliament is actively in collaboration with number of international committees and organizations, such as:
EU-Armenia Parliamentary committee
Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy
Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation
Parliamentary Assembly of NATO, etc.
Besides international organizations, Armenian parliament is also engaged in friendship groups with different countries. This kind of collaboration is a way of active interaction between two or more countries.
Today’s speaker of Armenian Parliament is Galust Sahakyan, who succeeded Hovik Abrahamyan in 2014.
The Most Horrific and also Funniest Events in Armenian Parliament
Though Armenian Parliament is the highest legislative body and consequently the questions discussed there are the questions of extreme importance, sometimes there are cases which happened unexpectedly including both fun and horrific ones.
The fun incidents may include minor arguments between two political parties, which is flavored with humorous interruptions of speaker of Armenian Parliament Galust Sahakyan.
However, one of the most memorable of terrifying event happened in modern Armenian history was the Armenian Parliament shooting.
Here you can watch the footage of the shootings.
It was a terrorist attack on the National Assembly of Armenia on October 27, 1999 by a group of 5 armed men. During the terrorist attack, the major political powers of Armenia and other members of Parliament were killed, such as Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Speaker of the Parliament Karen Demirchyan. Number of other members of Parliament who became the innocent victims of this dreadful attack.
The terrorist attack of 27 October remains one of the most controversial conspiracy theories till our day. The riddle of those events still remains unsolved. Who were the real initiators of Armenian Parliament shooting? This question is the top mystery of modern Armenian history.
In 2010 Armenian Parliament was reconstructed and officially opened already on October 22. The opening ceremony took place with participation of president of Armenia Serzh Sarkisyan, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the speaker of Armenian Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan and other members.
The sitting hall of constructed in oval structure, which reminds round table debates.
Those Who Want to Visit the Most Powerful Institution in Armenia!
Old design of the Armenian Parliament
The National Assembly of Armenia is situated on Baghramyan street. Baghramyan street is known as the “Diplomatic street” of Yerevan. Wonder why?
Just because most of foreign embassies are situated here. But that’s not all. The official residence of the president of Republic of Armenia, National Assembly and many other international organizations are here too.
The official address of National Assembly of Armenia is 19 Baghramyan street, Yerevan, Armenia. It’s about 5-10-minute walk from the Opera house. So, during your walk in the center of Yerevan, don’t miss the chance to take a look at the Armenian parliament!
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Remember those generally rural, usually idealistic, and mostly unsustainable experimental communes a fair number of Boomers flocked to – at least temporarly – in the ’60s and ’70s?
I certainly do. I was invited to visit a northern California commune for a week or so, in order to write a story for my newspaper column about women living out-of-the-ordinary lives. The woman in this case was named Laraine. Her commune consisted of five or six families occupying a large farm, which one family inherited from a childless uncle.
Laraine, who had a burly husband with a bushy beard and two adorable little children who never seemed to wear shoes, was trained as a biochemist. But she’d traded in labs and test tubes for a small herd of goats, a magnificent vegetable garden, and a healthy life of self-sufficiency.
This was pre-Internet, of course, but the collective families had decided to ban television and newspapers and weren’t too keen on music, either. They grew – or slaughtered – all their own food, made all their own clothing, and home-schooled their kids, way before anybody else thought of doing it.
They were idealistic, earnest, and more than a tad priggish. I found them quite interesting and in some ways, quite admirable. But I finished my assignment with a sigh of relief and without the slightest desire to live the way they did.
Fast forward to today and another northern Californian, Scott Adams.
Scott, a Marin County architect and housing expert, believes the idea of communal living – albeit sophisticated and even luxurious communal living – could start to appeal to Baby Boomers again. He’s among a group of thinkers – architects, planners, economists, and sociologists – lately enamored of a concept called co-housing, which first arose in Europe and is now spreading throughout the world, including the US.
Think of co-housing as a ’70s commune with a coat of white-collar polish. Or a monastery without the monks and religion. Or maybe a condominium complex with the real estate aspect seriously altered.
While co-housing communities often look like your average neighborhood condos – they typically comprise 20-50 residences and townhouse architecture is popular – they differ considerably from other forms of real estate in how they evolve, grow, and what they mean to those who own them.
Intentional Utopias
“People don’t opt into a co-housing arrangement after the fact,” explains Scott. “A group of people come together with the intention of forming a community. They purchase the land, hire the architects and builders, decide on the features and amenities they want, and are involved in every aspect of the community’s development and subsequent growth.”
There’s considerable flexibility in this basic model, making each co-housing arrangement unique. Some communities are multi-generational; some are not. Some welcome children; some do not. Some share professional interests, as in intentional communities of artists, teachers, or even computer programmers.
Scott’s recently-formed company, Communities International, is focused specifically on co-housing arrangements for Boomers, which he thinks will become increasingly popular from now on.
“Yes, Boomers are angry, partly because of financial reverses,” he says. “But they are also disillusioned, because so many sources of emotional support may have failed them, too. Many have been ‘outsourced’ or ‘downsized’ from corporate communities. Others are divorced or widowed. People have chosen to be childless, or children and other relatives may live far away. The world is simply not as socially supportive as it once was, and a feeling of isolation seems to be widespread among the Boomer generation.”
Some studies show that aging within a close-knit community can help prolong one’s life, as well as rendering it happier. “My own family experience supports this thesis,” says Scott, who fondly remembers the small town of Allegan, Michigan, where his aunts, uncles, grandparents, and great-grandparents lived and died.
“My grandfather Adams lived with his sister into his late 80s, surrounded by five daughters and their children. My grandmother Herman lived in the same house since she was 18, and after my grandfather died, she had three sisters as near neighbors.”
A Vineyard in Your Future? – Possibly in Mexico?
But not everyone is so lucky these days. Both Scott’s mother and former mother-in-law died in nursing homes. And the incident which inspired the formation of Communities International ended on a down note.
Seven years ago, a group of several professional couples and singles, Scott among them, attempted to build a community in rural Sonoma County, California, which would be based on the plan of a Japanese country village with a central garden. All of them were friends of a wonderful man named Jerry, an astronomy professor who had just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “The idea was that we would all take care of Jerry as his illness progressed and take care of each other as we aged as well,” relates Scott.
But Sonoma County zoning laws at that time worked against them. “A wealthy person could get permission to build one 12,000 square foot home. But we couldn’t get permission to buy land jointly and build seven small homes totaling 10,000 square feet.” The potential community disbanded, and Jerry, now unable to talk, lives isolated in a small nursing home, with only occasional visitors.
This incident inspired Scott to turn his full attention to promoting co-housing and eventually building new communities. This fall, he is teaching a workshop on the co-housing concept at a local college. Communities International should launch its first Boomer-planned and Boomer-built project within the next 18 months.
One possibility is a community sited in a vineyard. “That fulfills a dream of many California Boomers,” he says. “Monastic communities have been based at vineyards for centuries. And members of the community could theoretically offset some of their living costs by running the winemaking operation as a business.”
Another possibility that appeals to many Boomers is a co-housing project for small business owners. There are already many neighborhoods where small business owners live in townhomes above the shops, restaurants, or professional businesses they operate. There’s no reason such an entrepreneurial neighborhood concept should not work well within a co-housing framework, with Boomer small business owners banding together to buy and plan the community in which they’ll both live and work.
As the housing market recovers, co-housing projects which need to be financed may be as appealing to potential lenders as they are to potential owners, Scott believes. “A major concern of every lender is ‘Will units in a particular project sell, and will the project be fully occupied?’ That’s never a problem with co-housing, because you know you have 100 percent occupancy before the ground is broken.”
In addition to US locations, Scott’s company is scouting out sites in Latin America, including Mexico. “Land use regulations tend to be very favorable,” he says. “Cost-of-living is often far lower, and there are active groups of ex-patriates in many locales.”
Scott believes that, paradoxically, the financial and political shocks of the past few years may prove to be beneficial to Boomers in the long run, because many have begun to rethink their futures in a positive way.
“Boomers now know it’s important to economize, to feel secure, and to be proactive about their futures, instead of just reacting to what life throws at them,” he comments. “Co-housing can be cheaper than many other alternatives, yet with more amenities and greater safety and security. It can provide a base for continued employment and productive endeavors. And communities can expand and change as residents age, according to their needs and desires.
“It’s an attractive concept in virtually every way.”
Could a “sophisticated commune” be part of your future?
What type of community might appeal to you most?
Would a project based on common professional or entrepreneurial goals interest you?
How about a co-housing project in Latin America or another ex-patriate haven?
Is isolation as you age a concern of yours? If so, what steps are you taking to combat it?
For the next story in the series, “Re-Engineered to Smithereens,” please go to: http://wp.me/pxD3J-B
For the Introduction to the Baby Boomers-The Angriest Generation series: http://wp.me/pxD3J-3
For our hard-hitting article on Anti-Boomer Propaganda and How To Combat It, please visit: http://wp.me/pxD3J-8
Filed in Architecture, Baby Boomers, Economics, Political Action, Series, Social Issues
Tags: "BabyBoomers-The Angriest Generation", Angriest Generation, Angry Baby Boomers, Angry Boomers, Angry Generation, Architecture, Baby Boomers, Boomers, Co-Housing, Communes, Communities, Countering Isolation, Dr. Ellen Brandt, Ellen Brandt, Ellen Brandt Ph.D., Emotional Support, Ex-Patriates, Housing Development, Housing in Mexico, Housing Innovation, Intentional Communities, Intentional Utopias, Isolation, Latin American Housing, Marin County, Mexico, Scott Adams, Small Towns, Social Support Systems, Sonoma County, Sophisticated Utopia, Utopia, Vineyards
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Mass Production of iPhones To Start In India
Apple is poised to begin mass production of iPhones in India this year, according to Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou. This marks a big shift for the largest assembler of Apple’s handsets that has long concentrated production in China. Bloomberg reports: Gou said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited him to India as his Taiwanese company plans its expansion in the country. Apple has had older phones produced at a plant in Bangalore for several years, but now will expand manufacturing to more recent models. Bloomberg News reported this month that Foxconn is ready to start trial production of the latest iPhones in the country before it starts full-scale assembly at its factory outside the southern city of Chennai.
India has become the fastest-growing smartphone market in the world, while China stagnates and Apple loses share to local competitors such as Huawei Technologies Co. and Xiaomi Corp. Apple has been a minor player in India, in part because of its high prices, but local manufacturing would help the Cupertino, California-based company avoid import duties of 20 percent. It’s not yet clear how Apple’s steps into India will affect its China operations. China has been the company’s most important manufacturing base for years, home to Foxconn’s biggest facilities and hundreds of other partners.
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