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The not so Young British Artists: All 2017 Turner Prize nominees are aged over 40
Shortlisted artists (from left) Rosalind Nashashibi, Andrea Buttner, Lubaina Himid and Hurvin Anderson
Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor
3 May 2017 • 9:33am
Anita Singh
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize is no longer the preserve of the Young British Artist, with everyone on the 2017 shortlist aged over 40 - and the oldest aged 62.
The rules of the competition were changed this year to remove the upper age limit of 50.
Lubaina Himid is the oldest person to be nominated for the prize.
Himid, 62, from Preston, is professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire, and her works celebrate black creativity.
They include life-size cut-outs illustrating and satirizing colonial power. Himid also has an ongoing series doctoring front pages of The Guardian.
Lubaina Himid's Navigation Charts at Spike Island in Bristol
Another artist tackling black history is Hurvin Anderson, 52, of Jamaican descent, who was born in Birmingham and is now based in London.
His paintings draw from his own childhood: a barbershop interior decorated with images of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and an image of his brother scrumping for apples displayed alongside a child climbing a mango tree in Jamaica.
Andrea Buttner, 45, is a German artist whose work spans printmaking, sculpture, painting, film and collaborative projects.
It includes images of beggars and colourful blow-ups of the greasy fingerprints left on iPhone screens.
The shortlist is completed by Rosalind Nashashibi, 43, a Londoner who works primarily in film and has been nominated for two projects: Electrical Gaza and Vivian's Garden.
Hurvin Anderson's Is it OK to be Black
Andrea Buttner's exhibition at Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen in Switzerland
A scene from Electrical Gaza by Rosalind Nashashibi
All the artists have had "stand-out" shows in the past year, according to the jury.
Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Modern and jury chairman, said: "I think we can safely acknowledge that artists can experience a breakthrough at any age without any risk of the prize becoming a lifetime achievement award. This year’s shortlist is a case in point: two of the four artists on this year’s list are over 50. They all had breakthrough years in 2017.”
Mason Leaver-Yap, curator and member of the judging panel, added: "There has been a tendency within the Turner Prize to showcase younger work. I don't think it was a conscious decision to turn away from that, but to embrace a new maturity across a broader spectrum.
"I think it's good not to fetishize newness and think solely in terms of finding new voices but to find voices that have, and have had, something to say but may not have received the national visibility that they deserve.
An exhibition of work by the shortlisted artists will open at Ferens Art Gallery in Hull on September 26 and the winner will be announced at an award ceremony on December 5.
The Turner Prize was once the preserve of the Young British Artists - most famously Tracey Emin’s unmade bed and Damien Hirst’s pickled cow.
Tracey Emin with her famous unmade bed Credit: Paul Grover for The Telegraph
Damien Hirst's pickled cow
The shake-up of the rules came after several years in which critics questioned the relevance of the prize.
It has failed to make much of an impression since the early 2000s, when the winning installations included Martin Creed’s lights going on and off and Grayson Perry’s pots.
Farquharson said the idea to scrap the upper age limit "was something we've been thinking about for a number of years" and was implemented after discussion with this year's jury.
Recent Turner Prize winners
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The Unmapped Country: Deborah Levy, Juliet Jacques & Jennifer Hodgson on Ann Quin
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Join London Review Bookshop for a celebration of radical 1960s writer Ann Quin, whose previously unpublished stories and fragments have been collected together for the first time in The Unmapped Country (fellow Sheffielders and Northern Fiction Allies And Other Stories). Her four novels, written much against the grain of British social realist fiction of the 60's and 70's, have been largely neglected by the mainstream, but have been an inspiration to many experimental writers both here and abroad. Two of her admirers, novelist and essayist Deborah Levy and writer and critic Juliet Jacques, will be joined in conversation about her life and work by Jennifer Hodgson, editor of The Unmapped Country. Tickets £10.
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Can’t have you, can’t get this song out of my head
Shawn Mendes’ latest song, “If I can’t have you” is a perfect, laid-back pop song.
Pictured above is the cover of Shawn Mendes’ latest single, “If I can’t have you.” According to Mendes, the song isn’t the start of a new album, but he’s still working on the next one.
Nidhi Chilukuri, Staff Writer
Filed under Entertainment, New on tjTODAY
“Is it too late to tell you that
Everything means nothing if I can’t have you?”
If there’s one word to describe Shawn Mendes’ latest single, its catchy. As a fan of Mendes and his music, I had high expectations for “If I can’t have you” even before I heard it. And fortunately, those expectations were more than fulfilled.
The upbeat song begins and ends with its catchy chorus, “Everything means nothing if I can’t have you.” While it doesn’t come with a lot of showy, over-the-top notes, Mendes puts in enough emotion to keep the listener hooked. Plus, it has a very laid-back edge to it. In some ways, it reminded me of “There’s nothing holding me back,” another one of his more upbeat, confident singles.
Interestingly, “If I can’t have you” wasn’t even meant for Shawn Mendes’ voice. Instead, he’d wanted singer Dua Lipa to sing it, but it ended up not working out so he decided to sing the song himself. Personally, I’m glad he did because he did a great job with it.
If you think back to last year, there is a high chance you remember “In my blood”, which was the leading single in Shawn Mendes. But while “In my blood” was a soulful, powerful song that pulled at your heartstrings, “If I can’t have you” has a much lighter, cheerful tone. In fact, it gives off a very different impression of what his next album is going to be like, and I’m definitely hoping for another upbeat summer song!
Put simply, “If I can’t have you” is a fun, incredibly catchy song and is perfect for your summer playlist. It’s also a startling contrast to the his previous album, so if you haven’t heard it yet, make sure you give it a try. There’s a high chance you’ll have it committed to memory after just one listen.
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'It's a silent conversation': authors and translators on their unique relationship
From Man Booker International winner Olga Tokarczuk to partners Ma Jian and Flora Drew … leading authors and translators discuss the highs and lows of cross-cultural collaboration
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Sat 6 Apr 2019 03.59 EDT Last modified on Fri 12 Apr 2019 10.27 EDT
Soul mates … English language translator Flora Drew with Chinese author Ma Jian. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer
On the night of last year’s Man Booker International prize ceremony, two winners swept up to the podium – novelist Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft – but a third was back at their table cheering louder than anyone. “I was thrilled to bits, I still am,” says Antonia Lloyd-Jones. What makes this unusual is that Lloyd-Jones is the Polish author’s other translator, who has been working with her far longer, but wasn’t responsible for the winning novel, Flights. With a shared purse of £50,000 at stake, was there not even the tiniest bit of envy? “We’re a team – of course it’s Olga and Jennifer’s win, not mine, but it’s great for all of us who have spent years trying to popularise her books outside Poland, and it’s great for Polish literature in translation,” says Lloyd-Jones. “This was a major breakthrough after almost 30 years of work. And it has done sales of my own translations a lot of good.” Nifty scheduling by the indie publisher Fitzcarraldo has meant that these include Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, a quirky eco-thriller very different from Flights, which has won Tokarczuk her second Man Booker International prize longlisting. This year’s shortlist will be announced on Tuesday.
It’s not just Polish novels that are enjoying a boost. Sales of fiction in translation were up in the UK by 5.5% last year, with sales of translated literary fiction increasing by 20%. As the UK turns inwards, caught up in an increasingly bitter fight over leaving the EU, readers are looking outwards, with literature from mainland Europe accounting for a large part of the growth. Jacques Testard, who publishes Tokarczuk, is part of a new wave of independent publishers who hope for further integration of translated fiction into the mainstream, pointing out that it is only in the UK that foreign literature is corralled into a separate compartment from that originally written in English. “In France, where a fifth of all books are published in translations, you’ll find Balzac and Bolaño, Calvino and Carrère on the same shelf in bookshops. It’s only in the Anglosphere that it gets set apart.”
That separation is in evidence in the awards world, as well as the bookshop, with the Man Booker International the biggest among a host of grants and prizes for fiction in translation. How did Croft and Lloyd-Jones decide who would take responsibility for the Tokarczuk novel that eventually went on to win? “It’s a matter of trust,” says Tokarczuk. “I’m definitely not the right translator for Flights,” says Lloyd-Jones, “but when it came to Drive Your Plow, Olga said I should do it. She joked that, at 57, she and I are more like [the eccentric narrator] Duszejko, and, well, there’s some truth in that.”
‘A matter of trust’ … Translators Antonia Lloyd‑Jones, left, and Jennifer Croft, middle, and novelist Olga Tokarczuk.
Team Tokarczuk might be close but they are not as intimately connected as the Chinese novelist Ma Jian and his translator Flora Drew, who is also the mother of their four children. “Flora is the only person who has translated my books into English. She came to interview me in Hong Kong on the eve of the handover. Her Chinese was very good, so I gave her copies of my books, and said, half-jokingly, that she could translate them into English if she liked. It was a strange thing to say, but there was feeling of destiny,” says the novelist. Their most recent collaboration was on China Dream, a ferocious satire charting the mental breakdown of a corrupt local government official. It was published in English last autumn but is unlikely ever to be read in the original Chinese – which Ma nevertheless regards as the master copy – because censorship in China is now so extreme that even Hong Kong publishers no longer dare defy the ban that has long prevented his novels from being published on the mainland.
I never feel I’m translating the words of the person I’ve just had supper with. Knowing him so well though means I can in some strange way become him
Flora Drew, on Ma Jian
Ma speaks little English, so he talks through Drew in life as well as work. Is it a challenge to separate the professional from the domestic? “The Ma Jian I translate is a very different entity from the Ma Jian I live with,” says Drew. “There is never any confusion. I never feel I’m translating the words of the person I’ve just had supper with, or who’s just taken our children to the park. Knowing him so well though means I can in some strange way become him, and write the translation not as a friend or a translator, but as Ma would if he were writing the book in English. There are times during the translation when I feel we are having a silent conversation with each other that we don’t have time for in real life. Many of his books have references to places we have been together, dreams of mine that I have told him about or things our children have said.”
Relationships between writers and translators are not usually so close, and not only because they can often live thousands of miles apart. Sam Taylor, a French specialist now living in the US, is also on the Man Booker International longlist with Four Soldiers, a novella by Hubert Mingarelli set near the Romanian border in the last days of the Russian civil war. He proposed the book himself to its publisher Granta. His output in the last couple of years also includes two controversial novels, Lullaby and Adèle by the Paris-based Moroccan-French writer Leïla Slimani. In neither case did he meet the authors before taking on the novels. “I don’t remember having any direct interaction with Leïla on Lullaby, although she wrote me a very nice thank you email afterwards,” he says. “With Adèle, I had a list of about 15 questions that I sent to her after translating the book (and before revising it). She answered those questions and we exchanged a few emails.”
The pairing with Slimani is particularly striking in that Taylor is male, while Slimani’s work is strongly sexualised and centred on the female body. Did either of them ever question whether it might be a job for a woman? “Of course not!” says Slimani. “Littérature is meant to be universal. I write about women but I hope men can identify with my characters. And Sam understood in a very subtle way my characters and also my style, what atmosphere I wanted to instil, what music I wanted to create with my words. It is magic when you feel that someone understands and respects your work so much. When I read my book in English I always think: that’s the exact word I would have chosen.”
Taylor was aware of gender as a potential issue, although, he says, “neither Leïla nor the book’s female editors ever mentioned it. In the original French, all genitalia, male or female, is called simply “sexe”, which is a very neutral word. There are no neutral words for genitalia in English – everything tends to sound either scientific or pornographic or comical – so I used the word that, in each case, seemed to best fit the context. But I didn’t want to be a man imposing my viewpoint or sensibility on a female protagonist and female author, so I highlighted most of those word choices in the text and asked Leïla and my editors if they thought this was the right word. I don’t think any of those choices were changed or even questioned, but it seemed important to put them up for discussion.”
‘When I read my book in English I always think: that’s the exact word I would have chosen’ … Leïla Slimani, left, and Sam Taylor
A novelist as well as a translator, who fell into translation after giving up a career in journalism to write books in France, Taylor doesn’t take everything he is offered. “I turned down the chance to translate Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission because the Charlie Hebdo attack occurred a couple of days after I received the offer. I have no regrets about that,” he says (the job went to Lorin Stein, former editor of the Paris Review, who has since gone on to translate two novels by France’s new enfant terrible Édouard Louis).
The literatures of French and English might be different, but as Taylor points out: “Most European languages (and certainly French) are underpinned by a roughly equivalent set of philosophical values and a shared history.” What of those languages that are the product of cultures with little common ground? The traditional answer has been that they rarely get translated, though research commissioned by the Man Booker International prize revealed the situation to be slowly improving, with a growing demand for Chinese, Arabic, Icelandic and Polish languages.
“Chinese and English are as far apart as any two languages could be,” says Drew. “I can read a book in French easily, but after all these years, Chinese is still a struggle – there are many characters I don’t know, or have forgotten, classical allusions that I miss. Chinese has no tenses and is more concise than English, so meaning is often inferred through context. But although Chinese sometimes feels like a different universe, I’m always surprised by how much can be translated – how images and metaphors can work across cultures.”
Among the initiatives that encourage a wider range of writing in translation is the new EBRD prize, which awards €20,000 to a book from the interestingly arbitrary landmass served by its sponsor, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (which extends from the Baltics to central Asia and the Mediterranean countries of Africa). Last year’s inaugural prize went to the Kurdish/Turkish writer Burhan Sönmez translated by Ümit Hussein. This year’s was won by the first Uzbek novel ever to be translated into English, The Devils’ Dance.
Hamid Ismailov. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian
Its author is Hamid Ismailov, a genial 64-year-old journalist who came to London shortly after being forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 and has had a day job at the BBC ever since. He was matched with his translator, Donald Rayfield – an emeritus professor of Russian and Georgian – by a new translator-run publishing house, Tilted Axis, set up in 2015 to champion neglected languages. When I meet up with them in the BBC’s London headquarters, their rapport is striking. “I was the last person to choose for this,” jokes Rayfield, “but as the Russians say: ‘If there’s no fish, a crab will do.’”
Rayfield not only had to learn Uzbek to translate the novel, but had to bone up on Tartar, Farsi, Tajik and Kyrgyz as well. How many languages does Ismailov speak? “When you speak Uzbek,” the novelist quietly explains, “you understand many Turcik langages and with Russian you can understand many Slavonic ones.” He is a translator himself, working in both directions between Russian, Uzbek and various European languages. Several of his own novels have been translated from Russian into English, but the impossibility of getting an Uzbek novel by a banned writer into the hands of any readers at all inhibited his reputation in his mother tongue until the internet solved the problem for him. He published The Devils’ Dance in chapters on Facebook and it went viral through the “Stans” – the five formerly Soviet countries in central Asia for whom his central character, the real-life early 20th-century writer Abdulla Qodiriy who was executed in 1938, was a hero. The pair are less forthcoming about a third name that appears on the novel’s title page – John Farndon – credited with translating the poetry in the novel. “There was no conversation. I was somewhat taken aback by changes to my original translations,” recalls Rayfield.
The difficult birth of The Devils’ Dance in English underlines the extent to which translation is not only a two-way but a three-way relationship, with the publisher – the person who takes the financial risk – as the third partner. Tilted Axis was set up by Deborah Smith partly with the prize money from her 2016 Man Booker International win for her translation of Korean author Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. Smith made substantial cuts to The Devils’ Dance (though it still checks in at more than 400 pages). Her decision to bring in a poetry translator was in line with a time-honoured tradition in which a named poet works from a literal translation rather than the original.
Smith is better placed than most to understand the demands of cultural transposition: as translator of three novels by Han, she had to negotiate Korean systems of religious belief, family relationships and linguistic practice. She too learned the language specifically to translate the novels and found herself at the centre of a storm when her translation of The Vegetarian was challenged on the grounds of accuracy.
“A scene where I had the main character close a door with her foot instead of her arm is one Korean academics like to bring up,” she says. “There were 67 [errors], by the way. I like to state that publicly in case anyone mistakenly assumes it’s something I’d want to hide.” The errors were corrected in later editions and Han Kang’s faith in Smith is unshaken. Smith is currently living in South Korea and working on a novel by another female Korean novelist, Bae Suah, which is due to be published by Jonathan Cape next year. She’s not about to diversify into other languages just yet. “I’m trying to find different ways to spread the translation gospel: publishing, teaching, mentoring. Writing about all aspects of translation: the flow between languages, the discourse around it, all the people who make it happen.”
I have a Dutch translator who keeps telling me about the mistakes I’ve made in my own books
Tim Parks, author and translator
Faithfulness, as opposed to accuracy, is always a difficult issue, as novelist Tim Parks concedes. “I think there’s usually a mistake of nuance on every page of every book. Sometimes scandalously so,” he says. As an author and a translator he has experience in both directions, and he stresses that translators are often the best readers. “I have a Dutch translator who keeps writing to me and telling me about the mistakes I’ve made in my own books. It can be spelling or continuity, and she’s always right. Just occasionally it’s really embarrassing, but people like that give you the chance to fix the next edition.”
Parks has written that: “The translator should do his job and then disappear. The great, charismatic, creative writer wants to be all over the globe. And the last thing he wants to accept is that the majority of his readers are not really reading him. His readers feel the same. They want intimate contact with true greatness. They don’t want to know that this prose was written on survival wages in a maisonette in Bremen, or a high-rise flat in the suburbs of Osaka. Which kid wants to hear that her JK Rowling is actually a chain-smoking pensioner?”
But translators fall into different camps, described by New Yorker critic James Wood as “originalists” and “activists”: “The former honor the original text’s quiddities, and strive to reproduce them as accurately as possible in the translated language; the latter are less concerned with literal accuracy than with the transposed musical appeal of the new work,” he wrote. Any decent translator must be a bit of both.” Or, as the cultural critic Marina Warner has put it: “Should a translator respond like an aeolian harp, vibrating in harmony with the original text to transmit the original music, or should the translation read as if it were written in the new language?”
‘The biggest disagreement we had was whether to use the word bathroom or lavatory’ … Jay Rubin and Haruki Murakami
“It’s obviously a simplification, but I imagine I would be closer to the activist side of the spectrum,” says Taylor, whose less aeolian approach set him at odds with one French writer, Maylis de Kerangal. Her novel’s French title was Réparer les Vivants, and Taylor called his translation The Heart, while the Canadian poet and translator Jessica Moore chose the more literal Mend the Living for this story of the day in the life of a donated heart as it is rushed from one person to another. The translations were commissioned simultaneously by editors in the UK and the US, and both won awards (Mend the Living scooped the Wellcome prize while The Heart won the French-American Foundation prize) but De Kerangal has ruled that Moore’s is more faithful to her writing and she should therefore do all her future novels: “It is so fascinating to see what choices were made at every turn. The opening sentence, for example, feels completely different to me in our versions,” says Moore. Even the dead boy’s surname is different, though interestingly it’s Taylor who kept De Kerangal’s Limbres, while Moore went for Limbeau.
According to another busy translator, Frank Wynne, problems often arise when a writer thinks they have a better command of English than they actually do. One of his worst experiences was with French film director Claude Lanzmann who was “hugely intrusively involved” in the translation of his 2012 memoir The Patagonian Hare. “He binned the original Italian translation and redid mine line by line. He insisted on using the phrase ‘leonine contract’ to mean a contract in which one person took the lion’s share. I didn’t in the end meet him and it might have been useful if I had, so that he’d gone into it with more of a sense of trust.”
I drove Murakami absolutely crazy for a whole day giving him little questions one after another. This is not a very kind thing to do to an author
Jay Rubin, translator
A translator from both French and Spanish – who had novels in both languages on the longlist of last year’s Man Booker International and is currently based in Mexico – Wynne’s relationships with writers tend to be brisk. “Some don’t reply at all. The trouble is the more successful a writer is, the more languages there are.” One of his top-selling authors, the French crime novelist Pierre Lemaitre, deals with the problem by collating questions from all his 35-40 translators into a round-robin crib sheet.
Jay Rubin, one of the four translators who have made the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami into an English language superstar, says he learned early on to correspond sparingly. “The worst thing I did was with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I got together with him in Tokyo and drove him absolutely crazy for a whole day giving him little questions one after another. This is not a very kind thing to do to an author.”
Rubin co-translated the book Bird Chronicle with Philip Gabriel, because it ran to three volumes, and its length defeated him. Did they collaborate? “The biggest disagreement we had was whether to use the word bathroom or lavatory.” (Murakami ruled in favour of bathroom.) But, he says, “All of us stick pretty closely to the tone and style of Murakami’s writing, and thanks in large part to the simplicity of his style, the voice is pretty consistent. There aren’t that many ways to say ‘Sunday was another fine clear day’.”
If that sounds like damning with faint praise, the compliment was returned by Murakami, when he wrote the introduction to a well-received recent anthology of Japanese short stories edited by Rubin, which Rubin himself then translated. “Some [stories], of course, could be characterized as ‘representative’ works, but, frankly, they are far outnumbered by stories which are not,” wrote the novelist. How did that make Rubin feel? “I giggled when I read that ‘frankly’,” he says. “But you’re getting the unvarnished Murakami view of the book.”
‘Some of his dialect I intuited. Other terms, rife with violence and obscenity, he politely translated into Italian for me’ … Jhumpa Lahiri on Domenico Starnone
For Ann Goldstein, translating a more recent superstar, Elena Ferrante, there was no such back and forth. She had no direct contact with the author, whose true identity is a closely guarded secret. She was chosen on submission of a sample translation of a previous Ferrante novel, and corresponds with her on email via her publisher. Though the novels themselves weren’t written in Neapolitan dialect, the dialogue in the HBO TV adaptation – partially scripted by Ferrante – is. “My role has been translating them so that HBO can read them,” says Goldstein.
Just how difficult Neapolitan can be, even to someone steeped in Italian, became clear to the author Jhumpa Lahiri when she took on two novels by another of the southern Italian city’s writers, Domenico Starnone. Lahiri moved from the US to Rome and dedicated herself to writing in the language of her host country, the progress of which she documented in a fascinating bilingual book, In Other Words. Immersion in standard Italian didn’t prepare her for some of Starnone’s language though. “Some of his dialect I intuited. Other terms, rife with violence and obscenity, were politely translated into Italian for me by Starnone himself,” she has said. Lahiri’s working relationship with Starnone is a passionate cross-cultural conversation, which for their latest collaboration, Trick, took in Kafka and Henry James. At a public launch in London last year, an overawed fan asked if it was necessary to know so much. Not at all, replied Lahiri. For most readers, it’s just a story of a grandfather left in charge of his four-year-old grandson.
Starnone is now going to translate Lahiri’s English introduction for the Italian edition of her new Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories. But she is saving the biggest challenge for herself: the English translation of her own first novel written in Italian. Dove mi trovo has already been published in several other languages. “The idea of my own creation in Italian not having a life in English yet is interesting,” she says. “The problem is: how do I turn myself back on myself? Mentally I have to go into a place where I’m two people.” Is self-translation the most intimate relationship between a writer and a translator? Perhaps not. “In Chinese,” says Ma Jian, “a soul mate is described as zhiyin – someone who ‘understands your music’ and that is what Flora is to me.”
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Ed Balls: Bank of England's independence should be reined in
Ex-shadow chancellor and Strictly Come Dancing contestant calls for closer ties between central banks and government
Angela Monaghan
Thu 17 Nov 2016 04.17 EST Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 06.20 EST
Ed Balls has called for reforms to Bank of England independence. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock
The Bank of England has become too powerful in the aftermath of the financial crisis and must be reined in, according to the former shadow chancellor Ed Balls.
Balls, one of the masterminds behind the Bank’s independence in 1997, said the issue was “unfinished business” and called for closer ties between Threadneedle Street and government.
The former Labour MP and contestant on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, said that while the Bank should retain operational independence – setting interest rates and targeting inflation – it should not have to shoulder the entire burden for maintaining Britain’s financial stability.
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Balls told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think the case for independent central banks is as strong as it’s ever been. At a time of economic uncertainty but also great political risk, we need the [US] Fed and the Bank of England to play these roles. But the reforms we’ve seen over the last few years have hugely concentrated power in central banks. I think it’s unfinished business.”
In the aftermath of the financial crisis the Bank of England was handed more powers by the government, assuming responsibility for financial stability as well as monetary policy.
Balls said that it had left a gap in accountability, and called for a new layer of oversight to be introduced, led by the chancellor.
“What we need is a systemic risk body chaired by the chancellor, which is overseeing the whole system and setting a mandate for the Bank of England and also there if a crisis starts to build, that’s a gap we need to fill,” he added.
He was speaking following the publication of a paper titled Central bank independence revisited, which Balls, as a senior fellow at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, co-wrote with James Howat and Anna Stansbury.
The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way. The old academic assumption that the more independent a central bank is, the better it is, should no longer hold.”
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Balls’s comments come at a time of intense debate about the role of central bankers, both in the UK and the US. Policymakers at the Bank of England and at the US Federal Reserve have come under heavy criticism in recent months for being over-politicised and for keeping interest rates too low for too long.
Theresa May appeared to criticise the Bank when she said savers were being hit by the low interest rate environment, while prominent Tories William Hague and Michael Gove were directly critical of Threadneedle Street and Carney.
In the US, President-elect Donald Trump accused the Fed of being political.
Earlier this week, Carney hit back at accusations by politicians that central bank policies were driving an increase in inequality, telling MPs on the Treasury select committee that it was a “massive blame-deflection exercise”.
The governor has persistently argued that the current ultra-low rate environment is a symptom of the economic backdrop, and not a driver of it.
Balls said it was wrong for central bankers to come under political attack.
“Over the last five years, we have hugely relied on central banks on both sides of the Atlantic to sustain growth, to keep our economies growing, and yet at the same time they’re under big attack. In Congress, the Fed is being heavily criticised,” he said. “We’ve seen not just MPs attacking [the governor] and the Bank of England, but even our prime minister a few weeks ago slapping Mark Carney down. It’s very worrying.”
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Brexit white paper won't win over MPs or the EU
May doesn’t have the majority to push it through at home, and there’s little in it to win backing from abroad
Martin Kettle
@martinkettle
Thu 12 Jul 2018 12.27 EDT Last modified on Thu 12 Jul 2018 16.05 EDT
Pro-EU campaign group Open Britain drives a broken car around Parliament Square as the government releases its Brexit white paper. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters
Think of the government’s Brexit white paper as a freeze-frame rather than the whole movie. An extremely important frame, certainly, but there are plenty more action shots to come before the Brexit credits can finally roll, if they ever do.
The 98-page document does capture the moment when the government finally and formally admitted to the British public that our future relationship with the EU is supremely vital to the nation’s economy, prosperity and security. So vital, in fact, that it must take priority over all the unilateralist fantasies about what Brexit might have involved.
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It’s the moment when the government said a no-deal Brexit would be a disaster, when it pulled the plug on the bilateral trade deal with America and when it put its responsibilities in Ireland above Brexit at-any-price. And it’s the moment when it said that, whether you are a leaver or a remainer, you just have to accept that Britain’s national interests cannot be separated from close and strong relations with Europe.
However the white paper – which was adopted at Chequers a week ago – is also a glimpse of a plan of engagement before the real action begins. Like a wartime battle-plan, it won’t survive engagement with the enemy – or in this case with Michel Barnier and the European commission negotiators. Nor will it be unscathed by the Brexiter resistance forces on the Conservative backbenches, who sometimes give the impression that any compromise with the EU is nothing less than treason.
Politically, the white paper is constructed with these sceptics very much in mind. Theresa May’s introduction starts by saying that Britain is leaving the EU and that she is delivering Brexit. The new Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, made the same point at the start of a stormy session in the Commons on Thursday.
But the white paper is not the Brexit treaty. In spite of all the pain, the rows and the resignations, the white paper is merely the government’s version of what a Brexit treaty should contain. The document barely admits the fundamental practical reality that almost everything within it now has to be negotiated with the EU. There enormous gaps between the UK and EU positions on most of the issues in the document and every attempt to bridge those gaps may also trigger fresh revolts and accusations.
The key elements have been known for the last week. They include the so-called facilitated customs arrangement which is designed to avoid a hard border in Ireland or with the EU more widely, the proposed “common rule book” and “free trade area” (these phrases are designed to avoid mention of the single market) in goods and agri-foods alongside separate regimes for services.
I, Donald Trump, look forward to not meeting anyone in Britain, England
However, although May has lobbied hard for European leaders not to dismiss these and many other proposals, the reality is that these ideas will not fly with the EU. The commission and, formally at least, the EU27 regard the single market as an indivisible project, and there is no sign that the UK will be permitted to cherry-pick either the sectors or the rules it likes best. The customs plan, which still claims that the UK will collect EU tariffs even while levying differential tariffs of our own, has no practical attractions to Brussels either.
Then there are the things that the white paper deliberately blurs. There is little mention of the near-certainty that the UK would have to pay the EU for the market access it seeks, let alone of the price tag. The issue of the European court of justice, neuralgic for so many Tory leavers, is left vague. Issues over migration and the movement of people – at the core of the referendum campaign and stirred up again by Donald Trump in Brussels on Thursday – are not clearly set out either. All of these issues would have to be brought into sharp focus if they are to form part of an agreement.
May has her redrawn cabinet onside now, as well as many of the Tory remainer rebels. But who else? Not Labour. Not the other opposition parties. Every Tory leaver MP who threatens to vote against this package – and a lot of them spoke in the Commons chamber on Thursday – exposes the political reality that the prime minister does not have a majority in parliament for this white paper. If she can’t even carry the day at Westminster, she certainly won’t do so in Brussels.
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Financier Soros puts millions into ousting Bush
Julian Borger in Washington
Tue 11 Nov 2003 21.03 EST First published on Tue 11 Nov 2003 21.03 EST
George Soros, one of the world's wealthiest financiers and philanthropists, has declared that getting George Bush out of the White House has become the "central focus" of his life, and he has put more than $15m (£9m) of his own money where his mouth is.
Mr Soros argues that the Bush White House is guided by a "supremacist ideology" that is leading it to abuse US power in its dealings with the rest of the world, and creating a state of permanent warfare.
He has mounted a single-minded campaign involving a book, magazine and newspaper articles as well as multi-million dollar donations to liberal groups, all aimed at defeating President Bush in the November 2004 elections, a contest he describes as "a matter of life and death".
The Hungarian emigre and finance genius has given nearly $5bn to oppose dictators in Africa, Asia and the former Soviet bloc, but now he is directing his energies at the elected leader of his adopted country.
"It is the central focus of my life," he told the Washington Post in an interview published yesterday, after announcing a donation of $5m to a liberal activist organisation called MoveOn.org. The gift brings the total amount in donations to groups dedicated to Mr Bush's removal to $15.5m.
Other pledges of cash have gone to America Coming Together (ACT), an anti-Bush group that proposes to mobilise voters against the president in 17 battleground states. Mr Soros and a friend, Peter Lewis, the chairman of a car insurance company, promised $10m.
Mr Soros has also helped to bankroll a new liberal think-tank, the Centre for American Progress, to be headed by Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, John Podesta, which will aim to counter the rising influence of neo-conservative institutions in Washington.
The 74-year-old investor, who made a fortune betting against the pound in the late 80s and against the dollar this year, is to lay out the reasons for his detestation of the Bush administration in a book to be published in January, titled The Bubble of American Supremacy, a polemic which he has half-jokingly dubbed the 'Soros Doctrine'.
In the book, he will argue that the US is doing itself immeasurable harm by its heavy-handed role in the world. "The dominant position the United States occupies in the world is the element of reality that is being distorted," he writes, according to an excerpt to be published in next month's Atlantic Monthly magazine. "The proposition that the United States will be better off if it uses its position to impose its values and interests everywhere is the misconception. It is exactly by not abusing its power that America attained its current position."
The Bush administration's "war on terrorism" cannot be won, he argues, but is instead ushering in "a permanent state of war". He uses the emotive terms like "supremacist ideology" deliberately, saying that some of the rhetoric coming from the White House reminds him of his childhood in Nazi-occupied Hungary.
"When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans," he said in yesterday's interview. "My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitised me."
His remarks have infuriated the Republican party, which has accused him of promoting his interests with the steady flow of money to like-minded institutions, and avoiding federal limits on donations to political parties - an allegation which Democrats consistently level at big business for its links with the Republicans.
"George Soros has purchased the Democratic party," said Christine Iverson, a Republican national committee spokeswoman.
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ATF price soars 8.1%, still costs less than petrol, diesel
PTI New Delhi | Updated on March 01, 2019 Published on March 01, 2019
Jet fuel price was hiked by a steep 8.1 per cent on Friday to its costliest level this year as international oil prices rose, state-owned oil firms said.
The price of Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) was hiked by ₹4,734.15 per kilolitre, or 8.15 per cent, to ₹62,795.12 per kl in the national capital, according to price notification issued by state-owned oil firms. This is the first increase in prices in four-months which has pushed rates to their highest level this year.
ATF or jet fuel prices are revised on the 1st of every month based on the average international rate for benchmark fuel and foreign exchange rate in the preceding month. Prices were unchanged at the last revision on February 1.
The two consecutive price reduction had brought ATF rates to their lowest levels in a year and had provided much-needed relief to cash-strapped airlines. But the latest round of price hike would put pressure on margins of airlines.
ATF, however, continues to be cheaper than both petrol and diesel in most parts of the country and is less expensive than even non-PDS kerosene.
A litre of petrol, used in motorcycles and cars, costs ₹71.81 in Delhi as compared to ₹62,795.12 per kl or ₹62.79 per litre price for ATF. A litre of diesel, which is mostly used as fuel in trucks and buses, comes for ₹67.12.
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Singapore to attract 17 m tourists in 2 years
V. Rishi Kumar Hyderabad | Updated on May 03, 2013 Published on May 03, 2013
Indian tourists opt for S-E Asia over Europe
Air India’s bonanza offer on Singapore-Chennai-Mumbai route
Singapore woos Indian tourists with ‘city in a garden’
Singapore Air increases weekly service from Ahmedabad
Singapore, Dubai, Bangalore are the big hits
The number of Indian tourist visitors to Singapore is likely to close in on the one-million-mark during 2013, according to G.B. Sithar, Area Director of the Singapore Tourism Board.
It registered 8.69 lakh visitors during 2011. The details of 2012 are awaited. Significantly, the spend by Indian tourists in hotels in Singapore is about 33 per cent as against the average of 29 per cent.
Interacting with newspersons here today Sithar said, “Tourism is a major focus area for Singapore and we expect it would contribute to 5-6 per cent of Singapore’s Gross Domestic Product by 2015.”
A number of new projects have been added for tourists and everytime they come they will find something new to enjoy. These include the Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by The Bay, the Marine Life Park (which is the world’s largest Oceanarium) and a River Safari symbolising seven rivers of the world.
Singapore has targeted to attract about 17 million people by 2015, contributing to about $30 billion (Singapore). In 2012, Singapore had 14.4 million visitors as against 13.2 million in 2011.
The Indian tourist spend in Singapore crossed the $1-billion mark in 2011. During the Singapore festival slated for May-July, there is a spike in tourist receipts as also spends, he said.
For those seeking to have a cruise holiday, Singapore has become a transit hub with plenty of choice, he said.
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https://www.thehour.com/westport/article/Charges-nolled-in-2011-Westport-robbery-8091444.php
Charges nolled in 2011 Westport robbery
Published 12:15 pm EST, Thursday, December 18, 2014
Derek Forsythe
WESTPORT -- Charges against a Westport man, allegedly connected by DNA evidence to a 2011 robbery, were nolled Thursday at Stamford Superior Court due to the state's inability to reach the victim in the case.
Derek Forsythe, 28, had been charged with first-degree robbery and sixth-degree larceny in connection with the September 2011 robbery of Merritt Country Store, 337 Main St. State's Attorney Paul Fereneck indicated that the charges were nolled, because the victim had returned to the Middle East and could not be contacted by prosecutors.
The convenience store was robbed at gunpoint on Sept. 29, 2011 at 3:32 a.m. The gunman, who was wearing a mask, took about $200 from the store before fleeing the scene, police said.
Investigators later recovered a mask and a shirt discarded at the scene were sent to the State of Connecticut Forensic Laboratory for DNA testing. Earlier this year, DNA found on the discarded items was found to match Forsythe's DNA, according to police.
Westport Police charged Forsythe with the robbery in August 2014.
Forsythe is currently serving a 42 month prison sentence for second-degree burglary stemming from a June 23 break-in at a Weston home.
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Emperor Commodus as Hercules and as a Gladiator
Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 – 1640 Antwerp)
ca. 1599–1600
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Van Tuinen, Ilona. “Emperor Commodus as Hercules and as a Gladiator.” In The Leiden Collection Catalogue. Edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. New York.
https://www.theleidencollection.com/archive/ (accessed July 18, 2019).
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Peter Paul Rubens painted this bold, bust-length image of the eccentric and tyrannical Roman emperor Commodus (161–92 A.D.) within an illusionistic marble oval relief. In stark contrast to his learned father Marcus Aurelius (121–80 A.D.), known as “the perfect Emperor,” Commodus, who reigned from 180 until he was murdered on New Year’s Eve of 192 at the age of 31, proudly distinguished himself by his great physical strength.1 Toward the end of his life, Commodus went further than any of his megalomaniac predecessors, including Nero, and identified himself with Hercules, the superhumanly strong demigod of Greek mythology famous for slaughtering wild animals and monsters with his bare hands. According to the contemporary historian Herodian of Antioch (ca. 170–240 A.D.), Commodus responded only to the name “Hercules, son of Zeus” and, mirroring his Greek counterpart, wore a lion’s skin and carried around a club.2 Following in the footsteps of his adopted namesake, Commodus even became a fervent gladiator, killing many wild animals in the arena, although with the rather un-Herculean aid of spears.3
This striking painted bust shows Commodus in the guise of a gladiator. In his proper right hand, the emperor proudly clenches one of his spears, while a fragment of a shiny bronze and silver shield dominates the bottom right corner of the composition. Resting on top of the emperor’s head like a helmet is the head of the lion’s hide, the paws of which are wrapped around the emperor’s shoulders. With a forceful expression, and with his head turned slightly to the right, Commodus stares directly at the viewer. Light coming in from the left illuminates that side of his face as well as the inner right edge of the illusionistic oval surround.
When this painting appeared on the art market in 2011, Peter Sutton correctly identified it as an early work by Peter Paul Rubens, executed by the young master before he left for Rome in May 1600.4 Relatively few of Rubens’s paintings are known from between 1597, the year of his earliest known dated work, Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer (fig 1), and his departure for Italy three years later.5 Reflective of the influence of his teacher Otto van Veen (ca. 1556–1629), Commodus’s intense gaze, the conspicuous pink highlights in the flesh tones, and the relatively well-defined contours of his figure are comparable to that early portrait.6 Similarities are also seen in the way Rubens modeled Commodus’s head and that of Adam in Fall of Man, which the young master painted just prior to his departure for Italy (fig 2).7 In each instance Rubens left the red-brown undermodeling partially exposed in the hair and beard, thereby adding a rich sense of depth to the otherwise dense, dark hair. A similar use of the underpaint in the final modeling of flesh tones is also seen in the figure of Saint Paul in Rubens’s Conversion of St. Paul, which he also executed around 1599–1600.8
Rubens may have created this work as an independent commission, but it is more likely that it was part of a series of Roman emperors. One such series, which Rubens painted shortly before his departure for Rome, is known today primarily through copies in Stuttgart and Brussels. This series contained portraits of Julius Caesar and the first eighteen Roman emperors.9 These emperors ruled during the Julio-Claudian dynasty (from Julius Caesar to Nero), the Flavian dynasty (from Galba to Domitian), and the Nervan-Antonian dynasty (from Nerva to Commodus).10 The Leiden Collection painting is separate from that series, however, for Commodus is shown there facing the opposite direction and holding a club instead of a spear.11 Unlike the paintings associated with that series, moreover, Commodus does not bear an identifying inscription.12 Nevertheless, the absence of a bevel at the bottom, as well as the chipped, irregular paint layer along this edge, suggests that Commodus was cut at the bottom.13 This reduction must have occurred relatively soon after the painting’s execution, since a copy by an unknown member of Rubens’s circle reproduces it in its current state (fig 3).14
Commodus is closely related stylistically to a bust-length portrait of the emperor Galba (fig 4), also by the young Rubens.15 Judging from a photograph, Galba, which is about the same size as Commodus, appears to have been cut along the bottom edge of the panel. These similarities further suggest that the two paintings once belonged to a series and that they once had inscriptions that were removed, presumably at the same time. It is unclear for whom Rubens would have painted such a series of emperors. Nevertheless, the presence of trompe l’oeil oval framing devices suggests that these paintings were set into a wall, probably of a scholar’s study. The fact that the light source in Commodus comes from the left suggests that it originally hung to the right of a window. Otto van Veen, who was a learned humanist, perhaps facilitated the commission.16
The convention of depicting a series of famous men from classical antiquity, so-called Uomini famosi, had its origins in Italy. One renowned series of famous men was the Twelve Caesars that Titian executed in 1537–38 for Federico II Gonzaga (1500–40) as part of the decorative program at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. Even before his trip to Italy, Rubens could have known images of Titian’s forceful half-figures through Aegidius Sadeler’s print series of 1593 (fig 5).17 Titian, in painting this series, had been inspired by Andrea Mantegna’s painted roundels of Roman emperor busts set in trompe l’oeil frames in the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace (fig 6).18 Rubens likely also knew about these painted busts in oval frames from Van Veen, who had spent five years in Italy.
Rubens’s own training with Van Veen included making copies of casts and sculptures after the antique.19 Nevertheless, no known bust or other visual source exists for Commodus, not even the famous Hercules Commodus in the Courtyard Belvedere, which Rubens might have known through Van Veen. Indeed, it is probable that Rubens’s rendering of the emperor is the young master’s own invention. Much later, after his return to Antwerp from the south, Rubens painted other busts of Roman emperors, including Julius Caesar (PR-100), in which his firsthand knowledge of and exposure to antique statues, coins, and reliefs are evident.20
- Ilona van Tuinen
Comparative Figures
Fig 1. Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer, 1597, oil on copper, 21.6 x 14.6 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982, 1982.60.24, www.metmuseum.org
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer, 1597, oil on copper, 21.6 x 14.6 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982, 1982.60.24, www.metmuseum.org
Fig 2. Peter Paul Rubens, The Fall of Man, ca. 1599–1600, oil on panel, 180 x 158 cm, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, © Lowie De Peuter and Michel Wuyts
Peter Paul Rubens, The Fall of Man, ca. 1599–1600, oil on panel, 180 x 158 cm, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, © Lowie De Peuter and Michel Wuyts
Fig 3. Circle of Peter Paul Rubens, Commodus as Hercules, probably ca. 1600, oil on panel, 58.2 x 47.4 cm, whereabouts unknown (formerly sale, Christie’s, London, 30 October 1987, no. 157)
Circle of Peter Paul Rubens, Commodus as Hercules, probably ca. 1600, oil on panel, 58.2 x 47.4 cm, whereabouts unknown (formerly sale, Christie’s, London, 30 October 1987, no. 157)
Fig 4. Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of the Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba, ca. 1600, oil on panel, 6.7 x 52.2 cm, private collection
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of the Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba, ca. 1600, oil on panel, 6.7 x 52.2 cm, private collection
Fig 5. Aegidius Sadeler after Titian, Julius Caesar, 1593, engraving, from the series Twelve Emperors and Their Wives, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munchen, Munich, inv 1057, © National Graphic Arts Collection in Munich
Aegidius Sadeler after Titian, Julius Caesar, 1593, engraving, from the series Twelve Emperors and Their Wives, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munchen, Munich, inv 1057, © National Graphic Arts Collection in Munich
Fig 6. Andrea Mantegna, Julius Caesar, 1465–74, fresco, Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
Andrea Mantegna, Julius Caesar, 1465–74, fresco, Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
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The first book of the eight-volume History of the Roman Empire Since the Death of Marcus Aurelius by Herodian of Antioch (ca. 170–240 A.D.) is devoted entirely to Commodus (and it is chapter 2 of this book that is entitled “Marcus Aurelius, the Perfect Emperor”). See online translation by Edward C. Echols (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1961). Herodian does not appear to have been a direct source for Rubens’s painting, for Herodian, in chapter 7 of the first book, described Commodus as “naturally blond and curly.”
Herodian of Antioch, History of the Roman Empire Since the Death of Marcus Aurelius, book 1, chapter 14: 8–9. See online translation by Edward C. Echols (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1961).
Herodian of Antioch, History of the Roman Empire Since the Death of Marcus Aurelius, book 1, chapter 15 is devoted to Commodus’s adventures as a gladiator. See online translation by Edward C. Echols (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1961). According to Herodian, Commodus was more skillful at using his arrows and spear than he was brave.
After having been in an unidentified Belgian collection, the painting was purchased by Jack Kilgore & Co. in 2011. A copy of Peter C. Sutton’s unpublished essay, written for Jack Kilgore, is on file at The Leiden Collection.
For a discussion of Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer, see Walter Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 vols. (New York, 2007), 187–89. Although the painting is not signed, there has never been any question about the attribution. For a discussion of the pre-Roman oeuvre of Rubens, of which little is known with certainty, see Christopher Norris, “Rubens Before Italy,” Burlington Magazine 76 (1940): 190–93; Michael Jaffé, Rubens and Italy (Oxford, 1977), esp. chapter 2, “Preparations for Italy,” 14–19; and Julius Held, “Thoughts on Rubens’ Beginnings,” Ringling Museum of Art Journal: Papers Presented at the International Rubens Symposium, April 14–16, 1982 (1983): 14–35. Held mentions the 1606 will of Rubens’s mother, Maria Pijpelincx, which records “all the other paintings . . . the property of Peter Paul who has painted them,” suggesting that the paintings Rubens left in Antwerp before his trip to Rome in 1600 were numerous. For the full transcription of Pijpelincx’s will, see Pierre Genard, P. P. Rubens: Aanteekeningen over den grooten Meester en zijne Bloedverwanten (Antwerp, 1877), 371–76.
See, for instance, Otto van Veen’s Adoration of the Shepherds, executed before 1608, oil on copper, 87.6 x 73.3 cm, sale, Christie’s, New York, 30 January 2013, no. 26 (currently with Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York). For Rubens’s time as Van Veen’s apprentice, see Piet Bakker’s biography in this catalogue.
For the Fall of Man, see Michael Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo Completo (Milan, 1989), 146–47, no. 8. Jaffé catalogues this work, which he titles Adam and Eve, as the eighth and last painting Rubens made before his departure to Italy in 1600. See Peter C. Sutton’s unpublished essay, written for Jack Kilgore, on file at the Leiden Collection, in which he also compares the present work to the Antwerp painting.
Peter Paul Rubens, The Conversion of St. Paul, oil on panel, 72 x 103 cm, Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein, Vaduz and Vienna, inv. GE 40. See Michael Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo Completo (Milan, 1989), 151, no. 30, where he dated it to 1602–4. In 2005 David Jaffé proposed a dating to ca. 1598–99, before Rubens’s departure for Rome. See David Jaffé, ed., Rubens: A Master in the Making (Exh. cat. London, National Gallery) (London, 2005), 150–51, no. 67. Whether Rubens executed this painting while still in Antwerp or after arriving in Italy, the correspondences with Commodus and Fall of Man certainly reveal a working method that had evolved from his 1597 Portrait of a Man.
Michael Jaffé, “Rubens’s Roman Emperors,” Burlington Magazine 113 (June 1971): 297–303. Copies of eleven of these emperors are in the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, and copies of thirteen of them are in a private collection in Brussels. A number of these were published, though not all of them illustrated, in Jaffé’s article. See also Katalog der Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (Stuttgart, 1957), 229, no. 2241, for the discussion of the Stuttgart Vitellius, oil on panel, 67 x 52 cm (which Burchard attributed to Rubens himself, but which Jaffé did not adopt), and for the mention of the other paintings, though not by title, only by inv. no. (2257–66). Jaffé also illustrated as the original prototype by Rubens a painting of Nero, oil on panel, 64.6 x 50 cm, indistinctly inscribed “DOMINITIANUS NERO.6,” which was in a private collection in Paris at the time, but came up for sale at Christie’s, London, 7 July 2010, no. 133.
Because Commodus was the last emperor of the Nervan-Antonian dynasty, and as no paintings by Rubens depicting later emperors have surfaced, there is no reason to believe that Rubens went further than depicting 19 emperors.
The author wishes to thank Elke Allgaier of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart for sending a photograph of the otherwise unpublished Commodus in their collection. See Julius Held, “Thoughts on Rubens’ Beginnings,” Ringling Museum of Art Journal: Papers Presented at the International Rubens Symposium, April 14–16, 1982 (1983): 14–35, fig. 3, for what seems to have been the prototype for the Stuttgart copy. Held attributed this painting to Rubens, but did not make the connection with the copy in Stuttgart, presumably because he was not familiar with the composition of the unpublished Commodus in Stuttgart. Held also mentions, but does not illustrate, a slightly different version of this painting, in which the head is slightly more inclined to the left, which in 1962 was in a private collection in Pennsylvania. See also Michael Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo Completo (Milan, 1989), 146, no. 5, for a Commodus, oil on panel, 65 x 50 cm, which he dates to ca. 1598 and attributes to the young Rubens.
See Michael Jaffé, “Rubens’s Roman Emperors,” Burlington Magazine 113 (June 1971): 297–303, who reproduces the Stuttgart Vitellius and the Brussels Nero. In the Stuttgart paintings, the inscriptions identifying the names of the emperors run in a straight line at the bottom of the paintings (fig. 4), whereas in the Brussels paintings they are painted into the bottom rim of the oval. It is unclear whether these inscriptions are authentic or later additions, and thus whether the differences in inscriptions point to two different original sets. Considering how fresh and intact the inscriptions look in the photographs, they must, at the very least, have been reinforced.
See the Technical Summary.
The auction catalogue (sale, Christie’s, London, 30 October 1987, no. 157, unsold) does not offer any additional provenance, or any information about this Commodus.
This painting was first published in David Jaffé, ed., Rubens: A Master in the Making (Exh. cat. London, National Gallery) (London, 2005), 54, under no. 7, “Study of a Distressed Man.” Jaffé here attributed the painting to Rubens, and Peter Sutton, in his unpublished essay kept on file at the Leiden Collection, suggested that Galba belonged to the original series of the copies in Stuttgart and Brussels. See also Michael Jaffé, “Rubens’s Roman Emperors,” Burlington Magazine 113 (June 1971): 297–303, who lists all the emperors represented in Stuttgart and Brussels. Missing from both series are no. 7, Galba, and no. 17, Lucius Aurelius Verus.
Otto van Veen and Rubens remained in close contact and even appear to have collaborated up until Rubens’s departure for Rome in May 1600. See Michael Jaffé, Rubens and Italy (Oxford, 1977), chapter 2, “Preparations for Italy,” 14–19.
Titian’s series, which depicted Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors, was based on Suetonius Tranquillus’s Lives of the Twelve Caesars (AD 121). As a consequence it did not include Commodus and the Nervan-Antonian dynasty. For a discussion and depictions of this important series, see Lisa Zeitz, Tizian, Teurer Freund: Tizian und Federico Gonzaga, Kunstpatronage in Mantua im 16. Jahrhundert (Petersberg, 2000), 59–102. Titian painted the series in the Camerino dei Cesari of the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. The paintings were destroyed in a 1734 fire. See Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer, Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, ca. 1450–1700, vol. 21, Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II, ed. Karel G. Boon (Amsterdam, 1980), 77–78, nos. 346–70, for a list of the contents of this 25-part print series, containing a title page, the 12 portraits of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors after Titian, and the 12 portraits of their wives (not after Titian). The prints, 34.7 x 24.1 cm, are not depicted.
See Lisa Zeitz, Tizian, Teurer Freund: Tizian und Federico Gonzaga, Kunstpatronage in Mantua im 16. Jahrhundert (Petersberg, 2000), 61.
See David Jaffé and Minna Moore Ede, “Rubens: A Master in the Making,” in Rubens: A Master in the Making, ed. David Jaffé (Exh. cat. London, National Gallery) (London, 2005), 11–20, esp. 11–13, for a discussion of Rubens’s pre-Roman contact with Italian art in Otto van Veen’s workshop. The fact that Rubens’s Fall of Man (fig. 2 above) is based partially on a print by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael gives us some kind of impression of the availability of Italian prints in Rubens’s artistic surroundings in Antwerp.
For a comprehensive overview of Rubens’s Italian drawings after the antique, see Marjon van der Meulen and Arnout Balis, Rubens, Copies After the Antique: Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part 23, 3 vols. (London, 1994). See, for instance, vol. 2, 119–21, nos. 109a-b, for a drawing of Rubens after a bust of Julius Caesar, pen in brown over black chalk, brown and gray wash, white highlights, 262 x 192 mm, Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. L1886, which Rubens later used for his painting of Julius Caesar commissioned for Jagdschloss Grunewald near Berlin; see Maria Kapp, Die niederländischen und flämischen Gemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts im Jagdschloss Grunewald (Berlin, 1989), 42, fig. 15. See also Michael Jaffé, Rubens and Italy (Oxford, 1977), 17, who similarly observed that compared to his post-Roman works, Rubens’s early emperors are “harshly mannered and immature embroilment[s] with Roman antiquity, a remote world which in the Flanders of his youth was accessible only to fancy.”
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'trompe l'oeil'
(medieval) fighting contest
(military) equipment and supply
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa)
(story of) Commodus the Roman emperor
(story of) Hercules (Heracles)
Abstract Ideas and Concepts
adult man
artist (in general)
artist (in general) studying classical remains
artist at work, in his workshop
athletics, gymnastics
attributes of Hercules
Classical Mythology and Ancient History
Desire and Aversion
fight of gladiators
fighting contest (sport)
historical events and situations; historical persons
historical person: Otto van Veen
historical person: Peter Paul Rubens
historical person: Tiziano Vecellio
historical persons
historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)
historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) (+ compositional variants of portrait)
historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) (+ head (and shoulders) (portrait))
Human Being, Man in General
human life and its ages (young, adult, old, etc.)
looking sideways
male persons from classical history
male persons from classical history (with NAME)
man in a general biological sense
material aspects of daily life
mind, spirit
morphology of facial expression
morphology of facial expression ~ eyes
morphology of human expression
portrait of emperor Commodus
protective weapons
protective weapons (with NAME)
protective weapons: shield
recreation, amusement
Self-love; 'Amor di se stesso' (Ripa)
Society, Civilization, Culture
sports, games and physical performances
still life of miscellaneous objects
the ages of man
the Greek heroic legends (I)
warfare; military affairs
working situations of artist
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Private collection, Belgium [Jack Kilgore & Co., New York, 2011].
From whom acquired by the present owner in 2011.
Wellesley, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, on loan with the permanent collection, 1 August 2016–1 August 2017 [lent by the present owner].
Shanghai, Long Museum, West Bund, “Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals in the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection,” 23 September 2017–25 February 2018 [lent by the present owner].
Sutton, Peter C. Peter Paul Rubens: Portrait of the Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba. Sales cat. Amsterdam, Salomon Lilian Dutch Old Master Paintings. Amsterdam, 2014, [n.p.], no. 1.
Jonckheere, Koenraad. Corpus Rubeniuanum Ludwig Burchard: Portraits After Existing Prototypes. London, 2016, 18–19, 36–37, 40–48, 50, 84–89, 102–3, no. 35a, fig. 139.
Long Museum, West Bund. Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals in the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection. Exh. cat. Shanghai, Long Museum, West Bund. Shanghai, 2017, 52.
Yeager-Crasselt, Lara. “The Leiden Collection and the Dutch Golden Age.” In The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection. Edited by Polina Lyubimova. Translated by Daria Babich and Daria Kuzina, 18; 29, no. 12. Exh. cat. Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts; St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum. Moscow, 2018.
Yeager-Crasselt, Lara. “The Leiden Collection and the Dutch Golden Age.” In Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age. Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre. Edited by Blaise Ducos and Lara Yeager-Crasselt, 26, n. 10. Exh. cat. Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi. Exh. cat. Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi. London, 2019. [Exhibition catalogue also published in French and Arabic.]
The support is a rectangular composite panel comprising two vertically grained oak planks. The vertical panel join, located left of center, passes through the inner corner of the figure’s proper right eye, and a horizontal dowel bridges the join by the figure’s mouth.2 Viewed from the reverse, the panel is unthinned and uncradled. Glue residues indicate the previous location of two fixed horizontal boards, and the right plank is considerably thicker than the left along the join. A bevel extends across the upper edge of both planks, and narrow bevels extend along the left and right edges, but there is no bevel along the lower edge.
A light-colored ground has been thinly and evenly applied with wide diagonal brushstrokes, which remain visible through the flesh tones. The portrait has been executed within a feigned oval frame with paint applied in thin, smooth glazes. The paint and ground along the lower edge form an irregular border. This, along with the lack of bevel along the lower edge and the fact that the feigned oval frame is narrower along the midpoint of the lower edge than along the upper edge, suggests the lower panel edge may have been trimmed slightly.3
The painting is unsigned and undated.
No underdrawing is readily apparent in infrared images captured at 780–1000 nanometers. The images, pentimenti, and X-radiograph reveal minor compositional changes. Both the figure’s proper right hand and the lion’s paw have been shifted lower in the painted composition.
The painting underwent panel work along the join since its acquisition and remains in a good state of preservation. Damage along the lower portion of the right plank was restored prior to the painting’s acquisition.
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The characterization of the wood is based on visual examination only.
Visible in the X-radiograph.
Feigned oval frame width along midpoints: 2.5 cm along upper edge, 1 cm along lower edge, 2 cm along left edge, 2.3 cm along right edge.
Versions and Copies
Circle of Peter Paul Rubens, Commodus as Hercules, oil on panel, 58.2 x 47.4 cm, current whereabouts unknown (formerly sale, Christie’s, London, 30 October 1987, no. 157, unsold).
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Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
1 pane of glass containing 4 papyrus fragments ; 1 x 1/2 in.; 1 1/2 x 12 in.
Lord Amherst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Related fragments: Amh. Egy. Pap. 9.1, Amh. Egy. Pap. 9.2, Amh. Egy. Pap. 9.3-6, Amh. Egy. Pap. 9.11-18.
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Patrick Reed came in first at the Masters 2018, which was his first major tournament win. (photo via YouTube screenshot of The Masters account)
Patrick Reed wins 2018 Masters tournament
Chad Wickham
Patrick Reed was able to hold off final-round surges from Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler to win the 2018 Masters Tournament.
After he finished his third round with a 7-under 65 to pull within four strokes of Reed, Rory McIlroy said all the pressure was on the 27-year-old Reed come Sunday afternoon. But Reed handled that pressure fantastically Sunday to win his first major championship.
Spieth came one shot shy of tying the course record at Augusta National, but that wasn’t enough to defeat Reed, who finished the tournament 15 under par — the third-lowest winning score in the last 10 years at the Masters.
Reed didn’t have his best day, but every time he bogeyed, he was able to bounce back and respond with a birdie. The biggest putt of the tournament came after he bogeyed the par-4 11th hole. Reed was faced with a long birdie putt on the famous par-3 12th hole and was able to sink it to move back to 14-under par. Reed would follow that up with another birdie on the 15th to move to 15-under, and that would prove to be enough for the win.
Fowler and Jon Rahm made late charges, but it was Fowler’s birdie on the 18th to move within one shot of the lead that put the pressure on Reed. Needing a par to hold off Fowler, Reed was able to two-putt for par to win his first green jacket.
This is the fourth straight year the Masters victory was the winner's first major win — the same is true of Sergio Garcia last year, Danny Willett in 2016 and Spieth in 2015.
Here's what the leaderboard looked like after the final round:
1. Patrick Reed (-15)
2. Rickie Fowler (-14)
3. Jordan Spieth (-13)
4. Jon Rahm (-11)
T5. Cameron Smith (-9)
T5. Bubba Watson (-9)
T5. Henrik Stenson (-9)
T5. Rory McIlroy (-9)
9. Marc Leishman (-8)
T10. Dustin Johnson (-7)
T10. Tony Finau (-7)
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Democrats Assault the Second Amendment…Again
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published January 4, 2016 by The American Thinker.
Gun-grabbers in the Golden State governor’s office and Democrat-controlled legislature, doubtless inspired by President Obama’s promised Second Amendment sabotage, have paved the way for police to unilaterally seize guns from a person allegedly a danger to himself or others.
California law already prohibits firearm possession by a person who has been convicted of a violent crime, is subject to a domestic violence protective order, or has been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility.
AB1014, which took effect on Jan. 1, allows a police officer, without prior notice to the affected person or a hearing with that person, to seek a “gun violence” temporary restraining order from a judge. Section 3, Chapter 2 permits an officer to seize any guns from a person if a judge…
… finds there is reasonable cause to believe that the subject of the petition poses an immediate and present danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm and that the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to himself, herself, or another, as specified.
This opens the door wide for spurious claims against gun owners.
Any gun seized can be held for 21 days, after which the person may seek a hearing to challenge the grounds for the seizure. If the judge finds clear and convincing evidence that the petitioner is “a significant danger” to himself or another, the restraining order will be renewed for one year. The petitioner is allowed one hearing per each year’s renewal of the restraining order.
There are at least 34,000 reasons why AB1014 should be lining the bottom of bird cages. As reported by Jazz Shaw, writing for HotAir.com on Oct. 20, 2014:
The [New York Times] has now released details of a database kept by Empire State law enforcement of people who have had their Second Amendment rights terminated on the basis of being “mentally unstable.” The number of people in this database — created as a result of the odious New York SAFE Act has swollen in a little over a year to more than 34,000 names.…
This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Andrew Cuomo and the New York Democrat party. Efforts to get this blatantly unconstitutional law overturned in the courts have thus far failed efforts. For the vast majority of the people on this huge list, they have never had a day in court to challenge their accusers as to their fitness to exercise their Second Amendment rights, nor have they been adjudicated as being truly dangerous. In New York you can show up on this list and lose your rights simply because some anonymous “medical professional” (who doesn’t even have to be a doctor) has reported you.
If California’s Second Amendment shredders were legitimately concerned about public safety, why seize only a person’s firearms? Why leave a “dangerous” person among us who’s in possession of knives, matches, charcoal lighter, baseball bats, scissors, drugs, power tools, a Wolfgang Puck pressure cooker, gasoline, and a car?
A car, not a gun, was the weapon of choice for Lakeisha Nicole Holloway, who killed a woman and injured 35 others in Las Vegas on Dec. 20.
California Health & Safety Code Section 5150, which remains in force, provides a process for dealing with individuals deemed a danger to themselves or others. A person taken into custody under 5150 may be held for 72 hours if he or she is determined to be a threat after undergoing an evaluation in a mental health facility. After 72 hours, the detained person is entitled to a court hearing with representation by a lawyer.
AB1014 threatens lawful gun owners, who, without due process, can be deprived of their right to bear arms, the same way that gun owners are victimized by the New York SAFE Act.
Spouses embroiled in child custody disputes can try to gain an advantage by getting a “gun violence restraining order” on the record against the other parent. Minors angry at parents or teachers aren’t above taking revenge for being disciplined or receiving a bad grade. Angry neighbors, co-workers, employees, rejected suitors, etc. could victimize innocent gun owners.
Not to be outdone, America’s putter in chief, who’s protected by enough firepower to take out a banana republic, is about to pen his next unconstitutional executive order aiming to disarm Americans. President Obama will “order” private citizens to do background checks before they can lawfully sell a gun to anyone — including a family member. According to Politico.com:
Obama will tighten the definition of what it means to be “engaged in the business” of firearms sales. Currently, the law says people who sell guns with the “principal objective of livelihood and profit” have to get a dealer’s license through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — and therefore conduct a background check on buyers no matter where they sell, including online or at a gun show.
“Tighten the definition” is leftist-speak for rewriting a law written by Congress. It’s another Obama shot into the bow of the Constitution that our feckless Congress will most likely ignore, or, worse yet, fund if House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) can get their hands on another omnibus bill to show us that they can “govern.”
Come November, Americans can return fire by electing a president who understands and respects the Constitution, including the Second Amendment. Conservative Review provides ratings and analysis of the candidates’ positions on issues based on their records and statements.
Those who prefer gun-free zones for law-abiding citizens will find Democrat candidates’ positions here, here and here.
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Home » Local » Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Przemyslaw Kasprzak
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Przemyslaw Kasprzak
On: 4/26/2019, By Jacqueline Tetrault Pilot Staff , In: Local
Deacon Przemyslaw Kasprzak Pilot photo/George Martell
Ordination class of 2019: Deacon Timothy Hynes
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Brian O'Hanlon
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon William Robinson
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Mark Olejnik
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Joseph Almeida
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Paul Wargovich
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Maciej Araszkiewicz
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Marcos Enrique
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Carignan Rouse
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Victor Vitug
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Corey Bassett-Tirrell
Ordination Class of 2019: Deacon Christopher Boyle
[This is the tenth in a series of articles profiling each of the 13 men who will be ordained to the priesthood on May 18.]
CHESTNUT HILL -- Deacon Przemyslaw Kasprzak's decision to discern a vocation to the priesthood came as a surprise to his family in Poland who, though Catholic, were not practicing.
He was doing well in his career and relationships. He had attended a technical university and earned a master's degree in production, engineering, and managing. After graduating, he worked at a printing house.
"I was going through a difficult time, after you finish studies and you have to enter the adult life," he said in a March 8 interview with the Pilot.
Deacon Kasprzak prayed for help with "adjusting to the new reality" and started going to daily Mass early each morning.
"Somehow I was very, very struck because there was always one priest that was doing the Mass and the second priest was in the confessional at 6:30 a.m. and there were maybe five or six people there. And I remember he would give a short homily that was from his heart, and help us to enter the day," Deacon Kasprzak said.
In his third year of university studies, he had entered the Neocatechumenal Way, which, he said, helped him in the process of discerning his vocation. That same year, he met a woman who became his fiancee. She had not been confirmed but, while they were dating, she returned to the Church. Deacon Kasprzak said that she recognized his vocation before he did, and that she believed he would be "the happiest man" if he became a priest.
"At the moment when God called me, I understood, like God told me, 'It's not going to be you who go to work, but I'm going to work through you,'" Deacon Kasprzak said.
He went to Italy for the Neocatechumenal Way retreat, where candidates for the priesthood were assigned to Redemptoris Mater seminaries around the world. Deacon Kasprzak was sent to Boston, which would be his first time visiting the United States.
He said he had studied English for many years, but he has difficulty with memorization, which makes learning languages challenging for him, so his family doubted he would stick with his decision.
"Lots of members of my family thought that I would come back after two months, when they sent me to the U.S., because they knew my difficulties. And somehow God helped me," Deacon Kasprzak said.
When he arrived in January 2010, he studied English at Boston University. By September, he was studying Latin and Spanish at St. John's Seminary. He said he spent the year studying flash cards, with Spanish in his left pocket and Latin in his right pocket.
Deacon Kasprzak said he looks forward to being with the people, and that he has received a "foretaste" of that while serving as a deacon in Brockton.
"I think the priesthood really is a gift that I didn't plan but I see this is extremely beautiful. I am really happy to go towards this, to be with the people, to give them the Good News," Deacon Kasprzak said.
One Bible verse that struck him during his time of mission work was Jesus' words in Luke 23:46, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit."
"This accompanies me very much every morning -- that I want, whatever comes in my day, to see that he is the one who is really in charge of the events, really of everything. When I am able to do this, then he is doing everything in a beautiful manner," Deacon Kasprzak said.
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The true radicalism of the right to housing
Dr Jessie Hohmann was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2012. She is now Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
• Jessie Hohmann
Published in British Academy Review, Issue 21 (January 2013).
The true radicalism of the right to housing (BAR 21)
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The Victorians and French novels
Juliette Atkinson introduces us to the Victorians’ conflicted relationship with the French novel.
Discovering Signorelli
Dr Tom Henry, Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Painting at Oxford Brookes University, describes his work on a particular painting by Luca Signorelli, achieved during his term as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute, from 1997 to 2000.
A history of early modern Catholicism in a single object: John Hay's manuscript Apologia (c.1598)
Dr Jan Machielsen is currently Departmental Lecturer in Early Modern European History at New College, Oxford. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow from January 2012 to September 2013. His British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph – Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation – was published in February 2015. In January 2016 he will be taking up a lectureship in early modern history at Cardiff University.
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My Clerkenwell
A Potted History of Smithfield Market | John Morgan
Local historian John Morgan delves into Smithfield's long and bloody past, from grassy field to rambunctious meat market...
Horse and Cattle at Smithfield Market by JL Agasse (1767-1849)
"The ground was covered, nearly ankle deep, with filth and mire: A thick steam perpetually rising from the reeking bodies of the cattle."
So wrote Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist. He was referring to the Smithfi eld of the 1830s: with its "unw ashed, unsha ven, squalid and dirty figures", the market was "a stunning and bewildering scene which quite confounded the senses".
These words from Dickens give a good idea of what Smithfield must have been like when it was still a 'live' meat market. It was not until 1855 that the 'live' market was moved further north in Islington to Copenhagen Fields. In 1868 the current building was opened as a 'dead' meat market which it remains today - as the last surviving historic wholesale market in central London.
Smithfield's history has always been closely linked to that of Clerkenwell. Smithfield (Smooth field) and Clerkenwell (Clerk's Well) were two districts on the northern boundaries of the City of London.
In the Middle Ages Smithfield was a wide grassy space, just outside the northern wall of the City of London on the eastern bank of the River Fleet.
Due to its access to grazing and water, it was used as London's principle livestock market. Meat has been bought and sold at Smithfield for more than 800 years. As early as 1174, the chronicler William Fitzstephen observed "a smooth field where every Friday there is a celebrated rendezvous of fine horses to be sold". Sheep, pigs and cattle were also traded. Some street names associated with the market are still in use, such as Cowcross Street, but many others, such as Duck Lane, Chick Street and Goose Alley, disappeared as the Victorians redeveloped the area.
In 1615, railings and sewers were provided in an attempt to bring order at a time when fighting and duelling were commonplace. Twenty-one years later, the Corporation of the City of London formally established a cattle market by means of a royal charter.
At the beginning of the 1700s complaints were made against unruly cattle and drunken herdsmen. Drovers, often the worse for drink, would have some fun by stampeding cattle on the way to market. The angry cattle would invade shops and houses, probably giving rise to the phrase 'like a bull in a china shop'.
As the City of London expanded, so the need for meat grew and so did the market. By the middle of the 1700s, around 75,000 cattle and over 550,000 sheep were sold each year. A hundred years later, these numbers had increased to 220,000 cattle and 1.5 million sheep.
By the early 1850s, live cattle were still being driven to market to be slaughtered on site. The streets flowed with blood, as guts and entrails were dumped in such inadequate drainage channels that did exist. This was the scene that Dickens described in Oliver Twist.
A bird's eye view of the market (unknown)
The old Smithfield market that Dickens wrote about ceased in 1855. When the new market opened in 1868, it came with its own underground railway linking Smithfield to other mainline stations. The new structure was designed by the City of London Corporation architect Horace Jones in his first major commission (he went on to design Billingsgate Market (1875) Leadenhall Market in City (1881) and Tower Bridge (completed after his death in 1887), amongst other buildings).
It was deliberately built on the top of a small hill (which is difficult to tell at ground level today) so that it caught the breeze. It was built when there was no refrigeration and it was designed to be cooler inside the market than it was in the shade outside. The combination of open ironwork to let the air and light in and louvered roof to keep the sun off enabled this.
The new Smithfield Market continued to remain busy for most of the 20th century, despite closure in WW2 and some near misses: a V-2 rocket hit nearby Charterhouse Street in 1945, causing damage to several market buildings and over 110 casualties, and the original Poultry Market building w as destroyed by fire in 1958.
In the 1990s the market was modernised to meet EC regulations, with new loading bays and chiller rooms added. In the 21st century however, the market has faced the constant spectre of redevelopment. Perhaps it has only survived as long as it has because it works at night time and very early in the morning. All other wholesale markets have gone from central London, so there will always be pressure on Smithfield Market to end its current trade.
Left: A plaque at Barts Hospital marks the death of Sir William Wallace in 1305
Right: The market today, pictured after the end of morning trading
A BLOODY HISTORY
In parallel to its life as a market, Smithfield has had an extremely varied and bloody history – from jousting tournaments on the 'smooth field', to revolts, to executions. Along with Tyburn (now Marble Arch), it was one of London's main sites for the execution of criminals and dissidents.
In 1305, Scottish patriot William Wallace, a.k.a. 'Braveheart', was killed here. He had been fighting against English rule in the time of Kind Edward I, but was captured and put to death at Smithfield. A large plaque in Gaelic marks the event.
In 1381, long before Margaret Thatcher's day, there were protests about a poll tax held at Smithfield. During this unrest, Wat Tyler, leader of the Peasants' Revolt, was killed in Charterhouse Square by the Lord Mayor of London for apparently threatening the life of the 14-year-old King Richard II.
Later, during the religious battles of the Tudor era, hundreds of people were put to death at Smithfield. These 'dissenters' were both Catholic and Protestant, depending on the monarch of the day, but also belonged to other minority religious sects, such as Anabaptist.
During the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary I, more than 200 Protestant martyrs were burnt in Smithfield. However, in November 1558, a group of Protestants were saved from execution by the death of the Queen. The bonfires were ready to set alight when news of Queen Mary's passing reached Smithfield. Royal death warrants became invalid on the death of the monarch who had signed them.
In the 16th century, swindlers and coin forgers were boiled to death at Smithfields. The diarist John Evelyn records that in 1652, a woman was burnt on the site for poisoning her husband. But by the 1700s, Tyburn had taken over as the main place for execution. In turn, after 1785, Tyburn ceded its position to Newgate Prison – just to the south of Smithfield.
Adding to the insalubrious nature of the area, for centuries Smithfi eld w as one of London's first red-light districts. Banned from soliciting within the walls of the City, prostitutes were encouraged by the authorities to live in the aptly named Cock Lane, which became famous for its brothels.
View of Smithfield Market with figures and animals by GS Shepherd (1786-1862)
SMITHFIELD TODAY
Today Smithfield Market is still London's wholesale meat market, selling around 150,000 tons of meat annually. Its buildings are Grade II listed, and the area around the market is filled with bars, clubs and restaurants. The advent of Crossrail in a few years' time is likely to add to the Smithfield area's popularity, although by then the market's future will be decided. Redevelopment could drive the meat market out to the edges of London, once more.
John Morgan is a volunteer guide for the Clerkenwell and Islington Guides Association. Its tour: Murders, Monastries and Martyrs: A Walk Through Smithfield meets every Sunday at 11am outside Barbican tube station. The Association can also organise private group and bespoke walks of the area.
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Fairy Tales for Survivors: The Armless Maiden
Mari Ness
Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:00pm 4 comments 4 Favorites [+]
One of the most profound influences on my understanding of fairy tales was The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors (1995), edited by Terri Windling, an anthology I discovered quite by chance while browsing a bookstore one day. I picked it up partly because of the title, partly because it had a couple of stories from favorite authors, partly because it seemed to be about fairy tales, and mostly because it had a nice big sticker proclaiming that it was 25% off.
Never underestimate the value of nice big stickers proclaiming that things are 25% off, even if those stickers end up leaving sticky residue all over your book, which is not the point just now.
Rather, it’s how the book changed my understanding of fairy tales.
The Armless Maiden was hardly the first collection of fairy tales that I’d devoured, or even the first collection of fairy tales littered with essays about fairy tales, their origins, and their meanings. But it was the first collection I’d read that focused on a very real part of fairy tales: how many of them center on child abuse.
And not just the housekeeping demanded of poor Cinderella.
Neither I nor the collection mean to suggest that all fairy tales are about child abuse—many tales featuring talking animals, for instance, like “The Three Little Pigs” or “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” do not deal with issues of child abuse, even when they do deal with violence. Other tales, such as “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” focus on figures who are not children, although they may be trapped, enchanted, and abused in other ways. And the French salon fairy tales, in particular, were more interested in issues of French aristocratic society than in child abuse: their intricate fairy tales, for the most part not intended for children, generally focused on violent relationships between adults.
But as the essays in the collection point out, a surprising, perhaps shocking, number of fairy tales do focus on child abuse: neglected children, abandoned children, children—especially daughters—handed over to monsters by parents, children killed by parents. Children with arms and legs cut off by parents.
This is the fairy tale subtopic that The Armless Maiden explores through essays, poems, fairy tale retellings, and original tales—some without any magic or fairies at all, as in Munro Sickafoose’s “Knives,” one of the most brutal stories in the collection. The contributors include renowned writers and poets Patricia McKillip, Charles de Lint, Anne Sexton, Peter Straub, Tanith Lee, Louise Gluck and Jane Yolen, with cartoonist Lynda Barry adding an essay.
With the exception of a few (much needed) lighter stories, like Jane Gardam’s “The Pangs of Love” (a sequel, of sorts, to Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,”) and Annita Harlan’s “Princess in Puce,” (a comparatively lighthearted Cinderella story), and a comforting story, “The Lion and the Lark,” from Patricia McKillip, the stories, poems and essays here are all fairly dark and grim, and, as with the original fairy tales they echo, not all have happy endings. Some are pure fairy tale, set in some timeless setting, as the story that starts the collection, Midori Snyder’s “The Armless Maiden” (which lent its title to the collection), and Jane Yolen’s “The Face in the Cloth.” Some—especially, but not limited to, the poems—are meditations on or explorations of existing fairy tales, such as Steven Gould’s “The Session,” a retelling of a conversation between a character in Snow White and a therapist, and Louise Gluck’s “Gretel and Darkness.” Others, such as Charles de Lint’s “In the House of My Enemy,” a tale of art and an orphan, featuring characters Jilly Coppercorn and Sophie Etoile from some of de Lint’s other books, are set in the present day. Most, with the exception of Peter Straub’s “The Juniper Tree,” are relatively short. I’m not sure they all work, but they all have a certain power.
Perhaps the most powerful contribution, however, is the personal essay/memoir from editor Terri Windling, explaining her own past with her mother and half-brother, and how that past became entangled with fairy tales. As Windling shows, both in this essay and elsewhere, fairy tales can serve as a reminder that yes, terrible things can happen to children. That not all adults are good, and sometimes, the real threat comes from within a child’s family.
But fairy tales also offer something else: hope that violence and terror can be survived. That children—and adults—can find a way out of their dark woods.
Possibly with the help of fairy tales.
Reading it, I was encouraged to start writing my own.
The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors is currently out of print, although I suppose it’s just possible that Tor Books might consider reprinting it if this post generates enough comments. (Or not.) But even if it doesn’t return to print, I’d argue it’s still worth seeking out in libraries or used bookstores. It is not an easy read, or something to be read quickly, and many readers will find the contributions from Tanith Lee, Peter Straub and Munro Sickafoose, in particular, disturbing. But it’s also a collection that few fairy tale lovers and scholars should miss.
Mari Ness lives in central Florida.
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This season we’ve seen unexpected players go off, and then players with high hopes disappoint. This has had a huge impact on the NBA as reflected in the conference standings.
Firstly, the revival of Derrick Rose. This season we saw Derrick Rose for the Minnesota Timberwolves come to light as if he has transformed into the vintage, MVP Rose we saw in 2010-11. The former Chicago Bull star was the youngest ever MVP winner and had the potential to be even better than what was.
Rose has struggled with ankle and ACL injuries his whole career, but his love for the game has never changed. This is what has been keeping him from going, even at his lowest points and as a result, Derrick Rose has been playing like nothing ever happened and is on track to win the Sixth Man of the Year award.
Markelle Fultz was the number one pick in the 2017 draft but from how he’s been performing, you wouldn’t assume he was a number one pick.
When the 76ers drafted Fultz, they were certainly unaware of how injury prone he was with this shoulder that has been bugging him his whole career as well as recently, his wrist.
Fultz is only averaging 8.2 points per game and 3.1 assists per game with a field goal percentage of 41.9 in 19 games this season. This isn’t necessarily bad but from watching Fultz, it is evident he is not confident shooting the ball.
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He is still struggling from the free throw line shooting at 56.8 per cent this season. This is something he has been heavily criticised for.
Sources says the 76ers are looking to trade Fultz with his poor shooting skills. The Phoenix Suns have been reported to have an interest in him.
Up next, Kemba Walker.
Walker is having a breakout season. The Charlotte Hornets’ point guard is averaging a career high in points with 27.1 points per game and a career high in assists with 6.2 per game.
On the November 18th, the Hornets played the 76ers. On that night, Walker dropped 60 points setting a franchise high while shooting 61.8 per cent from the field.
This was not enough though as they still lost that game by three. Walker has been consistent with these performances as he has had many 30 point plus games.
The former University of Connecticut legend is very likely going to be an all-star if he keeps up with these numbers.
There’s one problem he is facing though – the players around him. The rest of the team can be described as average as Kemba is the best on the team by a mile. Some say he is wasting his talent at the Hornets and deserves better. There may be some truth in this as who knows what he could be doing with another team such as the Nuggets or Bucks.
The Boston Celtics have had a pretty disappointing season, to say the least, with all the talent on their side. There is too much skill and it is clear that players are not reaching their full potential.
Jaylen Brown who is coming off a pretty solid 2017-18 season has not made much of an impact with to the Celtics as his stats have dropped.
This also may be due to Gordon Hayward who is coming back from an awful, season-long injury. With all the hype of Hayward returning, it would be fair to say he hasn’t lived up to it all.
Hayward is only averaging 11.2 points and 3.5 assists per game. Not the kind of numbers the Celtics were hoping for. I say ‘only’ because if you look at the numbers he was putting up with the Jazz – he is not reaching his potential.
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By Robert B. Lamm on July 11, 2019
Posted in Bob's Upticks, Corporate Governance, Fiduciary Duties
For those of you who’ve heard me sing, rest easy – I’m not going to break into “As Time Goes By.” But the lyric I’ve quoted in the title is worth noting. In fact, it was noted, albeit in substance rather than form, in the June 18 opinion of the Delaware Supreme Court in Marchand v. Barnhill. The opinion, written by soon-to-retire Chief Justice Leo Strine (more on that below) addressed two fundamental matters – director independence and the board’s oversight responsibilities.
The case resulted from a listeria outbreak caused by contaminated ice cream. (The thought of contaminated ice cream is too upsetting, but that’s for another day.) The key holdings referred to above were as follows:
Director Independence: The trial court had dismissed the complaint for failing to make a pre-suit demand on the board, based on its conclusion that the a majority of the board – albeit the slimmest majority of one director – was independent. However, when the Supreme Court considered the background of that one director, it determined that he was not independent. Thus, the slim majority went away. The relevant facts included that the director had worked for the company in question for 28 years, including as its CFO and a director, and that the company’s founding family had helped to raise more than $450,000 for a local college that named a building after the director. The fact that the director had supported a proposal that the founding family opposed – i.e., separating the chair and CEO positions – was deemed by the Supreme Court to be insufficient to support a finding of independence.
Board Oversight: The Delaware Supreme Court found that the board had breached its fiduciary duty of loyalty by failing to oversee a significant risk – product contamination – leading to the conclusion that the board had demonstrated bad faith. As is usually the case, Chief Justice Strine says it better than I possibly could. Citing the landmark 1996 Caremark decision, he writes:
“Bad faith is established when ‘the directors [completely] fail to implement any reporting or information system or controls[,] or . . . having implemented such a system or controls, consciously fail to monitor or oversee its operations thus disabling themselves from being informed of risks or problems requiring their attention.’
“Using [the company’s] books and records, the complaint fairly alleges that before the listeria outbreak engulfed the company:
no board committee that addressed food safety existed;
no regular process or protocols that required management to keep the board apprised of food safety compliance practices, risks, or reports existed;
no schedule for the board to consider on a regular basis, such as quarterly or biannually, any key food safety risks existed;
during a key period leading up to the deaths of three customers, management received reports that contained what could be considered red, or at least yellow, flags, and the board minutes of the relevant period revealed no evidence that these were disclosed to the board;
the board was given certain favorable information about food safety by management, but was not given important reports that presented a much different picture; and
the board meetings are devoid of any suggestion that there was any regular discussion of food safety issues.”
By the by, it’s worth noting the Supreme Court’s reliance on the fact that the minutes made no mention of the board’s focus on the relevant issues. Those of you who’ve read my prior post on good minutes (or are aware of my nerdy passion for good minutes) won’t be surprised that I’m feeling a bit of schadenfreude right about now.
As many other commentators have noted, the case doesn’t change Delaware law and is very much dependent upon its (hopefully) unique facts. But it surely does remind us that the fundamentals are important – careful vetting of director independence, which was the subject of another leading opinion by Leo Strine from 2003, making sure that boards are aware of and attend to problems, and preparing minutes that reflect their awareness and attention.
Hail and Farewell to Leo Strine
I cannot let the opportunity pass to note that Leo Strine has announced his departure as Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. Over the years, I have had the great pleasures not only of reading his opinions, but also of hearing him speak in person on both formal and informal occasions, and of meeting him once or twice. Aside from great intelligence, he has great wit, and as best I can tell he takes his work far more seriously than he takes himself. (He is also passionate about minutes. I may not remember it accurately, but when asked about using a transcript of a board meeting as its minutes, he said something to the effect that any lawyer who did that should be disbarred.) He is a great jurist and a great writer, and while he’s rumored to be going for higher office or other great things, he will be missed.
Tags: Board of Directors, corporate governance, fiduciary duty, Independence
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Bob Lamm chairs Gunster’s Securities and Corporate Governance Practice Group. He has held senior legal positions at several major companies – most recently Pfizer, where he was assistant general counsel and assistant secretary; has served as Chair of the Securities Law Committee and in other leadership positions with the Society for Corporate Governance; and is a Senior Fellow of The Conference Board Center for Corporate Governance. Bob writes and speaks extensively on securities law and governance matters and has received several honors, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in Corporate Governance from Corporate Secretary magazine.
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Houston’s Lone Frank Lloyd Wright House on the Market for $2.85M
A Frank Lloyd Wright–designed home in Texas? Yes!
A home designed by Wright in his signature Usonian style is now on the market in Houston for $2.85 million.
Most of Wright’s designs dot the Midwest. However, Houston insurance executive William Thaxton had a dream to “move out to the country” and establish a neighborhood in the 1950s. The result is one of three Wright-designed homes in Texas, and the only one in Houston.
That neighborhood is now Bunker Hill, 30 minutes from downtown Houston on the west side.
There is a caveat: “To a Frank Lloyd Wright purist, I would tell you that it’s been redone,” says listing agent Clay Joyner with JP & Associates.
But it’s not what you think, and Wright likely isn’t rolling over in his grave.
The current owners, with Kirksey Architecture, performed extensive renovations from 1991 to 1995, not only getting the property into tiptop shape but also adding luxe amenities that are, amazingly, in line with Wright’s vision.
What was once a modest 1,800-square-foot home now has five bedrooms and 6.5 baths, thanks to a 6,300-square-foot addition.
An example of Wright’s compression
Fireplace in the addition
One of the bedrooms
The home retains original features such as the redwood and mahogany woods, polished concrete floors, concrete blocks, and plate glass. The newer spaces include an enclosed patio, central courtyard, and expanded family room.
The original carport now doubles as a covered entry or patio. Original to the design are a pool and patio, as well as the master bath and interior built-ins. Removing two bedrooms as well as original furniture in the master bedroom created more open space.
“The living space is extremely open,” says Joyner. “That was (Wright’s) whole idea—bringing the outside in.”
A fun feature is a sliding window off the master bath that leads right to the pool. “You can literally step out of that window and into the pool,” says Joyner.
Infrastructure (namely HVAC) was added as well.
“It has everything that would be considered over and above in regard to what you need to heat it and cool it,” says Joyner. This includes geothermal heating and cooling added during the ’90s.
Sitting area in original structure
One of the baths in the original structure
Original structure’s kitchen
Kitchen in the addition
Even without a house on it, the land (1.2 acres) would be worth at least $2 million given the neighborhood—making this Wright home a relative bargain.
“The neighborhood lends itself to one of the most exclusive parts of Houston,” says the agent. Most homes sell for between $2 million and $2.4 million here.
It’s also close to urban amenities. “You are minutes from anything, but it’s peaceful, it’s quiet, and it’s serene,” says Joyner.
“After 27 years and raising a family there, he’s retiring and moving forward,” Joyner says of the current owner. “We are bound and determined to find someone who appreciates the Frank Lloyd Wright legacy.”
In fact, he thinks the buyer might not even live in the U.S., let alone Texas.
“Houston has become such an international marketplace. We want to believe there’s going to be some international interest. Someone overseas is going to appreciate it more than someone across the road,” says Joyner.
He also thinks it could work as a corporate purchase—perhaps an architectural firm’s “calling card” to entertain clients. “That (concept) has actually gained some traction and interest in Houston.”
Whoever buys it will walk away with a singular treasure.
“It’s a work of art,” says Joyner, “and a piece of history.”
The post Houston’s Lone Frank Lloyd Wright House on the Market for $2.85M appeared first on Real Estate News & Insights | realtor.com®.
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Wal-Mart workers hope to show their union the door
By Andrew ChungQuebec Bureau
Tues., March 8, 2011timer3 min. read
MONTREAL—A rare labour victory in organizing workers at a Wal-Mart in Quebec is in jeopardy as those very workers seek to show their union the door.
It’s an ironic twist for the United Food and Commercial Workers union after battling for so long to unionize Wal-Mart’s Canadian stores, attracting international attention in the process.
Employees at the Wal-Mart outlet in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., the first store to successfully sign a collective agreement and stay open in Canada, have filed a request to decertify the union.
A decision on the matter could come as early as this week. The Quebec Labour Relations Commission has also scheduled a hearing for next Monday. The request was made in February.
The high-profile decertification effort comes at a time when unionization in Quebec, among the most union-friendly provinces, is starting to dip.
Unlike in many other provinces and states, however, unions in Quebec still play a central role in civil society and politics.
The UFCW Local 501, affiliated with the Quebec Federation of Labour, wouldn’t comment in detail on the situation in Saint-Hyacinthe, citing the upcoming hearing.
But it has already filed with the commission a new demand for union accreditation.
It also has suspicions, asking the commission official charged with verifying the employees’ request to “assure that it was done is a free and voluntary way,” said UFCW national representative Anouk Collet.
Wal-Mart says the request for union withdrawal garnered signatures from 147 of the store’s 205 unionized employees, according to Alex Roberton, Wal-Mart’s Quebec director of corporate affairs.
He denied that Wal-Mart’s managers applied pressure on employees. “This is something entirely between the associates and the union.” Roberton said. “Our focus is on ensuring a great work environment for all our associates in all of our stores.”
Gregor Murray, a professor of industrial relations at the Université de Montreal, called it “a predictable event in the ongoing saga.
“Wal-Mart has fought unionization in its stores in Quebec in every way imaginable within its legal means,” said Murray, who has followed the Wal-Mart case for years.
What it shows, Murray said, is that “if a multinational corporation has very deep pockets and can wage a multi-pronged campaign to try to prevent unionization, then it shows there is a considerable scope to do this within the law.”
Wal-Mart is not known to be union-friendly. Trade unions have accused the world’s largest retailer of using every union-busting trick in the book, including dragging the process out for years in the courts.
The UFCW and Wal-Mart made headlines in 2005 when the company shut down its newly unionized store in Jonquière, Que., before a collective agreement could be imposed. It claimed the store wasn’t viable.
Fours stores in Canada have certified unions so far, but only Saint-Hyacinthe and a separate Hull-district Gatineau store have signed collective agreements.
Murray said there are several scenarios that might be behind the decertification effort.
One is that the workers’ contract, which took years to obtain and was in the end imposed in 2009 by an arbitrator, was “very favourable” to the employer and so employees may have questioned whether it was all worth it, Murray said. The arbitrator granted a 30-cent wage increase each year of the two-year contract.
Second, they may simply be disappointed with their union.
Or third, a “plausible scenario,” Murray said, is that Wal-Mart used the “churn and burn” technique. Churn means to use the high employee turnover to seek new employees who are less favourable to unions. “As the supervisor level it’s fully within my rights to screen employees based on their orientation,” he said. “So over a period of time the first people who signed up may no longer be at the store.”
Roberton denied this. “We don’t ask them, ‘Are you favourable or unfavourable to unions,’ as part of the hiring process.”
Unions in Quebec have a lot of political clout and typically have a large voice when it comes to public policy. This is partly due to the fact that workers in Quebec are, along with those in Newfoundland and Labrador, the most unionized in Canada.
Around 40 per cent of workers are governed by collective agreements.
Laws are also favourable to unions, such as Quebec’s anti-scab law that is currently under review, and the ability to certify a union without holding a secret ballot. The Montreal Economic Institute has claimed such laws dissuade investment in the province.
Experts say unionization is decreasing in industrialized economies around the world. And Quebec is no different.
From 2009 to 2010, the rate of union membership dipped from 36.5 per cent to 36.1 per cent, according to Statistics Canada.
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Many Denominations Support a Woman's Right to Choose
Sep 30, 1991 - Letter 1 of 2
DEAR ABBY: With all the talk about "pro-life" and "pro-choice," I am confused about where the various religious denominations stand in the controversy.
Can you please tell us which religions support a woman's right to choose? -- CONFUSED IN ST. PAUL
DEAR CONFUSED: It is confusing. Not only do the various theologies differ in their positions on abortion, but within each religion individual members (and groups) may also have differing beliefs. The following are the official positions of some of the major religious groups that support a woman's right to choose.
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (QUAKERS): Supports a woman's right to follow her own conscience concerning child-bearing, abortion and sterilization.
CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST: "Matters of family planning are left to the individual judgment of members of our church."
CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM: Opposes government restrictions on a woman's right to have an abortion.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH: "Any proposed legislation on the part of national or state governments regarding abortions must take special care to see that the individual conscience is respected."
ISLAM: Abortion is allowed for any reason in the first 40 days of pregnancy (approximately 5.7 weeks). They oppose abortion after this point, except if the woman's life is in danger. The issue of fetal deformity is an issue that is being examined by the church.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: "The abortion decision must remain with the individual, and be made on the basis of conscience and personal religious principles, and must be free of governmental interference."
REFORM JUDAISM: The decision of whether or not to have an abortion is the woman's. Under traditional Jewish law, the fetus is not considered separate from the woman until its head is out of the womb.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION: Supports the "right to choose contraception and abortion as a legitimate expression of our constitutional rights."
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: "Upholds the right to have access to adequately funded family planning services, and to safe, legal abortions as one option among others."
UNITED METHODIST: Supports the legal option of abortion under proper medical procedures.
ZEN BUDDHISM: "A decision should be made in full awareness of the consequences, and should be made by the individual with a clear head fully awake to the whole issue."
AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES: Have adopted a neutral position.
No stated position has been announced by: African Methodist Episcopal, Buddhism, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Seventh-day Adventists, Shintoism, Sikhism.
For further information, contact the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, 100 Maryland Ave. N.E., Suite 307, Washington, D.C. 20002; (202) 543-7032. No self-addressed, stamped envelope is required.
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Biodiversity is defined as the set of all living organisms and species on land and all natural things around them such as: oceans, rivers, mountains, deserts, land, forests, jungles, animals, plants, atmosphere, heaven and humans. Climate change: climate change is affecting biodiversity so that this becomes a major threat to biodiversity in the coming decades. Since this originated? Although throughout the history of the Earth climate has always changed with the ecosystems and species that came and went, rapid climate change affects ecosystems and the ability of species to adapt and thus increases the loss of biodiversity. While the loss of biodiversity increases the life of humans at risk enters e.g. climate change can dry the water taking into account global warming, and if no water, no human, this would also affect plants as without water, photosynthesis cannot be performed, also with animals and plants not animals without human life disappears. So if biodiversity has this enormous threat we are under this threat also already there are evidence of how species are responding to global warming. Some examples are as follows: In Costa Rica’s golden toad May Have Become Extinct Due to Their Inability to Adapt to Changing temperature Birds like the blue jay in Arizona are starting to reproduce early. Alpine plants are moving to Higher latitudes in Austria Such mammals as Arctic polar bears are feeling the ravages of global warming on ice decline The surface temperatures of the Seas Have produced a Phenomenon of coral bleaching, Yielding by an alga (Which Gives color to the coral) by high temperature, alters nutrient production Penguin Populations Have fallen by 33% in parts of Antarctica In Antarctic poles are melting because of climate change, and this at a major threat to the world as these poles melting caused sea level rise and it will cause flooding and losses till some cities on the coast, I chose these two themes primarily for their long relationship and secondly by providing extensive information with which I can learn and study the origins of biodiversity loss and that I can do to avoid it
Why biodiversity is important?
Life has been able to adapt to the most diverse places on earth, from microscopic creatures that habit in the icy landscapes of the poles to creatures that live in warmer places, since the birds that fly at high altitudes than fish living in depths of the ocean, our planet is full of living organisms. All of them are part of the history of the world in the last 3.5 billion years, which means since the onset of the first cell. Just the study of early life forms, has allowed us to see how they have evolved from the simplest of bacteria to the most complex. And even though we all know that in reality we are only able to identify with a name 10 percent of them, the remaining 90 percent are still a mystery to humans.
The vast majority of them are not easily visible to us, but its importance is vital to our existence, are responsible for shifting the balance between different components of the atmosphere, purify the air we repair, recycle wastes of nature to that from dead organic matter can be reborn, and is that the distribution of tasks necessary for the maintenance of ecosystems is very complex and requires the activity of all its components. While more species living more productive and stable the ecosystem will be, and have greater capacity for recovery if there is a drought, fire or any other threat to this. Scientists have begun to realize how much of this, in 1997 a group of economists and environmental scientists tried to measure in economic terms, the services that the environment gives without asking anything in return, and results they achieved almost double the GDP of all countries in the world. We should not be surprising considering all the tasks that nature solves: regulate the atmosphere and climate, fresh water purifies, enriches the soil, recycles nutrients, decodes the waste, is responsible for the pollination of crops, produce fuel wood, food, fuels and humanity, as well as important is the planet’s biodiversity.http://danierap.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/biodiversidad3.jpg
Climate change linked to human activity
In the world, human activities have caused and will continue causing wear on biodiversity due to, among other things, changes in use and surface soil, pollution and land degradation and air pollution; the diversion of water into heavily altered ecosystems and urbanization, environmental decay, exploitation of species, introduction of alien species, ozone depletion and weather. The current rate of biodiversity loss is greater than the natural extinction. A fundamental question is how much can change (either natural or human-induced) increase or prevent such loss of biodiversity?
The changes in climate create a secondary alteration to biodiversity that has begun affecting it. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased since preindustrial times due to human activities, particularly fossil fuels and changes in use and on the surface of the soil. For example currently rain fall on the northeast of Europe and the eastern United States and Canada that is considered acidic. The more acid rain in Europe signed up to Scotland.
Observed Changes in climate
Earth throughout the twentieth century: the temperature has raised land surface and marin patterns have changed spatial and temporal rainfall, has raised sea level, and increased frequency and intensity of phenomena associated with El Niño. These changes, particularly the rise in temperatures in some areas have affected the timing of reproduction of animals and plants and / or migration of animals, to the extent of growing season, distribution of species and population size and frequency of pest and disease outbreaks. Some coastal ecosystems have also been affected by changes in regional climate.
Loss of species by climate change
The extinction of species increases the biodiversity loss, and with them our existence. For example: bees are disappearing, disappear. The consequences are disastrous this can cause the pollination is what has made it possible for millions of years, to ensure the reproduction from the plant to flower. In addition, 35% of our diet depends on pollination: fruit and vegetables. The most famous food recommended by dieticians. Moreover, in certain regions of the world, the disappearance of pollinating insects forces from Polish farmers to pollinate by hand.
Researchers and beekeepers are moving in different scenarios, it has not yet been clearly identified the main cause of the extinction of bees. All pressures on the ecosystem and the health of bees have been revised: GMOs, electromagnetic waves, pesticides, pollution, climate change, scarcity of flowers, viruses, diseases, parasites, fungi, etc. http://img.over-blog.com/299×189/0/55/19/29/abejas_transg__nicas.jpg
What is expected of climate change?
It is expected that climate change affects all aspects of biodiversity. However, these changes must take into account impacts from human activities, past, present and future, including increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to the wide range of scenarios of CO2 increase is forecast that the average temperature Earth’s surface to rise between 1.4 and 5.8 ° C by the end of the century, land areas experiencing the highest warming oceans and high latitudes will warm more than the tropics. It is estimated that sea level rise associated with such changes falls 0.1 to 0.9 m. In general, it is expected an increase in precipitation in high latitudes and equatorial areas and decrease in subtropical areas but increased heavy rainfall.
It is expected that climate change directly affecting individual organisms, populations, distribution of species, and ecosystem functioning, for example due to increased temperatures and changes in precipitation and in the case of marine ecosystems coastal and expected changes in sea level and strong storm surges, and indirectly, including through the impact of climate change in the intensity and frequency of phenomena such as forest fires. The loss, modification and disintegration of the environment and the introduction and spread of alien species will affect the impacts of climate change. A realistic projection of the future state of terrestrial ecosystems should take into account patterns of land use and water, which will greatly affect the ability of organisms to respond to climate change through movement. Percentage of variation of precipitation over the average forecast for global next 100 years on America. It is expected a decrease in central Chile
and an increase in the extreme south.
Melt poles by climate change
Tropical, subtropical, Mediterranean, continental, desert, polar, mountain high … Nobody can predict what weather will need to consider children in 100 years. The warming will force change textbooks because, even worse, alter the ecosystem of more than 60 percent of the land surface. The impact will suffer the most severe tropical forests. If you escape to deforestation, it is likely that the warming stopped. The poles will be reduced, and high mountain climates are also at risk of disappearing. Among all possible future scenarios, scientists have taken two extremes. The first, in which nothing is done to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, the result would be up to 39 percent of the Earth’s surface, would experience a change in temperature and rainfall that would result in a new climate. Therefore, 48 percent of current climates disappear. In the best case, with an emission control, the change will affect 20 percent of the land surface. The most affected area is the tropical, equatorial forests of Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia as a major hit. According to the model, the equatorial forests could move to the tropics, the deserts (Sahara, Gobi, New Mexico, Kalahari and northern Australia), to the current temperate zones, including Spain, “and thus chain, to poles.http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/imag/_v2/ecodiario/medio_ambiente/225×250/cambio_clima.jpg
Climate change consequences
Changes in biodiversity at ecosystem and landscapes, in response to climate change and other pressures (such as deforestation and changes in forest fires), could further affect the global and regional climate through changes in absorption and emission of greenhouse gases and changes in the reflection. Similarly, structural changes in biological communities in the upper layers of the oceans could alter the absorption of CO2 by the ocean or the emission of precursors for cloud condensation nuclei, causing positive or negative reactions or in the climate change. The simulation of changes in biodiversity in response to climate change presents some significant challenges. The data and simulations needed to estimate the extent and nature of future changes in ecosystems and changes in the geographical distribution of the species are incomplete, which means that these effects can be quantified only partially.
Flooding in Concepción by the overflowing of the river Bío Bío, July 2006. Because of climate change
Effects of the drought of 2007 in Vegas Cayucupil, Cañete. The image shows the same place a year apart
As I explained earlier biodiversity plays a very important in us as this is vital for human life, and this is being eroded by many factors, but here in this project. Mainly I just said the climate change, we cause rapid climate change which becomes a threat to biodiversity, bone for us, but we can do something to prevent it?
Yes, there are many things you can do to help or participate in improving the current condition of the Earth and future conditions are:
Improving the efficiency of cars. Be achieved through better technology, lightening the structure, improvements in engines and transmission, reducing aerodynamic drag, decreasing resistance of the wheels, etc.
Accelerate improvements in energy efficiency of industries, residences and commercial establishments and public, through effective policies.
Stimulate and accelerate research and development of technologies based on energy sources of renewable energy.
Ending deforestation and encourage reforestation
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The mission of the University System of Georgia (USG) is achieved through the collective missions of our state’s public colleges and universities, which drive economic development and produce more educated individuals to contribute to the quality of life in the State. USG institutions are responsible for producing graduates with the requisite skills and knowledge to ensure Georgia’s strong future in the knowledge-based and global economy. The individual mission and function of the institutions within the USG must be aligned with the overall USG mission in order to strategically meet the higher education needs of the State.
The function and mission of each USG institution is determined by the Board of Regents and any change in institutional function and mission must be approved by the Board. Institutional function determines the scope of activity of the institution over a considerable period of time and covers the following aspects:
The level at which the institution will operate;
The types of educational degree programs to be offered;
The cost of attending the institution (student tuition and fees);
The admissions selectivity of the institution and the extent to which the institution serves as a primary point of access to higher education for under-represented students in a geographic region of Georgia; and,
The extent to which the institution engages in teaching, research, and service
Specific functions and missions for individual institutions and the procedures to request a change in functional sector, functional sector category, and institutional mission can be found in the Academic & Student Affairs Handbook. USG institutions are classified according to the following functional sectors:
Research Universities, which offer a broad array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs and are characterized as doctoral-granting with a Carnegie Classification of very high or high research activity. Associate degrees are typically not offered at research universities. While teaching is a core focus at all USG institutions, the emphasis on basic and applied research is much heavier at research universities than any other institutional sector. It is expected that institutions operating within this sector will be world-class research institutions with significant commitments to receipt of external funding, philanthropic giving, and fundraising at the highest levels.
Primary Section/Function
Secondary Sections/Function
Georgia Institute of Technology Research University n/a Georgia’s technological research institution
Georgia State University Research University State College
University of Georgia Research University n/a Georgia’s land-grant institution and agricultural experiment station
Augusta University Research University n/a State’s dedicated health/sciences/medical college
Comprehensive Universities, which offer a number of undergraduate and master’s-level programs with some doctoral programs. Typically, associate-level degrees are not offered at comprehensive universities. Graduate programs at comprehensive universities are characterized as master’s-dominant. While teaching is a core focus at all USG institutions, the emphasis on basic and applied research is heavier at comprehensive universities than state universities or state colleges, but not emphasized as heavily as research universities. It is expected that institutions within this sector will be committed to being world-class academic institutions.
Georgia Southern University Comprehensive University n/a Approved for doctoral programs
Valdosta State University Comprehensive University n/a Approved for doctoral programs
Kennesaw State University Comprehensive University n/a Approved for doctoral programs
University of West Georgia Comprehensive University n/a Approved for doctoral programs
State Universities, which offer a number of undergraduate and master’s-level programs, but very few doctoral programs. Associate-level degrees can be offered at these universities, but they are also typically limited. While teaching is a core focus at all USG institutions, the emphasis on research activity at these state universities includes some basic research, but is typically more focused on institutional or applied research.
Albany State University State University n/a n/a
Clayton State University State University n/a n/a
Columbus State University State University n/a Approved for doctoral programs
Fort Valley State University State University n/a State’s 1890 land grant institution
Georgia College & State University State University n/a State’s public liberal arts institution; approved for doctoral programs
Georgia Southwestern State University State University n/a n/a
Middle Georgia State University State University n/a n/a
Savannah State University State University n/a n/a
University of North Georgia State University n/a State’s military college; approved for doctoral programs
State Colleges
Balanced Bachelor’s and Associate State Colleges
Institutions included in the balanced bachelor’s and associate-level state colleges group offer bachelor’s degrees, associate programs, and general education courses, but no graduate programs. These state colleges are characterized as balanced bachelor’s and associate-level degrees with bachelor’s programs focused on specialized academic and economic development program areas and regional, college-educated workforce needs. The emphasis at these state colleges is on teaching and service with limited focus on basic or applied research activity.
Associate Dominant-Select Bachelor’s State Colleges
Institutions included in the associate dominant state colleges group are characterized as offering associate-dominant programs and general education courses, with very few, select, professionally-oriented bachelor’s degree programs. The select bachelor’s programs are focused on specialized academic and economic development program areas and regional, college-educated workforce needs. The emphasis at these state colleges is on teaching and service with limited focus on basic or applied research.
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College State College - Balanced Bachelor’s & Associate Degrees n/a State’s agricultural state college
Atlanta Metropolitan State College State College - Balanced Bachelor’s & Associate Degrees n/a n/a
College of Coastal Georgia State College - Balanced Bachelor’s & Associate Degrees n/a n/a
Dalton State College State College - Balanced Bachelor’s & Associate Degrees n/a n/a
Georgia Gwinnett College State College - Balanced Bachelor’s & Associate Degrees n/a n/a
Gordon State College State College - Balanced Bachelor’s & Associate Degrees n/a n/a
East Georgia State College State College - Associate Dominant, Select Bachelor’s n/a n/a
Georgia Highlands College State College - Associate Dominant, Select Bachelor’s n/a n/a
South Georgia State College State College - Associate Dominant, Select Bachelor’s n/a n/a
Institutions with a Blended Function
At times a USG institution may be approved by the Board to advance aspects of a mission from different functional sectors. When this occurs, an institution will have a blended institutional function with a primary sector function and a secondary function sector. While the institution will follow the function of their primary sector, it will also be authorized to function in accordance with aspects of the secondary sector function.
No institution may operate as an institution with a blended function unless approved by the Board of Regents. When the Board approves an institution as having a blended function, the Board will also approve the institution’s primary functional sector. The guidelines for obtaining Board approval to operate as an institution with a blended function and a list of institutions currently approved for a blended function can be found in the Academic & Student Affairs Handbook.
The Chancellor may, from time to time, direct institutions with a blended function on whether and to what extent the institution will implement primary functional sector requirements or secondary functional sector requirements.
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Carrie Givens
Email: cgivens@usgs.gov
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2543-961
6520 Mercantile Way #5
aquatic ecosystems
freshwater ecosystems
contamination and pollution
health and disease
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL) studies the source, occurrence, and distribution of the bacterial pathogens Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC), Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Enterococcus, and Staphylococcus and the relation of occurrence of pathogens with fecal indicator bacteria, land-use, season, hydrology, geology, weather...
Contacts: Natasha Isaacs, Carrie Givens
Attribution: Michigan Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Enhance Great Lakes Beach Recreational Water Quality Decision Making
Important questions about beach closures and management remain unanswered in the Great Lakes where over 500 beaches are routinely used along the nearly 11,000 miles of coastline. The economies of coastal areas are dependent on public confidence in the quality of water at the shoreline, and beach managers need reliable science-based information to make beach closure and beach management...
Contacts: Carrie Givens
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL) conducts research on antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their genes. We have concentrated our studies on antibiotic-resistant bacteria of human-health concern, including vancomycin-resistant enterococci, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (...
Attribution: Midwest, Michigan Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Microbial Source Tracking
It is often important to understand the source of fecal indicator bacteria, pathogens, or chemicals that impair the normal use of water. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their genes, specific bacterial pathogens (such as E. coli O157:H7 which is primarily associated with cattle), and host-associated bacterial genes (such as human or animal specific Bacteroides genes), can be used to evaluate...
Microbiological Water Quality
Recreational water and industrial discharges are regulated by other federal and state agencies across the country. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL) conducts studies to understand the fate and transport of fecal indicator bacteria in surface and groundwater to aid state and federal partners. A variety of standardized protocols are used to...
Date published: January 31, 2019
Microbial Ecology
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL) conducts ecological studies on the structure and function of eubacterial and archeal communities in the environment. Studies of this type give us basic information about the composition and functionality of different microbial communities and allow us to investigate the effects that natural and...
Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL)
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL) is a newly renovated laboratory space operated by the USGS Michigan Water Science Center in Lansing, MI. The laboratory is staffed by two Ph.D. level microbiologists and five M.S. level microbiologists with a combined 70 years of experience in microbiology and water resources research. The USGS MI-BaRL...
Date published: August 29, 2018
Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory — Lansing, Michigan
About the Laboratory
Microbiologists at the Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL) use a wide array of traditional and modern molecular approaches to evaluate microbial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance pathways in the environment. The MI-BaRL uses these approaches to advance the understanding of how environmental contaminants affect microbial...
Contacts: Carrie Givens, Mike Focazio, Geoffrey Plumlee, Ph.D.
Attribution: Environmental Health, Contaminant Biology Program, Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Date published: September 1, 2016
Swine Manure Application as a Source of Hepatitis E Virus and other Livestock-Related Pathogens
The presence of indicator bacteria, hepatitis E virus (HEV), and numerous bacterial pathogen genes increased following precipitation-induced runoff events in streams draining adjacent land surfaces in Iowa where swine manure was recently applied.
Attribution: Environmental Health, Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
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Mini Mystery 6: The Floating Girl in the Woods
Believe it or not, I'm walking on air.
Russia seems to have a monopoly on strange occurrences that have little to no rhyme or reason for happening. Whether it's the sky lighting up at night, people vanishing mysteriously, gigantic craters in the middle of nowhere, or Yetis in good old Siberia, you can count on Russia having it. That said, there are some mysteries that a more, shall I say, mystical sense to them. That's where today's story comes in: The Floating Girl in the Woods.
A favorite among mystery YouTube channels, this video, uploaded by Jebgenij2000 under the name “flying russia girl in wood”, is a mere 43 seconds long. It begins with a man—who’s filming and never seen—walking through the woods with his dog. For those interested, the video is available to watch above. For those who don't want to watch, I'll describe it for you. About seven seconds into the video, the dog rushes ahead and stops near a small clearing. The man catches up and waits back a bit, aimlessly looking around before going to the clearing. It's there that he sees a little girl with a woman in an orange coat; likely the girls mother or legal guardian.
The little girl—who's dressed in pink—is floating roughly fifteen or so feet off the ground. Her arms are stretched out, though she doesn't seem to be at all scared. In fact, she's so calm that it's likely that this is a natural occurrence for her. The other woman it looking up at the girl and also seems to be calm; pleased even. At one.point, the little girls back arches like she's channeling something, though it's maybe two seconds before she's once again in a more casual pose. After that, the dog barks and the man panics. The camera goes wild and after about two or so seconds, the camera fixate back on the woman, whose hand is on the shoulder of the girl, who's landed in the few seconds the camera wasn't focused on them. With that, they run off and the video ends.
While YouTube is no stranger to weird and perplexing videos, this one has caused a fair bit of speculation. Perhaps it's the casual nature of it. Perhaps it's the inclusion of the little girl, or the seemingly genuine reaction of the woman who's with her. Whatever the case, there exist some theories.
The first one is that the girl was channeling a spirit of some sort in a ritual. Russia—as far as I'm aware—isn’t a country known for rituals, save for the one performed to appease the modern day Csar. While that may not involve little girls floating in the air, neither do any others I've ever heard of from any sort of occult related stories. Sure, there have been tales of people who've channeled powerful entities (typically malevolent in nature), but that's all they are: tales. Claims of capturing such events on film have seldom, if ever, been legitimate or plausible. More often than not, they utilize clever usage of wires or CGI. Speaking of that, let's move on.
Theory two is it's a hoax. Whether it not the man's wife and daughter were the two seen is up for debate. Either way, this theory states the man or whoever put the video together used CGI to make it appear as the girl was floating; the dog barking being a cue for then to run off. Counter arguments to this theory say that the entire thing feels too genuine for it to be fake, which is fair. It doesn't have quite the same “coincidence” feel other videos that supposedly capture something weird have. It's entirely plausible the man was recording a day with his dog or because he'd for something interesting there a day or so ago.
Nonetheless, one has to wonder why the women and the little girl would be doing this seemingly so close to a clearing and not deeper in the woods. Callousness isn't uncommon, it absolutely happens. It's plausible that this could've been a trail seldom taken by people who take walks and it just so happened the man stumbled upon it. I guess I'll leave this up to you, dear reader, to decide.
Our third theory is the polar opposite of this one: it's all real. If you wish: take everything I said above and just flip it on its head. For others, this theory states the man really did capture footage of a little girl floating; perhaps even levitating. Nothing more, nothing less.
The fourth and final theory is the woman was using telekinesis to make the girl float. That's an entirely different story, but stories of telekinesis have existed for a very, very long time. Evidence for this theory mostly stems from the suddenness of the girl landing. It's possible the women is experienced with using this power and landed the girl. As for why she was doing this, perhaps it was to practice her power or to spend a day with her daughter or younger relative.
Look levitation is a controversial topic. Much like channeling spirits, summon rituals, Ouija boards, or anything else of that nature. While there are countless claims through history of men and women levitating off the ground, there's no evidence of it. By and large, the belief of levitation is just that: belief. As I've stated before, belief is an extraordinarily powerful thing.
And if I'm to be honest, I… actually believe in it. I remember in fourth grade having a conversation with my homeroom teacher about levitation. I didn't believe it, but he did. At the end of the day, while I was leaving, I passed by the door. He was finishing something and saw me. He called my name and told me to watch him, to which I did. He stretched out his arms and tilted his head down a bit and to my shock, he levitated a bit; a few inches to be exact, and for maybe three or so seconds at the most.
That said, while I believe it may be possible for a human to levitate through some means I cannot explain, I've never heard of an explanation for anything like what's seen in the video above. It's something more than the story I told. I personally don't believe the video is genuine, but I know what I saw in fourth grade and I cannot explain it. You be the judge on levitation as a whole.
Labels: Mini Mystery
Tyler "Bio" Rodriguez January 19, 2019 at 8:44 PM
The unexplained are sure interesting By it's very nature I doubt it's real. There are so many random YouTube videos that claim or try to prove something is real. This may seem more plausible but I'm guessing cgi or some level of trickery.
The Bricklayer January 19, 2019 at 8:55 PM
I say wires, hidden ones.
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Mini Mystery 5: The Man from Taured
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Mini Mystery 3: Alien Autopsy
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Mini Mystery 1: The Flatwoods Monster
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Aalto University
Aalto University (Aalto-yliopisto (Finnish); Aalto-universitetet (Swedish)) is one of 14 universities included in U-Multirank for Finland. Aalto University is a very large private university located in Helsinki with 17346 students enrolled (2017 data or latest available). It was founded in 2010. With regard to the scope of its subjects and degree programmes offered, the Aalto University is a broad institution. It offers programmes in foreign languages. It is characterised by a high percentage of international students. The graduation rate of Aalto University is 20,88 (bachelors) and 11,61 (masters). Its overall profile shows top performance across various indicators, with 12 ‘A’ (very good) scores overall. For a comprehensive overview of this university’s performance, see its complete performance scores in the tables below.
Lämpömiehenkuja 2, FI-02150 Espoo
+358 9 47001
http://www.aalto.fi/en/
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University as a whole Business studies: School of Business Chemical Engineering: School of Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering: School of Engineering; (Civil engineering only) Computer Science: School of Science: Dpt. of Computer Science Electrical Engineering: School of Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering: School of Engineering; (Mechanical engineering only) Production/Industrial Engineering: School of Science; Dpt. of Industrial Engineering and Management
Faculty as a whole School of Business, Master's degree, M.Sc. School of Business, Bachelor's degree, B.Sc.
Faculty as a whole Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Master's degree, M.Sc.
Faculty as a whole Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Master's degree, M.Sc.
Faculty as a whole Degree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Degree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, M.Sc.
Faculty as a whole Electrical Engineering, Master's degree, M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, B.Sc.
Faculty as a whole Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree, M.Sc.
Faculty as a whole Degree Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management, Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Degree Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management, Master's degree, M.Sc.
Other study programmes
School of Business, Doctorate Programme, D.Sc.
As a comprehensive business school we offer a full portfolio of business and economics degree programmes from BSc to PhD level. The goal of student recruitment for all programmes is to attract highly analytical and motivated applicants. The School's re...
As a comprehensive business school we offer a full portfolio of business and economics degree programmes from BSc to PhD level. The goal of student recruitment for all programmes is to attract highly analytical and motivated applicants. The School's research-based profile strengthens its profile as an int. graduate school.The language of instruction is predominately English. Students are in focus of our activities and the School aims to be a pioneer in terms of how it supports student learning. The quality of all programmes is assured through our triple crown accreditation
Our research profile is characterized by 1) high-quality scholarship through ambitious,rigorous and relevant research projects in business studies and economics, 2) dissemination of research findings through int. publications in the most influential ou...
Our research profile is characterized by 1) high-quality scholarship through ambitious,rigorous and relevant research projects in business studies and economics, 2) dissemination of research findings through int. publications in the most influential outlets, 3) long-term academic leadership and extensive societal influence in Finland and abroad. The number of FT45 publications is the main measure of research output. Efforts are made to exploit the collaboration opportunities that exist within Aalto to engage in high-quality multidisc. research on critical societal issues.
Core Areas of Business Studies, Economics, Multi-discip. Research on critical societal Issues
AASCB International, EFMD (EQUIS), AMBA
> 75 %
The MSc degree combines extensive theoretical studies with experience of real business life. The learning goals include knowledge,skills and attitudes with the emphasis on integrated understanding and the requirements of challenging positions. In total...
The MSc degree combines extensive theoretical studies with experience of real business life. The learning goals include knowledge,skills and attitudes with the emphasis on integrated understanding and the requirements of challenging positions. In total 12 specialized programmes are offered,all in English; of these 3 are interdisciplinary, organized jointly with other Aalto schools. The School's membership in the CEMS community offers our students the opportunity to include the high-profile CEMS MIM or one of the School's international Double Degree programmes in MSc degree.
Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' di Milano (Italy); Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Austria); Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal); Universität St. Gallen (Switzerland); University of Sydney (Australia)
The BSc degree gives the students a strong foundation in the core areas of business and economics, and a deeper familiarity in one area of specialization. The learning goals include knowledge,skills and attitudes which prepare the students both for adv...
The BSc degree gives the students a strong foundation in the core areas of business and economics, and a deeper familiarity in one area of specialization. The learning goals include knowledge,skills and attitudes which prepare the students both for advanced studies at graduate level and for working life. There are 2 BSc programmes, one offered in the main campus in Helsinki with courses in Finnish and English, and the other in the Mikkeli campus, entirely in English. In the former, the students may choose between 8 specializations, the latter specializes in Int. business.
National University of Singapore (Asia); University of Southern California (USA); Singapore Management University (Asia); Nanyang Technological University (Asia); Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) de Montréal (Canada)
Educating responsible and independent professionals for diverse positions in Finland’s largest industrial sectors. The research and teaching are supported by an extensive international academic and industrial cooperation network.
http://chem.aalto.fi
The research at the School of Chemical Engineering focuses on forest products technologies, chemical engineering, industrial biotechnology, materials science and nanotechnology, metals and minerals processing and energy technology. The school has two s...
The research at the School of Chemical Engineering focuses on forest products technologies, chemical engineering, industrial biotechnology, materials science and nanotechnology, metals and minerals processing and energy technology. The school has two special research infrastructures: bioeconomy infrastructure that enables research from molecular level to biobased technology concepts, and raw materials research infrastructure, that supports the research of circular economy targeting to closed metallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes and inorganic energy materials.
Chemistry and materials Science
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The programme educates students to develop skills to become specialists in bio technology, in material science and engineering or in chemical engineering. The programme offers the students several opportunities to do experimental work in laboratory. T...
The programme educates students to develop skills to become specialists in bio technology, in material science and engineering or in chemical engineering. The programme offers the students several opportunities to do experimental work in laboratory. There are two compulsory courses to develop work life skills. Students complete these courses mainly within a company. Programme has two majors: Biotechnology and Chemical Technology and Materials Science and Technology. Students are encouraged to choose any minor they prefer in order to develop unique set of skills.
The focus areas of the education are the sustainable use and processing of natural resources and new materials, including their technical applications. Students acquire advanced knowledge in a specific area of biotechnology, chemical technology or mate...
The focus areas of the education are the sustainable use and processing of natural resources and new materials, including their technical applications. Students acquire advanced knowledge in a specific area of biotechnology, chemical technology or material science and technology. The educa¬tion is based on the professional prac¬tices of fields requiring expertise in science and technology and on scientific research generating new knowledge. Students adopt a responsible and systematic way of working, and develop skills to work as experts in their area of specialization.
The School of Engineering seeks to renew technologies and develop sustainable built environments through scientific research and innovation. Research is reflected in education; the eight new master’s programmes are based on the research conducted at th...
The School of Engineering seeks to renew technologies and develop sustainable built environments through scientific research and innovation. Research is reflected in education; the eight new master’s programmes are based on the research conducted at the school. Doctoral graduates of the school are highly-valued innovators and problem-solvers who are able to contribute to research, development and management within expert organisations
http://www.aalto.fi/en/studies/
In the fields of civil engineering the School of Engineering contributes to three of Aalto University’s seven strategic research themes: ICT and digitalisation • Information and management of construction • Geoinformatics • Intelligent transportation ...
In the fields of civil engineering the School of Engineering contributes to three of Aalto University’s seven strategic research themes: ICT and digitalisation • Information and management of construction • Geoinformatics • Intelligent transportation Materials and sustainable use of natural resources •Mineral based materials •Computational modelling of rock, soils and structures Human-centred living environments •Design of structures and building design •Land use planning and transportation engineering •Real estate management •Water and environmental eng
http://eng.aalto.fi/en/
Construction Engineering and Building Performance
BSc (Tech.) studies at the School of Engineering are offered through the Bachelor’s Programme in Engineering. The programme is divided into three major subjects: Built Environment, Energy and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical and Structural Engi...
BSc (Tech.) studies at the School of Engineering are offered through the Bachelor’s Programme in Engineering. The programme is divided into three major subjects: Built Environment, Energy and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical and Structural Engineering. Studies within these subjects give graduates a broad-based foundation in engineering, allowing them to continue their studies in master’s programmes at the school, elsewhere at Aalto University, or at other universities. Bachelor’s studies at the school are offered primarily in Finnish.
The Master’s Programmes in the fields of Civil Engineering reflect the school’s world-class research in these fields. Advanced studies are available in two year master programmes in the following topics: Design of structures and building performance, C...
The Master’s Programmes in the fields of Civil Engineering reflect the school’s world-class research in these fields. Advanced studies are available in two year master programmes in the following topics: Design of structures and building performance, Computational modelling of rock, soils and structures, Mineral-based materials, Information and operations management in construction, Geoinformatics, Real estate economics, Spatial planning and transportation engineering and Water and environmental engineering
Aalto University Department of Computer Science is the leading educator in the field of computer science in Finland. The education is based on both latest scientific know-how and company collaboration. The aim is to train computer science experts and d...
Aalto University Department of Computer Science is the leading educator in the field of computer science in Finland. The education is based on both latest scientific know-how and company collaboration. The aim is to train computer science experts and developers who have a balanced understanding of the field, capable of considering the user, the technological, the environmental, and the societal points of view. Multidisciplinarity is encouraged through flexible curricula and global networks through student mobility and highly international student body.
http://cs.aalto.fi/en/
The Department of Computer Science provides world-class research in modern computer science to foster future science, engineering and society. The department is known for its innovative and consistently high-quality work matching the very best teams in...
The Department of Computer Science provides world-class research in modern computer science to foster future science, engineering and society. The department is known for its innovative and consistently high-quality work matching the very best teams in the world, and is a coveted partner in international collaborations. Research at the department addresses and solves challenging problems of high practical relevance with revolutionary applications. Many of the projects at the department are multidisciplinary, taking advantage of the opportunities created by Aalto University.
Data science and artificial intelligence
BSc level studies in Computer Science and Engineering give the students a broad basic understanding of the field. The core competences acquired include software systems, processing digital data, and fundamentals of human computer interaction. The two m...
BSc level studies in Computer Science and Engineering give the students a broad basic understanding of the field. The core competences acquired include software systems, processing digital data, and fundamentals of human computer interaction. The two major subjects offered in Finnish only are Computer Science and Engineering, and Information Networks. In the new English BSc major Data Science students will acquire skills for developing their problem-solving abilities using data-driven approaches. Upon completion of their studies students can tackle real-world problems.
Master’s studies are offered within four programmes and altogether 16 majors, e.g. Acoustics and Audio Technology; Computer Science; Game Design and Production; Human Computer Interaction; Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Sec...
Master’s studies are offered within four programmes and altogether 16 majors, e.g. Acoustics and Audio Technology; Computer Science; Game Design and Production; Human Computer Interaction; Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Security and Cloud Computing; Software and Service Engineering; Bioinformatics and Digital Health; Complex Systems; Cloud Computing and Services; Data Science; Digital Media Technology; Embedded Systems; Human Computer Interaction and Design; Software and Service Architectures; and Information Networks.
Studying at Aalto School of Electrical Engineering gives graduates many possibilities for their future career. We provide graduates with the ability to work in and between a variety of fields. They range from traditional electrical and communications e...
Studying at Aalto School of Electrical Engineering gives graduates many possibilities for their future career. We provide graduates with the ability to work in and between a variety of fields. They range from traditional electrical and communications engineering to biomedical engineering, space industry and acoustics. The curriculum is flexible and allows a unique combination of courses. Teaching brings together theory and practice; we have excellent facilities where students can do hands-on project work. Design and business are also integrated in the B.Sc. programme.
www.aalto.fi/en/studies/
The international research environment at the School of Electrical Engineering fosters basic research as well as the development of the latest technologies, providing top-quality engineering. Our research has impact on major societal issues, such as en...
The international research environment at the School of Electrical Engineering fosters basic research as well as the development of the latest technologies, providing top-quality engineering. Our research has impact on major societal issues, such as energy and environment and health and well-being. We have state-of-the-art research facilities, such as the 5G test network and the Micronova Centre for Micro- and Nanotechnology, which has the largest cleanroom facilities in the Nordic countries. We have an international community of excellent researchers &hard-working students
www.aalto.fi/research-art
Electronics, automation and control
M.Sc. programme in Automation and Electrical Engineering M.Sc. programme in Nano and Radio Sciences M.Sc. programme in Computer, Communication and Infromation Sciences, with specialization in: • Acoustics and Audio Technology • Communications Engin...
M.Sc. programme in Automation and Electrical Engineering M.Sc. programme in Nano and Radio Sciences M.Sc. programme in Computer, Communication and Infromation Sciences, with specialization in: • Acoustics and Audio Technology • Communications Engineering • Computer Science • Game Design and Production • Machine Learning and Data Mining • Security and Mobile Computing • Signal, Speech and Language Processing • Software and Service Engineering M.Sc. major in the Life Science Technologies programme. M.Sc. major in Space Science and Technology (Erasmus Mundus)
The School of Electrical Engineering has a bachelor’s degree programme which students can apply for after secondary school. The Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Electrical Engineering has four specializations which prospective students can apply for: Au...
The School of Electrical Engineering has a bachelor’s degree programme which students can apply for after secondary school. The Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Electrical Engineering has four specializations which prospective students can apply for: Automation and Information Technology (in Finnish) Bioinformation Technology (in Finnish) Electronics and Electrical Engineering (in Finnish) Digital Systems and Design (in English)
The School of Engineering contributes to four of Aalto University’s seven strategic research themes: ICT and digitalisation • Digital design and manufacturing Materials and sustainable use of natural resources •Advanced structures •Engineering materia...
The School of Engineering contributes to four of Aalto University’s seven strategic research themes: ICT and digitalisation • Digital design and manufacturing Materials and sustainable use of natural resources •Advanced structures •Engineering materials •Sustainable material cycles Advanced energy solutions •Energy efficiency •Energy conversion technology Human-centred living environments •Arctic and marine technology •Arctic construction
Digitalization of Mechanical Eng and Design
The Master’s Programme in Mechanical Engineering reflects the school’s world-class research in design, production and materials. Advanced studies are available in Marine Technology, Solid Mechanics, Arctic Technology, Mechatronics, Engineering Material...
The Master’s Programme in Mechanical Engineering reflects the school’s world-class research in design, production and materials. Advanced studies are available in Marine Technology, Solid Mechanics, Arctic Technology, Mechatronics, Engineering Materials, Production Engineering and Product Development and Societal Perspectives in Engineering. The Master’s Programme in Advanced Energy Solutions gives students opportunities for specialisation in the following areas: Combustion and Power Processes, HVAC Technology, and Energy Systems for Industry and Communities
The aim is to educate engineers who can develop and lead businesses with an entrepreneurial mindset. The education is based on both department’s research and collaboration with companies. IEM professionalism is an integrated skill set of consisting of ...
The aim is to educate engineers who can develop and lead businesses with an entrepreneurial mindset. The education is based on both department’s research and collaboration with companies. IEM professionalism is an integrated skill set of consisting of mathematical, engineering, business and social competences that focuses on proactive problem solving in value creating processes. Studies emphasize a system, solution-oriented engineering mind-set. The curriculum combines research-based insights with experiential learning (cases, teamwork).
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The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (DIEM) conducts world-class research focusing on the creation and transformation of technology-based business. The main approaches in our research are strategy and venturing, operations and servic...
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (DIEM) conducts world-class research focusing on the creation and transformation of technology-based business. The main approaches in our research are strategy and venturing, operations and service management, and entrepreneurial leadership. Combining technological, economic, and organizational knowledge, DIEM has a long history of highly multidisciplinary research in collaboration with industry and other organizations with an outstanding societal impact.
Strategy and venturing
Bachelor level studies in Industrial Engineering and Management aim at an integrated skill set consisting of mathematical, engineering, business, and social competences. Through Bachelor level studies, the student acquires a good technical foundation, ...
Bachelor level studies in Industrial Engineering and Management aim at an integrated skill set consisting of mathematical, engineering, business, and social competences. Through Bachelor level studies, the student acquires a good technical foundation, i.e. studies in science, engineering mathematics, and one technical discipline. The studies cover three complementary perspectives: strategy, operations, and people.
Master level studies in Industrial Engineering and Management combine engineering with economic and human fundamentals to create value and efficiency. Multidisciplinary and integrative by nature, the studies explore the foundations of business and engi...
Master level studies in Industrial Engineering and Management combine engineering with economic and human fundamentals to create value and efficiency. Multidisciplinary and integrative by nature, the studies explore the foundations of business and engineering processes. The aim is to educate graduates with knowledge and skills to create and transform technology-based businesses in new or established firms. The areas of specialization include Organisation Design and Leadership, Operations and Service Management, and Strategy and Venturing.
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Nick Cave tells SXSW that forming a band to get girls ‘actually works!’
Nick Cave took part in an 'In Conversation' session covering his life and career earlier today (March 12) as part of the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Speaking at the Austin Convention Center with New York based author Larry Ratso Sloman, the Bad Seeds frontman admitted that he first joined a band in order to get "girls and booze", telling the packed out audience that "it actually works!"
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Nick Cave took part in an ‘In Conversation’ session covering his life and career earlier today (March 12) as part of the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.
Speaking at the Austin Convention Center with New York based author Larry Ratso Sloman, the Bad Seeds frontman admitted that he first joined a band in order to get “girls and booze”, telling the packed out audience that “it actually works!”
He explained that before he started singing he was an “anti-magnet” to the opposite sex. “In school I was an anti-magnet for women. They saw me and they were repulsed,” he said, adding that when he started up The Boys Next Door – later The Birthday Party – “things immediately changed in terms of my attractiveness”.
Though he’s been making music for five decades, Cave went on to say that he often feels like “an imposter”. He said: “I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene – which I’m quite happy about to be honest.”
Speaking about the formation of Grinderman, who have reformed to play next month’s Coachella Valley Festival of Music & Arts, despite going on hiatus in 2011, he said: “It was an unbelievably fucked up, passive aggressive act,” when talking about recruiting some members of the Bad Seeds, but not others, for the band.
During the hour long talk, it was revealed that a New Zealand sanitary towel company once wanted to use his song ‘Red Right Hand’ in an ad campaign. “The mind boggles,” smirked Cave.
Of his 1995 collaboration with Kylie, ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’, Cave said: “She had a very lovely affect over things for a while – she was a force of nature.”
The Bad Seeds singer also revealed that Johnny Cash was an early inspiration, specifically the country legend’s own TV show. “The Johnny Cash Show was very important to me around nine years old, because there was something evil, or dangerous, about this particular character, and I responded to that,” he said.
Cave, who is also a successful author, explained that he finds it easier to write books than lyrics. “A book you kind of get on a roll,” he said, but compared writing lyrics to lots of small, painful births. “It’s like pushing 13 watermelons out of the tiniest orifice, whereas a book is just like one long watermelon.”
Cave went on to speak about his history of using heroin, saying that in Australia in the late 1970s, there was no stigma attached to the drug. “For a lot of people it was the basic drug of choice,” he commented.
Cave and The Birthday Party relocated to the UK in 1980. “We would get and read NME when we were kids and dream about England… but by the time we got there the punk rock thing had turned into something we had no interest in,” he said.
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NSERC and Killam award winners announced
Some of Canada’s biggest research honours were recently bestowed by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
By SEYRAM KUDOLO & NATALIE SAMSON | MAY 06 2019
In the past few weeks, Canadian research-funding agencies took the time to announce the winners of some of the most prestigious awards in this country – just in time for the end of the academic year.
NSERC Prizes
On May 6, Governor General Julie Payette, Science Minister Kirsty Duncan, and Digvir S. Jayas, interim president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), honoured 28 of Canada’s top scientists and seven industry partners with six NSERC prizes totalling $3.71 million.
Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering ($1 million)
Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto (earth sciences), is one of Canada’s most renowned earth scientists. Her insights on the nature of water and life on Earth, leading to new understanding about the clean-up processes that will help preserve water resources, the origins and evolution of Earth, and the search for life on other planets.
Geoscientist Barbara Sherwood Lollar won the 2019 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Photo courtesy of NSERC.
John C. Polanyi Award ($250,000)
Douglas Stephan, University of Toronto (chemistry), is being recognized for his work redesigning a 100-year-old chemistry process to make it cheaper, more efficient and environmentally friendly. His discovery allows researchers to perform chemistry that was previously beyond their grasp, leading to advancements in areas such as drug development and green chemistry.
Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering ($250,000 per team)
Pascale Champagne (civil engineering), Michael Cunningham (chemical engineering), Philip Jessop (chemistry), and Warren Mabee (geography), all from Queen’s University, jointly won for their interdisciplinary work to achieve a more environmentally sustainable future through science research that considers the integration of technologies, natural resources and industrial processes from several different angles.
Synergy Awards for Innovation (three prizes of $200,000; one of $100,000)
Paul Charette, Université de Sherbrooke (engineering), for leading a team from U de Sherbrooke, Polytechnique Montréal, and industry partner Teledyne DALSA to create the world’s first high-resolution infrared camera for non-military use.
Luc Landry, Cégep de La Pocatière, brought together engineers from the Solutions Novika centre, based at Cégep de La Pocatière, and industry partners from Umano Medical to develop the next generation of hospital beds.
Amar Mohanty, University of Guelph (plant agriculture and engineering), has teamed with three Ontario-based companies to develop biodegradable substitutes for petroleum-based plastics. Using natural fibres and resins found in non-food agricultural material and waste streams, they have created materials that are being used in products like single-serve coffee pods.
Roberto Morandotti, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (energy materials telecommunications), for collaborating with OptoElectronic Components Inc. and QPS Photronics Inc. to combine quantum mechanics and integrated photonics in designing technology to support quantum computing capabilities.
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships ($250,000 each)
Lin Cai, University of Victoria (electrical and computer engineering), is working on wireless networks that will sort and transmit instantly the speed, location, destination, and driving conditions to autonomous vehicles. This technology will help prevent accidents, reduce traffic jams, and save energy.
Maud Ferrari, University of Saskatchewan (veterinary biomedical sciences), is a predation ecologist who focuses primarily on freshwater and marine predator-prey interactions. She aims to understand how prey animals detect and learn to distinguish threats from non-threats in their environment, and how environmental change is affecting these processes.
Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University (chemistry), is applying her expertise in theoretical chemistry to density-functional theory — a powerful modelling tool used by researchers to design the chemical building blocks that lead to new materials and pharmaceuticals.
Paul McNicholas, McMaster University (mathematics and statistics), is designing tools to sift through massive amounts of data to reveal patterns and trends for a range of external collaborators. Currently, he’s working on a tool to help with early diagnosis and treatment for children with autism.
Dwight Seferos, University of Toronto (chemistry), is developing new materials from novel resources, like vitamins, to create power-storing plastics that are safer, environmentally friendly and less expensive to manufacture than conventional batteries.
Hongbo Zeng, University of Alberta (engineering), is a chemical engineer with an interest in the molecular surfaces of polymer materials, fluids, and natural resources, and how to build better materials, particularly for natural resource management.
Gilles Brassard Doctoral Prize for Interdisciplinary Research ($10,000)
Anna Golubeva, University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (physics and astronomy), is exploring quantum many-body systems, trying to understand precisely how interactions between microscopic particles lead to complex properties of the macroscopic system, work that will lead to developments in quantum computing.
Killam Program
Yoshua Bengio, Canada Research Chair in
Statistical Learning Algorithms at Université de
Montréal, is one of five winners of the 2019 Killam
Prizes. Photo courtesy of Mila (Quebec Artificial
Intelligence Institute).
In late April, the Canada Council for the Arts announced the winners of its prestigious Killam Prizes and Killam Fellowships. This year, the five awards and six fellowships have been distributed across five institutions.
Killam Prizes ($100,000 each)
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal (natural sciences), is Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms, and founded the world’s largest deep learning university research group, Mila (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute). He is a world-renowned expert in artificial intelligence, and is co-recipient of 2018 A.M. Turing Prize.
André Blais, Université de Montréal (social sciences), is a professor of political science, and holds the university research chair in electoral studies. An expert in electoral studies, he led the Making Electoral Democracy Work project, and was a member of the research team in charge of the Canadian Election Study.
Keith W. Hipel, University of Waterloo (engineering), is a professor of systems design engineering, senior fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, coordinator of the Conflict Analysis Group, and an officer of the Order of Canada. He is well-known for his interdisciplinary research on the development of several aspects of decision-making methodologies to solve complex problems that intersect society, technology and the environment.
Stephen W. Scherer, University of Toronto (health sciences), is founder of the most popular copy number variation (CNV) database, the Database of Genomic Variants. His research group contributed revolutionary insight into disease mechanisms and evolution by co-discovering gene CNV as a common type of variation in DNA. The team also made discoveries relative to brain development that demonstrate autism can have a biological foundation.
Lynne Viola, University of Toronto (humanities), is a professor of history and a leading scholar of Soviet Union history. Her research focuses on mass repression in the 1930s, and her publication of Stalin-era archival documents are popular in the public sphere. She received the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize in 2018.
Killam Research Fellowships (two years of release time from their institution, valued at $70,000 per year)
Matt Dobbs, McGill University (natural sciences), is an astrophysicist whose research team is developing new techniques for commissioning and calibrating CHIME, the first major research telescope to be built on Canadian soil in more than 30 years.
Dennis Hall, University of Alberta (natural sciences), is developing greener chemistry research processes to help provide environmentally responsible methods for producing commodity chemicals and new medicines.
Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto (natural sciences), is a math professor who will focus her research on nonlinear partial differential equations that model wave propagation in physical contexts, such as fluid dynamics, nonlinear optics, and plasma physics.
Marten van Kerkwijk, University of Toronto (natural sciences), is a professor of astronomy who hopes to pursue a new measurement technique, “scintillometry,” which attempts to use radio emission to make measurements of radio pulsars at extremely high angular resolution, effectively using the interstellar medium as a giant interferometer.
Xiao Yu (Shirley) Wu, University of Toronto (health sciences), is a professor in the Leslie Dan faculty of Pharmacy whose work will focus on nanomedicine, specifically developing new agents that can enter the brain to allow for a non-invasive early detection of neurodegenerative diseases and to monitor disease progression.
Andrei Yudin, University of Toronto (natural sciences), a chemistry professor, is working to develop new technologies that will help discover discover therapeutic agents that contain boron. The main application of this research will be to discover novel molecules to combat antimicrobial resistance.
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8 interesting facts about Notre-Dame de Paris
Tuesday December 20th, 2016 contact@audouin-realisations.com
Mthical monument, the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris is also one of the most visited in the capital. A building started in the 12th century that knew many transformations.. A history sometimes forgotten, to (re)discover through these 8 interesting facts.
The “forest” of Notre-Dame
The frameworks of the choir and nave of Notre-Dame are among the oldest in Paris (late 12th-early 13th century). It is called “the Forest” because it represents the equivalent of 21 hectares forest. Each beam came from a different tree.
The beheaded Kings
Above the portals is the gallery of kings, 28 statues representing the kings of Judah, ancestors of Mary. Thinking that it was the Kings of France, the revolutionaries beheaded them ! Replaced by copies during the restoration of the monument in the 19th century, the original heads are now in the Museum of the Middle Ages.
The portals of the main façade (west façade) are decorated with statues and sculptures. They all tell the story of the Bible, created for believers who could not read.
Examples on the central portal (Judgment Portal):
The archangel Michael weighs the souls of the dead. A little demon cheats to influence the verdict.
Below, the dead rise and come out of their graves.
Notre-Dame revival
Damaged during the French Revolution, transformed into a warehouse, the Cathedral was returned to the Catholic worship on 1802.
It is thanks to the success of Victor Hugo’s novel Notre-Dame de Paris, published in 1831, that was voted the restoration of the monument.
Do not confuse gargoyles and chimeras. Gargoyles are the ends of gutters intended to drain off rainwater. The chimera are decorations.
Well-known – and among the most symbolic elements of the Cathedral – chimeras did not exist in the Middle Ages. A fantastic bestiary which is a pure creation of the architect Viollet-le-Duc.
Viollet-le-Duc and Saint Thomas
The Cathedral spire also dates from the renovation of the monument by Viollet-le-Duc. Twelve apostles surround it, among which Viollet-le-Duc himself, represented as St. Thomas, contemplating his work.
Kilometer Zero
The kilometer zero of France, beginning of all the roads of the country, is situated on the parvis de Notre Dame.
Vanished islands of Paris
Not that long ago, there was many islands in Paris.
Les légendes de l'Île de la Cité
Most beautiful Paris' paintings
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Visit Notre-Dame de Paris at opening time
The best way to discover (quietly) this wonderful monument
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Jan. 29, 2006 / 3:30 AM
Today is Sunday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2006 with 336 to follow.
The moon is new. The morning stars are Jupiter, Pluto and Venus. The evening stars are Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Uranus and Neptune.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include Swedish scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg in 1688; American colonial political philosopher Thomas Paine in 1737; William McKinley, 25th president of the United States, in 1843; Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov in 1860; comic actor W.C. Fields in 1880; dramatist Paddy Chayevsky in 1923; actors Victor Mature in 1916, John Forsythe in 1918 (age 68); Katharine Ross in 1943 (age 63), Tom Selleck in 1945 (age 61) and Ann Jillian in 1951 (age 55); talk show host Oprah Winfrey in 1954 (age 52); Olympic gold medal diver Greg Louganis in 1960 (age 46); and actors Nick Turturro in 1962 (age 44), Heather Graham in 1970 (age 36) and Sara Gilbert in 1975 (age 31).
On this date in history:
In 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, King George III, the British king who lost the American colonies, died at the age of 82.
In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union as a free or non-slavery state at a time when southern states were seceding from the Union.
In 1900, eight baseball teams were organized as the American League. They were Buffalo, N.Y.; Chicago; Cleveland; Detroit; Indianapolis; Kansas City, Mo.; Milwaukee, Wis.; and Minneapolis, Minn.
In 1979, Deng Xiaoping, deputy premier of China, and President Bill Carter signed historic new accords that reversed decades of U.S. opposition to the People's Republic of China.
In 1988, amid broad efforts toward peace in Central America, Pope John Paul II gave Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega a wary Vatican reception.
In 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union announced they would agree to a ceasefire in the Gulf War if Iraq made an "unequivocal commitment to withdraw from Kuwait."
Also in 1991, in South Africa, the Africa National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party agreed to end their rivalry.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton directed the military to stop asking recruits about their sexual orientation as a compromise first step in his plan to lift the ban on homosexuals in the armed services.
In 1995, the San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowls when they routed the San Diego Chargers, 49-26.
In 1996, France announced that it would stop open air nuclear testing.
In 1998, a security guard was killed and a nurse seriously injured when a bomb exploded outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala.
In 2000, delegates from more than 130 nations meeting in Montreal adopted the first global treaty regulating trade in genetically modified food products.
In 2002, President George W. Bush warned in his State of the Union address that the war on terrorism was just beginning with thousands of potential terrorists "spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs."
In 2003, the Congressional Budget Office said the year's federal deficit would soar to $199 billion.
In 2004, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people on a Jerusalem bus and injured 50 others. The blast disrupted the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Also in 2004, Microsoft offered a quarter of a million dollars to find the authors of the MyDoom B worm that had crippled computers worldwide.
In 2005, on the eve of the Iraq election, the interim president said many Iraqis would not vote because of continuing violence across the country.
Also in 2005, Israel and the United States began efforts to talk EU officials into joining them in a move to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program.
And, non-stop charter flights between China and Taiwan began for the first such air travel in more than 55 years.
A thought for the day: there's a Chinese proverb that says, "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
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Nick Turturro
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7,046 packs of gum used as dominoes to set Guinness World Record
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Dec. 5, 2007 / 10:40 PM
NHL: New Jersey 4, Boston 3 (OT)
NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Patrick Elias scored his second goal of the game with 1:44 left in overtime Wednesday, giving New Jersey a 4-3 win over Boston.
The Devils won their eighth straight and rallied from a three-goal deficit to do it.
Zach Parise also scored twice for the Devils and Martin Brodeur pulled himself together after a poor first period to record 23 saves.
New Jersey's winning streak is its longest since the Devils finished the 2005-06 regular season with 11 straight victories.
Boston had won seven of its previous 10 games and seemed on its way to another when Dennis Wideman, Glen Murray and Zdeno Chara all scored in the first period.
The Devils narrowed their deficit to one going into the third and tied it with 5:59 left in regulation on a goal by Parise.
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Updated Dec. 5, 2018 at 6:29 AM
7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Caledonia in Pacific; no tsunami threat
Nicholas Sakelaris and Allen Cone
A strong earthquake struck Wednesday in the southern Pacific Ocean near New Caledonia. Image courtesy U.S. Geological Survey
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- The southern Pacific Ocean near New Caledonia was hit by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake Wednesday, prompting a tsunami warning that was later lifted.
"Based on all available data, the tsunami threat from this earthquake has now passed," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported in its latest update. "Government agencies responsible for any impacted coastal areas should monitor conditions at the coast to determine if and when it is safe to resume normal activities."
The quake struck 88 miles east of Tadine, Loyola Islands, in New Caledonia at a depth of 6 miles at 3:18 p.m. Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Six aftershocks of 5.9, 5.9, 5.6, 4.9, 5.7 and 5.2 followed 10 to 36 minutes later.
New Caledonia, with a population of 268,767, is a French territory comprising islands in the South Pacific about 750 miles east of Australia.
New Caledonia is part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire" of seismic faults where most of the world's earthquakes and volcanic activity occur.
7-magnitude earthquake damages buildings, roads in Alaska Analysis: Ground collapse detected after North Korea's nuclear test last year Magnitude 6.3 earthquake jolts Iran, injures 361; 6.0 hits Central America
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Why you shouldn't volunteer at a soup kitchen this Thanksgiving
Do it almost any other day of the year instead.
Why you shouldn't volunteer at a soup kitchen this Thanksgiving Do it almost any other day of the year instead. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2ALe5rY
N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY Published 10:24 a.m. ET Nov. 16, 2017
Ti's the season for giving and giving back and here are three easy ways to do so.
By volunteering to help someone else, you can break out of a negative pattern of thinking.(Photo: Brand X Pictures, Getty Images)
Thanksgiving is a day to be grateful for what you have and to think about giving back to others. In the spirit of giving, thousands of well-meaning people search for opportunities to volunteer at soup kitchens or food banks on Thanksgiving day each year.
Here’s why you shouldn’t.
“If you really want to volunteer, pick any day, but don’t pick Thanksgiving or the day after Thanksgiving,” said Eileen Heisman, CEO and President of the National Philanthropic Trust.
It may seem counterintuitive to argue that you shouldn’t volunteer on a day that literally has “giving” in the name, but Heisman explained that many charities, especially smaller ones, can be overwhelmed by an influx of one-time volunteers. It takes charities time and resources to train volunteers, she said, and making a long-term commitment is the best way to help.
Mary Lou Bozza, director of development at Haley House, a nonprofit that runs a soup kitchen in Boston, said that while charities do have volunteering lulls, the holidays aren't one of them.
“We do have volunteer needs those days, but we often get so much interest that it's hard to manage that,” Bozza said.
She suggested finding other ways to give back, like donating to a holiday clothing drive.
Heisman also encouraged people in the giving spirit to donate their time or money on #GivingTuesday, a global charitable campaign on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
“Giving money is always wonderful,” she said. “If you do have the ability to raise money, think about giving a cash gift.”
Before you make any commitment, do your research. Heisman cautioned that not all charities have the resources to utilize volunteer labor effectively.
"Inventory really carefully the kinds of organizations that touch your heart and make a few phone calls," she said.
And remember, you aren't just limited to soup kitchens and food pantries.
There are hundreds of seasonal volunteer opportunities, including turkey trots — road races on or around Thanksgiving that raise money for local charities — said Greg Baldwin, President of VolunteerMatch, a nonprofit that connects volunteers and charities.
"There's lots of skilled volunteer opportunities that people might not think about for photographers, DJs, web development folks," Baldwin said. Spending a few hours doing organizational work, like helping a local food pantry create a website or sort out its finances, can potentially be more helpful than simply serving food.
Baldwin added that charities really need help in early spring and summer months when there are fewer volunteers.
“We’re trying to use the holidays as much as we can as a point of entry for people to get involved throughout the remainder of the year,” he said.
Use the holiday to to think about where you can really be effective and make a real commitment. Remember, Baldwin said, charities are open year-round.
"They need help all the time, not just when people are reminded of that."
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Trump plan to incarcerate migrant children at Fort Sill again shows worst of America
Locking up children is nothing new in US. Call to ship migrant kids to base used for internment is causing Japanese Americans to say 'never again.'
Trump plan to incarcerate migrant children at Fort Sill again shows worst of America Locking up children is nothing new in US. Call to ship migrant kids to base used for internment is causing Japanese Americans to say 'never again.' Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/spotlight/2019/07/11/migrant-children-trump-administration-fort-sill-japanese-internment-policing-the-usa/1694935001/
Mari Matsuda, Opinion contributor Published 5:56 p.m. ET July 11, 2019 | Updated 9:46 a.m. ET July 12, 2019
Locking up children is nothing new in US. Call to ship migrant kids to base once used for internment during World War II is galvanizing Japanese Americans to protest and shout 'never again.'
My father was one of more than 10,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated at Wyoming's Heart Mountain relocation camp. It was 1942, and the nation was in the throes of World War II, fighting Hitler's fascism. From behind barbed wire, my father volunteered for combat.
Just as he fought then, Japanese Americans are fighting once again, as they watch the Trump administration call for the incarceration of asylum-seeking children at Oklahoma's Fort Sill military base — one of about 10 locations used to lock up Japanese Americans during World War II.
At the outbreak of that war, 700 Japanese Americans were sent to Fort Sill. Eventually, the nation would incarcerate more than 100,000. Last month, many returned to protest the Trump administration's call to repeat history.
We now acknowledge that World War II's incarceration was driven by racial hatred. It was a failure of democracy that this nation came to regret. President Ronald Reagan signed an official apology in 1988.
Protester in El Paso, Texas, outside a Border Patrol station where migrants are being held. (Photo: Mark Lambie/USA TODAY Network)
While formal pronouncements of regret matter, the Japanese-American community is attempting to give meaning to the phrase “never again.”
Locked up as children, protesting as adults
My grandmother hung a star in the window of her chilly, tar-papered barrack and waited for her son’s homecoming. He was the only one from his original machine gun squad to return to his mother at war’s end. The rest perished. As a member of the 100th Infantry “Purple Heart” Battalion, my father witnessed the price paid for democracy’s triumph in World War II.
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With the war years well behind them, some elderly Japanese Americans now report the trauma of re-injury. Given recent news, they are forced to remember a childhood in indefinite detention. Survivors traveled to the Fort Sill gate with pictures of themselves as incarcerated children. They held their ground, even as a blustering military police officer ordered them to leave, shouting, “It’s English: Get out!” Once again, a representative of their own government viewed them as foreigners.
“We thought it was over,” says Tom Ikeda, whose parents were incarcerated in Idaho. Ikeda is the executive director of Densho, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the country about internment. His group joined the protest. “Now we see our speaking up is not enough. We have to start going to the streets,” he told me.
Last summer, the Trump administration faced significant backlash, even from some Republicans, for the policy of family separation. Images of detained toddlers and sobbing parents drew outrage. “This is NOT who we are,” was a much-heard refrain. The administration pulled back from an explicit plan of separation, but somehow children were still locked up in the thousands. Reports of children unable to contact family, of sex abuse and deaths in custody, have led to litigation and congressional visits. Despite concerns for child safety, the administration has called to expand incarceration to Fort Sill.
“This is not who we are” is belied by the history of the military base. Located on the plains to impose order in a time of settler ascendency, Fort Sill presided over the displacement of native people. The great Apache chief Geronimo and families from his tribe were imprisoned for years at Fort Sill — the first instance of child incarceration there.
Treating native inhabitants as destined for removal, incarcerating Japanese Americans and locking up refugee children reveal a pattern rather than an aberration, marking the deep contradiction that haunts our nation. Our aspiration to live out the enlightenment notion of common humanity overlays our violent habit of structuring some of us as the other. This is the contradiction that allowed the slave trade to flourish while quill pens inscribed truths self-evident. This is the deal with the devil that declared slavery’s end, while instituting Black Codes and convict leasing. This is what shakes loose when we find ourselves locking up children in military barracks.
When Kanesaburo Oshima, a Japanese immigrant, was sent to Fort Sill, he left behind 11 children and a family business struggling in debt. The stress of incarceration caused him to crack. One day, he ran for the fence. Guards shot him through the skull. Back in a rural town on the island of Hawaii, word slowly reached his family. Oshima’s son, in his recorded oral history, told of being called out of school with the news. He returned home to find his mother weeping on a bench in front of the family store. The Oshima family still holds a memory of their ancestor. “It is a lasting pain,” one descendant told me.
Ikeda, who recorded an Oshima family oral history, says, “A grown man could not withstand the stress of leaving his family. Imagine young children locked up away from their parents.”
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Imagine. Doctors and mental health experts use the words “irreparable harm” to describe what happens when children are removed from trusted adults and kept in institutional settings with no access to nurturing care. The government is in violation of court orders requiring basic services for children, and limiting incarceration to 20 days. Many children are held for months on end with no idea of when they will see their families. This summer, the government announced that it could no longer afford recreational and educational services, and reports continue of children sleeping on floors, unbathed and without medical care.
Reagan apology not for individuals
Japanese Americans fought for years for redress and an apology. That fight was not for us as individuals. It was a demand that our nation learn from its mistake and become its best self: land of the free, where all are entitled to dignity. When I heard about the plan to lock up children at Fort Sill, I wept, feeling the assault on the memory of my grandmother.
Having military bases standing ready to imprison the disfavored caste of the day is not what the Purple Heart Battalion fought for. All who love freedom should support the Japanese Americans who marched on Fort Sill.
The government says it must ship children to Fort Sill because it can’t process their asylum claims in a timely way. Would any of us accept that excuse if our children were taken? How we treat those we consider outside our circle of care is a critical test. Disregard of anyone’s humanity can take the ugliest of turns in an instant.
My father was once locked up because he was the wrong race. I made a promise to him to speak up against our government doing this to anyone else.
This should lodge firmly in our national DNA: We do not lock up innocent people, especially children. That is what Hitlers do.
Mari Matsuda is a writer, artist and professor of law at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law.
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Sorry, but this Semi-Detached Villa in Dundee is no longer available. TSPC sells thousands of properties every year.
Dundee Including Invergowrie
The Tayside Solicitors Property Centre handles 4 in every 5 property sales in Scotland's fourth largest city, profiling an array of homes ranging from traditional tenements to family villas and the full spectrum of contemporary residences.
The City of Discovery has undergone an ambitious transformation over the past decade and major investment continues in the shape of revitalisation of the Waterfront, spearheaded by the V&A Museum, the Slessor Gardens and civic amenities including hotels, shops and leisure facilities.
With award-winning universities and colleges, leading cultural venues, Ninewells Hospital and businesses at the cutting edge of technology, the re-invented Dundee - the UNESCO City of Design 2014 - is very much a 21st Century city, building on a rich cultural and industrial heritage.
Dundee, and nearby Invergowrie at the gateway to the Carse of Gowrie, has confirmed its status as a regional hub brimming with vitality. With a population around the 150,000 mark living in the shadow of The Law, the one-time centre of "jute, jam and journalism" is embracing an era of change.
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28317 Blood Legend 2006
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WWE SummerSlam 2006 2006
SummerSlam (2006) was the nineteenth annual SummerSlam PPV. It took place on August 20, 2006 at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, and featured performers from the Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW brands. This marked the first inter-brand pay-per-view to feature the ECW brand. The main match on the Raw brand was Edge versus John Cena for the WWE Championship. The featured match on the SmackDown! brand was King Booker versus Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship. The primary match on the ECW brand was The Big Show versus Sabu in an Extreme rules match for the ECW World Championship. The featured matches on the undercard included D-Generation X (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) versus Vince and Shane McMahon) and Hulk Hogan versus Randy Orton.
Action | Drama
WWE Survivor Series 2006 2006
Survivor Series (2006) was a PPV presented by THQ's WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2007. It was the twentieth annual Survivor Series event, and it took place on November 26, 2006 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The main match on the SmackDown brand was King Booker versus Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship. The main match on the Raw and ECW brand was Team Cena (John Cena, Bobby Lashley, Kane, Sabu and Rob Van Dam) versus Team Big Show (Big Show, Test, Finlay, Montel Vontavious Porter and Umaga) in a 5 on 5 Survivor Series match. The primary match on the SmackDown brand was Chris Benoit versus Chavo Guerrero for the WWE United States Championship. The other main match was Team DX (Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, CM Punk and Matt Hardy) versus Team Rated-RKO (Edge, Randy Orton, Johnny Nitro, Mike Knox and Gregory Helms) in a 5 on 5 Survivor Series match.
WWE Judgment Day 2006 2006
Judgment Day (2006) was the eighth annual Judgment Day PPV. It was presented by Vyotech Nutritionals and took place on May 21, 2006 at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona and featured talent from the SmackDown! brand. The main event was Rey Mysterio versus John "Bradshaw" Layfield for the World Heavyweight Championship. One of the predominant matches on the card was Booker T versus Bobby Lashley in the finals of the 2006 King of the Ring tournament. Another primary match on the undercard was Kurt Angle versus Mark Henry.
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Adventure | Action | Drama | Thriller
WWE Royal Rumble 2006 2006
Royal Rumble (2006) was the nineteenth annual Royal Rumble PPV. It was presented by Sony Computer Entertainment's The Con and took place on January 29, 2006 in the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida The biggest Superstars of WWE RAW and WWE SmackDown! clash at Royal Rumble to determine who will go to WrestleMania 22 as the heavyweight contender. Also, WWE Title: Edge vs. John Cena, World Heavyweight Title: Kurt Angle vs. Mark Henry, WWE Cruiserweight Title (6-way Match): Kid Kash vs. Funaki vs. Gregory Helms vs. Jamie Noble vs. Nunzio vs. Paul London, Mickie James vs. Ashley, & The Boogeyman vs. John 'Bradshaw' Layfield
WWE Armageddon 2006 2006
Armageddon (2006) was a PPV presented by Activision's Call of Duty 3, which took place on December 17, 2006 at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. The event starred wrestlers from the SmackDown! brand. The main event was a tag team match, in which the team of Batista and John Cena took on the team of King Booker and Finlay. Two featured bouts were scheduled on the undercard, including The Undertaker versus Mr. Kennedy, in a match where the objective was to place an opponent in a hearse located on the entrance stage and drive them out of the arena and an Inferno match featuring wrestlers attempting to set the opponent on fire with flames surrounding the ring featuring Kane vs. MVP.
WWE Backlash 2006 2006
Backlash (2006) was a PPV which took place on April 30, 2006 at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. It was presented by Topps. It was the eighth event under the Backlash name and featured wrestlers and other talent that performed on the Raw brand. The first main event was a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship, which saw John Cena defend against challengers Triple H and Edge. The second main event was Shawn Michaels and "God" versus Vince and Shane McMahon in a No Holds Barred match. The third main event was a "Title versus Briefcase match" between Rob Van Dam (the Money in the Bank holder) and Shelton Benjamin (the Intercontinental Champion).
Final Destination 3 2006
A student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself – which seeks out those who escaped their fate.
Horror | Mystery
Fraude: México 2006 2007
This is a documentary about the mexican presidential election in july 2th 2006, in which the left candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accused fraud against him and the people. This is the story of their fight for democracy.
Eels Lollapalooza 2006 Live
The Movie features six performances from the EELS' Lollapalooza 2006 performance, including a gospel rave-up take on "My Beloved Monster" and a high octane rumble through "Souljacker part I".
KONSERT ROCK REVIVAL 2006 2006
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Live in Concert 2006 2006
Filmed during her North American concert tour in 2006, legendary vocalist Barbra Streisand captivates her audience with renditions of her best-loved hits, including "The Way We Were" and "People," as well as 14 songs that she's never before sung live, such as "Down With Love" and "Come Rain or Come Shine." Streisand is also joined by popular operatic quartet Il Divo on a night to remember.
The Veteran 2006
Sidney J. Furie's The Veteran is a respectable straight-to-DVD movie that was headed for the "pleasant surprise" category before self-destructing with a terrible, out-of-the-blue ending.
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WWE New Year's Revolution 2006 2006
New Year's Revolution (2006) was the second annual New Year's Revolution PPV. It was presented by Specialty Board Games' WWE DVD Board Game and took place on January 8, 2006 at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, New York and starred talent from the Raw brand. The main event was an Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship involving champion John Cena, Kurt Angle, Shawn Michaels, Kane, Carlito, and Chris Masters. One of the predominant matches on the card was Triple H versus The Big Show. Another primary match on the undercard was Ric Flair versus Edge for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
WWE The Great American Bash 2006 2006
The Great American Bash (2006) was the third annual Great American Bash PPV. It took place on July 23, 2006 at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana and was a SmackDown! brand-exclusive event. The main event was Rey Mysterio versus King Booker for the World Heavyweight Championship. One of the predominant matches on the card was The Undertaker versus The Big Show in the first ever Punjabi Prison match. Another primary match on the undercard was Batista versus Mr. Kennedy.
Rescue Dawn 2006
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006
After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.
Animation | Adventure | Family
Fido 2006
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "Fido" will rip your heart out.
Romance | Comedy | Drama | Horror
Kanon 2006
Yuichi hasn’t seen his cousin Nayuki in years. Now that he’s back, all knowledge of ever visiting has vanished. He tries to adjust to the vaguely familiar surroundings, but the gaps in his memory haunt him as time grows short. The pieces of the puzzle have appeared – an eerily silent beauty with blazing tresses, the mysterious girl with the winged backpack, and the sword-wielding demon slayer – but it’s up to Yuichi to discover how they fit together.
Animation | Comedy | Drama
Digimon: Data Squad 2007
Masaru, is a second year Junior High student, and is undefeated in battle, He meets the Digital Monster Agumon, who has escaped from DATS, a secret government organization. Despite terrible first impressions, the two become best friends by talking with their "fists". With others, Masaru and Agumon work to investigate various incidents involving the Digital World and Digital Monsters, to try and get to the bottom of things.
Animation | Action & Adventure
Captain Tsubasa - Road to 2002 2001
Tsubasa becomes a superstar amongst soccer players in Brazil. He is now planning to play in Europe. At an important must-win game, as the fans cheer him on, Tsubasa looks back at the days when he started his soccer life. His passion to make goals and win the game is as strong as it was during his childhood. He recalls the games and moments that had decisive impact on his life. He remembers Goalkeeper Wakabayashi, Genius striker Hyuga, tender-hearted Misaki and Coach Roberto. He was happy to meet them, enjoyed playing with them, and learned many things from them. The whistle sounds and the game begins. Tsubasa dashes for the ball!
Animation | Drama
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2006
I thought that when I entered high school, my days of believing in aliens, time travelers and ESPers were going to be over. That is, until she introduced herself. Claiming to be interested in only aliens, time travelers, and ESPers, Haruhi Suzumiya was the strangest girl I've met in a long time... Before I knew what's going on, I've been dragged into her weird club, and it looks like I'm not the only one who has been drafted into this "SOS Brigade" of hers, because there are three other students who don't seem to be so ordinary themselves.
Animation | Comedy
Children in Need 2006 was a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for Children in Need. It culmunated in a live broadcast on BBC One on the evening of Friday 17 November and was hosted by Terry Wogan, Natasha Kaplinsky, Fearne Cotton and Chris Moyles. The voice over reading out money raised at various points was Alan Dedicoat. On average, the broadcast brought in 7.72m viewers and raised a total of £18,300,392 by the closing minute.
Disney Channel Games 2006 2006
The 2006 version of the Games was the first competition held. The 2006 series began airing in the United States on June 10, 2006, along with the So Hot Summer! 2006. It was later aired in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2006, Australia on January 5, 2007, in Latin America on February 26, 2007, and in Canada on Family on June 19, 2007.
Star Awards 2006
Star Awards 2006 is a television awards ceremony telecast in 2006 as part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for MediaCorp TV Channel 8.
Melodi Grand Prix 2006
Melodi Grand Prix 2006 is the television show in which the Norwegian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was chosen. The contest was held on February 4 in the Oslo Spektrum and was hosted by Synnøve Svabø and Stian Barsnes Simonsen. In addition, the Eurovision commentator for Norwegian television, Jostein Pedersen, played a role as side commentator for all five shows. In the three weeks leading up to the final, four qualification rounds were held; three semifinals and a second-chance round, where the last two final tickets were given out. The winner was Christine Guldbrandsen with the song "Alvedansen".
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Ominous Kosovo rumblings
By - The Washington Times - Wednesday, January 5, 2000
Just when everybody was trying to pretend that Kosovo was more or less quiescent, some unsettling noises began coming out of Belgrade this past week.
"With God's help, this people and this army of ours will return to their ancient cradle, the sacred Serbian land of Kosovo," Yugoslav Gen. Vladimir Lazerevic was quoted as saying in the major Belgrade journal, Politika. Then he added it was also now possible that Russia, Serbia's historical Orthodox and anti-American friend, and even China, would veto a decision in the Security Council on extending the NATO and U.N. oversight mandates in Kosovo. They expire as early as next June.
And who exactly is this Gen. Lazerevic? Well, not exactly some Serbian slouch. He was commander of the Prishtina Corps itself, the Serb army, based in Kosovo, that carried out the massacres and deportations of tens of thousands of Kosovar Albanians. Where is he now? He was just promoted to the far more important position of deputy head of the 3rd Army and he was speaking from that newly empowered position.
What does this mean? (1) That Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has not given up anything, much less ideas of returning to Kosovo, (2) and that the United Nations and NATO are proceeding far too slowly and ponderously in taking over Kosovo definitively so there is no chance of Serbian revanchism. It could also mean the entire international effort could fail there, and not too far into the future.
The place to watch in Kosovo these days and the place that few are reporting on is that area of Kosovo that goes from the immensely troubled city of Mitrovica north to the Serbian border. This is where the great mineral wealth of Trepca, a sprawling conglomerate of 41 mines and factories, is located. Rich in minerals like lead, zinc, silver, gold, cadmium and bismuth, the mines are famous from Roman times. Today the installations are abysmally rundown, but no matter. They remain the symbol and the central element of the Kosovar-Serbian quarrel.
To the Kosovar Albanians (more than 90 percent of Kosovo's population), Trepca is their "Berlin Wall," standing for the terrible oppression of Serbia from 1989 to 1999. To the Serb leaders, Trepca represents power over Kosovo but, even more, the way to exercise their sheer greed. During these long war and occupation years, Trepca provided Mr. Milosevic with a large personal income. According even to Serbian official sources, in l996 Trepca exported $l00 million of products, making it the largest exporting company in Yugoslavia. Others place the income much higher.
Profits for Belgrade insiders alone were reaped in hard currency and oil, with much of the exports going, interestingly enough, to Mr. Milosevic's good friends in Moscow. Trepca was also used for his extensive money-laundering, the minerals industry being especially well constituted for such deeds.
One might have thought that, once NATO and the U.N. took over Kosovo last spring after so much suffering, that Trepca would have been taken for Kosovo's use and advantage. The mines are ostensibly "owned" by Serbian public companies, so that would not have been too difficult.
But while the United Nations has studied various plans for the mines, it is allowing this definitive moment to be wasted. Meanwhile, as I discovered when I visited Kosovo this fall, Belgrade is constantly infiltrating Serb militias and troublemakers into the Mitrovica area, where Serb vigilantes signal one another on walkie-talkies as they intimidate Kosovars, just like in the "good old days" before last spring.
The French "peacekeepers" who control this area for NATO take the side of the Serbs. And the international organizations, with their ridiculous emphasis on a spurious "reconciliation" of the Kosovars with the Serbs who tried to wipe them off the map, even at one point escorted Serb workers into the Mitrovica battery factory, all in the name of "multicultural unity." Once inside, the Serbs proceeded to plunder it.
This information comes from my recent trip, but also from two recent reports by the International Crisis Group, an independent organization that has had an exemplary record of correct judgments on the Balkans.
In the first, "Trepca: Making Sense of the Labyrinth," the writers trace how "among locals and many international staff now working in Kosovo the subject of Trepca is regarded as dangerous and shrouded in secrecy." In the second, "Starting from Scratch in Kosovo: The Honeymoon Is Over," the report explains this destructive hesitance, saying that the problem is, as I believe it to be, that the refusal of the U.N. and NATO to exercise authority in part because they are more afraid of Kosovar independence demands than Serb revanchism. Also there is an appalling lack of vigor on the part of so many of these "international public servants," with their unwillingness to actually do anything that might appear effective.
And so, the report explains, they have "opted instead for a myriad of holding mechanisms, which include doing nothing, actively preserving the status quo, appointing deliberative commissions and looking outside Kosovo for solutions to problems that could be solved locally."
Kosovo, then, is beginning to have the look of the abundant failures of the U.N. and the international organizations in so many other places. And by fearing to take any real action and thus ignoring the growing threat the attempts of Belgrade to create an international disaster in Kosovo they are assuring still another one.
Georgie Anne Geyer is a nationally syndicated columnist.
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Three Strike law's impact weighed
By - The Washington Times - Sunday, November 3, 2002
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will have the chance to rule on one of the most ham-handed laws ever enacted by any state in the Union, that of California's "Three Strikes You're Out."
The court is being asked to consider whether imposing a life sentence on shoplifters is a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. It is to be hoped that, despite the conservative bent of the justices, it will reach the right decision. For clearly, the law is flawed, and many of the sentences handed down under it ought to be declared unconstitutional.
Nearly a decade ago, first California's state legislature, then citizens voting on a state initiative, passed the most punitive, all-encompassing Three Strikes You're Out law in the country. Essentially, this law mandated a 25-year-to-life sentence for anybody with two previous "serious" felonies in their past who committed any third felony. A "serious" felony in California can be something as relatively minor and nonviolent as burglary of an unoccupied house. And many people tried under the law have committed third felonies so insignificant that, in other circumstances, prosecutors would have used their discretion to consider them misdemeanors with a likely punishment attached to jail time, or even a simple fine.
Recently, I published a book detailing changes in the American criminal justice system over the past two decades, as the public became more fearful of crime and as political leaders became more willing to dramatically reconfigure basic sentencing principles. One arena I focused on was California, and the battle over Three Strikes. The character whose story I used to illuminate this issue was a middle-aged heroin addict from Los Angeles, a man named Billy Ochoa who had a long history of burglary and low-level fraud in his background. Sleazy, selfish and pathetic Ochoa definitely was; but a master-criminal he was not. In 1996, Ochoa was arrested and tried for having committed welfare fraud. He had visited 13 different welfare offices around L.A. and, using phony names, had finagled a grand total of $2,100 worth of food stamps, emergency shelter vouchers and cash. Ochoa was tried under 13 counts of fraud, and, because of his previous convictions, received 13 consecutive three strikes sentences, for a grand total of 326 years-to-life. He is serving those 326 years in a maximum-security prison, at a cost to California taxpayers of somewhere in the region of $40,000 per year.
The cases of the two men whose sentences are now being adjudicated by the Supreme Court are depressingly similar to Ochoa's. One, a repeat-burglar named Leandro Andrade struck out for stealing $153.54 worth of videotapes from two K marts; the other, Gary Ewing, who had prior convictions for robbery and burglary struck out for stealing three golf clubs.
Last month, a Sacramento judge ruled that Richard Martin Duran, a criminal with the far more serious crime of kidnapping in his past record, should not have received a life sentence for possession of a tiny amount of heroin. Judge Karlton argued that repeat offenses may be taken into consideration "only to the extent that it serves to aggravate the principal offense. Prior convictions cannot aggravate the principal offense if they have no connection to the current offense."
That viewpoint should be seen as commonsensical, and it should most certainly be adhered to next week by the Supreme Court. Our whole notion of justice recoils at the idea of double indemnity, at the thought that men and women can be punished for the rest of their lives for crimes that they were sentenced for in the past, and for which they have already served their full, allotted sentences. That kind of thing may happen in dictatorships, or in countries where the courts are used to pursue state vendettas and the rule of law is a fiction used to cloak a bitter truth of arbitrary, unjust, punishment. But surely, we like to think it does not happen in a country as great as the United States, in a self-confident democracy such as ours that is genuinely governed by the rule of law.
Tragically, however, as more and more states moved toward the imposition of catch-all mandatory minimum sentences and Three Strikes laws, so more and more Americans, overwhelmingly from poor backgrounds, disproportionately either African-American or Latino, have been subjected to exactly the kind of double-indemnity punishments, and disproportionately severe sentences, handed down to Ewing and to Andrade. Most of the most than 7,000 men and women now serving life sentences in California prisons on Three Strikes convictions, have been convicted on nonviolent, relatively minor crimes, which in and of themselves would generally warrant at most a few years behind bars. Many of these individuals were convicted of their first two "strikes" before the Three Strikes law was even on the statute books.
California's Three Strikes law, crafted amidst rising public hysteria about a supposed breakdown in societal mores, ought never to have been passed. That it was, and that California's political leaders have used it to prove their tough-on-crime credentials to fearful electors, is a true stain on our country's history. It is past time for that stain to be removed. The Supreme Court has that chance. Let's see if they have the guts to strike out Three Strikes.
Sasha Abramsky is a Soros Justice Media Fellow and the author of the recently published book, "Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation."
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Following Your Dollars? Get P6!
The Cooperative Trade Movement, or P6, gained momentum after being introduced to Willy Street Co-op last October (www.willystreet.coop/article/7955) and is now ready to go full throttle as we enter the first official growing season of the P6 era. We’ve got a lot planned during May to bring attention to the P6 growers who bring us our flourishing selection of organic and local vegetables and fruits. We’ll be featuring P6 products at our grilling events, offering free cooking demonstrations in the stores, classes by P6 producers and more opportunities to learn about this fascinating project to promote the cooperative way of doing business.
Currently, only six grocery co-ops in the country have launched this movement in their community. The original six founding P6/Cooperative Trade Movement member stores are: Bloomingfoods Co-op (Bloomington, Indiana); Brattleboro Food Co-op (Brattleboro, Vermont); Community Mercantile (Lawrence, Kansas); Davis Food Co-op (Davis, California); Seward Food Co-op (Minneapolis, Minnesota); and Willy Street Co-op. The stores were recruited and coordinated by our esteemed cooperative partners with the vision and energy to bring this idea into reality, Equal Exchange (West Bridgewater, Massachusetts). In the coming year we are expecting to welcome more grocery co-ops to the movement and continue to spread this message to even more grocery co-ops throughout the U.S.
A quick spin on the new, fun and interactive P6 website (www.P6.coop) gives viewers access to nominate their favorite P6 products to the P6 Hall of Fame and even discuss them with other users across the country, or check out what other stores are doing to promote local agriculture in their area.
Most cooperatives follow a short list of seven International Principles. Principle 6 commits us to cooperate among cooperatives, and the P6/Cooperative Trade Movement reminds us that as cooperatives, we play an integral role in sustaining a vibrant agricultural infrastructure in our communities. Prioritizing the sourcing of foods from small, local, and/or other co-ops also satisfies other principles and our Co-op’s Bylaws and Board Governance Policies. Most importantly, what all of these documents provide is a gauge to continually measure our performance, guiding our day-to-day and long-term planning and decisions.
Using our Cooperative’s definition for local (anywhere in Wisconsin, or within a150-mile radius of the Capitol), farmers and/or producers are required to meet two of the three criteria to qualify to be featured in the P6/Cooperative Trade Movement:
Locally grown or produced.
Small grower or producer (independently owned and operated and selling directly to stores or through a local distributor).
Cooperative or non-profit.
Having Trouble Identifying P6 Products?
Along with that earlier introduction in the Reader we also included a list of P6 vendors who meet the criteria to be included in the movement (www.willystreet.coop/article/7956). Since then, we’ve opened Willy West and, by doing this, grown and strengthened the local and cooperative supply chain in southern Wisconsin. Now, with everyone from Willy East and Willy West on board, we hope to pick up more supporters for our way of doing business, the cooperative way! In all, Willy Street Co-op recorded sales of over $4.5 million in local goods during the last 12 months, including four months of sales from Willy West.
And to make it even easier, you will begin to see small P6 stickers on products around the store and more P6 signage in the aisles during the month of May.
Also on tap for May we’re holding our first P6 Media contest (see thead on page 27) and inviting all of those creative, even not-so-creative folks among us to submit their entry via either a poem, story, skit, song or short film. Winning entries will have an opportunity to perform their winning piece at the Annual Meeting and Party on Thursday, July 7th (same location this year—corner of Dickinson and E. Main St., site of La Fete de Marquette). Also make sure you vote for the adult t-shirt design (starting May 7th) that best communicates the meaning of P6.
At our first-of-the-season grilling events at the stores we will be donating any profit from these events to Mentoring Positives and their “Off The Block” salsa project to inspire teens in the Darbo/Worthington neighborhood who grow, harvest, prepare and sell their delicious salsas in the Madison area. Look for more P6 vendors to be sampling their products in the aisles throughout the month.
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Lawmakers propose bill to end marriage loopholes
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By Erin Edwards | January 9, 2019 at 6:45 PM EST - Updated January 10 at 4:18 AM
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - Two proposed bills could change what lawmakers are calling a “loophole” in the marriage law. The state of South Carolina allows children to get married under certain circumstances.
The law states a marriage license may be issued to an unmarried female and male under the age of eighteen if such female is pregnant or has borne a child.
According to the Department of Health and Environmental Control’s marriage license data, from 2000 to 2015 there were over 5,200 children married in South Carolina. Some were as young as 12-years-old and almost all of them were married to adult men.
A bill, pre-filed by Rep. Beth Berstein, Rep. Shannon Erickson, and Rep. Neal Collins would repeal the current state law that allows a pregnant person under the age of 16 to get married.
A similar bill, pre-filed by Representative Mandy Powers Norrell, would amend the state law that allows certain children under 16 can marry.
Activists argue that these bills are not enough to put an end to child marriages, and say many marriages are the result of rape or child sex abuse.
"The pregnancy exception is extremely problematic, in fact, only a handful of states still allow a pregnancy except for a reason because it’s so dangerous and problematic. It’s been used to cover up rape, to force girls to marry their rapist. I’m happy that legislators in South Carolina want to eliminate the exception but first of all, let’s eliminate it for all children not only under the age of 16-years-old,” said Founder and Executive Director of Unchained At Last, Fraidy Reiss.
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Tentec build underway in flurry of i54 South Staffordshire activity
World leading Swedish engineering group Atlas Copco has started the build of a new state of the art manufacturing facility at i54 South Staffordshire.
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It is the third major business in recent months to begin construction at the advanced manufacturing hub.
The development will be the new headquarters of Tentec Ltd which is one of the leading providers of bolt tensioning solutions globally.
The bespoke facility will provide 46,000 sq ft (4,289 sq m) of high quality production and office space for 80 employees and Tentec expects this number to grow as the operation expands.
Midlands property company Mucklow Group Plc is developing the property on behalf of Atlas Copco and Tentec.
Tentec Ltd, part of the Atlas Copco group, was formed over 28 years ago and the company designs, manufactures and distributes a wide range of class leading hydraulic bolt tensioning tools from their existing site in West Bromwich.
The tools it makes are renowned for their reliability and accuracy and they are used both on land and in deep sea applications.
The Tentec development follows hot on the heels of Eurofins, the food testing company, beginning a £1.5 million major expansion last month. More than 10,000 sq ft of laboratories will be added to its UK headquarters. The Belgian-owned company moved its operations onto i54 5 years ago.
ERA, the leading British security hardware and electronics business, are also four months into the construction of a state of the art product development, manufacturing and distribution facility at its new i54 South Staffordshire headquarters. The new purpose built 135,000 sq ft facility will include design, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, assembly, warehousing and a customer training centre.
The three councils behind the success of i54 - City of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire County and South Staffordshire - are delighted with progress on the site, which is also home to Jaguar Land Rover, MOOG, and ISP.
Tim Johnson, City of Wolverhampton Strategic Director for Place, speaking on behalf of the i54 South Staffordshire Partnership, said: "Our joint investment in i54 has already secured hundreds of millions of pounds of further investment and brought thousands of jobs to the area. Tentec's expansion plans come on the back of significant investment by ERA and Eurofins. Most importantly, these are high-end businesses providing skilled local jobs and research and training facilities. All this furthers i54s reputation as a leading regional hub for advanced manufacturing and engineering."
Tentec Director and General Manager, David Jones, said: "The new Atlas Copco facility will further enhance our UK footprint with a global centre of excellence to support our worldwide client base within the Energy segment business area. It will also provide the platform to further grow the business where our standard products are used extensively in the oil and gas, power generation industries. The company also has the ability to design and manufacture hydraulic tooling for special bespoke applications in most industries where controlled bolt tightening is required. Operations within the facility will encompass R and D development, training and demonstration areas, engineering design, sales and logistics support, extensive manufacturing and assembly processes thus enabling us to provide world class Atlas Copco and Tentec branded products based on sustainable productivity."
Development Director at Mucklow, Mark Vernon, said: "It has been great to work with the Tentec team to ensure this state-of-the-art production unit meets its exact requirements. This is the first of up to four manufacturing facilities which we can accommodate on this high profile site and we are able to offer fast-track delivery to occupiers."
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Coady and Doherty commit futures to Wolves
Conor Coady and Matt Doherty have committed their long-term futures to Wolves by agreeing new deals until 2023.
Club captain, Coady has played every minute of Premier League action this season - the latest memorable chapter of what has been a hugely-successful three-and-a-half-year spell as part of the pack.
The Liverpool Academy graduate moved to Molineux in 2015, after time with Sheffield United and Huddersfield Town, and has since become a fans’ favourite.
After performing in midfield during his opening two campaigns at the club, Coady has been transformed into the linchpin of the defence since Nuno Espirito Santo’s arrival.
A picture of consistency during last year’s Championship-winning season, Coady helped Wolves to a division high of 24 clean sheets.
His converted penalty away at Bolton Wanderers put the finishing touches to the title-clinching victory and he proved to be the final goal scorer of a sensational 2017/18 campaign.
Coady has since made the transition into the Premier League look seamless, proving once again one of Wolves’ most dependable performers as part of the back three.
Furthermore, Wolves’ longest-serving player, Doherty, like Coady, has put pen to paper on a new-four-and-a-half-year deal, keeping him at Molineux until 2023.
The popular right wing-back and Republic of Ireland international made his 200th league appearance for Wolves earlier this season, having joined from Bohemians back in 2010.
After missing just one game in the Championship last season – which coincided with Wolves’ promotion back to the top-flight – Doherty has continued his form this term, appearing in every Premier League match.
But it is not only the defensive stability which the 27-year-old has brought to Nuno’s backline this campaign, with the Irishman already getting on the score sheet six times in all competitions – more than any other defender in the Premier League.
Three of those goals came in two games against Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup which helped seal Wolves’ passage into the fifth-round of the competition, while his finishes against Crystal Palace – his first in the Premier League – and Newcastle secured his side six valuable league points.
Doherty’s work-rate down the right side of the pitch has also produced six assists in both league and cup, making him a vital cog in the Wolves line-up this season.
Having achieved so much during their time at Molineux, Doherty and Coady can now look forward to an exciting future as part of the Wolves pack.
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Industry voices concerns over UK safety mark in event of no-deal Brexit
By Andy Clough 2019-02-06T14:32:40Z News
A no-deal Brexit could spell more problems for tech manufacturers
Leading consumer electronics manufacturers and distributors are increasingly worried that crashing out of the EU without a deal could lead to the added complication of having to comply with new UK-specific safety legislation.
Currently goods sold in the EU carry a CE safety mark which indicates that goods sold in the UK meet European regulatory requirements.
But as the CE trademark is owned and operated by the European Union, the Government says it would introduce the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) symbol to replace it in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
In its guidelines - Using the UKCA marking if the UK leaves the EU without a deal - the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy says companies will still be able to sell CE-marked goods in the UK "for a time-limited period" after 29th March 2019.
It will then "consult with industry and provide notice before ending this time-limited period".
That hasn't satisfied some manufacturers and distributors.
Consumer electronics sold in the UK currently carry the CE mark which is recognised across the EU
George Dexter, managing director of Armour Group which makes the successful Q Acoustics speaker range and distributes many other AV products, told What Hi-Fi?: "This is another piece of Brexit madness and a complete waste of money – the industry needs this like a hole in the head.
"In reality we will all be making products to meet the CE standard as we all sell our products across Europe and it is verging on the unbelievable that the UK standards authority intends to/will come up with additional criteria over and above that required for CE marking. The last thing the industry needs is another set of standards to pay fees on to get approvals, it is bad enough as it is.
"Ultimately, it just goes to show how out of touch the decision makers are with the real world and what business, in this case the consumer electronics industry, really needs from the law makers/political leaders."
James Johnson-Flint, CEO of Award-winning hi-fi company Cambridge Audio, adds: "Common sense would say that the UK should accept compliance and marking to existing 'CE' standards which would keep both government and industry costs (and hassle) to a minimum.
"Seriously, what is to be achieved by us having our own [UK] compliance logo? Why the need to make things complicated with another standard that is likely to be almost identical to CE?"
In the event of no-deal Brexit, goods made in the UK and exported to the EU might require both the CE and UKCA logos - and need to meet the requirements of two separate regulatory regimes, one for the EU and the other for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
"If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the results of conformity assessment carried out by UK conformity assessment bodies will no longer be recognised in the EU," says the Business Department.
Under Article 50 the UK is due to leave the EU on 29th March 2019.
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What You Wish For
"Dr Ashwin Ghadavi, the newly imported GP, is trying hard to fit into Gabriels Bay. Hischallenges include the immoveable force of his office manager, Mac, the ambiguities ofthe Kiwi idiom, and his unrequited attraction to Macs daughter, Emma.Having returned home, Emma is determin... read full description below.
8 January 2019 by Random House
Paperback (Large Print)
9780369300553 (Feb 2019)
9780143772828 (Jan 2019)
By Robertson, Catherine
Black Swan NZ
New Zealand & Related
A funny and poignant Gabriel's Bay story from the bestselling Catherine Robertson. Dr Ashwin Ghadavi, Gabriel's Bay's newly imported GP, is trying hard to fit in. His challenges include the immoveable force of his office manager, Mac, the ambiguities of the Kiwi idiom, and his unrequited attraction to Mac's daughter, Emma. Having returned home, Emma is determined to help her old friend, Devon, whether he wants it or not. She's also on a mission to right eco wrongs, and her targets include local farmer, Vic Halsworth, who's already neck deep in the proverbial and possibly hallucinating moose. Add in a former jailbird, a Norwegian recluse, and a woman struggling to foster a child, and you have the usual endearing and down-to-earth mix that can only occur in Gabriel's Bay.
CATHERINE ROBERTSON'S novels have all been number one New Zealand bestsellers. Her fourth novel, The Hiding Places, also won the 2015 Nelson Libraries' Award for New Zealand Fiction. Catherine reviews books for the New Zealand Listener and is a regular guest on Radio New Zealand's The Panel and Jesse Mulligan's Book Critic slot. She is married with two grown sons, two Burmese cats, two rescue dogs and a powerful vacuum cleaner. She divides her time between Wellington and Hawke's Bay.
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Belgian PM: "Not optimistic” about Brexit deal
The Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel (Francophone liberal) has said that he is not optimistic about a deal being struck between the EU and the United Kingdom on Brexit. Speaking on Friday morning, Mr Michel told journalists that “My impression is the we should speed up the preparations for no deal, as the chance is real that this will be the case”.
Mr Michel was speaking after the first day of European summit in Brussels. The UK Prime Minister Theresa May asked the EU27 for a number of concessions to amend the Brexit agreement reached between the UK and the EU in order to enable her to get it through the British parliament.
However, the agreement is not up for renegotiation. Mr Michel told journalists that “The fundamental question is whether an agreement with the UK is possible, yes or no. I am not optimistic, as yesterday no clear signal was given whether it will be passed by the British Parliament. There is a huge amount of doubt. I hope that a deal will be possible as that was and is the best solution”.
However, Belgium needs to prepare for a no-deal scenario. "The fate of the accord is now in the hands of the British Parliament and there the great uncertainty. It is important that we in Europe, but also in Belgium are ready for both options. I have the impression that we need to speed up preparations for a no-deal, as there is aa real chance that this will be the case. In the event of a no deal there will be consequences for the Customs Service, companies, private citizens and the economy”.
European commission president von der Leyen: “It’s a home-coming!”
Brussels: new government to outline priorities for next 5 years
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The Dream: Radar Lake
Radar Lake. The name itself implies a lot of things in wakeboarding lore. What it implies most though might be envy, because anybody who knows anything about epic places to ride has dreamed about riding at Radar Lake.
Built in 1972 by Herb O’Brien, Radar Lake has become one of the most iconic riding spots in the world. What it has done for watersports over the years can’t be defined.Tim Pelletier
Nestled atop a hill overlooking the Carnation Valley region of Washington state, Radar Lake was one of the first private, man-made ski lakes in the world. The land was originally bought and developed by Herb O’Brien in 1972, and since then, the legend (and envy) has only grown exponentially. Because Radar Lake is most often described as indescribable, we figured it would be best to hear about it from the lucky guys who have been able to visit it over the years. Oh, and if you’d like to ride there one day, you’re probably going to have to keep dreaming ...
"There is this special feeling when you're at Radar that's unlike anywhere else I've been in the world. Once you go through those gates and you're on the grounds, it's like time stops and nothing else matters. Whatever you had going on in the real world doesn't become a concern anymore; you're just at this magical lake, taking advantage of everything it has to offer. Of course, you can't say enough about everything that's gone down there: the video sections, the photos, the progression. But for me, Radar is about that feeling." — Parks Bonifay
"Radar Lake is a magical place with a lot of nostalgia. It has had a profound impact on all of towed watersports, not just wakeboarding. I consider myself really lucky to have been able to go there as much as I have over the years. My favorite memories are usually just the vibes that come with being there with the boys, but one that really stands out is when I won Trick of the Year in 2011 with the step-up gap we built. Herb was there watching all of us ride, and he was really in tune with what was going on. After any of us hit it, he would talk to us about how it felt and what we were thinking. That was really special to me." — Erik Ruck
"When I first went to Radar Lake, it was nothing like I expected. Photos don't even do it justice because of how unique it is. The trees, the views … it's unreal. Radar Lake is really Herb's dream lake that he created out of nothing. Its story is really almost unbelievable. Knowing the history of Radar and what it has done for watersports over the years, it's really special for me to have been a small part of that. We've done a lot there to push wakeboarding — all the crazy rails, gaps, stunts and stuff — that is really cool to look back on." — Danny Harf
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Claire Wardle
Claire Wardle biography
Claire is a TED fellow working on a new participatory project aimed at building an information commons where people can reliably find factual information that serves their needs, hold accountable those who create or disseminate content for mass consumption and ensure available knowledge is more representative of the global community. Claire also leads the strategic direction and research for First Draft and is the co-founder of one of First Draft’s founding partners, Eyewitness Media Hub. Before First Draft, she was the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She was also head of social media for the United Nations Refugee Agency and Director of News Services for Storyful. She is one of the world’s experts on user-generated content, and has led substantial research projects—with an emphasis on qualitative research methodologies—investigating how UGC is handled by news organizations. She was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Information and Entertainment. She holds a PhD in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.
Enlisting the public to build a healthier web information commons
Over the past three years, platforms, governments and a plethora of nonprofit initiatives have prioritized fighting online misinformation through a variety of different means. Yet the current framework is too fragmented to deliver global results. The big tech platforms have data, but no public accountability. Governments (mostly) have democratic legitimacy, but little information on what is actually going on in the platforms they're itching to regulate. And nonprofit initiatives too often lack the scale to affect change at the level needed. What if we came up with a dramatically new deliberative process that involves a global community of concerned citizens ready to share information and participate in consultations to improve collective decision-making? What if a more accountable, diverse and verifiable web were still possible?
Lawrence Lessig Jeff Dean
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News / Internet
.blog, .lol, .foo: Google, Amazon top list of global TLD applications
18:15, June 14, 2012
The great Internet name rush has begun. By this time next year, more than a thousand new top-level domains—such as .blog, .cloud, .lol, and .foo—could be added to the Internet’s name space. And companies and individuals could be rushing to snap up domain names to either extend their Web presence or—in the case of domain names like .lol and .sucks—save themselves from ridicule.
Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers—the governing body of the Internet’s domain name system—revealed the 1,930 applications in the first flight of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) approved under ICANN’s long-debated and controversial expansion policy. Pritz and ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom and ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz unveiled the list of applications at an event in London, streamed live off ICANN’s website.
“The Internet is about to change forever,” Beckstrom said, claiming that the new gTLDs would create a “solid foundation of greater choice and competition.” Beckstrom said that as many as a thousand new gTLDs could be approved by next year, and that if even just 75% of the applications are approved, the size of the potential Internet domain name space will “expand fourfold” when the new domains start to go live early in 2013. He added that the board of ICANN is determined to have a next round of gTLD selections to further expand the name space, and the timeframe for that will be determined at a meeting later this year.
Google was one of the single largest sources of applications, submitting 101 gTLD applications through the company’s Charleston Road Registry domain name subsidiary. Some were focused on the company’s own brands, such as .google, .android, .chrome, .gmail, and .youtube. But others were more generic (such as .cloud, .car, .map, and .mail), or targeted at lifestyles or demographics (.dad, .kid, .baby, .family, .mom), or simply “creative” (.lol, .love, .fun, .foo, and .boo). Amazon was close on Google’s heels, with 76 of its own applications—some of them (such as .cloud, .mail, and .app) in conflict with Google’s.
Google and Amazon aren’t the only ones with competing applications for gTLD names. Pritz said there were 731 applications—over a third of those submitted to ICANN— that conflicted with at least one other applicant’s requests, covering 230 domain names. There were 13 applications for the .app TLD alone.
The largest volume of applications overall came from Donuts, a domain name registry company set up explicitly to make bids for gTLDs. The company filed applications for 307 TLDs, each under a different subsidiary name. Donut applied for domains under a wide range of generic dictionary words, as well as a few oddballs such as .wtf.
But the ICANN executives made it clear that not all of the domains applied for will be awarded. “These are just applications,” said Pritz. “They are not yet approved, and some of them may not be. None of them will enter the Internet until they have gone through a rigorous review process.” That review will include determining whether they are in conflict with trademarks and intellectual property, or are a threat to the “security and stability” of the Internet because of their similarity to other TLDs, Beckstrom said.
The gTLD plan has drawn protests and threats of lawsuits from opponents, who claim that the new name spaces will force companies to make “defensive registrations” of domains based on their trademarks and brands in every domain space to prevent trademark infringement, “phishing” attacks on customers using look-alike domain names, and “cyber-squatting” on domain names by individuals or companies seeking to turn an exorbitant profit in selling them. The Association of National Advertisers has been one of the most vocal critics of the plan, organizing lobbying efforts to block the process, and claiming that ICANN had ignored concerns over intellectual property issues.
Beckstrom, however, said that “to suggest that the community wasn’t listened to (on intellectual property concerns) just lacks credibility.” He cited the multiple levels of review each application must go through for approval, and the standards that registrars will be held to protect intellectual property holders’ rights. “If a new gTLD operator demonstrates a pattern of abuse,” he said, ICANN can take the TLD back.
There were a few applications that immediately drew the attention of those concerned with "defensive" registration. Three companies applied for the rights to the .sucks domain, for example—opening up the potential, if approved, that companies would have to register their own names with the winning applicant to avoid competitors (or unhappy customers) from creating sites based on their names.
When asked specifically about the .sucks application, Beckstrom said, “I can’t as the neutral administration of this program have any opinion on the applicants, but anyone who has comments or wishes to file objections may do so.”
This is how much Google paid the guy who owned Google.com
Tor gains extra security as .onion becomes Special-Use Domain Name
ICANN bans use of dotless domain name registrations by companies
Google wants to turn .search into a top-level domain
New Internet suffix bids include '.lol,' 'bank.'
Source: Ars Technica
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Tharoor: The Next U.N. Secretary-General?
Shashi Tharoor, the current U.N. Under Secretary-General for communications and public information is India’s chosen candidate to succeed Kofi Annan, who will be stepping down at the end of this year.
'Fanaa' a Hit Movie Despite Protests
Popular anger in India’s Gujarat state against leading actor Aamir Khan for statements made about a divisive social issue have not prevented his most recent movie from becoming a box-office smash.
Exotic Orchids Face Extinction
Agricultural scientists are urging the Indian government to protect rare orchid species that are facing severe depletion due to deforestation and illegal smuggling.
India's Top-Ranking B-Schools Are at a Crossroads
So far, the top-ranking B-schools in India have failed to appear in the world's top 100 when compared to schools on a global scale. To do so, they must face some critical issues — and soon.
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Tracy Day
Festival Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer
Tracy Day is the co-founder of the World Science Festival. She serves as CEO, overseeing the creative and programmatic offerings of the Festival and producing original theatrical, musical and multimedia works at the intersection of science and art. She is a four-time National News Emmy award-winning journalist and has produced live and documentary programming for the nation’s preeminent television news divisions for over two decades. At ABC News she was producer for This Week with David Brinkley, editorial and field producer for Nightline and story editor for the news magazine, Day One. Ms. Day has produced documentaries, specials and live town meeting broadcasts for PBS, The Discovery Channel, CNN, Lifetime and CNBC.
Past Programs Featuring Tracy Day
Spotlight: Women in Science
Saturday, May 30, 2015 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Selena AhmedBotanist
Selena Ahmed is an assistant professor and Program Leader of Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems at Montana State University, as well as a partner of Shoots & Roots Bitters. She examines the effects of global environmental change, policy, and management on food system quality and the resulting linkages to land-use strategies and community well-being.
Al & AlArtists
Since 2001 AL Holmes and AL Taylor have created an award winning body of films commissioned by Animate, Arts Council England, BFI, Channel 4 television, Cornerhouse Cinema, FACT gallery, Film London, MuHKA, Southbank Centre and the World Science Festival, exhibiting internationally in galleries, site specific installations, film festivals, television and concert halls.
Lorenzo AlbaceteRoman-Catholic Priest
Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete is a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, physicist and author. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, he is one of the leaders in the United States for the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation and is on the Board of Advisors of the Crossroads Cultural Center.
Cristina AlberiniNeuroscientist
Cristina Alberini, professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Structural and Chemical Biology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and has been studying the biological mechanisms of long-term memory for the last 20 years.
David Z. AlbertPhysicist, Philosopher
David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and a physicist who explores quantum mechanics. He is world-renowned for his insights into philosophical questions about the nature of time, space, and other problems of modern physics.
Andreas AlbrechtTheoretical Cosmologist
Andreas Albrecht is a leading theoretical cosmologist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 where, with Paul Steinhardt, he wrote one of the original papers on “new” or “slow roll” inflation.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Expands Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice
- Nikolaos Theodorakis Joins the Firm's Brussels Office -
F. Patrick Bustamante
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
pbustamante@wsgr.com
PALO ALTO, CA (April 25, 2019) – Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Nikolaos Theodorakis has joined the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice as Of Counsel in the Brussels office.
Theodorakis' practice focuses on matters of EU data protection law, GDPR compliance, cybersecurity preparedness, advertising, and marketing, and includes both non-contentious matters and investigations with supervisory authorities. He represents multinational companies across a wide range of industries, including technology, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, food and beverage, insurance, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and automotive. Theodorakis also works with start-ups and established companies in the EMEA region, and, in particular, Greece and Cyprus.
Having advised on a broad spectrum of corporate matters, he has developed an expert insight into the increasing interplay between data protection, financial services (PSD2), competition law, and international trade law. He is at the forefront of advising on emerging privacy challenges on matters of AI, biotech, fintech, and blockchain.
"Nikolaos has substantial experience in areas of priority to the firm's clients, especially those that must take steps to comply with the GDPR and EU data protection laws," said Jan Dhont, a partner based in WSGR's Brussels office who previously worked with Theodorakis and also joined the firm recently.
“As another new member of our firm's EU team—which is already among the largest and most sophisticated in and around Brussels—Nikolaos adds to our capacity to advise companies of all sizes on complex privacy and cybersecurity issues, and we also look forward to him extending our reach into markets like Greece and Cyprus,” added Cedric Burton, global co-chair of the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice.
Theodorakis is also an associate professor of law at the University of Oxford and a fellow at Stanford Law School, focusing on technology and intellectual property issues. Previously, he taught and conducted research at the University of Cambridge, Harvard Law School, and Columbia Law School. He has been widely published and frequently receives invitations for public engagements, including guest lectures across the world, international symposia, and TEDx conferences.
Prior to joining the firm, Theodorakis was counsel in the Brussels office of Alston and Bird LLP. He also worked as an associate in the Brussels office of Sidley Austin LLP.
Theodorakis earned a PG.C. at University of Oxford; Ph.D. at University of Cambridge; PON at Harvard Law School; LL.M. at University College London; M.Phil. at University of Cambridge; and J.D. at University of Athens. He is fluent in English, Greek, and French.
Theodorakis is the fourth senior-level attorney to join the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice in recent months. In January 2019, Jan Dhont joined WSGR’s Brussels office as a partner, in December 2018, Allison Bender joined WSGR's Washington, D.C., office as Of Counsel, and in October 2018, Lore Leitner joined WSGR's London office as Of Counsel. In addition, as of February 1, 2019, the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice includes two more partners, Beth George and Matt Staples, who focus on cybersecurity and transactional privacy, respectively. Both were elected partner in December 2018.
About Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
For more than 50 years, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has offered a broad range of services and legal disciplines focused on serving the principal challenges faced by the management and boards of directors of business enterprises. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in the fields of corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities litigation, employment law, intellectual property, and antitrust, among many other areas of law. With deep roots in Silicon Valley, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has offices in Austin; Beijing; Boston; Brussels; Hong Kong; London; Los Angeles; New York; Palo Alto; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle; Shanghai; Washington, D.C.; and Wilmington, DE. For more information, please visit www.wsgr.com.
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Ermonela Jaho
Artists / Soprano / Ermonela Jaho
September 18, 2013 /in Soprano /by zgadmin
Ermonela Jaho’s vivid interpretations and her exceptional identification with the roles she performs are highlighted in all her reviews. During the 2016-17 season, standing ovations followed her from Sydney to London where she made her Opera Australia debut as Violetta followed by her first appearance as Madama Butterfly on the stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Australia’s Daily Telegraph described Jaho as “an unstoppable phenomenon” and The Independent as “the best Madama Butterfly London has seen in years.”
In demand across the world, Ermonela Jaho is particularly recognised for her portrayals of Violetta in La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and Suor Angelica in Il Trittico. At the 2016 International Opera Awards, her performances as Suor Angelica at Covent Garden that same season were recognised with the presentation of the Readers Award. In the 2017-18 season, Jaho reprises the role in a new production created especially for her by Lotte de Beer at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper conducted by Kirill Petrenko.
Violetta is another role Ermonela Jaho will reprise for her debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires at the start of the new season. Jaho has portrayed Verdi’s tragic heroine in more than 15 opera houses from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to London’s Covent Garden as well as in Vienna, Munich, Verona, Madrid, Stuttgart, Marseilles, Berlin, Stockholm, Hamburg, Lyon and on tour in Japan with the Royal Opera House.
Her Madama Butterfly is equally in demand and during the 2017-18 season she will bring the role to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris for a one off concert performance and New York’s Metropolitan Opera. As The Guardian remarked of Jaho’s performances in London during 2016-17 season: “The whole evening is, in fact, outstanding. Ermonela Jaho, one of the great verismo interpreters, brings uncompromising veracity to the title role, and the combination of vulnerability and torrential emotion just tears you in two.”
In addition to her portrayals of opera’s most famous Italian heroines composed by Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini, Rossini and Verdi, Ermonela Jaho’s broad and diverse repertoire spans Massenet, in whose Thaïs she performs the title role at Madrid’s Teatro Real in July 2018; Offenbach, whose Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) she first sang at the Opéra National de Paris in autumn 2016 and will sing again for her Dutch National Opera debut in June 2018; as well as Auber, Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Handel, Milhaud, Mozart, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Johann Strauss, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. Her devastating performance as Leonvallo’s Zazà released by Opera Rara has recently been nominated for a 2017 International Opera Award.
Now based in New York, Ermonela Jaho was born in Albania and first began to take singing lessons when she was just six. Eight years later she heard La Traviata at the Tirana Opera House and determined to become an opera singer. Singled out by Katia Ricciarelli and armed with a scholarship, Ermonela moved to Italy to study in Mantua when she was 19 and, a year later, to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Over the next years, she won singing competitions in Milan, Ancona and Rovereto, and began her professional career singing with roles at Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Mimi, La Bohème); Teatro La Fenice, Venice (Susanna, Le Nozze di Figaro); Teatro Verdi Trieste (Micaëla, Carmen); and Wexford Festival Opera (Irène, Sapho).
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When North Dakota Farmers Blew up Partisan Politics
By Focusing on Economic Cooperation, Early 20th-Century Small Landowners Pushed Back Against Crony Capitalism
Covers from the Nonpartisan Leader, the official newspaper of the Nonpartisan League. Image courtesy of John Miller Baer/Wikimedia Commons.
By Michael J. Lansing | May 18, 2018
In a nation that envisions innovation as the domain of Silicon Valley start-ups, most dismiss North Dakota as flyover country. Yet the state’s history shows it deserves more credit as an innovator. A little more than 100 years ago, North Dakota’s farmers, challenged by economic hardship and indifferent politicians, invented a nonpartisan approach to elections that was as elegant and powerful as it was novel.
Today, Americans politics are partisan and polarized. But as a political movement made up of lower-middle-class farmers, the Nonpartisan League (NPL) took advantage of the direct primary—a new innovation at the time—to bypass entrenched politicians and parties.
During the early years of the 20th century, a broad impulse for popular government transformed election law—particularly primaries—in many northern and western states, but North Dakota took it further than some. Rejecting the notion that politics belonged only to professionals, citizens put themselves in the thick of things—replacing the mediating force of a political party with a self-organized polity. Parties, which had formerly controlled candidate selection, remained powerful, but voters could now challenge the establishment players who often used backroom deals and convention shenanigans to stay in power.
From the start, the movement backed anyone who supported farm-friendly economic policies, regardless of that candidate’s party affiliation. Later this alternative to politics-as-usual famously established state-run industries, but also—as a correspondent in The Nation noted in 1923—ensured that “a sentiment and point of view had been established in the minds of hundreds of thousands of farmers and ranchers.” By empowering regular citizens across the West and Midwest to see themselves and their society anew, it created a resurgence of “We the People” government that sits at the heart of the nation’s best democratic traditions.
North Dakota was especially ready for political reform because of its history. Established in 1889, it had an almost entirely agricultural economy, giving the outsiders who transported and processed the crops it grew outsized political influence. Talk of cronyism and the indirect control of state politics by Minneapolis-based companies defined life in the capital, Bismarck, from the start.
Agitators for change found a ready audience for basic political reforms, but few imagined that the state’s farmers could transcend their many differences to organize the way they did. The farmers were far from homogeneous, but included Icelanders, Czechs, Germans from Russia, Norwegians, Irish, Ukrainians, Swedes, Germans, Danes, Hungarians, native-born Americans, and a handful of African Americans. They were all settled on land that had been taken from Native Americans. In some rural districts, distinct congregations of Protestants and Roman Catholics and Jews jostled up against each other, while outside Ross, North Dakota, a small community of Syrians practiced Islam. In fact, census data show that North Dakota had the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any state in the country before World War II.
Despite their differences, by the early 1910s, farmers across the vast wheat belt of western Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and eastern Montana all faced a common problem: the overwhelming economic clout of the Minneapolis-based flour millers and wheat traders who dominated agricultural commodities markets. Grain farmers who shipped their products to Minneapolis for processing—nearly all of them—saw little of the profit that their wheat ultimately produced. Crop prices, controlled by milling and transportation companies, were low. Transportation costs, set by railroad companies, were exorbitant. The combination left farmers cash-strapped. As the rest of rural America experienced an agricultural boom, failed mortgages and hard times defined farm life on the Northern Plains.
Abhorring electoral politics, which they saw as sullied by corruption and power, wheat farmers in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana responded to their economic plight by organizing themselves into cooperatives, attempting to build power without getting involved in politics. They hoped that cooperatives might create a more equitable marketplace, one in which farmers might hold even odds to support their families. Their Equity Cooperative Exchange brought smallholders together to create democratically-run, customer-owned grain elevators across the Northern Plains. Farmer-owners made sure that more of the profits from wheat stayed in farmers’ pockets.
Misunderstood—then and now—as socialists, the NPL farmers remained avowedly nonpartisan.
But in the 1910s the Exchange, realizing local organizing had its limits, tried to expand its reach by establishing a large terminal grain elevator to compete with those run by large corporations. Minneapolis-based companies responded by refusing to permit the Equity Cooperative Exchange to trade in that city’s wheat market. So, in 1915, the group’s leaders turned their attention from economic cooperation to state-level politics. Public policy, however flawed, seemed to offer the only avenue for change.
In North Dakota—and soon thereafter, in other states—wheat farmers used the Equity Cooperative Exchange as the foundation for a new political organization: the Nonpartisan League. The NPL built on existing relationships to encourage farmers to prioritize shared economic self-interest over ethnic, cultural, and religious divides. It also pushed farmers directly into electoral politics. Members canvassed door-to-door to recruit, ensure turnout at political rallies, and create an audience for the NPL newspaper. During election seasons, NPL people held their own members-only precinct caucus meetings and identified citizen-candidates to run for office. They quickly began to see themselves as political actors.
Platform-oriented rather than candidate-based, the NPL endorsed farmers for state offices, and supported the creation of a state-owned bank, grain elevator, and flour mill. And seeing their concerns reflected in electoral politics ensured that North Dakotan farmers responded enthusiastically at the polls. In 1916, NPL candidates won the governor’s race, the contest for attorney general, and the majority of seats in North Dakota’s House of Representatives. By 1918, they held those state-wide offices and seized a majority of seats in the state Senate as well.
Finally empowered to make their platform real, the newly elected farmers moved quickly to sidestep the large millers and traders in Minneapolis. They established a state-run terminal grain elevator and matched it with a state-run flour mill, keeping more profits from processed wheat in North Dakota. Leaguers also created a state-owned bank that allowed local lenders to reject financing from out-of-state interests. After taking hold of North Dakota’s state government in 1918, the NPL spread to twelve other states in the West and Midwest, and two Canadian provinces.
Misunderstood—then and now—as socialists, the NPL farmers remained avowedly nonpartisan. They held no ideological commitment to big or small government. They just saw government as the means to represent and institute the people’s will, rather than the interests of the powerful.
Image courtesy of Toksvig/Wikimedia Commons.
Too often belittled, this vision of citizens as more than just voters lies at the heart of a wide range of American movements for change—from 19th-century Grangers and Populists, to labor organizing in the 1930s, to the Black Freedom Movements of the 1950s and 1960s. It’s a tradition that encourages regular people to work across their differences to solve common problems.
In North Dakota, the NPL’s successes inspired broader change. Initially, for example, the group ignored farm women, who sought agency in their private and public lives, but its insistence on a participatory civic culture inspired women to organize NPL auxiliaries that engaged in fund-raising and civic education. One woman in Montana reported that “we are not going to talk about recipes for rhubarb conserve” but instead would discuss “the great battles for human rights so that we can vote straight when the time comes.”
After 1920, the women’s votes became more important than ever, as corporations in Minneapolis and established politicians began pushing back against the NPL, rightly seeing it as a threat.
Establishment foes attacked the League and its members at every turn, declaring it to be anti-war, and thus anti-patriotic—a serious charge after the U.S. entered World War I in 1917. Though many Leaguers opposed the potential for war-profiteering and heavy casualties, they consistently did their patriotic duty. Nonetheless, in Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, and Idaho, Leaguers remained suspect and faced direct challenges to their civil liberties. Local law enforcement denied the NPL the right to hold public meetings. Organizers were seized by mobs, tarred, and feathered.
In the meantime, in North Dakota, where the NPL-controlled statehouse ensured that local law enforcement would not engage in unconstitutional activities, autocratic League leaders made poor decisions that led to internal dissent. The head of the Nonpartisan League, a former farmer named Arthur Townley, alienated opponents and League members by proposing controversial business schemes that went beyond the organization’s stated aims. Put off by such behavior and new policies they saw as overreach, some NPL farmers turned against the movement—and as a result, in 1921, North Dakota held the nation’s first recall election. Many NPL officials, including the state’s citizen-farmer governor Lynn Frazier, lost their seats.
Never again would the League run the state. Yet its influence remained. A year after his recall, Frazier, still representing the NPL, was elected to the U.S. Senate. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Nonpartisan League persisted as a wing of the Republican Party. In 1956, it merged with North Dakota’s Democratic Party, still known today as the D-NPL. North Dakota’s state-owned bank, flour mill, and grain elevator continue to thrive. Soon marking their centennial, these institutions stand as a concrete testament to the Nonpartisan League and its lasting—and innovative—vision of nonpartisan, cooperatively organized, citizen-centered politics.
Michael J. Lansing is associate professor of history at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN, and author of Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
This essay is part of What It Means to Be American, a project of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and Arizona State University, produced by Zócalo Public Square.
Primary Editor: Eryn Brown | Secondary Editor: Lisa Margonelli
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Arafat, 1983
The Israeli heroes who thwarted attempts on Arafat’s life
Op-ed: Rafael Eitan and Ariel Sharon’s eagerness to kill the Palestinian leader at all costs was countered by junior and senior officers who stood up to them and prevented operations that had the potential of putting innocent lives at risk; David Ivry, Uzi Dayan, Aviem Sella, Amos Gilboa and others are the heroes of this affair.
Ronen Bergman|Published: 01.27.18 , 23:53
The continuous attempts to kill Yasser Arafat are an affair that deserve a book of its own and stems from a double Israeli perception: First of all, that Israel must do everything, absolutely everything, to avoid long wars; to delay the next war and go to war “only when the sword is upon the neck,” as late Mossad Director Meir Dagan said. Instead of wars, there is a need for focused, covert operations deep within enemy territory.
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Second, because the course of history can be changed by assassinating leaders. Meir Dagan told me so explicitly: “I thought that liquidating him would have changed the course of history. Arafat was not only a Palestinian leader, but a kind of founding father of the Palestinian nation. Killing him would unleash a large part of the internal conflicts inside the PLO and significantly hinder its capability to make any strategic decisions from then on.”
Arafat, 1987 (Photo: AP)
But beyond killing Arafat, there was the issue of hurting innocent people around him. And that is, in my opinion, the most important point in this entire story. When Yehoshua Sagi, head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, heard in early 1982 that Israel was going to kill Arafat and all his assistants in a huge explosion, which might affect innocent people, he went to Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Tzipori, Ariel Sharon’s rival, and convinced him to go to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, his former boss from the Irgun underground organization, and persuade him to call off the operation.
During the war, Lieutenant-Colonel Uzi Dayan took command of the Salt Fish task force, which went to besieged Beirut to trace Arafat and provide the Air Force with his locations for the purpose of a bombing. Uzi Dayan was just as hesitant: “Arafat was saved by two things—His interminable good luck and me. I thought Arafat was a legitimate target but not one which justifies every mean. If I saw it involved the killing of many civilians, even if we knew Arafat was there, I didn’t agree to let them go ahead with the bombing. Raful (Rafael Eitan, the chief of staff) used to blow up with anger. He’d call me up and say: ‘I understand you have information on such and such a place. Why aren’t the planes in the air?!’ I replied that it was impossible because there were a lot of people around. Raful said: ‘Forget about it. I’ll take responsibility for it.’ I wasn’t prepared to allow it. Raful would not teach me the ethics of war.
“At a later stage, the chief of staff reminded me that I didn’t have the authority to decide whether or not to drop a bomb. All I had to do was to report when the target was ripe from an intelligence point of view. So from that point on, each time we knew that bombing would lead to massive civilian casualties, we reported that the target wasn’t ripe from an intelligence angle.”
Sharon, weeks before suffering a stroke
After the war, when Sharon, who was so eager to kill Arafat “the dog,” instructed the Air Force to shoot down planes carrying the Palestinian leader, a group of IAF officers decided it simply wouldn’t happen.
“I went to see Eitan,” says Aviem Sella. “I told him: ‘Chief of staff, we do not intend to carry this out. It simply will not happen. I understand that the minister of defense is dominant here. No one dares to stand up to him, and therefore we will make it technically impossible.’ Raful looked at me and never said anything. I took his silence as consent.”
Each time a plane carrying Arafat was detected, Sella initiated a series of actions that made the operation impossible. At the same time, Sharon got into trouble with the commission of inquiry appointed to investigate the Christian massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra neighborhood and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon, and he got distracted from the operation, “which faded away until it was completely called off.”
The bottom line is that this is a story of ethics of combat and maintaining battle morals. Raful and Sharon’s (and Begin’s too, according to Sharon’s military secretary, Oded Shamir) strong desire—and that’s an understatement—to kill Arafat at all costs was countered by junior and senior officers who stood up and—either through words or through action—prevented operations that had the potential of putting innocent lives at risk. David Ivry, Uzi Dayan, Aviem Sella, Amos Gilboa and others are the heroes of this affair.
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Path to the Pros: Trio of Texan football stars eye game's next level
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The record-setting 2018 Tarleton football team turned heads across the country all season long.
From unranked to start the season, to an undefeated regular season and outright Lone Star Conference championship that led to a top five national ranking, teams took notice. Not just NCAA Division II teams, but NFL teams.
The Texans started the year 12-0 - the longest winning streak in program history - advancing to the regional finals, a spot no Texan team has ever been in the NCAA era.
With an explosive offense and lockdown defense, talent was spread all across the field. The Texan roster featured over 20 players that combined to receive All-American, All-Region, and All-Conference awards. Now those decorated players are starting to get noticed by NFL scouts.
Running back Xavier Turner, defensive tackle Tyrell Thompson, and linebacker EJ Speed all have the attention of scouts with hopes of getting drafted on April 25-27 to fulfill their lifelong dreams.
"It's truly a dream come true," said Thompson. "But just hearing my name called or getting a phone call isn't enough. I definitely want to make it through rookie minicamp and then training camp and suit up on a 53-man roster or practice squad come fall 2019."
All three have begun the draft process of working out in front of NFL scouts and going through Pro Days in preparation of the draft.
"The draft process has been hectic," added Thompson, who finished his two-year Texan career with 103 tackles, 20 tackles for loss and 8.5 sacks. "It's been countless hours of training and preparing for combines, pro days and transitioning back into getting into football shape.
"It's also been stressful not knowing where you're going and when you're going ... things of that nature. But I trust my agent, God, my trainer, and those around me that I'll be prepared and ready."
Thompson, listed at 6-foot-3, 306 lbs and is a two-time Don Hansen All-American, has received interest from the Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons, so far.
While Thompson controlled the line of scrimmage on the defensive side, fellow teammate EJ Speed had his back all season to help set records for the Texan defense. Defensively, Tarleton enjoyed one of the greatest statistical turnarounds in program history. The Texans boasted the No. 9-ranked scoring defense and No. 14-ranked rushing defense in the country and allowed just 303.2 total yards per game.
"It's been a blessing and a great opportunity to show that coming from a small school like Tarleton what I can bring to the table at the next level," said Speed. "I'm very grateful for my family, coaches, and teammates to be in this position."
Speed led the nation in forced fumbles as a sophomore and continued to develop into an all-conference linebacker and the leader of the defense as he finished his senior year with a team-leading 106 tackles. Now he has nearly a dozen NFL teams on his radar, but it's no surprise to Speed because he knows he can play at the next level.
"It's not shocking because I know the type of work that I've put in to be in this situation," Speed said. "The goals and aspirations have never been just to make it to the NFL, it's been to have a long Hall of Fame career."
While the defense was holding teams to just 16 points per game, the rushing offense was ranked No. 3 in the country and shattered every record in the Texan record book. Led by Harlan Hill nominee Xavier Turner, who had 1,506 rushing yards and 22 touchdowns as a senior, NFL teams have him on their draft board, including the hometown Dallas Cowboys.
"I was with the Cowboys a few weeks ago," said Turner, "and it was an honor when they told me 'You remind us so much of Zeke [Ezekiel Elliott] the way you run, the way you carry yourself and how you catch the ball out of the backfield. We need a guy to come in and compete with him.'"
Turner, like his defensive teammates, have heard from a number of NFL teams and is projected on some NFL mock drafts to go in the sixth round on Saturday. But Turner is just trying to enjoy this opportunity and when draft day comes, he hopes to hear his name called and make it a dream come true.
"It's been everything I've dreamed of as a kid," Turner added. "You hope to be in this situation as a kid and hope to hear your name called on draft day. For it to actually be a strong possibility of getting draft and you're working out for teams and they know who you are, it's a blessing and surreal."
Last season was special not just for the trio of Texans, but everyone involved with breaking records and making history week after week. It was a year they will never forget and they know they laid the foundation for years to come for future Texans.
"We had a really special team," Thompson said. "All over the country people know who the Tarleton Texans are and they respect us. It was just an amazing season and I enjoyed every minute of it."
The NFL Draft is scheduled for later this week April 25-27. The first-round selections will be made Thursday with rounds two and three scheduled for Friday evening. The final four rounds of the draft will take place Saturday. All rounds of the draft will be aired on ESPN.
Tarleton has had five players drafted into the NFL, including two in the league's modern era - James Dearth and Rufus Johnson. Dearth was selected in the sixth round (191 overall) by the Cleveland Browns in the 1999 draft. Johnson was a sixth-round choice (183 overall) by the New Orleans Saints in 2013. Randy Winkler was a 12th round selection in 1967, just after the NFL-AFL merger, while Marv Brown (1957) and Walter Bryan (1955) are other former Tarleton stars to have been drafted into the league.
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About Yorkshire Yoga
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About Yorkshire Yoga & Therapy Centre
Yorkshire Yoga was founded in 2005 to provide a welcoming and inclusive venue in which all of the community could experience the benefits of yoga. It became a charity a few years later.
We are an approved centre and training venue for the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY). BWY is recognised by Sport England and The Sport and Recreation Alliance as the National Governing Body for Yoga in England.
The yoga centre provides group exercise classes taught by qualified instructors in Yoga, Pilates, Nordic Walking as well as well-being and natural stress relief techniques. There is also the option of individual classes.
We believe that everyone should be able to participate in yoga, which is why we offer a range of classes suitable for different levels of ability and health.
The charitable aims include not only assisting in the treatment and care of adults and children of all ages suffering from physical and or mental disabilities, but also to research, develop and advance the study of yoga, related therapies or sport as a means of improving the physical, mental and spiritual health of the community.
You can support our charitable activity through our Local Giving page here…
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John’s career spanned 30 years in sales and marketing management with a major international chemical company. In 2000 John took early retirement on medical grounds, before joining the board of Yorkshire Yoga in 2016. John is also a trustee with two other local charities including 14 years as chairman of a Yorkshire based community transport operator.
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Chris joined Yorkshire Yoga as Centre Manager in the summer of 2018. He has a background in community sports management and is passionate about bringing yoga to all in the North Yorkshire community.
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‘Challenging behaviours’ challenging climate change
For the past six months, along with a colleague, Arooj Khan, I have been working in a secondary school for young people who have been excluded from mainstream schools. The school is situated in an inner suburb of Birmingham, the second largest city in England. Most of the young people are boys, aged 11-16, and the majority come from Black or South Asian backgrounds. Most of the young men present behaviours that are deemed to be ‘challenging’ for mainstream schools (what are sometimes referred to as ‘Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties’).
I have worked in over 60 alternative education spaces in the course of my research over the past 15 years. However, this particular space is very different. The ratio of teachers to pupils is very high, as the staff spend considerable time both managing students’ behaviour and working with them to change their disposition to learning – and, indeed, to institutions and to adult ‘authority’. The school has recently decided to move away from teaching traditional subjects, including science, in order to focus on more vocational forms of learning – from brick-laying to car mechanics.
In this context, with the school, we have been co-delivering a programme of experimental, sometimes artistic activities that have been designed to encourage the students to think and learn about climate change. In particular, given Birmingham’s heritage as an industrial city – and therefore a key hub in the generation of what some term the Anthropocene or Capitalocene – our activities are focused around energy.
Our principal aim was – and in many ways still is – to explore diverse forms of energy. We wanted students to not only learn about but to experience different forms of energy, so that the sessions went beyond imperatives to save energy by turning off lights, or an appreciation of different forms of renewable energy technologies. As Johnson et al. (2014) and many others have argued, both of these latter kinds of learning are wrapped up in lighter-green understandings of sustainability that see the very same (mainly powerful, mainly white, mainly Western, mainly male) actors proposing technological solutions to the problems for which, arguably, they and their ancestors are largely responsible.
In this light, our programme of work enabled us to articulate what Affrica Taylor (2019) frames as ‘small stories’, which ‘counter the conceits’ of the rich white male’s Anthropocene. We took the students for walks around the school and the local community, encouraging them to identify challenges for living sustainably, and to acknowledge small, local acts (such as tree-planting) that might address climate change. We took the students to the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham, where they had the chance to pick up and examine rocks and minerals and to think about the longer-term histories of the earth. We went to a local science museum where the students used LEGO to construct wind turbines (although see my reflections on this, including the ethics of learning about climate change through mass-produced plastics, here). We tried out a range of small devices that enable users to literally see the energy embodied in a piece of fruit, or in their own bodies.
Our collaborations led to the articulation, exercise and expenditure of a whole range of ‘energies’: embodied, elastic, gravitational, solar, wind, electrical, etcetera. But one thing that was so striking about our work was how it raised questions about the relationship between ‘challenging’ behaviours and climate change. If, as Peter Kelly writes in another post, notions of ‘wellbeing’ and ‘resilience’ are central to young people’s lives – and survival – in the Anthropocene, then what do those terms mean in the context of young men who are (at least) triply-disadvantaged by their age, their ethnicity, and by behaviours that have been identified as ‘challenging’?
Here, I suggest, we need to tread a very careful path. Some of these young men experience a range of mental health issues and/or disabilities, and the school and its staff do important and often difficult work in trying to find ways to support their students. And we know that these kinds of challenges (especially mental health issues) are faced by increasing numbers of young people, worldwide, for a range of reasons. At the same time, these young men are not, generally, the kinds of young people whose voices are routinely heard or accepted when it comes to debates about climate change. In the context of the #climatestrikes in recent weeks, it is not, generally, these kinds of young people who figure prominently. And this, I think, is because of the nature of the ‘challenge’ that different groups of young people present.
This observation is by no means a critique of Greta Thunberg and the likely millions of young people marching for our (and their) earthly future. Indeed, Greta talks about her own ‘challenging behaviours’ and mental health issues openly. Nor am I suggesting that all of those young people are taken from narrow segments of rich societies – they are not. The challenge they present is legitimate, urgent, and of fundamental importance. It is, instead, a broader attempt to question what we mean by challenge when it comes to how we think about climate change, climate-related injustices, and climate action, and to intersectionalities of youth with ‘challenging behaviours’ and race.
I want, then, to return to the ‘challenging’ behaviours exhibited by young, predominantly Black and South Asian heritage men at the school in Birmingham. I don’t want to romanticise these behaviours – as I mentioned above, we need to tread a very careful path here. Yet the approach we took – a progressive series of often very different activities, over a series of weeks and months, with no commitment to a ‘curriculum’ or teleological approach to learning – led to flashes of insight and challenging moments, which, in turn, might challenge how we think, teach about and take action on climate change. These were interwoven with both more conventional forms of learning about climate change (as the boys examined interactive maps that showed how much of the UK would become flooded if global temperatures continued to increase at the current rate) and behaviours that would challenge most of us (fights, misogynistic references to girls, constant attempts to undermine teachers). As I say, I am not seeking to romanticise these acts.
But a couple of vignettes stand out for me…
…as we walked through the community near the school, a local activist patiently pointing out trees recently planted to provide shade and mitigate the effects of Birmingham’s air pollution problem, one of the boys referring to the tree as a ‘gas-guzzling mother-fucker’…
…as we returned to school from the walk, in the middle of a session where the invited speaker was talking about the features of an eco-house, a group of boys suddenly decided to get out some Jenga blocks and build a huge tower, which they then proceeded to knock down, noisily, ‘like a tornado hit’…
…and these vignettes are just two of many, in which ‘challenging behaviours’ were entangled with challenges of and for climate change doxa, in all kinds of ways, opening out all kinds of questions. For instance, in the first, although the boys constantly swear, what are we to make of this kind of expletive-laden utterance? As Peter Kelly explores in a recent post, Greta Thunberg’s message is so striking because it counters a somehow fluffy, patronising, paternalistic sense in which adults must ‘give’ the next generation ‘hope’ for their future – something on which I’ve written at length elsewhere (Kraftl, 2008). Instead, the #climatestrikes are designed to disrupt, to shock, to draw attention to how awful things really are and could become. What, then, is the role of the expletive as part of this imperative?
Or, consider the role of play, imagination and small acts of violence, as in the destruction of the Jenga tower. Might we consider these small expressions of speculative fabulation (Haraway, 2016)? In particular, what if it became apparent that, that very same day, the boys had been learning about a tornado that hit the local area in 2005, causing millions of pounds worth of damage – in a country that is not prone to large numbers of destructive tornados, but where they and other forms of extreme weather are becoming increasingly common as temperatures continue to rise? In this context, the apparently silly, playful, impulsive, disruptive construction of the tower and its subsequent destruction might render a rather different challenge.
To repeat, my intention is not to celebrate any and all kinds of ‘challenge’. Rather, it is to raise questions about who is able to utter or perform a challenge, in and to the ways we think and act on climate change – and how.
Johnson, E. et al. 2014. After the Anthropocene: Politics and geographic inquiry for a new epoch. Progress in Human Geography, 38 pp 449-456.
Haraway, D.J., 2016. Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
Kraftl, P., 2008. Young people, hope, and childhood-hope. Space and Culture, 11(2), pp.81-92.
Taylor, A., 2019. Countering the conceits of the Anthropos: scaling down and researching with minor players. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, pp.1-19.
Climate Fiction: Cli Fi
Over the past decades a new genre of fiction -Climate Fiction or Cli Fi – has emerged at the intersection of sci-fi and ‘speculative fiction’ (SF, Haraway 2016). Cl-fi entangles, in ways that are only available to these genres, with many of the themes that energise this blog, our conference, and the programs of research that we want to develop.
Interestingly, the genre traverses and constitutes a sense that our futures, fundamentally embedded in and shaped by our pasts and presents, might range from the utopian to the dystopian. In this way, there is also often a sense of hope and of possibility in these probable futures – even if that hope and possibility is tempered by our presents. James Bradley, an Australian author of novels that have been called ‘cli-fi’ – even if he, himself, is a little wary of the ‘tag’ – suggests that the genre is about:
“…making space for change”. “You can say the world is ending… but as soon as you have to write a story about it, you can see that that’s a hopelessly simplistic response,”… “People will still be alive, people will still be going on with their lives and doing things, and that forces you to engage with what it might actually be like. “The world is not actually going to end; it’s going to be transformed…
In this post we provide some links to a number of stories about Cli-Fi, which include reviews of some of the more important, significant, popular authors and books in the genre.
10 Cli-Fi Novels for the Dark Days Ahead
From The Drowned World to the Broken Earth trilogy, the books that imagine catastrophic futures for our already-imperiled natural world
October 22, 2018, By Book Marks
‘…The end is nigh, unless we drastically reduce the rate of our greenhouse gas emissions within the next few years that is. The landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change, released earlier this month to a combination of shock and abject terror, revealed conclusively what many in the scientific community have been saying for years: that the immediate consequences of climate change will be vastly more devastating than previously thought.
Though it is technically possible to achieve the rapid adjustments required to an avoid atmospheric temperature rise of 2.7 degrees above pre-industrial levels (the new threshold for the most severe and potentially irreparable effects of climate change), having men like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro at the helms of two of the largest greenhouse gas emitting countries in the world pushes this already remote possibly into the realms of fantasy.
Now if, in 2018, you require a science fiction novel to remind you of the single greatest threat facing humanity, then you really have not been paying attention and should probably turn on the (not Fox)news once in a while (ideally before November 6th). Still, cli-fi may very well end up being the defining literary genre of our era, and it’s interesting to look back at the ways in which some of the most inventive and prophetic authors of recent decades imagined the kinds of futures that may lie in store for us if we continue down our current path….’
Could cli-fi help inspire real climate change action?
By Monique Ross and Julie Street for Late Night Live
‘…Climate fiction novels catapult readers into a future ravaged by the catastrophic effects of global warming.
Survival is a struggle amid dwindling food and water supplies, extreme weather and pandemics. Environmental emergencies are slowly unfolding: animals dying, forests vanishing, sea levels rising.
The genre — variously dubbed ‘cli-fi’, ‘slow apocalypse’ and Anthropocene fiction — has become a publishing phenomenon, with Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan among those conjuring up dystopian near-futures.
“You could say it’s because it resonates with a culture on the verge of collapse,” says Australian author Alice Robinson, whose cli-fi novel Anchor Point was longlisted for the Stella Prize in 2016.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
For some the genre is simply a new take on science fiction, but for others it’s a timely wake-up call that could inspire real change…’
How Climate-Change Fiction, or “Cli-Fi,” Forces Us to Confront the Incipient Death of the Planet
By Katy Waldman
‘…There is something counterintuitive about cli-fi, about the fictional representation of scientifically substantiated predictions that too many people discount as fictions. The genre, elsewhere exemplified by Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and Nathaniel Rich’s “Odds Against Tomorrow,” brings disaster forcefully to life. But it is a shadowy mirror. Literature has always been a humanist endeavor: it intrinsically and helplessly affirms the value of the species; its intimations of meaning energize and comfort. But what if there is scant succor to be had, and our true natures are not noble but necrotic, pestilential? We have un-earthed ourselves. Yet we claim the right to gaze at our irresponsibility and greed through fiction’s tonic filter. The stories in “Warmer,” which possess the urgency of a last resort and the sorrow of an elegy, inhabit this contradiction. They both confront and gently transfigure the incomprehensible realities of climate change…’
Cli-Fi: Birth of a Genre
Perhaps climate change had once seemed too large-scale, or too abstract, for the minutely human landscape of fiction. But the threat seems to have become too pressing to ignore, and less abstract, thanks to a nonstop succession of mega-storms and record-shattering temperatures. Several new novels make climate change central to their plot and setting, appropriating time-honored narratives to accord with our new knowledge and fears. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Summer 2013
Books discussed in this essay:
by Marcel Theroux
Picador, 2010, 320 pp.
I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet
edited by Mark Martin
Verso, 2011, 208 pp.
Back to the Garden
by Clara Hume
Moon Willow Press, 2012, 271 pp.
The Healer: A Novel
by Antti Tuomainen, Henry Holt and Co., 2013, 224 pp.
Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel
by Nathaniel Rich, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, 320 pp.
by Ian McEwan,
Nan A. Talese, 2010, 304 pp.
Wild Ones:
A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
by Jon Mooallem
Penguin Press HC, 2013, 368 pp.
‘…Makepeace Hatfield, the heroine of Marcel Theroux’s 2009 novel Far North, is one of the last survivors of a Siberian settlement. Her father was an early settler: an American Quaker who fled a decadent world for a frontiersman’s life. In the Siberian summer, he discovered fertile terrain, purple and brown, and water that “heaved with salmon,” as Makepeace recalls. “Nothing I’ve known in the Far North resembles the land of ice that people expected him to find here.”
We are in the future, or, at any rate, a future. The settlement has collapsed under the pressure of an influx of starving refugees. Makepeace—a stoic, androgynous woman—forges her own bullets and hunts wild pigs. When she witnesses the crash of a small plane, she sets out on her horse to find the rump of civilization that must have produced it. She is welcomed into a small religious community, then imprisoned at a work camp, and eventually makes her way to a dead metropolis.
Far North, hailed by the Washington Post as the “first great cautionary fable of climate change,” is one of the strongest of a recent crop of similar books, most of which are also post-apocalyptic or dystopian. But the novel is no straightforward eco-parable. Indeed, at one point, Theroux seems to have a little fun with green pieties. In the book, knowledge about the origins of the crisis is fuzzy, but Makepeace’s learned confidant offers an explanation:
Shamsudin said the planet had heated up. They turned off smokestacks and stopped flying….Factories were shut down….As it turned out, the smoke from all the furnaces had been working like a sunshade, keeping the world a few degrees cooler than it would have been otherwise. He said that in trying to do the right thing, we had sawed off the branch we were sitting on…’
Liz Jensen: Our House, Our Fire, our Fiction
“I want you to act as you would in a crisis,” the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg told Davos last month. “I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.”
When a kid in pigtails speaks truth to power, the world listens.
At a time when the science could not be clearer, Thunberg’s burning house metaphor turned her appearance at Davos into an iconic moment in climate history.
Our house on fire: an image everyone on the planet can understand. Our, implies an us: a community or family. House implies a home, and shelter. Fire spells danger. Instantly, a mental narrative is triggered, leading to three choices.
Choice One entails pretending there is no fire, or that there is one, but it is a containable household accident. Choice Two involves doing one’s best to douse the flames and limit the damage. Choice Three offers the simplest solution to the crisis: run.
But where to?
Thunberg’s simple, evocative metaphor mobilized millions around the world: proof, if ever it were needed, of the impact language can have. As the novelist Margaret Atwood once put it, “A word after a word after a word is power.”…’
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