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Home > 33 1/3 > Announcing: The Fall 2018 33 1/3s!
Announcing: The Fall 2018 33 1/3s!
July 3, 2018 333admin
We’re excited to bring you the Fall 2018 lineup of 33 1/3s! This batch is one of our most eclectic yet – from fan favorites like Tori Amos to the religious-secular stylings of Jesus Freak, with feminist and film studies readings, there is a lot to look forward to with these books. We can’t wait to bring you these come Fall ’18! We promise, they’ll be worth the wait.
Drive-By Trucker’s Southern Rock Opera
The Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-sucking swamps, iconic recording studios and doomed chartered jets, and even Heaven and Hell. Along the way, the Truckers attempt to untangle the mess that is southern history by exploring the contradictory, dualistic nature of the region.
Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Peepshow
Samantha Bennett takes a film studies approach to analyzing Peepshow, an album from UK cult favorite Siouxsie and the Banshees, drawing on more than one hundred films and film scores to reveal a panoply of cinematic influences woven into the music. Bennett proves that, ultimately, Peepshow can be read as a soundtrack to all the films Siouxsie and the Banshees ever saw. Or perhaps it was the soundtrack to the greatest film they never made.
Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele
Over her career, Tori Amos has drawn a range of intense reactions to her music and performances. Boys for Pele demonstrates that reactions to women’s art is often organized around disgust, as if women can’t be expressive without drawing a strong reaction. Using Boys for Pele as a jumping off point, Amy Gentry illustrates women’s participation in art among this “aesthetic of disgust”.
dc Talk’s Jesus Freak
dc Talk’s Jesus Freak explores a rare moment of cultural convergence between Christian and secular music in the series’ first Christian hip hop entry. Written by two queer scholars with evangelical pasts, Jesus Freak presents a unique perspective on a variety of topics, including race, sexuality, gender, and politics.
So there you have it! Which ones are you most excited about? Give us a shout on Twitter @333books and continue to follow along for more updates.
— The 33 1/3 team
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The legendary producer/songwriter George Brown (founding member of Kool and the Gang) created Astana Music, a new record company and production company that will focus on dance pop and pop releases. Astana is based at Brown’s studio complex in Woodland Hills. Brown has already signed six artists to the label.
Astana’s roster has a distinctly international flavor: Chelsea was born in the Philippines, Dominique (Canadian American), Jonna (Denmark) Tlia, Chiyumba (Kenya) , Jordan (Israel), Mychelle Nychole (US). The label also has a stable of staff songwriters, sound engineers, producers, singers and musicians including the acclaimed Keri Lewis, Leon Silvers and Rick Marcel.
George Brown is a founding member of Kool and the Gang which became one of the most inspired and influential funk units during the '70s, and one of the most popular R&B groups of the '80s after their breakout #1 hit "Celebration" in 1979. They released 7 Gold and Platinum albums.
The first release from the label is the infectious dance club track KING SIZE from the sultry vocal powerhouse CHELSEA. “King Size” was produced by Brown produced who also co-wrote the track. Acclaimed producer Alessandro Calemme and his DJ team created four REMIXES and the original radio mix.
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Wilson's Creek
Author Bookstand is proud to offer Wilson's Creek by Bookstand Publishing. Bookstand Publishing offers books by the best indie authors throughout North America and the world. Bookstand Publishing is dedicated to offering original content to a broad audience and promoting great authors, literacy, and freedom of expression. Wilson's Creek has generated a lot of interest and excitement and we think it would be an excellent addition to your library.
"Dr. Bob" Ridgway graduated from Kansas State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California-Davis. After graduation, he worked at a veterinary hospital in Topeka, Kansas. He entered the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and became Director of the Animal Medicine Division on Okinawa. He later completed a Comparative Medicine residency at the Madigan Army Medical Center. He graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He was Treasurer of the District of Columbia Academy of Veterinary Medicine for 14 years. He served as Secretary-Treasurer and President of the District of Columbia Veterinary Medical Association. He was the first Army officer to be in charge of the Department of Defense Military Dog Veterinary Service at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He completed a Master's of International Management degree at the University of Maryland, University College. After retiring from the Army, he worked at Covance Laboratories, Banfield Pet Hospital, and Orange County Animal Services in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Ridgway is a diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.
Mayflower Arab: A Memoir
Growing Up Aleluya
From These Roots
Gays Are Earthlings and Very Human
Blessings and Betrayals: A True Story of...
My Years on the Radio - 1996 - 2000
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Chrysoskalitissa Monastery
Gonia Monastery
The Monastery of Chrysoskalitissa is built on a rock at the south-west end of Crete. The church of the monastery is dedicated to Mother Mary and the Holy Trinity and its feast is held on August 15 (Dekapendavgoustos).
The Monastery was built during Venetian rule on the site of St. Nicholas monastery and, according to tradition, it took its name from a golden step, the final of the original ninety-eight that led to it when it was first built.
Before the Monastery of Chrysoskalitissa was built, there was another church of the Dormition of Mother Mary. The church seen today started being built before 1894.
In 1900, the Monastery was dissolved along with other ones on the island and was re-established as a convent in 1940. After the Nazi occupation of Crete, several resistance fighters were given refuge here and this is why German soldiers came to live at the premises in 1943, after they chased the monks. When the Nazi forces left, the monks returned to the monastery.
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USDA Seeks Ideas to Help SNAP Participants Become Independent
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Justice Department Coordinates Largest-Ever Nationwide Elder Fraud Sweep
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Geschreven door Electrive
Shell is starting to build high power chargers at its gas stations in Germany. This year, the oil company plans to build 50 charging stations across the country, with a total of 100 charging points and a capacity of at least 150 kilowatts. Further charging stations are to follow.
Shell has brought EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg, an utility in Germany’s south, on board as a partner for the charging network initiative. They plan to install high power charging stations with CCS, CHAdeMO and an AC connection (type 2), which will each provide up to 150 kW for up to two vehicles charging simultaneously and up to 300 kW when only one car is charging. According to the media reports, locations in Cologne, Oberhausen and Munich are planned.
“The importance of electric mobility will undoubtedly increase in the passenger car sector,” says Jan Toschka, head of Shell’s filling station business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The cooperation with EnBW will give Shell direct access to the know-how and years of experience of the energy company and charging infrastructure operator. “We have a holistic view of the subject of electromobility and bring comprehensive expertise in the area-wide expansion and operation of charging infrastructure to the project,” confirms Marc Burgstahler, who is responsible for electromobility at EnBW.
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A Talk with Bobby Long – Part Two
Spotlight on Anderson East
The Dead’s First “Best Of” Re-Vinylized at Last on New Audio Fidelity 180-Gram LP Available Today
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Great American Taxi “Reckless Habits” Thirty Tigers
Album Reviews, Features — By Kyle McCraw on April 7, 2010 8:07 pm
Listening to the band’s second release, it is no wonder why Great American Taxi has become a favorite on the jam band circuit, and it’s not because they happen to be led by Leftover Salmon frontman Vince Herman (Although, I’m sure that doesn’t hurt.). These guys play with skill and an infectious energy that deserves to be heard. It’s an eclectic sound with elements of blues, bluegrass, boogie, gospel, honky tonk, rock, and some New Orleans flavor thrown in for good measure. They cover some bluegrass here (John Hartford’s “Get No Better” and Bill Monroe/Kenny Baker’s “Big Sandy River”), as well as Uncle Tupelo (“New Madrid”).
With lyrical references to the Grateful Dead (“American Beauty”) and Gram Parsons (title track) and comparisons to bands like Little Feat, Wilco, New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Byrds, country rock is probably the best tag to give them. The music never feels forced, and that relaxed vibe blends perfectly with Herman’s seasoned vocal. However, Herman doesn’t handle all the lead vocals here, which does make the album a little uneven. Chad Staehly and Jim Lewin’s lead vocal work is by no means bad, but Herman’s vocals always sound more at ease and confident – and just fun.
In an album or two, it may be a totally different story. It’s really about the music anyway, and there’s a lot to love here. The band (which consists of guitars, piano, bass, and drums) manages to make room for pedal steel, washboard, fiddle and even an impressive horn section in the mix. Staehly’s calls the band a “true democracy,” and I’m inclined to believe him. It never feels like it’s about one player more than another. There might be a guitar solo after the first chorus, but the piano may get some time after the second one. And anyone who loves hearing some great piano or Hammond B-3 will be well pleased. As big as the sound is, it all works, never feeling overdone. It’ll make your head bob, your feet tap – might even make you dance. Hopefully, you like that sort of thing.
Tags: album, honky tonk, Listening, listening to the band, music, new riders of the purple sage, piano, riders of the purple sage, rock, uncle tupelo
Their version of “New Madrid” is gorgeous. I agree, though, they seem to be channeling so many different iconic bands/sounds that their own musical personality gets a bit lost in the mix.
Funny, too, that their name refers to Herman’s snow skiing style: a large lumbering object hurtling out of countrol down the mountain like a great American taxi.
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Georgia Couple Gets Years In Prison For Terrorizing Children’s Party With Confederate Flag
by Keith Reid-Cleveland
A group of terrorists – because that’s exactly what they are – are now seeing the consequences of their actions after targeting a child’s birthday party with Confederate flags, threats and firearms.
Jose “Joe” Torres was sentenced to 13 years in prison on three counts of aggravated assault, one count of making terroristic threats and one count of violating of Georgia’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act on Monday, according to CNN.
Kayla Norton, Torres’ partner, was sentenced to six years in prison on one count of making terroristic threats and one count of violation of the Street Gang Act.
“Many people tried to make the case about simply flying the Confederate Battle Flag,” Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner said in a statement. “This case was about a group of people riding around our community, drinking alcohol, harassing and intimidating our citizens because of the color of their skin.”
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Torres and Norton reportedly joined a convoy of about a dozen vehicles that drove around Douglas County on July 25, 2015 when they came across a group of people celebrating. The group, which included members of an organization called “Respect the Flag,” reportedly drove past yelling a series of racial slurs. Things then escalated as Torres and others confronted the citizens.
“Torres, who had retrieved a shotgun from his vehicle, pointed his shotgun at the group of African American party-goers and stated he was going to kill them while his co-defendants stated that ‘the little ones can get one too,’ referring to the young children at the party,” read a statement posted on the district attorney’s Facebook.
Norton allegedly made similar threats and Torres claimed that he grabbed the shotgun to protect his companions as he feared for their safety.
During the sentencing, Torres and Norton both broke down and took time to apologize to the victims. However, they continued to claim they weren’t the ones responsible for the racist, completely unprovoked threat on the lives of children.
couple, georgia, Jose Torres, Kayla Norton, racist
Keith Reid-Cleveland
Keith Reid-Cleveland is a proud product of Chicago's Southside and the Missouri School of Journalism. The Black Youth Project News Editor has written about politics, race and entertainment for multiple publications, such as Uproxx, The Undefeated, Black Nerd Problems, Comic Book Resources and more.
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4/1/2015 - At Steelpointe Harbor, construction season kicks into high gear
“Starbucks, Bass Pro Shops, and Chipotle will all open this fall. Once complete, this waterfront development will be home to apartments, retail, hotels, a grocery store, and more. It will create thousands of jobs and add tens of millions of dollars to our tax rolls. This is yet another great example of how Bridgeport is getting better every day.” – Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch
Bridgeport, Conn. (April 1, 2015) -- Today, Mayor Bill Finch kicked off the construction season at Steelpointe Harbor, which is a waterfront development in the state's largest city, representing the biggest economic development project in Park City since the Industrial Revolution.
Click here for photos: http://bit.ly/1NKcLGQ
“After decades of broken promises, construction is finally happening at Steel Point,” said Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch. “Starbucks, Bass Pro Shops, and Chipotle will all open this fall. Once complete, this waterfront development will be home to apartments, retail, hotels, a grocery store, and more. It will create thousands of jobs and add tens of millions of dollars to our tax rolls. This is yet another great example of how Bridgeport is getting better every day.”
Regarding the history of developing Steelpointe Harbor, the Wall Street Journal reported (SOURCE: Wall Street Journal. “Bridgeport’s Steel Point Redevelopment Nears Launch.” April 7, 2014. By Joseph de Avila.):
Former Mayor Leonard Paoletta was the first to try to remake Steel Point in the early 1980s, though the project failed to advance for years. One of the biggest setbacks was a scandal involving former Mayor Joseph Ganim, who was convicted in 2003 on 16 charges that included receiving about $500,000 in bribes and kickbacks.
According to federal prosecutors, a group of developers promised to raise $500,000 for Mr. Ganim's anticipated gubernatorial campaign in exchange for allowing them to develop Steel Point. But that deal fell apart when the developers came under the scrutiny of federal law enforcement, and no money ever changed hands.
"People lost their sense of trust in the political community," said Paul Timpanelli, chief executive of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council. Getting the project started will help change the perception that nothing ever happens in Bridgeport, Mr. Timpanelli added.
But because of the leadership of Mayor Bill Finch, things have changed. The Bass Pro Shops currently being constructed at Steelpointe Harbor will be the only Bass Pro in the entire state. And, the Starbucks and Chipotle represent firsts in the state’s largest city.
Once complete, Steelpointe Harbor will serve as a 2 million square foot super regional waterfront project located adjacent to I-95 in Bridgeport Connecticut. Spanning 82 acres, the project will feature more than 750,000 square feet of retail, restaurants and entertainment, a 12-screen premium theater, two hotels, 1,100 mid-and-high rise residential units, 30,000 square feet of office and a 200-slip full service deep water marina.
Mayor Finch was joined at today’s press conference by City Council members Lydia Martinez, Milta Feliciano, AmyMarie Vizzo-Paniccia and Melanie Jackson, along with Director of Public Facilities Jorge Garcia and City Engineer Jon Urquidi.
Click here for a rendering of Bass Pro Shops: http://bit.ly/1Fiqqko
Click here for a rendering of Chipotle and Starbucks: http://bit.ly/1NBZvlM
For more information on recent developments at Steelpointe Harbor, click here: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/New-tenants-announced-for-Steel-Point-5888790.php.
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West Nile Virus: An example of needed cooperation between developed and developing countries
Nicola Gorsuch 27 Dec 2012
Written by George Valiakos, DVM, MSc in Public Health and Environmental Hygiene.
During the last decade, West Nile virus (WNV) has emerged as one of the most highly-concerning zoonotic pathogens worldwide. In 2012 a total of 237 WNV cases were reported in the EU/EEA countries and 669 more in neighboring countries. In the USA, reported cases of WNV in humans has hit an all time high since 1999 when the virus was first introduced in the region. There were more than 260 cases of neuroinvasive disease confirmed in 2012. These statistics create major concerns about the future impact of WNV disease worldwide and how it may worsen through viral evolution, and changes in viral transmission and pathogenicity dynamics.
Avian species are considered the primary hosts of WNV, and in an endemic region, the virus is maintained in an enzootic cycle between mosquitoes and birds. The disease can manifest in humans and other mammals, with the main cause of contagion coming from the bite of infected mosquitoes. WNV was first isolated in Uganda (West Nile district) in 1937 from the blood of a native Ugandan woman, and up until the end of the 20th century, it was considered a cause of viral encephalitis limited only in the continents of Africa and Asia. The introduction of WNV in Europe and America has been mainly attributed to the migration routes of various avian species from Africa to these continents.
So far there are two major genetic lineages of WNV. Lineage 1 is the most widespread, containing isolates found in Western and Central Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Strains of lineage 2 were mainly found in South Africa and Madagascar, but in the last decade they have been introduced to Central and Eastern Europe. It is interesting to examine the distribution of both lineages in relation to the migration routes of wild birds (Figure 1) as this helps us to understand how WNV is spread to affected countries.
Figure 1. Main migration flyways of wild birds in Europe. The Southeastern migration flyway in red. (Source: SEEN)
Our research team conducted a study investigating the impact of wild birds in relation to the current WNV disease outbreak in Greece (with more than 524 laboratory confirmed human cases and 60 human deaths). It was found that human exposure to sedentary birds could have occurred at least 8 months before the first human reports of WNV disease. This stresses the importance of a One Health approach in surveillance programs of zoonotic pathogens. If we could examine samples of animals and their origin, it could provide timely information regarding local circulation of otherwise neglected pathogens, and allow public health authorities the time to prepare and implement appropriate control measures.
Moreover, these facts show the importance of parallel research and surveillance for pathogens, like WNV, within countries and organizations of the developed and developing world. It is very difficult to come to a definite conclusion in regards to pathogen dispersion and evolution dynamics, when the data collected is sparse and limited to local research in EU countries. Yet the possible origin of the pathogen (i.e. a flavivirus) is from a developing country where information is limited, genetic monitoring is incomplete, conclusions regarding pathogen evolution are not solid.
The strengthening of research facilities and relevant knowledge transfer should be a top priority for developed countries in their plans to help countries of lower income that are in need. Public Health can be protected only through a universal cooperative approach regarding important emerging pathogens.
For more information on this study please read the paper,“Serological and molecular investigation into the role of wild birds in the epidemiology of West Nile virus in Greece.”
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JENKINS LEARNS NEW LEVEL LESSONS
Cwmgors’ Chris Jenkins (13-0, 5KO) won his first career title on Saturday with a shut-out points victory over ten rounds against France’s Christopher Sebire (22-7, 9KO) for the WBC International title and he has learned plenty of lessons. The 24-year-old had to overcome an ear injury at the midway stage of the fight and it, along with his opponents efforts, altered his tactics on Matchroom Sport’s ‘Reloaded’ show but it was an experience he believes benefited his development. Analysing the fight, Jenkins said, “I didn’t box to the game plan but I knew what I was doing in the fight was right because I could just feel how it was going in there. At the end of the fight, the scorecards showed that, the way I was fighting won me the fight and I can adapt. “I knew my ear was cut straight away, the ref told me too and in the corner it didn’t bother us. It’s a professional game and you have to stick to what you have to do no matter what happens, you still have to go win the fight. “I think I flew it, the fitness is there. To be honest, I think it was in round eight and I had so much more in the tank, when I come out for it I wasn’t breathing heavy and I know I can step it up again next time.” Sibere, a switch hitter who has won the French light-welterweight title, did begin well but soon entered his shell and there were stages of the fight where both boxers were cagey and Jenkins was mindful of it. He said, “I know I couldn’t really catch him as clean as I’d like, he’s an awkward fighter. I was too afraid to throw silly shots in case he countered me, so I just stuck to the jab and it worked all night, it made him look like a mug at times. “He was slick. As soon as I caught him in the third round with a body shot, I knew it hurt him and he just covered up from then. I’ve got the win over him though, job done and I want to go onwards now on to the next one against another good guy.” In the main event, Barry’s Lee Selby shone by adding the European title to his collection in front of a sold out Motorpoint Arena and Jenkins hopes to follow in his fellow Welshman’s footsteps but it won’t include the Welsh title. He said, “I look up to Selby because he did it the right way, I want to go a similar route. He won a WBC International title, the British title and everything else. If I can do half of what Selby’s doing, I’ll be well happy and I’ll be going in the right direction. “There’s no point going back now. I’ve taken two steps forward now and fighting for the Welsh title would be like a step back. It’s all about levels and I think I’ve passed that level now, I’m a level above the Welsh title and those opponents. I’d love to have won it but I was offered a bigger title, I’ve taken it, won it and I move on.”
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The History of the Electric Car
Since the advent of the automobile, car makers have struggled to build mainstream electric vehicles. Here are their best and worst attempts
Green Motors
By Bryan WalshThursday, Oct. 11, 2007
2007 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell Car.
No one would mistake Chris Paine for a General Motors shill. In his 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, the filmmaker laid out a damning case against GM for unplugging the EV1, the electric vehicle it manufactured in the 1990s and then discontinued in 2003, preferring instead to produce high-margin but gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs. "They were a technological leader, and they fumbled that leadership away," Paine says. Ask him about the U.S. carmaker now, though, and Paine sounds almost admiring. "Their new hybrids are making a difference, and their plug-in technology is a real advance," he says. "GM is making some really good moves now."
It's been some time since anyone accused GM of making a good move. The company surrendered its title as the world's top-selling carmaker to Toyota this year, in part because GM underestimated drivers' appetite for leaner, greener cars a desire filled spectacularly by Toyota's Prius. GM is still weighed down by health-care costs and other legacy issues, but the Detroit giant is finally getting serious about hybrids. After dismissing them for years as a niche unworthy of attention, GM will release an average of one new hybrid model every three months for the next two years, beginning with the industry's first full-size hybrid SUVs late this year. "GM has really stepped up to be the standard bearer for the industry," says Philip Gott, director of automotive consulting for the research group Global Insight. "Toyota stole the limelight the first time with nice technology and a brilliant marketing strategy, but I think GM will take the ball back."
In a way, GM never really lost the ball; it just forgot how to play. For all its recent struggles in the marketplace, GM has always been a leader in pure research and development, spending $6.6 billion in the field in 2006. "They've dwarfed the rest of the industry in what they can put into it," says Dan Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Davis. In the late 1980s, GM produced concept cars like the Sunracer, a sleek solar vehicle that can still inspire wistful sighs in green geeks of a certain age. But too often the good stuff stalled between the lab and the showroom. "There is a myth out there that GM is a technological laggard, but that's not true," says John DeCicco, senior fellow for automotive strategies at the advocacy group Environmental Defense. "They just chose not to emphasize those kinds of products in their corporate strategy." Nevertheless, GM's cautious approach stranded its brands in the past while its competitors positioned themselves as smarter and greener.
Nowhere was that clearer than in GM's foot-dragging on hybrids, which use combination gas-electric engines to reduce fuel usage an average of 45%, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. "Hybrids are an interesting curiosity," said Robert Lutz, GM's vice chairman of product development, in early 2004. "But do they make sense at $1.50 a gallon? No, they do not." Lutz was right then, and even with gas prices closer to $3, midsize hybrids are expensive and may not save most drivers much money. But to consumers, the equation was simple: hybrids = environmentalism.
GM just didn't get it. "GM took a gamble that hybrids weren't going to be important," says Eric Noble, president of Car Labs, an auto consulting firm. "That turned out to be a very bad bet."
Even while its image became defined by Paleolithic SUVs, GM was quietly making green investments. The company began producing hybrid buses in 2004, using the technology to boost fuel economy on those big, inefficient vehicles where it would have a big, immediate impact. By the same logic, GM has put its first real hybrid engines not in a midsize sedan like the Toyota Prius but in its jumbo suvs, the GMC Yukon and the Chevrolet Tahoe. The 5,000-lb. (2,300 kg) vehicles will run on a new two-mode hybrid system developed by GM with Chrysler and BMW. The power train will use two electric motors one to assist city driving, one for highways giving it up to 40% better fuel rates than conventional models' for city driving. "It's a piece of art," says Mickey Bly, GM's director of engineering for hybrid vehicles. And with a towing capacity of 6,000 lbs. (2,700 kg), the fuel economy doesn't come at the expense of power.
GM hasn't won over all the skeptics. Sticking a hybrid engine in a jumbo SUV is "putting lipstick on a pig," says Ronald Hwang, vehicle policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, who argues that if GM is green serious, it should give up SUVs and build more efficient cars. But other activists welcome the effort. "I'm an equal-opportunity environmentalist, and I'll take carbon reductions where I can get them," says DeCicco. They agree, however, that GM passed up a chance to cement its green rep by failing to support efforts to tighten the federal corporate average-fuel-economy standards. Green darling Toyota has also opposed the proposed new rules, which call for a 35 mpg. (6.7 L/100 km) standard by 2020.
The best way for GM to answer its critics is with a green leap forward and the company is working with every available technology. GM presented the Chevrolet Volt a plug-in hybrid that can run on battery power, biodiesel or gasoline as a 2007 concept car. The company will soon roll out Project Driveway, a consumer test of more than 100 hydrogen-fuel-cell cars, which convert hydrogen to energy and produce no harmful emissions. "No other company has such a broad array of green technology," says Tom Stephens, GM's vice president for global power train. "I intend to lead on this."
Chris Paine will be watching. His next film is titled Who Saved the Electric Car?, but there's one obstacle. "We have to find out if someone actually is saving it," he says. It might just be GM. What better hero than a reformed villain?
Bryan Walsh
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Supreme Court Nomination Battles
The Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on June 28, 2010. TIME takes a look at some of fiercest Supreme Court nomination battles in history
Bench Battles
Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell
l. to r.: AP; Henry Griffin / AP
Richard Nixon had two high-profile Supreme Court nomination strikeouts. First, in 1969, he put forth judge Clement Haynsworth (left) a Southerner reviled by labor and civil rights groups for rulings related to union representation and school desegregation. Labor activists, hoping to derail the Haynsworth nomination, disclosed that the judge had a possible financial stake in a case he decided while on the Fourth Circuit. The Senate voted 55-45 against his nomination. The next year, Nixon tried again, nominating another Southerner, G. Harrold Carswell (right), reviled by civil rights groups for his earlier support for segregation. He went down in flames as well, with one Senator infamously arguing unsuccessfully for his confirmation by saying, "Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers, and they are entitled to a little representation, aren't they?"
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Top Selling Albums and Singles 1989
Twenty years on, the likes of Madonna, Janet Jackson and even New Kids On The Block are still ahem Hangin' Tough. Bobby Brown and Debbie Gibson? Not so much. Here's a look at the top five selling albums and singles in the last year of the '80s
Top 5 Albums & Top 5 Singles
4. New Jersey by Bon Jovi
By GLEN LEVYThursday, June 18, 2009
Bon Jovi was already an established part of the rock landscape by the time of their fourth album, unimaginatively named after the group's home state.
New Jersey did not disappoint, in so much that it holds the record for a "hard rock" album spawning the most Top 10 singles ever: five. The group even caused a slight stir when their video for "Living In Sin" was banned by MTV because it was too risqué. Shocking, right, to find out that MTV once played actual music videos?
TIME's Take: "The success of such currently hot groups as Bon Jovi and Poison is largely traceable to the saturation airplay given their videos on MTV."
Next 5. Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses
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Thursday, Apr. 30, 2009
Amory Lovins
By Carl Pope
Amory Lovins had the solution to the energy problem in 1976. It's taken the rest of us 33 years to catch up. In the wake of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, Lovins wrote his seminal piece in Foreign Affairs comparing what he called "the hard" and "the soft" energy paths.
The hard path, which most people advocated, involved securing more and more fossil fuel at any price. The soft path involved looking for new and renewable energy sources. In 1982, Lovins, who had studied physics and the arts at Harvard and Oxford, founded the Rocky Mountain Institute, where he kept his green drumbeat going, calling for cars that hacked away at the inefficiencies of the postwar era. Now 61, he is watching as his arguments become accepted wisdom and is even helping in the transition away from fossil fuels, as when he taught Wal-Mart how to make its trucks more efficient. It's been a long wait more than three decades but Lovins' patience has clearly paid off.
Pope is executive director of the Sierra Club
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Conflict Urbanism Aleppo
The Memory of Destruction
Urban Damage
"The Destruction of Memory"
Investigation from a Distance
Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo is a project in two stages.
First, we have built an open-source, interactive, layered map of Aleppo, at the neighborhood scale. Users can navigate the city, with the aid of high resolution satellite imagery from before and during the current civil war, and explore geo-located data about cultural sites, neighborhoods, and urban damage.
Second, the map is a platform for storytelling with data. We are inviting collaborators and students to bring new perspectives and analyses into the map to broaden our understanding of what's happening in Aleppo. Case studies will document and narrate urban damage — at the infrastructural, neighborhood, building, social, and cultural scales — and will be added to the website over time.
We invite ideas and propositions, and hope to build on the data we have compiled here to create an active archive of the memory of destruction in Aleppo through investigation and interpretation, up close and from a distance.
Since 2012, the people of Aleppo have been exposed to catastrophic violence. Many thousands have been injured, died, or fled. Millions of people have been displaced. Our work focuses on what has happened in their city, the largest city in Syria before the war and one of the oldest cities in the world, and what might happen to it in the future. Aleppo has suffered extensive physical damage: to its symbolic centre, the Citadel; its surrounding heritage sites, which mark ancient empires, diverse religions, and multiple cultures and trade routes; and to its eastern and southern neighborhoods which housed many ‘informal’ neighborhoods before the war. The city has been remapped by conflict. Both the old city and the neighborhoods to its east and south have evolved into opposition territory during the war, and come under siege. But beyond the military logic, Aleppo’s cultural and urban history, as well as its cultural memory and identity, appears to have been directly targeted.
“The Destruction of Memory”
Raphael Lemkin’s conception of vandalism serves as a motivating rationale and a theoretical frame for our work here. The Polish-Jewish lawyer Lemkin coined the term 'genocide' during World War II. The category was codified in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1948 and entered into force in January 1951 after twenty states had ratified it. But, as we learn in Robert Bevan’s book, The Destruction of Memory, already in 1933 Lemkin had described genocide in terms of two interlinked concepts: barbarity and vandalism. He understood barbarity primarily as "acts of extermination" targeting "ethnic, religious or social collectivities," and vandalism as the "systematic and organized destruction of the art and cultural heritage."
What he called barbarity became the core of the notion of genocide, but vandalism did not make it into the Convention.
Vandalism is, however, reflected in the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which became effective in 1956. And although recent developments in international criminal law have incorporated the destruction of cultural heritage into the understanding of genocide – the UN Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia noted, in one decision, that "where there is physical or biological destruction there are often simultaneous attacks on the cultural and religious property and symbols of the targeted group as well, attacks which may legitimately be considered as evidence of an intent to physically destroy the group" – it was only recently that such attacks themselves were found to constitute a war crime. In September 2016,
judges at the International Criminal Court in the Hague sentenced Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi to serve nine years in prison for his role in demolishing historic Muslim shrines in Timbuktu. The case marks the first time an international court has convicted a defendant for the destruction of cultural heritage as a war crime.
Although trials for crimes of war against people and buildings might be far in the future for Syria, evidence is being collected by multiple organizations, including the Violations Documentation Center, as well as local residents, journalists, and activists. Hundreds of thousands of videos, photographs, and accounts of destruction and violence have been uploaded and distributed on social media platforms. But for what tribunal?
One of the ways of challenging the destruction of memory, the physical destruction of the urban fabric and its tangible and intangible heritage, is the preservation of the multiple forms of what might be called a memory of destruction.
Over the five years of civil war in Syria, many buildings and neighborhoods in Aleppo have been destroyed. Craters and rubble mark the building, streets, and parks that have come under attack. The four satellite images layered into our map tell some of the stories of this ongoing erasure and its varied aftermaths – deaths, departures, and the reorganization of the urban landscape. You can see its traces not only in the images of destruction but also in the green growth of vegetation, that has come to cover (and identify) the damaged spaces, and the water from that broken pipes that fills the craters.
It is our hope that this aerial imagery, and the investigations developed to ask questions with it, will can be linked with social media and other perspectives from the ground, and contribute to an ongoing preservation of the memory of destruction in Aleppo.
Different approaches to conflict and struggle require different temporalities, rhythms, and modes of representation. Journalists work on specific stories in the moment or over time; human rights work involves patient documentation and urgent calls to action; humanitarian work necessitates emergency responses as well as long-term commitments. Practitioners of all these forms of responses, though, often worry about the lack of opportunity to reflect, to analyze critically what they are doing, to appreciate the larger frames and forces that affect the situations in which they are trying to report and intervene. We hope that this project will allow both the on going documentation and registration of the struggle of Aleppo and its people -- and provide a space for reflection and critical understanding.
It' s for this reason that we made a map that can collect, assemble, and curate data resources from multiple perspectives, and evolve over time. The map is a resource for looking at Aleppo, as well a prototype of investigative and analytic methods for other cities in conflict.
Each case study deploys a variety of ways of embedding our map into a narrative or analytic story, and each time adds to it through a unique story window. The following list will evolve:
Patterns of Damage: Aleppo
Using UNOSAT damage data, some former planning documents produced by GIZ are overlaid onto a 2015 image of Aleppo to investigate patterns of disproportionate damage in informal parts of Aleppo.
Remote Sensing Urban Damage
Using free low resolution Landsat imagery, in collaboration with a remote sensing analyst we have made "change maps" in Aleppo for every two weeks of the war, as a means of navigating the city and the news, looking for evidence of damage on high resolution imagery.
Spatializing the Youtube War in Aleppo
Our team has analyzed five youtube channels for their spatial patterns as well as creating a browsable interface for viewing the video by neighborhood.
Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo Seminar
In the Spring of 2016, Columbia Students used the map as a resource and starting point for research about the Civil War. The results of their work is documented here.
Center for Spatial Research, Columbia University
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One small step for a man
One Giant leap for the mankind
There is no wealth like Knowledge
No Poverty like Ignorance
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Critics’ Choice TV Award Nominations Spotlight JUSTIFIED, SILICON VALLEY, and More
by Allison Keene May 6, 2015
Or, "what the Emmys should look like."
COMMUNITY, HOMELAND, MODERN FAMILY, LOUIE and More Win Critics’ Choice Television Awards
by Ethan Anderton June 19, 2012
Last night the second annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards were revealed, and while fans usually gripe about these kinds of people being out of touch with the public, they’re usually more accurate than the Emmys when it comes to picking …
MODERN FAMILY, MAD MEN, and More Win at First Annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards
Earlier this month, we listed the nominees for the first Critics’ Choice Television Awards from the Broadcast Television Journalists Association. Now the awards have been handed out and we have the full list of winners which include Modern Family rightfully winning …
Nominations for First Critics’ Choice Television Awards Include MODERN FAMILY, THE WALKING DEAD, GAME OF THRONES and…
by Ethan Anderton June 6, 2011
You may know of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, but now there’s a new branch from that organization with The Broadcast Television Journalists Association, and they’ve just announced their nominations for the first Critics’ Choice Television Awards. Modern Family leads …
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South Korean activists call to abolish abortion ban
July 24, 2018 by Anna KatzNo Comments
Earlier this month, activists rallied and marched in Seoul to demand an end to the laws that criminalized abortion in South Korea. Though the official crowd estimate was 1,500, organizers believe that over 5,000 people participated in the demonstration. Speakers included physicians, clergy, and young women who shared testimonies about their experiences struggling to end unwanted pregnancies or access reproductive information.
South Korea’s current law, originally passed in 1953, makes receiving abortion punishable by up to one year in prison or a fine of up to 2 million won (about $1,770). Physicians who perform the procedure could face even harsher punishments, serving up to two years in prison or losing their right to practice medicine.
Since 1973, another law has allowed for abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation in certain exceptional circumstances, including rape, incest, genetic impairment of the fetus, and endangerment of the health of the women. In addition, women must obtain their husband’s consent in order to undergo the procedure.
Yet abortion remains common in South Korea. “According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare,” write reporters Miliann Kang and Arum Yoon, “the estimated number of abortions in 2010, the most recent data available, was 169,000, which places Korea in the top 10 among OECD countries. Many researchers and advocates estimate that the actual rate is much higher, as much as 500,000 per year, which surpasses the number of births.”
The march, as well as a petition calling for an end to the abortion ban which circulated in late 2017 and received more than 235,000 signatures, suggest that individuals throughout South Korea are recognizing the need to change the antiquated law. South Korea’s Constitutional Court is reviewing the 1953 abortion ban.
What's Happening in Reproductive Health Around the World?Abortion, Legal Reform, South Korea
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Rare books by C. S. Lewis, including first editions, signed first editions and finely bound copies of the Narnia books.
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) was a literary scholar, Christian apologetic, and the author of the Chronicles of Narnia. He spent a large part of his career as an English professor at Merton College, Oxford, where he was a member of the literary group The Inklings and a good friend of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Rehabilitations
First edition, first impression, in the very scarce jacket. This copy with the ownership inscription of "J. C. Parham, Magdalen College February 1950". John Carey Parham was one of Lewis's pupils at Magdalen. Learn More
Perelandra. A Novel.
First edition, first impression, in the first issue binding of blue cloth with gilt lettering. Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in Lewis's Space Trilogy. Learn More
That Hideous Strength.
First edition, first printing, of the third book in The Martian Chronicles trilogy. Learn More
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
First edition, first impression of the first book in the Narnia series. Learn More
The Silver Chair.
First edition, first impression. Learn More
Dante's Statius.
Cambridge: [1956]
Offprint. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the upper wrapper, "Reg Davies from Jack Lewis". Reginald Thorne Davies was the Reader in English at the University of Liverpool and the editor of several studies on Middle English literature. He had studied under Lewis at Magdalen College, Oxford. Rare. Learn More
LEWIS, C. S. Continued...
Lewis’s first two books, both begun when he was a teenager, were published under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton. The first was a collection of poetry titled Spirits in Bondage, which appeared in 1919 and received little notice. His second book, Dymer (1926), was a long narrative poem inspired by the medieval epics that he studied at Oxford. Both volumes were published in small numbers and are rare today.
Lewis’s first published prose work was also his first foray into Christian writing. The encouragement of religious friends at Oxford, including Tolkien, led Lewis to convert from atheism to Christianity. This spiritual journey was charted in The Pilgrim’s Regress, an allegorical novel published in 1933. Lewis would, in fact, become a household name for his Christian writings, with The Screwtape Letters (1942), his satirical account of a conversation between a devil and his subordinate, reaching a huge audience. Other Christian writings followed, including The Problem of Pain (1940), Miracles (1947), and the classic Mere Christianity (1952).
Lewis also published a number of important volumes of literary criticism. The Allegory of Love (1936) “combined a study of medieval allegory with a new account of courtly love” (ODNB); it won the Hawthornden prize and brought Lewis into demand as an academic speaker. His most substantial academic work was English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (1954), which earned him the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
But Lewis’s most famous books are the seven novels that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia. Set in a magical alternate universe in which Christ takes the form of a lion named Aslan, these children’s books have been described as “philosophical fairy tales” or Christian allegories, and the series remains one of the most popular in the fantasy genre. First editions are now difficult to find in collectible condition.
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950)
Prince Caspian (1951)
The Voyage of The Dawn Treader (1952)
The Silver Chair (1953)
The Horse and His Boy (1954)
The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
The Last Battle (1956)
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The Most Seventies-Looking Seventies Stamps, Part Two
This 1971 stamp features the official logo for the nation's 200th birthday, designed by Chermayeff & Geismar.
The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission chose the logo from more than 100 submissions. The two stars symbolize the two centuries of the country's existence, and the free-flowing lines of the outer star, said the commission, "are intended to evoke a feeling of festivity and suggest the furled bunting traditionally used in times of celebration throughout the nation."
This is the logo Chermayeff & Geismar created for PBS around the same time.
This purple 1974 stamp pulsated as loudly as the disco music that the same year began to top the charts.
Flaunting bold Helvetica (then becoming the go-to type font), the stamp honored the year-one anniversary of the launch of the nation's first space station. In 1979, amid global Chicken Little-like anxiety if not hysteria, Skylab fell back to earth, raining debris into the Indian Ocean and onto Australia, where the municipality of Esperance fined the U.S. $400 for littering. (The fine has yet to be paid.)
Amnesia brought about by McMansions and SUVs eventually erased the effort initiated in the 1970s to conserve energy and implement cleaner ways to use it--solar being all the rage.
The stamp came out in 1977, shortly after President Carter created the Department of Energy.
The fun typeface known as Frankfurter--because the letters look like hot dogs--showed up everywhere in the '70s, including these stamps from 1974 to promote the code known as ZIP (Zone Improvement Program).
The cartoonish trains, planes and trucks mirror the Frankfurter type, which was created in 1970 by Bob Newman.
Newman also invented this popular font of the era--Data 70.
The down-home yet modern look of these 1978 stamps perfectly reflect the Peasant Chic look kicked off by Yves Saint Laurent in 1976.
The design the stamps was taken from a basket quilt made in New York City in 1875.
The '60s psychedelia of Peter Max spilled liberally into the '70s, as evidenced by this ten-cent stamp that commemorated the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane, Wash.
These stamps came out in 1973 . . .
. . .and were designed by husband-and-wife illustrators Naiad and Walter Einsel, whose work was very popular in the '70s.
This illustration by Naiad, also from the '70s, has the same palette as the stamp above.
To look at the first half of this post, visit: The Most Seventies-Looking Seventies Stamps, Part One
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[S. Juanita Williams, Courtesy Photo Lab, Houston]
[Unidentified Man]
[Alice Jones]
[Clara Everline]
[Elaine Williams, niece of Elnora Frazier]
Elnora Frazier
Date: American, 1924-2005
Biography: Elnora Williams Frazier, commercial and community photographer, was born January 10, 1924 in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas. Raised in Houston’s Second Ward, Frazier was educated in Houston schools and attended Houston Negro College. After high school, in 1942, Frazier attended the Teal School of Photography, taught by A. C. Teal of Houston, and was employed by Teal for fifteen years. Frazier left the Teal Studio after A. C. Teal’s death in 1956. During the late 1950s and through the
1960s and 1970s, Frazier worked in Houston for Courtesy Photo Supply, where she did black and white finishing. During the 1960s she also worked for Floyd Photo. In 1982, she began work for National Photographic Labs as a printer and remained there until her retirement in 1989. During her professional career Frazier also contracted work for friends and family. Elnora Williams married Marshall Frazier in 1948 and had one daughter, Marsha, born in 1951. An oral history with Frazier and examples of her work appear in Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996).
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Photo gallery May, 2014
Participants in the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting at a gala concert at the Astana Opera.
Vladimir Putin, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (centre) and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Before the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting in narrow format. With President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (centre).
Arrival at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting. With President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Narrow format meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.
Arrival in Astana.
At a meeting with Government members.
At the unveiling of a monument to Sergei Mikhalkov.
With the Russian national ice hockey team – 2014 World Champions.
At a ceremony presenting awards to Russian national ice hockey team.
Alexander Ovechkin, captain of the Russian national ice hockey team, presents Vladimir Putin with a T-shirt signed by the players.
Vladimir Putin returns the 1956 Olympic gold medal to Viktor Shuvalov, a player on the USSR national ice hockey team.
With captain of the Russian national ice hockey team Alexander Ovechkin.
With forward of the Russian national ice hockey team Yevgeny Malkin.
With Head Coach of the Russian national ice hockey team Oleg Znarok.
Vladimir Putin congratulates the Russian team on their victory in the 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship.
At the Ice Hockey World Championship final between Russia and Finland.
Before the start of the Ice Hockey World Championship final between Russia and Finland. With President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Concert of St Petersburg Combined Choir on the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture.
With participants of the concert of St Petersburg Combined Choir on the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture.
At the concert of St Petersburg Combined Choir on the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture.
Meeting with members of the Russian Direct Investment Fund international expert council and international investors.
At a meeting with participants in the CEO Global Summit.
Plenary session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
On the phone talking to farmer Alexander Kuksenko.
Vladimir Putin inspects the construction of the Nizhne-Bureiskaya Hydroelectric Power Station.
With flood victims in Amur Region.
Meeting with flood victims in Amur Region.
Visit to the village of Volkovo in Blagoveshchensk District, where new housing is being built for victims of the 2013 flood.
With President of China Xi Jinping before the ceremony signing documents on natural gas supplies to China.
Fourth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.
Meeting with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani.
With President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani.
Meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
With former President of China Jiang Zemin.
With President of China Xi Jinping at a command centre of the Usun Naval base in Shanghai.
At the opening ceremony of the Russia-China Naval Interaction 2014 joint exercises.
Following the talks, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping signed a Joint Declaration of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the new stage of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation between the two countries.
Official welcoming ceremony at the Xijiao state residence in Shanghai.
Opening ceremony of the Russia-China Naval Interaction 2014 joint exercises.
With President of China Xi Jinping during official welcoming ceremony at the Xijiao state residence in Shanghai.
During visit to the Russian Mir sail training ship.
During gala game of the National Amateur Ice Hockey Teams' Festival.
Visiting the Cathedral of St Prince Vladimir Equal to the Apostles.
Gala concert to mark the 69th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and 70th anniversary of the liberation of Sevastopol from Nazis.
With Sevastopol residents and guests.
With Great Patriotic War veterans.
Laying flowers at the Memorial to Heroic Defenders of Sevastopol in 1941-1942.
Visiting Sevastopol.
At the naval parade of Black Sea Fleet ships. With Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (left) and Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov.
At the naval parade of Black Sea Fleet ships.
At the naval parade of Black See Fleet ships.
Vladimir Putin and Acting Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov at Belbek airport before the celebrations marking the 69thanniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 70th anniversary of Sevastopol’s liberation from the Nazis.
Parade in honour of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Before the parade in honour of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Speech at the reception in honour of the 69th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Before a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Visit to the National Defence Centre.
During a visit to the National Defence Centre.
Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the monuments to Hero Cities and Cities of Military Glory by the Kremlin Wall.
Meeting with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev.
During a visit to the National Defence Centre. With Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Russia's First Deputy Defence Minister and Army General Valery Gerasimov.
Laying flowers at the monument sign established in honour of the Hero City Kiev by the Kremlin Wall.
Before the ceremony presenting the Hero of Labour gold medals.
Photo with the President August, 2018
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Book by father of Serena, Venus Williams out 6 May
Written with Bart Davis, Richard Williams' 292-page book 'Black and White' reads part autobiography, part parenting guide
AP, Wednesday 30 Apr 2014
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Serena Williams' father says he won't return to Indian Wells, California, the site of a tournament his daughter has skipped since 2001, when their family was booed — and subjected to racial epithets — according to his new book. "I would never go back," Richard Williams said in a telephone interview. But he added that it's up to Serena whether to play at Indian Wells again.
"She was taught to make terrific decisions," he said. "Any decision she makes, I would be behind, 1,000 percent."
His book, Black and White: The Way I See It, comes out 6 May. It goes into detail about how Indian Wells, in his words, "disgraced America."
Serena was on the entry list for the event this year but withdrew, citing a back injury.
The book covers plenty of other ground, although there is not much that is revelatory about the professional tennis careers of Williams' daughters, Serena and Venus. He said he has another book, focused more on them, in the works.
First taught the game by their father, the sisters have won a combined 24 Grand Slam singles titles and have both been ranked No 1.
"From the beginning, I decided that if people came to me later on and told me my daughters were great tennis players, I had failed," he writes. "Success would be if they came up to me and said my daughters were great people."
Written with Bart Davis, the 292-page Black and White reads part autobiography, part parenting guide ("I feel that we're way too soft on our children," Williams says in Chapter 19), part self-help book, part tennis instructional manual.
"I released the book because Serena kept telling me to," Williams said. "She thought it would help a lot of people."
It is dedicated to his mother, and much of the early chapters concerns lessons she imparted to him and her influence on his life — and, by extension, his children's lives.
There are meditations on the American dream, ambition, and above all racism. The latter is the prism through which he learned to see the world and, as he repeatedly hammers home, still does to this day.
"If a person doesn't know where they started from, they sure as heck don't know where they're going," he said in the interview. "As they read, they can kind of relate more to who you are and where you're from and where you're going to."
In the book, Williams explains how his worldview was shaped by growing up in Louisiana and during his time in Chicago as a young man.
There are tales upon tales of run-ins with the police and confrontations with strangers, often ending in violence.
"I could not embrace a turn-the-other-cheek philosophy," he writes.
At another point, he writes: "I became fascinated with stealing at the age of eight. I don't know if the thrill was being able to get away with a crime, or that the crime was against the white man. Either way, it was the start of a prosperous career."
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Cairo, Berlin set to sign new finance agreements worth 207 million euros: Minister Nasr
Ahram Online , Saturday 10 Jun 2017
Investment and international cooperation minister Sahar Nasr and transportation minister Hisham Refaat (R) during a meeting with representatives from Germany's Siemens and US General Electric (Photo Courtesy of MOIC website)
Cairo and Berlin are set to sign new finance agreements worth 207 million euros, Egypt's investment and international cooperation minister Sahar Nasr announced on Saturday.
In press statements reported by Al-Ahram Arabic news website, Nasr said that the inking of the agreements will take place soon during a joint investment forum in Berlin, which aims to bolster economic cooperation between the two countries.
The agreements will include projects related to renewable energy, agriculture, and entrepreneurship, with grants to represent 30 percent of the finance agreements.
The forum will be attended by a number of Egyptian and German investors.
The statements by the Egyptian minister come one day after she met with German conglomerate Siemens to discuss investments to develop Egypt's railway systems.
German investments in Egypt are estimated at €1.5 billion and provide around 22,000 jobs, according to statements by the German envoy in Egypt last February.
In February, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurated the first stage of a Siemens megaproject to build three new power plants in Egypt.
The first phase of the project to bolster the country’s power capacity was completed in January, with 4.8 gigawatts of power connected to the national grid, according to the Siemens website.
In 2015, Siemens signed an €8 billion ($9 billion) deal with the Egyptian government to build three combined-cycle power plants and 12 wind power installations at a capacity of 16.4 gigawatts.
The project aims to boost Egypt’s power generation capacity by around 50 percent by May 2018.
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UK House of Commons condemns killing of Palestinian medics in Gaza by IOF
Abu Kishek’s visit to Germany opens the door for further cooperation with German partners”.
PMH: Gaza facing unprecedented shortage of medical supplies
EU promotes positive Palestinian Identity, brings Palestinians closer to their culture
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The European Union supports Palestinian and European civil society organisations working toward social cohesion and a unified Palestinian identity through culture and arts. The result brings a sense of inclusion in the world and its culture.
The Jerusalem-based Palestinian Vision (Palvision) Organisation and the Gaza-based Youth Without Borders Forum have identified cultural events and gatherings as a mean to fostering a positive and unified Palestinian identity. Together with a partner organisation from Slovenia, they designed the Habkeh project, a joint initiative between EU and Palestinian artists which aims at bringing culture and art to the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1. Maram Rajabi, the project manager, declares: “We targeted marginalised areas such as refugee camps and conservative towns rather than areas regularly exposed to cultural events and art performances.” Yasmin Assad, communications officer with Palvision, explains that by targeting marginalised communities, the project contributes to enforcing the Palestinian identity in those areas.
2. Assad adds that the joint activities with European artists helped expose those communities to the European culture and gave them a sense of inclusion in the world and its culture. “Those people cannot reach international performances so we brought such cultures and performances to them.”
The Habkeh project is comprised of an integrated set of activities including the Al-Sateh (Rooftop) festival; the street parade; the street museum; and the selfie studio. It is implemented in Hebron, Nablus, Dheishe Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, East Jerusalem and Gaza City with a total European Union grant of EUR 176,734, covering 80% of the project’s cost.
3. The Rooftop festival was a three-day celebration on the rooftop of a house. It resembled old-day celebrations in Palestine. “We wanted to show that holding festivals celebrating our culture and strengthening our identity does not require a lot of money,” affirms Assad. The Rooftop festival grouped Palestinian and European artists in joint performances reflecting total cohesion between the Palestinian and European music and voices.
4. In street parades, Palestinian and European performing artists joined each other in activities such as dabkeh, break dancing and artistic cycling. “We brought artists like Zeid Hilal band from Palestine, Sam, a saxophone player from England, Lina, a break dancer from France, a cycling group called BCX, which performed artistic cycling activities on the street, and Zaitouna Band for Dabkeh and Dance from Palestine,” Assad says.
5. Street parade activities were fun and drew wide audiences. “People enjoyed the parades and more people joined along the way until we reached the end point,” asserts project coordinator Amer Daraghmeh.
It was heart-warming to see happiness of the faces of the children of Gaza.” claims Assad.
6. Street museums were displays of Palestinian and European paintings launched at the end of street parades. They were an effort to display art on the street, to all people. “Our goal was not to reach people interested in art, but to get the museum out of the closed rooms to the streets. We wanted people to be exposed to art, even if not by choice,” says communication officer Assad. Eight artists—four Palestinians and four Europeans—participated in the museum. They displayed 24 paintings in four Palestinian cities—Nablus, Gaza, Hebron and Jerusalem. The museums lasted for one month in each city. The same paintings and same artists displayed their work. The European artists came from Slovenia, Italy, Holland and France.
7. Mahmoud Abu Daghash, 26, is a Palestinian artist from Tulkarem city north of the West Bank. He is a gifted painter who started painting at the age of six. He did not study art, but developed his gift by himself through practice and video tutorials. “I am driven by my love for painting. I paint every day,” tells the shy wheelchair bound artist as he introduces himself. Despite his gift, Mahmoud cannot make a living as an artist. “The life of a Palestinian artist is difficult. He cannot depend on art for living. All I can do is give art classes which do not bring enough money to live by,” he estimates.
8. Mahmoud participated in the Nablus parade and exhibition. While he could not go to Hebron, Gaza or Jerusalem, his paintings were exhibited there. He was especially thrilled when his paintings made it to his beloved city. “I love Jerusalem but I cannot go there because of the Israeli restrictions. I am so happy a part of me, my paintings, made it there,” he adds.
9. Participating in the street museums organised under the Habkeh project changed Mahmoud ’s perception about his own people. “I found that Palestinians like art and drawing, and have an artistic taste.” Only a few dozens of people attended previous exhibitions he had participated in. This observation and the fact that he struggled to sell his art gave him an impression that ordinary people did not care about art. “I don’t think so any more. I think Palestinians have an artistic taste, but a proper channel is needed to get art across to them.
10. Habkeh project contributed to this.” On the other hand, Habkeh contributed to more people knowing Mahmoud. “It was one of the most successful exhibitions I had taken part in, and had an influence on getting more people to know me.” Mahmoud dreams of participating in international exhibitions so as to demonstrate his art and convey his message beyond Palestine. His message is that Palestinians are like every other people on Earth. “We are human beings who have their own culture and art and who appreciate other people’s cultures and arts.”
11. Another artist participating in the street museum activity was Yazan Ghareeb, 32, from Dheishe Refugee Camp. Yazan started drawing when he was 8, and studied cinematography in Damascus, Syria. Yazan works with children with special needs, autism, and cancer patients using psychodrama and art therapy. “Drawing a smile on a child’s face means the world to me,” Yazan says of the children he works with. Yazan uses various drawing techniques, the latest of which revolves around using coffee as paint. He wants people to taste coffee with their eyes as well as with their tongues. He also wanted to drive the point that a person can create something meaningful using inexpensive materials such as coffee.
12. Yazan liked the idea of moving beyond the traditional framework of displaying artwork indoors to displaying it outdoors for everyone to see. “This way, artwork reaches the young and the old…the poor and the rich. It reaches the real world, whether people who are interested in art and know about it or not. It was a very nice experience,” he declares.
Yazan was appreciative of the interaction with other artists from other Palestinian cities, as well as with artists from Europe.
13. Additionally, Palestinians who attended the activity were intrigued by his paintings, their style and the material he used. “They are accustomed to coffee as a drink, and here it became an artistic painting. We drink coffee in all our social occasions, and now it is used to portray Palestinian cities, and other…”
Likewise, the Palestinian artist appreciated the paintings of the European artists who participated in the project. It was nice for him to see their work, to learn new ideas and to tap onto the experiences, styles and materials they utilised. Like Mahmoud , Yazan aspires to improve his art and to reach the whole world.
14. The fourth activity was producing a book called “Mind Your Gap: The Seeds of Palestine Future.” It was done by Slovenian journalists Barbara Vodopivec and Bojan Brecelj, who went to several Palestinian cities and asked participating artists about their dreams for the future. They took a portrait of each person they interviewed and ended up collecting 55 portraits with echoes about their dreams for the future. The answers were interesting and revealing of Palestinian aspirations. The book was launched during Christmas at Manger Square in Bethlehem. The thoughts expressed in the book created a debate within the Palestinian community on issues of immigration versus staying at home, and other issues.
15. The project manager, Maram Rajabi, noted that Palestinian officials were impressed with the Habkeh project and wanted it repeated annually. She recalled that at the end of the parade and opening of the museum in Nablus, the head of the Youth Affairs Department in the city affirmed that Palvision, in cooperation with the EU, had done a marvellous job and the city and civil society should adopt such activity and repeat it on an annual basis. “This was a testimony of the success of the project,” she boasted.
16. On the project’s contribution to increased mutual understanding between the Palestinian and European cultures, Rajabi discloses, “I think it went both ways. European artists were integrated with the Palestinian artists. Sam, for example, played his saxophone with Zeid Hilal band. It happened spontaneously. They were walking next to each other and ended up playing together. We believe art is a universal language that brings people together and this slogan was embodied on the ground.”
17. “I believe we have contributed to shedding light on Palestinian culture and exposed more Palestinians to their culture by reaching undeserved communities that never, or rarely, had such activities, and that were not fully opened to their own culture, let alone the European culture. Moreover, we opened a venue to many local artists and contributed to their popularity.”
The Habkeh project is implemented under the East Jerusalem Programme, which seeks to maintain the viability of the two-state solution with Jerusalem as the future capital of two states.
This article was sent to PNN by Wattan
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Thomas Family
The children of William “Sagebrush Bill” and Lusetta (Cleveland) “Bessie” Thomas were working cowboys and cowgirls who bridged the gap between the “Sunday Rodeos” of the early twentieth century Kittitas Valley and the world of the modern professional rodeo cowboy. The “Thomas Boys” and their descendants loom large in the history of the Ellensburg Rodeo.
William Thomas was born in 1860 in North Carolina and raised and educated (at Roan College) in Tennessee. He followed the carpenter’s trade through Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio to Washington State, where he went to work for the Northern Pacific Railroad. He arrived in the Kittitas Valley in 1886 and, by 1893, had purchased the Naneum district ranch which he would turn into a substantial holding (3100 acres and 500 head) called Sunnybrook Farm. In 1895 “Sagebrush Bill” Thomas married Lesetta “Bessie” Cleveland. They produced eight children: Lillian, Wilburn (Bud), Emma (Babe), Harry (Hap), James (Jim), Veta, William (Howard), and Margie Mae.
The “Thomas Boys”—Bud, Hap, Jim, and Howard—grew up in the saddle, busting broncs and running steers in northeast Kittitas County. Family member Sandy Thomas writes, “the boys got busy learning to ride the ‘rough’ off their horse herd; often they rode with only a ‘mane and tail hold,’ a precarious riding experience.” When it came time to build the Ellensburg Rodeo grounds, the Thomas Boys stepped forward. Howard Thomas remembered:
I was riding for Cooke’s [Ranch]… ‘Can you spare me a few days to work on the Rodeo?,’ [I asked George Cooke. He said] ‘I can give you a week.’ So I brought four horses, plows, and a spring tooth harrow, and a scraper. I drove them in town…When it was light enough to see I was going to the grounds and when it was too dark to see I was coming home.
Meanwhile, Hap helped cull the rodeo’s roughstock, rounding up “every Columbia River Cayuse we could find” and “trying them out for the best buckers. The horses that “bucked us off we kept for bucking horses” in the ’23 rodeo. Howard remembered that first 1923 Ellensburg Rodeo “was a good one.” The Thomas Boys would see many more rodeos in the years to come.
Hap, Jim, and Howard Thomas all followed the rodeo road intermittently over the next two decades. Hap’s daughter, Judi Thomas Oehlerich, notes that Hap rode broncs throughout the first decade of the Ellensburg Rodeo. He competed until the early 1930s, when a broken leg and a metal pin sent him to back to a career in ranching and irrigation work. Jim Thomas hit the road as a bronc rider, traveling across the United States and Canada. Later, he gave up rodeo and married Edith Ferguson; they ranched while Jim became a noted local horseshoer. Every fall in the 50s and 60s Jim worked the ketch pen gate at the Ellensburg Rodeo. Like his brother Jim, Howard Thomas traveled around the United States and Canada as a rodeo cowboy, returning home in the late 1920s to marry Edith Christiansen and pursue a career in ranching and, later, the real estate business. Howard rode in the Ellensburg night show, performing a square dancing act on horseback with other local riders. He later rode with the Ellensburg Rodeo Posse and served on the Ellensburg Rodeo Board.
Today, Thomas children and grandchildren carry on the rodeo traditions of their forbearers. John Ludtka aptly entitled his 75-year history of the Ellensburg Rodeo, ‘The Tradition Lives’ and the Thomas family is proof of the role of rodeo in the history and traditions of the Kittitas Valley.
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Volcano erupted in Eritrea as expected breaking the Ethiopian Ocean, the mega dams are menaced
The volcano of the Horn of Africa are set in motion by exploding in Eritrea for the making of the most expected Ethiopian ocean. It set in action as we have foretold in this site in previous articles. Many geophysicist and seismologist thought it will take millions of years to split the horn of Africa. But we have explained in serious of articles that it is in the end of the millions of years phase, and even in our time we will see the opening of the new ocean.
It is very simple to give a reality description of events but the true prediction we have been making will save thousands of live if the government of the region start evacuating the population and stop damming the region.
In the evening of June 12 2011, a series of earthquakes struck the Afambo, Eritrea area. The earthquakes were followed by 2 strong 5.7 earthquakes. This pattern will continue till the final breaking of the Horn from the rest of the continent of Africa.
UPDATE 21:36 UTC : Some more information on the volcanic complex :
Mallahle is the central of three NE-SW-trending stratovolcanoes in the Danakil horst SW of Dubbi volcano, and lies SSW of Nabro volcano.
These two volcanoes, along with Bara Ale and Sork’Ale, form the Bidu volcanic complex. The complex Mallahle stratovolcano is truncated by a steep-walled 6-km-wide caldera. Mallahle is formed of rhyolitic lava flows and pyroclastics. Basaltic lava flows blanket the slopes of the
volcano. Recent obsidian flows are found on the NW flank of Mallahle and older obsidian flows were erupted on the northern caldera floor.
Flank spatter and scoria cones are most numerous on the western side of the volcano. Extensive ignimbrite deposits associated with the collapse of Mallahle and Nabro volcanoes blanket the countryside.
UPDATE 21:28 UTC : These magnitudes can lead to serious damage if the epicenter is below or very near to Afambo (which is very nearby based on the seismological data) . We do not think that there will be injured people as the series started with moderate earthquakes and as people will stay on the streets after so many earthquakes. The current situation tends to become very dangerous.
UPDATE 21:23 UTC : A Mw5.7 has been also recorded at depth 9km in around the same area. No record of damage has yet been recorded.
UPDATE 21:03 UTC : Lucas Tavares reports in our Facebook page : I was studying about this volcanoes past hours. Maybe the shakes surrounds the Mallahle or Nabro Caldera, there is’nt any known eruptions of these volcanoes! Shakes are becoming stronger!
UPDATE 20:58 UTC : We have still no trace (as expected) of what is really going on. This last 5.4 earthquake can be damaging at this shallow depth when the epicenter is located below a village or town. As we are unsure of the exact epicenter (the error margin may be 10 to 30 km different than reported by the USGS).
UPDATE 20:56 UTC : The earthquakes are continuing with the last one as the strongest so far with a magnitude of 5.4 at a depth of 10 km.
UPDATE 20:33 UTC : We are more and more convinced that one of the nearby volcanoes went into an active status as the distance to the ridge fault is to big to create this kind of earthquakes. Additionally almost all the earthquakes are occurring near the volcano complex on the picture (courtesy Google Earth)
UPDATE 19:37 UTC : This unusual series of moderate earthquakes have also occurred a couple of months ago in the Gulf of Aden. The earthquakes are typical for separating irregular tectonic plates. The series in the Gulf of Adenhad their epicenter in the immediate area of the ridge fault.
Due to the close-by volcanoes, an eruption pattern of the Dubbi volcano is still possible. The pre-eruption pattern of both the Icelandic and Chilean volcanoes from the last few weeks is also present here. Compared to Iceland and Chile, Eritrea has other concerns than looking to beautiful eruptions. We will follow up these events and will come back to you as soon as we can get more data ?
UPDATE 16:11 UTC : Other agencies are reporting totally different and less dangerous numbers : GFZ: 4.9 @ 43 km and EMSC 4.7 @ 200 km
Moderate shallow earthquake with an epicenter almost below Afambo.
Approx. 15 km from the Dubbi volcano. The peak of the Dubbi volcano is 1625 m. There have been four known eruptions. In 1400 lava was determined to have reached the Red Sea while in 1861 ash was thrown over 250 km from the volcano. Two further events were suspected between 1861 and the 20th century.
During the late afternoon and evening of June 12 2011 a series of moderate earthquake struck at first near Afambo in Eritrea and later 100 km more to the south in Ethiopia. At the moment of writing, we do not know whether these earthquake have a tectonic or a volcanic origin.
Other moderate earthquakes which occurred after the first earthquake which is described in detail
M 4.5 2011/06/12 21:37 Depth 15.0 km ERITREA – ETHIOPIA REGION
M 5.7 2011/06/12 21:03 Depth 9.9 km ERITREA – ETHIOPIA REGION
M 4.5 2011/06/12 18:01 Depth 10.1 km ETHIOPIA
M 4.7 2011/06/12 17:47:21 13.538 41.588 Depth 10.0 km ERITREA – ETHIOPIA REGION
M 4.8 2011/06/12 17:18:10 13.381 41.764 Depth 9.9 km ERITREA – ETHIOPIA REGION
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 5.1
UTC Time : Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 15:37:05 UTC
Local time at epicenter : Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 06:37:05 PM at epicenter
Depth (Hypocenter) : 10 km
Geo-location(s) :
Almost below Afambo, Eritrea
128 km (79 miles) WNW of Assab, Eritrea
http://earthquake-report.com/2011/06/12/unusual-series-of-moderate-…
Name Elevation Location Last eruption
meters feet Coordinates
Alid 910 2966 14.88°N 39.92°E Holocene
Asseb 910 2986 12.85°N 42.43°E Holocene
Dubbi 987 5331 13.58°N 41.808°E 1861
Gufa 600 1969 12.55°N 42.53°E Holocene
Jalua 713 2339 15.042°N 39.62°E unknown
Mousa Ali 2028 6654 12.47°N 42.40°E Holocene
Nabro 2218 7277 13.37°N 41.70°E June 13, 2
Satellite images showed a large eruption occurring shortly after 2200 UTC June 12, close to 1 AM East Africa Time, in the Southern Red Sea Region. The eruption created a large ash cloud near the Eritrea-Ethiopia border region, eventually extending over 1,000 km (620 mi) into neighboring Sudan.[6]
Forecasters predicted that the ash plume may reach Israel.[7]
The erupting volcano is located within the Afar Triangle, in the larger Danakil Depression that holds many other active volcanoes. However, neither volcano thought potentially responsible for the eruption has seen activity in the past century, with Dubbi last erupting in 1861 and Nabro remaining quiet for thousands of years. No eruption of Nabro occurred in recorded history.
A series of earthquakes[8], including two at magnitude 5.7[9][10] struck the region in the hours preceeding the eruption. The tremors may be volcanic in origin.[11]
^ News, BNO (June 13, 2011). “VAAC: Eruption underway at Dubbi volcano in Eritrea”. Channel 6 news. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
^ News, BNO (June 13, 2011). “UPDATE 1 — Volcanic eruption in Eritrea sends plume into the air, …. WireUpdate. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
^ VAAC, Toulouse. “Toulouse VAAC – Volcanic Ash Advisories”. Meteo France. Toulouse Volcano Ash Advisory Centre. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
^ Vervaeck, Armand (June 13, 2011). “Eritrea volcano eruption : Ash cloud advisory extending further into Africa”. Earthquake – Report. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
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posted on June 14, 2011 by Prof. Muse Tegegne
Gaddafi Grounded, UN voted for “Non Flay Zone” a new precedent against all dictators…
The New UN Security Council Resolution Set a New precedence to defend the civil society from the any reigning dictators, giving a new role for the UN as a protector of the people, if the same measure is applicable to all member states without double standard. The coming revolt against any dictators will use this model to defend themselves against the massacre by their own non elected leaders reigning with force like in Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Burma etc… The Resolution authorizes UN members to take “all necessary measures” to protect civilians and civilian centers; Gaddafi tells rebels that armed forces plan on taking over Benghazi; regime vows retaliation for intervention. “Today the Security Council has responded to the Libyan people’s cry for help,” US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said. “This Council’s purpose is clear: to protect innocent civilians.” The resolution demands the “immediate establishment of a cease-fire and a complete end to violence and all attacks, and abuses, of civilians.” The resolution stipulates that member states, upon notification to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, can “take all necessary measures…to protect civilians and civilian populated areas, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory.”
The Security Council’s authorization of the use of force also includes the enforcement of a no-fly zone to protect civilians, as well as an enforcement of the arms embargo, banning all international flights by Libyan owned or operated aircraft. The resolution also freezes the assets of certain individuals and five entities including critical state-owned Libyan companies. A newly established Libyan Sanctions Committee is empowered by the resolution to impose sanctions on those who violate the arms embargo, including by providing Gaddafi with mercenaries. “The future of Libya should be decided by the people of Libya,” Rice said in her remarks to the Security Council. “The United States stands with the Libyan people in support of their universal rights.” The resolution was backed strongly by France, the United Kingdom and Lebanon. Ten countries voted in favor of the resolution. Russia, China, Germany, India and Brazil abstained. “Our resolution is aimed to protect Libyan civilians,” Lebanon’s ambassador to the UN Nawaf Salam said. “It will not result in the occupation of even an inch of Libyan territory.” Such resolution send cold breeze to the reigning dictators around the world as a new model to follow to liberate the subjugated nations around the world …?
Security Council Approves ‘No-Fly Zone’ over Libya, Authorizing ‘All Necessary Measures’ to Protect Civilians,
by Vote of 10 in Favour with 5 Abstentions (17 March 2011)
posted on March 18, 2011 by Prof. Muse Tegegne
Yemen the End of the Road Blood and Bullet
The Yemen 32 years of dictator Security forces fired bullets and tear a nerve gas at protesters yesterday, wounding at least 100 people killing unknown number of protesters camping out near Sana University. The day’s violence was the latest evidence that month long protests demanding the resignation of Yemen’s longtime dictators were spiraling out of control.
Embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh has resorted to increasingly violent tactics to try to put down the burgeoning uprising against his dictatorial rule, deploying dozens of armed supporters on the streets in an attempt to intimidate protesters.
Wielding clubs and knifes, police and regime supporters — described by protesters as government-sponsored thugs — attacked activists. Yemen would go soon worst than Libya lading to the split of the country into north and South once more. Among the wounded yesterday, more than 20 suffered gas inhalation, and one was in critical condition after being struck with a bullet.
In the main square and in surrounding streets, people being beaten up and threatened, as well as disappearing. The violence came a day after security forces killed seven demonstrators in protests around the country.
Young activists camped out in the square near the university continued to expand the area of their sit-in and threatened to march on the presidential palace about 3 miles away. Rock-throwing battles between protesters and security troops broke out on the edges of the encampment.
Protesters said the authorities were trying to draw them into a cycle of violence to further justify a crackdown.
Pitched street battle in Yemeni capita
Yemen Arabian Flex the 3rd front:- “Al-Qaeda is back to its berceau ” while crossing Atlantic !!!
The package of the PETN explosive powder is seen in government photos obtained exclusively by ABC News, released to Reuters, December 28, 2009. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, said it provided Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, with an explosive device to blow upNorthwest Airlines flight 253, a Delta-owned Airbus330, as it approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam on Friday with almost 300 people on board
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al-Qaeda fighters are said to have found sanctuary with tribesmen in the east of Yemen [File: EPA]
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the wing of al-Qaeda operating in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, is led by a Yemeni who was once a close aide to Osama bin Laden. The group, which has been gaining strength in recent years, represents units from the two neighbouring countries which merged under the leadership of Nasir Wuhaishi in January. Wuhaishi, who’s appointment was confirmed by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the deputy al-Qaeda chief, in a video posted online, numbers among Saudi Arabia’s most-wanted. In 2006, he was one of 23 al-Qaeda figures who escaped from a Yemeni prison. The group’s deputy leader is believed to be Said Ali al-Shihri, a former prisoner at the United States’ Guantanamo Bay detention facility, who was released from Saudi custody in 2007. Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, another former Guantanamo detainee, has also been identified as a field commander for the group. Experts say that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula comprises several hundred fighters. The group is said to have found sanctuaries among a number of Yemeni tribes, particularly in the eastern provinces. ‘Strategic significance’ Analysts say Yemen is of huge significance to al-Qaeda.
“Weapons, training, crossing points and the launch of operations have all come from Yemen” Abd Alelah-Haidar, analyst
“Weapons, training, crossing points and the launch of operations have all come from Yemen,” Abd Alelah-Haidar, a “terrorism” specialist who has met Wuhaishi, told Al Jazeera. “This country is seen as having strategic significance, not only by al-Qaeda, but also by others. “[However,] their operations are not confined to the Arabian peninsula but also include Iraq, Afghanistan, Nahr al-Bared [in Lebanon], and Palestine.” Ali al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs based in Washington, said Yemen had become the third-largest haven for al-Qaeda, and the group there is perhaps the most stable when compared to units operating in Iraq, North Africa and South Asia. “The one in Yemen now is really the most comfortable … its probably the best funded,” he told Al Jazeera. “Its not the best trained [and] it doesn’t have the best talent – that’s why it hasn’t been able to mount successful attacks. But it will come around in the coming years, and it will become a major threat.” Detroit claim
The al-Qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for an attempted attack on a US aircraft in Detroit on Christmas day, saying it was in response to raids in Yemen that it says were carried out by US jets, and had caused civilian deaths.
The Yemen-based al-Qaeda affiliate is said to be one of the best funded [AFP]
The Yemeni government has said that it carried out military raids on December 17 and 24, saying more than 30 al-Qaeda members had been killed. A New York Times newspaper report said Washington gave hardware, intelligence and other support to Yemeni forces for the raids. “We tell the American people that since you support the leaders who kill our women and children … we have come to slaughter you [and] will strike you with no previous [warning], our vengeance is near,” a statement released by the group said. “We call on all Muslims … to throw out all unbelievers from the Arabian Peninsula by killing crusaders who work in embassies or elsewhere … [in] a total war on all crusaders in the Peninsula of [Prophet] Muhammad.” The group has also claimed responsibility for attacks on the US embassy in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital. US presence Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the US senate homeland security committee, acknowledged on the “Fox News Sunday” television programme that the US has a “growing presence” in Yemen which included special operations, Green Beret special forces and intelligence. Before the merger of the two Saudi Arabian and Yemen based groups, previous al-Qaeda incarnations had carried out a number of attacks across the region. An emailed statement signed by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the 2004 attack on residential and office buildings in Khobar, Saudi Arabia whick left at least 22 people dead. A suicide attack on an Aramco oil complex in Eastern Province in 2006 was also claimed by al-Qaeda. In Yemen, seven Spanish tourists and their Yemeni guides were killed in a car bombing at an archaeological site in 2007. Also an attack on the USS Cole warship in the harbour in Aden in 2000, which killed 17 US soldier, was carried out by al-Qaeda ———————————
Airline Terror Mission Blessed by Radical Imam
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times. The intelligence official, who is familiar with the FBI’s interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said the bombing suspect has boasted of his jihad training to the FBI and has said it included final exhortations by al-Awlaki. “It was Awlaki who indoctrinated him,” the official said. “He was told, ‘You are going to be the tip of the spear of the Muslim nation.'” Al-Awlaki, an American-born imam who once led a large Northern Virginia mosque but now lives in Yemen, has gained notoriety in recent months because of his influence on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S.-born Muslim accused of killing 13 people at the Texas military base. Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said he has learned of personal ties between Abdulmutallab and al-Awlaki, though he said he could neither confirm nor deny that the two men had been in the same Yemeni prayer room. “From what I’ve heard, the relationship would have been closer than what Awlaki had with Hasan,” Hoekstra told The Times. “He trusted [Abdulmutallab] more.” Muhammad ud-Deen via AP ———————– US Opens Third Front Of War: Yemen Joe Weisenthal | Dec. 27, 2009, 11:14 PM | 1,450 | 4 The return of terrorism to the US — it really doesn’t matter that the attempt to blow up a DC-bound flight actually failed — is bringing us very close to the days of the so-called “war on terror”. Though the term has been banished by the Obama White House (and thus by extension the mainstream media outside of Fox News), tonight the New York Times is actually talking about the US widening the terror war, this time to Yemen, where Al-Qaeda remains strong. In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen. A year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency sent many field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country, according a former top agency official. At the same time, some of the most secretive Special Operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics, senior military officers said. Immediately after 9/11, everyone knew that the center of the terror world was Afghanistan, even if it took some time to put the pieces of the world together. While Afghanistan is a total mess, we’re pretty sure that there are few forces in the country organized to pull off an attack on US soil. But this time, after the Detroit attack, Yemen was the first country that was identified. The enemy is scattered and disorgnized in one place, and yet organized and capable of attacking (kind of) in another.
‘The US military is exhausted’
FOCUS: OPINION
By Sarah Lazare
The US army is overstretched and exhausted, says peace campaigner Sarah Lazare [AFP]
The call for over 30,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan is a travesty for the people of that country who have already suffered eight brutal years of occupation. It is also a harsh blow to the US soldiers facing imminent deployment. As Barack Obama, the US president, gears up for a further escalation that will bring the total number of troops in Afghanistan to over 100,000, he faces a military force that has been exhausted and overextended by fighting two wars. Many from within the ranks are openly declaring that they have had enough, allying with anti-war veterans and activists in calling for an end to the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with some active duty soldiers publicly refusing to deploy. This growing movement of military refusers is a voice of sanity in a country slipping deeper into unending war.
“They shifted me from one war to the next”
Eddie Falcon, Iraq and Afghanistan veteran
The architects of this war would be well-advised to listen to the concerns of the soldiers and veterans tasked with carrying out their war policies on the ground. Many of those being deployed have already faced multiple deployments to combat zones: the 101st Airborne Division, which will be deployed to Afghanistan in early 2010, faces its fifth combat tour since 2002. “They are just going to start moving the soldiers who already served in Iraq to Afghanistan, just like they shifted me from one war to the next,” said Eddie Falcon, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Soldiers are going to start coming back with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), missing limbs, problems with alcohol, and depression.” Many of these troops are still suffering the mental and physical fallout from previous deployments. Rates of PTSD and traumatic brain injury among troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have been disproportionately high, with a third of returning troops reporting mental problems and 18.5 per cent of all returning service members battling either PTSD or depression, according to a study by the Rand Corporation. Marine suicides doubled between 2006 and 2007, and army suicides are at the highest rate since records were kept in 1980. Resistance in the ranks US army soldiers are refusing to serve at the highest rate since 1980, with an 80 per cent increase in desertions since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the Associated Press. These troops refuse deployment for a variety of reasons: some because they ethically oppose the wars, some because they have had a negative experience with the military, and some because they cannot psychologically survive another deployment, having fallen victim to what has been termed “Broken Joe” syndrome. Over 150 GIs have publicly refused service and spoken out against the wars, all risking prison and some serving long sentences, and an estimated 250 US war resisters are currently taking refuge in Canada. This resistance includes two Fort Hood, Texas, soldiers, Victor Agosto and Travis Bishop, who publicly resisted deployment to Afghanistan this year, facing prison sentences as a result, with Bishop still currently detained.
The war in Afghanistan is losing support in the US [AFP]
“There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan,” wrote Agosto, upon refusing his service last May. “The occupation is immoral and unjust.” Within the US military, GI resisters and anti-war veterans have organised through broad networks of veteran and civilian alliances, as well as through IVAW, comprised of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. This organisation, which is over 1,700 strong, with members across the world, including active-duty members on military bases, is opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and openly supports GI resistance. “Iraq Veterans Against the War calls on Obama to end the war in Afghanistan (and Iraq) by withdrawing troops immediately and unconditionally,” wrote Jose Vasquez, the executive director of IVAW, in a December 2 open letter. “It’s not time for our brothers and sisters in arms to go to Afghanistan. It’s time for them to come home.” No clear progress GI coffee houses have sprung up at several military bases around the country. In the tradition of the GI coffee houses of the Vietnam war era, these cafes provide a space where active duty troops can speak freely and access resources about military refusal, PTSD, and veteran and GI movements against the war. “Here at Fort Lewis, we’ve lost 20 soldiers from the most recent round of deployments,” said Seth Menzel, an Iraq combat veteran and founding organiser of Coffee Strong, a GI coffee house at the sprawling Washington army base. “We’ve seen resistance to deployment, mainly based on the fact that soldiers have been deployed so many times they don’t have the patience to do it again.” As the occupation of Afghanistan passes its eighth year, with no clear progress, goals that remain elusive, and a high civilian death count, this war is coming to resemble the Iraq war that has been roundly condemned by world and US public opinion. The never-ending nature of this conflict belies the real project of establishing US dominance in the Middle East and control of the region’s resources, at the expense of the Afghan civilians and US soldiers being placed in harm’s way. The voices of refusal coming from within the US military send a powerful message that soldiers will not be fodder for an unjust and unnecessary war. By withdrawing their labour from a war that depends on their consent, these soldiers have the power to help bring this war to an end, as did their predecessors in the GI resistance movement against the Vietnam war. And the longer the war in Afghanistan drags on – the more lives that are lost and destroyed – the more resistance we will see coming from within the ranks. Sarah Lazare is an anti-militarist and GI resistance organiser with Dialogues Against Militarism and Courage to Resist. She is interested in connecting struggles for justice at home with global movements against war and empire. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.
———————- Yemen’s fight with rebels a regional concern Of course Iran denies it and warns us to mind our own business. Warns those in the region, do not pour oil on the fire ! Saudi combat jets hit rebel targets in Yemen ———————–
By James Joiner
————————— Yemen’s fight with rebels a regional concern Of course Iran denies it and warns us to mind our own business. Warns those in the region, do not pour oil on the fire ! Saudi combat jets hit rebel targets in Yemen Despite threats from Iran warning not to attack the Yemeni militants Iran is backing and supplying :Yemen, Saudi forces continue strikes on Shiite rebels Could this confrontation erupt in war between Iran and at the least US armed Saudi Arabia ? Iran is warningand threatening retribution but they are supplying the Yemeni Rebels who pushed into Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has fired well over a hundred missiles from their fighter jets as they pummel their hideouts. You can not blame them but I had no idea the dissention goes all the way back to the naming of the Gulf. Saudi’s know it as the Gulf of Arabia and I can remember that but Iran calls it the Persian Gulf as the rest of us seem to now. Both Iran and Saudi Arabia have been using Lebanon as their battlefront up to now able to avoid direct confrontation. Iran has pumped millions of dollars in supplies and arms much to the consternation of her suffering people while Saudi Arabia has been supporting the Palestinian Authority. While the world has been engrossed following events in Iran since the election was stolen to keep fascist Ahmadinejad and he fascist agenda in control Iran has been fueling a rebel war in Yemen and what a surprise it has extended into Saudi Arabia. The Hajj has even been threatened. The Hajj as you may know is known as the 5th Pillar of Islam and is associated with the life of Islamic prophet Muhammad from the 7th century, but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca is considered by Muslims to stretch back thousands of years. Please read on and learn A propaganda war is also being waged. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have pulled the plug on Iran’s Arabic speaking TV. It makes me wonder why they did not do that during the height of the protests when Iran’s Government sanctioned channel was televising pure lies and propaganda ? I find it hard to believe that Iran is that vulnerable in that area ! So far there has been no direct confrontation. However I absolutely see what I have been warning about since Bush diverted from Afghanistan to attack Iraq and get back in the middle east to create a new middle east (dis)order ! I do not give a damn what anyone says. Bush Chaney and their Democratization program in an already historically unstable middle east set all of this and more in motion ! * The hell on earth Bush created for Iraqi’s will engulf the entire Middle East before it encompasses the entire world if we can not contain it. Under Bush we broke a long standing tradition of not adding fuel to the Middle East fire by supplying weapons. We are now, including advanced weaponry and missile defense systems. The Middle East breakdown Bush started armed and funded will continue under Obama. This up to now proxy war in the middle east is under way. Wait, watch, and listen, this is not good for the world and our future ! James Joiner Despite threats from Iran warning not to attack the Yemeni militants Iran is backing and supplying :Yemen, Saudi forces continue strikes on Shiite rebels Could this confrontation erupt in war between Iran and at the least US armed Saudi Arabia ? Iran is warningand threatening retribution but they are supplying the Yemeni Rebels who pushed into Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has fired well over a hundred missiles from their fighter jets as they pummel their hideouts. You can not blame them but I had no idea the dissention goes all the way back to the naming of the Gulf. Saudi’s know it as the Gulf of Arabia and I can remember that but Iran calls it the Persian Gulf as the rest of us seem to now. Both Iran and Saudi Arabia have been using Lebanon as their battlefront up to now able to avoid direct confrontation. Iran has pumped millions of dollars in supplies and arms much to the consternation of her suffering people while Saudi Arabia has been supporting the Palestinian Authority. While the world has been engrossed following events in Iran since the election was stolen to keep fascist Ahmadinejad and he fascist agenda in control Iran has been fueling a rebel war in Yemen and what a surprise it has extended into Saudi Arabia. The Hajj has even been threatened. The Hajj as you may know is known as the 5th Pillar of Islam and is associated with the life of Islamic prophet Muhammad from the 7th century, but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca is considered by Muslims to stretch back thousands of years. Please read on and learn A propaganda war is also being waged. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have pulled the plug on Iran’s Arabic speaking TV. It makes me wonder why they did not do that during the height of the protests when Iran’s Government sanctioned channel was televising pure lies and propaganda ? I find it hard to believe that Iran is that vulnerable in that area ! So far there has been no direct confrontation. However I absolutely see what I have been warning about since Bush diverted from Afghanistan to attack Iraq and get back in the middle east to create a new middle east (dis)order ! I do not give a damn what anyone says. Bush Chaney and their Democratization program in an already historically unstable middle east set all of this and more in motion ! * The hell on earth Bush created for Iraqi’s will engulf the entire Middle East before it encompasses the entire world if we can not contain it. Under Bush we broke a long standing tradition of not adding fuel to the Middle East fire by supplying weapons. We are now, including advanced weaponry and missile defense systems. The Middle East breakdown Bush started armed and funded will continue under Obama. This up to now proxy war in the middle east is under way. Wait, watch, and listen, this is not good for the world and our future ! James Joiner ————————————
Yemen rebel leader ‘may be dead’
The Yemeni military launched an offensive against the Houthi rebels in August [EPA/Yemeni army]
The leader of a rebel group fighting government forces in the north of Yemen may have died after being severely wounded in an air raid, a government website and local media have reported. The website of Yemen’s defence ministry said on Sunday that Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the so-called Houthi fighters, may have already been buried. “There are increasing reports about the death of the terrorist Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, who was severely injured in an attack aimed at a gathering with a group of terrorist elements,” it said on Sunday. The Houthi declined to comment on the reports. A purported rebel spokesman had, however, described a defence ministry statement on December 20, which said that Abdul-Malik al-Houthi had been badly wounded, as “baseless”. Power vacuum Abdulghani al-Iryani, a political analyst based in Sanaa, said that if the reports of al-Houthis death were true they could extend the conflict. “It is a complication that comes at the worst possible time,” he told Al Jazeera. “The war in Saada [where Yemeni forces are battling Houthi fighters] could have been stopped by this time because Abdul-Malik al-Houthi had agreed to the five conditions set by the government for a ceasefire. “All he needed to do was make a public statement to that effect. If he is now dead, then there will be a power vacuum in the leadership of al-Houthis that will postpone that possibility.” The fighters, who launched a rebellion against the Yemeni government in 2004, belong to the minority Zaidi sect of Shia Islam and complain of social, economic and religious marginalisation. Government forces launched “Operation Scorched Earth” on August 11 in an attempt to crush the rebels in the mountainous northern region. —————————–
————————- ‘Fabricated lie’ The Yemeni government says the rebels are receiving support from Iran, although Tehran has denied any involvement in the fighting. Sanaa has also recently claimed that the Houthi are working with predominantly Sunni Muslim al-Qaeda fighters in Yemen, but the group has dismissed the allegations. “The allegation about our relationship with what is called the al-Qaeda group is a fabricated lie and defamation,” the group said in comments emailed to the Reuters news agency earlier this week. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said in comments posted on a website that it will take revenge against the US over air raids in Yemen that it claims killed about 50 people. “We will not let Muslim women and children’s blood be spilled without taking revenge,” a statement dated December 20 said. The group has said that the raids were carried out by five US warplanes, but the Yemeni government has said that it launched the attacks with aircraft and ground forces to foil planned suicide bombings. —————-
NEWS AMERICAS
Al-Qaeda group claims US plane plot
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said it provided Abdulmutallab with an explosive device [AFP]
A group calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has said it was behind the failed attempt by a Nigerian man to bomb a US aircraft on Christmas day. The group said in statements posted on the internet on Monday that the attempt had been carried out to avenge US operations in Yemen. “We tell the American people that since you support the leaders who kill our women and children … we have come to slaughter you [and] will strike you with no previous [warning],” the statement said. “Our vengeance is near.” The group had earlier said in comments posted on a website that it would take revenge against the US over air raids in Yemen that it claims killed about 50 people. Failed attack Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of trying to to light an explosive device while on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. He was overpowered by passengers on the flight, which had nearly 300 people on board.
According to a charge sheet prepared by prosecutors, Abdulmutallab tried to bring down the aircraft using a device containing the explosive PETN, also known as pentaerythritol.————————————————
Al Jazeera talks to a former CIA agent about the growing threat facing air travel ————————————– The explosive material was allegedly sewn into his underwear. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said it had provided Abdulmutallab with the device, but that a technical fault prevented it from detonating. Abdulmutallab, who suffered burns in the incident, was moved from a hospital to a federal prison west of Detroit on Monday. Janet Napolitano, Obama’s senior security official, said there was “no indication” Abdulmutallab was acting as part of a larger plot and warned against speculating that he had been trained by al-Qaeda. According to The New York Times, Abdulmutallab told FBI agents he was connected to an al-Qaeda affiliate, which operates largely in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, by a radical Yemeni cleric whom he contacted online. ‘Nothing suspicious’ The Yemeni government said on Monday that Abdulmutallab had lived in Yemen from August to December after obtaining a visa to study Arabic there, but that there was “nothing suspicious about his intentions” to visit the country. “Authorities are currently investigating who he was in contact with in Yemen and the results of the investigation will be delivered to those concerned with investigating the terror plot in the United States,” a statement from the Yemeni foreign ministry said. Ali al-Ahmed, the director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs in the US, said that the attack had similarities with other operations carried out by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a relatively new branch of al-Qaeda formed in 2008. “It has carried out several operations – about a year ago against the US embassy in Sanaa, a failed attempt on the Saudi assistant minister of the interior in September. “In this case, the age of the suicide bomber who tried to kill the Saudi assistant minister – 23 years old – [is] the same age as this young man, Abdulmutallab. And the same explosives [were used]. “In the first attack in Saudi Arabia, the attacker put the bomb inside his body to conceal it. This is very similar.” Security review Abdulmutallab, a former student in London, was added to a watch-list of about 550,000 names last month after his father told US embassy officials in Abuja that he was concerned by his son’s increasing radicalism.
Abdulmutallab is accused of trying to blow up a flight as it landed in Detroit [Reuters]
But he remained off a short-list of 18,000 names from which the no-fly list of 4,000 is selected and flew from Lagos to Amsterdam on Christmas Eve and on to Detroit the following day with a valid US visa. Barack Obama, the US president, has ordered a review of how travellers are placed on watch lists and the screening procedures of air passengers following the failed bid to blow up the airliner. Speaking while on vacation in Hawaii on Monday, Obama said: “We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.” Obama has also ordered a second review to examine how “an individual with the chemical explosive he had on him could get onto an airliner in Amsterdam and fly into this country,” Robert Gibbs, the White House press spokesman, said. Bob Baer, a former CIA agent who in 2006 warned that a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam could be the target of an attack, said the attempted bombing had shown that security checks are “not effective at all”. “It’s not a question of a gaping hole, it’s a question of the terrorist groups evolving their techniques very quickly,” he told Al Jazeera. “So they’re getting better and better and they’re much faster than our security measures.” Bruce Schneier, a writer on security issues and the author of “Beyond Fear”, said the epoisode illustrated that there were very few effective security measures on flights. He said on his blog: “For years I’ve been saying this: Only two things have made flying safer [since 9/11] – the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers. “This week, the second one worked over Detroit. Security succeeded.”
Profile: Yemen’s Houthi fighters
Yemen’s north, where the Houthi group is based, is inhabited by a number of tribes people [EPA]
Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries and a crucial US ally in Washington’s fight against al-Qaeda, is in the midst of a series of conflicts that threaten its stability. As well as tackling al-Qaeda fighters and sealing with growing secessionist feeling from south Yemen, the government has for five-years waged a campaign against a group of Shia Muslim fighters in the country’s north. The conflict with the Houthi fighters, which has cost the lives of thousands of people, is a mix of local and tribal concerns stemming from historical roots. Although the current campaign is part of a fight that has been under way since 2004, its roots go back even further. Zaydi rulers toppled In 1962, a revolution in Yemen ended over 1,000 years of rule by Zaydi Hashemites, who claimed descendance from the Prophet Mohammed. Zaydism is a branch of Shia Islam, though its practices often appear closer to Sunni Islam than traditional Shia belief. Saada, in the north, was their main stonghold and since their fall from power the region was largely ignored economically and remains underdeveloped. During Yemen’s 1994 civil war, the Wahhabis, an Islamic group adhering to a strict version of Sunni Islam found in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, helped the government in its fight against the secessionist south. Zaydis complain the government has subsequently allowed the Wahabis too strong a voice in Yemen. Saudi Arabia, for its part, worries that strife instigated by the Shia sect so close to Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia could stir up groups in Saudi itself. Although it has received little international coverage, the conflict essentially pits Yemen’s Sunni-majority government against Shia fighters, a conflict that has added significance for many Arab countries worried about the rising influence of Shia-ruled Iran. Yemeni officials have frequently accused Iran of funding the Houthi fighters. The last five years of fighting against the armed Houthi group were sparked in 2004 by the government’s attempt to arrest Hussein al-Houthi, a Zaydi religious leader and a former parliamentarian on whose head the government had placed a $55,000 bounty. Little authority The Yemeni government has little authority in the mountainous areas outside the major cities, but amid a sustained campaign, al-Houthi was killed in an attack on his hideout. The movement is now led by al-Houthi’s brothers, including Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. Fighting eased over the years and in 2007 a deal was signed between the government and the fighters, but never implemented. A year later, in 2008, Qatari mediators helped revive the deal and the two sides met in Doha to sign a document outlining procedures for the implementation of the earlier agreement. But on August 10, 2009, Ali Abdullah al-Saleh, the Yemeni president, said the fighters showed no intention of adhering to the peace process and accused them of destroying homes and farms and blocking food distribution. The campaign began again and Yemen’s Supreme Security Committee announced it would crush the fighters with an “iron fist”. ———————— 9 Saudi soldiers missing as Yemen fighting rages
Nine Saudi soldiers are missing in the kingdom’s borders with Yemen amid fighting between the country’s forces and Shia Houthi fighters. A Saudi defense ministry spokesman told the official SPA news agency on Thursday the Yemen-based fighters may have taken the soldiers prisoner, and that Houthis are ‘entirely responsible for their wellbeing.’ The source provided a list of Saudi soldiers reported missing: 1. Lt. Col. Sa’eed Bin Muhammad Bin Ma’toug Al-Amri 2. Corporal Ayidh Bin Ali Bin Sa’eed Al-Shehri 3. Sergeant Ahmad Bin Ali Bin Ali Madadi 4. Staff Sergeant Muhammad Bin Mohsin Bin Sultan Al-Amri 5. Sergeant Ahmad Bin Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al-Amri 6. Staff Sergeant Miflih Bin Jam’an Bin Miflih Al-Shahrani 7. Corporal Ali Bin Salman Bin Ali Al-Hiqwi 8. Sergeant Khalid Bin Saleh Bin Omar Al-Owdah 9. Private First Class Yahya Bin Abdullah Bin Amer Al-Khuza’iy The conflict in northern Yemen first began in 2004 between Sana’a and Houthi fighters, but relative peace had returned to region until August 11, when the Yemeni army began a major offensive, dubbed Operation Scorched Earth, against the province of Sa’ada. The government claims that the fighters, who are named after their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, seek to restore the Shia Zaidi imamate system, which was overthrown in a 1962 coup. The Houthis, however, say they are defending their people against government marginalization policies which they believe have been adopted under pressure from Saudi-backed Wahhabi extremists, who consider Shias heretics. The Saudi Arabian government has aggravated the conflict even more by launching its own offensive against northern Yemen based on an allegation that Houthi fighters have killed two of its soldiers on the border. The fighters say Yemeni villages are being targeted with deadly phosphorous bombs, which cause massive injuries among the Shia civilian population. Saudi officials have not given any figures for soldiers or civilians killed in the fighting. Unofficial estimates, however, say at least nine Saudi soldiers and four civilians have been killed since Riyadh began targeting Houthi positions inside Yemen. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that since 2004 up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa’ada to take refuge at overcrow —————————– Houthis seize full control of Saudi border post Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:35:17 GMT Houthi fighters in northern Yemen say they have seized control of a Saudi military post along the border between the two countries where Saudi and Yemeni forces are waging a campaign to uproot them. According to a report released by Hezbollah’s al-Manar television network, Houthis have seized “full control of the Al-Jamrah Saudi military post” as well as weapons, communication material, military vehicles and surveillance equipment. The report added that the northern Yemen’s Shia fighters overran the Saudi post on Monday and forced soldiers to flee. The post is said to be located in close proximity to al-Khoba in Saudi Arabia’s southern province of Jizan. Meanwhile, Houthi fighters have managed to repulse Saudi forces trying to infiltrate into the rugged Sa’ada province in northern Yemen, after killing an unspecified number of Saudi soldiers. Houthis said they pushed back Saudi troops from Shada border region in northern Yemen on the border with oil-rich Saudi-Arabia, and also set four Saudi military vehicles ablaze. Houthi fighters also resisted a Yemeni military infiltration into Jebel Dhar al-Hamar region. The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana’a and Houthi fighters. The conflict intensified in August 2009 when the Yemeni army launched Operation Scorched Earth in an attempt to crush the fighters in the northern province of Sa’ada. The Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violation of their civil rights, political, economic and religious marginalization as well as large-scale corruption. This is while in addition to the Yemeni government, Saudi Arabia also pounds the Houthis. The Houthis say that Saudi forces strike Yemeni villages and indiscriminately target civilians. According to the fighters, Saudis use toxic materials, including white phosphorus bombs, against civilians in northern Yemen. The US military is also said to be involved in bombing Yemen’s northern rugged regions of Amran, Hajjah and Sa’ada. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that since 2004, up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa’ada and take refuge at overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations. ————————————-
Yemen the first open battleground in the war for the new middle east order!
Yemen conflict worries the entire middle east __________________
___________ emen as you know is a strategic Middle East nation. where Osama Bin Laden’s father was born. I know that in 2000, al-Qaeda bombers attacked the USS Cole in the southern Yemini city of Aden killing 17 American sailors. Since, militants have attacked U.S. missionaries, foreign tourists and Yemeni security forces. Last year gunmen targeted the American embassy with a car bomb and rockets. The attack killed 16, including six assailants. There is a lot of activity there that has been attributed to Al Qaeda and their interests. I was surprised to learn that Yemen is Middle East nation, where Osama Bin Laden’s father was born. Knowing all that you know my focus has been on Iran’s interference in Yemen as they try to install Shiite dominance there and everywhere else in the middle East. Yemeni air strike kills 30, targets home of cleric linked to Ft. Hood attack Factbox: Who is Anwar al-Awlaki? As many of you know by now my prime concern in Yemen was the interference by Iran in trying to get Shiite dominance there. Bush freed Iran up to pursue her version of new middle East order by interfering wherever she could while Bush was doing the same thing with his Middle East Democratization program. The goal now absolutely is to be the country who decides which direction the new Middle East (dis)order will take. Bush started it by attacking Iraq to get into the middle east to destabilize it and start the new middle east order the idiot said God told him to do now it will be up to Iran and Saudi Arabia at least up front fight it out whether this goes the Iranian Shiite way or the Saudi Arabian Sunni way and do not forget Israel! In Yemen once again the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is the instigator. They are ferrying weapons through Eritrea to Yemen. They are now avoiding the Arabian Peninsula as Saudi Arabia has instituted a blockade along the coast of Yemen. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has also transported Lebanese Hezbollah fighters to fight with the rebels. As you know, Saudi Arabia is also there fighting the Iranian backed Houthi rebels. So far there has been no direct confrontation. However I absolutely see what I have been warning about since Bush diverted from Afghanistan to attack Iraq and get back in the middle east to create a new middle east (dis)order! This is going to bea total middle east war for a new midle east oirder like it or not, Sunni against Shiite. It is looking like Yemen is going to be the first country down! Please watch the video, the Middle East is right to be concerned. Yemen is going through severe domestic turmoil due to the violent activities of Al Qaeda, Houthi rebels in the north and the Southern Movement in the south. The remaining Jews are threatened with slaughter by the Shiite. How much longer can Yemen hold on? What is next? James Joiner ———————– Yemen’s Jews. The End!!! History will record that 2,500 years of Jewish life in Yemen is now over. As The Wall Street Journal reported October 31, the US State Department has completed a clandestine operation which brought 60 of the country’s remaining Jews to America. The newspaper quoted Yeshiva University’s Hayim Tawil, a Yemeni Jewry expert, as issuing the certificate of death: “This is the end of the Jewish Diaspora of Yemen. That’s it.” As Israelis and Jews we earnestly appreciate the efforts of the Obama administration on behalf of our Yemeni brethren. THE RESCUE illuminates an often overlooked aspect of the 60-year-plus Arab-Israel conflict. Whereas the Arab world has purposefully maintained the 700,000 or so Palestinian Arabs made homeless in the course of the 1948 war and their descendants as permanent refugees and political pawns, the State of Israel and world Jewry have worked hard to resettle a roughly equal number of Jewish refugees forced to flee Arab lands. The behavior of Arab leaders toward their Jewish subjects after the creation of Israelwas (with notable exceptions) characterized by scapegoating and marginalization culminating in mass exodus. In 1947, Arab rioters in Aden killed dozens of Jews to protest a two-state solution in Palestine. In 1949 and 1950 the bulk of Yemen’s Jews, some 49,000 souls, were airlifted here in “Operation Magic Carpet.” The broad Arab refusal to accept the legitimacy of Israel as a sovereign Jewish state is partly attributable to Arab attitudes toward their Jewish minorities. Coexistence was possible – so long as Jews knew their place. JEWISH life under Muslim rule was historically neither the utopia Arab propagandists claim nor the purgatory Jewish polemicists assert. As the doyen of Middle East studies Bernard Lewis wrote in The Jews of Islam, the actual state of affairs varied depending on the era, locale, political and economic conditions, the stability of the ruling Islamic regime, and on developments within the Jewish community. Jews were granted Dhimmi or tolerated status. They paid a special jizya tax to underscore their subordinate position in society. If they missed the point, Islamic tradition allowed for the local Muslim authority to deliver a ceremonial slap on the neck to the Jew upon payment of the levy. Jews were required to wear distinguishing clothes; they were expected to deport themselves deferentially in the presence of Muslims. And unlike everyone else, Jews were not permitted to carry weapons. On the other hand, Lewis wrote, Jews were not required to convert to Islam, and could enjoy a high degree of acculturation. (They were certainly better off than their coreligionists living under medieval Christendom.) At any rate, this social contract crumbled in part because the Zionist movement was a direct assault on the Dhimmi principle. The Yemen experience also reminds us that the Arab world’s antagonism to modern values has led it to extended periods of internal instability as well a visceral rejection of Israel for embodying the Western liberal idea. POLITICAL instability is always “bad for the Jews,” and Yemen has long been a volatile mess. The ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden is burdened by internal strife, poverty and a dysfunctional regime. The north and south (where the oil is) are at odds. The secular-oriented government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Shi’ite, is corrupt and undemocratic. He is battling an insurrection by Shi’ite religious extremists who were once his allies against fanatical Sunnis. Extremist Sunnis, supportive of al-Qaida, are also battling the regime and attacking Western targets. Yemen has a Sunni majority with a large Shi’ite minority. On top of all this, there are also tribal tensions; the president’s tribe dominates the security services. But the Yemeni masses were able to put some of these differences aside during Operation Cast Lead… and attack the Jews. With few friends, Yemen’s president sought to stay in Washington’s good graces by trying to protect the besieged remnants of Yemeni Jewry. AS THE saga of Yemen’s Jews now comes to a close, our thoughts are also drawn to Israel’s treatment of its Arab minority. Any one of 10 Arab Knesset members could persuasively argue, Jewish Israelis have nothing to be smug about. Yet if they were fair minded, they might grant that the Jewish state has done a comparatively decent job in bringing its minority citizens into the mainstream.
A family of Yemeni Jewish olim arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport. Photo: AP [file]
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The Linguistic Metaphor
August 16, 2010 | By Erik Evens | 0 Comments
We have often heard that architecture is, in part, a language. It's certainly true that most of us want our buildings to have meaning and relevance, to somehow reflect our values, to say something about us and our society, to have purpose beyond the pragmatic, to "stand for something".
These desires say a lot about what we expect from our buildings. In order for our built environment to meet these goals, designers need to be able to encode meaning into their creations, and then the inhabitants must to be able to extract that meaning. What I'm describing here - the mapping of meaning into the built environment, and then the subsequent reading of that map - is an act of communication. Communication is a transfer of information, and that transfer requires a medium of exchange. A meaningful and articulate architecture therefore requires a language.
What I'm describing here - the mapping of meaning into the built environment, and then the subsequent reading of that map - is an act of communication. Communication is a transfer of information, and that transfer requires a medium of exchange. A meaningful and articulate architecture therefore requires a language.
Style as a Language
In verbal languages, words are symbols - abstractions that represent some aspect of reality. Grouped together, words create phrases, sentences, paragraphs, chapters and stories - all intended to communicate an underlying meaning.
It's not a big leap for us to take, then, to identify the elements of architectural style as the vocabulary, syntax and grammar of an environmental language that allows the creators of our buildings to communicate with those who experience those buildings. As designers, we should be aware that our buildings will speak to people, whether we choose to actively recognize it or not. It's important that we take care to deliberately craft the underlying message, and make sure that the language we are employing to facilitate the communication of that message is up to the task.
A look at some relevant concepts related to linguistic and semantic theory can help provide a framework for understanding the nature of the relationship between the medium and the message of architecture.
Alfred Korzybski and the Map-Territory Relation
figure 1. Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher, teacher, semanticist and scientist who died in 1950. Korzybski's life's work was focused on the role of language in human psychology, and culminated in the founding of a discipline he called General Semantics.
Korzybski's General Semantics offered a view that human knowledge is limited by two main factors: the structure of the human nervous system, and the structure of human languages. He maintained that people cannot experience the world directly, but only through their "abstractions" - nonverbal impressions derived from data detected and transmitted by the senses and the nervous system, and verbal indicators derived from language.
Korzybski cautioned that the structure of our languages determines in no small part the way we think. For example, he taught that certain uses of the verb "to be" were faulty in structure. To illustrate, consider a statement such as, "Joe is a fool" (said of a person named 'Joe' who has done something that we regard as foolish). According to Korzybski, one's assessment of Joe belongs to a higher order of abstraction than Joe himself. We find Joe not in the verbal domain, the world of words, but in the nonverbal domain. These two domains represent two different orders of abstraction. Korzybski' maintained that the correct approach is a denial of identity; in this example, to be continually aware that what we call Joe is an abstraction, and that abstraction ought not to be confused with the entity "Joe" himself.
Korzybski stressed that a key goal of his philosophy, and a key aspect of a healthy mind, was what he called "consciousness of abstracting". By this he meant the act of constantly reminding one's self that one's perception and awareness of reality are abstractions, and not to be confused with reality itself.
Here's a story about Alfred Korzybski that's amusing, and worth repeating because it's illustrative of some of these ideas: One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he suddenly interrupted the lesson in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row, if they would also like a biscuit. A few students took a biscuit. "Nice biscuit, don't you think", said Korzybski, while he took a second one. The students were chewing vigorously. After a while he tore the white paper from the biscuits, in order to reveal the original packaging. On it was a big picture of a dog's head and the words "Dog Cookies". The students looked at the package, and were shocked. Two of them wanted to throw up, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the bathroom.
"You see, ladies and gentlemen", Korzybski remarked, "I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but they also eat words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter."[1] It seems his prank aimed to illustrate how some human suffering originates from the confusion or conflation of linguistic representations of reality, and reality itself.
"The Map Is Not The Territory"
His most influential premise, this remark by Korzybski encapsulates his view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself. For example, the feeling of joy one feels upon looking at a beautiful flower is not the flower; a metaphorical representation of a concept is not the concept itself. A specific representation or reaction cannot capture all aspects of its source, and this inability to know all aspects of reality may limit an individual's understanding and cognitive abilities, unless the two are distinguished. Korzybski held that many people do often confuse "maps" with "territories".
Thus, the map-territory relationship is the relationship between higher-order abstractions, such as beliefs derived from input from our nervous systems, or the structure of our languages, and the underlying reality. Korzybski stressed that some maps, some abstract representations of reality, are better that others, and what distinguishes a better map from a poorer one is the degree to which they have a structural similarity to the underlying reality.
The map/territory relation as a conceptual model has been important in many corners of culture and philosophy. Writers as diverse as Robert Anton Wilson, William S. Burroughs, and Buckminster Fuller have been influenced by this idea.
figure 2. La trahison des images, René Magritte, 1928–29A classic example of map-territory relation graphically displayed comes from the world of art. The Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte illustrated the concept of perception always interceding between reality and ourselves in a number of paintings including this famous work entitled "The Treachery Of Images" [figure 2], which consists of a drawing of a pipe with the caption in French, "This is not a pipe" - a statement which seems false but is actually true. Of course, the painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe. As Magritte himself commented: "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you smoke my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture ‘This is a pipe,’ I’d have been lying!"[2]
Treachery indeed!
Style:Meaning = Map:Territory
An illuminating way to view the relationship between architectural style and the meaning of architecture is as a map-territory relationship. In the same way that the constructs of verbal languages serve as maps to guide us to an understanding of aspects of reality, of the world "as it is", so does the grammar of architectural style serve as the language with which we map meaning into our built environment.
When approaching the subject of style in architecture, it's important to carefully consider Korzybski's observation that good maps bear a close structural similarity with the underlying territory. As applied to architecture, this suggests that the selection and use of style should be carefully orchestrated so that the selected language (the map) bears a close structural similarity to the message that we want to convey (the territory).
We've all experienced buildings that just didn't feel right to us. Perhaps it was a feeling that a building didn't quite fit in its environment - a feeling that our experience of the place was inauthentic, or synthetic, that it lacked depth or relevance. Perhaps we had a vague feeling that the purpose of the building was somehow at odds with the way the building made us feel and react emotionally. Perhaps the building left us cold, unfulfilled, confused. I'd like to suggest that often the problem with these environments stems directly from the designer's inability or unwillingness to properly consider the relationship between the style map and the underlying territory of meaning. The only way we can experience the reality of meaning in our built environment is through the structure of style. Choose your languages with care, and use them thoughtfully.
We've all experienced buildings that just didn't feel right to us... often the problem with these environments stems directly from the designer's inability or unwillingness to properly consider the relationship between the style map and the underlying territory of meaning.
We believe these concepts are further foundation for a stance of style agnosticism - a reservation of belief in the righeousness or inferiority of particular styles of design (see my essay, "The Genealogy of Style" for further discussion). This is a point of view that regards style as a language, in precisely the same sense as English, or Japanese, Sanskrit or HTML. As languages, they are a higher order of abstraction than the underlying content. As such they are value neutral, and in some basic sense interchangeable.
The selection of an appropriate style for the task is of crucial importance, however. Just as Korzybski reminds us to make sure our maps have a structural similarity to the territory, so we must choose and tailor our language of style so that its structure is appropriate for the meaning we are trying to convey. To have too loose a fit between our style map and the underlying message is to risk faulty communication, and the potential of an inarticulate and unsatisfying architecture.
Wisdom Embedded Within Beauty
A perfect example of how the deep meaning of architecture can be mapped mapped by the language style can be seen through a biological metaphor. I'm grateful to my colleague Steve Mouzon for the following delightful insight. Mouzon is an architect from Miami, Florida, and one of the founders of the New Urban Guild. In his book, "The Original Green: Unlocking the Mystery of True Sustainability" (Guild Foundation Press, 2010), he identifies a similarity between the mechanism by which nature encodes meaning into the genetic structure, and the mechanism by which meaning in architecture is mapped stylistically.
Mouzon writes, "Nature has a better way of spreading great wisdom. The most complicated wisdom yet discovered by humanity is the human genome, which took legions of scientists many years to decode. Yet human genes are spread by billions of people with no genetic education and nothing but on-the-job training. How can this be?"
figure 3. from Mouzon"Nature’s way of spreading human genes begins with attraction of one person to another. If they’re attracted enough to each other, they mate, they breed (not necessarily in that order) and they pass down their genetic material. What is the secret?"
"Look at the young woman in the image, having lunch on the streets of Paris.[figure 3.] Judging by appearances, one would have to say that she is quite likely to spread her genes because she is attractive. But she likely would tell you immediately, “there’s much more to me than just my appearance.”
figure 4. The birds and the bees..."And she would be correct. Nature, you see, embeds wisdom (the genetic code) in beauty. People don’t have to know anything about the genetic code in order to spread it... they simply have to be attracted to a person with whom they want to spread it... and the code they are spreading is so much greater than the attraction that led them to that person to begin with."[3]
Think about that. Wisdom embedded within beauty. Of course, nature is full of examples of this phenomenon.
Mouzon continues, "Architecture once did something very similar. Someone might work for years to figure out the best possible eave for a region of the world, for example. They might do countless calculations of sun angles, storm winds, etc., and might do numerous experiments. But if they can then embed that wisdom in beauty by designing the eave in such a manner that the people of the region consider it to be beautiful, then nobody else needs to do the calculations, or the experiments, or show their work; they simply need to love the pattern." [3]
This is one of the most important and enduring virtues of traditions in architecture. This embedding of wisdom within beauty is a perfect example of meaning in architecture being directly mapped by the language of style. What a marvelous lesson to learn from the natural world!
Steps Towards an Articulate Architecture
How should we approach our work, then, if we're influenced by these ideas? I don't believe that it's enough for us simply to expertly craft buildings that observe the proper grammar and syntax of particular styles. Before the selection of a visual language, a style, we should begin our work with a deliberate process of message-crafting. We should consciously, actively guide our clients on a path of inquiry, exploring questions such as:
"What kind of experience do we want our building to produce?"
"What core values do we share and want to communicate to those that use our building?"
"What key words exemplify how we live our lives?"
"What wisdom do we want our building to convey?"
'What story do we want to tell?"
Before the selection of a visual language, we believe that we should begin our work with a deliberate process of message-crafting. We should consciously, actively guide our clients on a path of inquiry...
It's only after we craft a robust, authentic and engaging message that we can converge on the stylistic language that's appropriate to use as our medium of communication.
Experientially, we can only access the meaning of architecture through structure - the structure of style. Parsing the dialect of style can be a mesmerizing pursuit. Of course, some practitioners actually consider themselves to be "stylists", and have built careers around the deliberate and nuanced mastery of a particular language.
I understand the appeal of languages. Cultured persons around the world pride themselves in using their native verbal languages in a nuanced and beautiful way. Computer programmers find great satisfaction in constructing elegant assemblages of machine code. Poets labor long over the use of the language and revel in the pursuit of a perfect phrase, or words that make the perfect sound when uttered. So should architects rightfully find the examination and articulation of style a fulfilling pursuit.
But if our goal is an articulate architecture that has meaning to people, then it's particularly important that we not forget that style is a higher order of abstraction than the underlying meaning. It's a means to an end. I believe that a meaningful architecture must have a carefully crafted message, and that the selection of style should flow from the message we have crafted. As designers, we should be as concerned about what we are saying as we are about how we are saying it.
[1] R. Diekstra, Haarlemmer Dagblad, 1993, cited by L. Derks & J. Hollander, Essenties van NLP (Utrecht: Servire, 1996), p. 58.
[2] Torczyner, Harry. Magritte: Ideas and Images. p. 71.
[3] Mouzon, Stephen A. The Original Green: Unlocking the Mystery of True Sustainability (Guild Foundation Press, 2010)
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For Ecuador, currying favor with Washington is as simple as sacrificing Julian Assange
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EU banking regulator calls City's Brexit plans 'inadequate'
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Source: www.theguardian.com
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Patisserie Valerie: court dismisses winding-up case over £1m tax bill
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