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2015 Report on International Religious Freedom
Permalink: //2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/religiousfreedom/index.htm?year=2015&dlid=256237
Section I. Religious Demography
Section II. Status of Government Respect for Religious Freedom
Section III. Status of Societal Respect for Religious Freedom
Section IV. U.S. Government Policy
Executive SummaryShare
The law prohibits religious discrimination, prevents restrictions on religious freedom, and includes provisions for prosecuting religious hate crimes. Catholic religious instruction is offered in all public schools, but the law guarantees the right of nonparticipation without penalty. Taxpayers could designate that 0.3 percent of their income tax be allocated to the Catholic Church or other religious groups registered as nonprofit organizations. Catholic symbols were common in state buildings.
There were no reports of significant societal actions affecting religious freedom.
During periodic visits, officials from the U.S. Consulate General in Florence emphasized U.S. support for religious tolerance with government leaders and civil society representatives.
Section I. Religious DemographyShare
The U.S. government estimates the total population at 33,000 (July 2015 estimate). The local government does not provide statistics on the size of religious groups, and there is no census data on religious group membership, but government officials stated that the vast majority of the population is Roman Catholic; other religious groups include small numbers of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Bahais, Muslims, Jews, Orthodox Christians, and members of the Waldensian Church. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the number of Orthodox Church members has increased in recent years due to immigration from Eastern Europe.
Section II. Status of Government Respect for Religious FreedomShare
Constitutional law is governed by a combination of historical and modern texts. The law prohibits religious‑based discrimination and restrictions on religious freedom, except for the protection of public order and general welfare, and includes provisions for prosecuting hate crimes and speech that defiles religious groups.
The law allows taxpayers to specify that 0.3 percent of their income tax payments be allocated to the Catholic Church or to other religious groups or charities registered as nonprofit organizations. If a taxpayer allocates a portion of his or her income tax payment to a previously unregistered group, the tax authorities will contact the group to confirm its legitimacy and to review its financial statements.
There are no private religious schools, and the law requires religious education in public schools. Only Catholic religious instruction is offered in school, but the state‑approved curriculum includes comparisons between Christianity and other religions and between the Bible and other religious texts. The law also guarantees students the right to choose not to participate in religious instruction without penalty. Students (or the parents, if the student is under 18) must choose to opt out at the beginning of each school year.
Catholic symbols were common in government buildings. For example, crucifixes hung on courtroom and government office walls. The government maintained a public meditation and prayer site in the capital for use by worshipers of any religion.
In August the government organized an interreligious dialogue that brought together Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim leaders to discuss the role of religion in society.
Section III. Status of Societal Respect for Religious FreedomShare
Section IV. U.S. Government PolicyShare
During periodic visits, the Consul General and other representatives from the U.S. Consulate General in Florence discussed U.S. policies in support of religious freedom with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Consulate general representatives also discussed U.S. support for religious freedom with civil society representatives, including labor unions and the U.S.‑San Marino Association.
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Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Bureau of Public Affairs
Bureau of Public Affairs: Office of Press Relations
Press Releases: 2012
Press Releases: July 2012
State Department Unveils Format and Interface Upgrades for 2011 International Religious Freedom Reports
Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has transmitted the 2011 International Religious Freedom Report to Congress and released it to the public. This report is a valuable tool for interested citizens, students, researchers, nongovernmental organizations, and governments. The report focuses special attention on key trends such as the impact of political and demographic transitions on religious minorities; the effects of conflict on religious freedom; and the rising tide of anti-Semitism. This year, the Department modernized both the format of the reports and the online user interface.
In keeping with the Secretary’s 21st Century Statecraft Initiative, the 2011 International Religious Freedom Report was redesigned to be more accessible to a broader spectrum of readers. We developed a streamlined format, which now includes a country-specific executive summary and fewer, but clearly illustrative examples of the types of religious freedom problems reported in that country in 2011.
The format of the 2011 International Religious Freedom Report is also easier to read online. The redesigned reports contain clearly marked headings and a table of contents. They can also be shared via social media. Users can now research topics across countries using the Build a Report tool.
To view the new 2011 International Religious Freedom Report visit www.HumanRights.gov (or directly, at //2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/religiousfreedom/index.htm). Follow us on Twitter and join the conversation at #IRF11.
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Tue Feb 18th 2014 by abagond
Toni Morrison, c. 2011
Chloe Wofford (1931- ), better known as Toni Morrison, is an American author famous for writing “Beloved” (1987), “The Bluest Eye” (1970), “Song of Solomon” (1977), “Paradise” (1998) and other novels. She turns 83 today.
In 1993 she became the first (and so far only) Black American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In 2006 the New York Times said “Beloved” was the greatest novel of the past 25 years. Some say “Jazz” (1992) is almost as good!
In 1998 Oprah made “Beloved” into a film and starred in it. She picked four of Morrison’s books for her book club (1996-2010):
October 1996: Song of Solomon
January 1998: Paradise
April 2000: The Bluest Eye
April 2002: Sula
On this blog, “Song of Solomon” and “Jazz” made the list of the 20 books to take to a desert island.
Morrison, a welder’s daughter, grew up in Lorain, Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie west of Cleveland. Lorain is the town where “The Bluest Eye” takes place. She loved to read. She loved Tolstoy and Austen. Her father told her black folktales. She became Catholic at 12, taking the baptismal name of Anthony, which in time became Toni.
At high school she was good at Latin. At Howard University she got a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Classics. She went to Cornell to get her master’s degree, where she studied the works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.
In 1955 she went to Houston to teach at Texas Southern University. In 1957 she returned to Howard, this time to teach. Among her students were Stokely Carmichael and Claude Brown. At Howard she met Howard Morrison, a Jamaican architect. They married and had two sons.
In 1963 she joined writers groups at Howard and “dashed off” what would become “The Bluest Eye”. Soon after, she left Howard, divorced her husband and moved to New York, where she became a book editor, a writer and a single mother. By not going to parties she found time for all three.
As an editor at Random House she worked with the likes of Angela Davis (on her autobiography), Muhammad Ali and Toni Cade Bambara. She edited “The Black Book” (1974), a classic book of black history. As editor she helped to bring black literature into mainstream American culture.
In 1983 she left Random House and went on to teach at the State University of New York (SUNY) and, later, Princeton.
From reading African authors, like Bessie Head and Chinua Achebe, Morrison learned that she could write about black people for black people, that she did not have to concern herself with the white gaze. They showed her how. If whites liked her books, great. If they did not, so what? She never gave up her day job, so she never became dependent on the white demographic buying her books.
That allowed her to write about stuff white people did not care about, like black self-hatred (“The Bluest Eye”) and the psychology of slavery (“Beloved”). It allowed real, fleshed-out black characters to take centre stage.
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on Wed Feb 19th 2014 at 00:45:24 mary burrell
I started off with “The Bluest Eye” that was an easy read, next “Sula” I thought it was dark and kind of twisted but I enjoyed it for the most part. “Tar Baby” that was a clunky and at times I was distracted and it didn’t hold my attention, but I got through it. “Song Of Solomon” I stayed up all night reading, I loved that story about Milkman Dead, and all the other characters. I hated “Beloved” I watched the film instead. Never read “Jazz.” I can say with all honesty I have these books on my bookshelf. Now to try and tackled Zadie Smith “White Teeth”.
*tackle*
on Wed Feb 19th 2014 at 03:20:57 Sharina
I was not aware that she wrote “Beloved.” I love that movie but am now interested in reading the book. @ Mary do you mind telling me what about the book you did not like?
@ Sharina: It was just hard for me to read. I found it tedious. I find her challenging. That book was just so frustrating for me. I remember chunking it against the wall, I was so frustrated.
on Wed Feb 19th 2014 at 03:52:49 anonymous
Thanks for posting this Abagond. I had t read some of her books for a women in literature class, and some African American studies classes. Sula and The Bluest Eye stood out the most to me.
Thanks for you input Mary. I like dark twisted books and movies so perhaps “sula” will be my cup of tea.
on Wed Feb 19th 2014 at 05:34:41 dave
I don’t know much about her, from your post she sounds like she is a very successful writer. I have thought about writing myself. I wonder if it’s harder or easier nowadays to be successful, being that everything is digital and you can be your own publisher. Not saying Dr. Morrison fits into that category, thinking out loud. The only thing I would say about your post, that I find interesting, is you said she didn’t care if white people bought or liked her work. Personally I think that is hard to believe. Because I’m sure she would find it rewarding if different cultures can relate. Now if you said white people like Donald Trump or black people like Don King(I realize there are more don trumps than don kings) who cares if they like it.
on Wed Feb 19th 2014 at 05:43:24 Brothawolf
Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison.
on Wed Feb 19th 2014 at 07:09:59 Toni Morrison | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
[…] In 1993 she became the first (and so far only) Black American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.In 2006 the New York Timessaid “Beloved” was the greatest novel of the past 25 years. Some say “Jazz” (1992) is almost as good!In 1998 Oprah made “Beloved” into a film and starred in it. She picked four of Morrison’s books for her book club (1996-2010):October 1996: Song of SolomonJanuary 1998: ParadiseApril 2000: The Bluest EyeApril 2002: Sula…From reading African authors, like Bessie Head and Chinua Achebe, Morrison learned that she could write about black people for black people, that she did not have to concern herself with the white gaze. They showed her how. If whites liked her books, great. If they did not, so what? She never gave up her day job, so she never became dependent on the white demographic buying her books.That allowed her to write about stuff white people did not care about, like black self-hatred (“The Bluest Eye”) and the psychology of slavery (“Beloved”). It allowed real, fleshed-out black characters to take centre stage. […]
Need to put the “Black Book” in my Amazon cart.
on Thu Feb 20th 2014 at 08:28:35 Mz. Nikita
Love Ms. Morrison, always have! “Song of Solomon” is most definitely one of my faves too, that and “Mama” by Terry McMillan (amongst a few others) are in my book, totally “Island-worthy”.
on Thu Feb 20th 2014 at 09:58:50 cleonette
Awesome! She and Zora Neale Hurston are two of my most favorite female writers!
Also to add, Their Eyes Was Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston was so beautifully written. The Bluest Eye was so incredibly sad but a good read!
on Thu Feb 20th 2014 at 17:53:55 deepdarkchocolate
“The Bluest Eye” was an “easy read”? Ok..
on Thu Feb 20th 2014 at 20:12:00 phoebeprunelle
The most misunderstood villian in all of literature.
on Fri Feb 21st 2014 at 11:50:35 aspergum
Nice bio about a giant who will be remembered for centuries to come. Except for the part about not caring what white people think about her writing. See her essay called “Home” about that. I think the book it’s in is called The House that Race Built.
on Fri Feb 21st 2014 at 19:31:08 Thomasjo
I remember reading “The Bluest Eye” when I was quite young and just being slain by it. As a 10-year-old white kid, I certainly couldn empathize in a “I know what you’ve been through” kind of way, but I remember being inarticulately enraged and heartbroken on Pecola’s behalf. Changed me as a person, and I’m in Morrison’s debt because of it.
on Fri Feb 21st 2014 at 19:34:02 Sharina
Ok. I am really going to have to up my book arsenal. Even though it would be cake to get these books on my kindle, there is something about the smell and touch of a book that gets me.
on Sat Feb 22nd 2014 at 22:56:07 abagond
@ aspergum
I read “Home”. What are you talking about?
on Sun Mar 16th 2014 at 21:58:20 Mira
She’s my favourite author. Words can’t express how much I love and respect her writing. “Jazz” was my favourite for many years, but now I’m thinking maybe “Beloved” is. I can’t really compare because I read “Beloved” only in English and “Jazz” in translation, so I might not compare. The translation was good, but it’s never the same as the original.
on Sun Mar 16th 2014 at 22:14:54 King
Wow Mira! it’s been a looooong time! Welcome back!
on Mon Mar 17th 2014 at 01:08:03 Mira
Thanks! I visit from time to time but I don’t comment as often. Maybe I should try being more of a regular.
on Mon Mar 17th 2014 at 01:47:32 King
I always appreciated your comments, and your background in anthropology… as i recall?
Ah, thanks! Yes, that’s right, anthropology (well, and archaeology).
on Sat May 17th 2014 at 11:06:31 Mary Burrell
Saw an excellent quote by Toni Morrison, “If You Want to fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
on Mon Nov 24th 2014 at 00:24:41 Mary Burrell
@Abagond: Did you see Toni Morrison on Stephen Colbert it was good. She strikes me as someone who doesn’t suffer fools lightly. But they had a nice light rapport. The subject of racism was mentioned when Colbert said “I don’t see race” On this blog we have had that discussion many times. It gave me pause and when white people make that statement i think they mean well but don’t consider what that really means. Ms. Morrison went on to explain how there is no such thing as race that it is a social construct. I am still trying to comprehend what that means myself. I doubted if Colbert had read any of her books. And he admitted that he hadn’t. She said she just read Beloved. I thought that was strange and interesting. If you get a chance go to You Tube and check it out.
In the Stephen Colbert guest appearance she has a sense of humor. I guess she would have to to agree to appear on the show.
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Magna’s Bid for Opel Draws Berlin’s Attention
The day before a crucial meeting of German officials and auto executives, a bid by Magna International for the European operations of General Motors seemed to attract the most attention on Tuesday. Officials in Berlin expressed doubts about a competing offer from Fiat.
The Fiat chief executive, Sergio Marchionne, traveled to Berlin on Tuesday for a last-minute meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel to make the case for the Italian company. But he struck desultory tones about Fiat’s chances afterward.
“It’s a lottery right now,” Mr. Marchionne said on Bloomberg Television. “I will not say anything. I’m here seriously to try and get the deal done. If it gets done, it gets done. If not, I’m on a plane back to Detroit.”
If Magna, based in Ontario, does edge out its rivals, it would come as a reversal for Fiat and its charismatic chief executive, who came into the competition as the favorites to acquire G.M. Europe, which includes Opel of Germany as well as the British auto company Vauxhall.
This month, after Mr. Marchionne won the support of the White House, Fiat acquired a 20 percent stake in Chrysler, another step in the Italian automaker’s plan to build a global giant.
Mrs. Merkel and other top German politicians, including governors from states with Opel plants, are to meet with executives from Fiat and Magna late Wednesday in Berlin.
The third bidder, RHJ International, an investment firm based in Brussels, appears to have gotten little traction, German officials said.
The Berlin meeting seems likely to result in a nod to Magna, though an outside possibility is that it narrows the field to only Fiat and Magna.
“The chancellor has to examine the offer by Magna very closely because in my opinion, as far as I’m informed, it’s the most realistic, the best offer,” said Peter Struck, the parliamentary leader of the Social Democrats, who, with the Christian Democratic Union of Mrs. Merkel, form the governing coalition.
German state and federal governments have put together a loan guarantee package of 1.5 billion euros ($2.1 billion) to pave the way for a deal for Opel.
As skepticism about Fiat’s offer has spread, Magna executives have mounted a campaign to assuage German officials in matters where its own offer had ruffled feathers.
For example, Magna’s bid initially foresaw the elimination of 2,200 jobs in Bochum, in northwestern Germany, a step that drew the ire of Jürgen Rüttgers, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Bochum lies. Magna wants to cut 2,600 jobs in Germany over all.
Magna has since floated the idea of moving production of the Opel Astra, a line of small family sedans, from Antwerp, Belgium, to Bochum, allowing it to keep more positions there.
German officials said that Fiat stuck to its plans to keep Opel’s three assembly plants, but close the engine plant in Kaiserslautern.
The Magna offer would put 35 percent of Opel in the hands of Sberbank, a Russian bank, and include cooperation with GAZ, a Russian automaker. Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, is the controlling shareholder in GAZ.
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/business/global/27opel.html?hpw
Posted in Economy and business | Tagged General Motors, Magna, Opel
The Italian solution
Fiat’s chief executive, Sergio Marchionne, has gone merger mad
HIS company is among the smallest of the global volume carmakers. But right now Sergio Marchionne is without question the most talked-about car executive in the world. The chief executive of Fiat Group has been alone in seeing an extraordinary opportunity in the meltdown in Detroit. By seeking to take over the running of both Chrysler and Opel, the European arm of General Motors (GM), Mr Marchionne is attempting not only to transform Fiat into a car group almost of the scale of mighty Toyota and Volkswagen (VW), but also to change the face of a perennially troubled industry.
Last December Mr Marchionne said of his stricken industry: “What we are seeing is unprecedented. I have never seen the failure of so many systems at once.” Fiat was in a fight for survival. “We’re just going to slam the brakes on, use as many temporary lay-offs as needed, cut everything back to essentials.” He added an apocalyptic forecast. “By the time we finish with this in the next 24 months, as far as mass producers are concerned, we’re going to end up with one American house [Ford or GM, you presume]; one German of size [VW Group]; one French-Japanese, maybe with an extension in the US [the Renault-Nissan alliance]; one in Japan [Toyota], one in China [several possible candidates] and one potential European player [either Fiat or PSA Peugeot Citroën].”
The details of this vision may be wrong. Despite its present travails and imminent bankruptcy, few believe that GM will vanish and leave Ford as the sole American-owned champion. France’s PSA Peugeot Citroën, though unwieldy, is not about to disappear either. The strength of Hyundai-Kia in emerging markets and North America should ensure that the South Korean producer makes the cut. And in Japan, however great the cull of smaller outfits such as Mitsubishi and Suzuki, Honda and perhaps Mazda will still be around to challenge the dominance of Toyota in its home market. So will Renault’s partner, Nissan.
But if the shake-up is likely to be less dramatic than Mr Marchionne expects, that is only because much of the industry remains addicted to wildly unrealistic market-share forecasts and value-destroying investments. Mr Marchionne thinks it has been living beyond its means for too long. “Out in front,” he says, “this business is glamorous like Las Vegas. But behind the scenes, the industrial machine is complex and chaotic. We just look round at what to invest in and it’s hard to justify the economics. To sort it out, you have to go back to the industrial machine and fix it.”
Critically, Mr Marchionne says, you need to sell in sufficient volume—about 1m a year on each platform—to drive down costs. Take the platform for the VW Golf, which yields sales of more than 1.5m a year because VW also uses it for the Skoda Octavia, the Seat Leon and the Audi A3. About 75% of the cost of a car is in its architectural underpinnings. The rest goes on giving it a distinctive body and cabin, while honing the brakes, steering and suspension. Fiat gets sales of about 600,000 from its city-car A platform (the basis of the Panda, the retro-styled 500 and Ford’s new Ka). But none of its other platforms comes close to what is required: the whole group sold only 2.15m cars last year (see chart). Mr Marchionne reckons the minimum for a volume maker competing in every sector is about 5.5m—leaving Fiat far from safety.
In the past Fiat has tried to get around this problem with various alliances. A tie-up with GM lasted for five years until 2005, when Mr Marchionne extracted $2 billion from the American firm to extinguish a put option that would have forced it to buy the then-sickly Italian company. Mr Marchionne believes that alliances are all very well, but they react too slowly and require too many compromises. Without speed, he believes, you are doomed.
Over the past year he has been developing a more ambitious strategy, at first constructed around Chrysler, but now including Opel. Cruelly mismanaged by Daimler during its decade of ownership, and too dependent on pickup trucks and an ageing line-up of SUVs, Chrysler was in no condition to withstand the storm. Its increasingly desperate management sought help from a host of other carmakers, including Fiat. It reached a tentative agreement in which Nissan would have made a small car for Chrysler and Chrysler would have built a pickup for Nissan. But that was the limit for Carlos Ghosn, under pressure as boss of the Renault-Nissan alliance.
Mr Marchionne came up with a plan that might win Chrysler the federal loans it needed to stay alive while getting Fiat much of what it wanted. In exchange for an equity stake of around 35%, Fiat would make available to Chrysler its small and medium-sized platforms and advanced, fuel-efficient powertrains. Chrysler would give Fiat some of the scale it was seeking for its platforms, joint purchasing of parts, some expertise in producing large cars, a distribution network in America and manufacturing capacity to build new Alfa Romeos and perhaps the Fiat 500 for the American market. As Mr Marchionne put it: “They have everything I don’t have (including some I will never need) and I have everything they don’t have and need.”
But Mr Marchionne’s scheme, which won the backing of the Treasury’s car-industry task-force, went further. Although Fiat would initially get only a stake of 20% (rising to 35% after fulfilling criteria set by the Treasury) and would have to repay all Chrysler’s federal loans before taking majority control, the Treasury accepted that Fiat should take over the responsibility of managing Chrysler and integrating the two operations as closely as possible.
Having presided over a near-miraculous turnaround at Fiat since being appointed in 2004, Mr Marchionne saw in Chrysler an opportunity to apply the same lessons. At Fiat he saw a sluggish organisation that lacked leadership and had become accustomed to management by committee. But he also saw, buried within the company, a new generation of leaders.
“The single most important thing was to dismantle the organisational structure,” he recalls. “We tore it apart in 60 days, removing a large number of leaders who had been there a long time and who represented an operating style that lay outside any proper understanding of market dynamics.” In their place he promoted a group of younger executives, many with a background in consumer marketing, who understood and could provide what he wanted: accountability, openness, rapid communication and impatience with hierarchy and internal politics.
Some doubt that Fiat’s lean management has the resources to spread itself across Chrysler, let alone Opel too. Mr Marchionne understands the concern, but rejects it. He believes he already knows who the new leaders at Chrysler will be. He is confident that the same will apply to Opel, should that too fall into his lap.
Chrysler is essentially a done deal, although some uncertainty remains, not least because a few senior debtholders chose to push the firm into bankruptcy rather than accept the Treasury’s offer of $2.2 billion on the $6.9 billion they are owed. Fortunately for Fiat, the bankruptcy court judge, Arthur Gonzales, this week rejected the lenders’ argument that they had been treated illegally and cleared the way for Chrysler to emerge as a going concern within a couple of months. Mr Marchionne is preparing for the day: “We must act very quickly to cut overheads, lighten everything, speed up new models.”
Nor has Mr Marchionne been twiddling his thumbs in Europe. Having insisted for weeks that he had made no direct approaches about GM Europe, on May 4th he went to Berlin to present the German government with a plan that would give Fiat control of much of Opel (which includes Vauxhall in Britain) and possibly Saab, GM’s bankrupt Swedish unit. GM, which can no longer fund the lossmaking operations of its European arm, has been looking for a partner to take a majority stake in Opel since March. If it cannot find one, the German government will be loth to provide bridging finance. Fiat’s main rival is a group consisting of Magna, a Canadian car-parts and engineering business, and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch.
As with Chrysler, Mr Marchionne will have to win over both government and unions. He says that the deal depends on the willingness of European governments, but chiefly Germany’s, to stump up €5 billion-7 billion ($6.6 billion-9.3 billion) in bridging loans. In return, Mr Marchionne has promised to keep open Opel’s three main assembly plants in Germany, although there are fears for factories in Belgium and Britain. Over time he intends to reduce combined capacity by 22%, but he says he will do so by slimming factories rather than closing them. It is, he says, the preferred way in Europe—but it will mean forgoing savings of about €250m a year.
Even so, combining Opel and Fiat could save at least €1 billion a year. Partly because of Fiat’s shared history with GM, Mr Marchionne says that Opel fits perfectly. GM lacks an A platform, which Fiat has. They already share a B platform (for the Corsa and the Grande Punto) and Fiat would be happy to use Opel’s excellent new C and D platforms. “We can achieve convergence on all the big platforms by 2012. Ultimately, I need to do this with Chrysler, but Opel gets me there much faster and with more immediate returns.” Mr Marchionne adds: “I’m offering the German government a car business that will be effectively debt-free and I will take on Opel’s liabilities, including pensions. I told them: if you have a better offer, take it.”
If Mr Marchionne pulls it off, he will create a new company consisting of Fiat Auto (without Ferrari and Maserati or the rest of the Fiat Group), Chrysler and GM Europe. Among the probable stakeholders would be the Agnelli family (which controls Fiat), the United Auto Workers union health-care fund (until it cashes out) and GM. The rest of the equity would be sold in a public offering. In a normal year that combination could expect revenue of $100 billion from the sale of 6m cars—just above Mr Marchionne’s viability threshold.
Others think that amalgamating three different cultures and several less-than-stellar brands is beyond even the formidably self-confident Mr Marchionne. The tale of Mr Ghosn is not wholly reassuring. It is now pretty clear that his heroic rescue of Nissan came at the expense of taking his eye off Renault, which in recent years has produced a succession of mediocre cars. This week Martin Winterkorn, the boss of VW, pointed out that his company had been applying its vaunted platform strategy since 1992. “I wonder if he will be able to succeed,” said Mr Winterkorn, “because successfully managing several brands and obtaining true synergies is really difficult.”
Some see Mr Marchionne as an empire builder who has come to believe his own publicity. The charge exasperates him. “It’s just nonsense,” he says. “Fiat Group employs 200,000 people, but I’m going to carve out the car business and let the rest of it go its own sweet way. Look, I really hate the personal issue. It’s not about me, let’s just fix the industry. I’m only a conduit for change. You can’t just have Toyota on its own, we need this to guarantee survival. Now it’s up to others.”
Full article and photos: http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13610819&source=hptextfeature
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Cornerstone OnDemand Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Evolv
Acquisition Provides Cornerstone with Best-in-Class Machine Learning and Data Science Platform to Accelerate Cornerstone's Big Data Strategy
● Accelerates Cornerstone’s roadmap for workforce planning and predictive analytics
● Provides seasoned team with deep machine learning and big data analytics experience
● Strengthens Cornerstone’s core talent management suite
SANTA MONICA, Calif., October 7, 2014 – Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ:CSOD), a global leader in cloud-based talent management solutions, today announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Evolv Inc. With its best-in-class machine learning and data science platform, the acquisition of Evolv will allow Cornerstone clients to leverage the power of big data analytics to make better workforce decisions.
Named one of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in big data, Evolv’s platform helps leading organizations utilize relevant internal and external data to objectively evaluate the skills, work experience and personalities of their employees and job candidates. Cornerstone expects that same technology to serve as the engine to derive insights on the massive data set accumulated by the company over the past decade from its more than 1,800 global clients.
The acquisition of Evolv is expected to expand Cornerstone clients’ ability to make intelligent workforce decisions by providing:
● Machine Learning Platform Technology. Evolv applies sophisticated predictive models and algorithms to large sets of data for extracting insights from the noise, identifying patterns and uncovering the true drivers of workforce performance.
● Data Science. Evolv’s team of data scientists has applied several state-of-the-art statistical methodologies and econometric techniques to improve the predictive capabilities of its solutions.
● Big Data Infrastructure. Evolv has built highly scalable big data analytics leveraging modern Hadoop, HBase and Hive Big Data technologies to process and analyze massive data sets.
With over 15 million users in 191 countries, Cornerstone’s system of engagement captures vast amounts of data on the workforce, including key talent, organizational and collaboration data. Cornerstone believes that the acquisition of Evolv will enable Cornerstone to immediately deliver best-in-class machine learning and predictive analytics capabilities to complement Cornerstone’s organically-developed talent management suite. Additionally, the combination extends the value proposition of existing Cornerstone applications by providing data-driven recommendations to clients seamlessly across the unified talent suite.
“We have seen the talent management market advance over the last decade, as global organizations shifted from a focus on process automation through client server solutions to a focus on employee engagement through a consumerized, unified talent management suite. Now we are moving to the next generation of data-driven talent management in a world of big data,” said Adam Miller, president and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. “Evolv has built a reputation as a leader in big data analytics, and together we have a huge opportunity to deliver even more value to organizations leveraging our solutions.”
“There are so many untapped opportunities for employers to improve their decision-making using data that already exists,” said Max Simkoff, CEO of Evolv. “We are extremely excited to apply our machine learning and data science expertise to Cornerstone’s organically-developed, unified talent management platform to help organizations find these new insights.”
Cornerstone anticipates that the combination will accelerate its analytics roadmap and develop a number of big data solutions for its clients, including Cornerstone View, Cornerstone Insights, Cornerstone Selection and Cornerstone Recommendations.
Under the terms of the proposed acquisition, Cornerstone will acquire Evolv for approximately $42.5 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments. In addition, Cornerstone will assume up to $2.0 million in debt and will grant certain Evolv employees restricted stock units covering up to 200,000 shares of Cornerstone common stock, subject to customary vesting requirements. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of Cornerstone and Evolv and is expected to close within 30 days, subject to customary closing conditions.
Cornerstone does not believe the transaction will have a material impact on its non-GAAP financial metrics in 2014. Management plans to further discuss the impact of the acquisition and provide an update to its financial outlook as part of its upcoming Q3 financial results conference call.
About Evolv
Evolv is a big data company that helps solve workforce performance issues for the C-suite by utilizing a configurable cloud services platform. Evolv’s patent-pending technology platform unifies and supplements existing data from current systems, then utilizes that dataset to identify fact-based workforce insights that drive measurable ROI. By using an objective, data-driven methodology, Evolv helps companies uncover the core reasons behind workforce performance, enabling executives to make better operational business decisions that generally result in tens of millions of dollars in measurable value per year. Evolv was recently named one of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in Big Data by Fast Company Magazine. The company, founded in 2007, is based in San Francisco, CA.
About Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is a leader in cloud-based applications for talent management. The company’s solutions help organizations recruit, train, manage and engage their employees, empowering their people and increasing workforce productivity. Based in Santa Monica, California, the company’s solutions are used by over 1,800 clients worldwide, spanning more than 15.5 million users across 191 countries and 42 languages. To learn more about Cornerstone, visit csod.com, twitter.com/CornerstoneInc and facebook.com/CSODcommunity.
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions and strategies of Cornerstone relating to its acquisition of Evolv. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding future product offerings; expected benefits to Cornerstone and its customers; expected financial impact of the acquisition on Cornerstone; and plans regarding the integration of Evolv’s products with Cornerstone’s. These statements reflect the current beliefs of Cornerstone and are based on current information available to Cornerstone as of the date hereof, and Cornerstone does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made. The ability of Cornerstone to achieve these business objectives involves many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include the failure to achieve expected synergies and efficiencies of operations between Cornerstone and Evolv; the ability of Cornerstone and Evolv to successfully integrate their respective market opportunities, technology, products, personnel and operations; the failure to timely develop and achieve market acceptance of combined products and services; the potential impact on the business of Evolv as a result of the acquisition; the loss of any Evolv customers; the ability to coordinate strategy and resources between Cornerstone and Evolv; the ability of Cornerstone and Evolv to retain and motivate key employees of Evolv; general economic conditions; as well as those risks and uncertainties included under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Cornerstone’s Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 7, 2014 for the quarter ended June 30, 2014, which is available on the Investor Relations section of our website at csod.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.
Cornerstone® and Cornerstone OnDemand® are registered trademarks of Cornerstone OnDemand Inc.
Alexandra Geller
ageller@csod.com
Elizabeth Flax
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BusinessWeek ranks ND Industrial Design among top programs
The University of Notre Dame’s industrial design program is among the top five international programs, in terms of awards won in the last five years, according to rankings published last month in BusinessWeek magazine.
The recipient of four International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the last five years, Notre Dame Industrial Design is tied with Hong-ik University, Seoul National University and California College of the Arts, with four awards each. The Art Center College of Design is ranked No. 1.
“Our IDEA winnings date back to the late 1990s,” said Paul Down, associate professor of industrial design. "Since then, we have won first-, second- and third-place awards in the International Housewares Student Design Competition, a second-place Dyson Award, the Mazda Design Challenge, and an invitation to be the only North American program to participate on the Electrolux Global Design Team. In the past two years, Notre Dame seniors Mansour Ourasanah and Ashley Ceniceros were voted by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) as the best prepared industrial design students in the Midwest.
“Our most recent objectives to embrace social design, universal design and sustainable design have all helped galvanize logic and purpose in our professional and academic endeavors to better serve real needs with responsible and genuine solutions.”
Established in 1980 by BusinessWeek and the IDSA, IDEA is a program dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and economy.
Contact: Paul Down, 574-631-6836, pdown@nd.edu
Originally published by Shannon Chapla at newsinfo.nd.edu on August 21, 2008.
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John O’Callaghan Appointed to Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: Michael O. Garvey
John P. O’Callaghan, director of the University of Notre Dame’s Jacques Maritain Center, has been appointed a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Established in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII to promote the study of the thought of St. Thomas and to bring it into engagement with contemporary culture, the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas has 50 members. O’Callaghan, an associate professor of philosophy at Notre Dame whose scholarship concerns medieval philosophy and Thomistic metaphysics, is one of four academy members from the United States.
“We Thomists don’t study Aquinas merely because we find his thought historically interesting, although it is,” O’Callaghan said. “We study it because we think lasting truth is to be found there. Notre Dame is nearly unique for the resources it devotes to continuing the study of, and promoting the relevance of, St. Thomas and medieval philosophy to contemporary philosophy in the English speaking world. So, I think this honor acknowledges the importance of philosophy in the Catholic tradition at Notre Dame as much as it honors me.”
A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 2003, O’Callaghan was graduated from St. Norbert College in 1984 and earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Notre Dame in 1986. He worked as an engineer in Boston for two years before returning to Notre Dame, where he earned a doctoral degree in philosophy in 1996. Before joining the Notre Dame faculty, he taught philosophy at Creighton University and the University of Portland. In 2006, he was appointed director of the Jacques Maritain Center, succeeding Notre Dame philosopher Ralph McInerny, who died earlier this year and was also a member of the academy.
“I am particularly honored that I enter the Pontifical Academy in the year Ralph departed,” O’Callaghan said. “He was a longtime member of the academy. I could never replace him, and I wish that we would have had the chance to be members together. But it is an honor to, in a sense, occupy his place, if I may, and continue to represent the University of Notre Dame within it, as he did.”
John O’Callaghan faculty bio
Notre Dame’s Jacques Maritain Center
Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas
Originally published by newsinfo.nd.edu.
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Category Archives: Chochran Eddie
Eddie Cochran – The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album (1960)
Posted on February 19, 2018 by allerlei2013riffmaster
The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album is the second album by Eddie Cochran, released on Liberty Records in mono, LRP 3172, in May 1960. It had previously been issued as 12 of His Biggest Hits in April 1960 with the same catalogue number, but after Cochran’s death on April 17 it was retitled and reissued, and has remained so titled ever since. It is currently in print on the Magic Records label in France, on CD on EMI-Toshiba in Japan, and on BGO in the UK as a twofer with “Singin’ To My Baby.”The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album is the second album by Eddie Cochran, released on Liberty Records in mono, LRP 3172, in May 1960. It had previously been issued as 12 of His Biggest Hits in April 1960 with the same catalogue number, but after Cochran’s death on April 17 it was retitled and reissued, and has remained so titled ever since.
Eight tracks were released as singles, with “Three Steps to Heaven” appearing as a b-side. Three additional tracks “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You,” “Lovin’ Time,” and “Tell Me Why” had been released on his first album, Singin’ to My Baby in 1957. All five singles that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 are included, with the teen anthem “Summertime Blues” being the only time Cochran made the top ten. No Cochran album has ever charted in the United States (by wikipedia)
This compilation was released by Liberty Records in 1960, shortly after Eddie Cochran’s death that spring, the first of several memorial albums (including one called Memorial Album) to come out on Cochran. And while it doesn’t really live up to its title — sad to say, Cochran never had a dozen hits, big or otherwise, to compile — it is a surprisingly good collection as an overview of Cochran’s career and sound (flaws and all), the hits included. At the time of its release, this album would have presented the very first chance that anyone would have had for an overview of Cochran’s career — the problem with the record, as with most early Cochran compilations, lies in the errors made by Liberty Records in handling Cochran’s career in the first place; the label apparently saw him developing in the same manner as Elvis Presley (which was understandable, as Elvis was the quintessential white rock & roll star of the era), and, like Presley, doing ballads as often as rockers, and found nothing incongruous in the fact that Cochran just didn’t have the voice to pull that off the way that Elvis did. It wasn’t that Cochran couldn’t do it — he could — but it was more of a stretch, and became an impossible one when he was saddled with second-rate material, as was often the case (where Elvis, until he started doing the movies full-time, never had that problem). But this album starts off on the right foot, with “C’mon Everybody” — one of Cochran’s best songs but never a huge hit in the U.S. — leading off the set, which proceeds with the deceptively complex rocker “Three Steps to Heaven.” We jump back to Cochran’s country roots with “Cut Across Shorty” and “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You,” the latter a ballad that Cochran handled surprisingly well — trying for a sound akin to what Elvis was doing on slow numbers — given his relative antipathy to the form. “Hallelujah, I Love Her So” puts us back in the heart of Cochran’s mature sound, showcasing his guitar amid its string accompaniment and some very strong singing as well. The first side closes with the obligatory “Sittin’ in the Balcony” — which, in fairness, was his first Liberty single, and does have a more than decent guitar break even if the song is a little wimpy. Side two storms out with “Summertime Blues,” as powerful a song as any white rock & roller charted in 1957.
But listeners who skip the sappy “Lovin’ Time” and jump to “Somethin’ Else” will be doing Cochran’s memory a world of good. “Tell Me Why” is another slowie, but it shows some power to Cochran’s singing, even if he doesn’t pull off what the record label wanted. “Teenage Heaven” was probably obligatory, as it was featured in the then relatively recent movie Go Johnny Go, and it avoids being totally lame by virtue of Cochran’s raspy vocalizing and a reasonably hot sax solo. And “Drive In Show” closes the set out in a manner that probably ought to be skipped, except out of curiosity over some of the more absurd numbers that Cochran was made to record in his tragically brief career. It’s not an ideal collection, by any means, but it is an honest snapshot of his music, warts and all. (by Bruce Eder)
Jerry Allison (drums)
Perry Botkin, Jr. (guitar)
Sonny Curtis (guitar)
Mike Deasy (saxophone)
Eddie Cochran (guitar, ukulele, bass, piano, percussion, vocals)
Mike Henderson (saxophone)
Ray Johnson (piano)
Earl Palmer (drums)
Gene Riggio (drums)
Sharon Sheeley (percussion)
Dave Shriver (bass)
Connie “Guybo” Smith (bass)
Jim Stivers (piano)
The Johnny Mann Chorus (background vocals)
01. C’mon Everybody (Cochran/Capehart) 1.58
ß2. Three Steps to Heaven (Cochran) 2.25
03. Cut Across Shorty (Wilkin/Walker) 1.53
04. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (Wiseman) 2.38
05. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Charles) 2.21
06. Sittin’ In The Balcony (Loudermilk) 2.02
07. Summertime Blues (Cochran/Capehart) 1.59
08. Lovin’ Time (Woolsey) 2.09
09. Somethin’ Else (B.Cochran/Sheeley 2.10
10. Tell Me Why (Cochran) 2.20
11. Teenage Heaven (Cochran/Capehart) 2.07
12. Drive In Show (Dexter) 2.05
Edward Raymond Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960)
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RIDDICK, ANDRE
Spirou Charleroi
Height: 2.08 Born: 1 February, 1973 Nationality: United States of America
ULEB Cup 2003-04 STATISTICS
Totals 11 10 309:00 104 39/84 0/0 26/48 32 40 72 17 19 17 21 2 37 42 152
Averages 11 10 28:05 9.5 46.4% 0% 54.2% 2.9 3.6 6.5 1.5 1.7 1.5 1.9 0.2 3.4 3.8 13.8
11 * vs Adecco Estudiantes 25:15 8 3/13 2/2 2 3 5 1 1 3 1 1 2 6
12 * at Adecco Estudiantes 32:15 8 3/6 2/4 1 4 5 3 1 3 4 3 8
2 Totals 57:30 16 6/19 0/0 4/6 3 7 10 4 1 4 3 1 5 5 14
Average 28:45 8 31.6% 0% 66.7% 1.5 3.5 5 2 0.5 2 1.5 0.5 2.5 2.5 7
1 * at Crvena Zvezda Belgrade 21:45 9 2/6 5/8 3 3 6 2 1 1 1 1 3 5 12
2 * vs Ventspils 25:15 7 2/3 3/5 3 2 5 2 1 1 5 8 14
3 vs BCM Gravelines 31:45 17 8/12 1/7 6 7 13 6 2 2 4 7 29
4 * at Etosa Alicante 35:30 13 5/8 3/4 5 5 10 2 2 3 4 3 3 24
6 * vs Crvena Zvezda Belgrade 29:00 13 5/9 3/6 3 2 5 1 4 5 3 4 22
7 * at Ventspils 30:15 12 5/9 2/4 5 5 1 3 2 1 3 3 14
8 * at BCM Gravelines 33:15 7 3/11 1/2 4 4 8 3 2 2 2 4 15
9 * vs Etosa Alicante 15:45 4 2/2 3 3 1 1 4 3
10 * at Metis Varese 29:00 6 1/5 4/6 5 2 7 2 3 1 5 3 5
9 Totals 251:30 88 33/65 0/0 22/42 29 33 62 13 18 13 18 1 32 37 138
Average 27:56 9.8 50.8% 0% 52.4% 3.2 3.7 6.9 1.4 2 1.4 2 0.1 3.6 4.09 15.3
ULEB Cup 2003-04 individual rankings
Index rating 35 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. FMP Belgrade 1/3/2006
Points 20 Queluz vs. Proximus Spirou Charleroi 12/6/2005
Offensive rebounds 7 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Lukoil Academic Sofia 2/8/2005
Defensive rebounds 9 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Besiktas JK Istanbul 11/30/2005
Total rebounds 14 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. FMP Belgrade 1/3/2006
Assists 3 Hemofarm Vrsac vs. Proximus Spirou Charleroi 11/6/2007
Steals 6 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. FMP Belgrade 1/3/2006
Blocks 8 ALBA Berlin vs. Proximus Spirou Charleroi 12/8/2004
Minutes 38 PAOK Thessaloniki vs. Proximus Spirou Charleroi 11/23/2004
Played college basketball at Kentucky University (1991-95).
Moved to Japan for the 1995-96 season, signed by Blue Winds, in the 2nd Division.
Moved to Taiwan for the 1998-99 season, signed by Mars.
Released on January '99.
Moved to Venezuela on April '99 signed by Trotamundos de Carabobo.
Moved to Dominican Republic for the 199-00 season, signed by Metropolitanos de Mauricio Baez.
Left the team on December '99.
Moved to France, signed by Dijon.
Released on February '00.
Moved again to Venezuela for the 2000 championship, signed by Trotamundos de Carabobo.
Moved to France for the 2000-01 season, signed by Dijon.
Played during the 2001 Summer with Trotamundos de Carabobo.
Signed for the 2001-02 season by Paris Racing Basket.
Moved to Belgium for the 2002-03 season, signed by Spirou Charleroi.
Won the 1999 Venezuelan National Championship with Trotamundos de Carabobo.
Won the 2002-03, 2003-04, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 Belgian National Championship with Spirou Charleroi.
Won the 2003 and 2009 Belgian National Cup with Spirou Charleroi.
Played the 2000 Venezuelan All Star Game.
Played the 2001 and 2002 French All Star Game.
Named to the 2000 Venezuelan League All-Defensive Team.
Led the 2006-07 Belgian League in blocking (1.5 bpg.).
2010-11 Spirou Charleroi 10 50 5 21/35 60 0/0 0 8/21 38.1 50 4 6 14
2011-12 Belgacom Spirou Charleroi 10 60 6 26/37 70.3 0/0 0 8/18 44.4 41 4 5 14
Totals 20 110 5.5 47/72 65.3 0/0 0 16/39 41 91 8 11 28
Averages 20 110 5.5 47/72 65.3 0/0 0 16/39 41 4.5 0.4 0.6 1.4
2002-03 Spirou Charleroi 12 102 8.5 42/70 60 0/1 0 18/33 54.5 79 15 16 28
2003-04 Spirou Charleroi 11 104 9.5 39/84 46.4 0/0 0 26/48 54.2 72 19 17 21
2004-05 Spirou Charleroi 14 77 5.5 28/58 48.3 1/1 100 18/40 45 96 25 18 38
2007-08 Spirou Charleroi 10 86 8.6 37/61 60.7 0/0 0 12/27 44.4 51 22 10 20
2008-09 Spirou Basket 12 76 6.3 30/40 75 0/0 0 16/35 45.7 38 22 7 12
2009-10 Spirou Basket 6 36 6 14/31 45.2 0/0 0 8/20 40 29 8 9 11
2012-13 Belgacom Spirou Basket 6 20 3.3 9/21 42.9 0/0 0 2/4 50 21 4 6 2
Totals 83 605 7.3 246/461 53.4 1/2 50 110/226 48.7 471 150 96 147
Averages 83 605 7.3 246/461 53.4 1/2 50 110/226 48.7 5.7 1.8 1.2 1.8
1991/92 Kentucky 28 54 1.9 22/39 56.4 0/0 0/0 10/38 26.3 67 6 8 33
1992/93 Kentucky 31 138 4.5 58/96 60.4 0/0 0/0 22/48 45.8 95 18 5 52
1993/94 Kentucky 34 270 7.9 117/207 56.5 0/3 0 36/91 39.6 171 33 26 83
1994/95 Kentucky 33 163 4.9 68/123 55.3 0/3 0 27/53 50.9 127 19 12 44
1999/00 Dijon 13 131 10.1 54/95 56.8 0/20 0 23/39 59 104 13 16 29
2000/01 Dijon 30 347 11.6 149/230 64.8 1/2 50 48/90 53.3 331 51 35 75
2001/02 Racing P 30 354 11.8 150/233 64.4 0/1 0 54/109 49.5 312 52 34 95
2002/03 Charleroi 26 286 11 112/176 63.6 0/1 0 62/82 75.6 213 … 28 …
2003/04 Charleroi 35 413 11.8 160/249 64.3 0/1 0 93/159 58.5 284 … 47 …
2004/05 Charleroi 36 274 7.6 109/174 62.6 0/0 0/0 56/112 50 225 … 42 …
2005/06 Charleroi 33 359 10.9 135/225 60 0/1 0 89/142 62.7 175 32 33 62
2006/07 Charleroi 35 310 8.9 119/199 59.8 0/1 0 72/124 58.1 229 56 37 51
2007/08 Charleroi 40 276 6.9 122/182 67 0/3 0 32/80 40 228 60 31 81
2008/09 Charleroi 31 201 6.5 84/138 60.9 0/0 0/0 33/62 53.2 151 46 21 40
2010/11 Charleroi 33 164 5.0 67/122 54.9 0/0 0.0 30/93 32.3 173 39 30 53
2011/12 Charleroi 42 221 5.3 88/151 58.3 0/0 0.0 45/112 40.2 169 48 29 74
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Turkish naval chief’s guard arrested in Gülen purge
A member of the team assigned to protect Adnan Özbal, the commander of the Turkish Navy, has been arrested for suspected links to the alleged terrorist organisation headed by Islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish news site Dünya reported on Thursday.
Followers of Gülen are accused of plotting the failed July 2016 coup attempt. Thousands of Gülenists are said to have infiltrated high positions in the state bureaucracy, military and security forces, and, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) alleges, used their positions in a series of attempts to topple the elected government culminating in the coup attempt.
Sergeant Rıza Asal, one of Özbal’s personal guard, was arrested and charged with “membership of a terrorist organisation” in the scope of an investigation into Gülenists in the navy. An Istanbul court ordered him to be kept in detention pending trial.
The charges are based on evidence from an informant reportedly from the Gülen organisation, who provided a description of his subordinate in the organisation codenamed “Recep” that matched Asal’s description.
The investigation also found evidence that Asal’s brother had been working for the Gülenists, according to Dünya.
https://www.dunya.com/gundem/deniz-kuvvetleri-komutaninin-korumasi-fetoden-tutuklandi-haberi-405469
Turkey objects to case against ex-Flynn partner over illegal lobbying
U.S. prosecutors prepare for lobbying case, say Flynn involved in secret work with Turkey
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Anthony Malloy
Life between coffees.
Category: Diary
One of those days. Well,
One of those days.
Well, looking back on it I guess today was one of those turning point days. Rae and I are applying for a house together. Suprise if you’re not Rae! Saw it this afternoon. I love it, think it may be a bit more modern than Rae was anticipating but it’s something we can make our own. Study for me, room for Phee, big kitchen, lot’s of light and two parks literaly at our front and back door. Sunny spots for Thomas, cable TV in the street. Pretty much all we were wanting. I’ll fax the applications tomorrow and then it’s all fingers crossed.
Told Veronica this evening and she was really happy for the both of us. What a gal. She’s looking at buying a place and Steve was wondering if I would move in with her, which I would in a second if Rae and I weren’t looking.
Also have volunteered to help with a web site for Melbourne Ice, Melbourne’s new ice hockey team. Hopefully they’ll take me up on it – it’d be great to get involved in a sporting club somehow, especially in a sport I love. Law and Order on now – gotta go.
Let The Sun Shine In.
Just back from my lunch time walk, picked up a copy of Billy Bragg’s ‘Talking To The Taxman About Poetry‘. Must be feeling all revolutionary. I was actually after his latest album – the Aus version has a bonus track, ‘Yarra Song‘. He played it live in concert and I loved it. Will go hunting at JB’s tomorrow evening I think.
Walk has also made me realise a reason I am unproductive at work – you can’t work without daylight. I’ve been holed up in this dungeon for a two years now, time to move up or out. Must be the Billy coming through.
I have a cold. Just annoying enough to make me feel icky, yet not annoying enough to warrant an extended stay in bed. Must buy some more Lemsip.
Heart Breaker
Tonight Phee gives me a picture she drew of my house. Written at the top was ‘Tony My Dad’. There’s no words for how that makes me feel.
Looks like it’s going to
Looks like it’s going to be a long winter. The Tige’s were impressively underwhelming in their easy defeat. Weird thing was getting sunburnt. The sun was a scorcher and sitting in a t-shirt to watch a game five rounds in was a bit bizzare. Also the combination of beer and sun probably points towards an early evening.
Nice thing was I took the family to the footy for the first time. Rae and Phee came along, although think Rae may be a jinx. Off to her place now for her great spag bog.
okay. Tiger’s t-shirt on. Tiger’s wind breaker on. Tigers scalf draped on door ready to grab. Tiger’s jacket hanging over scalf. Tiger’s membership badge on. Brand new walkman in pocket and train ticket in wallet.
45 minutes until Rae gets here – if I was going myself I’d head in now and sit in the G, read the paper and wait. Overcast skies – hope it’s an omen for the Hawks.
I was wrong.
11.15 and Veronica and Steve are no where to be seen. She must be house hunting. Why do the washing powder and fabric softener always run out at the same time?
Saturday Morning See Saw
In at work on a Saturday. Some kind person kindly pointed out that ‘hospital’ was spelt incorrectly on the front page of the web site. Doh! Fixed it in a jiffi and made an excuse so we didn’t look quite so bad.
So, down about the footy last night. The poor doggies are 0-5 for starting the season. Rae’s face was long as a wet weekend in Hobart as we walked back to the station. I think she said one word between the final siren and hopping into bed. They had everything to play for and still couldn’t pull it off. I’m getting geared for The Tiges this afternoon – taking on the Hawks at the G. Rae hasn’t sat in the Great Southern Stand before so this’ll be an experience. Phee says she is going to wear her Tiger tail and ears, the smart money says they’ll be left in the car at Armadale station.
Must head home and clean up my room, see if Veronica is up yet although as it’s not midday she and Steve are probably still fast asleep.
All I can say is ‘Go Tiges!’
Clients! Arggghhh.
Rae and I leave my place, cruising across the bridge to Spotswood when my mobile rings. It’s my best client with a concern that his web site is down. Turn around under the bridge, back home and the bloody thing is working. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Twenty here, twenty back, twenty at the computer – an hour gone for nothing. Lucky I charge him a lot.
Friday Friday
Friday morning, skipped a day because yesterday was a public holiday. Have run home now to get a little work done before heading back to Rae’s and the footy tonight. Doggies v Melbourne. After last night’s news Rae is so relieved her beloved dogs will be around. Now if they can top it off for a win, that’d be grand.
ANZAC Day reminded me of staying overnight at Nana’s and wandering down to Wyndham St to watch the march. Seems a long time ago now. At least it rained here, made it seem like a real ANZAC Day.
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Mel B Claims She Hooked Up With Geri Halliwell During Spice Girls Era
posted by Katrina Nattress - Mar 24, 2019
During their time in the Spice Girls, Mel B and Geri Halliwell sparked rumors that they were an item. It was so hush-hush that Scary Spice failed to mention it in her tell-all autobiography Brutally Honest; however, she may have spilled the tea during a recent taping of Piers Morgan's new show Life Stories.
The Daily Mail posted a full transcript of the interview, and when Morgan asked her point blank if anything happened with her bandmate, the singer tried to skirt the question. But after a little push, she couldn't help but nod and smile. "She's going to hate me for this because she's all posh in her country house and her husband. But it's a fact. It just happened and we just giggled at it and that was it," she divulged.
"It was just that once," Mel B continued. "And hopefully when Geri gets asked that, which hopefully she will after this, she won't deny it. Because it was just a fun thing."
The alleged incident supposedly happened when the newly formed Spice Girls moved into a shared house in Maidenhead, Berks, in the mid '90s. Halliwell would go on to leave the group in 1998, and return in 2007.
Though an inner-group hookup may be shocking, both women have been open about having same-sex relationships in the past. "‘You fall in love with whoever you fall in love with. I just don’t have a preference," Mel B stated when Morgan asked about her sexuality. "I had a great experience with a woman for five years and that showed me that there are other options out there. My mum will tell you [that period] was one of the happiest times she has ever seen me."
Ginger Spice, however, has been married to Formula 1 racing team boss Christian Horner since 2015, and as The Sun reports has been trying to keep her previous promiscuity in the past.
"Since marrying Christian, Geri has worked hard to shake off her old playgirl image and sort of reinvent herself as this perfect Stepford Wife. Mel immediately rang Geri to try to repair the damage," a source told the outlet. And with a Spice Girls reunion coming up fast, Mel B doesn't want there to be any weird feelings. "The tour is just two months away they don't want anything jeopardizing it, but there were real fears this would upset Geri's husband and causes serious issues," the source explained.
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'Poignant and delightful baptism'
Minister Brian Davison shares news of another baptism at Lockwood Baptist Church in Huddersfield
It was a delight on Sunday 5 March to baptise the fifth of our Iranian baptismal candidates.
Having been detained for removal to Germany, Abbas was unable to be baptised with the others on 5 February. However, he was released at the end of February, after much prayer for him, and returned to Lockwood, where the baptistery had been kept open as we prayerfully awaited his return. He was thrilled to be able to be baptised at LBC, whom he considers to be his new family.
The service was al the more poignant and delightful because the church had prayed and fought (legally) for him to be allowed to be baptised here, among his Christian family.
He told in his testimony how it was the character of those he later discovered to be Christian that had led him to find out more in Iran, and how delighted he was with the love and care he found here.
Jesus had enabled him to forgive and to love those who had persecuted him.
The sermon focused on how God had been with him through all of this, and how God had used him in the detention centre, to minister to others in distress, despite his own distress at being removed from his friends.
We gave thanks for answered prayer, and as we were getting changed he told us that he had been only seven steps from the plane door when the news came he was being released to come to Lockwood.
Thanks be to God for what he has done in this young man's life, and continues to do in his church.
Baptists and Inter Faith Week
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'An expectancy that God will speak'
Feeding the 5,000 in Hull
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Showing God's love to new mums
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1950s → 1954 → November 1954 → 3 November 1954 → Commons Sitting → POST OFFICE
Mail Robberies
HC Deb 03 November 1954 vol 532 cc359-61 359
§ 14. Mrs. Mann
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General what progress has been made in tracing or tracking those concerned in the robbery of the registered mail van which occurred on 23rd May, 1952.
§ Mr. Gammans
I am informed that police inquiries are continuing.
§ Mrs. Mann
Will the hon. Gentleman state the amount of money that is involved, and whether a motor car containing a very large sum of money was found after being abandoned by bandits?
The hon. Lady is asking a question which is not on the Order Paper.
If I put a Question on the Order Paper, will the hon. Gentleman answer it?
I can give the answer now. Approximately £250,000 was involved and I believe that there was a case of some money found abandoned in another car.
§ Mr. Hobson
In view of the many statements that have appeared quite recently on this robbery, does not the hon. Gentleman think that it is about time his noble Friend made a new, up-to-date statement?
I will put that point to my noble Friend, but I must point out that inquiries into this matter are almost entirely in the hands of the police, 360 and, therefore, any further Questions about it, strictly speaking, should be addressed to the Home Secretary.
§ Mr. Hector Hughes
Is it not a perfectly futile thing for the hon. Gentleman to try to throw the blame on the police? Is it not the duty of his Department to take adequate care of Her Majesty's mail?
I am not trying to throw the blame on the police. The point is that it is primarily the duty of the police to catch people who have done this sort of thing.
§ 27. Lieut.-Colonel Lipton
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General how many mail bag robberies have taken place in 1954; and the corresponding figure for 1953.
The number of robberies as such is not available but 413 bags were recorded as missing during the first nine months of 1954, as compared with 638 in the corresponding period last year.
§ Lieut.-Colonel Lipton
Is the hon. Gentleman satisfied that reasonable progress is being made, because it is going to take a long time at this rate to cut down the number of missing mail bags?
During the period to which we are referring, the total number of mailbags in circulation was 270 million.
Mr. I. O. Thomas
Will the hon. Gentleman indicate whether he has any power to intervene in the monopoly contract of mailbag robberies?
asked the Assistant Postmaster-General what action has been taken to test a device making it impossible to steal mail vans, details of which were sent to his Department on 12th February last, and acknowledged under reference number 47686/52.
The device was demonstrated on 16th February to security experts, who found it unsuitable for use by the Post Office; the inventor was so informed.
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, according to information I have received from the company which is marketing this device, all 361 it has received is a card of acknowledgement and it has no knowledge of the test to which the hon. Gentleman refers?
If the hon. and gallant Member tells me that the demonstration has not taken place, as I am informed it has, I shall be most pleased to look into the matter.
When the device has been found suitable, what action will be taken to see that it is not stolen?
If a Post Office van fitted with this device were stolen, I am afraid that the device itself would also be stolen.
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SNOWSTORM, HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS
§ The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Henderson Stewart)
It may be for the convenience of the House, Mr. Speaker, if I make a brief statement about the position in the northern counties of Scotland.
Heavy falls of snow, high winds and exceptionally severe frost have created a situation of some difficulty over much of the Highlands and Islands area. In particular, the poor harvest and the exhaustion of supplies in the earlier blizzard have caused a serious shortage of fodder; and as the sheep are weak after a long period of hard weather there is a danger of serious loss.
The local authorities, their staffs, and the police are doing their utmost to restore communications and organise relief where it is needed; and the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force and ships of the Fishery Protection Service are again co-operating in the delivery of supplies—particularly fodder—and in dealing with cases of illness and casualties.
On a point of order. A statement of great importance to Scotland is being made and it is very difficult to follow it, Sir. May I ask you whether it would be possible to secure silence?
§ Mr. Stewart
Between them the two Services—the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force—up to midnight on 22nd-23rd have carried out 34 general and six special reconnaissances and 18 medical sorties with a total flying time of 87 hours.
The fishery cruiser "Minna" was sent to Shetland and was able on 20th February to deliver five tons of stores and mails to Foula, which had been cut off for 48 days; and on 21st February she 1290 took mails and provisions to places on the west coast of Shetland. The fishery cruiser "Norna" was sent to Orkney and the fishery cruiser "Vaila" to Stornoway, but no calls on the services of these cruisers have so far been made, although they will continue to stand by.
There has on this occasion been considerable interruption of telephone services and electricity supplies, but I am glad to say that, as a result of the admirable work of the staffs of the Post Office and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board the situation has largely been restored. By this morning only five telephone exchanges (four in Orkney and one in Shetland) remain isolated, although many subscribers' lines are still out of order. Except for an area between Dunnett and John O'Groats all main electricity lines are now functioning.
We shall, of course, continue to keep in the closest touch with the situation. In the meantime, I know that the House would wish me to express, on behalf not only of Her Majesty's Government but of this House, our sympathy with the people of the areas concerned and our appreciation of the work of all who are helping to restore communications and maintain essential services there.
§ Mr. Woodburn
I should like to associate my right hon. and hon. Friends with this expression of sympathy and appreciation of the splendid work that is being done. My information is that the situation in the North is quite unprecedented and that the disaster to sheep is likely to be as bad as, if not worse, than that in 1947. It may cause trouble and a diminution of the sheep population for many years to come. Are the Government contemplating that the people who have suffered in this storm, and the farmers who have been thrown back in the development of the stock population in the North of Scotland, should get special assistance? It will be extremely difficult for them to carry on if they are left to bear the burden of these unprecedented natural phenomena.
It is because we thought the situation was more serious that this statement was made today. As to possible loss, it is not easy to decide on policy until we are able to determine what is the loss. We shall have to wait a little 1291 time, I am afraid, because as yet we do not know.
While congratulating the Government on the action taken, may I ask the hon. Gentleman whether he does not think it would have been far better if some other Minister had made this statement, bearing in mind that he took it upon himself last time we had bad weather to go to the North of Scotland and lecture the people for improvidence in not stocking up with supplies?
The hon. Member should read what I said.
§ Mr. Grimond
I should like to join in hoping that some assistance will be given over sheep losses. Will the hon. Gentleman bear in mind that local authorities have been badly strained by the heavy expenditure involved in clearing snow from the roads and also the need for alternative communication to some of the remote districts and islands, as telephone wires are not available?
§ Mr. John MacLeod
Can my hon. Friend give a figure for the cost of clearing the snow and the heavy burden of keeping communications open in the North at the present time? My hon. Friend will realise that a tremendous burden is imposed upon the people in the area. Is modern equipment being sent there to clear the important roads?
I am not able at present to state the cost. With regard to the provision of modern equipment, other parts of the country, unfortunately, are also troubled by snow.
§ Mr. Manuel
With regard to the dropping from helicopters of feeding stuffs for sheep and cattle, can the Under-Secretary say what will be the cost to crofters and farmers compared with the ordinary cost of transport if there had been no snow?
The cost will be just the same.
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1950s → 1959 → November 1959 → 24 November 1959 → Commons Sitting → KENYA
Revocation of Emergency Powers
HC Deb 24 November 1959 vol 614 cc174-5 174
§ 4. Mr. Brockway
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when it is proposed to end the state of emergency in Kenya and to release from detention Mr. Jomo Kenyatta, who has concluded his prison sentence, and Mr. Achieng, ex-Senior Chief Koinange, and others who have been acquitted by the courts.
§ Mr. Iain Macleod
I would refer the hon. Member to my statement of 10th November.
Mr. Achieng Oneko, ex-Senior Chief Koinange and other persons whose 175 movements are restricted under the Emergency Regulations will have their cases reviewed by the Special Commissioner and, if he is unable to recommend release, by the Advisory Committee.
Mr. Jomo Kenyatta and his associates, however, are in a different legal category, since they are restricted under substantive law on the recommendation of the Court.
Does the right hon. Gentleman seriously contemplate that Mr. Kenyatta, who has finished his sentence, shall be detained for the rest of his life, when Nazi criminals are now free and in positions of authority? Is he aware that both Mr. Achieng and ex-Senior Chief Koinange are known to many Members of the House and that we are completely convinced that they never had anything to do with Mau Mau outrages or obscenities?
§ Mr. Macleod
In respect of Mr. Achieng Oneko and ex-Senior Chief Koinange, I think that the best method is to go through the procedure which I have outlined. This review has already been started by the Special Commissioner, though it has not yet been completed. Mr. Kenyatta and his associates were not affected by the announcement which I made about the end of the emergency, because their restriction, to which no term was set, was as a result of the recommendation of the court.
§ Mr. J. Hynd
Is the Minister aware that there are reports in the Press to the effect that Kenyatta is detained because he was proved to be a leader of Mau Mau terrorists? Will the Minister publicly correct those allegations?
Kenyatta's conviction was accompanied by a recommendation by the court that afterwards he should be restrained, and that was accepted by the Government, and it is under the terms of that, not under emergency powers, that it is carried out.
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1970s → 1973 → February 1973 → 26 February 1973 → Commons Sitting → ORDERS OF THE DAY
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGULATIONS
§ 11.25 p.m.
§ The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Mark Carlisle)
I beg to move That the Representation of the People Regulations 1973 dated 9th February 1973, a copy of which was laid before this House on 14th February, be approved. I cannot pretend that the regulations are earth-shattering. They are probably not very controversial. They are merely interim regulations making changes in the 1969 regulations. Those regulations will have to be replaced before 1st April 1974 to take account of the changes in the arrangements for registration that have been made by the Local Government Act 1972. These amending regulations are therefore merely designed to meet immediate needs, particularly in relation to the county and district elections this year and the canvass for next autumn. The regulations make one change in regard to jury service and deal with two other relatively minor matters.
Regulation 3 provides for all Members of Parliament to be supplied with a copy of the register for their constituency free of charge on request. This new provision owes its origin to a suggestion by my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead (Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg), for which I am grateful. Under the present regulations the registration officer has a duty to supply copies of the register for use by prospective candidates at a parliamentary election. In practice they are supplied to local party agents, and sometimes the Member receives one and sometimes he does not. It seems proper that he should be entitled to a free copy in his own right for his use in representing his constituency. Any of us will be able to write to the registration officer for our borough or county and ask for a free copy of the register for our constituency.
§ Mr. David Steel (Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles)
The hon. and learned Gentleman said "Any of us". Why does not the regulation apply to Scottish Members? Is there to be a separate regulation?
§ Mr. Carlisle
Perhaps I may deal with that a little later. I apologise if I am mistaken in saying "Any of us". I 1229 understood that the regulation applies to all Members.
Regulations 5 and 7 are technical amendments, required to permit the arrangements for postal voting to apply to elections for the new counties and districts established under the Local Government Act 1972.
Regulations 4 and 6 deal with jurors. They will enable the new basis of jury service to come into operation when next year's electoral register is published. They follow directly from the Criminal Justice Act 1972, the effect of which is that every man and woman will be qualified to serve as a juror if he or she is on the electoral register and is not less than 18 or more than 65 years of age. The intention is that every elector within those age limits may receive a jury summons, and that at that stage the Crown Court will have to be satisfied that he or she is in all respects qualified for jury service.
Under Section 26 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972, the registration officer will be required to supply the Crown Court with copies of the register showing those who are under 18 and those who are over 65, who are not eligible for jury service.
For those under 18 that is no change. The date of their birthday is already marked on the published register under the existing arrangements. For those over 65 new arrangements have to be made. Section 26(1) provides for the Representation of the People Regulations to enable information to be obtained for that purpose. The effect of Regulation 4 is to provide for that and the new form prescribed under Regulation 6.
The alteration is that the new Form A now has an additional column for jury service. A tick has to be entered if the elector will be over 65 when the register comes into force. If this is done, the registration officer will then inform the Crown Court by marking the copy of the register which he sends them that the elector appears to be over 65. I should make it clear that those markings will appear only on the copies of the register sent to the Crown Court and will not appear on any other published register.
In considering the new arrangements, we have been anxious to spare elderly people the worry that a jury summons 1230 might cause them if it arrived or from the trouble of having to complete a special jury service questionnaire. To meet that it has been necessary to ask them to indicate in Form A whether they are over 65. On the grounds of safety and privacy we did not think it right that that information should be shown on any published register.
I appreciate that there might be some households where there will be difficulty about completing the jury service column accurately without the householder trespassing on what may be felt to be the privacy of some elderly person living in that household. In that case the householder will have to use his discretion, knowing that if he does not enter a tick in the column the person who is aged over 65 will be liable to be put to the trouble and have the concern of receiving a jury summons. It is an offence to give false information in completing that form. Therefore, no one should be tempted to avoid jury service by wrongly alleging or stating that he is over the age for such service.
The new Form A will be printed to be in time for the canvass which starts next August or September. We shall be arranging suitable publicity at that time. That is the effect of the regulations. They are hardly of a major nature. They are merely interim measures to cover the arrangements for the first elections.
§ Mr. Michael Cocks (Bristol, South)
I am sure that the Minister of State does himself less than justice by belittling the nature of the business which he has brought before the House. His self-deprecation does not sit well on him. There are several points worthy of debate and the Government might have arranged this business at a more convenient hour so that more hon. Members might have taken part.
We are dealing with regulations which have an important bearing on voting both in parliamentary and in local elections. On page 2 of the regulations we have Form A which is to be returned by the occupier. A very great opportunity has been missed to strengthen a point which was made at some length by both sides in the Committee on the Local Government Bill about the allocation of polling numbers to tell people that they are 1231 entitled to vote. Here we have five paragraphs with information for the person compiling the form. Paragraph 2 says that a person whose name does not appear in the register cannot vote. Surely, with a little imagination, we could add one or two sentences to the effect that from the register official poll cards would be issued but that whilst it was helpful to know one's polling number it was not essential in order to vote.
In committee on the Local Government Bill the point was made strongly that a number of people are deterred from voting if they do not at the time of the election know their polling number. This is a good opportunity to include a little clarification without any additional administrative work. I am disappointed by this passage.
There is some ambiguity in Note 4, dealing with electors lists. It says: These lists can be checked at council offices, etc., from 28th November. Claims in respect of names not included in the lists must be received by 16th December. In 1972, 16th December fell on a Saturday, and it was brought to my attention that the electoral registration officer for Gloucestershire county refused to accept claims which were posted to him with a post-mark dated before 16th December but not delivered until the following Monday because his office was closed on the Saturday. It was a disgraceful decision. I made inquiries of the Town Clerk of Bristol and he told me that as 16th December fell on a Saturday he had opened his office until noon that day, and that if anything was found in the letterbox when the office re-opened on Monday, 18th December, it was deemed to be within order and to fall within the 16th December deadline.
When we get these discrepancies in interpretation between one registration officer and another, it means that we must have clarification. The hon. and learned Gentleman should think seriously about giving fairly strong guidance to registration officers about what to do in cases like that. I think it is important that registration officers should realise that they are public servants and that these things should not be interpreted capriciously.
Note 4 deals with postal voting and I think that a further opportunity has been 1232 lost. It mentions "absence on business". This is so vague as to be almost misleading. Most people reading it will not realise the large number of categories of people entitled to vote by post because their work takes them away sporadically, perhaps for one or two days. It would be helpful to people in understanding their rights if some examples were given—for instance, lorry drivers, who can be away driving long distances. This provision could also be expanded without additional administrative trouble or burden. To many people "absence on business" conjures up a very narrow category of those entitled to vote by post. They do not realise just how many categories of people qualify.
The Minister mentioned Regulations 5 and 7 deal with the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers applying to elections of councillors for principal areas. Will he say whether this will cover the cases of those who move within a district? I have spoken at length in the House on a number of occasions about the way in which Bristol has been humiliated under local government reorganisation, being stripped of its once-proud city and county status and reduced to the status of a jazzed-up parish council.
It is still a large place, in spite of what the Government have done to it. If a person goes from, say, Southmead or Avonmouth on the north side over to Hartcliffe in my constituency on the southern slopes of Dundry Hill, he will have a great distance to travel if he wishes to return to vote. Does this facility include postal voting within a district of that size? If not, it is high time that the Government thought about this. If the Minister tells me that I am wrong about this I will be more than pleased. If I am right, I ask him to consider someone who has to travel across Bristol to make a return journey from work to vote. He will have to go through the rush hour traffic. Is this encouraging people to exercise their democratic right?
§ Dame Joan Vickers (Plymouth, Devonport)
I agree with much of what the hon. Member for Bristol, South (Mr. Michael Cocks) said. But I want to raise two other, different points. The hon. Member spoke of people being 1233 absent on business. I cannot understand why people cannot have the vote when they are on holiday. People take holidays all the year round now. Such people are not in a special category. Over 7 million people are taking holidays at different times of the year and it seems absurd that they should be disenfranchised because they are on holiday. It does not happen in other Commonwealth countries. People from such countries on holiday in Great Britain can vote in their own country.
Paragraph 2 deals with, among other things, the registration of members of Her Majesty's Forces. It says that their names: will be included in the register if they have made the necessary service declaration; to do this they should apply to their Service or Department or to the British Council. On the last occasion only 40 per cent. of such persons got on the register. How can they get on it if they are in Hong Kong, British Honduras or Singapore? If their commanding officer is particularly interested he might remind them about it. Yet it is different for merchant seamen. I do not see why members of the Forces should be any different from them.
It is unfair that citizens of the Irish Republic and merchant seamen can vote yet members of the Forces are disenfranchised unless special action is taken by them. These men and women perform great service to our country in many areas, including Ulster. I hope that my hon. and learned Friend will take special note of this and see that this unfortunate situation is cleared up.
§ Mr. John Fraser (Norwood)
These regulations do not cover a great deal and we can discuss them in a wider context only by reference to other matters. One is happy to know that, as a Member of Parliament, one now gets one free election register. I have not had one up to now.
On the point about jurors, I concede that there may be some difficulty about asking someone who lives in a house with the occupier whether he is over 65. Many people do not particularly wish to discuss whether they are pensioners, and one wants to respect their privacy.
This brings me to a wider point. I hope that the guidance to returning 1234 officers will ensure that they make every attempt to see that, where a house is in multiple occupation, the return of electors notice goes to every household in the house and is not simply completed by the person in control of the house. Time and time again, when one goes canvassing before and during election campaigns, one hears the disappointed cries of people who have been left off the register.
Some of us suspect the reasons. First, the landlord does not want it known, perhaps, from whom he is receiving rent, on which he pays no income tax, until eventually the authorities catch up with him. Second, there is now fairly stringent legislation relating to multiple occupation. In many cases, the landlord does not want the local authority to know that his house is in multiple occupation and therefore tries to retain control of the information given about occupation.
Third, I know from local authority experience that some councils and, I believe, even building societies, occasionally check up to see whether the mortgagor is subletting the property, which can sometimes be ascertained by seeing whether different names for the same address appear on the election register. Those are the reasons why a person in control of a house may not wish to return full information.
§ Mr. Michael Cocks
Perhaps my hon. Friend would consider a fourth reason, of which I can give him more details at another time. It is not unknown, in my experience, for the person who receives the form to exclude people on the ground that they may not vote his way in an election.
§ Mr. Fraser
That would of course be an utterly objectionable reason for leaving a person's name off the election register. The returning officers, who are town clerks and will know their districts thoroughly, will know those areas which are in multiple occupation, even if multiple occupation legislation has not been applied to them.
I hope that, for reasons of privacy, as well as to ensure that we get the maximum number of names on the election register, every attempt will be made to see that separate returns are made for all families in a house which may appear to 1235 be in single occupation but which the local authority officers know from experience is likely to be in multiple occupation.
I realised only recently that we are not debating poll cards tonight, but my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South (Mr. Michael Cocks) said that many electors think that they cannot exercise their right to vote unless they have a poll card. Attention is not drawn to this fact in the schedule to the regulations. All I would ask is that urgent consideration be given to urging local authorities to issue poll cards in the forthcoming elections. They will, after all, be elections for novel councils, with new areas, new constituencies and new powers. People in county boroughs will for the first time be voting for district councils and county councils. If there were any time when it was important to send out poll cards, it is the forthcoming elections.
It has in effect been left to the discretion of the returning officers whether poll cards go out. Some returning officers will say—as they have done already in London, I believe—"We choose not to send out poll cards." The Greater London Council area is surely one in which the boundaries are well defined, where there are no immediate problems of reorganisation, and where there is no reason why poll cards should not be sent out. I hope that the most urgent consideration will be given to urging local authorities, if it is a possibility, to send out poll cards for these elections.
On my hon. Friend's final point, about dates, once again, I hope that note will be taken of his remarks. After all, it does not say "noon" on a certain date for late notification of people who have been left off the register. In other regulations relating to representation of the people the word "noon" does appear. It was by mistake left out of the Local Elections (Principal Areas) Rules 1973. I hope that guidance will be given about this. The limit of notice should be up to midnight of the day in question.
§ Mr. Caerwyn E. Roderick (Brecon and Radnor)
It is not for me to delay the House unnecessarily but I would like to put a query on paragraph 5 of the notes 1236 to the amending regulations, and that is about jury service. It says: Electors who are over 65 are ineligible on age grounds for jury service. I understand that the professionals involved in the courts are not regarded as ineligible at 65. By "professionals" I mean the people paid for their duties—judges, solicitors, barristers, and so on. It seems rather odd to a layman like myself that one should be ineligible for jury service when he becomes 65, that one should at that age be regarded as not suitable to serve on a jury, when the experts, so to speak, can go on indefinitely.
People are inconvenienced to a large extent throughout their working lives by being called to serve on juries. When they retire, when they become 65, they might almost make a hobby of serving on juries. Who are we to decide what hobbies people should engage in? Some people might enjoy jury service. I see no reason to impose such a limit. I query why that age limit remains an obstacle. I do not know, but is it by default? I should like to hear the Minister's comments on the point.
By leave of the House, I will deal with the last point first, if I may. I say at once that the "professionals" do not go on indefinitely any longer. They may be interminable, but that is another matter. They used to be able to go on indefinitely, but there is now a retiring age for High Court judges, circuit judges, and for magistrates.
The answer to the question by the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Roderick) is that these regulations are merely to carry into effect the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 in which the maximum age is laid down. The age of 65 was taken because the Morris Committee recommended that for jury service the age should be between 21 and 65 and the House decided that it should be between 18 and 65, presumably because it was felt that people much over that age, and sitting on a jury, might not be so much in tune with those whom they would be trying and who might be younger. Whatever the reasons may have been it is not for me to give them in this debate. All I can say is that the regulations specify 65 because the Act 1237 specifies 65, and the Act specifies 65 because the Morris Committee recommended that age and the House accepted it.
I was wondering whether the Minister, on the basis of that argument, was considering reducing the retiring age of magistrates from 70 to 65.
If I were to answer that I would be way outside the scope of the regulations. Perhaps that matter can be raised on another occasion.
The hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel) was quite right, and I apologise for having said "any of us". I should have said "for hon. Members in England and Wales". It does not apply to Scotland because Scotland has separate Representation of the People Regulations. There would have to be separate amendments to enable a free copy of the register to be provided to Scottish Members of Parliament. I will certainly draw this to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland. The regulations are concerned with four matters. None of the other three applies to Scotland, and probably that is why Scotland has not been considered.
§ Mr. David Steel
I suspect that is what has happened. It is hardly worth making separate regulations for Scotland on the one point that might be covered by my suggested redrafting. Unless the Secretary of State for Scotland comes forward with a tiny amendment, Scottish Members of Parliament will be unable to have copies of the register.
I will examine whether there is any way in which without further amendment hon. Members may receive a copy. Each constituency is entitled to four free copies of the register. Presumably there will have to be amendments to the regulations applying to Scotland after the implementation of the local Government (Scotland) Bill. I will look into this and if necessary write to the hon. Gentleman.
I sympathise with what my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dame Joan Vickers) said. It is true that the number of Service men on the register and entitled to vote has dropped fairly substantially since the change in 1238 the regulations. As she will know, this is one of the matters on the agenda for the Speaker's Conference. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in his letter to the Speaker invited the conference to give immediate consideration to it. Both sides of the House accept that it is wrong that a large proportion of our citizens should be disfranchised because they happen to be in the Services.
I take the point made by the hon. Member for Norwood (Mr. John Fraser) about multiple occupation. I am advised that when the registration officer is aware of multiple occupation he normally sends each occupier a separate Form A. As the hon. Gentleman accepted, there are times when the registration officer cannot know that there is multiple occupation.
The hon. Member for Norwood and the hon. Member for Bristol, South (Mr. Michael Cocks) spoke about poll cards. The Government have stated that they intend to prescribe poll cards for elections after next year. The Government cannot prescribe poll cards for the first elections for the new county and district councils because in certain areas it is not possible to have the poll cards available in time. At the request of all the political parties and local authorities we agreed that local authorities should have discretion to decide whether to have poll cards, provided that they are advised by the returning officer that he is physically able to provide them. We must leave it to the local authorities to make their own decision. The impression I have from the Home Office is that all the pressure is to have poll cards, and we shall certainly take account of what has been said tonight. We have left it to the local authorities to decide, and it would be inappropriate for me to make a strong statement either way.
The hon. and learned Gentleman says that this has been left to local authorities. Is it not true that it has been left to the person acting as the returning officer specifically and that one man, a paid servant of a local authority, is in a position completely to go against the expressed wish of the majority of the elected members? Is not that undesirable?
That is not quite fair. It is true to the extent that the council 1239 cannot vote to have poll cards unless it is advised by the returning officer that he can physically provide them. He has to inform the council that he would be able to provide them. Having made that information available, it is then for the council to decide whether it wishes to have them. Therefore, it is not quite right to say that one man can decide. If the returning officer, always acting impartially and with the best of motives, advises the council that he is unable to provide poll cards for the election, there is nothing that the local authority can do about it. If he is able to provide them, it is for the local authority to decide whether it wishes to have them.
Concerning the comment about not needing a poll card to vote, I am advised that the fact that a poll card is not needed to vote should be on the poll card; but it does not follow that there is any need to put that information on Form A.
§ Mr. John Fraser
Surely it is more important when there are not to be any poll cards. May I ask the hon. and learned Gentleman to reconsider the position in Greater London. The GLC has to resolve whether to send out poll cards, but, as I understand the regulations, it cannot resolve to do so unless every returning officer for every London borough says that he is able to comply with its request to send them out. Therefore, if one returning officer in London decides that polling cards cannot be sent out, that denies poll cards to the whole of the GLC area.
The hon. Gentleman is right on his interpretation of the regulations. I think that in London that must be so. I will look at the position and see whether it is likely to cause trouble. Outside London the returning officer must say whether he can comply, and it is for the county or district to decide on that basis whether to have polling cards. I think that the hon. Gentleman is right about London. I will look at that point.
I am sorry to trouble the Minister again, but this is an important point. In Avon County we have three different returning officers for Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol. We in Bristol are convinced that we could have poll cards, but there has been a 1240 nice, cosy agreement between the three people concerned and Gloucestershire and Somerset say "No", so the enormous area of Bristol is being deprived of poll cards for the county elections.
I will come to that in a moment. I had a feeling that we had designated one returning officer for each new area.
I turn to the point about moving within a district and the postal vote. The regulations in no way change people's entitlement to postal votes. Whether there should be a greater entitlement to postal votes is a matter for the Act, not the regulations. The fact that a person moves within a local authority does not entitle him to a postal vote at local elections. A person may be entitled to a postal vote only at parliamentary elections.
I was asked about absence on business and why we did not give examples of what this meant. There is a limit on the amount of information which can he given on Form A without causing confusion.
All these points can be considered when the Electoral Advisory Conference next considers Form A, which it will do in advance of the main altered regulations rather than the interim regulations.
§ Dame Joan Vickers
What about the holiday maker? Will that aspect of the matter be dealt with?
That, again, is a matter of substantive law and is not for the regulations. We cannot, by regulation, allow for postal votes. They are not allowed by law. Entitlement to vote while on holiday is a matter for the Speaker's Conference, and I cannot say further than that now.
On the question of the date for claims, I can tell the House only that the law is clear. Claims are required to be received by 16th December.
The answer to the hon. Member for Bristol, South is that the returning officer would have to satisfy all the councils concerned that he could not issue poll cards. There were reasons why we could not prescribe poll cards for the 1973 elections for new councils, and as we could not prescribe them we feel that the matter is best left for local decision without further intervention by the Home Office.
1241 I think that the debate has gone rather wider than the regulations, as every matter that has been raised has not been one dealt with by the regulations but, rather, one that is not. But I am not suggesting that hon. Members were not right to raise those things that have been left undone as well as those things that have been done. What the regulations do is to provide a free copy of the register for every Member of Parliament in England and Wales, to provide technical alterations for postal votes for elections this year, and, finally, to provide the necessary alterations to Form A for the new qualification for jury service based on the Criminal Justice Act 1972.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Resolved, That the Representation of the People Regulations 1973, dated 9th February 1973, a copy of which was laid before this House on 14th February, be approved.
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1840s → 1840 → July 1840 → 10 July 1840 → Lords Sitting
TIMBER SHIPS.
HL Deb 10 July 1840 vol 55 cc589-90 589
§ On the motion of Viscount Duncannon, the House resolved itself into Committee on the Timber Ships Bill.
§ On the first clause,
§ Lord Colchester
rose for the purpose of moving the omission of certain words in order that its operation might be more extensive. The object of the bill was to prevent the great loss of vessels employed in the transportation of timber from North America. In the last session a committee of the House of Commons had been appointed to inquire into the subject, and from the evidence adduced before that committee it appeared that the loss of vessels employed in this trade had for a series of years been lamentably great. The committee, in their report, state— In 1838, eighteen ships are reported as wrecked on the shore, and forty-eight at sea; of twenty-seven of which there had been no accounts of the crews; of the remaining twenty-one the sufferings of the crews of two had been extreme; in one, the Earl Moira, four bodies only having been found under the maintop, all dead, with part of one of their comrades hung up like butcher's meat in a stall; and in the other, the Anna Maria, five bodies were found dead, with part of the leg of a woman by the side of one of them, who had evidently been feeding upon it; and one more, the Frederick, of St. John's, fallen in with by the Hope, with her crew lashed to the maintop, without the power of assisting them. The noble Lord quoted other passages from the report to show that no less than 590 73 ships, with crews amounting to 949 men, were lost in three years. The committee having thus stated their opinion that the carrying of deck loads of timber was the cause of such a fearful loss of life and property, an act was passed, in conformity with their recommendation, confining to the summer months the liberty of loading the decks with timber, and excluding the winter months. That measure, however, only applied to vessels crossing the Atlantic to the ports of the United Kingdom, and he wished to extend it to vessels proceeding to the West India colonies. He should, therefore, propose to strike out the word "any ports of the United Kingdom," for the purpose of rendering the provisions of the bill more extensively efficient.
§ Viscount Duncannon
believed, that the noble Lord had not exaggerated the extent of the losses sustained in this particular trade; and he also was of opinion that those losses were occasioned by piling up large quantities of timber on the decks of these vessels. He was anxious to adopt any measure that appeared likely to check such an evil; but many difficulties presented themselves against adopting the proposition of the noble Lord. Last year, when the subject was under consideration, the strongest possible representations were made to the Government from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, all of them setting forth, that if the bill was attempted to be applied to the colonial passages of timber ships, it would, in fact, put an end to that part of the trade between North America and the West Indies, which was one of the most important portions of their traffic. He could not, therefore, agree to the amendment.
§ Lord Ashburton
concurred in the observations of the noble Viscount: if the restriction, with respect to deck-loading, were extended to timber ships bound to the West-India colonies, it would immediately put an end to the trade in lumber.
§ Amendment withdrawn, bill went through Committee.
§ House resumed.
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Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/bc49da22e85e43eda9136d9114589c24
Child at center of Ohio mass killing is safe, family says
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and DAN SEWELLNovember 14, 2018
These undated images released by the Ohio Attorney General's office, show from left, George "Billy" Wagner III, Angela Wagner, George Wagner IV and Edward "Jake" Wagner. Authorities announced Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, that the family of four has been arrested in the slayings of eight members of one family in rural Ohio two years ago. (Ohio Attorney General's office via AP)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A child at the center of a custody dispute that may have set off a gruesome Ohio massacre is safe in state custody, her great-grandfather said Wednesday, before one of the four suspects in the killings appeared in court.
Leonard Manley, whose daughter and grandchildren were among the eight people killed in 2016, told The Cincinnati Enquirer the 4-year-old girl is in state custody.
One of the suspects, Edward “Jake” Wagner, was the long-time former boyfriend of 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden, one of the victims, and shared custody of their daughter at the time of the massacre.
On Wednesday afternoon, Wagner’s father, another of the suspects, agreed to return to Ohio following his arrest in Kentucky. George “Billy” Wagner III was arrested after being found in a horse trailer in Lexington Tuesday. The 47-year-old Wagner waived his rights to an extradition hearing in a brief appearance Wednesday in Lexington district court.
The announcement of Wagner’s arrest along with his wife and two adult sons marked the culmination of a massive investigation that began after seven adults and a teenage boy were found shot in the head at four separate rural Ohio homes in April 2016. The killings terrified Ohio residents and spawned rumors that it was a drug hit, but prosecutors suggested Tuesday the attack had stemmed from a custody dispute.
The investigation is one of the most complicated and extensive in state history, with enormous numbers of witnesses and a huge amount of evidence, said Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk.
“There is a lot of hard work ahead of us. I cannot emphasize that enough. An indictment is only the beginning of the case,” Junk said Tuesday, adding the case may have to be moved to a different county because of pre-trial publicity.
Other Pike County officials are concerned about the costs and issues they will face in housing the suspects, such as added security and other needs. County Commissioner Blaine Beekman said Wednesday the county of 28,000 is already in a budget crunch and officials plan to meet with Junk before reaching out to state officials for help.
“Obviously, we are pleased that the arrests have been made and that, if the evidence is there, the people will be brought to justice,” Beekman said. “But it’s a double-edged sword. ... Now comes the reality of how are we going to pay for this? We have no book to refer to. There are just so many unknowns.”
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said a grand jury indicted the Wagners on aggravated murder charges. Police arrested Wagner; his wife, 48-year-old Angela Wagner; and his sons George Wagner III, 27, and Edward Wagner, 26. They could be sentenced to death if convicted, DeWine said.
Edward Wagner was also charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor for having sexual contact with Rhoden when she was 15 years old and he was 20 years old, DeWine’s office said.
DeWine gave scant detail about why the victims were killed, other than saying the custody of a young child played a role.
Tony Rhoden, who lost two brothers in the killings, said the family was still processing the news.
“We just don’t know what to think,” Rhoden told the Columbus Dispatch. “It’s a lot to take in.”
The Wagner family lived near the scenes of the killings about 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of Columbus. They moved to Kenai, Alaska, in June 2017, then returned to Ohio this past spring.
Kelly Cinereski, an Alaskan pastor and friend of the family, told the Dayton Daily News he was shocked by their arrests.
“These people wept over dogs, I can’t imagine them taking people’s lives,” he said.
Fredericka Wagner, the mother of Billy Wagner, and Rita Newcomb, the mother of Angela Wagner, were also arrested and charged with misleading investigators.
Both Edward Wagner and Angela Wagner previously told the Cincinnati Enquirer they were not involved in the killings.
Angela Wagner said in an email to the newspaper what happened was devastating and Hanna Rhoden was like a daughter to her. Wagner also told The Enquirer her husband, George, and Christopher Rhoden Sr. were more like brothers than friends.
John Clark, a lawyer who has been representing the Wagners, has said previously that four of the Wagner family members provided laptops, phones and DNA samples to investigators and agreed to be interviewed about the slayings.
“We look forward to the day when the true culprits will be discovered and brought to justice for this terrible tragedy,” Clark said in a statement.
The victims were 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his ex-wife, 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; their three children, 20-year-old Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 16-year-old Christopher Jr., and 19-year-old Hanna; Clarence Rhoden’s fiancée, 20-year-old Hannah Gilley; Christopher Rhoden Sr.’s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; and a cousin, 38-year-old Gary Rhoden. Hanna Rhoden’s days-old baby girl, another baby and a young child were unharmed.
Sewell reported from Cincinnati. Associated Press Writers John Seewer in Toledo, Dylan T. Lovan in Louisville, Kentucky, Angie Wang in Cincinnati, and AP Researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York contributed to this report.
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Denny Hastert "was a bland, utterly conventional supporter of the status quo; his idea of reform was to squelch..."
"... anyone who disturbed Congress’s usual way of doing business," writes John Fund "How Did Denny Hastert Get Rich Enough to Pay Millions to an Accuser?"
I saw him become passionate only once, when he defended earmarks — the special projects such as Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere” that members dropped at the last minute into conference reports, deliberately leaving no time to debate or amend them....
The [Sunlight Foundation] found that Hastert had used a secret trust to join with others and invest in farm land near the proposed route of a new road called the Prairie Parkway. He then helped secure a $207 million earmark for the road. The land, approximately 138 acres, was bought for about $2.1 million in 2004 and later sold for almost $5 million, or a profit of 140 percent. Local land records and congressional disclosure forms never identified Hastert as the co-owner of any of the land in the trust. Hastert turned a $1.3 million investment (his portion of the land holdings) into a $1.8 million profit in less than two years. Hastert claimed at the time that the land deals had nothing to do with the federal earmark he had secured. “I owned land and I sold it, like millions of people do every day,” he told the Washington Post. Or, as George Washington Plunkitt, the former Tammany Hall leader in New York, once said of someone who made a killing in local land that later became part of a lucrative subway development: “He saw his opportunities and he took ’em.” Plunkitt called such “opportunities” a form of “honest graft.”...
ADDED: But getting that money isn't the crime Hastert is charged with. Nor is conveying that money to a person who accused him of wrongdoing. Lawprof Noah Feldman describes the conduct the government cites in its charges (I've added some boldface):
First, [Hastert] made 15 withdrawals of $50,000 each from his own accounts. The withdrawals were not criminal, but they did trigger a federal law that requires a bank to report any transaction or series of transactions of more than $10,000. In April 2012, according to the indictment, bank officials questioned Hastert about the withdrawals.
Presumably, in those conversations or in conjunction with them, Hastert realized for the first time that he shouldn't be making withdrawals of more than $10,000 if he didn't want to trigger scrutiny. Beginning in July 2012, Hastert switched his withdrawals so that they were less than $10,000 each -- to a total of $952,000. That was a crime under the law that prohibits knowingly structuring transactions to avoid reporting. And it's a crime that seems easy to prove, given Hastert’s change in his withdrawal practices.
Unfortunately for Hastert, when the FBI and IRS questioned him about the structure of the transactions in December 2014, he lied to them, insisting that he “did not feel safe in the banking system.” When asked directly what he did with the money, he said, “Yeah, I kept the cash. ... That's what I'm doing.” The lie to federal officials was a crime, too.
All of that is easy to prove, but we might nevertheless wonder whether the choice to prosecute is really based on the alleged wrong that Hastert spent so much money to hush up. Feldman asks why the government keeping things hushed up too and observes that if the underlying accusation is false and Hastert "was being blackmailed unjustly, then the government's prosecution seems heartless to the point of being abusive." Feldman concludes: "we should know what happened or Hastert shouldn't be charged."
But that assumes that the crimes Hastert seems to have committed should go unprosecuted unless there's something else that that makes us want to convict him of something. I think what is abusive is to have crimes that we don't believe in enforcing that are sitting around only to be used on occasions when we have some other problem with a person!
Tags: Hastert, John Fund, law, Noah Feldman, prosecutorial ethics
Chris Low said...
No one should be surprised. People were so sick of Congress after Hastert they dealt the Republicans a historic defeat that gave Pelosi the Speakership.
Hastert was a member in good standing of the Illinois "Combine." John Kass knows him well.
Dennis Hastert is a Republican boss of the infamous Illinois Combine that has run this politically corrupt state.
As such, Hastert even tried to influence the selection of federal prosecutors and prevent politically independent outsiders from wielding federal subpoena power.
I know he says otherwise. That's his public stance. And here's mine: He pushed and a few of us pushed back hard, and readers of this column pushed back even harder, and he dropped it.
He lost that public battle to the conservative Republican reformer, Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, and to those of us who supported Fitzgerald against the Combine.
Illinois Republicans forced out Senator Fitzgerald and we got Obama instead.
Humperdink said...
Going along to get along now has the US $18+++ trillion in debt. And made it's members, current and retired, multimillionaires.
And to imagine: at one point he was just a guy, naked in the shower, with a dream.
The shame of it was the GOP was in a position to enact some great reforms and expand its political base for a time. Instead, the debt kept going up and the corruption showed they were no different from the Democrats. By the time of the financial crisis the party had sunk so low in the public's perception that they were in no position to do anything.
And right now they may have this opportunity again, and they may blow it again.
Imagine if a Democrat got rich this way, say Harry Reid... Naah!
Don't get me wrong, this is the kind of thing that needs a real good airing, on both sides.
Bobber Fleck said...
Much ado about Hastert...
Perform an investigation, determine the facts, charge him if needed, give him a trial if warranted, punish as needed. The media coverage is shameless.
All that money, and he still can only think of those youthful naked male buttocks, flexing and unflexing. Riches may hide the shame, but not the longing.
Flexing, unflexing, flexing, unflexing: Oh Brutal Memory, may it be gone, along with the vexation of that young flicking tongue.
Never answer a question from the Government without a lawyer present. (And even then, don't say anything).
There are some people who don't like silence and will talk to prevent it. I rather like it myself.
"Three Felonies a Day," is what it is called.
"The media coverage is shameless."
It's seems that the government has strong evidence about the structuring and the lying. But there's an issue as to whether he should be prosecuted. I don't see ENOUGH intelligent discussion of this.
As for what Hastert did or didn't do years ago... I guess you could say there's something wrong with smearing him about things that he isn't getting prosecuted for. That's Feldman's issue. But the govt is keeping that part unspoken. You think the media should shut up about it?
I'm agnostic on all this. Hastert apparently paid what would be an absurd amount of money if the underlying story wasn't true. If he's the real victim here, why did he pay that money?
And then there's Fund's issue: Why did Hastert have that kind of money? I think we're right to look into that, for Hastert as well as for Reid (who is discussed in Fund's article).
Largo said...
Remember: it is a crime for *you* to withdraw *your* money from *your* account in amounts that *you* like.
That was Bush/Cheney, not Hastert. Most voters would have been unable to name Hastert.
I think we're right to look into that
Everyone KNOWS how he made the money -- by being a politician. The problem is that politicians are none to keen to change the laws to prevent this. Would you expect pigs to organize themselves so they cannot access the trough? (Apologies to swine, of course, for the association).
"The [Sunlight Foundation] found that Hastert had used a secret trust to join with others and invest in farm land near the proposed route of a new road called the Prairie Parkway."
I don't get it. That transaction had a smell in 2004 when the Prairie Parkway was still a political possibility, but, it never got built. Did the state buy Hastert's land anyway?
Althouse is right.
Where is prosecutorial discretion when you need it?
As to Fund's question about Hastert's income, besides the corrupt land deal Denny was also a lobbyist. Congress has set up American life such that is necessary for business to pay them big money.
We go to a smaller government and with a flat tax and the DC metro area is no longer the wealthiest area in America.
"if the underlying accusation is false and Hastert "was being blackmailed unjustly, then the government's prosecution seems heartless to the point of being abusive." Feldman concludes: "we should know what happened or Hastert shouldn't be charged.""
So there is such a thing as just blackmailing? Is that covered in the criminal statutes? And if the blackmailing is "just," then going after the blackmailee is not "heartless"?
"But that assumes that the crimes Hastert seems to have committed should go unprosecuted unless there's something else that that makes us want to convict him of something. I think what is abusive is to have crimes that we don't believe in enforcing that are sitting around only to be used on occasions when we have some other problem with a person!"
What do you mean, "we"? The point of various "crimes" is to be "sitting around" for use on such "occasions." UW Law does teach that, doesn't it?
"I think we're right to look into that, for Hastert as well as for Reid"
We await your probing report with bated breath.
robother said...
Ann: "But the govt is keeping that part unspoken."
Really? The only source journalists cite about the nature of Hastert's alleged sexual acts is a "top federal law enforcement official." This is the real creepy part of abusing prosecutorial discretion in using vague RICO-like criminal statutes: the anonymous leaks that seek to assure the public that yeah, this is a real bad guy. And the beauty part is, the feds don't have to prove any of that in a court of law.
Bob Boyd said...
"Why did Hastert have that kind of money? I think we're right to look into that"
People like Hastert created laws saying, if it comes to the government's attention that a citizen has a large amount of money, the government is entitled to look into that and demand that the citizen explain where it came from.
Why should the Hasterts not be subject to the same scrutiny? If anything they should be subject to much stricter scrutiny.
To hear the likes of Rachael Maddow squeal with delight about this case tells one all you need to know about this DOJ prosecution.
"Everyone does it."
"The Clintons don't look so bad now, do they."
"The Clinton impeachment was a fraud."
"Denny is a closeted gay hypocrite."
Bad laws unevenly enforced, lots to criticize.
For all we know, Individual A got and still has those $10k installments. If the money was ill-gotten* where is the justice in letting Individual A walk away with the public's money?
*ill-gotten in the old-fashioned way: Ill corruption.
Bobby said...
I'm with Bob Boyd on this one- those who created the intrusive and non-sensible rules, or who had ample opportunity to have them reformed but declined, should be the first ones held to the standards they established. I think it was Lincoln who said the best way to repeal a bad law is to enforce it.
But it needs to be enforced against leaders in both directions and not just as a partisan tool against the party out of power.
Why is Scooter Libby a felon again? Because of something that Richard Armitage did?
I have always maintained that a winning investment strategy is to buy real-estate in the district of the Speaker of the House apparent.
I think it's true that the majority of Congressmen use their inside knowledge to work favorable trades......I don't expect this Hastert thing to trigger any curiousity about the wealth of Pelosi's banker husband. LBJ's wife made tens of millions of dollars with her purchase of radio stations. She was a shrewd businesswoman. Only a misogynist would suggest otherwise......Hastert's underlying crime is difficult, almost impossible, to defend against. But that's why it's important t know more than the sketchy details. And the fact hat the details are so sketchy tends to make one question the government's case.
Althouse said:
My statement was not triggered by this article, but rather by some the breathless reactions of the talking heads and the implication that this situation is of great national import at this moment in time.
I suspect some of the coverage is intended to function as a shiny moving object to direct attention away from other national issues.
The story is newsworthy at some level. Getting to the truth is always worthwhile. Finding out where the money came from is an ongoing issue with politicians, but is not suddenly an urgent issue. Just like Ferguson and Baltimore, I can wait for the results of the investigation to be presented.
"That was Bush/Cheney, not Hastert. Most voters would have been unable to name Hastert."
No, Hastert wrecked the opportunity for the Republican Congress to do some real accomplishments. Gingrich started it but got sidetracked with his book deal and his personal problems. Livingston got smacked down by the Democrats' smear machine and Hastert arrived with no morals.
The hard left, as in ARM, think Bush/Cheney was the problem but they weren't. Maybe if they had been able to head off the financial crash but that was lost when the Dims took Congress in 2006 and trompted on the accelerator. Fannie-Freddie was a Democrat retirement lan for loyal bureaucrats like Raines and Johnson.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if you don't like what they do with the power, then do not let them use the power.
It's safe - and prudent - to assume your employees will steal from you. They are easier to watch if they are local.
Or it may be best just do the job yourself. Time was, I had a lot more control over things like where to get medical care, my kids' education, things like that.
sparrow wrote -
"Bad laws unevenly enforced, lots to criticize."
Agreed. I and one or two others have already mentioned Martha Stewart and Scooter Libby, but they are high profile cases. I wonder how many ordinary people served time for lying about a "not crime?" Or is this an exclusively politically enforced statute?
I'd argue that recent history of prosecutions of Republicans that the case is likely far weaker than we realize.
steve uhr said...
If he should be prosecuted for anything it should be for being an idiot. If he just continued to make withdrawals in increments of $50,000, and told the FBI to go fish when they inquired, he would be fine right now. Scary to think such a dunce was two heartbeats from being President.
MikeR said...
Honest graft? No, just graft.
Why would anyone think that I support these kind of old-time big government "country-club" Republican politicians? Because he had a R in front on his name. In favor of earmarks!
This kind of thing was the whole point of the Tea Party, regardless of what the propagandists from the liberals want them to be.
Remember when they grabbed the Alaska Senate seat through and unfounded prosecution of Ted Stevens? The only punishment for the prosecutors was a letter in their file that will only serve as a glowing recommendation to future employers.
This is what Democracy looks like!
whether he should be prosecuted.
Why would it be that he shouldn't be prosecuted? Because he was a lawmaker? Because being dragged out of the closet is a misfortune? I don't see the other side well.
I am all for abolishing all these laws that exist for the sake of prosecution. For that purpose it is good when a high-profile case beings attention to the vulnerability we all have to an intrusive, outrageous government.
"I think what is abusive is to have crimes that we don't believe in enforcing that are sitting around only to be used on occasions when we have some other problem with a person."
No kidding! Back in the old days prosecutors called it "the chickenshit doctrine." Today it is called SOP for Democrat prosecutors where the "problem" is being Republican or Conservative.
If you require the banks to report repeated transaction under the $10,000 limit, there may not be a reason to make structuring illegal.
As to selective prosecution, it might overwhelm the DOJ with recordkeeping, but it would be great to have data (if it doesn't exist) on when the government does and doesn't decline prosecution.
Hastert's crime could well have been prosecuted because the amount involved, and not because of the underlying bad conduct.
~ Gordon Pasha said...
Show me the man and I will find you the crime. ~ Beria
The reporting law is on the books to catch crime lords and tax cheats, but is written in such a way that innocent purpose is not a defense.
Let's say you accept the premise that the payments to the accuser are an innocent purpose. If they are in settlement of a personal injury, they aren't taxable. Maybe no crime was committed in the making of these payments, as opposed to the evasion of reporting them.
But, how does the prosecutor know that's where all the cash went? For example, if Hastert were sufficiently devious, he might be using the accuser as a cover for cash he paid in bribes to public officials. Even if he made a series of large payments to the accuser, how do we know that accounts for all the cash?
So, even if a prosecutor might be talked out of prosecuting if the purpose were innocent, Hastert may have covered his tracks so well that he is not be able to document his complete innocence.
KenK said...
How the hell did we get to the point in this country where withdrawing your own money from a bank became the gov's business? We need more Rand Pauls and fewer Denny Hasterts.
Meanwhile, the Clintons keep on Clintoning. Jon Corzine continues to walk free after stealing over a billion from clients. Al Sharpton walks free.
Democrats -- corrupt to the core in using power. About everything. All the time.
$10,000 ain't what it used to be.
My mother maintains multiple savings accounts because of the $100,000 FDIC limit. $100,00 ain't what it used to be.
madAsHell,
Exactly. When this became law $10k was perhaps a meaningful trigger for a reportable transaction. Not anymore. Over the last few years, I've made a number of by this standard large withdrawals for important but quite ordinary purposes. Before now, I never gave a thought to the feds keeping a record of this. Now I'm none too happy realizing that conceivably I could be interrogated about a new roof, a new (used) car, year end property taxes and insurance premiums, replacement windows, or even living expenses when withdrawn to cover multiple months.
You would think the feds would be so overwhelmed with data that no one would stand out UNLESS they had already targeted you for monitoring.
Two words: Term limits.
Bob Boyd @ 0851. Bingo!
The reporting and structuring laws have got to go.If the government can't find enough to prosecute the underlying crime then the reporting and structuring charges are invented crimes. Prosecutors need to stripped of qualified immunity if their conduct has been shown to be lawless and if so then they should be held personally accountable to the maximum punishment the law would have punished the wrongfully accused and they should be left utterly destitute and stripped of any pensions. Same for police officers and judges as well as all civil servants.
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Ann Althouse said...I think what is abusive is to have crimes that we don't believe in enforcing that are sitting around only to be used on occasions when we have some other problem with a person!
Yes, that's correct, especially when at least part of the "some other problem" goes back to political disagreement with the target. But, respectfully, what the hell are any of us going to do about it? Did anyone here exepect Eric Holder's DOJ to be fair? Or, if you prefer, John Ashcroft's? The bigger, more difficult problem isn't the people at the top, nor the high-profile cases they bring. It's the workforce the put in place combined with an expansive criminal code no one can fully understand. Ashcroft and Holder can at least be voted out. What about Lois Lerner or her IRS division? How many citizens face seemingly-arbitrary prosecution for crimes a hundred other citizens commit without penalty? What do we do if it looks like there's a pattern in who ends up facing charges or penalties? Remember, profiling is bad, except when it's good. We've expanded the size and the scope of the state and along with that has come ever more intrusive laws, enforced by agents of the state seemingly at their whim.
Maybe when we elect Jeb or Hilary things'll turn around.
The bigger, more difficult problem isn't the people at the top, nor the high-profile cases they bring. It's the workforce the put in place combined with an expansive criminal code no one can fully understand. Ashcroft and Holder can at least be voted out. What about Lois Lerner or her IRS division? How many citizens face seemingly-arbitrary prosecution for crimes a hundred other citizens commit without penalty? What do we do if it looks like there's a pattern in who ends up facing charges or penalties? Remember, profiling is bad, except when it's good. We've expanded the size and the scope of the state and along with that has come ever more intrusive laws, enforced by agents of the state seemingly at their whim.
I whole-heartedly advocate a return to the spoils system. Make SOMEBODY responsible for the abuses.
HT said...
I'm reading about Hastert now in the Washington Post. They say that in this "tight knit" community, someone would have heard about this by now. And that may be. But it also may be that in such communities, no one dare release the first hint of this. It's freaky, but that's how things work sometimes. As to the crime - in this country, we all agreed to those rules - as far as I understand, and I could be wrong - with anti terrorism stuff in the patriot act, right? So, while I understand the outrage people feel when they think they can dispense with their own money however they want, I do believe we all agreed to those rules (some acronym I can't remember now). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Well, there IS media coverage, if that's what you mean.
Hastert's nowhere to be found, I do not get a sense of shamelessness at all. I just read articles that people say it's "sad" and they're scratching their head. Maybe he's covering up someone else's crime, what do we know.
I am honestly baffled by Hastert's decision to talk to the Feds, though. He should know better. Hell, I know better, and I'm not hiding anything.
If Hastert was some kind of Sandusky figure who used his coaching position to groom victims, then I'm all for the government screwing him by any means available. If, however, this was a one off, I'd be inclined to take a more charitable view. Hastert committed a reprehensible crime, and he deserves his disgrace, but I don't know if it's fair for the government to go so far out of their way to prosecute him.......I'll await further developments, but it does seem that if pederastry were his sexual orientation, then more victims would come forward. Of course, at one time, you could have said the same thing about Bill Cosby. If ever a case deserved withholding judgment, it's this one.
I agree with Insty in that we ought to elect ore Republicans only because that is the only way the press will do its constitutionally assigned job.
tim in vermont:
Headline: Vote Republican for journalistic integrity!
Headline: Vote Democrat for blackmail deterrence!
There are so many ways to collect and redistribute capital and debt. I wonder why he chose to access his own capital through easily traceable channels.
libertariansafetyguy said...
Prosecuting guilty people does no good. Nope, we have to prosecute a few innocent people to create power.
Presumably, in those conversations or in conjunction with them, Hastert realized for the first time that he shouldn't be making withdrawals of more than $10,000 if he didn't want to trigger scrutiny.
So he had to violate the law to know what was in it? Maybe he did this to impress Nancy Pelosi.
Maybe everyone should chill out and re-read Lolita.
"I think what is abusive is to have crimes that we don't believe in enforcing that are sitting around only to be used on occasions when we have some other problem with a person!"
Yes. Exactly.
Which is the problem with the law on structuring withdrawals. And probably the one on making false statements to the feds, the way it seems to be enforced.
The bigger question is who would do Denny?
Oh come on Titus. You know you lust for his dadbod. You would let him give you a Cleveland Steamer just to see where it came from. Have fun getting raped in Bushwick?
Please unknown-I am not a chubby chaser. Also, Denny is 40 years too old for me.
Bushwick was great-no raped though.
Oh come on Titus we all know about you. Put down the roofie flavored jello pudding pop and come clean.
Peter said...6/1/15, 8:42 AM
The government did not buy Hastert's land, and it never was supposed to. Four months after President Bush signed the law containing the earmark into law on August 10, 2005, Hastert (and others) sold it to a developer, who hoped to make money building 1600 houses a few miles from the highway. It was actually a 727-acre piece of land, of which Hastert and his family owned 69 acres, and 1/4 of another 69 acres.
Now you mean to tell me that the developer lost out? ((or was this more convoluted, and that sale a sweetheart deal by the developer, who never expected to make money from it?)
The developer paid $4.9 million. I don't see how Hastert made millions, if he only owned 11.86% of the land. That should have made him, gross, slightly under $600,000.
http://sunlightfoundation.com/press/releases/2006/06/15/dennis-hasterts-highway-to-financial-heaven/
Apparently, the $4.9 million is just for his portion - Little Rock Trust #225 (Little Rock, as in Arkansas?) In a 2004 disclosure, Speaker Hastert had valued that land as between $250,001 and $500,000. Before selling it, Hastert transferred his land into a trust headed by Dallas C. Ingemunson, Hastert’s campaign treasurer, which kept his name off the papers.
Michael K saus John Kass of the Chicago Tribune says that Dennis Hastert was one of the Republican bosses of the "infamous Illinois Combine" that opposed Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald.
Does that mean we owe Barack Obama to Dennis Hastert?
If so, we also owe the prevention of the election of Hillary Clinton to Dennis Hastert.
We are learning all these things we should have learned years ago.
And you know, I didn't even know that Senator Ted Kennedy was in the army - I knew he had cheated on a Spanish language test and had to wothdraw from Harvard, but I didn't know thst he had joine dthe army against his father's wishes, but his father made sure he got an easy job, and was kept out of Korea and wa slet out of the army after two years.
That Haster was a lobbyist was not such a big surprise. The New York Times writes (Sunday) that he lobbied for e-cigarettes and candy flavored cigarettes on behalf of Lorriland Tpbacco, and for Peavpody coal in 2013-2014 - and then switched sides in 2015 to lobby for reneable fuel production for Fuels America.
He also worked for Light Squared, which had a wreless venture, until Light Squared went bankrupt when regulators ruled its technology would interfere with GPS.
There were no earmarks by the time Hastert lobbied, but he would lobby for policy riders and programmatic changes. He did lobby for seection of a major transportatoopn facility for the Army Reserve on behalf of an Illinois developer, enterPoint Properties. For a company that supplied security guards, he pressed fror Congressionakl review of procurement by the TSA.
He didn't specializxe in anything, except maybe Appropriations bills. He worked on the annual labor and healh spending bill for the American College of Rheumatology. The New York Times doesn't say what the American College of Rheumatology wanted.
Hastert's advantage was he knew the system and he knew the people, most of whom would readily take his call.
The size of the blackmail sounds like he must ahve bene paying all of his income after taxes to he blackmailer.
William said... on 6/1/15 @ 12:57 PM
I'll await further developments, but it does seem that if pederastry were his sexual orientation, then more victims would come forward.
They say there's two - there's another they know of, but the second person didn't try blackmailing him.
There also was a report that Hastert wanted to keep the underlying allegations out of the charges, and that in return he would plead guilty.
Haseert has not said anything, but he's resigning from everything.
Kirk Parker said...
Largo,
"Remember: it is a crime for *you* to withdraw *your* money from *your* account in amounts that *you* like."
This. This in spades.
It's tyranny, plain and simple: total, unadulterated, unAmerican tyranny.
See, now if THIS guy had committed suicide, things would be so much simpler.
Hey. What if he needed the money to pay a kidnapping ransom?
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PJ Harvey – Stories from the City Stories from the Sea – Classic Music Review
By altrockchick on August 22, 2018
In an interview with Mojo magazine some years after Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea was released, PJ Harvey said, “I felt like I got lost around that record. I wanted to try writing lots of perfect pop songs. It’s great to set oneself projects, but they also have to ring true to your heart and soul. Pop music isn’t where my heart is at.”
Polly—may I call you Polly? Great. Polly, let me give you some friendly advice.
Artists are terribly neurotic people, always second-guessing themselves, forever offering alternative explanations and unnecessary excuses for past works that don’t fit the new self-narrative they’re trying to spin to the media. Ray Davies disowned his theatrical works, Ian Anderson called A Passion Play “one-dimensional,” and John Lennon tried to rewrite history dozens of times when he wanted to discount past offerings that failed to serve his desire to project himself as an artiste. Sometimes the change of heart is in reaction to criticism (Davies and Anderson), but more often it’s an artist on a personal growth trajectory who can’t bear to think about the earlier, allegedly inferior version of themselves that bears no resemblance to the image they wish to promulgate in the present.
And hey, Polly, when promoting Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, you told Q Magazine, “I wanted everything to sound as beautiful as possible. Having experimented with some dreadful sounds on Is This Desire and To Bring You My Love—where I was really looking for dark, unsettling, nauseous-making sounds—Stories From The City . . . was the reaction. I thought, No, I want absolute beauty. I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody. I want it to be my beautiful, sumptuous, lovely piece of work.”
Mission accomplished. So—you went through a phase that was a natural, balancing response to a previous phase. The result of that balancing act was a beautiful album. Shut up.
And as you also noted in that interview, the album is “pop according to PJ Harvey, which is probably as un-pop as you can get according to most people’s standards.” Ahem. Art is not limited to those genres given the seal of approval by the cognoscenti, and as I have noted many times before, simply because a work is popular doesn’t mean it isn’t art. Willie Shakespeare was pretty popular in his day, as were Dickens, Liszt, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and the aforementioned Mr. Lennon. As for the label, “pop music,” the term is quite elastic and has morphed considerably over time. For the past twenty years, “pop” has meant “shitty repetitive music produced by entertainers who couldn’t survive without autotune.” Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea does not come close to fitting the definition of pop in vogue at the time of the album’s release, so . . .
SHUT UP!
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea does indeed feature many moments of beauty, and vocally, PJ never sounded better. There’s also plenty of power in many of the tracks, but instead of the raw power highlighted on her first three albums, we hear a more disciplined and intentional use of power that makes for some terribly exciting moments. Consisting of songs she wrote during the period she lived in New York and others she wrote back home in Dorset, the material on the album ranges from edgy to ethereal, from spacious to claustrophobic, from fearful to loving. It seems that PJ was far more worried about the “pop” label than anyone else, as contemporary buyers of pop paid little attention to the three singles released from the album, none of which came close to cracking the top 30. No, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is still 100% certifiable PJ Harvey: curious, complex and endlessly compelling. The darkness that characterized her music prior to Stories isn’t replaced by sunshine and lollipops but presented in a more nuanced and detached manner, as if Polly Jean had embraced the universal truth of yin and yang instead of spending all her time yinning.
Yay! I made a new verb!
While inventing language on the fly is about as creative as I ever get (outside of the bedroom, of course), for PJ Harvey, talent is both a gift and an obsession. The obsessive aspect of her creative side makes it natural for her to portray obsessive characters, whether it’s the broad trying to guilt Billy into accepting his paternal responsibilities or the paranoid nutcase in “Big Exit” who convinces herself that she could be safe from the bad, bad world if only she had access to a gun. This is a woman seriously trapped in the fight-flight loop, driven by her irrational response to fears both real and imagined:
Look out ahead
I see danger come
I want a pistol
I want a gun
I’m scared baby
I wanna run
This world’s crazy
Give me the gun
Baby, baby
Ain’t it true
I’m immortal
When I’m with you
But I want a pistol
In my hand
I wanna go to
A different land
As the narrator later complains about “too many cops/too many guns,” we can safely assume that this is one of the songs where PJ reflected on her experience in the USA, a place where irrational fear combines with illogic to create a country where guns are cherished more than children. PJ’s vocal is sufficiently over-the-top to capture the woman’s deep-seeded anxiety and the short-circuited left side of her brain, but what I find most impressive about this characterization is that the woman uses a seductive tone to try to get her lover to hand over the .38. Sex and violence have always been integrated in American culture and celebrated simultaneously in American art—think Bonnie and Clyde, Fatal Attraction—the list is endless. PJ didn’t stay all that long in the States (less than a year as a resident), but she still managed to perceive some of the bizarre aspects of the American psyche that befuddle most of the other inhabitants of the planet.
The music is equally fascinating, opening with a simple G-F-G-F guitar riff in stereo soon backed by a hard-strummed guitar open-tuned to G with no third (resulting in a G5-G7 pattern, NOT the Gm incorrectly cited on several chord sites). Getting rid of the third (here the B note) creates a stronger drone effect, an insistent sound that mirrors the character’s equally insistent fixation on pistol as problem solver. The sense of alarm in the first verse is intensified because the only sounds are that guitar ensemble, a relatively faint snare and PJ’s voice. When the bass comes in on the first-go-round of the chorus—which also involves a key change to Dm—I get the chills I often get from those little moments of simple brilliance that make music such a delightful experience. As the song proceeds, the band throws in other sounds (including a harpsichord, believe it or not) until the stop-time bridge gives us another key change (Gm) and the superficial reflections of a woman completely incapacitated by life’s contradictions, by the simultaneous existence of yin and yang:
Sometimes it rains so hard
And I feel the hurt
Feels like the end of the world
I see the children
Sharp as knives
Dead and alive
I just feel like
It’s the end of the world
PJ leaves the woman in psychic paralysis, permanently trapped in the inability to accept reality as multi-dimensional. The “big exit” of the title is also multi-dimensional: it has echoes of the “big sleep” from film noir, the woman’s desire to escape the world’s contradictions and her latent urge to kill. “Big Exit” is a rich musical and lyrical experience, a phrase you rarely hear applied to “pop songs.”
The practice of withholding resolution to the root chord is repeated in the exuberant “Good Fortune,” where PJ begins the verses on the noncommittal combination of Am9/G6 before settling on C major to wrap up the sequence (don’t bother with the chords cited on Wikipedia, because they’re wrong, too). These extended suspensions are remarkably effective in raising the anticipation of resolution, so when PJ reluctantly lands on the root, the experience is infinitely more satisfying than say the classic trope of seventh-chord-to-root that you’ll find in a billion blues and rock songs. PJ has more comfort with ambiguity than most musicians, and the reluctance to find resolution is both an acceptance of life’s unpredictability and a deep desire to milk every experience for all that it’s worth.
This chosen restlessness also manifests itself in “Good Fortune” through references to the gypsy experience, a longing for a life on the move where routines and garden-variety expectations are replaced by improvising in the here and now. The image of the gypsy was not chosen at random; it was chosen because gypsies are a stigmatized group treated like outlaws in part for refusing to abandon their peripatetic ways for metro-boulot-dodo. Unlike the paralyzed narrator in “Bad Exit,” PJ comes down hard on the side of the flight response and its illicit connotations:
So I take my
Good fortune
And I fantasize
Of our leaving
Like some modern-day
Gypsy landslide
On the run again (On the run again)
Hopefully the modern-day Bonnie and Clyde left the guns on the rack.
The desire to leave it all behind also defies our expectations of what “good fortune” looks like. For most people in the western world, good fortune is something that brings fame or enough money to do whatever the fuck we want. PJ diminishes the value of both fame and fortune earlier in the song by reducing those aspects of good fortune to “been there, done that.”
Things I once thought
Have all taken place
Fortunately for the rest of us, PJ hasn’t yet formed her own band of gypsies, and I doubt that she’ll do that until she’s completely exhausted the artistic need for self-expression. Given her stated desire to produce albums that sound completely different from preceding efforts, I think she’s found a way to manifest her gypsy spirit through her music, and I am so good with that.
The truth is you can escape social norms without going anywhere, if you’re fortunate enough to find and nurture a genuine, loving relationship where all parties dedicate themselves to the full realization of self and other. This is the subject matter of “A Place Called Home,” a song that supports the notion of mitigating the dehumanizing effects of society through the open arms of a supportive relationship. As a person who has adopted what society terms an alternative lifestyle, I relate deeply to this song, and it’s the only PJ Harvey song I’ve thoroughly learned and performed during the annual family get-togethers, with my mother or partner joining me on the layered call-and-response vocals in the chorus.
It’s not a difficult song to learn, as the guitar chords are pretty standard fare designed to give the singer lots of room to maneuver. That maneuverability is most obvious in the chorus where PJ delivers the lead vocals within normal range while raising her voice an octave to deliver the tender, encouraging responses (my love, come on). Where the flexibility of a steady baseline really pays off is in the second verse, where PJ varies her phrasing so that the lines “I stumble, I stumble” defy the rhythm, amplifying the emotional impact of separation:
I walk, I wade
Through full lands and lonely
I stumble, I stumble
With you I wait
To be born again
With love comes the day
Just hold on to me
Equally impactful is the chord change on the last verse, where the Am-F pattern is abandoned for the richer complementary pattern of C-G-D2-Am that transforms the static melody into a stirring call for action:
To follow through
To read the signs
Now the message sent
Let’s bring it to its final end
I’ll borrow a phrase from PJ’s statement of intent and declare that “A Place Called Home” is an absolute beauty of a song.
The darker side of the relationship-as-refuge theme is explored in “One Line.” Here love is seen as a survival mechanism, a need more than a desire, a sanctuary from the human propensity for violence, whether on the streets or on the battlefield. While I love the guitar riff and appreciate the message, the structure follows the soft-LOUD Pixieseque style PJ embraced more frequently in her early days, resulting in an arrangement that’s a bit too predictable. Kindred spirit Thom Yorke makes his first appearance on the album, serving up wordless background vocals that enhance the troubled mood.
Thom appears more prominently on “Beautiful Feeling,” an eerie, spare song with mystic overtones that sounds like it belongs on Is This Desire? Each verse describes a life experience that evokes a beautiful feeling: the experience of life itself; the enrichment of culture through immigration in the form of a smiling Mexican boy; and last but never least, the experience of spontaneous attraction to another human being:
And when I watch you move
And I can’t think straight
And I am silenced
And it’s the best thing
It’s the best thing
The best thing
Such a beautiful feeling
Though the song celebrates beautiful experiences, the mood is long-past-midnight: the fingers forming the notes on the fretboard remain firmly planted on the lower strings; Thom Yorke’s dreamy, moaning vocal enhances the general eeriness; and PJ’s sounds like a woman calling up memories as she fades into sleep from a state of sheer exhaustion.
The sleep is delightfully interrupted by an oscillating note that gathers volume and explodes into the full guitar chords that herald the arrival of “The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore.” Although in the current world environment there is a strong urge to interpret the song as one that calls out the thoroughly corrupt and greedy politicians who control the governments in both the U.K. and the United States, the only verse that I can comfortably attribute to the spread of political decay is the second verse:
Speak to me of your inner charm
Of how you’ll keep me safe from harm
I don’t think so, I don’t see
Speak to me of your inner peace
That last line is killer, for if there’s one quality that defines too many career politicians it is the complete lack of conscience and integrity, without which it is impossible to even grasp the concept of “inner peace.” But while most politicians embody the hustler-whore duality, PJ sees the problem as both individual and universal, an affliction that impacts the poor and powerless as thoroughly as the rich and powerful. Whoring and hustling are the norms in The City and on Wall Street, in our search for work and the way we work, and in the way most people manifest sexual interest in another person. In this maddeningly toxic state of affairs, we’re all searching for a “fix” in one form or another:
Speak to me of heroin and speed
Of genocide and suicide, of syphilis and greed
Speak to me the language of love
The language of violence, the language of the heart
This isn’t the first time I’ve asked for money or love
Heaven and earth don’t ever mean enough
Just give me something I can believe
PJ’s soaring soprano on the fade feels to me like an expression of passionate grieving for a world spinning off its axis, where, in Yeats’ insightful words, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.”
Thom Yorke’s earlier background vocals were just a warmup for the full meal deal, the vocal “duet” with PJ on “The Mess We’re In.” I place “duet” in quotation marks because the word implies a joining of voices in harmony, and the two characters in “The Mess We’re In” rarely harmonize, “talk” over each other and sometimes even talk to themselves. As the city sun sets on their affair, we learn that he’s into lovemaking as portrayed in movies and she experiences a tingle in her twat when she feels his sweat on her skin (eliciting a gorgeous moan that is the highlight of the song for me). Their voices do contrast nicely with each other, with Thom taking the high notes while PJ staying low in a subtle dig at gender stereotypes . . . but the pairing is a bit jarring, as noted by Lauren O’Neal on Rumpus
Yorke’s favored approach to sex has been to never mention it because he’s too busy singing about the frantic, inexorable alienation inherent in postmodern society. (I mean, the mongrel cat in “Myxomatosis” manages to fit a brief fling in before getting “edited, fucked up, strangled, beaten up,” “buried in a burning black hole,” “skinned alive,” and so on and so forth. Good for him, I guess.) Meanwhile, Harvey has sung a lot about sex, but usually in the most aggressive, non-erotic ways possible. A brief highlight reel: “You leave me dry,” “You bend over, Casanova,” “I’ve lain with the devil,” “You snake, you crawled between my legs”—plus that whole “statues of women exposing their labia” thing. And that’s just off the top of my head.
I’m also more than slightly creeped out when I hear Thom refer to his partner in the affair as “baby.” The use of that term in a Radiohead song is unthinkable. Despite all my quibbles, I like the song—or more accurately, I’m fascinated by it.
Now that Thom’s gone off to tie up loose ends on Kid A, PJ returns to center stage with “You Said Something,” a piece with a folk-rock flavor presented in waltz time. The song is arranged well, and the combo of multi-instrumentalists (PJ, Mick Harvey and Rob Ellis) provide their typically professional, understated support. Sadly, the song is rather like a joke without a punchline, as PJ tells her unseen friend on two different occasions “Then you said something/I’ve never forgotten,” and then forgets to let us in on the secret. In the last line she describes her friend’s comment as “really important,” but if it was so fucking important, why not share it with your listeners? I find the experience of “You Said Something” intensely aggravating, in large part because it’s a fundamentally solid song that ends with a pfffft.
At this point, PJ deviates from the script and gives us back-to-back rough-and-nasty. “Kamikaze” is allegedly another love-gone-bad song, but the metaphors are both hyperbolic and tenuous, making it quite a challenge to finally figure out PJ is desperately attempting to rid herself of a self-destructive asshole who wants to take her down with him. The music increases in intensity through the first and second verses, reaching a peak in the chorus, where PJ goes high soprano and Rob Ellis launches an extended assault on the drum kit that never lets up until the finish. It’s a nice burst of energy after a relatively low-key album, and a solid warm-up for the far more direct and to-the-point “This Is Love.”
If you’ve read my bio on the home page, you’ll know that life priority #1 is sex. I utterly reject the label of nymphomaniac, defined by Merriam-Webster as “one affected by nymphomania : a female who has an excessive desire for sexual activity.” Q: Who decides what is “excessive?” A: Men! The word is primarily used in the context of slut-shaming, and the implication of the term is that a woman must learn to control her sexual urges while men can fuck with reckless abandon. Women who “sleep around” are whores; men who sleep around are guys just being guys. The male fear of “excessive” female desire has been present in nearly all human cultures from time immemorial, manifesting itself in customs as ludicrous as the expectation that women remain virgins until they marry and as horrific as female genital mutilation, a still-active ritual that has resulted in the disfiguration of more than 200 million girls living today.
When I say I’m proud to be a slut, it doesn’t mean I’ll fuck anyone for any reason. It means I’m not afraid to express my sexual desire and see no earthly reason to hide that desire. The word “nymphomaniac” implies a woman who is out of control, and I am always conscious and intentional about sex, from the earliest communication of desire to the expression of eroticism in the heat of the moment. To me, sexual honesty on the part of a woman is a blessed act of liberation. So, when I hear PJ Harvey sing the opening lines of “This Is Love” without the slightest hint of shame or embarrassment, I feel a lot more than satisfaction—I feel validation.
I can’t believe that life’s so complex
When I just want to sit here and watch you undress
This is love, this is love
That I’m feeling (3)
As far as I’m concerned, the “it’s not love, it’s lust” crowd can all go fuck themselves! That said, we live in a rather judgmental, narrow-minded world, so some temperance is called for:
Even in the summer
Even in the spring
You can never get too much of
A wonderful thing
You’re the only story that I never told
You’re my dirty little secret, wanna keep you so
PJ is using the phrase “dirty little secret” in the way we LGBTQ people have transformed the epithet “queer” into a positive expression of identity. We have to protect our love from the cruel judgment of various religious types and other judgmental assholes, but we don’t think anything we do is dirty—it’s just love, love, love.
PJ’s vocal reflects this rejection of convention in a tone combining more than a hint of sacred lust and a stance of “what the fuck, people?” that you hear in many early rock songs that incorporate social criticism, from “Summertime Blues” to “Get Off My Cloud.” This style of rock is a particular sweet spot for PJ, having grown up (like me!) with parents who played 60’s rock and classic blues all day and all of the night. My kind of woman and my kind of song!
“Horses in My Dreams” is literally a poetic translation of one of PJ’s dreams. With due apologies to the Jungians in the crowd, not all dream symbols arise from the collective unconscious, and common dream symbols do not necessarily share a universal meaning. In this case, though, the characteristics assigned to the horses in PJ’s dream are pretty close to standard dream interpretations of horses as “symbolic of passion, drive and desire for personal freedom,” as noted on Dreamstop (Freud believed horses represented the sexual drive and power of the dreamer, but then again, Freud would). This pretty much tracks the imagery in the song, where PJ describes horses as “Like waves, like the sea/They pull out of here/They pull, they are free.” Later she claims she has “set myself free again” and that “I have pulled myself clear.” Never having had any contact with horses (they were pretty rare in San Francisco, I guess), I can’t relate to the symbol, but I certainly can relate to the power of dreams to facilitate personal growth and clarity. While PJ’s horses evoke nothing in me, her quest for freedom (artistic, sexual, expressive) definitely moves me. I like the relative quiet of the song, its curious melody and her rather rough, just-got-out-of-bed vocal quality.
We end our experience of PJ Harvey’s definition of beauty with “We Float,” a study in contrasts where the verses provide the yin and the chorus supplies the yang. The dark verses, built around a morose D-E-F pattern on piano, describe a relationship that turned sour when the pursuit of success became a sick addiction to accumulating more, more, more—an itch that can never be scratched.
We wanted to find love
We wanted success
Until nothing was enough
Until my middle name was excess
While her partner vanishes into the bustling anonymity of the city, the narrator is left without the false anchors she used in a vain attempt to ground herself:
I was in need of help
Heading to blackout
‘Till someone told me “run on in honey
Before somebody blows your goddamn brains out”
Trying to make sense of things, all the narrator can come up with is “something broke inside,” and while that may sound vague and weak, she is quite certain that it was the drive for success that ruined the relationship. She now clings to the hope that a solution can be found in the Taoist mantra to “do nothing and nothing will be left undone”:
We float
Take life as it comes
The music here changes to a gentle, flowing rhythm and a chord pattern containing a softening minor seventh as PJ’s voice rises in a moment of delectable beauty. The final verse is the post-mortem, where it becomes clear that their great mistake was to believe freedom comes from having lots of money and refusing to see wealth as the quicksand trap it is:
So will we die of shock?
Die without a trial?
Die on Good Friday?
While holding each other tight
This is kind of about you
This is kind of about me
We just kinda lost our way
We were looking to be free
The song and album end on the extended repetition of the “we float” theme, a triumph of beauty and intimacy over ugliness and greed.
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea received oodles of accolades and a spot on several all-time best album lists, guaranteeing that PJ would follow it up by going in the opposite direction and “get back to the earthy, rootsy, more dirty side of things” with Uh Uh Her . . . which led her to slam the brakes and turn the car around with White Chalk . . . then carve out a completely different path with Let England Shake . . . which opened the door to socio-political songs and The Hope Six Demolition Project. The directional changes that followed have done nothing to diminish the value of Stories, whether PJ Harvey likes it or not. The experience allowed her to expand her songwriting range and explore the possibilities inherent in melody without damaging her artistic cred one iota.
Polly, it’s a damned good album, so SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Posted in: 2000's, Classic Music Reviews, Rock, Punk, Alternative, Garage, Women Artists | Tagged: altrockchick, Big Exit, female blogger, female music blogger, Good Fortune, Mick Harvey, PJ Harvey, Rob Ellis, Stories from the City Stories from the Sea, The Mess We’re In, This Is Love, yin and yang
bazzabaz August 22, 2018 at 6:39 am | Reply
Great review covering some interesting territory as being male, one is not always gonna be fully clued in as to what Polly sometimes writes about or refers to!
For me, this album was and remains her masterpiece. She peaked here and though she’s naturally turned in interesting work since, the results haven’t been anywhere near as compelling for me. This album is a perfect album in that the sequence flows well and makes for a very satisfying listening experience and within are some of her very best songs. I felt alienated by “Is This Desire?” so this came as a big relief for me though at the same time I couldn’t help but feel conscious that compared to what had come before, this was her most accessible album.
The biggest shock was Thom Yorke’s cameo on “This Mess We’re In”, a duet that isn’t quite a duet! He sang really well and away from Radiohead proved he could be a compelling singer. I did do some revision at the time and borrowed my mates’ Radiohead collection hoping I’d finally “get” them and alas, it was a complete failure. The best song for me remains “This Is Love” – a good basic rocker with Polly hollering in wonderful style. I wondered at the time whether or not that song alone would finally “break” her and become a huge hit – it deserved to be, but instead charted politely. I did drive people nuts with that one, inflicting it on everyone who before had dismissed Polly as being a bit too weird… the results were mixed, but at this time I was convinced that Polly Jean Harvey was the greatest talent in current music. I enjoyed the following album though did feel a bit more of a patchwork and since then, she’s been hit and miss for me.
One of these days her record company is gonna have to create a new album rounding up all the assorted tracks she released only as B sides or CD single tracks as what she chose to leave off the albums are just as worthy and interesting. I did manage to bag “This Is Love” on 45… at heart I am more of a 45’s than an album man, so that holds a special place in my vinyl collection because it just simply R-O-C-K-S!
altrockchick August 27, 2018 at 10:38 pm | Reply
Thank you! I do have a few more PJ reviews in the plan, as I find her work challenging even when I’m thinking, “What the fuck are you doing?” She’s always searching but I don’t think she’s figured out what it is she’s searching for. That pretty much describes most of us!
hotfox63 August 22, 2018 at 7:31 am | Reply
This is just as solid as Rock gets.There’s also something about this album that is very 70s-like to me – maybe it’s just the cover.
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PJ HARVEY-ICONOCLASTIC-CHAMELEON-LIKE-ROCK’N’ROLL STAR.
IN LOVE WITH HER ART WHEREVER THE MUSE CHANNELS ITS CREATIVITY!!!
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Zimmer: If Vikings don't pick right QB, I'll 'probably get fired'
Published: Mar 01, 2018 at 10:18 am
Mike Zimmer: If we don't pick the right QB, I'll probably get fired
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Vikings are set to watch three quarterbacks hit free agency: Sam Bradford, Teddy Bridgewater and Case Keenum.
Speaking from the NFL Scouting Combine on Thursday, coach Mike Zimmer was acutely aware that his team must make the right choice with their next signal-caller.
"It's important for myself and Rick [Spielman] and the organization we pick the right guy that can help continue to move forward," Zimmer said. "If we don't do that, then I'll probably get fired."
The coach spoke well of each of his quarterbacks, not ruling out bringing any of the trio back. Several times during his 15-minute Q&A, Zimmer noted there are question issues with each quarterback: Bradford has a still lingering knee issue; Bridgewater is coming off a devastating injury and hasn't really played in two years; Keenum has had one breakout season preceded by some shaky outings outside of Pat Shurmur's system.
Stacey Dales: I don't see Keenum, Bridgewater or Bradford on Vikings' roster next year
"The process that we're going through right now with Sam, Teddy and Case, we're trying to determine exactly where these three guys are," Zimmer said. "Teddy is a guy that two years ago played fantastic. We thought he was a very ascending player. Obviously has a terrible knee injury, don't get to see him play in real, live action in basically two years. So there's the question with him.
"The question with Sam is two years ago he plays in 15 games, starts, plays well. This year, he plays in one game and gets hurt, so you go back and look at his track record. You go back with Case. He plays outstanding this year, and you go back and look at what he's done in the past and what he's done this year. Then really what we have to try to do is figure out what is the best scenario for us and understanding that trying to answer these questions on these three guys and try to go from there. So that's with Rick and myself and Rob and how it affects the salary cap and how it affects the rest of our football team."
The Vikings could also elect to chase other QBs in free agency, notably Kirk Cousins.
Zimmer sounded like a man not overly keen on spending a ton of cash -- like the kind it will take to land Cousins -- on a quarterback.
"We've won 40 games in the last four years because we've had a good football team, and I want to make sure with our team that we continue to build and improve, continually improve on defense," he said. "They told me today ... we're 30-4 when we score 21 points, so it's important that we don't lose the defensive part of the game because we keep the game close. So all these things become a factor.
"So after we get here, after we get done looking at some of these young draftable guys, so we'll kind of sit down and figure out the direction we're going. But I feel very confident really in all three guys [Bradford, Keenum, Bridgewater]. I love all three of them. They're great people. I love how they work. They understand how we do things there as a team and the way we go about our business."
The question moving into the new league year is which, if any, will continue to do their business wearing Vikings purple.
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The U.S. Immigration Law Blog by Ashwin Sharma
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Update: the iCERT system is currently unavailable due to Federal Government Shutdown. It Appears that No LCA’s or Prevailing Wages Can be filed.
By Ashwin Sharma, Esq.
Update: our law office tried to file an ETA 9035/LCA a few moments ago and received the following message:
The iCERT system is currently unavailable
This Web application is currently unavailable due to the suspension of Federal government services. It will be available again when the Federal government resumes operations.
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Federal government shuts down (huffingtonpost.com)
The Republicans Must Aggressively Seek Credit For The Federal Government Shutdown (forbes.com)
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USCIS – New Countries Eligible for H-2A and H-2Bs
VIA USCIS.gov
WASHINGTON— U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of State, has identified 53 countries whose nationals are eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B programs for the coming year.
The H-2A program allows U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary agricultural jobs; the H-2B program allows U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States for temporary nonagricultural jobs. USCIS, with limited exception, approves petitions only for nationals of countries designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security as eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B programs. A new list of eligible countries publishes in a Federal Register notice on January 18, 2011 , and the designations are valid for one year from the date of publication.
Effective Jan. 18, 2011, nationals from the following countries are eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B programs: Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Nauru, The Netherlands, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Samoa, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Vanuatu. Of these countries, the following were designated for the first time this year: Barbados, Estonia, Fiji, Hungary, Kiribati, Latvia, Macedonia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
After considering a number of relevant factors under the governing regulations, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State have determined that Indonesia currently does not warrant a renewed designation as a participating country in the H-2A and H-2B programs for 2011.
This new list does not affect the status of individuals who currently hold valid H-2A or H-2B visas or status. A national from a country that is not on the list may be the beneficiary of an approved H-2A and H-2B petition if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in her sole and unreviewable discretion, that it is in the U.S. interest for the alien to be a beneficiary of the petition.
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Cap Count for H-1B and H-2B Workers for Fiscal Year 2009
Updated cap counts for H-1B and H-2B work visas.
in General News, H-1B Visas, H-2B Visas
High Drama Over Highly Skilled Workers
Via Businessweek
“After failing over the summer to pass legislation that would overhaul
the rules for all kinds of immigrants, Congress is gearing up to take
on the narrower task of reforming immigration laws for highly skilled
workers. The effort is less politically charged than comprehensive
reform since it sets aside the contentious issue of what to do with the
estimated 12 million illegal immigrants
(BusinessWeek.com, 8/22/07) already in the U.S., and it appears likely
that some legislation will be passed. But there is opposition, and the
nature and degree of reform for the highly skilled remains unclear.”
in Articles and Commentaries, Employment Based Green Cards, General News, H-1B Visas, H-2B Visas, L-1 Intracompany Visas
Microsoft skips the US, opens development center in Canada as a result of US immigration limitations
Microsoft is skipping the US and opening a development center in Vancouver, Canada as a result of increasingly illogical and outdated US immigration laws.
An excerpt from the Infoweek article:
“If Microsoft, or IBM or any other tech giant for that matter, can’t bring workers onto its home turf, it will simply put them in some other more immigration-friendly country. A broadband connection is usually all that’s needed to facilitate communication. Or, in the case of Microsoft’s Vancouver center, an eight-lane highway.
The question Congress now needs to consider is this: Do visa limits do more harm than good to the U.S. economy?…Wouldn’t it be better for Washington state if the workers that Microsoft plans to place in Canada because of “immigration issues” were employed locally, paying state taxes and spending in local shops?
It appears that the biggest beneficiary of the Senate’s failure to pass an immigration bill may be Canada. Is that really what Congress intended?”
in B1 and B2 Visitor Visas, E-2 Visas, E-3 Visas, F-1 and SEVIS News, H-1B Visas, H-2B Visas, J Visas, L-1 Intracompany Visas, M Visas, TN Visas, US Department of State
Nonimmigrant visa wait times
in E-2 Visas, E-3 Visas, General News, H-1B Visas, H-2B Visas, L-1 Intracompany Visas, USCIS Guidelines and Announcements
Direct Filing Addresses for Form I-129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker – Effective April 2, 2007
Direct Filing Addresses for Form I-129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker
Form I-129 Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker
Effective April 2, 2007
chart provides the direct filing addresses for Form I-129, which become
effective on April 2, 2007. Please note the filing addresses below and
the filing exceptions for certain classifications.
Mail Form I-129 to
You are the petitioning employer
The beneficiary will work temporarily in:
Alaska,
Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin
or Wyoming.
For Regular processing
H-1B Cap Cases:
ATTN: H-1B Cap
Laguna Niguel, CA 92607-1012
U.S. Masters Cap Cases:
ATTN: H-1B U.S. Masters Cap
H-1B Extensions:
ATTN: H-1B Extensions
All other I-129 Cases:
ATTN: I-129
Courier Address for All I-129s:
24000 Avila Road
(Please note the type of I-129 in the attention line)
For Premium Processing
Form I-907/I-129 Regular Mailing Address:
Form I-907/I-129 Courier Mail Address:
Form I-907/I-129 E-Mail Address:
CSC-Premium.Processing@dhs.gov
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia,Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,Mississippi, New Hampshire,New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, or West Virginia.
1A Lemnah Drive
St. Albans. VT 05479-0001
H-1B U.S. Masters Cap Cases:
75 Lower Weldon Street
St. Albans, VT 05479-0001
Form I-907/I-129 Mailing Address and Courier Address:
30 Houghton Street
H-1B U.S. Master Cap Cases:
ATTN: U.S. Masters Cap
Form I-907/I129 E-mail address:
VSC-Premium.Processing @dhs.gov
· Form I-129 Filed for Temporary Employment or Training in More Than One Location:
When the temporary employment or training will be in different
locations, the state where your company or organization is located will
determine to which Service Center you should send your Form I-129
package. For example, if the beneficiary will work in Arizona and
Texas, and your company is located in New York, file Form I-129 with
the Vermont Service Center.
· H-1C Classification for Nurses: Mail the I-129 package to the Vermont Service Center, regardless of where the temporary H-1C nurse will be employed.
· R Classification for Temporary Religious Workers: Mail the I-129 package to the California Service Center, regardless of where the temporary religious worker will be employed.
· Major League Sports:
Mail the I-129 package to the Vermont Service Center, regardless of
place of temporary employment. This covers major league athletes,
minor league sports and any affiliates associated with the major
leagues in baseball, hockey, soccer, basketball, and football. Support
personnel includes coaches, trainers, broadcasters, referees, linesmen,
umpires, and interpreters.
· Change of Status or Extension of Stay Under Certain Free Trade Agreements:
Mail Form I-129 to the Vermont Service Center, regardless of the place
of temporary employment, if Form I-129 is filed to request a change of
status or extension of stay under one of the Free Trade Agreements
listed below.
o Change of Status to TN or TN Extension under Trade NAFTA for Nationals of Canada or Mexico.
o Change of Status to H-1B1 or Extension of H-1B1 Stay for Nationals of Singapore and Chile.
o Change of Status to E-3 or Extension of E-3 Stay for Nationals of Australia.
§ Initial Classification Under Certain Free Trade Agreements: DO NOT use Form I-129 to apply for initial classification under one of the Free Trade Agreements listed below.
o Initial TN Classification for Nationals of Mexico (outside the United States):
To obtain more information on the application process for initial TN
classification, please visit the U.S. Department of State’s TN Visa
website. [add link here]
o Initial TN Classification for Nationals of Canada (outside the United States: 8 CFR 214.6 [add link] for information on applying for initial TN admission at a U.S. port of entry. Please see
o Initial H-1B1 Classification Under the Singapore/Chile Free Trade Agreement:
To obtain more information on applying for initial H-1B1
classification, please visit the U.S. Department of State’s website. [add link here].
o Initial E-3 Classification Under the Australian Free Trade Agreement: To obtain more information on applying for initial E-3 classification, please visit the U.S. Department of State’s website. [add link here].
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DOL Publishes H-2A Adverse Effect Wage Rate for 2007
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Employment and Training Administration
Labor Certification Process for the Temporary Employment of Aliens in Agriculture and Logging in the United States: 2007 Adverse Effect Wage Rates, Allowable Charges for Agricultural and Logging Workers’ Meals, and Maximum Travel Subsistence Reimbursement
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs), allowable charges for meals, and maximum travel subsistence reimbursement for 2007.
SUMMARY: The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is issuing this Notice to announce the 2007 AEWRs for employers seeking to employ temporary or seasonal nonimmigrant foreign workers to perform agricultural labor or services (H-2A workers) or logging (H-2 logging workers); the allowable charges for 2007 that employers seeking H-2A workers and H-2 logging workers may levy upon their workers when three meals a day are provided by the employer; and the maximum travel subsistence reimbursement which a worker with receipts may claim in 2007.
AEWRs are the minimum wage rates the Department has determined must be offered and paid by employers of H-2A workers or H-2 logging workers to U.S. and foreign workers. AEWRs are established in order to prevent the employment of these foreign workers from adversely affecting wages of similarly employed U.S. workers. The Department also announces the minimum and maximum charge of travel subsistence expenses a worker may claim in 2007.
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 21, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William L. Carlson, Administrator, Office of Foreign Labor Certification, U.S. Department of Labor, Room C-4312, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 202-693-3010 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may not approve an employer’s petition for admission of H-2A workers or H-2 logging workers in the United States unless the petitioner has received from DOL an H-2A or H-2 labor certification, as appropriate. Approved labor certifications attest: (1) There are not sufficient U.S. workers who are able, willing, and qualified and who will be available at the time and place needed to perform the labor or services involved in the petition; and (2) the employment of the foreign worker in such labor or services will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the U.S. similarly employed. 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a),1184(c), and 1188.
DOL’s regulations for the H-2A and H-2 program require employers to offer and pay their U.S., H-2A, and H-2 workers no less than the appropriate hourly AEWR in effect at the time the work is performed. 20 CFR 655.102(b)(9)
and 655.202(b)(9). See also 20 CFR 655.107, 20 CFR 655.207, and the preamble of the Final Rule, 54 FR 28037-28047 (July 5, 1989), which explains in great depth the purpose and history of AEWRs, DOL’s policy in setting AEWRs, and the AEWR computation methodology at 20 CFR 655.107(a). See also 52 FR 20496, 20502-20505 (June 1, 1987).
A. Adverse Effect Wage Rates for 2007
AEWRs are the minimum wage rates which must be offered and paid to U.S. and foreign workers by employers of H-2A workers or H-2 logging workers. Employers of H-2A workers must pay the highest of (i) the AEWR in effect at the time the work is performed, (ii) the applicable prevailing wage, or (iii) the statutory minimum wage, as specified in the regulations. 20 CFR 655.102(b)(9). As U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regional surveys are not available for logging occupations, employers of H-2 logging workers must pay at least the prevailing wage in the area of intended employment, which is deemed to be the AEWR. 20 CFR 655.202(b)(9) and 20 CFR 655.207(a).
Except as otherwise provided in 20 CFR part 655, subpart B, the region-wide AEWR for all agricultural employment (except those occupations deemed inappropriate under the special circumstance provisions of 20 CFR 655.93) for which temporary H-2A certification is being sought, is equal to the annual weighted average hourly wage rate for field and livestock workers (combined) for the region as published annually by the USDA. 20 CFR 655.107(a). USDA does not provide data on Alaska.
20 CFR 655.107(a) requires the Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, to publish USDA field and livestock worker (combined) wage data as AEWRs in a Federal Register Notice. Accordingly, the 2007 AEWRs for agricultural work performed by U.S. and H-2A workers on or after the effective date of this Notice are set forth in the table below:
Table.–2007 Adverse Effect Wage Rates
(SEE PDF VERSION FOR TABLE)
For all logging employment, the AEWR shall be the prevailing wage rate in the area of intended employment, and the employer is required to pay at least that rate. 20 CFR 655.207(a).
B. Allowable Meal Charges
Among the minimum benefits and working conditions which DOL requires employers to offer their U.S., H-2A, and H-2 logging workers are three meals a day or free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities. 20 CFR 655.102(b)(4) and 655.202(b)(4). Where the employer provides meals, the job offer must state the charge, if any, to the worker for meals.
DOL has published at 20 CFR 655.102(b)(4) and 655.111(a) the methodology for determining the maximum amounts that H-2A agricultural employers may charge their U.S. and foreign workers for meals. The same methodology is applied at 20 CFR 655.202(b)(4) and 655.211(a) to H-2 logging employers. These rules provide for annual adjustments of the previous year’s allowable charges based upon Consumer Price Index (CPI) data.
Each year, the maximum charges allowed by 20 CFR 655.102(b)(4) and 655.202(b)(4) are adjusted by the same percentage as the twelve-month percent change in the CPI for all Urban Consumers for Food (CPI-U for Food). ETA may permit an employer to charge workers no more than the higher maximum amount set forth in 20 CFR 655.111(a) and 655.211(a), as applicable, for providing them with three meals a day, if justified and sufficiently documented. Each year, the higher maximum amounts permitted by 20 CFR 655.111(a) and 655.211(a) are changed by the same percentage as the twelve-month percent change in the CPI-U for Food. The program’s regulations require DOL to make the annual adjustments and to publish a Notice in the Federal Register each calendar year, announcing annual adjustments in allowable charges that may be made by agricultural and logging employers for providing three meals daily to their U.S. and foreign workers. The 2006 rates were published in the Federal Register at 71 FR 13633 (March 16, 2006).
DOL has determined the percentage change between December of 2005, and December of 2006, for the CPI-U for Food was 2.4 percent. Accordingly, the maximum allowable charges under 20 CFR 655.102(b)(4), 655.202(b)(4), 655.111, and 655.211 were adjusted using this percentage change, and the new permissible charges for 2007 are as follows: (1) Charges under 20 CFR 655.102(b)(4) and 655.202(b)(4) shall be no more than $9.52 per day, unless ETA has approved a higher charge pursuant to 20 CFR 655.111 or 655.211 and (2) charges under 20 CFR 655.111 and 655.211 shall be no more than $11.80 per day, if the employer justifies the charge and submits to ETA the documentation required to support the higher charge.
C. Maximum Travel Subsistence Expense
The regulations at 20 CFR 655.102(b)(5) establish that the minimum daily travel subsistence expense, for which a worker is entitled to reimbursement, is equivalent to the employer’s daily charge for three meals or, if the employer makes no charge, the amount permitted under 20 CFR 655.102(b)(4). The regulation is silent about the maximum amount to which a qualifying worker is entitled.
The Department established the maximum meals component of the standard Continental United States (CONUS) per diem rate established by the General Services Administration
(GSA) and published at 41 CFR Pt. 301, Appendix A. The CONUS meal component is now $39.00 per day. Workers who qualify for travel reimbursement are entitled to reimbursement up to the CONUS meal rate for related subsistence when they provide receipts. In determining the appropriate amount of subsistence reimbursement, the employer may use the GSA system under which a traveler qualifies for meal expense reimbursement per quarter of a day. Thus, a worker whose travel occurred during two quarters of a day is entitled, with receipts, to a maximum reimbursement of $19.50. If a worker has no receipts, the employer is not obligated to reimburse above the minimum stated at 20 CFR 655.102(b)(4) as specified above.
Signed in Washington, DC this 13th day of February, 2007.
Emily Stover DeRocco,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
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EEOC RESOLVES SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING SUIT AGAINST TRANS BAY STEEL FOR AN ESTIMATED $1 MILLION
Via The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a major litigation settlement with Trans Bay Steel, Inc. for an estimated $1 million in total monetary relief and compensation for 48 welders of Thai descent who were discriminated against and exploited due to their national origin.
EEOC charged that the class of Thai nationals, contracted under H2B visas by Trans Bay and a third party agency, were held against their will, had their passports confiscated, had their movements restricted, and were forced to work without pay. Additionally, some workers were confined to cramped apartments without any electricity, water, or gas.
At least 17 of the workers were told if they tried to leave the location where they were being forcibly held, the police and immigration officials would be called to arrest them. EEOC also contends that all the workers were made to pay exorbitant “fees” to the recruiting company which kept them in involuntary servitude. Ultimately, some of the workers escaped the slave-like conditions.
Trans Bay received a large sub-contract to provide services to retrofit the Bay Bridge and became the sponsoring employer for the workers. Trans Bay contracted with Kota Manpower Co., and Hi Cap Enterprises, Inc., to bring the skilled welders from Thailand to meet the needs of the project. While Kota and Hi-Cap brought over approximately 48 welders from Thailand, only nine of them went to work for Trans Bay. The remaining welders were brought to Los Angeles and Long Beach and forced to work without pay at Thai Restaurants owned by Kota Manpower and Hi-Cap, and forced to work other menial jobs without pay.
“The issues of human trafficking and slavery are an enforcement priority for the Commission,” said Anna Y. Park, Regional Attorney in EEOC’s Los Angeles District Office, which has jurisdiction for the southern half of California. “The EEOC is committed to the protection of all workers, particularly those most vulnerable in our society. The workers in this case sought out the American dream, but instead faced a nightmare.”
EEOC conducted a comprehensive investigation of the charges and, after extensive negotiations, entered into a three-year consent decree with Trans Bay to resolve the case for an estimated $1 million in total monetary relief and compensation. Under the decree, Trans Bay will:
Provide monetary relief for each of the claimants;
Guarantee work on the Bay Bridge Project;
Provide housing for the claimants who agree to work for Trans Bay, including a housing stipend;
Pay for tuition and books at a local college for training as a welder;
Provide sponsorship, if required, to continue to work in the U.S. and certify claimant welders;
Guarantee minimum pay and a base pay once the claimants complete the training period;
Pay the claimants relocation costs, including reimbursement for travel;
Reimburse the claimants for moving expenses to relocate to Napa, Calif.
EEOC filed the lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (U.S. EEOC v. Trans Bay Steel, Inc., Case Number CV 06-07766 CAS (JTLx)) after first attempting to resolve the matter out of court. Other injunctive measures contained in the consent decree include:
Monitoring by the EEOC to ensure compliance;
Training of Trans Bay’s employees on anti-discrimination laws;
Revising Trans Bay policies and procedures;
Developing a viable complaint procedure.
EEOC Los Angeles District Director Olophius E. Perry said, “Through the cooperative efforts between the federal government and non-profit organizations, a just resolution was reached that is a win/win for the workers and for the employer.”
The EEOC worked closely with non-profit organizations such as the Thai Community Development Center, the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
EEOC is the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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California Service Center To Stop Faxing Premium Processing Approval Notices
USCIS PRESS RELEASE
Effective December 1, 2006, the California Service Center (CSC) will no longer fax approval notices for
premium processing cases. Due to a significant increase in receipts and the time expended on faxing copies of
the notices, we are eliminating this step of the process. This change in process will increase efficiency and
allow our customers to receive notices in a more timely manner. The CSC will continue to fax all requests for
evidence relating to premium processing cases.
USCIS Announces Extension of Returning Worker Exemption
VIA USCIS
Washington, D.C.– U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that the “returning worker” exemption to the H-2B numerical limitation has been extended by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122), section 1074, which was signed by President Bush on Oct. 17, 2006. The one year extension of the “returning worker” provisions will remain in effect until September 30, 2007.
Petitions filed for returning H-2B workers do not count towards the congressionally mandated bi-annual H-2B cap. “Returning workers” are exempt from H-2B cap limitations. In order to qualify, USCIS must have previously counted the “returning worker” against the H-2B numerical cap in one of the three fiscal years preceding the current year (i.e. between October 1, 2003 and September 30, 2006). Any worker not certified as a “returning worker” is subject to the numerical limitations for the relevant fiscal year. Petitions received after the “final receipt date” which contain a combination of “returning workers” and workers subject to the current H-2B cap will be rejected with respect to non-returning workers, and petitioning employers will receive partial approvals for those aliens who qualify as “returning workers” if otherwise approvable.
USCIS will continue to process petitions filed to:
• Extend the stay of a current H-2B worker in the United States;
• Change the terms of employment for current H-2B workers and extend their stay;
• Allow current H-2B workers to change or add employers and extend their stay; or
• Request eligible H-2B “returning workers.”
More information about the H-2B work program is available at http://www.uscis.gov or by calling the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.
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President Signs Defense Authorization, Enacting H-2B Relief
On October 17, 2006, President Bush signed the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122) into law. Section 1074 of the bill includes
a one year extension of the returning worker exemption to the H-2B visa cap and
provides for the extension to take effect beginning October 1, 2006.
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Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages
Via AILA
A crucial question in the current debate over immigration is what
impact immigrants have on the wages of native-born workers. At first
glance, it might seem that the simple economics of supply and demand
provides the answer: immigrants increase the supply of labor; hence
they should decrease the wages of native workers. However, the reality
is more complicated than this.
The latest study published by the Immigration Policy Center
addresses this issue. The study, authored by Giovanni Peri, Associate
Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, and a
Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, is entitled <!–
D(["mb",""Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages: New Data and Analysis from 1990 2004." In the study, Professor Peri argues that the widespread notion that immigrants decrease native wages is a misconception, complicated by two reasons that too often are overlooked. First, immigrants and natives, with different skills and education levels, do not compete with each other for the same jobs, but actually complement each other performing interdependent jobs, thereby increasing the wages and productivity of natives. Second, evidence shows that new workers added to the labor force stimulate investment by entrepreneurs. When these two factors are included in the analysis of immigration and wages, it becomes clear that immigration has a positive effect on the wages of most native-born workers.
For a detailed analysis of Professor Peri\’s findings, read the full report here. \n\n
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In the study, Professor Peri argues that the widespread notion that
immigrants decrease native wages is a misconception, complicated by two
reasons that too often are overlooked. First, immigrants and natives,
with different skills and education levels, do not compete with each
other for the same jobs, but actually complement each other performing
interdependent jobs, thereby increasing the wages and productivity of
natives. Second, evidence shows that new workers added to the labor
force stimulate investment by entrepreneurs. When these two factors are
included in the analysis of immigration and wages, it becomes clear
that immigration has a positive effect on the wages of most native-born
workers.
For a detailed analysis of Professor Peri’s findings, read the full report here.
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Kate Robinson named the first UChicago women’s lacrosse head coach
CHICAGO – University of Chicago women's lacrosse launched a new era on Thursday with the hiring of Kate Robinson as the program's first head coach.
Director of Athletics & Recreation Erin McDermott previously announced the addition of women's lacrosse as the school's 20th varsity sport on January 18. UChicago's newest intercollegiate program is set to begin varsity competition with Robinson at the helm in spring 2019.
"We could not ask for a higher quality person or coach to lead women's lacrosse," McDermott said. "Kate Robinson is first-rate in everything she does. I am confident that with Kate's vision, philosophy, and abilities, women's lacrosse will thrive. Transitioning a club team to varsity at Whitman College along with experiences as a coach and player have prepared her perfectly. We are excited to welcome Kate as the first head coach of a varsity women's lacrosse team at the University of Chicago."
"I am tremendously excited and honored to be joining the University of Chicago and the already-successful athletics department," said Robinson. "I am very grateful to Erin McDermott and the entire search committee for the opportunity to start the varsity women's lacrosse program. This is a premier institution as well as a place where the new women's lacrosse team will flourish, and I am thrilled to be part of that process."
Robinson began her coaching career at Whitman, which competes at the NCAA Division III level within the Northwest Conference. She was also that program's first head coach as the Blues moved from club to varsity status under her guidance. Over her three years, Whitman doubled its win totals in each subsequent season. After posting two victories in 2015 and four in 2016, Robinson's squad peaked with a 9-6 record in 2017. The Blues also took second place in the NWC with a 6-2 conference record.
The continued ascent in the win column helped Robinson earn recognition as the NWC Coach of the Year in both 2016 and 2017. Her teams produced 12 All-NWC players during her tenure, including five this past season. Sophomore Lindsay Schwartz was named the NWC Player of the Year and Mary Noyes garnered NWC Freshman of the Year accolades. Schwartz was also picked as a First Team All-Region honoree by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA).
Before her arrival at Whitman, Robinson spent two years as assistant coach at Stevens Institute of Technology and one year as graduate assistant coach at her alma mater, The Catholic University of America.
Robinson was a record-setting lacrosse player for Catholic as an undergraduate and pulled in three All-American honors in the process. She was a four-time All-Region selection and a two-time Landmark Conference Player of the Year. Robinson ranks as Catholic's career leader in goals (268) and points (383), while also holding single-season records for goals (91), assists (44), points (121) and caused turnovers (45). Additionally, she was a two-time team captain on the basketball team.
When UChicago women's lacrosse makes its varsity debut, it will do so as an associate member of the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW). The Maroons will continue to be a full member of the University Athletic Association (UAA), while also retaining associate football membership within the Midwest Conference (MWC).
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First effective ebola vaccine is shown to be highly protective against the disease
Anita Maheswar
Ebola virus isolated in November 2014 from patient blood samples obtained in Mali. The virus was isolated on Vero cells. Credit: NIAID, Wikimedia commons
The Ebola virus disease, formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe and often fatal illness in humans. It spreads in the human population through human-human transmission mostly via body fluids. It was first identified in 1976 and ever since, there have been a number of sporadic outbreaks. The 2014 West African outbreak has however been the most lethal and rapid one so far which has killed more than 11,000 people already with Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone being the most affected areas. The lethality of the virus warrants an effective vaccine that could curb this epidemic immediately and recently, scientists have reported that they have developed a 100% effective vaccine!
Recently, a trial with a vaccine called rVSV-ZEBOV on nearly 12,000 people in Guinea and Sierra Leone during 2015 and 2016, yielded remarkable results. Of the 5837 people in the population who received the vaccine, they reported 0 cases of the Ebola 10 days after the vaccination, whereas 23 cases of Ebola were recorded in the population that was not vaccinated (control). This trial was led by WHO (World Health Organization) together with the Guinea Ministry of Health and other international partners. The manufacturers of the vaccine include Merck and Sharpe & Dohme. Although the results from this trial showed high efficacy of the vaccine against a particular strain of the virus, further research needs to be carried out to battle the other strains.
Watch the video below to learn more about the trial :
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The iconic images for me as a child were Walt Disney on television and the other was Albert Einstein, who had embodied this thing about understanding the world. I grew up liking both of those, but the deepest thing that I wanted to do was become an animator. I did a lot of drawing all the way through high school. I even had a class where I got an A plus, plus, plus. Now, I know that was based more on quantity than quality.
As I went from high school to go to college, I realized that I didn’t know how to get the skills and it was not up to the level that I saw in the Disney animators, so I switched over to Physics.
Here’s the interesting thing I found. I’ve told this story before, as you would guess, over the years, and there’s always a titter and laughter in the audience, because the general concept that we have is to go from art to science is incongruous.
Why is it incongruous to go from one to the other and why do we think of them as two very different personalities? I will say that over the years, I have known world-class mathematicians and scientists and artists and programmers, and if I were to take another characteristic, let’s say it’s their organizational skills, the ability to get stuff done. I haven’t found a correlation between them.
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Levi Strauss Doubles Down On Anti-Gun Shenanigans By Siding With Bloomberg
Posted at 8:30 am on September 15, 2018 by Tom Knighton
When Levi Strauss announced it was going to start funneling money toward gun control efforts, we knew things were bad. Not for the Second Amendment, at least, but for how divisive our culture has become that a company felt this was a smart business move. Levi Strauss decided it needed to give the middle finger to half of its potential customers and figured it was a safe bet to do so.
That’s not particularly good.
What’s really bad now is that the company’s doubling down on the effort by joining forces with none other than Michael Bloomberg.
Levi Strauss & Co. is taking a stand against gun violence, an unexpectedly political move from the all-American denim company that could turn off some customers — but also win it points with a new segment of shoppers.
The San Francisco-based retailer said last week it is pledging more than $1 million to support nonprofits and youth activists who are working to end gun violence. The company is also partnering with Michael Bloomberg to help create a coalition of business leaders who support gun control measures and encouraging employees to get involved in political causes.
“The gun violence epidemic in America has hit a point where something has to be done,” chief executive Chip Bergh said in an interview. “It’s inevitable that we’re going to alienate some consumers, but we can no longer sit on the sidelines and remain silent on this issue.”
He added that consumer reaction so far has been “generally very, very favorable and supportive.” (A couple of shoppers, he added, have even asked him to run for president.)
That’s because the rest of us are no longer shoppers, but please, do continue your preening.
The retailer is the latest in a string of high-profile companies, including Nike, Patagonia, Yuengling and REI, to wade into highly political debates. The wave of corporate activism, experts say, is one way for businesses to connect with politically minded shoppers, even if they risk offending others. Either way, they say, consumers are increasingly comfortable voting with their wallets — and aren’t afraid to support or boycott companies based on their views.
“In a world where they no longer expect the government to fix things, people are turning to Corporate America to step in and do some good,” said Peter Horst, founder of marketing consultancy CMO. “Consumers increasingly want to engage with companies whose values match theirs.”
The problem, however, is that if Corporate America tries to “fix things,” they’re going to have problems. A lot of people have sworn off many of those listed brands. Nike, in particular, is being mocked unmercifully on social media. Its ad campaign has become a meme, some of which are absolutely incredible–one with a picture of 9/11 hero Todd Beamer with the “Stand for something, even if you have to sacrifice everything” is particularly poignant–and others are hysterical. All, however, have managed to turn Nike into a joke with a lot of consumers.
Businesses don’t exist to solve problems. They exist to make money for their stockholders. Period.
By stepping into politics in such an overt way, they are alienating parts of their customer base. Remember how everyone got outraged because Mozilla CEO Brendon Eich made a donation to a group that opposed gay marriage? He did that as a private citizen and got hammered for it.
But now CEOs are using company funds to pay for their crusades.
What’s particularly worrisome to me is that this new partnership with Bloomberg plans on “encouraging employees to get involved in political causes.” The problem is, which causes? Will employees who support the Second Amendment receive the same support as those who oppose it? I know where I’m putting my money.
As things currently stand, we’re facing the possibility of having two countries within the same borders. While we may all have to follow the same laws, we’ll have two completely different cultures with their own businesses and activities thriving, simply because those businesses and cultures have made it clear they don’t want the other side around.
Well, as it stands, there are a lot of companies to buy blue jeans from other than Levi Strauss, and I suspect a lot of people will do so right away. Sure, Levi Strauss might be reporting a boost, but Dick’s did too. For a short while.
What happens after?
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Author's Bio: Tom Knighton
Tom Knighton is a Navy veteran, a former newspaperman, a novelist, and a blogger and lifetime shooter. He lives with his family in Southwest Georgia. https://bearingarms.com/author/tomknighton/
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9/11 Memorial Ceremony Honors Nebraska & Western Iowa Soldiers Who Lost Their Lives Defending Our Country
Annual Ceremony to be Held at American Heroes Park at 6:00 pm on Monday, Sept. 11th.
Author: Phil Davidson
Bellevue’s annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony, which honors fallen and wounded warriors, first responders, and new citizens, will again take place at American Heroes Park at 6:00 pm on Monday, Sept. 11th. The Kiwanis Club of Bellevue sponsors the ceremony. The park is located on the north side of Mission Ave. across from Haworth Park (just before the toll bridge).
This ceremony honors the men and women and their families who have courageously fought for our country as well as the lives lost on that tragic day in 2001 and the first responders – firefighters, EMTs, and law enforcement -- who protect us every day. We will also be honoring our Wounded Warriors and their families, who struggle daily to live complete and fulfilling lives, despite their challenges.
The ceremony includes a citizenship ceremony where 23 new Americans will take their oath of citizenship, recognition of our emergency first responders, and a Roll Call of our Fallen Heroes from Nebraska and Western Iowa. The ringing of the Four Fives will honor first responders, while the Thirteen Folds of the Flag honors the patriotic spirit of Americans, young and old.
“Over the years, we’ve conferred citizenship on over 400 new Americans. The citizenship ceremony really makes a statement,” according to O’Donnell. “Our new citizens come from varied backgrounds, just as those who fell in service to their country, but they all have a common bond - the desire to be a part of and tp serve greatest land of opportunity on earth.
“The primary objective in creating the memorial in 2002 was to create a place for people, especially families of fallen warriors, to come and find a place of solace and a reminder that those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice will not be forgotten”, according to O’Donnell. “We hope to provide another step in the closure process for families who’ve lost a loved one, but it’s also intended as a recommitment to the ideals and values that make America a shining beacon of hope in the world. “It’s also a place where wounded warriors and their families can hopefully find shared values and kinship with their comrades.”
O’Donnell added that the ceremony’s breadth offers a wonderful educational opportunity for parents and grandparents to teach young people. “I think every parent or grandparent ought to have their whole family at the ceremony – lessons of a lifetime can be taught in one short hour,” he added.
For More Information, Contact: Bill or Barb O’Donnell, Kiwanis Club of Bellevue at 402-933-0866 (office) or 402-292-3387 (home).
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PhD Fellowship in Atomic and Molecular Physics 2019, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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PhD student in atomic and molecular physics
The Department of Physics at the University of Gothenburg is located on the Johanneberg campus of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, with a total of some 80 employees. The communication routes are good both nationally and internationally. The research focuses within the fields of Atom- and Molecular Physics, Condensed Matter Physics and Spintronics, and Complex Systems and Biophysics and is performed in an international environment with extensive national and international collaborations. The education programs at the Department include Bachelor- and Master programs in Physics, physics teacher-training programs, as well as outreach courses in Physics aimed for the general public. Gothenburg Physics Centre is a close collaboration with four other departments within the Faculty of Science and Chalmers University of Technology creates an innovative environment for all researchers and students at the department.
Information about the research group:
Prof. Raimund Feifel’s research group concentrates on electron and ion spectroscopy of atoms and molecules in different states of charge and excitation, and has considerable, internationally well recognized, experience in developing and using high-resolution electron and ion correlation spectrometers, in combination with pulsed discharge lamps, synchrotron radiation and Free Electron Laser sources in the vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) and X-ray spectral region. This group has received funding for developing the activities towards the investigation of short-lived reactive intermediates, so-called radicals. The main goal of this project is to carry out double ionisation studies on short-lived reactive intermediates by using world-leading correlation methods in combination with new sample environments, which shall be developed based on established methods, as well as state-of-the-art quantum-chemical calculations. The research group of Prof. Raimund Feifel collaborates within the framework of several national and international networks which give the holder of the position good possibilities for international contacts and periods of research carried out also at other locations.
The Department of Physics at the University of Gothenburg is looking for a PhD student in the field of experimental studies of electron emission processes of atoms and molecules. A suitable background is a master’s degree in physics or engineering physics or physical chemistry, but also candidates who are in the final phase of their master studies are welcome to apply. The research to be conducted within this position will focus on experimental investigations of fundamental properties of short-lived atoms and molecules emitting electrons upon photon absorption, and implies the development of suitable sample environments as well as adapting and utilising multi-particle correlation spectroscopic methods for the detection of all charged particles created in the electron emission processes. For the interpretation of the experimentella data, the candidate is also expected to carry out quantum-chemical calculations led by a leading theoretician in the field who collaborates with Prof. Feifel’s group. The scientific questions adressed by this research program are primarily of fundamental nature. Daily activities, however, will imply work in applied areas involving VUV and X-radiation sources, optics, electronics, programming and data acquisition. A PhD eduction in this field therefore gives a solid base for a future career both in academia and in industry.
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Pittsburgh Army Earplug Lawsuits
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Army Hearing Loss Information for Pittsburgh
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Widespread Army Hearing Loss and Defective Earplugs: Information for Pittsburgh Residents
Defective 3M army earplugs have been linked to an increase in hearing loss among American armed forces members in recent decades, including servicemembers from Pittsburgh. Whether full or partial, unilateral or bilateral, hearing loss from combat is a major problem among veterans in Pittsburgh that affects every aspect of life, from enjoying family gatherings to being able to work. Millions of servicemembers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2015 were exposed to a hearing loss risk as a result of army earplug defects. This page contains full information for Pittsburgh residents on the uptick of military hearing loss since defective 3M Combat Arms Earplugs became standard issue in 2003.
Rampant Hearing Loss in Pittsburgh Veterans
Hearing loss is a common problem among veterans in Pittsburgh and around the country; as of 2015, 1 million U.S. veterans claimed annual disability benefits for full or partial hearing loss as a result of their service, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Yet despite mitigation efforts in recent decades, army hearing loss is on the rise; while the veteran population at large is three times more likely to experience hearing loss than nonveterans, those who have served since 2000 are four times more likely to suffer from hearing loss than others.
In recent decades, the military's awareness of army hearing loss has increased. Why then is the rate of hearing loss among Pittsburgh armed forces members also up? A whistleblower's report in 2018 prompted a Justice Department army earplug lawsuit, uncovering a likely source of rampant military hearing loss.
Pittsburgh Hearing Loss from Defective 3M Earplugs
The defective 3M earplugs are designed to be used in two different settings: When one end is inserted into the ear, the defective 3M earplugs are marketed as comparable to average earplugs and protect the wearer from chronic noises such as loud engines; when inserted from the other end, the 3M military earplugs are supposedly capable of blocking out high-impact noises of the battlefield.
In 2018, an anonymous whistleblower stepped forward to disclose information that prompted a major Department of Justice lawsuit against 3M. The army earplug lawsuit alleged company officials became aware of design defects in its dual ended army earplugs through internal testing in 2000, prior to marketing the device. Furthermore, the allegations outlined a process of falsifying test results to conceal the potential for hearing loss from the army earplugs, then signing a 2003 contract with the Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency to supply millions of CAEv2 units--without ever disclosing the known earplug defect.
This amounts to a violation of the False Claims Act that put millions of armed forces members at risk for full or partial hearing loss. 3M paid a $9.1 million settlement to resolve the earplug defect lawsuit, opening the door for veterans and servicepeople in Pittsburgh who developed hearing loss as a result of defective 3M earplugs to seek compensation through filing army earplug lawsuits against the manufacturer.
3M company officials were taken to task for illegally masking a significant problem with its product and then knowingly selling millions of defective earplugs to the U.S. military, which have resulted in widespread hearing loss among Pittsburgh armed forces members who served beginning in 2003. No one knows yet exactly how many veterans in Pittsburgh may live with hearing loss today as a result of these actions, but the suffering is tremendous, as is the cost to the public in providing veterans benefits.
It is our fervent belief that corporations who betray the public's trust and harm servicepeople in the name of profits must be held accountable for their deplorable actions. Combat earplugs are just one of many contracts the company has had with the U.S. military. Hearing protection falls under 3M's Safety & Graphics Unit, which garnered $5.7 billion of the company's $30 billion in annual revenue in 2016.
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/ Mark Frauenfelder / 1:38 pm Mon Nov 10, 2014
A guide to Serial: the best podcast in the world
Serial is a podcast about a murder that happened in 1999. It's produced by This American Life and it's the best podcast series I've listened to.
From the podcast's about section:
On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She’d been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae’s body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Some people believe he’s telling the truth. Many others don’t.
Serial's creator, Sarah Koenig, has been digging deep into the murder. She's interviewed Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed's classmates, read court transcripts, listened to police interrogation tapes, met with lawyers, recreated key incidents in the events leading up to the murder, and more, to produce the engrossing weekly show. Each episode runs between 25-40 minutes and seven episodes have been released so far. The big question is: what really happened on the day Hae Min Lee was strangled? Each episode chips away at the mystery. (Which Koenig admits may never be answered.)
Uproxx has a good listener's guide to the series.
The captivating part of the show — the part that has wrangled it close to a million unique listeners, and that caused me to listen to all of the show’s seven-episode backlog in a 24-hour span late last week — is the presentation. Koenig is an experienced and gifted storyteller, and the way she weaves things together ends up embedding the show deep in your brain.
Reddit's r/serialpodcast takes a very deep dive into the podcast, and the participants are posting high school yearbook photos and other details that have not yet been revealed in the podcast. I'm keeping away from it, because I want to get all my information from the podcast.
Slate has a podcast about Serial. This might be the first podcast about a podcast. It's a recording of the hosts' conversation about the episodes. They are fans of Serial, but also quite critical of the way Sarah Koenig is presenting the story. (I happen to think Koenig is doing a brilliant job.)
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At Barcelona’s international airport, police arrested a Colombian gentleman who arrived from Bogota with half a kilogram of cocaine under his toupée. According to a Reuters report, “The man attracted police attention as he looked nervous and had a disproportionately large hairpiece under his hat. They found a package stuck to his head with about […]
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US Conference of Mayors adopts a resolution to never pay off ransomware attackers
As city after city has remitted hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay off ransomware criminals who hijacked their crucial systems, the US Conference of Mayors had unanimously adopted a resolution to never pay these ransoms again, on the basis that these payments "encourage continued attacks on other government systems, as perpetrators financially benefit,"
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Respawn Entertainment News
Entertainment November 13th at 3:30 PM
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Do You Know: How Many Stars There Are in Our Universe? [Tract]
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No? Neither do I, but some estimate that there are nearly 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. More importantly, I know the God who made both of us and who the Bible says “made the stars also” (Genesis 1:16). We’d have to agree that that’s incredible power unless we pretend this universe “came from nothing.” God has said about such people, “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God” (Psalm 14:1). We are invited to know that amazing Creator who says of Himself, “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Do you personally enjoy being in the presence of God? Find out more at www.joyfulnews.org
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The Enchantress of Numbers
jhgardner December 10, 2012 0 Comments
The curious tale of the world’s first computer programmer.
Today I stray a little from the ordinary literary and educational news updates, after coming across a nod to an exceptional woman I couldn’t pass the day without commemorating, not only for her role in mathematics, but also for her role as a woman in mathematics, far ahead of her time. I hope that her story inspires women in the sciences, or indeed anyone who perseveres to think beyond the capabilities of modern technology.
Sadly I’m usually behind the times on Google’s artistic and quirky depictions of special days via their homepage. But today, gmail just happened to crash, sending me to the Google homepage where I saw the below image:
I was curious. Who was this woman in 19th century garb, scribbling mathematical functions with quill and ink? And so, by way of technological error, I learned of Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace was born on December 10th, 1815, to the poet Lord Byron and his wife Anna Isabella Byron. She had a miserable childhood, considered a disappointment from birth for not having been born a boy. Ada was abandoned by her father before she was a month old and resultantly never knew him, as he died abroad when she was eight. Meanwhile her mother chose to keep little connection with her, possibly because young Ada reminded her of her devious husband, with whom the Baroness had an acrimonious divorce. So Ada was raised by elderly relatives and relegated to a life of suspicious observation via her mother’s friends, dubbed “the Furies.” Fortunately for us, though, she was also subject to a life of education–intended to squash any deviation she might have inherited from her father–and took a keen interest in mathematics from a young age.
Around the age of seventeen, Ada’s special abilities became clear to her tutors, all famed in mathematics in their own right. The noted mathematician Augustus de Morgan even reported of Ada to her mother that she seemed destined to become, “an original mathematical investigator, perhaps of first-rate eminence.” Meanwhile another one of Ada’s instructors and friends, Mary Somerville, introduced her to Charles Babbage, future inventor of the world’s first computer. Ada was not yet eighteen at the time.
Babbage and Ada thus began a friendship that produced their academic collaboration on the former’s Analytical Engine. In 1843, Ada translated Italian mathematician Luigi Meanabrea’s explanation of the machine, complete with her own set of notes and conclusions (which were actually longer than Menabrea’s). In her depiction of the Analytical Engine, Ada imagined its potential as being greater than simple “number crunching,” something not even Babbage indulged in. She wrote:
[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine…
Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.
Along with these forward-thinking notes, Ada wrote “a computation of Bernoulli numbers for the Analytical Engine” (below). It is this part of her thesis, “Note G,” that is universally considered to be the world’s first computer program, making Ada correspondingly its first programmer.
Image via Wikimedia Commons
So there you have it: the world’s first techie was a noble lady, The Right Honourable Countess of Lovelace. That means that on this day, as you browse the Internet in search of Google poetry, GIFs, or the Ikea Monkey, you have Miss Ada Lovelace to thank for her place in imagining the capability of computers to change our lives in the myriad of ways they have today.
Ada was such an interesting woman, there is only so much of her life I could include in this post. I highly recommend her Wikipedia entry as an overview of her amazing achievements and somewhat scandalous personal affairs. In her mere thirty-six years, Ada gave us much to appreciate and stands as a prime example of the role women have played in science and technology, though they are often overlooked. She truly lived up to Charles Babbage’s nickname for her, “The Enchantress of Numbers”:
Forget this world and all its troubles and if
possible its multitudinous Charlatans – every thing
in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
Teachers, instruct your students on the history of “The Enchantress of Numbers” with eNotes’ document on Ada Lovelace, found here. It comes with an activity to help students write their very own programs and is recommended for Grades 4-8.
CategoriesEducation, history, Science, Studying Literature
Tagsada lovelace, augusta ada byron, charles babbage, computer programming, computers, lord byron, math, mathematics, science, technology, the enchantress of numbers, women in math
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Thursday, Dec 11 2008
Stem Cell Agency OKs Salary; Roth Named for Vice Chair
Despite a letter from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) expressing concern about providing compensation to officials at the state stem cell agency, California's Institute of Regenerative Medicine has approved a $150,000 salary for Robert Klein, chair of the agency's Independent Citizenâs Oversight Committee. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger on Tuesday nominated Duane Roth, a member of the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee, to be the agency's next vice chair.
"Klein To Get $150,000 -- for working half-time" ("Capitol Alert," Sacramento Bee, 12/10).
"Schwarzenegger Names His Pick for Stem Cell Vice Chair" ("Capitol Alert," Sacramento Bee, 12/10).
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Reviews / March 3, 2016
From Canada to Kanye: A Portrait of Yeezy as an Artist
Kanye West may be an awful person—but he’s also a contemporary artist on a par with those celebrated by curators and museums worldwide, Mo Salemy writes.
Kanye West is a contemporary artist on a par with those who are celebrated by curators and art institutions worldwide, Mo Salemy writes. Photo: via Run the Trap and EDMHUB.
Like Donald Trump, with whom he is currently sharing the media space, Kanye West is an awful person.
They are both personal boosters, constantly spewing self-admiration. They also like to make baseless accusations against respected people.
I am thinking, in this respect, of West’s recent tirade against the legendary Canadian music producer Bob Ezrin for disliking his new album, The Life of Pablo. West flaunted his ignorance of the history of pop by saying, “Has anybody ever heard of Bob Ezrin???” (Ezrin has produced tracks for Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel and Lou Reed, among others.)
Similarly, in recent days, West directed his humiliating invective—and, admittedly, some cute mouse emojis—against Canadian EDM star Deadmau5 when the latter called West out for participating in illegal downloading on Pirate Bay. “Do you do birthday parties?? My daughter loves Minnie mouse…” Kanye tweeted back as part of his rant, making fun of Deadmau5’s iconic performance headgear.
But bluster is not the only thing West shares with Trump. He also has some of Trump’s political ambitions, suggesting several times in the past and most recently in “Facts,” a track from The Life of Pablo, that he might be running for president in 2020.
More importantly, West and Trump are both classic misogynists, literally and metaphorically. They are never short of ways in which their greatness relates to women in an unpleasant and derogatory way.
But drawing similarities between the United States’s top bad boy and its chief right-wing demagogue must stop here if we aim to evaluate West’s contributions to culture as an African American contemporary artist on par with—or even more significant than—those who are celebrated by curators and art institutions worldwide.
After all, sexism and misogyny have not prevented Jeff Koons and Richard Prince, or even accused wife killers like Carl Andre, from being highly recognized for their art.
And as far as the world of pop music is concerned, few have asked Sting why he wrote “Every Breath You Take,” which can easily be characterized today as the stalking anthem. Nor have thousands taken to social media to criticize the sexual politics of pop songs such as Paul McCartney’s “Temporary Secretary,” which uncomfortably blends the logic of workplace sexual harassment with the precarious essence of neoliberal office temp work. One might also reason that hip hop and rap, the genres to which West’s music belongs, are known for their sexism and misogyny, and that West’s creations are not exceptional, but rather “genre specific,” in that context.
Why We Need to Talk (Even) More About Kanye the Artist
As to why I think we ought to talk more about West’s new album, even though every major media outlet, music blog and YouTube personality has already previewed and reviewed the album: Because those who have already spoken about The Life of Pablo are unfortunately not pointing to the most crucial issues that the album as a work of art—not just an item of material pop culture—raises.
Also largely unexamined thus far are the legacies West continues to leave for African American life and early 21st-century history.
If, as West recently declared on Twitter, he is not a rapper, then to what genre of musicians or artists does he belong, given the post-scarcity and “athleticist” logic with which he carries out his over-production of culture?
Can West—some might say, in spite of his age—be considered an emerging contemporary artist? Could he even, within this vast and indeterminate field of art activity, be placed alongside younger white colleagues from Europe and North America who have been associated with the post-Internet movement and Dis Magazine?
Soon, I am headed to the Berlin Biennale, and I am hoping to run into West’s work, or at the very least a representation of what he has been producing. West belongs to this biennial platform just as much as, for instance, Hito Steyerl, who is rumoured to be making a new video for the exhibition. Even though West and Steyerl belong on opposite sides of the Adornoian positive-negative conception of the dialectics of culture, they both have been making valid statements not just about the contemporary moment, but also about moments to come, which West has been referring with his own term, “The Fuche.”
Besides, shouldn’t the diversity of West’s “practice” remind us of those artists who owe their careers to the re-imagination of art as an intersection of music, design, fashion, technology and marketing? Certainly PS1’s selfie-addict curator Klaus Biesenbach seems to be a proponent of this model, snapping pics with Lady Gaga and James Franco with nary a second thought. Biesenbach also supports artists whose fast-blossoming careers consist of this strategy, such as Iranian American artist Babak Radboy, who actually has worked on West videos in the past.
Admittedly, West has gained a foothold—and more—in the official contemporary-art realm of late. In May, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In July, a film for his songs “All Day/I Feel Like That,” directed by Steve McQueen, debuted at LACMA. And prior to that West collaborated with Takashi Murakami on his “Good Morning” video and with George Condo, who did the cover for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
West also self-identifies as an artist. As he told McQueen in a 2014 Interview magazine article, “I’m a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I’d been in national competitions from the age of 14. I got three scholarships to art schools—to St. Xavier, to the American Academy of Art, and to the Art Institute of Chicago—and I went to the American Academy of Art. So the joke that I’ve actually played on everyone is that the entire time, I’ve actually just been a fine artist.”
But in my opinion, West’s work not only belongs to the category of contemporary art, but can also stand up to contemporary art’s highest echelons of practice. The rigorous manner in which he walks the talk of recent contemporary art trends sets his work apart from countless “new works” one might encounter at any given art fair, biennial or museum these days.
On Avant-Garde, Kitsch and Curating The Life of Pablo
Not content with his award-studded music career (remember his 21 Grammys?), West has pushed the limits of experimentation. This has magically raised his profile in contradictory directions of avant-garde and kitsch, high and not-so-low culture.
Tracing West’s cultural status entails remembering how his productions experienced a qualitative shift around the time of his marriage to celebrity Kim Kardashian, the unveiling of his famous Yeezy 2 Red October sneakers for Nike and the release of his previous album Yeezus, whose track “Bound 2” foreshadows the alien-gospel-soul trajectory of The Life of Pablo.
The unbearably violent synths and the intensity of West’s screaming proclamations about being God in Yeezus come across both as a break with the perfectionist maximalism of his previous works and as an embrace of the architectural minimalism that he enacts in the highly curated space of The Life of Pablo.
Does it really matter that the petition to name West as the director of the 56th Venice Biennale did not succeed, given the massive amount of aesthetic and organizational labour he has dedicated to his Life of Pablo project?
West’s new album is ripe with diversity both in terms of the artists and producers it gathers into a single cohesive project and the histories and futures of black music it archives in one recording. Led by West, the long list of this album’s African American collaborators includes artists such as Chance the Rapper, Rihanna, Frank Ocean, Kelly Price, The-Dream, Kendrick Lamar, Kid Cudi, The Weeknd, Ty Dolla $ign, Chris Brown and Kirk Franklin, and producers including Mike Dean, Rick Rubin, Metro Boomin, Southside, Hudson Mohawke and Swizz Beatz.
These various artists’ contributions, together with West’s mastery of cut-and-paste sampling, all formalized through his flawless musical arrangements, are organized to give listeners a new sense of time. Listening to The Life of Pablo is not unlike entering a quantum time machine: one in which the relationships between gospel, soul, disco, hip-hop and electronic music—basically the past, present and future of black music—are not chronological, but simultaneous.
When an Artist Views Music as an Architectural Space
One way to think about music is as a flow of data, which reveals its totality only in the anthropocentric category of time.
Another way is to characterize music along other human-made physical flows, which are sustained for longer than it takes to listen to a song or an album—fluctuations which, if continued long enough, join the surrounding world as concrete infrastructure.
However, the sonic qualities of The Life of Pablo are such that one might not need this theoretical meandering to understand why music is always already nothing but an architectural space.
There is a concrete spatial metaphor that can best capture The Life of Pablo’s dark, dusty and industrial—yet, at the same time, human—space. The surface qualities this space offers, and the movements it accommodates or prohibits, can be best described if we travel to a former East Berlin power station on Berliner Allee in the German capital.
For the last decade, this station has been repurposed as one of the world’s greatest nightclubs: the Berghain. But unlike the Berghain, which is notorious for its hyper-strict door policy, The Life of Pablo has been offered for free on the artist-initiated music platform Tidal. There, it is embraced equally by those who are professionally involved with music and masses of youth, black and not, who have been listening to and struck by its invisible beauty. On YouTube, one can also find many instrumental versions of West’s tracks, some made from scratch using the exact samples and equipment; these bypass the Tidal platform’s copyright policy and expand the album’s aesthetics beyond the possibilities of market capitalism.
This new album contains West’s latest explorations of electronic music’s horizons—especially if listeners divorce it from certain hip-hop genre associations and instead perceive it as a one giant instrumental piece of music in which the human voice (including that of West himself) is shape-shifting sound equipment.
These moments of discovery in the album are obviously amplified, usually in the beginning and end of most songs, but also in the middle of verses and spoken words where auto-tune technology truly reveals the inhuman nature of West’s musical project.
As perhaps the first music album offered exclusively on a cloud-based streaming basis, The Life of Pablo has undergone slight modifications to its recording since its release on February 9; West has changed track listings and readjusted the mix on several tracks.
Together, these innovations add not only to the notion of West’s authentic practice as an artist; they also amplify the kind of transformations the music industry (if not art-making in general) will experience in our unfolding century.
Contemporary Art, Contemporary Music, Contemporary Politics
Before we close the case on Kanye West’s ontology as an African American contemporary artist, we ought to locate The Life of Pablo’s politics beyond the social issues which so far have framed the discussions of African American culture in the past decade.
In this context, West’s track “Real Friends” features an original and blunt discussion of how class mobility has negatively transformed the artist’s relationship to his community.
The lyrical progression in this track slowly but surely challenges the usual presumptions found in most, if not all, mainstream cultural productions by African American artists about the continuity between personal success and community emancipation.
We learn in the song about West’s reluctance to identify with “where he comes from,” and that his cousin sold the artist’s laptop containing graphic pictures of his “amorous affairs” back to him for $250,000.
If we reverse the subject position and re-read the “Real Friends” story from the cousin’s point of view, we can see how The Life of Pablo’s politics consist of a complicated picture of the Mobius-like way race and class intersect in the spectacle of African American celebrity life.
This recording’s image of a dead and disappeared successful artist erased from his family and community challenges the happy endings offered by the black-power gestures of the hot-sauce-carrying Beyoncé, or the moral obligations of representing injustices performed by Kendrick Lamar in his music.
Knowingly or not, West’s The Life of Pablo, and more explicitly the song “Real Friends,” question the outdated technology of identity politics.
It’s notable that these same politics around identity propelled Barack Obama’s presidency, which has mostly failed to deliver on its promises of black emancipation beyond political representation.
Perhaps West’s blunt, counterintuitive attitude towards the complexity of the African American identity is why so many people have a hard time with his image and what it represents.
Yet if there’s anything we know from the history of art—and its contemporary practice—it’s that art should complicate the easy consumption of images and other cultural products, and it should make people think about representation.
Any way you look at it, Kanye West is an artist—whether his attitude about that, and so many other things, is unpalatable or not.
Granted, Kanye may still have to wait a while for his Björk-style museum-retrospective moment. But if he gets there—or better, if he gets snatched up by major international galleries like Lisson, Gagosian or Zwirner—his artist statement will no doubt opine that he “is a rap/hip hop artist who uses the genre as the medium for his performative practice” and that he “comfortably moves between singing, producing, and making films and videos, as well as designing clothes—all while maintaining a hyperactive presence on various social-media platforms.”
Mohammad Salemy is an independent New York-based artist, critic and curator. He has shown his works at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut and Witte de With in Rotterdam. His writings have been published in e-flux, Flash Art, Third Rail Quarterly, and the Brooklyn Rail. Salemy has curated exhibitions at Vancouver’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Access Gallery and Satellite Gallery. He holds an MA in critical curatorial studies from the University of British Columbia and is one of the organizers of the New Centre for Research & Practice.
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North Collins seeks a school superintendent
By Staff|Published Tue, Jul 21, 2015
The North Collins School Board is awaiting responses to a request for proposals for a superintendent search consultant.
Superintendent Joan Thomas told the board Tuesday night she has sent the request to find a consultant. Prices range from $6,000 to $18,000 for the services, which include researching candidates’ backgrounds.
Thomas announced her retirement at the board meeting June 23. She plans to stay until Dec. 23.
Board members also discussed filling a vacancy on the board created by David Gier’s resignation.
The board has asked Martin Niefergold, a former board member who did not seek re-election in May, if he wants to return. Another person has expressed interest in the seat, said board member Mark Snow, but board members have not yet interviewed that candidate.
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Two Dunkirk men plead guilty to role in drug ring
By Staff|Published Fri, Apr 8, 2016
Two Dunkirk men have pleaded guilty to drug charges on federal court in Buffalo.
Javier Pagan Jr. and Samuel Hernandez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distributing cocaine before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. They face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. Adler, who is handling the case, said that between 2013 and June 10, 2015, the defendants were involved in a drug-trafficking organization that distributed multiple kilograms of cocaine throughout the Dunkirk area.
Pagan and Hernandez were arrested in June 2013 along with David Jesus Pagan, Rafael Burgos Jr., Alvin Torres, Jr. and Angel Pierluissi. Search warrants were executed at the time of the arrests at six properties, which resulted in the recovery of more than seven kilograms of cocaine and approximately $175,000 in cash as well as an AR-15 assault rifle with a 30 round magazine.
Charges are pending against David Jesus Pagan, Burgos, Torres and Pierluissi.
The indictments are the result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, , the Dunkirk Police Department, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office and the Chautauqua County District Attorney’s Office.
Wolford will sentence Hernandez on July 19. Sentencing for Pagan will be scheduled at a later date.
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What's in a nickname? NFL has had great ones in its history
SIMMI BUTTAR (AP Pro Football Writer)
The Associated Press June 14, 2019, 6:54 p.m. UTC
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1980, file photo, a New Orleans Saints fan wears a bag on his head during a football game against Philadelphia, in New Orleans. Aints _ Refers to the struggles of the woeful New Orleans Saints in the 1980 season when they were the first team to finish 1-15 in a season. (AP Photo)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The memorable moments and teams in NFL history can be summarized by a word or phrase such as the ''Steel Curtain'' or ''America's Team.''
And the NFL has had more than its share of those moments and teams through the years. Even though a list such as this could be virtually endless, here's a look at some of the top NFL nicknames, including players, plays, teams and even stadiums.
''Aints'' - Refers to the struggles of the woeful New Orleans Saints in the 1980 season when they were the first team to finish 1-15 in a season. Fans registered their disgust by wearing paper bags over their heads at the games. But the name also refers in general to the team's struggles for most of its first 30 years.
''America's Team'' - Love 'em or hate 'em, it's the Dallas Cowboys. And despite having not won a Super Bowl since the 1995 season, their popularity nationwide hasn't waned.
''Steel Curtain'' - A Pittsburgh twist on the Cold War phrase ''Iron Curtain'' for the Steelers' stellar defense of the 1970s, which paved the way for four Super Bowls in a six-season span. Pretty much every dominant Pittsburgh defense since then receives the same honor.
''Legion of Boom'' - Pun on the ''Legion of Doom'' group of villains from DC Comics. The Seahawks' strong defensive teams of the past decade helped win Super Bowl 48 and nearly repeated the next year. Its most prominent members included Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas, Kam Chancellor, Bobby Wagner and K.J. Wright.
''Purple People Eaters'' - The bruising Minnesota Vikings' defensive line from the late 1960s through the '70s. Members included Hall of Famers Alan Page and Carl Eller, plus Jim Marshall. If not for going 0-4 in Super Bowls, the group likely would be more celebrated.
''Greatest Show on Turf'' - The high-scoring St. Louis Rams led by Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk and Isaac Bruce during the late 1990s and early 2000s. These Rams played in a dome on turf and piled up the yards and points as they won Super Bowl 34 and fell just short to New England two years later.
''Hogs'' - Washington's big, beefy offensive line (by the standards of the day) during the first Joe Gibbs coaching era in the 1980s and early '90s that helped lead the way to three Super Bowls. Some male fans at RFK Stadium would wear dresses and fake pig snouts to honor their Hogs.
''The Smurfs'' - With help from the Hogs, Washington's group of wide receivers - Gary Clark, Alvin Garrett and Charlie Brown - who were all under 6-foot, also played a key role in the team's success. The name refers to the popular cartoon series in the 1980s featuring small blue characters.
''Monsters of the Midway''- The fearsome defense of the Chicago Bears. First used in the early 1940s, then applied to the iconic 1985 team led by Hall of Famers Richard Dent and Mike Singletary that rolled to the Super Bowl. And it even was used for last season's team led by Khalil Mack, which went 12-4 and won the NFC North.
''New York Sack Exchange'' - The defensive line of the New York Jets in the early 1980s, including Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko and Marty Lyons. But like all Jets teams in the past 49 years, this group failed to reach the Super Bowl.
''Concrete Charlie'' Chuck Bednarik - Hard-hitting Hall of Famer played both center and linebacker for the Eagles. The six-time All-Pro made a game-saving tackle to preserve Philly's 1960 NFL title win over Green Bay - the only playoff loss for the Vince Lombardi-led Packers.
''The Assassin'' - Defensive back Jack Tatum was known for his fierce and intimidating hits for the Oakland Raiders in the 1970s, including one that left Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley paralyzed after a hit in a preseason game in 1978.
''The Mad Bomber'' - Daryle Lamonica got this nickname after being traded from the Buffalo Bills to Oakland in 1967 and he unleashed a deep passing game with the Raiders for the next several seasons. He was the quarterback in the infamous ''Heidi'' game in 1968 as he led the Raiders to a 43-32 comeback win over the Jets. Finished with more than 19,000 yards passing and 164 touchdowns.
''The Minister Of Defense'' - Packers and Eagles defensive lineman Reggie White. White became an ordained minister long before the end of his Hall of Fame career that included being an eight-time All-Pro and two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year. He finished with 198 sacks and 33 forced fumbles.
''Slingin''' Sammy Baugh - This Hall of Famer was a key part of the early passing boom in the NFL in the late 1930s and early '40s for Washington. Not just a ''slinger,'' he amazingly led the NFL in passing, punting and interceptions in 1943. Baugh finished his career with 31 interceptions and was voted to the NFL's 75th Anniversary team.
''Megatron'' - Lions standout wide receiver Calvin Johnson, who had more than 700 catches, 11,000 yards and 83 touchdowns. The three-time All-Pro retired at 30 after the 2015 season and a nine-year career. The nickname comes from the main villain in the ''Transformers'' film franchise.
''Prime Time'' - Hall of Fame cornerback and return man Deion Sanders. He was one of the most dominant cornerbacks of all time. At his peak, Sanders took away half of the field because teams wouldn't throw near him. Yet he still managed 53 interceptions. The six-time All-Pro also knew how to find the end zone with 22 career TDs (nine pick-6s, six on punt returns, three on kickoff returns, three receiving and one on a fumble return). Sanders is the only player to appear in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.
''Broadway Joe'' - The one and only Joe Namath, who of course backed up his famous guarantee as he led the New York Jets past the Colts to win the third Super Bowl 16-7. The Hall of Famer was the first QB to pass for more than 4,000 yards in a season and finished with 27,663 yards and 173 TDs.
Elroy ''Crazylegs'' Hirsch - This Hall of Fame halfback for the Rams led the NFL in scoring and receiving for the 1951 champions. His nickname comes from his unique running style, which didn't stop him from finishing with 60 touchdowns in his career.
Dick ''Night Train'' Lane - Hall of Famer who had 68 interceptions in 14 seasons, mostly with the Chicago Cardinals and Detroit Lions in the 1950s and '60s. Lane got the nickname from teammates from the then-popular song ''Night Train'' during his first training camp with the LA Rams in 1952.
Assorted Nicknames:
''Holy Roller'' - With the Oakland Raiders trailing the San Diego Chargers by six late in a September game in 1978, Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler was leading a drive in the red zone in the final minute. Under pressure, he was ruled to have fumbled the ball forward, though it appeared intentional. Teammates Pete Banaszak and Dave Casper also advanced the ball while bobbling it, with Casper falling on it in the end zone for the winning touchdown. The rules were later changed to prevent this type of play from occurring late in games.
''Black Hole'' - Nickname for a section in the south end zone of Oakland Coliseum, which has some of the most rowdy fans in the league, who are also known for their distinctive outfits that seem like they belong in outer space. Whether even the Las Vegas strip is ready for that in 2020 is another matter. The biggest Black Hole for the team has been its record of late, with only one winning season since 2002.
''Dawg Pound'' - Nickname for the rabid Cleveland Browns fans who are known for wearing dog masks, barking, and, in the old days throwing dog biscuits and worse at the opposing team. The Dawg Pound may make some big noise in 2019 as the Browns are a trendy pick to go to the playoffs.
''Cheeseheads'' - What fans of the Green Bay Packers are called. The most fervent supporters of the team from the dairy-producing state wear hats with foam cheese on top, no matter the temperature or the weather.
''Immaculate Reception'' - One of the most famous and controversial plays in NFL history is nearly 50 years old. The Steelers were trailing the Raiders 7-6 and were down to their last play with under a minute remaining in a 1972 AFC Divisional playoff game. Under pressure, Terry Bradshaw launched a deep pass from his 30-yard line to ''Frenchy'' Fuqua, who was at the Raiders 35. The pass deflected backward and Franco Harris reached down to his shoe tops and caught it. Harris went down the left sideline for a touchdown, and an unlikely 13-7 Steelers win. Which player deflected the pass, either Fuqua or Raiders safety Jack Tatum, and whether the play should have counted, has been debated ever since. The victory was a catalyst for the Steelers' dynasty in the 1970s.
A lesser-known fact about the game: It was the first playoff win in Steelers history.
''Helmet catch'' - Little-used receiver David Tyree took Eli Manning's desperation heave and pinned the pass against the top of his helmet while fighting off Patriots defensive back Rodney Harrison late in Super Bowl 42. The 32-yard gain in the fourth quarter allowed the Giants to score the go-ahead touchdown and upset the Patriots, who entered 18-0 and were trying to complete the only 19-0 season in NFL history.
''Hail Mary'' - Credit Hall of Famer Roger Staubach with this. After the Dallas Cowboys quarterback completed a late, 50-yard pass to Drew Pearson to win a playoff game at Minnesota, Staubach said: ''I guess you could call it a Hail Mary. You throw it up and pray.''
''No Fun League'' - How critics of the NFL refer to the league when it is seen as stuffy, out of touch, and clamps downs on the players' attempts at self-expression. Not that such a moniker has hurt NFL recognition.
''The Greatest Game Ever Played'' - The 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants was the first overtime game in league history. Alan Ameche's short touchdown run gave the Colts a 23-17 victory. The thrilling game was televised nationally and is credited with sparking the NFL's rise in popularity.
''Ice Bowl'' - The 1967 NFL championship game between the Cowboys and Packers. One of the most accurate nicknames in sports history with a temperature of minus-14 and a wind chill of minus-49 at Lambeau Field, it was the coldest NFL game ever recorded. The Packers won 21-17 on Bart Starr's QB sneak in the final seconds. It was also the second-to-last game that Vince Lombardi coached with Green Bay.
''Music City Miracle'' - Only eight days into the 2000s, the Bills found a new way to lose a postseason game. This time it was in Nashville (aka Music City) during wild-card weekend. Leading 16-15 after a field goal with 16 seconds left, the Bills kicked off to the Titans. Tight end Frank Wycheck threw a cross-field lateral to wide receiver Kevin Dyson and he raced 75 yards down the left sideline for the touchdown in a 22-16 win. The Titans eventually advanced to their only Super Bowl to date, and came within a yard of possibly tying it on the final play against ''The Greatest Show on Turf.''
More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP-NFL
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Carmanah Reports First Quarter 2015 Results
May 13, 2015 -
Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) (“the Company” or “Carmanah”) today reported its first quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, 2015. Currency amounts are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.
For the quarter ended March 31, 2015, the Company recorded revenues of $11.3 million, and net income of $0.03 million. This compares to revenues of $9.1 million and net income of $0.1 million in the first quarter of 2014. On this comparative basis each of the Company’s Divisions grew revenues and within each Division all market verticals achieved growth. And while this growth was universal, the Company’s overall revenues were still lower than expected due to winter weather which caused project completion delays in the Company’s On-Grid Division. As a result of these weather delays the Company’s order backlog grew substantially in the quarter.
Gross profit margins also improved universally throughout each Division. While all margins increased, the largest margin improvements were recorded in the Company’s Signalling Division with improvement being the result of improved efficiency. Net income in the quarter was negligible and substantially unchanged from the same period in 2014. Net income was negatively impacted by (1) foreign exchange losses of $0.4 million, and (2) a $0.3 million one-time inventory write off.
Carmanah management relies on adjusted EBITDA (a non-IFRS measure) to gauge financial performance. In the first quarter of 2015 the Company’s generated $0.8 million of adjusted EBITDA, up from $0.6 million in the same period of 2014. A table reconciling net profit and adjusted EBITDA is included in this release.
“We are pleased with our financial performance during the first quarter of 2015 evidenced by record level order booking in the period but also as a result of improved gross margins,” said John Simmons, CEO. “Absent weather delays that unavoidably prevented project completions, our first quarter would have produced record operating revenues and profitability.”
Highlights for the quarter and the year are provided below:
Three months ended March 31,
(US$ thousands)
Total operating costs
Adjusted EBITDA*
*Adjusted EBITDA is a Non-IFRS measure
Financial Condition at March 31, 2015 compared to December 31, 2014
Cash and cash equivalents of $8.2 million, down $0.6 million from $8.8 million
Working capital of $16.2 million, up $0.1 million from $16.1 million
Continued debt-free operations
First quarter 2015 corporate highlights
Integration of Sol Inc. (“Sol”) – Since acquiring Sol on July 2, 2014, management has been working to complete the integration of Sol into Carmanah’s operations. In the months following the acquisition to December 31, 2014, Sol’s core business functions were maintained to provide time to execute on the integration plan. The majority of Sol’s back office functions were eliminated at the end of 2014. Progress on the integration during the early part of 2015 was as follows:
During the first quarter we worked to close down Sol’s manufacturing facility and to transition production to contract manufacturers. These efforts were largely completed in the quarter, with final production winding up on March 31, 2015. The facility will be completely closed by May 31, 2015, when the lease on the building expires. As a result of the wind down the headcount has been reduced by 50% and by the end of Q2 2015 we anticipate 9 full time employees who are focused on sales and sales support functions.
From a systems perspective, Sol’s ERP system was successfully converted in Q1 to the same ERP system that Carmanah implemented in 2014. The CRM system transition is expected to occur in Q2 when Carmanah’s CRM platform is set to go live.
Executive changes – During the first quarter of 2015, the Company moved to strengthen its leadership team and initiated a recruiting effort to fill a newly created Chief Operating Officer role and to find a more experienced Chief Financial Officer. In April 2015, the Company welcomed Evan Brown as its new Chief Financial Officer and Tammy Neske as Chief Operating Officer.
Share Offering – On April 7, 2015, the Company announced a plan to raise up to $32.0 million (CAD) through a “bought deal” financing (the “Offering”). The financing was backed by a syndicate of underwriters led by Cormark Securities Inc. and including Canaccord Genuity Corp., GMP Securities LP and Salman Partners Inc. (collectively, the Underwriters”) who agreed to buy and sell to the public 5,650,000 of our common shares (“Common Shares”) at a price of $5.00 (CAD) per Commons Share. The Underwriters also had an option, exercisable in whole or in part at any time up to 15 days after the closing of the Offering, to purchase up to an additional 750,000 Common Shares at the same price. The Offering closed on April 28, 2015 with 5,650,000 shares issued from treasury. On May 1, 2015, the Underwriters exercised their option to acquire the additional 750,000 shares. Proceeds from this offering will largely be used for future mergers and acquisitions. See the short form prospectus, filed on April 23, 2015 for further details.
Reporting Currency
Unless otherwise indicated, all financial information presented in this press release is in US dollars.
Complete set of Financial Statements and Management Discussion & Analysis
A complete set of the March 31, 2015 Interim Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion & Analysis are available on Carmanah’s corporate website. To view these documents, visit: www.carmanah.com/Company/Investors/Financial_Reports.aspx. Both documents are also filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com).
EBITDA reconciliations
(US$ in thousands)
Net income (loss)
Add/(deduct):
Non-cash stock based compensation
EBITDA*
Merger and acquisition costs
Extraordinary legal costs
Restructuring and asset write offs
* A Non-IFRS measure
Management believes that the non-IFRS measures presented provide useful information by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of Carmanah’s core operating results and that this non-IFRS measure will allow for a better evaluation of the operating performance of the Company’s business and facilitate meaningful comparison of results in the current period to those in prior periods as well as future periods. Reference to this non-IFRS measure should not be considered as a substitute for results that are presented in a manner consistent with IFRS. This non-IFRS measure is provided to enhance investors’ overall understanding of Carmanah’s current financial performance.
A limitation of utilizing this non-IFRS measure is that the IFRS accounting effects of the non-recurring items do in fact reflect the underlying financial results of Carmanah’s business and these effects should not be ignored in evaluating and analyzing Carmanah’s financial results. Therefore, management believes that Carmanah’s IFRS measures of net loss and the same respective non-IFRS measure should be considered together.
Non-IFRS measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. One such non-IFRS measure used for assessing financial performance is EBITDA, defined as net income before interest, income taxes, amortization, and non-cash stock based compensation. The other non-IFRS measure used is Adjusted EBITDA, which adjusts EBITDA for unusual or non-operating items such as merger and acquisition costs, restructuring charges and asset write offs.
About Carmanah Technologies Corporation.
Since its founding in 1996, Carmanah has become one of the most trusted names in solar technology, delivering reliable and cost-effective solar powered products and systems for industrial applications worldwide. To date, Carmanah’s solutions for marine navigation, airfield ground lighting, aviation obstruction, roadway illumination, parking lot lighting, as well as on and off-grid power generation, have been successfully deployed in over 400,000 installations in 110 countries with proven performance in conditions ranging from desert heat to arctic cold.
Carmanah is publicly traded with common shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “CMH”. For more information, visit www.carmanah.com.
Carmanah Technologies Corporation:
Evan Brown, (250) 380-0052
Chief Financial Officer/Corporate Secretary
investors@carmanah.com
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Home Chicago-Pulse First gene therapy to treat childhood leukemia gets FDA approval
First gene therapy to treat childhood leukemia gets FDA approval
By Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved on Wednesday the first-ever gene therapy to treat children and young adults with leukemia.
Called Kymriah, but better known as CAR T-cell treatment, the therapy is being hailed by doctors as revolutionary. It involves genetically modifying a patient’s own T-cells, which then can target and kill a form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells.
“This new treatment has the potential to change the face of cancer therapy for years to come, not just in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia but in other cancers in which a patient’s own T-cells can be collected, genetically modified and redirected to kill a patient’s tumor,” said Dr. Gregory Yanik, clinical director of the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Mott was one of a few hospitals nationally to take part in clinical trials of the treatment.
Read more at http://www.freep.com/story/news/2017/08/31/first-gene-therapy-treat-cancer-gets-fda-approval-u-m-only-michigan-hospital-use/618334001/
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Home Chicago Pritzker Traubert Foundation announces the Chicago Prize, a $10 million grant competition...
Pritzker Traubert Foundation announces the Chicago Prize, a $10 million grant competition to support community investment on Chicago’s South and West Side
Seeking applications from community-led collaborative teams
The Pritzker Traubert Foundation (PTF) has announced the Chicago Prize, its new grant competition to invest in the economic future of residents on Chicago’s South and/or West Side.
The Chicago Prize will award a single, $10 million grant to a highly collaborative initiative that uses physical development to spur economic activity, strengthen civic infrastructure, and improve the safety, well-being, and economic mobility of residents. The grant emphasizes the relationship between a community’s physical environment and its civic infrastructure—the environment that shapes and sustains a community.
Civic infrastructure refers to the policies, programs, practices and processes that connect physical revitalization with neighborhoods’ customs, culture, networks and relationships. Research shows that physical development, whether affordable housing, mixed-use development or community centers, can be more of a cornerstone for addressing community needs and creating systemic change when civic infrastructure is also considered.
“What makes Chicago communities so special often boils down to two things – the people who live there and places there that make a neighborhood unique,” said Bryan Traubert, PTF co-founder and chairman. “Places and people are tremendous assets in every community, but in some of our South and West Side areas, we haven’t made enough investments in either to offset the inequities that we all know exist. Working with the Park District, I spent time in almost every Chicago neighborhood and saw the great potential that exists there. I’m looking forward to learning even more about that potential through the Chicago Prize.” Traubert was president of the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners from 2010 to 2015.
The inaugural Chicago Prize will be awarded in spring 2020. It will support a community-led, investment-ready initiative that is managed by a team with deep community partnerships, sophisticated approaches to community development and resident engagement, and the expertise to leverage the grant, implement the initiative, and create positive impact for residents and within the community-at-large.
Organizations whose experience aligns with these guidelines are encouraged to visit ChicagoPrize.org to complete an assessment; this represents the first step toward registering to submit a proposal for the award. All organizations that plan to collaborate and form a Chicago Prize application team must register on the website by Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 5 p.m. Central Time.
The Pritzker Traubert Foundation recognizes that addressing systemic poverty, economic exclusion, and inequity is complex and challenging, according to Cindy Moelis, PTF’s president.
“We are excited and ready to partner with community leaders and put our resources—passion, experience, and capital—to work toward helping more individuals and communities in Chicago thrive,” Moelis said. “We are seeking community plans that feature bold ideas about how changing a place can change residents’ lives. When teams apply, they will define their places, tell us how they plan to improve those places, and tell us what the impact will be on the community at-large.”
“We are very proud to call Chicago our home and are deeply committed to do all we can to help strengthen the economic future of more people across our great city,” said Penny Pritzker, PTF co-founder and director. “We believe good ideas need patient capital in order to be successful. Yet often, the funding that comes from the public and nonprofit sectors is not enough to fuel the innovative, bold ideas that we know are out there. The mission of the Chicago Prize is to deliver the flexible private capital needed to achieve the vision these communities have for themselves so they can help more families thrive.”
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Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. So also he made for the entrance of the nave four-sided doorposts of olive wood and two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door turned on pivots, and the two leaves of the other door turned on pivots. He carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the engraved work. Christian Canvas Art
and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, Christian Art and Gifts
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He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat; one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Bible Scripture Verse Art
He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat; one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Christian Art and Gifts
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He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.read more. Christian Canvas Art
Share your faith with others through scripture art, gorgeous contemporary art featuring favorite Bible verses. Offer inspiration to yourself and others using framed canvases, wall peels or posters. Whether the words are found within the New Testament or the Old Testament, art that incorporates scripture into lovely images is sure to inspire, uplift and motivate. Find your guiding light through the Serenity Prayer, John 3:16 or among many more verses available in our scripture art collection. [less] Christian Canvas Art
Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.” The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt. Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it: ... Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ...
Throughout history, many artists have acknowledged God’s sovereignty and position as the ultimate Creator depicting in their work the accounts and truths which God has given to his people through the Bible. Virtually every biblical account has been visually portrayed at least once and usually many times throughout history and across cultures. In museums, galleries, churches, cathedrals, and homes around the world, such works of art are helping people gain a deeper understanding of the Scriptures. Christian Canvas Art
I’ve always liked the lyrics of the popular hymn that state “It is well with my soul.” It was only when I researched some of the background for this post that I learned some of the story behind these famously sung words. Did you know that words to this hymn were penned by Horatio Spafford after the tragic loss of ALL 5 of his children? You can read the story behind the hymn and the full lyrics here. Christian Art and Gifts
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“See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: ... Christian Canvas Art
Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses. And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there. (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. ... Bible Scripture Verse Art
Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— ...
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work. He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same. He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital. ...
Visual art, including stained glass, sculptures, and paintings, was incredibly important in Medieval times when most people were illiterate. The Bible was unavailable except to the very upper classes (who were more likely to be able to read), but by using the visual arts the biblical account was made available for everyone. Biblical art was known as biblia paupernum or “the Bible of the poor.” Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
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1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— 4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, 5 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts. 6 Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also I have given ability to all the skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you:
"The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods. "But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him? "Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver, brass and iron, and in purple, crimson and violet fabrics, and who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled men whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat; one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
For the last 5 years, the in-house design team at the Faithlife Corporation has illustrated one Bible verse every day. This art has found its way onto t-shirts, magnets, and postcards—and now, a beautiful picture book. In print for the first time, art from Faithlife's Verse of the Day series paired with uplifting devotionals will encourage and inspire you. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...
From the very first verse of Scripture, God reveals himself as the Creator, an Artist. Everything within the universe is a magnificent element of the Great Artist’s masterpiece. As works of art created in God’s own image (Gen 1:27), people are endowed with the ability to create as well. We can choose to join the Master Artist by being artists ourselves. Christian Canvas Art
Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.” The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt. Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it: ... Bible Scripture Verse Art
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Blinker and the boys and girls of Room 40
TOPICS:January 16th to January 22nd 1917
‘Room 40’ — codebreakers at work
Posted By: David Hargreaves January 16
EVEN BY THE Tsar’s own exalted standards, this was a spectacular own goal.
On 18th January, his government postponed the next meeting of the Duma from 25th January to 27th February. It was an astonishingly imprudent decision, as well as a weak one, and obviously defensive.
That day, the president of the Duma, Mikhail Rodzianko, had an audience with the Tsar and urged upon him a spirit of realism:
Your Majesty, I consider the state of the country to have become more critical and menacing than ever. The spirit of all the people is such that the gravest upheavals may be expected… All Russia is unanimous in claiming a change of government and the appointment of a responsible premier invested with the confidence of the nation…
A lesser man might have found that the presence of anointed royalty sapped the critical instinct, but not this one.
Rodzianko (described by the Tsar as a “fat rat”)
Sire, there is not a single honest or reliable man left in your entourage; all the best have either been eliminated or have resigned… It is an open secret that the Empress issues orders without your knowledge, that Ministers report to her on matters of state… Indignation against and hatred of the Empress are growing throughout the country. She is looked upon as Germany’s champion. Even the common people are speaking of it… To save your family, Your Majesty ought to find some way of preventing the Empress from exercising any influence on politics… Your Majesty, do not compel the people to choose between you and the good of the country.
The Tsar was not unmoved. He allegedly sat with his head in his hands and wondered,
Is it possible, that for twenty-two years I tried to act for the best and that for twenty-two years it was all a mistake?
Rodzianko took no prisoners:
Yes, Your Majesty, for twenty-two years you followed the wrong course.
Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich
It is a nice vignette, but it made no difference. Nicholas had sworn to maintain autocracy at his coronation and now justified his obstinacy by his insistence that God himself had demanded he preserve it intact – in order that, one day, it might be handed hand over to his son and heir, Alexei.
There was a world, however, beyond whatever La La Land was inhabited by the Tsar and his family – one in which Russian blood and guts were being spilled. On 17th January General Mackensen’s dramatic successes in Romania were briefly halted on the Sereth as the Romanians had captured the heights between the Casin and Oitoz valleys, taking four guns and many prisoners, but it was a tiny respite. Two days later, the towns of Nanesti and Fundeni fell to the Germans.
Fighting in the West was characterised by a large number of minor engagements – frightening, bloody and fought against the backdrop of deteriorating weather. Haig was determined the Germans would not be able to rest easy in their secure bunkers and dug-outs and so it was that Lens, Neuve-Chapelle and St Eloi were successfully targeted and enemy posts along a 600-yard stretch of the Front north of Beaucourt-sur-Ancre were captured on 17th January. The Germans counter-attacked north of Bois des Caurières near Verdun, but their heart did not seem to be in it, and they were successfully repulsed on 21st January.
Haig was not on hand to see it, having sped off to London to await the outcome of the War Cabinet’s deliberations on the proposed offensive outlined to them by General Nivelle.
This was a massively sensitive matter: shorn of official niceties, Lloyd George wanted to find an alternative route to victory to the foul slaughter in the West. At heart he suspected that the British had not the stomach to endure it much longer (perhaps not the soldiers, and almost certainly not the civilians). He did not dislike Haig, nor (up to a point) distrust him, but he resented the grand strategy over which he now presided. What, he wondered, about moving against Austria on the Italian Front?
Haig had seen Lloyd George on 15th January and recorded that:
the P.M. proceeded to compare the successes obtained by the French during the past summer with what the British had achieved. His general conclusions were that the French Army was better all round, and was able to gain success at less cost of life. That much of our loss on the Somme was wasted, and that the country would not stand any more of that sort of thing. That to win, we must attack a soft front, and we could not find that on the Western Front…
This was hardly a ringing endorsement of Haig’s command. To be fair to Lloyd George, he knew that there was no Front in which British soldiers could romp home to an easy victory (that particular myth had been exploded devastatingly at Gallipoli).
At this same moment, the new French commander, Nivelle, was chafing for a new offensive in the West – spearheaded by the French but with the British in support. The following day, 16th January, he received the War Cabinet’s endorsement of his plans. The Memorandum detailing the agreement was signed by Haig, Robertson and Nivelle, the military chiefs, and not by their political masters. His scheme required the British army to take over a considerable length of the Front to release French divisions for the assault on the Chemin-des-Dames. A heavy British attack would also have to be launched on the Arras Front while the French attacked on the Aisne.
French postcard of the Western Front in 1917
Duff Cooper, a future Cabinet minister, later remarked:
The fact was that Nivelle had proved the first and last person capable of persuading Lloyd George that Victory could be won on the western front. Lloyd George believing for the nonce that the thing could be done, demanded that it should be done quickly.
Haig was full of foreboding about the combined efforts of the rookie Prime Minister and the rookie French commander. Lloyd George sent him a message that same day stressing that the War Cabinet attached great importance to Nivelle’s plan being carried out “both in the letter and in the spirit”. The only concession Haig gained was that reinforcements would be sent and that he could complete the relief of the French with them by 1st March and not at the earlier date of 15th February.
Haig was always a realist. He wrote that
we must do our best to help the French to make their effort a success. If they succeed, we also benefit. If they fail, we will be helped in our turn, and we then have a right to expect their full support to enable us to launch our decisive attack, in the same way as we are now helping them.
Allied progress on other Fronts continued to be volatile. On 16th January Greece at last accepted all the demands made in the Allies’ ultimatum, including making reparations for the destructive demonstrations at the end of last year. That much was good.
Further to the East, in Mesopotamia, efforts to re-take Kut-el-Amara – the town so humiliatingly lost by the British after a disastrous siege ended in April 1916 – moved desperately slowly. General Frederick Maude, charitably described as a cautious and careful commander, was also under orders from London to keep casualties in the campaign to a minimum. This was the problem. Politicians wanted spectacular results at low cost.
British troops near Kut-el-Amara
In the absence of good news, they also abetted disinformation – lies, in fact. A statement on 22nd January from the Secretary of the War Office read:
The enemy have now been driven from the small strip on the right bank of the Tigris in the bend north-east of Kut-el-Amara. The whole trench system on a front of 2,500 yards and to a depth of 1,000 yards is now in our hands, and the right bank of the Tigris from Kut-el-Amara downstream has been cleared of the enemy. Further progress has been made against the enemy’s trenches on the right bank south-west of Kut-el-Amara.
This was tosh: the previous ten days of fighting had been ferocious and British losses had been savage. But there was a growing anxiety on the part of British political leaders just now, grounded in the fear that popular support for the war was more tenuous than it ever had been.
If they were right, then they were not alone. In Germany, the determination to end the war rapidly had provoked the decision to resume unrestricted submarine warfare. Berlin knew that America’s entry into the war was probably inevitable – an outcome which, most understandably, she preferred to avoid. To this end, an eccentric diplomatic feint was devised by Arthur Zimmermann, Secretary for Foreign Affairs: if the US decided to fight against Germany, then Mexico would attack the US.
Artur Zimmerman
On 16th January the idea was forwarded in a telegram to the German ambassador in Washington to be passed to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt:
We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavour in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you.
You will inform the President [Mexican] of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and… call the President’s attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace.
It certainly reads very improbably today. After two and a half years of war, the explanation for the telegram’s existence owes more to Germany’s desperation than, as some have mooted, Zimmerman having lunched too well.
The next problem for Berlin was how to communicate this – what does one say… notion… caprice? Policy seems altogether too thoughtful – to the Mexicans. As Germany had destroyed her own trans-Atlantic cables at the start of the war, she had to use those of other countries, including America’s, at this point. The coded telegram was sent on 19th January via the US cable which ran through a relay station at Porthcurno in Cornwall, from where all messages were copied to British intelligence.
Here everything became rather John Le Carré. Unknown to the Germans, the British had a superb decoding team, directed by Admiral “Blinker” Hall and based in Room 40 of the Admiralty. By 20th January they had decoded most of the telegram. The only problem – familiar to all cryptographers – was what to do next. Clearly its contents were explosive, but Hall stalled, deeply reluctant to do anything which might warn the Germans of the British penetration of their codes.
Admiral Reginald (“Blinker”) Hall
The sterling work by those in Room 40 had not, however, removed the U-boat menace. On 17th January the British Admiralty announced the losses in the Atlantic for the month from 12th December to 12th January: ten British and two French ships had been sunk; two other British ships had been captured and their crews taken prisoner. The following day, the Germans announced that the missing merchantman Yarrowdale, captured on 11th December by their phenomenally successful commercial raider, SS Moewe, had now arrived in Swinemuede on the Baltic. Nearly 500 prisoners, taken from different ships, including some American citizens, were now in enemy camps.
It got worse, unfortunately. British Intelligence had alerted the navy to the presence of a German flotilla of at least eleven ships apparently headed for Zeebrugge. The Harwich Force was despatched to intercept them and overnight on 22nd January an engagement took place which led to the sinking of HMS Simoom, which was torpedoed by the destroyer S.50. Of her complement of 90 there were few survivors from the original explosion.
In such circumstances, it is not remotely hard to understand why both politicians and the general public were forced to contend with two difficult truths: one was that the present rate of slaughter and loss could not be sustained indefinitely; the other was that whoever lost the war faced abject catastrophe.
Rudolf Hess during the Great War
Such an apocalypse was exactly what was anticipated by Klara, mother of Rudolf Hess. Despite having two sons fighting at the front, she wrote austerely to the future Nazi potentate on 22nd January:
Dear Rudi,
When I heard about the peace agreement, I felt dejected rather than relieved. I fear we are settling for too little, after all the blood our nation has spilt. Of course I know that an armistice would mean your safe return, my sons, but your future and that of the Fatherland would be built on shaky foundations. Thank God the German Michael [Germany’s patron saint] has finally had the guts to stand firm until our rights to water and land have been secured. We shall fight on, even if it means hard times ahead of us. Why give in at the time when we have been winning victories? Deceit and lies will not bring victory. It would be cowardly of us to worry about you. Instead we should be proud that through our sons we are fighting for the salvation of the Fatherland.
God be with you, dear son!
Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the erstwhile Prime Minister, seems to have sidestepped thoughts of a Gotterdamerung. She integrated the sober narratives of war seamlessly into a bustling social life.
Her diary on 18th January records that she:
Dined with Colonel Freyberg, V.C., at the Carlton Grill Room… Freyberg’s sleeve is covered in gold braid. He has a ghastly red trench in his neck, is very deaf in one ear, and cannot move his arm. In spite of this, he succeeded where others failed in winding up Irene’s little car for us… We went Harry Lauder’s musical play — the first time I have ever seen him. He certainly is extraordinarily lovable — marvellous geniality. His son has just been killed and it is terribly moving when he sings a sort of ‘when the boys come home’ patriotic song…
Lauder, a much sought-after variety theatre entertainer, had toured the country aiding recruitment and raising funds for war charities. He had been appearing in the popular Three Cheers revue in London when he had learned of the death of his only son, 25-year-old Captain John Lauder, of the 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who had been shot by a sniper at Pozieres on 28th December.
Lauder felt that “everything had come to an end” and that “the board of life was black and blank”. Like so many other bereaved parents, he felt his only job now was to “carry on”. Later in the year he persuaded the government to send him to France to entertain the troops.
Once there he took the chance to visit his son’s grave at Ovillers:
Five hundred British boys lie sleeping in that small acre of silence, and among them is my own laddie. There the finest hopes of my life, the hopes that sustained and cheered me through many years lie buried…
I wanted to reach my arms down into that dark grave, and clasp my boy tightly to my breast, and kiss him. And I wanted to thank him for what he had done for his country, and his mother, and for me.
Meanwhile, on 21st January, the tireless Cynthia attended a rare “real Saturday to Monday party again — really very much like a pre-war one” at Panshanger, the grand Hertfordshire home of Lord and Lady Desborough, both still in mourning for their sons, Julian and Billy Grenfell.
Instead of going to church, a party conducted by Lord Desborough went over to see the German prisoners. There are about a hundred of them in the park and they work in the woods. I wasn’t allowed to talk German to them. The specimens I saw were of the meek-and-mild type, not at all ‘blond beasts’. They had rather ignominious identification marks in the form of a blue disc patched somewhere onto their backs: it looked as though its purpose was to afford a bull’s eye to the marksman if they attempted to escape…
German prisoner of war
Such voyeurism leaves a bad taste in the mouth, at least today. In Sedan, the teenage schoolboy, Yves Congar, had recently witnessed the horrific treatment meted out to the thousands of Romanian prisoners who had passed through town following Romania’s collapse. The prisoners were starving, often wounded, beaten, kept in the railway station at one stage for 15 days without food. Some Germans threw food from windows and then laughed as starving prisoners fought for the scraps. Romanians, Russians and Italians were treated as the lowest in the ethnic hierarchy, whereas British and French prisoners received preferential treatment. Anyone seen sympathising with prisoners, or attempting to help them, was fined individually and the town itself was forced to pay 50,000 marks for its compassionate efforts.
The British were spared the horrors of occupation, but they could still have it hard at home. A catastrophic fire broke out on the evening of 19th January at the large factory complex at Silvertown, between the North Woolwich Railway and the river Thames. Just before 7 p.m. an explosion erupted. To this day, the exact cause is unknown, but 83 tons of TNT ignited, and there was no doubting what followed. All nine factories caught fire, ignited by the red-hot iron girders flung everywhere. Almost every building in London was shaken by the explosion, with half a million windows in nearby shops and houses shattered. It remains the largest explosion to be recorded in London.
According to the Stratford Express
The whole heavens were lit in awful splendour. A fiery glow seemed to have come over the dark and miserable January evening, and objects which a few minutes before had been blotted out in the intense darkness were silhouetted against the sky. That awful illumination lasted only a few seconds. Gradually it died away, but down by the river roared a huge column of flame which told thousands that the explosion had been followed by fire and havoc, the like of which has never been known in these parts.
Thousands of houses were destroyed; 73 people died with 98 seriously injured and more than 400 others suffered minor injuries. The damage amounted to £1,212, 661, around £60 million in today’s money. Subsequently, third party claims ran into further millions.
The lesson, however, was learned that no munition factories should be anywhere near civilian housing. In retrospect, it is easy to spot that all the ingredients were in place for a perfect storm: the Brunner Mold Chemical Factory was one of the many munitions plants set up in 1915 (in the wake of the “Shell Scandal”) and one of its tasks was to purify trinitrotoluene TNT. Flour mills, oil refineries, Lyle’s sugar factory and domestic properties all surrounded the plant with around 5,000 workers each doing their bit.
Put like that, it sounds so easy, so obvious, and so avoidable. But war was all about the ruthless prioritisation of effort and resources, and in early 1917 the struggle had become palpably more desperate. Lowly civilians – women and those unfit to serve – had to take their chances.
Silvertown, early 1917
Term: Mikhail Rodzianko
Term: Verdun
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Best Fantasy Worlds Ever Created
Ever since the dawn of the fantasy genre, it’s piqued the imagination of many people all around the world. Many popular series have come to pass, each with their own characteristic world that has a unique feeling and dynamic to it. It breathes life into the story, the characters and the stakes that our heroes have to fight for.
Since reading or watching every work of fantasy that’s ever been created might be a bit much, we’re going to save you some precious time and list out the best fantasy worlds ever created.
George R.R. Martin created what’s probably the most popular fantasy world at the moment. With the last season of Game of Thrones upon us, people are more willing than ever to dive into the depths of Westeros one last time.
The Star Wars Galaxy
That other George, George Lucas, created what was probably the first fantasy universe in outer space. Because of this, some people still think Star Wars is science fiction but it’s honestly just knights and wizards with glowing swords. The war between Jedi and Sith has excited people for over 40 years now.
Tolkien created what is probably the first cookie cutter fantasy world. There’s no fantasy story out there that won’t have some link to the story of the Lord of the Rings in there somewhere, and that can hardly be considered a bad thing.
Land of Oz
The Wizard of Oz was probably the world’s first “mainstream” introduction to fantasy worlds. While the world doesn’t seem like anything special today, it does hold a special place in the history of fantasy because it showed people that fantasy can have deep stories as well.
Azeroth
Yes, video games have created amazing worlds too. Millions of people still visit Azeroth every day to continue the story of the World of Warcraft. The war between the Horde and the Alliance has been going on since the very first Warcraft game, and we don’t expect it to die down anytime soon.
Alice’s Wonderland
One of the weirder fantasy worlds, Wonderland has elements that can entertain both children and adults. Whether you’re reading the books or watching the movies, you’re in for quite the ride once you go down the rabbit hole!
The legend of Zelda has introduced us to the amazing world of Hyrule where many a gamer has spent countless hours trying to rescue princess Zelda from whatever kerfuffle she found herself in at the time.
Originally created back in the day with Robin Williams in the lead role, the most recent movie has seen Dwayne Johnson take over as the leader of the group traveling through the game world of Jumanji.
The Harry Potter Universe
Apart from the weird facts J.K. Rowling keeps sharing on her Twitter page, the world of Harry Potter is filled with amazing lore and backstories that can keep children of all ages entertained for countless hours of reading.
Avatar’s Pandora
While the story of Avatar was basically Pocahontas with blue people, the world of Pandora was nothing short of awesome to look at. Apart from Star Wars, this is probably the most innovative fantasy world we’ve seen since Tolkien jumpstarted the genre.
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WHIO-TV is a television station in Dayton, Ohio. It broadcasts on channel 7 (digital 41) and is an affiliate of CBS. In 2009, WHIO-TV ranked as the #1 CBS affiliate in the United States.[1] and in May 2009 The Nielsen Company named WHIO-TV’s News Center 7 as the number one rated newscast in the country.
WHIO-TV
WHIO-TV Channel 7 (general)
NewsCenter 7 (newscasts)
Coverage You Can Count On
Digital: 41 (UHF)
CBS (Secondary to 1952)
7 Weather Now (DT2)
Cox Enterprises, Inc.
(Miami Valley Broadcasting Corporation)
Call letters' meaning
Former channel number(s)
13 (1949-1952) 7 (1952-2009)
Former affiliations
Secondary:
DuMont (1949-1952)
Transmitter power
1000 kW (digital)
290 m (digital)
Facility ID
Transmitter coordinates
39°44′2″N 84°14′53″W / 39.73389°N 84.24806°W / 39.73389; -84.24806
www.whiotv.com
[edit] Station history
WHIO was started on channel 13 on February 23, 1949 and moved to channel 7 in 1952. It is Dayton's first television station to start broadcasting, although WDTN was first to have its license granted. WHIO is the only station in Dayton to never change its affiliation. WHIO has been owned by Cox Enterprises since its inception; Cox also publishes the Dayton Daily News, the first newspaper ever purchased[citation needed] by Cox Enterprises founder James M. Cox. WHIO's transmitter is located on Germantown Street in western Dayton. WHIO began broadcasting all their newscasts in a 16:9 widescreen format on April 1, 2007, becoming the first Ohio station outside of Cleveland at the time to switch to the new format. Its news department NewsCenter 7 has been in first place in the Nielsen Ratings for many years and that trend continues to this day.[citation needed] The news team is led by Cheryl McHenry, James Brown & Letitia Perry in the evening and Natasha Williams & John Paul in the morning.
WHIO also has served as the default CBS affiliate for most of the Lima (Ohio) DMA. (The station reaches most of the Lima DMA with a Grade B signal). This was especially the case before a low-powered CBS affiliate, WLMO-LP, went on the air in Lima. WHIO also remains on Time Warner's Lima cable systems, along with Columbus CBS affiliate WBNS-TV.
On December 15, 2009, COX Media Group announced that they will move WHIO-TV and the radio stations (WHIO,WHKO,WZLR) to the Cox Media Center building (also the current home of the Daily News) in Dayton, Ohio by end of 2010. The Wilmington Avenue Building in Kettering, Ohio has been home to WHIO-TV since the 1950s. The goal is not just achieving operating efficiencies, but, investing in the local Cox media operations, according to Alex Taylor, Cox Media Group Vice President.
[edit] Digital television
[2][3]The Cox Enterprises broadcasting tower located outside the news station in Kettering, Ohio.The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels
7.1 main WHIO-TV programming / CBS HD
7.2 7 Weather Now
[edit] Post-DTV transition
After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009 [2], WHIO-TV remained on its current digital channel 41 and stopped transmitting on channel 7 [3] using PSIP to display WHIO-TV's virtual channel as 7.
[edit] News/Station presentation
[edit] Newscast titles
Total News (late 60s-1976)
NewsCenter 7 (1976–present)
[edit] Station slogans
The Leader (1976–1990)
The Miami Valley News Leader (1990–1993)
The Miami Valley's 24-Hour News Source (1990–1993; secondary slogan)
Coverage You Can Count On (1993–present)
Live. Local. Latebreaking. (1995–present; used alongside "Coverage You Can Count On")
[4] This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.===[edit] Logo=== The logo for the station is their version of the "Circle 7" logo—an orange 7 against a blue background, encompassed by a thin orange circle, and juxtaposed by "WHIO-TV" written in blue on a white background, underlined in red. Both the logo and the slogan ("Coverage you can count on") identify WHIO-TV as the sister station of other Cox stations; particularly WSB-TV in Atlanta, which has a similar logo and identical slogan. Its sister station in Seattle, KIRO-TV, also has a similar logo, but a different version of the "Circle 7".
Until early 2007, the "7" in the logo was "broken" -- it had a diagonal line running where the two lines in the "7" meet. This logo has been used by WHIO-TV since the early-1970s at the latest. In early 2007, at the latest, the logo underwent a slight revision, removing this "break" from the "7". The anchor desk, however, still shows the "7" in the logo to be "broken".
[edit] Weather
[edit] Storm Center 7
WHIO's team of meteorologists currently by the name of the Storm Center 7 weather team is led by Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson and also features Meteorologists Rich Wirdzek and Erica Collura. WHIO bills their radar as 'New Live Doppler 7' powered by Baron Services.
WHIO did not switch to professional meteorologists until 1993 with the hiring of Heidi Sonen. WHIO then dropped the Accu-Weather service and hired other meteorologists to fill out the staff including former Weather Channel meteorologist Fred Barnhill. Air Force meteorologist Warren Madden was hired from the nearby Wright Patterson Air Force Base and he later went to The Weather Channel in December 1996.
After Sonen's retirement in 1997, the station hired more Penn State meteorology graduates for the role of Chief Meteorologist including Brian Orzel and Jamie Simpson.
In December 2004 they introduced StormCenter 7, which is a weather center that doubles as a set created by FX Group where weather reports can be done.
[edit] New Live Doppler 7
[5][6]NewsCenter 7 open.On June 29, 2007, WHIO debuted their new doppler weather radar, billed as New Live Doppler 7. The radar is available anytime on the stations website.
[edit] 7 Weather Now
On December 15, 2006, WHIO-TV launched 7 Weather Now, programmed 24 hours a day and frequently updated forecasts. Live coverage of developing severe weather can be found on 7 Weather Now, as well as the latest watches and warnings. Weekday mornings from 7am to 8am, a third hour of News Center 7 Daybreak airs exclusively on the channel. 7 Weather Now can be found on digital channel 7.2, channel 23 on Time Warner cable, and on the digitial tier at channel 372. A live stream of 7 Weather Now can be accessed on the WHIO-TV website at http://www.whiotv.com.
[edit] Widescreen news
WHIO began broadcast of all their newscasts in a 16:9 widescreen standard definition format on April 1, 2007. As of June 2010, it remains the only station in the Dayton market which broadcasts its newscasts in widescreen even though the production is not in full high definition. However, it will upgrade to full high-definition newscasts when it relocates to the Cox Media Center in late 2010 or early 2011. All of WHIO's cameras, graphics and equipment are being replaced when they move to the new location that will enable them to be completely in High Definition.
[edit] News Staff
[7][8]The News Center 7 News set in Kettering, OhioNEWSCENTER 7 ANCHORS:
Cheryl McHenry (1981–present) Weekdays @ 5pm, 5:30pm & 6pm
James Brown (2002–present) Weeknights @ 5pm, 5:30pm, 6 & 11pm
Letitia Perry (2001–present) Weeknights @ 11pm
Natasha Williams (1993–present) Weekday Mornings
John Paul (2008–present) Weekday Mornings & Noon
Brittny McGraw (2008–present) Weekends at 6pm & 11pm
Gabrielle Enright (1997–present) Saturday Mornings and Weekends Noon
NEWSCENTER 7 REPORTERS:
Steve Baker (1980–present)
Kate Bartley (2010–present)
Mark Bruce (2008–present)
Kathryn Burcham (2007–present)
Mike Campbell (1986–present)
Jill Del Greco (2006–present)
Caryn Golden (1997–present)
Becky Grimes (1978–present)
Jim Otte (1988–present)
STORMCENTER 7 TEAM:
Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson (1999–present)Weeknights @ 5pm, 5:30pm, 6 & 11pm
Meteorologist Rich Wirdzek (2006–present) Weekday Mornings and Noon
Meteorologist Erica Collura (2010-present) Weekends
Weather Specialist Traci Hale-Brown (2004–2006, 2009–Present) fill-in
7 SPORTS ANCHORS:
Sports Director - Mike Hartsock (1979–present)
Don Brown (part-time)
ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER:
Bryan Erdy (2008–present)
Notable WHIO Alumni
Kimberly Thomson, Meteorologist, 2007-2010
Danielle Elias, Reporter 2007-10 now at WBNS-TV 10TV , CBS -Columbus, Ohio
Dave Harmon, meteorologist
Randy McIlwain, education reporter, 1994-97(Now at KXAS-TV 5, an NBC affiliate in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX. area)
Jim Baldridge lead anchor 1972-2009, retired
Lyle Stieg (sports)
Patt Garwood, weather reporter 1980s, former wife of Sports Director Mike Hartsock
Cathy Stelzer
Anton Day
Margaret Brosko (2005-2008)
Phil Donahue
Gil Whitney, reporter, anchor and weather specialist (died in 1982)
Don Wayne, long time 6, 7 and 11pm lead news anchor (retired in 1988, died in 1997)
Tom Hamlin, sports director in 1960s, retired
Ted Ryan (weather specialist, staff announcer) (1954–1992)
Donna Jordan (1995–2006)
Rebecca Combs (2000–2005), anchor/reporter
Andrew Douglas (now at WMC-TV in Memphis, TN)
Mike Dunston, reporter, (now anchor at WOFL-TV in Orlando, FL)
Jim Blue (now news director and anchor at WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne, IN)
Cathy Ballou (weather specialist 1986-1995, Now working for Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN)
Deborah Countiss (retired from WSYX in Columbus)
Trevor Pettiford
Shawn Ley (now at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, OH)
Heidi Sonen, Chief Meteorologist 1993-1997,
Ed Krahling, long time anchor, (retired in 1993, died in 1998)
Ken Jefferson, anchor (1977–2002)
Mick Hubert, sports director (1979–1989) (The Voice of the Florida Gators)
Dr. Sherry Stanley-Wheaton, health reporter
Joe Parise, weekend weather specialist
Paul Herdtner, anchor/reporter
Bruce Asbury, Lead Weather Specialist 1982-89
Tracie Savage, anchor/reporter 1986-91
Rick Smith, staff announcer and host of "Summer Nights" and "WHIO Reports"(died in 2006)
Sallie Taylor, anchor/reporter (1988–2007), now full-time mother
Linda Robertson, anchor/health reporter now @ University of Dayton
Sher Patrick, anchor/reporter (now Marketing Manager at Community Blood Center in the Dayton area)
Dave Freeman, Chief Meteorologist (now at KSNW in Wichita, KS)
Guil Herrick, Sports reporter/anchor (1994–2001) now a teacher in Dayton
Paul Moses, anchor/reporter
Myriam Wright, anchor/reporter
Sam Yates, anchor/reporter-retired from news, now head of Yates and Associates in Jensen Beach Florida.
Vanessa Tyler, anchor/reporter, now @ WPIX-TV, New York City
Joe Rockhold "Uncle Orrie", 1950s/60s children's show host and staff announcer,retired in 1969 (died in 1981)
Ken Hardin "Ferdy Fussbudget" 1950s/60s children's show co-host and sidekick of Uncle Orrie. (died in 1991.)
Steve Prinzivalli, meteorologist (2003-2005) (now a meteorogolist for Weatherbug.com)
Jack Jacobson "Nosey The Clown" 1950s early sidekick of Uncle Orrie and "Ignatz Hammerschlob" later as "Dr. Scar" and as general manager at KGUN in Tucson and author of book "The Sky Blazers",retired (died on March 23, 2008)
Dave Eaton "Charlie Goodtime" 1970s children's show host
Dick Bieser, manager of community relations and on air personality, retired in 1993.
Scott Dean, Former Meteorologist on Daybreak Edition and Noon Newscenter (2000-2006) (now at WTVD in Raleigh, NC)
Chris Ingalls, reporter (now at KING in Seattle)
Guy Fogle, sports (formerly of WDTN and WKEF also, now retired from news, and teaching at Carlisle High School in Carlisle,OH)
Warren Madden, meteorologist (1993–1996), now at The Weather Channel
Paul Miller, reporter/anchor (1975–1979), later NBC Correspondent, now retired.
Bob Shreve, overnight host of "Night People Theater", a Friday night/Saturday morning movie program...similar to his Saturday night program in Cincinnati (died in 1990.)
Denny Cheatham, Videographer/one-man band (1963–2009), retired
Sylvia Newsome, anchor
Brian Orzel, chief meteorologist (January 1998-December 2002)
Jeff Porter, Meteorologist, Daybreak Edition(2005-September 4, 2009)
Maury Williams, anchor/reporter (1987–1992), now at Luxottica Retail, EyeMed Vision Care
Tom Andrews, anchor in the 1960s, went on to become Dayton City Commissioner, then worked in communications for Reagan and Bush 1 administrations.
Steve Summmers, reporter/anchor (2006-2007)
Miami Valley Channel (former cable channel from WHIO-TV)
WHIO Website
Query the FCC's TV station database for WHIO
BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WHIO-TV
^ "WHIO Ranking 2009". http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/whio-tv-nations-no-1-cbs-affiliate-150922.html.
^ http://www.whiotv.com/station/18708864/detail.html
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Hezbollah adopts Chavez as hero — Talk about an unholy alliance —
Hezbollah adopts Chavez as hero
(AFP)21 September 2006 BEIRUT – Venezuela’s outspoken President Hugo Chavez, who lashed out at his US counterpart George W. Bush from the podium of the UN General Assembly, has scored a big hit with Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
“Gracias Chavez,” proclaimed large posters hurriedly put up on Thursday by Hezbollah activists in their Shia stronghold of Beirut’s southern suburbs on the eve of a “victory” rally following the group’s war with Israel.
The portrait, showing Chavez in a red shirt and punching the air with a fist, also calls for Israel “to be taken to court for its crimes” during the 34-day war which ended in mid-August after more than 1,200 people were killed in Lebanon alone.Caracas pulled the Venezuelan charge d’affaires out of Israel in early August to protest its operations inside Lebanon, with Chavez charging that Israel “had lost its mind”.Another poster, next to a road bridge destroyed in an Israeli air raid, shows Chavez and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and announces the launch of a petition of thanks for the Venezuelan leader.It also hails “our coalition from Gaza to Beirut, to Damascus, to Tehran, and with our brother Chavez”, quoting Nasrallah.Chavez stunned the General Assembly in New York on Wednesday with a speech which branded Bush “the devil” who acted like he ”owned the world”, a day after the US leader spoke from the same podium.The left-wing Venezuelan president, a frequent critic of the US administration, then crossed himself, brought his hands together as if in prayer and looked up to the ceiling of the assembly chamber.Earlier this week, Chavez hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and renewed his support for Tehran’s disputed uranium enrichment programme, which the United States and other Western countries fear would be used for the development of a nuclear bomb.
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Remarks by Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian,
http://www.levitt.com/
at the Duke University Counter-Terrorism Speak-Out
I’m proud and honored to stand here today, as a Lebanese speaking for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world.
I was raised in Lebanon, where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea.
When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in 1975, they started massacring the Christians, city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17, without electricity, eating grass to live, and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water.
It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon. My mother was wounded by a Moslem’s shell, and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians, Christians, Lebanese, and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injury. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn’t see religion, they didn’t see political affiliation, they saw people in need and they helped.
For the first time in my life I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of the Israelis, who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital. Those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government, about the Jews and Israel, that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that, if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown over to the grounds, as shouts of joy of Allahu Akbar, God is great, would echo through the hospital and the surrounding streets.
I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers: one in particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes.
One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem, Rina and I started crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me. She holds me crying and says: “it is not your fault”. We just stood there crying, holding each other’s hands.
What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19 year old only child, and still able to love me the enemy, and between a Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians.
The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It’s barbarism verses civilization. It’s democracy verses dictatorship. It’s goodness verses evil.
Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional murder of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian “armed struggle”.
However, once such behavior is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized every where in the world, constrained by nothing more than the subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing children in the name of god.
Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan.
They blame suicide bombing on “desperation of occupation”. Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent.
On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948, in anticipation of Israel’s independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street, in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem. Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the “desperation” of “occupation”, but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.
So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It’s time to all stand up, and support and defend the state of Israel, which is the front line of the war against terrorism
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The Media vs. The War on Terror How ABC, CBS, and NBC Attack America’s Terror-Fighting
How ABC, CBS, and NBC Attack America’s Terror-Fighting
Tactics as Dangerous, Abusive and Illegal
By Rich Noyes, MRC Research Director
In the five years since al-Qaeda terrorists killed nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, both international critics and domestic groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union have suggested that the American government’s tactics in the War on Terror are as frightening as terrorism itself. These mostly liberal critics portray the Bush administration as trampling on the civil rights of ordinary Americans, abusing the human rights of captured terrorists and acting without regard to the rule of law.Unfortunately, the broadcast networks are using this Bush-bashing spin as the starting point for much of their coverage of the War on Terror. An analysis by the Media Research Center finds network reporters are presuming the worst about the government’s anti-terror efforts, and permitting their coverage to be driven by the agenda of leftist groups such as the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights. While some on the Left have claimed the media were enthusiastic boosters of the Bush administration in the days after 9/11, the MRC found that network reporters began to question the idea of a vigorous War on Terror within days of the attacks.MRC analysts analyzed 496 stories that aired on ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News between September 11, 2001 and August 31, 2006. They examined all evening news stories about three major elements of the post-9/11 war on terrorism: the treatment of captured terrorists at Guantanamo Bay (277 stories); the National Security Agency’s program to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists calling to or from the U.S. (128 stories); and the USA Patriot Act (91 stories). Major findings:■ Most TV news stories about the Patriot Act (62%) highlighted complaints or fears that the law infringed on the civil liberties of innocent Americans. This theme emerged immediately after the law was first proposed in September 2001, less than a week after the 9/11 attacks. Only one report (on NBC) suggested the Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism measures “may not be enough.”■ ABC, CBS and NBC heavily favored critics of the Patriot Act. Of 23 soundbites from “experts” (such as law professors or ex-FBI agents), 61 percent faulted the law as a threat to privacy rights. Of 19 soundbites from ordinary citizens, every one condemned the Patriot Act, despite polls showing most Americans support the Patriot Act and believe it has prevented new acts of terrorism.
■ Most of the network coverage of Guantanamo Bay focused on charges that the captured al-Qaeda terrorists were due additional rights or privileges (100 stories) or allegations that detainees were being mistreated or abused (105 stories). Only 39 stories described the inmates as dangerous, and just six stories revealed that ex-detainees had committed new acts of terror after being released.
■ Network reporters largely portrayed the Guantanamo inmates as victims, with about one in seven stories including the word “torture.” The networks aired a total of 46 soundbites from Guantanamo prisoners, their families or lawyers, most professing innocence or complaining about mistreatment. Not one report about the Guantanamo prisoners included a comment from 9/11 victims, their families or lawyers speaking on their behalf.
■ Most network stories (59%) cast the NSA’s post 9/11 terrorist surveillance program as either legally dubious or outright illegal. Exactly half of the news stories (64) framed it as a civil liberties problem, while 38 stories saw the President provoking a constitutional crisis with Congress and the courts. Only 21 stories (16%) focused on the program’s value as a weapon in the War on Terror.
■ ABC, CBS, and NBC were five times more likely to showcase experts who criticized the NSA’s surveillance program. Of 75 total soundbites, 41 of them (55%) condemned the program, compared to just eight (11%) from experts who found it worth praising. The CBS Evening News has so far refused to show any pro-NSA experts.
The debate is not about whether reporters can challenge a president and his policies during a time of war. Of course they can. But the networks have chosen to highlight the complaints of those who paint the Bush administration as a danger equal to or greater than the terrorists themselves. Reporters could have spent the past five years challenging the administration with an agenda most Americans share, demanding that the government do everything within its lawful powers to protect the public and prevent another attack. Instead, liberal reporters have opted to join the ACLU in fretting that the War on Terror has already gone too far.
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Is Islam Dying? Europe Certainly Is === read this carefully I highlighted some points
From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2006-09-20 23:11
Dr Koenraad Elst, one of Belgium’s best orientalists and an occasional contributor to this website (if I had time I would translate more of his Dutch-language contributions into English), told me last week that he thinks “Islam is in decline, despite its impressive demographic and military surge” – which according to Dr Elst is merely a “last
upheaval.” He acknowledges, however, that this decline can take some time (at least in terms of the individual human life span) and that it is possible that Islam will succeed in becoming the majority religion in Europe before collapsing.
I am not a specialist of Islam. Hence, I do not know what to think of this analysis. Perhaps it can be argued that Islam is in agony, and that this is precisely the reason why Muslims reacted so sensitively to twelve, mostly inoffensive, Danish cartoons earlier this year and why they respond in a fury beyond all reason to the words of a 14th century Byzantine Emperor quoted last week by Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope emphasized that he did not approve of the quote, but the reactions of Muslims to the Emperor’s words “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman,” only lends credibility to what the Emperor said.
If a person is incapable of tolerating criticism, including mild criticism, and especially if he perceives criticism where there is none, this is often a sign of this person’s deep psychological insecurity. Rude aggression and wild rage, too, are usually not the normal behaviour of a self-confident person, but rather of someone who knows that he will lose an argument unless he can bully others into silence. Last Sunday, Catholics going to Holy Mass in London’s Westminster Cathedral were confronted by Christophobic Muslims, carrying hate posters such as “Pope go to hell,” “Benedict watch your back,” “May Allah curse the Pope,” “Jesus is the slave of Allah, “Islam will conquer Rome,” and the like. An English blogger has some photos here. What must one make of these Muslim protestors? Do they look like self-assured people?
It looks as if Muslims cannot cope with an open society and the modern globalized world. Should we interpret their aggression – the result of their inability to cope with the world – as a token of strenght, or rather as a sign of inherent weakness – a sign, as Dr Elst says, that the decline of Islam has visibly begun?
Last weekend a 24-year old Moroccan woman was assaulted in Antwerp by a group of male Moroccan youths. They began by reproaching her for not wearing a headscarf. When she answered back, they beat her up. When the police intervened to protect the woman the officers were attacked by about thirty youths hurling stones. Fortunately, the officers were able to relieve the brave woman and escort her to hospital. She has meanwhile been discharged from hospital, though one dreads to think what may await her when she returns to her own community.
“We have no figures, but we notice that there are more and more incidents of verbal abuse towards Muslim women by male immigrants who cannot stomach that they do not wear the veil,” says Sven Lommaert of the Antwerp police, in one of today’s papers: “Often the abuse is limited to insults, but sometimes the women are attacked.”
However, Dominique Reyniers, the spokeswoman of the Antwerp judiciary said: “If violence is used a complaint is sometimes lodged. Verbal abuse, however, is obviously not a crime. Hence, we cannot say that there is a rise in this kind of incidents.” Ms Reyniers is saying that intimidating and bullying people is not a crime, unless one beats them up. If Dr Elst is right, and the intimidation of adversaries by the islamists is a proof of Islam’s inherent weakness, the refusal of the West to stand up to the bullies and to defend and protect their victims is proof of an even greater weakness.
I am inclined to suspect that the intolerance of radical Muslims, even if directed against the ‘enemy’ in the West, such as Danish cartoonists and the Pope, is primarily intended to intimidate and terrorize people who grew up in Muslim societies and families, in order to prevent their apostasy. It is intended to show the latter that they need not hope for any support from the West, i.e. from authorities such as those represented by Ms Reyniers.
Perhaps, as Dr Elst fears, Islam in its stage of decline might, by the mid-21st century, succeed in conquering Europe and becoming the old continent’s dominant religion. In this knowledge one slogan of last Sunday’s Islamic hatemongerers in London may be more than just hate speech: “Islam will conquer Rome” may be prophetic. Here, however, we ourselves are to blame, because Islamists will not find it difficult to conquer Europe. Christianity in Western Europe has virtually ceased to exist. The spirit of secular relativism that originated from the French Enlightenment has persuaded Europe (including Europe’s churches) to commit a protracted, two centuries long suicide, the symptoms of which were visible in Communism, National-Socialism and moral relativism in general.
Man is a religious being and needs religious faith. If European Christianity had still been healthy today it would have proselytized, it would have reached out with missionary zeal to the millions of Muslims who migrated to Western Europe since the 1970s, it would have offered them Christ. Instead, it’s churches became bastions of religious relativism. Europe offered the newcomers only cultural decadence, from which decent people want to shield their children, and spiritual emptiness, which one can only despise.
The Europeans, who lost the missionary zeal to reach out to the immigrants, also lacked the zeal to pass on their own civilization to their offspring. Worse still, they lacked the zeal to have offspring. Since demographics is the mother of all politics, it is, barring a miracle, certain that Islam will become the old continent’s dominant religion.
Unless Europe rediscovers its will to survive – and it may already be too late (though as a Christian I do not exclude miracles) – soon furious Islamists may be holding sway over Europe in much the same way as the Taliban did over Afghanistan, removing all visible remnants of pre-Islamic culture. The Cathedrals of Europe may share the fate of the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Christian works of art may be destroyed. Surely, a faith that forbids the depiction of human figures will be offended by the Christian art of medieval Europe and the nudes of the Renaissance. Perhaps it is wise to seriously consider salvaging as many European cultural treasures as one already can, before it is too late, and bringing them to safety elsewhere.
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BBC, NY Times and Guardian Appear to Have Stage-Managed Muslim Anti-Pope Hatred — This is deplorable the media has been manipulating stories to sensationlize thier coverage They are as bad as the terrorists
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BBC, NY Times and Guardian Appear to Have Stage-Managed Muslim Anti-Pope Hatred
Ratzinger, now Benedict, has been favorite Catholic target of liberal media for years
by Hilary White
LONDON, September 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The international furor over the Pope’s comments at Regensburg last week appears to have begun through a series of carefully stage-managed media reports
Tracing the media coverage from the day of the Pope’s speech in Regensburg, Germany, a distinct shift in approach, what media analysts call a “meme,” of “Islamic outrage”, is clearly traceable starting with the BBC’s coverage three days later.
The day after the speech, Wednesday the 13th, the Pope’s lecture elicited little response from apparently bored secular journalists who had little interest in what was considered his “obscure” and “academic” points on the relationship between religious belief and the secular world.
Catholic news sources who reported the day after the lecture were also quiet. “Pope spends quiet afternoon at home with brother,” was the leading headline at Catholic World Report.
On Thursday the 14th, however, under the headline “Pope’s speech stirs Muslim anger,” the BBC began with a report that police in Kashmir had seized newspapers carrying coverage of the pope’s speech in order “to prevent tension.” The BBC’s coverage did not include any quote from the Indian-administered Kashmiri police force.
The BBC’s September 14th report was transmitted around the world in Arabic, Turkish, Farsi (the language of Iran), Urdu, the official language of Pakistan; and Malay. The next day, the anticipated furor had became a reality.
Immediately after the appearance of the first BBC coverage, the Pakistani parliament issued a declaration condemning Benedict’s speech and demanding an apology.
Later the same day, the BBC published, under the headline, “Muslim anger grows at Pope speech” a report on the Pakistan government’s reaction. It quoted the head of the Islamic extremist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, saying “the Pope’s remarks ‘aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world’.
The same day, the Guardian, following the BBC’s lead, ran the headline, “Muslim anger builds over Pope’s speech.” From that moment, the internet was flooded with reportage from around the world on the Pope’s alleged “attack” on Islam and the predicted response from Islamic groups began.
On the 13th, the New York Times, focusing on the Pope’s critique of Western secularism ran the headline, “The Pope Assails Secularism, with a Note on Jihad.” The report contained no hint of their later demands for papal apologies.
Ian Fisher wrote, “Several experts on the Catholic Church and Islam agreed that the speech — in which Benedict made clear he was quoting other sources on Islam — did not appear to be a major statement on, or condemnation of, Islam.”
By the weekend, however, the New York Times had dropped its examination of the content and intention of the pope’s lecture, and joined the chorus of demands for apologies in its editorial.
The BBC continued stirring the pot on the 15th, with commentary from their religious affairs correspondent, Rahul Tandon, who wrote darkly that the former Cardinal Ratzinger had “appeared to be uncomfortable with Pope John Paul II’s attempts to improve dialogue with the Islamic world.”
Benedict’s unpopularity with the secularist mainstream media is legendary. Since before his election as Pope, Joseph Ratzinger had been for years the secularist and leftist media’s favorite Catholic target. Led by the BBC, the Guardian and the New York Times, media editorials had long since dubbed him “The Rottweiler” and the “Panzer Cardinal,” for his defences of Catholic doctrine, particularly on abortion and contraception.
Thousands of stories and editorials are appearing online – with no sign of slowing – carrying headlines such as that from Australia’s The Age: “‘Rottweiler’ bares teeth.” The Guardian today has issued an editorial headlined, “An Insufficient Apology,” featuring the familiar secularist accusations against the Catholic Church’s past.
On Sunday, Toronto-based columnist, David Warren, wrote in the Ottawa Citizen on the media-instigated uproar that has led to retaliatory attacks in Israel against Christian churches and clergy and the murder of a nun in Somalia.
By manipulating the event, Warren says, the BBC was “having a little mischief. The kind of mischief that is likely to end with Catholic priests and faithful butchered around the Muslim world.”
Warren wrote, “The BBC appears to have been quickest off the mark, to send around the world in many languages…word that the Pope had insulted the Prophet of Islam, during an address in Bavaria.”
While the pope, Warren said, was not offering a “crude anti-Islamic polemic,” the content of the Pope’s speech, and his key questions in the dialogue between religions and the secular world, will now be ignored.
Warren pointed to coverage by Rahul Tandon who implied that, since his election as Pope, though Benedict has “surprised many with his attempts to improve dialogue with the Muslim world…,there have been signs of his earlier views.” These Tandon identified as “theological conservatism.”
“From now on,” Warren writes, “the reporting will be about the Muslim rage, and whether the Vatican has apologized yet. That is the “drama” the media will seek to capture — the drama of the cockfight — because they know no better kind.”
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Why We Cannot Rely on Moderate Muslims — The links on this page work use the for more VERY enlightening info
Author : Fjordmann on Sep 09, 2006 – 08:08 PM
According to Dr. Daniel Pipes, Omar Ahmad, the long-serving chairman of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, reportedly told a crowd of California Muslims in July 1998, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
In 2005, three Dallas-area brothers were convicted of supporting terrorism by funnelling money to a high-ranking official in the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Ghassan and Bayan Elashi and their company were found guilty of all 21 federal counts they faced: conspiracy, money laundering and dealing in property of a terrorist. Ghassan Elashi was the founder of the Texas chapter of CAIR.One would normally think that an organization that has convicted terrorist supporters among its members and whose leading members have stated a desire to replace the US Constitution with sharia would be shunned by Western media and political representatives. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.In August 2006, a poll revealed that most Americans favor profiling of people who look “Middle Eastern” for security screening at locations such as airports and train stations. News wire Reuters stated that the “civil rights and advocacy organization” CAIR protested against this. Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the CAIR, wanted Americans to solve the problem of Islamic terrorism by cooperating with, well, people such as CAIR: “It’s one of those things that makes people think they are doing something to protect themselves when they’re not. They’re in fact producing more insecurity by alienating the very people whose help is necessary in the war on terrorism,” he said.The Kentucky office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been conducting ”sensitivity training” for FBI agents in Lexington, examining “common stereotypes of Islam and Muslims,” and ways in which to improve interactions with the Muslim community.Meanwhile, a survey revealed that 81% of Detroit Muslims wanted sharia in Muslim countries. Yehudit Barsky, an expert on terrorism at the American Jewish Committee, warned that mainstream US Muslim organizations are heavily influenced by Saudi-funded extremists. These “extremist organizations continue to claim the mantle of leadership” over American Islam. Over 80 percent of the mosques in the United States “have been radicalized by Saudi money and influence,” Barsky said.
The northern Virginia-based Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) might easily be taken for a benign student religious group. At a meeting in Queensborough Community College in New York in March 2003, a guest speaker named Faheed declared, “We reject the U.N., reject America, reject all law and order. Don’t lobby Congress or protest because we don’t recognize Congress. The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it … Eventually there will be a Muslim in the White House dictating the laws of Shariah.”
So, what happened to the famous “moderate Muslims” in all this? That’s a question writer Robert Spencer asks, too. Imam Siraj Wahaj is in great demand as a speaker. In 1991, he even became the first Muslim to give an invocation to the U.S. Congress.
However, he has also warned that the United States will fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.” He has lamented that “if only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.” In the early 1990s he sponsored talks by Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman in mosques in New York City and New Jersey; Rahman was later convicted for conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, and Wahaj was designated a “potential unindicted co-conspirator.”
Mr. Spencer notes that “The fact that someone who would like to see the [US] Constitution replaced has led a prayer for those sworn to uphold it is just a symptom a larger, ongoing problem: the government and media are avid to find moderate Muslims — and as their desperation has increased, their standards have lowered.” The situation is complicated by many factors, including, taqiyya and kitman: “These are Islamic doctrines of religious deception. They originated in Shi’ite Islamic defenses against Sunni Islam, but have their roots in the Qur’an (3:28 and 16:106). Many radical Muslims today work hard to deceive unbelievers, in line with Muhammad’s statement, “War is deceit.”
Professor Walid Phares gives an explanation of such religious deception, part and parcel of Jihad while Muslims are in a weaker position: “Al-Taqiya, from the verb Ittaqu, means linguistically ‘dodge the threat’. Politically it means simulate whatever status you need in order to win the war against the enemy.” “According to Al-Taqiya, Muslims were granted the Shar’iya (legitimacy) to infiltrate the Dar el-Harb (war zone), infiltrate the enemy’s cities and forums and plant the seeds of discord and sedition.
“These agents were acting on behalf of the Muslim authority at war, and therefore were not considered as lying or denouncing the tenets of Islam. They were “legitimate” mujahedeen [holy warriors], whose mission was to undermine the enemy’s resistance and level of mobilization. One of their major objectives was to cause a split among the enemy’s camp. In many instances, they convinced their targeted audiences that Jihad is not aimed at them.”
This deception “has a civilizational, global dimension versus the narrow state interest of the regular Western subversive methods.” “The uniqueness of today’s Taqiya is its success within advanced and sophisticated societies. Taqiya is winning massively because of the immense lack of knowledge among Western elites, both Jewish and Christian.”
Youssef Mohamed E., a 22-year-old Lebanese man, is one of two persons suspected of trying to carry out bomb attacks on regional trains from Cologne, Germany, in July 2006. His fellow students were stunned. They couldn’t imagine how one of their fellow students could be a terrorist, a train bomber. He was a “completely normal guy” said one of them. “He was friendly, polite, inconspicuous,” and he never spoke ill of anyone. The publication of caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed was interpreted by Youssef as an insult to Islam by the Western world, and triggered the attempted terror attack.
Muhammad Atta was named by the FBI as the pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was also a student in Germany, where he was described as quiet, polite and inconspicuous. This strategy of using religious deception, smiling to the infidels while plotting to kill them, has become a common feature of many would-be Jihadists in the West.
According to Robert Spencer, secular clothing is actually in accord with instructions in a captured Al-Qaeda manual to appear to be a secular, assimilated Muslim with no interest in religion. In renting an apartment, “It is preferable to rent these apartments using false names, appropriate cover, and non-Moslem appearance.” And in general: “Have a general appearance that does not indicate Islamic orientation (beard, toothpick, book, [long] shirt, small Koran)….Be careful not to mention the brothers’ common expressions or show their behaviors (special praying appearance, ‘may Allah reward you’, ‘peace be on you’ while arriving and departing, etc.).”
Muslim Ambassadors to the Czech Republic from Arab nations and members of the Czech Muslim community were outraged by a documentary aired on ÄŒTV that used hidden camera footage of conversations in a Prague mosque. The footage showed a reporter pretending to be someone interested in converting to Islam. One of members of the mosque said Islamic law should be implemented in the Czech Republic, including the death penalty for adultery. “The result was alarming, and if not for the hidden camera, I would have never had any of this footage,” the journalist said.
An Arabic-speaking journalist had on several occasions visited a large mosque in Stockholm, and noticed that what the imam said in his speech in Arabic didn’t match the Swedish translation. “America rapes Islam,” imam Hassan Mousa roared in Arabic. Minutes later the Swedish translation was ready. Not a word on how America was raping Islam. Imam Mousa said that many Muslims call him an “American friendly” preacher. The mistranslation was because “Arabic is a much richer language than Swedish. It’s impossible to translate everything.”
Examples such as these leave non-Muslims with a very powerful dilemma: How can we ever trust assurances from self-proclaimed moderate Muslims when deception of non-Muslims is so widespread, and lying to infidels is an accepted and established way of hiding Islamic goals? The answer, with all its difficult implications, is: We can’t.
Does this mean that ALL Muslims are lying about their true agenda, all of the time? No, of course not. Some are quite frank about their intentions.
Norway’s most controversial refugee, Mullah Krekar, has said in public that there’s a war going on between the West and Islam, and that Islam will win. “We’re the ones who will change you,” Krekar told. “Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes.”
“Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children. By 2050, 30 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim.” He claimed that “our way of thinking… will prove more powerful than yours.” He loosely defined “Western thinking” as formed by the values held by leaders of western or non-Islamic nations. Its “materialism, egoism and wildness” has altered Christianity, Krekar claimed.
In The Force of Reason, Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci recalls how, in 1972, she interviewed the Palestinian terrorist George Habash, who told her that the Palestinian problem was about far more than Israel. The Arab goal, Habash declared, was to wage war “against Europe and America” and to ensure that henceforth “there would be no peace for the West.” The Arabs, he informed her, would “advance step by step. Millimeter by millimeter. Year after year. Decade after decade. Determined, stubborn, patient. This is our strategy. A strategy that we shall expand throughout the whole planet.”
Fallaci thought he was referring simply to terrorism. Only later did she realize that he “also meant the cultural war, the demographic war, the religious war waged by stealing a country from its citizens — In short, the war waged through immigration, fertility, presumed pluriculturalism.”
The US State Department believes that Washington can contain the Muslim Brotherhood and its ilk through dialogue and should avoid any further clash with them, because this “would only fan hatred and incite more attacks against US interests.” The State Department has asked the US Embassy in Cairo to reach out to the Muslim Brotherhood’s leaders as a preliminary step for an organized dialogue.
At the same time, the new Brotherhood leader Muhammad Mahdi Othman ’Akef said in 2004 to Arab media that America is ‘Satan’ and “will soon collapse.” “I have complete faith that Islam will invade Europe and America, because Islam has logic and a mission.” Western authorities are thus trying to “reach out” to an organization that wants to conquer and subdue them.
Besides, exactly what does “dialogue” mean, anyway? Poul E. Andersen, former dean of the church of Odense, Denmark, warns against false hopes of dialogue with Muslims. During a debate at the University of Aarhus, Ahmad Akkari, one of the Muslim participants, stated: “Islam has waged war where this was necessary and dialogue where this was possible. A dialogue can thus only be viewed as part of a missionary objective.”
When Mr. Andersen raised the issue of dialogue with the Muslim World League in Denmark, the answer was: “To a Muslim, it is artificial to discuss Islam. In fact, you view any discussion as an expression of Western thinking.” Andersen’s conclusion was that for Islamists, any debate about religious issues is impossible as a matter of principle. If Muslims engage in a dialogue or debate on religious subjects, this is for one purpose only: To create more room for Islam.
In Britain’s The Spectator, Patrick Sookhdeo writes about the myth of moderate Islam:
“The peaceable verses of the Koran are almost all earlier, dating from Mohammed’s time in Mecca, while those which advocate war and violence are almost all later, dating from after his flight to Medina. Though jihad has a variety of meanings, including a spiritual struggle against sin, Mohammed’s own example shows clearly that he frequently interpreted jihad as literal warfare and himself ordered massacre, assassination and torture. From these sources the Islamic scholars developed a detailed theology dividing the world into two parts, Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam, with Muslims required to change Dar al-Harb into Dar al-Islam either through warfare or da’wa (mission).”
“So the mantra ‘Islam is peace’ is almost 1,400 years out of date. It was only for about 13 years that Islam was peace and nothing but peace. From 622 onwards it became increasingly aggressive, albeit with periods of peaceful co-existence, particularly in the colonial period, when the theology of war was not dominant. For today’s radical Muslims — just as for the mediaeval jurists who developed classical Islam — it would be truer to say ‘Islam is war.’”
What is a moderate Muslim? In 2003, the Associated Press touted as a “moderate” a cleric who told Saudi radio that terrorist attacks in his capital violated “the sanctity of Ramadan.” Leading government cleric Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan was a member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body. He was also the author of the religious books used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the country and in Saudi schools abroad — including those in Washington, D.C. “Slavery is a part of Islam,” he said in one tape, adding: “Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.” A moderate Muslim by Saudi standards is thus a person who wants to reinstate slavery in the 21st century.
During his speech at the opening of the 10th Session of the Islamic Summit Conference on Oct 16, 2003, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia stated that: “We are all Muslims. We are all oppressed. We are all being humiliated.” “1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way.” “Today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.”
“They invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power.” Mahathir talked about how Muslims could win a “final victory,” and recalled the glory days when “Europeans had to kneel at the feet of Muslim scholars in order to access their own scholastic heritage.”
Farish Noor, a Malaysian scholar who specializes in politics and Islam, says that the idea of a secular state is dead in Malaysia. “An Islamic society is already on the cards. The question is what kind of Islamic society this will be.” There is a creeping Islamization of the country, and Islamic police officers routinely arrest unmarried couples for “close proximity.” Yet despite all of this, Malaysia is considered one of the most moderate Muslim majority countries in the world. What does this tell us?
While NATO soldiers are risking their lives to establish a “democratic and moderate” regime in Afghanistan, a former regional governor who oversaw the destruction of two massive 1,500-year-old Buddha statues during the Taliban’s reign was elected to the Afghan parliament. Mawlawi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi was the Taliban’s governor of Bamiyan province when the fifth-century Buddha statues were blown up with dynamite and artillery in March 2001.
In the same, Western-supported, moderate Afghanistan, the police arrested six people for stoning to death an Afghan women accused of adultery. The arrests were made after the interior ministry sent a delegation to a remote village in north-eastern Badakhshan province following reports that the woman was stoned to death. Were they arrested because stoning was barbaric? No. They were arrested because they were carrying out an unauthorized stoning: The mullah who authorized the killing was not a judge.
Ashram Choudhary, Muslim MP in New Zealand, will not condemn the traditional Koran punishment of stoning to death some homosexuals and people who have extra-marital affairs. But the Labour MP – who has struggled with his “role” as the sole parliamentary representative of the local Muslim community — assures that he is not advocating the practice in the West. The question is not just of academic interest. A 23-year-old Tunisian woman was stoned to death near Marseilles, France, in 2004.
Centre Democrat Ben Haddou, a member of Copenhagen’s City Council, has stated: “It’s impossible to condemn sharia. And any secular Muslim who claims he can is lying. Sharia also encompasses lifestyle, inheritance law, fasting and bathing. Demanding that Muslims swear off sharia is a form of warfare against them.”
Read that statement again, and read it carefully. Muslims in the West consider it “a form of warfare against them” if they have to live by our secular laws, not their religious laws. Will they then also react in violent ways to this “warfare” if they don’t get their will? Moreover, since sharia laws ultimately require the subjugation of non-Muslims, doesn’t “freedom of religion” for Muslims essentially entail the freedom to make non-Muslims second-rate citizens in their own countries?
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said Australian Muslim leaders need to stand up and publicly denounce terrorism in all its forms. Mr. Costello has also backed calls by Prime Minister John Howard for Islamic migrants to adopt Australian values. Mr. Howard caused outrage in Australia’s Islamic community when he said Muslims needed to speak English and show respect to women.
Hammasa Kohistani, the first Muslim to be crowned Miss England, warned that “stereotyping” members of her community was leading some towards extremism. “Even moderate Muslims are turning to terrorism to prove themselves. They think they might as well support it because they are stereotyped anyway. It will take a long time for communities to start mixing in more.”
So, if radical Muslims stage mass-murder attacks against non-Muslims, the non-Muslims must not show any anger because of this, otherwise the moderate Muslims may get insulted and become terrorists, too. Gee, isn’t it comforting to know that there is such a sharp dividing line between moderates and radicals, and that moderate Muslims have such an aptitude for self-criticism?
Unfortunately, Jihad-supporters are allowed to stifle Western defense capabilities by feeding them Politically Correct propaganda. U.K. police officers were given ”diversity training” at an Islamic school southeast of London, the private Jameah Islameah school in East Sussex, that later became the center of a terrorism investigation. The county’s police officers visited the school as many as 15 times for training to improve their awareness of Muslim culture and for advanced training so they could themselves become diversity trainers.
In August 2006, following the unveiling of a plot to blow up several airliners between Britain and the USA, Muslim leaders summoned to talks with the Government on tackling extremism made a series of demands, which included the introduction of sharia law for family matters. Dr Syed Aziz Pasha, secretary general of the Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland, said: ‘We told her [the minister] if you give us religious rights, we will be in a better position to convince young people that they are being treated equally along with other citizens.’
As Charles Johnson of blog Little Green Footballs dryly commented, this is an interesting viewpoint: Only by receiving special treatment and instituting a medieval religious legal code can Muslims be treated “equally.”
After the plot against the airliners was uncovered, a large number of UK Muslim groups sent a letter with veiled threats to PM Tony Blair, stating that “It is our view that current British government policy risks putting civilians at increased risk both in the UK and abroad,” and that the British should “change our foreign policy,” in addition to allowing Muslims more sharia. The same thing happened after the bombs in London in 2005.
If we watch closely, we will notice that Muslims are highly organized and have prepared long lists of demands. Every act of terrorism, or Jihad as it really is, is seen as an opportunity to push even greater demands. Radical Muslims and moderate Muslims are allies, not adversaries. The radicals bomb, and the moderates issue veiled threats that “unless we get our will, more such attacks will ensue.” It’s a good cop, bad cop game.
It is true that Jihad is not exclusively about violence, but it is very much about the constant threat of violence. Just like you don’t need to beat a donkey all the time to make it go where you want it to, Muslims don’t have to hit non-Muslims continuously. They bomb or kill every now and then, to make sure that the infidels are always properly submissive and know who’s boss.
Sadly, they frequently tend to get their will, and the donkey, or as in this case, the British, do what the Muslims want. A hospital in northwest England has introduced a new surgical gown modelled on the burka, allowing female Muslim patients to cover themselves completely. The blue “Inter-Faith Gown” is the first of its type in Britain and has being tried out at the Royal Preston Hospital.
Professor Moshe Sharon teaches Islamic History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He gives this description of how a temporary truce, a hudna, is used as an Islamic strategy against infidels:
“Peace in Islam can exist only within the Islamic world; peace can only be between Moslem and Moslem.” “With the non-Moslem world or non-Moslem opponents, there can be only one solution – a cease fire until Moslems can gain more power. It is an eternal war until the end of days. Peace can only come if the Islamic side wins. The two civilizations can only have periods of cease-fires.”
“A few weeks after the Oslo agreement was signed, [Palestinian leader] Arafat went to Johannesburg, and in a mosque there he made a speech in which he apologized, saying, “Do you think I signed something with the Jews which is contrary to the rules of Islam?” Arafat continued, “That’s not so. I’m doing exactly what the prophet Mohammed did.” “What Arafat was saying was, “Remember the story of Hodaybiya.” The prophet had made an agreement there with the tribe of Kuraish for 10 years. But then he trained 10,000 soldiers and within two years marched on their city of Mecca. He, of course, found some kind of pretext.”
I have earlier quoted how even Norwegian diplomat and United Nation’s envoy Terje Röd-Larsen, a key player during the Oslo Peace Process in the 1990s, later admitted that “Arafat lied all the time.”
The Arabs never wanted a peace with Israel. They wanted to buy time until they were strong enough to win. The peace overtures by the Israelis were interpreted as a sign of weakness. The so-called Treaty of Hudaybiyya, signed while Muhammad and his supporters were not yet strong enough to conquer Mecca, has become a standard for Islamic relations with non-Muslims ever since.
Sharon states that “Thus, in Islamic jurisdiction, it became a legal precedent which states that you are only allowed to make peace for a maximum of 10 years. Secondly, at the first instance that you are able, you must renew the jihad [thus breaking the “peace” agreement].” “What makes Islam accept cease-fire? Only one thing – when the enemy is too strong. It is a tactical choice.”
Furthermore, the Islamic world has not only the attitude of open war. There’s also war by infiltration, as we can see in Western countries now. Is there a possibility to end this dance of war? According to Moshe Sharon, the answer is, “No. Not in the foreseeable future. What we can do is reach a situation where for a few years we may have relative quiet.”
As Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald says of moderate Muslims: “They are still people who call themselves Muslims, and we, the Infidels, have no idea what this will cause them, or could cause them, to do in the future. We likewise have no idea what their children, or their grandchildren will see as their responsibility as Muslims. The “moderate” Muslim today may be transformed into an “immoderate” Muslim, or his descendants could be if he does not make a complete break and become an apostate. All over the West now we see the phenomenon of Muslim children who are more devout and observant than their parents.”
This is, unfortunately, very true. In November 2005, an intelligence study obtained by Canada’s National Post said that a “high percentage” of the Canadian Muslims involved in extremist activities were home-grown and born in Canada, a marked shift from the past when they were mostly refugees and immigrants: “There does not appear to be a single process that leads to extremism; the transformation is highly individual. Once this change has taken place, such individuals move on to a series of activities, ranging from propaganda and recruiting, to terrorist training and participation in extremist operations.”
Hugh Fitzgerald wonders how many of our Muslim immigrants will be truly moderate. How many of them “will turn out to be like Ayaan Hirsi Ali? One out of 20? One out of 100? One out of 1,000? One out of 100,000? How many of the men will turn out to be like Magdi Allam in Italy, or like Bassam Tibi in Germany? How many Ibn Warraqs and Ali Sinas, or converts to Christianity such as Walid Shoebat, are there likely to be in any population of, say, 1000 Muslim immigrants? Should the Western world admit a million immigrants, or permit them to remain, because a few of them see the light?”
“Let Muslims remain within Dar al-Islam. Let the Infidels do everything they can to first learn themselves, and then to show Muslims that they understand (so that Muslims will then have to begin to recognize) that the political, economic, social, intellectual, and moral failures of Islamic societies, both within Dar al-Islam and in Dar al-Harb, are directly related to, and arise out of, Islam itself.”
Youssef Ibrahim of the New York Sun is tired of the silence from the Muslim majority: “Hardly any Muslim groups, moderate or otherwise, voiced public disapproval of [Dutch Islamic critic Theo] van Gogh’s murder except in the most formulaic way.” “In Islam, “silence is a sign of acceptance,” as the Arabic Koranic saying goes.” “The question that hangs in the air so spectacularly now — particularly as England has been confronted once again by British Muslims plotting to kill hundreds — is this: What exactly are the Europeans waiting for before they round up all those Muslim warriors and their families and send them back to where they came from?”
A just question, which increasing numbers of Europeans are asking, too. A big part of the answer lies in the elaborate Eurabian, pro-Islamic networks that have been built up by stealth over decades, and hardly ever debated by European media. Besides, it’s embarrassing for Western political leaders, who have championed Multiculturalism for a long time, to admit that they have made a terrible mistake that is now threatening the very survival of their countries.
It is possible that those Western countries where the infidels are strong enough will copy the Benes Decrees from Czechoslovakia in 1946, when most of the so-called Sudeten Germans, some 3.5 million people, had shown themselves to be a dangerous fifth column without any loyalty to the state. The Czech government thus expelled them from its land. As Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch has demonstrated, there is a much better case for a Benes Decree for parts of the Muslim population in the West now than there ever was for the Sudeten Germans.
The most civilized thing we can do in order to save ourselves as a civilization, but also to limit the loss of life among both Muslims and non-Muslims in what increasingly looks like a world war, is for Westerners and indeed non-Muslims in general to implement a policy of containment of the Islamic world, as suggested by Mr. Fitzgerald. This includes completely stopping Muslim immigration, but also by making our countries Islam-unfriendly, thus presenting the Muslims already here between the options of adapting to our societies or leaving if they desire sharia law. Even whispering about Jihad should be grounds for expulsion and revoking citizenship.
I have compared Islam to the movie “The Matrix,” where people are turned into slaves by living in a make-believe reality designed to keep them in chains. In the movie, everybody who hasn’t been completely unplugged from this artificial reality is potentially an agent for the system. I have gradually come to the conclusion that this is the sanest way to view Muslims, too.
Some would argue that it is a crime and a betrayal of our own values to argue for excluding Muslims from our countries or even expelling some of the ones who are already here. I disagree. The relatively small number of Muslims we have in the West now has already caused enormous damage to our economy, to our culture and not the least to our freedoms. The real crime, and the real betrayal, would be to sacrifice centuries of advances in human freedom as well as the future of our children and grandchildren to appease Muslims who contribute virtually nothing to our societies and are hostile to their very foundations.
As I have demonstrated above, it is perfectly accepted, and widely practiced, by Jihadist Muslims to lie to non-Muslims about their true agenda. I have also demonstrated that the relationship between radicals and so-called moderates is a lot closer than we would like to think. At best, they share the goals of establishing sharia around the world, and differ only over the means to achieve this goal. At worst, they are allies in a good cop, bad cop game to extort concession after concession from the infidels. Moreover, even those who genuinely are moderate and secular in their approach may later change, or their children may change. This can be triggered by almost anything, either something in the news or a crisis in their personal lives, which will create a desire to become a better, more pious Muslim. The few remaining moderates can easily be silenced by violence from their more ruthless, radical counterparts.
At the end of the day, what counts isn’t the difference, if any, between moderate Muslims and radical Muslims, but between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between Muslims and ex-Muslims. Ibn Warraq says that there may be moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate. He is probably right. As he writes in the book Leaving Islam — Apostates Speak Out, a unique collection of testimonials by former Muslims, ex-Muslims are the only ones who know what it’s all about, and we would do well to listen to their Cassandra cries.
Note from Fjordman: I have plans for at least a dozen longer essays after this, provided I have the time and financial opportunity to write them. The essays will be dealing with why I find a Reformation of Islam unlikely to happen, why the work of many self-appointed Muslim reformists is inadequate, why Islam probably cannot be reconciled with democracy and how the West should deal with these facts. All of my online essays can be republished for free by anybody who wants to, as long as credit is given to the author. Any financial donation, which can be given here, should be considered as payment in advance for future essays.
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NY Governor Sick of Chavez, Will Boycott Citgo
By Jeff McKay
CNSNews.com Correspondent
(CNSNews.com) – Following another Bush-bashing by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, New York’s governor is so angry that he said he will personally boycott one of the Chavez government’s biggest revenue makers – the Citgo oil and gasoline company.
Republican George Pataki, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, said he has had more than enough with the Venezuelan leader bad mouthing the American commander-in-chief.
“This person has no right coming to our country to criticize our president. He can take his cheap oil and do something for the poor people of Venezuela,” said Pataki during an interview with Fox News.
When asked if he would patronize Citgo, the gas company owned by Petroleus de Venezuela, the state-run oil company, Pataki told Fox News, “I have no plans to.”
Pataki’s disgust of Chavez’s statements came after the Venezuelan president traveled from the United Nations headquarters in New York City to Harlem to speak at the Mount Olivet Baptist Church. Chavez announced an increase in the amount of low-cost home heating oil his government would send to the United States for low-income families.
Wearing his signature red shirt, Chavez was introduced to the crowd by actor-activist Danny Glover, who called Chavez “a visionary.” Before being whisked away in a limousine, Glover told reporters that he considers the Venezuelan leader “a friend” and “a brother”
As the crowd cheered, Chavez continued his personal attacks against Bush, this time calling the president “a sick man,” an “alcoholic,” and repeating his label of Bush as “the devil.” Chavez had first fired off that insult during a speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, a speech that drew applause and laughter from many international delegates in the audience.
Ordinarily one of President Bush’s harshest critics, New York Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel blasted Chavez for the remarks he made while speaking in Rangel’s congressional district.
“You don’t come into my country, you don’t come into my congressional district and criticize my president,” said an irate Rangel about Chavez’s comments, which included comparing Bush to John Wayne and mimicking Bush walking like a cowboy.
“It should be clear to all heads of government that criticism of Bush administration policies, either domestic or foreign, does not entitle them to attack the president personally,” said Rangel.
During his speech to the Harlem crowd, Chavez claimed that he was a friend to America and spoke of his strong alliance to Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
He also said the Citgo home heating oil program would benefit over 450,000 American families over the winter months and that it was made possible because the program cuts out what he calls a “greedy capitalist element.”
Chavez’s claims however come at a time when his support at home is waning. His popularity in Venezuela has hit a low of 30 percent, down from the 80 percent approval rating when he took over as his nation’s leader.
Despite Chevez’s pledge to help the poor using his nation’s vast oil wealth, Venezuela still suffers from chronic poverty, crime, kidnappings, and unemployment. The latter has been rated as high as 12 percent in a nation of 25 million people.
According to a report from the United Nations, Venezuela ranks first in the world in gun deaths per capita, and reports indicate homicides in Venezuela have doubled since 1999.
However, despite the problems Venezuela faces, Chavez still leads in polls for the nation’s upcoming presidential election.
Unintentionally, Chavez may have at least temporarily united Democrats and Republicans in their support of President Bush.
“Hugo Chavez is little more than a power-hungry autocrat on an anti-American public relations tour — a showboat whose speech to the United Nations was an embarrassment and an insult to the American people,” said Ohio’s John Boehner, the House majority leader, in a written statement.
“Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern day Simon Bolivar, but all he is, is an everyday thug,” said House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi during a press conference.
“I think Chavez would be much more effective if he would say something that’s true,” former President Bill Clinton said on CNN.
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US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences”
Written by Tyler Durden on October 30, 2015
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On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in “direct action on the ground” in Iraq and Syria.
The change in rhetoric (and apparent shift in strategy) comes just days after the US seemingly prepared the public for what might be coming by releasing helmet cam footage of what Washington says was a raid on an ISIS prison by Delta Force (accompanied by the Peshmerga). 70 prisoners were allegedly freed although not before the US suffered its first combat death in Iraq since 2011.
The timing of the video is suspect, to say the least. It came just days after Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joe Dunford visited Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi in an effort to dissuade Baghdad from requesting Russian airstrikes on ISIS targets. In short, it appears as though Washington is trying to simultaneously, i) prove to Mid-East governments that the US can still be effective in the fight against terrorism even as questions remain about ulterior motives and even as Russia racks up gains in Syria, and ii) prepare the public for the possibility that America is about to put boots on the ground in Iraq and Syria. Here’s more from WSJ on Washington’s new “strategy”:
The White House is seriously considering deploying a small squadron of Apache attack helicopters to Iraq as part of a package of new assistance programs to counter Islamic State, according to U.S. officials.
The move could ultimately require the deployment of hundreds more U.S. service members to Iraq. Among other proposals, U.S. officials said some in the military recommend openly deploying a small number of forces on the ground in Syria, embedded among moderate rebels or Kurdish forces there, for the first time.
Pressure is mounting on the regime to change course. Recent Russian intervention in Syria on the side of the regime, and the threat of Moscow intervening in Iraq next, has spurred the U.S. to step up its role, defense officials acknowledge.
Pentagon officials have recommended to the White House that the U.S. deploy as many as eight Apache helicopters and their crews to Iraq. The helicopters, known for their targeting prowess, could work in conjunction with as many as two dozen ground spotters who would embed with local ground forces to call in strikes against Islamic State targets.
Another proposal, which is less likely, would insert small numbers of combat advisers on the front lines with Iraqi forces and possibly with moderate rebels inside Syria. Pentagon officials are also likely to enhance Iraqi intelligence capabilities, possibly through a group on the ground that would serve as a single point of coordination between the U.S. and Iraq, a senior military official said.
Last week, the defense chief said Americans should expect more raids like the joint U.S.-Kurdish operation that took place in the town of Hawija, Iraq, in which 70 prisoners were freed and an American was killed in action, the first since 2011. The U.S. also recently dropped 50 tons of ammunition to an umbrella group of moderate rebel forces inside Syria now known as the Syria-Arab Coalition, or SAC, as part of a renewed effort to strengthen local forces.
Pentagon and White House officials indicated the deployment of Apache helicopters was being given the most serious consideration, and therefore the most likely step.
U.S. officials say momentum is building within the administration to ramp up those efforts even more, capitalizing on the strength of Kurdish and other Iraqi forces.
“I believe we will have an opportunity to reinforce Iraqi success in the days ahead,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joe Dunford told Senate lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday.
Alright, so let’s see if we can untangle this. Washington intends to send in the Apaches to bolster Iraqi forces both Peshmerga and otherwise. Or at least that’s what it sounds like. The Pentagon is also considering the placement of American ground troops with “moderate” rebels and with the YPG in Syria.
As we’ve detailed extensively (and this isn’t exactly a secret), Iran effectively runs the Iraqi military via its various Shiite militia proxy armies. That’s not an exaggeration. As Reuters reported earlier this month, “the Fifth Iraqi Army Division now reports to the militias’ chain of command, not to the military’s, according to several U.S. and coalition military officials.” So when the Apaches and their crews aren’t supporting the Kurds, they’ll be openly supporting Iran-backed fighters.
Ok, fine.
Only that isn’t at all consistent with placing US ground troops with Syria’s “moderate rebels” like the Free Syrian Army because after all, they’re fighting the very same Iran-backed Shiite militias. So the US would be bolstering the militiamen in Iraq with Apache gunship support and then firing on those exact same militiamen across the border in Syria in support of the “moderate” rebels battling to oust the Assad regime.
It’s beyond absurd.
And then of course there’s the whole Kurd/Turkey problem. The US is, i) fighting alongside the Peshmerga in Iraq and intends to support them going forward with Apache helicopters, ii) paradropping guns and ammo to the YPG in Syria (as part of a ridiculous ruse that involves the largely made-up SAC mentioned above by WSJ), and now iii) may even send in ground troops to fight with the YPG. But Turkey just bombed the YPG yesterday. Additionally, the US is flying sorties from Incirlik which sets up the insanely ridiculous possibility that if the US embeds troops with the Syrian Kurds, US jets could be taking off from the same base as Turkish warplanes only the US warplanes would be supporting the YPG while Turkish warplanes bomb them.
So, yeah. This is should all go swimmingly.
A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter performing an extraction of US troops in Iraq
Finally, there’s the possibility that if the US puts boots on the ground in Syria in support of the “moderate” rebels, those troops will be killed by Russia and Iran (which Dunford said on Tuesday likely has “more than 1,000 [soldiers] on the ground in Iraq [and] something less than 2,000 in Syria”), and with that, we close with several comments from Chairman of the Russian Upper House committee for foreign affairs, Konstantin Kosachev (via RT) and a few images:
Commenting on the potential involvement of US ground troops against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Kosachev once again highlighted that, when it comes to Syria, the US-led anti-ISIS campaign is already violating international law. Potential troops on the ground, Kosachev believes, will further violate international regulations
“Any operations – air based operations, ground based operations – in Syria by American forces will be illegal,”Kosachev told RT, explaining that Washington has not been invited by Damascus to take part in military operation in a sovereign country.
“They will get trapped, they will get involved in this ongoing conflict and the consequences will be absolutely unpredictable,” Kosachev said, addicting that sending US troops into Syria would be a “big mistake.”
At the same time, Kosachev, stressed that Russia would not send ground troops into Syria.
“No ground operation is possible [in Syria], because that would inevitably involve Russia in the ongoing war,” the politician told RT.
Originally published: Tyler Durden (Zero Hedge)
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Saudi Aramco, Air Products agree to build first hydrogen vehicle fueling station
DUBAI, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Saudi Aramco and Air Products and Chemicals Inc said on Friday they agreed to jointly build the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle fueling station in Saudi Arabia.
The station is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2019. They will also establish a fleet of fuel cell vehicles supplied by Toyota. (Reporting by Ali Abdelaty, Writing by Nafisa Eltahir; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
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Hanson Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History
1) (Abingdon, co. Berks, and London; Sir Robert Hanson, Lord Mayor of London 1675). Ar. three mascles (apother, lozenges) sa. on a chief of the second as many lions ramp. of the first. Crest—A lion ramp. sa. holding a mascle ar.
2) (Gilstead Hall, near Brentwood, co. Essex). Or, a chev. chequy ar. and az. betw. three martlets of the last. Crest—On a ducal coronet or, a dove close, holding in the beak a sprig of olive all ppr.
3) (Peckham, co. Surrey, and Rastricke and Woodhouse, co. York). Or, a chev. counter-componee ar. and az. betw. three martlets sa. Crests—On a chapeau az. turned up ar. a martlet, wings endorsed sa.
Origin, Meaning, Family History and Hanson Coat of Arms and Family Crest
Meaning, Origin, Etymology
English (chiefly Midlands and northern England, especially Yorkshire): patronymic from Hann or the byname Hand. Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAmhsaigh (see Hampson 2). Irish: variant of McKittrick. Respelling of Scandinavian Hansen or Hansson.
Hanson is an Anglicized English surname of Swedish origin, created from the two words Hans and son (son of Hans). Spoken in English by a Swedish immigrant to America, for example, the sound of Hans' son comes out sounding like Hansson, shortened to Hanson. In this same example, an immigrant from Norway would have a different accent, resulting in the sound of Hans' sen, or Hanssen, shortened to Hansen. This surname is of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German and Scandinavian origins and is a patronymic or metronymic meaning and is derieved from the personal name "Hans" and it could be from the mother or father. The patronymic is from "Hann" which is a German-Flemish short form of Johann, itelf being from the Hebrew "Yochanan" and the meaning "Jehovah has favored (me with a son)." The name was first found in Prussia and Denmark, where the name emerged during the medieval times and became a very notable family of the region.
Hanson, Hansom, Hansen, Hanssen, Haesen, Hensen,Hanson, Hansen, Ansen, Hansin
Popularity & Geographic Distribution
The last name Hanson ranks 2,578th in popularity worldwide as of the 2014 Census and approximately 216,633 people carry the Hanson surname worldwide. The name ranks particularly high in the following six states: Minnesota, California, Wisconsin, Washington, Texas, and Illinois. It ranks highest in the following countries: United States (148,047), Nigeria (21,686), England (16,931), Canada (10,592), Australia (6,126), Jamaica (3,972).
Early Marriages of Hansons
Anica Hanson married Andrew Elenor on Mar. 5, 1656 in Kent Co. Maryland
Catherine Hanson Married Hendrick Jansen on Dec. 14, 1672 in Esopus, New York
Tobias Hanson married Ann Lord on Aug. 28, 1698 in Dover, New Hampshire
Mercy Hanson married John Church on Dec. 1, 1699 in Dover, New Hampshire
Martha Hansen married William Niel on Feb. 2, 1713 in St. Thomas, Lewes, Sussex, England
Thomas Hansen married Anne White in 1715 in Walkeringham, Nottingham, England
Mary Hansen married Nathaniel Sly in 1716 in Hemingford, Abbots, Hunts, England
Christian Hansen married Mary Hyde on Sep. 18, 1724 in Saint Benet Pauls Wharf, London, England
Margaret Hansen married Wm. Dimock on Jun. 10, 1724 in Marston Sicca, Gloucester, England
Rowland Hansen married Mary Bradley on Nov. 21, 1727 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
Margaret Hansen married Robert Hall on Apr. 4, 1736 in St. Andrew's, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England
Susanna Hansen married James Filney on Aug. 28, 1766 in Newmarket All Saints, Suffolk, England
John Hansen married Hannah Wood on Oct. 20, 1767 in Goudhurst, Kent, England
James Hansen married Ann Boothman in 1773 in Downham, Whalley, Lancashire, England
Johan Hansen married Kirstin Erichsdotter on Oct. 21, 1654 in Stockholm, Sweden
Peter Hansen married Anna Grot on Dec. 4, 1659 in Stockholm, Sweden
Joseph Hansen married Kerstin Marthensdotter on Feb. 28, 1668 in stockholm, Sweden
Michael Morth Hansen married Anna Larsdotter on Apr. 29, 1676 in Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Dell Hansen married Petter Petterson on Aug. 20, 1678 in Stockholm, Sweden
Ole Hansen married Thor. on Jun. 6, 1680 in Kviinge, Kristianstad, Sweden
Svend Hansen married Elen Michelsdatter on Aug. 1, 1680 in Kviinge, Kristianstad, Sweden
Erich Hansen married Regnel Svendtzdatter in Feb. 13, 1681 in Kviinge, Kristianstad, Sweden
Hochen Hansen married Elsse Esbiornsdater on Aug. 28, 1681 in Fridlevstad, Blekinge, Sweden
Lars Hansen married Inger Trolsdatter on Dec. 28, 1685 in Kviinge, Kristianstad, Sweden
Erich Hansen married Gunnela Oluffsdotter on Mar. 28, 1686 in Bollebygd, Alvsborg, Norway
Early Bearers of Surname
John Hanson was sent to Virginia, New England, in 1642, by Queen Christina of Sweden
Robertus Hanson appears in the 1379, Poll Tax Returns Records of Yorkshire
On April 29th 1541, Richard, son of Richard Hanson, was christened at Dewsbury, Yorkshire
William Hanneson, which was dated 1331, in the "Patent Rolls of Yorkshire"
William Hanneson, Pat. Roll, 4 Edward III.
Richard Hanson, Yorkshire Testamenta Eboracensia (Surtees Society).
Matilda Hanwyfe, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Adam Hanneson, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Robertus Hanson, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Willelmus Hanson, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Johanna Hanson, wyf, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Johannes Hanneson, Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
William Hanneson, 1379: Preston Guild Rolls.
History, Genealogy & Ancestry
HANSON OF BRYANSTON SQUARE
Sir Richard Leslie Reginald Hanson, 3rd Bt., of Bryanston Square, in the Commission of Lieutenant for the City of London; Lieut. late 10th Hus. (S.R.), served in World War II 1941-45 in R.A.; born November 21, 1905; succeeded his father 1946.
Lineage ~ Joshua Hanson, of Woodside near Fernley, County, York married August 13, 1723, Grace Hes of Knaresborough, widow and left with other issue a son, Samuel Hanson born March 16, 1726 married August 24, 1748, Anne (died April 12, 1774) the daughter of William Sharp of Waltham St. Lawrence, Berks and died May 1798 leaving issue by her a son, Samuel Hanson of Botolph Lane, London, baptised November 8, 1752 married September 25, 1802, Anne Letts (died June 1840) of Cornhill London, and by her had with other issue, Samuel of whom hereafter. Samuel Hanson of Btotlph Lane, Epsom, Surrey; Ramsgate, Kent and Harley Street and KIlburn, Middlesex born September 11, 1804; married 1st August 11, 1832, Mary Choppin (died January 18, 1867) the daughter of Nathaniel Smith Machin of Bishop Stortford, County, Hertford and by her had issue, with a son (died and infant), and three daughters (died unmarried). 1) Hesketh (Rev.), M.A. Camb. Vicar of Marsworth born February 1839; married Jane Anna (died October 18, 1906) the daughter and co-heir of James Johnston of Hampstead Manor Hall, Middlesex and by her had issue. He died January 20, 1915. 2) Reginald (Sir), 1st Bt. 3) Mary married April 11, 1856, Rev. Charles James Bird, M.A. and died April 28, 1859. 4) Edith married July 3, 1863 William Bellingham Cheales of Hagworthingham, County, Lincoln. He died March 28, 1883, leaving issue. He married 2nd July 8, 1868 to Margaret (d. 1888) the daughter of Charles D'Aubney but by her had no issue and died February 11, 1882. His 2nd son, Sir Reginald Hanson, 1st Bt. Knight, M.A. LL.D. Camb., F.S.A., one of H.M.'s Lieuts for City of London, J.P. and D.L. Tower Hamlets and Middlesex, J.P. Westminster and London, M.P. for City of London 1891 to 1900 hon. Col. 6th Bn. Royal Fus., City of London Regt., 1881, Lord Mayor of London 1886-87, born May 31, 1840; created a Baronet June 6, 1887 married May 10, 1866 to Constance Hallett (died July 28, 1927) the daughter and co-heir of Charles Bentley Bingley of Stanhope Park, Middlesex and had issue 1) Gerald Stanhope (Sir), 2nd Bt. 2) Francis Stanhope (Sir), Knight, Alderman and Lieut. for City of London, Sheriff 1908, mem. of L.C.C. 1907, Lt-Col. 6th Bn. Royal Fus., City of London Regt., born October 3, 1868; married January 20, 1897 to Pearl Norcott the daughter of Charles Albert Winter, J.P. of 33, Hyde Park Square W. He died February 17, 1910 having by her (who married 2nd 1926 Major Henry Noel Winter of Srathbogie, Pembury, Kent, son of late Lt. Col. N.N. Winter) had issue, a) Charles Reginald Francis born January 21, 1904 married September 17, 1932, Ursula Elleen (who married 2nd, 1933, Capt. Charles Lloyd), daughter of James Thomas Quinn and died May 30, 1933 as the result of a boating accident. b) Violet Gwendoline Pearl (Old Chimney Cottage, Chideock, Bridport, Dorset) born March 31, 1899 married 1st March 4, 1919 William Bullivant yr. son of late William Pelham Bullivant of New Mills Court, Stroud. This marriage was annulled on her petition 1923 and she married 2nd August 29, 1924 (marriage dissolved by divorce 1944), Capt. Donald Selfe Leonard Gregson, late 3rd Ind. Cav and has issue. 3) Cecil Stanhope born May 19, died August 20, 1871. 4) Maude Constance married October 27, 1894, James Ibotsom Ward and died August 16, 1941 leaving issue He died September 28, 1924. 5) Violet Mabel (Pinfold, Walton-on-the-Hill, Tadworth, Surrey) born January 19, 1878 married February 1899 Frederick Henry Keeling Durlacher of Pebblecombe, Tadworth, Surrey and has issue. He died September 12, 1936. Sir Reginald died April 19, 1905 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Gerald Stanhope Hanson, 2nd Bt., Capt. Royal Fus. and R.F.A., formerly Lieut 4th Bn. Oxford, L.I. born April 23, 1867 married 1st April 22, 1899 to Sylvia Linda (died January 1, 1910) the only daughter of E. Dutton Cook and had issue, 1) Richard Leslie Reginald (Sir) 3rd and present Bt., he married 2nd October 24, 1912 Dorothy Gwendoline (whom he div. 1917, and who died October 24, 1918), daughter of Alfred Peel of Lincoln. He married 3rd February 28, 1922 Flora ('Imray' Kingston Gorse, Nr. Littlehampton, Sussex)., eldest daughter of late Lt.-Col. W.A. Blennerhassett of 134 Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol, and by her had issue. 2) Anthony Leslie Oswald heir presumption born November 27, 1934. Sir Gerald died January 18, 1945 and was succeeded by his elder son.
HANSON OF FOWEY
Sir Charles Edwin Bourne Hanson, 2nd Bt., of Fowey, County Cornwall, M.A. Clare Coll. Camb., one of the Lieuts for the City of London, High Sheriff of Cornwall 1939, mem. of London Stock Exchange, Major late 3rd West Riding, Regt., served in S. African War 1899-1902 (two medals, three clasps), and in World War I 1914-18, born May 17, 1874 succeeded his father 1922; married April 29, 1908 to Violet Sybil the 3rd daughter of late John B. Johnstone, of Coombe Cottage, Kingston Hill, and has issue, 1) Charles John educ. Eton and Clare Coll. Camb; T/Capt. D.C.L.I.; served in World War II born February 28, 1919 married January 22, 1944 Patricia Helen (W.R.N.S.) only child of Vice-Admiral Sir Eric James Patrick Brind, K.C.B., C.B.E. and has issue a) Charles Rupert Patrick born June 25, 1945 b) a daughter born April 11, 1948. 2) Violet Alice Rosaline born March 11, 1909 married April 3, 1930 to Capt. Robert Godmond Poole, R.N. son of Rev. F.O. Poole, Rector of Mucklestone and has issue. 3) Edwina Marjorie Clare born May 11, 1912 married August 8, 1940, Brigadier Ralph Cruddas, D.S.O. and bar, D.C.L.I., son of late Rev. W.S. Cruddas of St. Annes, Bodmin, Cornwall and has issue.
Lineage ~ Joseph Hanson of Fratton, County, Hants, born February 13, 1768; married March 5, 1804 Sarah Thorp (died September 21, 1859) and died May 28, 1827. His only son., Joseph Hanson, of Fowey, County, Cornwall born December 22, 1820 married Mary Anne the daughter of William Hicks of Fowy and was drowned at sea January 3, 1868, leaving with other issue, an eldest son, Sir Charles Augustin Hanson, 1st Bt., J.P. and D.L. for Cornwall, High Sheriff 1907, J.P. and one of the Lieuts. for the City of London, Alderman of Broad Street Ward, City of London, 1909-21; Sheriff 1911-12; and Lord Mayor 1917-18, M.P. for S.E. (Bodmin Div.) K.G.St.J. Chm of Gresham Life Assurance Soc., Ltd, and partner in firm of Coates, Son & Co., and Frauz Joseph Order 1908, and Officer of the Crown of Italy, and Cmdr of Legion of Honour; born Sept. 11, 1846; married June 16, 1869, Martha Sabina (died January 8, 1924), youngest daughter of James Appelbe, J.P. of Trafalgar, Halton, Canada and had issue, 1)Charles Edwin Bourne (Sir), 2nd and present Bt. 2) Alice Maud Appelbe married November 28, 1908, Major-Gen. Sir Frederick Cuthbert Poole, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., D.L., J.P., of Torfrey, Par. Cornwall, and has issue, He died Dec. 20, 1936.
HANSON OF OSMONDTHORPE
John-Oliver Hanson, Esq., D.L., a director of the Bank of England born May 19, 1791 married August 12, 1819 to Rebecca the youngest daughter of William Scott, Esq., and has issue 1) John-Oliver born June 8, 1820. 2) William-Stonehower born December 13, 1821. 3) George-Scott born June 2, 1823. 4) Henry-Allix born July 19, 1830 5) Mary-Annabella 6) Louisa-Rebecca.
Lineage ~ This family is descended from the Rastrickes of Rastricke, in the parish of Halifax, County, York, whose pedigree is given, from the year 1259, in Watson's History of Halifax. William Hanson born September 1670, who purchased Osmondthorpe, was the eldest son of Christopher Hanson, of Arthington, and a descendant of John de Rastricke, who assumed in 1330 the surname of Hanson. His great grandson, John Hanson, Esq., J.P. and D.L. who was born April 23, 1759 succeeded his father William Hanson, Esq. (who died December 11, 1791) at Osmondthorpe. Mr. Hanson sold the estates of Osmondthorpe and Killingbeck, and purchased the manor of Great Bromley, near Colchester. He married Mary-Isabella, the daughter of Thomas Oliver, Esq. of Low Layton, County, Essex, and by her (who died September 12, 1826) had issue, 1) William born September 7, 1788, a captain in the 20th light dragoons, who fell at the head of his squadron, in leading a charge against a very superior force of French cavalry, at Villa Franca, in Spain September 13, 1812, aged 25. 2) John-Oliver, the present representative 3) Henry born November 1, 1792, drowned in China October 3, 1809. 4) George born April 18, 1794 married 1st Caroline-Eleanor the eldest daughter of William Walford, Esq. of High Beach, County, Essex, by whom (who died May 17, 1834), and he has issue a) George-William born June 25, 1830. b) James-Oliver born September 27, 1851. c) Alfred-Atkinson born February 7, 1833. He married 2nd September 19, 1839 to Charlotte-Douglas the daughter of the late Charles Bound, Esq. and sister of Charles-Gray Round, Esq. of Birch Hall, M.P. for the County, Essex. 5) James-Edward died an infant 6) Edward born May 14, 1797 and died March 11, 1835 having married Lydia Maria the daughter of John Blunt, Esq. of Woodford, County, Essex, and had issue, on son and six daughters, Edward-Pardoe-Cotton born March 9, 1834; Lydia-Mary; Isabella; Charlotte-Anne; Maira-Elizabeth; Rosanna-Innes died an infant; and Jane-Innes. 7) James-Frederick of Smyrna born July 6, 1799; married at Bonghia, near Smyrna January 26, 1841 to Eliza-Zoa the daughter of Nathaniel W. Werry, Esq., Her Majesty's consul at Damascus and has issue, Zoe-Charlotte, and Jemima-Caroline. 8) Oliver (twin with Harriet) born April 13, 1802 died September 7, 1823. 9) Harriet (twin with Oliver born April 13, 1802 married September 4, 1823 to John William Bridges, Esq. son of George Bridges, esq. of Lawford Hall, County, Essex. 10) Charles-Simpson of Constantinople born Sept. 19, 1803 married September 1830, Charlotte the only child of the Hon. Robert Smith, speaker of the House of Assembly, Tobago, and has issue, Charles-Constantine born October 16, 1832; Henry-James born July 27, 1838; Arthur-Walker born January 24, 1843; William-Wallesley born November 21, 1845; Louisa-Grace; Helen-Jane; Constance-Fanny; and Adeline-Eliza. 11) Mary married July 15, 1807, Capt. Richard Bogue, R.A., who fell at the battle of Leipsic October 18, 1813, while in command of the rocket-brigade, aged 31. 12) Elizabeth married December 22, 1808 to Sir James Brabazon Urmston. 13) Ann married June 9, 1829 to Henry-Bonham Bax, Esq. of Walmer, County, Kent. 14) Maria-Louisa married March 24, 1825, Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A. Mr. Hanson, who served as high sheriff for Essex in 1795, died November 18, 1839.
Early American Immigration and New World Settlers
Hanson Settlers in United States in the 17th & 18th Century
Wybra Hanson, who landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1633
Jo Hanson, aged 27, who landed in St Christopher in 1635
Tho Hanson, who arrived in Virginia in 1656
Andrew Hanson, who landed in Maryland in 1658
Godfried Hanson, who landed in New York in 1715
William Hanson, who arrived in New York in 1789
Hanson Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century
Thomas Hanson, aged 30, a labourer, who arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1833 aboard the ship "William" from Kinsale, Ireland
Hanson Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
William Hanson, English convict from Middlesex, who was transported aboard the "Agamemnon" on April 22, 1820, settling in New South Wales, Australia
Eliza Hanson, who arrived in Holdfast Bay, Australia aboard the ship "Canton" in 1838
Sarah Hanson, who arrived in Holdfast Bay, Australia aboard the ship "Canton" in 1838
William Hanson, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Eden" in 1838
Theodore Hanson, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Royal Admiral" in 1838
Hanson Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century
R.D. Hanson, who arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship "Cuba" in 1840
Richard Hanson, who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship "Claramont" in 1863
Jane Hanson, who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship "Gertrude" in 1863
Johanna Hanson, aged 54, who arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship "Zealandia" in 1879
Ann Hanson, who arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship "British King" in 1883
Mottoes
Sola ct unica virtus. Virtue alone and without a peer.
Sola virtus invida. Virtue alone invincible.
Perseverantia - Persistence
Deo favente et sedulitate. God And the industry's favor.
Semper parare. Always prepare.
HANSON. Maryland. Andrew, John, Randolph, and William Hanson, first of New Sweden, Del., 1642, afterwards Kent, Md., 1683. (Yorkshire.) The English Arms for the family are: Or, a chevron counter-componee argent and azure between three martlets sable. CREST—On a chapeau azure turned up argent, a martlet, wings endorsed sable. SWEDISH ARMS—Azure, a cross botonee, cantoned by four fleurs-de lis argent. CREST—A martlet ppr. MOTTO—Sola virtus invicta.
HANSON (see Horton), of Toothill, co. York. (Match), 172 . ., Vol. VII, fol. 533.
HANSON, William Henry (Fellow of Cains Coll., Camb.), of Beothorpe, co. Nottingham," 182 . ., Vol. XXXVIII, fol. 333.
HANSON, Benjamin, of Holborn, London, and Monk Friston, co. York (s. of Thomas, s. of Benjamin, both of Wakefield), to take Name and Arms of English only, 1800, Vol. XXI, fol. 35.
HANSON-INGLISH, Benjamin, of St. Mary-le-Strand, Loudon, 183 . ., Vol. XL, fol. 301.
HANSON, C. A., of 49, Holland Park, London, 1896,* Vol. LXIX, fol. 84.
HANSON, Sir Reginald, Bart., of London, (28 May) 1887, Vol. LXIV, fol. 27.
HANSON„ Mary, only dau. of Robert Hanson, of Normanton, co. York, wife of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bath King of Arms and Bart., 17 Aug. 1793, Vol. XVIII, fol." (Misc. G. et IL, 2nd S., V, p. 72, plate.)
Alexander Hanson (actor) (born 1961), Norwegian-born British actor
Alexander Contee Hanson (1786–1819), American lawyer
Alf Hanson (1912–1993), British football player
Aline Hanson (1949–2017), Saint Martin educator and politician
Ann Meekitjuk Hanson (born 1946), Canadian politician, commissioner of Nunavut
Ann-Louise Hanson (born 1944), Swedish singer
Arin Hanson (born 1987), American animator, voice actor, Internet personality
Beverly Hanson (born 1925), American golfer
Bill Hanson (basketball) (born c. 1940), professional basketball player
Brooke Hanson (born 1978), Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medal winner
Brooke Hanson (born 1981), current coach and former professional volleyball player
Sir Charles Hanson, 1st Baronet (1846–1922), British MP and Lord Mayor of London
Sir Charles Hanson, 2nd Baronet (1874–1958), British politician
Charlie Hanson, British producer and director
Chris Hanson (born 1976), American football player
Chris Hanson (born 1985), English golfer
Christian Hanson (footballer) (born 1981), British football player
Christian Hanson (ice hockey) (born 1986), American ice hockey player
Curtis Hanson (1945–2016), American film director
Curt Hanson (1943-2017), American politician
David Hanson (politician) (born 1957), British politician, MP from Delyn, Wales
Dave Hanson (politician) (born 1960/1961), Canadian politician, MLA for Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, Alberta
Dave Hanson (footballer) (born 1968), former football striker
David Hanson (ice hockey) (born 1954), ice hockey player, most famous for his role in Slap Shot
David Hanson, guitarist with progressive rock band GoodThunder
David Hanson (robotics designer), American sculptor and robotics researcher
David Hanson (computer scientist), American software engineer
David J. Hanson (born 1941), American sociologist
David Hanson (producer), British television producer
Duane Hanson (1925–1996), American sculptor
Einar Hanson (1899–1927), Swedish film actor
Erik Hanson (baseball) (b. 1965), American baseball player
Edward Hanson, (1889–1959), United States Navy Rear admiral
Frederick Hanson (late 20th century), Australian Commissioner of the New South Wales Police 1972–1976
Fritz Hanson (1914–1996), American-born Canadian football player
Gillian Hanson (1934 – 1996), British physician
Glen Hanson, Canadian cartoonist and illustrator
Greg Hanson (1967-) American Operations Manager
Harold Hanson (1904–1973), South African politician
Hart Hanson (born 1957), American creator of Bones (TV Series)
Helen Hanson (1874 – 1926), British physician, missionary and suffragist.
Howard Hanson (1896–1981), American composer, conductor and educator
Hamza Yusuf Hanson (born 1958), American Muslim scholar and director of the Zaytuna Institute, California
Isaac Hanson (born 1980), American pop/rock musician
James Hanson, Baron Hanson (1922–2004), English industrialist
James Hanson (footballer, born 1904), English footballer for Manchester United
James Hanson (footballer, born 1987), English footballer for AFC Wimbledon
James Hanson (footballer, born 1995), English footballer for Derby County
James Hanson (rugby union) (born 1988), Australian rugby union player (hooker) for Queensland Reds
James C. Hanson (born 1862), American politician
Jane Hanson (born 1955), American television host
Janine Hanson (born December 14, 1982) is a Canadian rower from Winnipeg.
Jason Hanson (born 1970), American professional football player
Jeffrey O. Hanson (1958-2006), American politician
Jeff Hanson (1978–2009), American singer-songwriter
Jennifer Hanson (born 1974), American country singer
Jimmy Hanson (1904–?), English football player
Jo Hanson (1918-2007), American environmental artist and activist
Joel Hanson (contemporary), American singer and guitarist
John Hanson (disambiguation), several people
Kristine Hanson (born 1951), American Playboy Playmate and television weather person
Kristy Hanson (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
Lars Hanson (1886–1965), Swedish stage and film actor
Linda N. Hanson, President of Hamline University
Marcy Hanson (born 1952), American Playboy Playmate and actress
Margus Hanson (born 1958), Estonian politician
Mark Hanson (born 1946), Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Marla Hanson (born 1962), American screenwriter and ex-model
Martin Hanson (born 1971), Swedish football referee
Marv Hanson, American politician
Matt Hanson (born 1971), American author, film producer and film director
Mitchell Hanson, English football defender
Norwood Russell Hanson (1925–1967), American philosopher
Ole Hanson (1874–1940), American real estate developer and politician
Paul D. Hanson (born 1939), American biblical scholar
Pauline Hanson (born 1954), Australian politician and television personality
Per Albin Hansson (1885–1946), Prime Minister of Sweden
Peter Hanson (born 1971), Swedish golfer
Peter Hansson, Swedish heavy metal guitarist
Petter Hansson, (born 1976), Swedish footballer
Pontus Hanson (1894–1962), Swedish breaststroke swimmer and water polo player
Ray Hanson (died 1982), American college football coach
Raymond Alvah Hanson (1923–2009), American entrepreneur, inventor and engineer
Raymond Hanson (composer) (1913–1976), Australian composer and lecturer
Raymond Hanson (cricketer) (born 1951), English cricketer
Ray Hanson (1895–1982), American football coach
Sir Reginald Hanson (1840–1905), Lord Mayor of London, Member of Parliament
Richard Hanson (1879–1948), Canadian politician
Richard Hanson (bishop) (1916–1988), bishop of Clogher in the Church of Ireland, 1970–1973
Richard Hanson (Australian politician) (1805–1876), British-Australian chief justice of South Australia
Richard Hanson (Missouri politician), secretary of state of Missouri in 1994
Robert Hanson (disambiguation), several people
Robert M. Hanson (1920–1944), American Marine Corps aviator
Robin Hanson (born 1959), American professor of economics
Roger Hanson "Old Flintlock" (1827–1863), general in the American confederate army
Roger L. Hanson (1925–2005), American politician
Sam Hanson (born 1939), Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Sharon Hanson (born 1965), American heptathlete
Stephen Hanson (cricketer) (1931–1997), South African cricketer
Sven Hansson (1912–1971), Swedish cross country skier
Sven Ove Hansson (born 1951), Swedish academic, philosopher, author and skeptic
Taylor Hanson (born 1983), American pop/rock musician
Todd Hanson (born 1968), American writer and voice actor
Tommy Hanson (1986-2015), Major League Baseball pitcher
Tom Hanson (American football) (1907–1985), American football halfback
Thomas Hawkins Hanson (1750–1812), American military general
Thomas S. Hanson (born 1939), American politician
Thomas Grafton Hanson (1865–1945), United States Army officer
Tom Hanson (actor), actor and director
Tom Hanson (Australian footballer) (1891–1986), Australian rules footballer
Tom Hanson (photojournalist) (1967–2009), Canadian photojournalist
Travis Hanson, American rally car driver
Walter R. Hanson (1931-2014), American politician
Vic Hanson (1903–1982), American football and basketball player
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953), American military historian and political essayist
Vince Hanson (1923–2009), American basketball player
Zachary Hanson (born 1985), American pop/rock musician
American Revolution Veterans
Aaron Hanson, New Hampshire, Rank of 2nd Lieutenant
Abraham Hanson, New Hampshire, Rank of Private
Anthony Hanson, New Hampshire, Rank of Sergeant
Charles Hanson, New Hampshire, Rank of Sergeant
Daniel Hanson, New Hampshire, Rank of Private
Derick Hanson, New York, Rank of Captain
Ebenezer Hanson, New Hampshire, Rank of Corporal
Elijah Hanson, Virginia, Rank of Fifer
Fredk Hanson, Virginia, Rank of Private
Gelaliah Hanson, Connecticut, Rank of Sng
Handick Hanson, New York, Rank of 1st Lieutenant
Handrick Hanson, New York, Rank of 1st Lieutenant
Isaac Hanson, New Hampshire, Rank of Drummer
John Hanson, New York, Rank of Ensign
Jonathan Hanson, Massachusetts, Rank of Private
Joseph Hanson, Virginia, Rank of Private
Lamuel Hanson, Maryland, Rank of Ensign
Nathan Hanson, New Hampshire, Rank of Private
Richard Hanson, Virginia, Rank of Corporal
Samuel Hanson, Maryland, Rank of Ensign
Shadrach Hanson, Virginia, Rank of Private
Stephen Hanson, Connecticut, Rank of Private
Timothy Hanson, Connecticut, Rank of Private
William Hanson, Virginia, Rank of Private
Civil War Veterans
Aaron Hanson, 6th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Abel Hanson, 139th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Abraham Hanson, 155th Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Acel Hanson, 50th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Adam Hanson, 32nd Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Adison Hanson, 95th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Union, Ohio
Adolphus Hanson, 1st Battalion, Nevada Cavalry, Union, Nevada
Albert Hanson, 1st Regiment, Maine Cavalry, Union, Maine
Alexander Hanson, 183rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Union Pennsylvania
Alfred Hanson, 97th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Allen Hanson, 7th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry, Union, Michigan
Allison Hanson, 56th Regiment, New York Infantry National Guard, Union, New York
Ambrose Hanson, 13th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Confederate, Alabama
Amond Hanson, 1st Battalion, Dakota Cavalry, Union, Dakota Territory
Amos Hanson, 1st Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Ander Hanson, 1st Battalion, Delaware Cavalry, Union, Delaware
Andrew Hanson, 1st Regiment, California Cavalry, Union, California
Anthony Hanson, 22nd Regiment, Virginia Infantry, Confederate, Virginia
Anun Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Wisconsin Cavalry, Union, Wisconsin
Aquilla Hanson, 25th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Confederate, Alabama
Archibald Hanson, 64th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Confederate, North Carolina
Armstead Hanson, Cobb's Legion, Georgia, Confederate, Georgia
Arthar Hanson, 11th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Iowa
Asa Hanson, 1st Regiment, Maine Cavalry, Union, Maine
Aslack Hanson, Provisional Permanent Battalion, Camp Randall, Union, Wisconsin
Asmus Hanson, 7th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry, Union, Michigan
August Hanson, 44th Regiment, Missouri Infantry, Union, Missouri
Augustus Hanson, 5th Regiment, Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Union, Rhode Island
Austin Hanson, 17th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Barney Hanson, 72nd Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Batice Hanson, 92nd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Benjamin Hanson, 5th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry, Union, New Hampshire
Bennett Hanson, 22nd Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Bernard Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Union, Massachusetts
Boyd Hanson, 58th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Union, Pennsylvania
Brazil Hanson, 13th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, Confederate, Louisiana
Bristol Hanson, 58th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Brown Hanson, 4th Regiment, Wisconsin Cavalry, Union, Wisconsin
Caleb Hanson, 64th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Carl Hanson, 22nd Battalion, Georgia Heavy Artillery, Confederate, Georgia
Casper Hanson, 15th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Chancey Hanson, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Union, Ohio
Charles Hanson, 6th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry, Union, Connecticut
Chris Hanson, 176th Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Chrisopher Hanson, Graham's Company, Missouri Cavalry, Union, Missouri
Christian Hanson, 12th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Collins Hanson, 15th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry, Union, New Hampshire
Cornelius Hanson, 1st Field Battery, Texas Light Artillery, Confederate, Texas
Cyrus Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Daniel Hanson, 11th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Union, Indiana
David Hanson, 3rd Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Dempsey Hanson, 18th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Union, Ohio
Dewitt Hanson, 104th Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Eben Hanson, 17th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Ebenezer Hanson, 20th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Edgar Hanson, 51st Regiment, Missouri Infantry, Union, Missouri
Edmund Hanson, 8th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Edouard Hanson, Sappers and Miners, CSA, Confederate, Confederate Troops
Edward Hanson, 8th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Edwin Hanson, 136th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Egbert Hanson, 1st Regiment, Minnesota Cavalry, Union, Minnesota
Elbert Hanson, 4th Battalion, Louisiana Infantry, Confederate, Louisiana
Elbridge Hanson, 1st Regiment, District of Columbia Cavalry, Union, District of Columbia
Eli Hanson, 1st Battalion, Maine Light Artillery, Union, Maine
Elias Hanson, 1st Regiment, Maryland Infantry, Union, Maryland
Elijah Hanson, 25th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Confederate, North Carolina
Enoch Hanson, 30th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Ephraim Hanson, 17th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Erasmus Hanson, 11th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry, Union, Connecticut
Eric Hanson, 57th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Erik Hanson, 1st Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Esau Hanson, 8th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate, Virginia
Ezekiel Hanson, 10th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Fielden Hanson, 7th Regiment, Confederate Cavalry, Confederate, Confederate Troops
Forest Hanson, 31st Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Francis Hanson, 31st Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Confederate, Georgia
Frank Hanson, 1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves, Confederate, Mississippi
Franklin Hanson, 4th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry, Union, New Hampshire
Frederick Hanson, 13th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry, Union, Connecticut
Friedrich Hanson, 26th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Furgas Hanson, 7th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Iowa
Gardiner Hanson, 26th Regiment, New York Cavalry, Union, New York
Gardner Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
George Hanson, 10th Regiment, Maryland Infantry, Union, Maryland
Gideon Hanson, 62nd Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Gilbert Hanson, 38th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Iowa
Gotfried Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Iowa Cavalry, Union, Iowa
Gotlieb Hanson, 90th Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Granville Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Iowa Cavalry, Union, Iowa
Greenberry Hanson, 73rd Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Union, Ohio
Gunder Hanson, 15th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Gustave Hanson, 17th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate, Tennessee
Gustavus Hanson, 12th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Iowa
Halvar Hanson, 36th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Halven Hanson, 1st Regiment, Minnesota Heavy Artillery, Union, Minnesota
Hamilton Hanson, 7th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry, Union, Missouri
Hamon Hanson, 81st Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Hanford Hanson, 1st Regiment, Nebraska Cavalry, Union, Nebraska Territory
Hans Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Rhode Island Cavalry, Union, Rhode Island
Harlan Hanson, 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry, Union, New Hampshire
Harris Hanson, 42nd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Harrison Hanson, 7th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry, Union, New Hampshire
Hellick Hanson, Henshaw's Independent Battery, Illinois Light Artillery, Union, Illinois
Henrich Hanson, 13th Regiment, New York Cavalry, Union, New York
Henry Hanson, 3rd Regiment, California Infantry, Union, California
Hens Hanson, 12th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Herman Hanson, 145th Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Hines Hanson, 33rd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Confederate, Mississippi
Holvar Hanson, 36th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinios
Homer Hanson, 13th Regiment, Maryland Infantry, Union, Maryland
Horace Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Horatio Hanson, 7th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Union, Ohio
Howard Hanson, 9th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry, Union, New Hampshire
Hugh Hanson, Moseley's Regiment, Mississippi, Confederate, Mississippi
Hunn Hanson, 4th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry, Union, Missouri
Ingrold Hanson, 1st Regiment, Minnesota Heavy Artillery, Union, Minnesota
Isaac Hanson, 14th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Union, Indiana
Isham Hanson, 20th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Confederate, North Carolina
Israel Hanson, 27th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Ivory Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Jacob Hanson, 39th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
James Hanson, 13th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Confederate, Alabama
Jason Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry, Union, Massachusetts
Jefferson Hanson, 14th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Confederate, North Carolina
Jehu Hanson, 184th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Union, Ohio
Jens Hanson, 12th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Ohio
Jere Hanson, 63rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Jeremiah Hanson, 6th Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery, Union, New York
Jerome Hanson, 30th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Confederate, Mississippi
Jerrs Hanson, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Jess Hanson, 40th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Confederate, Georgia
Jesse Hanson, 12th Regiment, Missouri State Militia Cavalry, Union, Missouri
Joel Hanson, President's Guard, CSA, Confederate, Confederate Troops
Joeph Hanson, 32nd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Johanas Hanson, 46th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
John Hanson, 4th Regiment, Delaware Infantry, Union, Delaware
Jonas Hanson, 57th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Jonathan Hanson, 1st Regiment, Massachusetts, Heavy Artillery, Union, Massachusettts
Jordan Hanson, 11th Battalion, North Carolina Home Guards, Confederate, North Carolina
Joseph Hanson, Tucker's Regiment, Confederate Infantry, Confederate, Confederate Troops
Joshua Hanson, 1st Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, Confederate, Arkansas
Josiah Hanson, 76th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Union, Pennsylvania
Judson Hanson, 36th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Julius Hanson, 4th Regiment, Delaware Infantry, Union, Delaware
Knud Hanson, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Cavalry, Union, Wisconsin
Knute Hanson, 10th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Lars Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Minnesota Cavalry, Union, Minnesota
Lawrence Hanson, 14th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Leander Hanson, 1st Regiment, California Infantry, Union, California
Lemuel Hanson, 30th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Leonard Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Missouri Cavalry, Union, Missouri
Levi Hanson, 28th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Confederate, Alabama
Lewis Hanson, 152nd Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Llewellyn Hanson, 19th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Lloyd Hanson, 5th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Loren Hanson, 11th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Lorenzo Hanson, 30th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Losis Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Louis Hanson, 15th Regiment, Missouri Infantry, Union, Missouri
Luzern Hanson, 12th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry, Union, Tennessee
Manoah Hanson, 63rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Union, Indiana
Marbin Hanson, 10th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Mark Hanson, 1st Regiment, Nebraska Cavalry, Union, Nebraska Territory
Marshall Hanson, 123rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Martin Hanson, 20th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Iowa
Martinus Hanson, 43rd Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Mathias Hanson, 12th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Matthew Hanson, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Matthias Hanson, 4th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Michael Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Mons Hanson, 7th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Morgan Hanson, 115th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Morris Hanson, 32nd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Moses Hanson, 41st Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Nari Hanson, 2nd Battalion, Pioneer Brigade, Unio, Union volunteers
Nathaniel Hanson, 1st Regiment, Maine Heavy Artillery, Union, Maine
Ned Hanson, 91st Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Neils Hanson, 7th Regiment, Vermont Infantry, Union, Vermont
Nelson Hanson, 5th Regiment, Iowa Cavalry, Union, Iowa
Nicholas Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Louisiana Cavalry, Union, Louisiana
Nicoli Hanson, 1st Regiment, Texas Heavy Artillery, Confederate, Texas
Niels Hanson, 8th Regiment, California Infantry, Union, California
Nils Hanson, 29th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Noah Hanson, 8th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Notley Hanson, 2nd Battalion, Maryland Infantry, Confederate, Maryland
Olaf Hanson, 102nd Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Olans Hanson, 12th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Iowa
Ole Hanson, 8th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Oliver Hanson, 15th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Olof Hanson, 1st Regiment, Connecticut Cavalry, Union, Connecticut
Orin Hanson, 15th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Orlando Hanson, 7th Regiment, California Infantry, Union, California
Other Hanson, 124th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Union, Indiana
Otto Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Maryland cavalry, Union, Maryland
Parker Hanson, 4th Regiment, Maine Infantry, union, Maine
Patrick Hanson, 24th Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Union, Massachusetts
Paul Hanson, 1st Regiment Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Union, Pennsylvania
Peter Hanson, 1st Regiment, Colorado Cavalry, Union, Colorado Territory
Phil Hanson, 12th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry, Confederate, Mississippi
Philip Hanson, 23rd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery, Union, Indiana
Phineas Hanson, 2nd Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry, Confederate, South Carolina
Plumer Hanson, 29th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Union, Indiana
Potter Hanson, 4th Regiment, Confederate Engineer Troops, Confederate, Confederate Troops
Randolph Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Rastmus Hanson, 13th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Iowa
Reuben Hanson, 5th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Confederate, Mississippi
Rhodes Hanson, Chandler's Company, National Guards, New Hampshire Militia, Union, New Hampshire
Richard Hanson, 47th Regiment, New York State Militia, Union, New York
Robert Hanson, 44th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Confederate, Georgia
Rodolph Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, Union, Massachusetts
Roger Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Confederate, Kentucky
Runnis Hanson, 133rd Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Samuel Hanson, 9th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Confederate, Georgia
Silas Hanson, 136th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Simeon Hanson, 1st Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, Union, Ohio
Siver Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Solomon Hanson, 58th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Stangoin Hanson, 6th Regiment, Iowa Cavalry, Union, Iowa
Steen Hanson, 1st Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Stener Hanson, 19th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Stephen Hanson, 115th Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Swan Hanson, 58th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Sylvester Hanson, Signal Corps (Regular Army), Union, Union Regular Army
Tapley Hanson, 55th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Union, Kentucky
Tennis Hanson, 2nd Independent Battery, Minnesota Light Artillery, Union, Minnesota
Thaddeus Hanson, 105th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Union, Ohio
Theodore Hanson, 4th Regiment, California Infantry, Union, California
Thomas Hanson, 11th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry, Union, Connecticut
Timothy Hanson, 9th Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, Union, Ohio
Torbjon Hanson, 15th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Torey Hanson, 3rd Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Union, Minnesota
Torger Hanson, 47th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Tosten Hanson, 8th Regiment, Kansas Infantry, Union, Kansas
Toygen Hanson, 5th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Union, Wisconsin
Tracy Hanson, 176th Regiment, New York Infantry, Union, New York
Victor Hanson, 28th Regiment, Michigan Infantry, Union, Michigan
Walter Hanson, Purnell Legion, Maryland Infantry, Union, Maryland
Waple Hanson, 102nd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, Union, U.S. Colored Troops
Warren Hanson, 25th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Union, Maine
Warrick Hanson, 58th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Union, Pennsylvania
Wilder Hanson, 145th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Union, Pennsylvania
William Hanson, 1st Regiment, Delaware Infantry, Union, Delaware
Willis Hanson, 24th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Union, Iowa
Wilson Hanson, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery, Union, Ohio
Zenos Hanson, 42nd Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Union, Illinois
Hanson Coat of Arms Meaning
The four main devices (symbols) in the Hanson blazon are the martlet, mascle, lion and chevron. The three main tinctures (colors) are or, sable and azure .
The bright, strong blue color in Heraldry is known in English as azure, and similarly in other European languages – azul in Spanish, azurro in Italian and azur in French. The word has its roots in the Arabic word lazura, also the source of the name of the precious stone lapis lazuli 7. Despite this, those heralds who liked to associate colours with jewels chose instead to describe blue as Sapphire. According to Wade, the use of this colour symbolises “Loyalty and Truth” 8.
The martlett is by far the most common bird to appear in British Heraldry, perhaps only equalled by the eagle, however it is not a species ever to be found in an ornithologists handbook! The word itself is though to have come from the French word merlette, the female blackbird and itself a similar type of charge used in French Heraldry. 9. Over time the image has become quite stylised, without visible legs or distinctive feathers. Wade suggests that this representation arises from “the appearance of the bird of paradise to ancient travellers” 10. Other bird species may be named in coats of arms (cornish chough is a frequent example) but in actual execution their appearance is often indistinguishable from the martlet.
The mascle is a close relative of the lozenge or diamond shape, but with the centre cut away revealing the background underneath. 11. Guillim, writing in the 17th century reckoned the mascle to represent the mesh of a net, being the biblical symbol for “persuasion, whereby men are induced to virtue and verity”. 12
The art of heraldry would be significantly poorer if we were without the lion in all its forms. Most general works on Heraldry devote at least one chapter solely to this magnificent creature and its multifarious depictions 13 14 15. Some of the earliest known examples of heraldry, dating right back to the knighting of Geoffrey of Anjou in 1127, where he is shown with six such beasts upon his shield 16 .The great authority on heraldic symbology, Wade, points out the high place that the lion holds in heraldry, “as the emblem of deathless courage” 17, a sentiment echoed equally today.
7 A Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, J.H. Parker, Oxford, 1894, Entry:Azure
9 A Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, J.H. Parker, Oxford, 1894, Entry:Martlet
11 A Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, J.H. Parker, Oxford, 1894, Entry:Mascle
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Tag Archives: Rovio Entertainment
Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) announced that it reached the milestone of one million TELEPODS figures in consumers’ hands around the globe. TELEPODS, the digital gaming platform for the mobile generation, launched with the new ANGRY BIRDSTM STAR WARS® II game from Rovio Entertainment and Lucasfilm, which became available less than one month ago underscoring the success of this accomplishment and popularity of the innovative new platform. Hasbro’s TELEPODS uses new technology to allow kids to play in two ways: in the physical space and through full and unprecedented integration into top-tier apps.
Every copy of the ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS II app includes a “TELEPODS” mode that allows users of smart devices with front-facing cameras to “teleport” their Angry Birds Star Wars TELEPODS figures into the game. For the first time in ANGRY BIRDS history players can choose which characters they want to use to complete a level by using TELEPODS including Rebel Birds and Imperial Pigs. Fans download the app, tap the TELEPODS icon in the app, place one of the more than 30 ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS figures on the included TELEPODS base, and then place the base on a smart device to immediately “teleport” that figure into the game. Players can also unlock new characters in the app with TELEPODS as well as an assortment of super powers, enhancing the digital gameplay experience.
“With one million TELEPODS figures in consumers’ hands and counting, we are thrilled with the response from kids around the world to the new TELEPODS platform,” said John Frascotti, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Hasbro. “We continue to work closely with entertainment leaders like Rovio and Lucasfilm to drive seamless physical to digital app integration with our TELEPODS platform and are excited by what the future holds for this innovative experience.”
Consumers are already gearing up for the launch of ANGRY BIRDS GO!, a new app franchise recently revealed by Rovio that will also feature TELEPODS technology. A full line of TELEPODS enhanced figures and playsets are currently at retail in anticipation of the ANGRY BIRDS GO! app on December 11. Some of the one million figures around the globe that consumers have purchased include figures for the upcoming ANGRY BIRDS GO! title speaking to the excitement fans have for TELEPODS integration in a highly anticipated new game. Rovio will provide consumers with an exclusive first look to the new experience via a dedicated “COUNTDOWN TO ANGRY BIRDS GO!” app integrated with TELEPODS technology at the end of October. To learn more about the ANGRY BIRDS GO! product line from Hasbro, consumers can visit www.Hasbro.com/AngryBirds. Fans can also view the gameplay trailer for the Rovio app on Youtube and learn more about the game at http://go.angrybirds.com.
About Hasbro, Inc.
Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) is a branded play company dedicated to fulfilling the fundamental need for play for children and families through the creative expression of the Company’s world class brand portfolio, including TRANSFORMERS, MONOPOLY, PLAY-DOH, MY LITTLE PONY, MAGIC: THE GATHERING, NERF and LITTLEST PET SHOP. From toys and games, to television programming, motion pictures, digital gaming and a comprehensive licensing program, Hasbro strives to delight its global customers with innovative play and entertainment experiences, in a variety of forms and formats, anytime and anywhere. The Company’s Hasbro Studios develops and produces television programming for more than 170 markets around the world, and for the U.S. on Hub Network, part of a multi-platform joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK). Through the company’s deep commitment to corporate social responsibility, including philanthropy, Hasbro is helping to build a safe and sustainable world for future generations and to positively impact the lives of millions of children and families every year. It has been recognized for its efforts by being named one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” and is ranked as one of Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s “100 Best Corporate Citizens.” Learn more at www.hasbro.com.
About Lucasfilm Ltd.
Lucasfilm Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is a global leader in film, television and digital entertainment production. In addition to its motion-picture and television production operations, Lucasfilm’s global activities include Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, serving the digital needs of the entertainment industry for visual effects and audio post-production; LucasArts, a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software worldwide; Lucasfilm Animation, which produces cutting-edge digital entertainment; and Lucas Licensing which manages the global merchandising activities for Lucasfilm’s entertainment properties including the legendary STAR WARS and INDIANA JONES franchises. Lucasfilm Ltd. is headquartered in northern California. Lucasfilm, the Lucasfilm logo, STAR WARS and related properties are trademarks and/or copyrights, in the United States and other countries, of Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. TM & © 2013 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.
About Rovio Entertainment
Rovio Entertainment Ltd is an industry-changing entertainment media company headquartered in Finland, and the creator of the globally successful Angry Birds™ characters franchise. Angry Birds, a casual puzzle game, became an international phenomenon within a few months of its release. Angry Birds has expanded rapidly into multifaceted entertainment, publishing, and licensing to become a beloved international brand. Rovio’s animated Angry Birds feature film is slated for July 1, 2016. www.rovio.com
via Hasbro Press Release
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Hasbro is Bringing Angry Birds Star Wars to Comic-Con!
Hasbro released new information for their second Comic-Con exclusive. It’s the Angry Birds Star Wars Special Action Figure Set. The SDCC exclusive is priced at $24.99 and will be sold at the Hasbro booth. Assuming any are left over following the convention, a limited number might be available on HasbroToyShop.com.
ANGRY BIRDS™ STAR WARS®SPECIAL ACTION FIGURE SET
Approximate Retail Price: $24.99
The original 12 STAR WARS action figures are re-imagined for San Diego Comic-Con with a twist based on the mega-hit mobile game ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS from Rovio Entertainment! LUKE SKYWALKER, PRINCESS LEIA, HAN SOLO, OBI-WAN KENOBI, CHEWBACCA, R2-D2, C-3PO, DARTH VADER, STORMTROOPER, SAND PEOPLE, IMPERIAL NAVY COMMANDER and a JAWA are all re-imagined as heroic birds or evil pigs in this set, with each figure in a unique vintage-style blister card featuring ANGRY BIRDS homage to the classic Kenner artwork! The individual blister cards are all packaged together in a collectible package!
via io9
Posted in Action Figures, Collectibles, Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC 2013, SDCC 2013 Exclusives, Toys | Tagged Angry Birds, Angry Birds Star Wars Special Action Figure Set, exclusives, Hasbro, Rovio Entertainment, San Diego Comic-Con 2013 (SDCC), Star Wars | 1 Reply
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Interpol performs “My Desire” on Conan — watch
on December 16, 2014, 8:10am
Because having a Shepherd Fairey-painted mural adorning a Brooklyn facade isn’t enough publicity, Interpol served as musical guest on last night’s episode of on Conan. The New York indie rockers continued their support of El Pintor with a performance of “My Desire”. Check out the replay down yonder.
For those who missed it, Fairey painted a mural inspired by the El Pintor track “Everything is Wrong” on a Williamsburg building. In return, Interpol celebrated the art with a new song taken from the cutting room floor of the album, “What is What”.
El Pintor is one of the five best rock records of 2014 according to our own Sami Jarroush of the Rock it Out! Blog.
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Published: 03:09 PM, 04 July 2018
Bad weather disrupts Cox’s Bazar flights
Heavy rains have lashed Cox’s Bazar disrupting flights in and out of the coastal town’s airport, an aviation official has said.
“Flights from the airport have been hit badly. Two flights returned to Chattogram around 12:20pm on Wednesday,” said Md Saiduzzaman, manager of the Cox’s Bazar airport.
The two domestic flights made an emergency landing at Chattogram's Shah Amanat International Airport as they attempted several times to land in Cox’s Bazar, but failed, he told bdnews24.com.
However, he said the weather conditions improved somewhat around 12:30pm, allowing some flights to take off or land in and out of Cox’s Bazar.
The coastal town of Cox’s Bazar recorded around 155mm rain in the last 24 hours, according to the Met Office.
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Waymo Teams Up with Renault, Nissan on Robotaxis Outside U.S.
by Michael Liedtke .
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
This Tuesday, May 8, 2018, file photo shows a Waymo logo displayed on the window of a car at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif. Self-driving car pioneer Waymo is teaming up with automakers Renault and Nissan to make its first journey outside the U.S. with a ride-hailing service that will dispatch a fleet of robotaxis in France and Japan (Source:AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Self-driving car pioneer Waymo is teaming up with automakers Renault and Nissan to make its first journey outside the U.S. with a ride-hailing service that will dispatch a fleet of robotaxis in France and Japan.
The partnership announced late Wednesday underscores Waymo's ambition to deploy its driverless technology throughout the world in an attempt to revolutionize the way people get around. The Mountain View, California, company can afford to try because it's backed by one of the world's richest companies, Google, which secretly began working on driverless technology a decade ago before spinning off that project into what is now known as Waymo.
After launching its ride-hailing service in France and Japan, Waymo intends to explore other European and Asian markets with Renault and Nissan.
"This is an ideal opportunity for Waymo to bring our autonomous technology to a global stage," Waymo CEO John Krafcik said.
Waymo, Renault and Nissan didn't set a timetable for when their ride-hailing service will launch. They left most other details vague.
It seems likely it will still be several years before Waymo will be in a position to pose a serious challenge to Uber, the world's largest ride-hailing service. Although Waymo's self-driving technology is widely considered to be the world's most advanced, it still isn't adept enough to be trusted without a human poised to take control in case something goes awry with the robot.
Waymo had hoped to launch a fully autonomous ride-hailing service last year in the Phoenix area, but instead is still keeping human safety drivers in those vehicles more than six months after it rolled out. That service, known as Waymo One, is still only offering rides to a few hundred passengers that previously participated in a test program.
Krafcik told the German newspaper Handelsblatt last year that Waymo will likely use a different brand for its ride-hailing services outside the U.S. That could be one reason Waymo is working with France-based Renault and Japan-based Nissan, household names in their home countries.
Waymo has previously struck deals with two automakers, Fiat Chrysler and Jaguar, but those involved ordering tens of thousands of vehicles to be equipped with self-driving technology for services in the U.S. So far, Waymo is only using Fiat Chrysler minivans for its Phoenix service.
The partnership with Renault and Nissan also involves a long-time alliance they formed with Mitsubishi. But the fate of that alliance has been in limbo since Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of both Renault and Nissan, was arrested late last year on charges that included falsifying financial reports.
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D.A.R.E. Responds to Vaping Crisis with New Enhancement Lesson
Jul 10, 2019 | Education, Featured
Vaping nicotine nearly doubled among high school seniors from 11 percent in 2017 to 20.9 percent in 2018. More than 1 in 10 eighth graders (10.9 percent) say they vaped nicotine in the past year, and use is up significantly in virtually all vaping measures among eighth, 10th and 12th graders1. These are—by far—the biggest one-year increases ever seen for any substance in the history of the MTF survey2.
In response to this crisis, D.A.R.E. has developed and launched a Vaping Prevention enhancement lesson for both Middle School and High School students. In these lessons, students will learn about the risks associated with vaping and understand how knowledge of risk factors increases over the lifespan of a product. The lesson is FREE to D.A.R.E. communities.
The Vaping enhancement lesson is a 45 minute lesson designed for deliver by D.A.R.E. Officers. This lesson has two versions that present the information at two developmentally appropriate levels of complexity: one is designed for Middle School students in 7th or 8th grade, and one for High School students in 9th or 10th grade. In these lessons, students will learn about the risks associated with vaping and understand how knowledge of risk factors increases over the lifespan of a product.
Recognize and identify basic information about vaping.
Understand that most people in their grade do not vape.
Identify similarities between tobacco and vape use, attitudes, and effects.
Identify risks associated with nicotine use.
Understand that products initially appearing safe may later be considered harmful as research and user data are studied over time.
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Kerry Robinson: Empowering women isn’t a favor to them, but the Church
John L. Allen Jr. and Ines San Martin
Kerry Robinson and Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service, speak during the Voices of Faith gathering March 8 at the Vatican. The event, held on International Women's Day, had the theme "Stirring the Waters-Making the Impossible Possible." (Credit: Voices of Faith.)
According to Kerry Robinson, who's long been a leading voice in the Catholic Church in the United States, women should be in positions of leadership in the Church, not because they deserve it, but because the Church would benefit fully from what women have to offer.
ORLANDO, Florida — At a major gathering of almost 3,500 Catholic leaders from around the country, Kerry Robinson, founder of the Leadership Roundtable, said that empowering women isn’t about doing women a favor but doing one for the the entire Church.
Women should be in positions of leadership in the Church, she said, “Not because it’s what women deserve — though of course it is — but really because this is what the Church deserves,” Robinson told Crux.
“The Church deserves to benefit fully from women’s full complementary gifts, abilities and leadership capability,” she said.
Robison is the founding executive director and global ambassador of the Leadership Roundtable, dedicated to promoting excellence and best practices in the management, finances and human resource development of the Catholic Church. The roundtable held a meeting in Orlando just ahead of the convocation, where among things it bestowed awards for “best practices” in church management.
For Robinson, it’s not about women having a specific set of characteristics and men having others, because, “Frankly, I think we all have access to multiple characteristics. It’s more about the diversity of perspectives and experiences.”
She spoke to Crux during a break at the Convocation for Catholic Leadership, taking place July 1-4 in Orlando, Florida. The meeting, which has gathered people from 80 percent of the dioceses in the United Sates, includes a cross-section of laity and hierarchy, including five of the six active American cardinals living in the U.S.
“There’s such a diversity, and I feel like it’s a big family reunion,” she said of the convocation.
Robinson was one of the panelists during the gathering on “Feminine genius: The role of women in the Church,” that had some 500 people pre-registered.
What follows are excerpts of her conversation with Crux.
Crux: How do you feel the Convocation is going so far?
Robinson: Speaking very personally, I have found it remarkably joyful. Women and men, religious and laity, many of whom I’ve known for many years, they’re coming from all over the country, they represent incredible diverse ministries, they have important leadership positions in the Church. There’s such diversity, and I feel like it’s a big family reunion.
A big part of all those who are here are women. Many of whom are religious, but the majority are laity. How do you think we should read this?
I would definitely take this as a positive sign. Women comprise, especially in the United States a large percentage of active Catholics participating in our parishes and all of our ministries. I think the thing to pay attention to, though, is what happens as a result of these conversations. Is there a collective intentionality about ensuring women are in positions of leadership and at the tables of decision making? Not because it’s what women deserve, of course it is, but really because this is what the Church deserves. The Church deserves to benefit fully from women’s full complementive gifts and abilities and leadership capability.
We’ve been talking a lot about the need for women to be in positions of leadership in the Church. The conversation has been ongoing for a long time, and it’s something Pope Francis has spoken about, and his predecessor spoke about a lot, actually bringing a woman to direct the English version of the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, and he was the first one to include women in the Vatican’s International Theological Commission. But what do we mean when we talk about women in positions of leadership in the Church?
Honestly, what I find fascinating, is that the past three popes now, each one has called for a greater presence, visible presence in the Roman Curia. I put some of my attention there. Frankly, I will begin with the advisory bodies, every dicastery has one, and they’re international. And I would use much more intention about including women in greater percentages on those advisory boards.
I would also expand the pool globally from where women are drawn to serve on those. It’s really who’s at the table of discussion, discourse and decision making. We all bring a certain myopia to what we do, and we benefit when there’s a diversity of viewpoints. And of course we have to presume goodness in the other, and insist on candor and charity.
You just mentioned that women bring something specific to the table. But many times, when it’s a man who speaks about the female perspective, women get mad. What do we women bring to the table?
I hesitate to make this about women have certain characteristics and qualities and men have different ones. Frankly, I think we all have access to multiple characteristics. It’s more about diversity of perspectives and experiences.
Women should be able to talk about what they experience. It would be more authentic and precise than if men were to comment or represent women in this discussion. That’s why I think the pool from which women need to be drawn into leadership has to be expanded as well, to ensure diversity of viewpoints.
Let’s go back to the convocation. Some 80 percent of the dioceses are represented. Some 3,500 people are here, the big majority of whom are laity. What do you hope they’ll do when they go back to their dioceses?
One thing we haven’t yet spoken about is the moment in time in which this convocation is taking place. It’s a time of intense polarization in America, and frankly, country by country, we see this all over the globe. So it’s particularly important that this convocation is taking place now. With an intentionality of bringing people across the theological and political spectrum into one big tent. And it’s structured in a way that people with really different formation, emphasis and experience, come together to talk about what it means to be a person of faith who lives with authenticity and joy, and is persuasive to others.
What I’m hoping is that we all return to our ministries, apostolates, dioceses, and we continue that commitment of encountering and then accompanying someone very different from us, even in our own faith family.
Many people have a quasi-parochial read of the pope. They think, “Pope Francis is my pope,” because he’s into social justice. And others say “John Paul II is my pope because he was very pro-life and into the non-negotiable values.” What do we do to let the people know that the pope is the pope, leading the Church regardless of what he looks like and where he comes from?
It’s a great question. And I think we mythologize the office of the papacy. And we need to remember that they’re complex individuals, and they’re both intellectual and loving. So it’s more than just a snapshot or a categorization.
We do a disservice, I think, to anyone if we categorize them and keep them in one particular niche.
Tells us something about the Leadership Round Table, and what inspired you to create it?
It is now 12 years old, our birthday is July 11. It began as a grand experiment, and it was a realization that Catholics in this country have risen to levels of affluence and influence and count themselves in the highest levels of leadership in every sector and industry.
After the sexual abuse crisis was revealed in the front pages of the paper, many Catholics said, “how can I be part of the solution, how can I affect healing and reconciliation, how can I bring what I do best in service of the Church that I love, call it to greater levels of accountability, transparency, ethics, trust and holiness.” That is what inspired the leadership roundtable.
We don’t attend to sexual abuse, but we do work closely with bishops and provincials, pastors and executive directors to inculcate a culture of ethics, openness, transparency. We bring senior level executives with breath taking financial acumen and managerial expertise, to the service of Church leaders to help them solve vexing temporal challenges.
It’s been a great success, really full of grace. Everyone said to us in the beginning, “great mission, urgent mission, it will never happen.” And that’s my sweet spot frankly!
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Meg Ryan’s film based on William Saroyan novel featured at Sonoma festival
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In Meg Ryan’s directorial debut, she directed and starred in a film called Ithaca, based on Armenian American William Saroyan’s novel titled The Human Comedy. This year at the Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) in Northern California, Meg Ryan will be honored with a Sonoma Salute Award at a tribute event on Thursday, March 31. The event will begin with a screening of Ithaca at 3:30 PM.
Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan’s 1943 novel, Ithaca centers around the fictional town of Ithaca, California during World War II. It is a story about 14-year-old Homer Macauley, who is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister, and his 4-year-old brother. The Human Comedy is based on Saroyan’s personal life, growing up in Fresno with his siblings and his mother.
Ryan was inspired to film this movie when she read The Human Comedy while going through her divorce with Dennis Quaid, when her son Jack – who is also cast in the movie – was 8. “I kept thinking, ‘How do you become a man? I mean is he going to be all right?’ And I remember reading all kinds of things, and I got to this book, and it’s about so many things…there was so many great ideas inside of it,” she said in aninterview with Deadline.
The film Ithaca was initially released on October 23, 2015, starring Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard, and Jack Quaid. The Human Comedy had previously been made into a film in 1943 with actor Mickey Rooney. That year, Saroyan won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film.
Ithaca will be featured at SIFF, which kicks off on March 30 and runs through April 4. In the 19th year of SIFF, nearly 200 filmmakers from around the world are expected to attend. The film festival will feature more than 90 hand-selected films including independent features, documentaries, world cinema, and short films. The Festival is dedicated to promoting independent film, supporting filmmakers around the world and inspiring film lovers.
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Interview with Kelley Eidem �How I Cured Myself of Testicular Cancer�
Last updated date: 00:47:58 12-05-2016
Name: Kelley Eidem Length of Time with Disease: 2 weeks
Age Cured: 48 - Gender: male Length of Time in Remission: Approximately 18 years
Country Healed in: United States, Florida Primary Therapy Used in Healing: Habanero peppers
Disease: Testicular Cancer Healing Practitioner: Developed own cure based partially on teachings of Emanuel Revici (M.D.)
Areas Affected: Stage 4 - had lesions all over body Cure Scale : Has been in remission since completiton of therapy
The following interview is with Kelley Eidem. In 1996 Kelley published a book on the life and therapeutic breakthroughs of Emanuel Revici (M.D.). One day, two years later, Kelley discovered brown lesions on his thigh and calf. A few days after that, he discovered them all over his body. Having just written a book on Emanuel Revici and cancer he recognized it for what it was and did a self diagnosis using a home pregnancy test. Doctors later stated that they believed he had stage 4 testicular cancer. In this interview Kelley talks about what he did to rid himself of Cancer in two weeks.
John: Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today, Kelley.
Kelley Eidem: Sure, no problem.
John: You wrote a book in 1996 entitled "The Doctor Who Cures Cancer." Maybe you can start out by telling everyone a little bit about it. For instance the book was about Emanuel Revici…
Kelley: Yeah.
John: Who was he? And what did he do?
Kelley: He was born in Romania and he graduated first in his class in medical school. He had a patient come to him, a woman, who had advanced cancer and was pregnant. They opened her up to do surgery on her and realized that there was nothing they could do. They just closed her up. They didn't take the cancer out. [Clears throat]
He thought, at that point, that she was going to die of cancer. However, she showed up at his office, I think it was two years later, with her baby and was cancer free. And this dumbfounded him, because she hadn't had any treatment. So he began to think about what could have happened? Here she was pregnant and how did the surgery and her pregnancy affect her recovery?
That lead him to explore different things and, to make a long story short, he actually patented 100 different medications that he developed. He was the kind of man who slept about two or three hours a night and he worked seven days a week treating mostly cancer patients, but also other patients.
Due to a lab accident he ended up in an iron lung when he was about 42. He got out of the iron lung, which I believe was from the medications and he lived to be 101 years old.
John: Wow. So he developed these medicines.. And were these medicines accepted by mainstream?
Kelley: Not at all. Not at all. Well, they were accepted initially by many doctors that came from some of the leading cancer institutes around the United States. He was located in Mexico at that time. He had to flee. [Clears throat] I didn't mention, he had gone to France for the Pasteur Institute to do more research.
That was around the time of, you know, Hitler and the Nazis. He had to flee France and was able to go to Mexico but could not get into the United States initially. He was there for about five or six years and during that time the word got out to places like the McArdle Institute in Wisconsin which was, at the time, a top institute in UCLA and different places.
The doctors were amazed but then things turned on him. There was a dean from the University of Texas who decided to draft a letter that he had all these doctors sign. It was untrue, but they signed it anyway, and it was published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association."
That was the beginning of many, many different attacks on him, which resulted in other doctors not finding out about him. Or if they did find out about him they thought that what he was doing was ineffective.
John: What was your motivation for writing this book? I ask this because at this time in your life didn't you have cancer? Is that correct?
Kelley: That's correct. Yeah. I had graduated from college and decided when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer. I started writing for the college newspaper. Writing a column, and then after that I was actually published in the "Washington Post" and they paid me for it. A good amount for the amount of effort it took.
And I thought, "Well that could be a nice way to have some income. I could just keep writing, you know, columns for the Washington Post."
I was looking for something to write about, and I knew a lot about alternative medicine. At that time, President Clinton was attempting to get some kind of healthcare bill. I thought, "Well, how can we tie in natural care?" because I knew that would be the best results of all.
I made a bunch of phone calls, and found out that there was a congressman who had sponsored a bill, and I went to see and interview him in his office. He told me about a hearing that had taken place over on the senate side. I went and got the transcript from that, and saw that there was a father who was talking about his daughter, who had been treated by Dr. Revici, and it was an amazing story.
So I called him, this father, and talked to him for a couple hours. Then I contacted the clinic and they sent me some information in the mail about what Dr. Revici had done. I just looked at it, and I said, "Oh my goodness, this isn't an article. This is a book."
John: Wow.
Kelley: From that moment on it was just full speed ahead. Took about two years to write the book, to do the research, and to write it.
John: You said you knew a lot about alternative medicine. How did that come about?
Kelley: How did it come about?
John: Yeah.
Kelley: I actually had kidney disease when I was in my… since, from about the age of 20 to 25, off and on and I finally decided to do something about it. I found a doctor, who was a holistic doctor, and he got me on the right track. It reversed my kidney disease. Prior to that when I was urinating it would come out sometimes like the color of Coca‑Cola.
John: Ay, that's not good.
Kelley: Yeah. So, I was not good. I had read some books earlier, a couple books earlier, that led me to go to a holistic doctor.
John: OK.
Kelley: And that worked really well. So I got a niche to do since I was around the age of 25.
John: After you wrote this book in 1996 ‑‑ a couple years later, if my timeline's correct ‑‑ that's when you contracted cancer?
Kelley: Yeah. Let's see, it's either '97 or '98. Yeah.
Kelley: I wanted to take a shower and I noticed that I had this brown lesion, which was about the size of half a dollar on my thigh on the side. Within about two, three days, I had a dozen of them and they were all over. So I thought, "Hmm, Let me check this out. I might have cancer."
Because of what I knew ‑‑ having written the book and other things I had known ‑‑ I wasn't concerned in the least. Most people, when they find out that they have cancer, their life flashes in front of them. It wasn't like this for me at all.
I went and got a pregnancy test from the grocery store, or from the, you know, pharmacy...
John: Yep.
Kelley: I tested myself and, in fact, it came out positive. I learned later that if it comes up negative, it's not a real accurate test ‑‑ the one you buy in the grocery store -- because you have to have enough of a certain hormone being released to make it trigger positive. Well, I had enough, because it triggered positive.
So I took what I had learned from writing the book, and I took some other things I had learned previously. I modified it, and I just put it all together. It was a simple recipe. In four or five days all my lesions were gone.
After about two or three days, about three or four of the lesions started coming back. Before they were brown. Now they were, sort of just a ring on the outside and more reddish. So I just went back on it for another four, five days. Then I continued to take the oil for six months.
And within four, five days they all disappeared again. I just stayed on the oil because I figured, well, I need to balance my metabolism, which is one of the keys to getting rid of cancer. It's got me on balanced metabolism. And the oil helped me to do that.
It's been 12 years. I've never gotten one of those lesions again, at all.
John: You had the, the disease for about two weeks then?
Kelley: Yeah, if you add up the days, it comes out to about two weeks exactly. Now, in my case, because I didn't do chemo, or radiation or surgery, which interferes with the body's ability to recover, I recovered very quickly. I wasn't taking any other medications or drugs at that time. I still don't.
Kelley: I don't take drugs. I think that helped.
John: OK. Can you provide the, the recipe that you used?
Kelley: Well, I can. It varies depending on the metabolism. The basics are to freshly grate habanero peppers ‑‑ and that's not Jalapeño peppers, that's habanero peppers ‑‑ these extraordinarily hot peppers and to grate fresh garlic. And I put them on, what's called Ezekiel bread, which is a sprouted bread. I think there's also Essene bread but I used Ezekiel bread.
John: Ezekiel's a brand name, correct?
Kelley: Brand name, yeah. It's a sprouted bread. Then I smothered it with butter. I mean, I literally covered the peppers and, and the garlic. I just put it on about half a piece of bread, folded it over, and then I put the butter on and I smothered it 'cause I knew it was going to be really hot, and I ate it.
At the time that I did it, I actually had a tincture made up of habanero peppers. It's actually easier to do it that way, to make a tincture. I used a tincture with peppers and I used freshly grated garlic.
John: What is a tincture?
Kelley: A tincture is just basically taking your herbs, putting them in a blender, and then its done. What I did is however much peppers you have, that volume, one‑third of that volume I used water and then other third I used vodka.
This way you have two‑thirds of the blender filled up with liquid, and then you put the peppers in. You turn the blender on for a minute and you have a tincture. That's how easy it is...
Kelley: I have since learned that, if, with my metabolism it would have been better to put it in yogurt as opposed to the bread, but let me back up a little bit.
There are two metabolisms and we basically call one of them being too anabolic and the other one just called too catabolic. You don't really have to worry about the words too much. Those are two processes that we go through during the day except that people who have cancer are stuck pretty much on the one side or the other, and they may be totally stuck on one side or the other.
The idea is that if a person is too anabolic to get them balanced. Get them more catabolic and vice versa. If they're too catabolic, you want to bring a balance in them. That's where the oils come in. I used the emulsified cod liver oil.
All this is on the website where you can see it on, on the HubPage article. I used the emulsified cod liver oil cause I was too anabolic and I wanted to balance it back. That worked really great.
I always have the emulsified version because anybody who has cancer, their digestive system probably is suboptimal, so it's better to have the emulsified if we can get it. Had I been too catabolic, then I would have used either the evening primrose oil or borage oil in place of the cod liver oil.
John: How does somebody find out whether they are catabolic or not?
Kelley: If they have pain there is a simple assessment they can do. They can get some black coffee and cup of boiled eggs, boiled or poached only, and what they do is, to evaluate their pain before they eat it. They go, "OK, my pain is..." whatever on a scale of 1 to 10, give it a number, and then eat it and then see if your symptoms improve or get worse.
I think that's one of the key things about my recipe, about the work of Dr. Revici that really no one else is doing. People talk about being too...everybody is too acidic with cancer. That's not totally true. Some people are too alkaline.
And so it's important to balance either one because if you use the same treatment for two different people and one is too anabolic and the other is too catabolic, the treatment will help the one and hurt the other.
With my recipe and Dr. Revici's work, I find out that in fact you can tailor what you're doing based on your own metabolism, which is obviously going to increase your odds of getting 100 percent better.
John: So, how did you find this cure because, I know, it's not in your book?
Kelley: Yes. I took what I knew from Dr. Revici. One, I need to balance the metabolism. That's where the oils come in. The other part of it, I had watched a series of video tapes that included Dr. Richard Schulze and he, in one of the video tapes, talked about 10 power herbs.
He mentioned in passing that garlic was an anticancer fighter and that the habanero peppers are like what he called the lead wolf. It breaks up the congestion and cancer cells. The congestion is fibrin basically, which is a sticky and cancer cells have 15 times as much fibrin associated with them as do regular cells.
So the pepper gets in there and wipes out the congestion. It also has some anticancer properties of its own. Then the garlic, it has anticancer properties and so the combination is a one‑two punch that just lays it low.
John: On your HubPages, it states that you had stage IV cancer. Is, is that correct?
Kelley: Yes.
John: And before and you just told me that you, it was testicular cancer?
Kelley: Yes. I had told a couple doctors about what my symptoms were and using the pregnancy test, and both of them immediately said that it's a testicular cancer. So, I did have...I had pain, sharp pains in my testicles that showed up. It's funny they didn't show up initially, but when the lesions had come back it did show up.
I was sitting in a conference ironically at the NIH, National Institutes of Health. There was a conference going on. I was in the audience and I would get these flashes of pain like electrical pains almost or kind of like a kid getting hit in the balls...
Kelley: Normally when you get hit, you know, you double over and it takes a while to recover it. This pain passed almost instantly which was a relief, but they kept coming. Boom, boom, boom - probably a half dozen or a dozen times while I was sitting there in the audience.
When I described it to the doctors, they said that's what I had.
John: So how did you know it was stage IV?
Kelley: If you have lesions on your body that are below and above the diaphragm, that's automatically considered to be stage IV cancer. I had a dozen lesions that went from my calves and all of them were good‑sized lesions and they were on my calves, on my thighs, on my butt, on my back, on both legs, on my upper back. They were all over.
John: Why didn't you go to the doctor?
Kelley: Well, I didn't have any insurance and I knew they couldn't do anything for me anyway. I also knew that doing a biopsy can help to spread cancer. Since mine showed up so fast, with these lesions popping up almost like popcorn, I thought, "The last thing I want is to have a needle stuck in these things, and turn them on even faster."
John: What was happening in your life at this time, when you woke up and you went in the shower? Was it a stressful period of time?
Kelley: Um. Hmm...
John: Do you have any theories about why you might've gotten cancer?
Kelley: I had been gaining weight and I wasn't eating right. I was eating a lot of ice cream. So it's possible that that's it...I don't know what caused it, but that's a possibility.
John: OK. I know on your Hub webpages, you're asking people to send in their stories (of healing) to you.
John: Have you got a lot of responses from that?
Kelley: Yeah. There's about 3,000 comments on that one article and you can see those there. I even created a second HubPage and I said, "Well, here's some of them. Here's, here's some of the, the fantastic results." Like there was one lady who had only wrote in one time. She said, she'd used my recipe and in two weeks, the, how did she put it... the stabbing, knife‑piercing pain and the lump went away.
Another fella had a 10‑inch tumor in his colon, and he'd been trying all kinds of things for several months, but he was having daily flatulence and bleeding and pain. Nothing that he tried had seemed to make a dent. Then when he started on my recipe, within the first day, his flatulence and his bleeding and his pain all went away. And then, ultimately, his tumor went away as well.
John: OK. Great. But not everybody who's tried your recipe has been successful or have they?
Kelley: No, of course not! Of course not! You know, I can't say why that is because I'm not there with the people. I don't know what their lifestyle is. I don't make a lot of dietary suggestions, only because I'm afraid it'll create too much of a thicket of confusion, because everybody has a different opinion about a diet. I don't want that to interfere with "OK, this recipe works."
I don't feel comfortable trying to direct their lives as to what they're going to do, because a lot of times the people think, "Oh, I've got to give this up, I've got to give that up". They're already under so much stress and so much fear, that to throw another thing on top of them is going to scare them off.
People who started on it, they've already had chemo and radiation and, at this point, nothing is working. Their relative gets online and starts looking to see how they can help them. So the person's already got cancer all over the place, their body's been damaged by the chemo and the radiation and the surgery.
They have scar tissue and scar tissue can block the very best treatment that you have. You have to get rid of that scar tissue in one-way or another. I've told them that if I had what they had, I would use Zymessence or some other proteolytic enzyme, which will help to soften those scar tissues. The recipe can have a better shot at helping them this way.
John: Yeah. So your recipe works better if somebody is taking it fresh without doing any chemo or radiation or having a biopsy. Right?
Kelley: Right. Right, and there's also another fact that people, even if it isn't chemo, a lot of times people are on several drugs. OK?
And typically the doctors will prescribe antidepressants, almost as a matter of course, when someone gets cancer. All those antidepressants cause their digestive system to become sluggish. So they're absorbing less. Their ability to absorb things has been decreased.
Just that one drug might have a negative effect. Plus, if they're taking other medications, who knows what kind of effect that those medications are having on them.
I personally, if I could, would want to get off all my drugs. Now, some drugs you don't want to get off immediately, but, if you want to live, there's, there's a nerve for everything, just about. So that's the approach that I would take to ensure that you get 100 percent better.
John: OK. So, with that, I just have my last question. Do you have any words of wisdom or thoughts on healing that might help others?
Kelley: [laughs]
John: I know you've provided a lot so far.
Kelley: I guess, this is going to be shocking to people but cancer is easy to cure. If you recall scurvy, well we've cured scurvy. You eat an orange, and, and you're well. [clears throat] You get well by eating oranges.
If scurvy had not been cured to this day, and modern medicine was trying to cure it, I would be pretty sure that what they would do is give people all kinds of chemotherapy to stop the processes of the injury that's being caused by the scurvy. And scurvy would be more of a scourge than it was. People would be dying from scurvy.
Fortunately, before modern medicine came about, the cure was found for scurvy. But if we were treating it today it would be hard to cure it. We don't think of scurvy as hard to cure. We think it's very easy to cure.
Cancer is the same way. There are so many things that can cure cancer, and, mine is just real cheap and fast. If we allow the body to heal itself, it will. It's not so hard.
John: So there are other things that also work, to cure cancer?
Kelley: Oh, lots of things. Lots of things. Sure. There are probably 50 different things. I couldn't list them all but yeah, there is. People have been cured by many, many different things.
See, what people don't realize, that doctors don't realize even, is that cancer cells are in our body all the time. What they're for is if we cut ourselves they are actually involved in the healing of a cut. OK?
Kelley: They turn off immediately when we heal. They're designed to turn off very rapidly. It's not surprising that you can get well in a hurry, depending on how dedicated you are to it.
I mean if you're going, [laughs], to eat a half a gallon of ice cream each day and take the peppers, it's going to take longer. [laughs] You know. [laughs] So...Yeah. That's, I guess, I don't know if those are words of wisdom, but that's what came to mind.
John: That's great. Just on that - back to where you were saying about when you were taking your sandwich of ha‑, ha‑, habarino peppers?
Kelley: Habanero.
John: Habanero peppers. What else were you eating? Were you just eating those?
Kelley: No, I guess I don't remember. I didn't change my diet a great deal. I'm trying to rememb‑, I...
John: So, it was not just those...
Kelley: ...may have quit eating ice cream. I'm sure I quit eating ice cream.
Kelley: 'Cause I was, I was really addicted to it. I was eating a lot of ice cream. So I'm sure that I stopped doing that.
I'm not a vegetarian by any means. I think some people need to eat meat, particularly type O blood types. I'm a type O. Type A's, probably it's good to be a vegetarian or close to it. But for me, no, I didn't give up eating meat or anything like that.
Kelley: Fresh vegetables are always good. We know that's healthy. I think everybody would agree that fresh vegetable greens are healthy...
Kelley: They're really good for you.
John: I was just wondering whether or not you had eaten anything else when you were having those habanero sandwiches.
Kelley: Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was just what I ate for breakfast I guess you could say.
John: OK. So how many times would you eat it a day?
Kelley: I'm sorry?
John: How many times would you eat that a day, then?
Kelley: I just ate it once a day. I think I took the oil some days, twice a day. Some people have done the recipe twice a day, and it seems to work for them.
If I had really advanced cancer possibly a big tumor, that sort of thing, I would not do it necessarily twice a day because I wouldn't want too much of the cancer to pass through the bloodstream and into my kidneys, because, [clears throat] the dead tissue might be hard on the kidneys to do that.
By the way, I should mention that when people do my recipe, if they have blood work done to measure for cancer markers, their cancer markers would go up. The reason for that is the cancer needs to get out somehow, and the markers that they measure for, are passing through the bloodstream.
For me, if my markers are up and I'm feeling really good, then I know it's working. If my markers are up and I'm feeling worse, then it's like, "No, maybe I'm using the wrong oil or something. It's not working."
People get scared off. The doctors, that's what they're trained to think, "Oh, the numbers are up. You're dying." Well, actually, the numbers being up is a very good thing.
John: OK. Great. Well, thank you very much, Kelley, for joining me today.
Kelley: Oh, you're quite welcome.
John: That’s really helpful.
Kelley: OK. Have a nice day.
John: Great, thank you very much.
Kelley: OK. Have a nice day. You take care.
John: Bye, Kelley.
In 1996 Kelley researched and wrote a book entitled “The Doctor Who Cures Cancer” based on the life and work of Dr. Emanuel Revici. A lot of what he learned in writing this book was used in creating his own cure. The book has received many positive reviews on Amazon.com.
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The following is a link to Kelley’s Hub pages where he tells his story and provides the recipe to habanero pepper sandwich which he used to cure himself.
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-I-Cured-Stage-4-Cancer-in-Two-Weeks-For-Less-Than-The-Cost-Of-A-Night-At-The-Movies
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Let The Sun Shine In: WaPo and the Magistrates' Revolt
By Jennifer Granick on April 25, 2014 at 9:52 am
Over at Just Security, I have a new piece on the Washington Post's interesting story about the increasingly aggressive role some federal magistrate judges are playing in policing criminal investigations involving digital media.
Fourth Circuit Upholds Contempt Against Lavabit, Doesn’t Decide Gov’t Access to Encryption Keys
By Jennifer Granick on April 16, 2014 at 11:01 am
Today the Fourth Circuit refrained from deciding the first legal challenge to government seizure of the master encryption keys that secure our communications with web sites and email servers. Nevertheless, the Court upheld contempt of court sanctions, because of the Lavabit owner’s foot dragging during proceedings. Lavabit had failed to raise the substantive issues below, it decided, thus precluding appellate review.
My Comments On NSA Spying to PCLOB
By Jennifer Granick on April 10, 2014 at 3:51 pm
Today I filed comments with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in connection with its hearing on section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. That law is the legal basis for the PRISM surveillance program and involves warrantless collection of communications contents via targeting non-U.S. individuals or entities reasonably believed to be located abroad. I've written previously about questions the PCLOB should investigate with regards to section 702.
Big Privacy Win in the EU
By Jennifer Granick on April 8, 2014 at 9:17 am
Today, the European Court of Justice struck down the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive. That policy required member states to force communications companies to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months.
Huawei Hacking is a Security Scandal
Last week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. is spying on router company Huawei to get information about the Chinese government and to learn how to surveil our allies and other countries that might purchase Huawei routers. On Just Security, I refute the argument of some that it is not “in the public interest to reveal how democracies spy on dictatorships”.
Policy, Law, and Technology in the Current Crypto Wars (Past Event)
Paul Brest Hall - Stanford University
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Stanford Cryptography Policy Project, we are holding an afternoon event highlighting our research and accomplishments over the past year. As our keynote speakers, it is our pleasure to welcome the Honorable Stephen W. Smith, Magistrate Judge of the Southern District of Texas, and Paul S. Grewal, former Magistrate Judge of the Northern District of California.
When the Cops Come A-Knocking: Handling Technical Assistance Demands from Law Enforcement (Past Event)
BlackHat 2016
Companies, Consumers & The State: Defining Private Industry's Obligation to Protect Privacy (Past Event)
Event is free and open to the public.
RSVP is required.
Salil Shetty, Secretary General, Amnesty International
Moderated by Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties, Center for Internet and Society
New Alliances in Cybersecurity, Human Rights and Internet Governance (Past Event)
On Wednesday, February 17, The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford, The Center for International Governance Innovation, and the Research Advisory Network of the Global Commission on Internet Governance will present an all-day conference entitled "New Alliances in Cybersecurity, Human Rights and Internet Governance." The conference will discuss the challenges of creating a regime of internet governance that pays attention to security and human rights in the digital context.
The Frontiers of Cybersecurity Policy and Law (Past Event)
University of Texas School of Law
Over the course of two days in February 2016, the Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin will host a unique and timely conference focused on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity.
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The Office of Tenebrae
5:30 pm High Altar
This service anticipates the monastic offices for the last three days of Holy Week. Tenebrae means "shadows" and refers to the gradual extinguishing of candles and lights as the service proceeds, until only one candle remains.
As the people enter the church before the service begins, they see in the chancel seven candles glowing brightly. The altar candles, too, are lit, though the candles are made of non-bleached beeswax, just as we use at funerals.
Psalm: 69:1-22
Psalm: 70
Lessons 1,2,&3: Lamentations of Jeremiah 1:1-14, Plainsong
Psalm: 63:1-9
The Song of Moses: Exodus 15:1-18
Psalm: 150
Canticle: Benedictus Dominus Deus, Plainsong
Motet: Christus factus est, Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Psalm 51: Miserere mei, Deus, Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
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The ministers enter in silence and proceed to their places. Three acolytes, who at almost all other services would be carrying a cross and two torches, walk ahead of the ministers, empty-handed.
The choir and cantors then progress through a series of antiphons and Psalms. At the end of Psalm 69, the first candle is extinguished. At the end of Psalm 70, the second. At the end of the Psalm 74, the third. As each candle is snuffed out, the lights high above the congregation are dimmed a bit more.
Then comes a period where the lights remain as they are: the Lord's Prayer is said, and a series of three lessons and three responsories are sung.
This is followed by the Lauds, another series of antiphons and Psalms during which three more candles are extinguished (after Psalm 63, after the Song of Moses, and after Psalm 150). Now, the nave of the church is very near dark, as the lights have been dimmed even further.
Near the end of the canticle, acolytes emerge to extinguish the altar candles, leaving only the seventh candle lit.
During the repetition of the antiphon after the canticle, the Verger climbs a ladder, removes the candle, and as the choir sings the motet, he takes it toward the High Altar, through the Sanctuary gate, and then hides it in a small room hidden behind the door to the north side of the High Altar.
The congregation says the Lord's Prayer and the choir sings the Miserere.
The Officiant says a prayer and adds (whispering to himself under his breath): "...who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
A loud sound fills the church. Christ is dead. The organ is outraged; the choristers beat their books against their stalls.
Then, in complete silence, the candle emerges from its hiding place. It is returned to its place high above the chancel. By its light all leave in silence.
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Sacramento Bee: California Labor Commissioner Reaches $339,716 Settlement for Unpaid Wages at San Francisco Restaurants, includes Penalty if Retaliation Occurs
SAN FRANCISCO – California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su has reached a $339,716 settlement involving unpaid overtime and minimum wages for employees at Xue’s Restaurant, Inc. and Liu’s Restaurant, Inc. dba Tsing Tao Restaurant in San Francisco.
This settlement follows the issuance of citations in June and August for unpaid minimum wage, overtime and failure to provide itemized payroll statements including deductions for 28 workers at Tsing Tao’s Clement Street and Fillmore Street locations.
The Department of Industrial Relations’ (DIR) Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, also known as the Labor Commissioner’s Office, helped the parties reach a settlement. The Labor Commissioner’s office began its investigation of the restaurants last June after receiving a referral from San Francisco’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement.
“California workers deserve to be paid everything they are owed for their work,” said DIR Director Christine Baker. “Employers who deny their workers the pay they are rightfully owed will be held accountable to remedy the issue and restore wages due.”
The settlement stipulates that the employer pay each of the 28 workers their amount of wages owed as well as penalties assessed for the violations, a total of $260,066. Workers will each receive between $2,000 and $36,547.
“This settlement sends a strong message to employers who fail to pay their workers everything they are owed,” said Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su. “State law sets a wage floor under which no one should be forced to work and prohibits employers from playing fast and loose with workers’ paychecks to avoid paying them properly.”
The settlement also signals the employer’s acknowledgment of their legal obligations going forward. Tsing Tao has agreed to maintain accurate records on a daily basis of hours worked and to provide employees with accurate wage statements as required by law.
A further clause of the settlement stipulates a $50,000 penalty in liquidated damages if any of the employees suffers unlawful retaliation by the employer as a result of their cooperation with the Labor Commissioner’s investigation.
“This case came to us as a referral from the City and County of San Francisco’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, and is a testament to the benefit of collaboration between government agencies,” added Su. “Their office was instrumental in gathering information from the Tsing Tao workers.”
This settlement brings the total amount of settlement payments obtained for workers in the San Francisco restaurant industry to over $900,000 through the Labor Commissioner’s cooperative partnership with San Francisco’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement and with assistance from community groups including the Asian Law Caucus and Chinese Progressive Association.
“Such community-based organizations are an invaluable resource, especially in immigrant communities,” added Labor Commissioner Su.
Over $400,000 in wages were also collected this year as a result of wage claims filed by 112 restaurant workers in the Labor Commissioner’s San Francisco District office, which services the city of San Francisco as well as adjacent cities including Daly City, Pacifica and San Bruno.
California law requires that an employer must pay overtime to any employee who works more than 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week. When an employee works more than 8 hours in a day, or beyond 6 consecutive days, he or she is entitled to one-and-a-half times their regular rate of pay. An employee is due double their amount of regular pay when he or she works beyond 8 hours on the 7th consecutive working day, or if he or she works beyond 12 hours in one workday.
The California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Labor Standards Enforcement adjudicates wage claims, investigates discrimination and public works complaints and enforces state labor law. Additional information on labor laws such as overtime and other work-related topics are available on our Web site, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.
Employees with work-related questions or complaints may call the California Workers’ Information Hotline at (866) 924-9757 for recorded information on a variety of work related topics.
Internet: www.dir.ca.gov Twitter: @CA_DIR Facebook.com/CaliforniaDIR
CONTACT: Erika Monterroza Peter Melton (510) 286-1161
SOURCE California Department of Industrial Relations
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ONE OF THE WORLDS MOST EVIL AND DANGEROUS SATANIC SERIAL KILLERS …RICHARD RAMIREZ – “THE NIGHT STALKER”… HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL
Posted on June 13, 2012 by CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION
FROM THE “HANDS OF DEATH” …. ORIGINAL DISTURBING ARTWORK DRAWN AND SIGNED BY THE SATANIC NIGHT STALKER – RICHARD RAMIREZ HERE ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL.
ABOVE : Original painting by Gloucestershire Artist – Paul Bridgman of infamous serial killer Richard Ramirez – The Night Stalker – here on display in and amongst the Satanic Serial Killers and Cults Exhibition.
ABOVE AND BELOW : One of an array of original hand painted satanic rams head adorned with satanic and witchcraft symbols on display here at Littledean Jail .
Richard Ramirez Dies: ‘Night Stalker’ died of natural causes In San Quentin Before Execution Date
Richard Ramirez, a convicted serial killer who had been awaiting execution on California’s death row, died of natural causes in San Quentin State Prison on Friday morning. He was 53 years old.
Ramirez, who was dubbed the “Night Stalker,” was convicted for 13 murders that left much of Southern California in fear in 1984 and 1985.
Satanic symbols were often left at the homes that he entered at night through unlocked doors and windows — a tactic that gave him his nickname.
The Night Stalker: Satanic Serial Killer ………. Richard Ramirez
True crime and much more here at Littledean Jail….. including various insights, artwork, handwritten correspondence etc etc from some of the worlds most evil men and women .
Below is an interactive video background into Richard Ramirez and also a gallery of images of various items sent to Andy Jones owner and curator of The Crime Through Time Collection here at Littledean Jail . some of which having been sent to the museums former home in Newent.
2007 mugshot of Ramirez
Ricardo Muñoz Ramirez
The Night Stalker
The Walk-In Killer
The Valley Intruder
June 7, 2013 (aged 53)
Greenbrae, California
Liver failure
13 counts of murder
5 counts of attempted murder
11 counts of sexual assault
14 counts of burglary
Ricardo “Richard” Muñoz Ramirez (born February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California‘s death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the “Night Stalker” by the news media.
Julian and Mercedes Ramirez had five children, the fifth being Richard Ramirez. The mother was a Catholic and his father was a former policeman who later became a laborer on the Santa Fe railroad. Richard’s father was also abusive and believed in corporal punishment.Early life
Ramirez may have been influenced into killing by his cousin, Mike, a Special Forces Vietnam War veteran who boasted of killing and torturing his Vietnamese enemies and showed him Polaroid pictures of his victims. These included pictures of the severed heads of Vietnamese women, who in other pictures had been shown fellating Mike.Ramirez was present the night Mike shot and killed his wife, and her blood splattered on Ramirez’s face. Ramirez was 13 years old at the time.
“Night-stalker” crimes
On March 17, 1985, Ramirez attacked 22-year old Angela Barrios outside her home. He shot her before entering her house. Inside was Dayle Okazaki, age 34, whom Ramirez immediately shot and killed. Barrios survived. The bullet had ricocheted off the keys she held in her hands, as she lifted them to protect herself. Within an hour of killing Okazaki, Ramirez struck again in Monterey Park. He jumped 30-year-old Tsai-Lian Yu and pulled her out of her car onto the road. He shot her several times and fled. A policeman found her still breathing, but she died before the ambulance arrived. The two attacks occurring on the same day bolstered media attention, and in turn caused panic and fear among the public. The news media dubbed the attacker, who was described as having long curly hair, bulging eyes and wide-spaced rotting teeth, “The Walk-in Killer” and “The Valley Intruder”.
On March 27, Ramirez shot Vincent Zazzara, age 64, and his wife Maxine, age 44. Mrs. Zazzara’s body was mutilated with several stab wounds and a T-carving on her left breast, and her eyes were gouged out. The autopsy determined that the mutilations were post-mortem. Ramirez left footprints in the flower beds, which the police photographed and cast. This was virtually the only evidence that the police had at the time. Bullets found at the scene were matched to those found at previous attacks, and the police realized a serial killer was on the loose. Vincent and Maxine’s bodies were discovered in their Whittier home by their son, Peter.
By this time, a multi-county police investigation was in operation. The law enforcement agencies worked through the month of April with no additional attacks by Ramirez. Two months after killing the Zazarra couple, Ramirez attacked a Chinese couple: Harold Wu, age 66, who was shot in the head, and his wife, Jean Wu, age 63, who was punched, bound, and then violently raped. For unknown reasons, Ramirez decided to let her live. Ramirez’s attacks were now in full throttle. He left behind more clues to his identity, and was named ‘The Night Stalker’ by the media. Survivors of his attacks provided the police with a description of a tall Hispanic man with long dark hair.
On May 29, 1985, Ramirez attacked Malvial Keller, 83, and her disabled sister, Blanche Wolfe, 80, beating each with a hammer. Ramirez attempted to rape Keller, but failed. Using lipstick, he drew pentagrams on Keller’s thigh and on the wall in the bedroom. Blanche survived the attack. The next day, Ruth Wilson, 41, was bound, raped, and sodomized by Ramirez, while her 12-year old son was locked in a closet. Ramirez slashed Wilson once, and then bound her and her son together, and left.
In June and July, three more women were killed. Two had their throats slit, one was beaten to death, and all three had their homes invaded. On July 5 Whitney Bennett, age 16 of La Cañada, survived being beaten with a tire iron. On July 7 Linda Fortuna, 63, was attacked and Ramirez tried to rape her, but failed. On July 20 he again struck twice. In Sun Valley he shot and killed a 32-year-old man, Chitat Assawahem, and his wife Sakima, 29, was beaten and forced to perform oral intercourse. Ramirez then collected valuables and proceeded to leave. Later in the same day aGlendale couple, Maxson Kneiding, 66, and his wife Lela, also 66, were shot and their corpses mutilated.
On August 6 Ramirez shot both Christopher Petersen, 38, and his wife, Virginia, 27, in the head. Miraculously, they both survived. On August 8 Ramirez attacked a Diamond Bar couple, fatally shooting Ahmed Zia, 35, before raping, sodomizing, and forcing Zia’s wife, Suu Kyi, 28, to perform fellatio on him. The description of their attacker fit the previous ones given for “The Walk-in Killer”.
Ramirez then left the Los Angeles area, and on August 17, he shot to death a 66-year-old man in San Francisco, also shooting and beating his wife. The wife survived her wounds and was able to identify her attacker as “The Walk-in Killer” from police sketches. Since “The Walk-in Killer” no longer fit the modus operandi of the attacker, the news media re-dubbed him the “Night Stalker”.
The next big break in the case came on August 24, 1985, Ramirez traveled 50 miles south of Los Angeles to Mission Viejo, and broke into the Mediterranean Village apartment of Bill Carns, 29, and his fiancée, Inez Erickson, 27. Ramirez shot Carns in the head and raped Erickson. He demanded she swear her love forSatan and afterwards, forced her to perform oral intercourse on him. He then tied her and left. Erickson struggled to the window and saw the car Ramirez was driving. She was able to give a description of both Ramirez and his orange Toyota station wagon. A teenager later identified the car from news reports and wrote down half its license plate number. The stolen car was found on August 28, and police were able to obtain one fingerprint that was on the mirror of the vehicle. The prints belonged to one Richard Muñoz Ramirez, who was described as a 25-year-old drifter from Texas with a long rap sheet that included many arrests for traffic and illegal drug violations.
Two days later, his mugshots were broadcast on national television and printed on the cover of every major newspaper in California.The next day Ramirez was identified, surrounded, and severely beaten by an angry mob in East Los Angeles as he was trying to steal a car. Police had to break up the mob to prevent them from killing Ramirez.
Trial and conviction
Jury selection for the case started on July 22, 1988, and on September 20, 1989, he was found guilty of 13 counts of murder, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglarie During the penalty phase of the trial on November 7, 1989, he was sentenced to die in California’s gas chamber. The trial of Richard Ramirez was one of the most difficult and longest criminal trials in American history, taking over four years to finalize. Nearly 1,600 prospective jurors were interviewed. More than one hundred witnesses testified, and while a number of witnesses had a difficult time recalling certain facts four years after the crimes, others were quite certain of the identity of Richard Ramirez.
On August 3, 1988 the Los Angeles Times reported that some jail employees overheard Ramirez planning to shoot the prosecutor with a gun, which Ramirez intended to have smuggled into the courtroom. Consequently, a metal detector was installed outside of the courtroom and intensive searches were conducted on people entering. On August 14, the trial was interrupted because one of the jurors, Phyllis Singletary, did not arrive to the courtroom. Later that day she was found shot to death in her apartment. The jury was terrified; they could not help wondering if Ramirez had somehow directed this event from inside his prison cell, and if he could reach other jury members. However, Ramirez was not responsible for Singletary’s death; she had been shot and killed by her boyfriend, who later killed himself with the same weapon in a hotel. The alternate juror who replaced Singletary was too frightened to return to her home.
By the time of the trial, Ramirez had fans who were writing him letters and paying him visits Since 1985, freelance magazine editor Doreen Lioy wrote him nearly 75 letters during his incarceration.In 1988 he proposed to her, and on October 3, 1996, they were married in California’s San Quentin State Prison.Lioy has stated that she will commit suicide when Ramirez is executed.
On August 7, 2006 his first round of state appeals ended unsuccessfully when the California Supreme Court upheld his convictions and death sentence On September 7, 2006, the California Supreme Court denied his request for a rehearing.
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China-Europe Relations
Europe and China were perhaps the most important "third actors" in the Cold War system. As territorial entities and political and economic actors located at the crossroads of the mutual spheres of action of the two superpowers, they played a key role in the evolution and reshaping of the bipolar system. This comprehensive collection charts China's relations with Europe, and as it moved from East to West throughout the course of the Cold War. For collections focused on China's relations with Eastern and Western Europe, see, respectively, China-Eastern Europe Relations and China-Western Europe Relations.
Report by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on China's Policy toward Western Europe and Opposition against the CSCE
This document contains information prepared by the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) on China's European policy and Chinese opposition to the convocation of a Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). It states that China's overall goals are diametrically opposed to those of the European Socialist countries and their Communist parties, with Beijing identifying the Soviet Union as its primary enemy. In this light, the Soviet leadership maintains that actively confronting China in ideological and political terms remains one of the most important tasks of the Warsaw Pact countries.
Preparatory Materials for East German Protest Against the Intended Establishment of a Chinese Trade Representation in West Berlin
These documents are related to East Germany's protest against the intended establishment of a Chinese trade representation in West Berlin. The East German Ministry of Foreign Affairs stresses that West Berlin cannot be regarded as part of West Germany. Therefore, by initiating diplomatic relations with West Berlin without considering the existence of the internationally acknowledged Four Power Agreement on Berlin between the US, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, China is deliberately acting against the interests of East Germany.
Letter from the Deputy Minister of the GDR Council of Ministers to Comrade Hermann Axen
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR asks the PRC to comply with the status of West Berlin as part of the GDR.
Memorandum of Conversation Between the Head of the China Desk in the East German Foreign Ministry and the First Secretary of the Chinese Embassy, Tji Hai-yuan
This is a memorandum on a conversation reflecting the differences of opinion between the head of the China Desk in the East German Foreign Ministry and the First Secretary of the Chinese Embassy Tji Hai-yuan with regard to the intended establishment of a Chinese trade representation in West Berlin. East Berlin is clearly concerned such a step might favor West Germany's alleged goal of winning sovereignty over West Berlin, in violation of the Four Power Agreement. Tji states that he does not understand the East German position, and that the activities of Chinese diplomats in West Berlin are in accordance with international law. He rejects the notion that these relations might conceivably harm the interests of East Germany.
Meeting of Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Zhou Enlai at the State Guest House (Diaoyutai)
Zhou Enlai offers Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau an extensive history of the Chinese Civil War and Chinese Revolution. Zhou also comments on China's foreign policy positions toward and views on the Soviet Union, nuclear war, Bangladesh, revisionism, and great power hegemony, among other topics.
Cable from Ambassador Pauls to the Foreign Office
A cable from Ambassador Pauls about a meeting between Prime Minister Zhou Enlai and Federal Minister Genscher about Soviet expansionism and Europe’s defensive readiness.
Memorandum of Conversation Between the First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in East Berlin and the Head of the West Berlin Press Office on China's Intention to Establish a Trade Representation and Consulate in West Berlin
This is a memorandum of a conversation between the first secretary of the Soviet embassy in East Berlin, Rodin, and the director of the West Berlin Press Office, Günter Struve, with regard to China's intention to establish a trade representation in West Berlin. Apart from stressing that by initiating diplomatic relations with West Berlin, China is not implicitly acknowledging the existing international agreements, Rodin makes clear that East Germany will not rescind the rules on obligatory currency exchange for citizens of Western states.
Memorandum of Conversation Between the Head of the Far Eastern Department in the East German Foreign Ministry Liebermann and Chinese Ambassador Peng Guang-wei on China's Intention to Establish Diplomatic Presence in West Berlin
This memorandum of conversation between the Head of the Far East Department in the East German Foreign Ministry Liebermann and Chinese Ambassador Peng Guang-Wei refers to China's intention to establish diplomatic relations with West Berlin. The East German side stresses the fact that countries such as Hungary and Bulgaria also established diplomatic relations with West Berlin taking into considerations the conditions posed by the international law and that China should do the same.
East German Report on Seventh Interkit Meeting in Budapest, March 1974
This report, issued after the seventh Interkit meeting in Budapest, addresses unsolved socio-economic problems and internal party disputes in China. The new military strategy of the People's Republic as well as its economic development are examined. Beijing's foreign relations with Western countries, especially with the US, are considered to be detrimental to international détente. The attendees condemn China for stockpiling nuclear weapons and missiles in preparation for a military confrontation with the Soviet Union, for extending its influence in developing countries, for strengthening the position of NATO, for interfering with the domestic policies of Vietnam, and for supporting the military junta in Chile.
Cable from Ambassador Pauls to the Foreign Office, 'China – Federal Republic'
West German Ambasador to China, Rolf Pauls, summarizes the current status of relations between China and West Germany and recommends increasing political contacts and political relations.
Urgent Note Regarding “the Visit” of K. Mijal in Beijing
Deputy Foreign Minister Czapla describes the treatment of a leader of a Polish opposition party in Beijing
Itinerary of Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's Visit to France from 12 to 17 May 1975
Itinerary for the visit of Deng Xiaoping, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, to France. Deng's visit includes meetings with Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and Foreign Minister Jean Sauvagnargues, as well as visits to a farm outside Paris and the Phenix nuclear reactor in Marcoule.
Record of Conversation between French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and Vice Premier of the People's Republic Deng Xiaoping
French Prime Minister Chirac and Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping discuss economic relations and technology exchange between China and France. They also discuss the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and issues of collective security in asia.
Record of Conversation between French President Giscard d'Estaing and Vice Premier of the People's Republic Deng Xiaoping: First Meeting
French President Giscard and Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping discuss the current international situation, including the balance of power between the Soviet Union and the United States and issues of European unity and security. They also discuss the current situation in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos following the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War.
Record of Conversation between French President Giscard d'Estaing and Vice Premier of the People's Republic Deng Xiaoping: Second Meeting
French President Giscard and Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping discuss economic issues, including development funding and international aid for Third World countries, as well as the recent oil crisis.
Telegram, French Ambassador to China Claude Arnaud to French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, No. 998/1000, 'Follow-up to the Visit of M. Deng Xiaoping to France'
French Ambassador Claude Arnaud reports that Princess Ashraf Pavlavi, sister of the Shah of Iran, met with Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping in Beijing. Deng had recently returned from a trip to France and he "advised the princess to make sure that Iran will tighten and deepen its links to France."
East German Report on the Eight Interkit Meeting in Ulaanbaatar, June 1975
This report, issued after the eighth Interkit meeting in Ulaanbaatar, addresses the domestic and foreign policies of China and the anti-Maoist propaganda measures to be undertaken by Socialist countries. There are no great expectations for a collapse of Maoism, even though the Chinese economy is developing slowly. China is acquiring nuclear weapons and missiles in preparation for an armed conflict. Beijing's foreign relations with Western countries are considered to be detrimental to international détente and directed against the interests of the Soviet Union and the Socialist countries.
Cable from Ambassador Pauls to the Foreign Office, 'German-Chinese Relations'
A cable from Ambassador Pauls about a conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Qiao Guanhua about developments in Europe and the Chinese assessment of the global situation after the end of the Vietnam War.
Note regarding the Meeting between Ilie Verdeț and Ji Denggui
Ji Denggui and Ilie Verdeț discuss bilateral relations between China and Romania, nuclear proliferation and diarmament, Soviet-American relations, Comecon, European security, US policy toward Taiwan, Japan-Soviet relations, and economic development in China and Romania, among other topics.
Letter to the GDR Council of Ministers, 'Information about Recent Issues of PRC Domestic and Foreign Policy – Directives for the Code of Conduct of GDR Representatives towards the Representatives of the PR China'
In the midst of China's apparent "struggle against Maoism," East German diplomats review Chinese foreign and domestic policies and the state of bilateral relations.
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Home > Honors > Honors Theses > 22
The Ties That Bind: Candidate Appearance and Party Heuristics
Brandon D. Reilly, Coastal Carolina University
Spring 5-15-2014
Studies on voting behavior have implications for academia and for real world applications. One of the main topics covered in studies of voting behavior is the use of heuristics to make voting decisions. A heuristic is a mental shortcut used to make a decision, and often times does not account for any careful consideration. According to the literature, an individual's party identification is the most commonly used heuristic in voting behavior. A voter will align with a political party based on preferences in policy (or perceived preferences) and vote for any candidate who bears the party's designation. There is also a growing field of literature on another heuristic in voting behavior, that of candidate appearance. By examining the physical appearance of a candidate a voter will make judgments based on specific cues, and decide whether or not to vote for a candidate. This study attempts to establish a link between the two heuristics; can candidate appearance active the party identification heuristic in voters? To study this, a candidate was created that had no clear partisan alignment, but was given partisan appearance cues through the manipulation of his tie color. Respondents were asked to evaluate the candidate based on his image and a brief biography and were asked if they would vote for the candidate in the election. Upon examining the results only two variables were significant in predicting vote choice. The respondent's knowledge score was negatively associated with voting for the candidate, as knowledge score increased the likelihood of a vote decreased holding all other variables constant. Tie color was statistically significant for the respondents in the Independent political party group of respondents, as they were more likely to vote for the candidate for the green tie if they were an Independent. This study establishes some precedent for links between the two heuristics and paves a pathway to further studies based on other experimental manipulations to convey partisanship in appearance.
Reilly, Brandon D., "The Ties That Bind: Candidate Appearance and Party Heuristics" (2014). Honors Theses. 22.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/honors-theses/22
Economics Commons, Political Science Commons
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Physics Honors students take fifth in nationwide Physics Bowl
Karen Feng
Physics teacher Jim Birdsong reviews concepts covered during the in-class lecture with Physics Bowl winner Marvin Qi. Most of the Physics Bowl winners cited Birdsong as the source of most of their knowledge. Photo by Karen Feng.
2012 has been a successful year for physics teacher Jim Birdsong’s Physics Honors and AP students. Earlier this school year, 13 competing students from MVHS became Physics Olympiad national semifinalists. On March 28, five of his Physics Honors students took the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Physics Bowl test in B106. On May 8, they learned that they had taken fifth in the nation — the first time a group from MVHS has placed in the Physics Bowl.
Each year, about 10,000 students nationwide participate in the Physics Bowl within one of 15 regions nationwide and in one of two divisions, with Division I participants having one year of experience and Division II participants having two or more. They have 45 minutes to answer 40 multiple-choice questions based on basic physics concepts, with school team scores based on the sum of the school’s top five students’ scores. Out of the 16 MVHS students who competed in the Physics Bowl this year, the top five Division I MVHS students were sophomore Prem Nair (with a score of 34 out of 40), sophomore Marvin Qi (32), sophomore Anna Liu (30), junior Vincent Wang (28) and sophomore Ashutosh Jindal (26), scoring a total of 150 points out of a possible 200 to take fifth nationwide. Additionally, Nair scored fifth in the nation for his individual score.
To Birdsong, the students’ success is a validation for their hard work.
“It’s a yardstick they can use to measure themselves to see what they’ve learned in this year to make it seem more valuable to them,” he said.
Both Liu and Nair expressed that they were already interested in math and science, but that their success in this event strengthened their resolve to enter math and science fields in the future.
“I used to think that I’m not that good but [after this, I think that I] can actually do something like this in terms of pursuing physics in the future,” Liu said.
Despite their record-setting achievement of winning the school’s first team physics competition and Nair’s personal accomplishment of placing individually, the students did not prepare much for the Physics Bowl outside of class.
“I learned some physics on my own over the summer,” Nair said. “But the thing that prepared me the most was Birdsong’s class.”
However, Birdsong reasons that the students succeeded because of their own dedication to the subject, as he did not consciously try to help students prepare for competition. Even so, he’s happy for them.
“I got lucky, I guess. I’m glad that they valued [my teaching], but they’re good students who remembered what they were taught, “Birdsong said. “That’s the main thing. It’s a very impressive achievement.”
Tags: Anna Liu, Birdsong, Marvin Qi, physics, Physics Bowl, Prem Nair
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the first and the last one/ones [closed]
Which is correct? Let's look at the conversation. How person B should finish the sentence?
A: I want to buy a T-shirt, but I don't know which one.
B: The...
a) The first one and the last one is okay.
b) The first one and the last one are okay.
c) The first one and the last ones are okay.
d) The first and the last is okay.
e) The first and the last are okay.
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closed as off-topic by James K, shin, Mari-Lou A, kiamlaluno, Kinzle B May 2 '18 at 0:53
"This question should include more details than have been provided here. Please edit to add the research you have done in your efforts to answer the question, or provide more context. See: Details, Please." – James K, shin, Mari-Lou A, kiamlaluno, Kinzle B
As we are not here to do your homework, please explain what your answer is. Please explain why that would be your answer. Please explain why this question is difficult for you. That is three things you need to add to the question. Edit the question please. – James K Apr 20 '18 at 11:53
The basic construction here is...
X and Y [TO BE] okay
...where the subject (X and Y) is obviously plural, so the correct form of [TO BE] is are.
Written out in full, the two parts of the compound subject are the first T-shirt and the last T-shirt, but it's quite natural in English to replace the "primary" noun T-shirt with the generic referent one...
The first one and the last one are okay
It's also quite natural in English to "delete" repeated/predictable words, so...
The first one and the last are okay
...is fine because it's contextually obvious that the referent of last must be the same as that previously specified for first [one].
Not so obviously, perhaps, we can delete both instances of the word one...
The first and the last are okay
...because we already know from context what first and last refer to (strictly speaking, we're deleting T-shirt above, not one).
In fact, we can delete even more...
The first and last are okay
Various other less extreme deletions are possible (we don't have to delete the before last above, for example).
Also note that although usually we include the first instance of a repeated word and delete subsequent occurrences, it's quite possible in OP's context to retain only the second instance of the word one...
The first and the last one are okay
But I'll just point out that although we can delete the second instance of the article the above, we can't delete the first one. So...
? First and the last [one] are okay (NOT VALID)
There's one final point to make, regarding OP's suggestion (c)...
The first one and the last ones are okay
Because this includes both one and ones, this would have to refer to more than one "last T-shirts" (as well as one T-shirt that was looked at first). But if that initial one were omitted...
The first and the last ones are okay (both singular one and plural ones are valid here)
...this would be ambiguous as to how many "okay" T-shirts there are. The speaker could be referring to one or more T-shirts they looked at first, and one or more they looked at last. To make it unambiguously clear he meant just the first one and the last one, he could say, for example...
The very first and [the] [very] last ones are okay (second the and very are both optional)
...but since that's a bit of a mouthful he'd only say that if it was really important to avoid the ambiguity. Perhaps he's bored with shopping, and doesn't want his partner to spend ages trying on the first half-dozen and the last half-dozen T-shirts all over again before making a choice!
FumbleFingersFumbleFingers
How to use present perfect precisely
“first I go buy” or “first I go to buy”
How many tenses you can use in one sentence?
Last two days/ In the last two days / For the last two days
How to make sure what tense is appropriate to be used in conditionals
Look for something to do sth or look to do something
Thinking how long this illness would last/would be over(phrase/modal usage)
using “Regarding” in the first of a sentence
which one is the correct one in colloquial sentences?
What’s the difference between ‘a hundred’ and ‘one hundred’?
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I like Pericles. A lot of people don’t, or find its weirdness too weird, its lacunae and unreliability and dreaminess offputting. It is weird and unreliable and dreamy, but those, I think, aren’t bad things. Of all the plays Shakespeare had a hand in, surely the odd ones, the ones that don’t totally work or don’t work the way you think they should, are the ones we ought to be most interested in.
Pericles is particularly interesting for a lot of reasons, not least because Shakespeare is thought to have collaborated fairly heavily on it. His co-writer has been identified as a playwright called George Wilkins who was artistically active only for about three years, writing more or less competent comedies, and then spent most of the rest of his life as a pimp. He does not appear to have been a terribly nice man (Mark Haddon’s recent novel, The Porpoise, which takes inspiration from Pericles, deals with Wilkins in a most satisfactory manner). Most of Acts 1 and 2 are thought to be Wilkins’s, primarily because they’re the ones in which the verse (and the prose, frankly) is less impressive. Shakespeare’s influence allegedly begins in the Prologue to Act 3. If you’re paying attention, you can see it, I suppose, a difference in the quality of the verse; everything gets tighter, the scansion less limp, the rhymes more pungent. But then that might easily be confirmation bias. It doesn’t feel like crossing a Rubicon of any kind. The improvement is noticeable, but not jarring.
One of the other tricky things about Pericles is the state of the text we have, which is shocking. Publishing an edition of the play is a question of reconstructing–sometimes just guessing–what might be meant by lines that are often punctuated in a way that renders them nonsensical, have too many syllables to fit the metrical scheme (or too few), and sometimes just don’t exist. (There’s a gap of probably three or four lines at one point that no one has been able to fill.) General academic opinion is that the text was recounted from memory by one or two of the actors who’d performed the play (one of them might have been the boy who played Marina, Pericles’s daughter): they were probably trying to sell it to a publisher, somewhat unscrupulously, because theaters closed for a year, thanks to the plague, almost immediately after Pericles‘s first performance. They were hungry.
The point is that Pericles is not one of the more accessible of Shakespeare’s plays. Even if a theatrical ensemble can get past the textual problems, and can make the less impressive prosody sound convincing, it is odd. Bouncing from location to location, it follows Pericles as he 1) flees the wrath of a provincial governor who, it turns out, is sleeping with his own daughter; 2) wins the hand of another princess in a tournament; 3) marries, impregnates, and is immediately shipwrecked with said princess, who gives birth to their daughter and promptly dies; 4) leaves his newborn daughter with the governor of another city-state while he returns to Tyre to take up his throne upon the death of his father; 5) forgets to come back for her for the next fourteen years; 6) returns for her after fourteen years only to be told that she’s died [she hasn’t]; 7) after quite a lot of faff and much mourning, is reunited with her in a different city, as well as 8) being reunited with his wife, who isn’t actually dead and has been working as a priestess of Diana all this time. That is A Lot. There is also a chorus figure, who represents the medieval poet John Gower (which is something that doesn’t happen in any other Shakespeare play: a named individual functioning as a chorus between scenes). If what you want is something with a clear narrative trajectory, at least one memorable speech, some naughty jokes, and either a wholesome group marriage scene or a cathartic tableau of dead dramatis personae at the end, do not go to Pericles for it.
If, on the other hand, you are willing to take it for whatever it is, there’s a lot to be had. Most notably, it’s a play obsessively concerned about incest: it’s the opening impetus for Pericles’s flight when he uncovers it in a rival court, it’s a tension when he first meets his wife (whose father is, to everyone’s relief, a doting and appropriate parent keen to settle her in marriage), there’s the constant threat of it when he first meets his daughter, whom he doesn’t recognize. The whole play is overshadowed by the representation of deviant, non-generative sexuality, sexuality that, instead of allowing for growth and forward movement, curls back in on itself like a snake eating its tail. Fathers and daughters must be parted; even as Shakespeare and Wilkins bring Pericles and Marina back together at the end, their reunion is only possible because Marina has caught the eye of a handsome and wealthy young man outside of the family grouping, a socially appropriate match. There’s more to this–the father/daughter relationship and controlling interest in adolescent female sexuality is reminiscent of The Tempest; the lost/not lost wife subplot appears again in The Winter’s Tale–and if you’re at all interested in Shakespeare, or even (especially) if you think that he’s overtaught and overpraised and has nothing more to surprise you with, give Pericles a go.
Pericles was probably written in 1607 or 1608. My copy is the Arden Shakespeare 2nd edition, edited and introduced by Suzanne Gossett and published in 2004.
June 28, 2019 Elle 20 Books of Summer, drama, plays, Shakespeare 11 Comments
Reader, I DNFd it.
Most likely it’s a problem with me, not with Dressed itself. You can hardly fault a book just for not being the thing you wanted it to be. Still, I was really hoping for some fairly specific, example-grounded analysis of garments and styles, and what I got—at least for the first thirty pages or so—was a series of rather superficial, if lyrical, pronouncements. The back cover quote is (for once) illustrative: “Clothes tell our stories, some that we would rather not tell, others that we hardly know ourselves.” As an introduction to a section that delves into specific instances of garments that reveal more than they’re intended to about the person wearing them, that sentence would be okay; still a little dull, but it’d do. As the precursor to several other sentences that are, substantively, exactly like it, it doesn’t convince. Perhaps Bari is more amenable to citing evidence that backs up her statements later on in the book, but life is short, books are many, and I’m never going to get that far.
I don’t intend to replace this in my official 20 Books of Summer list; it’s okay not to finish things. Dressed was published by Jonathan Cape on 13 June.
June 25, 2019 Elle 20 Books of Summer, book reviews, books, DNF, fashion, nonfiction, reading 11 Comments
Again–more for me than you. Enjoy ’em, though.
Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon: Apparently Stapledon was genuinely surprised when people started telling him he’d written a “science fiction novel”, which actually makes perfect sense once you’ve read it because it’s not really a novel at all. Star Maker‘s closest generic ancestor is the medieval dream vision; like Chaucer’s narrators, Stapledon’s (never named) is vouchsafed a long journey into the heart of cosmic truth. There’s not much in the way of plot or character development, which hampers a reader’s ability to care, although Stapledon’s theology and conception of universal history (and obsession with “community”) is intellectually interesting. Worth reading, though, mostly because he anticipates huge numbers of science fictional tropes, including the Prime Directive.
Jack Glass, by Adam Roberts: A combination of Golden Age of SF and Golden Age of Crime elements into one occasionally frustrating, though generally satisfying, whole. Written in three parts–one a prison breakout mystery, one a whodunnit, and one a locked-room case–the novel’s overarching plot doesn’t quite come together (and by the book’s end I still didn’t feel convinced, as the jacket assured me I would, of the righteousness of the murders). The solutions are ingenious, if also fairly bonkers. This is my first Roberts novel and I’m not totally sold, but I’ll pick up more.
Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews, by Adam Roberts: One thing I am sold on is Roberts’s criticism, though, which is funny and incisive. The best thing in this collection is probably his critical read-through of the entire Wheel of Time sequence, which, if you don’t remember it, absolutely dominated bookshelves of a certain ilk in the ’90s and consists mostly of painful attempts to recreate a Tolkien-esque atmosphere which fail because they’re not grounded in anything like intellectual coherence. Roberts’s increasing despair is articulated with precision and force. He’s also good on Philip K Dick, Neal Stephenson, Ursula K LeGuin and Tolkien himself.
The Neon Rain, by James Lee Burke: A pivot to a different genre thanks to my library expedition. This is the first of Burke’s New Orleans-set detective novels featuring Dave Robicheaux; it starts with a warning from a death row inmate due to be executed in three hours, proceeds through a series of frequently violet set pieces exposing gang violence and US government complicity in selling weapons to oppressive regimes in Central America, and concludes with our hero vindicated, though wiser, and having picked up a hottie along the way. It’s magnificent: southern Gothic meets urban noir. Clearly written in the ’80s (the love interest’s eyes are “childlike” a little too often), but I have high hopes for the rest of Burke’s canon and plan to read The Tin Roof Blowdown, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, next.
That was a lot of male authors (and the forthcoming entry in 20 Books of Summer happens to be William Shakespeare, which doesn’t help). I’m currently reading Kate Atkinson’s new novel, though–Big Sky–and can confirm that a) she’s at the top of her game right now, and b) no previous Jackson Brodie experience is necessary.
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June 21, 2019 Elle book reviews, books, crime, Guardian Top 1000, literary criticism, reading, Reading Diary, sf 8 Comments
This rather marvelous book is a mashup of biography, social history, and what for a lack of a better phrase I might call “research thriller”. Susannah Stapleton comes across the figure of Maud West by chance, while idly pondering whether lady detectives had existed during the Golden Age of crime fiction; she’s only thinking about this at all because of a historical missing-persons case that regular historical research had led her to. When she finds Maud West, her interest is piqued by the dearth of information. “The game”, as she winningly puts it, “was afoot.”
Maud West did exist, although she wasn’t born under that name. She opened a private investigation agency in London in 1905 and ran it until just before the Second World War, employing a small staff of hand-selected and rigorously trained men and women as well as undertaking large amounts of field work herself. She wrote “case study” pieces for a variety of tabloids, and filled them with tales of derring-do, often involving white slavers, cocaine smugglers, last-minute ocean liner voyages, and fisticuffs (or, just as often, the well-timed production of a small revolver). Stapleton concludes that West mostly made these stories up–but why? Her business flourished; she tracked cheating spouses, fraudulent salesmen, dishonest cardsharps and country-house jewel thieves. In other advertising venues, she made much of her work amongst the “best sort”; the aristocracy and upper middle classes, in other words. West’s psychology–what she felt she had to prove; the characters she enjoyed playing; her love of disguise (this is borne out by many, many contemporary news features including photographs of West disguised as an old woman, a businessman, a vicar, and so on)–fascinates Stapleton, and the more she digs, the clearer it becomes that the life of this particular private investigator was at least as interesting as any of the cases she worked over the course of her career. Amongst other revelations, and without wishing to spoil anything, West’s life story includes a name change, illegitimacy, and someone who spends forty years masquerading as his own uncle.
Stapleton structures her book brilliantly: excerpts from sensationalist articles written by West are reprinted between chapters. Each chapter is named for a classic crime novel and deals (roughly) with some relevant social issue of the time, like the introduction of women to the Metropolitan police force or the “nightclub panic” of the interwar years, spliced with details of Stapleton’s sleuthing. Quite apart from being an excellent introduction to the Golden Age of crime outside of the pages of fiction, The Adventures of Maud West also functions as a window into the life of a working researcher. Stapleton takes trains from her home in Shropshire to the British Library to read archival clippings; she tracks down out-of-print books to get a sense of how West might have trained herself in investigation techniques; she scans international print databases and calls up descendants. The thrill of the academic chase is a huge part of the book’s appeal–which is really saying something, given that its subject is a woman with such immense willpower, fortitude, and peculiarity of character. A more engaging and intellectually stimulating biography you won’t read this summer.
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective was published by Picador on 13 June.
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June 18, 2019 Elle 20 Books of Summer, biography, book reviews, books, crime, history, nonfiction, reading 8 Comments
I’ve started using my local public library a lot more recently, thanks in large part to this rather magnificent Twitter thread from Secret Library Gorgon. It reminded me that I do, in fact, possess an Islington Libraries card, and that until two weeks ago, I had only used it once in the course of nine or ten months. So I went down to the library a fortnight ago, borrowed five books (most of which were mentioned in my last reading roundup post), and had a whale of a time.
They were all due back today (one of the most embarrassing things about my relative virginity as a public libraries user is that I was genuinely unsure whether that meant I could return them at any time today, or whether I had to return them by the time it became today, e.g. yesterday. For anyone else similarly struggling: it is the former.) Duly, I returned them and immediately borrowed seven more:
One of the very nicest things about a public library is its free-ness. This should be obvious, but it allows for all sorts of experimentation in one’s reading that would be harder to defend if spending of actual cash were required. My job does provide me with a lot of free books, but these come from publisher’s reps and, as proof copies, are in the nature of “previews” of the things they’re going to be releasing this season. If I happen to want to read something published longer ago than, say, six to eight months, the reps are unlikely to have proof copies (though sometimes miracles do occur—reprint editions, how I love thee), and I will have to spend money on it in order to possess it. My staff discount from Heywood Hill is extremely good—we can buy books at cost price, more or less, which in practice generally means at least 45% discount and sometimes as much as 55%—but it’s still, you know, money.
I am, as you can probably see from the above pile, trying to expand my knowledge of iconic crime and science fiction, and it is much easier to do that when I don’t have to spend money on a book whose quality I can’t predict, precisely because my knowledge base in that genre is currently limited. I’m also trying to fill some of my classic literature gaps; these are probably smaller than most people’s, by the nature of the degree that I did, but with the best will in the world, even after three years of reading the Anglophone canon, one is going to have missed some things. And I’m being guided, in a vague sort of way, by the Guardian’s Top 1000 Novels list (although the more I examine it, the more I realize that it is noticeably biased, though the nature of that bias has yet to clarify itself. It contains, for instance, five novels by Michael Dibdin and three by Ian Fleming in the “crime” subcategory, which is itself composed of 146 titles. Even his champions will probably balk at the notion that Ian Fleming, neither the world’s greatest stylist nor its greatest plotsmith, wrote three—three!—entirely indispensable books. I have read two of the listed, Goldfinger and Casino Royale. Only the latter has a claim to that kind of significance, and its claim is mainly historic. The former is not even particularly good.)
Tangents aside, this is what I’ve come away with this time:
The Drowned World, by JG Ballard [on the Guardian list]
Non-Stop, by Brian Aldiss [on the Guardian list]
Sorcerer To the Crown, by Zen Cho [on my personal to-read list for years]
The Neon Rain, by James Lee Burke [on the Guardian list]
Blood Shot, also published as Toxic Shock, by Sara Paretsky [on the Guardian list]
Shirley, by Charlotte Brontë [on the Guardian list]
How Do You Like Me Now?, by Holly Bourke [recommended by my trustworthy colleague Faye]
Anyone read any of these, or want to? What should I read first? I’ve never read any of these authors before, except for Brontë, obviously.
Rebecca at Bookish Beck runs a regular Library Checkout feature, from which I’ve snitched this post title; the most recent one is here.
June 15, 2019 Elle books, classics, fantasy, Guardian Top 1000, libraries, Library Checkout, reading, sf 23 Comments
03. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World, by Elif Shafak
~~some spoilers ahead, I guess~~
10 minutes and 38 seconds is the longest amount of time (according to Elif Shafak’s novel) that human brain activity has been recorded post-mortem. (I’m not sure this is true, but as Shafak makes no attempt to convince us of medical legitimacy, I’m also not sure that it’s the point.) In this novel, the dead or dying brain belongs to Tequila Leila, a sex worker in Istanbul. Her ten minutes are spent remembering her life up to this point, in a series of vignette flashbacks that each start with a smell: the scent of the lemon-and-sugar wax that her mother and auntie slathered on their legs, the aroma of the cardamom coffee she used to drink with the man who became her husband. Shafak’s descriptive powers are at their height in these flashback passages, which are the strongest parts of the novel. She is a serious political novelist, but also a dryly humorous one; particularly enjoyable is the sequence in which the madam of Leila’s brothel makes all the girls clean it in anticipation of the arrival of the American Sixth Fleet, only to be stymied by a left-wing student demonstration that means the Americans never get off their ship. Bitter Ma’s rage at the lost business potential is very real and fundamentally not funny–we already know that she privileges a profit above the safety of her workers, as when she leaves Leila alone with a john who has a history of violence and who ends up throwing acid at her–but Shafak simultaneously nails the glorious, futile absurdity that seems to characterize street life in Istanbul. This section also introduces Leila’s five friends: Hollywood Humeyra, Sabotage Sinan, Nalan (who used to be Osman), Jameelah, and Zaynab122 (the number refers to her height; she has a form of dwarfism). These are the people–transsexuals, sex workers, the disabled and the lonely–who form her chosen family when her blood family fails her, and they will be the people who come to take her body from the morgue.
They don’t receive it, though. The first part of the book is entitled The Mind; the second, The Body. Shafak splits her narrative strategy into two: The Mind is limited to Leila’s perspective, but The Body–which mostly concerns the five friends’ attempts to give Leila’s corpse a proper burial–is narrated by an omniscient external voice that observes the living characters without committing to any one point of view. As the five are not her immediate family, the hospital refuses to release Leila’s body to them, and she is buried in the Cemetery of the Companionless, a kind of potter’s field outside of Istanbul where the nameless dead are denied even gravestones: the individual plots are marked with wooden boards upon which numbers are haphazardly scrawled. Nalan, the group’s de facto leader, suggests a solution: they will rob the grave, remove their friend’s body, and bury her at sea, as she wished. This section (and the very brief third, The Spirit, that follows) is much less successful. Mostly, I think, this is because Shafak’s handle on her tone starts to loosen. In part one, there is a delicate balance between horror and hilarity; in part two, the madcap grave robbery quickly becomes slapstick, and many of the jokes seem to turn on the inherently amusing nature of Nalan’s physical presentation as a trans woman. It’s as though the novel can’t decide what sort of book it is: an evocative meditation on violence against women in twentieth-century Turkey, or a buddy romp.
On the whole, I think, the first section is strong enough to carry the rest. But once the life leaves Leila, it leaves the book, too.
10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World was published by Viking on 6 June.
June 13, 2019 Elle 20 Books of Summer, book reviews, books, fiction, reading 7 Comments
02. Rough Magic, by Lara Prior-Palmer
Lara Prior-Palmer signed up for the Mongol Derby—famously the world’s toughest horse race—on a whim, a month before the start date. Other competitors had been preparing for a year, building their endurance and stamina. She won it. At nineteen, she was the youngest rider, and the first woman, ever to do so. Although her book about the experience is technically, I suppose, a sports memoir(!), what’s most evident throughout Rough Magic is the kind of mental or spiritual transformation she finds herself undergoing. When she starts the race, she’s casual and unconcerned, in it for the fun of spending an August in Mongolia, a why-not kind of person. By the time she’s halfway through, she discovers quite suddenly that she cares. The compelling bones of Rough Magic are the paths she took in her own head to get to that place.
Even, or especially, by her own account, Prior-Palmer is a vague and drifty sort of person. Her family seems to think of her as semi-permanently away with the fairies. But that’s a common disparagement to throw at young women (her father’s friend refers to her as “Avatar”, which she tells us in a way that I think is meant to be ironic and self-aware, but which I actually found quite disturbing–what kind of adult man gives his friend’s kid a nickname deriving from her social awkwardness, then uses it to her face?) In any case, that blinky personality serves to mask more interesting things. One of these is that Prior-Palmer is ambitious, and she acknowledges that she’s been raised to find naked ambition vaguely suspect. Her impetus to win the race comes from being deeply, personally irked by an American woman called Devan, who, only a year older, takes the race with deadly seriousness. Some readers seem to feel betrayed by Prior-Palmer’s immediate antipathy towards Devan, seeing it, I think, as yet another instance of women competing instead of coming together in supportive sisterhood. But it rings very true: there’s little that can spur a person more than seeing herself reflected at a frustrating angle in someone else.
Of course, there’s plenty about the nitty-gritty of the race: the Derby is so difficult in part because it has twenty-five stages and each one is ridden on a different Mongolian pony, which are rounded up into small herds at each checkpoint. Prior-Palmer differentiates each of her mounts with a nickname, which helps the reader keep track as well. She’s great on the confusions of navigating on a seemingly featureless steppe (the GPS tracker is frequently unhelpful), negotiating a place to stay with the local semi-nomadic herders when she gets caught between checkpoints at nightfall, and the cultural cruces that make communication difficult. (She also glances at the particular hazards of being a woman traveling alone, even in a bad-ass competitive way: one local assaults her, and a group of boys attack her pony while she’s riding.) If you’re interested in the logistics of cross-country horse racing, Rough Magic has you covered. But it’s also a very compelling twist on the current crop of memoirs by young women; Prior-Palmer’s psychological growth isn’t often foregrounded, but the reader is ever aware that the Derby is permanently changing her. Very worthwhile indeed.
Rough Magic was published by Ebury on 6 June.
June 10, 2019 Elle 20 Books of Summer, book review, books, memoir, nonfiction, reading 9 Comments
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EU Manifesto for Women’s Health Launch
Biographies: Healthy Women—Healthy Europe
10th October 2018, 10:30 am-12:30 pm, Room A3F383, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.
Hosted by Ms. Deirdre Clune in partnership with the European Institute of Women’s Health (EIWH)
Ms. Deirdre Clune, MEP.
Member of Europe Parliament, Ireland
Deirdre Clune is a Member of the European Parliament for the constituency of Ireland South, having been elected in 2014. She is a full member of the Parliament’s Transport & Tourism committee, and a substitute on Employment & Social Affairs committee.
Deirdre graduated from University College Cork in 1980, with a B.E. in Civil Engineering. She completed a diploma in Management Engineering with Trinity College Dublin in 1983. She returned to UCC in 1996 to complete her HDip in Environmental Engineering. Deirdre went on to work with some of the leading engineering firms both here at home and overseas, including Delap & Waller, Roughton & Partners and Arup.
Deirdre is a former member of the Dail Eireann (1997-2002, 2007-2011) and Seanad Eireann (2011-2014). She was elected Lord Mayor of Cork City in 2005, in which time the City was designated as the European Capital of Culture. During her time in Leinster House, Deirdre was Deputy Spokesperson on Enterprise with the Special Responsibility for Innovation.
She was also the Fine Gael spokesperson on Environmental Information and Protection, and Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands. Deirdre’s father, Peter Barry, was a Dáil Deputy for Cork constituencies between 1969 and 1997 and served as Tánaiste in 1987, Deputy Leader of Fine Gael between 1979 and 1987 and from 1989 to 1993. He was also a Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Environment, Transport & Power and Education.
Her Grandfather, Anthony Barry was a Dáil Deputy in the 1950’s and early 1960s. Deirdre became the third generation of her family to hold the mayoralty in Cork, following in the footsteps of her father, Peter who was Lord Mayor of Cork in 1970/71 and her late grandfather, Anthony who was Lord Mayor in 1960/61.
Dr. Isabel De La Mata
Principal Adviser for Health in the European Commission
Isabel de la Mata has been Principal Adviser for health in the European Commission since March 2008. Recently, her functions were upgraded to Principal Adviser for Health and Crisis management. Before this, she worked as Counsellor for Health and Consumer at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the EU, as Deputy Director General for Health Planning at the Spanish Ministry of Health, as Adviser to the Vice-minister of Health and several other posts at the Ministry of Health of Spain and the Regional Departments in the Basque Country and in Madrid.
She has worked with WHO, including as a member of the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee, Pan American Health Organisation, Inter-American Development Bank and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation. Dr de la Mata graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Basque Country in 1983 and holds post-graduate degrees from the University of Leuven and Paris VI in Public Health, Hospital Administration and Statistics. She is a specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
Mrs. Julie Girling
Member of European Parliament, United Kingdom
Julie Girling was elected as a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for So uth West England and Gibraltar in 2009 and successfully re- elected for a second term in 2014. She is currently sits on the Committees for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.
She also sits on the Delegation for relations with South East Asia and has previously served as Chief Whip for the Conservatives in the European Parliament. Formerly a member of the European Conservatives & Reformists Group (ECR), she has recently moved to become a member of the European People’s Party Group (EPP), the Group the Conservatives in the European Parliament were members of until 2009 when the ECR Group was created.
During her time in the European Parliament she has worked on a number of important legislative files covering areas such as air quality, emissions, food safety, reform of the Common Agriculture and Fisheries Policies, biodiversity, chemicals and animal welfare. Mrs Girling has recently been rapporteur for both the ETS Phase IV and the Aviation ETS files.
Dr. Janusz Janczukowicz,
Board Member of the European Institute of Women’s Health, AMEE—an International Association for Medical Education and Medical University of Lodz-Poland Dr. Janusz Janczukowicz is the head of Centre for Medical Education and the chair of the Best Evidence Medical Education Collaborating Centre in Lodz.
His main professional interests include diversity and inclusiveness in health professions and higher education, interprofessional education, teaching, learning and assessing medical and academic professionalism, social, and intercultural competence.
Janusz is a member of the International Association for Medical Education AMEE Executive Committee and leads the diversity-theme for the annual AMEE conferences. He is a member of the European Board of Medical Assessors, an auditor for the Association for Medical Schools in Europe, an external expert for the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education and a member of the Medical Teacher Editorial Board.
Furthermore, he is a member of the Higher Education Academy GTEA Strategy Group and leads the Translation into Practice Committee coordinating the Evidence Based Recommendations for Education- an initiative bringing the educational research results into the every-day health-professions teachers’ practice.
Ms. Peggy Maguire
Director General, European Institute of Women’s Health
Previously Director of Development at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin and Director of the Research and Education Foundation at the Irish College of General Practitioners. Peggy, a political scientist, has worked at EU and national level over the last twenty years highlighting the need for gender equity in biomedical. public health and social policy.
As Director General of the EIWH, she works with an expert Board and Advisors to the EIWH and co-ordinates a dedicated , highly skilled secretariat. In her EIWH role, she initiated the first online cancer information for and by women and worked with other health and patient NGOs to ensure gender and age became part of the EU public health programme.
As part of the DG Research Women and Science Unit Expert Group on Gender. Peggy contributed to the gender wording for the 6th Framework programme guides for applicants and evaluators. She has worked with the Commission External Advisory Group on ageing and disability and the WHO expert group on gender mainstreaming. Peggy has initiated and contributes to EU funded projects such as Engender-Inventory of good practices in Europe for promoting gender equity in health; Joint Action on Chronic Disease, Chrodis-JA; Engendering Research Ethics Committees(RECs) and EuGenMed, leading the research and the workshop on Sex and Gender in Healthcare Professional Education. Peggy contributes to the EIWH series of policy briefs on an ongoing basis and represents the EIWH at conferences and meetings.
She was a member of the expert group and contributed to the WHO Women’s Health Strategy for Europe. Currently, Peggy is a Board member of the Agency for Public Health Accreditation (APHEA). Peggy is a member of the EU Horizon 2020 advisory Group for the Societal Challenge 1 ‘Health, Demographic Change and Well-being, (H2020 AG SC1) and EU Horizon 2020 advisory Group, Gender and a member of the FRA, consultative NGO platform.
Ms. Leen Meulenbergs Director,
Strategic Partnerships, WHO/Europe, and WHO Representative, European Union (EU)
Ms Meulenbergs has led the work with partners and resource mobilization at WHO/Europe since 2011. From August 2016, she is also WHO Representative to the EU, coordinating WHO’s relations with EU institutions.
Before joining WHO/Europe, Ms Meulenbergs was head of the International Relations Department of the Belgian health ministry (the Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment) and responsible for collaboration with WHO on health for Belgium’s presidencies of the Council of the European Union in 2001 and 2010.
Holding a master’s degree in psychology, Ms Meulenbergs has also worked as executive director of a WHO collaborating centre for health and psychosocial factors; managed various European projects, including one on Alzheimer’s disease; worked on post-traumatic stress disorder in the Great Lakes region in Africa; and was a member of the WHO Task Force on National Mental Health Assessment.
Dr. Anne Pépin
Senior Policy Officer, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), Unit Science with and for Society, Gender Sector
Anne Pépin holds a B.Sc. in physics from the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada), an Engineering Degree from the École supérieure d’électricité (France) and a Ph.D in physicselectronics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France). She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) before being recruited by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1996. She was a warded the CNRS Bronze Medal for junior researchers in 2003 for her contribution to nanotechnology.
In 2006, Anne Pépin became a Scientific Advisor for the Mission for the Place of Women at CNRS (Mission pour la place des femmes au CNRS) – a strategic unit directly attached to the CNRS President and in charge of designing, coordinating and assessing all actions aimed at fostering gender equality within the organisation – where she initiated key partnerships within Europe, as well as with Canada and the USA.
Anne Pépin was appointed Director of the Mission for the Place of Women at CNRS in 2012. Among other activities, she has coordinated EU-funded project INTEGER (FP7, 2011-2015) which aimed at promoting institutional change for better gender equality in STEM research, and led to the adoption of a gender equality plan by CNRS in 2014, as well as the GENDER-NET project (FP7, 2013-2016), the first ERA-NET to be dedicated to gender equality and the integration of the gender dimension in research.
She also co-organised the 9th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education held in Paris in 2016. Anne Pépin was made Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur in 2016. She is a former auditor of French IHEST (Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology), class Irène Joliot-Curie of 20162017. Since June 2017,
Anne Pépin has been on leave from her permanent position as senior researcher at CNRS to join the Gender Sector of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation as a Senior Policy Officer. She was Acting Head of the Gender Sector from February to June 2018.
Dr. Patricia Reilly
Deputy Head of Cabinet, Commissioner Tibor Navracsics (Education, Culture, Youth and Sport)
A veterinary surgeon and law graduate by background, Patricia Reilly worked in mixed clinical practice until 2001, when she joined the Irish Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. In 2004 she joined the Irish Embassy in Warsaw as Ireland’s first Agricultural Attaché to Poland, returning to a veterinary management position in Dublin in 2008.
Patricia was a member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner for Research and Innovation Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (2010-2014), and is now Deputy Head of Cabinet for Commissioner Tibor Navracsics (Education, Culture, Youth and Sport).
Ms. Kristin Semancik,
Public Health Manager, European Institute of Women’s Health
Kristin has been promoting gender equity in health with the EIWH since 2008. Kristin has worked extensively on sex/gender and health topics, including for the DG SANCO-funded ENGENDER and DG Research-funded EUGenMed Projects. In her role as Research and Policy Officer, Kristin is currently oversees the development of the EIWH’s policy brief series. Kristin is leading the Institute’s work for DG-SANTE-funded MyHealth Project (migrant health) and IMI-funded MOPEAD projects (Alzheimer’s Disease), specialising in communication and dissemination,
She has had experience in government, academia, industry, and non-profit sectors. She has affected healthcare change in both the US and Europe. Kristin has assisted uninsured and underinsured individuals in the United States. Kristin has served as a policy analyst in the Irish Seanad. Kristin’s is completing her Ph.D. in political science at Trinity College Dublin exploring health policy and the EU.
She completed her undergraduate and Master’s degrees in political science and public health at Boston University. She has also researched and taught at university-level in Ireland, the United States and China.
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Apple opens online federal store
By Dan Caterinicchia, Dan Caterinicchia
"Apple re-enters desktop battle"
Responding to current customer feedback while also attempting to gain even more clients in the federal space, Apple Computer Inc. recently launched an online store for customers who have federally issued SmartPay credit cards.
"This is in response to overwhelming demand from our numerous SmartPay customers who wanted more choices in how they acquire products," said John MacKinnon, director of federal government sales for Apple. "An online shopping experience is something they wanted Apple to implement and we responded to that."
MacKinnon said the online store, which opened Aug. 17, had been in the works for the past "90 to 180 days" and is part of Apple's "aggressive growth"in the federal space during the past 18 months.
The site (applefederal.apple.com/store)will offer substantial discounts on Apple products to the company's federal clients, which include NASA, the National Institutes of Health and many Energy Department laboratories.
For example, a Power Mac G4 with an 867 MHz processor and other features is priced commercially at $2,499, while SmartPay customers can get the same machine for $2,249 at the online store, MacKinnon said.
"This is the result of good listening to our existing and potential customers to what we have to do to win that business," he said. "We hope it helps our customers and helps Apple as well."
Dell Computer Corp.'s Premier Pages, which are customized for different market segments, are the "gold standard" in this area, but Apple's online federal store is promising, said Roger Kay, director of client computing at IDC.
"It seems like it needs some adjusting it's kind of a hodgepodge but it's clear that they have got enough of an audience to merit a segment on their Web page," Kay said.
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astonishing figures
TV The BBC are using back issues of the Radio Times to create a digital archive of their schedules. I wonder if this was a group decision or someone had a brainwave one day when they were thinking about were they could find the information. There are two astonishing figures in this blog post:
"In September we will begin the full-scale project of digitising over 80 years' worth of broadcast records. That's approximately 400,000 pages of Radio Times, 3 million programmes and 300 million words to recognise through OCR.
The process for which is described. Not too long ago this would have required an infinite number of temps many decades to carry out. Also:
"Although the BBC only has about 20-25% of the programmes in its physical archive"
Of course there is. For decades television and radio was broadcast live and there wasn't a cheap recording format. I just haven't thought of the implications of that before. In the long run, 20-25% is a lot, even if 10% is probably due to junking (goodbye Marco Polo). What will be really clever is if once this is completed, the database then links internally to relevant pages within the BBC website.
Meanwhile, the BBC's archive is moving to Perivale. They'd best watch out for the giant cat people, posh street kids etc.
all or nothing gusto
Decorating This has made me chuckle for a good couple of minutes. Claire Danes helps launch paint. It's not so much the endorsement, but the all or nothing gusto with which she's thrown herself in. There's the many photos:
And the quotes you can't imagine a real human being saying out loud:
“United States Artists (U.S.A.) is a fantastic artist-advocacy organization. I’m pleased to be working with Valspar and U.S.A. to bring Stephen Burks’ beautiful installation to Grand Central. I appreciate how color can transform a space and I’m excited to use Valspar’s new, richly colorful Hi-DEF Advanced Color System paints.”
It's adorable, frankly.
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another appearances of the thousand bells
Art Some lovely images of The Temple of a Thousand Bells have now also been licensed by Getty Images which has sent them global. The Huffington Post has posted some enormous versions which have since turned up linked on the likes of Tweetmeme.
I've also found another appearances of the thousand bells or at least the accompanying parable. It was included by the priest Anthony de Mello S. J. in his book The Song of the Bird, which is linked here, and begins at the bottom of page seven.
The version in Belem's piece is longer and more poetic and from what I remember has a happier ending but it seems to be one of the classic parables used in sermons when talking about faith and belief and glimpsing God, which just confirms that it's in the right setting.
Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 0 comments Labels: liverpool biennial 2010
"property that the steps forever carry"
Film Wired on Inception’s Penrose Staircase:
"The Staircase cannot be constructed in three dimensional reality due to its property that the steps forever carry the traveler upward in a loop. The same steps are traversed, but, impossibly, after the first time around (or second, or third…) one ends up back at the beginning, and the whole journey starts again. One can turn around on the stairs and descend, as well, with the same effect—continually treading the same ground, over and over."
About the only disappointment I have with Inception is that no one uses the words "recursive occlusion". That would have been special.
Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 0 comments Labels: inception
Life There are now some excellent photos of the Laura Belem installation at the Liverpool Echo website and one of me that must have been taken during paragraph three of my review (second line, first one along). Hopefully that won't be the one they choose to put in the paper. The picture of the artist looking upwards is far nicer and makes much better sense. If you're intending to visit, I hope the photographer won't mind me saying that you should ignore them all anyway until you've seen the installation for yourself. The surprise is everything.
Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 0 comments Labels: liverpool biennial 2010, the story of my life
Laura Belem’s The Temple of a Thousand Bells at The Oratory in the grounds of Liverpool Cathedral.
Art This morning I attended the press preview for artist Laura Belem’s The Temple of a Thousand Bells, the one of the first glimpses of what this year’s Liverpool Biennial will have to offer. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, so I was quite sheepish as I stepped up towards the venue, probably eyeballing the people outside not sure who was a journalist and who an organiser, desperate to give my name so that it could be ticked off a list. I was also a bit tired, so tired in fact that I forgot to take my camera.
But a slight mix of discombobulation and somnambulation is probably the best way to greet this installation, in which from the ceiling, Belem has suspended a thousand specially blown glass bells (produced at the Glass Blobbery in Corwen, North Wales, one of the few surviving traditional workshops). Like Matej Andraž Vogrinčič’s upturned rowing boats which populated the floor of St Luke’s in 2006, the artist has transformed a familiar piece of old Liverpool architecture into a kind of alternate reality version through the introduction of these incongruous objects and my drowsiness only helped the suspension of disbelief.
I’d recommend you spend some of your time in the space simply looking upwards, allowing your eyes to swirl about the many circles created by the bells, abstractly interfering with one another like Venn diagrams, and listening to the accompanying soundtrack piped in from five very present speakers. Since the bells are static, lacking clackers, Belem has provided the sound they could be making and the polyphonic technology is a good enough mimic that if you empty your mind you can imagine the chimes are coming from up above.
An accompanying male voiceover, which also narrates the mythic tale of the discover of the original temple of a thousand bells describes it as “a symphony which cannot be described in words” and to a degree I’d perhaps much rather hear more of that than his story. But the bells themselves are an extraordinary enough vision on their own and I’m actually pleased I wasn’t taking pictures since it meant I could simply concentrate upon them. In the statement on her official website, Belem says that central to her work is “transcience, memory and displacement” and she’s certainly achieved that.
The Temple of a Thousand Bells can be visited Thursday - Sunday from 10am - 6pm.
Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 2 comments Labels: liverpool biennial 2010
I'm a qualified librarian
Books It's late, I'm tired, but this article at The Guardian recording the decimation of the library service in Doncaster just filled me with rage, not least because I'm a qualified librarian:
"Doncaster's libraries have provided extremely limited services for years: the number of qualified librarians has dropped from 26 to two; there is no head of libraries; and the "customer service managers" who run libraries do not appreciate the need for professional staff to run a service that offers far more than just books."
Their website lists twenty-eight libraries in the service which means that effectively, the qualifieds must to some degree be carrying out the same duties as the head of libraries on a much lower rate of pay and a far higher stress levels since they're no doubt doing staff training too (because otherwise I can't imagine how such things as purchasing and cataloguing would otherwise be carried out).
Save Doncaster Libraries and the librarians who are left from losing their sanity.
Update! 19/08/2010 I contacted Lauren Smith, who wrote the article and is a co-ordinator of the save Doncaster libraries campaign, seeking clarification on how the two qualified librarians fit within the organisational structure. She sent the following which she's agreed to let me reproduce. It's actually worse than I thought:
That's not quite the situation. I'll try to explain and hope it makes sense!
There are only two qualified librarians working in Doncaster libraries, both of whom work in bibliographic services, which is the department that deals with stock acquisition, rotation, etc. There used to be librarians who worked with children, vulnerable groups, did outreach, publicised libraries – 5 years ago there were about 26. There were cuts and more cuts and librarians were made redundant.
There's no head of libraries and there hasn't been for over 5 years. The libraries are managed alongside customer services by people who don't know much about libraries and what they're there for.
There's nothing by way of staff training. The two librarians who know how to buy books and stuff do that for all the libraries in a central unit. The staff working in libraries are either unqualified library assistants or reserve staff. There is no training at all, which means customer service can be very hit and miss and can put people off forever.
In a follow-up message Lauren added: "Basically, they deskilled the service a long time ago. Now they're trying to get rid of the service completely."
Sarah Blasko's new album.
On my other blog, I've reviewed the new album from Sarah Blasko, "As Day Follows Night" which was written whilst she was composing the incidental music for and appearing in the 2008 Bell Shakespeare production. She says of writing about the album concurrently:
“It was good to have something alongside the album writing that had a deadline because it made me slightly more disciplined. It was sort of like exercise that kept my energy up for the task of writing the album,” she says. “When I did the performances for Hamlet over two months last year, in between the time I was on stage, I would sit at the backstage piano and write my album songs.”
As I say in the review I can't detect any direct influences in the lyrics of the album, no scraps of Shakespearean verse, but since the play is steeped in a vast spectrum of human emotion, some crossover is probably inevitable.
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 0 comments Labels: shakespeare
"unlike the late noughties genrists"
Music And so we return to Sarah Blasko, whose interpretation of "Seems Like Old Times" from Annie Hall I posted last week. In his email, her publicist suggests that “she's adorable and quirky and evokes references to Regina Spektor and PJ Harvey” and since that’s a description which just about fits any of the manic pixie dream girls who’ve been releasing albums over the years I was intrigued enough to cheekily ask if he would send over a review copy of “As Day Follow’s Night” so that I could hear what was really different about Blasko in comparison to the Nash, the Allen, the Golightly, Spektor or any of the other anti-folkists. Which he has. I’ll know to be cheeky more often.
I should have an affinity for the album, since, according to her online biography Blasko wrote it whilst also working on the score to the Bell Shakespeare Company’s 2008 production of Hamlet (even appearing on stage). She says: “It was good to have something alongside the album writing that had a deadline because it made me slightly more disciplined. It was sort of like exercise that kept my energy up for the task of writing the album,” she says. “When I did the performances for Hamlet over two months last year, in between the time I was on stage, I would sit at the backstage piano and write my album songs.” I can't detect any direct influences (without entering an extrapolation fantasy), this isn't a concept album but tonally (as her bio suggests), the main key is melancholic.
This is Blasko’s third album, having begun recording in 2002, the first two huge award winning hits in Australia, so against appearances, unlike the late noughties genrists this isn’t a debut album, it’s the tricky third. What that means in terms of the sound I can’t tell, having not heard the whole of the first two (#spotifyfail) the extent to which her direction has changed. Her bio suggests this is a development, but "incremental" which is intriguing, since it does at least suggest she's willing to try something different, though from the couple of early tracks it doesn't seem to be in the order of trying some entirely new sound (available at her videography). What I can say is that this is a singles album with at least four or five good tunes that could stand alone with a B and a Tin Tin Out remix.
The bouncy Hold On My Heart which has a good repetitive dance hook would work well alone and the She & Him alike Over & Over in which the trill in her voice (think Melanie) is put to good effect. It’s unfair, of course, to simply drop comparisons, but in this crowded genre, everything sounds like everything else to some degree, so it’s impossible not to. There is the suggested Spektor and Harvey influence in these eleven tracks, the willingness to mess about with unusual instruments, Blasko’s trademark it seems the musical saw, slightly mangled piano and multi-track vocals. And strings. Lots of strings. That gives it a nostalgic element, but without joining Duffy on the rap sheet and stealing Dusty Springfield’s coat.
The other point of division is lyrically; these are not narrative songs replete with pop culture references and if they’re autobiographical they trade in generalisations, only now and then, as when she asks “Is My Baby Yours?” that we wonder if there’s some tale being suggested between the lines (assuming that isn't a huge hidden Hamlet reference). There are few moments to leave you grinning at the linguistic acrobatics required to fit a rhyme around CSI or macaroni. Mono-syllables abound. Which also makes it much easier to listen to oddly which is probably why I’ve had “As Day Follow’s Night” on repeat these past couple of days.
Yet in places, she’s deeply effective. “I Never Knew” seems initially to be a standard break up song, but there’s a sense that the source of her pain isn’t even aware of her existence and that she’s actually letting go of an unrequited love after realising that she has little chance, which is something I’ve had to deal with, oh, lots of times, usually with manic pixie dream girls and assuming I haven’t misinterpreted that’s the first time I’ve heard that sentiment or something similar voiced in music since Airhead’s “Funny How” (unless I haven't been paying attention). Many of the songs, which on the surface sound fairly straightforward, contain this inner ambiguity which suggests that what’s important to Sarah Blasko is below the surface.
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1 comments Labels: music reviews
"she didn't plan it well."
Film Dodai Stewart from Jezabel asks his mother to review Julia Roberts's latest Eat Pray Love:
"The problem is, I went on a food and wine tour of Italy. And it was so much more fun and so much more interesting. And I was like, who is this person? If you're gonna do Italy, you know, you plan ahead! You have fun! She spent the whole time in Rome, and then she went to Naples. That's not… to be in Italy, and to undoubtedly have a wee bit of money, she didn't plan it well. She didn't go to Sicily, or Assisi, or Venice, or Florence, or Milan. How boring can you be? It's like, hey, you're in Italy. She wasn't making the best of it. When I went on my trip, of eating Italy, we went to people's houses, we were interacting, it was fun! That Thanksgiving dinner… You don't want to know the truth. It was sort of ridiculous. I was like, did I pay money to see this? And I only paid $6, because I went before noon. It was so contrived.
As we seek a new film criticism paradigm, this is clearly the way forward.
Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 0 comments Labels: julia roberts
Wichita Community Theatre presents Hamlet.
Firstly in 1994:
Wichita Community Theatre presents Hamlet - 1994 from Ben Blankley on Vimeo.
Then in 2009:
Wichita Community Theatre presents Hamlet from Ben Blankley on Vimeo.
Single camera, but in their entirety. I'm posting them here so that I know where to find them as and when [via].
Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 0 comments Labels: shakespeare
"arrogance and intransigence"
Theatre Blistering and detailed article that the author wrote for Ralph Fiennes for the production of his new film. Why Coriolanus Matters:
"the world abounds with leaders and military personnel within whom it is possible to recognize aspects of Coriolanus’ character. The arrogance and intransigence of Bush and Blair make them obvious contenders; Mugabe’s (one of many tyrants) flouting of democracy and abdication of rational political responsibility make him another; with their military backgrounds strongmen such as Pervez Musharraf (who in a final rebuke to his enemies before stepping down as president argued he had ‘shed blood for his country in two wars’) and the late General Pinochet are other leaders who incite comparison. Recently, John McCain gained significant political capital from his air force background and a distinct emphasis on aggressive foreign policy combined with a fervent support for the US military at home."
For all that, my favourite aspect of Coriolanus is that he's the Roman General who's ultimately felled, not during battle or his own vanity (though they have a part in it) but by his mother's disapproval. Mum knows best.
"just the right side of cod-Shakespearean camp"
It seems overly cynical to reduce Anne Fortier’s Juliet into a single line pitch, but since it's already been optioned for a film, chick lit meets historical fiction meets Dan Brown meets Shakespeare is presumably how her agent sold the book to Hollywood so it’ll do here. The set up is good enough to drag the reader through the first two hundred or so pages. On the death of her Auntie, American student Julie Jacobs discovers that her heritage began in Siena and stretches back as far as the real Juliet or Guilietta, who’s story was relocated and mangled until it eventually became Shakespeare’s classic about star-crossed lovers.
The novel is then split between first person reportage of Julie's adventures in Siena and a third person historical recreation of the events surround her ancestors life, meeting Romeo, falling in love and becoming separated by familial rivalry, the former impacted by the discoveries of the latter, pieced together by Julie as discovers her legacy. The vital bit of conflict is from forces that are intent on either obscuring the information or using her research project for their own nefarious purposes, as she finds herself caught between the very same families that caused misery to the original Romeo and Juliet.
There are plenty of plusses to Fortier’s book. Her characterisation is excellent. Julie is good company as she navigates Sienese society with very witty asides about her potential suitor Alessandro and the social graces she’s supposed to adopt and appreciates the irony of being connected to such a famous story. Her sister Janet, who we're told ironically played Juliet in a school production is an excellent foil, Fortier employing her mix of attractiveness and cheekiness to move to keep the story moving. The historical characters are also just the right side of cod-Shakespearean camp and the author has some fun demonstrating the differences with the play.
Siena is also recreated in prose remarkably effectively, the geography of the city lucidly drawn. This is still a tourist view of the place; as Joanna Hogg’s British film Unrelated was keen to demonstrate, Siena has been as effected by industrialisation as anywhere, dull motels and motorways just outside of the centre. There’s none of that in this book, though you can understand Fortier wanting to conjure the romantic side of Siena since it’s entirely possible that Julie would keep to relating that herself. Fortier has still clearly researched not just the history but the modern version and is keen to fit as much of that flavour into the book, albeit augmented for her own aims.
Which is rather the problem in the end. The book is five hundred pages long and I would guess over half of that is description or insight, Fortier intent on telling us about everything she has learned. I’m a slow reader at the best of times, and I'm sure there will be some readers who'll enjoy being submerged in the details of the world, but Juliet took longer for me to plough through than some literary criticism. Too often the plot halts in order to allow for this accentuation to the point that you just wish she would get on with it. We know, for example, almost every meal the Julie eats across her stay, none of which really illuminates her character, other than that she likes to try something different abroad. Don’t we all?
It doesn’t help that with the exception of the necessary relocation to Italy, Julie isn’t a particularly goal orientated, most of her “discoveries” documents passed to her, or tales told by new acquaintances, like one of those episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? which have evidently been shot on a tight schedule (cf, David Tennant). It’s left to characters like her sister to do the leg work and then report back and all too frequently when she does piece the facts together, her revelation has already been revealed in an adjacent flashback. As a modern girl, should Julie be as impotent to her own destiny as Giuletta?
In few other places have I seen the appalling position that a girl like Giulietta would have been in, a commodity to bringing union between families from birth. However interesting the contemporary scenes are, they’re rarely as entertaining or exciting as the shorter passages set in 1340 as Romeo attempts to save his Juliet from tyranny, aided by her faithful Friar Lorenzo. On more than one occasion it’s a disappointment when the contemporary passages return and we’re dragged away from this fascinating world, even if, as Fortier admits in her notes at the back, she augmented the reality of some of the characters because of the needs of the drama.
Perhaps Fortier would have been happier turning out a purer piece of histortical fiction telling the story of the original Romeo and Juliet but the publisher has suggested it required the contemporary scenes in an attempt to attract two audiences which are habitually quite distinct or make all of that accessible. Sadly it's impossible to just read the historical fiction and skim the rest; the two are inextricably linked as necessary exposition is included in the modern period and the period story lacks a satisfactory conclusion on its own terms.
Which is then mirrored in the main story. Just as the book looks like its about to become really interesting, and make the kind of genre twist that might also drag in Twilight fans too, Fortier pulls back and delivers a thuddingly conventional climax that largely undoes much of the goodwill which has developed in the meantime and delivers few proper surprises. The back of my my preview copy offers an alternate sales pitch "Shakespeare in Love meets Labyrinth". If only the latter had been referencing Frank Oz rather than Kate Mosse.
Juliet by Anne Fortier is published by Harper Collins. RRP: £7.99. ISBN: 978-0007321865
Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 0 comments Labels: book reviews, shakespeare
Juliet by Anne Fortier.
Juliet by Anne Fortier is published by Harper Collins. RRP: £7.99. ISBN: 978-0007321865. Review copy supplied.
"it seemed like a software company"
Web Yahoo: what went wrong:
"One of the weirdest things about Yahoo when I went to work there was the way they insisted on calling themselves a "media company." If you walked around their offices, it seemed like a software company. The cubicles were full of programmers writing code, product managers thinking about feature lists and ship dates, support people (yes, there were actually support people) telling users to restart their browsers, and so on, just like a software company. So why did they call themselves a media company?"
No one else seems to remember this (the collective web memory being a strange and spotty thing) but when I was studying search engines at university in the 90s, Yahoo was licensing Google's technology.
That's why I used it, pulling great search results (even then) and material from Yahoo's own portal. Eventually when Google became a serious company, Yahoo began using their own version which didn't seem to work quite as well.
Now I know why. Now I also see that they're going to be using a similar licensing arrangement in Japan as of this year.
Who's best to judge Hamlet?
PJ Purdey makes a good point (in a Guardian article illustrated with a perfect picture of Tennant) about who the best judge of a play should be:
"Who's best qualified to assess the merits of a new production of Hamlet: a practising theatre critic, or a Danish prince? The former brings a certain amount of theatrical experience to the task: he or she has probably seen the play before, and so is at least well placed to judge the originality and competence of the staging under review. But the latter, even if a theatrical virgin, will have valuable insights of a different order to offer, especially if he's of an introspective disposition and has had a father expire in suspicious circumstances. In short, the Danish prince will know how it feels, and can therefore judge whether Shakespeare has got it right."
Purdey is reacting to some of the reviews his new play Subs has received both from critics and the sub-editors it illustrates.
It seems to me the ideal person to judge a new production of Hamlet would be a Danish Prince who is also a theatre critic.
In other words, Hamlet himself.
Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 0 comments Labels: shakespeare
Life There are now some excellent photos of the L...
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#GoodRead on “WHY 2013 WAS A TERRIBLE YEAR FOR WOMEN IN HIP-HOP”
Dee Lockett of pigeonsandplanes.com wrote, “Many critics likened 2013 to 1993—two robust years of genre-defining albums from rap legends and legends-in-the-making. But what made 1993 so undeniably perfect was its diversity. Alongside the male MCs we celebrate twenty years later, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Salt-n-Pepa, Monie Love, The Conscious Daughters, and Bo$$ each released critically acclaimed albums that year. 2013 may as well have been 1903 with its hushed female presence in hip-hop culture. And when women’s presence wasn’t silent, it was oftentimes loudly embarrassing.
In 2013: Lauryn Hill spent three months in prison for tax evasion; TLC essentially replaced Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes with Lil’ Mama; Eve put out her fourth studio album Lip Lock and no one noticed (less than 20,000 sold to date); only Tink’s Boss Up mixtape and M.I.A.’s Matangi made year-end lists for a rap album by a woman. Meanwhile, SPIN included Matangi in its “20 Best Pop Albums of 2013” list, voiding the album’s rap cred. Debut albums from Azealia Banks, Iggy Azalea, and Nitty Scott MC never came, and Angel Haze had to publicly beg for a 2013 release date for hers. The biggest news story on Foxy Brown’s comeback was when she fell on stage in New York. The list goes on….”
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Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document global women's history, reflecting the full spectrum of the world's peoples. She amassed a collection of 15,000 slides and 20,000 digital images, and has created 130 slideshows on female cultural heritages. For over 40 years, Max Dashu has presented visual talks in North America, Europe, and Australia (as well as via webcast and online courses). She teaches with images, scanning the cultural record: archaeology, history, art, spiritual philosophies, and orature. She has keynoted at various conferences and published in journals and anthologies such as Goddesses in World Mythology (Praeger 2010). She is also a well-known artist whose work has been featured in many feminist publications from Judy Grahn’s She Who (1976) to Manushi, a journal in India and Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality (2014). Her daily posts on the Suppressed Histories Facebook page are followed by 150,000 people. She has created two dvds: Women's Power in Global Perspective (2008) and Woman Shaman: the Ancients (2013). Her book Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1000 has just been published by Veleda Press.
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That Which Is Sacred by Max Dashu
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We are going through a huge cultural shift toward restoring the female to her full radiance. However you want to define that, it is rising now, through us. That which is Sacred, what should we call it? We’ve been told… Read More ›
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Tracy Shen
Author: Tracy Shen
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OUR TIME WILL COME (2017): Review by Peier Tracy Shen
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Ann Hui’s latest film, Our Time Will Come, is a woman’s take on what has been a guy’s subject—war. It is so easy to imagine another movie: set in the same Japanese-occupied Hong Kong during World War II, the story somehow pivots towards more familiar figures (traditionally male roles) like a hero with roguish charms,…
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13 MINUTES (2017): Review by Peier Shen
13 Minutes, written by Léonie-Claire and Fred Breinersdorfer, isn’t bad. In a strange way, it might be perfect in its mediocrity. It is all very well told of a story of a forgotten hero, Georg Elser, a fiercely independent and out-of-luck assassin of the Führer. Not a scene missing. Not a sequence misplaced. But it’s…
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RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN
By Tracy Shen May 26, 2017
What does it take to be a ballerina? What does it take to be one of the best ballerinas in the world? We’ve sat through enough images of broken toes, stressful auditions, and tedious rehearsals to know that the journey to the center stage is long and onerous. Perfection is essential and everything less so…
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The world is not coming to an end. With news like the budget cut at the Environmental Protection Agency and the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Tomorrow (Demain), directed by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent, is a welcomed feel-good documentary. Instead of dwelling on the gravity of eco problems, the film takes a rare…
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By Tracy Shen July 29, 2016
Meant for a bedazzling golden sequin dress, Sharon Jones owns the stage as she stomps, and twirls, and sings with mighty strength after a nasty battle with cancer. If you don’t know this American soul and funk diva already, it’s not easy to forget her this time in Academy Award winning director, Barbara Kopple’s new…
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How JPMorgan's CFO became the top prospect to succeed Dimon
By David Henry
Reuters September 14, 2018
Chief Financial Officer Marianne Lake stands for a portrait at the headquarters of JP Morgan Chase & Co in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As a single mother with a British accent who loves numbers, Marianne Lake bears little resemblance to Jamie Dimon, the longtime chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co , known for his bravado, quips and occasional profanity-laced outbursts.
Yet Lake has emerged as a front-runner to replace Dimon when he eventually retires, Reuters interviews with more than a dozen current and former executives show.
Over her nearly six years as JPMorgan's chief financial officer Lake, 49, has taken on more and more responsibilities effectively becoming Dimon's understudy. She helps develop strategies for each of the bank's business units and oversees matters ranging from its annual stress test to employee cafeterias.
Largely unknown outside JPMorgan when named CFO in 2012, Lake has worked in both the wholesale and retail businesses during 19 years there. "She has been all over," Dimon, 62, said in an interview, describing Lake as an "extraordinarily talented executive."
“She has all of the qualities of a great leader,” he said. Those include being demanding, drawing information out of people and recognizing talent within the 15,000 people she oversees. Dimon said she also challenges him when she believes he is wrong.
Lake, who also spoke to Reuters, said she wanted to broaden her skillset in her next job and has made her ambitions clear to the board chaired by Dimon. She declined to predict whether she will be the next CEO.
"I want to be at this company 10 years from now and I will be quite open-minded about what the next step could look like," she said. "I have told the board that I want to be here for the long-term."
Dimon has been CEO for nearly 13 years, the longest tenure among major U.S. banks. He is a larger-than-life figure who steered JPMorgan through the financial crisis and regularly stands up to regulators and politicians. The question of who could succeed him has captivated Wall Street for years. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/2NbTiZo)
Lake's standing has risen as other CEO candidates have left JPMorgan after growing impatient or getting on Dimon's wrong side, executives said. "I would put my money on her above anybody else," said one longtime JPMorgan executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"She knows the bank extremely well, with her role spanning all of our businesses and functions," said Gordon Smith, co-president of the company and chief executive of JPMorgan’s consumer bank.
Dimon, who has said he will step down in about five years, would not discuss Lake's chances. It is the board's choice, and there are other people who could also run the company, he said. And, Dimon cautioned, "Things change...Everybody changes.”
JPMorgan has said it has a succession plan and that it strives to give executives experience in its different businesses, but it does not publicly disclose the details.
Two people analysts often mention as possible successors if Dimon were to suddenly leave are Smith, 60, and the other co-president Daniel Pinto, 55, who runs the investment bank. Mary Erdoes, 51, chief of asset and wealth management, and Doug Petno, 53, chief of the commercial bank, have also been cited over the years.
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When former CFO Douglas Braunstein stepped down in 2012 in the wake of the "London whale" scandal in which a JPMorgan trader lost more than $6 billion, Lake was one of several executives interviewing for the CFO job. In the interview, Lake credited a colleague for a piece of advice she says helped her win the promotion: Tell Dimon how much you want the job and tell him how hard you will work for him.
"If you don't tell people you really want a job, then you have no shot,” said Lake.
Born in Maryland and raised by working-class parents in southern England, Lake joined JPMorgan’s London office as chief financial officer for credit trading at age 30, after working on the JPMorgan account for PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm. She moved to the United States in 2004 as JPMorgan was merging with Bank One, which Dimon ran before becoming CEO of the combined organization.
She worked on an expensive, multi-year drive to combine JPMorgan's data and accounting systems and the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley accounting controls. She was controller of the investment bank during the 2007-2009 financial crisis, and ran finances for the retail bank as the mortgage business went through drastic changes afterward.
Dimon named her to the current post in November 2012 and colleagues were stunned by her intensity in preparing for her first quarterly results presentation in January.
"She always wants to understand the why behind the things she would say," recalled Sarah Youngwood, then head of investor relations. "It is still happening to this day."
Lake talks too fast for some people to keep up. "That is because she thinks so fast, but she has slowed it down," said Youngwood, who now has Lake's old job of CFO for the consumer bank.
Lake said she sometimes counts to herself to reduce the pace.
Bank analysts say they welcome all of the information Lake packs into her presentations and they like that she is quick to thoroughly address questions on investor minds.
For example, after Goldman Sachs analyst Richard Ramsden published a report in January 2015 asking whether JPMorgan should break itself up because of new regulations, Lake made a case that the bank would thrive because of its size.
"She is probably one of the most gifted CFOs around," Ramsden said. “She is really at the top of every dynamic at JPMorgan."
Lake’s speed, demands for information, and visual memory of numbers can intimidate new hires, people who work with her said. Dimon said he and Lake sometimes challenge one another to remember numbers down to one decimal point. “We have a lot of fun with each other,” he said.
Lake had her three children through a surrogate starting at the age 42 after she decided that, even without a partner, she wanted to be a parent. She said she realized after she became CFO that her story could inspire other career-driven women at the bank and she tells it frequently. One junior colleague described Lake’s parenting decision as “fearless.”
“It's too easy to say it's not convenient right now” to have a child, said Lake. “On big life-changing decisions like that, you just have to go for it.”
In a nod to her expanding role, JPMorgan put Lake at center stage at its four-hour investor conference this year. Typically, all the business heads would give their own presentations, but this time, Lake spoke for an hour and a half, explaining strategies for each of JPMorgan’s four segments and giving an overview of how the bank is using technology to cut costs and generate more revenue.
Lake says she is ready to take on a different role at JPMorgan and that the next CEO’s main challenge will be making sure JPMorgan remains the country’s most profitable big bank.
"When you are a successful company," she said, "you have to fight really hard to make sure you avoid complacency, arrogance, bureaucracy."
(Reporting by David Henry; Writing by Lauren Tara LaCapra; Editing by Neal Templin and Tomasz Janowski)
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2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November with the 2K Sports Classic and ended with the Final Four in Atlanta, April 6–8.
Preseason AP #1
November 9, 2012 – March 17, 2013
Tournament dates
Georgia Dome
Louisville (vacated)
Other champions
Baylor (NIT),
Santa Clara (CBI),
East Carolina (CIT)
(Naismith, Wooden)
Trey Burke, Michigan
NCAA Division I basketball seasons
Season headlinesEdit
October 29 – The AP preseason All-American team was named. Indiana's Cody Zeller was the leading vote-getter, garnering 64 of 65 possible votes. Joining Zeller were Creighton forward Doug McDermott (62 votes), Murray State guard Isaiah Canaan (43), Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas (26), Michigan guard Trey Burke (16) and Lehigh guard C. J. McCollum (16). Burke and McCollum tied in the voting, creating a sixth spot on the team.[1]
December 1 – Respected Saint Louis coach Rick Majerus died at 64 of heart failure. Majerus had been placed on a medical leave of absence prior to the start of the season for medical reasons and was replaced on an interim basis by Jim Crews. Majerus had a record of 517–216 in his 25 years as a head coach, with stops at Marquette, Ball State and Utah prior to taking the job at SLU. His best finish came in 1998 when he led Utah to the NCAA championship game.[2]
December 15 – The seven Big East Conference schools that do not sponsor FBS football (DePaul, Georgetown, St. John's, Providence, Villanova, Seton Hall and Marquette, collectively called the "Catholic 7") announced that they would break from the Big East and pursue other conference affiliation. The move leaves Connecticut as the only original Big East member set to remain in the conference.[3]
February 28 – ESPN reports that the "Catholic 7" will launch their new conference in July 2013, two years ahead of schedule, and will purchase the rights to the "Big East" name from the remaining conference schools. Two Atlantic 10 Conference members, Butler (which had only joined the A10 in July 2012) and Xavier, will reportedly join the new Big East, with Missouri Valley Conference member Creighton also a possibility.[4]
March 8 – The Big East split is officially announced. As previously reported, the "Catholic 7" will leave on June 30 with the Big East name. As of the announcement, the "Catholic 7" were the only members of the new Big East, but Butler, Xavier, and Creighton are expected to be added shortly.[5]
March 12 – Virginia Tech's Erick Green wins the ACC Player of the Year award, joining Maryland's Len Bias (1985–86) as the only two players of the year who competed for teams with losing ACC records.[6]
March 20 – The new Big East is officially launched at a press conference in New York City, with Butler, Creighton, and Xavier joining the "Catholic 7".[7]
April 3 – The FBS schools that will retain the charter of the original Big East unveil their future name, American Athletic Conference.[8]
Milestones and recordsEdit
November 25 – Lehigh's C. J. McCollum scored 26 points in a 91–77 win over Sacred Heart, which made him surpass Rob Feaster as the Patriot League's all-time leading scorer.[9]
December 8 – Junior center Jordan Bachynski recorded the first triple-double in Arizona State men's basketball history. The 7'2" Bachynski scored 13 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked 12 shots in an 87–76 win over Cal State Northridge.[10]
December 17 – Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim became the third Division I head coach to win 900 games as the Orange defeated Detroit 72–68.[11]
December 19 – Phil Pressey recorded 19 assists for Missouri against UCLA tying the Southeastern Conference single-game assist record (Kenny Higgs, 1976–77 LSU; Bill Hann, 1967–68 Tennessee).[12]
January 2 – VCU senior guard Troy Daniels set a school and Atlantic 10 Conference record by hitting 11 three-pointers in a 109–58 win over East Tennessee State. Daniels scored all 33 of his points in the game on three-point shots.[13]
Santa Clara guard Kevin Foster,[14] South Dakota State guard Nate Wolters,[15] Evansville guard Colt Ryan,[16] Georgia Southern guard C. J. Reed,[17] Creighton forward Doug McDermott,[18] VMI forward Stan Okoye,[19] Sacred Heart guard Shane Gibson,[20] Ohio guard D. J. Cooper,[21] Murray State guard Isaiah Canaan,[22] Duke guard Seth Curry,[23] Bucknell center Mike Muscala [24] and Florida guard Kenny Boynton[25] each passed the 2,000 point mark for their careers.
January 26 – Northern Illinois set several all-time Division I marks of offensive futility in a 42–25 loss to Eastern Michigan: fewest points in a half in the shot clock era (4), lowest field goal shooting percentage for a half (3.2%), and tied the record for fewest field goals made in a half (1).[26] The Huskies shot 1-for-31 in the first half, including 29 straight misses.[26]
February 25 – Kansas head coach Bill Self records his 500th win with a 108–96 overtime win at Iowa State.[27]
March 5 – D. J. Cooper of Ohio becomes the first player in the history of college basketball to record 2,000 points, 900 assists, 600 rebounds and 300 steals in a career.[28]
March 13 – Grambling State loses 59-51 to Alabama A&M in the SWAC Tournament, finishing off their winless 0-28 season.[29]
Conference membership changesEdit
Main article: 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment
The 2012–13 season saw the second wave of membership changes resulting from a major realignment of NCAA Division I conferences. The cycle began in 2010 with the Big Ten and the then-Pac-10 publicly announcing their intentions to expand. The fallout from these conferences' moves later affected a majority of D-I conferences.
In addition, two schools moved from Division II starting this season. These schools are ineligible for NCAA-sponsored postseason play until completing their D-I transitions in 2016. Finally, one school that had announced a transition to Division II, New Orleans, announced that it would halt its transition and remain in Division I.
Former Conference
New Conference
Belmont Bruins A-Sun OVC
Butler Bulldogs Horizon League Atlantic 10
Denver Pioneers Sun Belt WAC
Fresno State Bulldogs WAC Mountain West
Hawaiʻi Rainbow Warriors WAC Big West
Longwood Lancers Independent Big South
Missouri Tigers Big 12 SEC
Omaha Mavericks MIAA (D-II) Summit League
Nevada Wolf Pack WAC Mountain West
New Orleans Privateers Division II independent Division I independent
North Dakota (no nickname) Great West Big Sky
Northern Kentucky Norse GLVC (D-II) A-Sun
Oral Roberts Golden Eagles Summit League Southland
Seattle Redhawks Independent WAC
Southern Utah Thunderbirds Summit League Big Sky
TCU Horned Frogs Mountain West Big 12
Texas A&M Aggies Big 12 SEC
Texas State Bobcats Southland WAC
UT Arlington Mavericks Southland WAC
UTSA Roadrunners Southland WAC
VCU Rams CAA Atlantic 10
West Virginia Mountaineers Big East Big 12
New arenasEdit
Coastal Carolina left behind one of the smallest venues in Division I basketball, Kimbel Arena (seating little over 1,000). The Chanticleers remained on campus at the new HTC Center.
Omaha made its Division I debut in the new Ralston Arena, an off-campus venue in Ralston, a suburb of Omaha. The team's former on-campus home, Lee & Helene Sapp Fieldhouse, remained in use by the Omaha women's team. (Both teams would move in 2015 to the on-campus Baxter Arena.)
Troy left its on-campus home since 1962, the original Trojan Arena, for a new on-campus venue also named Trojan Arena.
Major rule changesEdit
Beginning in 2012–13, the following rules changes were implemented:
College coaches are allowed to practice with players a maximum two hours per week during the Summer (May–August) as long as the student-athletes were enrolled in classes.[30]
Coaches could work their teams for a maximum of two hours a week beginning September 15 until official practice begins on October 13.[31]
There is now unlimited contact, including text messaging, allowed between college coaches and a prospective player in high school and junior college recruiting.[32]
Season outlookEdit
Pre-season pollsEdit
See also: 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings
The top 25 from the AP and ESPN/USA Today Coaches Polls.
'Associated Press'[33]
1 Indiana (43)
2 Louisville (20)
3 Kentucky (2)
4 Ohio State
5 Michigan
6 NC State
7 Kansas
8 Duke
9 Syracuse
10 Florida
11 North Carolina
12 Arizona
13 UCLA
14 Michigan State
15 Missouri
16 Creighton
17 Memphis
18 UNLV
19 Baylor
20 San Diego State
21 Gonzaga
22 Notre Dame
23 Wisconsin
24 Cincinnati
25 Florida State
ESPN/USA Today Coaches[34]
2 Louisville (5)
24 Florida Stateт
Texasт
Regular seasonEdit
A number of early-season tournaments will mark the beginning of the college basketball season.
Early-season tournamentsEdit
No. teams
NIT Season Tip-Off November 12–13, 21, 23 16 Michigan
2K Sports Classic November 15–16 4* Alabama
Champions Classic November 13 4 N/A
Puerto Rico Tip-Off November 15–16, 18 8 Oklahoma State
Charleston Classic November 2012 8 Colorado
Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic November 15–16 4* Florida State
Hall of Fame Tip Off November 16–18 4 Ohio State
Paradise Jam Tournament November 16–19 8 New Mexico
CBE Hall of Fame Classic November 19–20 4* Kansas
Legends Classic November 19–20 4* Indiana
Maui Invitational Tournament November 19–21 8 Illinois
Cancún Challenge November 20–21 8 Wichita State
Great Alaska Shootout November 21–24 8 Charlotte
Battle 4 Atlantis November 22–24 8 Duke
Old Spice Classic November 22–23,25 8 Gonzaga
Anaheim Classic November 22–23,25 8 California
Las Vegas Invitational November 23, 24 4* Creighton
South Padre Island Invitational November 23, 24 8 Northwestern
Hoops for Hope Classic November 23, 25 4* South Carolina
Las Vegas Classic December 22–23 4* Colorado State
Diamond Head Classic December 22–23, 25 8 Arizona
*Although these tournaments include more teams, only the number listed play for the championship.
Conference winners and tournamentsEdit
Thirty athletic conferences each end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. The winners of these tournaments receive automatic invitations to the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The Ivy League does not have a conference tournament, instead giving their automatic invitation to their regular season champion. As of 2013, the Great West Conference does not have an automatic bid to the NCAA Men or Women's College Tournament but the men's tourney champion does receive an automatic bid to the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.
season winner
venue (city)
America East Conference Stony Brook Tommy Brenton, Stony Brook[35] Steve Pikiell, Stony Brook[35] 2013 America East Men's Basketball Tournament SEFCU Arena
(Guilderland, New York)
Final at campus site Albany
Atlantic 10 Conference Saint Louis Khalif Wyatt, Temple[36] Jim Crews, Saint Louis[36] 2013 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament Barclays Center
(Brooklyn, New York) Saint Louis
Atlantic Coast Conference Miami Erick Green, Virginia Tech (media)[37] & Shane Larkin, Miami (coaches)[38] Jim Larranaga, Miami[39] 2013 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Greensboro Coliseum
(Greensboro, North Carolina) Miami
Atlantic Sun Conference Mercer Sherwood Brown, Florida Gulf Coast[40] Bob Hoffman, Mercer[40] 2013 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament University Center
(Macon, Georgia) Florida Gulf Coast
Big 12 Conference Kansas & Kansas State Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State[41] Bruce Weber, Kansas State[41] 2013 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament Sprint Center
(Kansas City, Missouri) Kansas
Big East Conference Georgetown,
Louisville &
Marquette Otto Porter, Georgetown[42] John Thompson III, Georgetown[42] 2013 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament Madison Square Garden
(New York City) Louisville
Big Sky Conference Montana Kareem Jamar, Montana[43] Wayne Tinkle, Montana[44] 2013 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament At regular season champion Montana
Big South Conference High Point (Division A)
Charleston Southern (Division B) Stan Okoye, VMI[45] Chris Holtmann, Gardner–Webb[45] 2013 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament HTC Center
(Conway, South Carolina) Liberty
Big Ten Conference Indiana Trey Burke, Michigan[46] Bo Ryan, Wisconsin[46] 2013 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament United Center
(Chicago) Ohio State
Big West Conference Long Beach State James Ennis, Long Beach State[47] Dan Monson, Long Beach State[47] 2013 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Honda Center
(Anaheim, California) Pacific
Colonial Athletic Association Northeastern Jerrelle Benimon, Towson[48] Pat Skerry, Towson[48] 2013 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament Richmond Coliseum
(Richmond, Virginia) James Madison
Conference USA Memphis Joe Jackson, Memphis[49] Josh Pastner, Memphis[49] 2013 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament BOK Center
(Tulsa, Oklahoma) Memphis
Great West Conference NJIT Chris Flores, NJIT[50] Jim Engles, NJIT[50] 2013 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center
Chicago Chicago State
Horizon League Valparaiso Ray McCallum, Jr., Detroit[51] Billy Donlon, Wright State[51] 2013 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament First round at campus sites
Quarterfinals and semifinals at top seed
Final at top remaining seed Valparaiso
Independent Cal State Bakersfield No tournament
Ivy League Harvard Ian Hummer, Princeton[52] No tournament
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Niagara Lamont Jones, Iona[53] Joe Mihalich, Niagara[54] 2013 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament MassMutual Center
(Springfield, Massachusetts) Iona
Mid-American Conference Akron (East)
Western Michigan (West) D. J. Cooper, Ohio[55] Keith Dambrot, Akron[55] 2013 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournament First round at campus sites
Remainder at Quicken Loans Arena
(Cleveland, Ohio) Akron
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Norfolk State Pendarvis Williams, Norfolk State[56] Anthony Evans, Norfolk State[56] 2013 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament Norfolk Scope
(Norfolk, Virginia) North Carolina A&T
Missouri Valley Conference Creighton Doug McDermott, Creighton[57] Gregg Marshall, Wichita State[58] 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Scottrade Center
(St. Louis, Missouri) Creighton
Mountain West Conference New Mexico Kendall Williams, New Mexico[59] Steve Alford, New Mexico[59] 2013 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Thomas & Mack Center
(Paradise, Nevada) New Mexico
Northeast Conference Robert Morris Jamal Olasewere, Long Island[60] Tim O'Shea, Bryant[60] 2013 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Campus Sites Long Island
Ohio Valley Conference Belmont (East)
Murray State (West) Isaiah Canaan, Murray State & Ian Clark, Belmont[61] Rick Byrd, Belmont[61] 2013 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Nashville Municipal Auditorium
(Nashville, Tennessee) Belmont
Pac-12 Conference UCLA Allen Crabbe, California[62] Dana Altman, Oregon[62] 2013 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament MGM Grand Garden Arena
(Paradise, Nevada) Oregon
Patriot League Bucknell Mike Muscala, Bucknell[63] Zach Spiker, Army[63] 2013 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament Campus Sites Bucknell
Southeastern Conference Florida Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Georgia[64][65] Billy Donovan, Florida[64][65] 2013 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament Bridgestone Arena
(Nashville, Tennessee) Ole Miss
Southern Conference Elon (North)
Davidson (South) Jake Cohen, Davidson[66] Bob McKillop, Davidson (coaches)[66]
Matt Matheny, Elon (media)[67] 2013 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament U.S. Cellular Center
(Asheville, North Carolina) Davidson
Southland Conference Stephen F. Austin Taylor Smith, Stephen F. Austin[68] Danny Kaspar, Stephen F. Austin[68] 2013 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Leonard E. Merrell Center
(Katy, Texas) Northwestern State
Southwestern Athletic Conference Southern[69] Omar Strong, Texas Southern[70] Mike Davis, Texas Southern & Roman Banks, Southern[70] 2013 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament Garland Special Events Center
(Garland, Texas) Southern
The Summit League South Dakota State &
Western Illinois Nate Wolters, South Dakota State[71] Jim Molinari, Western Illinois[71] 2013 The Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament Sioux Falls Arena
(Sioux Falls, South Dakota) South Dakota State
Sun Belt Conference Middle Tennessee (East)
Arkansas State (West) Augustine Rubit, South Alabama[72] Kermit Davis, Middle Tennessee[72] 2013 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Summit Arena
(Hot Springs, Arkansas) Western Kentucky
West Coast Conference Gonzaga Kelly Olynyk, Gonzaga[73] Mark Few, Gonzaga[73] 2013 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Orleans Arena
(Paradise, Nevada) Gonzaga
Western Athletic Conference Louisiana Tech &
Denver Kyle Barone, Idaho[74] Michael White, Louisiana Tech[74] 2013 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament Orleans Arena
(Paradise, Nevada) New Mexico State
Statistical leadersEdit
Points per game Rebounds per game Assists per game Steals per game
Erick Green Virginia Tech 25.0 O. D. Anosike Siena 11.4 Jason Brickman LIU Brooklyn 8.5 Duke Mondy Oakland 3.03
Doug McDermott Creighton 23.2 Jerrelle Benimon Towson 11.2 Phil Gaetano Sacred Heart 7.9 Marcus Smart Oklahoma St. 3.00
Lamont Jones Iona 22.6 André Roberson Colorado 11.2 Michael Carter-Williams Syracuse 7.3 Anthony Hickey LSU 2.93
Nate Wolters S. Dakota St. 22.3 Mike Muscala Bucknell 11.1 Larry Drew II UCLA 7.3 Michael Carter-Williams Syracuse 2.78
Travis Bader Oakland 22.1 Richard Howell NC State 10.9 Chaz Williams UMass 7.3 Bernard Thompson FGCU 2.76
Blocked shots per game Field goal percentage Three-point field goal percentage Free throw percentage
Chris Obekpa St. John's 4.03 Taylor Smith Stephen F. Austin 69.4 Tyrus McGee Iowa St. 46.4 Nik Cochran Davidson 93.5
Jeff Withey Kansas 3.95 Marshall Bjorklund N. Dakota St. 66.7 Ryan Sypkens UC Davis 46.1 Keith Hornsby UNC Asheville 92.5
Zeke Marshall Akron 3.70 Kelly Olynyk Gonzaga 62.9 Ian Clark Belmont 45.9 Austin Morgan Yale 91.2
Jordan Bachynski Arizona St. 3.43 T. J. Warren NC State 62.2 Scott Bamforth Weber St. 45.4 Holton Hunsaker Utah Valley 90.4
Chris Horton Austin Peay 3.23 Jameel Warney Stony Brook 61.8 Malcolm Miller Southern 45.2 Travis Smith Mercer 89.8
Postseason tournamentsEdit
NCAA TournamentEdit
Main article: 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Final Four – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GeorgiaEdit
National Semifinals
April 6, 2013 National Championship Game
MW1 Louisville 72
W9 Wichita State 68
S4 Michigan 76
E4 Syracuse 56
Tournament upsetsEdit
For this list, a "major upset" is defined as a win by a team seeded 7 or more spots below its defeated opponent.
March 21 Oregon (#12, Midwest) 68–55 Oklahoma State (#5, Midwest)
March 21 California (#12, East) 64–61 UNLV (#5, East)
March 21 Harvard (#14, West) 68–62 New Mexico (#3, West)
March 22 Ole Miss (#12, West) 57–46 Wisconsin (#5, West)
March 22 La Salle (#13, West) 63–61 Kansas State (#4, West)
March 22 Florida Gulf Coast (#15, South) 78–68 Georgetown (#2, South)
March 23 Oregon (#12, Midwest) 74–57 Saint Louis (#4, Midwest)
March 23 Wichita State (#9, West) 76–70 Gonzaga (#1, West)
March 24 Florida Gulf Coast (#15, South) 81–71 San Diego State (#7, South)
March 30 Wichita State (#9, West) 70–66 Ohio State (#2, West)
National Invitation TournamentEdit
Main article: 2013 National Invitation Tournament
After the NCAA Tournament field is announced, the NCAA invited 32 teams to participate in the National Invitation Tournament. The tournament will begin on March 19, 2013, with all games prior to the semifinals played on campus sites. The semifinals and final will be respectively held in April 2 and April 4, 2013 at the traditional site of Madison Square Garden.
NIT Semifinals and FinalEdit
Played at Madison Square Garden in New York City
April 2, 2013 Championship Game
2 Baylor 76
3 BYU 70
3 Iowa 54
2 Maryland 60
College Basketball InvitationalEdit
Main article: 2013 College Basketball Invitational
The fifth College Basketball Invitational (CBI) Tournament began on March 19, 2013 and ended with a best-of-three final scheduled for April 1, 3, and 5; the final went the full three games. This tournament featured 16 teams who were left out of the NCAA Tournament and NIT.
April 2013 Championship Series
(best of three)
Western Michigan 52
George Mason 62
George Mason 73 73 77
Santa Clara 81 66 80
Santa Clara 81
Wright State 59
CollegeInsider.com Postseason TournamentEdit
Main article: 2013 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament
The fourth CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament was held beginning March 2013 and ending with a championship game in April 2013. This tournament places an emphasis on selecting successful teams from "mid-major" conferences who were left out of the NCAA Tournament and NIT. 32 teams participated in this tournament, which granted an automatic bid to the Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament champion.
April 2013 Championship
Evansville 58
East Carolina 81
Weber State 74
Northern Iowa 56
Award winnersEdit
Consensus All-American teamsEdit
Main article: 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The following players are recognized as the 2013 Consensus All-Americans:
Consensus First Team
Trey Burke PG Sophomore Michigan
Doug McDermott SF Junior Creighton
Victor Oladipo SG Junior Indiana
Kelly Olynyk PF-C Junior Gonzaga
Otto Porter F Sophomore Georgetown
Consensus Second Team
Ben McLemore SG Freshman Kansas
Mason Plumlee PF-C Senior Duke
Marcus Smart PG Freshman Oklahoma State
Jeff Withey C Senior Kansas
Cody Zeller PF Sophomore Indiana
Major player of the year awardsEdit
Wooden Award: Trey Burke, Michigan[75]
Naismith Award: Trey Burke, Michigan[76]
Associated Press Player of the Year: Trey Burke, Michigan[77]
NABC Player of the Year: Trey Burke, Michigan[78]
Oscar Robertson Trophy (USBWA): Trey Burke, Michigan[79]
Sporting News Player of the Year: Victor Oladipo, Indiana[80]
Major freshman of the year awardsEdit
Wayman Tisdale Award (USBWA): Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State[81]
Sporting News Freshman of the Year: Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State[82]
Major coach of the year awardsEdit
Associated Press Coach of the Year: Jim Larrañaga, Miami (Florida)[83]
Henry Iba Award (USBWA): Jim Larrañaga, Miami (Florida)[84]
NABC Coach of the Year: Jim Crews, Saint Louis[85]
Naismith College Coach of the Year: Jim Larrañaga, Miami (Florida)[86]
Sporting News Coach of the Year: Jim Crews, Saint Louis[87]
Other major awardsEdit
Bob Cousy Award (Best point guard): Trey Burke, Michigan[88]
Pete Newell Big Man Award (Best big man): Mason Plumlee, Duke[89]
NABC Defensive Player of the Year: Victor Oladipo, Indiana & Jeff Withey, Kansas[90]
Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (Best senior 6'0"/1.83 m or shorter): Peyton Siva, Louisville[91]
Senior CLASS Award (top senior): Jordan Hulls, Indiana[92]
Robert V. Geasey Trophy (Top player in Philadelphia Big 5): Khalif Wyatt, Temple
Haggerty Award (Top player in NYC metro area): Lamont Jones, Iona[93]
Ben Jobe Award (Top minority coach): Kevin Ollie, Connecticut[94]
Hugh Durham Award (Top mid-major coach): Danny Kaspar, Stephen F. Austin[95]
Jim Phelan Award (Top head coach): Dana Altman, Oregon[96]
Lefty Driesell Award (Top defensive player): Tommy Brenton, Stony Brook[97]
Lou Henson Award (Top mid-major player): Matthew Dellavedova, Saint Mary's
Lute Olson Award (Top non-freshman or transfer player): Shane Larkin, Miami (Florida)[98]
Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award (Coach with moral character): Joe Mihalich, Niagara[99]
Academic All-American of the Year (Top scholar-athlete): Aaron Craft, Ohio State[100]
Elite 89 Award (Top GPA among upperclass players at Final Four): Wayne Blackshear, Louisville[101]
Coaching changesEdit
A number of teams changed coaches during and after the season.
Ball State Billy Taylor James Whitford Taylor was fired following 15–15 records in each of his last two seasons.[102]
Buffalo Reggie Witherspoon Bobby Hurley Witherspoon was fired after 14 seasons.[103]
Butler Brad Stevens Brandon Miller Stevens left to become the newest head coach of the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics.[104]
Cal State Northridge Bobby Braswell Reggie Theus Braswell was fired after 17 seasons, ending with a 14–17 season. Although he led the Matadors to two NCAA tournaments and three 20-win seasons, his tenure was also marked by numerous off-court problems. Ironically, incoming Northridge athletic director Brandon Martin, who announced Braswell's firing, played under him in high school.[105] Northridge went to the D-League to hire Theus, who is also a former coach of New Mexico State and the Sacramento Kings, and played 13 seasons in the NBA.[106]
Campbell Robbie Laing Kevin McGeehan Campbell went 13-20 and finished tied for third in the league's North Division with a 7-9 conference record.[107]
Connecticut Jim Calhoun Kevin Ollie Calhoun retired on September 13. He won 873 games in 40 years as a head coach, first at Northeastern and the last 26 years at UConn, where he put four teams in the Final Four, winning national titles in 1999, 2004 and 2011.[108]
FIU Richard Pitino Anthony Evans Pitino, son of Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, took the Minnesota job.[109]
Florida Gulf Coast Andy Enfield Joe Dooley Enfield guided the Eagles to the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in only its second year of Division I eligibility, then advanced to the Sweet 16 as a #15-seed – the first time in tournament history that a 15-seed had gotten so far. The University of Southern California lured Enfield away on April 1.[110]
Longwood Mike Gillian Jayson Gee Gillian guided the Lancers through their transition from Division II to Division I play, and into their first season as a member of the Big South Conference. He resigned on March 14, 2013, after the Lancers' first season with less than ten wins since 2008.[111] On April 3, Cleveland State associate head coach Jayson Gee was hired.[112]
Loyola (Maryland) Jimmy Patsos G. G. Smith
Minnesota Tubby Smith Richard Pitino Smith was fired after six seasons at Minnesota and having compiled a 124-81 record. The Golden Gophers never finished higher than sixth in the Big Ten Conference, however.[113]
New Mexico Steve Alford Craig Neal Alford left to take the UCLA job.[114]
Norfolk State Anthony Evans Robert Jones Evans took the FIU job; he had been a finalist for that job the previous offseason, but had lost out to the now-departed Richard Pitino.[115]
Northwestern Bill Carmody Chris Collins Carmody was fired after failing to lead Northwestern to its first ever NCAA tournament bid in thirteen seasons.[116] He was replaced by Duke assistant Collins, the son of former NBA player and coach Doug Collins. Collins took over after the Blue Devils exited the NCAA tournament.[117]
Old Dominion Blaine Taylor Jim Corrigan Jeff Jones Old Dominion fired Taylor, their all-time winningest coach, on February 5 after a 2–20 start.[118]
Rutgers Mike Rice Eddie Jordan Rice was fired on April 3 after ESPN's Outside the Lines aired a video taken at a Rutgers practice that showed Rice shoving and throwing balls at players and using gay slurs.[119] Jordan, a player on the school's 1976 Final Four team and most recently an assistant with the Los Angeles Lakers, was hired as Rice's replacement.[120]
Saint Louis Rick Majerus Jim Crews Majerus stepped down prior to the season due to health reasons and later died. Interim coach Crews led Saint Louis to an Atlantic 10 regular season title and was named conference coach of the year.[121] Saint Louis removed the interim tag from Crews on April 12.[122]
San Jose State George Nessman Dave Wojcik San Jose State was looking to upgrade the program before its move to the more strenuous Mountain West Conference next season.[123] Boise State associate head coach Dave Wojcik was hired as Nessman's successor on March 30.[124]
Siena Mitch Buonaguro Jimmy Patsos According to ESPN.com, "Buonaguro went 35-59 in three seasons with the Saints, never finishing a season with a winning record or in the top half of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. The three-year slide immediately followed the most successful three-year run in school history. Siena won MAAC titles in 2008, 2009 and 2010 -- all under coach Fran McCaffery, with Buonaguro his top assistant."[125]
South Alabama Ronnie Arrow Jeff Price Matthew Graves Arrow retired December 19, 2012. Jeff Price was named interim head coach. Butler associate head coach Matt Graves was named the new head coach of South Alabama on March 25, 2013.
South Carolina State Tim Carter Murray Garvin Carter resigned in season on February 6, 2013 after starting 4–17.[126]
South Dakota Dave Boots Joey James Boots resigned in August, 2013.[127]
Texas Tech Billy Gillispie Chris Walker Tubby Smith The Red Raiders were 8–23 overall, 1–17 in the Big 12, in Gillispie's lone season as successor to Pat Knight. Gillispie's tenure in Lubbock began to unravel in September 2012 when CBSSports.com and ESPN.com, citing several former players, reported the coach regularly violated NCAA practice-time rules and mistreated players to the point of causing injury[128]
UCLA Ben Howland Steve Alford According to the Orange County Register, "...the perfect storm of attendance, reputation, and very little NCAA Tournament success was enough to doom Howland after 10 seasons."[129]
UMBC Randy Monroe Aki Thomas Monroe resigned as head men's basketball coach on October 10. He led UMBC to its lone America East Conference title and NCAA Tournament appearance in the 2007–08 season. Monroe directed the third-most games (245) of any head coach in UMBC men's basketball history and finished with a career mark of 85–160.[130] On March 4, Aki Thomas' interim tag was removed and he was promoted to permanent head coach.
UMKC Matt Brown Kareem Richardson Brown was fired on March 12, 2013. He went 64–122 with UMKC, including an 8-24 record in 2012–13.[131] He was replaced by Louisville assistant Richardson, who took over after the Cardinals won the NCAA title.[132]
USC Kevin O'Neill Bob Cantu Andy Enfield O'Neill was fired on January 14, 2013. USC athletic director Pat Haden cited "new energy" was needed for their program.[133] On April 1, USC announced that they had hired Andy Enfield, the head coach who just taken Florida Gulf Coast University to the Sweet 16 as a #15-seed, the first time in NCAA Tournament history that has occurred.[110]
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Al Levine
Not to be confused with Allan Levine or Allan Levene.
Alan Brian Levine (born May 22, 1968)[1] is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who pitched 234 games in the minor leagues, and 416 games in the major leagues.[2]
Born: (1968-05-22) May 22, 1968 (age 51)
Park Ridge, Illinois
Batted: Left Threw: Right
June 22, 1996, for the Chicago White Sox
June 10, 2005, for the San Francisco Giants
Chicago White Sox (1996–1997)
Texas Rangers (1998)
Anaheim Angels (1999–2002)
Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2003)
Kansas City Royals (2003)
Detroit Tigers (2004)
San Francisco Giants (2005)
Early and personal lifeEdit
Levine, who is Jewish,[3][4][5] was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, and graduated from Hoffman Estates High School, attended and played for Harper Junior College, and graduated from Southern Illinois University.[1][6] In 1989, Levine walked onto the SIU team as a pitcher. Levine is close friends with Toronto Blue Jays catcher Sal Fasano, and Palatine High School coach Paul Belo.[7]
Baseball careerEdit
The Chicago White Sox drafted him in the 11th round of the 1991 draft.[1]
Minor leaguesEdit
In 1991 he debuted with the single-A Utica Blue Sox, and was 5th in the New York-Penn League with two complete games.[8][9] In 1992, he stuck 142 batters between the Sarasota White Sox and the single-A South Bend White Sox, tying for second among White Sox minor leaguers.[8][9] In 1993, he led Florida State League pitchers with 129 strikeouts while pitching for single-A Sarasota, and came in third in the league with three complete games, and fifth with 11 wins.[9] Levine played AA for the Birmingham Barons in 1994, along with Michael Jordan, until he was called up to AAA mid-season, and came in eighth in with a 3.31 ERA.[9]
In 1995, he started in the Nashville Sounds' starting rotation, but spent most of the season in double-A Birmingham, where he was second on the team with 7 saves.[8][9]
Levine pitched 234 games in the minor leagues, over 11 seasons.
Major leaguesEdit
Levine made his major league debut in 1996 with the White Sox.[1] In 1997, he held batters to a .125 batting average when there were 2 out, with runners in scoring position. In December 1997, he was traded by the White Sox with Larry Thomas to the Texas Rangers for Benji Gil.
In April 1999, he was selected off waivers by the Anaheim Angels from the Texas Rangers. In 2000, he held batters to a .186 batting average when there were 2 out, with runners in scoring position. In 2001, he had perhaps his best season. He had a 2.38 ERA (2.11 in relief; second-best among all AL relievers) for the Angels in 64 games, and his 8 wins were third-most among all AL relief pitchers.[9] In 2002, he held batters to a .206 batting average when there were 2 out, with runners in scoring position.
In January 2003, Levine signed as a free agent with the St. Louis Cardinals, but was released in March. In April, he signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who then sold him to the Kansas City Royals on July 31. In 2003, he had another excellent season, splitting it between the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Kansas City Royals. He had a 2.79 ERA in 54 games.[9] He held batters to a .189 batting average when there were 2 out, with runners in scoring position. In December 2003, he signed as a free agent with the Detroit Tigers. In 2004, he held batters to a .154 batting average when there were 2 out, with runners in scoring position.
For seven seasons in a row, from 1999–2004, he pitched in at least 50 games each year.
In February 2005, he signed as a free agent with the San Francisco Giants, who released him in June. On July 7, 2005, he was signed as a free agent by the Florida Marlins, but was released a week later without pitching a game for them.
Levine played for seven major league teams. For his career, he held batters to a .220 batting average when there were runners in scoring position with 2 out.[10]
As of 2014[update], he was tenth in career ERA and sixth in career games played among Jewish major league baseball pitchers.[11]
Atlantic LeagueEdit
In 2008, Levine pitched for the Newark Bears of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.[12]
Later lifeEdit
Levine later lived in Belleville, Illinois.[1]
List of select Jewish baseball players
^ a b c d e The Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
^ The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
^ "Letters to the Editor; The Fan Speaks Out". Baseball Digest. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
^ "A consumer's guide to the best and worst of sports media and merchandise. Ground rules: If it can be read, played, heard, observed, worn, viewed, dialed or downloaded, it's in play here". Los Angeles Times. June 9, 1999. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
^ Al Levine Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20061105031449/http://www.siude.com/news/2006/09/21/Baseball/Siu-Baseball.Picks.Two.WalkOn.Players-2283431.shtml
^ a b c Al Levine Minor & Independent Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com
^ a b c d e f g Al Levine Stats, Fantasy & News | MLB.com
^ "Al Levine Career Pitching Splits". Baseball-Reference.com. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
^ "Career Pitching Leaders". Career Leaders. Jewish Major Leaguers. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
^ "Bears Sweep Pair From Lancaster, Reach The .500 Mark". OurSports Central. May 11, 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
Adam Levine explains his comment on The Voice
Jews in Sports biography
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Chinese Rites controversy
(Redirected from Cum Deus Optimus)
Not to be confused with Great Rites Controversy.
Matteo Ricci (left) and Xu Guangqi (Chinese: 徐光啓) (right) in the Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements (Chinese: 幾何原本) published in 1670
The Chinese Rites controversy was a dispute among Roman Catholic missionaries over the religiosity of Confucianism and Chinese rituals during the 17th and 18th centuries. The debate discussed whether Chinese ritual practices of honoring family ancestors and other formal Confucian and Chinese imperial rites qualified as religious rites and were thus incompatible with Catholic belief.[1][2] The Jesuits argued that these Chinese rites were secular rituals that were compatible with Christianity, within certain limits, and should thus be tolerated. The Dominicans and Franciscans, however, disagreed and reported the issue to Rome.
Rome's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith sided with the Dominicans in 1645 by condemning the Chinese rites based on their brief. However, the same congregation sided with the Jesuits in 1656, thereby lifting the ban.[1] It was one of the many disputes between the Jesuits and the Dominicans in China and elsewhere in Asia, including Japan[3] and India.[4]
The controversy embroiled leading European universities; the Qing dynasty's Kangxi Emperor and several popes (including Clement XI and Clement XIV) considered the case; the offices of the Holy See also intervened. Near the end of the 17th century, many Dominicans and Franciscans had shifted their positions in agreeing with the Jesuits' opinion, but Rome disagreed. Clement XI banned the rites in 1704. In 1742, Benedict XIV reaffirmed the ban and forbade debate.[1]
In 1939, after two centuries, the Holy See re-assessed the issue. Pope Pius XII issued a decree on December 8, 1939, authorizing Chinese Catholics to observe the ancestral rites and participate in Confucius-honoring ceremonies.[1] The general principle of sometimes admitting native traditions even into the liturgy of the church, provided that such traditions harmonize with the true and authentic spirit of the liturgy, was proclaimed by the Second Vatican Council (1962–65).[5]
Early adaptation to local customsEdit
The Jesuits of the Jesuit China missions made efforts to adopt Chinese customs. Here Nicolas Trigault (1577–1628) in Chinese costume, by Peter Paul Rubens.
Unlike the American landmass, which had been conquered by military force by Spain and Portugal, European missionaries encountered in Asia united, literate societies that were as yet untouched by European influence or national endeavor.[6]
Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of the Society of Jesus in Asia, was one of the first Jesuits to argue, in the case of Japan, for an adaptation of Christian customs to the societies of Asia, through his Résolutions and Cérémonial.[7]
Matteo Ricci’s policy of accommodationEdit
In China, Matteo Ricci reused the Cérémonial and adapted it to the Chinese context. At one point the Jesuits even started to wear the gown of Buddhist monks, before adopting the more prestigious silk gown of Chinese literati.[7] In particular, Matteo Ricci's Christian views on Confucianism and Chinese rituals, often called "the Directives of Matteo Ricci [zh]" (Chinese: 利瑪竇規矩), were followed by Jesuit missionaries in China and Japan.[8]
In a decree signed on 23 March 1656, Pope Alexander VII accepted practices "favorable to Chinese customs", reinforcing 1615 decrees which accepted the usage of the Chinese language in liturgy, a notable exception to the contemporary Latin Catholic discipline which had generally forbidden the use of local languages.[9]
In the 1659 instructions given by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (known as the Propaganda Fidei) to new missionaries to Asia, provisions were clearly made to the effect that adapting to local customs and respecting the habits of the countries to be evangelized was paramount:[10]
Do not act with zeal, do not put forward any arguments to convince these peoples to change their rites, their customs or their usages, except if they are evidently contrary to the religion [i.e., Catholic Christianity] and morality. What would be more absurd than to bring France, Spain, Italy or any other European country to the Chinese? Do not bring to them our countries, but instead bring to them the Faith, a Faith that does not reject or hurt the rites, nor the usages of any people, provided that these are not distasteful, but that instead keeps and protects them.
— Extract from the 1659 Instructions, given to Mgr François Pallu and Mgr Lambert de la Motte of the Paris Foreign Missions Society by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.[11][12]
Reception in ChinaEdit
The Kangxi Emperor with a Jesuit astronomer, Adam Schall. "Tapisserie de Beauvais", 1690–1705.
The Jesuit order was successful in penetrating China and serving at the Imperial court. They impressed the Chinese with their knowledge of European astronomy and mechanics, and in fact ran the Imperial Observatory.[13] The Kangxi Emperor was at first friendly to the Jesuit Missionaries working in China. Their accurate methods allowed him to successfully predict eclipses, one of his ritual duties. He was grateful for the services they provided to him, in the areas of astronomy, diplomacy and artillery manufacture.[14] Jesuit translators Jean-François Gerbillon and Thomas Pereira took part in the negotiations of the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, where they assisted with translation.[12] The Jesuits made an important contribution to the Empire's military, with the diffusion of European artillery technology, and they directed the castings of cannons of various calibers. The Kangxi Emperor also retained several Jesuits in his court as scientists and artists.[15] By the end of the seventeenth century, the Jesuits had made many converts. They in turn were impressed by the knowledge and intelligence of the Han Chinese Confucian scholar elite, and adapted to their ancient Chinese intellectual lifestyle.[16][17]
In 1692, Kangxi issued an edict of toleration of Christianity (Chinese: 容敎令 or Chinese: 正敎奉傳) [18][3][19]
The Europeans are very quiet; they do not excite any disturbances in the provinces, they do no harm to anyone, they commit no crimes, and their doctrine has nothing in common with that of the false sects in the empire, nor has it any tendency to excite sedition ... We decide therefore that all temples dedicated to the Lord of heaven, in whatever place they may be found, ought to be preserved, and that it may be permitted to all who wish to worship this God to enter these temples, offer him incense, and perform the ceremonies practiced according to ancient custom by the Christians. Therefore let no one henceforth offer them any opposition.[20]
This edict elevated Christianity to an equal status with Confucianism in China.[21]
ControversyEdit
See also: Jesuit China missions
Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese, or, Chinese Knowledge Explained in Latin, compiled by Philippe Couplet and three other Jesuits and printed at Paris in 1687.
The Jesuits gradually developed and adopted a policy of accommodation on the issue of Chinese rites.[22] The Chinese scholar elite were attached to Confucianism, while Buddhism and Daoism were mostly practiced by the common people and lower aristocracy of this period. Despite this, all three provided the framework of both state and home life. Part of Confucian and Taoist practices involved veneration of one's ancestors.[3]
Besides the Jesuits, other religious orders such as the Dominicans, Franciscans, and Augustinians started missionary work in China during the 17th century, often coming from the Spanish colony of the Philippines. Contrary to the Jesuits, they refused any adaptation to local customs and wished to apply in China the same tabula rasa principle they had applied in other places,[7] and were horrified by the practices of the Jesuits.[12]
They ignited a heated controversy and brought it to Rome.[23] They raised three main points of contention:[7]
Determination of the Chinese word for "God", which was generally accepted as 天主 Tiānzhǔ (Lord of Heaven), while Jesuits were willing to allow Chinese Christians to use 天 Tiān (Heaven) or 上帝 Shàngdì (Lord Above / Supreme Emperor)
Prohibition of Christians from participating in the seasonal rites for Confucius.
Prohibition of Christians from using of tablets with the forbidden inscription "site of the soul", and from following the Chinese rites for the ancestor worship.
In Rome, the Jesuits tried to argue that these "Chinese Rites" were social (rather than religious) ceremonies, and that converts should be allowed to continue to participate.[18][24][25] They maintained that Chinese folk religion and offerings to the Emperor and departed ancestors were civil in nature and therefore not incompatible with Catholicism, while their opponents argued that these kinds of worship were an expression of native religion and thus incompatible with Catholic beliefs.[18][26]
Pope Clement XI's decreeEdit
Pope Clement XI.
Pope Clement XI condemned the Chinese rites and Confucian rituals, and outlawed any further discussion in 1704,[18] with the anti-rites decree Cum Deus optimus of November 20, 1704.[22] It forbade the use of "Tiān" and "Shàngdì", while approving Tiānzhǔ (‘Lord of Heaven’).[18]
In 1705, the Pope sent a Papal Legate to the Kangxi Emperor, to communicate to him the interdiction of Chinese rites. The mission, led by Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon, communicated the prohibition of Chinese rites in January 1707, but as a result was banished to Macao.[14][27]
Further, the Pope issued the 19 March 1715 Papal bull Ex illa die which officially condemned the Chinese rites:[14][28][29]
Pope Clement XI wishes to make the following facts permanently known to all the people in the world ...
I. The West calls Deus [God] the creator of Heaven, Earth, and everything in the universe. Since the word Deus does not sound right in the Chinese language, the Westerners in China and Chinese converts to Catholicism have used the term "Heavenly Lord" (Tiānzhǔ) for many years. From now on such terms as "Heaven" [Tiān] and "Shàngdì" should not be used: Deus should be addressed as the Lord of Heaven, Earth, and everything in the universe. The tablet that bears the Chinese words "Reverence for Heaven" should not be allowed to hang inside a Catholic church and should be immediately taken down if already there.
II. The spring and autumn worship of Confucius, together with the worship of ancestors, is not allowed among Catholic converts. It is not allowed even though the converts appear in the ritual as bystanders, because to be a bystander in this ritual is as pagan as to participate in it actively.
III. Chinese officials and successful candidates in the metropolitan, provincial, or prefectural examinations, if they have been converted to Roman Catholicism, are not allowed to worship in Confucian temples on the first and fifteenth days of each month. The same prohibition is applicable to all the Chinese Catholics who, as officials, have recently arrived at their posts or who, as students, have recently passed the metropolitan, provincial, or prefectural examinations.
IV. No Chinese Catholics are allowed to worship ancestors in their familial temples.
V. Whether at home, in the cemetery, or during the time of a funeral, a Chinese Catholic is not allowed to perform the ritual of ancestor worship. He is not allowed to do so even if he is in company with non-Christians. Such a ritual is heathen in nature regardless of the circumstances.
Despite the above decisions, I have made it clear that other Chinese customs and traditions that can in no way be interpreted as heathen in nature should be allowed to continue among Chinese converts. The way the Chinese manage their households or govern their country should by no means be interfered with. As to exactly what customs should or should not be allowed to continue, the papal legate in China will make the necessary decisions. In the absence of the papal legate, the responsibility of making such decisions should rest with the head of the China mission and the Bishop of China. In short, customs and traditions that are not contradictory to Roman Catholicism will be allowed, while those that are clearly contradictory to it will not be tolerated under any circumstances.[30]
In 1742 Benedict XIV reiterated in his papal bull Ex quo singulari Clement XI's decree. Benedict demanded that missionaries in China take an oath forbidding them to discuss the issue again.[31]
Imperial ban and papal suppressionEdit
In the early 18th century, Rome's challenge to the Chinese Rites led to the expulsion of Catholic missionaries from China.[32] In July 1706, the Papal Legate Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon angered the Kangxi Emperor, who issued an order that all missionaries, in order to obtain an imperial permit (piao) to stay in China, would have to declare that they would follow ‘the rules of Matteo Ricci’.[22]
In 1721, the Kangxi Emperor disagreed with Clement's decree and banned Christian missions in China.[33] In the Decree of Kangxi, he stated,
Reading this proclamation, I have concluded that the Westerners are petty indeed. It is impossible to reason with them because they do not understand larger issues as we understand them in China. There is not a single Westerner versed in Chinese works, and their remarks are often incredible and ridiculous. To judge from this proclamation, their religion is no different from other small, bigoted sects of Buddhism or Taoism. I have never seen a document which contains so much nonsense. From now on, Westerners should not be allowed to preach in China, to avoid further trouble.[34][35]
Chinese converts were also involved in the controversy through letters of protest, books, pamphlets, etc.[22] The Controversy debate was most intense between a group of Christian literati and a Catholic Bishop (named Charles Maigrot de Crissey) in Fujian province, with the Chinese group of converts supporting the Jesuits and the bishop supported by less accommodating Iberian mendicants (Dominicans and Franciscans).[36]
In 1724 the Yongzheng Emperor proscribed the Heavenly Lord sect (Tianzhujiao, the name given Catholicism in China in that period)[37] Persecution steadily increased during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor.[18] While the Yongzheng Emperor appreciated and admired the Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione's artwork and western technologies, he also reinforced anti-Christian policies in 1737.[18]
Pope Clement XIV dissolved the Society of Jesus in 1773.
See also: Jesuit China missions and Suppression of the Jesuits
Pope Pius XII's decisionEdit
Main article: Pope Pius XII and China
The Rites controversy continued to hamper Church efforts to gain converts in China. In 1939, a few weeks after his election to the papacy, Pope Pius XII ordered the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples to relax certain aspects of Clement XI's and Benedict XIV's decrees.[38][39] After the Apostolic Vicars had received guarantees from the Manchukuo Government that confirmed the mere "civil" characteristics of the so-called "Chinese rites", the Holy See released, on December 8, 1939, a new decree, known as Plane Compertum, stating that:
Catholics are permitted to be present at ceremonies in honor of Confucius in Confucian temples or in schools;
Erection of an image of Confucius or tablet with his name on is permitted in Catholic schools.
Catholic magistrates and students are permitted to passively attend public ceremonies which have the appearance of superstition.
It is licit and unobjectionable for head inclinations and other manifestations of civil observance before the deceased or their images.
The oath on the Chinese rites, which was prescribed by Benedict XIV, is not fully in accord with recent regulations and is superfluous.[40]
According to Smit this meant that Chinese customs were no longer considered superstitious, but were an honourable way of esteeming one's relatives and therefore permitted by Catholic Christians.[41] Confucianism was also thus recognized as a philosophy and an integral part of Chinese culture rather than as a heathen religion in conflict with Catholicism. Shortly afterwards, in 1943, the Government of China established diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The Papal decree changed the ecclesiastical situation in China in an almost revolutionary way.[42] As the Church began to flourish, Pius XII established a local ecclesiastical hierarchy, and, in 1946, named Thomas Tien Ken-sin (Chinese: 田耕莘) SVD, then Apostolic Vicar of Qingdao, as the first Chinese national in the Sacred College of Cardinals[42] and later that year appointed him to the Archdiocese of Beijing.
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CitationsEdit
^ a b c d Kuiper, Kathleen (31 August 2006). "Chinese Rites Controversy (Roman Catholicism) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 19 February 2013. The continuing controversy involved leading universities in Europe, was considered by eight popes and by the Kangxi emperor...
^ Pacific Rim Report No. 32, February 2004, [1] The Chinese Rites Controversy: A Long Lasting Controversy in Sino-Western Cultural History] by Paul Rule, Ph.D.
^ a b c George Minamiki (1985). The Chinese rites controversy: from its beginning to modern times. Loyola University Press. ISBN 978-0-8294-0457-9. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Edward G. Gray; Norman Fiering (2000). The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492–1800: A Collection of Essays. Berghahn Books. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-57181-210-0. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Sacrosanctum concilium, para. 37. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-09. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
^ Mantienne, pp. 177-8.
^ a b c d Mantienne, p. 178.
^ Rule, Paul A. (2010). "What Were "The directives of Matteo Ricci" Regarding the Chinese Rites?" (PDF). Pacific Rim Report (54). Retrieved 4 March 2013.
^ Mantienne, p.179.
^ Missions, p. 4.
^ Missions, p. 5. Original French: "Ne mettez aucun zèle, n'avancez aucun argument pour convaincre ces peuples de changer leurs rites, leurs coutumes et leur moeurs, à moins qu'ils ne soient évidemment contraires à la religion et à la morale. Quoi de plus absurde que de transporter chez les Chinois la france, l'Espagne, l'Italie, ou quelque autre pays d'Europe ? N'introduisez pas chez eux nos pays, mais la foi, cette foi qui ne repousse ni ne blesse les rites, ni les usages d'aucun peuple, pourvu qu'ils ne soient pas détestables, mais bien au contraire veut qu'on les garde et les protège."
^ a b c Marcel Launay; Gérard Moussay (24 January 2008). Les Missions étrangères: Trois siècles et demi d'histoire et d'aventure en Asie. Librairie Académique Perrin. pp. 77–83. ISBN 978-2-262-02571-7. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Needham, Joseph; Ronan, Colin A. (20 June 1985). The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China:. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-31536-4.
^ a b c Mantienne, p. 180.
^ Zhidong Hao (28 February 2011). Macau: History and Society. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 133–. ISBN 978-988-8028-54-2. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
^ Udias, Agustin (1994). "Jesuit Astronomers in Beijing 1601–1805". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 35: 463. Bibcode:1994QJRAS..35..463U. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
^ Needham, Joseph (1958). Chinese astronomy and the Jesuit mission: an encounter of cultures. China Society occasional papers ; no. 10. China Society. OCLC 652232428.
^ a b c d e f g Jocelyn M. N. Marinescu (2008). Defending Christianity in China: The Jesuit Defense of Christianity in the "Lettres Edifiantes Et Curieuses" & "Ruijianlu" in Relation to the Yongzheng Proscription of 1724. ProQuest. pp. 29, 33, 136, 240, 265. ISBN 978-0-549-59712-4. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Stephen Neill (1964). History of Christian Missions. Penguin Books. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Don Alvin Pittman (2001). Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: Taixu's Reforms. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8248-2231-6. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
^ Jesus in history, thought, and culture. 2. K - Z. ABC-CLIO. 2003. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-57607-856-3. Retrieved 4 March 2013. ... an Edict of Toleration, elevating Christiainity to the same status as Buddhism and Daoism.
^ a b c d Stewart J. Brown; Timothy Tackett (2006). Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 7, Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660-1815. Cambridge University Press. p. 463. ISBN 978-0-521-81605-2. Retrieved 4 March 2013. Whereas from a missionary perspective the focus is on the sharp demarcation between the so-called ‘Jesuit’ and ‘Dominican’ positions, the role of the Chinese converts has been largely ignored. ‘Their involvement in the controversy through books, pamphlets, letters of protest etc. shows that they were truly imbedded in a Chinese society in which rites occupied an important place.’
^ Mantienne, pp. 177-80.
^ D. E. Mungello (2 November 2012). The Great Encounter of China and the West: 1500–1800. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-4422-1975-5. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Philippe Buc (2001). The Dangers of Ritual. Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory. Princeton University Press. pp. 179–188. ISBN 978-0691144429. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
^ Donald Frederick Lach; Edwin J.. Van Kley (1998). East Asia. University of Chicago Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-226-46765-8. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Alfred Owen Aldridge (1997). Crosscurrents in the Literatures of Asia and the West: Essays in Honor of A. Owen Aldridge. University of Delaware Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-87413-639-5. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
^ 中國教會的禮儀之爭（1715年）
^ 现代欧洲中心论者对莱布尼茨的抱怨 Archived 4 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ James MacCaffrey (30 June 2004). The History Of The Catholic Church From The Renaissance To The French Revolution Volume 1. Kessinger Publishing. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4191-2406-8. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Peter Tze Ming Ng (3 February 2012). Chinese Christianity: An Interplay Between Global and Local Perspectives. BRILL. pp. 152–. ISBN 978-90-04-22574-9. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
^ Marcia R. Ristaino (13 February 2008). The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai. Stanford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8047-5793-5. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Dun Jen Li (1969). China in transition, 1517-1911. Van Nostrand Reinhold. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
^ Robert Richmond Ellis (6 August 2012). They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period. University of Toronto Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-4426-4511-0. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ D. E. Mungello (1 November 2012). The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-4422-1977-9. Retrieved 4 March 2013. Rites Controversy debate was most intense in Fujian province where an active group of Christian literati debated with a combative Catholic bishop named Charles Maigrot de Crissey (1652-1730). European missionaries divided largely on the lines of religious orders and nationalities. The Jesuits largely supported the Chinese while the Iberian mendicants (Dominicans and Franciscans) and secular priests were less accommodating.
^ Thomas H. Reilly, 2004, "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire," Seattle, WA:University of Washington Press, p. 43ff, 14ff, 150ff, ISBN 0295984309, see [2], accessed 18 April 2015.
^ Matthew Bunson; Monsignor Timothy M Dolan (1 March 2004). OSV's Encyclopedia of Catholic History. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. p. 228. ISBN 978-1-59276-026-8. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ Christina Miu Bing Cheng (1999). Macau: A Cultural Janus. Hong Kong University Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-962-209-486-4. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
^ S.C.Prop. Fid., 8 Dec 1939, AAS 32-24. (The Sacred Congregation of Propaganda)
^ Smit, pp. 186–7.
^ a b Smit, p. 188.
Mantienne, Frédéric 1999 Monseigneur Pigneau de Béhaine, Editions Eglises d'Asie, 128 Rue du Bac, Paris, ISSN 1275-6865 ISBN 2-914402-20-1,
Missions étrangères de Paris. 350 ans au service du Christ 2008 Editeurs Malesherbes Publications, Paris ISBN 978-2-916828-10-7
Smit, Jan Olav, 1951 Pope Pius XII, Burns Oates & Washburne, London & Dublin.
Jedin, Hubert, Kirchengeschichte Vol. VII, Herder Freiburg, 1988 (in German)
Metzler, Joseph, La Congregazione 'de Propaganda Fide' e lo sviluppo delle missioni cattoliche (secc. XVIII al XX), in Anuario de la Historia de la Iglesia, Año/Vol IX, Pamplona, 2000, pp. 145–54 (in Italian)
Catholic encyclopedia – The Church in China (includes a section about the controversy)
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Elkan Nathan Adler
Elkan Nathan Adler (24 July 1861 in St Luke's, London – 15 September 1946 in London) was an English author, lawyer, historian, and collector of Jewish books and manuscripts. Adler's father was Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. He traveled extensively and built an enormous library, particularly of old Jewish documents. Adler was among the first to explore the documents stored in the Cairo Genizah, being in fact the first European to enter it. During his visits to Cairo in 1888 and 1895 Adler collected and brought over 25,000 Genizah manuscript fragments back to England.
Adler was particularly interested in the history of Persian (Iranian) Jews. He traveled to Tehran and Bukhara in 1896 and 1897, where he purchased various Hebrew and Judeo-Persian manuscripts and later published descriptive lists of their contents. These publications provided Western scholars with critical insight into the cultural, literary, and intellectual endeavors pursued by the Jews of Iran. The manuscripts collected by Adler include both religious and secular works on various topics, including stories, folklore, calendars, biblical and Talmudic dictionaries, prayer books, liturgical hymns, discourses on Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), and chronicles of religious persecution. In his 1921 summary, Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Collection of E. N. Adler, Adler described over 4,500 manuscripts in his collection.[1]
Overall, Adler collected some 30,000 printed books in Judaica. Unfortunately for him, a business associate's embezzlement forced him to sell most of his library to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City and Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1923. Moreover, Adler agreed to bequeath his subsequent acquisitions to the Jewish Theological Seminary upon his death.
During a visit to Egypt in 1924, Adler acquired a recently discovered jar that contained the private archive of an Egyptian mercenary, Horos son of Nechoutes (c. 145-88 BC), and he personally contributed to the edition of the documents which were published as The Adler Papyri.
Adler published many books about his travels and on his extensive collections, including About Hebrew Manuscripts (1905), A Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing (1917); Jews in Many Lands (1905); Auto de Fe and Jew (1908); History of the Jews of London (1930); Jewish Travellers (1930, repr. 1966); and articles on the Samaritans and on the History of the Jews in Egypt and Persia. Adler was extremely active in English-Jewish communal affairs, especially in education, and was an ardent Zionist; he was an early member of the Hovevei Zion in England. Per his will, his personal archives are now at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
^ [1] Encyclopedia Iranica
Works by or about Elkan Nathan Adler at Internet Archive
Jewish Encyclopedia
The Library of The JTS
Works by and about Elkan Nathan Adler in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica
Bookplate of Elkan Nathan Adler Rare Books of the Shimeon Brisman Collection in Jewish Studies, Washington University
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Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman
(Redirected from Elliptic curve Diffie–Hellman)
Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) is an anonymous key agreement protocol that allows two parties, each having an elliptic-curve public–private key pair, to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel.[1][2][3] This shared secret may be directly used as a key, or to derive another key. The key, or the derived key, can then be used to encrypt subsequent communications using a symmetric-key cipher. It is a variant of the Diffie–Hellman protocol using elliptic-curve cryptography.
Key establishment protocolEdit
The following example will illustrate how a key establishment is made. Suppose Alice wants to establish a shared key with Bob, but the only channel available for them may be eavesdropped by a third party. Initially, the domain parameters (that is, ( p , a , b , G , n , h ) {\displaystyle (p,a,b,G,n,h)}
in the prime case or ( m , f ( x ) , a , b , G , n , h ) {\displaystyle (m,f(x),a,b,G,n,h)}
in the binary case) must be agreed upon. Also, each party must have a key pair suitable for elliptic curve cryptography, consisting of a private key d (a randomly selected integer in the interval [ 1 , n − 1 ] {\displaystyle [1,n-1]}
and a public key represented by a point Q {\displaystyle Q}
(where Q = d ⋅ G {\displaystyle Q=d\cdot G}
, that is, the result of adding G {\displaystyle G}
to itself d {\displaystyle d}
times). Let Alice's key pair be ( d A , Q A ) {\displaystyle (d_{A},Q_{A})}
and Bob's key pair be ( d B , Q B ) {\displaystyle (d_{B},Q_{B})}
. Each party must know the other party's public key prior to execution of the protocol.
Alice computes point ( x k , y k ) = d A ⋅ Q B {\displaystyle (x_{k},y_{k})=d_{A}\cdot Q_{B}}
. Bob computes point ( x k , y k ) = d B ⋅ Q A {\displaystyle (x_{k},y_{k})=d_{B}\cdot Q_{A}}
. The shared secret is x k {\displaystyle x_{k}}
(the x coordinate of the point). Most standardized protocols based on ECDH derive a symmetric key from x k {\displaystyle x_{k}}
using some hash-based key derivation function.
The shared secret calculated by both parties is equal, because d A ⋅ Q B = d A ⋅ d B ⋅ G = d B ⋅ d A ⋅ G = d B ⋅ Q A {\displaystyle d_{A}\cdot Q_{B}=d_{A}\cdot d_{B}\cdot G=d_{B}\cdot d_{A}\cdot G=d_{B}\cdot Q_{A}}
The only information about her private key that Alice initially exposes is her public key. So, no party including Alice can determine Alice's private key (Alice of course knows it by having selected it), unless that party can solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem. Bob's private key is similarly secure. No party other than Alice or Bob can compute the shared secret, unless that party can solve the elliptic curve Diffie–Hellman problem.
The public keys are either static (and trusted, say via a certificate) or ephemeral (also known as ECDHE, where final 'E' stands for "ephemeral"). Ephemeral keys are temporary and not necessarily authenticated, so if authentication is desired, authenticity assurances must be obtained by other means. Authentication is necessary to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. If one of either Alice's or Bob's public keys is static, then man-in-the-middle attacks are thwarted. Static public keys provide neither forward secrecy nor key-compromise impersonation resilience, among other advanced security properties. Holders of static private keys should validate the other public key, and should apply a secure key derivation function to the raw Diffie–Hellman shared secret to avoid leaking information about the static private key. For schemes with other security properties, see MQV.
While the shared secret may be used directly as a key, it can be desirable to hash the secret to remove weak bits due to the Diffie–Hellman exchange.
SoftwareEdit
Curve25519 is a popular set of elliptic curve parameters and reference implementation by Daniel J. Bernstein in C. Bindings and alternative implementations are also available.
LINE messenger app has used the ECDH protocol for its "Letter Sealing" end-to-end encryption of all messages sent through said app since October 2015.[4]
Signal Protocol uses ECDH to obtain post-compromise security. Implementations of this protocol are found in Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype.
Diffie–Hellman key exchange
^ NIST, Special Publication 800-56A, Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography, March, 2006.
^ Certicom Research, Standards for efficient cryptography, SEC 1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Version 2.0, May 21, 2009.
^ NSA Suite B Cryptography, Suite B Implementers' Guide to NIST SP 800-56A, July 28, 2009.
^ JI (13 October 2015). "New generation of safe messaging: "Letter Sealing"". LINE Engineers' Blog. LINE Corporation. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
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Giving What We Can
Giving What We Can (GWWC) is an effective altruism associated organization whose members pledge to give 10% of their income to effective charities. It was founded at Oxford University in 2009 by the ethics researcher Toby Ord.
Toby Ord
Effective altruism, charity evaluation, pledges, poverty relief
Centre for Effective Altruism, Littlegate House, St. Ebbe's Street, Oxford, OX1 1PT, UK
Members donate 10% of income to effective charities
around 3,900 (2019) [1]
Toby Ord (founder and president)
William MacAskill (co-founder)
Michelle Hutchinson (executive director)
Sam Deere (president)
Parent organization
Centre for Effective Altruism
www.givingwhatwecan.org
Giving What We Can was founded as a giving society in 2009 by Toby Ord, an ethics researcher at Oxford, his wife Bernadette Young, a physician in training at the time, and fellow ethicist William MacAskill [2][3] with the goal of encouraging people to give 10% of their income on a regular basis to alleviate world poverty.[4] This is similar to zakat[5] or tithing but Ord said there was no religious motivation behind it.[6] Ord cited writings from Peter Singer and Thomas Pogge about one's moral duty to give to the poor as inspiration for starting the organization,[7] and personally planned to give away everything above about $28,000 a year, the median after-tax salary in the U.K.[8] His focus was on effective giving, meaning that he emphasized donations to charities which saved a maximal amount of life per donation amount.[9] GWWC was launched with 23 members.[8] People who joined signed a pledge to give away 10% of their income to any organization they thought could best address poverty in the developing world, and could pledge more; there was no penalty for quitting.[6] By the end of 2011 it had 177 members, mostly other academics, in five chapters including Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, and Harvard.[8][10] By 2012 the group had 264 people from 17 countries,[11] and it surpassed 1,000 members in 2015.[2]
By November 2011 the organization was providing its members regular reports on what charities were most effective at addressing poverty in the developing world,[8] and at that time was recommending a tropical diseases group and a de-worming group that each worked in Africa.[12] Ord relied in part on research conducted by GiveWell, and also used the concept of the QALY to gauge effectiveness of charities.[13]
In 2011 a sister organization was spun off from Giving from What We Can at Oxford by MacAskill and others called "High Impact Careers" which encouraged people to pursue high-paying jobs so they could give more money away.[14] Both organizations conducted outreach and recruiting at Oxford.[14][15][16] High Impact Careers was soon renamed to 80,000 Hours.[17] In 2012 the two organizations incorporated the Centre for Effective Altruism as a nonprofit to serve as an umbrella organization.[3][18]
ResearchEdit
See also: Charity evaluator
Giving What We Can conducts research to determine which charities it recommends for members and other people to support. It differs from other charity evaluators in terms of the importance given to metrics of charity performance. While evaluators such as Charity Navigator use the fraction of donations spent on program expenses versus administrative overhead as an important indicator, Giving What We Can solely focuses on the cost-effectiveness of the charity's work.[13][19] It believes that the variance in cost-effectiveness of charities arises largely due to the variance in the nature of the causes that the charities operate in, and therefore makes evaluations across broad areas of work such as health, education, and emergency aid before comparing specific organizations.[20] In practice, it recommends a selected few charities in the area of global health. Its work is therefore similar to that of GiveWell.[12]
^ "Our Members Have Done Some Amazing Things". Giving What We Can. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ a b MacFarquhar, Larissa (22 September 2015). "Extreme altruism: should you care for strangers at the expense of your family?". The Guardian.
^ a b Singer, Peter (2015). The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically. Yale University Press. p. 18. ISBN 9780300180275.
^ "Academic pledges to give away £1m". BBC. 14 November 2009.
^ "Editorial: Unthinkable? Giving 10%". The Guardian. 6 January 2012.
^ a b Richard Woods (15 November 2009). "Take My Money, I Don't Want It". The Sunday Times.
^ Gill, Martha (8 January 2013). "The man who gives away a third of his income. Would you give up a luxury to save a life?". New Statesman.
^ a b c d Espinoza, Javier (28 November 2011). "Small Sacrifice, Big Return". Wall Street Journal.
^ Geoghegan, Tom (13 December 2010). "Toby Ord: Why I'm giving £1m to charity". BBC News.
^ Rustin, Susanna (23 December 2011). "The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving". The Guardian.
^ Hellen, Nicholas (9 December 2012). "Oxford don sparks flood of charity cash". The Sunday Times.
^ a b Mathieson, S. A. (11 June 2013). "How charity evaluators are changing the donations landscape". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^ a b Rosenberg, Tina (5 December 2012). "Putting Charities to the Test". Opinionator. The New York Times. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^ a b Younis, Musab (24 November 2011). "Helping the poor…by getting rich: ingenious or delusional?". Ceasefire Magazine.
^ Cutterham, Tom (May 2012). "The Ethical Careers Debate" (PDF). Oxford Left Review (7): 4.
^ Hamlett, Claire (July – August 2012). "The Philosophy of Giving". Philosophy Now (91).
^ Shade, Robbie (22 November 2011). "80,000 Hours is launched!". Archived from the original on 18 March 2017.
^ "Centre for Effective Altruism". UK Companies House. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^ "Charities in the ethical spotlight". www.ethicalconsumer.org. Ethical Consumer. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^ "How We Assess Charities". Giving What We Can. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
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Jamie Moyer
Jamie Moyer (born November 18, 1962) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Over his 25-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB), Moyer pitched for the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies, and Colorado Rockies. He was inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame in 2015.[1]
Moyer with the Philadelphia Phillies
Born: (1962-11-18) November 18, 1962 (age 56)
Batted: Left Threw: Left
June 16, 1986, for the Chicago Cubs
May 27, 2012, for the Colorado Rockies
Chicago Cubs (1986–1988)
Texas Rangers (1989–1990)
St. Louis Cardinals (1991)
Boston Red Sox (1996)
Seattle Mariners (1996–2006)
Philadelphia Phillies (2006–2010)
Colorado Rockies (2012)
Roberto Clemente Award (2003)
Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame
At the time of his final game, he was the oldest player in the major leagues and had the most wins, losses, and strikeouts of any active MLB pitcher. He was likened to Phil Niekro due to his long career and relatively old age upon retirement.[2][3][4] On April 17, 2012, Moyer became the oldest pitcher in MLB history to win a game. On May 16, 2012, he broke his own winning-pitcher record and also set the record for the oldest MLB player to record a run batted in (RBI). He also holds the Major League record for most home runs allowed with 522. Moyer made the All-Star team in 2003, while with the Mariners. Moyer has received numerous awards for philanthropy and community service, including the 2003 Roberto Clemente Award, the 2003 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, the 2003 Hutch Award, and the 2004 Branch Rickey Award. Moyer is one of only 29 players in baseball history to date to have appeared in MLB games in four decades. At the time of his retirement, Moyer had faced 8.9% of all MLB hitters ever.[5]
Amateur careerEdit
High schoolEdit
Moyer attended Souderton Area High School in Souderton, Pennsylvania, where he played baseball, basketball, and golf. In his junior year of baseball, he went 10-0 and hurled three consecutive no-hitters.[6]
CollegeEdit
Moyer pitched at Saint Joseph's University, where in 1984 he set the school's single-season records in wins, with 16, earned run average (ERA), with 1.99, and strikeouts, with 90.[7] In 1997 he became the only Saint Joseph's baseball player to have his jersey number, number 10, retired,[7] and was one of three inductees into the first class of the St. Joseph's Baseball Hall of Fame.
Professional careerEdit
Chicago Cubs (1986–1988)Edit
The Chicago Cubs selected Moyer in the sixth round of the 1984 amateur draft. Moyer was selected a New York–Penn League All-Star in 1984. He made his major league debut with the Cubs on June 16, 1986, against Steve Carlton and the Philadelphia Phillies, and earned his first win. Later that year, on August 16, he threw his first shutout against the Montreal Expos. He was also the starting pitcher for the Cubs on the day that Greg Maddux made his major league debut.
In 1987, Moyer ranked tenth in the National League in strikeouts with 147, while winning 12 games and losing 15. He also lost 15 games in 1988 against only nine wins. Despite his poor record, Moyer lowered his ERA to 3.48 (it had been 5.10 in 1987), and while he struck out fewer batters than he had in the previous year, he decreased his walk rate significantly, giving only 55 batters a base on balls as opposed to 97 in the previous year.[8]
Texas Rangers (1989–1990)Edit
Following his then-best season in 1988, he was traded to the Texas Rangers as part of the 9-player Rafael Palmeiro for Mitch Williams trade.
Moyer was on the disabled list with a sore left shoulder for much of a disappointing 1989 season. 1990 saw Moyer spend time in the bullpen before regaining a spot in the starting rotation.
St. Louis Cardinals (1991)Edit
Moyer was released as a free agent after the 1990 season and was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals. He made seven starts for the Cardinals in 1991 before being sent to the minor leagues on May 24. He was released on October 14.
Chicago Cubs/Detroit Tigers (1992)Edit
In 1992, Moyer attended spring training with the Chicago Cubs, but was released and spent the rest of the season in the minor league system of the Detroit Tigers.
Baltimore Orioles (1993–1995)Edit
On December 18, 1992, Moyer signed with the Baltimore Orioles.
Moyer began the 1993 season in the Oriole minor leagues before being called up on May 30. He tied his career-high total in wins with 12 and set a new career-low ERA of 3.43. The strike-shortened 1994 season saw his ERA rise to 4.77, but he was third on the Orioles' staff in innings pitched. In 1995, Moyer again found himself in the Baltimore bullpen, but worked his way back into the starting rotation.
Boston Red Sox (1996)Edit
Moyer was signed by the Boston Red Sox on January 2, 1996. Moyer appeared in 23 games for Boston, making 10 starts.
Seattle Mariners (1996–2006)Edit
1996–1999Edit
Moyer was the Mariner franchise's all-time leader in starts, wins and IP. He went 145–87 with an ERA of 3.97 over eleven seasons with the M's.
In the middle of the 1996 season, he was traded by the Red Sox to the Seattle Mariners on July 30, for outfielder Darren Bragg. In Seattle he started 11 games and went 6–2. His record of 13–3 across both teams led the majors in winning percentage at .813.
In 1997, Moyer was fifth in the American League with 17 wins. His 17–5 record gave him the second-highest winning percentage (.773) in the league. In the Division Series, Moyer made his first postseason start against his former club Baltimore, but was forced out with a strained elbow in the fifth inning. Moyer took the loss in Game 2 and the Orioles won the series in four games.[9]
In 1998, Moyer went 15–9 with a 3.53 ERA. He accumulated 158 strikeouts, the highest total of his career. He was fourth in the American League in innings pitched with 234.1. He registered his 100th career win against the Cleveland Indians on August 27, as well as his 1000th career strikeout with a sixth inning strikeout of David Bell. He was named Seattle's Pitcher of the Year by the Seattle chapter of the BBWAA.
He walked two or fewer batters in 29 of his 32 starts. He ranked third in the American League with just 1.6 walks per nine innings, and his ERA was the seventh-best in the league. Moyer's three shutouts were tied for fourth in the majors, and he was fifth in the American League in wins above replacement (WAR) for pitchers, per Baseball Reference.[10]
In 1999, Moyer went 14–8 with a 3.87 ERA and was voted to The Sporting News AL All-Star team. He again won the Seattle Pitcher of the Year award.
He matched his career-best seven-game winning streak from May 11 to July 7. He started the Inaugural Game at Safeco Field on July 15 against the San Diego Padres, throwing a called strike to San Diego's Quilvio Veras for the first pitch and getting a no-decision in Seattle's 3–2 loss after leaving with a 2–1 lead after eight innings.[11] He defeated Baltimore for the ninth straight time on July 31; he did not lose to the Orioles in the 1990s. Moyer's only loss at Safeco came on August 5 against the New York Yankees. He recorded three complete games in the final month of the season, tossing back-to-back complete games on September 14 and 19. His 2.30 ERA after the All-Star break was the second-lowest among AL starters, behind only Pedro Martínez with his 2.01 ERA. He pitched four complete games for the second straight season, tying his career best. Moyer accumulated 6.5 wins above replacement, third among American League pitchers. He was also sixth in the league in ERA and third in innings pitched.[12]
2000 saw Moyer rebound from an early shoulder injury to tally 13 wins, giving him at least 13 in each of his past five seasons. He made his first Opening Day start for Seattle, but lost to the Boston Red Sox 2–0 on April 4. His shoulder problems led his ERA to balloon to 5.49. A knee injury[13] suffered on the last pitch of a simulated game caused him to miss Seattle's trip to the American League Championship Series against the eventual World Series champion New York Yankees.
Moyer lost five consecutive starts from August 4–24. He allowed a career-high and a club-record 11 earned runs in a 19–3 loss on August 9 against the Chicago White Sox. He allowed 11 runs, 6 earned, in a 14–4 loss on August 14 against the Detroit Tigers, joining the Houston Astros' José Lima as the first two pitchers since 1950 to allow 10 or more runs in consecutive starts. Moyer allowed a career-high seven walks in a no-decision on August 29 against the Yankees. The Mariners' 7–2 win on September 9 against the Minnesota Twins snapped a six-game losing streak. Moyer lasted just one and two-thirds innings in his final start, getting a no-decision September 28 against the Texas Rangers. Moyer suffered a hairline fracture of left kneecap while pitching a simulated game on October 7.
Moyer won 20 games in 2001, ranked tied for second in the American League, and his 3.43 ERA was sixth in the AL. He earned his 150th career win against the Texas Rangers on September 24. He became only the second Mariner in history to win 20 games on October 5, former teammate Randy Johnson being the other. Moyer went 3–0 with a 1.89 ERA in the postseason. He won Games 2 and 5 for the Mariners against the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS. Moyer also won Game 3 against the Yankees in the ALCS. However, this would be Seattle's only victory in the series, as New York defeated them in five games to advance to the World Series once again.
In 2002, Moyer went 13–8 with a then career low 3.32 ERA. Although he pitched 20 more innings and had a lower ERA than in 2001, he won seven fewer games.
Moyer was fourth in the AL in innings with 230.2. He was tied for second in the league with 34 starts, fifth in opponents' batting average, holding opposing hitters to a .230 clip, and ninth in ERA with 3.32. He tossed a team-high 24 consecutive scoreless innings from June 16 to July 6. He averaged just two walks per nine innings pitched, tied for sixth-best in the AL. The Mariners were 20–14 in his starts. His four complete games tied his career high set in 1998 and 1999. He threw the seventh complete game shutout of his career, and his first of the season, on June 10 against the St. Louis Cardinals in a 10–0 win. Moyer's start on June 16 against San Diego began a streak of 24 consecutive shutout innings over four starts. He finished June 3–1 with a Major League best 1.01 ERA in five starts. In four of those starts, Moyer pitched at least seven innings without allowing a run.[14] He collected his 1,500th career strikeout August 24 against the Cleveland Indians.
In 2003, Moyer won a career high 21 games, lost 7, and had a career low 3.27 ERA. He tied for second in the American League for wins and was sixth in ERA. His .750 winning percentage placed him fourth in the league and his 21 wins are a club record.[15] He became the only Seattle pitcher to win 20 games more than once. Moyer was voted to his first and only All-Star Game in 2003. He was named the Seattle Pitcher of the Year for the third time and was also the recipient of the Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to a player whose success on the field is mirrored by his impact in community service. Moyer also won the Hutch Award, presented annually by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to an MLB player displaying "honor, courage and dedication to baseball, both on and off the field" and The Lou Gehrig Award, presented annually to the MLB player who both on and off the field best exemplifies the character of Lou Gehrig.
In 2004, Moyer went 7–13 and posted his first losing record since 1994. His ERA was 5.21 and he surrendered an MLB-leading 44 home runs. While the year started well for him, going 5–0 with a 1.59 ERA from May 20 – June 18, Moyer ended 2004 on a 10-game losing streak. He threw the slowest fastball of all AL starters, averaging 81.6 mph.[16] One positive for Moyer was that he was awarded the Branch Rickey Award for his exceptional community service following the season.
During the 2005 season, Moyer passed Randy Johnson to become the winningest pitcher for the Mariners on May 30. On July 8, Moyer became the 25th southpaw to win 200 games in Major League Baseball. He finished with a 13–7 record, and for the second year in a row he threw the slowest fastball of all major league starters, averaging 81.7 mph.[17]
On June 18, 2006, he became the 33rd man to start 500 major league games. In his 11 seasons with the Mariners, Moyer had a record of 145–87 with a 3.97 ERA in 324 games (323 starts). He is the franchise leader in starts and innings pitched. He held the franchise record for wins until "King" Félix Hernández earned his 146th Mariner win on May 9, 2016.
Moyer is also one of the all-time leaders in 1–0 complete game losses. Moyer has lost eight games having surrendered only one run over nine innings. Before being traded in August 2006, he was the oldest active American League player.
Philadelphia Phillies (2006–2010)Edit
Moyer Foundation serves children under distress in Philadelphia and Seattle.
On August 19, 2006, Moyer was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for minor league pitchers Andrew Barb and Andrew Baldwin. In his first start with the Phillies, Moyer set a franchise record as the oldest pitcher to record a win. In eight starts with the Phillies in 2006, Moyer went 5–2 with a 4.03 ERA. After the season, Moyer signed a two-year extension worth $10.5 million with the Phillies on October 23.[18]
On April 12, 2007, at age 44 Moyer struck out his 2000th batter against the Mets. On April 29, Moyer pitched a two-hitter through 71⁄3 innings as he recorded a win against the Florida Marlins. On July 21, at age 44, Moyer combined with David Wells to set the record for the oldest match up of lefty starters (88 years, 307 days) in major league history. Moyer won the game and Wells lost; the oldest over the youngest by 183 days.
On the final day of the season, with the Phillies and Mets tied at the top of the division with 88 wins, Moyer defeated the Washington Nationals, pitching 51⁄3 innings and surrendering five hits and no earned runs, while Tom Glavine, who at the time was also one of the oldest players in the major leagues, was crushed by the Marlins at Shea Stadium, surrendering seven runs in the first inning, hitting a batter with the bases loaded, and recording only a single out before being pulled.[19] The Phillies would win the division by a single game, but would not win a single playoff game, falling to the Rockies in the division series.
He threw the slowest fastball of all NL starters in 2007, averaging 81.1 miles per hour (130.5 km/h).[20]
2008Edit
In 2008, at age 45, Moyer became the oldest active player in Major League baseball. On April 30, Moyer hit a single off Padres pitcher Chris Young into left center field to become the oldest Phillie ever to get a hit.[21][22]
On April 30th, 2008 at age 45, Moyer became the oldest player to ever have a bobblehead giveaway.[23]
On May 26, Moyer won his 235th career game, giving him at least one victory over each Major League team. The victory came in a 20–5 win over the Rockies. Moyer pitched seven innings, struck out seven batters, and gave up four runs. He followed that in his next start against the Marlins by earning his sixth victory of the season, pitching seven innings and giving up five runs.
On September 11, Moyer won his 14th game of the season against the Milwaukee Brewers, which began a seven-game win streak for the Phillies. On September 27, Moyer took the mound for the Phillies against the Nationals, in a game where the Phillies could clinch the National League East title with a win. Moyer pitched six innings and gave up only one run. The Phillies won the game 4–3. Moyer earned his 16th win of the year, the second-oldest pitcher to accomplish this feat, finishing with a 3.71 ERA. He also threw the slowest fastball of all NL starters in 2008, averaging 81.2 miles per hour.[24] He threw cutters 29.5% of the time, the highest rate in the NL.[24]
When he took the mound on October 4 against the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2008 National League Division Series, Moyer became the second-oldest pitcher to ever start a post-season game at the age of 45 years 321 days, and the oldest since 1929 when Jack Quinn started for the Philadelphia Athletics at 46 years 103 days.
On October 12, Moyer became the oldest pitcher at 45 years 329 days to pitch in a National League Championship Series game, starting in Game 3 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. However, he struggled during the game and surrendered six runs in 11⁄3 innings—his shortest start in over eight years—and went on to lose the game.
On October 25, Moyer made his first World Series start against the Tampa Bay Rays, pitching 61⁄3 innings, giving up three runs, and receiving a no-decision. His performance was made more impressive due to the fact that he pitched with a severe stomach virus.[25] He won his first World Series ring when the Phillies defeated the Rays on October 29 in his 23rd Major League Season. Following the game, the pitcher's mound at Citizens Bank Park was dug up and given to Moyer by his teammates. In his speech at the World Series celebration at Citizens Bank Park on October 31, Moyer told fans that he grew up as a Phillies fan and played hooky from Souderton Area High School to attend the Phillies' championship parade in 1980. On December 15, 2008 Moyer signed a two-year, $16 million contract with the Phillies, keeping him with the club through the conclusion of the 2010 season.[26]
Moyer started the season with a 3–5 record and a 7.42 ERA,[27] but earned his 250th career win on May 31 against the Washington Nationals in a 4–2 win, becoming the 44th pitcher and the 11th lefty to do this.[28] By the All-Star break, Moyer had improved his record to 8–6 and had lowered his ERA to 5.99. On July 16, Moyer won his 255th career game, pitching a one-hitter through seven scoreless innings and passing Jack Morris for 41st on the all-time wins list. Despite leading the rotation with 10 wins, Moyer carried a still inflated 5.47 ERA. This prompted the Phillies to move him to the bullpen to make room in their rotation for Pedro Martínez.[29] Regarding the move, manager Charlie Manuel said,
Jamie was a total professional and team player when we let him know of the decision to move him to the bullpen. He has been, and will continue to be, a very important part of this team.[29]
In Moyer's bullpen debut on August 18, he relieved Martínez in the fourth inning after a rain delay, pitching six scoreless innings to earn his 11th win of the season. A similar situation occurred on August 28, as Moyer again relieved Martínez in the third inning after a rain delay. He pitched 41⁄3 in relief, giving up one earned run, and picked up his 12th win of the season.
Moyer tore three muscles in his groin and lower abdomen while pitching against the Houston Astros on September 29. He missed the rest of the regular season, and was not on the Phillies' postseason roster.[30]
When asked about retiring after the expiration of his Phillies contract at the end of 2010, Moyer said, "You know, I'm going to leave that as an open-ended question because I don't know how to answer that. It could be (my last season). It potentially could be. But so could have last year. So could have two years ago, so could have five years ago."[31]
After the retirement of Ken Griffey, Jr. in early 2010, Moyer and Omar Vizquel were the last two active players in MLB who played in the 1980s. On April 10, at age 47, Moyer became the sixth-oldest pitcher to appear in a game and the eighth major league pitcher to start a game in four different decades. Moyer pitched six innings and earned his 259th career victory.[32] On May 7, Moyer became the oldest player in Major League Baseball history (47 years, 170 days) to pitch a shutout, blanking the Braves on two hits, striking out five batters and walking none.[33] Moyer also became the only MLB pitcher to throw a shutout in four different decades (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s).
On June 5, Moyer became the third MLB pitcher to win 100 games after turning 40 years old, defeating the San Diego Padres, 6–2, using just 98 pitches to accomplish the feat. It was also his second complete game of the season. On June 16, Moyer became the oldest pitcher to ever defeat the New York Yankees. Moyer beat the Yankees at 47 years, 210 days. On June 27, he became the all-time major league leader in home runs allowed (506), passing Robin Roberts. On July 20, Moyer left a start against the St. Louis Cardinals due to an elbow strain after pitching only one inning.[34] The injury proved to be a sprain in his ulnar collateral ligament and a strain of his flexor pronator, which resulted in Moyer missing the remainder of the 2010 season.[35]
After the 2010 season, Moyer's contract expired and he was removed from the Phillies' 40-man roster.[36] He pitched in the Dominican Winter Leagues before suffering another elbow injury on November 6, 2010, which ended his chance of playing in 2011.[37] He had Tommy John surgery on December 1, 2010, in New York, to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow, in hopes to make a comeback in 2012.[38] During his recovery from Tommy John surgery, Moyer worked for ESPN.
Colorado Rockies (2012)Edit
On January 18, 2012, Moyer, age 49, signed a minor-league contract (with an invitation to spring training) with the Colorado Rockies, a team that did not exist when he made his MLB debut in 1986.[39] The March 30 NBC Nightly News reported that Moyer made the opening day roster for the Rockies, and would be the number-two starter in the rotation. The report was confirmed the following day by the Associated Press.[40] He made his Rockies debut on April 7 against the Houston Astros. He pitched 5 innings, giving up three runs, and received the loss.
Moyer pitching for the Colorado Rockies in 2012
On April 17, Jamie Moyer became the oldest pitcher in MLB history to earn a win. The previous record was held by Jack Quinn, who earned his last win in 1932, two months after his 49th birthday.[41] Moyer became the oldest player in MLB history to record an RBI on May 16 when he singled in two runs in the 4th inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He also extended his record for the oldest pitcher to record a win. Five days later, Moyer started for the Rockies against the Marlins at Marlins Park. This appearance represented the 50th MLB stadium Moyer had pitched in, the most of any pitcher to debut since 1900. Target Field in Minnesota is the only active stadium in which Moyer has not pitched.[42]
On June 1, the Rockies released Moyer, making him a free agent and eligible to sign with any team.[43] He was 2-5 in 10 starts for the Rockies.
Second stint with the Baltimore Orioles organization (2012)Edit
Moyer signed a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles on June 6, five days after being released by the Rockies. The deal came with the stipulation that he would make three starts with the Triple-A Norfolk Tides, and after that the Orioles had to promote him or grant his release. Following his third start on June 23, the Orioles offered Moyer another start with the Tides. He instead opted to become a free agent. With the Tides, Moyer went 1–1 with a 1.69 ERA with 16 strikeouts in 16 innings over three games. He also demonstrated exceptional control as he did not walk a batter and allowed only eleven hits. The Orioles liked what they saw, but the timing just wasn't right to add him to the rotation. "We're very appreciative of him giving us that opportunity to look", Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. "I wouldn't be surprised to see him pitch for somebody shortly. Personally, just out of respect for his career what he's done, I hope it happens."[44]
Toronto Blue Jays organization (2012)Edit
Moyer signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays after being released by the Orioles.[45] Moyer made his first start for the Blue Jays Triple-A team, the Las Vegas 51s, on June 28. Moyer got the win, pitching 5 innings and giving up 3 runs on 7 hits, with 6 strikeouts and 1 walk.[46] Moyer's second start was a loss to the Reno Aces, in which he yielded 7 runs on 10 hits through 6 innings. In his planned 2 starts with Las Vegas, Moyer posted a 1–1 record with an 8.18 ERA through 11 innings. Moyer did not travel back to Las Vegas at the end of the second game.[47] On July 5, he was released by Toronto.[48]
2013 and retirementEdit
On September 7, it was reported that Moyer was attempting a comeback as a knuckleball pitcher, having consulted with Charlie Hough and Tim Wakefield over the summer.[49]
Moyer announced the end of his baseball-playing career during an interview with Dave Davies on National Public Radio's Fresh Air broadcast that aired October 2, 2013. During the interview on Fresh Air he also announced his intention to start a pitching academy, The Moyer Pitching Academy, as well as continue his charitable work with The Moyer Foundation, but that he would be open to an offer to coach in the major leagues.[50]
Moyer has written a memoir, with Larry Platt, entitled Just Tell Me I Can't: How Jamie Moyer Defied the Radar Gun and Defeated Time. Moyer dedicated the book, and also sees the academy as a tribute, to the memory of the late counselor and author Harvey Dorfman, who helped shape Moyer's "mental game."[51]
In 2018, Moyer appeared on the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot for the first time. He received 10 votes and failed to meet the 5% threshold to remain on the ballot in the future.[52]
Broadcasting careerEdit
On February 11, 2014, it was announced that Moyer and fellow former Phillie Matt Stairs would join the Phillies' television broadcast crew as color analysts for the 2014 season. Moyer and Stairs joined in-game reporter Gregg Murphy and play-by-play voice Tom McCarthy.[53] Following the season, Moyer announced he would not return to the booth in 2015, citing a desire to spend more time with his family.[54]
Pitching styleEdit
Moyer's pitching approach evolved as he aged. Most pitchers lose velocity later in their career, and Moyer was no exception – his average fastball speed in 2012 was about 80 MPH, a very slow speed for a non-knuckleball pitcher. Instead of velocity, Moyer relied on control and mixing his pitches. He threw five main pitches: a sinker, a cut fastball, a slider, a changeup, and a curveball.
Moyer, after spending many of his playing years living in Seattle, moved to Florida with his wife Karen (the daughter of former Notre Dame basketball coach and retired ESPN sportscaster Digger Phelps) and their eight children.[55] The Moyers' two youngest daughters were adopted from Guatemala.[56] In 1996, Moyer earned a Bachelor of General Studies degree from Indiana University.
Jamie and Karen Moyer, who were introduced by Harry Caray when Jamie was with the Cubs and Karen was an intern with Cubs broadcast outlet WGN,[41] were devout Roman Catholics.[57][58]
Moyer's oldest son Dillon was drafted in the 22nd round of the 2010 MLB draft by the Minnesota Twins but did not sign and instead attended UC Irvine [59] for two years. He transferred to UC San Diego [60] for his Junior and final year, as he graduated in three years with a major in Sociology and minor in Education.[60] He was later drafted in the 38th round of the 2013 MLB draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers and did sign with them.[61] Another son, Hutton, was drafted in the seventh round of the 2015 MLB draft.[62] As of 2019, neither remains on a minor league roster.
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^ Boswell, Thomas. "Moyer Is The Sage of Philadelphia". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
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^ "Helms works through boos to get Marlins a win". Fox Sports. Associated Press. Archived from the original on May 30, 2009.
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^ Stark, Jayson. "Moyer out through postseason". ESPN.
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^ Maaddi, Rob. "Phils' 47-Year-Old Moyer Oldest to Throw Shutout". Yahoo! Sports. May 7, 2010.
^ R.B. FALLSTROM, AP Sports Writer Tuesday, July 20, 2010 (July 20, 2010). "Cardinals whip Phillies 7–1 behind Carpenter – MLB – Yahoo! Sports". Sports.yahoo.com. Retrieved May 2, 2012. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
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^ 50th stadium appearance for Jamie Moyer
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^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 20, 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2009. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
^ "Dillon Moyer Bio". Archived from the original on November 11, 2014.
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^ Bloodlines Run Deep in 2013 Roster
^ Gonzalez, Alden (June 9, 2015). "Moyer legacy lives on in Angels' 7th-rounder". MLB.com. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
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John A. Rowland
John A. Rowland was an early settler and rancher of the eastern San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California. He and his family were very prominent in the region's early development and the unincorporated community of Rowland Heights, California is named for him.
John Albert Rowland
Cecil County, Maryland
October 13, 1873 (aged 82)
Rancho La Puente
El Campo Santo Cemetery
early San Gabriel Valley settler
María Encarnación Martínez, Charlotte M. Gray
Early lifeEdit
There is speculation about several aspects of the early life of John Albert Rowland (April 15, 1791–October 13, 1873) starting with his birthplace depending on which reference is accepted as either Cecil County, Maryland or Pennsylvania. Also, there is speculation whether "Albert" was his middlename as he never used it on official or legal documents. His birthdate is also uncertain, as his tombstone indicated his age at death as 82 years rather than specific birth and death dates. Most census listings indicate a later than 1790 birth and differing birthplace: southeastern Pennsylvania (Census 1850, actually 1851: 52 years old), across the river from Cecil County, Maryland (Censuses 1860: 62 years old and 1870: 68 years old).[1]
At an early date in the 19th century, the Rowland family migrated to Morgan County, Ohio, roughly between Wheeling, West Virginia and Columbus, Ohio along a heavily traveled westward route for many in the Eastern states in the first decade or two of the century. As a young man, Rowland, presumably, followed the Ohio River to the Mississippi and then to St. Louis. From there, he would have traveled along the Missouri River to the town of Franklin at the western edge of the United States. In 1823, using the new Santa Fe Trail, he migrated to the Mexico territory of Nuevo Mexico, now the U.S. state of New Mexico.
Rowland, said to have been trained as a surveyor, moved to San Fernando de Taos, and become a fur trapper for a time, although he later operated a flour mill. In 1825, Mexican citizenship followed before marriage to María Encarnación Martínez.[2]
Workman-Rowland PartyEdit
In Taos, a friendship and eventually business partnership was established with William Workman with the manufacture of "Taos lightning," a whisky popular with fur trappers returning to winter in town after a long spring, summer and fall period of trapping. Rowland and Workman were associated with several political actions that may have prompted their move to Alta California. For example, a Taos-based revolt seized the government of New Mexico and the two were presumably forced to swear loyalty to the unsuccessful rebels. The new governor, Manuel Armijo, was in office when Rowland and Workman were arrested for smuggling which although a common pastime may have been retribution for their feigned loyalty to the Taoseño revolt.
In 1840, Texas president Mirabeau Lamar announced plans to peaceably annex all territory to the Rio Grande, including all the principal towns of New Mexico. His representative, William G. Dryden, named Rowland and Workman agents of the Texas government in New Mexico, although they were soon replaced and may have had little, if any, active role in promoting the scheme. Still, the two men decided to leave New Mexico, as the annexation scheme became an outright invasion, albeit a poorly planned and executed one that failed miserably.
Before the Texans straggled into New Mexico and were routed, Rowland and Workman, along with about two dozen other Americans and Europeans, had left New Mexico for California via the Old Spanish Trail in early September 1841. On September 6, 1841, some 25 New Mexican immigrants joined the group and left Abiquiú, New Mexico, north of Santa Fe. The arid environment of the trail was known, so this trip was made in the Fall when there was grazing for the animals, as well as watering places.[3] The size of the caravan probably helped avoid Native American attack. Although the expedition has often been referred to as an "American wagon train," the Old Spanish Trail never could accommodate wagons and, moreover, there were in the group Europeans and, more importantly, New Mexicans, the latter of which had significant Native American ancestry. According to Workman and others, the second so-called Workman-Rowland Party arrived in southern Alta California, on November 5, 1841.[4]
Land grants and ranchingEdit
In early 1842, Rowland (usually referred to as "John Roland" or "Juan Roland" in the land grant records) petitioned in his name alone for a land grant and received preliminary possession of the 11,740-acre (48 km2) Rancho La Puente.[5]
Possibly with the grant preliminarily secured, Workman remained at La Puente while Rowland returned, in April 1842, to New Mexico to retrieve his family. They and other immigrants traveled to California and arrived the same year at Los Angeles in December. By the next summer, Rowland constructed an adobe home about a mile east of Workman's built the previous year. They set about improving the land as stipulated in the grant and probably engaging in the hide and tallow trade.
Nothing more is found about the Mexican land grant until shortly after 1845 when the two participated in the action that ousted the last non-California born governor for a Californio. Workman, as captain, and Rowland, as lieutenant, were involved February 1845 by leading a contingent of Californios assisting Pio Pico in assuming the governorship by force at a battle against Governor Manuel Micheltorena.
If Rowland was trained in surveying it did not show with the presumably estimated measurement identified in the original petition of 1842 as actions in 1845 had the grant extended to 48,790-acre (197 km2). In July 1845 the grant passed judicial confirmation status making the grant permanent in the names of both Rowland and Workman. The California Commission records do not support that Workman received in 1842 documentation supporting his rights to any part of the grant with Rowland before the 1845 confirmation. The first petition and title refer to "he" or "Roland" whereas the judicial title version of the grant refers to "they."[6] Whether Workman's reputation in New Mexico was known in California or a suspicion because of his British ancestry is not known as a reason for him to not challenge the title instead lie low as the British thought nothing of extending their territory south of Washington into Alta California before California was brought into the Union.[7]
In 1847, Rowland built the first private grist mill in the Los Angeles region, not far east of his home. Rowland must have been doing well with his cattle, crops, orchards and vineyards as he exhibited at a California State Fair in the early 1850s a sheave of wheat.[8] Rowland and Workman both sold part of their grape crops to the winemakers Kohler and Frohling.[9] By the early 1860s success was enough to impress a touring correspondent that visited Workman's place seeing cattle and horses as well as vineyards and orchards.[10] Rowland was in a good position with the San Jose River running through the grant. It was possible for Rowland to transition from the boom of the 1849 Gold Rush from a livestock based agrarian environment to include all types of fruits and vegetables.[11]
About 1851, he and Workman informally divided the grant with Rowland taking about 29,000-acre (117 km2) in the east portion and Workman receiving the 20,000-acre (81 km2) western part. In 1867 they received a US patent for their land, resulting from a 15-year protracted struggle to legitimize their land claim as required by the 1851 California private land claims act. Indeed, Rowland contacted Henry W. Halleck, Abraham Lincoln's Chief of Staff, who had served as California Secretary of State and who had submitted one of the two reports to Congress about the viability of California private land claims, for advice on obtaining his patent. Halleck's 1865 response was brief, but to the point: "hire a lawyer and give him plenty of money." This Rowland did, hiring attorney Henry Beard, who prepared a published synopsis [12] of the land claim in 1866 and who was successful in securing the patent.
A deed of partition was not officially recorded until 1868.[13][14]
Luis Arenas and Rowland were granted Rancho Los Huecos by Pío Pico in 1846.[15] Rowland also claimed eleven square leagues, situated at the confluence of the Stanislaus River and San Joaquin River, by Pío Pico in 1846, but the claim was rejected.[16][17]
Both Rowland and Workman seem to have been Union supporters during the US Civil War as they provided horses to the federal government.[18] Of national significance, Los Angeles was connected to much of the remainder of the country when the railroad came to Los Angeles following a referendum on the subject in 1872. Supposedly, both Rowland and Workman disliked the railroad going across the rancho based on a 1919 article in the area newspaper that indicated so. But a review of plat route maps show that portions of the rancho were sold to the railroad before the railroad acquired land closer to the depot grounds within the city.[19]
Rowland retained most of his La Puente holdings until his death, after which the tract was divided amongst his second wife and his children. Upon the death of the second Mrs. Rowland there seemed to be complications with the estate distribution.[20] In the 1880s, the railroad boom towns of Puente and Covina were created from the Rowland portion of the rancho and oil was discovered in the Puente Hills on a section left to youngest son, William R. Rowland, who formed the highly successful Puente Oil Company. Today, heirs of Rowland through his namesake great-grandson, John Rowland IV, still own over a hundred acres in the City of Industry and Rowland Heights which are leased out for commercial purposes, though a ca. 1900 ranch home, an older barn, and a later dwelling were recently razed for commercial development that has not yet taken place.
Family lifeEdit
John and Encarnación Rowland had ten children, of which 2 sons, John and Thomas, married daughters of Bernardo Yorba of the Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana. A third son, William R. Rowland, married, Manuelita, a daughter of Isaac Williams, owner of Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, and would also go on to be a two-term Sheriff of Los Angeles as well as an oil company president with the Puente Oil Company, drilling wells on his land in the Puente Hills after 1885. Encarnación Rowland died in 1851.
In 1852, Rowland married Charlotte M. Gray, a widow with three children. In addition to Charlotte's three children from her first husband, John B. Gray, they had a daughter, Mary Agnes Gray, married General Charles Forman, who would go on to establish Toluca Lake.[21]
John Rowland died in October 1873 and is interred at El Campo Santo Cemetery located on the grounds of the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum.[22]
The John A. Rowland House, built in 1855 for Rowland's second wife Charlotte, is the oldest surviving brick structure in southern California, is located on Gale Avenue just inside the boundary of the City of Industry, California, adjacent to the Hacienda-La Puente Unified School District headquarters and is owned by the Historical Society of La Puente Valley, which has recently begun initial restoration efforts and intends to start some public programs there late in 2010. Just east of Hacienda Heights is the unincorporated community of Rowland Heights, which contains John A. Rowland High School. Rowland Avenue in West Covina, California and Rowland Elementary School are named after him.
^ U.S. Censuses: 1850-Los Angeles County, California, dated February 12, 1851, Dwelling 405/Family 405; 1860-Elmonte Township, Los Angeles County, California, dated July 20, 1860, Dwelling 164/Family 155; 1870-El Monte Township, Los Angeles County, California, dated July 24, 1870, Dwelling 340/Family 362.
^ Covina by Barbara Ann Hall, Covina Valley Historical Society, Published by Arcadia Publishing, 2007, ISBN 0-7385-5555-X, 9780738555553, p. 9.
^ Need reference from ayuntamiento proceedings. The Los Angeles ayuntamiento passed legislation regarding the stealing of mules that were then sold in New Mexico and Mexico.
^ Frank McLynn, 2004,Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails,Grove Press,ISBN 978-0-8021-4063-0; The first or exploratory expedition included the following: Jacob Frankfort, the first Jewish resident of Los Angeles who later moved to San Francisco; William Knight who established Knight’s Ferry and Knight’s Landing on the Sacramento River; Thomas Lindsay, a mineralogist who became the first settler in the future city of Stockton; John H. Lyman, a physician who returned east; John McClure who joined Jacob Leese on his 1843 expedition to the Willamette Valley in Oregon; Juan Felipe Pena who partnered with Vaca and built the historic Pena Adobe; John Rowland; Hiram Taylor, a musician who joined John McClure and went to Oregon; Albert Toomes, a carpenter who received a land grant in Tehama County; Lorenzo Trujillo who founded the erstwhile colony of San Salvador north of present-day Riverside; Juan Manuel Vaca for whom the town of Vacaville was named; Francisco Esteban Vigil and his trade caravan that left the others early and arrived in Los Angeles several days before the main party; Benjamin Davis Wilson who became a San Gabriel Valley rancher and politician, and for whom Mt. Wilson was named; William Workman. Also aboard were a gunsmith, surveyor, tailor, blacksmith, cooper, and a minister en route to China. A party of "Nuevo Mexicanos, probably genizaros (a group of mixed-blood people of mostly Indian heritage),"12 "some 25 in number, about half of whom were women and children"13 joined the party shortly after leaving Santa Fe. Others, including "young men, who made the long journey mainly through motives of curiosity and love of adventure, having no definite object in view." At its peak, the traveling party totaled about 65 people. http://www.pablostories.com/content/files/folkhistory_samplechapter01.pdf
^ Undated petition from John Roland to Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado, Docket 160 (Expediente 385) La Puente: California Private Land Claims, Records of the General Land Office. Records Group 29: Records of the Bureau of the Census. Publication No. T910, Roll 9, p. 31-32. Alvarado's Marginal Order dated January 14, 1842 calls for a deseno or map to be made to document the boundaries, p. 32.
^ Docket 160 (Expediente 385) La Puente, pp. 41-42.
^ The Oregon Treaty was not signed until 1846 between the US and Britain establishing the northwestern boundary with Canada. Harlow, Neal. California Conquered:War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846-1850. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1982.
^ Need reference from Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.
^ Gerber, Judi. Laying the Foundation: How Los Angeles Became the Commercial Wine Capital of America; Part Two: Commercial Winemaking Explodes in Los Angeles(1850s – 1860s). ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4284. Viewed December 12, 2012.
^ Warren, John Quincy Adams. California Ranchos and Farms, 1846-1862, Including the letters of John Quincy Adams Warren of 1861, Being Largely Devoted to Livestock, Wheat Farming, Fruit Raising .... Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967.
^ Water was so important to the functioning of the land that a Rowland family member in the late 1800s sued a landowner of former Rancho La Puente land who intended to gather water in the McClintock Tunnel bypassing the San Jose Creek.
^ Docket 160 (Expediente 385) La Puente, pp. 83-101.
^ Daily Los Angeles Herald, April 26, 1879, p. 4; dated June 23, 1868 and recorded June 25, 1868, Book 10 of Deeds, p. 39.
^ It will be interesting to see whether a letter in the Cornelious Cole Collection at the University of California, Los Angeles may concern any part of the confirmation process for private land claims since the latter served in both the House of Representatives and Senate during this time.
^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 221 ND
^ Roland v. United States,U.S. Supreme Court, 74 U.S. 7 Wall. 743 743 (1868)
^ Need reference from Congressional proceedings.
^ Need references from the plat maps within the records of the Railroad/Public Utilities Commission. Members of the family also served on the referendum committee on the election to decide if Los Angeles would subscribe to the wishes of the railroad in order for the route to go through the city.
^ Los Angeles Times, November 11, 1896, Part II, p. 9: "The Rowland Estate. Two Marriages, Deaths and a Deed Complicate Distribution."
^ Los Angeles, from the Mountains to the Sea by John Steven McGroarty, American Historical Society, Published by Arcadia Publishing, 1921, p. 77.
^ El Campo Santo Cemetery at Find A Grave
Paul R. Spitzzeri, "The Workman and Temple Families of Southern California, 1830-1930," Dallas: Seligson Publishing, 2008.
Donald E. Rowland, "John Rowland and William Workman: Southern California Pioneers of 1841," Los Angeles and Spokane: Historical Society of Southern California and Arthur H. Clark Company, 1999 [new printing forthcoming from Gibbs Smith]
County of Los Angeles Public Library, La Puente Valley, Community History
The Adobes of Rancho La Puente - Historic Adobes of Los Angeles County
La Puente Valley Historical Society
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Louis Riddick
Louis Angelo Riddick (born March 15, 1969) is a former American football safety who played in the NFL from 1991 to 1998.
No. 26, 42, 29, 41
(1969-03-15) March 15, 1969 (age 50)
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
215 lb (98 kg)
Perkasie (PA) Pennridge
1991 / Round: 9 / Pick: 248
San Francisco 49ers (1991)*
Sacramento Surge (1992)
Atlanta Falcons (1992)
Oakland Raiders (1998)
Orlando Rage (2001)
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only
As executive:
(Pro scout)
(Director of pro personnel)
Philadelphia Eagles (2008)
(Assistant director of pro personnel)
World Bowl champion (1992)
USA Today High School All-American (1986)
Tackles:
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Safeties:
Player stats at PFR
Riddick played college football at Pittsburgh. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the ninth round of the 1991 NFL Draft. He also played for the Sacramento Surge, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders and Orlando Rage in his playing career.
Post-playing careerEdit
After his playing career ended, Riddick became a pro scout for the Washington Redskins for four years before being promoted to Director of Pro Personnel. He was hired by the Philadelphia Eagles as a pro scout in 2008. He was promoted to Director of Pro Personnel on February 3, 2010.[1] As of September 2013, Riddick is an on-air talent for ESPN.[2]
^ Kent, Bob (February 3, 2010). "Promotions In Player Personnel Staff". Philadelphiaeagles.com. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
^ "Dusty and Cam 1080 interview". KFXX (AM). Retrieved 19 November 2015.
ESPN Media Zone bio
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Mike McCormack (American football)
Michael Joseph McCormack (June 21, 1930 – November 15, 2013) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played with the Cleveland Browns from 1954 through 1962 and served as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, the Baltimore Colts and the Seattle Seahawks. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1984.
Mike McCormack
McCormack in 1973
No. 71, 74
Kansas City (MO) De LaSalle
1951 / Round: 3 / Pick: 34
New York Yanks (1951)
Dallas Texans (1952)
As coach:
(Assistant coach)
(Head coach)
Cincinnati Bengals (1976–1979)
Seattle Seahawks (1982)
Seattle Seahawks (1982–1989)
Carolina Panthers (1993–1997)
(President and GM)
6× Pro Bowl (1951, 1956, 1957, 1960–1962)
9× All-Pro (1954–1962)
2× NFL Champion (1954, 1955)
Cleveland Browns Ring of Honor
Hall of Fame class of 1984
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McCormack played college football at Kansas and assumed that he would take up a career as a high school coach. He was drafted by the New York Yanks in the 1951 NFL Draft, but had to wait until the third round before being taken. After the 1951 season concluded, he was conscripted into the US Army and served in the Korean War. While he was away, the Yanks moved to Dallas and became the Dallas Texans, which folded after just one season. McCormack came home in 1954 to find that his team had ceased to exist, so he became a free agent and was immediately signed by the Baltimore Colts, a new franchise created the previous year to replace the defunct Yanks/Texans. Cleveland Browns founder Paul Brown had not forgotten seeing McCormack play in his rookie season three years earlier and was sufficiently impressed that he decided to add him to the roster in a trade exchange with Baltimore. In his first season with the team, he played on the defensive line, and famously grabbed the ball out of Lions QB Bobby Layne's hands (in what the referees ruled as a fumble recovery) in the 1954 NFL Championship game against the Detroit Lions helping set up an important early touchdown.
The following season, he was shifted to offensive tackle and helped the Browns once again capture the NFL title. He would play a key role in helping legendary running back Jim Brown become one of the dominant players in the game, ending his career with six selections to the Pro Bowl.
Paul Brown. legendary Cleveland Browns founder, owner, and coach, stated in his 1979 memoir, PB: The Paul Brown Story, "I consider (Mike) McCormack the finest offensive tackle who ever played pro football."[1][2] Also, according to Paul Zimmerman's 1984 book, The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football, Brown also stated that McCormack was the best offensive lineman he ever coached.[3] The book states that McCormack "[c]ould handle the Colts' Gino Marchetti better than any tackle in the game. Power combined with great intelligence and 4.8 speed. 'I've seen him have games,' former player and NFL executive Bucko Kilroy says, 'where if you were grading him, he'd score 100. Not one mistake, and his guy would never make a tackle.'"
Coaching careerEdit
McCormack retired from playing in 1962 and began coaching with the first of four consecutive stints as an assistant in the annual College All-Star Game. In 1965, he was hired as an assistant coach with the Washington Redskins, spending the next eight seasons working under four different head coaches, including former teammate Otto Graham from 1966–1968.
McCormack was hired to replace Ed Khayat as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles on January 17, 1973. He inherited a team that ended 1972 in the NFC East cellar at 2–11–1 and hadn't had a winning campaign since 1966.[4] Three seasons and a 16–25–1 record later, he was dismissed on December 22, 1975 following a 4–10 last-place finish.[5] After four years as offensive line coach with the Cincinnati Bengals from 1976 through 1979,[6] he was selected over Frank Kush and George Welsh to succeed Ted Marchibroda as head coach of the Baltimore Colts on January 17, 1980. The ballclub finished in last place at 5–11 in each of the two seasons prior to McCormack's arrival.[7] When the Colts fell from 7–9 in 1980 to 2–14 the following year, he was fired on December 21, 1981 and replaced by Kush the next day.[8] As McCormack put it, "I wanted to be like my mentor, Paul Brown. He was a great teacher and I tried to do the same but unfortunately I always let my emotions carry me away."
Administrative careerEdit
In 1982, McCormack joined the Seattle Seahawks, eventually becoming president and general manager. He also served as the Seahawks' interim head coach for the remainder of the 1982 season when Jack Patera was fired after the first two games. McCormack took over during the 57-day players strike and led the team to a 4-3 record, the only time he compiled a winning record as an NFL head coach. He then returned to his management position when the Seahawks hired Chuck Knox as their new head coach in 1983 and declined all further offers to become a head coach.
In January 1989, he was abruptly fired by the new Seahawks owner, Ken Behring, who explained the decision was necessary in order to make changes in the financial operations of the team. Later that year, McCormack became a consultant for Jerry Richardson and his ownership group that were seeking to land an NFL expansion team in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1993, he was hired by the newly formed Carolina Panthers as their team president and general manager. He retired from the Panthers organization in 1997, which erected a monument in their stadium honoring him.
McCormack died of heart failure on November 15, 2013 in Palm Desert, California.[9]
List of American Football League players
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^ Zimmerman, Paul. ISBN 0-671-45394-7, Simon & Schuster, 1984, p. 54.
^ "McCormack, Redskin Aide, Named Eagles' Head Coach," The Associated Press, Wednesday, January 17, 1973. Retrieved May 7, 2018
^ "McCormack Dismissed By Eagles," United Press International, Monday, December 22, 1975. Retrieved May 7, 2018
^ Didinger, Ray. "Didinger Reflects On The Late McCormack," Philadelphia Eagles, Friday, November 15, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2018
^ Leavy, Jane. "Colts Pick McCormack," The Washington Post, Thursday, January 17, 1980. Retrieved May 8, 2018
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Second Severn Crossing
The Second Severn Crossing (Welsh: Ail Groesfan Hafren)—officially renamed the Prince of Wales Bridge (Welsh: Pont Tywysog Cymru)—is the M4 motorway bridge over the River Severn between England and Wales, inaugurated on 5 June 1996 by the Prince of Wales to supplement the traffic capacity of the Severn Bridge built in 1966. The bridge is operated by Highways England. On 2 July 2018 the bridge was renamed the Prince of Wales Bridge in a ceremony conducted by the Prince.
The bridge as viewed from Severn Beach (England)
51°34′28″N 2°42′06″W / 51.5745°N 2.7016°W / 51.5745; -2.7016 (Prince of Wales Bridge (approximate midpoint))Coordinates: 51°34′28″N 2°42′06″W / 51.5745°N 2.7016°W / 51.5745; -2.7016 (Prince of Wales Bridge (approximate midpoint))
M4 motorway (6 lanes)
River Severn
South West England/South East Wales
Prince of Wales Bridge
Maintained by
Highways England[1][2]
Central span: Cable-stayed bridge
Approach viaducts: Segmental bridge
5,128 metres (16,824 ft)
34.6 metres (113.5 ft)
137 metres (449 ft)
456 metres (1,496 ft)
Clearance below
37 metres (121 ft)
5 June 1996; 23 years ago (5 June 1996)
Map showing the Second Severn Crossing in relation to other crossings and the estuary itself
The Second Severn Crossing marks the lower limit of the River Severn and the start of the Severn Estuary. It is further southwest than the Severn Bridge and because it is closer in-line with the landward sides of the M4, it reduces the length of the journey when travelling between England and Wales. The junctions at each end are designed for most traffic to use this crossing, and in order to use the old Severn Bridge crossing, one has to leave the M4 at junction 21 and join the M48 near Aust or at junction 23 near Magor. The new crossing carries more traffic than the Severn Bridge, which is still in use. It is wider than the Severn Bridge, having three lanes and a narrow hard shoulder each way, compared to the two lanes, cycle path and narrow footpath of the original crossing. It is a cable-stayed bridge, whereas the Severn Bridge is a suspension bridge. The position of the bridge is close to that of the Severn Tunnel, which has carried the railway line beneath the river bed since 1886.
Much of the estuary is mudflats at low tide, but at high tide these can be covered by as much as 14 metres (46 ft) of water. This presented the engineers with a constraint: packets of work were scheduled at low tide, and needed to be completed within the short windows allowed by the tides.
The concession given to the consortium which financed, built and operate the bridge required them to take over the outstanding debt on the original Severn Bridge and to operate the two bridges as a single entity. Tolls were set annually by the government based on the previous year's change in the Retail Price Index. On the expiry of the concession in January 2018, the consortium was required to hand the bridge over to public ownership. The tolls were subsequently scrapped in December 2018.
The Severn Estuary presented a barrier between the Bristol area and South Wales. The estuary has a maximum tidal range of 14.5 metres (48 ft), the second highest in the world, and during a rising or falling tide there are strong currents of up to 8 knots (4.1 m/s). Much of the estuary is mud flats that are exposed at low tide; these have been designated a Special Protection Area. The central part of the estuary is a navigable channel which, at the site of the bridge, is known as "The Shoots". The bridge is upstream from Avonmouth and the Port of Bristol, but downstream from the Port of Sharpness. The Gloucester Harbour Trustees have responsibility for controlling navigation in the estuary's tidal waters upstream from the bridge.[3]
Until 1966, road travellers could either use the Aust Ferry, which had operated since medieval times (and as a car ferry since 1926), or use the scheduled car shuttle train service through the Severn Tunnel between Pilning and Severn Tunnel Junction, which operated from 1926 until 1966.[4] Otherwise, the detour via Gloucester would add 57 miles (92 km) to the journey.[5] In 1966, the first Severn road bridge, a four-lane suspension bridge, was opened, carrying the M4 motorway between England and South Wales. By 1984, traffic across the first Severn Bridge had tripled and it was projected that by the mid-1990s, the old bridge would be running at capacity. A study was commissioned into building either a second bridge or a tunnel. The consultants reported back in 1986, recommending that a new bridge be built downstream from the existing bridge.[6][7]
In 1988, it was announced that tenders would be invited from private consortia to fund, build and operate the bridge for a specified period. The consortium would also take over the management of the old bridge and the associated £100 million debt.[8] Tenders were invited in 1989; and in 1990 the concession to build the bridge was awarded to Severn River Crossing plc.[9] Construction work started on 26 April 1992 and the bridge was opened by the Prince of Wales on 5 June 1996.[6]
The Shoots Bridge; the shipping channel lies between the two towers
The architect and aesthetic consultant for the bridge was Ronald Weeks of Percy Thomas Partnership.[10] The bridge has portals close to Sudbrook, Monmouthshire on the Welsh side and Severn Beach in South Gloucestershire on the English side. It has three principal sections – a 25 span viaduct on the English side of length 2,103 m (6,900 ft; 1.307 mi), a 24 span viaduct of length 2,077 m (6,814 ft; 1.291 mi) on the Welsh side and the bridge itself, a 948 m (3,110 ft; 0.589 mi) structure with a 37 m (121 ft) navigational clearance, giving a total length of 5,128 m (16,824 ft; 3.186 mi).[11][12][13] The central section, called the Shoots Bridge, is of cable-stayed design and the central span (between the bridge pylons) is 456 metres (1,496 ft) in length. The approach viaducts are of a segmental bridge design. The crossing forms a very slight "S" curve – the roadway has an approximate east-west alignment at each of the portals, while the central bridge follows an alignment approximately WNW to ESE.
The Severn Railway Tunnel passes under the estuary bed on a line which is generally about 500 m upstream of the bridge, but which passes under the line of the bridge close to the English shore.[14][15]
The deck, which carries three lanes of traffic in each direction, is 34.6 metres (114 ft) wide. The sides of the bridge are fitted with 3 metres (9.8 ft) baffle plates to reduce lateral wind loads coming from the Severn Estuary onto the traffic; this has reduced the number of times that speed restrictions have been needed. The overall design of the new crossing makes it more resistant to high winds than the old Severn Bridge.[11]
Construction of the Second Severn Crossing
The crossing was built by a business consortium under a public-private partnership. A company called Severn River Crossing plc, led by John Laing plc and GTM-Entrepose, was formed to build the new crossing.[16] This company also took over the responsibility of managing and maintaining the old Severn Bridge crossing, as well as managing and maintaining the new crossing. The cost of constructing the new crossing was to be paid for by tolls collected from motorists using the two crossings. Work on the new crossing began in 1992. Completion was in 1996.
Sub-assemblies for the bridge were constructed onshore and then shifted by a large tracked vehicle (similar to that used to move the Apollo and Space Shuttle at Cape Kennedy) onto a barge (the SAR3), prior to being floated out on the high tide to the site. The 37 bridge pier foundations on the approach viaducts are 98.11 metres (321.9 ft) apart, and consist of open concrete caissons weighing up to 2,000 tonnes, which were founded on the rock of the estuary bed. The decking consists of 3.6 metres (11.8 ft) post-stressed match cast sections, weighing 200 tonnes each.[11]
The cable-stayed section of the crossing is over 1,044.7 metres (3,427.5 ft) long, consisting of a 34.6 metres (113.5 ft) wide deck made from steel plate girders with a composite reinforced concrete slab. These were prefabricated on shore and put in place using balanced cantilever methods. There are two high twin-leg, reinforced and pre-stressed concrete pylons carrying 240 cables which support the bridge deck, rising to a height of 149 metres (489 ft) above the river bed or 101 metres (331 ft) above the bridge deck. Cable vibrations were experienced during construction and secondary cables were added to eliminate this. To avoid detracting from the aesthetics of the primary cables, the secondary cables are very slender and are not very noticeable.[11]
During the summer of 1994 the bridge deck launching gantry fell onto the Gwent viaduct, causing the 200 tonne bridge deck unit to fall onto the deck below. Although this delayed the project by ten weeks, the builders still completed the bridge on schedule two years later.[17]
Environmental impactEdit
A dunlin feeding, one of the many waders that winter on the Severn estuary
The crossing passes over mudflats in the Severn Estuary with part of the eastern approach viaduct sited on the English Stones, a rocky outcrop uncovered at low tide. The estuary wetlands are home to migrating birds such as the ringed plover, redshank and whimbrel, while the Eurasian curlew, dunlin and grey plover winter in the area. The birds feed on ragworm, lugworm and other invertebrates. Saltmarsh is found along the fringes of the coast. Beds of eelgrass occur on the more sheltered mud- and sandbanks.[18] In 1976, in recognition of the importance of the estuary as a wetland used by migrating birds, an area of 247 km2 (95 sq miles) was designated a Ramsar site.[19] In 1988, the Severn Estuary was designated a Special Protection Area. The same year an area of 99 km2 (38 sq miles) was notified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and designated as such the following year;[18] in 1995, this was extended to cover the whole of the Ramsar site.[20]
Prior to the bridge's construction, environmentalists raised numerous concerns and criticisms, chiefly about the immediate damage from construction work and the effects of long-term pollution from a projected increase in car traffic. The construction process resulted in a temporary increase in turbidity of the Severn waters. Although eelgrass is reasonably tolerant to short-term high turbidity and consequent loss of light, the bed of eelgrass in the river was observed to decline considerably during the period of construction.[21] The construction of the approach roads and toll plaza resulted in the permanent loss of some wet pastureland.[22]
Field surveys carried out in 2003 and 2004 reported that the bridge had little effect on the flight paths of the various birds – it was noted that when curlews, dunlins and lapwings approached the bridge, they would change course to gain height and fly over the bridge, but that oystercatchers and turnstones would fly under the bridge. The surveys also showed that the bridge had minimal impact on the roosting habits of most birds, though a flock of mallards were seen to be roosting directly under the bridge, with many positioning themselves on the dry concrete base on one of the pillars. Likewise, it was noted that the bridge had little impact on the birds' feeding habits – turnstones and lapwings were recorded as feeding on mudflats directly under the bridge while the absence of other waders was attributed to the rocky nature of the foreshore.[18]
FinancesEdit
The consortium consisting of two civil engineering firms and two banks that funded and built the bridge has a 30-year concession to redeem its outlay from tolls collected from users of the bridge. At the end of the concession period in January 2018, the bridge passed into public ownership,[17] and is now managed by Highways England.[23]
TollsEdit
Toll booths on the Second Severn Crossing
The toll booths in operation in 2007
The toll booths being removed in 2019
Tolls were collected from westbound traffic only, near Rogiet, 2 miles (3.2 km) in Wales.[9] Tolls charges were based on a three-tier pricing system:[24] Tolls could be paid by cash, major credit or debit cards, or by use of the Severn TAG system, which was a wireless electronic toll collection system that did not require vehicles to stop.[25]
Motorcycles and UK disabled badge holders travelling in a vehicle were exempted from paying a toll. Toll prices were reviewed annually on 1 January, in accordance with the Severn Bridges Act 1992.[26][27][28] In late 2008, UK VAT was reduced from 17.5% to 15%, but the bridge toll remained unchanged. For convenience the tolls were kept at round multiples of 10p (the bridge toll is largely paid in cash as card payments were not accepted until mid-2012), but the 13p VAT reduction was not passed on immediately. In 2009, the planned toll for cars would have been £5.50, as the announcements listed,[26][28] but the actual toll charged was £5.40. George Osborne, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in March 2015 that the tolls would be reduced to £5.40 in 2018, due to VAT being removed when the bridge comes into public ownership.[29][30]
In the 2016 United Kingdom budget, Osborne announced that toll charges on the Severn crossings would be halved in 2018.[29] The toll was due to be cut to £5.40 in 2017 but was increased.[31]
It was reported in 2012 that the repayments were likely to continue until the early 2020s due to the introduction of a revised settlement to the operator in return for accepting payment by debit and credit cards. The announcement said that even after repayment was complete the toll charges would likely remain at the same levels.[32] However, in July 2017 it was announced that the toll would be abolished,[33] In July 2017, the Welsh Secretary, Alun Cairns, announced that tolls would be scrapped at the end of 2018, claiming that this would boost the South Wales economy by around £100m a year.[33] In September 2017, Cairns confirmed that tolls would be reduced in January 2018 as VAT is removed.[34] As announced on 2 October 2018, tolls were abolished on 17 December 2018.[35]
Historical toll chargesEdit
The toll levied was always identical to that on the Severn Bridge.
Toll category
Category 1 Cars and minibuses with up to 9 seats
Category 2 Small buses with up to 17 seats
Vans up to 3.5 tonnes
Double-cab pickup trucks
Category 3 Buses with more than 17 seats
Goods vehicles weighing 3.5 tonnes or more
5 June 1996 £3.80 £7.70 £11.50
1 January 1997 £3.90 £7.80 £11.70
1 January 2007 £5.10 £10.20 £15.30
1 January 2010[26] £5.50 £10.90 £16.40
17 December 2018[42] Free Free Free
Funding and ownershipEdit
The bridge was built at a cost of £330 million (excluding VAT) and was owned by the company Severn River Crossing Plc.[43][44] As of November 2010[update], Severn River Crossing Plc was owned
35% John Laing, British developer infrastructure operator
35% Vinci, French concessions and construction company
15% Bank of America, American multinational banking and financial services corporation
15% Barclays Capital, British multinational investment bank[45]
The company's 2011 annual report showed the same companies still owned, through subsidiary companies, all the issued ordinary share capital of the Plc.[46]
In 2012, changes were made to the agreement to reflect the effect of changes in VAT and Corporation Tax and the costs of installing credit card handling systems. The net effect was to increase the required revenue from £995.83 million to £1,028.91 million in 1989 prices[45][47]
Ownership of the crossing and the original Severn Bridge returned to the UK government on 8 January 2018, when the project's required revenue, as defined in the Concession Agreement with the Secretary of State for Transport, had been collected.[46][48] At that point, responsibility for operating the bridge passed to Highways England.[49]
ClosuresEdit
On 6 February 2009, the bridge was closed by weather for the first time since its opening, after three vehicles were struck by falling ice, damaging windscreens.[50] Bad weather, and again falling ice, repeated this in December 2009.[51] Temporary speed limits are put in place due to high winds or thick fog, with drivers informed by the electronic signs. Because of the more advanced aerodynamic design of the later bridge, the Second Crossing is far less prone to such restrictions caused by crosswinds than the first Severn Bridge.
View of the Prince of Wales Bridge from Severn Beach on the English side.
RenamingEdit
On 5 April 2018, the Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns, announced that the crossing would be renamed as the Prince of Wales Bridge at a ceremony later in the year.[52] He said that the renaming would be "a fitting tribute to His Royal Highness in a year that sees him mark 60 years as The Prince of Wales and decades of continued, dedicated service to our nation."[53] A petition against the renaming had received more than 30,000 signatures by 8 April. Some politicians criticised the proposed renaming and the lack of public consultation on it, but it was confirmed that the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, had raised no objection to the proposal.[54] The bridge was renamed, despite opposition, on 2 July 2018 at a ceremony held at the toll plaza where a plaque was unveiled by the Prince and Duchess of Cornwall.[55] There was no prior press release or other official communication from the Government.[56][57]
List of bridges in Wales
List of crossings of the River Severn
Aust Severn Powerline Crossing
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Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) is a college athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. As the name implies, member teams are located in the state of Wisconsin, although there are three associate members from Minnesota and one from Illinois. All full members are part of the University of Wisconsin System.
WIAC
Sports fielded
men's: 10
women's: 12
Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin (1913–1926)
Wisconsin State Teachers College Conference (1926–1951)
Wisconsin State College Conference (1951–1964)
Wisconsin State University Athletic Conference (1964–1997)
Gary Karner (since July 1996)
wiacsports.com
UW–Eau Claire
UW–La Crosse
UW–Oshkosh
UW–Platteville
UW–River Falls
UW–Stevens Point
UW–Stout
UW–Whitewater
WIAC, full members
In 1913, representatives from Wisconsin's eight normal schools—Superior Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Superior), River Falls State Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin-River Falls), Stevens Point Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point), La Crosse State Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), Oshkosh State Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh), Whitewater Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater), Milwaukee State Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) and Platteville Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Platteville)--met in Madison to organize the Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin. The Stout Institute (now the University of Wisconsin–Stout) joined in 1914, followed by Eau Claire State Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire) in 1917.[1]
The conference evolved with the growing educational mission of its member schools. It changed its name to the Wisconsin State Teachers College Conference in 1926, and the Wisconsin State College Conference in 1951. Finally, in 1964, it became the Wisconsin State University Conference.
In 1971, the member schools of the WSUC joined with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin–Parkside and Carthage College to form the Wisconsin Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. By 1975, UW–Milwaukee, Carroll College, the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay and Marquette University had also joined. With the dissolution of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in 1982, the member schools joined their male counterparts in either the NCAA or NAIA. By 1993, the non-NCAA Division III members had all dropped out, resulting in the WWIAC having the same membership as the WSUC. Under the circumstances, a merger was inevitable. In 1996, Gary Karner was named commissioner of both the WSUC and the WWIAC. The two conferences formally merged in 1997 to form the current WIAC.[1]
Effective with the 2001–02 academic year, Lawrence University joined the conference in the sport of wrestling. Three Minnesota schools, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hamline University and Winona State University, became members of the conference in the sport of women's gymnastics during the 2004–05 academic year. In 2009–10, the conference added men’s soccer as a sponsored sport with the announcement of Michigan school Finlandia University as an affiliate member. Lawrence discontinued its affiliation with the WIAC in wrestling.[1]
The conference remained unusually stable over the years; the only changes in full membership being the departures of UW–Milwaukee in 1964 and UW–Superior in 2015.
Centennial celebrationEdit
The ninth-oldest conference in the nation, the WIAC celebrated its centennial year during the 2012–13 academic year.[2] Additionally, the WIAC is the most successful NCAA Division III conference in history, boasting NCAA National Championships in 15 different sports.[3] At the beginning of the 2011–12 academic year, the conference had claimed a nation-leading 92 NCAA National Championships.[4]
To celebrate its centennial, the conference named All-Time Teams in each sport that is currently or was previously recognized as a "championship" sport within the conference.[5] Furthermore, the WIAC commissioned a commemorative work of art, created by Tim Cortes,[6] and has also created a two-year calendar in celebration of its centennial.[7]
The celebration was headlined by its Centennial Banquet held on August 4, 2012, at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Among the honorees at the event were the All-Time Team members and the inaugural class to the WIAC Hall of Fame.
Member schoolsEdit
Current membersEdit
Location in Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire Blugolds Eau Claire 1916 Public 10,043[8] 1917–18
University of Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles La Crosse 1909 Public 9,737[8] 1913–14
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Titans Oshkosh 1871 Public 12,479[8] 1913–14
University of Wisconsin–Platteville Pioneers Platteville 1866 Public 7,865[8] 1913–14
University of Wisconsin–River Falls Falcons River Falls 1874 Public 5,482[8] 1913–14
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Pointers Stevens Point 1894 Public 8,297[8] 1913–14
University of Wisconsin–Stout Blue Devils Menomonie 1891 Public 8,398[8] 1914–15
University of Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks Whitewater 1868 Public 11,380[8] 1913–14
UW–Superior left the WIAC as a full member on July 1, 2015.[9] They remain affiliate members for men's and women's ice hockey.[9]
Affiliate membersEdit
(Population)
Sport(s)
Gustavus Adolphus College Golden Gusties St. Peter, Minnesota 1862 Private 2,600 2004–05 MIAC gymnastics
Hamline University Pipers Saint Paul, Minnesota 1854 Private 2,100 2004–05 MIAC gymnastics
University of Wisconsin–Superior Yellowjackets Superior, Wisconsin 1893 Public 2,365[8] 2015–16[a 1] UMAC men's and women's ice hockey
Winona State University Warriors Winona, Minnesota 1858 Public 8,896 2004–05 NSIC
(NCAA Division II) gymnastics
Finlandia University Lions Hancock, Michigan
(4,634) 1896 Private 500 2018-19 NCAA D-III Independent (men's)
GSAC (women's) baseball
^ Wisconsin–Superior had been a full member of the WIAC from 1913 to 2015.
Former membersEdit
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Panthers Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1885 Public 21,375 1913–14 1963–64 Horizon
University of Wisconsin–Superior Yellowjackets Superior, Wisconsin 1893 Public 2,365[8] 1913–14 2014–15 UMAC
Former affiliate membersEdit
Lawrence University Vikings Appleton, Wisconsin
(72,623) 1847 Private 1,555 2001–02 2008–09 Midwest wrestling
(4,634) 1896 Private 500 2009–10 2015-16 NCAA D-III Independent (men's)
GSAC (women's) men's soccer
Illinois Institute of Technology Scarlet Hawks Chicago, Illinois 1890 Private 2,977 2017-18 2017-18 NACC baseball
Membership timelineEdit
SportsEdit
Member institutions field men's and women's teams in cross country, basketball, ice hockey, track and field, and swimming and diving. Men's teams are fielded for baseball, football, and wrestling. Women's teams are fielded for golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball.
Main article: WIAC Men's Basketball Tournament
National championship teamsEdit
UW-Oshkosh: 1985, 1994
UW-Whitewater: 2005, 2014
UW-Whitewater: 1984, 1989, 2012, 2014
UW-Platteville: 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999
UW-Stevens Point: 2004, 2005, 2010, 2015
UW-Oshkosh: 2019
UW-Stevens Point: 1987, 2002
UW-Oshkosh: 1988, 1989, 1990, 2002
UW-La Crosse: 1996, 2001, 2005
UW-Eau Claire: 2015
UW-La Crosse: 1983
UW-La Crosse: 1992, 1995
UW-Whitewater: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014
UW-River Falls: 1988, 1994
UW-Stevens Point: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2016
UW-Superior: 2002
UW-Stevens Point: 1998
UW-La Crosse: 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2017
UW-Eau Claire: 2015, 2016
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
UW-La Crosse: 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
UW-Oshkosh: 1994-96, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2014
UW-Oshkosh: 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011
UW-River Falls: 2008
Conference facilitiesEdit
UW–Eau Claire Carson Park 6,500 W. L. Zorn Arena 2,450
UW–La Crosse Veterans Memorial Stadium 10,000 Mitchell Hall 2,880
UW–Oshkosh Titan Stadium 9,800 Kolf Sports Center 5,800
UW–Platteville Ralph E. Davis Pioneer Stadium 10,000 Williams Fieldhouse 2,300
UW–River Falls Ramer Field 4,800 Don Page Arena 2,149
UW–Stevens Point Goerke Field 4,000 Quandt Fieldhouse 3,281
UW–Stout Don and Nona Williams Stadium 5,000 Johnson Fieldhouse 1,800
UW–Whitewater Forrest Perkins Stadium 13,200 Williams Center 3,000
^ a b c History
^ Centennial year
^ NCAA National Championships in 15 sports
^ 92 NCAA Championships
^ All-Time Teams
^ Commemorative work of art
^ 2-year calendar
^ a b c d e f g h i j "The University of Wisconsin System Student Statistics, Fall 2016-17 Headcount Enrollment - Undergraduate Students". University of Wisconsin System. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
^ a b http://wiacsports.com/news/2014/5/7/GEN_0507142824.aspx
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Iran Launches 'Cruise Missile Capable' Submarine
Iran unveiled its Fateh submarine. February 17, 2019
Tehran, Feb 17, 2019 (AFP) -
Iran on Sunday launched a new locally-made submarine capable of firing cruise missiles, state TV said, in the country's latest show of military might at a time of heightened tensions with the US.
The launch ceremony, led by President Hassan Rouhani, took place in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.
"Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is fully self-reliant on land, air and sea," Rouhani said.
"Our defensive power is meant to defend our interests and we have never sought to attack any country," he added.
Named the Fateh (Farsi for 'Conqueror'), Fars news agency said the new submarine is Iran's first in the semi-heavy category, filling a gap between the light Ghadir class and the heavy Kilo class submarines that the country possesses.
Fars said the near 600-tonne underwater vessel is equipped with torpedoes and naval mines in addition to cruise missiles, and can operate more than 200 meters below sea level for up to 35 days.
The US withdrew from a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran in May 2018 and re-imposed biting unilateral sanctions later last year.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on February 7 unveiled a new ballistic missile with a range of 1,000 kilometres (620 miles), according to the elite unit's official media agency Sepah News.
The surface-to-surface missile -- called Dezful -- is an upgrade on the older Zolfaghar model that had a range of 700 kilometers, aerospace commander Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh said.
Rouhani said on Sunday that "pressure by enemies, the (Iran-Iraq) war and sanctions" were incentives for Tehran to be self-reliant in its defence industry.
"Maybe we would not have this motivation to industrialize our defense sector," he said, if Iran could just buy the weaponry it needed.
Iran's top military brass and cabinet ministers attended the ceremony.
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Value split in US society grows deeper
Americans are increasingly divided
Value split in US society grows deeper, RISS expert Mikhail Alkhimenkov considers. “The situation has not yet reached an unsolvable stage, but this growing divide in American society may lead to a crisis,” he said.
According to him, the United States as a cultural and civilizational community is entering a period of crisis. There is growing dissatisfaction among Americans with the socio-economic conditions of life. People criticize the state of infrastructure, public spending, and access to education. The differences between Democrats and Republicans lie in various issues like the perception of the current US president and the approaches of the parties to domestic political tasks. This complicated the political decision-making process a lot, M.Alkhimenkov underscored.
He drew attention to the fact that Americans had become more liberal. The Democratic Party, guided by the interests of the least prosperous segments of society, is gradually becoming left in its political views. “Over the past few years, the biggest changes within the liberal camp have been connected with the combating racial discrimination and increasing role of the government in the economy and society. Although the Republican Party has also become more radical in its political views than at the beginning of the century, the majority of their supporters in many issues have the same opinion as a decade and a half ago,” M.Alkhimenkov explained.
RISS expert came to the conclusion that when a representative of the Democratic Party becomes president, the Democrats’ response to the policy of the current US president will be quite tough (for example, they will try to cancel D.Trump’s measures to limit immigration), which can lead to a crisis in American society. “The upcoming changes in US policy will not just be another change of ruling parties, but an attempt of liberal forces to marginalize Trumpism as an ideology,” he concluded.
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(Redirected from Young Earth Creationism)
Belief that Earth was supernaturally created just a few thousand years ago
Neo-creationism
Young Earth
Old Earth
Day-age
Biblical cosmology
Creation narrative
Framework interpretation
As an allegory
Omphalos hypothesis
Created kind
Flood geology
Creationist cosmologies
Creation–evolution controversy
"Teach the Controversy"
Non-creation
Creator in Buddhism
Theistic evolution
Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that the Earth and its lifeforms were created in their present forms by supernatural acts of a deity between approximately 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.[1][2] In its most widespread version, YEC is based on the religious belief in the inerrancy of certain literal interpretations of the Book of Genesis.[3][4] Its primary adherents are Christians who believe that God created the Earth in six 24-hour days[5][6] in contrast with old Earth creationism (OEC), which holds literal interpretations of Genesis that are compatible with the scientifically determined ages of the Earth and universe.[7][8]
Since the mid-20th century, young Earth creationists—starting with Henry Morris (1918–2006)—have devised and promoted a pseudoscientific explanation called "creation science" as a basis for a religious belief in a supernatural, geologically recent creation.[9] Contemporary YEC movements arose in protest to the scientific consensus, established by numerous scientific disciplines, which demonstrates that the age of the universe is around 13.8 billion years, the formation of the Earth happened around 4.5 billion years ago, and the first appearance of life on Earth was at least 3.5 billion years ago.[10][11][12][13][14]
A 2017 Gallup creationism survey found 38 percent of adults in the United States held the view that "God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years" when asked for their views on the origin and development of human beings, which Gallup noted was the lowest level in 35 years.[15] This level of support could be even lower when poll results are adjusted after comparison with other polls with questions that more specifically account for uncertainty and ambivalence.[16]
1.1 Biblical dates for creation
1.2 Scientific Revolution and the old Earth
2.1 Christian fundamentalism and belief in a young Earth
2.2 Impact
3 Characteristics and beliefs
3.1 View of the Bible
3.1.1 Interpretations of Genesis
3.2 Age of the Earth
3.3 Human history
3.4 Flood geology, the fossil record, and dinosaurs
3.5 Attitude towards science
4 Compared to other forms of creationism
4.1 Old Earth creationism
4.2 Gap creationism
4.3 Omphalos hypothesis
5.1 Theological considerations
5.2 Scientific refutation
6 Adhering church bodies
Biblical dates for creation[edit]
Main articles: Biblical literalist chronology and Dating creation
Young Earth creationists have claimed that their view has its earliest roots in ancient Judaism, citing, for example, the commentary on Genesis by Ibn Ezra (c. 1089–1164).[5] Shai Cherry of Vanderbilt University notes that modern Jewish theologians have generally rejected such literal interpretations of the written text, and that even Jewish commentators who oppose some aspects of science generally accept scientific evidence that the Earth is much older.[17]
The chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and popular, mainly because this specific date was printed in the King James Bible.[18] The youngest ever recorded date of creation within the historic Jewish or Christian traditions is 3616 BC, by Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller in the 17th century[19] while the oldest proposed date was 6984 BC by Alfonso X of Castile.[20] However some contemporary or more recent proponents of Young Earth Creationism have taken this figure back further by several thousands of years by proposing significant gaps in the genealogies in chapters 5 and 11 of the Book of Genesis. Harold Camping for example dated the creation to 11,013 BC, while Christian Charles Josias Bunsen in the 19th century dated the creation to 20,000 BC.[21]
A number of prominent early Church Fathers and Christian writers, including Origen and Augustine, did not believe that the creation myth in Genesis depicted ordinary solar days and read creation history as an allegory as well as being theologically true.[citation needed] Several early Jews also followed an allegorical interpretation of Genesis, including most notably Philo (On the Creation, III.13).[22]
The Protestant reformation hermeneutic inclined some of the Reformers, including John Calvin[23][24] and Martin Luther,[25] and later Protestants toward a literal reading of the Bible as translated, believing in an ordinary day, and maintaining this younger-Earth view.[26]
An Earth that was thousands of years old remained the dominant view during the Early Modern Period (1500–1800) and is found typically referenced in the works of famous poets and playwrights of the era, including William Shakespeare:
...The poor world is almost 6,000 years old.[27]
Scientific Revolution and the old Earth[edit]
Support for an Earth that was created thousands of years ago declined among the scientists and philosophers from the 18th century onwards with the development of the Age of Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, and new scientific discoveries. In particular, discoveries in geology required an Earth that was much older than thousands of years, and proposals such as Abraham Gottlob Werner's Neptunism attempted to incorporate what was understood from geological investigations into a coherent description of Earth's natural history. James Hutton, now regarded as the father of modern geology, went further and opened up the concept of deep time for scientific inquiry. Rather than accepting that the Earth was deteriorating from a primal state, he maintained that the Earth was infinitely old. Hutton stated that:
the past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now … No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.[28]
Hutton's main line of argument was that the tremendous displacements and changes he was seeing did not happen in a short period of time by means of catastrophe, but that the incremental processes of uplift and erosion happening on the Earth in the present day had caused them. As these processes were very gradual, the Earth needed to be ancient, in order to allow time for the changes to occur. While his ideas of Plutonism were hotly contested, scientific inquiries on competing ideas of catastrophism pushed back the age of the Earth into the millions of years – still much younger than commonly accepted by modern scientists, but a great change from the literalist view of an Earth that was only a few thousand years old.[29]
Hutton's ideas, called uniformitarianism or gradualism, were popularized by Sir Charles Lyell in the early 19th century. The energetic advocacy and rhetoric of Lyell led to the public and scientific communities largely accepting an ancient Earth. By this time, the Reverends William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick and other early geologists had abandoned their earlier ideas of catastrophism related to a biblical flood and confined their explanations to local floods. By the 1830s, mainstream science had abandoned a young Earth as a serious hypothesis.
John H. Mears was one such scholar who proposed several theories varying from a mix of long/indefinite periods with moments of creation to a day-age theory of indefinite 'days'. He subscribed to the latter theory (indefinite days) and found support from the side of Yale professor James Dwight Dana, one of the fathers of Mineralogy, who wrote a paper consisting of four articles named 'Science and the Bible' on the topic.[30] With the acceptance by many biblical scholars of a reinterpretation of Genesis 1 in the light of the breakthrough results of Lyell, and supported by a number of renowned (Christian) scientific scholars, a new hurdle was taken in the future acceptance of Developmentalism (based on Darwin's Natural selection).[31]
The decline of support for a biblically literal young Earth during the 19th century was opposed by first the scriptural geologists[32] and then by the founders of the Victoria Institute.[33]
Christian fundamentalism and belief in a young Earth[edit]
The rise of fundamentalist Christianity at the start of the 20th century brought rejection of evolution. Its leaders explained an ancient Earth through belief in the gap or in the day-age interpretation of Genesis.[34] In 1923, George McCready Price, a Seventh-day Adventist, wrote The New Geology, a book partly inspired by the book Patriarchs and Prophets in which Seventh-day Adventist prophet Ellen G. White described the impact of the Great Flood on the shape of the Earth. Although not an accredited geologist, Price's writings, which were based on reading geological texts and documents rather than field or laboratory work,[35] provide an explicitly fundamentalist perspective on geology. The book attracted a small following, with its advocates almost all being Lutheran pastors and Seventh-day Adventists in America.[36] Price became popular with fundamentalists for his opposition to evolution, though they continued to believe in an ancient Earth.[34]
In the 1950s, Price's work came under severe criticism, particularly by Bernard Ramm in his book The Christian View of Science and Scripture. Together with J. Laurence Kulp, a geologist and in fellowship with the Plymouth Brethren, and other scientists,[37] Ramm influenced Christian organizations such as the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) in not supporting flood geology.
Price's work was subsequently adapted and updated by Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb Jr. in their book The Genesis Flood in 1961. Morris and Whitcomb argued that the Earth was geologically recent and that the Great Flood had laid down most of the geological strata in the space of a single year, reviving pre-uniformitarian arguments. Given this history, they argued, "the last refuge of the case for evolution immediately vanishes away, and the record of the rocks becomes a tremendous witness... to the holiness and justice and power of the living God of Creation!"[38]
This became the foundation of a new generation of young Earth creationist believers, who organized themselves around Morris' Institute for Creation Research. Sister organizations such as the Creation Research Society have sought to re-interpret geological formations within a Young Earth Creationist viewpoint. Langdon Gilkey writes:
... no distinction is made between scientific theories on the one hand and philosophical or religious theories on the other, between scientific questions and the sorts of questions religious beliefs seek to answer... It is, therefore, no surprise that in their theological works, as opposed to their creation science writings, creationists regard evolution and all other theories associated with it, as the intellectual source for and intellectual justification of everything that is to them evil and destructive in modern society. For them all that is spiritually healthy and creative has been for a century or more under attack by "that most complex of godless movements spawned by the pervasive and powerful system of evolutionary uniformitarianism", "If the system of flood geology can be established on a sound scientific basis... then the entire evolutionary cosmology, at least in its present neo-Darwinian form, will collapse. This in turn would mean that every anti-Christian system and movement (communism, racism, humanism, libertarianism, behaviorism, and all the rest) would be deprived of their pseudo-intellectual foundation", "It [evolution] has served effectively as the pseudo-scientific basis of atheism, agnosticism, socialism, fascism, and numerous faulty and dangerous philosophies over the past century.[39]
Impact[edit]
Young Earth creationism directly contradicts the scientific consensus of the scientific community. A 2006 joint statement of InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) by 68 national and international science academies enumerated the scientific facts that young Earth creationism contradicts, in particular that the universe, the Earth, and life are billions of years old, that each has undergone continual change over those billions of years, and that life on Earth has evolved from a common primordial origin into the diverse forms observed in the fossil record and present today.[11] Evolutionary theory remains the only explanation that fully accounts for all the observations, measurements, data, and evidence discovered in the fields of biology, ecology, anatomy, physiology, zoology, paleontology, molecular biology, genetics, anthropology, and others.[40][41][42][43][44]
As such, young Earth creationism is dismissed by the academic and the scientific communities. One 1987 estimate found that "700 scientists ... (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) ... give credence to creation-science".[45] An expert in the evolution-creationism controversy, professor and author Brian Alters, states that "99.9 percent of scientists accept evolution".[46] A 1991 Gallup poll found that about 5 per cent of American scientists (including those with training outside biology) identified themselves as creationists.[47][48] For their part, Young Earth Creationists say that the lack of support for their beliefs by the scientific community is due to discrimination and censorship by professional science journals and professional science organizations. This viewpoint was explicitly rejected in the rulings from the 1981 United States District Court case McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education as no witness was able to produce any articles that had been refused publication and the judge could not conceive how "a loose knit group of independent thinkers in all the varied fields of science could, or would, so effectively censor new scientific thought".[12] A 1985 study also found that only 18 out of 135,000 submissions to scientific journals advocated creationism.[49][50]
Morris' ideas had a considerable impact on creationism and fundamentalist Christianity. Armed with the backing of conservative organizations and individuals, his brand of "creation science" was widely promoted throughout the United States and overseas, with his books being translated into at least ten different languages. The inauguration of so-called "Young Earth Creationism" as a religious position has, on occasion, impacted science education in the United States, where periodic controversies have raged over the appropriateness of teaching YEC doctrine and creation science in public schools (see Teach the Controversy) alongside or in replacement of the theory of evolution. Young Earth creationism has not had as large an impact in the less literalist circles of Christianity. Some churches, such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox churches, accede to the possibility of theistic evolution; though individual church members support young Earth creationism and do so without those churches' explicit condemnation.[51]
Views on human evolution in various countries.[52][53]
Adherence to Young Earth Creationism and rejection of evolution is higher in the U.S. than in most of the rest of the Western world.[52][53] A 2012 Gallup survey reported that 46 per cent of Americans believed in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years, a statistic which has remained essentially the same since 1982; for those with a postgraduate education, only 25 per cent believed in the creationist viewpoint. About one third of Americans believed that humans evolved with God's guidance and 15 per cent said humans evolved, but that God had no part in the process.[54] A 2009 poll by Harris Interactive found that 39 per cent of Americans agreed with the statement that "God created the universe, the earth, the sun, moon, stars, plants, animals, and the first two people within the past 10,000 years", yet only 18 per cent of the Americans polled agreed with the statement "The earth is less than 10,000 years old".[55] A 2017 Gallup creationism survey found that 38 per cent of adults in the United States inclined to the view that "God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years" when asked for their views on the origin and development of human beings, which Gallup noted was the lowest level in 35 years.[15]
Reasons for the higher rejection of evolution in the U.S. include the abundance of fundamentalist Christians compared to Europe.[53] A 2011 Gallup survey reported that 30 per cent of Americans said the Bible is the actual word of God and should be interpreted literally, a statistic which had fallen slightly from the late 1970s. Fifty-four per cent of those who attended church weekly and 46 per cent of those with a high school education or less took the Bible literally.[56]
Characteristics and beliefs[edit]
The common belief of Young Earth creationists is that the Earth and life were created in six 24-hour periods,[57] 6,000–10,000 years ago. However, there are different approaches to how this is possible given the geological evidence for much longer timescales. The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College has identified two major types of YEC belief systems:[57]
Believers in flood geology attach great importance to the biblical story of Noah's Flood in explaining the fossil record and geological strata. Major American YEC organizations such as the Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis support this approach with detailed argumentation and references to scientific evidence, though often framed with pseudoscientific misconceptions.[57]
A less-visible form of YEC not seen as often on the internet is one which claims that there has been essentially no development of the Universe, Earth, or life whatsoever since creation — that creation has been in a steady state since the beginning without major changes. According to Ronald Numbers this belief, which does not necessarily try to explain scientific evidence through appeal to a global flood, has not been promoted as much as the former example given.[58] Such YECs believe that fossils are not real and that major extinctions never occurred, so dinosaurs, trilobites, and other examples of extinct organisms found in the fossil record would have to either be hoaxes or simply secular lies, promoted perhaps by the devil.[57][59]
View of the Bible[edit]
See also: Biblical literalism and Biblical literalist chronology
Young Earth creationists regard the Bible as a historically accurate, factually inerrant record of natural history. As Henry Morris, a leading Young Earth Creationist, explained it, "Christians who flirt with less-than-literal readings of biblical texts are also flirting with theological disaster."[60][61] According to Morris, Christians must "either ... believe God's Word all the way, or not at all."[60] Young Earth creationists consider the account of creation given in Genesis to be a factual record of the origin of the Earth and life, and that Bible-believing Christians must therefore regard Genesis 1–11 as historically accurate.
Interpretations of Genesis[edit]
See also: Genesis creation narrative
Young Earth creationists interpret the text of Genesis as strictly literal. Young Earth Creationists reject allegorical readings of Genesis and further argue that if there was not a literal Fall of Man, Noah's Ark, or Tower of Babel this would undermine core Christian doctrines like the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The genealogies of Genesis record the line of descent from Adam through Noah to Abraham. Young Earth Creationists interpret these genealogies literally, including the old ages of the men. For example, Methuselah lived 969 years according to the genealogy. Differences of opinion exist regarding whether the genealogies should be taken as complete or abbreviated, hence the 6,000 to 10,000 year range usually quoted for the Earth's age. In contrast, Old Earth Creationists tend to interpret the genealogies as incomplete, and usually interpret the days of Genesis 1 figuratively as long periods of time.
Young Earth creationists believe that the flood described in Genesis 6–9 did occur, was global in extent, and submerged all dry land on Earth. Some Young Earth Creationists go further and advocate a kind of flood geology which relies on the appropriation of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century arguments in favor of catastrophism made by such scientists as Georges Cuvier and Richard Kirwan. This approach which was replaced by the mid-nineteenth century almost entirely by uniformitarianism was adopted most famously by George McCready Price and this legacy is reflected in the most prominent YEC organizations today. YEC ideas to accommodate the massive amount of water necessary for a flood that was global in scale included inventing such constructs as an orbiting vapor canopy which would have collapsed and generated the necessary extreme rainfall or a rapid movement of tectonic plates causing underground aquifers[62] or tsunamis from underwater volcanic steam[63] to inundate the planet.
Age of the Earth[edit]
See also: Age of the Earth, Dating creation, Flood geology, and RATE project
The young Earth creationist belief that the age of the Earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old conflicts with the age of 4.54 billion years measured using independently cross-validated geochronological methods including radiometric dating.[64] Creationists dispute these and all other methods which demonstrate the timescale of geologic history in spite of the lack of scientific evidence that there are any inconsistencies or errors in the measurement of the Earth's age.[65][66]
Between 1997 and 2005, a team of scientists at the Institute for Creation Research conducted an eight-year research project entitled RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) to assess the validity and accuracy of radiometric dating techniques. While they concluded that there was overwhelming evidence for over 500 million years' worth of radioactive decay, they claimed to have found other scientific evidence to prove a young earth. They therefore proposed that nuclear decay rates were accelerated by a factor of one billion during the Creation week and at the time of the Flood. However, when subjected to independent scrutiny by non-affiliated experts, their analyses were shown to be flawed.[67][68][69][70]
Human history[edit]
See also: Early human migrations
Young Earth creationists reject almost all of the results of physical anthropology and human evolution and instead insist that Adam and Eve were the universal ancestors of every human to have ever lived.[71] Noah's flood as reported in the book of Genesis is said to have killed all humans on Earth with the exception of Noah and his sons and their wives, so young Earth creationists also argue that humans alive today are descended from this single family.[72]
The literal belief that the world's linguistic variety originated with the tower of Babel is pseudoscientific, sometimes called pseudolinguistics, and it is contrary to what is known about the origin and history of languages.[73]
Flood geology, the fossil record, and dinosaurs[edit]
See also: Paleontology and Dinosaur
Young Earth creationists reject the geologic evidence that the stratigraphic sequence of fossils proves the Earth is billions of years old. In his Illogical Geology, expanded in 1913 as The Fundamentals of Geology, George McCready Price argued that the occasionally out-of-order sequence of fossils that are shown to be due to thrust faults made it impossible to prove any one fossil was older than any other. His "law" that fossils could be found in any order implied that strata could not be dated sequentially. He instead proposed that essentially all fossils were buried during the flood and thus inaugurated flood geology. In numerous books and articles he promoted this concept, focusing his attack on the sequence of the geologic time scale as "the devil's counterfeit of the six days of Creation as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis."[74] Today, many young Earth creationists still contend that the fossil record can be explained by the global flood.[75]
In The Genesis Flood (1961) Henry M. Morris reiterated Price's arguments, and wrote that because there had been no death before the Fall of Man, he felt "compelled to date all the rock strata which contain fossils of once-living creatures as subsequent to Adam's fall", attributing most to the flood. He added that humans and dinosaurs had lived together, quoting Clifford L. Burdick for the report that dinosaur tracks had supposedly been found overlapping a human track in the Paluxy River bed Glen Rose Formation. He was subsequently advised that he might have been misled, and Burdick wrote to Morris in September 1962 that "you kind of stuck your neck out in publishing those Glen Rose tracks." In the third printing of the book this section was removed.[76]
Following in this vein, many young Earth creationists, especially those associated with the more visible organizations, do not deny the existence of dinosaurs and other extinct animals present in the fossil record.[77] Usually, they claim that the fossils represent the remains of animals that perished in the flood. A number of creationist organizations further propose that Noah took the dinosaurs with him in the ark,[78] and that they only began to disappear as a result of a different post-flood environment. The Creation Museum in Kentucky portrays humans and dinosaurs coexisting before the Flood while the California roadside attraction Cabazon Dinosaurs describes dinosaurs as being created the same day as Adam and Eve.[79] The Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas, has a "hyperbaric biosphere" intended to reproduce the atmospheric conditions before the Flood which could grow dinosaurs. The proprietor Carl Baugh says that these conditions made creatures grow larger and live longer, so that humans of that time were giants.[80]
As the term "dinosaur" was coined by Richard Owen in 1842, the Bible does not use the word "dinosaur". Some creationist organizations propose that the Hebrew word tanniyn (תנין, pronounced [tanˈnin]), mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament, should be considered a synonym.[81] In English translations, tanniyn has been translated as "sea monster" or "serpent", but most often it is translated as "dragon". Additionally, in the Book of Job, a "behemoth" (Job 40:15–24) is described as a creature that "moves his tail like a cedar"; the behemoth is described as ranking "first among the works of God" and as impossible to capture (vs. 24). Biblical scholars have alternatively identified the behemoth as either an elephant, a hippopotamus, or a bull,[82][83][84] but some creationists have identified the behemoth with sauropod dinosaurs, often specifically the Brachiosaurus according to their interpretation of the verse "He is the chief of the ways of God" implying that the behemoth is the largest animal God created.[81] The leviathan is another creature referred to in the Bible's Old Testament that some creationists argue is actually a dinosaur. Alternatively, more mainstream scholars have identified the Leviathan (Job 41) with the Nile crocodile or, because Ugarit texts describe it as having seven heads, a purely mythical beast similar to the Lernaean Hydra.[85]
A subset of adherents of the pseudoscience of cryptozoology promote Young Earth creationism, particularly in the context of so-called "living dinosaurs". Science writer Sharon A. Hill observes that the Young Earth creationist segment of cryptozoology is "well-funded and able to conduct expeditions with a goal of finding a living dinosaur that they think would invalidate evolution."[86] Anthropologist Jeb J. Card says that "Creationists have embraced cryptozoology and some cryptozoological expeditions are funded by and conducted by creationists hoping to disprove evolution."[87] Young Earth creationists occasionally claim that dinosaurs survived in Australia, and that Aboriginal legends of reptilian monsters are evidence of this,[88] referring to what is known as Megalania (Varanus priscus). However, Megalania was a gigantic monitor lizard, and not a dinosaur, as its discoverer, Richard Owen, realized that the skeletal remains were that of a lizard, and not an archosaur.
Attitude towards science[edit]
Main article: Creation science
Young Earth creationism is most famous for an opposition to the theory of evolution, but believers also are on record opposing many measurements, facts, and principles in the fields of physics and chemistry, dating methods including radiometric dating, geology,[89] astronomy,[90] cosmology,[90] and paleontology.[91] Young Earth creationists do not accept any explanation for natural phenomena which deviates from the veracity of a plain reading of the Bible, whether it be the origins of biological diversity, the origins of life, or the origins of the universe itself. This has led some young Earth creationists to criticize other creationist proposals such as intelligent design, for not taking a strong stand on the age of the Earth, special creation, or even the identity of the designer.[citation needed]
Young Earth creationists disagree with the methodological naturalism that is part of the scientific method. Instead, they assert the actions of God as described in the Bible occurred as written and therefore only scientific evidence that points to the Bible being correct can be accepted. See Creation-evolution controversy for a more complete discussion.
Compared to other forms of creationism[edit]
Main article: Creationism
As a position that developed out of the explicitly anti-intellectual side of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy in the early parts of the twentieth century, there is no single unified nor consistent consensus on how creationism as a belief system ought to reconcile its adherents' acceptance of biblical inerrancy with empirical facts of the Universe. Although Young Earth Creationism is one of the most stridently literalist positions taken among professed creationists, there are also examples of biblical literalist adherents to both geocentrism[92] and a flat Earth.[93] Conflicts between different kinds of creationists are rather common, but three in particular are of particular relevance to YEC: Old Earth Creationism, Gap creationism, and the Omphalos hypothesis.
Old Earth creationism[edit]
See also: Old Earth creationism
Young Earth creationists reject old Earth creationism and day-age creationism on textual and theological grounds. In addition, they claim that the scientific data in geology and astronomy point to a young Earth, against the consensus of the general scientific community.
Young Earth creationists generally hold that, when Genesis describes the creation of the Earth occurring over a period of days, this indicates normal-length 24 hour days, and cannot reasonably be interpreted otherwise. They agree that the Hebrew word for "day" (yôm) can refer to either a 24-hour day or a long or unspecified time; but argue that, whenever the latter interpretation is used, it includes a preposition defining the long or unspecified period. In the specific context of Genesis 1, since the days are both numbered and are referred to as "evening and morning", this can mean only normal-length days. Further, they argue that the 24-hour day is the only interpretation that makes sense of the Sabbath command in Exodus 20:8–11. YECs argue that it is a glaring exegetical fallacy to take a meaning from one context (yom referring to a long period of time in Genesis 1) and apply it to a completely different one (yom referring to normal-length days in Exodus 20).[94]
Hebrew scholars reject the rule that yôm with a number or an "evening and morning" construct can only refer to 24-hour days.[95] Hugh Ross has pointed out that the earliest reference to this rule dates back to young-earth creationist literature in the 1970s and that no reference to it exists independent of the young-earth movement.[96]
Gap creationism[edit]
See also: Gap creationism
The "gap theory" acknowledges a vast age for the universe, including the Earth and solar system, while asserting that life was created recently in six 24-hour days by divine fiat. Genesis 1 is thus interpreted literally, with an indefinite "gap" of time inserted between the first two verses. (Some gap theorists insert a "primordial creation" and Lucifer's rebellion into the gap.) Young Earth Creationist organizations argue that the gap theory is unscriptural, unscientific, and not necessary, in its various forms.[97][98]
Omphalos hypothesis[edit]
See also: Omphalos hypothesis
Many young Earth creationists distinguish their own hypotheses from the "Omphalos hypothesis", today more commonly referred to as the apparent age concept, put forth by the naturalist and science writer Philip Henry Gosse. Omphalos was an unsuccessful mid-19th century attempt to reconcile creationism with geology. Gosse proposed that just as Adam had a navel (omphalos is Greek for navel), evidence of a gestation he never experienced, so also the Earth was created ex nihilo complete with evidence of a prehistoric past that never actually occurred. The Omphalos hypothesis allows for a young Earth without giving rise to any predictions that would contradict scientific findings of an old Earth. Although both logically unassailable and consistent with a literal reading of scripture, Omphalos was rejected at the time by scientists on the grounds that it was completely unfalsifiable and by theologians because it implied to them a deceitful God, which they found theologically unacceptable.
Today, in contrast to Gosse, young Earth creationists posit that not only is the Earth young but that the scientific data supports that view. However, the apparent age concept is still used in young Earth creationist literature.[99][100][101] There are examples of young Earth creationists arguing that Adam did not have a navel.[102]
Criticism[edit]
Young Earth creationists adhere strongly to a concept of biblical inerrancy, and regard the Bible as divinely inspired and "infallible and completely authoritative on all matters with which they deal, free from error of any sort, scientific and historical as well as moral and theological".[103] Young Earth creationists also suggest that supporters of modern scientific understanding with which they disagree are primarily motivated by atheism. Critics reject this claim by pointing out that many supporters of evolutionary theory are religious believers, and that major religious groups, such as the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and Church of England, believe that concepts such as physical cosmology, chemical origins of life, biological evolution, and geological fossil records do not imply a rejection of the scriptures. Critics also point out that workers in fields related to biology, chemistry, physics, or geosciences are not required to sign statements of belief in contemporary science comparable to the biblical inerrancy pledges required by creationist organizations, contrary to the creationist claim that scientists operate on an a priori disbelief in biblical principles.[104]
Creationists also discount certain modern Christian theological positions, like those of French Jesuit priest, geologist and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who saw that his work with evolutionary sciences actually confirmed and inspired his faith in the cosmic Christ; or those of Thomas Berry, a cultural historian and ecotheologian, that the cosmological 13-billion-year "Universe Story" provides all faiths and all traditions with a single account by which the divine has made its presence in the world.[105]
Proponents of young Earth creationism are regularly accused of quote mining, the practice of isolating passages from academic texts that appear to support their claims, while deliberately excluding context and conclusions to the contrary.[106] For example, scientists acknowledge that there are indeed a number of mysteries about the Universe left to be solved, and scientists actively working in the fields who identify inconsistencies or problems with extant models, when pressed, explicitly reject creationist interpretations. Theologians and philosophers have also criticized this "God of the gaps" viewpoint.[107]
In defending against young Earth creationist attacks on "evolutionism" and "Darwinism", scientists and skeptics have offered rejoinders that every challenge made by YECs is either made in an unscientific fashion, or is readily explainable by science.[108]
Theological considerations[edit]
Few modern theologians take the Genesis account of creation literally. Even many Christian evangelicals who reject the notion of purely naturalistic Darwinian evolution, often treat the story as a nonliteral saga, as poetry, or as liturgical literature.[109]
Genesis contains two accounts of the Creation: in chapter 1 man was created after the animals (Genesis 1:24-26), while in chapter 2 man was created (Genesis 2:7) before the animals (Genesis 2:19).[110][111] Proponents of the Documentary hypothesis suggest that Genesis 1 was a litany from the Priestly source (possibly from an early Jewish liturgy), while Genesis 2 was assembled from older Jahwist material, holding that, for both stories to be a single account, Adam would have named all the animals, and God would have created Eve from his rib as a suitable mate, all within a single 24 hour period. Creationists responding to this point attribute the view to misunderstanding having arisen from poor translation of the tenses in Genesis 2 in contemporary translations of the Bible (e.g. compare "planted" and "had planted" in the King James Version and New International Version).[112]
Some Christians assert that the Bible is free from error only in religious and moral matters, and that, where scientific or historic questions are concerned, the Bible should not be read literally. This position is held by a number of major denominations. For instance, in a publication entitled The Gift of Scripture, the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales comments that, "We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision". The Bible is held to be true in passages relating to human salvation, but, "We should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters".[113][114] While the Catholic Church teaches that the Bible's message is without error, it does not consider it always to be literal.[115] By contrast, young Earth creationists contend that moral and spiritual matters in the Bible are intimately connected with its historical accuracy; in their view, the Bible stands or falls as a single indivisible block of knowledge.[116]
Aside from the theological doubts voiced by other Christians, young Earth creationism also stands in opposition to the creation mythologies of other religions (both extant and extinct). Many of these make claims regarding the origin of the Universe and humanity that are completely incompatible with those of Christian creationists (and with one another).[117] Marshaling support for the Judeo-Christian creation myth versus other creation myths after having rejected much of the scientific evidence is largely, then, done on the basis of accepting on faith the veracity of the biblical account rather than the alternative.
Scientific refutation[edit]
The vast majority of scientists refute young Earth creationism. Around the start of the 19th century mainstream science abandoned the concept that Earth was younger than millions of years.[118] Measurements of archeological, biological, chemical, geological, and cosmological timescales differ from YEC's estimates of Earth's age by up to five orders of magnitude (that is, by factor of a hundred thousand times). Scientific estimates of the age of the earliest pottery discovered at 20,000 BCE, the oldest known trees before 12,000 BCE, ice cores up to 800,000 years old, and layers of silt deposit in Lake Suigetsu at 52,800 years old, are all significantly older than YEC estimate of Earth's age. YEC's theories are further contradicted by scientists' ability to observe galaxies billions of light years away.
Spokespersons for the scientific community have generally regarded claims that YEC has a scientific basis as being religiously motivated pseudoscience, because young Earth creationists only look for evidence to support their preexisting belief that the Bible is a literal description of the development of the Universe. In 1997, a poll by the Gallup organization showed that 5 percent of U.S. adults with professional degrees in science took a young Earth creationist view. In the aforementioned poll, 40 percent of the same group said they believed that life, including humans, had evolved over millions of years, but that God guided this process, a view described as theistic evolution, while 55 percent held a view of "naturalistic evolution" in which no God took part in this process.[119] Some scientists (such as Hugh Ross and Gerald Schroeder) who believe in creationism are known to subscribe to other forms, such as old Earth creationism, which posits an act of creation that took place millions or billions of years ago, with variations on the timing of the creation of mankind.
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Evangelical Lutheran Synod[122]
Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church[123]
Protestant Reformed Churches in America[124]
Seventh-day Adventist Church[125]
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By the late eighteenth century and even more so in the nineteenth, many critical biblical scholars had begun to doubt that Moses had any hand in the writing of the Bible whatsoever; they had come to believe that the Bible was the work of later writers exclusively. These scholars pointed to what appeared to be different versions of the same stories within the books of the Pentateuch, suggesting that the biblical text was the product of several recognizable hands. A careful reading of the book of Genesis, for example, revealed two conflicting versions of the creation (1:1–2:3 and 2:4–25), two quite different genealogies of Adam's offspring (4:17–26 and 5:1–28), and two spliced and rearranged flood stories (6:5–9:17). In addition, there were dozens more doublets and sometimes even triplets of the same events in the narratives of the wanderings of the patriarchs, the Exodus from Egypt, and the giving of the Law.
^ Hyers, Conrad (25 September 2003). "Comparing Biblical and Scientific Maps of Origin". In Miller, Keith B. (ed.). Perspectives on an Evolving Creation. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8028-0512-6.
^ "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." —Genesis 2:8 KJV
"Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed." —Genesis 2:8 NIV
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Watch Eminem Rap His Way To The Top Of The Empire State Building
The rapper unleashes "Venom" for 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
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Jimmy Kimmel Live has crossed the country for a week of broadcasts in New York, and they kicked things off with a King Kong-sized performance from Eminem.
Monday night the MC made his way up to the top of the Empire State Building, rapping his latest "Venom" along the way. Through the lobby, in the elevator, and up to the top, Shady spits the song from the number film in the country. In between bars, Em pauses to drop some knowledge on Guillermo about the building's history. What can't he do?
Related: Watch the Trailer for the Eminem-Produced Rap Battle Movie 'Bodied'
In addition to being a part of the film Venom, the track appears on Eminem's latest Kamikaze. His tenth studio album was a surprise release in August, and hit the number one spot in several countries around the world.
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In C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution, A. Javier Trevino reconsiders the opinions, perspectives, and insights of the Cubans that Mills interviewed during his visit to the island in 1960. On returning to the United States, the esteemed and controversial sociologist wrote a small paperback on much of what he had heard and seen, which he published as Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba. Those interviews--now transcribed and translated--are interwoven here with extensive annotations to explain and contextualize their content. Readers will be able to "hear" Mills as an expert interviewer and ascertain how he used what he learned from his informants. Trevino also recounts the experiences of four central figures whose lives became inextricably intertwined during that fateful summer of 1960: C. Wright Mills, Fidel Castro, Juan Arcocha, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The singular event that compelled their biographies to intersect at a decisive moment in the history of Cold War geopolitics--with its attendant animosities and intrigues--was the Cuban Revolution.
C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution
An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination
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Can the UN be true to its democratic principles without reforming the NGO Committee?
Broad participation and representation, including vibrant civil society participation, are essential prerequisites for democratic development. However, as the United Nations (UN) marks the International Day of Democracy today, it is clear that the UN system faces severe internal challenges on this front.
Importance of ECOSOC NGO Committee
The access a number of NGOs have to the UN has been continuously blocked by the The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Committee on NGOs through arbitrary deferrals and denial of ECOSOC consultative status.
Consultative status enables NGOs to access the key UN human rights platforms, for example to deliver statements and organise side-events to bring issues of concern to the attention of member nations arenas such as the UN General Assembly in New York and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The ECOSOC Committee on NGOs is the intergovernmental committee that recommends NGOs for consultative status. As such, the committee is highly influential in determining the access permitted to civil society organisations to engage in the UN system.
The committee’s attempts to bar a number of NGOs from participating threatens democracy in the UN system by undermining key values such as accountability, transparency and inclusiveness. It also undermines the acknowledgement given by UN Member States to the important work carried out by NGOs and human rights defenders, as evidenced by the Human Rights Council Resolution on Civil Society Space and the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders 1998.
What it means to CSW
This issue has struck close to home for CSW. As an international advocacy organisation promoting freedom of religion or belief in more than 25 countries, the UN provides a key platform for CSW’s advocacy work. However, our work with the UN has been undermined by the arbitrary deferrals of our consultative status application by the NGO Committee since 2009. CSW has answered more than 70 questions from the NGO committee about our work and attended several NGO Committee sessions in New York – without success. Our case is not unique. Many other NGOs experience similar challenges when applying for ECOSOC consultative status, particularly if they work on issues that are perceived to be “controversial”, for example minority rights and sexual and reproductive rights.
Increased silencing of NGOs
These actions by the NGO Committee, which comprises 19 countries, are indicative of the increasing silencing of NGOs and human rights defenders worldwide. According to the civil society alliance Civicus, core civil society freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly were seriously violated in at least 109 countries in 2015. The report also states that incidents of harassment and physical violence against civil society and journalists increased.
“In light of these global trends, the silencing of NGOs by the very entity that has been tasked to ensure participation of NGOs in the UN processes is deeply concerning.”
In light of these global trends, the silencing of NGOs by the very entity that has been tasked to ensure participation of NGOs in the UN processes is deeply concerning. The 1996 UN resolution on the consultative relationship between the UN and NGOs states that the NGO Committee “should ensure, to the extent possible, participation of non-governmental organisations from all regions, and particularly from developing countries, in order to help to achieve a just, balanced, effective and genuine involvement of non-governmental organisations from all regions and areas of the world [sic].” The persistent exclusion NGOs highlights the gap between the committee’s stated aim and its current practices.
Calls for reform
Recent years have seen increased questioning on the work of the NGO Committee and calls for a reform, both within the UN and in the media. In June 2016, more than 230 NGOs from around 50 countries published a joint statement defending freedom of association at the UN and calling for the review and reform of the UN Committee of NGOs.
The outgoing UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has also raised concerns about declining freedom for civil society and the NGO Committee’s work. The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, Mr Maina Kiai, has reported the continuous deferrals and questioning of some NGOs by the NGO Committee members on several occasions and noted that “Member States and the UN have a legal obligation to strengthen civil society participation in the UN, including by ensuring that people can exercise their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in multilateral arenas.”
“Member States and the UN have a legal obligation to strengthen civil society participation in the UN, including by ensuring that people can exercise their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in multilateral arenas.” – Mr Maina Kai, UN Special Rapporteur on Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association.
CSW welcomes the active engagement of several Member States with the NGO Committee who have raised their voices in support of individual NGO consultative status applications and provided recommendations to ensure increased accountability and transparency of the Committee’s work.
In 2015, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay recommended the webcasting of the NGO Committee sessions, in order to increase the accountability and transparency of the NGO Committee. Further safeguards should be developed to ensure that the Committee does not abuse its procedures in a discriminatory or politicised manner and that its own processes are fully aligned with international human rights standards and relevant resolutions and declarations.
“Further safeguards should be developed to ensure that the Committee does not abuse its procedures in a discriminatory or politicised manner and that its own processes are fully aligned with international human rights standards and relevant resolutions and declarations.”
Only by reforming the work of the NGO Committee and ensuring the access of human rights NGOs to the UN, in a fair and non-discriminatory manner will the UN system fully realise its democratic potential and efficiency in protecting and promoting human rights.
By Sini-Maria Heikkila, CSW’s Public Affairs Team Leader
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2.10 Case Study: Protection of Aquatic Ecosystem in the Canton of Valais (Switzerland)
Water Resources Management and Policy
Université de Genève
Water management today is faced with new challenges such as climate change or the effects of human activity. Public and private stakeholders who are active in this field must develop new ways to better manage the water cycle "as a whole". The objective of this MOOC is to develop an understanding of the problems related to water management. Firstly, this course will define a resource and, more specifically, the resource of water. It will look at how water is used and the activities associated with it as well as any potential conflicts. The course will look at water management in detail through the analysis of the different types of rights and obligations associated with, for example, the development of a multi-sectorial regulation system or a watershed management approach. By the end of this course, our aim is to enable you to: 1) Identify the main issues and strategies linked to water resource management 2) Acquire the key reading material needed to understand the many variables (environmental, institutional and political) which affect water and which, in terms of management, may require adjustment. This course was developed by the Geneva Water Hub. Alongside researchers from the University of Geneva from a range of faculties, researchers from other universities and research centres will be involved in this course. Practitioners who deal daily with the political dimension of water management will also input into the course. This MOOC is designed for all those interested in the water sector. Prior training is not necessary to follow our program. The findings presented in this course can be easily reapplied to different contexts and to different scales of analysis. This MOOC is supported by the Geneva Water Hub and the University of Geneva along with the MOOC in « Ecosystem Services: a Method for Sustainable Development » (www.coursera.org/learn/ecosystem-services) and the one in "International Water Law" (www.coursera.org/learn/droit-eau). This course is funded by the Global Programme Water Initiatives of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). This course is also available in French : www.coursera.org/learn/gestion-eau
Policy Analysis, International Law, International Relations, Law
I learnt a lot especially when its to saving and managing water for the society...With increase in global warming water resource management should be taken seriously because water is life
I am really thankful to Dr. Christian Brethaut and Professor Geraldine Pflieger. Thank you very much for this wonderful course. Looking forward to meet you in another course.
Module 2: The Rules of the Resource, their Uses and their Circumvention
Businesses that manage water are guided by property law and public policy designed to define and coordinate all the demands on the resource. This second module aims to better understand the complexity of these two bodies of law through the framework of the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR). This framework is presented and then applied to two case studies (Swiss and European) to understand the rules governing water management in these territories. Finally, we will go beyond this framework to address the implementation of these rules by looking at examples of how the law is applied and examples of localised regulation. The module is concluded by a quiz worth 20% of the final grade. You must have at least 80% of the responses correct to pass the module
2.8 Beyond the Rules I: Opening the Black Box9:00
2.9 Beyond the Rules II: Law Activation Strategies and Localized Regulation Arrangements11:09
2.10 Case Study: Protection of Aquatic Ecosystem in the Canton of Valais (Switzerland)10:45
Christian Bréthaut
Géraldine Pflieger
Professeure associée
[MUSIC] Throughout the three previous sections,
2.7, 2.8 and 2.9, we have been able to build an analytical framework
to open the black box of political processes between the institutional regime
and its materialization in the field.
Here is a representation.
This framework is built around 4 major points.
Let us summarise them.
Firstly, the starting point of the analysis is a problem,
a socially constructed and territorially anchored problem at the local level, as we have seen.
Secondly, the institutional regime
is no longer the starting point for the action of the actors,
but rather its structural context, as we have seen.
Thirdly, the metaphor for the game of actors,
enabling the opening of the black box of social processes
around the 3 variables: the configuration of actors,
power relationships, and the law activation strategies,
how actors use the rules to achieve
their own objectives and to understand the results of
these processes, the notion of localized regulation arrangements.
As part of this section,
I want to show you a concrete example to illustrate
how this analytical framework is used in reality.
This example is the case of the protection of
aquatic ecosystems in the canton of Valais (Switzerland).
It is a case that made a lot of noise in the newspapers
throughout the year 2013.
Here are two press clippings, with, on one side,
the National Office for the Environment denouncing the slow pace at which
cantons clean up their waterways, and on the other hand, the same
position taken by ecological organisations who denounce
the way that the canton of Valais cleans the rivers.
Be aware that within water protection law, there was
an obligation to implement water cleaning measures by late 2012,
measures to ensure a certain flow in the rivers,
so-called residual flow.
The implementation of this law in the canton of Valais was particularly
difficult. We will try to understand why
using the analytical framework developed during the last three sections.
Finally, there is a situation where there is a river,
a tributary, of which there are many in Valais.
There are a large number of uses of this river.
The oldest uses
are agricultural, withdrawals for irrigation water,
which are relatively significant in the canton of Valais.
Next, drinking water use developed, particularly in the case of
tourist resorts where you have a high variability in demand
and where there are networks that are sometimes oversized
and a certain number of challenges linked to the supply of drinking water.
Since the 1950s, we then see
with the construction of a large number of dams on
The first, of course, is the sanitation policy which is required by law
the majority of tributaries in the canton of Valais.
These three main types of uses, (there are others) create a problem,
a risk to the aquatic ecosystem of the side rivers of the canton of Valais.
This risk is recognised by actors. Some actors become mobilized,
denouncing it. This is seen with ecological associations.
And, finally, there is the construction of a problem at the local level that
exists where risks to the ecosystem are present.
The risk to the ecosystem, to explain it simply,
is that there are too many withdrawals of water and that there is not enough water
in the river to ensure conditions suitable to the aquatic ecosystem.
That's the situation at the level of the construction of the problem.
Institutional arrangements form around this problem,
an institutional context, begins to form. We won’t be able to undertake
an extensive analysis of this institutional regime but there are certain
rules that are relevant to understand the action of the actors.
on the protection of water, from article 80 et seq.
This policy states that the cantons (the confederation who delegates to the latter)
is expected to undertake the task of cleaning the water, to put in place a number
of measures to ensure that the aquatic ecosystem will be better protected.
In parallel with this obligation of public policy, a
number of rights guarantee the different users of the river
and in particular for irrigation, called immemorial rights.
They are centuries old, and allow users
to continue with their uses.
There is an uneasy coordination between these
different elements.
And a final rule that is very important -
the right of appeal given to ecological associations.
Very briefly put,
there is an institutional context forming.
The third point is to see how the game of actors plays out
around this resource.
We have a working group in the canton Valais which was set up
at the administration level to implement this public policy.
Put briefly, this public policy should have been
implemented at the end of 2012, so all rivers should have been treated by the
end of 2012. The current situation is that there is no water sanitation underway.
So we have a very large gap.
This discrepancy is explained by the dynamics of this working group.
Three coalitions who clashed, somehow,
or who interact with each.
First, lets call the coalition the Environment coalition.
It is represented by the environmental protection service of the canton
of Valais and by the ecological associations.
This coalition will want to concretise
the rules which stem from the law on water protection, meaning, they want
to put in place the ambitious sanitation measures set by the law.
This is the first coalition.
The second coalition is driven by the department responsible for
energy issues in the canton of Valais: the Energy Coalition.
It brings together the service and the different hydroelectric companies
who have understood the need to implement public policy.
However, they are looking to implement it with the least possible impact on
the hydropower companies.
This is called achieving a minimum:
a number of measures are put in place
but the situation on the ground does not really change as a result.
And finally a third coalition, which is supported by the
agriculture service and various agricultural users of the waterways.
Ultimately, the agriculture service
will attempt to bypass through confrontation. Everyone
knows that the water taken for irrigation should also be
subject to sanitation measures. The agriculture department will say no.
That these samples are protected by immemorial rights and the sanitation
measures should not be applied to these withdrawals.
This is the configuration of actors with its three coalitions:
the energy coalition, the agriculture coalition and the environment coalition.
And finally, we have a power balance in the canton of Valais.
A vision which is politically focused, which is pretty consistent with the strategy
set by the office responsible for energy issues, and therefore
by the energy coalition. There is certainly a desire to implement the law
but minimally, whilst limiting losses for the hydropower industry.
This balance of power, this interaction between the actors and the
strategies explains the various arrangements which have been
implemented on the ground. At the level of localized regulation arrangements,
where a whole series of administrative activities have been deployed:
a sanitation plan that was adopted in 2008, a series of intermediary
decisions, feasibility studies to clean up the
different rivers, and even final decisions which command
hydroelectric concessionaries to implement certain measures.
It is the first part of the localized regulation arrangements (LRA)
Eventually, faced with final decisions deemed insufficiently ambitious,
the environmental protection organisations became mobilized. They have made
11 objections and considering there were 12 final decisions, this was huge.
There were two judgments rendered at the end of 2012 which clearly sanctioned
the policy that was implemented in the Valais. It was explained that the measures
do not go far enough in terms of the law on the protection of water.
So we finally have an external authority,
the district court, who reset
the implementation of this policy in the canton of Valais.
During that time, on the field, there was no change in
the actors’ behaviour and no benefit for the aquatic ecosystem.
This case ultimately shows
the relevance of the proposed analytical framework.
It shows how, firstly, internal contradictions in the administration
can be an obstacle to the implementation of public policies.
We have different services, pursuing a different yet legitimate public interest.
Energy production, agriculture, environmental protection,
and there are divisions between these different interests.
There are conflicting relationships being established,
an uneasy interaction between different actors,
defending different interests.
We'll have to arbitrate between these interests.
Actors in the arbitration process
are not passive subjects. On the contrary, they are stakeholders
who seek to apply the law in the way that suits them best.
It is clear that the water protection policy plays a pivotal role,
but it is also clear that each actor will try to interpret it,
to reinterpret it, in the way that is most consistent with their own interests.
We see creative behaviour, even opportunistic behaviour,
from these actors with minimal implementation strategies.
They want to implement the law, but without any consequences
on the ground, or by assuming a bypass strategy
which is masked behind a divergent legal interpretation.
Finally, it reveals the non-mechanical character, open,
uncertain, of the process of the implementation of public policies,
and processes through which the rules of the institutional regime,
materialize on the ground.
the concrete methods behind the exploitation of water resources,
it is not enough to look at what rules are approved within the institutional regime.
We must also look at how the actors reappropriate these rules,
and how the political processes,
and the interactions between actors,
materialize within localized regulation arrangements on the
ground which determine the way that the resource is exploited.
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Melco awarded at the 8th Invest Cyprus International Investment Awards in recognition of its commitment to Cyprus
The Melco Group – the organization building Europe’s largest integrated casino complex in Cyprus – has been honored by Invest Cyprus, in recognition of its significant investment in Cyprus. Melco is developing Cyprus’ first licensed Integrated Casino Resort, the City of Dreams Mediterranean, due to open its doors to international and local guests in late 2021.
Thanking Cyprus for trusting Melco with the ambitious project, its Group Chairman and CEO, Mr. Lawrence Ho, said: “It’s a great honor to receive this award on behalf of the entire team at Melco. Cyprus has tremendous economic potential and is now firmly on the radar of international investors. The country’s beauty, ideal geographical location, and the Government’s progressive approach towards regulation and governance mean that it’s perfectly placed to attract significant inbound investment of the highest caliber.”
The award was presented by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Harris Georgiades at the 8th Invest Cyprus International Investment Awards (ICIIA) organized by Invest Cyprus.
Mr. Ho added: “Today marks the first anniversary of us opening our Cyprus C2 Casinos, and we have already seen a huge surge of interest in the island as a premium tourism destination. The opening of City of Dreams Mediterranean will have a huge positive impact on the nation’s economy, attracting tens of thousands of luxury tourists, creating hundreds of new jobs, and tackling the tough issue of seasonality head on”.
Cyprus Casino’s launch of C2 Limassol along with C2 Nicosia and C2 Larnaca has provided jobs for more than 800 people and recorded more than 880,000 visits from various countries. Another two satellite casinos are expected to open soon, one in Ayia Napa later in July and one in Paphos by the end of the year.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Invest Cyprus, Michalis P. Michael said: “Melco’s commitment to Cyprus is particularly valued and recognized, both by the government, and the island’s community. The decision by Melco to build Europe’s largest Integrated Casino Resort here sends a strong message around the world about the long term potential for this nation. This premium development will significantly boost Cyprus’ overall economy, whilst at the same time enhancing our tourist product in the most sustainable, long-term manner. Melco are pioneers in their industry, and this is evident in their support for the communities into which they invest. Melco is partnering with our Department of Antiquities to support national Archaeological Heritage Management, as they see the preservation and promotion of Cyprus’ cultural heritage as a key element to their investment in tourism here.
Melco Group is a world leader in the international luxury leisure and entertainment sector with operations in Hong Kong, Macau, the Philippines, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Melco is part of the consortium “Integrated Casino Resort Cyprus Ltd” (ICR Cyprus) along with “The Cyprus Phassouri (Zakaki) Limited”, a member of the CNS Group. The Consortium is responsible for the construction and operation of the integrated casino-resort in Cyprus as well as four satellite casinos across the island.
The prestigious Awards, organized by Invest Cyprus and Gold magazine, reward foreign investment in Cyprus, by honoring international investors and businesses in recognition of their substantial contribution to the Cyprus economy. This year, the 8th Invest Cyprus International Investment Awards, which were held under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, took place at the Presidential Palace on 3 July 2019.
This is a Syndicated News piece. Photo credits or photo sources can be found on the source article: Melco awarded at the 8th Invest Cyprus International Investment Awards in recognition of its commitment to Cyprus
BMM Testlabs Selected as the First Test Lab Partner by The Gambling Business Monitoring Center for the Belarus iGaming Market
Maurizio Bernardo named new Senior Strategic Advisor at SKS365
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NIGC Appoints Francisco Olea as New Phoenix Region Director
The National Indian Gaming Commission has appointed Francisco Olea (Pascua Yaqui Tribe) as the new Region Director for the Phoenix Region. Olea officially began his role on July 8, 2019, and is taking over for retiring Region Director Lance Vallo.
Since 2001, Olea has held various supervisory and management positions with the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, working for both the Tribal Gaming Office and Casino Operations. Most recently, he served as Compliance Manager for the Tohono O’odham Nation.
In the new role, Olea will be responsible for technical assistance, training and compliance at 59 Indian gaming facilities owned and operated by 49 federally-recognised tribes located in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado.
“Mr. Olea brings a diverse background to the NIGC, having worked for both tribal regulatory agencies and casino operations. His law degree brings an additional level of expertise and perspective to the position and we look forward to him applying his experience and leadership as the Region Director,” Dustin Thomas, NIGC Director of Compliance said.
“We are thrilled that Mr. Olea is joining the NIGC team. Mr. Olea’s nearly two decades of experience in the tribal gaming industry, his scholarship, and his passion for serving Indian Country make him an exceptional pick to lead the Phoenix Region,” NIGC Vice Chair Kathryn Isom-Clause said.
“I’m very excited to continue working with tribes in an area that’s a perfect fit for my unique work experience and formal education. I’m grateful for the opportunity, and look forward to upholding and maintaining the integrity of Indian Gaming while assisting tribes in their collective endeavor of self-sufficiency for the betterment of their people,” Olea said.
This is a Syndicated News piece. Photo credits or photo sources can be found on the source article: NIGC Appoints Francisco Olea as New Phoenix Region Director
Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to Hold Casino License Auction in September
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Planet Rock - The Album
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force
Released December 1, 1986
Planet Rock - The Album Tracklist
Planet Rock Lyrics
Looking for the Perfect Beat Lyrics
Renegades of Funk Lyrics
Frantic Situation (Frantic Mix) Lyrics
Who You Funkin' With? (Hip Hop Mix) (Ft. Grandmaster Melle Mel) Lyrics
Go Go Pop (Ft. Trouble Funk) Lyrics
They Made a Mistake Lyrics
About “Planet Rock - The Album”
Planet Rock: The Album is an old school hip hop album by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force, released in 1986 as a collection of previous singles. The song “Planet Rock” was one of the earliest hits of the hip hop music genre and remains one of its pioneering recordings. The single’s liner notes include members of Kraftwerk with the songwriting credits. In creating the track, portions of Kraftwerk’s “Numbers” and “Trans-Europe Express” were interpolated (re-recorded in the studio, rather than through the use of a digital sampler), along with portions of songs by Captain Sky and Ennio Morricone.
“Planet Rock - The Album” Q&A
Featuring Grandmaster Melle Mel & Trouble Funk
Producers Afrika Bambaataa, Arthur Baker, Doug Wimbish & 6 more
Writers Afrika Bambaataa, Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force, Arthur Baker & 13 more
Labels Tommy Boy Records & Warner Records
Mastering Herb Powers
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Result of Dave Chappelle The Bird Revelation 1080p Retail
Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House - but unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady...
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
Dave Made a Maze
A frustrated artist gets lost inside the cardboard fort he builds in his living room.
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio man’s moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.
Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. After placing an ad on Craigslist, the siblings decide to pick Tatiana and Alice, two charming and seemingly normal women. Once they arrive on the island, however, Mike and Dave realize that their companions are ready to get wild and party.
Dave Chappelle: Equanimity
Comedy legend Dave Chappelle returns to his roots with an all-new stand-up special filmed at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin
Comedy icon Dave Chappelle makes his triumphant return to the screen with a pair of blistering, fresh stand-up specials. Filmed at The Palladium in Los Angeles, California, in March 2016.
Dave Chappelle: The Bird Revelation
Comedy juggernaut Dave Chappelle's fourth Netflix Special, taped on November 20th, 2017 at Los Angeles' Comedy Store.
Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth
Comedian Dave Chappelle does what he does best in this outrageous and hilarious standup performance, which allows him to push the envelope far beyond what he does on his TV show. Taped in San Francisco at the famed Fillmore, Chappelle lets loose on such topics as black celebrities, what it's like to have raunchy fans of his TV show approach him while he's trying to enjoy Disneyland with his kids, Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant... and crackheads, of course. It's comedy Chappelle-style and, for what it's worth, no one is safe from his barbs. But you already knew that!
King Dave
The story of Dave, a self-proclaimed king. Told in a single breath in one sequence shot.
Groundhog Dave
Fun-loving Groundhog Dave has come out of his shack to predict the weather...only to discover his beloved town of Bucketville has changed! The aroma of blooming flowers has been replaced by the smell of sawdust, and the sky is cloudy with smog! Dave and his friends uncover dire news: Mr. Whatnot the anteater has just bought the town and plans to transform it into a big shopping center!
Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly
Dave Chappelle returns for a stand-up to D.C. and riffs on politics, police, race relations, drugs, Sesame Street and more.
Dave Chappelle: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Comedy icon Dave Chappelle makes his triumphant return to the screen with a pair of blistering, fresh stand-up specials. Filmed at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas, in April 2015.
Two detectives arrive on the scene after a call regarding the death of one of the detective's family members. While the two dispute over whether it's a murder or suicide, what they end up discovering is not what they expected.
"Our homage to the man whose ability to change whilst remaining himself has been a massive influence on us. There are many legends in the music industry but for us, there is no greater than the mighty Dave. We've included all things Bowie, whether that is original songs, covers, backing vocals, production work or reworks we made, to attempt to give you the full scope of the man's genius. "For the visual side to this mix our friend Wim Reygaert (who also made the amazing film for Into The Vortex) came up with the most ambitious film for RSWX, taking us on a fever dream time travel through the man's career starring the amazing Hannelore Knuts as Dave. We've got to extend a special thank you to the cast and crew and everyone involved for putting so much time and energy and heart and soul into this amazing film, it is a pure labour of love for the phenomenon that is Bowie." - Soulwax
Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"
Dave Chappelle: HBO Comedy Half-Hour
Dave gets his own HBO special, filmed in San Francisco
Dave Attell: Captain Miserable
Dave Attell is funnier and more outlandish than ever in his first solo HBO, special, a 60-minute concert performed in front of a live audience at The Lincoln Theater, the venerable Washington DC venue. Attell's sarcastic wit and quick-fire delivery prove why he has earned the reputation as a "comic's comic" and was dubbed one of the"25 Funniest People in America" by Entertainment Weekly. His decidedly adult brand of comedy covers everything including alcohol consumption, dating current events and celebrities, and everything else on his mind.
Dave Allen at Peace
Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this factual drama follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the UK and Ireland's comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers. Dave Allen is played by Aidan Gillen
The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave
Super Dave Osborne, our accident-prone stuntman hero, comes out of a self-imposed retirement to raise money for his new girlfriend's son's heart operation.
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Articles tagged “HistoryOfChristianity”
Visiting The Christian Community In Iraq
by Sean McLachlan on Dec 3, 2012
Before Iraq was conquered by the Arabs in the seventh century, it was one of the oldest centers of Christianity in the world. Even after the Arab conquest, Christians made up a sizable minority of the population – sometimes tolerated, sometimes persecuted, but always surviving.
Now it’s facing its biggest threat in centuries.
The Christian Community in Iraq is a lot smaller than it was in 2003 when the Coalition invaded. During the occupation, radical Muslims claimed the Christians were helping the invaders and used this as an excuse to attack them. Churches and shops were bombed and individual Christians were murdered or told to leave on pain of death.
In an interview with the BBC, the priest at St Joseph’s Chaldean Church in Baghdad said that in the past nine years his parish has shrunk from 1,200 families to 300. The New York Times reports that before the war the Christian population was estimated to be as high as 1.4 million, and has now dropped to less than 500,000.
I met few Christians in my 17 days in Iraq other than some shopkeepers and the owners of a liquor store when I went on a beer run in Basra. I was anxious to see some of the early medieval centers of Christianity that make the country so important to Church history. The Christian community in Iraq is splintered into more than a dozen different churches, including the Assyrian Church of the East, the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, and many more. Many of their rites and beliefs are from a markedly different religious tradition than what we are familiar with in the West.
Above is a photo of the entrance to Mar Mattai monastery, run by the Syrian Orthodox Church. Located in Kurdistan in the far north of the country, it sits on the slopes of Mt. Maqloub. It was founded in 363 A.D. by the Saint Mar Mattai and is thus one of the oldest monasteries in existence.
Much of the monastery is modern, with a few crumbling ruins dotting the slopes to hint at its long history. The assistant abbot welcomed us in careful, practiced English and told us how the saint converted Prince Behnam and Princess Sarah from paganism to Christianity. Sarah had been suffering from leprosy and was miraculously cured after her conversion.
%Gallery-172437%When their father King Senchareb found out, he had them put to death. He soon regretted his act, became a Christian himself, and as penance built Mar Behnam Monastery.
This monastery is much better preserved. Its stone interior is intricately carved in the style of the Atabek Emirate, which lasted from the 11th to the 13th centuries before being wiped out by the Mongols. The style is a strange one: a sort of mix of Turkish design with Christian symbolism and elements from ancient Assyrian art. See the gallery for some images, and there are more at this site. St. Behnam monastery survived the Mongol invasion and even managed to make a few converts. Some of the inscriptions in the crypt are in Mongolian.
Walking through these two monasteries I could feel the absence left by the departure of so many from the community. We saw almost no one, and the monasteries felt more like museums than places of worship. Perhaps we just went on quiet days. Both are centers for pilgrimage, though, so I was hoping to meet and talk with pilgrims like I had at the Shia holy places. But it was not to be.
While the situation for Christians, indeed all Iraqis, has calmed down considerably in the past couple of years, the persecutions continue. Iraq has broken down along sectarian lines, with Sunni and Shia Muslims fighting it out and Christians being targeted by radical Muslims.
Being such a small minority, it’s difficult for the Christian community to defend itself. Government soldiers and police guard churches and monasteries, and man checkpoints at the edges of Christian neighborhoods, but as with sectarian attacks against Muslims, the terrorists often find a way to hit their targets.
There’s hope, though. As we studied the inscriptions in the crypt of St. Behnam’s monastery, I noticed our guide and one of our guards, both Muslims, lighting candles. I went over to the guide, who I knew to be a devout Shia, and asked him why he was lighting candles in a Christian holy spot.
“In my office there are a lot of Christian women. They asked me to light candles for them,” he replied as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
This man, who went off to pray every time we visited a mosque, saw no conflict with his faith in doing this or with working with Christian women. If his tolerance can become common enough to push out the intolerant radicals, the Christian community in Iraq may survive after all.
Don’t miss the rest of my series, “Destination: Iraq,” chronicling my 17-day journey across this strife-ridden country in search of adventure, archaeology and AK-47s.
Coming up next: “Kurdistan: The Other Iraq!”
[All photos by Sean McLachlan]
Uppsala, Sweden: A University Town With Viking Roots
by Sean McLachlan on Oct 7, 2012
Uppsala University in Sweden is 535 years old today, having been inaugurated on this date in 1477. As one of the older universities in Europe, it has quite a few sights to see and is located in a town of ancient importance.
The city started as a religious center for the pagan Vikings and the location of their Thing, a general assembly. An ancient temple at Uppsala was said to have had statues to Thor, Odin, and Freyr and the entire building was encircled by a golden chain hanging from the gables. While the old temple has disappeared, there are still some Viking remains in the form of runestones and three large earthen mounds. Legend has it that they’re the barrows (tombs) of the three principal Norse gods, but excavations showed them to be the resting places for three early Norse rulers.
As with many pagan sites across Europe, Uppsala was turned into a center for Christianity and became the site for the country’s first archbishopric in 1164. There’s a little medieval church dating to the 13th century and a much more elegant cathedral from the 15th century. I wish I could describe the interior of the earlier church to you, but on my visit I walked in on a wailing baby getting baptized and had to walk right out! Such are the hazards of travel.
The later house of worship still serves as the cathedral today. Its brick exterior has a warm, homey feel, but when you go inside you find the soaring arches and fine stonework that you’d expect from a European cathedral. Inside you can find the tombs of important Swedes such a King Gustav Vasa (of Vasa ship fame), scientist Carl Linnaeus and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
As for the university itself, such an old center of learning is bound to have some attractions. In good weather visit the Linnaean Garden, a beautiful botanical garden founded in 1655 and reorganized by Carl Linnaeus, who created the taxonomic system still used to categorize plants and animals today. He got in trouble with church authorities for categorizing humans as primates. Above is a view of the gardens courtesy Andreas Trepte, who caught them on one of those warm, sunny days that are so precious this far north. The gardens are an easy stroll from Uppsala Castle, complete with throne room and a rich collection of European art.
%Gallery-167737%The Gustavianum, formerly an operating theater where 17th century medical students could watch dissections, is now a museum showing off the university’s art and archaeological collections. There’s also a cool exhibit of early scientific instruments. The old operating theater still exists if you want to see what it was like to get cut up in public.
Take some time to soak up Uppsala’s atmosphere. Stroll through the narrow medieval lanes and along the riverside where the students like to lounge. Being a northern city, it changes dramatically with the seasons. My first visit was in winter and was in fact my favorite. Standing atop an old Viking barrow and looking out across the snow-covered fields as the church spire rose in the gray distance, I felt like I was seeing Sweden at its best. Sure, we all like sunshine, but biting cold wind and short, overcast days seemed more properly Scandinavian!
Uppsala makes an easy day trip from Stockholm and is one of the top places to see in Sweden. Gamla Uppsala (“Old Uppsala”) with its pagan remains and early church, is just outside the more modern town.
Runestone erected by Christian Vikings added to UNESCO list
by Sean McLachlan on Feb 26, 2012
A Viking runestone bearing a cross and the first written mention of Norway found in the country has been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World program. This program aims to protect important documents that contribute to our global heritage. The runestone, called the Kuli Stone, is the oldest document on Norway’s list.
It’s important for its early mention of the country’s name and also because of its Christian significance. Not all of the runes are clear and part of the inscription broke off in antiquity. The most accepted translation of the remaining text reads, “Þórir and Hallvarðr raised this stone in memory of Ulfljótr(?). . .Christianity had been twelve winters in Norway. . .”
Just what date that refers to is unclear. King Olaf Tryggvason tried to force the Norwegian Vikings to convert to Christianity in 995, leading many pagans to become martyrs for their faith. Nevertheless, a couple of generations later the Thing (Viking parliament) decided to convert the entire country in the year 1022 or 1024.
For many centuries the Kuli Stone was at the original site on the island of Kuløy off Norway’s northwestern coast. It’s now in the NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim and a replica stands at the site. Viking runestones, both pagan and Christian, can be found in many places. Three of the best collections are at the British Museum (London), the National Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen), and Uppsala (Sweden).
Photo courtesy Kjell Jøran Hansen.
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