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Simple Justice
Chait’s Big PC Risk
In the team sport of politics, few things are more poorly tolerated than a traitor. It’s one thing for, say, George Will to question politically correct speech, but when a former liberal champion like Jonathan Chait does so, all hell breaks loose.
In a long-form article for New York Magazine, Chait took to task the ugliness of the new political incorrectness that had a few minutes in the sun in the late 1980’s, when feminist lawprof Catherine MacKinnon proclaimed herself Speech Queen for a Day.
MacKinnon’s beliefs nestled closely with an academic movement that was then being described, by its advocates as well as its critics, as “political correctness.” Michigan had already responded to the demands of pro-p.c. activists by imposing a campuswide speech code purporting to restrict all manner of discriminatory speech, only for it to be struck down as a First Amendment violation in federal court.
In Ann Arbor, MacKinnon had attracted a loyal following of students, many of whom copied her method of argument. The pro-MacKinnon students, upset over the display of pornographic video clips, descended upon Jacobsen’s exhibit and confiscated a videotape. There were speakers visiting campus for a conference on prostitution, and the video posed “a threat to their safety,” the students insisted.
It’s back. Who are its victims and victimizers, however, remains a matter of which team you’re on, and even then, whether one is sufficiently attuned to the nuance of the moment as to what words are permissible and what must be stricken from the lexicon.
Chait’s article is long, meaning it goes in all sorts of directions, some good, some bad, some sound, some facile, some reflecting the hypocrisy of the self-loathing liberal and some reflecting the hypocrisy of the true believer. It’s a mess.
And Chait’s article almost instantaneously drew harsh reactions. At Student Activism, Angus Johnston smacked Chait around for complaining about how PC speech impaired free speech, since both are just speech. At Talking Points Memo, fem Amanda Marcotte took her patented approach of mischaracterizing Chait in really poor prose:
The irony begins to collapse in on itself and form a black hole from which no self-awareness can escape with this sentence: “It is likewise taboo to request that the accusation be rendered in a less hostile manner. This is called ‘tone policing.’” Got it. Demanding that someone adopt more P.C. language to step around the sensitivities of liberals is unconscionable, but demanding that lefties on Twitter adopt a softened tone to step around the sensitivities of Jonathan Chait is just good sense.
Chait raised “tone policing” as one of the phenomenon occurring, though Marcotte misstated it as one of Chait’s “demands.” At Gawker, Alex Pereene milks his liberal antagonists for lulz:
So, here is sad white man Jonathan Chait’s essay about the difficulty of being a white man in the second age of “political correctness.” In a neat bit of editorial trolling, New York teased the column with [the] following question: “Can a white, liberal man critique a culture of political correctness?”
The answer, as anyone with internet access or a television or the ability to see a newsrack could tell you, is a resounding yes, they can and pretty much constantly do. But the second half of the question, and the real point of the column, was left unwritten: Can a straight, white man do this without having to deal with people criticizing him for doing so? The answer, in 2015, is no, and that is what has Chait’s dander up.
Why he says the second question is “the real point” isn’t clear, as is his claim that Chait’s “dander” is up. It seems obvious that Chait would anticipate blowback, and his dander is where it’s always been. At the same time, watching the other team beat up on Chait brings smiles to McKinnon’s disciples.
But without having one’s finger on the pulse of the inside baseball of liberal PC politics, it can be hard to follow these attacks, or appreciate the motives behind them. For those of us who truly couldn’t care less about who will win the most politically correct person of the year award, one reaction to the substantive points in Chait’s article seemed to wrap it up.
The response comes from lawprof Corey Rayburn Yung, who has been a bit noseblind to his own political bias because he, like so many others, suffers from the “I’m not biased; I’m right. The other guys are biased because they’re wrong.” As much as I like Corey otherwise, he suffers this massive blind spot when it comes to his own views. That doesn’t make him unique, but it also doesn’t relieve him from the prejudice of his politics.
At Concurring Opinions, Corey breaks down his beef with Chait in a concise and clear fashion:
After learning from discussions with many people holding views similar to Chait, I have had some success in distilling the problems of offensive speech to simpler terms. I call it the “don’t be an asshole” rule. It lacks nuance, I admit.
Nuance, schmuance. I consider this a feature rather than a flaw. In fact, it was the first rule here.
The applications of “don’t be an asshole” are many. Here are just a few:
Don’t yell “fuck” in the middle of a wedding ceremony or funeral.
Don’t fart in someone’s face.
Kind of gross, but sure. Definitely poor form. And for the benefit of the logic-impaired, this does not mean Corey approves of farting in the deceased’s face while yelling “fuck” at a funeral.
Don’t post your ex-girlfriend’s nude pictures online.
Unless she asked you to. Why she would do so is beyond me, but then again, why people take nude selfies and send them to people they barely know is beyond me too.
Don’t name your sports team an offensive ethnic slur.
Which would make more sense if it happened after the name was roundly condemned as an offensive ethnic slur, rather than at a time when things like this and this were considered proper viewing for children. Today, they are considered patently offensive. It’s hard to rewrite history with all those football jerseys out there.
Don’t call women “sluts” even if you believe in your heart-of-hearts that you also call promiscuous men “sluts.”
While not up there with basic life rules like don’t fart in someone’s face, okay. I fail to see what calling promiscuous men “sluts” has to do with anything, though. While that rationalization finds favor with younger people, it fails the relevancy test for those of us who aren’t easily goaded. If you’re ugly, my being ugly doesn’t make you less ugly.
Don’t use ethnic, religious, homophobic, racial, sexist slurs.
Absolutely. Though who decides what words are forbidden slurs seems to be the problem, not the admonition not to use them. I tried to make a list once, but I didn’t have enough RAM.
Recognize that you might be racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted and not know it.
This is a surprising faux pas for Corey. We are all bigoted, whether we know it or not. That he uses “might be” suggests he has yet to come to the realization that not even the most PCist among us is pure.
Listen charitably.
Fair enough, but at what point does charitable listening turn to “get real.” We can give everyone the benefit of the doubt until they had said or done something to make that a foolish and unreasonable assumption. To say listen charitably is fine, but naïve. At some point, charitable listening turns to foolishness.
And if someone calls you are [sic] a racist, sexist, bigot, etc., the “don’t be an asshole” rule even has a course of action to take:
Step one: Apologize.
Step two (optional): Thank the person for letting you know (assuming you don’t want to be an asshole in the future).
Step three: Don’t be an asshole again.
This isn’t the “don’t be an asshole” rule (at least not mine). This is a variant of the “heckler’s veto,” that someone screams bigot and therefor you must be one. Nope. First, there’s the problem of the PC prigs who whine that anyone who doesn’t adore them is some flavor of bigot, reducing it to meaninglessness.
But the overarching question is who decides? An obvious answer is in the first comment to Corey’s post:
Let me try to simplify further: “don’t do or say things that Corey Yung finds offensive.” Have I nailed it?
Of course, it’s not just Corey. Every self-proclaimed champion of social justice is entitled to condemn without challenge, with all the potential for internal conflict that ensues.
But as Angus Johnstone notes, so what? This is all speech. Free speech for all, including free speech to counter free speech, to challenge free speech. So what? And he’s right, unless, of course, the proponents of political correctness demand laws against free speech, like bullying, harassment, hate speech and revenge porn. Or a law embodying Corey’s “don’t be an asshole” rule. But the politically correct would never do that because they love free speech as much as they hate Jonathan Chait.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2015 by SHG.
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24 thoughts on “Chait’s Big PC Risk”
David M. January 28, 2015 at 8:33 am
Excellent, but what does this have to do with goat fucking? I come here for a reason.
SHG Post author January 28, 2015 at 9:08 am
Today’s inexplicable search: “cannibal thoughts.” At least they’re off the goat theme.
Matt B January 28, 2015 at 9:26 am
Is it McKinnon or MacKinnon? Your first quote uses the later, but you use the former.
Sorry if my typo caused you confusion. In any event, it’s now been corrected.
Richard G. Kopf January 28, 2015 at 12:18 pm
SHG,
Great piece, Scott.
Regarding Corey Rayburn Yung’s first rule which I sorta like (Don’t be an asshole), what if you truly have no intention of being an asshole and don’t know you are being an asshole ’cause words and context have no meaning when the only thing that matters is grievance?
By the way, I don’t know Mr. Yung. I see that he clerked for Mike Melloy between 2004 and 2006. I know Mike. He is not an asshole. From that connection, I am willing to assume that Mr. Yung is not an asshole. He is just insufferably young just as I am insufferably old.
SHG Post author January 28, 2015 at 12:24 pm
Thanks, Judge. Corey is by no means an asshole. In fact, he’s pretty darned smart, and tries very hard to be the honest broker. He just has a bit of a blind spot when it comes to his own politics vis-à-vis everyone else’s. But there’s an epidemic of grievances these days. Fortunately, it only afflicts the young, so we’re safe.
Corey Rayburn Yung January 30, 2015 at 3:14 pm
Hi Judge,
I’m a bit late seeing this, but I wanted to reply. I dare say that Judge Melloy might win “Kindest Person on the Bench” if there was such an award. I learned a lot from him which is (hopefully) reflected in my scholarship about judging which tries to shift academics away from a strictly realist/political account of how judges decide cases. And I feel like my post, which Scott takes some issue with, is consistent with something else Judge Melloy always demonstrated to me: respect and empathy. I clearly used more profane terms, but I was hoping to find some common ground between those who fear political correctness and those who believe offensive speech misshapes American culture. Whether I succeeded is for readers to decide. Nonetheless, I do think there is room for agreement in treating other people better if we remove the politically and socially charged elements that have dominated discussions of so-called “political correctness.”
SHG Post author January 30, 2015 at 4:31 pm
Nonetheless, I do think there is room for agreement in treating other people better if we remove the politically and socially charged elements that have dominated discussions of so-called “political correctness.”
Corey, when you write something like this, I can’t figure what you’re thinking. You haven’t removed the politically and socially charged elements; you’ve simply decided that one team wins and that’s your team. I know you believe in being charitable, but you’ve conceded nothing and demanded an apology for the pleasure.
Surely, you must see this? Empathy and respect are wonderful personality traits, but they’re personality traits, not rules and certainly not laws to be demand of, or imposed on, others.
And what’s with coming here to chat with the old judge-guy? What? He wears a robe and I’m chopped liver? Where’s my respect?
I’ve chimed in your comments before, but this time you were being too nice to me for me to take much issue. 🙂 Besides, as a long time reader of Hercules and the Umpire, I want to respond to the judge’s mention of my (wonderful) former boss.
I don’t know what you mean by “demanded an apology” which might cause me to misinterpret your meaning. I don’t, for instance, think Chait owes anyone an apology. What I do think is that there is a greater connection between using “Redskins” as a team name and yelling “fuck” at a funeral than is currently appreciated. I say this as someone who grew up in the DC area and has a family that cheers “Hail to the Redskins.” Yet, out here in Lawrence, KS, home to one of the country’s great American Indian colleges (Haskell) and a law school with a wonderful group of American Indian students, “Redskins” is treated as a slur. I think it would be beyond-the-pale rude to call one of my students a “Redskin” regardless of political correctness concerns. I was hoping to convey that opposing Daniel Snyder’s decision to keep the name doesn’t have to entail general support for so-called “political correctness” beliefs or causes. My “don’t be an asshole” rule is a profane attempt to illustrate a different motive for opposing the mascot name.
My goal is try to try to find some common ground where even anti-PC folks might recognize that certain speech should be abandoned even if you don’t buy into larger concerns about how offensive language shapes culture in negative ways. The endless battles over PC have always been futile, IMO. I’m a pragmatist – I’m searching for ways to lessen the use of offensive speech by appealing to possible areas of agreement. I may not succeed, but I do think there is something to be said for trying to de-politicize a lot of issues of concern to me: race, gender, sexual orientation, diversity, etc.
Most of your examples, at least to some extent, are best characterized as common courtesy. No big deal, as I said. It was when you got the race, gender, etc., and concluded under your rule that the only response of being called a racist is to apologize that you highly politicized your point.
Mary Anne Franks calls me a misogynist because I disagree with her scheme, her lies and her intellectual dishonesty in trying to claim there are no 1st Amendment problems. Should I apologize to her because she would rather call me a name than have to confront her flagrant dishonesty? Or should she apologize to me?
Corey and SHG,
Several random thoughts. (Note to RGK: Don’t forget the sticky notes!)
First, Mike Melloy is one of the most descent persons in the universe and a great judge. I am glad for Corey that he had the opportunity to learn from Mike. I suspect that Mike’s lack of ego and empathy for others is a product of his Iowa background and his unusual experiences in the military, as practitioner in Dubuque, as a bankruptcy judge, as district judge, as a Chief District Judge and as a Circuit judge.
Mike serves as a prime example of the good that can come from Corey’s “don’t be an asshole” operating instruction. As I said, I like Corey’s instruction as a general matter. Indeed, I intend to put it on a sticky note on my bench next to the one that reminds me to “shut the fuck up.”
Second, Scott is right to suggest that calling people names because of some perceived slight or allegedly mistaken position has become all too frequent in big parts of the legal profession, and most particularly in the Academy. When Scott decries absurd rape statistics on college campuses, that does not make him a misogynist.
Finally, the great strength of Scott’s approach to blogging is the raw intellectual honesty that pervades most of his writing. The fact is that the great bulk of us lack the talent, the intellectual courage, and the stamina to constantly look for bullshit and then call it what it is. That admitted, I intend to to put yet another sticky note on my bench. It will remind me to ask this question, if only to myself: “Would SHG call that bull shit?”
As I reread what I have written, it sounds like so much pap. That’s Ok, I suppose, because it is Saturday and the weather is terrible (snowing and raining). My depressive personality is showing more than a little. In other words, this is about the best I can do for today.
My best to you both.
You know how this mushy stuff embarrasses me.
Corey Rayburn Yung February 2, 2015 at 11:58 am
I read through your post about Mary Anne Franks, but didn’t see where she called you a misogynist. I might have missed it. It might have been a tl;dr problem on my part.
I have followed some of the exchanges in the past between you, Franks, Citron, and Bennett. And I can certainly say I have seen some patronizing and demeaning language used in the direction of Franks and Citron. In particular, I am thinking of Bennett’s post about basic First Amendment lessons and the aftermath of it. You might disagree with Franks and Citron on the First Amendment issue, but I find their view defensible (even as I have spoken with Franks about an alternate statutory approach that would surely survive First Amendment challenges). Until SCOTUS recognized the kiddie porn exception to the 1st Amendment, most people would have thought it was crazy (it was easier to make it part of the already existing obscenity exception). I still think Randy Barnett and others were crazy for advocating the action/inaction distinction in the ACA cases after Comstock allowed federal civil commitment of sex offenders based only on the necessary and proper clause. But Barnett’s view got 5 votes. Franks and Citron have a view of the First Amendment that would be less of a revolution than either of those, in my opinion. Yet, Bennett didn’t originally engage their argument and instead talked down to them. So, while I don’t know the context of accusations of the misogyny, I do think their views have been been treated uncharitably.
SHG Post author February 2, 2015 at 12:27 pm
It would be one thing for Franks/Citron to argue that the Supreme Court should make a new exception to the First Amendment to cover revenge porn, but that’s not what they argue. They argue that it conforms to existing First Amendment law, which is clearly does not. While we can disagree about the virtues of their position, which I think after Stevens is slim to none, that hasn’t been the argument.
They have promoted it in non-lawyer websites as having no potential First Amendment implications, calling it a “myth.” That’s flagrant intellectual dishonesty, to lie through their teeth to non-lawyers. Are you good with lying?
Or what about the claim that Eugene supported their law, which magically disappeared because he didn’t? Are you good with that too? Where is the line where you won’t be blinded by your ideology and you are willing to call out lies?
As for being dismissive or condescending (or ad hominem), you apparently haven’t read the initial comments from Mary Anne toward Bennett and have gone straight to the back end of the situation. Read this post, and the comments at Co-Op linked here and here, and at Josh Blackman’s post, and Mary Anne’s twits.
You’ve put your integrity on the line here. Bear that in mind. When lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas, Corey.
Corey Rayburn Yung February 2, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Thanks for reply .
As for the college sexual assault stats, I often lament the low-quality of the data that exists. But if you actually want to compare the methods and data, the study showing that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted (using a definition broader than criminal law) is actually the best we have. I’ve been working on a post about the different data sources for rape and sexual assault for a couple of months (at concurringopinions.com), but haven’t posted it yet. In large part the delay is because I’ve been talking to those who have created one of the data sources about some significant inconsistencies in the data. But I think it is fair to say that there are far greater sample size and methods problems in the studies showing lower rates of sexual assault. Hopefully I will finish the post soon as I want to at least offer a primer for anyone on what the different studies are measuring (because that accounts for large portions of the differences in results).
As coincidence would have it, though, I have a peer-reviewed study out today about how universities have been substantially undercounting sexual assaults based upon review of their data before, during, and after Department of Education audits (press release is here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150202105321.htm). So, I definitely disagree with Scott on that issue.
While your comment is bizarrely non-responsive to anything Judge Kopf said, and you violate my rule against links in comments, particularly self-promotional links, I decided to post this comment just because your press release is so awful.
“When it comes to sexual assault and rape, the norm for universities and colleges is to downplay the situation and the numbers,” said researcher Corey Rayburn Yung, JD, a law professor at the University of Kansas. “The result is students at many universities continue to be attacked and victimized, and punishment isn’t meted out to the rapists and sexual assaulters.”
This would be the DoE for whom every accused is presumed guilty and undeserving of due process under the DoE “Dear Colleague” rules? And you join in calling them rapists and sexual assaulters in the absence of being proven guilty? But you say you’re not biased, unlike those who you disagree with?
Corey, you based your undercounting conclusion on Department of Education audits? The folks whose definition of rape and sexual assault is as radical and bizarre (I know, you think it’s great, but I mean everyone outside of radical feminists and academics) as possible? Why would you possibly waste your time this way?
What this informs me is that you keep drifting farther and farther from empirical scholar to ideologue. So yes, we definitely disagree. Rape is not something a women feels six months later when she decided that the two beers she drank before consensual sex negates her decision and reduces the male to a rapist. Yes, I realize the DoE says it is. But it’s not.
Corey Rayburn Yung February 2, 2015 at 1:58 pm
The reason I mentioned Randy Barnett and the ACA cases was precisely because he and others argued that existing commerce clause and necessary and proper clause cases supported their view. With Comstock having just been decided a couple of years previous, I think that view was (and is) 100% wrong. In the interest of disclosure, I did help out the FPD’s who worked on Comstock. Jack Balkin, who thought Barnett was completely wrong on the doctrine, nonetheless defended him as doing what an advocate should do – normalizing a radical view. I wrote an essay about the dozens of instances in federal criminal law punishes inactivity while advocates for the Barnett position repeatedly said the insurance mandate was “unprecedented” in the media, scholarly publications, and every forum they were in.
Franks and Citron defend a view about the 1st Amendment that is less radical, in my opinion, than the ACA view that won 5 votes. As Balkin convinced me, legal revolutions happen because of rhetorical normalization that argues a particular view is consistent with current case law and not antithetical to it. So, I don’t feel that Citron and Franks are at all dishonest. My own practice is to avoid such advocacy, but I don’t fault others for engaging in it.
As I mentioned, though, from a pragmatic perspective, I worry that Franks and Citron’s efforts will ultimately fail because judges won’t agree with their 1st Amendment view. Instead, I thought the more realistic option (although I dislike the underlying statute) is to apply the federal pornography reporting statute to hosts as well as distributors. The ironic thing is that my suggestion would eliminate far more speech (because very few hosts have copies of all of the actor ID’s to prove they are adults) but would easily survive constitutional challenges because of existing 1st amendment doctrine.
I’ll read through the links you posted – I only followed the exchange via Twitter (of which I haven’t been on all that long) and might have missed a bunch.
SHG Post author February 2, 2015 at 2:18 pm
You raise an interesting problem for when academics turn advocates, but seek to use their academic cred to further an advocacy position. You can’t have it both ways. If an academic wants to put their scholarship on the line for a cause, and is prepared to wallow in the gutter to get it done, then they don’t get to hide behind their academic position when they get called on it.
While Citron hasn’t been nearly as bad as Franks, Franks has been caught in a multitude of specific lies (such as the Gene Volokh lie) and has used her putative academic standing (which, I’m told, couldn’t get much lower) to bullshit her way out of it by dismissing those who question her as her intellectual inferiors unworthy of response.
But that said, there is a huge distance between claiming to be a First Amendment Scholar and representing an advocacy position to be above scrutiny to non-lawyers, and advocacy. When she put her academic rep on the line for her advocacy, and got called, and denied it using her academic rep to deflect and lie, then she’s a liar.
And a point often missed by academics who are confused by the nature of advocacy: the most important thing an advocate has is integrity. Contrary to the Balkan’s view of advocacy, it is not a free pass to lie.
As for my reply to Judge Kopf,
I’m sorry about the hyperlink – I think I stopped reading warnings long ago. The Internet just seems to be one big blur to me some days.
The contents of the press release aren’t mine and I would have written it differently. Unfortunately, the study is behind a paywall (although I have a late draft on SSRN). One of the greatest shortcomings of peer review publications is the lack of access which allows for people actually reading the study instead of media interpretation of it.
I didn’t reply to the rest of Judge Kopf’s comments because I didn’t really have much to say – I just wanted to mention the rape stats issue because it happens to be where much of my attention is focused these days.
As to the DoE, I have major issues with the legality of the Dear Colleague letters (which I don’t think deserve legal deference). However, it is also unclear who is writing them or how they are related to the audit process (which is also why they don’t deserve deference). My study shows that when schools are being audited (or resolving an audit finding), they report 44% higher rates of sexual assault than before or after the audit. Penn State, which is not in the study, reported a ridiculous increase 1389% increase in sexual assaults in the 2 years following the unprecedented scrutiny they received because of Jerry Sandusky. You have actually cited articles relying on the DoE data to prove sexual assault rates are low. My study shows that the DoE data (which is simply collected by the DoE but is basically raw counts submitted by schools) normally understates the problem which doesn’t fit your narrative about how schools are treating these cases.
And I will agree with your view that the DoE definition is overly broad in one sense. They include 4 categories of sexual assault. The first 3 are entirely comparable to rape in jurisdictions without force requirements. The last category, forcible fondling, includes various forms of assault and battery that would not likely be deemed “sexual” in any criminal court. I wish the DoE would break the data down by category because that is how the schools submit it. Knowing how many incidents are in the first 3 categories would be very helpful in differentiating rape, sexual assault, and other assaults on campuses. The fourth category likely includes mostly criminal conduct, but to such a different degree that grouping it with the other 3 is extremely problematic.
As I said, I hope to write more about the data in the near future. Right now, though, I think you really too much on secondary source statements about what the studies say and measure. Emily Yoffee’s article at Slate was the fairest, in my opinion, but still made a couple major errors. A lot of the other stuff you have linked to is just completely wrong. My post(s) will include, to the degree possible, the definitions actually used in the studies and advantages and disadvantages to different methods. Hopefully, you might discover that a lot of what you have read about rape data is inaccurate.
I’m off to teach (the Road to the Exclusionary Rule).
A lot of the other stuff you have linked to is just completely wrong.
The NCVS? Most of the people who disagree with me try to rip the Yofee article to shreds. Glad to hear you think it was the fairest. As for errors, it seems like there is someone who finds/claims errors in every study, and I’ve come to believe that the nature of what these surveys are trying to assess precludes accuracy, given the ideological bias involved. Or to put it another way, the untethering of definitions across the board of rape and sexual assault has resulted in it being impossible to determine meaningful prevalence. But then, those using it as an advocacy position really don’t care. Right or wrong, true or false, they demand (their special flavor) of justice, and will do anything they have to do to get it.
I am heavily conflicted about the academic/activist problem. My own belief has been and probably still is that academics are best when they strive for intellectual honesty/truth. Yet, that is particularly difficult in law where advocacy of an intellectual position is often closely linked with an activist position. As I mentioned, Jack Balkin, who I admire greatly, convinced me to be more forgiving of the approach used by Randy Barnett in the ACA cases. So, for the time being, I’m avoiding judgment of those that view the connection of academia and activism differently than I do.
Concerning rape stats, it is actually the NCVS data that has held up my post. In 2013, the NCVS retroactively changed their data to include serial offenses whereas they had previously counted no more than 1 offense per person. At first blush that seems reasonable. However, the effect on the data was bizarre. In 2007, there were 0 serial offenses counted. In 2008, with approximately 5% of those surveyed reporting serial offenses, the count of sexual assaults nearly doubled. That’s because their sample size of households that actually report rape is ridiculously small. If just 1 or 2 people report serial encounters, the yearly number goes up substantially. They also stopped reporting additional tables after 2008 which allowed the data to be broken down by gender of victim and specific crime (rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault) at the same time. I’ve spoken with the head of the group there and have been trying ways to make the data apples-to-apples from 2001 to 2012. Unfortunately, I’m not satisfied with the techniques I have tried to make the data consistent.
The Slate article is far from perfect but is one of the only ones to recognize different things are being measured in each study. Most of the hack-jobs being posted just mix-and-match data to fit their stories.
Mark W. Bennett February 2, 2015 at 2:23 pm
Mr. Yung, I don’t know you other than through your comments here, but when you say, “Bennett didn’t originally engage their argument and instead talked down to them,” I know you as a liar.
Here is my first post ever mentioning Mary Anne Franks: http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2013/10/six-ways-to-screw-up-your-persuasive-writing.html. Four days later I engaged their arguments (such as they were at the time) in even greater depth: http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2013/10/are-statutes-criminalizing-revenge-porn-constitutional.html.
Did I also talk down to them? Possibly; I’m a trench lawyer, so I enjoy freedom a) to show my contempt for small-caliber legal minds; and b) to not give a fuck about your tone policing.
With arguments like ““I think resistance to these laws can arise from a variety of factors. Some people – including some lawyers, much to my surprise – are just uneducated about the First Amendment and really seem to think that it protects all forms of expression.… But then there’s a whole category of people who aren’t confused at all – let’s call this the ‘threatened sexist’ category,” (Franks) and “Disclosures of private communications involving nude images do not enjoy rigorous First Amendment protection. They involve the narrow set of circumstances when the publication of truthful information can be punished,” (Citron), neither’s writing would pass muster in the Texarkana Court of Appeals.
I don’t know if I have read their latest, but their proposals and arguments are moving targets, with a “model” statute that has quietly changed over time. Citron and Franks disagree with each other on the most basic point of whether intent to harm is a necessary element. They have proposed a farrago of bad justifications for revenge-porn statute. If they said, “we expect the Supreme Court to recognize an additional category of unprotected speech to uphold this statute,” they would be honest but optimistic. Instead they suggest, among other things, that revenge porn is unprotected because it is obscenity (risible) or because it is purely private speech (risible and dangerous).
Which of those proposals, and which of those arguments, is it that you “find defensible”?
P.S. You mention “an alternate statutory approach that would surely survive First Amendment challenges.” I’ll believe it when I see it. Bring it on.
Corey Rayburn Yung Post author February 2, 2015 at 5:25 pm
This is the post I was referring to: http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2014/10/first-amendment-101.html. I did not realize there were prior interactions/posts, but I also did not say it was your first encounter. Instead I just said “Bennett’s post about basic First Amendment lessons and the aftermath of it.” I realize that I later said “originally” in describing the post, but only meant the first post in the series (and not first ever). My goal in saying “originally,” which clearly failed, was to recognize that you did subsequently engage their argument in a more substantive manner. Nonetheless, if you think my omission of referencing other discussions created a false or negative impression, for that I apologize.
I do feel, however, that my assessment that the post included “patronizing and demeaning language” is accurate. You said “Laypeople don’t know that Citron is wrong and have no reason to doubt this bald assertions, and fellow academics are afraid of being called names for challenging zealots…” I realize that you and Scott both use harsher rhetoric to make your points. However, from my perspective, saying that they only made “bald assertions” and calling them “zealots” while implying they don’t understand “First Amendment 101″ is “patronizing and demeaning.” You might disagree.
The purpose of my comment was simply to give context to what I knew about Scott’s prior interactions with Franks. It just happened that your initial post and followups to it was most prominent in my mind. I will look through some of the prior posts that you and Scott have linked to (and others on your blogs).
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Offshoring Support Functions: Is It Working?
Posted on November 14, 2005 by cmadmin
The trends toward offshoring will continue to grow as wider ranges of sourcing options develop. However, an offshore help desk and support service is more successful when blended with both onshore and near-shore services. Jeff Lande, senior vice president at the Information Technology Association of America, (ITAA) said that most business process outsourcing (BPO) call center models are blended because it is valuable for companies to offer around-the-clock service and have different levels of expertise in different locations.
Because offshoring help desk and support functions is a viable option, experts stress to look before you leap. Organizations need to be more realistic about the benefits and challenges of offshoring this aspect of customer relationship management. According to Gartner Inc., a world provider of IT industry research and analysis, cost reduction alone is not a sufficient justification for outsourcing—revenue generation and customer service quality are also requirements.
“For most companies, the decision is not as black and white as to offshore or not to offshore,” Lande said. “Companies need to look at this (offshoring) as a maturing model, they need to consider certain aspects of offshoring, and they need to go into these contracts with their eyes wide open.”
Many offshore BPO vendors have grown rapidly over the past two years, and this rapid growth may be interrupting their customer service processes and, as a result, negatively affecting companies’ reputations. Companies should carefully consider a vendor’s record—especially that of its management team—whether it is located here in the United States or abroad.
Most companies outsource support functions, like inquiry logging and entitlement checking, because they require little, if any, verbal communication. “Offshoring is working in most business processes,” said Ron Muns, CEO and founder of the Help Desk Institute (HDI). “However, the most difficult are call centers, and that is because it really revolves around language and English neutralization issues. The most successful things to send overseas are things that require intelligent people and don’t require a lot of language.”
Language is considered a major obstacle when offshoring help desk and support functions, and because telephones are the most frequently used channel of support, such training is critical. Muns said that companies are not providing enough English training to offshore support centers.
“Training programs need to be better. Most companies use a five-week program to teach people English and American culture,” Muns said. “Can you really learn language and culture in five weeks? Because it is not that expensive, why don’t these companies jump the training to five months? I mean, who cares if the cost is $4,000 rather than $1,000.”
Organizations utilize many channels of support other than telephones, such as e-mail, chat, fax, walk-up, letters, etc. Both Muns and Lande agreed that language can be an issue, but it is ultimately an organization’s responsibility to decide whether language barriers or accents will affect customer service.
“The client that is buying these services—whether it is onshore, near-shore or offshore—has responsibility to its customers to monitor the performance of its vendors and to insist on changes if the level of customer service is not being met,” Lande said. ”But, you and I both have probably called tons of call centers and ended up overseas or onshore and had no idea of whether the person we were chatting with was from the United States or from 10,000 miles away.”
According to Muns, online chat support is a successful function to offshore. “A lot of companies have several chat supports in several parts of the world, and the group with highest satisfaction area is India because you don’t hear the dialect and some of the language problems,” Muns said. “And if the chat associate is unable to resolve a problem with the chat, then he or she will be transferred to speak with someone in the United States.”
Cost is perhaps the biggest issue regarding offshoring. The initial buy-in cost to transfer services offshore or to a different location onshore can be significant. Although companies are saving money, Muns believes only larger companies are truly reaping the benefits of offshore labor costs.
“In order to offshore a function, companies need a certain volume of work before it is even plausible,” he said. “It is not attractive for smaller companies because of the overhead associated with doing it, the management process of flying people back and forth, and you don’t relinquish management solvability.”
Recent Gartner research suggests that the main processes of customer service and support will remain located in, or near, target markets through 2008. However, in today’s global and competitive marketplace, offshoring some business functions may become necessary in the near future. So understanding what type of support model works best for your organization—whether offshore, near-shore, onshore or a blended model—is important to meet the evolving needs of your customers.
–Cari McLean, Associate Editor, carim@certmag.com
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Published on Development and a Changing Climate
Risk of intensified storm surges: High stakes for developing countries
Susmita Dasgupta
Photo © Syed Zakir Hossain/Greenpeace
We are now faced with overwhelming scientific evidence that more intense storm surges and sea-level rise from climate change are serious global threats. Increased cyclonic activity and heightened storm surges are expected from the rise in sea surface temperature now observed at all latitudes and in all oceans. Even small changes in sea level profoundly affect storm surge height and the extent of flooding in coastal zones and adjoining low-lying areas. I think there is a dire need for greater disaster preparedness in countries vulnerable to such storm surges.
Recently, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray, David Wheeler and I considered the potential impact of a large (one-in-100-year) storm surge by contemporary standards, and then compared it with the intensification which is expected in this century. We used satellite maps of the world overlaid with comparable data for 84 coastal countries to calculate the toll of such changes on affected territory, people, GDP, urban areas, agricultural areas and wetlands in five developing regions.
Our paper takes both a global and regional perspective. Globally, our estimates show that about 19.5% (391,812 km2) of the combined coastal territory of 84 countries is vulnerable to inundation from a one-in-100-year storm surge by current reference standards. A 10% future intensification increases the potential inundation zone to 25.7% (517,255 km2), taking into account sea level rise. This translates to an inundation threat for an additional 52 million people; 29,164 km2 of agricultural area; 14,991 km2 of urban area; 9% of coastal GDP and 29.9% of wetlands.
These impacts are not uniformly distributed across the regions and countries of the developing world. The Latin America & the Caribbean region has the largest percentage increase in storm surge zone area, but the coastal population impacts are largest for the Middle East & North Africa, while coastal GDP losses are most severe in East Asia.
Because GDP per capita is generally above average for coastal populations and cities, we estimate that storm surge intensification would cause additional GDP losses (above the current one-in-100-year reference standard) of $84.9 billion in the East Asia & Pacific region, $12.7 billion in the Middle East & North Africa, $8.4 billion in South Asia, $14.4 billion in Latin America & the Caribbean and $1.8 billion in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We note that some low-income countries are susceptible to very significant damage. For the majority of indicators we studied, El Salvador, Yemen, Djibouti, Mozambique, and Togo are expected to experience the most severe impacts.
We have also identified the top 10 major urban centers worldwide that are located in storm-surge zones. Once again, alarmingly, most of these are in poor countries. This highlights the potentially deadly exposure of their inhabitants, since storm water drainage infrastructure is often outdated and inadequate. The risks may be particularly severe in poor neighborhoods and slums, where infrastructure is often nonexistent or poorly designed and ill-maintained.
There is a very strong case for rapid action to protect endangered coastal populations. Knowing which countries and urban centers will be most affected will allow better targeting of scarce resources and could spur adaptation plans for coastal zone now and avoid big losses later.
If you're interested in research about port cities vulnerable to storm surges, try reading Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes by Nicholls, Hanson, Herweijer, Patmore, Hallegate, Corfee-Morlot, Chateau, and Muir-Wood, OECD Environment Working Papers series (No.1). For more on global warming, tropical cyclones, and storm surges, I’d recommend Hurricanes and Global warming: Results from Downscaling IPCC AR4 Simulations by Emanuel, Sundararajan, and Williams.
Lead Environmental Economist, Development Research Goup, World Bank
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There is a grwoing felt need to include health on the climate change debate. Most adaptation strategies of developing and least developed nations appear to be paying mere lip service to impact of climate change on health. However, scientific evidence shows that climate change will have an impact on health which is quite complex. We need to work towards bringing health on the climate change agenda soon. thanks. Urvashi
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National Public Discourse Debuts with State Police
By Afolabi Ogunde on September 22, 2012
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The highly contentious issue of state policing in Nigeria will take centre stage on Tuesday September 25, 2012 when the maiden edition of the National Public Discourse holds at the Agip Recital Hall of MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos at 10am.
According to a statement by the Public Affairs Directorate of CMC Connect (Perceptions Managers), conveners of the forum, the National Public Discourse will be a periodic platform for the healthy exchange of ideas, views, and positions regarding issues of national significance.
Expected at this discourse, will be a cross section of proponents and opponents of the concept of state policing. They include state governors, security experts, public analysts, legal practitioners and members of the civil society groups.
Specifically invited as speakers are Governors Babatunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi, Babangida Aliyu, Jonah Jang, Adams Oshiomole and Kayode Fayemi. They will be joined by representatives of Former Inspector Generals of Police Forum and the media,
According to the Group Head, Public Affairs Directorate of CMC Connect, Mr. Tola Odusote, “the National Public Discourse is not designed to draw conclusions or take a pre-determined stands on any issue being discussed, but rather it will provide the necessary platform to promote dialogue which is an essential ingredient of any democracy”.
It will be recalled that the growing state of insecurity has continued to task Nigerian governments and the citizenry on the need to remodel the current security structure. While many are of the opinion that the solution is in allowing various levels of policing, others have objected to it, citing the high propensity to abuse that it may occasion.
Mr. Odusote went further to explain that the Public Affairs Directorate of CMC Connect (Perceptions Managers) has committed itself to bridging the communication gap between those in government and those being governed, a vision which has given rise to the National Public Discourse.
Odusote urged all relevant stakeholders to get involved in creating their national destiny by participating actively in the National Public Discourse.
Arrangements are being made to transmit the discourse live on both social and traditional media. The event is being supported by Daar Communications’ AIT and Ray Power. Others are Rainbow FM, Interior Options and Core Media.
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Tech Talk: Verified Cryptographic Implementations
Friday, August 22, 2014 from 11am – noon
Galois, Inc. Auxiliary Meeting Room
421 SW 6th Ave, 11th Floor
Galois is pleased to host the following tech talk. These talks are free and open to the interested public--please join us! (There is no need to pre-register for the talk.)
EasyCrypt is a computer-assisted framework for proving the security of cryptographic constructions. However, there is a significant gap between security proofs done in the usual provable security style and cryptographic implementations used in practice; as a consequence, real-world cryptography is sometimes considered as “one of the many ongoing disaster areas in security. We have recently extended EasyCrypt with support for reasoning about C implementations, and exploited the CompCert verified compiler to carry the security proof to executable code. Moreover, we have developed verified type-based information flow analyses on assembly code to ensure that executable code is protected against cache-based side-channel attacks.
Gilles Barthe received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, UK, in 1993, and an Habilitation à diriger les recherches in Computer Science from the University of Nice, France, in 2004. He joined the IMDEA Software Institute in April 2008. Previously, he was head of the Everest team on formal methods and security at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, France. He also held positions at the University of Minho, Portugal; Chalmers University, Sweden; CWI, Netherlands; University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. He has published more than 100 refereed scientific papers. He has been coordinator/principal investigator of many national and European projects, and served as the scientific coordinator of the FP6 FET integrated project “MOBIUS: Mobility, Ubiquity and Security” for enabling proof-carrying code for Java on mobile devices (2005-2009). He has been a PC member of many conferences (CSF, ESORICS, FM, ICALP, ITP…), and served as PC (co-)chair of VMCAI’10, ESOP’11, FAST’11, and SEFM’11. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Automated Reasoning.
His research interests include formal methods, programming languages and program verification, software and system security, and cryptography, and foundations of mathematics and computer science.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 4:15pm.
Note that we will be meeting on the 11th floor, rather than our usual 3rd floor office space.
http://galois.com/blog/2014/08/tech-talk-verified-cryptographic-implementations/
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Alfredo Simón
Cincinnati Reds – No. 31
Born: (1981-05-08) May 8, 1981 (age 33)
Santiago, Dominican Republic
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
September 6, 2008 for the Baltimore Orioles
(through 2013 season)
Cincinnati Reds (2012–present)
Alfredo Simón Cabrera (born May 8, 1981) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball.[1] From 2001 through part of 2004 he pitched under the name Carlos Cabrera.
1 Professional career
1.1 Minor leagues
1.1.1 Philadelphia Phillies
1.1.2 San Francisco Giants
1.1.3 Texas Rangers
1.1.4 Los Angeles Dodgers
1.1.5 Mexican League
1.2 Major leagues
1.2.1 Baltimore Orioles (2008-12)
1.2.2 Cincinnati Reds (2012-Present)
2 Involuntary manslaughter allegations
Simón was signed on July 9, 1999, by the Philadelphia Phillies. He originally signed under the name Carlos Cabrera, and he pretended to be 21 months younger than he really was. He made his professional debut in 2000 for the La Vega Phillies in the Dominican Summer League.[2] In 2004, the Phillies found out his real name and age.[3]
Shortly after that, he was traded with Ricky Ledée to the San Francisco Giants for Felix Rodríguez.[4]
Simón was assigned to the A Advanced San Jose Giants. He got off to a bad start, posting a 5.68 ERA in 6 starts while going 1–2. His next season, he was promoted to the AA Norwich Navigators. He started for only part of the year, and closed for most of the season, posting a 5.03 ERA in 43 games (9 starts). In 2006, he started the season at San Jose but was promoted to the AAA Fresno Grizzlies. Following the season he filed for free agency.[5]
On November 3, 2006, Simón signed with the Texas Rangers. In December, the Baltimore Orioles drafted him in the Rule 5 draft. On the same day, the Orioles traded him back to the Philadelphia Phillies for Adam Donachie and cash.[6]
On March 17, 2007, the Phillies returned Simón to the Rangers. Simón pitched as a starter for the AAA Oklahoma RedHawks. He had a bad year, going 5–10 with a 6.43 ERA in 22 starts. Following the season, he filed for free agency.[7]
On January 10, 2008, he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was released on March 30, before the season started.[8]
After being released, Simón signed with the independent Sultanes de Monterrey of the Mexican League. He pitched very well with them, going 7–2 with a 2.67 ERA in 15 games (11 starts).[9] During the season, he was signed by the Baltimore Orioles.[10]
Baltimore Orioles (2008-12)
The Orioles originally assigned Simón to the AAA Norfolk Tides, but they called him up very quickly. On September 6, he finally made his major league debut. He finished 2008 having posted a 6.23 ERA in four games (1 start), but he earned no decisions. In 2009, after a strong spring training performance, he was named to the Orioles' starting rotation.[11] However, he was injured in only his second start of the year, and wound up having to miss the rest of the year after undergoing Tommy John surgery.[12]
Simón failed to make the Orioles out of spring training in 2010, but on April 27, the Orioles promoted Simón from AAA Norfolk. The very same day, he became the Orioles' closer (due to bad pitching and a subsequent injury to Mike Gonzalez), and he notched his first save against the New York Yankees. He pitched an inning and gave up 2 unearned runs.[13] Coincidentally, the Yankees were the same team Simón earned his first decision against.[14] Simón converted his first 5 save opportunities before blowing one against the Cleveland Indians on May 15.[15] Through the 2010 season, Simón converted 17 of 21 save opportunities. After blowing a save on August 9, 2010, Simón did not receive another save opportunity that season as Koji Uehara was used most regularly in the role.
On May 21, 2011, Simón was activated from the restricted list. Jason Berken was sent down to make room.[16]
Cincinnati Reds (2012-Present)
On April 3, 2012 The Cincinnati Reds claimed Simón off waivers from the Orioles.
Involuntary manslaughter allegations
In January 2011, Simón allegedly shot and killed Michel Castillo Almonte and wounded his 17-year-old brother during a New Year's Eve celebration in Luperón, Dominican Republic. Simón denied the allegations.[17] Police then announced their intention to file involuntary manslaughter charges.[18] In March 2011, Simón posted bail. He pitched for the Baltimore Orioles AAA minor league affiliate. On November 8, 2011, Simon was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter.[19]
Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Cincinnati Reds current roster
2 Zack Cozart
4 Brandon Phillips
6 Billy Hamilton
9 Jack Hannahan
15 Derrick Robinson
19 Joey Votto
21 Todd Frazier
23 Donald Lutz
26 Xavier Paul
28 Chris Heisey
29 Ryan Hanigan
31 Alfredo Simón
32 Jay Bruce
34 Homer Bailey
36 Henry Rodríguez
39 Devin Mesoraco
43 Manny Parra
44 Mike Leake
45 Sean Marshall
46 Curtis Partch
47 Johnny Cueto
48 Ryan Ludwick
50 Neftalí Soto
51 Jonathan Broxton
52 Tony Cingrani
54 Aroldis Chapman
55 Mat Latos
58 Nick Christiani
60 J. J. Hoover
63 Sam LeCure
66 Logan Ondrusek
67 Daniel Corcino
73 Carlos Contreras
74 Ismael Guillon
77 Yorman Rodríguez
-- Pedro Beato
Manager 38 Bryan Price
Bench Coach 35 Chris Speier
First Base Coach 22 Billy Hatcher
Third Base Coach 41 Mark Berry
Hitting Coach 49 Brook Jacoby
Assistant Hitting Coach 62 Ronnie Ortegon
Pitching Coach 53 Dick Pole
Assistant Pitching Coach 57 Mack Jenkins
Bullpen Coach 59 Juan López
Bullpen Catcher 72 Mike Stefanski
Coach 53 Miguel Cairo
Name Simon, Alfredo
Short description Baseball pitcher
Date of birth May 8, 1981
Place of birth Santiago, Dominican Republic
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Clearwater Threshers
Florida State League, Philadelphia Phillies, Orlando Rays, Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Lakewood BlueClaws
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A Year of G.T.L. on the Jersey Shore Really Changed Mr. Whitelaw
Union Dutchmen celebrating after they won their first ECAC Championship in Atlantic City 2012
Something seemed off when I saw this picture after Union had clinched its first ECAC Championship in Atlantic City in March. No, I do not mean that as a sarcastic comment about how far Union has come in its 21 years in the ECAC. I meant that a key element in the photo, the focal point even, was different than it should be. The Whitelaw Cup awarded to the 2012 Union College Dutchmen looked different than the Whitelaw Cup that had been awarded to previous ECAC Champions. I knew that it looked very different from the Whitelaw Cup awarded to Cornell in 2010 when I had the pleasure of watching that dominant team defeat a well-coached Union team to claim yet another ECAC Championship. I watched the 2011 ECAC Championships on CBS Sports and recognized that Yale's 2011 Whitelaw Cup was nearly identical to the one awarded to Cornell in 2010. So, I decided to research the history of the appearance of the Whitelaw Cup.
Union Dutchmen 2012
Yale Bulldogs 2011
Harvard Crimson 2006
Cornell Big Red 2010
Princeton Tigers 2008
The results of my search are posted above in a gallery of six Whitelaw Cups awarded over the span of seven years. These were the years for which it was easiest to find an image in which the form of the Cup was readily discernible. As one is always able on WAFT, click the images if you want to view a larger version for better comparison.
The trend is fairly pronounced. The appearance of the Whitelaw remains relatively constant from Cornell's eleventh Whitelaw in 2005 through Yale's second in 2011. The slight variation that is noticeable is that the Whitelaw had a less polished patina in the earlier 2000s than it did in 2006. Notwithstanding the brilliance of the finish of the Cup, very little changed in its appearance. It maintained the same shape and general appearance.
The form of the Whitelaw changed drastically some time between March 2011 and March 2012 when Union celebrated with it on the ice of Boardwalk Hall. Maybe it was the seabreeze. Maybe it was the Jersey Shore. But, the Cup increased in volume by what appears to be a factor of four. The accessory, understated handles on the side of the Cup grew. They extended from the base of the Cup to the top, scrolling into the beveled opening, much unlike the small handles that extended only slightly from the base of the Whitelaw that Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and Cornell hoisted. The height of the Whitelaw grew considerably too to about 1.25 the total height of the trophy.
The next thing I looked at to see exactly how much history and tradition was altered within a matter of one season of hockey was to check what Whitelaws from further back than 2005 looked like. The only place where I knew that there were many on displays was Cornell's locker room in which a large portion of the collection of trophies that Cornell has won are displayed. I used a video in which Schafer was interviewed in the locker room to get a glimpse at what those previous trophies looked like. I've pieced the images together into a panaroma, found below, of the view of the trophies from part of the locker room.
An array of some of the trophies that are displayed proudly in the Big Red's locker room including some of Cornell's twelve ECAC Championship trophies. The appearance has remained fairly constant from 1967 through 2010.
The dates on each trophy cannot be deciphered. However, based upon the timing of ECAC rebranding and the 2005 photo in the above gallery, one can conclude that the trophy in the center is Cornell's 2010 Whitelaw. The 2005 photo in the above gallery appears most similar to one of the other three similarly looking cups in the photo (the far left and the two rightmost). That leaves two trophies that look nearly identical to the trophies in the above gallery (2005-11) remaining. If one assumes that the four ECAC Championship trophies pictured are Cornell's four most recent ECAC Championship wins, the oldest would have been won in 1997. That would mean that the Whitelaw Cup remained unchanged for at least 14 years.
Why the change? I checked the ECAC Hockey website and press releases to read what was said about the Whitelaw Cup in formal press releases. I was suprised pleasantly to find that the ECAC press release that describes the Whitelaw Cup includes a photograph of a representative Whitelaw. It is below pictured.
The formal ECAC media release that describes the regular-season title trophy and Whitelaw Cup. It shows a representative Whitelaw Cup.
The representative Whitelaw Cup looks like those won from at least 1997-2011, but likely even earlier. It looks very different from the trophy that Union received in March 2012 at Boardwalk Hall. I expect that when a trophy changes in a conference that alleges that it takes itself and its history seriously that there would be a public announcement regarding the redesign of the trophy. Hockey East did this in 2008 when it redesigned its regular-season championship trophy. Why didn't the ECAC do the same with such a drastic trophy change for the tournament championship?
The ECAC is currently the second-oldest collegiate hockey conference in the nation. It will be the oldest conference when the 2013-14 season begins. The only way that title is challengeable is if people argue that retention of one charter member (Michigan Tech) in the WCHA Lite makes it the clear heir to the historic WCHA. I am not convinced that it does. I digress. The ECAC is at least the second-oldest collegiate hockey conference in the nation whose constituent members include the oldest universities in the nation to sponsor NCAA hockey and the oldest hockey programs in the nation.
The ECAC Championship is the second-oldest collegiate hockey tournament championship recognized in the nation. The WCHA crowed its first champion in 1952. The ECAC crowned its first champion in 1962. The CCHA did the same a decade later. The ECAC Championship trophy was named in honor of former ECAC Commissioner Robert M. Whitelaw in 1989. The Broadmoor Trophy became the standard WCHA Championship trophy in 1985. The Lamoriello Trophy did for Hockey East in 1988. The CCHA Championship trophy was not recognized as the Mason Cup until 2001. By either metric, the Whitelaw Cup is one of the oldest and most historic tournament trophies in college hockey.
Three of the four named historic tournament champion trophies have one thing in common: absolute consistency in appearance over most of their lifespan. The Broadmoor Trophy, Lamoriello Trophy, and Mason Cup follow this trend. The Whitelaw Cup does not. The appearance of the Whitelaw verifiably remained unchanged from at least 1997-2011. It likely was unchanged much longer. Even if the simplistic cups in Cornell's locker room that are not indentifiable to an eye, such as mine, that has not seen them in-person are earlier versions of Whitelaws, why the change now again? Moreover, why the change in 2012 without any publicity?
The ECAC celebrated its move back to Lake Placid as the appropriate choice with claims emphasizing the historic nature of the league and once-and-future host venue. I am sure that in 2014 there will be no shortage of marketing that heralds the ECAC Championships in Herb Brooks Arena as "the oldest and most legendary hockey programs in college hockey in the most famous hockey arena in the United States." It is a nice catchphrase, but as a conference and fanbase if we do not value the history and prestige of our most prestigious honor, do we really deserve such appellation? Can we really claim that we care that much about the history of the conference and winning its grandest trophy if we allow the embodiment of that achievement to change without questioning those whose hallmark decisions include moving the tournament outside of the league's geographic footprint for increased television coverage and then having no such coverage but a year later?
I've offered many questions, but few answers. I am not sure what the answers are. But, I know that it is wrong when a historic conference abandons its traditional trophy, the one that even appears in its formal press releases still, and the first that loyal fans know of this is when it is handed off to the captain of that year's championship team.
I hope that it was just the Jersey Shore getting to Mr. Whitelaw. He made some bad decisions and ended up not looking quite the way he used to. Maybe it was the G.T.L. lifestyle or the gambling or the women. Maybe he hired a double when he realized he would not be on national televsion. Maybe all of the above. But, I hope that the ECAC and Mr. Whitelaw will take this as a sincere invitation to bring the original back. We preferred him. The version that was rolled out in 2012, even though in some ways more aesthetically pleasing, was not a Whitelaw Cup. That version deserves to suffer the same fate as the television show referenced in the title of this post and the ECAC stint in Atlantic City.
I hope to see a scene like this in Atlantic City in March 2013 with the real Mr. Whitelaw
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Brown/Moorer are in top form
Johnny D's, Somerville, Mass., Nov. 21, 1998
SOMERVILLE, MA - Junior Brown isn't your typical country musician. After all, the deep voiced man with the big white hat doesn't get much radio airplay - he's far too different for what's considered "acceptable" these days.
But he isn't living in a cocoon either given his presence in Gap television ads and appearances on "The X-Files."
A few more concerts, however, like he gave Saturday night at a mobbed Johnny D's, and the public ought to be pounding down the doors of radio stations to give Brown his due.
Brown, touring behind his fine new CD, "Long Walk Back," was the best he has ever been in the Boston area, belting a home run in playing, singing and song selection.
Brown's trademark is his guit-steel instrument contraption. The instrument, which Brown said came to him in a dream years ago, is a combination of guitar and steel guitar. The guit-steel gives Brown the chance to switch between the different sounds within the same song.
And what a fine musician Brown is. He is very exact in his playing, often ripping off staccato like notes, letting his fingers do the talking. Yes, there's a lot of flash in his playing, but he infuses the songs with an incredible amount of energy.
Brown is not a big talker during his shows. The music speaks quite well for itself, thank you.
While steeped in country, Brown also throws in blues ("Stupid Blues"), surf music, Sixties music ("Secret Agent Man"), Elvis (the wonderful "Rock-A-Hula Baby" from the new disc) and rock into the potpourri. And he is adept at all.
Brown also keeps things lively from a lyrical standpoint. He is a keen songwriter with a bent for humorous songs (ranging from "Venom Wearin' Denim" where he incorporates loads of snake references to "Highway Patrol," an ode to the folks in blue). He also tackles the woes of love.
His deeper than deep voice possesses range and emotion.
A special treat was the presence of drummer Buddy Miles, who once upon a time played with Jimi Hendrix. Playing a single drum, Miles kept a steady, understated pace, while also belting out a soulful song with aplomb.
Brown's idiosyncratic style speaks well for himself, even if he isn't the kind of musician getting the airplay. Heck, most of the best aren't these days.
Also turning in a fine performance was opener Allison Moorer. The lively redhead achieved notoriety for singing and appearing in Robert Redford's "The Horse Whisperer."
Moorer's strong suit is her stunning voice. She is quite powerful in putting across the songs, many of which she wrote. Moorer also had a comfortable stage presence. In a fair musical world, she'd be a definite comer.
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The Spirit of Equus
Helen Shair-Singh
Horses Helping Humans (HHH) is a local organisation that embraces the spirit of the horse in a therapeutic program known as ‘Hippotherapy’ to treat children with autism and other special needs.
Mere words cannot adequately describe the moments of understanding, empathy, communication & patience that transpire between these magnificent animals and the children. Horses are naturally skittish creatures and they easily pick up on a person’s energy. Adults are warned not to make any sudden moves or walk too closely, and to just keep your distance if you can’t quell your fears. But, amazingly, the horses don’t react with the children, who are generally far from ‘calm’. With patient serenity, they allow the children to touch them, groom them, feed them and ride them, as if they understand.
The program also saves the horses, providing a safe sanctuary for them. Retired from racing & show jumping due to injury or age, there is little use anyone has for them, and because the cost of caring for them is so prohibitive they are usually either abandoned or given to the zoo as food for the lions. The horses used in the therapy have all been spared those ends, and are cared for and loved. The therapy is provided free of charge - these families could not afford it anyway - but the program is now sadly in danger due to lack of desperately needed sponsorship. HHH’s founder and director is Karen Stollmeyer. With her devoted husband and ‘rock’ Ernie Matthews always at her side, she is the driving force behind HHH. Karen holds a Masters degree in Speech and Language Pathology, is a Yogacharya (Master of Yoga), Yoga Therapist, Hippotherapist, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Founder/Director of Bliss Yoga, Trinidad (www.facebook.com/blissyogatrinidad) and a member of the International Yoga Federation’s World Yoga Council.
She and Ernie are also the hosts of the annual Trinidad and Tobago World Peace festival. She studied for her degree in Boulder, Colorado, a place she calls ‘Little Utopia’ because of the lifestyle that is fostered there, one she describes as “peaceful, happy, organic, mindful, outdoors and free”. It is probably here that the first stirrings began within her to live in such a world, where every person has access to a happy and healthy life. She began her career as a neurological speech & language pathologist at a brain injury rehabilitation center in Miami, an occupation that involved seeing the terrible consequences of physically traumatic circumstances. Many times she wondered in despair if she was making any difference at all, as most of her patients were already near death. Just as she was supposed to be on the threshold of a budding career, she felt empty… as if something was missing.
She started doing intense ‘self work’, searching for that missing piece, most times not knowing where she was going but trusting that she was being led in the right direction. She was introduced to yoga through a friend and immediately the ‘empty space’ felt a little less empty. She took to it like a fish to water, reading voraciously about the ancient science and practicing assiduously. She spent the next seven years on her journey of self-awareness, all the while still diligently carrying out her duties in the hospital. It was during this time that she also became acquainted with the practice of hippotherapy, and did at one point consider that perhaps this was where she was meant to be. As a child she had always dreamed of working with horses, and even rode on an equestrian team in college, but the costs involved in acquiring & maintaining the horses proved beyond her means, so she abandoned the idea.
She found herself being drawn more and more into yoga, not just the practice of asanas (poses) but deep into the teachings. It was here that she was finding answers that finally made sense. She received a revelation that she was going to teach yoga and, without question, she answered the calling. In 2003, fate connected her with her guru, Swami Brahmavidyananda Saraswati, founder of the Institute for Holistic Yoga of North America, with whom she trained for hours every day for three months before she was due to return home. When she returned, she retired from her career and began teaching yoga, which she has now been doing for 10 years. The practice of hippotherapy resurfaced when she met Veronica La Fortune, who runs Healing
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CONVEYANCING ACT 1919 - SECT 66ZL
Rescission under sunset clauses
66ZL Rescission under sunset clauses
(1) In this section:
"off the plan contract" means a contract for the sale of a residential lot (the
"subject lot" ) that has not been created at the time that the contract is entered into.
"residential lot" means a lot (whether a strata lot or otherwise) that is residential property within the meaning of section 66Q.
"sunset clause" means a provision of an off the plan contract that provides for the contract to be rescinded if the subject lot is not created by the sunset date.
"sunset date" means the date set out in the off the plan contract as the latest date (subject to any extension provided for in the contract) by which the subject lot must be created.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a lot is created when the plan creating the lot becomes a registered plan.
(3) A vendor may rescind an off the plan contract under a sunset clause if the subject lot has not been created by the sunset date, but only if:
(a) each purchaser under the contract, at any time after being served with the notice under subsection (4), consents in writing to the rescission, or
(b) the vendor has obtained an order of the Supreme Court under this section permitting the vendor to rescind the contract under the sunset clause, or
(c) the regulations otherwise permit the vendor to rescind the contract under the sunset clause.
(4) It is a term of an off the plan contract that a vendor who is proposing to rescind the contract under a sunset clause must serve each purchaser under the contract notice in writing at least 28 days before the proposed rescission that specifies why the vendor is proposing to rescind the contract and the reason for the delay in creating the subject lot.
(5) A sunset clause cannot automatically rescind an off the plan contract and, if it purports to do so, it is to be read as if it instead permits the contract to be rescinded on or after the sunset date in accordance with this section.
(6) The Supreme Court may on the application of a vendor under an off the plan contract make an order permitting the vendor to rescind the contract under a sunset clause but only if the vendor satisfies the Court that making the order is just and equitable in all the circumstances.
(7) In determining whether it is just and equitable in all the circumstances the Court is to take the following into account:
(a) the terms of the off the plan contract,
(b) whether the vendor has acted unreasonably or in bad faith,
(c) the reason for the delay in creating the subject lot,
(d) the likely date on which the subject lot will be created,
(e) whether the subject lot has increased in value,
(f) the effect of the rescission on each purchaser,
(g) any other matter that the Court considers to be relevant,
(h) any other matter prescribed by the regulations.
(8) The vendor is liable to pay the costs of a purchaser in relation to the proceedings for an order under this section unless the vendor satisfies the Court that the purchaser unreasonably withheld consent to the rescission of the off the plan contract under the sunset clause.
(9) Nothing in this section limits any right that a purchaser may have to rescind an off the plan contract under a sunset clause.
(10) Notice may be served on a purchaser by serving it on a person who is authorised under the off the plan contract as a representative of the purchaser.
(11) A provision of an off the plan contract has no effect to the extent that it is inconsistent with this section.
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This year's Nobel Prizes for Literature
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John F
Post by John F » Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:20 pm
Yes, prizes, plural. Last year none was awarded because of a sex scandal.
Nobel prize in literature to be awarded twice this year
Tue 5 Mar 2019 06.30 EST
Two Nobel prizes in literature will be awarded this year, to make up for the lack of one in 2018 while the scandal-plagued Swedish Academy attempted to get its house in order, it was announced on Tuesday.
Last year’s Nobel was withheld for the first time since 1949 after the Swedish Academy, the august institution that selects the winners, was hit with a sexual misconduct scandal that saw the husband of one member imprisoned for rape. Following a meeting on Tuesday, the Nobel Foundation, which executes Alfred Nobel’s will, announced that “the steps that the Swedish Academy has taken and intends to take will create good opportunities for restoring trust”, and that laureates for both 2018 and 2019 will therefore be announced this autumn.
The most significant change to the prize is the appointment of five independent and external members, who will help the Swedish Academy to select the Nobel laureates “for the next few years”. How the winner is chosen has long been a closely guarded secret: what is known is that around 200 nominations are reviewed by the Academy in February, with a shortlist decided on by May and the final five authors studied over the summer. Archives detailing the jury’s reasoning are only opened to the outside world 50 years after the event.
The Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary Anders Olsson announced the postponement of the prize last March, saying that the organisation needed to focus on “recovering public confidence” due to its handling of a string of sexual assault accusations made against Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of academy member Katarina Frostenson. Arnault was subsequently convicted of rape and sentenced to prison in October.
A series of resignations left the Academy with fewer than the required 12 members to select and announce a winner. Members were previously technically appointed for life and unable to resign, which led to several refusing to attend years of meetings in protest at decisions they disagreed with – a rule that was changed last year by King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Following the scandal, the Nobel Foundation criticised the Academy for having “cultivated a closed culture over a long period of time”. But on Tuesday, it praised the Academy in a statement, saying external voices “will add valuable new perspectives” to the jury. The Academy is also considering a time limit on membership and how it handles expulsions, the Foundation added. . And perhaps most importantly: “The Academy also no longer includes any members who are subject to conflict of interest or criminal investigations.”
“Although it will take time to fully restore confidence … the prerequisites for this are now good,” the Foundation statement read, adding: “Given the reforms that have been implemented and planned, the Swedish Academy has the opportunity not only to put the past year behind it, but also to become a better-functioning organisation in the future.”
Awarded to the author who, in the words of Alfred Nobel’s will, has written “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”, the literature laureateship is worth 9m Swedish krona. British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro was the last recipient, in 2017.
Last year, Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé was awarded an “alternate Nobel”, the New Academy prize in literature, a one-off award intended to fill the void left by the cancellation of the official prize.
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Reed Park Ceremony
W.C. Reed Park Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Mayor Frank G. Jackson was joined by Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Councilman Tony Brancatelli, Councilwoman Jasmin Santana, Director of Public Works Michael Cox and several community members to help rededicate WC Reed Park. The city invested $1 million in the park for new playground equipment, a ball field, a basketball court, sidewalks, a paved parking lot and newly seeded grass; the EPA spent approximately $6.1 million for the project with $3.9 million related to cleanup activities within the park.
“We found environmental issues that needed to be corrected, not only in the park, but in the surrounding areas, and we invested funds to bring it up to what it should be,” said Mayor Jackson. “This park is just one of the things that make this neighborhood a neighborhood of choice –one where where people want to live, work, play and do business.”
The city closed the 12-acre park in 2013, following soil testing which indicated the park –a former industrial waste site –held high levels of contaminants. Cleanup activities from the EPA included transporting in 60,000 cubic yards of clean soil to install a 2-foot soil barrier; establishing a vegetative cover; installing a storm water retention system; preservation of mature oak trees; and preparation of an operation and a maintenance plan to be implemented by the City of Cleveland.
Additionally, 68 nearby residential properties were evaluated for similar contamination and 45 of them were remediated.
“This site is a great example of the benefits of U.S. EPA’s cleanup work in local communities,” said Region 5 Administrator Cathy Stepp. “We worked closely with the City of Cleveland to ensure that residents have a park they can enjoy.”
“When this site closed down, we had a real challenge to face,” said Councilman Brancatelli. “But the good news was that the EPA stepped up and the city stepped up and this 13-acre park is now restored to a wonderful facility, which as the mayor said, makes it an asset to our neighborhood.”
“I wanted to thank the residents of this area, the mothers, the fathers, the grandparents, all those who take care of these parks for loving your neighborhood and trying to make it a better, more safer and more cleaner place for the kids,” said Congresswoman Kaptur. “You’re going to have a great place for play and recreation.”
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Climate Change Insights
Eastern North America Cools as the Northern Hemisphere and the Arctic Warm
World-wide average temperatures are rising. But we have always expected pockets and regions where temperatures are either warmer or colder than average. Now, with warming underway, we are seeing where these pockets are forming, and northeastern North America is turning out to be a cooling region.
So what’s happening here?
Even a small amount of warming soon yields a lot of warming in the Arctic where the bright-white and reflective sea ice melts and exposes the darker, sun-light absorbing water. Though a visit to the high Arctic might still require warm clothing, temperatures have risen dramatically relative to the norm and consequently the temperature difference between the Arctic and mid-latitudes has gotten smaller. We say that the temperature gradient has weakened.
And a weaker temperature gradient doesn’t confine the Arctic Jet Stream to a narrow north-south band the way a stronger gradient does. That is, it meanders more, heading farther north and south on its eternally eastward flow.
Left: an illustration of the Arctic Jet Stream in its more "zonal", less meandering flow (windspeed at 250 mbar height, May 6, 2015) . Right: an illustration of the now-more-common flow with deeper meanders and stronger north-south wind speeds in the Pacific and over northeastern North America (windspeed at 250 mbar height, Feb 18, 2015). Both plots from Climate Change Institute's Climate Reanalyzer.
Over the past two boreal winters, this increased meandering has included a northward meander in the Central Pacific, far enough west to put the western U.S. into severe drought, and a southward meander over northeastern North America bringing cold and snow.
Regional features of climate change observed in the Northern Hemisphere; shown here from conditions on Mar 26, 2014 compared to the average conditions from 1979 to 2000. Air temperatures over most of the Northern Hemisphere are warmer, with Arctic temperatures much warmer, and temperatures over northeaster North America much cooler than the 1979 to 2000 average. Arctic sea surface temperatures are also much warmer than the average as newly exposed sea water absorbs sunlight, and the north eastern Pacific and north western North Atlantic are also significantly warming. Precipitation is occurring farther east in the Pacific, not over the western U.S., and throughout southeastern and eastern North America. From Climate Reanalyzer.
As we discovered in the GISP2 ice core, when climate changes abruptly it often begins with abrupt shifts in atmospheric circulation: we are now getting to see such a change in our own time; a result of our own, human-caused rapid climate change. It is scientifically fascinating. So long as one doesn’t think about the human, ecosystem, economic, and security devastation it represents.
Plausible Scenarios: Planning for Future Climate Change
by Paul Mayewski
The effects of climate change are, and will be, different everywhere. This is not news. But we are now beginning to see how some of the harder-to-predict details are unfolding around the world; the first set of plots below show how air temperature, precipitation, and winds are starting to change around planet.
These plots show the changes in temperature (top), precipitation (second), east-west winds (third), and north-south winds (bottom). They were obtained by subtracting the average of these values for 1979 to 1999 from the average for 2000 to 2013. For the wind plots, a positive value means an increase to the east (third plot) or north (bottom plot).
Not only are these local changes harder-to-predict, but many are extremely rapid and thus profoundly challenge traditional planning approaches. Detailed predictions are hard enough that modeling often yields more uniform, and gradually changing, predictions as shown in the plots below. What planning strategies can we deploy in the face of such significant uncertainty about what climate we will have where we live and do business?
Model predictions for air temperature changes (2025 to 2035 minus 1979 to 2015 averages) around the world in the top plot, and global average temperature in the bottom plot. Temperature changes are not likely to be so uniformly distributed around the world, and the increase in predicted global average temperature is likely more gradual than we have observed in the past.
As individuals we respond to uncertainty by imagining several possible outcomes, guessing at their probabilities, and then making choices accordingly: that is, we imagine various scenarios and decide what to do now based on what we think might happen next.
“Scenario” planning is an approach to formalizing, on a larger scale, the intuitive planning we do as individuals on a daily, informal basis. It allows abrupt or uncertain events occurring at different, and uncertain, times to be incorporated into planning: just what is needed for climate change. The U.S. military, and many businesses, began using Scenario Planning after World War II and, in 2013 the National Park Service began applying Scenarios to their climate change planning .
The Climate Change Institute has begun work on Scenario Planning tools for a wider range of uses, from local to global and from business to government, with our Climate Futures program. We are excited about this approach and about providing these tools to help policy makers around the world turn scientific discoveries into sound decisions.
Years of Living Dangerously
I recently had the pleasure of appearing in the last episode of the award-winning Years of Living Dangerously series produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Gelber, and others. The host for our section, M. Sanjayan, and a film crew joined our expedition to Tupungatito in the central Andes where we recovered an ice core from close to 20,000 feet. You can see his write up of his experience with us here.
We now know that a major result of greenhouse gas warming is changes in large and small scale wind patterns around the globe. The details of exactly when, where, and how much rain falls can have significant implications: Tom Friedman made the case that drought in Syria and surrounding regions played a significant role in the emergence of unrest that led to the Arab Spring. For many farmers around the world, even a small shift that takes rain away from their fields can mean the difference between a good life and becoming a refugee.
The purpose of many of our expeditions, including this one, is to discover how increasing greenhouse gases and high-altitude ozone depletion are changing wind and precipitation patterns, allowing better predictions of how water, heat, and pollution are moved around the planet. Our Tupungatito study site, located at the northern edge of the Antarctic Westerlies, provides unique insights into these changes.
Shifts in moisture bearing winds are not only leading to drought in the Middle East but also in Africa, Australia, and the western US. The politically unsettled west African country of Mali, home of 14 million people, has experienced significant drought in recent years. The northern two thirds of the country has seen severe drought for decades, while the lower third received enough to grow crops. But, in the last few years, this “wetter” lower third has lost more than half of its usual rainfall, leaving this landlocked country in a critical state.
Understanding where, how deep, and how long drought will occur is essential to geopolitical, economic and most importantly humanitarian efforts.
The little precipitation that did reach Mali is almost gone. The map on the left shows average annual precipitation. Mali, circled, receives almost no water in the north and much more in the south. The right map shows the change in precipitation as the 2002 to 2012 average minus the 1979 to 2002 average. The amount of rain now reaching southern Mali is greatly reduced. Plotted using Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer™ software.
A World Never Before Experienced by Humans
The vast majority of scientists understand the human origins of the rapid, recent rise in greenhouse gases. Even most of the skeptics accept that there has been a rise, debating only the cause and the consequences. But, if recent greenhouse gas rise is not caused by human activity then it is extremely odd that so many other undeniably human components of the atmosphere have also increased dramatically in the industrial era along with greenhouse gases. Ice cores offer robust records of how the atmosphere has changed over thousands and hundreds of thousands of years, and they have given us a detailed view of how it has changed with the advent of human industrialization. The illustration below, taken from the Climate Change Institute’s report on climate change prepared for the State of Maine, highlights the dramatic increases in an amazing range of chemicals over the last century. Though this figure only goes back 5,000 years, the recent, dramatic industrial rise still stands out over the last several million years.
Why does any of this matter?
Every single one of the components in the illustration below has an impact on human health; either directly or through the impacts on the ecosystems we depend on.
While greenhouse gases stay in the air for a long time, at least hundreds of years, other pollutants including toxic metals, acid rain, and particulates are washed out in just days or months so efforts that reduce emissions of these compounds lead to healthier air right away.
Because greenhouse gas emissions are directly tied to sources for toxic metals, acid rain, particulates and other pollutants reductions in any of the latter also result in reductions in greenhouse gases. A win-win situation.
Compared to the last 5,000 years, human industrialization has dramatically changed the composition of the atmosphere. Even if we extend the plot to millions of years, the industrial rise is still a radical departure. Plot from Maine’s Climate Future.
Rapid Change - For The Better
by Michael Morrison
We now know that the general term “climate change” includes many different aspects, from changes in rain and snowfall patterns, to local increases and decreases in temperature, and more. One of the discoveries we have made is that some aspects, like increased carbon dioxide levels, are long-lasting and others, like sulfur emissions, are removed from the air in a matter of a few years.
One of the implications of these fast and slow changing pollutants is that the sooner we start on the long-lasting ones, like carbon dioxide, the easier it will be and the greater our success. But another implication is that there are changes we can make that will have an near-immediate effect, and offering a nice, instant-gratification hit in the process.
Ground level ozone results when fossil fuel combustion products are exposed to sunlight. Without the combustion products, ozone does not form, and if combustion products are reduced, ozone drops off within days. Ground level ozone is very reactive worsening, and even causing, respiratory illnesses. It also damages plants.
Sachin Ghude and colleagues just estimated the crop losses in India resulting from fossil-fuel fueled, ground level ozone. They estimate that 5.6 million tons—5.6 billion kilograms—of wheat and rice were lost from ozone damage in 2005; enough to feed about 94 million people.
Just one of the many health, economic, and security costs of climate change, policies that reduce fossil fuel emissions would result in instant, significant, increases in crop yields in India.
Flying Offsets
Joe Romm claimed that the real name for carbon offsets is “carbon rip-offsets” because they are all rip-offs. But the high energy-to-weight and rapid-fueling requirements for aviation fuel means that there are currently no usable substitutes, and there is very little we can do to reduce the carbon emissions of flying other than to not fly. Isn’t there some way we can confidently mitigate our air travel emissions?
Ultimately, a true offset will either put carbon back into the ground in a long-lasting form such as coal, oil, or charcoal; or it will reduce the amount of carbon that would otherwise have been dug-up and burned. The first is hard to do, and the second is hard to verify. But M. Sanjayan suggested an approach that makes good sense to me: giving away energy efficient lighting on his trips. The bulbs offset carbon by reducing the energy used to provide light, increasing what I call “energy performance”; providing the same energy services but with less energy. He suggested CFL’s, but LEDs are now in mainstream production and offer an even better solution.
I wondered, how many LEDs would I have to buy and give away to offset a given flight? The amount of carbon dioxide produced in the generation of electricity varies around the world, but in the USA the EPA tells us we average about 0.55 kg per kWh. On a visit to my local hardware store this week, I found 60 watt replacement LEDs for $13. These use only 9.5 watts of electricity and produce the same light as a 60 watt incandescent bulb. They are rated to last 25,000 hours.
We see that over 25,000 hours, a 60 watt bulb will use 1,500 kWh of electricity and the 9.5 watt LED will use 238; a difference of 1,262 kWh. Using the U.S. average of 0.55 kg per kWh, this means that replacing a 60 watt incandescent bulb with this LED will reduce electric power carbon dioxide emissions by 694 kg.
How much carbon dioxide do I emit on a flight? Terrapass, a seller of “offsets”, provides a calculator to estimate this number. They indicate that for a Los Angeles / New York roundtrip, each passenger creates 873 kg of carbon dioxide emissions.
It looks like I can offset my carbon emissions from a round-trip cross-country flight by buying and giving away two 9.5 watt, 60 watt replacement, LEDs to someone who will use them to replace incandescents. A significant virtue of this approach is that it is verifiable to me: I know I bought the bulbs; I know I gave them to someone who installed them; and I know they will reduce electric power consumption while providing the recipient with the same energy service (lighting) that they previously enjoyed and saving on electric bills in the bargain. I don’t have to worry about whether the offset company is honest, or how much of my donation is actually going towards an offset, or whether it is really an offset. And, as Sanjayan says, it’s a fun way to make friends at your destination.
Climate Change is a Security Issue
While some may choose to debate the importance of climate change, major businesses and the U.S. military consider greenhouse gas caused climate change a major security issue.
The illustration below summarizes the broad range of security issues that can be attributed to rise in greenhouse gases and related pollutants.
The Southern Hemisphere Double Whammy
CFC-caused, high-altitude ozone destruction occurs in both the Arctic and the Antarctic, but is much more pronounced in the Antarctic. In the Arctic, greenhouse gas warming is the main actor, but in the Antarctic, ozone loss adds a second protagonist, creating a double-whammy.
Since ozone absorbs sunlight in the UV-B portion of the spectrum, it warms the atmosphere around it. Thus, with the modern reduced levels of high-altitude ozone in the Antarctic, parts of the stratosphere are much cooler than before. Combined with greenhouse-gas warming to the north, the result is stronger, more-poleward, Antarctic Westerlies—the Antarctic Polar Vortex. These stronger Westerlies, unparalleled for at least the last 5,200 years, combined with greenhouse gas warming, yield a constellation of effects that contrast with those in the Arctic.
Changes in wind global speeds (U). This plot shows the difference in annual average wind speeds around the globe between the periods 1996 to 2012 and 1979 to 1995. The dark red area just north of most the Antarctic coast, represents a 10% increase in wind speed. Plotted using Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer™ software.
The stronger Antarctic Vortex means that the air inside it is colder than it would be if it was weaker. The colder air and stronger winds have resulted in increased amount of sea ice around much of the Antarctic coast line. The higher speeds of the Westerlies also brings more deep water to the surface, that is, more upwelling, which melts the ice shelves from their undersides. So, at the same time that we are observing record lows of Arctic sea ice, we see the record highs of coastal sea ice around Antarctica and record losses of Antarctic coastal ice shelves.
Record low Arctic sea ice and record high Antarctic sea ice. October 11, 2012 “Two weeks after a new satellite era record was set in the Arctic Ocean for the least amount of sea ice coverage the ice surrounding Antarctica reached its annual winter maximum—and set a satellite era record for a new high.” From the NASA Earth Observatory
Just to the north of the westerlies, at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula, higher than usual temperatures occur due to greenhouse gas warming, just as they do in the Arctic, and record losses of both sea ice and ice shelves are being observed there. See the Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment report for research on Antarctic Westerlies and sea ice.
The effects of ozone-loss-caused changes in Antarctic wind patterns also extend to Australia where they are causing droughts in some regions, and to New Zealand and southern South America where they are increasing snowfall on the western slopes and causing some of the glaciers there to advance.
While the warmer-than-ice upwelling deep water is melting ice shelves, it is cooler than the greenhouse gas warmed air it meets at the ocean’s surface. Globally, this constant supply of cooler-than-air water at the surface, keeps the air temperatures of the southern hemisphere from increasing as much as those of the northern hemisphere, and keeps global average temperatures from rising as much as they would otherwise. Thus, ozone loss is masking the full effects of greenhouse gas warming just as industrial sulfate pollution did after the 1940s and before the Clean Air Act.
Antarctic wind speeds and deepwater upwelling. Increased winds (left) result in increased upwelling of cold water (right) exposing more heat absorbing capacity to the surface. Plotted using Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer™ software.
Greenhouse gas warming in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The Southern Hemisphere, dominated as it is by oceans, and now also by increased upwelling, does not show as much increase in air temperature as the Northern Hemisphere. The ozone-loss-caused upwelling is masking the global average rise due to greenhouse gases. Plotted using Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer™ software.
The Largest Abrupt Climate Shift of the Last 12,000 Years Is Happening Now
When we first realized that abrupt climate change was real we thought that these events only happened during ice ages. But then ice cores revealed that the collapse of many civilizations during the last 12,000 years were associated with smaller abrupt-onset changes in the global distribution of precipitation and the amount of sea ice. We wondered if any such events could be seen in the most recent hundred years or so (the “instrumental period”). When we looked, we found at least one: dramatic warming in the Arctic over the past decade, driven by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.
This rapid warming has led to an equally rapid melting of the vast majority of mountain glaciers on the planet, of most of the stabilizing, multi-year Arctic sea ice, and loss of some ice shelves and coastal ice in Antarctica.
Because Arctic sea ice acts as a layer of insulation preventing the warmer ocean water from heating the cold Arctic air, and as a mirror preventing the sun from warming the water, its recent loss has led to accelerated warming of the Arctic’s air and water and made the region’s climate one of the fastest changing on the planet. In portions of the Arctic, the rate of change may be the fastest in the last 12,000 years making this event the first of several potential abrupt climate change events triggered by rising greenhouse gas levels.
Because the Arctic is warmer than usual, it’s temperature is closer to that of the mid-latitudes resulting in a flattened temperature gradient. This gradient change creates major changes in precipitation patterns, including the current drought in the Western US and a general increase in extremes of temperature and storm strength.
Change in average annual temperature at 2 meters above the ground (left) in °C, and in the percentage of annual melting degrees (right). The annual temperature diagram shows the rapid warming underway in the Arctic, and melting degrees (accumulated degrees above freezing) reveals the longer summers. Both diagrams compare the period 2007 to 2012 versus 1979 to 2000. Calculated from ECMWF ERA-Interim reanalysis monthly 2 meter air temperature data, plotted using Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer™ software.
It’s About The Atmosphere
Global wind patterns are the primary means by which water vapor, heat, and pollutants move from place to place around the planet. We now know that the pathways and strength of these patterns can change rapidly, in a few months or years, and then remain in the new pattern for decades to millennia. When this has happened in the past, they have been proverbial “show-stoppers” for civilizations and ecosystems.
We didn’t always know this. Back before the 1990s, when we discovered abrupt climate shifts in the GISP2 ice core from central Greenland, we thought the atmosphere was a slave to the ocean, impotently following its direction. The GISP2 discovery of these abrupt shifts radically changed our view of Earth’s climate and our role in it: from a slow-moving hulk taking thousands of years to make meaningful change, to a manic jack-rabbit, that can respond rapidly to changes like the current dramatic rise in greenhouse gases and CFC-caused destruction of high-altitude ozone. GISP2 profoundly changed our thinking—we discovered that large-scale climate changes could happen in less than a political cycle or a human childhood—and that the ocean wasn’t driving these changes: it was the atmosphere.
Radical and rapid changes in climate and global wind patterns discovered in the GISP2 ice core. The original GISP2 chemistry data was used to understand the behavior of atmospheric circulation over the past 110,000 years, (see here and here) and revealed abrupt changes in the intensity of major atmospheric circulation patterns. Generally, higher sodium, Na, is associated with deeper Icelandic Lows, and higher potassium, K, is associated with stronger Siberian highs; both part of the modern winter pattern
Today, there are distinct summer and winter wind patterns for the Arctic. In the winter, there are pronounced low-pressure systems over the North Pacific and in the North Atlantic over southern Greenland and Iceland (Icelandic Low), and a high-pressure system over Siberia (Siberian High). In the summer, these low pressure systems are much reduced, and the Siberian high is replaced with a low pressure system. The Arctic Westerlies are typically much stronger during the winter pattern.
One of the things we discovered in the Greenland ice cores (see here and here) is that the length of these seasonal patterns could suddenly increase or decrease by several weeks to a month or more, with the new pattern persisting for decades to thousands of years. We found that in some cases these transitions could occur in as little as one or two years.
Northern Hemisphere wind patterns during winter (top row, DJF for Dec-Jan-Feb) and summer (bottom row, JJA for Jun-Jul-Aug). The left column shows the winter and summer average surface pressures for the period 1979 to 2012, and the right column shows the associated, average wind patterns. For the pressure diagrams, blue colors show low pressure and orange shows high pressure. For the wind diagrams, red show faster winds, green shows slower, and blue slowest. The white “X” marks the location of the GISP2 ice core. Combined ERA and MERRA climate reanalysis data, plotted using Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer™ software.
Many of us are familiar with seasonal changes in weather patterns where we live. The weather patterns at our homes are local reflections of these larger patterns. Just imagine then, if suddenly, let’s say over the last few years, there was a shift toward a longer summer pattern–the transport of moisture, heat, and pollutants would be very different in some regions. An example came during the 2013–2014 winter when drought dominated the US West and cold stormy conditions dominated the US East.
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Bill on federal workers' back pay in shutdown heads to Trump
The Capitol is seen at dawn on the 21st day of a partial government shutdown as an impasse continues between President Donald Trump and Democrats over funding his promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Government workers and their supporters hold signs during a protest in Boston, Friday, Jan.11, 2019. The workers rallied with Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and other supporters to urge that President Donald Trump put an end to the shutdown so they can get back to work. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
This portion of Bill Striffler's electronic pay stub provided by him to the Associated Press on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, with portions blacked out by him, shows his recent pay to be $0.00 for his work as an air traffic controller at Newark Airport. Some 800,000 federal employees, more than half still on the job, were due to miss their first paycheck Friday under a partial government shutdown as President Donald Trump and Congress remain at odds over funding for his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall. (Bill Striffler via AP)
Esther Anastasia holds a sign during a protest rally with government workers and their supporters in Boston, Friday, Jan.11, 2019. The workers rallied with Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and other supporters to urge that President Donald Trump put an end to the shutdown so they can get back to work. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, Bill and Theresa Striffler talk to a reporter at their home in Brick, N.J. Bill Striffler, an air traffic controller and the president of the Newark Airport National Air Traffic Controllers Association, is facing his first pay day without a paycheck due to the government shutdown. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is edging closer to declaring a national emergency to pay for his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall as pressure mounts to end the three-week impasse that has closed parts of the government and deprived hundreds of thousands of workers of their salaries.
Some 800,000 federal employees, more than half still on the job, were due to miss their first paycheck Friday under a stoppage that neared a record for the longest government shutdown. With the closure's growing impact on the economy, national parks and food inspections, some Republicans are becoming uncomfortable with Trump's demands.
Lawmakers tried to reassure federal employees on Friday that Congress was aware of the financial hardship they are enduring. By a vote of 411-7, the House passed a bill requiring that all government workers receive retroactive pay after the partial shutdown ends. The Senate approved the bill unanimously Thursday. The president is expected to sign the legislation.
Trump visited McAllen, Texas, and the Rio Grande on Thursday to highlight what he calls a crisis of drugs and crime along the border. He said that "if for any reason we don't get this going" — an agreement with House Democrats who have refused to approve the $5.7 billion he demands for the wall — "I will declare a national emergency."
Trump was consulting with White House lawyers and others about using emergency powers to take action on his own, and over the objections of Congress, to construct the wall. Bypassing Congress' constitutional control of the nation's purse strings would lead to certain legal challenges and bipartisan charges of executive overreach. Trump said his lawyers had told him the action would withstand legal scrutiny "100 percent."
The wall was the central promise of Trump's winning campaign in 2016. Supporters have tried to convince him that an emergency declaration is the best option to end the shutdown and would give him political cover to reopen the government without appearing to be caving on his pledge. Trump, they argue, could tell backers that he was doing all he could to fight for the wall, even if his order were held up or blocked in court.
But not everyone in the administration is on board.
Senior aide Jared Kushner, who traveled with the president to Texas, is among those urging caution on the declaration, according to a person familiar with Kushner's thinking but not authorized to publicly discuss the issue.
Trump is growing more frustrated as the shutdown drags on and is complaining that his aides are not offering him an exit strategy.
In the meantime, the administration has taken steps to lay the groundwork should Trump issue the declaration.
The White House has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to comb through its budget in search of money for the wall, including looking at $13.9 billion in unspent disaster relief funds earmarked for areas including hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico, Texas and more than a dozen other states. That's according to a congressional aide and administration official familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the request.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., a lawmaker with a close relationship with the president, discounted that option, saying it was not "under very serious consideration."
"If there's a list of top 10 priorities on where to get money from, that doesn't make the top 10 list," Meadows said.
Defense Department officials had already been poring over data on more than $10 billion in military construction projects to determine how much of it would be available for emergency spending this year.
On Friday, officials in Puerto Rico said diverting disaster money to the wall was "unacceptable" and that the island was struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria, the Category 4 storm that hit more than a year ago and caused more than $100 billion in damage
Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the wall should not be funded "on the pain and suffering" of U.S. citizens who have faced tragedy after a natural disaster.
It was not clear what a potential compromise between the White House and Congress might entail. Efforts at negotiating a broader immigration deal involving immigrants brought to the country illegally as children collapsed with little progress.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said at one point that he didn't "see a path in Congress" to end the shutdown, then stated later that enough was enough: "It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier."
Vice President Mike Pence visited the Washington headquarters for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and pledged that the administration will keep fighting for the border wall.
"Just as you fight every day to keep our nation safe, this president and this administration will keep fighting to build the wall and give you the resources and reforms you need to do your job," Pence told several dozen unformed agents. "That's my promise."
During his Thursday trip to the border, Trump insisted he was "winning" the shutdown fight and criticized Democrats for asserting he was manufacturing a sense of crisis in order to declare an emergency.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accused the president of engaging in political games to fire up his most loyal supporters and suggested that a heated meeting Wednesday with legislators at the White House had been "a setup" so that Trump could walk out of it.
The partial shutdown would set a record early Saturday, stretching beyond the 21-day closure that ended Jan 6, 1996, during President Bill Clinton's administration.
Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Colleen Long, Alan Fram, Deb Riechmann, Darlene Superville and Zeke Miller in Washington, Nomaan Merchant in McAllen, Texas, and Danica Coto in San Juan contributed to this report.
For AP's complete coverage of the U.S. government shutdown: https://apnews.com/GovernmentShutdown
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by John Mosby 3rd May 2019
The term ‘gentle giant’ is used a lot, but it must certainly apply to actor Peter Mayhew, who passed away this week at the age of 74 from a heart attack. Mayhew was, of course, the man behind Chewbacca, the hairy, reliable co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon in the Star Wars franchise.
The actor, who at full height stood 7ft 3 inches was born in May 1944 and grew naturally if significantly taller than the norm in his youth. His first breakthrough was being cast as the minotaur in 1976’s Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (the production had first heard of him in an article about men with large feet!). He was cast as Chewbacca in George Lucas’ Star Wars after the original choice, David Prowse, was cast as Darth Vader. Lucas told the story that Mayhew was actually discovered working as an orderly in Kings College Hospital’s radiology department and his audition for the role was essentially ‘standing up’.
He subsequently appeared as Chewbacca in every Star Wars movie up to The Force Awakens and in several marketing-related projects. Though born in the UK, he became a naturalised American citizen in 2005, living in Texas.His height and stature did lead to problems with mobility as he grew older and in January 2015, the pain in his knees became so bad that he underwent double knee replacement surgery. In 2018 he also has some spinal surgery to help as well. Due to those health issues, from Star Wars: The Last Jedi onwards (and in some The Force Awakens scenes) the role of Chewbacca was played by Joonas Suotamo, though Peter was listed as ‘Chewbacca Consultant’.
Though wookiees might tear people’s arms out of their sockets if they lost, Mayhew was much more approachable…
I only met Mayhew once. He was attending an event in London and I was at the same hotel. Co-ordinating transport to and from the venue was complex and I was asked if I would mind accompanying Peter and Kenny Baker and his wife in one of the cabs from the hotel to the event. I was obviously more than happy to and it was quite a surreal experience – the massive Mayhew and the shorter Baker obviously good friends despite their differences in physical stature. Both Star wars actors were full of good humour and always ready to greet the fans who turned up for the events with a genuine smile.
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Yevgeny Onegin
Yevgeny Onegin (Евгений Онегин), also known as Eugene Onegin [1], Op. 24 (TH 5 ; ČW 5), was Tchaikovsky's fifth completed opera, which he described as 'lyrical scenes in 3 acts and 7 tableaux'. It was written and orchestrated between May 1877 and January 1878, with revisions in March 1879, October 1880, August 1885, and June-July 1891.
1 Instrumentation
2 Movements and Duration
3 Libretto
3.1 Synopsis
4 Composition
5 Arrangements
7 Critical Reception
9 Autographs
10 Recordings
11 Related Works
13 Notes and References
The opera is scored for solo voices, mixed chorus, and an orchestra comprising piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A, B-flat), 2 bassoons + 4 horns (in F), 2 trumpets (in F), 3 trombones + 4 timpani + harp, violins I, violins II, violas, cellos, and double basses.
There are ten singing roles:
Larina (Ларина) — mezzo-soprano
Tatyana (Татьяна) — soprano
Olga (Ольга) — contralto
Filippyevna (Филиппьевна) — mezzo-soprano
Yevgeny Onegin (Евгений Онегин) — baritone
Lensky (Ленский) — tenor
Prince Gremin (Князь Гремин) — 1st bass
Captain (Ротный) — 2nd bass
Zaretsky (Зарецкий) — 2nd bass
Triquet (Трике) — 2nd tenor.
Movements and Duration
Tchaikovsky's original score contains an introduction and 22 individual numbers. The three acts are further divided into seven scenes. The titles of numbers in Russian (Cyrillic) are taken from the published score, with English translations added in bold type. Vocal incipits are given in the right-hand column, with transliterations below in italics. The numbering, titles and tempo are taken from the second edition of the full score (published in 1891).
Introduction (Интродукция)
Andante con moto
Act I Scene 1 No. 1 Duet (Дует)
Andante con moto Слыхали ль вы
Slykhali l, vy
Quartet (Квартет)
Andante con moto Они поют, и я певала
Oni poyut, i ya pevala
No. 2 Chorus (Хор)
Adagio Болят мои скоры ноженьки со походушки
Bolyat moi skory nozhenki so pokhodushki
Peasants' Dance (Пляска крестьян)
Moderato assai Уж как по мосту, мосточку
Uzh kak po mostu, mostochku
No. 3 Scene (Сцена)
Andante Как я люблю под звуки песен этих
Kak ya lyublyu pod zvuki pesen etikh
Olga's Arioso (Ариозо Ольги)
Andante mosso Я не способна к грусти томной
Ya ne sposobna k grusti tomnoy
Andante Ну ты, моя вострушка
Nu ty, moya vostrushka
Moderato Mesdames! Я на себя взял смелость
Mesdames! Ya na sebya vzyal smelost
Andante Скажи, которая Татьяна?
Skazhi, kotoraya Tatyana?
Moderato Как счастлив, как счастлив я
Kak schastliv, kak schastliv ya
Lensky's Arioso (Ариозо Ленского)
L'istesso tempo Я люблю вас, я люблю вас, Ольга
Ya lyublyu vas, ya lyublyu vas, Olga
No. 7 Closing Scene (Заключительная сцена)
Moderato А вот и вы!
A vot i vy!
Scene 2 No. 8 Introduction and Scene with Nurse (Интродукция и сцена с няней)
Andante mosso Ну, заболталась я
Nu, zaboltalas ya
No. 9 Letter Scene (Сцена письма)
Andante con moto Пускай погибну я, но прежде
Puskay pogibnu ya, no prezhde
No. 10 Scene (Сцена)
Moderato assai Ах! Ночь минула
Akh! Noch minula
Duet (Дует)
Allegro moderato Ах, няня, сделай одолженье
Akh, nyanya, sdelay odolzhene
No. 11 Chorus of Maidens (Хор девушек)
Allegro moderato Девицы, красавицы
Devitsy, krasavitsy
Moderato mosso Здесь он, здесь Евгений!
Zdes on, zdes Yevgeny!
Onegin's Aria (Ария Онегина)
Andante non tanto Вы мне писали, не отпирайтесь
Vy mne pisali, ne otpiraytes
Act II Scene 1 No. 13 Entr'acte (Антракт)
Andante non tanto
Waltz with Scene and Chorus (Вальс с сценой и хором)
Tempo di Valse Вот так сюрприз
Vot tak syurpriz
Andantino Ужель я заслюжил от вас насмешку эту?
Uzhel ya zaslyuzhil ot vas nasmeshku etu?
Triquet's Couplets (Куплеты Трике)
Andantino À cette fête conviés
No. 15 Mazurka (Мазурка)
Tempo di Mazurka Messieurs! Mesdames!
Scene (Сцена)
Molto meno mosso Ты не танцуешь, Ленский?
Ty ne tantsuesh, Lensky?
No. 16 Finale (Финал)
Andante В вашем доме!
V vashem dome!
Scene 2 No. 17 Introduction and Scene (Интродукция и сцена)
Andante Ну, что же
Nu, chto zhe
Lensky's Aria (Ария Ленского)
Andante quasi Adagio Куда, куда, куда вы удалились
Kuda, kuda, kuda vy udalilis
No. 18 Duel Scene (Сцена поединка)
Allegro moderato А, вот они!
A, vot oni!
Act III Scene 1 No. 19 Polonaise (Польский)
Moderato. Tempo di Polacca
L'istesso tempo И здесь мне скучно!
I zdes mne skuchno!
Ecossaise (Экосез)
Allegro vivo
No. 20a Prince Gremin's Aria (Ария Князя Гремина)
Andante sostenuto Любви все возрасты покорны
Lyubvi vse vozrasty pokorny
Moderato Итак, пойдем, тебя представлю я!
Itak, poydem, tebya predstavlyu ya!
Onegin's Arioso (Ариозо Онегина)
Allegro moderato Ужель та самая Татьяна
Uzhel ta samaya Tatyana
Scene 2 No. 22 Closing Scene (Заключительная сцена)
Moderato О! Как мне тяжело
O! Kak mne tyazhelo
A complete performance of the opera lasts around 140 minutes.
The libretto was devised by Tchaikovsky, with some assistance from Konstantin Shilovsky, after the novel in verse Yevgeny Onegin (1837) by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837). Although Shilovsky's name appears on the published score as co-librettist, his involvement seems to have been confined to helping draft the basic scenario.
During 1876 and the first few months of 1877 Tchaikovsky had been looking for a subject for a new opera: "On this road my next planned stop is an opera, and [...] I will go my way without letting myself be put off" [2]. In the spring of 1877, a subject was finally found. On 18/30 May the composer wrote to Modest Tchaikovsky:
Last week I happened to be visiting Lavrovskaya. The conversation turned on subjects for an opera. Her stupid husband kept talking nonsense and suggesting the most impossible subjects. Liz[aveta] Andr[eyevna remained silent and smiled good-humouredly all along until she suddenly said: How about using "Yevgeny Onegin"? This idea struck me as quite preposterous, and I did not say anything in reply. Later, when I was on my own having dinner at an inn, I remembered Onegin and fell to thinking — Lavrovskaya's idea started to seem feasible to me, very soon I was quite carried away by it, and by the end of my dinner I had made my mind up. I rushed off at once to get hold of a copy of Pushkin. Having found one with some difficulty, I headed for home, re-read it enthusiastically, and I spent an utterly sleepless night, the result of which was a scenario for a delightful opera with words by Pushkin. The following day, I went off to visit Shilovsky, and he is now working full steam ahead on trimming up my scenario [3]. Here's a summary of this scenario:
Act I. Scene 1. The curtain rises to show old Mme Larina and the nurse recollecting the past and making jam. Duet of the old women. Singing can be heard coming from the house. It is Tatyana and Olga, who, accompanied by a harp, are singing a duet to words by Zhukovsky [4]. Peasants appear with the last sheaf of corn, singing and dancing. Suddenly the boy-servant announces: "Guests!". Great commotion. Yevgeny and Lensky walk in. The ceremony of introduction and bringing in of refreshments (lingo berry water). Yevgeny tells Lensky his impressions, the women likewise to one another: quintet à la Mozart. The old women leave to prepare the supper. The young people stay behind to go for a stroll in pairs. They take turns (as in Faust [5]). Tatyana is shy at first, but then she falls in love.
Scene 2. Scene with the nurse and Tatyana's letter. Scene 3. The scene of Onegin's frank discussion with Tanya. Act II. Sc[ene] 1. Tatyana's name-day party. A ball. The scene of Lensky's jealousy. He insults Onegin and challenges him to a duel. General consternation.
Sc[ene] 2. Lensky's aria before death and the duel with pistols.
Act III. Sc[ene] 1. Moscow. A ball at the Assembly [of the Nobility]. Tanya has to meet a whole bevy of aunts and cousins. They sing a chorus. The general appears. He falls in love with Tatyana. She tells him her story and agrees to marry him.
Sc[ene] 2. In Petersburg. Tatyana is waiting for Onegin. He appears. A tremendous duet. After his declaration Tatyana begins to succumb to her love for Yevgeny and struggles. He implores her. Her husband turns up. Duty prevails. Onegin runs away in despair" [6].
In the composer's personal library at the Klin House-Museum there is a volume of Pushkin's works containing the novel in verse Yevgeny Onegin. On the margins of the book's pages one can still see the notes which the composer made while drawing up the libretto, including an adaptation of the text of Tatyana's scene with the nurse and Lensky's aria from Scene 5. The descriptions of the principal characters are marked off in pencil.
In a series of letters written by Tchaikovsky we find striking descriptions of the protagonists of his opera. By comparing these statements with the notes in the book it is possible to carry out an interesting analysis of the composer's work on the libretto [7].
Tchaikovsky also talks about his enthusiasm for the subject of Pushkin's Yevgeny Onegin in letters to Anatoly Tchaikovsky on 18/30 May and to Lev Davydov on 19/31 May 1877 [8].
What Tchaikovsky found attractive in this subject was the opportunity to "convey through music everyday, simple, universally human emotions, far removed from anything tragic or theatrical" [9]. "You cannot imagine how crazy I am about this subject," he wrote to his brother Modest; "How glad I am to be free of Egyptian princesses, pharaohs, poisonings, and stilted effects of all kinds. What a mine of poetry there is in Onegin" [10]. "I am ever so keen to set about working on my opera," the composer wrote to Nadezhda von Meck; "I have instructed Shilovsky to draw up a libretto for me which is taken from Pushkin's poema [11] Yevgeny Onegin! A bold idea, isn't it?! Those few people to whom I have spoken about my intention to write an opera with this subject were at first surprised at my proposition, but then they would go into raptures over it. This opera will, of course, be without any strong dramatic action, but on the other hand it will have an interesting everyday life aspect to it, and, moreover, just think how much poetry there is in all this! The scene alone between Tatyana and her nurse is priceless!... Pushkin's text will act on me in a most inspiring fashion" [12].
The action takes place in western Russia and in Saint Petersburg during the 1820s.
Act I. In the garden of the Larin country estate (Scene 1), Mrs Larina reminisces about her youth with the nurse Filippyevna, while her daughters Tatyana and Olga sing duets. The peasants have gathered in the harvest, and dance to amuse their mistress. Olga's suitor, Lensky, brings his friend Onegin. Later (Scene 2), Tatyana asks her nurse about her marriage. She writes a passionate letter to Onegin, declaring her love for him, which the nurse agrees to deliver. The following morning Onegin meets Tatyana in another part of the Larins' garden. He coolly rejects her letter, telling her he was not meant to marry.
Act II. Tatyana's name-day ball is in progress in the main reception room of the Larin house (Scene 1). At Lensky's insistence, Onegin attends, but when he hears people gossiping about him, he takes revenge on Lensky by flirting with Olga. Lensky angrily confronts Onegin, and challenges him to a duel. Reluctantly, Onegin agrees. Next morning at a rustic water mill on the banks of the wooded stream (Scene 2), Lensky awaits Onegin's arrival, and wonders whether Olga will shed a tear if he dies. Both Lensky and Onegin regret the events of the previous night, but neither man will back down. The duel takes place, and Onegin shoots Lensky dead.
Act III. Many years have elapsed, and Onegin is still bored with life. In the ballroom of a nobleman's house in Saint Petersburg (Scene 1), he encounters Tatyana, who is now married to Prince Gremin. Tatyana's transformation from a naive country girl to a dazzling grande dame captivates him. In the drawing room of Prince Gremin's house (Scene 2), Tatyana meets Onegin, and accuses him of loving her now only because she is rich and famous. She still loves him, but is determined to be faithful to Gremin, and does not yield to her passion. She dismisses Onegin, who is now a broken man [13].
On 29 May/10 June 1877, Tchaikovsky arrived at Konstantin Shilovsky's estate at Glebovo, where in the course of his month's stay there he worked with great enthusiasm on his opera [14].
By 9/21 June Tchaikovsky had made sketches for Scene 2 in Act I (Tatyana's scene with her nurse) and most of Scene 1. In a letter informing his brother Modest about this the composer wrote: "I got your letter yesterday, dear Modya. At first your criticisms about my having chosen Onegin made me angry, but that was only for an instant. Even if my opera is not stage-worthy, even if it has little action to offer, the point is that I am in love with the image of Tatyana; I am enchanted by Pushkin's verses and am writing music to them because that's what I want to do. I am completely absorbed in the composition of my opera" [15].
On 15/27 June, he wrote: "I have divided up my day in the most regular manner; I am working very thoroughly at fixed hours, and, since there is nothing whatsoever that stops me from getting down to my work, the opera is going very well. The whole first act in three scenes is already finished, and today I've started work on the second [...] You can criticize Yevgeny Onegin as much as you like, but I must say that I am writing my music with great pleasure and I know for sure that the poetic quality of the subject and the ineffable beauty of the text will hold their own" [16]. "...I have spent a whole month in Glebovo in complete calm and happiness, and I have written two thirds of my opera there," Tchaikovsky would later inform his brother Modest on 5/17 July 1877 [17].
On 27 June/9 July returned to Moscow for his wedding to Antonina Milyukova on 6/18 July 1877 [18]. On 27 July/8 August, the composer left Moscow alone to travel]] to Kamenka, where he stayed with his sister Aleksandra's family for one-and-a half months and continued working on Yevgeny Onegin, as well as on the Fourth Symphony. Thus, work on the opera was interrupted for about a month, but by 27 August/8 September he had completed the orchestration of Scene 1 in Act I and immediately made a piano arrangement of it [19].
Following the breakdown of his marriage in September, Tchaikovsky travelled abroad in early/mid October [20]. On reaching Clarens, in Switzerland, he soon resumed work on the opera [21], and there he completed the orchestration of Act I [22] .
On 16/28 November, Tchaikovsky wrote to Nadezhda von Meck from Venice: "... I have set about furiously finishing the orchestration of Scene 1 in Act II of Onegin (Act 1 and Scene 1 of Act II have to be ready as soon as possible, so that I can send them to Moscow, where in all likelihood they are to be staged at Conservatory performances). My work has come along very well, so that already today I have finished the whole orchestration. I just have to add the voice parts, place marks, and make a piano arrangement" [23]. The following date is indicated at the end of the manuscript of the score for Scene 1 of Act II: "Venice, 28 (16) November 1877".
In December Tchaikovsky was engrossed in orchestrating his Fourth Symphony, which he had almost always worked on at the same time as his opera.
In San Remo, on 2/14 January 1878, the composer began orchestrating Act III of the opera. Tchaikovsky's letters do not provide any information on when he made the sketches for Act III. It is possible that part of the music for Act III had already been written in Glebovo ("I wrote the greater part of "Onegin" at Glebovo, and I'd like very much to have all the rest written before the start of the academic year, but I don't know whether I'll manage it", he told to his brother Modest on 8/20 July 1877) [24]. The remaining sketches were made while Tchaikovsky was abroad, concurrently with his work on the instrumentation [25].
On 5/17 January, the composer wrote to his brother Anatoly: "... I have managed to get a lot done—amongst other things, I spent one-and-a-half hours orchestrating your favourite aria: 'To love all ages are obedient' (Любви все возрасты покорны)" [26].
On 6/18 January, Tchaikovsky informed Nadezhda von Meck: "I am writing the orchestral score for Act III of the opera" [27]
At the end of the manuscript of the score for Act III we find the following date: "San Remo 25 (13) Jan[uary] 1878" [28]
On 14/26 January: "Today I have completed the orchestration of Act III of the opera. Now I just have to finish off in rough Scene 2 of Act II and write an introduction..." [29]
On 16/28 January: "After breakfast I picked up some music paper and set off for the mountains alone in order to finish the Duel scene, which is still not fully composed. With difficulty I managed to find a spot where there was nobody else. My work went well" [30]
On 17/29 January: "My work is going splendidly, and I have now started on the last difficult part of the opera, that is the introduction" [31]
On 18/30 January: "I have just finished the introduction. There are at most two weeks or so of work left for me to do" [32]
On 20 January/1 February: "Today, at last, I have finished writing and orchestrating right up to the very end. All that remains to be done is to make a piano arrangement of everything that I have written afresh—in short, this means a week's work, no more" [33]
On 25 January/6 February: "Today I have started work on the piano reduction of the opera" [34]
On 28 January/9 February: "I have finished the piano reduction. Now all that's left to do is to insert the markings and make a fair copy of the libretto. Then the opera will be fully complete. What will its fate be?!" [35]
On 30 January/11 February: "I have finished the opera completely. Now I'm just copying out the libretto again, and as soon as everything is ready, I'll send it off to Moscow" [36]
On 3/15 February, Tchaikovsky informed Karl Albrecht that the day before he had dispatched to Nikolay Rubinstein: "1) a microscopic introduction to come before Act I; 2) Scene 2 of Act II; 3) Act III." In this very same letter he requested Albrecht to ask Sergey Taneyev if he could "alter anything in the piano reduction that strikes him as un-piano like, inconvenient or difficult to play" and also to "ask Samarin to read through the libretto carefully [...] and correct in the stage directions anything that he considers to be silly, inconvenient, awkward, etc. I also want him to pay particular attention to the final verse. For the sake of musical and theatrical demands I was forced to dramatize rather strongly the scene of Tatyana's discussion with Onegin. At the end, as I have it, Tatyana's husband appears and with a gesture orders Onegin away. Whilst this happens I had to have Onegin say something, and so I put the following verse into his mouth: 'O death, o death! I go to seek thee out!' I cannot help thinking all the time that this is silly and that he ought to be saying something else. But I just can't think up what! So I'm asking I[van] V[asilyevich to do me an inestimable service and help me out of this difficulty" [37]
Before the first production of the opera in March 1879, this final line for Onegin was later replaced by the words: "Disgrace! Anguish! O how pitiable is my fate!" [38], and further alterations were made to this scene in October 1880 (see below).
For a revival of the opera in 1885, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the Director of the Imperial Theatres for Saint Petersburg, asked the composer to insert an Ecossaise into the first scene of Act III. A letter of 10/22 August 1885 from Vsevolozhsky to Pavel Pchelnikov has come down to us in which Vsevolozhsky sets forth the reasons why a new dance number was required for the Saint Petersburg ball scene [39]. On 21 August/2 September 1885, Tchaikovsky wrote to Pyotr Jurgenson: "I've had a meeting with Vsevolozhsky, who asked me to write a dance number for the second ball in Onegin. Given that new decorations and costumes are currently being fitted out for this ball, and given also that they are taking so much trouble to ensure the success of Onegin, I could not refuse, in spite of my disinclination, and I agreed to fulfil Vsevolozhsky's request. We had a long discussion about the kind of dance that was to be added until, finally, we settled on an Ecossaise..." [40].
The vocal-piano score was arranged by Tchaikovsky between August 1877 and January 1878. The piano part is inserted at the bottom of each page of the autograph full score, and Act I (except for the Introduction) was arranged almost simultaneously with the orchestration: begun by 27 August/8 September and completed by 20 October/1 November 1877 [41]. Acts II and III were arranged in the period 25 January/6 February to 28 January/9 February 1878 [42].
Tchaikovsky was aware of the innovative nature of his opera and thought that Yevgeny Onegin, due to its lack of stage effects and "as it is insufficiently lively and interesting for it to be to the public's liking", would "never become established as a staple of the opera repertoire in major theatres" [43]. He set very high artistic demands regarding an eventual staging of his opera. They are stated most fully in his letter to Karl Albrecht of 3/15 December 1877:
This is what I need for Onegin: 1) singers of medium quality, but they must have been drilled well and should be reliable; 2) singers, who will also be able to act simply but well; 3) the staging doesn't have to be lavish but it must be strictly in keeping with the period; the costumes must absolutely be from the period in which the opera's action takes place (the 1820s); 4) the choruses should not be like a herd of sheep, as is the case on the stage of the Imperial theatres—rather, they must be people who really are participating in the plot of the opera; 5) the conductor must be [...] a true leader of the orchestra" [44].
In the opera-houses at the time conventionalism and routine very much held sway. The composer wrote to Nadezhda von Meck: "... the more I think about the performance of this opera, the more I am convinced that it is impossible, i.e. a performance which would correspond to my dreams and intentions" [45]. "How Pushkin's charming picture will be debased when it is transferred onto the stage, with all its routine, with its senseless traditions..." [46]. That is why Tchaikovsky did not want to start negotiations for a staging of Yevgeny Onegin in the [Imperial] theatres. "I would much rather hand over this opera for the stage of the Conservatory, and in fact this is what I actually wish to do. For there at least we won't have that banal routine of the official theatres [...] Besides, the Conservatory gives its performances as private events, as it were, en petit comité. That is more suitable for my modest work, which I will not even call an opera if it is ever published. I will call it lyrical scenes or something like that" [47].
After completing the orchestration of Act I of the opera Tchaikovsky sent it to Nikolay Rubinstein, requesting him to stage this act together with Scene 1 of Act II in a production at the Conservatory [48]. "... I think that in a meticulous staging, with a level of performance such as we have been seeing [at the Conservatory] so far, this opera, with its wonderful text, simple human emotions and situations, definitely ought to produce a poetic effect" [49]. In a letter of 10/22 November Tchaikovsky wrote to Rubinstein with details on how the roles were to be allocated [50]. However, the planned performance of excerpts from the opera on the stage of the Moscow Conservatory during the 1877–78 season did not take place [51].
The first four scenes of Yevgeny Onegin were presented in a public dress rehearsal at the Conservatory on 16/28 December 1878. The whole opera was staged for the first time on 17/29 March 1879, at the Maly Theatre in Moscow, in a performance by students from the Moscow Conservatory, conducted by Nikolay Rubinstein and directed by Ivan Samarin. The soloists were: Maria Reiner (Larina), Mariya Klimentova-Muromtseva (Tatyiana), Aleksandra Levitskaya (Olga), Zinayda Konshina (Filippyevna), Sergey Gilev (Onegin), Mikhail Medvedev (Lensky), Vasily Makhalov (Gremin/Captain) and Dmitry Tarkhov (Zaretsky/Triquet).
The first professional performance of the opera took place at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on 11/23 January 1881, conducted by Enrico Bevignani, with the following soloists: Mariya Yunevich (Larina), Yelena Verni (Tatyana), Aleksandra Krutikova (Olga), Matilda Vinci (Filippyevna), Pavel Khokhlov (Onegin), Dmitry Usatov (Lensky), Abram Abramov (Gremin), Otto Führer (Zaretsky), Anton Bartsal (Triquet).
Extracts from Yevgeny Onegin were performed for the first time in Saint Petersburg (played and sung from the piano score) on or around 6/18 March 1879 in a private performance at the home of Yuliya Abaza [52], who also sang the role of the Nurse. Tatyana was sung by Aleksandra Panayeva, Olga by Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya, Onegin by Ippolit Pryanishnikov, Lensky by Pyotr Lodi, with Sofya Malozemova providing the piano accompaniment.
On 22 April/4 May 1883, the opera was staged at the Kononov Theatre in Saint Petersburg by the Musical-Dramatic Amateur Circle in a performance conducted by Karl Zike and directed by K. A. Potekhin, with Yelena Samoylova (Larina), Yevgenia Tsezar-Insarova(Tatyana), M. I. Dyakonova (Olga), P. G. Kaplan (Filippyevna), Vladimir Alennikov II (Onegin), Ya. M. Moshkovich (Lensky), V. I. Iller (Gremin), Aleksandr Aleksandrov (Zaretsky), P. I. Ivanov (Captain), A. A. Karenin (Triquet).
It was not until 19/31 October 1884 that Yevgeny Onegin was staged at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in a performance conducted by Eduard Nápravník [53], with soloists: Yekaterina Koncha (Larina), Emiliya Pavlovskaya (Tatyana), Mariya Slavina (Olga), Anna Bichurina (Filippyevna), Ippolit Pryanishnikov (Onegin), Mikhail Mikhaylov (Lensky), Mikhail Koryakin (Gremin), Nikolay Dementyev (Zaretsky), Vladimir Sobolev (Captain) and A. Ye. Muratov (Triquet). The next season's revival of the opera at the Mariinsky on 19 September/1 October 1885 was the first to include the Ecossaise (Act III, Nos. 20 & 21).
Tchaikovsky himself conducted the opera on three occasions: at the National Theatre in Prague on 24 November/6 December 1888 (with Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová as Tatyana, and in a Czech translation by Marie Červinková-Riegrová); at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on 18/30 September 1889; and with Ippolit Pryanishnikov's opera company in Moscow on 26 April/8 May 1892.
Yevgeny Onegin was also staged in Odessa on 18/30 May 1890 by the Russian-Italian Opera Company, conducted by Ippolit Pryanishnikov, and at the Hamburg Opera Theatre on 7/19 January 1892, with Gustav Mahler conducting. It was staged for the first time in London in an English translation at the Olympic Theatre on 5/17 October 1892, Mademoiselle Selma (Larina), Fanny Moody (Tatyana), Lily Moody (Olga), Aleksandra Svyatlovskaya (Filippyevna), Eugène Oudin (Onegin), Iver McKay (Lensky), Charles Manners (Gremin), conducted by Henry Wood.
In the United States, the opera was first given a complete concert performance at Carnegie Hall in New York on 19 January/1 February 1908, conducted by Walter Damrosch (in an English translation). The first fully-staged performance took place at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 24 March 1920, conducted by Artur Bodanzky (in an Italian translation).
Ever since he started work on this opera, enchanted by the poetic spirit of Pushkin's original, Tchaikovsky would always retain his great affection for the music that he wrote for his setting of the novel. In a letter to Sergey Taneyev on 2/14 January 1878 Tchaikovsky wrote: "I wrote this opera because one fine day I felt an inexpressible urge to set to music everything in Onegin that is just asking to be turned into music. I did this as best as I could. I worked on the opera with an indescribable enthusiasm and pleasure, not worrying too much as to whether it had action, effects etc. [...] I need people, not puppets; I would gladly tackle any opera [subject] in which, even if it did not have any powerful and unexpected effects, I should find beings like me, experiencing emotions which I too have experienced and can understand [...] I am looking for an intimate but powerful drama, based on a conflict of situations which I have experienced or witnessed myself, and which are able to touch me to the quick [...] Yes, this is an opera without any prospects; I knew this when I was writing it, and still I completed it and I shall definitely have it published [...] I wrote it because I was obeying an irresistible inner attraction. I assure you that it is only under this condition that one should write operas. As for thinking about effects and worrying about how it will work on the stage, that is only necessary to a certain degree. Otherwise, what you'll get is something effective, entertaining, perhaps even beautiful and interesting, but not fascinating, not actually alive" [54]
In another letter to Taneyev, dated 24 January/5 February 1878, Tchaikovsky again wrote: "... If it is true, as you claim, that opera is action, and that there is no action in my Onegin, then I am perfectly willing to call Onegin not an opera but whatever you like: scenes, a stage adaptation, a poema [55], just as you wish. I wanted to write a musical illustration to Onegin, whereby I had no choice but to resort to the form of drama and I am ready to take upon myself all the consequences of my notorious inability to understand the stage and to choose suitable subjects for it. It seems to me that all its inadequacies for the stage are redeemed by the charm of Pushkin's verses. However, in this regard I have certain misgivings which are much more important than the fear that the audience will not be shuddering with curiosity to find out the denouement of the plot. I'm referring to the sacrilegious impertinence with which, much against my will, I had to add to many of Pushkin's verses either my own or, in some places, verses by Shilovsky. That's what I am afraid of, that's what's really troubling me! As for the music, I should like to point out to you that if there was ever any music written with genuine enthusiasm, with love for the plot and characters it is inspired by, then that is the music to Onegin. I was melting and quivering with indescribable delight when I wrote it. And if even just the slightest portion of what I felt when composing this opera finds a response in the listeners, then I will be very satisfied and I want for no more" [56]
On 4/16 February 1878, Tchaikovsky wrote to Pyotr Jurgenson: "Now the piano reduction is complete, and I would be immensely glad if you were able to arrange for it to be engraved in the near future. This opera, so it seems to me, is more likely to be successful in homes and on concert stages than on the grand stage, and that is why the fact that its score will be published long before it enters the repertoire of the major theatres is not at all unfavourable. The success of this opera must begin from below, rather than from above. That is, it is not the theatre that will make it known to the public, but, on the contrary, the public, by becoming acquainted with it little by little, may come to love this opera, and then the theatre can stage it in order to satisfy the public's need" [57]
From the end of July to mid-September 1878 Tchaikovsky worked on correcting the proofs of the first edition of the piano score [58]. In October 1878, the piano score of Onegin was published (both as a complete set and as individual numbers) [59].
When sending back the corrected proofs to Pyotr Jurgenson (on 2/14 August 1878), Tchaikovsky had asked him to entitle the opera: "'Yevgeny Onegin'. Lyrical scenes in 3 acts". This is essential. For many reasons I don't want to call this thing an opera" [60]
In early 1880, Pyotr Jurgenson on his own initiative started making arrangements for having the opera's full score engraved—something that Tchaikovsky was not happy about [61]. In December 1880, the full score of the opera with the piano arrangement inserted as a supplement was published. In this edition the original version of the opera's final scene was retained (including Onegin's final line: "O death, o death! I go to seek thee out!...").
When the piano score was republished in 1881 amendments were made to the final scene. Corrections and amendments were also made by the author in 1891 [62], when preparing the second edition of the full score [63]. Tchaikovsky expressed the wish to remove the piano reduction from the score, but Pyotr Jurgenson did not comply with this request, and just changed the marking of the piano lines a little [64].
The textual variants in the three editions are mainly to do with the ending of the final scene. In 1880, when preparations were underway for the first production of the opera on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Tchaikovsky, following a request by his brother Anatoly [65], altered somewhat the text and stage directions for the final scene. On 17/29 October 1880, the composer wrote to Anatoly: "Although personally I don't agree with you and think that Pushkin, by various hints and allusions, entitles one as it were to let this scene conclude the way I did, I have paid heed to your advice and attempted to change the scene, as you will see from the enclosed sheets. Firstly, on page 242, instead of the direction that Tatyana is to fall into Onegin's arms, etc. I have written: Onegin draws closer. After that he sings what is written on that page, still addressing her as You [66]; then it just continues as it was before; at the very end, however, I have changed Tatyana's words—namely, she is no longer to be on the brink of giving in and losing her resolve, but will instead keep going on about duty; Onegin does not try to embrace her, but just implores her in words; then, instead of "I am dying!" Tatyana now says: Farewell forever! and disappears, whilst he, after standing there dazed for a few minutes, utters his concluding words. The general does not come in" [67]
The amendments indicated by Tchaikovsky referred to the text of the scene starting from Tatyana's response after Onegin's words: "... there is no other way for you" [... тебе другой дороги нет] (Andante molto mosso) and going up to the end of the scene. The changes to the stage directions indicated by Tchaikovsky in the letter quoted above were not made, except for the last one, and in all editions of the opera the stage directions for the original version of this scene have been retained.
In the 1891 edition many of the tempo observations were changed; cuts were made in the finale of Act II and in the Polonaise that opens the final act [68], and in Act III a chorus was replaced by the Ecossaise which Tchaikovsky had written the request of Ivan Vsevolozhsky in 1885.
A German edition of the vocal-piano score (translated by Avgust Bernhardt) was published sometime before 1891 by D. Rahter in Hamburg.
Tchaikovsky's full score and vocal-piano arrangement were published in volumes 4 (1948) and 36 (1946) respectively of the composer's Complete Collected Works, edited by Ivan Shishov (1950). They include the original versions of passages subsequently revised in later editions.
Tchaikovsky's autograph full score, which includes the piano part for his vocal-piano arrangement, is now preserved in the Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture in Moscow in two volumes, containing the Introduction and Act I (ф. 88, No. 8а) [view] and Acts II and III (ф. 88, No.8б) [view]. The latter omits the additional Ecossaise (Act III, Nos. 20 and 21), the autograph of which is held at the Central Music Library of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg (VII.1.4.154).
A manuscript copy of the vocal-piano arrangement in Karl Albrecht's hand, and containing annotations by Tchaikovsky and Sergey Taneyev, can be found in the Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture (ф. 88, No. 10) [view]. The same archive also holds a first edition of the score published by Jurgenson in 1880, containing Tchaikovsky's annotations when preparing the second edition (1891) (Ф. 88, No. 9) [view].
The sketches and rough draft of the opera Yevgeny Onegin have been lost. From the composer's correspondence with Nadezhda von Meck, we know that the rough draft was sent to her [69].
The autograph libretto is also preserved in the Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture in Moscow (ф. 88, No. 11) [view].
See: Yevgeny Onegin: Recordings
For the Russian dance in Act I — 'Across the Little Bridge' (Уж как по мосту-мосточку) — Tchaikovsky used the folk-song 'Twine Round, Little Cabbage' (Вейся, не вейся, капустка). There is good reason to suppose that the composer borrowed this song from a collection of folk-songs written down by S. N. Rachinskaya, a relative of Sergey Rachinsky. In December 1875, Sergey Rachinsky brought these songs with him to show them to Tchaikovsky. In a letter of 18/30 December 1875 [70] the composer asked him for permission to take them abroad with him, as he set off from Moscow on 20 December 1875/1 January 1876 [71].
For Triquet's couplets [72] the composer used the song "Le repos" by the French composer Amédée de Beauplan [73].
Download the score of Eugene Onegin at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
↑ Entitled "Evgenii Onegin" in TH, and "Eugene Onegin" in ČW.
↑ Letter 552 to Vladimir Stasov, 29 April/11 May 1877.
↑ In the final version of the scenario only Scene 1 in Act III was altered: the ball in Moscow (where Tatyana was supposed to meet the general, and he seeks her hand in marriage) was replaced by a ball in Saint Petersburg (where Tatyana meets Onegin).
↑ The duet of Tatyana and Olga in the final version of the opera is written to words by Pushkin—the poem The Singer (Певец).
↑ See the entry on Charles Gounod for Tchaikovsky's thoughts on Faust.
↑ Letter 565 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 18/30 May 1877.
↑ See the following letters: Letter 692 to Nadezhda von Meck, 16/28 December 1877, from Milan: "[After an abysmal performance of Marchetti's opera Ruy Blas at the Teatro dal Verme] I thought about my opera. Where shall I find a Tatyana such as Pushkin imagined her, and such as I have tried to illustrate musically? Where is the artist who, to some extent at least, comes up to the ideal of Onegin—that cold dandy who is permeated to the marrow with the bon ton of high society? Where shall we find a Lensky, an eighteen-year-old youth with thick curls, with the impetuous and original gestures of a young poet à la Schiller? How Pushkin's charming picture will be debased when it is transferred onto the stage, with all its routine, its senseless traditions, its veteran artists and artistes, who quite shamelessly, like Aleksandrova, Kommisarzhevskye tutti quanti, will take on the roles of sixteen-year-old girls and beardless youths!"; Letter 2356 to Nadezhda von Meck, 28 September/10 October–30 September/12 October 1883 (Here Tchaikovsky defends the plot and characters of Pushkin's novel against his benefactress, who just acknowledged the beauty of its verses. He emphasizes how Tatyana is "not just a provincial girl who falls in love with a dandy from the capital" but rather "a maidenly soul full of pure feminine beauty, untouched as yet by real life", and that "Pushkin splendidly, with true genius, expressed the power of this maidenly love, and from my earliest years I have always been stirred to the depths of my heart by the poetic spirit of Tatyana after Onegin has first appeared before her. Thus, if I was ablaze with the fire of inspiration when I wrote the Letter Scene, that fire was kindled within me by Pushkin...". Tchaikovsky also points out how "profoundly dramatic and moving" Lensky's death is); Letter 671 to Karl Albrecht, 3/15 December 1877 from Venice (Tchaikovsky stresses here that his opera had to be staged at the Moscow Conservatory before he would even think of handing it over to the Imperial Theatres, and says that there was no point in waiting for "an ideal Tatyana, an ideal Onegin, and an ideal Lensky" to turn up; rather the young students from the Conservatory, headed by Mariya Klimentova, who had been learning the role of Tatyana, were exactly what he wanted for his new opera); Letter 748 to Karl Albrecht, 3/15 February 1878 from San Remo; and Letter 738 to Sergey Taneyev, 24 January/5 February 1878.
↑ Letter 564 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 18/30 May 1877: "Tolya! I am going to write a delightful opera, which is perfectly suited to my musical character. You will be very surprised when I tell you the opera's title. Everyone to whom I've talked about this was surprised at first but would then go into raptures. And do you know who gave me this idea? Lavrovskaya. This opera will be Yevgeny Onegin! I have a splendid scenario drawn up for it"; and Letter 566 to Lev Davydov, 19/31 May 1877.
↑ Letter 597 to Nadezhda von Meck, 30 August/11 September 1877.
↑ Letter 565 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 18/30 May 1877. For Tchaikovsky's views on Aida and its exotic Grand Opera setting, see the entry on Giuseppe Verdi.
↑ In the nineteenth-century Russian tradition «поэма» was generally used to refer to a large-scale literary work with some important underlying 'poetic' idea, irrespective of whether or not it was actually written in verse (as in the case of Pushkin's Yevgeny Onegin). Thus, Nikolay Gogol's novel Dead Souls (1st part, 1842) was referred to as a «поэма» by the great critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848) and by all subsequent Russian writers. Likewise, Fyodor Dostoyevsky would also speak admiringly of his rival Ivan Turgenev's novel A Nest of the Gentry (1859) as a «поэма» —note by Luis Sundkvist.
↑ Letter 569 to Nadezhda von Meck, 27 May/8 June 1877.
↑ From The Tchaikovsky Handbook. A guide to the man and his music, vol. 1 (2002), p. 38.
↑ See the following letters: Letter 564 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 18/30 May 1877; Letter 571 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 15/27 June 1877; Letter 565 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 18/30 May 1877; Letter 568 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 23 May/4 June 1877; Letter 570 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 9/21 June 1877; and Letter 569 to Nadezhda von Meck, 27 May/8 June 1877.
↑ Letter 570 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 9/21 June 1877.
↑ Letter 571 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 15/27 June 1877.
↑ Letter 577 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 5/17 July 1877.
↑ For more details on Tchaikovsky's marriage, see the entry for Antonina Milyukova.
↑ See Letter 596 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 27 August/8 September 1877 and Letter 597 to Nadezhda von Meck, 30 August/11 September 1877.
↑ On 2/14 (?) October 1877, Tchaikovsky departed abroad with his brother Anatoly. They arrived in Berlin on 4/16 October — note by Luis Sundkvist.
↑ See Letter 621 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 17/29 October 1877.
↑ See Letter 635 to Nadezhda von Meck, 1/13 November 1877, from Paris.
↑ Letter 648 to Nadezhda von Meck, 16/28 November 1877.
↑ See Letter 730 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 15/27–18/30 January 1878.
↑ Letter 718 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 5/17–7/19 January 1878.
↑ Letter 719 to Nadezhda von Meck, 6/18 January 1878.
↑ The date on the manuscript was probably added once the main compositional work had been completed, after which some minor amendments may also have been made.
↑ Letter 728 to Nadezhda von Meck, 14/26 January 1878. See also Letter 726 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 12/24–14/26 January 1878.
↑ Letter 730 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 15/27–18/30 January 1878.
↑ Letter 735 to Nadezhda von Meck, 20 January/1 February–21 January/2 February 1878.
↑ Letter 740 to Nadezhda von Meck, 25 January/6 February 1878.
↑ Letter 745 to Nikolay Rubinstein, 30 January/11 February 1878.
↑ Letter 748 to Karl Albrecht, 3/15 February 1878.
↑ See the correction to the libretto in Letter 1614 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 17/29 October 1880, quoted below.
↑ Letter from Ivan Vsevolozhsky to Pavel Pchelnikov, 10/22 August 1885 — Klin House-Museum Archive.
↑ Letter 2751 to Pyotr Jurgenson, 21 August/2 September 1885. The Ecossaise appears twice: firstly in No. 20, where it replaced 28 bars of earlier material (after bar 28), and again at the close of No. 21 (from bar 75).
↑ See Letter 596 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 27 August/8 September 1877, and Letter 623 to Nikolay Rubinstein, 20 October/1 November 1877.
↑ See |Letter 740, 25 January/6 February 1878, and Letter 743, 28 January/9 February 1878, to Nadezhda von Meck.
↑ See Letter 722 to Nadezhda von Meck, 9/21 January 1878, from San Remo. See also Letter 597 to Nadezhda von Meck, 30 August/11 September 1877, from Kamenka; and Letter 716 to Sergey Taneyev from San Remo, 2/14 January 1878 (a very important letter in which Tchaikovsky again expresses his aversion to Grand Opera settings such as Verdi's Aida, where one saw "puppets" rather than living people on the stage, and admits that he was resigned to Onegin never being a success).
↑ Letter 671 to Karl Albrecht, 3/15 December 1877, from Venice. See also Letter 740 to Nadezhda von Meck, 25 January/6 February 1878, from San Remo, and Letter 750 to Pyotr Jurgenson, 4/16 February 1878, also sent from San Remo.
↑ Letter 886 to Nadezhda von Meck, 2/14–5/17 August 1878, from Verbovka.
↑ Letter 692 to Nadezhda von Meck, 16/28 December 1877.
↑ Letter 716 to Sergey Taneyev, 2/14 January 1878.
↑ See Letter 623 to Nikolay Rubinstein, 20 October/1 November 1877.
↑ Letter 630 to Nikolay Rubinstein, 27 October/8 November 1877. For details on how Act I was completed and dispatched]] to Rubinstein, see also Letter 635 to Nadezhda von Meck, 1/13 November 1877.
↑ Letter 642 to Nikolay Rubinstein, 9/21 November 1877.
↑ See Anatoly Tchaikovsky's letter to the composer, 28 January/9 February 1878 — Klin House-Museum Archive.
↑ Yuliya Fyodorovna Abaza (née Stubbe; d.1915), German-born Russian concert singer (mezzo-soprano). She was much admired by such writers as Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. When Tchaikovsky resigned from the Ministry of Justice in April 1863 to concentrate on studying music and started giving private piano lessons later that year in September, he had some coaching from Yuliya Stubbe (as Tchaikovsky also needed to earn some extra money as a piano accompanist). Apparently she had treated the young Tchaikovsky rather arrogantly, and when she met him again many years later (around 1880) she pretended that she had never seen him before. This amusing anecdote is recounted by Aleksandra Panayeva-Kartsova in her memoirs of the composer, included in Воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском (1980), pp. 128–129. In the commentary for this edition (p. 382) the date of this private performance of Yevgeny Onegin in Yuliya Abaza's house is given as 6/18 March 1879 — note by Luis Sundkvist.
↑ Nápravník had previously conducted excerpts from the opera in concert performances in Saint Petersburg. On 26 January/7 February 1880 the Chorus (Act I, No. 2), Scena and Onegin's Aria (Act I, No. 12), Onegin's Arioso (Act III, No. 21), Closing Scena (Act III, No. 22) and the Entr'acte & Waltz (Act II, No. 13), had been given at the 7th RMS symphony concert, with Ippolit Pryanishnikov as Onegin and Mariya Kamenskaya as Tatyana. In a charity concert at the Petropavlovsk Academy on 25 March/6 April 1880, Aleksandra Panayeva sang the role of Tatyana in the Letter Scena (Act I, No. 9).
↑ See Note 11 above for the special meaning of 'poema' (поэма) in the nineteenth-century Russian context.
↑ Letter 738 to Sergey Taneyev, 24 January/5 February 1878.
↑ Letter 750 to Pyotr Jurgenson, 4/16 February 1878.
↑ See Letter 883 to Pyotr Jurgenson, 29 July/10 August 1878; Letter 885 to Pyotr Jurgenson, 2/14 August 1878; and Letter 887 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 3/15 August 1878, all sent from Verbovka.
↑ Letter from Pyotr Jurgenson to Tchaikovsky, 24 October/5 November 1878 — Klin House-Museum Archive. The piano score had been passed by the censor on 30 September/12 October 1878.
↑ Letter 885 to Pyotr Jurgenson, 2/14 August 1878.
↑ See Letter 1422 to Pyotr Jurgenson, 5/17 February 1880 and Letter 1518 to Karl Albrecht, 24 June/6 July 1880.
↑ Pyotr Jurgenson's negotiations with Tchaikovsky regarding a second edition of the full score started in June 1891—see Jurgenson's letter of 8/20 June 1891 to the composer and Tchaikovsky's Letter 4408 to Jurgenson, 14/26 June 1891). In July 1891, Tchaikovsky was busy correcting the proofs (see Letter 4442 to Vladimir Davydov, 22 July/3 August 1891). Tchaikovsky made an interesting note for himself on the letter that Jurgenson had sent him on 7/19 August 1891, which shows what he was concerned about in this new edition: "The score of Onegin is to be corrected without any hurrying; the voice parts have to correspond to the score; the piano reduction has to be brought into line with the score".
↑ See the authorial corrections in the published score and Letter 4606 to Pyotr Jurgenson, 28 January/9 February 1892.
↑ The full score without the piano arrangement was published by Muzgiz [the Soviet State Music Publishing House] in П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том 4 (1948).
↑ As Abram Gozenpud convincingly argues in Dostoyevsky and the Musical and Dramatic Arts. A Study [Достоевский и музыкально-театральное искусство—исследование] (Leningrad, 1981), pp. 167–169, Anatoly Tchaikovsky, who had attended Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous speech at the unveiling of the Pushkin monument in Moscow on 8/20 June 1880, persuaded his brother to change the ending of the opera so that it was closer to Pushkin's much more restrained conclusion because of the powerful impression which Dostoyevsky's interpretation of Tatyana had made on the public. (The speech was published later that year, in August). In his impassioned speech Dostoyevsky had described Tatyana as the "apotheosis of Russian womanhood" and asserted that it could never even have so much as crossed her mind to betray her husband and run away with Onegin, as she was incapable of founding her happiness on the misfortune of someone else. Mariya Klimentova, who was due to appear as Tatyana in the first professional production of Yevgeny Onegin at the Bolshoi Theatre in October 1880 (just as she had sung Tatyana at the opera's premiere by students of the Moscow Conservatory in March 1879), had apparently also sought out Dostoyevsky's advice on how she should portray her heroine. For more details see the entry on Fyodor Dostoyevsky — note by Luis Sundkvist.
↑ i.e. the formal 'you' ('Вы') rather than 'thou' ('ты').
↑ Letter 1614 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 17/29 October 1880.
↑ In the Act II Finale (No. 16), bar 36 was rewritten, the following 13 bars were excised, and the next 6 bars of Lensky's part were rewritten. In the Ecossaise (Act III, No. 19) bars 41–48, 106–113, 124–131 were deleted.
↑ See a letter from Nadezhda von Meck to Tchaikovsky, 4/16 November 1878 (Klin House-Museum Archive), as well as Letter 959 to Nadezhda von Meck, 6/18 November 1878 and Letter 995 to Nadezhda von Meck, 1/13 December 1878.
↑ Letter 427 to Sergey Rachinsky, 18/30 December 1875.
↑ The transcription of the song Twine round, little cabbage made by S. N. Rachinskaya was published in: The Great Russian in His Songs, Customs, Traditions, Beliefs, Fairy-Tales, Legends etc. Material compiled and arranged by P. V. Shein (Великорусс в своих песнях, обрядах, обычаях, верованиях, сказках, легендах и т.п. Материалы, собранные и приведённые в порядок П. В. Штейном), Vol. 1, Part 1 (published by the Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, 1898), p. 134, No. 547. The foreword to this compilation is dated 1867, which indicates that it was being prepared long before its eventual publication.
↑ Tchaikovsky wrote two sets of couplets for Monsieur Triquet: one which is all in French ("À cette fête conviée") and one which is a macaronic blend of French and broken Russian («Какой прекрасный этот день»). For more information, see the opera guide produced by English National Opera and The Royal Opera Eugene Onegin (1988), p. 26— note by Luis Sundkvist.
↑ Amédée de Beauplan was the nom-de-plume of Amédée Rousseau (1790–1853), a French librettist and writer of popular songs. His song "Le repos" ("Dormez, dormez, chères amours") was used in the vaudeville La Sonnambule (1819) by Scribe and Delavigne and became very popular, with various arrangements for piano being made subsequently — note by Luis Sundkvist.
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MEPs in quarrel over dual quality products negligence
Lawmakers from CEECs are asking for prohibition of this unfair practice
Maria Koleva , Brussels
The new legislation that was expected to reinforce consumer rights for the internet age created new East-West division during the last for this Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. Its weak point was the issue of dual quality products. In fact, the EP didn't succeed to push for more robust measures against this repulsive trade practice.
It happened just two weeks after the adoption at first reading of the so-called Mobility Package I, a set of three controversial directives that put at stake the existence of hundreds of thousands of international haulage companies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC).
Lawmakers backed the directive of rapporteur Daniel Dalton, British ECR MEP, that covers a wide range of topics, by 474 votes to 163 and 14 abstentions. It amends the unfair commercial practices directive, the consumer rights directive, the unfair contract terms directive and the price indication directive. It was proposed together with a proposal on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers as part of the 'New Deal for Consumers' tabled by the EU executive two years ago.
The majority of MEPs didn't prop up the amendments proposed by the Polish EPP MEP Roza Grafin von Thun und Hohenstein. According to her, the directive does not solve the burning issue of the dual quality of products and contains an open list of exemptions which allow to sell products of different quality in seemingly identical packaging, and it obliges the consumer to prove every time that he or she was treated unfairly. The amendment she proposed to prohibit this unfair practice was signed in advance by over 100 MEPs from 25 Member States.
During the debate, Antanas Guoga, EPP MEP from Lithuania, said: “It's an eventful day that we cannot reach, despite everything, a normal agreement where we do not have discrimination. Discrimination week after week. Just last week we saw discrimination against the peripheral countries in the mobility package. Now we want to discriminate people by having second-rate products.”
Olga Sehnalova, S&D MEP from the Czech Republic, who for many years is combating the double quality of products, also has presented amendments. For her, it is a dual standard if some consumers' rights are taken to be more important than those of others, and some people may justifiably feel they are second-class citizens. She said she will fight until the dual quality is abolished and outlawed. According to her, dual quality needs to be regarded as an unfair practice.
Despite the many good provisions on transparency and consumer rights online, one crucial piece is missing from this legislation: a clear ban on the dual quality of products, Julia Reda, German Green MEP, stressed. “I regret to see that this Parliament is divided not on ideological lines, but on geographical lines, where Members from the western states seem to think that this deal is good enough, even though Parliament has given up on its position of banning dual quality and the Central and Eastern European members are asking for a better deal. The Greens/EFA Group is not divided on this.”
Katerina Konecna, GUE/NGL MEP from the Czech Republic, pointed out that the adopted directive is a “slap in the face for all consumers in the Member States of Eastern and Central Europe”. She warned that it will be perceived very negatively by the citizens of these Member States, and it will further deepen the divide between East and West.
Being saved in the Mediterranean should not be a 'ticket to Europe'
MEPs were unanimous that steps must be taken to stop the deaths at sea
Humanitarian assistance in the Mediterranean, NGOs' operations and the diverging positions of Member States were the topics of a heated debate, held on Wednesday in the EP plenary in Strasbourg with the Council and the Commission. Lawmakers deliberated whether the rescue activities of NGO vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, taking in people 20 miles from the Libyan coast and bringing them hundreds of miles away to Italy, is a crime or not.
MEPs approved on Wednesday the composition of its interparliamentary delegations. As in the previous legislative term, Parliament will have 44 interparliamentary delegations, maintaining relations with parliamentarians in other countries, regions and organisations.
Ursula von der Leyen is the next Commission President
She becomes the first woman to head the EU executive
Today evening in the plenary in Strasbourg MEPs backed Ursula von der Leyen as the next President of the European Commission. In a vote carried out by secret paper ballot, 383 lawmakers gave thumbs up on her nomination, to 327 and 22 abstained. Thus, von der Leyen becomes the first woman to head the EU executive.
Future of Europe in everyone's hands
EU Parliament approves €160bn for science and tech programmes
InvestEU will bring better jobs
Beefing up Frontex with 10,000 standing corps by 2027
Whistleblowers to receive better protection in EU
Internet firms have one hour to get rid of terrorist content
Life-saving technologies in vehicles become mandatory
New rules to reduce bank risks and protect taxpayers
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by Jeff Fannell in Football, NFL, Sports, Sports Issues, What's Up With That? 3 comments tags: Dan Snyder, Mascot Controversy, NFL, Redskins, Trademark, Whats up with that?
What’s Up With That?: Feds Intervene in Redskins Legal Battle
The Washington Redskins have a new opponent in their court fight to retain their controversial trademark: the Obama administration. Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice filed notice of its intention to intervene in the long-running battle over whether the Washington Redskins can legally maintain the trademark on their name. Last June, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the team’s trademarks upon finding that the marks and the name “Redskins” were disparaging to Native Americans. In the team’s appeal of that ruling the Redskins argued that the section of the Lanham Act that prohibits the registration of offensive trademarks was “overly vague and ambiguous” and impermissibly interfered with their First Amendment right to free speech. The team also claimed the ruling stripped the team its intellectual property rights in violation of the Fifth Amendment. The DOJ has joined the battle because the Redskins, in its appeal, raised a constitutional challenge against the Lanham Act, which is a federal law. The Department issued a statement declaring that it is “dedicated to defending the constitutionality of the important statute ensuring that trademark issues involving disparaging and derogatory language are dealt with fairly.” The statement went on to say that the Department will […]
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NBA FINALS Game 3: Raptors take advantage of depleted Warriors to snatch 2-1 series lead
June 15, 2019, 8:46 pm / flower-delivery-manila06395.full-design.com
Kawhi Leonard. NBA
OAKLAND, California — A career night from Curry could not turn a home-court advantage into a win for the Golden State Warriors as the Toronto Raptors steal one on the road after a rousing 123-109 Game 3 win in the NBA Finals at the Oracle Arena Thursday (Manila time).
Despite gunning for a career-high 47 points, Curry had little help from a team plagued by injuries, the most recent was to superstar starter Klay Thompson who suited up but did not play.
Kawhi Leonard on the other hand, dug deep after a scoreless second quarter to score 21 points in the second half to pace the Raptors with 30 points, six assists, and seven rebounds.
Kyle Lowry, together with the rest of the starting five of Marc Gasol, Pascal Siakam, and Danny Green, all scored in double digits.
The Raptor point guard, who traded seats frisking Curry on defence with Fred VanVleet, chipped in 23 points as the rest of more info the starters contributed the lion’s share of points with 106.
The series, which moved to Oakland from Toronto where GSW will be playing the final games of their franchise in the storied venue, saw the Raptors capture a pivotal 2-1 series lead.
The Warriors, sorely missed the services of Thompson who is contributing 19.5 points in the series. This is the first playoff game without Klay Thompson starting for the Warriors.
They are also rueing the loss of injured Kevin Durant, and Kevon Looney after only having two other players in twin digits apart from Curry who became the first player in 20 years to get at least 40 points 5 assists 5 rebounds before the fourth quarter.
Draymond Green pitched in 17 points, seven rebounds and four assists while Andre Iguodala, hero of Game 2, only managed 11 points in 31 minutes.
Toronto’s biggest lead was at 16 which came at different intervals of the game since the second half. The win has put the Raptors in the driver’s seat heading into Game 4 in Oakland on Friday (Saturday Manila time). via Ponciano Melo Jr.
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A Birth-Control Pill For Men?
Jesse Lyons, MIT September 20, 2012 April 5, 2017
There are many methods of contraception available for those of us who are interested in baby-making without making babies. For women, forms of birth control include hormones, physical barriers, and intrauterine devices. For men, the options are fewer and include barriers (condoms), semi-permanent solutions (vasectomy), and old-timey methods such as withdrawal and testicular warming.(a)
Developing reliable male birth control that is as simple as popping the female birth-control pill has been a holy grail of sorts in contraception research. Currently, there are clinical trials for hormonal male birth control in the U.S., while in India, researchers are testing a cheap, semi-permanent, reversible, injectable gel that kills sperm as it passes through the vas deferens. Adding to these approaches, a recent Cell paper out of James Bradner’s lab at the Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston describes a drug that appears to provide efficient, reversible, non-hormonal contraception in male mice.1
The Bradner group’s main focus is cancer therapeutics, particularly the targeting of proteins that interact with DNA. It turns out that one of the compounds they developed as an anti-cancer treatment (JQ1), also inhibits a protein that has been identified through genetic studies as a key regulator of male fertility. In their latest paper, the researchers tested whether JQ1 could function as a male contraceptive. The results look very promising. Mice treated with the drug showed decreased sperm count and motility.(b) When male mice undergoing treatment with JQ1 were allowed to mate, a once daily low-dose treatment prevented pregnancy in about half of the mice. Contraception was successful in the rest of the mice following prolonged twice-daily administration.(c) An ideal contraceptive should not only be highly effective but also reversible, and JQ1 was successful in this regard. Mice that had been on JQ1 for several months successfully sired pups one to two months after they were taken off the drug.
Functionally, JQ1 seems to possess all the attributes of an excellent contraceptive for men. It is effective, reversible and does not interfere with hormone levels or mating behavior. Right now, the main drawback seems to be administration of the drug, which required twice daily injections in some of the mice. The Bradner group is working on JQ1 derivatives that have stronger selectivity and availability. Hopefully, these derivatives will be amenable to less invasive methods of administration and we will see them in clinical trials in the near future.
How Gene Sequencing Is Forging A Path To Better Health
The Fight To End HIV In Children
Unlocking Cancer’s Genetic Secrets
M.M. Matzuk, M.R. McKeown, P. Filippakopoulos, Q. Li, L. Ma, J.E. Agno, M.E. Lemieux, S. Picaud, R.N. Yu, J. Qi, S. Knapp, J.E. Bradner (2012) “Small-Molecule Inhibition of BRDT for Male Contraception,” Cell, 150(4): 673-684.
(a) A vasectomy involves blocking the tubes that carry sperm. It is permanent (unless intentionally reversed) and is almost 100% effective, though in rare cases (1 in 1,000) the tubes can grow back and begin working again.
(b) Motility means movement. Sperm that can’t swim can’t reach the egg and can’t make a baby.
(c) Although the drug was 100% effective when given twice a day, the trial was small, involving only seven mice treated over a period of 6 months. Further study would be needed to demonstrate that the treatment works consistently in all mice.
Jesse Lyons
Science Editor
Jesse Lyons is a senior scientist at Torque Therapeutics, where he develops immunotherapies to treat cancer. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Systems Biology at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital studying Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Jesse received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences and Cancer Biology from the University of California San Francisco and a B.S. in Biochemistry from Columbia University.
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CAMP inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin complex-1 and -2 (mTORC1 and 2) by promoting complex dissociation and inhibiting mTOR kinase activity
Xie, J. and Ponuwei, G.A. and Moore, C.E. and Willars, G.B. and Tee, A.R. and Herbert, Terence (2011) CAMP inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin complex-1 and -2 (mTORC1 and 2) by promoting complex dissociation and inhibiting mTOR kinase activity. Cellular Signalling, 23 (12). pp. 1927-1935. ISSN 0898-6568
Full content URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
T Herbert cAMP inhibits.pdf
T Herbert cAMP inhibits.pdf - Whole Document
cAMP and mTOR signalling pathways control a number of critical cellular processes including metabolism, protein synthesis, proliferation and cell survival and therefore understanding the signalling events which integrate these two signalling pathways is of particular interest. In this study, we show that the pharmacological elevation of [cAMP]i in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) and human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) cells inhibits mTORC1 activation via a PKA-dependent mechanism. Although the inhibitory effect of cAMP on mTOR could be mediated by impinging on signalling cascades (i.e. PKB, MAPK and AMPK) that inhibit TSC1/2, an upstream negative regulator of mTORC1, we show that cAMP inhibits mTORC1 in TSC2 knockout (TSC2−/−) MEFs. We also show that cAMP inhibits insulin and amino acid-stimulated mTORC1 activation independently of Rheb, Rag GTPases, TSC2, PKB, MAPK and AMPK, indicating that cAMP may act independently of known regulatory inputs into mTOR. Moreover, we show that the prolonged elevation in [cAMP]i can also inhibit mTORC2. We provide evidence that this cAMP-dependent inhibition of mTORC1/2 is caused by the dissociation of mTORC1 and 2 and a reduction in mTOR catalytic activity, as determined by its auto-phosphorylation on Ser2481. Taken together, these results provide an important insight into how cAMP signals to mTOR and down-regulates its activity, which may lead to the identification of novel drug targets to inhibit mTOR that could be used for the treatment and prevention of human diseases such as cancer.
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NIH seeking new director for National Library of Medicine
Adam Fagen
Adam Fagen is Executive Director of the Genetics Society of America where he works with the GSA Board to promote the interests of the genetics community and serve the needs of GSA's 5,500+ members. He has a background in genetics, science policy, and science education. (bio)
National Library of Medicine (source: NIH Image Gallery)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications from exceptional candidates to be the next director of NIH’s National Library of Medicine (NLM).
NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library that maintains and makes available a broad range of print and electronic resources. Current NLM databases include GenBank, PubMed, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Following from the recent report of the NLM Working Group to the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, NLM is also poised to become “the intellectual and programmatic epicenter for data science at NIH and stimulate its advancement throughout biomedical research and applications.”
According to the vacancy announcement,
This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity for an exceptional leader to serve as the chief visionary for NLM and lead all aspects of this highly complex organization. The Director, NLM, is responsible for the management and direction of the world’s largest biomedical library, and will lead the organization in championing data science efforts. Scientists, health professionals, and the general public rely on robust, uninterrupted access to NLM’s digital resources. As an international leader in information innovation, the NLM also supports and conducts computational biology, data science and standards, biomedical communications, and health information technology.
The Director, NLM, serves as the principal advisor to the Director, NIH, concerning matters related to biomedical informatics and access to biomedical information with responsibilities for program planning, implementation and evaluation, keeping the NIH Director abreast of NLM developments, accomplishments, and needs as the relate to the overall mission of NIH. The Director, NLM, maintains continuous contact with outside industry and private interest groups, members of Congress, officials of other Federal agencies, and officials of foreign governments for the purpose of explaining the program, mission, and goals of informatics research and information access at NIH.
Applicants must possess a Ph.D., M.D., or comparable doctorate degree in a field of health science plus senior-level scientific experience and knowledge of research programs in one or more areas related to biomedical informatics, computational biology, data science and standards, biomedical communications, and health information technology. The individual should be known and respected, both nationally and internationally, within their profession as someone of scientific prominence, with a distinguished record of research accomplishments and leadership credentials. They should have demonstrated leadership and broad visionary capabilities in the research arena, with demonstrated ability to engage others to create and execute an organization’s vision; to navigate successfully within and collaborate across the public sector to achieve research objectives; and to optimize organizational performance by developing strategic priorities, setting and communicating clearly defined expectations, promoting accountability for results, and resolving operational problems and issues. Candidates should have demonstrated management acumen, including identification and management of financial and human resource needs; proven ability to make complex and strategic decisions to optimize resource usage, mitigate risks, and achieve desired results; and, the ability to build, mentor, motivate, and maintain a culturally diverse staff.
We believe there may be several excellent candidates among or known by the GSA community, and we encourage you to spread the word to those who may be interested.
Applications will be reviewed starting October 20, 2015, and will be accepted until the position is filled.
Undergrads open their eyes to flies
Genes to Genomes: a blog from the Genetics Society of America says:
[…] the home for such databases, as part of its mission to serve as the datascience hub at NIH. A search for the new NLM director is underway, with Green and Lorsch chairing the search […]
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Monday's Broadcast Ratings: ABC, "Bachelor in Paradise" Top Demo Race
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)
Primetime Preliminary Fast National Nielsen Data
(includes all DVR playback through 3:00 am)
Here are the highlights of the 12 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks last night (9/10/18):
[EDITOR'S NOTE: ABC stations in Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco and the CW station in New York carried NFL football, the numbers for which are included here but will be excluded from Officials.]
ABC (4.646 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.2, #1) pulled into the top demo spot on Monday with a new "Bachelor in Paradise" (5.274 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.4, #1) and a repeat "The Good Doctor" (3.391 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T5).
NBC (4.825 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.0, #2) then took home the silver with the season finale of "American Ninja Warrior" (5.635 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.2, #2) and a repeat "America's Got Talent" (3.206 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T5).
Next up was FOX (2.573 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.6, #3) with the season finale of "So You Think You Can Dance" (2.573 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T5).
Meanwhile, CBS (3.627 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.5, #4) offered up its mix of "The Big Bang Theory" (5.466 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 0.9, #3), "The CBS Fall Preview Show" (4.298 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.7, #4), "Salvation" (2.794 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T8) and "Elementary" (3.205 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T8).
And finally, repeats of "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" (1.534 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T10), "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (1.406 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T10) and another "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (1.341 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T10) on The CW (1.454 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.3, #5) rounded out the night.
Week-to-week changes (adults 18-49):
+33.33% - Salvation
+27.27% - Bachelor in Paradise
+20.00% - American Ninja Warrior
+20.00% - So You Think You Can Dance
-20.00% - Elementary
Year-to-year changes (adults 18-49):
+7.69% - Bachelor in Paradise
0.00% - So You Think You Can Dance
-25.00% - American Ninja Warrior
-30.00% - The CBS Fall Preview Show (vs. Kevin Can Wait (Repeat))
-33.33% - Elementary (vs. Scorpion (Repeat))
-55.56% - Salvation (vs. Mom/Life in Pieces (Repeats))
In late-night metered market ratings (via NBC's press release):
· In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 1.5/4; "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," 3.0/8; and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.5/4.
· In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 0.5/3; "Late Show," 0.5/3; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.4/2.
· From 12:35-1:05 a.m. ET, ABC's "Nightline" averaged a 0.9/3 in metered-market households and a 0.2/2 in 18-49 in the Local People Meters.
· From 12:35-1:35 a.m. ET, ratings were: "Late Night with Seth Meyers," 1.0/4 in metered-market households; CBS's "Late Late Show," 1.2/4. In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, averages were: "Late Night," 0.3/3 in 18-49; "Late Late Show," 0.2/2.
· At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.5/2 in metered-market households and a 0.2/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
Here are the highlights of the 12 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks one year ago (9/11/17):
NBC (5.148 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.3, #1) was still the top draw on Monday thanks to originals from "American Ninja Warrior" (6.306 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.6, #1) and "Midnight, Texas" (2.833 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T7).
Second place then went to ABC (4.227 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.1, #2) with the season finale of "Bachelor in Paradise" (4.828 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.3, #2) alongside a new "To Tell the Truth" (3.024 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T7).
Next up was CBS (4.667 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 0.9, #3) and its repeat lineup of "The Big Bang Theory" (6.350 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.1, #3), "Kevin Can Wait" (5.105 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T4), "Mom" (5.027 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T4), "Life in Pieces" (4.032 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.8, #6) and "Scorpion" (3.743 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T9).
Meanwhile, FOX (2.401 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.6, #4) offered up "So You Think You Can Dance" (2.401 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T9).
And finally, a repeat "Supergirl" (1.081 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T11) and the season finale of "Hooten & The Lady" (0.937 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T11) on The CW (1.009 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.2, #5) rounded out the night.
+6.67% - American Ninja Warrior
0.00% - Bachelor in Paradise
0.00% - Midnight, Texas
0.00% - Hooten & The Lady (vs. 8/28/17)
-12.50% - To Tell the Truth (vs. 8/28/17)
0.00% - Hooten & The Lady (vs. Supergirl (Repeat))
-5.88% - American Ninja Warrior
-14.29% - So You Think You Can Dance
-41.67% - Midnight, Texas (vs. Running Wild with Bear Grylls)
-50.00% - Bachelor in Paradise (vs. Dancing with the Stars)
-50.00% - To Tell the Truth (vs. $100,000 Pyramid)
· In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 2.0/5; "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," 2.0/5 with an encore; and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.5/4.
· In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 0.6/4; "Late Show," 0.3/2 with an encore; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.4/2.
· From 12:35-1:35 a.m. ET, ratings were: "Late Night with Seth Meyers," 1.1/4 in metered-market households with an encore; CBS's "Late Late Show," 0.9/3. In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, averages were: "Late Night," 0.4/3 in 18-49; "Late Late Show," 0.2/1.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
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China Bat Group, Inc. Enters into Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Liten Group Co., Ltd.
GlobeNewswire • April 10, 2019
BEIJING, April 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- China Bat Group, Inc. ( GLG ) (the " Company "), an emerging used luxurious car rental service provider headquartered in Beijing, China, today announced that the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Beijing Tianxing Kunlun Technology Co., Limited, entered into a strategic cooperation agreement (the “ Agreement ”) with Liten Group Co., Ltd. (Liten Group), a private company specializing in high-end automobile retail and operation of its automobile theme park, Dream Factory.
Pursuant to the Agreement signed on April 10, 2019, both parties agreed to establish a comprehensive long-term strategic partnership in the fields of automobile sourcing channels, automobile finance and car rental.
As part of the Agreement, both parties expect to jointly use their own advantages to provide all-round business support to each other, and jointly promote the upgrade of the high-end car rental industry chain through business cooperation and innovation. The scope of cooperation covers, but is not limited to business communication, technical support, marketing and resource sharing. The Agreement is effective for 2 years.
Mr. Jiaxi Gao, CEO and President of China Bat Group, Inc., comments, “We are pleased to partner with the Liten Group in a long-term strategic relationship as we leverage our Batcar brand and digital platform to provide a unique experience for luxurious car rentals. The Liten Group has consistently been on the forefront of trends in the automotive industry as an established award-winning industry player and we believe Liten Group’s trust in us is a testament to our capabilities and an exciting privilege for us.”
About China Bat Group, Inc.
China Bat Group, Inc. ( GLG ) is an emerging used luxurious car rental service provider in China. The used luxurious car business is conducted under the brand name “BatCar” by the Company’s VIE entity, Tianxing Kunlun Technology Co. Ltd, from its headquarters in Beijing. Utilizing a streamlined, digital, transaction process, the Company endeavors to provide the best possible rental experience for its customers. For more information please visit https://www.imbatcar.com .
About Liten Group Co., Ltd.
Established in 2002 with headquarters in Wenzhou, China, Liten Group Co., Ltd. (“Liten Group”) is a private company specializing in high-end automobile retail and operation of its automobile theme park, Dream Factory. Liten Group was ranked among the Top 100 auto dealerships in China in 2012 for the first time and was nominated in the Chinese “Auto Circulation 10 billion Dealer Group” in 2017. Liten Group also participates in various fields of investment in finance and environmental protection. Currently, the company has more than 20 wholly-owned or controlled subsidiaries with over 1,300 employees in China. For more information please visit http://liten.cn/index.aspx .
This press release may contain certain "forward-looking statements" relating to the business of China Commercial Credit, Inc. and its subsidiary companies. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects" or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including those discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website at http://www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
Ms. Tina Xiao
Ascent Investor Relations LLC
Email: tina.xiao@ascent-ir.com
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I don’t suppose there will ever be another week in my life in which I go through an earthquake and a hurricane. I certainly hope not. Having grown up in Scotland on the shores of the North Sea, I am no stranger to gale-force winds and torrential rain, but these suburban houses aren’t built with two-foot stone walls to withstand the elements. On Sunday morning after a long, sleepless night and a near miss from an enormous snapped-off tree branch, my husband and I felt fortunate that our house emerged from Hurricane Irene with the power still on and the basement dry.
Our recent double whammy from Mother Nature brought to mind a story by Jack London that describes the horror of a cyclone striking a low-lying atoll in the South Pacific. The story, called The House of Maputi, is set in the Tuamotus Islands, which are a long chain of atolls (an atoll is a flat coral island consisting of a ring of land round an inner lagoon) roughly 200 miles north and east of Tahiti. In the 19th and early 20th century, they were the center of the Polynesian pearl shell industry, and people from all the other islands in the South Pacific would flock to the Tuamotus during diving season to find work.
When a cyclone (as hurricanes are called in the Pacific) hits an atoll, there is no escape - no hills to climb to escape the enormous waves or to shelter from the battering winds. The only way to go is up – into the coconut palms.
In Jack London’s story, a trader named Alexandre Raoul lands on the tiny island of Hikueru to bargain for a magnificent pearl. As the cyclone roars in, he lashes himself to the top of a writhing palm tree, and from this perilous perch, watches the clusters of people clinging to the treetops like “bunches of human fruit.” As the wind increases, he sees trees being uprooted, “flinging [their] load of human beings to the ground. A sea [wave] washed across the strip of sand, and they were gone… He saw a brown shoulder and a black head silhouetted against the churning white of the lagoon. The next instant that too had vanished... The bunches of human fruit fell like ripe cocoanuts. The subsiding wave showed them on the ground, some lying motionless, others squirming and writhing.”
Jack London was using his imagination but he was describing a real hurricane, one that had struck the Tuamotus on January 13th 1903. Between the winds and the accompanying forty-foot tidal wave, 377 people were killed, and not a building remained on Hikueru, which had previously been a sizeable community of houses, churches and warehouses.
Among the dead was Alexander Brander, the oldest son of Princess Titaua (my biography of whom has just been published) who had been living on the island and selling pearl shell and copra to visiting schooners. His common-law wife and one of his two daughters also perished in the storm. And three years later, another hurricane was to claim the life of yet another of the cast of characters in Children of Eden. Narii Salmon, the handsome and gentle youngest son of Ariitaimai and Alexander Salmon, was drowned along with his son when his trading schooner was smashed to pieces in the even more ferocious cyclone of 1906.
Thus can fiction illuminate the bald facts of people’s lives.
Labels: Children of Eden
When the earth moved
I was lying on my bed on Tuesday afternoon just before 2pm when my house distinctly shuddered. As I sat up in alarm, the shudder became a violent shaking, like sudden turbulence on a plane. I staggered along the upstairs hallway, wailing with fear and confusion. I couldn’t think straight but my mind reeled with visions of a massive gas explosion or a bomb blast. But the reverberations went on and on, and I clung to the banister while the house heaved and rattled and rumbled around me. It felt like the world was ending.
It wasn’t till the movement finally subsided that I was able to uproot myself and run for the front door. My neighbor shot out of his house barefoot, looking as stunned as I must have looked to him. “What the f--- was that?” we called to each other, and he pointed to my windows which were still gently undulating. I hadn’t thought solid matter capable of moving like that. Still thinking it might have been an explosion, I dialed 911 with shaking hands but got a busy signal. But within five minutes every TV channel had switched to emergency coverage and was announcing that we’d just had the strongest earthquake on the east coast since 1897.
It turns out that where I live in Maryland is part of an “active seismic zone” centered on a faultline that runs through central Virginia, south of Washington DC. And apparently there have been 200 earthquakes in this area just since 1977. I even remember feeling a couple of them - in one the house shuddered under me once as if a particularly heavy truck had just driven by and in another I was woken in the night by our window air conditioner unit seeming to move and settle in the window. So I’d come to think of earthquakes on the eastern seaboard as being a barely perceptible shiver in the earth.
But this was a whole different ballgame. Because it was so utterly unfamiliar and unexpected, it felt supernatural, as if a great wizard had pointed his wand at the land and said: “Commoveo!” (That’s the Latin imperative for shaking something violently – I looked it up.) In fact, I remember wondering as I clung to the banister if this was what Judgment Day would feel like.
In describing his experience of the 1835 Concepción earthquake in Chile, Charles Darwin, while remaining calmly scientific in his account, described exactly the “strange idea of insecurity” that being shaken like dice in nature’s palm produces.
“I happened to be on shore, and was lying down in the wood to rest myself. It came on suddenly, and lasted two minutes, but the time appeared much longer… There was no difficulty in standing upright, but the motion made me almost giddy: it was something like the movement of a vessel in a little cross-ripple, or still more like that felt by a person skating over thin ice, which bends under the weight of his body. A bad earthquake at once destroys our oldest associations: the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a fluid; - one second of time has created in the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would not have produced. In the forest, as a breeze moved the trees, I felt only the earth tremble, but saw no other effect. Captain FitzRoy and some officers were at the town during the shock, and there the scene was more striking; for although the houses, from being built of wood, did not fall, they were violently shaken, and the boards creaked and rattled together. The people rushed out of doors in the greatest alarm. It is these accompaniments that create that perfect horror of earthquakes, experienced by all who have thus seen, as well as felt, their effects.”
Perfect horror though it was while it lasted, I’m glad I went through it, especially as no one was killed or badly injured, because nothing is more valuable to a writer than first-hand experience. And I now know my imagination would never have done it justice.
By the North Sea
Jim Tribble, myself, and Glenn Jones
Picture courtesy of Kevin Dunion
I’ve just come back home to the suburbs of Washington DC after a three-week visit to the United Kingdom – hence the absence of posts on Midatlantic over the last month. I spent lots of quality time with my mother and other family and friends, but my trip was also notable for the launch of my booklet-length biography of Princess Titaua of Tahiti (From the South Seas to the North Sea) in my home town of Anstruther on Thursday July 28th.
Two events on that day celebrated the Princess. In the afternoon, there was a ceremony to mark the installation of a plaque on the outside of Titaua’s Anstruther house, Johnston Lodge. Placing blue information plaques on the exterior of buildings that have been lived in by notable people is a tradition in Britain, and this was the Princess’s turn. A group of people gathered in the rain to commemorate the event. A local historian, Dr. Stephanie Stevenson and I each said a few words, and a couple of photographers took our pictures for the local press. Although the weather was a bit uncomfortable, it felt appropriate because the same conditions prevailed at the Princess’s funeral in the same town 113 years ago. Afterwards, we hurried down the road for tea and biscuits at the marvelous Scottish Fisheries Museum, where I used to work in the school holidays.
The rain had stopped by the evening when the Kilrenny and Anstruther Burgh Collection held a reception at the town’s bookshop, East Neuk Books, to celebrate the Burgh Collection's publication of From the South Seas to the North Sea. I gave a short talk and slideshow about the Princess’s life in Tahiti and her strong connections with Scotland. The evening was particularly memorable for me for the chance to reacquaint myself with some old friends from my childhood, including my outstanding and inspiring high school English teacher, Alistair Leslie, still going strong in his mid-80s.
My thanks to Glenn Jones and Jim Tribble, the chairman and publications officer of the Kilrenny and Anstruther Burgh Collection, for their efforts in bringing the booklet to fruition and to John Barker of East Neuk Books for hosting the launch. And to everyone who came and bought copies! All proceeds will benefit the Burgh Collection’s work in preserving the written and oral history of Anstruther.
The evident interest that the Princess’s story evoked in Scotland has led me to decide to write a longer book about Titaua and her two Scottish husbands, focusing on her great love for her second husband which estranged her from her children and caused her to die 10,000 miles from home. Of course this will be in addition to Children of Eden, the book I am already writing on the Princess’s Anglo-Tahitian birth family, the Salmons. At this rate, I may spend the rest of my professional life working on this story but I can’t think of more interesting and enjoyable way to spend it.
From the South Seas to the North Sea: The Story of Princess Titaua of Tahiti can be ordered from: East Neuk Books, Rodger Street, Anstruther, KY10 3DU by phone (01144-1333 310474) or e-mail (eastneukbooks@tiscali.co.uk). The book costs £4.99 (£3.25 for bulk purchases) plus £1.50 postage for UK orders or £2.50 for overseas orders.
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Brewers Host Dodgers for NLCS Opener
2018 NLCS Shows Promise of a Classic
The 2018 NLCS features the “Never Give Up’ Milwaukee Brewers and the Home Run Crazy Los Angeles Dodgers.
It didn’t take long for the Milwaukee Brewers (96-67, plus-23.13 betting units) to sweep the Colorado Rockies out of the National League playoffs. The Los Angeles Dodgers (92-71, minus-22.83 units) had to put in a little more work against the Atlanta Braves.
They still got the job done in four games.
TV: 8:09 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1; Odds: Dodgers -155-moneyline favorites. Total is 7 Under -123.
Milwaukee is on a roll with 11 consecutive victories. That is including a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies in the NL Division Series. They own home-field advantage after posting the best record (96-67) in the NL.
Los Angeles will try to grab the early lead behind left-hander Clayton Kershaw. He who tossed eight innings of two-hit shutout ball during a victory in the NL Division Series against the Atlanta Braves.
The Dodgers smacked eight homers during their four-game series against the Braves with shortstop Manny Machado and infielder Max Muncy each hitting two.
Pitching Matchup
Dodgers LH Clayton Kershaw (1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. Brewers LH Gio Gonzalez (regular season: 10-11, 4.21).
Kershaw put together one of his top postseason performances in the win over Atlanta. He improved to 8-7 with a 4.08 ERA in 25 career appearances (20 starts).
The 30-year-old was 1-1 with a 2.25 ERA in two turns against Milwaukee this season and stands 6-5 with a 2.86 ERA in 14 career starts against the Brewers.
Gonzalez went 3-0 with a 2.13 ERA in five starts after being acquired from the Washington Nationals. He hasn’t pitched since Sept. 30. The 33-year-old hasn’t earned a decision in six career postseason starts. He has given up 19 walks in only 26 1/3 innings.
This and That for the NLCS
But has fared well against the Dodgers by going 4-1 with a 1.89 ERA in six career outings.
The Dodgers went 4-3 against the Brewers in the regular season and smacked seven homers in a 21-5 home victory Aug. 2.
Los Angeles 1B Cody Bellinger, who hit a grand slam in the August blowout win, is hitless in 11 at-bats during the postseason.
Christian Yelich batted .433 with two homers, one triple and four doubles in 30 at-bats against the Dodgers this season.
Dodgers is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games
LA Dodgers is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
LA Dodgers is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Dodgers is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of LA Dodgers’s last 6 games on the road
LA Dodgers is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee
The total has gone OVER in 8 of LA Dodgers’s last 12 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee
Mil is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
Milwaukee is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Milwaukee is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Milwaukee’s last 10 games at home
Milwaukee is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against LA Dodgers
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Milwaukee’s last 12 games when playing at home against LA Dodgers
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Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell," the "autobiography's" supposed editor. The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. The novel merges elements of three distinct genres. It has the form of a Bildungsroman, a story about a child's maturation, focusing on the emotions and experiences that accompany growth to adulthood. The novel also contains much social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, and finally has the brooding and moody quality and Byronic character typical of Gothic fiction. It is a novel often considered ahead of its time due to its portrayal of the development of a thinking and passionate young woman who is both individualistic, desiring for a full life, while also highly moral. Jane evolves from her beginnings as a poor and plain woman without captivating charm to her mature stage as a compassionate and confident whole woman. As she matures, she comments much on the complexities of the human condition. Jane also has a deeply pious personal trust in God, but is also highly self-reliant. Although Jane suffers much, she is never portrayed as a damsel in distress who needs rescuing. For this reason, it is sometimes regarded as an important early feminist (or proto-feminist) novel.
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Meet the New English Department Professors
By Sadie Proud on November 9, 2018
With the new school year in full swing, Haverford College is welcoming three new visiting assistant professors to its English department. I had the pleasure of being able to talk to all three of them to get their insights on why they are here, what they are excited about teaching, and what they would like the Haverford community to know about them.
Sarah Watson, who recently received her Ph.D. in English literature from University of Pennsylvania, said that she is loving the people, atmosphere, and her introduction into the Quaker parts of the school. Watson has loved reading from a young age, and was inspired to become an English teacher by the excellent English teachers she had in high school and college. Teaching English is the best way to “share my passion for literature with others,” she explained.
Her current classes, Contemporary Women Writers and Topics in Middle English: Body Talk, compel students to explore how gender roles have evolved throughout time. Contemporary Women Writers, which Watson describes as focusing on “chick-lit as a provocative term for women’s writing,” includes classics like Pride and Prejudice through Bridget Jones’ Diary to more “out of the canon” novels like Waiting to Exhale on its syllabus. While Watson has always been interested in famous female writers like “the Brontës” of the world, a class on medieval literature and French writer Christine de Pizan revealed to her that the feminist ideas that she had always been drawn to were showing up very similarly in work from centuries earlier. Her other class focuses more on this line of study, highlighting how medieval texts talk about the body in regards gender, race, and even medicine.
When she’s not reading or teaching, Watson loves bird watching, making jewelry, and dancing. While she is classically trained in ballet, she has recently gotten into Nia, which she described as “like Zumba but a lot more zen and creative.”
Gabriel Sessions, who also joins us from the University of Pennsylvania, said that he feels like he seamlessly fits into our community. “[I] instantly felt a connection with the quality of life here, the mission,” he said.
As an only child, Sessions has always had a vivid imagination and loved to write, but was drawn to teaching after taking a course in his senior year of college at Wesleyan University, called a Poetry and Visual Culture. Sessions was particularly inspired by the teaching of scholar and poet Elizabeth Willis. He explained that he is currently teaching Art Against Fascism, a discussion-driven six-person class, and is advising senior English major theses, which he said that he feels are both incredible insights into the community and the engagement of Haverford students. In the spring, he will be taking on a greater class load, dealing with a variety of his different interests. In the future, he hopes to teach a class called, Adultery, Cheating, and Plagiarism, which will analyze the etymology of the word “adultery” and the connection between its taboo nature and plagiarism as we see it in our daily lives. Another class he hopes to teach, Topics in British Lit: British Cool, will deal with what Sessions describes as “20th century interpretations of Britishness” and will address the historical trajectory of the globalization of the English language. Overall, Sessions said that he hopes this class will answer the question: “is there a specific advantage enjoyed by British literary tradition and British art?” with a variety of media and authors as examples. A third class Sessions plans to teach, The Novel and Climate Change: Environments in Fiction since 1900, will address how novels portray environments and represent non-human actors, ranging from books like “Frankenstein” to more direct climate change focused literature.
While he highly recommends taking his classes, Sessions is most enthusiastic about a passion project he also has in store for next semester. This project will have a bit more of an environmental spin and will be a sort of symposium to serve as “an opportunity for tri-co students to share either academic essays or original creative work of any kind… centered around the question how we will remain at home as we are inheriting an earth that is changing and arguably doomed.”
A classical guitarist, he is fascinated by a various forms of art and expression and would even love to incorporate everything from written pieces to dance into the day. He encourages interested students to reach out to him if they are interested in helping to plan or participating.
Reema Rajbanshi, a New York City native, is also is visiting for the year with an emphasis on film. This semester she is teaching a course called Third World Cinema: Desiring Freedoms, Freeing Desires, which also touches upon her research interests in Brazil and South Asia. Next semester, she will be teaching courses on unfree labor and literatures of the anthropocene, both with a focus on visual materials like photography and film. She is also particularly interested in the concept of decolonization, which she views as “a very current demand for those of us in Native American Indigenous Studies and/or from communities living with the unburied bones of coloniality [including classroom space]”. On this thread, she would love to get the Haverford community thinking about questions like: “How can we be more collaborative and generous?” and “How can we value varied knowledges more equally and in a less zero sum manner?”
When asked about her favorite part of the community so far she noted, “I love the natureculture mash-up of the campus and how conscientious so many students are . . . sorely needed right now if we are re-imagining alternative futures!”
In her free time, Professor Rajbanshi loves dance and music and is always on the lookout for new experiences in the Philadelphia area and around New York City.
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How Much Work Brings Happiness? Not Much, Study Shows
By wpadmin | June 19, 2019
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2019 — Having a job can be a boon to mental well-being, but for many of us, it only takes one day of work per week, a new study suggests.
The study, of more than 70,000 adults in the United Kingdom, found that when unemployed people found a job, their mental health typically improved. But, on average, it only took eight hours of work per week — with no sign of extra benefits with more time on the job.
The one-day work week may not be a reality any time soon. Nor would it likely satisfy people who thrive on the job.
But the findings do suggest that when it comes to mental health, many people would be fine working less than the standard 40 hours, according to researchers Brendan Burchell and Daiga Kamerade-Hanta.
“We aren’t advocating an immediate jump to one-day work weeks,” Burchell said. “Our results came as a surprise to us.”
But it makes sense to consider what the standard work week should look like in the future, the researchers said. In time, they argue, “automatization of jobs” will result in fewer work opportunities; if everyone were to work less than the 40-hour norm, that could open up more jobs.
That, in turn, could bring a number of benefits, like “less consumerism” and more family time, Burchell said.
“There is some evidence for this in countries where there has been a reduction in average working hours over the past few decades, such as Germany,” he noted.
Still, people do not work solely for their mental well-being, he acknowledged. There are practical matters like paying for housing and food, and saving for the kids’ college tuition. But, Burchell said, some people can afford to work fewer hours — like “empty nesters” with higher incomes and savings.
The University of Cambridge researchers based their findings on data from a long-term health study of more than 70,000 Britons. All were surveyed at least twice between 2009 and 2018.
Among other things, the participants completed a questionnaire asking about issues like anxiety, depression, sleep problems and difficulty with concentration.
The study focused on people who, at some point, were either unemployed or not working because they were caring for family or had an illness or disability. The researchers found that when those people later found paid work, their mental well-being typically improved.
But on average, it only took one to eight work hours per week, the findings showed.
And among employed people, those working less than a standard 37- to 40-hour work week were as healthy mentally as those with standard hours.
The researchers tried to account for various explanations: For example, are people who work eight hours per week feeling good because their spouse makes enough money to support the family?
But household income and marital status did not explain the finding — nor did the number of children in the family, the person’s age or physical health.
Of course, the study is looking at averages in a large group.
James Maddux, a senior scholar with the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., pointed out that “it’s impossible to make conclusions about any individual person.”
Much would depend on personality, according to Maddux, who reviewed the findings. For example, he said, there’s what psychologists call the “conscientious” personality. Those people might need more paid work in order to feel like they’re contributing to society.
For others, Maddux said, work gives needed structure to the day or social connections.
“There’s also a difference between a job and a career,” he said. Those on a career path might only be happy when they are improving their skills and climbing the proverbial ladder.
Another question is whether the findings would be similar in the United States, where health insurance and other benefits are tied to work hours, and where views about work may differ.
It’s been said, Maddux noted, that “Americans live to work, while Europeans work to live” — though that’s a gross generalization, he added.
Burchell said his team is now studying whether the pattern holds true in other countries, though the United States is not among them.
The findings were published online June 18 in the journal Social Science and Medicine.
Mental Health America has more on workplace wellness.
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Dirk Nowitzki Moves Into Sixth on All-Time Scoring List
Hooped Up December 24, 2015
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Former MVP and perennial all-star Dirk Nowitzki moved into sixth place on the all-time scoring list, passing Shaquille O’Neal.
“That was a moment I’ll never forget the rest of my life,” said Nowitzki, who scored 22 points in the victory, giving him 28,609 for his career. “It’s surreal passing Shaq, all-time great, legend. I was able to compete against him for a long, long time. I was a fan of his in the ’90s. Arguably the most dominant big man ever seen in this game. It’s sort of weird that I’m up there now with all these legends, but like I always say, I’m really going to enjoy this once my career is over.”
— Dirk Nowitzki (@swish41) December 24, 2015
Still very productive at 37 years old, this season Nowitzki is averaging 17.5 points per game shooting 48.3% from the field and 40.4% from downtown.
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The Constitution??? What Constitution???
Congress continues to cede its powers to the dictatorship
by Bob Livingston
President Barack Obama appointed an Ebola czar and aside from some GOP caterwauling over the fact that Ron Klain is simply a political hack with no “medical” experience, nothing else was said.
Never mind that, according to the Constitution Article II, Section 2, the president must have the “Advice and Consent of the Senate… [to] appoint… public Ministers and Consuls…” The word “czar” is of Balkan origin etymologically originating from the name “Caesar” and is, therefore, a title of nobility. Never mind that, according to Article I, Section 9, “No Title of Nobility shall be granted in the United States.”
Supposed conservatives like Senator Ted Cruz have called on Obama to formulate a policy for handling the Ebola crisis, particularly in the area of travel restrictions and border security. Never mind that Article I, Section 1 grants all legislative powers to the Congress and Article II, Section 1 only grants the president the power to execute laws passed by Congress. And never mind that it is the job of Congress under Article I, Section 8, to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations” and “to provide for calling forth the Militia to… repel invasions” and to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.”
Calling a cabinet minister an exotic-sounding name in no way absolves the president of his constitutional requirement to gain the advice and consent of the Senate prior to the appointment. Ceding authority to the president to regulate commerce (travel) and protect the border in no way absolves Congress of its constitutional authority to regulate commerce and protect the border.
The Constitution and the rule of law no longer matter to Congress or the president. They ignore the Constitution without consequence. The result is an increasingly powerful “elected” dictatorship.
http://personalliberty.com/congress-continues-cede-powers-dictatorship/
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UN to Ivory Coast's defeated Prez allies: Do not attack peacekeepers
The United Nations chief warned on Thursday the followers of Laurent Gbagbo--the defeated president of Ivory Coast--to withdraw its threat to attack a UN-protected facility that is housing the newly-elected president Alassane Ouattara or face prosecution for war crimes.
The warning came from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a reaction over a threat made on Wednesday by Charles Ble Goude, a government minister who heads the militant Young Patriots youth group and a Gbagbo's trusted enforcer, to "liberate the Golf Hotel with our bare hands" on Saturday.
In a statement from his office, Ban was alarmed that an attack on the hotel could "provoke widespread violence that could reignite civil war." The Abidjan hotel houses 800 UN peacekeepers who are protecting Ouattara and close allies.
The statement said, "Any attack against peacekeepers constitutes a crime under international law, for which the perpetrators and those who instigate them will be held accountable."
Alarmed over the development in Ivory Coast, the White House sent a Pentagon team to Abidjan on Tuesday to assess the situation and possible evacuation of its diplomats and citizens from the country.
The US and former colonial master, France, are considering the possibility of augmenting the UN troops, the State Department announced this week.
However, UN officials say there are 9,000 troops in the country and there is no immediate need for reinforcement.
A country with 20 million inhabitants, Ivory Coast was once a model of stability and prosperity in West Africa. The country has been in chaos since the 28 November elections when both candidates declared victory in the presidential bid.
The electoral commission of Ivory Coast declared the 68-year-old Outtara the winner in the polls that was certified by the UN, which was rejected by the constitutional council, chaired by a Gbagbo ally.
Visit this link for more details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/30/AR2010123004235.html
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Letter from Founding Director
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Letter from Founding DirectorTradition of Jewish Studies at UCB
The Tradition of Jewish Studies at Berkeley
Jewish Studies has had a representation on the Berkeley campus since 1897, when it was taught by Max Margolis, who subsequently played a key role in the first Jewish Publication Society translation of the Bible. For many decades, UC Berkeley had only one or two faculty members in this field. During my own forty-seven years as a UC faculty member, the program has undergone several significant developments, of which the newly created Center is certainly the most exciting.
In the early 1970s, a small group of faculty whose teaching and research were primarily in Jewish Studies informally constituted themselves as a Committee on Jewish Studies. We had no budget, no staff, no office, and for a long time no official appointment from the University. Despite all this, we managed to gain momentum, especially as a graduate program, in large part because members of our group were producing original scholarship that rapidly gained an international reputation. A stream of unusually gifted students came to study at Berkeley — it has been my own abiding pleasure to work with them over the years — and this development was reinforced in 1978 with the inauguration of a Joint Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies with the Graduate Theological Union. The JDP was a great success, even in the face of some bureaucratic challenges in integrating the two institutions, and it produced a good many distinguished students now occupying positions at major universities in the United States, England, and Israel. Due to a reduction in the number of regular faculty in Jewish Studies at GTU, a review of the program by the UC Graduate Council in 2011 recommended discontinuing the program. We acted on this recommendation and have replaced the JDP with a Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies, which is analogous to a minor in a student’s doctoral program. I should emphasize that through all this period of enheartening growth, our program had to continue to struggle without substantial budgetary support from the University. We were given a tiny office, on loan from Comparative Literature for six years, and we were allowed to hire an administrator though, alas, without money for her salary. We covered this for a year with a gift from a donor and then began to run up a large debt to the College of Letters and Science. Eventually, the Dean’s new office blew the whistle on all this — we lost our administrator and our little office, and the running of the program was folded into the already overloaded burden of the staff at the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
All this has dramatically changed over the past few years, and as someone who has been involved in Jewish Studies at Berkeley through these many decades, I personally feel more excitement and hopefulness about the program than I have experienced at any earlier moment. The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor has provided extremely generous start-up funds that will enable the Center to function vigorously in its foundational years. We all view this as a strong vote of confidence in Jewish Studies on the part of the University. By the end of our first three-year period, we expect to raise sufficient funds to assure a permanent future for the Center. We now have two splendidly capable staff persons, one our Executive Director, the other responsible for student affairs, and have begun the process of hiring a third, a part-time administrative assistant. We have on loan a capacious triple-size office that we were able to reconfigure for the needs of the Center, and are in conversation with the University on plans for a permanent home. With a visible office, staff, and a faculty enlarged by professors from departments where we previously had no presence, all of us involved in Jewish Studies at Berkeley sense that there is now a vibrant focus for our program that did not exist before. We are, moreover, expecting to welcome two new faculty members in the fall of 2015 and potentially a third in 2016. We all feel that we now have a powerful wind in our sails, and we look forward eagerly to future developments.
–Robert Alter, Founding Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
4401 Dwinelle Hall
jewishstudies@berkeley.edu
Center for Jewish Studies – University of California, Berkeley
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Morrison package expands child abuse training, mandated reporter requirements
SPRINGFIELD – After years of working with advocates and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), State Senator Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield) has passed a proposal reforming the confusing set of state rules governing reporting child abuse in Illinois.
“The first step in addressing potential child abuse is the reporting of that behavior,” Morrison said. “If abuse is not being reported – or if individuals don’t know the signs of abuse or who to even report to – the entire system is in jeopardy of not working, leaving abused children in dangerous situations.”
Villivalam leads the charge against local right-to-work laws
Crowe seeks harsher penalties for child endangerment
SPRINGFIELD – State Senator Rachelle Crowe (D-Glen Carbon) is pushing legislation for stronger sentences on those who intentionally harm a child’s physical, mental or emotional health.
The measure creates a mid-level offense for a guardian who knowingly deprives a child of food, shelter, supervision and health care.
“Deliberately punishing a child to the point of starvation is despicable,” Crowe said. “This legislation is critical to holding parents and guardians accountable for their actions for the well-being of the child.”
Harmon looks to set statewide standard for alcohol delivery
SPRINGFIELD – State Senator Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) advanced legislation today that would set a statewide standard for alcohol delivery from retailers.
Senate Bill 54 would allow grocery stores and other licensed retailers to deliver alcohol to the homes of consumers if certain conditions, including age verification and training, are met.
“More and more people are ordering their groceries online,” Harmon said. “We want to keep up with this modern way of shopping and make sure that any retailers who want to provide this service to their customers are confident that they will be able to deliver anywhere in the state.”
Villivalam moves to crack down on assault and harassment against hotel and casino employees
SPRINGFIELD – Legislation to improve the safety of hotel and casino employees passed the Senate today.
“I’m proud that the first piece of legislation I filed in Springfield proactively ensures that workers at hotels and casinos are protected against sexual assault and sexual harassment,” Senator Villivalam (D-Chicago) said. “One of my top legislative priorities is furthering protections for working people in Illinois, and this bill protect some of the hardest working people in the hospitality industries.”
Senate Bill 75 calls for hotels and casinos to ensure that a sexual harassment policy is in place to protect their employees. In addition, it requires that employees who work in closed spaces have access to a safety button or notification device that would alert security to the presence of assailants.
Similar measures have been adopted in Chicago, Seattle, New York City, and Miami Beach. In the wake of this movement, a number of prominent hotel operators have voluntarily pledged to roll out safety buttons by 2020, including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, and InterContinental Hotels Group.
“No one deserves to feel unsafe in their work environment,” Villivalam said. “By following the example of some of the nation’s most populous cities, we will provide a safer and more productive workplace to those who work at these facilities. I also want to thank UNITE HERE, the Hotel and Motel Association and Caesars Entertainment for their advocacy on this legislation.”
The legislation now moves to the House for consideration.
Senate approves Ellman’s plan for scholarships for non-traditional trade students
NAPERVILLE – Non-traditional students pursuing vocational training would be eligible for a new scholarship program under legislation from State Senator Laura Ellman (D-Naperville).
“Let’s encourage more students, especially later in life, to take advantage of our trade schools by taking the financial burden off of their shoulders,” Ellman said. “This scholarship gives opportunity to those who are seeking new jobs thus fueling our markets and economy.”
Democratic lawmakers file legislation to amend Constitution to allow for a fair tax
Lawmakers, advocates stress importance of accurate 2020 Census count
SPRINGFIELD – Senate lawmakers and advocates gathered Thursday to stress the importance of getting a full and accurate count in Illinois during the 2020 Census.
Assistant Majority Leader Iris Y. Martinez spoke to the potential consequences of an undercount.
“The census is used to determine federal funding and representation for our state,” Martinez (D-Chicago) said. “That means, if we are undercounted, we stand to lose billions in federal funding, along with two congressional seats and two Electoral College votes.”
Martinez is the sponsor of legislation, contained in Senate Bill 1408, that would appropriate $25 million to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to provide grants to community providers and local governments for the purposes of encouraging full participation in the 2020 federal census.
Koehler passes resolution honoring 100th anniversary of Easterseals
SPRINGFIELD – A resolution sponsored by State Senator Dave Koehler (D-Peoria) honoring the 100 years of work done by Easterseals, America’s largest nonprofit health care organization, was adopted by the Illinois Senate today.
“The work in the community that Easterseals does is irreplaceable,” Koehler said. “This resolution helps us honor that work and remind people of the struggles the different communities Easterseals serves are faced with every day.”
Senate Resolution 199 declares April 3, 2019, as “Easterseals Day” in Illinois, 100 years to the day Edgar Allen founded the National Society for Crippled Children, which grew into the Easterseals.
Munoz measure responds to issues with asphalt plant in McKinley Park
SPRINGFIELD – Assistant Majority Leader Tony Munoz (D-Chicago) is leading legislation in response to an oversight by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency that left McKinley Park residents blindsided by the construction of an asphalt plant in their neighborhood.
“The public has every right to know when a facility that may affect their health is moving into their community,” Munoz said. “There is no reason why McKinley Park residents weren’t given ample notice regarding the asphalt plant, and we don’t want to see another community put in the same situation.”
Last year, McKinley Park residents received only a two week notice before construction on an asphalt plant began. Munoz held a town hall in July to discuss the issue with the community resulting in the legislation that was approved in the Senate on Thursday.
Senate Bill 1847 requires the IEPA to provide notice when a permit is required to construct a new facility to the state senator and state representative of the district where the construction is to occur and post the information on its website, searchable by ZIP code.
A permit is required to construct any facility capable of causing or contributing to air and water pollution or designed to prevent air and water pollution. If no action is taken by the IEPA within 90 days of filing the application, the permit is considered issued.
The measure heads to the House for consideration.
Lawmakers lay out choices for Illinois taxpayers
Morrison on nomination of new DCFS director: Announcement offers chance to restructure troubled agency
SPRINGFIELD – State Senator Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield), Chair of the Senate Human Services Committee, released the following statement this afternoon after news that Gov. Pritzker has nominated Marc D. Smith to lead the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS):
“Today’s announcement by the governor begins what I hope will be a new chapter for an agency that has been marked by instability for years. DCFS has failed to live up to its primary role, which is first and foremost the safety of children. Audit findings and high-profile deaths of toddlers who had been visited by DCFS staff only highlight the systemic dysfunction at this agency.
Van Pelt demands answers, seeks ways to end the backlog in murder DNA processing
Holmes measure bans testing cosmetic products on animals
SPRINGFIELD –A measure regarding animal welfare sponsored by State Senator Linda Holmes (D-Aurora) has passed the Illinois Senate.
Senate Bill 241 amends the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to prohibit importation or sale of cosmetic products or ingredients that use animal testing after January 1, 2020. Modern testing alternatives are less expensive, faster and more predictive of human reactions than past practices of painful tests on animals to assess the safety of chemicals used in cosmetics.
Morrison, Belt measure would incentivize organ donation
SPRINGFIELD – A tax credit introduced by State Senator Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield) and State Senator Christopher Belt (D-Cahokia) that would incentivize businesses which offer paid leave of absences to their employees for donating an organ or bone marrow passed the Senate Revenue Committee this afternoon.
“Last year, 3,402 Illinois residents were candidates for a kidney transplant. By the end of the year, however, only 798 people actually received a transplant. That represents less than a quarter of patients who are on the organ donation waiting list,” Morrison said.
Villivalam calls for clean water jobs program
SPRINGFIELD – Efforts to modernize the state’s water infrastructure present an opportunity for job growth under a plan State Senator Ram Villivalam introduced this morning alongside environmental, faith and labor advocates.
“The ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan is a prime example of what can happen to communities when their water infrastructure is neglected by their government for long periods of time,” VIllivalam (D-Chicago) said. “By creating this program, we will provide the training necessary to help Illinois communities avoid a similar fate.”
SB 2146 would require the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to create a Clean Water Workforce Pipeline Program that would provide grants and other financial assistance to prepare people for careers in water infrastructure.
Harmon, Morrison speak at Moms Demand Action rally
Villivalam introduces legislation to assist Alzheimer’s patients seeking treatment
SPRINGFIELD - Legislation to assist Alzheimer’s patients seeking care passed the Senate Human Services Committee this afternoon.
State Senator Ram Villivalam is the chief sponsor of the initiative.
“People with early onset Alzheimer's and dementia and their caregivers often don't know where to start when looking for helpful resources,” Villivalam (D-Chicago) said. “This bill will make it clear which services are available and how to access them.”
SB 187 would require the Illinois Department on Aging to develop educational materials, including a website, that indicate the services that are available to all diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder as defined under the Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Act, regardless of age.
Manar, Sullivan, Taylorville FFA stress importance of ag education
SPRINGFIELD – The Taylorville FFA students who are Scotland-bound after acing a national competition this winter are a shining example of what comes from investing in agriculture education in Illinois schools, State Senator Andy Manar said Tuesday.
The five students who comprise the Taylorville FFA Livestock Judging Team won the National Western Roundup in Denver in January. Their victory earned them a trip to Scotland for the international livestock tour this summer, during which they will have a chance to compete again and judge breeds that are less familiar to them.
Bush demands ethylene oxide testing in Lake County
SPRINGFIELD – State Senator Melinda Bush (D-Grayslake) passed a resolution in the Illinois Senate Environment and Conservation Committee today calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to conduct ambient air monitoring and testing in and around the two Lake County facilities that emit ethylene oxide.
“While I’m pleased the U.S. EPA is conducting testing around Sterigenics, it’s well past time they do the same in Lake County,” Bush said. “Residents need to know if the air they’re breathing is safe. They deserve to know if they’re at a higher risk for cancer, but right now they’re being left in the dark.”
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Home > Pakistani minorities: A one-sided story
Pakistani minorities: A one-sided story
Stereotypical reporting of such groups limits their exposure and keeps them stuck in unrepresentative pigeonholes.
Posted on May 6, 2019, 7:22 PM
By Kamran Chaudhry
Lahore:
When religious minorities appear on the front pages of newspapers in Pakistan, it is usually bad news. The coverage so far this month has not been any different.
"In an open letter to PM Imran, EU parliamentarians seek end to persecution of religious minorities," stated a headline in one of the major English language newspapers on May 2.
The story referred to a letter, signed by 52 members of the European Parliament, to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan — who has vowed to help Pakistan's weakest and oppressed — urging him to take measures to dismantle the constitutional and institutional structures that have resulted in the persecution of religious minorities in the country.
A Hindu lawmaker has become the trending topic among Hindu and Christian social media users. All of them condemned Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad for scolding Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, the patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council, over the anti-child marriage bill.
"You are Hindu, you should not present a bill on these issues. This could disturb individuals and the family system of an Islamic society," roared Khan, who said the bill went against the Sunnah (Islamic tradition) of the Prophet Muhammad.
Vankwani, who has been struggling against the rampant forced conversion of Hindu women in Sindh province, was almost declared an enemy of Islam by a member of his own party.
Meanwhile, the Aashiqan-e-Rasool (Lovers of Prophet) like Mian Mitho from Ghotki and Ayub Jan Sarhandi from the Samaro areas of Sindh province, continues its abductions, forced conversions to Islam, and marriages to victims.
A report by the University of Birmingham suggests that 286 incidents of women and girls being forcibly converted were reported between January 2012 and June 2017.
All the victims were aged between 12 and 15. Both the judicial system and law enforcement agencies continue to protect the perpetrators despite the existence of the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929, which sets the legal age of marriage for boys at 18, or 16 for girls.
Media stereotyping
This is not the first time minorities in the Islamic republic have been depicted as blasphemers. According to the Institute for Research, Advocacy and Development (IRADA), media-shaped narratives are obsessed with the elites and power politics, largely ignoring human rights issues.
"This kind of stereotypical reporting affects the public's perception of minorities. Sadly, they are silent amid this media blackout," Muhammad Aftab Alam, executive director of the IRADA, told me.
"There are 147 television talk shows, [most of which] are more opinion-based than analytical, that are aired daily on Pakistani channels," he said.
"Sadly, a very tiny percentage of them reflect the diversity and pluralism on the ground. Issues of political, religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural pluralism require a greater space and discussion in the media."
I recently attended a consultation where about 20 Muslim journalists shared the procedural constraints and practices of media practitioners that discourage news diversity in general, and religious minorities in particular. Censorship and personal biases were highlighted as major challenges.
Many spoke of receiving "warning" messages on social media from security agencies while reporting on Ahmadis, an Islamic revival movement whose members are often made to feel like outlaws in Pakistan. Mainstream Muslims regard Ahmadis as pariahs and heretics because of their belief in a prophet who came after Prophet Muhammad.
Reporters tasked with covering Easter, Christmas or Diwali — the Hindu "festival of light" — also need to report on Islamic entertainment-based gatherings known as milad mehfil in order to prove their piety.
Last year, the minister for human rights and minorities affairs in Punjab, Aijaz Alam Augustine, issued a notice against a serialized TV drama that focused on the theme of converting to Islam.
Titled Maria Bint e Abdullah, it revolved around a character called Maria, the daughter of a Christian mother and Muslim father.
In 2017, a Christian NGO filed a complaint with the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority against another TV show that told the story of a Christian Punjabi maid and her uneducated relatives, who were also portrayed as doing menial jobs.
This is not to say that Christian heroes are never glorified by Pakistan's media. Countless programs have paid tribute to Group Captain (now retired) Cecil Chaudhry, a veteran fighter pilot of the Pakistan Air Force and a noted war hero.
The Christian community has served the nation in various fields, especially education and health care. Sadly, these people and experts are rarely interviewed by the media. Most of the news stories and images we see tend to be about us, rather than having been written for us.
The day-to-day lives of ordinary non-Muslims remain hidden from a society that fails to understand them, apart from viewing them as a vulnerable group.
Christian channels and publications may have been instrumental in proclaiming the "Good News," but they have failed to attract audiences from other communities. The minorities remain a missing link.
Even seasoned journalists are unaware of the existence of church-run radio channels and TV stations. No media guidelines or newsroom protocols exist for minorities. The doors become narrow if the sub-editor has emotional ties to a religious party. There is no newsroom sensitivity.
Historically speaking, media behavior in Pakistan has been influenced by either power or corporate interests. The Church cannot use either of them to become a priority. We are not considered "prime time" news.
However, the capacity-building efforts of reporters in this field can fill this gap. Civil society can facilitate religious minorities in engaging the media managers. A joint coordination with university departments teaching mass communication or journalism, the psychological counseling of biased editors, an oversight mechanism for media organizations, and allocating interns to cover to minority beats — all of this could further support the notion of common citizenship.
Events like World Press Freedom Day are a constant reminder for Pakistan's media of the need to freely discuss issues pertaining to all communities.
Reporting on minorities does not necessarily mean reporting about their faith. But the world must know that our tales go far beyond simply the tragedies they hear.
Kamran Chaudhry is a Catholic commentator based in Lahore.
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Spies Like U.S.: “The Americans” and the Americans
Eliot Borenstein
This week, FX (“The Channel That Wishes It Were HBO”) introduced “The Americans,” a drama about KGB spies in deep cover in the DC suburbs at the dawn of the Reagan Era. The premise (that communists could be hiding in the A-frame next door) should be powerful, but it faces the same problem that challenges the show’s undercover leads: it feels rather domesticated.
On the face of things, “The Americans” should be pressing all sorts of buttons in the American psyche: crypto-communists! danger in the suburbs! our neighbors hate our freedoms! Moreover, since the Soviet agents and our main point-of-view characters, the show is implicitly asking us to root for the KGB. Why isn’t Fox News all over this?
Part of the show’s inability to create controversy rests with the leads. No network wants to bet the farm on complete unknowns, and Hollywood is pathologically averse to casting heroes who aren’t ridiculously beautiful, so the audience is treated to Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as the spies in question. To millennials (and older channel-flippers), Keri Russell will always be Felicity, the girl who gave up her plans to matriculate at Stanford in order to follow her heart to the “University of New York” (for which NYU’s Admissions Office will always be grateful). This makes Russell something of an unlikely spy, which is perhaps the point. And the odd casting does make a kind of WB/CW sense: can we really trust someone who spent four years waffling between Ben and Noel? In any case, “Felicity” starts to make a lot more sense if you imagine Russell was sending all those endless cassette tapes back to her handlers in Moscow. Russell is definitely making good on the promise of her show’s theme song: we can safely say that this is a “new version of you.”
The lingering sense of familiarity that besets “The Americans” is not confined to the cast. This show is the latest in the hit cable formula of “American family with a pathological secret.” Hollywood seems to be in danger of running out of good secrets, and may be forced to mix and match. But the prospect of a show about a polygamist, meth-making, pot-dealing mafia family with a mom who has Dissociative Identity Disorder would probably be too much even for Showtime (a network that has otherwise never shied away from excess). If we step back in time, though, what better next step than an American family that isn’t even American at all? Or, in this case, one that pretends so long to be an American family that it is in danger of becoming one?
The producers of “The Americans” were inspired by the 2010 “illegals” scandal, a story of espionage so ridiculous that it seemed like ready-made fodder for “The Daily Show.” Anna Chapman and her fellow agents were tasked with infiltrating American life in order to find out information readily available on Google. So when this Russian spy ring was discovered in Montclair, New Jersey (homeland of enlightened multiculturalism and skyrocketing real estate), the general reaction was amused nostalgia rather than outrage. It’s as if the long-lost Pottsylvainian agents Boris and Natasha had stopped hunting for Rocky and Bullwinkle in the real world, and started to stalk them on Facebook (“Must friend moose and squirrel.”)
Moving the action back to 1980 was an attempt to raise the stakes, but it would be easy to see it as a much more symbolic gesture. After all, “M*A*S*H*” was set during the Korean War, but received as a comment on Vietnam. So “The Americans” could be a reflection of the renewed Cold War between the US and the Russian Federation, but only in order to recognize that the current tensions come nowhere near matching the original. Mitt Romney aside, it’s difficult for most Americans to get all that worked up about Russia, and nothing ages like paranoia.
Which brings us back to “The Americans'” coziness. For “The Americans” to truly reflect the zeitgeist, it would have to reflect the preoccupations of wingnuts today.
What if Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys were really Kenyan? Now that would be a show worth watching.
Tags: Anna Chapman, Facebook, Felicity, Keri Russell, KGB, Matthew Rhys, Montclair, The Americans, Vietnam
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Colloquium Series | Friday, April 22nd, 2016 | 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
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Mr. Xi Goes to Moscow: Much Ado About Nothing?
Michael Lumbers Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
A more nuanced appraisal of Russia’s relationship with China tells us a great deal about both how Russian elites define their country’s core interests and possible trajectories for Russian foreign policy that bear little resemblance to these grim forecasts.
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(2013). Survival Rate of Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Patients after Surgical Treatment in Thailand. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 14(1), 321-324.
. "Survival Rate of Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Patients after Surgical Treatment in Thailand". Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 14, 1, 2013, 321-324.
(2013). 'Survival Rate of Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Patients after Surgical Treatment in Thailand', Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 14(1), pp. 321-324.
Survival Rate of Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Patients after Surgical Treatment in Thailand. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2013; 14(1): 321-324.
Survival Rate of Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Patients after Surgical Treatment in Thailand
Article 56, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2013, Page 321-324 PDF (453.77 K)
Background: Intra- and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is the most common cancer in Thailand,especially in the northeast region. Most extrahepatic CCA patients consult a doctor at a late stage. Surgery isstill the best treatment.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate survival rates and factors affectingsurvival in extrahepatic CCA patients following surgery at Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen University, Thailand.Materials and
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted with 58 patients who were diagnosed andtreated by surgical resection by the same surgeon at Srinagarind Hospital between 2005 and 2009. The patientswere followed up until death or the end of the study (31 December, 2011). Survival rates were calculated by theKaplan-Meier method, and the Cox proportional hazard model was used to identify independent prognosticfactors.
Results: The total follow-up time was 1,215 person-months, and the mortality rate was 50 per 100person-years. The cumulative 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival rates were 62.1%, 21.7% and 10.8%, respectively. Themedian survival time after resection was 15 months. After adjusting for age, gender, lymph node metastasis andhistological type, resection margin remained as a statistically significant prognostic factor for survival followingsurgery. A positive resection margin was associated with a 2.3-fold higher mortality rate than a negative margin.
Conclusions: Resection margins are important prognostic factors affecting survival of extrahepatic CCA patientsafter surgery. A negative resection margin can reduce the mortality rate by 56%.
extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; surgical treatment; survival rate; Thailand
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A Brief History of NAIITS
Our desire is to see men and women journey down the road of a living heart relationship with Jesus in a transformative way – one which does not require the rejection of their Creator-given social and cultural identity.
Traditionally, Native People did not talk about spirituality or faith, nor did they build complex theologies. They simply lived what they believed. It was expected that one would live in such a way as to acknowledge and honour their Creator. Theology was practice!
Native scholar Taiaiake Alfred asks,
"What is “Indigenizing the academy?” To me, it means that we are working to change universities so that they become places where the values, principles, and modes of organization and behaviour of our people are respected in, and hopefully even integrated into, the larger system of structures and processes that make up the university itself."
From its very creation NAIITS has been asking a similar question, not only within the academic community, but also within the Indigenous and non-Indigenous small “e” evangelical community.
Traditionally, Indigenous People did not talk about spirituality or faith, nor did they build complex theologies. They simply lived what they believed. It was expected that one would live in such a way as to acknowledge and honour their Creator. Theology was practice!
NAIITS’ goal is to see men and women journey down the road of a living heart relationship with Jesus in a transformative way – one which does not require the rejection of their Creator-given social and cultural identity, nor the rejection of their own worldview as the foundation for that relationship through the embrace of the dominant Western one.
From the day of its formation to the present, NAIITS has been an Indigenous led organization dedicated to introducing change into the education and practice of evangelical Christian mission and theology. NAIITS has pressed forward believing that the Christian community had essentially written them (and their culture) out of the story since the earliest period of colonization.
In many cases, the active listening, which NAIITS board members engaged in within their respective communities, has produced “new and powerful knowledge” which has led to social action in their community contexts. Much of this “new and powerful knowledge” emerges in the academic journals that are published following the NAIITS symposiums.
By the end of 2019, NAIITS will have held 16 symposiums on Indigenous theology and mission in North America and three in Australia in the past 20 years. The sixteenth NAIITS summer symposium in North American is scheduled for and will be co-hosted by Tyndale Seminary, June 6-8, 2019. The third annual was held in Australia in concert with the third block of theology courses, March 29 - April 10, 2019.
There is a now-established rotation with its partner institutions:
• Acadia Divinity College, Wolfville, NS
• Sioux Falls Seminary, Sioux Falls, SD
• Tyndale University College and Seminary, Toronto, ON
• Whitley College and the University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia
The now annual NAIITS journal is produced from the presentations and papers of each symposium, with the 15th through 16th volumes expected in 2019.
“For many of us the journal, and the organization it speaks for, is just another marker—though a particularly significant one—in a series of events and outcomes which have been dreamt about and hoped for and which are at last coming into being.”
NAIITS is unique in that its founding and management has been by Indigenous people. NAIITS board members have been and remain fully connected with local Indigenous communities. Many of its members maintain an active dialogue with global Indigenous peoples, listening to the needs of these communities with regards to Christian mission, ministry and theology. In fact, NAIITS members greatly value their commitments to the International Indigenous community, and prioritize them highly. Prior to NAIITS there were few efforts in advanced theological education; most, though not all, were birthed in the hearts and minds of the non-Indigenous community, delivered in their way.
Since its inception in the late 1990s, and organizational birth in the year 2001, NAIITS has become a well-recognized and well-respected group of Indigenous women and men (and non-Indigenous colleagues) dedicated to the advancement of Indigenous people within the wider compass of those who follow the Jesus way.
Some of the accomplishments since its beginnings include the following:
In June of 2010 NAIITS entered an historic agreement with George Fox University and to begin delivery of a Masters degree in Intercultural Studies [MAIS] for Native North American and other Indigenous students. The first cohort of 11 students launched May 31 of 2011 with the first graduates in the spring of 2014.
In 2013 NAIITS signed a subsequent agreement with Tyndale Seminary to begin delivery of a Masters in Theological Studies – Indigenous [MTS (I)]. The first cohort of three MTS (I) students launched in 2014.
In the fall of 2014, through its Divinity College, NAIITS entered an agreement with Acadia University and began delivery of its Master of Arts in Indigenous Community Development [MA-INCD] with its first cohort of three students. In the spring of 2017, NAIITS graduated its first Metis student with the (MA-INCD).
In the summer of 2017, NAIITS launched its Graduate Certificate, Diploma, and Masters in Theology programs in Australia, in partnership with Whitley College and the University of Divinity in Melbourne. IN the spring of 2019, together with our Australia partners, NAIITS launched an international PhD program in a broad range of theologically framed disciplines.
These are the first partnerships of their kind; delivered entirely by an Indigenous organization and its faculty, focused on higher theologically framed education. Our current student enrolment including our Masters and PhD programs in Australia is 41.
Since 2003, through its various program partnerships, with different educational institutions in Canada, the United States, and Australia, NAIITS has graduated nine people with doctoral degrees, two with Masters of Divinity, 16 with Masters of Arts in Intercultural Studies, Theological Studies and Biblical Studies.
Student Placement
As of the spring of 2019 NAIITS graduates have been placed in a range of vocational ministry settings, tribal service settings, or in either full-time or adjunct faculty positions in seminaries and universities in Canada, the United States, or Australia.
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BEIJING, China, June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Weibo Corporation ("Weibo" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: WB), a leading social media in China, today announced the pricing of its public offering of US$800 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.500% notes due 2024. The notes have been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and are expected to be listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. The Company expects to receive net proceeds from the offering of approximately US$793 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes.
The sole bookrunner of the offering is Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. The co-managers of the offering are The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited.
The Company has filed an automatic shelf registration statement on Form F-3 (including a base prospectus) and a related preliminary prospectus supplement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") for the offering of the notes. When available, the final prospectus supplement for the offering of the notes will be filed with the SEC. The offering is being made only by means of the prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus and other documents that the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and the offering. You may obtain these documents free of charge by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the Company or any underwriter or dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send an investor the prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus if the investor makes such request by calling Goldman Sachs & Co. toll-free at +1 (866) 471-2526.
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Weibo is a leading social media for people to create, share, and discover content online. Weibo combines the means of public self-expression in real time with a powerful platform for social interaction, content aggregation, and content distribution. Any user can create and post a feed and attach multi-media and long-form content. User relationships on Weibo may be asymmetric; any user can follow any other user and add comments to a feed while reposting. This simple, asymmetric, and distributed nature of Weibo allows an original feed to become a live viral conversation stream.
Weibo enables its advertising and marketing customers to promote their brands, products, and services to users. Weibo offers a wide range of advertising and marketing solutions to companies of all sizes. The Company generates a substantial majority of its revenues from the sale of advertising and marketing services, including the sale of social display advertisement and promoted marketing offerings. Designed with a "mobile first" philosophy, Weibo displays content in a simple information feed format and offers native advertisement that conform to the information feed on our platform. To support the mobile format, Weibo has developed and is continuously refining its social interest graph recommendation engine, which enables its customers to perform people marketing and target audiences based on user demographics, social relationships, interests, and behaviors, to achieve greater relevance, engagement, and marketing effectiveness.
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#OTD1917 the 8th Queen’s Attacks
At 3:50 AM on July 31, 1917 the Third Battle of Ypres began. The 8th Queen’s were in the front lines of the attack of the 24th Division advancing towards the Gheluvelt Plateau. So, one hundred years ago today, Jack Peirs and his men were fighting at the start of one of the most important battles for the BEF on the western front.
First some background. The July 31st attack was the beginning of three months of offensive operations by the BEF at Ypres. It was the third major battle fought on this contested ground, a landscape which bore the scars of years of war; extensive trenches, concrete pillboxes, and innumerable shell craters prone to flooding. Often referred to as the Battle of Passchendaele (a later battle in the overall offensive), Third Ypres has been subject to debate since it was waged, in part, because of the abysmal conditions for front line units and the weariness of the soldiers doing the actual fighting. Edmund Blunden recalled with frustration feeling at the time that ‘ We should all die, presumably, round Ypres’ (Blunden 165).
Shrewsbury Forest – where the 8th Queen’ attacked. Photograph (Q 55511) Aerial photograph of Shrewsbury Forest, no 7819, Sheet 28.1.30. Date 7 July 1917. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205305167
On 31 July, though, the months of hard fighting ahead were unknown. All that Major Jack Peirs knew for certain was that the 8th Queen’s were to have a role in the opening attack. They were charged with assaulting two German trenches – known as ‘Jehovah’ and ‘Jordan’ trenches – and holding their position until relieved. For this task, the 8th Queen’s trained extensively.
Indeed, there is a useful contrast between training and fighting in 1917 compared to that in 1915, a contrast that demonstrates both learning and the increased sophistication of fighting on the western front.
When the 8th Queen’s first went into battle at Loos in 1915 they did so in an attack that by any standards was a botched affair. Their division was given a hurried order to attack a formidable German position; they had no written orders and only a basic understanding as to what they were supposed to do (attack the Germans). It was a complete disaster. At the time (and afterwards) Peirs believed that ‘the staff’ had let them down.
A lot changed on the western front between September 1915 and July 1917. As the fighting increased in scale and severity, so too did staff work increase in its sophistication, so that 1917 the BEF was training for set piece battles fought with specific objectives in mind. Men were trained in new weapons (bombs, rifle grenades, Lewis guns) and learned how to assault fixed positions behind artillery support. In July 1917, the 8th Queen’s spent substantial time training for their attack.
July 1-6: the battalion spent five days in general training.
July 7-11: the battalion spent five days in tactical weapons training with bombs, Lewis guns, and rifle grenades.
July 12: the battalion was issued with orders that they were to attack at Klein Zillebeke (Belgium). These orders detailed the objectives, the order of battle (who would fight where and when), the methods of attack, and the equipment to be used.
July 15-16: the battalion trained on a flag course for their attack. The course was a behind-the-lines mock-up of their intended attack. The battalion then moved between various staging camps.
July 24-25: further training. The battalion trained and reconnoitered the front line.
July 29: the battalion went into the trenches for their attack.
July 30: rest (day) and then moved into assault positions at night.
July 31: attacked.
As dawn approached on 31 July, the 8th Queen’s were in their assault positions. These positions had been marked with tape by Major Peirs the night before.
THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917 (CO 2253) Assault on Passchendaele 12 October – 6 November: Canadian Pioneers laying tape through the mud for a road to Passchendaele. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193444
The 8th Queen’s took casualties from German shelling at the tape line before the British barrage began at 3:50 AM. As soon as the British barrage began, the Germans countered it with accurate shellfire upon their position; there was a lot of metal in the air and the ground shook with concussions. At 3:54, Peirs and his men advanced behind a creeping barrage towards Jehovah trench. It took them nearly an hour to take their first objective; their advance was hampered by rough, boggy ground, as well as German shelling. But they took it easily all things considered.
The 8th Queen’s then moved on to their second objective, Jordan trench, which they also took easily despite casualties from German artillery. At this moment Peirs became worried about his position. The 8th Queen’s moved farther forward than the units on his right and left and his flanks were exposed. The companies on the right and left dug in and consolidated their strength, connecting the two captured German trenches with existing shell holes.
In taking these positions, they suffered casualties; there were dozens of wounded men that had to be collected and evacuated by stretcher if possible. German artillery had been active since zero hour and continued to punish the 8th Queen’s throughout the day and into the evening. At night approached heavy rains added a certain miserable element for men who were already feeling the strain of sleeplessness, fatigue, and fear. They held this position for another long day of rain and shelling before being relieved by the 9th East Surreys.
Peirs and his men certainly did their part and followed their operational orders to the letter. They assaulted two German trenches – taking both – but suffered significant casualties. The three days of movement, fighting, and shelling cost the 8th Queen’s the following: 3 officers and 32 other ranks killed; 9 officers and 156 other ranks wounded; 105 men missing. They had certainly earned a rest.
8th Battalion War Diary
Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War (New York: Penguin, 2000)
This entry was posted in Commentary on July 31, 2017 by Ian Isherwood.
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Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2014 | 7:54 PM
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Mayberry Investments Limited says it has sold more than 100 million units of its shares in Access Financial Services Limited at $9 per share.
In a statement today, Mayberry said after an initial investment of J$38 million in 2006, it will earn approximately J$955 million or US $8.34 million from the transaction.
The purchaser was not disclosed in the statement, but it is understood that the units were bought by Proven Investments.
"Whilst we are happy to monetise the investment, we are now interested in finding new investments to deploy the proceeds profitably," said CEO of Mayberry Investments, Gary Peart.
He continued: "As we approach our 30th year in business, Mayberry will continue to provide value, creating solutions for our various stakeholders."
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Men's Lacrosse Rules
Men's lacrosse is a contact game played by ten players: a goalie, three defensemen, three midfielders and three attackmen. The object of the game is to shoot the ball into the opponent's goal. The team scoring the most goals wins.
Each team must keep at least four players, including the goalie, in its defensive half of the field and three in its offensive half. Three players (midfielders) may roam the entire field.
Collegiate games are 60 minutes long, with 15-minute quarters. Generally, high school games are 48 minutes long, with 12-minute quarters. Likewise, youth games are 32 minutes long, with eight-minute quarters. Each team is given a two-minute break between the first and second quarters, and the third and fourth quarters. Halftime is ten minutes long.
Teams change sides between periods. Each team is permitted two timeouts each half. The team winning the coin toss chooses the end of the field it wants to defend first.
The players take their positions on the field: four in the defensive clearing area, one at the center, two in the wing areas and three in their attack goal area.
Men's lacrosse begins with a face-off. The ball is placed between the sticks of two squatting players at the center of the field. The official blows the whistle to begin play. Each face-off player tries to control the ball. The players in the wing areas can run after the ball when the whistle sounds. The other players must wait until one player has gained possession of the ball, or the ball has crossed a goal area line, before they can release.
Center face-offs are also used at the start of each quarter and after a goal is scored. Field players must use their crosses to pass, catch and run with the ball. Only the goalkeeper may touch the ball with his hands. A player may gain possession of the ball by dislodging it from an opponent's crosse with a stick check. A stick check is the controlled poking and slapping of the stick and gloved hands of the player in possession of the ball.
Body checking is permitted if the opponent has the ball or is within five yards of a loose ball. All body contact must occur from the front or side, above the waist and below the shoulders, and with both hands on the stick. An opponent's crosse may also be stick checked if it is within five yards of a loose ball or ball in the air. Aggressive body checking is discouraged.
If the ball or a player in possession of the ball goes out of bounds, the other team is awarded possession. If the ball goes out of bounds after an unsuccessful shot, the player nearest to the ball when and where it goes out of bounds is awarded possession.
An attacking player cannot enter the crease around the goal, but may reach in with his stick to scoop a loose ball.
A referee, umpire and field judge supervise field play. A chief bench official, timekeepers and scorers assist.
Men's Lacrosse Personal & Technical Fouls
There are personal fouls and technical fouls in boy's lacrosse. The penalty for a personal foul results in a one to three minute suspension from play and possession to the team that was fouled. Players with five personal fouls are ejected from the game. The penalty for a technical foul is a thirty-second suspension if a team is in possession of the ball when the foul is committed, or possession of the ball to the team that was fouled if there was no possession when the foul was committed.
Note:The US Lacrosse Youth Council has developed modified rules for ages 15 and under play. To get a copy of these rules contact US Lacrosse at 410.235.6882.
Personal Fouls
Slashing: Occurs when a player's stick viciously contacts an opponent in any area other than the stick or gloved hand on the stick.
Tripping: Occurs when a player obstructs his opponent at or below the waist with the crosse, hands, arms, feet or legs.
Cross Checking: Occurs when a player uses the handle of his crosse between his hands to make contact with an opponent.
Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Occurs when any player or coach commits an act which is considered unsportsmanlike by an official, including taunting, arguing, or obscene language or gestures.
Unnecessary Roughness: Occurs when a player strikes an opponent with his stick or body using excessive or violent force.
Illegal Crosse: Occurs when a player uses a crosse that does not conform to required specifications. A crosse may be found illegal if the pocket is too deep or if any other part of the crosse was altered to gain an advantage.
Illegal Body Checking: Occurs when any of the following actions takes place:
a. body checking an opponent who is not in possession of the ball or within five yards of a loose ball.
b. avoidable body check of an opponent after he has passed or shot the ball.
c. body checking an opponent from the rear or at or below the waist.
d. body checking an opponent above the shoulders. A body check must be below the shoulders and above the waist, and both hands of the player applying the body check must remain in contact with his crosse.
Illegal Gloves: Occurs when a player uses gloves that do not conform to required specifications. A glove will be found illegal if the fingers and palms are cut out of the gloves, or if the glove has been altered in a way that compromises its protective features.
Technical Fouls
Holding: Occurs when a player impedes the movement of an opponent or an opponent's crosse.
Interference: Occurs when a player interferes in any manner with the free movement of an opponent, except when that opponent has possession of the ball, the ball is in flight and within five yards of the player, or both players are within five yards of a loose ball.
Offsides: Occurs when a team does not have at least four players on its defensive side of the midfield line or at least three players on its offensive side of the midfield line.
Pushing: Occurs when a player thrusts or shoves a player from behind.
Screening: Occurs when an offensive player moves into and makes contact with a defensive player with the purpose of blocking him from the man he is defending.
Stalling: Occurs when a team intentionally holds the ball, without conducting normal offensive play, with the intent of running time off the clock.
Warding Off: Occurs when a player in possession of the ball uses his free hand or arm to hold, push or control the direction of an opponent's stick check.
Shooting: The act of throwing the ball with the crosse toward the goal in an attempt to score.
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A Feudin’ Son of Tennessee: Kenneth McKellar, Chapter 9
By design on July 22, 2012 Comments Off on A Feudin’ Son of Tennessee: Kenneth McKellar, Chapter 9
Senator K. D. McKellar with his friend and political partner, E. H. Crump. From the author’s personal collection.
By Ray Hill
The political partnership of U. S. Senator Kenneth McKellar and Memphis Boss Ed Crump had made them the masters of Tennessee politics by 1933. The correspondence between the two was voluminous, as they discussed appointments, political developments and strategy. The correspondence, which had once been addressed to “Mack” and “Ed”, had evolved to “Senator” and “Mr. Crump”, although McKellar frequently addressed Crump as “Ed”. Still, the two were warm personal, as well as political friends, and they socialized together. McKellar and Crump both had a passion for horse racing and both loved attending the yearly Kentucky Derby.
The occasional differences that arose between the two men was frequently the stuff of rumors and gave opponents fresh hope of a permanent rupture in their partnership. K. D. McKellar was perfectly capable of handling his end of any argument and the Memphis Boss knew it. McKellar possessed a legendary temper and Crump knew all too well the senator, even into his dotage, was prone to use his fists or even his cane when thoroughly angry. The late W. R. Davidson, McKellar’s last Administrative Assistant, related a tale of a meeting between Senator McKellar and Boss Crump during which the conversation went from being a bit pointed to rather heated. The old senator raised one of his hands, alarming the Memphis Boss who threw up his own hands in front of his face and shrieked, “No! No!”
Today politicians do their best to placate angry or unreasonable constituents. McKellar did not hesitate to tell voters he disagreed with them nor did he balk at replying to a constituent writing what he considered to be an abusive letter in kind.
Ed Crump was also very well aware of the power and influence McKellar had accrued in Washington, D. C. Crump had decided to go to Congress himself in 1930, displacing incumbent Congressman Hubert Fisher, who was a good friend of McKellar’s.
Fisher had served as U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, an appointment McKellar had helped to arrange. When McKellar was first elected to the United States Senate, Fisher ran for and won McKellar’ seat in Congress. Fisher had served in the U. S. House of Representatives for fourteen years and was growing increasingly deaf by 1930. Crump’s announcement he was running for Congress foreclosed any hope Congressman Fisher had of running again and he wisely chose to retire. Crump served only two terms in Congress and found he did not especially like Washington, D. C. Crump was quite close to his family, operated a large and successful business in Memphis, and soon discovered that as a freshman member of Congress, he wielded no particular influence. For one with Crump’s out-sized ego and sense of self-importance, it had to come as something of a shock he was just another Congressman in the nation’s Capitol, although Kenneth McKellar possessed both enormous power and prestige in Washington, D. C. Crump realized the McKellar organization, unlike the Shelby County machine, spanned the length and breadth of Tennessee. McKellar had done countless favors for literally many thousands of Tennesseans; in fact, there seemed to be hardly a resident of the State of Tennessee for whom the senator had not done a favor. There were McKellar men in all ninety-five of Tennessee’s counties, all of whom maintained ties to Senator McKellar, as well as constant communication. McKellar routinely relied upon his contacts in each county to forward information and recommendations on the many appointments at his disposal. Crump saw first hand just how powerful and important McKellar was in Washington and understood the senator’s importance to Tennessee. Friendship aside, Crump knew no one could do more for Tennessee.
Senator McKellar had not been at all pleased with Crump’s rough treatment of his old friend Hubert Fisher. Another point of disagreement between the two men involved McKellar’s brother, Clint. Clint McKellar had been the Assistant Postmaster of Memphis for a good many years when the incumbent Postmaster died. McKellar proposed his brother for promotion as Postmaster of Memphis. Crump immediately complained, saying Clint’s appointment would be viewed as nepotism. It was not a charge that bothered Senator McKellar in the least, as well as a curious complaint from Crump in view of the fact the Memphis Boss was well aware McKellar’s Secretary was his youngest brother, D. W. “Don” McKellar. In fact, Don was married to another McKellar staffer, Janice Tuchfeld McKellar. When McKellar bothered to respond to anyone noticing he employed his brother, the senator replied Don was the best Secretary any senator had and there is every reason to believe McKellar was right. Don McKellar was very effective and was especially good at keeping up with anything pertaining to Tennessee and Tennesseans. Don, being McKellar’s youngest brother, could and did say things to the senator’s face others would have avoided.
McKellar responded to Crump’s complaint about promoting Clint McKellar by pointing out his older brother had long been a postal employee and had worked his way up through the postal service. Senator McKellar said Clint merited the promotion as Postmaster and simply because Clint was his brother was no reason to deny him something he had earned. McKellar made the appointment and Clint McKellar duly became Postmaster of Memphis over Crump’s objections.
Those who were hopeful the disagreements between McKellar and Crump would end their alliance were disappointed. Crump decided to retire from Congress in 1934 and selected Walter Chandler to succeed him. Governor McAlister was running for reelection and Senator Nathan L. Bachman was to face the voters to complete the rest of Cordell Hull’s term. McKellar himself was also up for reelection to another six-year term.
Congressman Gordon Browning of Huntingdon, like many another ambitious Congressman, had long wanted an opportunity to serve in the United States Senate. Browning had been in Congress since 1923 and by 1934 was eager to move up and began seeking support for a Senate bid. The unwritten rule of Tennessee politics at the time was senators should come from different sections of the state, which ensured no one section would have both senators. Bachman was from East Tennessee and McKellar from West Tennessee. Gordon Browning was himself from West Tennessee and initially he sought support to challenge McKellar. It was not long before McKellar heard the rumblings about Browning possible candidacy. McKellar prepared himself for a challenge from Congressman Browning, telling friends he was ready to give Browning “both barrels” in the event Browning was a candidate.
In the meantime, McKellar addressed a national audience on the radio at the beginning of 1934 to defend the New Deal’s regulations imposed upon big business. McKellar had loyally supported virtually every aspect of Franklin Roosevelt’s legislative program, although the Tennessee senator refused to back cutting the salaries and pensions of Federal employees. It was to be much later that Senator McKellar showed considerable independence of President Roosevelt.
McKellar closely monitored Gordon Browning’s progress and was not surprised when the Congressman finally decided against challenging him. Browning later confessed he could not garner a single commitment of support from a prominent person in Tennessee to run against Senator McKellar. Like McKellar, Gordon Browning was a stubborn man and he was determined to run for the United States Senate. Rather than challenge the venerable McKellar, Browning concluded he would have a better chance of success in running against Nathan L. Bachman. Senator Bachman had been appointed rather than elected to his Senate seat and had run a poor third in his previous try for the office in 1924.
Gordon Browning was an excellent speaker and masterful campaigner and was a real threat to Senator Bachman. McKellar had no real opposition in the Democratic primary and openly backed his junior colleague. In fact, some complained the Bachman campaign was being run out of McKellar’s Senate office.
Despite the largesse of the New Deal, in 1934 many Tennesseans were still suffering, especially farmers. Income derived from one of the chief cash crops, cotton, had fallen seventy-percent from 1929 – 1932. Cotton was selling for six cents per pound in 1933. While the Congress responded to the plight of cotton farmers with the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, one segment of American society had already grown tired of the New Deal by 1934. Businessmen were complaining vociferously about the regulations imposed by the New Deal. Poverty and unemployment were still persistent problems in Tennessee.
McKellar’s opponent in the 1934 primary was Dr. John R. Neal, a true eccentric and political gadfly. Dr. Neal charged McKellar with nepotism, but Senator McKellar refused to acknowledge Neal’s existence, much less his campaign. Neal cried that McKellar had made himself the “dictator” of Federal patronage in Tennessee. Former Governor Ben W. Hooper, whom McKellar had defeated eighteen years before to win his seat in the Senate, campaigning for the Republican senatorial nomination, repeated some of the charges made against the senator by Dr. Neal.
Senator McKellar did not especially like the grueling tours associated with campaigns and frankly confessed, “I don’t like hot weather,” did not bother to open a statewide headquarters during the primary election. McKellar even refused campaign contributions during the primary campaign, as he did not anticipate incurring any real expenses.
The 1934 election would be the first opportunity opponents had to test the strength of the McKellar – Crump combine and it would prove to be decisive.
A Feudin’ Son of Tennessee: Kenneth McKellar, Chapter 9 added by design on July 22, 2012
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Interim Pastor Rev. Cindy Carlisle received her Masters of Divinity from McCormick Seminary and was ordained as a PC(USA) Minister in 2007. Since then she has served nine congregations as interim or temporary pastor. Prior to attending seminary, Cindy served in government and non-profit positions, including as Executive Director of a Children’s Advocacy Project and Domestic Violence Center. She and her husband Dave live in Youngstown, Ohio. They have three adult children and two grandsons living in Iowa City and Milwaukee. It is Cindy’s great joy and privilege to worship and serve with the people of God. The church is blessed to have her. To reach Pastor Cindy Carlisle, please call the church office at 717-248-4561.
Visitation Pastor Rev. Bob Zorn has been our pastor of visitation since he retired from his full-time pastorate in Tidioute, PA 1994. Before taking the call to Tidioute, he was the pastor of the Burnham, Milroy and Little Valley (Vira) Churches here in Mifflin County. Rev. Zorn is a graduate of Waynesburg College and Western (now Pittsburg) Seminary. He is, married to Carol and they have two grown sons and one grown daughter.
Director of Christian Education and Director of the Nursery and Preschool program Ginny Westover grew up in New Jersey and attended the Lancaster Bible College. She continued her education at Talbot Seminary where she received a master’s degree in Christian Education. She is the mother of six children, the youngest of whom still lives at home. She lives in Reedsville and enjoys being outdoors, caring for their horses and other animals, reading, and working with our youth and children. She is also a wonderful resource for those who are struggling as she is an excellent listener and encourager. Her greatest passion is to see people come alive and grow in their relationships with God.
Assistant Preschool Teacher and Lead Nursery School Teacher Margaret Henry has returned to the area after living and teaching in Wyoming for many years. Prior to that, she taught in Juniata County School District. Margie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and has completed Masters level coursework in Curriculum and Instruction. She is passionate about working with young students and giving them the head start they need to be successful in the future.
Assistant Nursery School Teacher Miranda Shoop is the newest member of the Lewistown Presbyterian staff. Many know Miranda as the young woman who is committed to Jesus and the Lewistown Presbyterian Church with the beautiful singing voice. We have seen her serving as a deacon, choir member, Christian Education Committee member and youth leader. We are excited to welcome her to this new role.
Financial Secretary Susan Ferguson has been a member of the church for over 30 years. She lives in her childhood home with her mother Shirley and 5 cats. She was ordained as an elder and deacon on December 26, 1982 and feels very humbled by the vow she made to “Serve the people with energy, intelligence and love.” In 1995 Susan began working as the volunteer Assistant Treasurer and was hired as the Financial Secretary in 2008. Susan received her first Associates Degree in Business Administration in 1996 and received a second in 2005 in Human Development and Family Studies through Penn State. Susan especially enjoys volunteering with the youth and being a part of the choir and bell choir. Participating in small groups and mission trips are memories that she treasures. She is still very thankful that a friend invited her to the youth and church when she was in 10th grade.
Secretary Deborah Yetter has been married to Kelley for 35 years. They have three grown children who are all married. Christopher and Kate live in Lewistown now after moving from New York. They have two wonderful boys, Winston and Landon, and a daughter, Tessa Mae! Abi and Jared are in California, and have Ajax and Brecken! Mandi and Luis live in Reading, where Luis is finishing is residency. She enjoys her children and grandchildren and traveling! She and her husband have traveled to Chel, Guatemala to help the people build coffee processing sheds. What a joy to know these dear brothers and sisters in Christ. She has been a follower of Jesus Christ since 1989. Her passion is to know her Savior and serve others.
Accompanist Joan Loewen grew up in Osceola Mills, PA, and graduated from Philipsburg-Osceola High School before attending Penn State and earning a degree in Music Education. She taught elementary general and choral music in Mifflin County for 34 years before retiring in 2012. She served as organist/choir director at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, and has assisted as a substitute organist at Grace United Methodist Church, where she is a member, for many years. She is married to Philip Loewen, retired band director at Southern Huntingdon High School and local musician. They are the proud parents of two sons: Ben, married to Jenn, and living in State College; and Matthew, living at home.
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Security John Gregory’s favorite hobbies are golfing and bowling. He enjoys going to concerts and plays. He has a son, David, who lives in San Antonio, Texas and a daughter, Christine, who is living nearby. He also has a granddaughter and one great grandson in Lewistown.
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Oral history interview with Helen Boileau Hester, 1999
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Primarily documents Boileau Hester's service in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve at Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point during World War II and her life after leaving the Women Marines.
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Oral history interview with Josephine Martin Flynn, 2001
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Frances F. Brinkley (1927-2009) was a member of the Class of 1949 at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She majored in elementary education. Brinkley describes student life on...
Oral history interview with Patricia Holder, 1991 [text/print transcript]
Patricia Holder (1947- ) obtained her undergraduate (anthropology) and two graduate degrees (master of arts in teaching and master of arts in French) at The University of North Carolina at Greensboroand taught at the university beginning in 1972. ...
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Adelaide Fortune Holderness (1913-2013) was a history major and member of the Class of 1934 at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and received an honorary degree in 1975. She was...
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Lula Hinton Hoskins (1921- ) graduated in 1942 from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and received a master of education degree from UNCG in 1979. She turned down a...
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The Republican shenanigans during President Obama's speech to Congress last week, including, but not limited to, Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) yelling "you lie," while extraordinarily disrespectful of the presidency, the Congress, and not least the American people, follows directly from a pattern of behavior by Republican leaders or by ordinary Americans, facilitated and encouraged by the Republican Party and affiliated groups. The behavior itself should not be too surprising, the failure of almost any major Republican leaders to speak out against this behavior, may not be surprising, but is certainly noteworthy.
A clear line can be drawn from the red-baiting and Muslim-baiting of Obama during the campaign, to the birther movement, to shouting down Democratic members of Congress at town hall meetings to the accusation that the President of the United States was a Nazi because he sought to expand health care to a greater number of Americans to Joe Wilson's behavior last week. Parenthetically, it should be noted that other American presidents who have sought to expand health care coverage to more Americans include Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, two presidents whose anti-Nazi credentials are reasonably strong.
The Republicans, to their credit, have done a remarkable job of lowering the bar for what passes as acceptable political dialog in recent months. It is hard to believe that only a few months ago people were outraged that Rush Limbaugh, the blowhard in chief of the right wing of the Republican Party, suggested that he wanted to see President Obama fail. After what we have seen the last few months, Limbaugh's comments seem positively bipartisan in nature.
Opponents of President Obama would almost certainly point out, not inaccurately, that criticism of President Bush was also particularly harsh and nasty, suggesting that this all is simply part of the give and take of politics today. This idea is appealing because it makes it possible to avoid confronting just how troubling the recent behavior of the Republican Party has been. However, the suggestion of a equivalence between the anti-Bush voices from 2001-2008 and the anti-Obama voices of today is false. The primary reason for this is that the venom directed against President Bush, while strong and at times genuinely hateful, came from the far left and the most intense opponents to the war. It did not come from the leadership of the Democratic Party, nor did it have the approval, tacit or otherwise, of that leadership.
It is worth remembering that Nancy Pelosi, who is frequently portrayed by her Republican opponents as some kind of dangerous radical, was targeted by the anti-war movement because of her unwillingness to move ahead with efforts to impeach President Bush after she became speaker of the house following the Democrats' 2006 victory. Similarly, the Democratic Party did not organize people to compare Bush to Hitler, to question the legitimacy of his presidency or to shout down representatives of the administration or Republican members of congress at meetings throughout the country. These things, to be sure, all did occur, but the Democratic Party neither organized nor supported these efforts.
This is why the Joe Wilson incident is so revealing. Wilson is not a right wing activist who might or might not be affiliated with the party. He is an elected leader of the party, who works closely, every day with other elected leaders of the party, yet he somehow thought that kind of behavior was appropriate. Similarly, other elected leaders of the party had thought it was somehow appropriate to stand quietly by as the president of the US was called a Nazi.
If anybody was so hopeful that they believed that the Republican Party leadership did not like the level of nastiness we have seen in recent months, they must now abandon that hope. It is hard to imagine that had a Democratic member of either house of Congress shouted "you lie" at President Bush during an address to congress in 2007-2008 we would have heard silence from Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid of the kind we have heard from the Republican leadership. Importantly, while it can be argued, although probably wrongly, that the anti-Obama fervor is no worse than the anti-Bush feelings of a few years ago, it cannot be argued that the two parties have engaged in this rhetoric in the same way.
All of this raises the question of what has happened to the Republican moderates. We know that ideological moderates are few and far between in the Republican Party these days, but what about people within the party who, regardless of their ideological views, believe that there are certain lines -- calling people Nazis, shouting down elected officials, interrupting the president to call him a liar -- which should not be crossed.? The answer seems to be that even these voices either no longer exist in the Republican Party or are too frightened to step forward.
Written by Lincoln Mitchell On September 15, 2009 In US Politics Tagged Republican Party, Barack Obama, Joe Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid Source
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What Exactly is Ironman?
If you are a triathlete, I'm sure certain things immediately come to mind when you hear the term "Ironman". I first heard this word/term in the late 80's when I was a lad watching the NBC coverage of the Ironman Championship in Hawaii. The term Ironman to me meant completing a triathlon that was comprised of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike, and a 26.2 mile run (140.6 miles).
When I started doing triathlons in August of 2008, my definition of Ironman was the same. I was now educated on the different distances available in the sport, but Ironman simply meant doing the big one. The all-day, ultimate mental and physical test.
The World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) owns the Ironman brand. They are the ones that organize any race that contains the word Ironman with the cool "M-Dot" logo you see to the left. While it would be nice to think of the WTC as just a group of people that like to give crazy athletes a way to test themselves, that's not the reality. It's a business...and as we all know, the ultimate goal of running a business is to make money. Just like Nike, Coke, Microsoft, and even Apple, the term Ironman is a brand. So the WTC has decided to cash in on the term, and the logo.
In recent years, the WTC has decided to link the Ironman term and logo with races that are not the "classic" Ironman distance. They have added several Ironman 70.3 races (half the distance of the traditional Ironman), and are now adding 16 Olympic distance races in 2011 that will be called the "5150 Series". These consist of a 1.5K swim, 40K bike, and 10K run. Add these up and you get a distance of 51.50 Kilometers. So all that's left for them to attach their name to are sprint distance races...and you know it's coming.
So I tell you all of this to also tell you that for some reason, all of this doesn't sit well with me. I feel that the term and logo should be reserved for the full distance Ironman race only. Sure, when people in the triathlon community ask if you have or are doing "an Ironman", they still mean the 140.6 mile race...but how long before that isn't the case? Soon, they will need to clarify which distance Ironman they are asking about. Does completing an Olympic distance or even 70.3 make you and "Ironman" or "Ironwoman"? I guess that's not for me to determine, but in my opinion, it kind of takes away some of the luster of the term when you decide to attach it to so many events.
As a side note, when the WTC decides to add events, they very rarely will create a race from thin air. They swoop in and buy up an existing race. They can take a small, local race and turn it into a huge production...which can be pretty cool and make you feel like a superstar...but there's a cost that comes with this "upgrade". For instance, the Muncie Endurathon has been a favorite half-Ironman race of many people in the region for the last 31 years (one of the oldest in the country). While I've never competed in the race, I've heard great things about it. The race organizers always did a great job and the people of Muncie, Indiana welcomed all the athletes and their families with open arms. Now the race will be called the Ironman 70.3 Muncie and will have all of the pomp and circumstance of an Ironman event...including an increase of close to $100 in the registration fee and a 60 day blackout on other races! Will the race be better for it, who knows, I'm just giving you an example of how the WTC operates. Personally, I like doing the smaller, local races. There are two 70.3 races here locally that I loved doing this year and I hope that they stay small!
SATURDAY'S WORKOUT:
8.0 mile Progressive Run in 1:00:15 (7:31 min/mile pace)
Started off with a conservative pace and slowly ramped up the speed during the run, finishing with a near all-out effort. See the chart below for my mile splits:
TODAY'S WORKOUT:
10 minute warm-up, 45 minute spin class, 5 minute cool-down (1 hour total)
Good class with some long hills (5-6 minutes), followed by fast flats lasting around a minute, then a 2 minute sprint to finish the class.
Avg HR = 138
Max HR = 162
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Venezuela government, opposition agree to pursue crisis talks
Representatives of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido (L) and President Nicolas Maduro ® have been meeting in Barbados to try to break the logjam in their crisis talks
AFP, Caracas :
Venezuela's government and opposition have agreed to set up a platform for ongoing negotiations to resolve the country's simmering political crisis after three days of talks in Barbados, mediator nation Norway said Thursday.
Representatives of President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido met from Monday to Wednesday in the Caribbean island nation for negotiations, which Maduro has hailed as successful.
The Barbados talks were an extension of the first round of negotiations in Oslo in May, which ended with no concrete advances.
"After an intense day of work, we developed six points with the government of Norway and the opposition," Maduro said Thursday in a television and radio interview, though he did not specify what the points were.
Earlier, Norway's Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide said in a statement that the two sides had established a negotiation table that will "work in a continuous and efficient manner to reach an agreed-upon solution within the framework of the Constitution."
"It is foreseen that the parties will carry out consultations in order to advance the negotiations," the statement added.
Venezuelan government negotiator Hector Rodriguez said he anticipated a "complex path," but one that leads to an "agreement of democratic co-existence" where each side recognizes the other.
Guaido representative Stalin Gonzalez said on Twitter that Venezuelans need "answers and results," and said his delegation would "make consultations toward progress and putting an end to the suffering."
Crisis-wracked Venezuela has been mired in a political impasse since January when Guaido proclaimed himself acting president, quickly receiving the support of more than 50 countries.
The oil-rich, cash-poor country has been in a deep recession for five years. Shortages of food and medicine are frequent, and public services are progressively failing.
Around a quarter of Venezuela's 30-million-strong population are in need of aid, according to the United Nations. Three million people have left the country since the start of 2016.
Guaido and the opposition accused Maduro of having rigged the 2018 poll that saw him re-elected, and they describe the socialist leader as a "usurper."
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Trump withdraws controversial push to add citizenship question to census
President Trump outlines his executive order, but will it work?
The Washington Post :
President Donald Trump on Thursday backed down from his controversial push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, effectively conceding defeat in a battle he had revived last week and promised to continue despite a recent string of legal defeats.
Trump announced that he instead plans to order every federal agency to give records to the Commerce Department that detail the numbers of citizens and noncitizens in the United States.
"I'm proud to be a citizen, you're proud to be a citizen," Trump said in the late afternoon event at the Rose Garden. "The only people that are not proud to be citizens are the ones who are fighting us all the way about the word citizen."
The announcement marked the end of a more than a year and a half push by the administration to ask about citizenship status on the decennial survey, which opponents decried as an effort to systematically undercount Latinos and scare immigrant communities from participating in a survey that determines congressional districts and the disbursement of some federal funds.
It also followed days of confusion and mixed signals from the administration over how it would proceed following a Supreme Court ruling late last month that the government could not include the question on the census without a solid justification. The court found the administration's original rationale for the addition "contrived."
In the wake of that ruling, the Commerce Department announced last week that it would drop the issue because it needed to begin printing the survey. But a furious Trump reversed that decision the next day, saying that he was not giving up on asking about citizenship.
"We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question," he tweeted July 3.
On Thursday, however, Trump scrapped that plan and said he would instead instruct agencies to provide the Commerce Department with the records - calling that process "far more accurate." But the political tensions over Trump's push to collect citizenship data and concerns that he may have already scared immigrant communities from fully participating in the census are likely to continue even if they are reduced for now.
Earlier Thursday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said the Democratic-led chamber will vote Tuesday to hold Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not complying with subpoenas related to the administration's decision to include the citizenship question.
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Review - The Trouble with Illness
How Illness and Disability Affect Relationships
by Julia Segal
Jessica Kingsley, 2017
Review by Christian Perring
Sep 12th 2017 (Volume 21, Issue 37)
The Trouble with Illness does a great job at exploring the many varied emotional issues that come with illness in the family. Segal's main message is that people have a great many ideas and fantasies about illness, not all of which are particularly rational or thought out, and they need exploring in order to manage the turmoil of long term illness and disability. There are losses involved with serious illness, and if they involve people's ability to do the activities that define them, involving work, relationships, or even treasured leisure activities, they have strong reactions. It can take a good deal of work to uncover the ideas people have that can make their lives more difficult. People behave strangely and even bizarrely, or can store up resentments because of their emotional reactions. The central assumption is that uncovering emotions and developing a better understanding of how people are thinking can help to make the situation better. With 35 years of experience Segal is confident that therapy can significantly improve the lives of families living with an ill or disabled family member.
Segal says that she uses a Kleinian psychoanalytic approach, and often uses the word "phantasy" which is a rather more technical term than "fantasy." While this is not an approach that has achieved any significant empirical support, it is best understood as an emphasis on the strangeness and extremity of ideas people have about the meaning of illness. But she explains that readers do not need to understand the technicalities of psychoanalytic theory in order to benefit from the book. That's good because many people would not want to have to buy into the often extravagant claims of Kleinian theory. The bulk of this book is not about supposedly deeply covered unconscious mental entities that influence behavior, but rather about problems that are easily understood with a little thought. For example, with discussion of illness and sexuality, she emphasizes that sometimes people refuse treatment or changes because they fear that it will make them less attractive to their partners. Some people are reluctant to use hospital beds to sleep in because it deprives them of the pleasure of sleeping with their partners in a larger bed. These are not hard emotions to comprehend.
The writing is clear and it fills and important gap in the literature. It should be useful both to therapists and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities who are dealing with emotional problems. The basic ideas are simple and are intuitively appealing.
The central problem of the book is that it ends up being a list of possibilities of how people can react with nothing ruled out, and there is not a lot of detail to the case studies. The longest ones are about half a page long, and some are described in a couple of sentences. The generalities of the descriptions end up being a bit banal and repetitive. After reading the first few chapters readers may want to dip into subsequent sections that are relevant to them. There's a useful final chapter on working with professionals although Segal may be overly optimistic about finding a therapist who is strong at working on these sorts of problems.
© 2017 Christian Perring
Christian Perring is Vice President of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
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Memorable Manitobans: Leopold Kobold (1832-1905)
Born at Eppingen, Germany on 1 April 1832, he served three years in the German artillery before emigrating to Canada in 1854 and settling at Montreal. There he was married, in 1857, to Wilhelmina C. Vollrath. They had eight children, including G. A. Kobold and V. C. Kobold. The family moved to Winnipeg in 1881 where he operated the butchery and pork packing firm of Kobold and Company. He died at his Winnipeg residence, 529 William Avenue, on 6 January 1905 and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Death calls Leopold Kobold”, Manitoba Free Press, 7 January 1905.
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Memorable Manitobans: Harvey Smith (1936-2017)
Educator, city councilor, MLA (1986-1988).
Born at Winnipeg on 6 November 1936, he grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He received a BA degree in Economics and History from the University of British Columbia and a BEd degree from Simon Fraser University then taught school at Birtle and was the librarian at the Technical Vocational School in Winnipeg. He served on the city council from 1980 to 1986. In the 1986 provincial general election, he was elected to the Winnipeg riding of Ellice and served a single term, being defeated in the 1988 general election. He returned to municipal politics in 1998 to represent the Daniel McIntyre ward on the Winnipeg city council. He served until losing in the 2014 municipal election. He died at Winnipeg on 12 March 2017.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 18 March 2017.
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Interview: Every Time I Die
MEB staffer Ridge Briel recently caught up with Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams at the Vans Warped Tour. They discuss a new DVD currently in the works, Ex Lives making the Billboard Top 20, alcohol (and soda) preferences, and much more.
MEB: Being one of, if not the main, leading band in the southern hardcore genre, how does it feel to have your latest album Ex Lives hit the U.S. Top 20?
Andy Williams: It’s cool man. I don’t want to sound pompous and arrogant, but we’ve been a band for 14 years. We’ve done so much in that time, so when it happened we were like “Oh, that’s cool.” Our manager printed up these things that have the Top 20 billboard with the CD cover and he made it look really prestigious, so it was really cool to give to my dad. In actuality, it doesn’t matter. That doesn’t really matter.
How was it recording with a legend like Joe Barresi?
It was amazing. I honestly learned more from that dude than anyone else, music-wise. He just has a really good knack for gear and he’s been doing it for so long. He’s worked with everyone, so he’s got great stories. He’s not boring to work with.
What is the song “Typical Miracle” about?
Well, you’re asking the wrong guy when it comes to the lyrics, but I will tell you my story because I wrote the music. It was meant to be a black metal song, like super-fast blast beats and in the end was going to slow to a doom metal tempo. So when Jordan [Buckley, guitarist] came in, I told him to just blast through it, and he did it, but he said “I don’t hear it like that, I hear it like this,” so he went and wrote the weird guitar line. It was supposed to be really fast and ended up really slow.
So there’s word that there is going to be a new DVD from the band. Will this be like the hit DVD Shit Happens or more of a live set?
It’s going to be like Shit Happens. Live and us being assholes. It turned out really well; it’s one of the things we’re most proud of. The number three DVD by Pantera was a big influence to us while making this, and it kind of came off like that. I’m proud that it came out as a great DVD, and also that fans put Shit Happens among the realm of best DVDs of a band to ever come out. The number three DVD by Pantera is just awesome – they break shit, fuck shit up, and play awesome fucking music. It’s my personal favorite thing they ever did.
How did the South American tour go? How was the overall fan reception there?
Amazing. It was beyond awesome to play there. We toured with New Found Glory and Four Year Strong, so it wasn’t the kind of fans who we would associate with. The only thing I felt we were close on is that NFG has been a band for 15 years and we have been a band for 14. Musically though, [we’re] obviously really different from both of those bands. It’s one of the coolest things to go somewhere you’re not expected to go and people receive you and thank you for coming there.
So I heard the last show on the tour was recorded. Is that going to be on the upcoming DVD?
There will be pieces of us being in South America on the DVD, but not a whole, single performance. The DVD will also go beyond just the South American tour as well. Doug [Spangenberg, filmmaker] has been filming us for three years or something like that, so it will be like Shit Happens II. We were going to have this thing like a box set and call it a box full of shit and have a bunch of different shit titles, but we don’t have enough material for it.
So what will the next DVD be called?
We’re not really too sure. At the end of the day it will probably be called Shit Happens II. I know we talked it being called A Bucket Of Shit or something like that.
What are the main drinks of choice for you since the band partakes in alcohol?
I’ve been straightedge for 21 years, so my drink will have to be Dr. Pepper. I actually have a Dr. Pepper tattoo right here on my arm. I drink any soda though, I’m a 14-year-old kid trapped in a 35-year-old man’s body. I eat candy all the time, I drink soda, I watch cartoons. I really like that show Adventure Time. I think Keith [Buckley, vocalist] likes rum and coke or diet coke, Jordan will drink anything that has alcohol in it, and Legs [Ryan Leger, drummer] is a beer guy. Steve [Micciche, bassist] is another guy who won’t drink hard shots because he’s afraid he will throw up, so he drinks really girly stuff, like mixed drinks and such. Umbrellas and everything.
Any last words for your hardcore fan base and the people who came to Warped for you guys?
Just come and see us. Check us out, you will like it. You’re going to get a real honest show. I can’t say that for all the other bands, but Every Time I Die will play an honest show.
Andy WilliamsEvery Time I DieEx LivesWarped Tour
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Category: Yoga pedagogy
Articles, Blog, Buddhism, Charismatic Abuse, Cult dynamics, Press & Interviews, Yoga, Yoga culture, Yoga pedagogy June 27, 2019 June 27, 2019
Notice: This interview is part of the Yoga of Healing and Awakening Summit, a free online event featuring essential depth teachings and daily practices for your body, mind and soul. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.
Announcer: 00:00
Welcome to the yoga of healing and awakening summit, a free online event where you’ll discover essential depth teachings and daily practices for your mind, body, and soul. Share these visionary masters and esteemed practitioners with your friends and family and join us on Facebook at The Shift Network. And now your host, Cyndi Lee.
Cyndi Lee: 00:24
Welcome everyone. We’re so glad that you’re joining us and today I’m really pleased to introduce my special guest and friend, Matthew Remski. Matthew Remski is a yoga teacher, industry consultant and author of nine previous books including Threads of Yoga, a remix of patanjali’s yoga sutras with commentary and reverie, and the survivor of two cults. His work has been pivotal in illuminating the shadows of globalized Yoga and Buddhism and showing that disillusionment and critical inquiry can be gateways to mature spirituality. Matthew, thanks so much for being with us today. Welcome.
Matthew Remski: 01:08
Thank you so much, Cindy. Thanks for the welcome. Thanks for inviting me to do this. It’s a pleasure to meet you finally.
Yeah, maybe some day we’ll meet each other in real life. Exactly. So you sent me your recent book, All is coming, which I read and I’m familiar with. And I would say that you’re doing some very specific work right now in the Yoga and Dharma communities that I don’t know if anyone else is doing, both uncovering of variety of abuses and abusers that may or may not have been widely known. And also what I was especially moved by and encouraged by was that you’re pointing away forward, that you’re doing really crucial work in giving us a path forward and what seems really yogic and really Dharmic to me is taking quote-unquote poison and transforming that and working towards Buddhist principles such as non-harming and Buddhist principles such as clarity and compassion. And so that’s kind of a long statement, but I’m wondering if you could talk about that.
Well thank you first of all, but I’d have to say that it’s really a privileged position to have been able to take a number of years to put this book together, but it really sits on the shoulders of especially women who have been in smaller forums, generally talking about power abuses within the younger world and the Buddhist worlds for a long time. So the people who have been very influential to this project include, Donna Farhi who has done a lot of coverage of the yoga world and especially the Iyengar world. And then the survivors themselves who began to step forward, including the first person who really alerted me to the severity of the abuse history within Ashtanga Yoga, my friend Diane Bruni here in Toronto…
People like Diane and then the people who were able to give testimony for this book, they’ve been holding these stories and their responses to them and their own ways forward for a long time. And so the book is really capturing the crest of a wave. I’m really grateful for, for all of the work that’s gone before me. And as far as a way forward goes, I do have some proposals that come out of the research, and listening that I’ve had to learn to do to the survivors of sexual abuse within yoga communities, but also from my own experiences as a cult survivor and my review of the cult analysis literature.
So yeah, there’s the sixth part of the book, a workbook actually for critical thinking and community health. And I have the sense that it is possible sometimes to turn poison into a kind of goodness. But that’s hard one. It takes a lot of care. It takes a lot of social networking; it takes the empowerment of survivors through listening to their stories, really carefully platforming them and making them the center of any kind of reform movement. So those are pretty key ideas to me. Continue reading “Cyndi Lee Interviews Matthew Remski about Working Through the Abuse Crisis in Modern Yoga and Buddhism (+ transcript)”
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Intention vs. Impact, Trickle-down Violence, and Doing the Systemic Work: Francesca Cervero and Matthew Remski Discuss Practice and All is Coming
It was a real pleasure to discuss the book with DC-area yoga teacher and trainer Francesca Cervero for her podcast, the Mentor Sessions. Such great questions. Transcript is below.
Francesca Cervero: 00:00:00
Hello and welcome to the Mentor Sessions. I’m your host Francesca Cervero. The Mentor Sessions is a meeting place for Yoga teachers who want to be supported and thinking critically about their teaching. While you’re here, expect to have your ideas about right and wrong challenged and your deepest need for nurturing and support met by a fellow sister on the pad. Today we have a really special guest talking about his newest book. I have Matthew Remski joining me on the podcast today and we’re talking about his new book Practice and All is Coming, Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Healing and Yoga and Beyond.
If you don’t know Matthew, let me just tell you a little bit about him before we get started. Matthew Remski is a yoga teacher, industry consultant and author of nine previous books including Threads of Yoga, a Remix of Patanjali’s Sutras with Commentary and Reverie. As a survivor of two cults, his work has been pivotal in illuminating the shadows of globalized Yoga and Buddhism and showing that disillusionment and critical inquiry can be gateways to mature spirituality. He facilitates modules in philosophy, history, culture and community health in yoga teacher training programs internationally. He lives in Toronto with his partner and their two children. Matthew, welcome. Thank you for being here.
Matthew Remski: 00:01:30
Thanks so much Francesca, it’s really great to hear your voice again and thanks for the opportunity to speak about the book. Continue reading “Intention vs. Impact, Trickle-down Violence, and Doing the Systemic Work: Francesca Cervero and Matthew Remski Discuss Practice and All is Coming”
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“Abuse in the Yoga Community”: Josh Summers Interviews Matthew Remski
Thank you to Josh Summers for interviewing me about Practice and All is Coming. You can download the mp3 here. Transcript is below.
Trigger warning: descriptions of sexual and physical assault.
Josh Summers: 00:00:06
Hi Matthew, how are you doing?
I’m good. Thanks for having me, Josh.
Thanks so much for coming on. Let me introduce us. I am Josh Summers. I’m a yoga teacher and licensed acupuncturist. And this is Meaning of Life TV. You are Matthew Remski, a yoga teacher as well also an industry consultant in the Yoga Industry and an author of several books. Most recently you’ve written a book about problematic group dynamics in the yoga world and it’s called Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Healing in Yoga, and Beyond. So I should say, you know, is it’s really nice to meet you. This is kind of an odd sort of endorsement to you, but, right at this point I’d say you’re the main reason I go onto Facebook.
That’s, that’s mixed. I’m happy to hear that. And I’m sorry to hear that all at the same time.
No, no. I mean, for me it’s positive because there isn’t that much, worth following on Facebook. But, I came across your work maybe two or three years ago. Someone shared something you had blogged about, about abuse and some of these problematic dynamics in the yoga world. And I just kind of got into following what you had to say about it and it really seemed like you had some trenchant analysis that was deeply missing in the broader conversation. So I want to dive into that. Talk about what’s going on in Yoga land, uh, what’s problematic about it and what might be some ways that things can be remedied. But as way of introduction. You are yourself a survivor of two cults, and I know that part of this work in this book has been a bit of a healing journey for you. But how did you come to a focus on the Ashtanga yoga situation in particular and what was going on in that that you felt needed to be highlighted?
Well, I came to it reluctantly. The project that I had started with was a broader research project into injuries in yoga classes or in yoga practice. And the format was quite broad. I had started interviewing people from all communities and methods. And it had started with the strange realization that everybody that I knew who had professionalized into the yoga world or who was a really dedicated student was injured in some way. There were some people who were suffering from chronic pain or from repetitive stress injuries. And I found it very weird for a so-called therapeutic practice that people came to for spiritual benefit, but they also seem to be working themselves really hard in. And I started to wonder about that.
The book that started to emerge out of that research project was originally called Shadow Pose, and the project name was What Are We Actually Doing in Asana? And I still have Shadow Pose as kind of like a book structure. The first chapter was going to be an examination of the interview data of senior students of Mr Iyengar. And the second chapter was to be an analysis of interview data coming from the Ashtanga world. And at a certain point I realized that the injury question in the Ashtanga world, which is profound, it’s, it goes deep was still a surface question to the abuse issue that had been silent for many, many years, but also carried by a number of women survivors in a kind of whisper network as well. So once I started getting more and more attuned to the fact that that was an underlying story that Mr. Jois had actually assaulted women throughout his career, and nobody had really published on it, I realized that I couldn’t just put that into a chapter somehow. There was going to be a lot more work to do on that.
When I started to get a sense of how grave the issue was, I really resisted going into it because I thought that — my gut was that if it really was true that Pattabhi Jois was a serial sex abuser and that he did it in broad daylight and that there were an untold number of women victims and that none of them had been able really to speak out publicly about it until Anneke Lucas in 2010, and that the community had not done anything about it. And it was probably widely known within the upper echelons of the Ashtanga world, even into, even as early as 2012 — but of course, we now know it was far earlier than that.
But in 2012, there was a big hagiography published of Jois’s life featuring interviews with 40 students, and everybody talked about how wonderful he was and what a grandfather and father figure he was, and a spiritual teacher and all of that. So I had the sense around 2015 or 16 that if what I was hearing was true and I believed that it was true, that it would really rock the foundations of this particular community. And I was scared of that. And I also thought that it would rock the foundations of the broader yoga world because Jois is incredibly influential. Without him, there’s no vinyasa. Without him there’s no sense of the contemporary group yoga class as being a, an intense, ecstatic, immersive, silent experience filled with breath and sweat. Without him, there’s no adjustment protocol. Not that he really gave a protocol: he assaulted people. But the whole notion that the teachers should always have their hands or should have their hands on a student at all times that comes from his particular pedagogy. And so I just was terrified of the implications of what I was hearing and I resisted it for a long time actually.
Yeah. Some of our audience is definitely going to be familiar with the names in terms of that you just mentioned, but there’s, there’s probably a yogic un-literate audience, right, that is listening too, so can you put Ashtanga on the map and then put Pattabhi Jois in relationship to Ashtanga on the map in that?
Yeah. So Pattabhi Jois is the innovator of a system that he named as Ashtanga Yoga, but it’s unclear when that name came into usage because it seems that he was calling his classes that he gave to the businessmen of Mysore up until the end of the Sixties, just “Yoga”. He had been trained in the Mysore Yoga Shala at a very crucial point in the development of modern yoga history. He was born in 1915. He met the person who many consider to be the father of modern yoga Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, when he was about 12 years old. And he actually describes being brutalized by Krishnamacharya being beaten as he learned to do asanas. And of course, he’s not describing that in terms of abuse, but rather as a badge of honor. He goes on to further his studies, later on in his life with Mr. Krishnamacharya and assumed a teaching position at the Mysore Yoga Shala sometime in the late Thirties. But also under Krishnamacharya’s tutelage was his brother-in-law BKS Iyengar. And so from this one gym which was set up by the Maharaja Wodiyar in 1934, we have two of the pillars of the modern yoga evangelical movement. Iyengar is responsible for the notion that the bodily postures that we assume in yoga should some sort of geometrical form and balance and symmetry and a kind of architecture of grace. But Jois is the person who puts postures into rigorous sequences and really gives the modern group class its fluid and intense feeling, going forward.
And the Ashtanga/Jois form has spawned into numerous side forms, right?
Right. So if you’re new to all of this jargon, and you’ve been to a flow class you are benefiting from and perhaps being injured by Jois’s legacy. If you’ve been to a Vinyasa class, you are probably benefiting from Jois’s legacy if you’ve been in a class where rhythmic breathing has been timed with movement in some sort of coordinated way that’s all coming from Jois. And also I’d say that it’s Jois’s senior students coming out of his tutelage from the late Sixties, but then especially into the 80s that really give modern yoga its aesthetic in terms of its incredible athleticism, its beautiful, but sometimes scary contortionism. When you look on Instagram today at #yoga you will see images that really had their birthplace in terms of their sensuality their, their structure, the whole aesthetic really comes out of the Jois movement. It’s not Iyengar Yoga photographs that get the most clicks on Instagram. It’s really the beauty and the artistry and I would say the sensuality and the sublimated sexuality of — and sometimes not-sublimated sexuality of that imagery that is directly coming from Jois. And I think there’s something in there too around the connection between the yoga posture and a kind of sexualized performance. I mean, objectification aside, and all of those sort of image issues aside, I think the fact that, um, many of Joyce’s female students were learning in an environment in which he sexually objectified them, that’s really pertinent. So when we go to Instagram and we look at yoga images right now we’re looking at least part of a legacy of people really having to perform under the male gaze in more ways than one.
So talk about that: the sexual objectification, with Jois. And how did that lead to abuse both physical and sexual under, under him in his classes, and describe what that dynamic looked like.
I mean, objectification is just dehumanizing. What all of the 16 women who gave their testimony for my book I describe is that you know, they weren’t people to him. “TM”, who is the one testimony giver who wanted to remain anonymous described feeling as though she was just a piece of ass who was there for him to hump her or to give him pleasure in some way. And so the assaults actually took place in plain view of everybody, but under the auspices or under this this story that he was adjusting people, that he was helping students attain postures that they couldn’t otherwise attain or even more kind of deceptively, and I would say creepily, that his touch was conveying some kind of spiritual knowledge.
And this really goes back to a very old and sacred idea in a part of Indian wisdom culture called Tantrism where the guru is said to embody a kind of bio-spiritual grace. And that by his, usually it’s his touch, or their gaze or they can strike you with a peacock feather that there’s a literal sort of a transmission of spiritual realization into the student’s body. And that’s a felt, phenomenological experience. And part of the story that started to accrue around what Jois was doing as he was sexually assaulting women and possibly men too, that’s not verified by first person testimony though. But part of the story that started building up around him was that this is what he was doing was that he wasn’t digitally raping that woman, he was helping her find her “mulabandha”, which is a term for an internal muscular, but also esoteric, sensation that is tied to the rise of Kundalini or esoteric energy. So he was doing that or he was helping her heal from sexual trauma. As Karen Rain says, this whole sort of slew of “cryptic justifications” arose around his behavior.
And the weirdest part is that he wasn’t the source of them. It was the students who said these things about him. I actually regret not making that clear in the book. I don’t say that he was the source of the explanations, but I also, I don’t think I’m explicit enough in saying that it’s pretty likely that he wasn’t. I don’t think that anybody asked him directly, what are you doing when you grope these women’s breasts or when you put your hands on their buttocks or when you put your fingers into their vaginas, like: “What are you doing?” When he was confronted about sexual assault, the few times that I have evidence of it, he was very embarrassed. He would burst into tears at one point. And apparently he would stop from time to time, but like somebody who had clearly an illness, he wasn’t able to stop for very long. So objectification was a felt reality by the women who he assaulted.
I think we have to then wonder what it means for his senior students and how they present asana or yoga practice to the world now. Like what were the conditions under which they learned? Because if they were assaulted while they were learning, that’s going to inform their bodily sense of who they are and what this means and what they’re feeling and who they’re doing it for. And if they were watching other people being assaulted, what kind of secrets are their body’s holding and as I said in the beginning, these are some of the reasons why I was scared to go into this material because it’s really deep. It suggests that at the heart of this, you know, venerable, lauded, beloved, you know, spiritual/wellness practice, there’s this really dark problem that, that hasn’t been looked at and hasn’t, and hasn’t been addressed.
Yeah. Major dark underbelly. As I’m listening to you, I’m imagining the listener that may not be familiar with the “Mysore” style of practice. So just to say that this is a style where unlike a typical led class: if someone were to go to a regular yoga studio or a gym and the teacher would sort of take them through a sequence, talking them through, maybe adjusting at times — but in the Mysore system, students show up quite early in the morning. Sometimes as early as 4, 4:30 AM. And they’re not following a led series of instructions from the teacher. They’re following a series of postures that they’ve been given in a successive stage-like manner. So you’re basically practicing independently and then the teacher comes around and adjust you or, quote-unquote assists you. And it’s that intimate contact of the adjustment or assist where this is the moment of abuse.
Right. In Jois’s circumstance it becomes really complicated because one of the things that the Ashtanga world has prided itself on for the last 30 years is the sense that the teacher is able to learn and know about the student intimately because they are having personal interactions with them multiple times per morning, every morning, six mornings per week, two hours per session, two days off per month. That’s where we get into the notion of whether or not the method fosters communities that are actually high demand or cultic. How much time is actually occupied? But this feeling that people are getting individual attention and that when the teacher comes around and pays them that close attention. Meanwhile, their colleagues are not supposed to be looking. They’re supposed to be concentrating on their own stuff. They’re supposed to be concentrating on their breath or there’s even eye positions that people are supposed to take. There’s this sense that you and the teacher are alone and there are people who absolutely love and they thrive on that and there’s no reason they shouldn’t. They shouldn’t because it sounds like a really good thing. And I know that it works in practice in many circumstances, but it also sets up a very, very vulnerable situation in which, people can be exploited in plain sight.
And just to be really explicit about it: you document this in your book, but what were the adjustments that were abusive?
Yeah, well, he would grope women’s genitals and breasts and he would climb on top of them and actually thrust his genitals against their own genitals. He would come behind women and digitally rape them by actually pressing his fingers through their tights and into their genitals. It’s almost incredible to say, but you know, story after story, testimony after testimony, this is what we come up with and it doesn’t make sense for 30 years of such activities to to take place in plain sight without there being a network of complicity that’s supporting and enabling them. And, and that’s why I started to use the language of cult analysis to describe how it actually happened.
The network of complicity. I want to explore that more. It does hit me on a personal level. I never really pursued Ashtanga yoga myself. I have lots of friends in the Ashtanga Yoga world. Authorized teachers. Um, and I’ve taken a few classes here or there. But when I first got into yoga, just to put a context on this, when I first got into yoga and started hanging around and studios that had an Ashtanga Yoga program, I did hear these whispers around certain kinds of adjustments and that the euphemism that was given for this kind of very intimate genital touch was called a “mulabandha check”. And as you described, mulabundha is sort of this energetic muscular lock down in the perineum, and the teacher is coming around feeling that to make sure it’s in quote-unquote engaged. And I’m appalled at myself in a way, that I kinda joked along like, ha ha, like this is just a spiritual… I don’t understand it because I’m not far enough along to even perceive it myself or to see the value of it, to see how important it is — when it’s just bad shit.
But there’s something plausible about it. There’s something plausible about it. And I don’t think I addressed this in the book either except, except where I get into the fact that especially a Tantric and Hatha Yoga history is filled with analysis and thought and practice around the sublimation of sexual energies. And so there’s a way in which people show up in spaces like this and they are working so extrovertedly with their bodies in very vulnerable positions and they’re told that this practice will have kind of like a total effect upon their bodies, minds, emotions, psyches. Why shouldn’t their sexuality somehow be included in that? Why shouldn’t the intimacy of their, you know, their deepest selves be somehow exposed? And isn’t that where so much strength lies?
This is all the language that surrounds the sexuality of yoga that I believe begins to soften a person up into not really going, Wait a minute! What’s more obvious here is that this guy’s sexually assaulting women. And that he’s doing it for his own gratification and that there’s no therapeutic benefit to this. And you could meditate your way into believing that there was perhaps, but most people are not actually having that experience and we shouldn’t be telling them that they should.
So you know, I appreciate your confession. But I also want to say that, you know, the notion that the notion that people should be liberated somehow in the way in which they conceive of their sexuality within yoga is part of yoga’s appeal actually. And so I don’t think it’s a big leap for people to go, Oh, well maybe I shouldn’t be so uptight about such and such, or maybe I shouldn’t, ask too many questions, or that’s private after all. But also we’re working on our private stuff. And so I think it’s very confusing. Again I’ll refer to TM in the book, who says that as soon as she was sexually assaulted, somebody who saw it happen came up to her and said, “Okay, so you realize that what just happened to you — that wasn’t sexual.” And she was very confused. She was like, “What do you mean it wasn’t sexual?” And they had some explanation about Shaktipat or spiritual transmission. And you know, she didn’t give the impression in the interview that she totally bought off on the idea then, but she bought off on it enough to be confused and to be disarmed and to be put in this position where she felt that her own critical thinking or her resistance to the idea was somehow problematic. And that it was going to stand in the way of her spiritual development or something like that. So it’s not, it’s not a surprise that these things get wrapped up to together and sold on and end up rationalizing abuse to me.
In following you, I know that you have your eyes on many different yoga and Buddhist meditative spiritual communities that have lots of these bad dynamics at play. What was it about the Ashtanga situation itself that made you want to put it in the forefront of your case study in the book?
I think it’s really kind of awful serendipity really because it was reportable. The evidence was clear. The network of sources that I began to develop began to send me this cascade of information.
Let me interject for a sec. But in terms of evidence being clear, because this sometimes comes up when I have conversations with people about.They refer to the “allegations”. The thing that listeners need to know is that there’s ample video and photographic evidence documenting all of this.
There’s also 16 women who said “He assaulted me, and this is how he did it.” One is enough. There’s no question anymore that we’re in “allegation” territory. That’s a really crucial moment actually because one of the things that comes up in each one of these yoga or Buddhist community, you know, spiritual, physical, emotional, sexual abuse cases is that the behavior of the actual actions of the leader of the perpetrator are always interpretable. There’s always something mysterious or like, or a little bit beyond or childlike or innocent or super spiritual about the leader, about Mr. Jois or about Manouso Manos. Or about Bikram Choudhury, although less so, more and more people would see him clearly for who he is.
But there’s always something mysterious about the leader or the guru — which is probably not a good word for these people — that allows their behaviors to be endlessly bandied about as though, Well, we can’t really know what he was doing. And you know, the relationship between the teacher and the student is sacred. And you know, we don’t know what’s going on. We can’t really interpret… You bring up the video evidence. People argued about that for years. They are watching sexual assault taking place like before their own eyes and they’re saying, Oh, we don’t know what’s happening. We don’t know what’s going on.
So it’s been a combination of forms of evidence that, I think have moved it out of allegation territory, but more importantly, out of the territory of interpretation where the leader who has perpetrated crimes is somehow beyond the realm of the normal citizen who can be evaluated according to the same standards of evidences as anybody else. And it’s something about that interpretability that is like essential to his magic, usually his magic that, that you never know quite what he’s doing. You never know whether it’s actually for your benefit or not. And you know, even if he’s abusing you, maybe he’s helping you get over ego. There were people who would say that.
I guess the other thing that Jois would do is that he would just steal money from students. He would cut short their stays or would say that they owed him more money than they actually did, or he would make up exchange rates between the US dollar and the rupee in his favor. When that came up, that was well known as well. And when that came up, people would say, Oh, he’s helping people with their money issues. You know, they’re attached to money. So people are capable of all kinds of BS when it comes to the interpretability of the magical person.
And that was one of the things I wanted to ask you about is what role does a kind of somewhat flaky, soft or even direct interpretation of ancient spiritual texts that draws on particular metaphysics? How do the spiritual metaphysics factor in to this cocktail of toxic group dynamic?
I think I have two feelings about this question. One is that it’s hard to say, how pre-colonial, especially Indian wisdom tradition metaphysics play any kind of role in this at all because I don’t think global yoga practitioners have access really to those metaphysics. I don’t think we know the kinds of relationships that they’re grounded in. I don’t think we have a clear idea of what the commitments, the social and economic and relational commitments, there are or were or were supposed to have existed between teachers and students that might ground all of this stuff. I do know that whether they’re accurate interpretations or not, there are all kinds of yoga or Buddhist or pseudo-yoga or pseudo-Buddhist ideas around, emptiness, interpretability, the play of Lila, karma, all kinds of, of terms that are correctly or incorrectly used to describe or to rationalize things that we would rather not confront as being abusive.
I’ll give an example of a concept that carries both of these histories. I go into detail in the book, on a Sanskrit word that is “parampara”. Now, parampara in precolonial terms, and up until this point, even now in contemporary India, means something very specific about how knowledge is transferred, especially spiritual knowledge in this context. It can apply to other forms of knowledge as well. But it implies this unbroken, usually familial, certainly intimate relational transfer of knowledge that depends on a whole series of social commitments and contracts in order to keep it stable. Now it also implies that the knowledge that’s being transferred goes way back in history and has been tested by time. Well, modern yoga ashtanga practitioners or Jois method practitioners from America and Europe have started using the word parampara to describe what they belong to. And so what that means is that they’re saying that a technique that Jois developed in the late sixties and changed several times as his shala got busier, they’re implying that that is traditional in a way. They’re implying that it has the weight of several generations of validation behind it. They’re implying that they belong to a heritage rather than a branded family business. And so we have this beautiful word that carries an ancient heritage that I personally don’t have access to how that actually works, but I know it’s there and I hope that it can be recovered in some way or it can be made more known, or I can have more access to it at least. And then we have this sort of like contemporary bastardized version of the term that’s used to pretend that the people who are the people who are using it have something, you know, magical or special when that’s really deceptive.
And the deception around it too. I mean in the yoga landscape at large, at least in my experience, Ashtanga, has held this kind of vaunted position as the legit, hardcore, no nonsense, real authentic practice.
Well, every group does say that though. Like the Iyengar fold will say that This is authentic. This is true. This is hardcore. It’s hard to know. I mean, every group makes proprietary and sort of like advocacy claims, self-advocacy claims. I don’t want to interrupt. I would agree.
Okay. Did you get into this in your book about the, like Mark Singleton’s work looking at the origin of modern postural yoga of which Jois’s system comes as part of?
I refer to it here and there throughout the book because you can’t really avoid it. Singleton’s work I think dated 2010 really blew the lid off of the notion that postural sequences or postures themselves or the way in which they’re practiced in group class formats with adjustments, that any of that has any pre-modern heritage. It’s more like Indian anti-colonial activists in the 1920s and 1930s wanted to indigenize physical culture influences from Europe. Actually colonial influences: gymnastics, harmonial gymnastics, weight lifting, bodybuilding. They wanted to indigenize these physical culture practices, as forms of national physical culture, but also anti-colonial pride building. And it worked. It was really, really effective.
But what we have is something that pretends to have a stronger linkage to the medieval history of Hatha Yoga than it actually does. And then that’s what gets exported to the world is the notion that Jois’s system is ancient or that it goes back to Patanjali, or something like that when there’s no evidence for that at all. But it becomes a very powerful selling and marketing point. You know, it’s so common within the modern yoga world, and this is why I think Singleton’s book was so riveting and so outrageous to many people. And also so earth shattering is that you know — he doesn’t phrase it this way — but the research as he lays it out basically says what we have believed about the modern posture, about the modern yoga movement is mostly deceptive. It’s mostly a kind of clever elaboration or —
It’s an invention.
It’s an invention. And we have endowed it with a kind of orientalist idealistic mysticism, and that has become one of its main selling points. It’s also what has made it resistant to contemporary biomechanics and contemporary kinesiology and contemporary physical therapy. So it’s really, it’s really complicated. Here’s another example. There’s part of this invocation of tradition that also shielded Pattabhi Jois from scrutiny because one of the things that his students would say, and they say it to this day actually, is that his adjustments, as brutal as they were, as injurious and as intrusive as they were, were traditional. Well, they might’ve been traditional in the sense that that’s what Krishnamacharya did to him. But we don’t have any evidence that physical adjustments in yoga existed prior to the 1920s. I proved that I think in my book by citing the work of several historians of medieval yoga, or one in particular, Dr Jason Birch, who says there’s no evidence for anybody physically assisting anybody else in a yoga posture prior to the 20th century.
And just to jump on that for a second — around the nature of the adjustments, because we’ve discussed how there’s a component of sexual assault in them, but the physical assault too… the stories of people just hearing ligaments snap or rip. I mean that was just sort of sending shivers down my spine as I read, the whole book in a way. It’s harrowing to read.
And it also shows how effective and immersive the propaganda was around Jois’s power that the senior students openly joke about how they all crawled crying out of practice everyday. They all openly talk about how, Oh yeah, he blew out my knee and he was doing this, but I got the posture or he led me towards a more advanced position in the series or something like that. The way in which this group of people was inculturated to withstand pain is extraordinary. And I think it’s had a huge ripple effect. Or kind of like a trickle down effect into the next generation with regard to how we regard the body and effort and pain in general. You know, there are very few, I would imagine in North America and Europe, yoga teachers who are cranking people today the way that Jois cranked people in his day. But I think that the basic ideas around what pain means, what injury means, what pushing yourself means, what being pushed by a teacher means: those have all remained intact in places.
So you’ve sort of discussed a little bit about the spiritual interpretation and reframe of a lot of this behavior. What has been some of the response you’ve received or seen in light of the stuff coming out and also in light of your book. How is the community both within Ashtanga and th yoga community outside of Ashtanga receiving this?
There’s a huge spectrum and there’s kind of a line in the sand as it were, of that spectrum between people who identify as Ashtanga practitioners and people who don’t. Amongst the people who do, this is a difficult book to read and some people have really negative reactions to it. Although it’s not like the reactions that they’ve had to my more informal blog work over the years, which a lot of people have just been able to dismiss or to say it’s agenda driven or something like that or that, “You just hate our community”, or something.
Again, this is very personal for me. I have friends who I’ve tried to talking about your work with both here and in Europe and there has been this view that you’re, this opportunist, you’re your swooping in on this thing just to elevate your own work and your own, your own profile, and I’ve always gone cross-eyed when that’s come up. I’m like, this is not what he’s doing.
It’s opportunist in a sense that nobody was doing it for one thing. And I would say that anybody in the Ashtanga world who calls me an opportunist should really ask themselves the question, “If you knew about this, where was your book? Where was your newspaper report? Why didn’t you go to a journalist? I mean it didn’t have to be me. Why was it me? Why was it me? It’s like, it’s 2010 and Anneke Lucas published her account and it got buried on Facebook. There was like five likes to it. Nobody shared it. You know, there’s one comment saying, “You know lot of people are going to say you’re a very brave person sometime in the future.” Fast forward six years later, she republishes her blog. By that point, I’m talking to Karen Rain for two years. People asked for like a decade. “Where did Karen Haberman go? Where did she disappear to?” She got so far away from the Ashtanga scene in the yoga world in general, she changed her name and it’s like nobody wanted to ask a little bit further?
So I mean, okay. Opportunistic. Yes. But that’s because there’s this great big vacuum. And with regard to my profile, well, we all have jobs and you know, my job as strange as it is and as self-made as it is, is that I look at abuse and spiritual communities. And so, yeah. Does it raise my profile? Yes. Does it make me fame and fortune? Um, no. I mean, anybody who thinks that somehow I’ve gotten rich on this just doesn’t know anything about what writing a book means or what it means to sell it or anything about it. And, and, you know, it’s like, did you, did anybody say that, Ronan Farrow was opportunistic for reporting on Harvey Weinstein? I don’t think so. They looked at the work and they said, Wow, he gained the trust of, what was it, eight women who he published on in that first New Yorker. He gained the trust. He was able to publish their testimonies. He pretty much stayed out of the way. And he created a victim-centered narrative. And so I didn’t actually — you asked the question and I didn’t want to go on a rant about —
Well actually, you know, I just want to interject too, is that the people that I’m in contact with, that had said that actually have read the book and have actually completely changed their tune. Oh, okay. So even with people that were initially critical, they’ve read the book and they feel that this is a very fair, balanced treatment and important that it’s out now.
Yeah. I hope that slowly gets in. I think part of that maybe the threshold has to do with, it’s not like I was a professional journalist in sports or something like that, and I got wind of this story and people didn’t know who I was, but, you know, I’ve been writing as a cultural critic within the yoga world for the last five years. My book on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras was in 2012. And there’s been a lot of divided opinion about the value of what I do ever since then. So as a cultural critic, as I’ve reported on various abuse stories, the Anusara implosion, the Jivamukti lawsuit, the Satyananda Yoga thing, Shambhala, Rigpa… As I’ve done that work, I’ve made a lot of allies and I’ve made a lot of enemies. And all of that really is in the sort of public, very jousty sphere of blog work and social media.
A book is a different thing, you know, when it’s editorialized and fact checked and there’s legal backing of publication behind it, it’s 380 pages long and there’s 380 foot notes or whatever, it’s well-cooked. And so I think it’s unfortunate that I already had a name coming into this particular work, that I carried the baggage of past work with me. But at the same time, I don’t think I would’ve gotten the book contract without that. So it just is what it is. I hate that phrase, but I think there’s there’s nothing to have been done about it.
Well I won’t repeat it is what it is, but, one of the things I really appreciated about the book was the level of analysis that you went into, sort of deconstructing the dynamics in these high demand groups that that broadens the conversation from just saying, Oh, well the perpetrator was just a bad apple. Like he was, he was a bad man. And, we can throw him out but keep, keep this very valuable and integral practice intact. Right. Or the opposite, which I hear a lot too is Okay, well if these people, like with Karen Rain going back again and again and getting continually assaulted: What’s going on in her psychology or someone’s psychology like that, that keeps them there? Why aren’t we talking about that more? And I know you’re excellent at eviscerating both of those, those, those veins, right?
Yeah. So on one hand, yeah, on one hand the bad apple argument just doesn’t work because nobody assaults… Jubilee Cooke estimates that there’s 30,000 — her conservative estimate is that there’s 30,000 distinct episodes of abuse or assault —
Just briefly take me through the math on that.
Jubilee Cooke is one of the women who gave testimony and she was one of one of the women who was there for eight months. And so I’ll talk about her in the second section as well, in the second part of this answer, and she was assaulted repeatedly, but she said, you know, this happened to me in three different postures every single morning. This is the number of mornings. Every morning that I was there in Mysore, I saw three other women who, who got assaulted in those three postures. So she starts to build numbers out of what she personally experienced and what she personally witnessed. And then she just counts up the years she counts up the tours. I think she uses, no, I don’t think she uses my research to try to figure out how many women he actually came into contact with when he’s away from the Mysore shala on world tour, you know, in California or New York or Boston or whatever, or Hawaii. And she comes up with a conservative estimate of 300 or, sorry, 30,000 individual sexual assaults over what’s likely a 30 year period.
That’s not a bad apple. That’s a whole orchard. That’s like a bad apple and a whole bunch of people saying, No, this is great. This is a great apple. This is a great apple! In a more contemporary story, what we’re seeing with Manouso Manos right now.
Just for reference, who is he?
He’s probably BKS Iyengar’s most famous, most prominent, most senior student, and the one who most embodies his own teaching persona. BKS’s gruffness, his shouting, his way of both electrifying and terrifying a room at the same time. He has recently had allegations, numerous allegations of sexual assault verified against him by an independent investigation that was commissioned by the Iyengar Yoga Association of the United State, or IYNAUS. And so in that ongoing story, which is still unfolding, we have this sense administratively within IYNAUS that you know, he’s been delisted, he’s been decertified and the Iyengar family has removed his right in light of these crimes, which can’t be prosecuted — they’re all outside of the statute of limitations — but in light of these behaviors, he’s been prevented from using the Iyengar trademark in his teaching going forward.
And that’s it, right? Like, this is not a regulated profession. He can go on and teach whatever he wants. He can teach Manouso Manos Yoga tomorrow and open up shop wherever, maybe in Bali or something. But the thing is, is that administratively we have this sense that while he’s been excised, somehow he’s been amputated and, you know, we’re all fine now. Well, here’s somebody who had such teacherly influence for such a long time and such administrative influence over the entire organization for such a long time. Now I would say what the organization has to do is say, “Okay, who actually trained under this guy and who would attribute their certification to him and who was tested by him?”
Because everybody involved in that is going to have to answer some questions about, Well, what did you actually learn from him? Here’s somebody who is probably less of a yoga teacher than a sexual predator posing as a yoga teacher. “What did you actually learn? And how can we help you learn some more? Or how can we help you mitigate this educational stain?”
And then on the other side of it, it’s like anybody who asks, why did Karen Rain keep going back to get assaulted by Pattabhi Jois every, every year — doesn’t know anything about trauma, doesn’t know anything about domestic violence, doesn’t know anything about a trauma bond, doesn’t know anything about being gaslighted. That response, which is very common and I would say, you know, it’s so common, it shouldn’t be shameful. I just think people should be open to correcting it.
People who have that response really have to get educated in what it means to be in a toxic power dynamic, that confuses your basic capacity to feel as though you have agency. Like I bring up the metaphor in the book that if you broke a person’s leg and there they were on the ground, you wouldn’t blame them for not running away from you as you came in to damage them further. But somehow with sexual assault, we look at the survivor or the victim or the survivor and we say, why didn’t you run away when actually the sexual and the physical assault have deprived them in many cases of their capacity to feel as though they are autonomous, to feel as though they can have individual agency, to feel as though they have their own bodies even.
Right. That’s a huge, hugely important piece that I think gets overlooked. I know you’re not found at this guy and I think I have mixed feelings about myself, but I was glancing through Jordan, Jordan Peterson’s book and he makes some comment that I think is really relevant here where he says you know, if we deny a victim response, some responsibility, we deny them agency.
Right? Yeah. Except that he’s going to use that to say that we somehow as observers of the victim have to give them responsibility within our assessment of what happened during a particular crime. Right. The problem with that is that there might be some, some therapeutic application of that principle of well, You know, in this moment, do you feel as though you have agency with regard to how you’re moving forward coming out of this experience. That might happen privately in therapy later, but what happens is, and I can hear it in that quote, is that the notion of victim is turned into a kind of psychological state instead of a label for somebody against whom a crime has been committed.
The further problem with assigning responsibility, regardless of what that even means — like what does that mean? Is it about the clothing? Is it about the fact that you went that morning? Is it about the fact that your voice froze when you wanted to say No? Like what, what responsibility are we actually talking about and can that discussion survive the fact that one of the reasons that Karen Rain was assaulted over and over again was because the group had deceived her about what was going on?
The problem that I don’t think Jordan Peterson or any of his kind of like alt right bros want to really face is that you cannot be responsible for having been deceived. I’d even say his own fans aren’t responsible for him deceiving them! It’s very, very difficult to protect yourself against being deceived. That’s what deception is. It happens to intelligent people. It happens to mediocrely educated people. It happens to people who aren’t educated at all. If you are deceived about why you are in a place, about what is going to offer you, then you’ve really already had your agency taken away. It’s not like you’re going to give it. In both cults that I was a recruited into, they presented themselves as, other than what they actually were.
No, there’s no part of Ashtanga Yoga that said to Karen Rain, Hey, this is a cult in which you’ll be sexually assaulted every day! No, that’s not what they said. They said: This practice will give you spiritual liberation and if you follow this teacher’s instructions as closely as you can and you surrender your body up to them, your process will go a lot faster. That’s what they said. That’s what they said. And if she’s to blame for believing that, well, you know, let’s have another conversation about what people actually end up believing.
Yeah. I thought that that part in the book was great. And you also from there, you then expand into an analysis of sort of structural, systemic conditions that do kind of disorient and confuse and create this kind of vertiginous internal phenomenology for the person that makes it very difficult to see one way or the other.
And I think I really have the work of Alexandra Stein to thank for that because she uses this basic — so just a caveat here, when we talk about the psychology of person who’s victimized by a cult, it’s not to say that, you know, there was something inside them that made them more vulnerable. The deception is the threshold. And then there are a psychological processes that can take over that make recruitment easier, dependency, easier, dread of leading, easier — but what she says is that the main thing that the cult does is it rewires your way of relating to people, to everyone, really towards the end of the attachment spectrum, known as disorganized, where you’re actually in a constant state of love and fear of approaching, but withdrawing, of going to a person for love who on some level is also hurting you, but you feel dependent upon.
And one of the things that she says this creates is this amazing — I say it’s amazing, it’s awful, but it’s amazing to me because it articulates my own cult experience so well — she describes a triple isolation in which you’re isolated from the outside world. You’ve lost your old friends probably, or you’ve written them off or they’re not enlightened enough for you, or you’re just separated from them because you’re in an ashram or something. And then you’re isolated also from people within the group because there are certain things that are taboo to talk about. And in the Ashtanga world, you couldn’t say around the breakfast table at Mysore: He sexually assaulted me. Or if you tried to, you’d be told, Oh no, that’s not what it was.
And then that second layer of isolation leads to a kind of internal isolation from your own moral sense, where it’s like you had values that helped you navigate the world. You had a compass that was a shining light for you, but now it’s kind of broken or it’s been occluded and the wisdom of the group has entered in and has kind of overwhelmed what you’ve been able to decide for yourself in terms of your moral values throughout your life. So that triple isolation is like this amazing idea. You’re with other people, but you’re totally all alone at the same time. And the only person who really is the reality principle is the leader, is Mr Jois, is Mr Iyengar, is, Manouso Manos. In my case, it was, in my case, it was Michael Roach of the Asian Classics Institute or Charles Anderson at Endeavor Academy. Like that guy was the reality principle.
Right. They have all the answers.
Right, and that’s part of what alienates you from your own, even your will to, to propose an alternative or to ask questions, which of course you’re not allowed to do.
Yeah. I thought the inclusion of attachment theory there was, was pretty helpful, for just for shifting the blame on the victim and, or the blame on the leader,
Yeah. It’s a system. They’re working together. I would like people to just reflect on the fact that you have no idea who Jim Jones was. You have no idea what was going on in Chogyam Trungpa’s head, you have no idea what, what the inner life of Bikram Choudhury is like. The, what is it called, the Eisenhower Rule? What psychiatrists came up with in the 1950s where they self imposed — they’re starting to break it with Trump now — but a lot of professional clinicians, have this self-imposed rule that they’re not going to diagnose people that they’re not in clinical practice with. I think that’s a really sound principle. You don’t know, I don’t know what’s going on in Pattabhi Jois’s head. I don’t know what his internal constellation is like. I’ve spent two years interviewing Karen Rain. I feel like I know her a lot better than I know him, but I still wouldn’t presume to know why she makes choices that she does. All of that intentionality, all of that speculation on people’s internal states, what it usually does is it overshadows the fact that a crime has been committed and we can obviously set up ways of preventing it from happening again. [Correction: it’s the Goldwater Rule. Woops.]
I know we’re closing in on your time a bit and I do want to get into maybe the path ahead. You know, I know you hold that intention in the book of, of offering some sort of roadmap forward with better practices. So one of the things that I as a teacher, myself, and I do trainings in various yoga studios. One thing that’s come up from me is that I’ve had some studios on my schedule that still have photographs of Pattabhi Jois in their altar corner of the studio. And there haven’t been, to my satisfaction, statements of distancing and denouncing and separation and all that. And I have to say, I’m deeply grateful to you for your work because it’s helped me sort through how to engage with that. But one of the things that has come up for me and trying to talk about it with these hosts and these other studios is, it’s hard to escape a little bit the idea of or the dynamic of virtue signaling, where you kind of come off pious or sanctimonious: Look, you have this photograph up and you’re silencing victims and doing your part of an institutional enablement. And I think that’s really all important to say, but it actually hasn’t gone very well for me with these places. I get labeled as being judgmental. I’m not understanding them, not letting them handle it in their own way.
You know, but you don’t have to do that work because the survivors have done it for you. Really. Like, Karen Rain and Jubilee Cook published this amazing — I hope this goes into the show notes — this amazing essay in Yoga International that the title is something like “What do survivors of sexual abuse in Yoga communities need?” And it’s like a white paper that basically lays it out and says, Look, here we are, we’re sexual assault survivors of a 20th century yoga master. And this is what happened to us and this is how we feel about what will create safety and respect, not only for us, but for students going forward. And, you know, I think anybody who reads through that and you know, there’s stuff around: don’t venerate people who are sexual assaulters or rapists. That’s not safe for the people who come to your studio. You know: you have to make a distinction between people that you love because you love them and people who are triggering to your students. I mean, that’s just, that’s basic adulting for one thing.
But anyway, their list of the things that you can do is all laid out for you. And I don’t think you have to be worried about virtue-signaling by referring to what survivors of sexual assault need. To me, virtue signaling is, you know, some sort of opportunistic self aggrandizement based upon associating yourself with you a fashionable social cause. But you’re not getting anything out of those confrontations if you’re trying to teach there.
And as far as like being judgmental goes, I mean, well, asking for basic justice and respect isn’t judgmental. What’s judgmental or perhaps the better word is just inept, is to continue to keep your head in the sand about what the person that you love did to people. You can still love him, but it doesn’t mean that you have to venerate him or say that he was somebody that he wasn’t in public terms.
You know, I think the whole notion of the veneration of the photograph is so difficult for so many people because there was an intensity with which he would gaze at them or they would gaze at him. And often that would happen within the of adjustments. And I believe that if, if in some cases, if those portraits on those altars are looked at from just the right angle, the person might go, Oh my God, actually he’s not who I thought I was, who he was after all. It’s almost as if the portrait will stay on the altar to preserve something that if it cracks will crack the entire world along with it. And that’s a tough place to be in. I would acknowledge it.
But if you’re running a public space, and people who are sexual assault survivors are going to it and they can Google Pattabhi Jois’s name and that story is the first thing that comes up… how are they going to feel safe and how were they going to feel as though you’re not somehow excusing or aiding and abetting or minimizing or just not caring about sexual assault. That doesn’t make sense. Right? If one in four women are survivors of sexual assault — and it’s probably higher than that — do you really want to almost emotionally haze or gaslight a quarter of your potential practice population? It doesn’t make any sense. My main point is that is that you don’t have to do that work because it’s already been done for you in, in Rain and Cooke’s essay. And so that’s really cool.
That crossed my desk a little while ago and I did very much appreciate that. I feel like if I’m going to these places,I’m coming in not as a regular teacher, I’m coming in for a workshop or a training. I feel like if I’m going to a place that still venerates put a Jois-type figure that in some ways my, my showing up is complicit with this network of complicity.
That’s a hard one, right? You’d have to make some personal choices around whether you’re using that privilege, the fees that you’re getting from the training to push back against that idealization. There’s going to be a lot of calculations in there. There’s people who are at certain points in their career where they can say, well, I’m not going to work with so and so anymore, and they can make that public and that will be very, very effective. And they won’t hurt because of it financially. But, you know, I think people who are in different financial circumstances might find it more effective to preserve the relationship with their Ashtanga Yoga shala hosts than to separate altogether and to slowly encourage them to change. So, you know, those are individual choices for sure.
Yeah. Within the Ashtanga world in general, what reforms do movements do you see happening and what, what gives you a sense of hope?
The reform so far has been strong in some areas in the zone of sentiment, rather than action. But that’s gonna take a long time. It’s not like it’s not going to happen. I’m sure. I’m sure things will improve. But when you asked me that question, I think of an amazing accountability statement made by Sarai Harvey Monk who is authorized by Sharath Jois sometime in the 2010s, something like that. And you know, she laid out this five point, “this is how my participation in this organization is complicit with this abuse history and here are the five things that I’m going to do now in my classes to make sure that I don’t carry any of those impacts on.” There has been a couple of other statements like that, but hers is a real standout. There’s a guy named Guy Donahaye, who actually was the co editor with Eddie Stern of a very popular book in 2012 called Guruji which I describe in my book, and I criticize very closely and heavily as being a hagiography of Jois that was published with the cultural knowledge of what was being left out. So, Guy is the co-editor, Eddie Stern is the other editor, but Guy has gone on kind of like this solo truth and reconciliation tear on his blog. And he’s published a lot of really beautiful pieces about that are basically, What the heck were we doing? What did we overlook? Who did we not listen to? What does Karen Rain have to say? How can I make this up to her? Like he’s doing an amazing amount of public vulnerable, accountability work.
And he recently also sponsored a petition that’s on Facebook, trying to get Ashtanga certified and authorized teachers to make accountability statements. That’s moving kind of slowly because I think there’s a lot of fear around the control that the family still has over the finances and the copyrights and the ability to practice, uh, or to teach the, the, the method, quote-unquote legally or with the validation of the family. So that’s moving slowly.
And then on the logistic or the sort of material front, there is a group that’s in formation and I think it’s called the Amayu collective. And two of its leads are Scott Johnson from London and the UK. And Greg Nardi from Orlando or Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They’re coordinating with a few other second generation of Ashtanga teachers. So it’s a young group, I think about five, and one of them isn’t a teacher, I think her name is Emma. She’s actually a women’s studies professor in southern England somewhere. And she’s a student and I think she’s also an educational specialist. I think this group of five people are putting together a kind of alternative training program to what’s on offer through Sharath Jois and KPJAYI. I don’t think that has really gotten off the ground yet. There’s a lot of aspirations involved there. I know that the group will have some challenges with diversity with inclusion and also. I would say that they probably have to do a better job of making sure that they’re professionally consulting with survivors like Karen Rain and Anneke Lucas and Jubilee Cooke. Because I think that’s essential. Any reform movement that isn’t asking Jois’s survivors exactly what to do and exactly what they need and exactly what they would have needed to keep safe is not really a reform movement at all.
And in Yoga at large, I know yoga is kind of like the wild, wild west of, industries. What kind of reform… I know you mentioned things like more of a consent culture in terms of adjustments and scope of practice considerations. What would you like to see, see moving forward?
Well the last part of my book is written as a workbook for the yoga teacher training industry. It summarizes the analysis of the Jois event and the cult literature that I use. I try to lay out a number of tools that I think — I’m not an expert in this — but I think will be helpful as teachers, students and administrators and yoga service providers and yoga academics as well go forward in figuring out how to identify toxic group dynamics. So there’s tools in there and the tools are accompanied by personal essay questions for review. So there’s something in there called the PRISM method. There’s eight best practices for avoiding cultic dynamics. There is also, as you mentioned, a scope of practice for the yoga humanities that I think would be a good idea.
And it’s something that Yoga Alliance may adopt in part, not because I wrote it or anything, but because it’s in the air now they’re doing a renovation of their standards after 19 years. Scope of practice or defining a scope of practice for a yoga teacher is a keystone of that effort. And that’s super important because one of the reasons that Jois was allowed to be who he was is that nobody gave him any limits. He was given kind of free reign to pontificate about every aspect of a person’s life, you know, so it’s not just that he was teaching people asana, but he was also telling them to stop taking their medication or he was telling them that their back didn’t need surgery or, you know, he was giving them spiritual advice perhaps or, or what have you. It’s like the modern yoga movement has been built on the charismatic personalities that did not have a scope of practice because it was thought or they assume they could do anything. And that is about to get checked. And that’s a really good thing. Like if you’ve trained as an asana, a teacher, let’s stay in our lane: let’s not give dietary advice. Let’s not pretend you’re a marriage counsellor. Let’s not start talking about the chakras. Let’s not give psychological advice or talk about people’s medications.
Also let’s not BS about history and philosophy either because it’s becoming increasingly clear — and I want to cite my colleagues Theodore Wildcroft here for coming up with this analogy — it’s becoming increasingly clear that Yoga teachers are not physiotherapists. They’re not going to be trained to take care of your subluxated disc in your back, and they’re not going to be trained to fix your labral tear. Now that’s new. What the public is less aware of is that it’s fairly easy for your run of the mill yoga teacher to manipulate a whole class of people intellectually and then psychologically by claiming that they know more about yoga philosophy than they actually do. So one of these tools that I offer in the sixth part is: are you really clear as a yoga teacher about what the limits of your humanities knowledge is? Or are you giving people the impression that you know, what yoga philosophy says when actually very few people know what or understand the depth and breadth of yoga philosophy? So I hope those are helpful ideas. I hope that people are able to begin to look at the communities that they live in a little bit more critically, to look at the kind of leadership that they have a little bit more critically and start modelling that critical thinking.
I think it’s a great direction forward. I’m getting drowned out, I think, I don’t know if you can hear, I’m getting drowned out by leafblowers, lawnmowers, unfortunately. But look, it’s been great. I’ve really enjoyed talking to you and I’m really super appreciative of the work you’re doing. I know it’s tough sledding. I follow you also in the common threads and you’ve rolled up your sleeves, the knuckles are out and it’s bit of a knife fight in there, but you’re fighting the good fight. And I just want to thank you for that.
Thank you, Josh. It’s a pleasure to talk with you. Great questions. Thank you.
Great to chat.
Activism, Articles, Blog, Buddhism, Charismatic Abuse, Cult dynamics, Yoga culture, Yoga pedagogy May 27, 2019 June 1, 2019
How Good Book Stores Become Unwitting Retailers for Yoga and Buddhism Cults
(With great love and care for independent booksellers everywhere.)
As part of my tour to promote Practice and All is Coming, I was invited by a well-beloved bookstore in a major North American city to give a presentation and sign copies as part of their author’s series.
This gorgeous bookstore is proudly independent, and has supported spiritual seekers, social progressives, and environmental activists for decades. The staff were kind and professional and encouraging.
I arrived early for the AV check and looked around. Behind the little stage area where I was supposed to stand stood the entire yoga section.
And there they all were.
It was strange and tense and activating to see piles of yoga books written by or associated with abusive leaders and institutional betrayal. I was there to present an argument against the messages and the media of exactly these books.
At the risk of wearing out my welcome, I made use of the paradox in my presentation. When I offered the following slide of The List of yoga organizations that have unresolved abuse histories, I was able to tie almost every one with a book from the shelf. I was worried about making the staffers uncomfortable, but they were really grateful and supportive. Who wants to sell compromised goods, after all? Continue reading “How Good Book Stores Become Unwitting Retailers for Yoga and Buddhism Cults”
Articles, Blog, Charismatic Abuse, Cult dynamics, Yoga culture, Yoga pedagogy May 19, 2019 May 24, 2019
Iyengar’s Charisma of Incoherence, and Selected Indoctrination Defence Statements
Ann Tapsell West posted two videos of Iyengar abusing students yesterday. If you don’t know West, her 2018 ethics complaint against Manouso Manos led to the recent independent investigation that found multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by Manos (including against West herself) to be credible. This has led to his decertification by IYNAUS, and the Iyengar family forbidding him from continuing to use their name and trademark.
West has since turned her attention to the systemic issues that her case has helped further illuminate. On May 9th, she published a “Reparations List for Survivors of Manouso Manos Sexual Assaults”, addressing the complicity of senior leaders, and institutional betrayal in the wider global community: Continue reading “Iyengar’s Charisma of Incoherence, and Selected Indoctrination Defence Statements”
#metoo, Activism, Articles, Charismatic Abuse, Cult dynamics, rape culture, Yoga, Yoga culture, Yoga pedagogy April 9, 2019 May 24, 2019
After Manouso: Questions for Iyengar Yoga Teachers and Leaders
If you haven’t heard: the professional independent and investigation (trigger warning) into decades of allegations of sexual assault by Manouso Manos under the guise of “yoga adjustments” has found enough credible evidence and corroboration to paint a picture of serial criminality, enabled by the propaganda of his genius and the silencing of his survivors.
The report has forced IYNAUS to oust him, and the Iyengar family to withdraw permission to use their trademark. Neither IYNAUS or the Iyengars have offered any public words of apology, support, or restorative justice to the women who gave their testimony. Neither organization has used the appropriate terminology to describe what the investigation substantiated, relying on euphemisms like “inappropriate sexual touching” instead of assault or digital rape.
Perhaps the careful language is meant to shield both organizations against civil suits. But along with the absent apology, the overall impact is the suggestion that Iyengar Yoga and the legacy of BKS Iyengar are the true victims of Manouso Manos — not women like Ann West, whose 2018 assault complaint against Manos was initially dismissed by the IYNAUS Ethics Committee. Continue reading “After Manouso: Questions for Iyengar Yoga Teachers and Leaders”
#metoo, Activism, Articles, Buddhism, Charismatic Abuse, Cult dynamics, Yoga, Yoga culture, Yoga pedagogy February 10, 2019 February 10, 2019
Respectable Bystanders in Yoga and Beyond
It will soon be a matter of common knowledge that the integrity of globally successful yoga and Buddhism brands founded by charismatic evangelists have been grossly compromised by histories of abuse.
We don’t have to name names: they’ll just come to mind. Fill in the blank of “The ______ yoga community”, and you will likely have named an organization in which the leader and/or his/her key lieutenants have been abusers.
In some cases the relationship seems to express a morbid calculus: the more abusive the leadership, the more successful the organization.
The jury is out on whether abuse prevalence is higher in globalized-Indian-convert-spirituality groups than in other groups. But we can say that in a completely unregulated landscape confounded by idealization and orientalism in which charisma is the primary coin of the realm and consumers have little if any way of assessing the competency of producers — even in matters as tender as their own bodies, psyches, and inner selves — abuse is easy to pull off and devastating in effects.
Understanding how the abuse works systemically is impossible, IMO, without diving into cult studies, which provide a robust framework for how the behaviours, information, thoughts, and emotions of group members are controlled (cf Hassan) through the manipulating strategies and deceive and negate the self (cf. Mann).
When (not if) this analysis becomes normalized, the notion that these brands and their communities “protect” a particular kind of knowledge — a language that’s emboldened by references to “tradition” or “lineage” — will start to ring hollow. It will become clear that the shadow function of the organization has been at least dual. Aside from the good the organization has done, it has used the notion of
Protecting proprietary/precious information to…
Protect the image of the abusers said to hold it.
The vehemence of those who protect “purity” seems to rise in direct proportion to their shame.
The pressing question becomes “Who then was doing the protecting?” The answer is that it takes all types, from the goon-enforcer all the way up to the academic who gave the group uncritical validation by overlooking its cultic machine. But here I’d like to focus on the most respectable and popular types, who continued on in their careers after abuses became known, largely without changing tack. Let’s call them the Respectable Bystanders (RBs).
Think about the teacher who is well-respected for conflicting reasons:
They have a strong relationship to a socially viable brand (i.e., they are “traditional”), but
They have also tacitly distanced themselves from it (they are “independent”).
They often enjoy privileged status within the group, held up as paragons of virtue, as people who got the “true” message of the teachings, as luminaries who didn’t succumb to the foibles of the corrupt leadership. They were able to “separate the teacher from the teachings”. In public they’ll maintain enough of a relationship to the group to serve as an apparently safer or saner alternative to its darker regions. At the same time the RB will profess just enough ambivalence towards the group to not be dragged down by association.
The RB is not a safe person. They managed to capture the glow from the charismatic halo, bottle it up, and repackage it. They couldn’t have done that while also saying “My teacher was an abuser and together we have to heal his legacy.” And if they spent twenty years or more not speaking out against the abuse of the community in which they went on to attain mentor status, you can bet that they didn’t pay much attention to the power dynamics they themselves were creating.
More importantly, consider whether their mentor status now positions them to “save” the brand with their maturity and guidance. That’s not just cynical on their part. It’s dangerous. Because one thing that RBs generally share with the leaders they hold at arm’s length is a grandiosity that believes their internal goodness constitutes all the learning they need.
Theodora Wildcroft was just here in Toronto beginning her first post-doctoral foray into the mainstream yoga training sphere. Her research generated the concept of “Post-Lineage Yoga”, which does many things, including describing the way in which communities practice after their leadership is compromised by abuse revelations.
Because these revelations are now ubiquitous, and because sources of authority on movement and science and history are now horizontally networked instead bestowed from above, the truth is that we are all post-lineage practitioners now.
This goes for the bystanders and enablers as well, unless somehow they sealed themselves off from all other influences. In the case of the Respectable Bystanders, they didn’t. They diluted their socio-economic links to the abusive leader in part through being open to and sometimes taking on other influences.
Wildcroft is clear that post-lineage doesn’t mean anti-lineage, which is why the term also can describe the RB. What her scholarship has done, however, is to amplify some basic transparency questions that can only improve safety in the shadow of RBs and others:
“Do you know where you stand in relation to X group/method/tradition?” “Are you clear about the conflict between benefit and harm in your heritage?” “What are you doing to help those who were hurt by the system you benefited from?”
#metoo, Activism, Articles, Audio, Blog, Cult dynamics, Patriarchy, Press & Interviews, social justice, Trauma, Yoga, Yoga culture, Yoga pedagogy February 9, 2019 June 11, 2019
Yoga, Cults, Neurodivergence, Structural Sexism: Tiffany Rose and Matthew Remski in Conversation
I’ve done a lot of podcasts, but this one is different. Tiffany and I have known each other for many years, and we were able to record at her dinner table with the Edmonton winter held at bay outside the window. I was exhausted and just off a plane but that somehow helped make me focused and relaxed and a little unguarded. Also, Tiffany doesn’t fuck around. Thanks for the all the hard work you do, Tiff, and for your friendship.
Here’s the recording, which is episode 2 on her new series with Elliot Kesse. You can support their work here. I’m posting a cleaned-up transcript below.
https://soundcloud.com/user-107375024/whered-my-chakras-go-matthew-remski
Tiffany Rose:
Welcome to Where’d My Chakras Go? A yoga podcast for the rest of us, with Elliot Kesse and Tiffany Rose. So I am here with Matthew Remski and Elliot is not able to join us unfortunately, but we will be discussing some of the topics that Elliot had requested. So maybe Matthew can just tell us a little bit about yourself?
Matthew Remski:
Sure. Thanks for inviting me Tiffany. I’ve been teaching or I guess involved in yoga since about 2003, and that followed two three-year stints in yoga related cults. And how that happened is a long story, but coming to yoga itself was really wrapped up in trying to recover my sense of agency and autonomy after those experiences of control — of social control. And that really started with being able to feel my own body as my own, being able to feel my thoughts as my own. So I plunged right in.
Also, I’d lost a lot of time in my late twenties and early thirties, wrapped up in these two cultic organizations. The yoga industry was booming when I got out and it seemed like a fortuitous fit and, there was a training that I could go to and there wasn’t a yoga studio in the little town that my ex partner and I were living in at that time. So, things just seem to fall into place to put me in this strange position of studying a lot of yoga and then beginning to teach it a little bit too early, but in a very intensive way. I started out with 25 classes a week or something like that. There’s a lot of people who ended up doing that in the early 2000s I think.
I eventually continued to study in subject areas like yoga therapy and Ayurveda and more esoteric subjects like Jyotish or Vedic astrology and palmistry and the spatial arrangement thing called Vastu. And that was all really enriching in my life. I’ve continued on from there, but it’s really taken me about 10 years to swing around to recognizing that the primary value that I found in this to begin with was tools to access some sort of internal sense of constancy or agency, and capacity to feel like a single self and that’s been really important to me. And then it’s also directed how I’ve begun to look at how systems of social control developed within yoga environments as well. I think a lot of your listeners will probably know that I do a lot of work on yoga and Buddhist cults now in my writing. So that’s a little bit about me.
So you live in Toronto and you have two children and you’re married to a partner who is just starting to move into her own practice and the boys are both in school now, so this is kind of a transitional time for you as well, hey?
Right. Yeah. My partner is starting her psychotherapy practice and supervision as you say, the boys are both into school, little Owie is only in preschool. He says “pee skoo”. Then I’ve got this book coming out in March and I have no idea what’s going to happen after that because there’s going to be a lot of people I think who appreciate it and there’s gonna be bunch of people who really hate it. And I think it’s going to bring my engagement with yoga training work into a different area because up until this point I’ve been doing YTT modules in or facilitating YTT modules in history, philosophy and culture. But I think especially the conclusion of this book is going to put me into the zone of — or at least I’d like it to put me in the zone of — starting to talk about community health and, and safer spaces. Not just in terms of affirmative consent or informed consent or all of the amazing anti-oppression work that I’ve been exposed to and I’ve started to learn about, but also in terms of how do people actually form relationships in yoga and Buddhist communities, and what’s the role of charisma, and how do you know that you’re in a bounded-logic group, and how do you know when you’re being asked to do things through mechanisms of undue influence, and how do you know that the person’s actually giving you care instead of trying to control you? Those are very pressing questions to me because the last, especially three years of work that I’ve done in the writing and journalism that I’ve published have all focused on that in various yoga communities.
So you’ve kind of had this sort of archetypal position in Yogaland as like the evil sort of villain that just picks apart everything that’s good, and things that everybody loves, you know, you’re just there to shit on it. Did that happen intentionally or was it just sort of, did it just sort of evolve?
Well, I think, I mean to me, thinking critically about one’s internal life and how one consumes spiritual ideas is a form of spirituality. I think we — I don’t want to speak for everybody — but it seems to be a common thread that we take our spiritual aspirations really seriously, and to the extent that we do that, I feel like it’s really good to interrogate where they’re coming from and what kinds of wishes they’re fulfilling within us and what they make us more receptive to and what they make us more blind to. So I’ve always felt in the critical work I’ve done around yoga and injuries or the difficulty in telling apart trance states and dissociative states in meditation or how smiling and seemingly beneficent and communities can really hold these daggers of betrayal — all of that work to me has actually been a form of spirituality.
Because I think that one recurring pattern in my life is that when I learn something, it’s through some type of disillusionment. I don’t think that’s necessarily true for everybody, but I think it’s underrated. I think disillusionment as a growth process actually underrated. The trick is (and this is where I think I fall down and where people, perhaps people who are critical of what I do don’t get enough from me) which is that disillusionment really has to be healed by some form of re-enchantment. And so I’m working on that part, but it’s hard because all of my critical work is also wrapped up in the wounds of having been a cult survivor.
And so trying to find the pathway between criticism and productivity can be a real challenge, but it’s something that I think I want to keep working on for sure. I feel responsible to that. When people engage in my work and they feel depressed or more cynical or low, that’s a burden for me. It’s a burden for them! But I think it poses a responsibility. It gives me a responsibility. I don’t want to shy away from that.
I used to have this like almost-avoidant and dismissive attitude of “Oh, well, you know, I can just describe a problem and if you don’t like it then, you know, suck it up.” But that’s not where I’m at anymore. I think being in a really supportive relationship makes me understand how that can’t be where I am anymore. Trying to do well by my sons makes me understand that I really don’t want to be there anymore. I do want to do more to look at positive solution-seeking.
Is it you that says, are you quoting somebody that says something like enlightenment is the end of… what’s it?
I think maybe what you’re pointing to is that I had a teacher who gave this, I think probably eccentric etymology for “moksha”. He suggested that the first part of the compound word was shared with the name of Mohini,one of the divine feminine figures who has said to distract the yogi from — in this very misogynistic system of course — distract the yogi from his other-worldly concerns. And then the “ksha” is related to space element. And so his really beautiful explanation… I don’t know how other Sanskritists would find it, but he used to say that he thought of moksha as being “the end of infatuation”.
And leaving two cults was about two different types of infatuation coming to an end. Understanding that the bodily autonomy and, the real blessing of newfound interoception that I got from asana when I first started… really began to slide over into a kind of anxious ableism. When I realized that that was true, that was another end to infatuation. There was an infatuation that I had with physical capacity or even a capacity to sense things internally. You know, I think interoception is wonderful, but it can also be fetishized as, as some kind of core anchoring thing that will always bring you into the present moment and solve all problems and stuff like that. But it’s just another faculty and it has its uses and then it has its abuses as well.
And in fact, like for someone like me or people who have extreme chronic pain or maybe body dysmorphia or things like that, intense focus on interoception can sometimes be damaging, right? It can be harmful for people to feel like they’re trapped in their sensations or like they have to be tied to those internal sensations or else they’re not practicing yoga.
And that’s, and that’s a harder story for you for you to tell. I think it’s a lot easier — what I’m saying about interoception as being this wonderful grounding or agency-enhancing thing is a common yoga narrative. And then along comes Tiffany and says, “Wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute! When I go inside and try to find relaxation or peace or security and internal sensation, maybe I find the opposite. Maybe I just don’t find that at all.” And that in itself is a breaking of a kind of infatuation to just have that statement out there somewhere that, “Wait a minute, not everybody has that. Or not everybody does that. Or not everybody works that way.” It breaks this illusion that we’re all starting from the same place or that we all share something irreducibly in common. I think it gets us out of thinking that what we can share is an ideology instead of what we can share is a relationship where we’re actually continually learning about things that we just can’t understand about each other.
Doesn’t that make teaching harder though?
Like when there’s no common bond that we can kind of preach to. Then Actually have to start teaching in relationship.
And for people who maybe are closed down to relationship or maybe even like you were saying that closed down to a relationship to themselves. It makes teaching yoga a lot harder. I think
It does. It’s certainly harder to describe. It’s harder to market. It’s harder to feel evangelical about.
Well, there’s no flashing lights with that, you know?
No, there isn’t. This is a weird thing. I mean, when we hear the hopeful, hope-laden in statement in yoga culture or literature or marketing, we’re hearing two things. We’re hearing something earnest and yearning from the perspective of the teacher who’s marketing or the student who’s consuming. But we’re also hearing the potential for a kind of aspirational bypass where we’re somehow asking ourselves or other people to do and accomplish and feel more than they are able. And that brings up the whole problem of what happens when they don’t.
Do you think that…. I’m just kind of thinking this out loud, like, because I think that there’s so many teachers who are really wanting to do right. They’re really wanting to feel like their classes can be inclusive of everyone and that they are accessible, right? But with the current way that yoga is consumed in North America, it’s really difficult to remain profitable if that’s your livelihood and not sell hope. Right? So how do you, how do people who are really trying to be trauma-informed and inclusive and accessible, how do they compete with the evangelical, hopeful Lululemon crowd?
Yeah, I don’t think they compete. I think they offer something different which is: if there’s hope on offer, it’s the hope of, of inquiry or curiosity or a period of time out or a period of care or nurturance. I don’t see how they’re going to compete. I mean in a way, they’re antithetical so they can’t compete.
I think part of what we’re talking about is how can people make livings. And I think that when I consider what I know about your story and the story of so many other people who do this really sort of a in-depth trauma aware and non-commercialized work, I think of how I’m seeing this growing divide structurally between commercial and public service models. Where I see a hopefulness not in terms of marketing marketing solutions, but hopefulness in terms of the possibility for people like you and your colleagues for perhaps making more of a living over time or a better living over time is in the increasing movement of yoga into public health circumstances where the funding is assured because the population is known to simply benefit from what’s being offered.
That’s what I see with the work of people in the Yoga Service Council. And a little bit in the Accessibility Yoga Movement as well, that people are getting really good at, or better anyway, at figuring out where to pursue public funding rather than private commercial, consumer-based funding. So I’m very interested in that and that change in that movement.
One of the really great experiences that I had with you this year was at the Accessible Yoga Conference in Toronto. We had the privilege of presenting on a panel together there and you and I sat in on a session together at New Leaf foundation and I remember halfway through it, we were sitting beside each other and I was kind of a curled up in my chair and I had my knee in my chest and I was rocking a little bit and I remember you looking over at me and saying. “This is really good, hey?” And I remember thinking like, yeah, I feel very comforted. I’m like almost like rocking myself. Like I just feel very safe and comforted.
And that kind of work that they’re doing, I found a lot of hope in that and it was something that I hadn’t really been exposed to until then and just listening to them speak about the work that they do and the way that they approached it really gave me hope for yoga. Did you feel that way when you were listening to them?
I totally did. And I think it’s not just because of their content, which is top notch — because their content is not that much that far off from yours and it’s not going to be that much far off from anybody in yoga service. Where I find the comfort in just meeting people like that is in seeing how they have learned to approach the public infrastructure for support and to carve out their niche in it. And, I don’t know the New Leaf people personally that well, but that support is something that I know is a huge part of everybody who’s deeply invested in yoga service throughout North America is really trying hard to work on.
I was really struck sitting at the Yoga Service Council conference I think two years ago and I was speaking with a woman named Mayuri. I think her organization is called Little Flower Yoga and she trains teachers how to give 20, 30 and 40 minute yoga classes to grade school kids and she works in Manhattan. I think her partner is a public school teacher and so they’re sort of networked in the school system in a way. And she not only developed her training and by knocking on doors got her programs and her teachers into eight or nine public schools, which took three or four years, and they were able to pay out of discretionary spending for that. I think that’s how her business got going and I think she’s set up as a nonprofit as well. But she taught herself all how to do that, coming out of a non admin or nonprofit background. But the thing is there was one point at which, I think last year, Deblasio, the mayor of New York announced through the education department that they were making $20,000,000 available to the boroughs of New York public schools for wellness programs that would include yoga and mindfulness sessions or something like that. And so who’s on the phone the next morning, knowing who to call to get in on that funding is Mayuri. That is so cool because now she has networked her… she’s going to be able to leverage all of these teachers who she has trained into a new field that in terms of public money is still only being funded to a drop in the bucket. This has nothing to do with commercial yoga economics at all.
And yoga people are not in these circumstances having to worry about overhead or any of the things that you just went through with your studio over the last several years. So when I going back to sitting with New Leaf, the comfort that I feel is these people had figured out how to interface with the public health world. That means that comes with responsibility. That comes with “I’m going to have to have informed consent policies for all my workers. I’m going to have to have trauma informed training. I’m going to have to have good HR policies. I’m going to have to have all of these things that the commercial yoga world is totally shit at, and they’re just going to have to be a matter of course, and people are gonna have to be trained to a certain level that will allow them to be accountable to their public health positions.” And it’s like, it’s just a totally different world. And so I feel very, I feel very — it’s not what I’m professionally doing, but just as an observer and as a cultural critic and as a somebody who does journalism of this stuff sometimes, and I’m really fascinated to look at how that’s working.
I’m just going back to the conference. You gave the closing address for the conference and I had to jump on a bus to get to Montreal so I didn’t get to hear it, but I did watch the video. And I think I cried, which is really hard to get me to do so. But I think one of the things that really touched a lot of people in that address with you talking about how you too will one day become disabled. And I’m wondering if you can share a little bit about that.
Jivana, and — I’m a little bit embarrassed that I can’t remember the activist’s name that he cited in his presentation during the conference, but it’s somebody famous I think in California who was at the center of the disability rights movement from maybe the seventies or something like that — I think his one of his statements was, “It’s not like you’re not going to need these services. We’re all in this together.” And it’s kind of like a more visceral and material framing for all of the old ascetic and Buddhist realizations around mortality, old age, sickness and death. So there’s picture of the guy in his wheelchair saying, “You’re going to be somewhere like this.” And and then I was in his class a little bit later and,
Jivana’s class?
Jivana’s class right. And I think he asked us to, — he’s got this great way of, “Let’s see how you can do Tadasana or a mountain pose, but, imagine that you need to have your full body in contact with a wall. Or let’s see if you can do tree pose on a chair. And he’s got all this amazing teaching around, “What is the posture actually? If you have an internal visualization of it, and that’s meaningful to you, is that the posture?” All of these ways of picking apart an ableism that is so pervasive, it’s invisible to people like me who, you know, I don’t see myself as being physically disabled.
So there was one point where I just burst into tears because I realized that he was giving me an end-of-life practice, or a later-on-in-life practice or something like that. He was actually preparing me for something in a way that nobody had ever prepared me for in a yoga class. When I got into yoga and I was doing asana obsessively, it was more like, “What secrets does this body hold that I can stretch out of it? And how can I break this open to find what’s inside?”
And Jivana’s doing something different. He’s like, “What’s already inside that can be felt and accepted as your condition or what your condition will be when you’re perhaps not able to stand or you’re not able to see or you’re not able to feel all of these things that you associate with yourself.” So there’s something very profound about that and it just kind of like, it added to this row of dominoes that have been falling around me or within me around what it means to not see your own privilege.
For me, that started with, I don’t know, several years ago. Actually, it came up this morning as well because I arrived here in Edmonton at 9:30, which meant that I had to leave the house in Toronto at 3:30 in the morning. And several years ago, my partner said that she wanted me to take a cab to the bus stop we live in. We live in a neighborhood where if you want to catch the bus to the airport — like the bus that costs $3 instead of paying 60 bucks to take a cab at that time — you know you have to walk through a kind of lonely patch. And it’s a little bit of a sketchy area. And actually there were just two shootings this past week in the area. And so a couple of years ago, I was going to take one of these trips. I was probably coming here and she said, “Can you just take a cab to the bus stop?” And I was like, I was insulted. And I was like. “No, I’m not gonna, I’m not gonna.” I got all proud and huffy and stuff like that.
It took this argument, I’m ashamed to say, to break through this layer of absolute unconsciousness around what it actually meant to be female and in a body and in this part of the city, and thinking about walking at that time of night. And it kind of like overwhelmed me. I was like, “Oh, you live in a totally different world than I live in. And I haven’t seen that before. And I have to start taking care of that. Like I have to start taking care of you. Not in a paternalistic way, but taking care of the fact that I don’t even understand how much benefit I have here.”
It’s funny because I stayed with you during the conference and I, one night I went out and I was up until midnight and I had to navigate my way back to your house and I remember you asking me because I walked from that bus stop to your house and it was about midnight or 12:30 and I remember you asking me if I felt unsafe and I said no. And I thought about that and you know, I think probably what that is, you know, as a trauma survivor, I tend to feel safe in unsafe situations and unsafe in safe situations. So for me, I just kind of…
It can be scrambled, right?
Yeah. I puff myself up and put my head down and just walked to your house without even giving it a second thought. But, you know, it didn’t probably even occur to me that I might be putting myself at risk or in danger or that I should have maybe taken a cab or something like that. I just wandered through the streets of Toronto by myself.
Yeah. And like me asking you that and me asking you that comes from… I mean, it’s funny because there’s a potential for paternalism in there too, right? Where I’m going to be protective towards my partner or towards you as a guest and maybe over-compensate in some way and so these questions about empowerment and equality that come up. But really listening — I think the main point about privilege is just really letting it sink in: that we live in different worlds. And that was one of the first big things that, that I think really started to, it changed my spirituality in the sense that like the infatuation now that I am interested in ending or interrogating in myself is the infatuation that I have with forms of privilege that I can’t even see.
Because that infatuation — not understanding what it means to be male, or male-identified, not understanding the advantages of being white, not understanding the advantages of being considered to be able-bodied — that those are all barriers to empathy and communication and activism. Because they make a person feel like that the world is just, should be okay and navigable by everybody.
And so I’m in Jivana’s class and this, this other sort of penny dropped which was, “Oh, I’m not looking at the world as… I’m looking at the world through ableist eyes, and I’m doing that in physical terms. I’m doing it in psychological terms. I’m doing it in cognitive terms. And if I can stop doing that or if I can, I can start questioning that a little bit, I’m going to see and invite others into, or I’m going to see other people a little bit more clearly and I’m going to be able to care for things a little bit better or at least I’m going to make fewer boneheaded remarks. I’m going to cause less harm and that’d be a start.”
So we talked a little bit about disability and the, the Accessible Yoga conference, and one of the things that we talked about before we were recording was — and Elliot talks a little bit about this too, as someone who is physically disabled — that oftentimes there’s this binary around disability where we think of disability only in terms of physical disability. And one of the things that I try to talk about is how we can be disabled in other ways, right? I think when talking about internalized ableism and how we don’t always see how, how people may be disabled in certain ways or how we might have blind spots. One of the blind spots I think that I see a lot in Yogaland is around people not really understanding neurodivergence. I think you don’t really speak about this very often, but I know when I did an Ayurveda training with you, you shared about in your twenties something that happened to you, that you kind of realized that there was some neuro divergence in your life. Do you mind sharing about that?
No. Not a lot to say except that during a period in my early twenties of real emotional stress and alienation and probably like — I think I’ve been undiagnosed clinically depressed at several points in my life and it was just never in my culture or it wasn’t in my toolbox to seek out therapy. That wasn’t part of where I came from. So, that’s why I think I remained undiagnosed. But yeah during a period of really severe stress, I had a series of really explosive seizures where I lost consciousness for fairly long, I don’t know how long, but fairly long periods of time. And they were physically violent enough that I would wake up on my or I came to on the floor of my apartment with like the bookshelves toppled over. So something had happened or I’d be physically injured in some way.
And I went for testing and there was nothing found so I did whatever the EEG tests that were typical. They did a sleep deprivation test and things like that. The neurologist who saw me felt the things were, that the experiences were anomalous or they could be stress-related. But one thing that emerged out of that was every once in a while, like I sort of like go back into, I’m thinking about or researching how people experience seizures because one feature of what I experienced was that — or at least the way I narrativized it was that — the physical sensations were associated with some sort of mystical experience.
So I was in university then for religious studies, I was reading all kinds of mysticism. I was in classes where I got my first exposure to yoga philosophy and Buddhism and other things. And I think Tantric thought as well. But the story that I had ready-made for me to apply to these physical experiences I had was that something transcendental was happening to me. And so after that period, my fascination with things religious and spiritual just seemed to increase, as did my obsessive writing. And so there’s this weird thing which I haven’t been diagnosed with but seems very resonant. It’s called Geschwind Syndrome. And I think it’s a subset of a particular type of epileptic condition where — and I should say just right upfront that I haven’t had seizures for a since that period, so this is really going back 25 years now — but I think they flipped something in me or they turned something on… Geschwind Syndrome is marked by not just the seizures, but two very clear characteristics. One is hyper-religiosity, but it’s not the type of hyper-religiosity that is devotional. It’s a hyper-religiosity that is simply intellectually interested in religion. And then the other thing that people with Geshschwind Syndrome have or typically present is hypergraphia or endless writing, obsessive writing. And that’s certainly very resonant with me.
Because you’ve described yourself as almost addicted to, writing.
Sure, for sure. Yeah. Because, for various reasons, that’s also been like a way of internally parenting myself when I do various types of writing. So not all of this is like this. I can write pseudo-academically or whatever and I can write in a kind of reporting format. But when I really need care, my instinct has always been to write about something. And what’s fascinating is that as soon as it begins to appear on the screen or the page in front of me, it’s almost like a hologram. Almost like like there’s a person there that I am dialoguing with and who is caring for me enough to listen to what I’m saying and faithfully reproducing it.
My partner actually told me about this thing DW Winnicott says, which is that sometimes a person can turn to their intellect for care. And that’s certainly been true for me for writing. So it’s a very hard thing to describe except that when I get into the flow of it, I don’t feel like I’m alone. However I have to be alone to do it!
And so that makes — I struggle with accepting care from other people because I’ve developed this really sort of iron-clad way of doing it for myself internally and that all intensified after the seizure experience. The other symptom that, or thing that people with Geschwind Syndrome present with is atypical sexuality, and that doesn’t really resonate with me, but often they say two out of the three things is good. So that’s been interesting to me.
I want to learn more about that so it can be more transparent about that because I think that if my writing becomes more prominent or you know, if this book does really well or something like that, I want to be really clear with myself and with my readership that writing is not just a profession or a skill for me. It has a therapeutic aspect to it. It has a compulsive aspect to it. And that means that I have to take responsibility for dumping on other people when I write and you know, you can have the kind of avoidant hand-wiping attitude of “Well I’m just gonna produce my content and people can do with it what they will.” Or you can say “No, if you do something that’s compelling and people follow it, then you have responsibility towards them.” And so yeah, I wanna learn more about that part of myself which is so large, it’s hard to see.
One of the things that, that I hear a lot when I talk to other yoga people about you is, you know, I think it comes out of intimidation to be honest. People are intimidated, by some of the big words that you use when you write. But there’s a lot of like, “Oh, he thinks he’s better than everyone,” or “He thinks he’s smarter than everyone,” or “He’s so negative or judgey. And certainly like, you’re probably one of the smartest people I’ve met. But I mean, I don’t personally find you intimidating. But I’m wondering, and somebody asked me this about you. Somebody asked me a couple of weeks ago like, “I wonder why Matthew didn’t become a cult leader?”
Some people say that I have!
Some people say that you have, some people say that —
I’m like: “Show me the people.”
Where’s the money? Well, I mean, I think some people think because, you know, like myself and some of some of our other friends that we have in common will come to your defence when you’re being dog-piled on for things. I think that we get accused of being Rembots or that we’re in the cult of Remski or whatever. But like because you kind of have the brain that you do. I mean, it certainly isn’t out of the realm of possibility that you could have at one point created some kind of a cult if you wanted to.
Yeah, you’re totally, you’re totally right. Okay. So, so the first thing that comes up when you, when you asked that is that I stopped doing classes that I was… Well, I mean, a lot of things happened that ended up closing up my last studio that I owned in Toronto with my ex partner. Like the main thing being that the relationship ended. I ran courses in Ayurveda and I had a small following and there were a lot of people who really liked what I did and… But there was also… I would do, Ayurvedic health education appointments, for which there’s no licensing or no accountability structure. And it was only when I started to go to psychotherapy myself that… then certainly when I met my partner and she comes from a psychotherapy family and she was going to start studying psychotherapy herself, I was like, “Oh a regulated industry means that there’s a huge interpersonal training component that really should be in place before you’re visiting with people alone and talking with them about their diets and their relational lives and all of the things that come up in Ayurvedic health education.”
And I stopped doing those appointments because I realized that I did not know how to understand — or I started to begin to understand what was happening in things like transference and countertransference. And that happened through my own therapy, also, as I said with starting to learn about my partner’s world. And I realized that I did not know how to… there was nothing in the training in the yoga world or the yoga therapy world or in the Ayurveda world that I had encountered that really gave me a clear understanding of how to understand the power dynamics of the relationship of a personal meeting like that. And so I just stopped doing it because I realized I didn’t understand it.
So when I think about like why, if I’m a charismatic person and I have interesting and unique content, why I didn’t go forward and want to accumulate power or something like that socially with people in real life. I think about that. I think there’s something in me that said, “No, wait a minute, I’m over my head here and I don’t know how to do this.”
And there’s a lot of people out there in this world who also don’t know how to do this and they’re doing it and they’re hurting people, because we started to hear those stories as well. And so I guess the notion that I would manipulate people interpersonally just fills me with such dread and guilt and shame that that would be possible.
Can I tell you a story?
So the first time you ever came to my studio in LaCombe it was packed. So there was like, I don’t know, 30, 40 people in the room. It was all women. And LaCombe is this tiny little city in central Alberta and it’s I think the most churched community in Canada if I’m not wrong. And it’s also a guaranteed conservative stronghold. Anytime there’s an election, it’s always a conservative community.
And I remember watching you teach meditation to this room full of women, at the studio. We had just opened. I think we were maybe open for four or five months. And I remember watching the women were sitting down and you were standing up and you were talking about meditation and I just remember their faces watching you talk with…. they seem to be just full of like this weird wondering. It’s probably, they’ve probably never seen somebody like you before or interacted with somebody like you before. And I remember thinking after a while after they’d asked questions and you were talking about meditation and how to claim agency in your own body. I remember thinking, “These women are asking him for permission to exist.”
I remember being so blown away by that and wondering how you were navigating that because I’m sure you picked up on it and in some ways
And I wondered like, how is he going to navigate this? They’re asking him to just give them basic permission to breathe and like they don’t even know that they can breathe.
Right. And what does it mean to stand at the front of the room as a man? And have it be okay that you’re the person who’s going to do that. It’s just so…
That is so weird.
It’s so bizarre and it’s, I think it’s very unhealthy and I just don’t think it’s a good. I just don’t think it’s a good dynamic. There’s too many,.. like at that point, at that point, I can feel, I can feel the countertransference, right. So: Dude’s from the city. A totally different background from anybody I know. He’s gendered differently in some ways —
Yeah there’s some sort of femininity about him.
Right. So I know that there’s something new or odd or attractive about me and I’m like, and it just makes me uncomfortable, My immediate feeling is I’m uncomfortable and there’s a power dynamic here that is artificial or it’s overriding, not overriding but competing with whatever the basic content is of saying a few things about meditation.
So we’re running out of time, but I really want to get into your book and I really want to get into the other thing we want to talk about, but I wanted to, I want to kind of dive into this a little bit because this is something I’ve personally had to navigate because I was raised in a cult. And certainly male authority has more power for me than female authority.
And I think when you and I first met because we’re both cult survivors, I think there was a really strong pull that could have gone into countertransference for me anyways, I don’t know about, for you, but for me there could have been a really strong sort of like glomming on to you as some sort of, you know, teacher figure or something. And at one point there was something we were talking about, and I was asking you what you thought and I think you said, “You know, I’m just telling you this as your friend, right?” And I remember hearing you say that and thinking, “Okay, yeah, you’re right, like, this is just like two people sharing information. This isn’t you some kind of supernatural being telling me something that I needed to hear.”
I hope that like saying “friend” implied like equal.
Yeah, it did, it did, it totally diffused…
Because that can be a weird word too.
No, it completely diffused it for me and really brought me back down to earth and kind of cemented the relationship that I feel like I have with you. But I know that for me in certain circumstances, because those deeply ingrained patterns are so embedded that it’s almost impossible for me sometimes not to need that in order to hear something.
It’s tragic, totally fucking tragic.
It is. I had this dream one time that I was, I was an elephant in an elephant sanctuary and I really wanted to be out in the wild. And I remember the elephant me crying and wanting to be wild and having this realization that I had to stay in the sanctuary because I couldn’t survive in the wild. And like, that really spoke to me about, you know, I was born into dynamics, so my patterning is from birth and it’s so, it’s not so easy to untangle. And so my whole journey now has been, you know, what do I need to embrace and work with and what can I, what can I get rid of. And so when I, when I had that realization about you at my studio and I saw the way that these women were watching you, I had this realization that I’m this whole city that I was opening the studio in felt like an abusive relationship to me. It felt like an oppressive and abusive relationship where, and you know, I’m, I’m saying this knowing that maybe some of the people from my studio are going to be listening to this, that there were women in this community who had never experienced agency and who had never had the chance to really be in their own bodies and to make their own decisions. And I wonder, you know, with you saying, well, that’s wrong. I shouldn’t be teaching these people, but I wonder if there are things that you could say to someone like that that wouldn’t be heard from anyone else other than a man.
Yeah. I really don’t know. Like, it’s a really sort of prime example of privilege meeting an old paradigm that seems to want it or need it or something like that.
Well we talked about this a little bit when we talk about, the ways that people can go into practices that are harming and so like practices like BDSM where, where people are addressing their trauma through, through physical harm to their bodies or physical harm. Maybe harm isn’t the right word, but from hurting themselves. And how that, some people find that as a pathway to healing. And I wonder, you know…
Yeah — If there’s informed consent and if there’s all kinds of safety procedures and all that, right? I don’t know how to answer that question of what does it mean to be in the front of the room as a man with a lot of women listening to you very intently. And the dynamics that creates and echoes. I don’t have a personal answer for that except to say it doesn’t really work for me, and I’m not comfortable with it.
That said, I’m here in Edmonton, I’m going to facilitate a YTT module. It’s going to be mainly women in the room, but it’s going to be different because I’m not going to be teaching techniques or practices. I’m going to be giving basically a seminar in critical thinking. And so it’s not about instructing people towards their higher selves or giving them some sort of spirituality or pretending in some way that there was something inside me that is worth sharing. Those things are not really part of that kind of instruction. But I do know that leading a retreat for or like leading a group class in an 80 percent female practice population… I just don’t know how personally I would feel comfortable given everything that I’ve learned about sustaining those dynamics.
And so everything that I’m doing now is to try to move towards just offering a content rather than practices. And coming out of this book, I’m working on modules for community health. I’m thinking about going to, I guess it wouldn’t be graduate school because I didn’t graduate, but I don’t know, doing what I need to do to become a licensed counselor for people who are navigating their way out of cults. Because I’m doing that like a dozen times a week anyway and I’m doing it for free and I should be paid for it, but I also should know how to do it better, and not just have informal conversations with people. And so I’m just moving away from the charismatic power dynamic that is kind of at the center of how commercial yoga works and that is exacerbated by this structural sexism that you point out.
I mean that could lead into a whole conversation around men teaching yoga and what needs to happen around that for sure. But I’d like to finish off with talking about your book and maybe some cult dynamics in yoga land for sure. So: March, you’re book is going to be out?,
Yeah, March 14th. We’re in the thick of production whirlwind and there’s a thousand little details and decisions to be made along the way and we’re setting up online resources. And, there’s a workbook that is at the end of the book that I’m hoping will be a resource for teacher training programs. The book’s called Practice and All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond. And it comes out of three years of a tracking the stories of the survivors of Pattabhi Jois’s sexual assaults, which he got away with for 30 years because he was enabled, I argue, by a number of factors including including key cultic dynamics of information control and image management and rationalization and pyramid-like structures, where power just floats to the top and, you know, information leaks down to the bottom and get suppressed and silenced.
And feels like a good time. Like it took three years to do. And because I’m so personally invested, not in Ashtanga yoga, but in cult literature and cult recovery I didn’t realize until I pretty much finished the draft how exhausted it had made me and how much it had, caused my physical and mental health to deteriorate. I feel that slowly I’m recovering from that. And it kind of feels like an exciting time now because, there’s going to be a shitstorm when it’s released, but I kind of know what’s coming and I’m a little bit more relaxed into the decisions I’ve made around, how I’ve analyzed things and who I’ve called to account in the book and that sort of thing. So I’m feeling good about it and I also just don’t know what’s going to happen.
Yeah. Because there’s always kind of like the things you can’t really predict, right? Like your work over the last few years, you know, you’ve really kind of dug into exposing the unhealthy dynamics in Yogaland. And I think through that work and through the work of others that are less visible than you, like Theo and myself and other trauma informed teachers, we’ve seen this language and this movement become co-opted. And so it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out with your book as well.
Right? Well it will be. And what I was really grateful for in working with, with my editor at the Walrus, is that she really guided me through the nuts and bolts of creating a victim-centered narrative or a survivor-centered narrative. And that’s the most important thing about this book to me is that at the heart of it I’m learning to listen to what people like Karen Rain and, and Anneke Lucas and Marissa Sullivan and Jubilee Cooke have to say about their experience and really trying to grasp what it was like and how difficult it has been to hold it and to name it and to manage and to then disclose it and then to deal with all of the blowback.
And my editor also with Embodied Wisdom Publications has been excellent in helping me to really keep the book focused on a survivor’s voices. And that’s key because as we’ve seen in the last six months or so as people have tried to address… as the yoga world… I would say the yoga administrative or bureaucratic world has tried to address the issue of institutional abuse in yoga schools and amongst yoga teachers, they’re not inviting survivors to the table. In event after event, panel after panel, the people who are not invited are the people who actually have done the most work. And this was true back in March or something like that of 2018 when all of the luminaries of the world gathered for their confluence in San Diego. And they actually had a panel discussion on, “Well, what do we do now that we’ve realized that the leader of our method was a 30 year sexual predator?”
They didn’t use those terms, but they convened a panel where they basically discussed, “Well, what does this mean to us as faithful people? What does this mean to us as devotees?” They didn’t reach out to Karen Rain and say, “Can you come and tell us what we should do in relation to survivors of our guru’s abuse? We’re here and we’ve made our careers because we actually either turned a blind eye or enabled him.” They didn’t, of course, they didn’t do that.
There was a similar meeting in London where again, none of Pattabhi Jois’s actual survivors were invited to participate. It was a closed session, but Theo was invited to it and she reluctantly agreed, I believe, I think I can say that on her behalf, to be the person who was going to speak for survivors as the trauma-sensitive person. But you know, they had a Jois devotee on the panel. And it’s like — if you’re going to actually tackle it, you actually have to listen to the people who were impacted and you have to let them drive the story. Because where are you going to be otherwise other than in one realm or another of brand reframing or management or brand washing.
What my hope is that people will start listening to what Karen Rain says as being central to the narrative of modern yoga. That she has as much to say about what it means to learn about yourself and to deal with suffering and to deal with trauma and to understand what kind of support one needs as any yoga expert does. I just want to see people like people like her become the real community leaders. Having said that, I know that that’s not what she wants! I think what I wrote my book is that is that at a certain point people in Yoga culture will be more interested in what Karen Rain has to say about her experience in yoga than they’ll be interested in what Pattabhi Jois taught. And at that point, I think we’ll all be practicing more yoga actually.
Amen. All right. I think we’re done. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you being willing to do this. I know you’re exhausted and you need to have a nap. So thank you so much for your time.
Activism, Articles, Blog, Cult dynamics, Yoga, Yoga culture, Yoga pedagogy December 6, 2018 December 8, 2018
Ex-Ashtanga Student Calls Out Problematic Adjustment Post, Gets Called “Bully”
Yesterday, Toronto yoga and movement trainer Cecily Milne (@yogadetour) shared an Instagram post from the account of @ashtangatoronto. The post features a photo of teacher David Robson manipulating @lisaasana in an advanced backbend.
The post is captioned with a quote from meditation instructor Stephen Levine. The quote either compares or conflates the mental or psychological discomfort experienced in meditation with the physical discomfort of an extreme posture. The quote suggests that the best choice a student can make in relation to discomfort is to surrender.
“That surrender,” part of the Levine quote says, “that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell.”
Robson is an Ashtanga yoga teacher, authorized to teach by Sharath Rangaswamy. Rangaswamy is the grandson of Pattabhi Jois, who has recently been outed for sexually assaulting female students over several decades. The revelations, along with the continued activism of survivors like Karen Rain, have prompted soul-searching throughout the Ashtanga world, and some steps towards accountability.
Milne’s commentary focuses on the message communicated by the image paired with the Levine quote. She makes reference to her own training with Robson at Ashtanga Yoga Centre of Toronto, where Robson claims to lead “one of the world’s largest Mysore programs outside of India.”
I saw this post last night and when I read the caption my first thought was – “This is fucked. This message is so problematic” (original caption below). ⠀ I used to practice at this studio. I’ve received this adjustment. And while I’m not trying to make a habit of putting others choices down in order to give strength to my own, I believe it’s my responsibility to use my work to spread awareness around the fact that asking people to surrender to discomfort is NOT ok. ⠀ Should we avoid discomfort? No. It’s inevitable. Life is uncomfortable. But let’s confront that discomfort. Let’s understand where it’s coming from and learn to understand it. Let’s use discomfort to grow, not to surrender. ⠀ As @stopchasingpain reminds us: Pain is a request for change. ⠀ Change is here. Finally. ⠀ #Repost @ashtangatoronto with @get_repost ・・・ “When you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell. When we see resistance in the mind, stiffness in the mind, boredom, restlessness … that is the meditation.“ – Stephen Levine __ Photo of @lisaasana moving into #kapotasana in Friday’s Mysore with @davidrobsonyoga __ #yogadetour #followthedetour #movementeducation #yogarevolution #bethechange
A post shared by Y O G A D E T O U R (@yogadetour) on Dec 4, 2018 at 7:19am PST
The 300+ comments under Milne’s post feature several reports of similar experiences at Ashtanga Yoga Center Toronto.
“Ughhh, I used to practice here too…” wrote one commenter. “I remember those adjustments. I remember the breath cues to relax into it…”. Another describes how the value of “surrender” in the environment led her to tears.
In a separate post, Milne described the “surge of anxiety” that preceded speaking out against the post, knowing that some might retaliate.
I don’t shy away from discomfort because it always has something to teach me. ⠀ Just ask anyone who takes my class what my opinion is of a muscle cramp – uncomfortable, but a sign that progress is being made! ⠀ But there’s a big difference between leaning into discomfort and surrendering to it in potentially damaging ways. ⠀ To all those who have raised their voices in support on my last post – thank you. Thank you for getting it. Thank you for expecting more from this community. ⠀ I’ll be writing more about this in my next email. If you want to receive it, make sure you’re on the list (link in bio). ⠀ ⠀ #movementeducation #yogarevolution #yogadetour #ashtangayoga #yogateachertraining #bethechange
A post shared by Y O G A D E T O U R (@yogadetour) on Dec 4, 2018 at 12:33pm PST
In response, Robson posted the following to his Facebook page. The statement interprets criticism of the notion that a student should physically surrender as a form of discrimination against the global Ashtanga community.
Soon after Robson’s response, his supporters began using the hashtags #bullying, #stopbullying, #troll, and #dontbeabully, referring to Milne.
Labelling criticism of a power imbalance as an attack is part of the DARVO mechanism, described by psychologist Jennifer Freyd. In the DARVO maneuver, a criticism or accusation is denied, the whistleblower attacked, and the roles of victim and aggressor are reversed.
The social media exchange comes as competencies for Ashtanga yoga teaching are being contested by a number of younger Ashtanga-affiliated teachers. This is a developing story.
Articles, Cult dynamics, Politics, social justice, Trauma, Yoga, Yoga culture, Yoga pedagogy November 21, 2018 November 21, 2018
The Biopolitics of Neoliberalism in Contemporary Yoga: Exploring Questions Posed by Giada Consoli
I was honoured to be contacted by Giada Consoli with the following questions related to her graduate work on contemporary yoga culture. She is an Ashtanga Yoga practitioner and works as yoga teacher, naturopath and Bach Flower therapist in Rome, Italy. She has attended the Master in Yoga Studies at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Some of this discussion will be included in her final thesis, which is titled:
How Yoga Ruins Your Life: Body politics, Dispositif, Counter-Dispositif.
(You can listen to/view a reading of this post here, on my Facebook author’s page.)
Giada Consoli:
In my research on contemporary yoga, I’m analyzing the concepts of biopower and biopolitics, how power constructs and defines subjects, and how the body, as a social artifact, incorporates power dynamics but can also be a place of resilience and resistance.
I’m looking at the concept of dispositif, both in Foucault and Agamben, as everything in our life as modern consumers which captures, controls, determines and models our gestures, behavior, opinions, discourses.
My main question is if yoga can still have a countercultural potential, if we can consider it a tool of individual and collective liberation or if, as a consumer culture product, a multimillionaire industry, it is just another way to reinforce the status quo, another type of social control developed by neoliberal governments.
This is such a rich area, and I’m so glad you’re diving into it! I believe contemporary yoga can only benefit from more and better discussion about its most painful paradoxes, all sharpened by the fact that its growth arc and the rise of neoliberalism are inseparable.
As the sign of a globalized product with ever-more tenuous relationships to its wisdom roots, the term “yoga”:
promises an equitable space of community gathering, yet too often spiritualizes continued class and racial segregation;
promises a renewal of bodily agency, but too often delivers a more sophisticated form of objectification;
promises empowerment through exquisite messages of inadequacy;
promises authenticity but too often demands you perform it;
promises self-inquiry, but too often delivers self-surveillance;
can deploy a language of feminism to reinforce gender essentialism;
Etc., etc.
In short, the stretching and twisting too often embody the contortions of co-optation. The deep breathing can become a strategy for acclimatizing to stresses that yoga as a culture too often only pretends to resist.
In reading your fascinating intro, two definitional points come to mind straight out of the gate, which you’ve probably considered, so I hope you forgive me for making them explicit.
First I think we have to speak of “the body” under neoliberalism in the radical plural, lest we replicate its own false premise of equality. There are so many bodies. In neoliberalism we are constantly asked to believe in the even playing field of a fantasized freedom, where some idealized body, unmarked by race or class, gallivants through the duty free.
Lululemon published a blog in 2011, during their Ayn-Rand-and-yoga-pants campaign. They wrote:
Think about it: we are all born with magical machines, aka human bodies, able to think, jump, laugh and run . . . . We are able to control our careers, where we live, how much money we make, and how we spend our days through the choices we make . . . many of us choose mediocrity without even realizing it.
They use the plural, but they’re only talking about one body. The narcissistic body that believes it is everywhere and everything. This homogenization is crucial to be aware of in yoga discourse, which often uses notions of oneness as aspirational fodder.
This is only one of the ways in which the global yoga industry spiritualizes neoliberalism’s greatest lie: that all bodies possess equal potential and therefore are equally liable to self-caused failure and shame.
As white interlocutors, we have to foreground the fact that bodies of PoC, for instance, incorporate power dynamics and express resilience in ways that we aren’t able to imagine. The diversity and intersectionality of trauma loads would be another example.
Secondly, my personal and research background is in cult studies. I can’t help but to view neoliberalism as a macro-cult within which more tightly organized micro-cults flourish under the tyranny of aspirational charisma. All cults run on deception, and the deception of the macro-cult is that its leaders in deregulation tell citizens that they can be free if they gladly accept policies of economic and environmental coercion. As micro-cult leaders, Tony Robbins or John Friend tell students that they are free if they gladly undertake practices of indoctrination, which, paradoxically, can feel euphoric.
But — has anyone developed this stuff, consciously? Is there intentionality here? I don’t think so. I can’t see a conspiracy of governments or leaders to implement yoga or mindfulness practices as a means of social control. When you study cults you quickly realize that groups that want to concentrate power simply do whatever works. There’s a lot of trial and error involved. If yoga both expands and spiritualizes neoliberalism, there may be the cold calculations of a few sociopaths at play, but mainly it’s happening through the unconscious biohacking that comes from doing whatever we must to make ourselves feel good within a high-stress landscape, while disowning shame and responsibility.
The genius of neoliberalism is that it makes self-control and self-monitoring into a virtue because it really does offer — unequally and unpredictably — addictive doses of pleasure. It doesn’t need a puppet master: it teaches us how to pull our own strings.
Can we read yoga, in its current commodification, exactly as another kind of dispositif which trains and manages our bodies and minds according to the logic of neoliberalism? Most of all, do we have any counter-dispositif?
I’m more familiar with the term habitus, which I think is getting at a similar thing, but narrowed down to the felt sense. I understand it as somatic contagion. As in: what does it feel like, in our diverse bodies, to walk into a room filled with ballet dancers? Poker players? Rappers? MMA fighters?
When I close my eyes and imagine myself walking into a yoga room, I absolutely have an entrained felt sense that overtakes my body. I straighten up, I slow my breath, I soften my eyes into what feels like equanimity but might also be dissociation, with a touch of disdain. I want to feel and appear to feel as though I am self-contained and self-sufficient. I also really want to radiate humility, which isn’t very humble at all.
Beneath all of that poise is the memory of a threat: if you don’t perform well, you will be punished.
Iyengar’s Tadasana has inspired millions of people to stand taller. But it has done so, I believe, by resonating with and spiritualizing the anxiety of impending punishment. Many of us may be of that younger generation in which we do not have the bodily memory of the corporal abuse that deeply impacted his relationship with his teacher. But it’s in the air, nonetheless, sanitized to feel like it’s something we want.
How does it work? There’s a direct line from the self-protective / anal-retentive postural detailing of Iyengar — presented as “awakening every cell”, but carrying a distinct hypervigilance in relation to both home-grown and colonial violence — and the performance of self-worth carried out by someone like John Friend.
When Friend asked his students — many of whom became pyramid scheme members — to “open to grace”, this was to be embodied through spinal extension and a Mona Lisa smile. He was taking the lessons of his teacher, Iyengar, to the next level of performance and commodification. He made Iyengar All-American. He turned postural discipline into an emotional prosperity gospel for those who already had money.
Back to the intersectional piece for a moment: I’m fantasizing about all of these sensations in relation to walking into a white, dominant-culture, gentrified, commercial studio. The design, colour palette, and finishes are all shaping my body into a performance of self-worth.
But this is not the totality of the yoga space. I don’t feel this way when I enter a room of yoga people at the Yoga Service Council. They can slouch a bit and smile more broadly, and make warm (not intrusive) eye contact. I’m not queer or trans but when I am around my queer and trans colleagues I feel a tenderness overtake my body that I believe is emanating from the struggle and exhaustion and persistence that flows through their bodies. That melts my armour a bit. I say this knowing that their struggle has not been for me, but despite me.
And when I talk to women like Maya Breuer and Jana Long, they tell me about hosting the Black Yoga Teacher’s Alliance convention, and how it sometimes reminds them of gospel church. I haven’t been there, but I’m imagining that that is outside of my familiar, whiter space of sealed-off individualism. I imagine a lot more eye contact and dancing and smiling than I’m comfortable with. Some people smile so broadly and openly it seems to come from knowing that connection rather than power is the only thing we can really store up.
So yes, I think there are spaces of counter-habitus, if you’ll indulge my substitute term. These spaces are less commercial. They are made by people who needed to make them, and organically made them, as part of their resistance practice. Very clear examples are provided in the spaces that are anti-ableist (which may eliminate most mainstream forms like Ashtanga and its derivatives). Like, when you walk into Jivana Heyman’s room as he teaches Accessible Yoga, you are explicitly plucked out of the dissociation and bodily anxiety of the dominant culture and invited into a place where, as their t-shirts (designed by Amber Karnes) say: Outer ability ≠ Inner peace.
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I tell my YTT students to take less pictures, get trauma-sensitive training, and get involved with yoga service organizations. The basic message is that yoga is not something to perform or perfect so much as it is something to share.
“From the inside out” is a crucial phrase. It points us to what neoliberalism and its technologies function to amputate and deaden: interoception. In a world of spectacles and surfaces, we are asked to continually externalize. I think yoga is a charged practice in part because we know we’re supposed to be doing the opposite of what its visual marketing tells us it is.
In yoga as everywhere else, we are often being told we must look a certain way, arrange ourselves in a more orderly or symmetrical or correct fashion, display more flexibility or “openness” or vulnerability. These performances can be meaningful. They can move us. But at the same time we suspect that we should be doing it all with our eyes closed. We know we are performing something that bodies cannot show, but must show nonetheless in order to be believed or to be marketable.
There is tragedy in this conflict, and I think tuning into that tragedy is a real starting point. We’re in a performative culture, and yoga offers a rich vocabulary for either giving that performance gravitas, or tricking us into thinking we’re doing something special. In a way, I believe some of us are trying to gild the lily, to find spirituality in places where it goes to die. Perhaps after enough performance, and all of the stress injuries it causes, we have no choice but to turn inside.
Looking at the current yoga landscape, we find a kind of separation: the yoga industry on one side and those who want to distance themselves from it on the other. There is a growing discussion on the blogosphere. Many refer to a lost of authenticity and purity of yoga, others are striving to challenge the dominant power dynamics in the yoga world, making yoga accessible for marginalized and discriminated communities. I’m thinking about the work of non-profit such as Off the Mat, Into the World, Race and Yoga, Decolonizing Yoga, Yoga Activist …How do you read this situation? And what do you think about the connection between yoga and activism, yoga in service of social justice, does it work? Is it a real alternative?
Be Scofield, who founded Decolonizing Yoga, has argued convincingly that there are no dependable correlations between any spiritual practice and progressive, anti-oppressive citizenship, and further, that believing there are causes great social harm. I’m with her on that.
Yoga practice, however earnest, will only be earnest according to the practitioner’s pre-existing values and social milieu. Two equally earnest practitioners can easily think of each other as being garbage people. Ethics gleaned from several-times-removed translations of Iron Age meditation texts can never offer a stable morality for late capitalism. Neither pre-modern nor modern yoga explicitly teaches us about rape culture or white supremacy or deep ecology.
Moreover, look how easy it is for alt-right charismatics to infiltrate the yoga space with parodies of self-awareness or self care. Witness the rise of Jordan Peterson as a guru to many yoga bros, or how many yoga people go bananas when Marianne Williamson announces a narcissistic bid for the White House.
People ask: why is Scofield, a trans activist (among other things) interested in yoga at all in a social justice context? She’s a Martin Luther King scholar, and understands religio-spiritual organizations less as moral structures than as power structures. There’s embodied energy and money and privilege in the studio and service network. Yoga isn’t a force for social change because breathing deeply makes you suddenly recognize that Steve Bannon is a liar and the promises of populism are corrupt. It’s a force because it organizes money and time and attention. But administrators who want to mobilize that towards the common good have to stick their necks out by actively politicizing their spaces.
For me the real relationship between yoga and social justice is that the former gives me the resilience to undertake the latter. I was a really good yoga practitioner while still way more of a racist than I am now. Taking care of my internal ecology made it easier for me to learn about and engage with my white privilege. But that learning came from PoC activists, not from Patanjali.
As for the yearning for authenticity and purity, I believe we have to look at two things —
First: late capitalism hollows out anything that we would understand as original, from land use to inherited culture, and sell it back to us. When people long for authenticity and purity in a yoga practice, I believe that they are longing for a stable sense of self, something that can be trusted within, something they didn’t have to buy.
There are no authority or purity claims, no matter how loudly trumpeted, that can truly satisfy this ache. In fact, the louder a claim is performed, I believe, the more it conceals its doubt. It’s not an accident that the Kundalini celebrity who proclaims yoga to be 40,000 years old has to wear a jewelled crown while she’s saying it, ostensibly to feel certain about it.
Second: the yearning for authenticity and purity intersects very easily with nationalism and even fascism. That’s what we can detect with some of the Hindutva claims around the supposedly eternal and unchanging Hindu nature of yoga practice, as if Jains, Buddhist, and Muslims don’t practice. It’s tragic to see white social justice activists jump on board with this, thinking that they are supporting an inclusive or anti-racist politics. I believe their longing for something noble and trustworthy is being manipulated.
Looking closely at this relation between yoga and neoliberal ideology, it seems to me clear how yoga is sold as a technique of self-development, a tool of optimization of our capabilities. In this sense it risks reinforcing the neoliberal concept of selfhood: we are constantly pushed to be a better version of ourselves, we are obsessed with the idea that we can do more, that we can be more than who we are. Perfectionism and success are our daily mantra. How can we escape from that? How about if we raise the idea of failure for example?
Perhaps you’re not thinking of it this way, but my worry with the concept of “failure” as a restorative is that it can also be mobilized by neoliberalism as a temporary experience of vulnerability through which we are meant to find renewed strength. It’s demanded of us, in fact. So when we’re asked to “lean into” our tenderness or be grateful about things falling apart — as per Pema Chödrön — I sometimes feel as if disappointment and even trauma themselves are being stolen by the machine of self-improvement.
The crude form of neoliberalism says that failure is not an option. The sophisticated form, marketed to us by what sometimes sounds to me like a co-opted feminism, says that failure and tenderness is something through which we can find transcendent strength, not by resisting it, but by fully surrendering to it.
The only pathway out of this that I can feel personally is to relax — when it’s relaxing — into some kind of existential mundaneness. I recognize and accept my suffering, my mental health fluctuations, my trauma. I don’t brush them away, nor do I view them as opportunities to sell myself remedies or encourage others to brighten up. At times it feels like I’m valuing a state of normalized depression, but there’s something more real about this, and therefore more stable and comforting, than the bipolar oscillation of the culture at large. I say this all recognizing that being able to bear “normalized depression” is a mark of privilege that many won’t have.
Isn’t this pressure on the individual another way to cover institutional and political mistakes and deficiencies? If you are unemployed, poor, ill, whatever, they let you think that it is your responsibility because you made the wrong choice, and this is such a pervasive message. So even if we appreciate the work that yoga can do in service of social justice, challenging stereotypes and working on inclusivity, how can we address these questions on a political level? What can we do to get a real institutional response?
Part of the answer is to de-Americanize the conversation. I don’t know what it’s like in Italy, but I can tell you that the differences between US and Canadian yoga discourses are notable. Not on social media, but in actual classrooms and training venues. It makes sense that American Yoga is far more anxious — and therefore more evangelical — than what we have and feel in a country with universal health care.
The global yoga market and its media is dominated by citizens of a country that has forgotten the last shreds of expectation in relation to the common good. American yoga people literally have to practice harder and with more idealization than almost anyone else, because nobody is taking care of them in a structural sense.
I think this is why American yoga also has to tend towards the anti-intellectual: it lives in a place that makes no sense. And it generates a pressure that neatly overlaps with the survivalist mentality of entrepreneurs like Iyengar and Bikram, whose self-narratives both involve solitary recoveries from illness through their intensive yoga practice.
But the Americans also have some great non-profit yoga organizations that are actively attracting international membership. I mentioned the Yoga Service Council. And a lot of people don’t like the Yoga Alliance, and there’s a lot of history there, and it is not free of its American biases. But at the same time it holds enormous potential for facilitating a global conversation and sharing of resources.
Beyond that, there’s the regulatory discussion, which is currently also dominated by American yoga libertarianism, but which might come into sharper focus once it’s more widely acknowledged that virtually all yoga communities have unresolved histories of abuse. If yoga teaching becomes a licensed profession in the US or elsewhere, it will automatically begin to distinguish itself from neoliberal personal responsibility and move towards a more collective type of responsibility. This might not lead to overt politicization, but I can imagine that if yoga teachers were part of an American Psychological Association type structure — something with more heft than bling — they would actually feel a little more coherent in relation to social and political issues.
How can we rethink the concept of self-care and care for the others in the era of ‘the wellness syndrome’ where yoga is ‘the way’ to feel good and be healthy? Since yoga is a social practice, and as practitioners we reflect and incorporate the value of the environment in which we practice, how important is community and how the concept of care can be lived and experienced today in our community of practitioners?
It’s no secret that one of the most pernicious bits of propaganda that the wellness industry promotes is the notion that health is a personal concern and accomplishment. This is not true. There is very little space between herd health and personal health, no matter how much we bubble ourselves in technology or aseptic gentrification. I don’t think that mainstream yoga is a social practice, yet. Or at least it’s something that many people do together but alone. This is where the value of the non-mainstream communities discussed above comes into vibrant relief.
We have to be aware that late capitalism functions by commodifying literally everything. This includes concepts like “community” or “tribe”, which very often these days stand in for “branded market” or “downstream assets”. It doesn’t help when charismatic leaders promote what Kelly Diels calls the “Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand” to manipulate social isolation as they build pyramid-style sales forces.
For me the antidote to this is to do hard self-inquiry into the question of why you want to be around people who are more like you than not. Can we find the daylight between community as “lifestyle choices our social status lets us make together”, and community as the “place where I actually live with others and our differences”? This comes up for me when I realize that I’m spending more time in yoga studios than in community centres, like the one where I play handball with men who don’t care about yoga. They care about their wages, strike actions, road works, and the schools their children go to.
In your work on WAWADIA you pose the essential question of ‘What Are We Actually Doing in Asana?’ Body and movement are key elements of the discussion. How can we live through the yoga practice an embodied idea of subjectivity. I mean, how do we shift from ‘the body that we have’ (the useful body that society require from us) to ‘the body that we are’? Can yoga work against a depersonalization of the body? And how can we experience, in the practice, a movement that is not staged, performative and finalized?
To repeat and rephrase a little, I’d say that trauma-sensitive discourse brings us back to interoception, and therefore away from visual epistemology, where being real means being seen. The trauma discourse makes sensation the reality principle.
Yes, yoga can work against depersonalization. But we have to be careful from at least two different angles. Trance states related to the Ganzfeld Effect or repetitive motions or chanting can actually lead to depersonalization or dissociation, especially for people who carry heavy trauma loads. In a way, this can work in favour of the dominant paradigm, as you suggest. Donald Trump is totally cool with yoga people checking out. After all, he depends upon his own people falling into altered states as well.
Secondly, depersonalization can itself be spiritualized as the out-of-body or transcendent gift of practice. In cultic systems, this is easily and often used as a gateway to compliance. Yuval Laor, who studies the evolution of religiosity, argues that when these moments of euphoria lead to sensations of “knowing everything” the practitioner may be gripped with awe, which, if it leads to fervour, can be easily manipulated.
I’m glad you’re talking about the “useful” body — and its discontents. Something to watch out for as the “functional movement” discourse gets more deeply embedded in the yoga world — for good reason, as it will increase physical safety — is that it might reinforce the notion that bodies are worthy or even sacred to the extent that they are productive and efficient.
This could be terrible for women and minorities. There’s a lot of people who don’t need to be more productive. They need to be seen and heard and respected as they are.
This functionality theme is also quietly opening up an entirely new front in the cultural appropriation debate, because the functionality of good citizenship was arguably not the point of the medieval traditions that helped inspire what Mark Singleton calls the “Mysore Asana Revival”.
Yoga today is mainly sold a way to ‘fit-in’, an easy self-help tool for spiritual consolation, stress-relief or increasing productivity, a mean to survive in our ‘automatic’ society. So does it still make any sense to talk about moksha, to talk about yoga as a personal and collective transformative practice? Do we have any space of resistance?
What I can add to the above comments is that moksha as a term does seem to have completely disappeared from contemporary yoga discourse. I know because I talk to teachers and trainees all the time. Perhaps it’s because taking it seriously presupposes beliefs in samsara and reincarnation. But I also believe that its disappearance is a mark of how the wellness aspect of yoga, and its seamless integration with spa culture, is a very effective way of erasing death and reinforcing the propaganda that life has no costs, or at least that costs can all be externalized, or paid for in goji berries.
However — has the drive towards moksha disappeared entirely? I don’t believe so. I don’t think we’ve changed that much. We may be better at medicating it away with technology and consumerism than previously, but my bet is that many people still crave some kind of ultimate release. And whether the term moksha is uttered or not, yoga spaces have the potential of encouraging contemplation on what it might mean or feel like.
Finally, which is your idea about the future of yoga? Where are we going? What do we need to work on both as individuals and as a community of practitioners and human beings?
At the risk of repeating myself, and suggesting that I have good answers:
I believe we need to work on trauma awareness, dismantling ableism, moving towards yoga service instead of the hoarding of private religion.
We need to flip “Practice and all is coming” into “Serve and be connected.”
We need to listen to the other, and do this in conjunction with listening to the estranged other within us, silenced by the tyranny of happiness.
We need to platform the voices that celebrity, privilege, and ableism have silenced.
We need to listen to how trauma victims have healed themselves — to the extent they have — and take note of what help they needed, what relationships were restorative to them. They are the canaries in the coal mine of the culture, as Theo Wildcroft says. They can tell us about the deepest patterns of life. They can help us realize, as Anneke Lucas points out, how we ourselves might be traumatized in ways we do not recognize. Of course we want to offer them whatever they need, because we suspect that we will need it too — if not now, than surely some day.
Thank you so much for these wonderful questions.
Foucault on dispositif
Agamben on dispositif
Bourdieu’s habitus
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Amber Karnes’ AY t-shirt
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Lockheed Martin and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) have signed a comprehensive teaming agreement to partner on the Multi-mission Combat Ship (MCS), which is based on a DSME hull design and intended for the corvette market.
Joe North, vice president of Littoral Ships and Systems for Lockheed Martin, and Deog-Soo Kim, vice president and head of the Naval & Special Ship Business Management Division at DSME, display the teaming agreement signed in Seoul, South Korea on April 25, 2016. Lockheed Martin and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering have agreed to partner on the Multi-mission Combat Ship, which will be based on a DSME hull design and intended for the corvette market.
Both companies bring valuable experience and unique capabilities to the teaming arrangement. Lockheed Martin has a proven track record of developing and integrating complex systems into a wide variety of U.S. and international naval vessels. DSME is one of the world’s largest shipbuilders and has a rich history of producing highly capable naval vessels for the Republic of Korea and other international customers.
"DSME’s MCS hull design coupled with Lockheed Martin’s expertise in program and systems integration will allow the team to bring this capable ship to the international marketplace at an affordable price,” said Joe North, vice president of Littoral Ships and Systems at Lockheed Martin Mission System and Training. “Together, we bring not only the best experience, expertise and resources, but also the right dedication and focus to offer coalition navies a multi-mission corvette-sized ship designed to meet future threats.”
“This Teaming Agreement on MCS and strategic cooperation will not only provide our customers with high capability vessels on time, but also further facilitate our two companies’ joint efforts in exploring opportunities on a global scale.” said Deog-Soo Kim, vice president and the head of the Naval & Special Ship Business Management Division at DSME. “Moreover, the Korean government is pursuing ‘New-Economic Growth Activation by Defense Industry’ as one of the state development agendas and this agreement is a good example of achieving the objective.”
Lockheed Martin and DSME are continuing to explore additional business opportunities in the international naval market where integrated, multi-mission corvettes will play a vital role in coastal protection as well as regional operations.
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known professionally as Slim Whitman
Slim Whitman 01/20/1923 to 06/19/2013
Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013), known professionally as Slim Whitman, was an American country music and western music singer/songwriter and instrumentalist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high octave falsetto. He sold in excess of 120 million records.
He was consistently more popular throughout Europe, and in particular Britain, than in his native America, especially with his covers of pop standards, movie songs, love songs, folk tunes and gospel melodic hymns. His 1955 hit single “Rose Marie” held the Guinness World Record for the longest time at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart until Bryan Adams broke the record in 1991 after 36 years. In the US his “Indian Love Call” (1952) and “Secret Love” (1953) both reached number 2 on the Billboard country chart. Whitman had a string of hits from the mid-1960s and into the 1970s and became known to a new generation of fans through television direct marketing in the 1980s.
In 1955 in the United Kingdom, he had a No.1 hit on the pop music charts with “Rose Marie.” With 11 weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, the song set a record that lasted for 36 years. Soon after, Whitman was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry, and in 1957, along with other musical stars, he appeared in the film musical Jamboree. Despite this exposure, he never achieved the level of stardom in the United States that he did in Britain, where he had a number of other hits during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout the early 1970s, he continued to record and was a guest on Wolfman Jack’s television show The Midnight Special.
After 1957 Whitman lived at Woodpecker Paradise, in Middleburg, Florida, a city located south of Orange Park, Florida in Clay County.
Whitman’s wife of 67 years, Alma “Jerry” Crist Whitman, was a songwriter and embroiderer as well as the daughter of a church minister. She died in 2009 as a result from complications arising from kidney failure. They had a daughter Sharon, and a son Byron K. Whitman, who is also a performer and who toured and recorded with Whitman on numerous occasions.
Slim Whitman died of heart failure on June 19, 2013 surrounded by family at Orange Park Medical Center in Orange Park, Florida. He was 90.
Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Whitman
Tagged 1923 – June 19, 2013, 2013 surrounded by family at Orange Park Medical Center in Orange Park, a city located south of Orange Park, After 1957 Whitman lived at Woodpecker Paradise, along with other musical stars, and in 1957, Florida, Florida in Clay County., Florida. He was 90., he appeared in the film musical Jamboree. Despite this exposure, he continued to record and was a guest on Wolfman Jack's television show The Midnight Special., he had a No.1 hit on the pop music charts with "Rose Marie." With 11 weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, he never achieved the level of stardom in the United States that he did in Britain, In 1955 in the United Kingdom, in Middleburg, Jr. (January 20, known professionally as Slim Whitman, Ottis Dewey Whitman, Slim Whitman - Music Charts Magazine Obituaries 2013, Slim Whitman died of heart failure on June 19, the song set a record that lasted for 36 years. Soon after, was an American country music and western music singer/songwriter and instrumentalist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high octave falsetto. He sold in excess of 120 million records., where he had a number of other hits during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout the early 1970s, Whitman was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry
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ipl 2009 Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Eliminator preview news and updates | Delhi-Hyderabad match today, after 4 years in Visakhapatnam, both teams face face-to-face
Combat from 7:30 pm, on Broadcast Star Sports Network
This season both won 1-1 against each other
Today's winning team will face Chennai on May 10 in Qualifier 2
Sports desk In the 12th season of the Indian Premier League, Eliminator of Visakhapatnam, Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy will be face-to-face in Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium. The losing team will be out of the tournament tournament. To win the final, the team will have to compete in the Qualifier 2 qualifying match on May 10 from the qualifying team.
Hyderabad last year also played the final of the tournament. Then he had to face defeat at the hands of Chennai. On the other hand, Delhi has never reached the finals and has not been in the top-2. He has reached the playoff after 7 years. However, this performance has been very good this season. He has won 4 out of 5 matches.
Delhi's success rate against Hyderabad in Visakhapatnam is 100%
There have been 14 matches between Delhi and Hyderabad in the IPL so far. Of these, Hyderabad 9 and Delhi have managed to win 5 matches. However, only one match has happened between the two in Visakhapatnam. In that match on April 18, 2015, Delhi defeated Hyderabad by 6 wickets.
Hyderabad's record on the other home ground has been 11 matches till now in the Super Visakhapatnam IPL. This is Hyderabad's second home ground. However, there will be a match for IPL for the first time since 2016. Hyderabad has won 3 out of 5 matches here, while in 2 it has lost the match. Delhi has played 3 matches here. Of these, he has won 2, while one is lost.
Strength of Delhi:
Shikhar Dhawan, Captain Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant are in excellent form. Dhawan, Iyer, Pant made 486, 442 and 401 runs in 14-14 matches respectively. Among the highest runners in the tournament, Dhawan is number six.
Coach Ricky Ponting and consultant Sourav Ganguly Both of them first joined Delhi Capitals and brought the team to the playoffs.
Kagiso Rabada is lacking Chris Morris They give the ball a little bit, but have been successful in taking wickets. He has 13 wickets in 9 matches.
Delhi's weakness:
Due to being outside the Kagiso Rabada, the team's pace attack was weak. Rabada tournaments are among the top wicket takers. He has 25 wickets in 12 matches.
A decrease in continuity in the performance of Earth Shaw and Rishabh Pant. Earth scored 292 runs in 14 matches. In this 5 times they did not touch the figure of the tenth. Pant has 401 runs in 14 matches, but he also did not score 5 times in 2 points.
Trent Bolt scored more runs in the last over. He took 106 runs in 3 matches and took just 3 wickets.
Strength of Hyderabad:
Trustworthy Captain as Ken Williamson In his captaincy, Hyderabad played the final last year too. He is the 5th top scorer of the team.
Manish Pandey's form He scored 314 runs in 11 matches. Team top scorer after Warner-Biersto.
Khalil Ahmed's Paes Attack He took 17 wickets from the economy of 8.21 in 8 matches. He is the only bowler to take 3-3 wickets in 3 matches this season.
Hyderabad's weakness:
Team top scorers David Warner and Johnny Bayearsto return home. Hyderabad has so far scored 2193 runs in 14 matches. It has more than half of the 1137 runs scored, while Warner 12 and Bayerno played 10 matches.
Siddharth Kaul proved not very effective He had taken 21 wickets in 17 matches last year. This time taking 6 wickets in 7 matches.
Pitch mood: This pitch is considered to be a favor for the batsmen. In 2005 Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored his first ODI century (148 runs) on this ground. Virat Kohli played 157 against the West Indies on this ground last year. Talk about the weather in Visakhapatnam, players also have to cope with the heat and humidity like Chennai.
The two teams are as follows:
Delhi Capitals: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Prasad Khan, Bandaru Aiyappa, Ankush Bains, Trent Bolt, Shikhar Dhawan, Colin Ingram, Sandeep Lemichane, Manjot Kalra, Amit Mishra, Chris Morris, Colin Munro, Rishabh Pant, Akshar Patel, Harshal Patel , Kimo Paul, Kagiso Rabada, Sherfen Rutherford, Jalaj Saxena, Ishant Sharma, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Nathu Singh.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Williamson (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Khalil Ahmed, Basil Thampi, Ricky Bhui, Shreevats Goswami, Martin Guptill, Deepak Hooda, Siddharth Kaul, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Shahbaz Nadeem, T Natarajan, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan , Rashid Khan, Riddhiman Saha, Sandeep Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shakib Al Hasan, Billy Stanleyk
Mashrafe darshan before the first match?
President Trump honored Woods with the Presidential Medal
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You say you want a revolution
By Steven Schwartz - posted Monday, 22 December 2008 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
In his essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox", the British philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, quoted the Greek poet, Archilochus, as follows: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." According to Berlin, the fox pursues multiple ends, often unrelated and sometimes even contradictory. Hedgehogs, in contrast, focus on attaining a single goal.
The long-awaited Bradley review of higher education is certainly foxy; its 49 recommendations delve into every nook and cranny of higher education. This was inevitable given the review’s wide remit. Still, the review does contain two very big ideas - Australia needs more university graduates and university funding should be “driven by student demand”.
Who can argue with more university graduates? A nation of scholars imbued with a love of learning, seekers of wisdom and truth - a noble vision indeed. Alas, this is not quite what the review has in mind. It focuses mainly on economics.
Australia’s standard of living, it says, depends on our winning an international educational competition for the most skilled workforce. Put simply, we need more graduates in order to ensure our national prosperity. (This is a matter for deeper discussion. Not all types of education are aimed at increasing the “bottom line” but let’s put this aside for now.)
Given that school leavers from middle class and professional backgrounds already attend university in large numbers, increasing the number of Australian graduates requires that capable students from currently under-represented backgrounds (low-income, rural, indigenous) enter higher education and successfully complete their degrees.
Many of the review’s recommendations proceed logically from this premise. If we want to attract more students from under-represented backgrounds, then we need outreach programs designed to raise aspirations and student support funds to help low-income students keep body and soul together while studying. We need to concentrate on outcomes rather than inputs and we should have agreed targets by which to measure progress.
All of these measures will increase social mobility - the hallmark of a just and meritocratic society. Many of the measures proposed in the review will help talented students to reach their potential and make their full contribution to society. These recommendations deserve to be carefully studied and implemented where possible.
The review’s other big idea - student-driven funding - will ensure a Commonwealth subsidised place to every student accepted by an approved higher education institution. Universities would be free to determine how many students they wish to enrol in various subjects and a new place would be created more-or-less automatically.
This reform has the potential to provide students with greater choice than they have now; it would also make it possible for universities to respond to student demand. It is a step in the right direction, but it is not a victory for the free-market champions who have advocated “vouchers” for years.
The main reason is the review’s insistence that universities be forbidden from raising the level of private contribution that students make towards their education (that is, tuition fees would be capped at current levels).
The review recognises that price competition is a major mechanism for delivering efficiency, but claims that it is necessary to cap fees in order to keep “established” institutions from sharply raising prices.
For reasons that are never explained, the review takes it for granted that higher fees are bad even though it admits that many students would be happy to pay them. In reality, money spent on education has the same beneficial macro-economic effects as money spent on plasma televisions, holidays or anything else. It also has the spin-off effect of producing a higher skilled workforce.
First published in The Australian December 17, 2008.
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Steven Schwartz is a former vice-chancellor of Macquarie University.
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» Overseas students are getting harder to attract and unis will feel the squeeze - February 9, 2011
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Author Patty Farmer
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Marilyn Cole—London Playboy Bunny—Centerfold—Playmate of the Year
Posted on August 17, 2014 by PattyFarmer123 in Blog, Stars of the Playboy Club
Marilyn Cole working as a Bunny in the London Playboy Club
Marilyn Cole Lownes is an important figure– no pun intended! – In the history of Playboy. And over the last year or so, I’m delighted to report she’s also become a dear friend of mine.
Marilyn went through every stage of the Playboy experience: from bunny to centerfold model to wife of one of the key executives in the organization—all that in addition to being a participant in the behind-the-scenes operation of Playboy Enterprises.
I first met Marilyn last year when I came to interview her husband Victor at their fashionable “flat” in Manhattan’s midtown east; her story, and their story, was already well known, but she told me a few things that weren’t in the history books – starting with how she left her native Portsmouth at about the age of 20 with the sole ambition of becoming a “Bunny girl” at the London Playboy club. It was Victor who first noticed her and pointed out her potential as a model to Hefner, by having her pose for some test photos and then shipping the proofs to Playboy HQ in Chicago. Hefner agreed and she became the centerfold for January 1972.
Hugh Hefner and Marilyn Cole
That pictorial went over so well that Marilyn soon was the Playmate of the year for 1973. Although it was Victor who first “discovered” her, she was initially romantically linked to Hefner, before becoming involved with Lownes. Both men were more than 20 years older than Marilyn, who was born in 1949.
Marilyn was easily the most famous Playboy model of her time. In 1972 and ’73, much was made of how she was the first completely uncovered woman in the magazine. In retrospect, however, it seems what made Marilyn so unique was, in a sense, not just her beauty, but her very Britishness.
When she posed for the centerfold in 1971, it had been five years since the London Playboy club had opened. As the first English Playmate of the Year, Marilyn became a symbol of Playboy’s new international status – her very presence, her accent, her image reminded everyone that we weren’t in Illinois any more, the experience had gone universal. She embodied the kind of high culture that Playboy had aspired to when Hefner put out the first issue almost 20 years earlier.
Marilyn Cole poses for Roxy Music
It’s equally significant that Marilyn also soon became one of the most famous rock-and-roll album cover models of all time when her image appeared on Roxy Music’s Stranded. In fact, her photo was spread over two panels, very much like a centerfold; it had been in the magazine that she was first noticed by Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry. Ten years earlier, when the original American clubs were first opening, Playboy was still an open secret – everybody read it, but they hid it under the mattress. By Marilyn’s time, the sexual revolution was reaching its apogee, and she was as much a symbol of it as Hefner. Now a Playboy model could be a full-fledged celebrity – someone out in the open and take home to meet your mother.
Marilyn Cole outside of the Playboy Mansion
The union of Marilyn and Victor must surely count as the most successful marriage amongst those that either Lownes or Hefner ever had – they’ve been together for over 30 years at this point, and are still one of the world’s great power couples. They have highly compatible tastes in music, from Roxy Music to Mabel Mercer, and can often be seen together at the tonier nightspots like 54 Below (when in New York), Crazy Cog’s (in London),or any of the many events produced by the Mabel Mercer Foundation. They made a sensational appearance together at the opening of the new London Playboy club in 2011, with Marilyn looking resplendent in a silver-white gown. In fact, they were treated like royalty – which is exactly what they are.
You can read more stories in my books Playboy Swings and The Persian Room Presents
© 2019 Author Patty Farmer. All Rights Reserved.
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Top-up fees on the agenda
The Conservative Party's minority debate on tuition fees next Tuesday has caused a storm, coming as it does, two days before the publication of the Rees Commission report on the subject. Professor Rees has allegedly written to AMs to express her dismay and disappointment at the timing of the discussion, stating that it "seems our evidence-based recommendations may not even be deemed worthy of consideration." I have to say that I am still waiting to receive this letter.
I understand her point and at one stage even advised the Conservative Education Spokesperson to choose another topic. I did so on the basis that the Assembly has already taken a position against variable top-up fees and that we should keep our powder dry for the report itself. Nevertheless, it is the right of the Conservatives to bring forward this subject for debate and to take advantage of the new arithmetic in the Assembly to drive home the point of principle.
Obviously, there will be further debates on the Rees Commission report itself and the evidence and the options within it will need to be considered in detail, especially on bursaries and part-timers. But that consideration will need to be tempered by the principle that education is an investment in our future and should be paid for by the state out of public funds. The punitive taxation which variable top-up fees represent will put off talented young people from going into higher education and deprive our Country of much-needed home-grown talent. They must be resisted at every opportunity.
N.B. Much has been made on the media this morning of a Higher Education Wales e-mail that states that there is a £250 million funding gap in Universities between England and Wales. Commentators have taken this figure as the amount which will be raised from top-up fees. That is not the case.
The funding gap that exists now is about £90 million. This comes about from the present Assembly funding HE policy. Higher Education Wales' argument is in fact that if top-up fees are introduced in England but not Wales AND Welsh HEIs are not compensated, then that chasm will grow in size to £250 million.
In fact top-up fees will raise about £40 million in year one, rising to about £160 million in year three. To use them to close the funding gap as well could require a Welsh top-up fee of £5,000. Is that the hidden agenda of Higher Education Institutions in Wales? If so then they will massively increase student debt and drive talented people away from Welsh Universities. There is no better illustration as to why variable top-up fees are wrong.
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My view of this is, that the majority of the education budget should be spent on the early years, Primary and secondary education, because those three stages of education are compulsory for every single child, therefore, those sectors should receive the majority of the funding. Higher Education is largely funded by the tax payer, but I think that students who gain from going through university should expect to contribute something back.
Why should a hard working family, with children, pay more tax to send me to University?
Do you agree with the re-introduction of grants for students from less well off backgrounds?
Why shouldn’t I, when earning £15,000+ a year, pay for my own education? I see my university education as an investment, that’s why I have no qualms about paying my own way through.
Surely its better that students pay back tuition fees when they are in work, earning a living, and not paying fees whilst in University as we do now? The new system in England takes away the requirement for parents to pay upfront fees, is that a bad thing?
Someone on an average wage of £16,000 a year will pay back £7.50 a month; someone earning £20,000 a year will pay back £37.50 a month – will that “increase financial pressure” on people?
What does put financial pressure on people (especially parents), is having to pay fees during your time in university, this will no longer be the case. Further to that, any debt left over after 25 years will be wiped off.
The people who will “drive talented people away from Welsh Universities” are people like you who thrive on scaremongering. The new system does not “massively increase student debt” at all– because you it pay back on the basis of what you earn, through the tax system, on a sliding scale.
The Lib Dems live in a fantasy world where money grows on trees, Plaid Cymru live in a fantasy world where Wales would be independent, and still end up paying for all the basic services and more; the Tories would like to take us back to a world where only the rich minority could go to University, at the expense of everyone else.
We no longer live in the era where 7-8% of 18-29 year olds go into HE, and the state could afford to give them grants – because the number of students in HE were so small, we live in an era where approx 42% of 18-29 year olds go to University, and we want that to increase – not so that we force 50% into HE, but so that the opportunity is there for as many people who want to gain a university education, can do so.
I don’t want hard working families to pay more tax to allow me or anyone else to go to University, I’m not a charity case, students should pay their way through education, after they graduate, when they can afford it.
“Education is an investment in our future and should be paid for by the state out of public funds” Yes – and the vast majority of HE funding will still come from public funds – but the people who should pay that little bit extra into the public funds to pay for the investment should be the people who have gained from that investment, the students.
# posted by Martyn Williams : 2:30 PM
I thought you did very well to copy all that out from the Labour Party crib sheet Martyn. Loved the use of all the Focus group buzzwords. :-)
I do not think it is right that a graduate should effectively pay a marginal rate of tax of 42% on graduation, which is what Labour's proposals mean.
If Graduates do earn more then they will pay more tax. That is right and proper and that is how the system balances itself out. I do not mind paying more tax to fund higher education because it ultimately will benefit the Country and increase prosperity. This "greater good" has been lost in your answer.
The fact is that talented youngsters are already being put off from going into Higher Education. I am not scaremongering, I am championing their cause. It is ironic that a Cabinet who all benefited from free Higher Education are now penalising those who seek to follow in their footsteps.
# posted by Peter Black : 6:14 PM
Believe it or not, Peter, I wrote that all by myself! All my own thoughts, and is exactly what I said in my speech on this issue at the Welsh Labour party conference back in March.
With all due respect, you are fortunate enough to be able to say that you are willing to pay more tax, a lot of people are not in the same position, and I wouldn’t dream of wanting to burden them with even more tax to pay for someone to do a degree in something ridiculous – such as Surf and beach management!
What I have thought about are “no fee” courses, such as Medicine, and disciplines that need extra recruitment, such as Maths. I think the government need to carry out a detailed study of what degree subjects us as a country need, and plan from there.
So basically what I’m suggesting is, that you have several tiers of degree subjects – if someone wants to do a degree in Surf and beach management, let them pay the full amount to do it, because, at the end of the day, them doing that particular degree is not going to have any positive benefits for the country as a whole. A doctor on the other hand, will provide 30+ years of extremely skilled and valuable service to the country, and maybe we should look at what we can do to reduce the costs of doing degrees that lead to working in “critical” sectors such as the NHS or teaching.
The reason why “talented youngsters are already being put off from going into Higher Education” is because the new system has not been explained properly to them. How many young people do you think know that the “debt” is wiped out after 25 years? How many of them do you think know how much in real terms they’d pay back each month?
The Labour party are committed to giving 50% of young people who leave school the opportunity to go to University/college – we’re not forcing anyone to go, we’re giving them the opportunity. My question is, under the Lib Dem proposals, what percentage would you give the opportunity to go to University?
Could we maybe look at top-up fees (I don’t personally like that term, I think it would make more sense if we called it Graduate tax) as being “ring fenced” tax that students pay when they are in employment, that goes back and enables the next generation of students to receive the same opportunities they had, and to enable the poorest in our society to go to University?
You say “It is ironic that a Cabinet who all benefited from free Higher Education are now penalising those who seek to follow in their footsteps” – not all members of the cabinet went to University, and when those who did go to University were at University, the percentage of their peers in HE was about 7-8%, and the state could afford to pay for them to go. If we want our economy to be knowledge based, we need more, and we should encourage more, to go to University or college.
But the biggest shock of the week, I’d say, is the letter that caused extreme embarrassment to me as a student at Swansea University that landed on the desks of AM’s this week. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about Peter, and if we learn anything from that letter, it’s that Swansea University need to start courses for some people on how to write letters!!!
Just to finish, I had a bit of a laugh at the Lib Dem reshuffle earlier on, it was merely re-arranging the chairs around a very small coffee table, are you disappointed that you were not promoted?
These views are very similar to those of David Davies AM/MP. I havent got a clue what letter you are referring to regarding Swansea University. Perhaps you can e-mail to jolt my memory.
As for the reshuffle, what was there to be promoted into? I am already Education Spokesperson and Chair of Education and Lifelong Learning. I have no personal ambitions in the Assembly other than to serve my constituents, my Country and my party. (I am being sincere on that by the way).
# posted by Peter Black : 11:18 PM
The letter from the SU.
I’m very much offended that you have compared me to a right wing Tory AM! I don’t see how my views on trying to open up the HE sector and attracting more young people to do higher and further education courses is anything similar to the Tory policies of cutting the numbers of students that are given the opportunity to go to university/college, and going back to the days where only the elite minority had the chance to gain a degree.
Well, they could have made you the “student’s champion” – in line with your new publicity stunt to attract Plaid Cymru voters by having a welsh language champion (and before anyone tries to say anything about the Welsh language, my first language is Welsh, I’ve received my primary and secondary education through the medium of welsh and am very proud of my Welsh roots, our culture and heritage)
I am sorry you were offended, I was just commenting that both you and David Davies have expressed similar views on this subject. I think that by being asked to concentrate on education I am effectively the Welsh Liberal Democrats' students' champion if such a title has any value, which I doubt. There are of course other aspects to Higher Education as well.
If that title has little value, why have a welsh language “champion”??
You constantly accuse the Labour party of publicity stunts, yet the only logical reason for you to have a “welsh language champion” is to woo Plaid Cymru supporters, in Ceredigion especially?
Did you enjoy the Mayor’s inauguration in Port Talbot yesterday Peter? I hope, as a regional AM, you’ll make an appearance at future Mayoral inaugurations.
I haven't got a clue why we have a Welsh Language champion. Not something I was involved in. As it happens I go to the Mayoral inauguration at Neath Port Talbot most years, certainly when my diary allows. Never see Peter Hain there though and only occasionally Brian Gibbons.
Oh dear, party communication lines are obviously not in proper working order!
Brian Gibbons was at the British-Irish council yesterday; don’t know where Peter Hain was. But judging that both are cabinet ministers, I’d imagine ministerial diary commitments would make it impossible at times to be able to attend.
Martyn, I wrote that letter in line with SUSU policy. If you have a problem with it, why not come and see me or any other member of the Sabb team? I'm in monday come and have a chat, I'll explain why I wrote it.
Dan Hilton
# posted by Dan : 8:39 PM
I haven’t got a problem with you writing letters, it’s just a shame it took you so long to write them, as you did say back on FEBRUARY 17th (in your blog) that the writing of letters to AM’s was “ongoing”. But it would however, be advisable that you re-read your letters and use a spell checker before you send them out, because with all due respect, it looked as if a 10 year old had written the letter, and not a Student Union president with a degree!
One example being: “We understand that the pressures upon the finances of the Welsh Assembly, how much must be diverted into economic regeneration and the health service.”
Believe it or not Dan, I’m not having a go at you just for the sake of it – it was just embarrassing to see such a sub-standard letter being sent by the SU of which I’m a member to elected representatives.
As I don’t live in Swansea, I’ll only be in to do my exams, which, incidentally, are not being held on campus (all three in the Patti pavilion) – so I don’t plan on being on campus again until September.
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Home > IN THE NEWS > PFF Holds 14th Ordinary Congress in Bacolod City
The Philippine Football Federation held the 14th PFF Ordinary Congress last Saturday 16 December at the L’Fisher hotel in Bacolod City.
PFF president Mariano V. Araneta Jr. opened the Congress highlighting the massive gains the PFF achieved during the year, most notably, the launch of the Philippines Football League, the qualification of the Philippine Women’s National Team to the AFC Women’s Asian Cup Jordan 2018 and the progress of the Philippine Men’s National Team in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 Qualifiers which will play their final qualifying match on 27 March 2018 against Tajikistan, the silver medal finish of the Philippine Girls Under-15 National Team, and the four other National Youth Teams that saw competition in the international level.
Among the key events that occurred during the past year are the election of Araneta to the FIFA Council, and the Inauguration of the FIFA-funded Football Turf Field in Carmona, Cavite.
“There were a lot of activities for this past year,” said Araneta. “I thank all Member Associations for their cooperation and hopefully next year will be another busy year for all of us.”
The Congress also approved the proposed PFF budget for 2018 of P167 million. The budget will cover all of the federation’s activities in among others, technical initiatives, grassroots development, national teams, and also the construction of the new PFF House of Football and floodlights for the PFF National Training Centre which will be located in Carmona, Cavite.
Following the PFF Congress, the delegates went to Pana-ad Park and Football Stadium to watch the final match of the Philippines Football League between Ceres Negros FC and Global Cebu FC. Ceres Negros FC won the final, 4-1, to claim the inaugural Philippines Football League title.
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U.S. Energy Revolution Announced by Trump Threatens Russia
Donald Trump’s speech about starting a new energy revolution together is now discussed by the international community. It seems that the USA is going to start a new policy regarding commodities. The changes are expected to take place within the next 10 years.
Apparently, America’s new energy policy is aimed at dominating the global markets over time. That’s why Trump and his administration are now betting big on the local oil and gas production. The thing is, the sources of the so-called green energy are not capable of replacing hydrocarbons for now, which is why they still have to rely mostly on conventional energy carriers, especially as shale oil and gas production has been booming over the last few years.
Trump’s Policies Make USA Lose Their Leading Position in the West
More and more international experts are concerned about Donald Trump’s policies. Some of them are concerned that because of him and his actions, the USA may lose their leading role in the Western world.
According to Fareed Zakaria, political expert, CNN host and columnist for The Washington Post, Trump’s recent political decisions have made the European Union so united that Putin could never have dreamed of. Even though he is not going to make the Western world collapse, the USA may still lose the number-one status in the Western world.
Publication date: 31 July 12:09 PM
Does China Oust Russia From Central Asia?
As the situation in Afghanistan is getting worse, this is raising a lot of concerns in the international expert community. The Islamic terrorist threat may spread from there to Russian and China, they say.
According to a Norwegian observer for Dagbladet, there exist 5 countries in Central Asia that can be seen as potential threats to Russia and China. The thing is, the Islamic terrorism may well spread from those countries to their neighbors. They say that Afghanistan is now the biggest potential threat since the amount of armed conflicts in the country are getting more and more frequent and tough. As Taliban (the local terrorist organization) is said to be sponsored and suppled with arm and ammo, the USA seems to be putting the blame for this on Russia.
China Invests Heavily In Africa
You probably know that has been investing in a number of countries of strategical importance. There is a lot of African countries on the list. According to several observers, Chinese banks have given such countries over 77 billion euros since 2000.
Not so long ago, there was a documentary broadcast on the national TV. The documentary is about a railway line in Kenya built by China Road and Bridge Corporation. It praises Chinese engineers and tells the viewer that the Chinese government is ready to support African countries on their way to economic growth.
Chinese Economy Is Way Stronger Than Trump Thinks
The Chinese economy has got much stronger. It can now even be compared to the American one, which is viewed to be the world’s strongest economy. Washington clearly underestimates Beijing when saying that the China has been flourishing in the international markets exclusively at the expense of unfair trade.
British Start Getting Disappointed with Brexit, Soros Says
Last year’s Brexit referendum has become a major challenge for the British government, George Soros says. He says that more and more British citizens start getting disappointed with the Brexit.
The world-famous financier and CEO of Soros Fund Management assumes that now the economic reality starts revealing the real state of affairs and debunk their delusions related to the happy living outside of the European Union. More than 12 months ago, the advocates of the Brexit scenario were trying to persuade people that this choice won’t affect people’s standards of living. Well, since then, the government has been trying to implement this promise at the expense of increasing the internal debt.
Two Reasons Why Russia Keeps Losing Influence Over Post-Soviet States
After the USSR ceased to exist, the Kremlin was counting on retaining their influence in the region. However, the truth is that Russia as the major successor to the USSR has been losing its influence over the remaining post-soviet states. There are 2 reasons for that.
According to the related report recently published by private American analytic company Stratfor, there is a range of new tendencies making it difficult for Russia to stay influential in the post-soviet region, especially when it comes to Ukraine. The two major reasons for that are believed to be the declining role of the Russian language in the region as well as the existing threats of mass protest inside Russia itself.
Business with China: New Reality after Blocking Yandex and VK in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petr Poroshenko has expanded the list of sanctions against individuals and legal entities from Russia. To be more specific, Ukraine imposed sanctions on several Russian online companies, including Yandex, which is Russia’s biggest IT company, as well as some other popular web services like VK, Odnoklassniki, and Mail.ru Group. According to the presidential decree, Ukrainian Internet providers are forbidden to grant access to those blacklisted websites.
China Doesn’t Need Russian Gas and Pipelines
Don’t you remember how a couple of years ago Gazprom cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine a number of times. By the way, Ukraine alone used to buy 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas back then. Now Ukraine buys no natural gas form Russia at all. Apparently, Moscow keeps on looking for other outlets. There has been a lot of buzz about China as a new big outlet for Russian natural gas and crude oil. It turns out that two new pipelines should have transferred to China some 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year. Yet, this was the maximum amount, and it couldn’t clearly make up for the export of natural gas to Ukraine.
Mass Media on Forthcoming Trump-Putin Meeting
For those of you who don’t know, the first official meeting between Donald trump and Vladimir Putin has been confirmed. It’s planned for July 7, during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
Some observers say that the White House did the Kremlin a favor by being the first one confirming the official meeting during the G20 summit. This announcement helped the sided to get of the rumors around the situation and helped Moscow to save face in the Russian media space.
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The PNG APEC Secretariat was established on the 23rd August 2012 NEC Decision NG 19/2012 on which NEC endorsed and approved the Secretariat’s establishment and the organizational structure.
The Secretariat, headed by a Director General, reports directly to the Office of the Prime Minister through the Office of the Chief Secretary to Government. As at 31st December 2018, the Secretariat had a total of 17 staff.
The Secretariat during Papua New Guinea’s hosting of APEC in 2018, also recruited nine (9) university interns and twenty-four (24) other support staff as part of its research and documentations team.
The Secretariat is (was) responsible for coordinating the Operations Plan 2018 (OP PLAN 2018) with relevant agencies and departments in preparation for Papua New Guinea’s host and chair of APEC in 2018.
The Secretariat also caters for the following responsibilities:
participating in all relevant domestic and international APEC-related meetings to implement the work plan of 2018 and its coordination;
providing the policy framework, logistical advice and support to all relevant agencies and departments participating in the APEC process including supporting PNG APEC Senior Official (SOM) at all APEC Senior Officials Meetings Abroad;
facilitating the production of Issues Briefs for PNG Leaders at all APEC Ministerial Meetings and at the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting (AELM); and
coordinating the drafting of relevant Concept Notes and Project Proposal for APEC capacity building activities in PNG.
Key Planned Activities and Outcomes:
As per the 2018 Work Plan and APEC’s annual meetings, the Secretariat assisted in facilitating:
the Prime Minister’s, Deputy Prime Minister’s, Senior Government Ministers’ and Senior Officials’ attendance at the Senior APEC Officials’ Meetings and Leaders’ Summit; and
the Prime Minister on various bilateral meetings with other countries that PNG during the APEC Leaders’ Summit with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Trade Commerce & Industry, and the International Relations Unit.
Upon completion of the 2018 APEC meetings, the Secretariat prepared relevant outcomes reports including NEC Policy Submissions, Information Papers and Matrixes of decisions for follow-up and implementation by appropriate Departments and Agencies.
In general, the Secretariat assisted Government departments and agencies, and the Office of the Prime Minister in keeping up to date with latest developments in regional and international political issues that have implications on PNG’s national interests.
apec@pmnec.gov.pg
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Fed Inflation Is Driving More Workers to "Side Hustles"
Fed Inflation Is Driving More Workers to "Side Hustles" Comments for Fed Inflation Is Driving More Workers to "Side Hustles" Print Fed Inflation Is Driving More Workers to "Side Hustles"
04/15/2019Doug French
Since when are industriousness and hard work criticized? The New York Times op-ed page. Alissa Quart complains,
this nouveau moonlighting continues to be exalted as cool, empowering or freeing. This mantra is false: Side hustles are not simply a new version of working as a “wage slave”...
this nouveau moonlighting continues to be exalted as cool, empowering or freeing. This mantra is false: Side hustles are not simply a new version of working as a “wage slave” so that we can do what we love in our off hours. Instead, far more often, people take on second or third side hustles because of wage stagnation or low pay at their full-time jobs.
So, what’s another word for wage stagnation but inflation. However, Ms. Quart, the author of Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America, doesn’t mention the Federal Reserve or increases in the supply of money.
Quart’s Sunday Times piece is entitled “The Con of the Side Hustle.” People taking on multiple jobs refer to them as “side hustles.” Which is kind of cute. Uber is recruiting online, not with the tagline “do you have to have a second job to pay your bills” but rather something cool, like, “Get your side hustle on.”
It just so happens I’ve had occasion to use Uber lately and usually engage the driver in conversation. None were complaining about making a little money on the side even though they have “day jobs.” One was a blackjack dealer who said he made $47,000 last year dealing. When he gets off work he’s bored, so he drives and makes extra money.
Another was a financial planner whose wife just had a baby. He said he was driving to cover the new baby expenses but also to meet potential clients. My favorite driver is a Vice President of Player Development at a large local casino. He was driving his wife’s “shift” because he lost a bet between them. His wife drives because she’s home with their toddler and likes to drive a few hours both for the money but also for adult conversation.
Ms. Quart is far more exercised about these guy’s side hustles than they appeared to be.
Later in her piece, Ms. Quart really cranks up her ire,
Yet this sales pitch for the “side hustle” takes what we once called, more drably, another job and gives it a gloss, with a tiny shot of Superfly, disguising unstable working hours and a lack of bargaining power as liberation. You can see the twisted alchemy of what Reddit’s founder Alexis Ohanian has called “ hustle porn. ”
All this hand wringing is about prices rising faster than incomes and people having the time and willingness to pursue work and pay for more goods and services rather than live with less and enjoy more leisure time. Murray Rothbard wrote in the “Mystery of Banking,”
The essence of inflation is the process by which a large and hidden tax is imposed on much of society for the benefit of government and the early receivers of the new money. Inflationary increases of the money supply are pernicious forms of tax because they are covert, and few people are able to understand why prices are rising. Direct, overt taxation raises hackles and can cause revolution; inflationary increases of the money supply can fool the public — its victims — for centuries.
Of course, Ms. Quart casts no stones at the government or the central bank. It’s private businesses that are to blame. She implores us to never use the words “side hustle,” be more truthful, and most importantly, “we can agitate to raise wages. If we do that, we won’t need cute euphemisms to cloak the chaotic truth of working life in today’s America.”
The truth of the matter is, the Fed makes most all of us poorer, including businesses, while enriching the government. Bravo to those with the gumption to have a side hustle.
Libra as a Competitor to Inflationary Central Banks Comments for Libra as a Competitor to Inflationary Central Banks Print Libra as a Competitor to Inflationary Central Banks
07/15/2019Pietro BullianFabrizio Ferrari
As an international private currency, Libra will be in competition with publicly issued currencies. It could have large and fruitful repercussions on the global monetary policy, especially with reference to those countries where central banks are still heavily subject to political influence and...
As an international private currency, Libra will be in competition with publicly issued currencies. It could have large and fruitful repercussions on the global monetary policy, especially with reference to those countries where central banks are still heavily subject to political influence and tend to pursue inflationary monetary policies.
The introduction of the Libra project to the public has generated a lot of fuss over the consequences this cryptocurrency may have for the stability of the global financial system.
At first, we need to clear the ground from the most common mistaken facts about Libra running over the news. As detailed in this white paper, Libra will be a fully backed cryptocurrency, it will be issued solely upon demand, and its value will be given by a basket of reserves whose composition will be diversified, privileging safe assets and stable international currencies (as thoroughly described in the technical part of the white paper dedicated to the functioning of the reserve mechanism).
Thus, despite the rumors, we know as a fact that Libra will not:
run its own monetary policy, since it will not be in control of its money supply;
create commercial-banks money, since it will not leverage on its costumers’ deposits to create new units of Libra operating under a fractional-reserve scheme like regular commercial banks do;
be pegged to any existing currency, since it will not take a specific commitment to fluctuate in a stringent range vis-a-vis any currency or basket of currencies.
Lastly, the fear that a sudden bank-run may cause the collapse of the Libra is either irrational or it confirms early critics have not yet understood the basic functioning of the project. In fact, the fully backed-ness of Libra would make it much safer than commercial-banks deposits we daily accept as means of payment, because Libra would be always redeemable—at least—into legal-tender currency; this redeemability would not be just theoretical (as it occurs with commercial-banks money and fractional-reserve banking) but also practical, because a unit of Libra could be created if, and only if, a unit of monetary base (i.e., legal-tender currency) or a claim on it (i.e., a unit of commercial-banks deposits) were conferred in exchange for that very unit of Libra.
In other words, while commercial-banks money (that is, deposits) can be created out of thin air—simply granting a loan—Libra would be instead created if, and only if, backed by a formerly existing unit of money—either of the central bank or of commercial ones (recall: money of commercial banks are deposits, which entitle the owner to claim a unit of monetary base, i.e., legal-tender currency).
For all these reasons — sticking to what we really know about Libra so far — Libra will have a value which will be stable in time with respect to the main reserve-currencies of the world. The relatively stable value of Libra, together with its worldwide accessibility, is what we believe may have positive and interesting repercussions. Libra may become a safe, accessible, cheaply storable reserve of value for those people living in countries that experience unbearable high levels of inflation to this day.
Moreover, the analogies between Libra and the first steps of the Hayekian proposal of “Denationalization of Money” (1976) are strikingly patent, insofar as Libra:
is a privately issued medium of exchange;
is subject to a 1:1 reserve system, in which money-creation out of thin air is not allowed;
remains fully redeemable in terms of existing legal-tender currencies.
Therefore, Libra — if not impeded by governmental legislative power — would provide consumers with a medium of exchange whose inflation would be the weighted average of the safest legal-tender currencies of the globe, thus naturally displaying a potential standard deviation of its value — that is, deflation or (more likely) inflation — closer to them than to that of more volatile currencies. After a while, highly inflated legal-tender currencies (especially in those countries with relevant governmental interference and political influence over central bank’s activity) would be gradually less demanded in exchange for goods and services and, were governments not to forbid payments denominated in terms of Libra-units (that is, were they to allow Libra to exist as a full-fledged means of payment), then Libra could (analogously to what is postulated by the Grisham’s Law, but —somehow — in reverse) drive governmental money out of the payment-mechanism and prompt agents to hold to Libra for payment-purposes.
Thus, citizens would be induced to hoard governmental money only in order to pay taxes — since government would not, most likely, forego their privilege of imposing which unit of account taxes are to be paid in, that is, which unit of account is decreed to be legal-tender currency — and would be given the opportunity to access a slightly more competitive money-market.
For example, were Libra allowed to circulate alongside the publicly issued currencies in countries such as Turkey or Argentina, which at present experience high level of inflation, citizens of these countries will soon start to be interested in storing their wealth in Libra-coins, which is what has in part already happened with Bitcoin or major international currencies — like the dollar. The advantage Libra could have over Bitcoin is that it promises to deliver far better in price stability, while the advantage it could have over the dollar is that it has the potential to flow freely over the internet, overcoming the capital control barriers and all sort of government limitations.
Surely, critics point out that the currencies of said countries will not be accepted as a collateral for the issuing of Libra, hence these people will not be the early adopters of the currency. Nevertheless, Libra may eventually get to these countries from the international trade, via inflows of capital or (more likely) goods and services purchasing; and, since money transfers in Libra would be far cheaper and easier to handle, Libra could then start to be adopted as an alternative currency by more and more people inside the country. In such a scenario, people will express their preference for Libra instead of their local currency, and that will represent an incentive to the local central banks not to act inflationary so to restore the confidence in their own currency, displaying the fruits competition could bear also in a traditional public dominated market — as that of currencies currently is.
Abolish the Dept. of Homeland Security? Yes, Please. Comments for Abolish the Dept. of Homeland Security? Yes, Please. Print Abolish the Dept. of Homeland Security? Yes, Please.
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07/12/2019Ryan McMaken
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has suggested eliminating the Department of Homeland Security.
Her motivation seems to be reducing federal immigration enforcement powers, although it doesn't necessarily follow that abolishing the DHS would actually accomplish this.
Nevertheless, the DHS...
Nevertheless, the DHS is just yet an other cabinet level agency pushed to facilitate even more government spending, and has never been necessary. Its abolition would be a step in the right direction.
The thing about raising government agencies to cabinet-level status is that the move makes it easier for the bureaucrats in charge of the agencies to politically agitate for more government spending in their favor, and to push bigger government in general. It's no coincidence that as the US government has grown ever larger and more intrusive, so has the number of cabinet-level agencies. So now, we have the EPA, the SBA, and the departments of HUD, Energy, and Education all provided with more direct access to the president and the media. Everything they do is deemed "essential." Everything they do, we're told, is a matter of national importance.
DHS is no different. When the 9/11 attacks occurred, they exposed the sheer incompetence, laziness, and inefficiency of government security and defense organizations. Year after year, hundreds of billions of dollars were poured into these organizations — in addition to the countless billions spent on the Pentagon. But when they were shown to be asleep at the switch, what happened? Rather than have their budgets cut, and senior officials fired in droves — as should have happened — George W. Bush and his cronies decided that what the federal government really needed was a new department into which billions more in taxpayer money could be poured.
The was politically important in the sense that making DHS a department made it easier to call for every more funding for its constituent agencies. But much of what the department does was already done before 9/11 — including immigration regulation.
What was new was the federalization of airport security, and new slush funds for domestic police departments.
In a 2017 article titled "Four Agencies to Abolish along with the Dept. of Education," I put DHS first on the list (followed by the EPA, Interior, and Agriculture):
One: The Department of Homeland Security, $51 Billion
Somehow, the United States managed to get along for more than 225 years before this Department was created by Congress and the Bush Administration in 2002.
The Department quickly became a way for the federal government to spread federal taxpayer dollars to state and local law enforcement agencies , thus gaining greater control at the local level. The DHS administers a number of grant programs that have helped to purchase a variety of new toys for law enforcement groups including new weapons, and new technologies. Also included in this is the infamous military surplus program which is supplies tanks and other military equipment to police forces everywhere from big cities to small rural towns. The crime-free town of Keene, New Hampshire made sure its police received a tank through this program as have many larger cities.
When the Orlando gunman opened fire in the Pulse nightclub in 2016, the police eventually rolled up in a tank — which did nothing to stem the bloodshed inside the club.
Police claim they need these half-million-dollar vehicles from the DHS to deal with civil unrest. Never mind, of course, that every state already has a National Guard force specifically for that purpose.
While the Department was created in response to the 9/11 attacks, the Department does nothing to address anything like a 9/11-style attack, and all the agencies that were supposed to provide intelligence on such attacks — the FBI for instance — already exist in other departments and continue to enjoy huge budgets.
DHS also includes agencies that already existed in other departments before, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the agencies that handle immigration and customs. Those agencies should either be returned to the departments they came from or be abolished.
And, few would miss the Transportation Security Administration — an agency that has never caught a single terrorist, but has smuggled at least $100 million worth of cocaine.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is usually wrong about pretty much everything. But on this she's accidentally correct: abolishing the DHS would be a net good for America. It was never necessary, and is mostly a channel for violating the rights of Americans through a de facto standing army of federal agencies and local cops pumped up on federal dollars and military equipment. Politicians in Washington DC would hate to see it go. But the taxpayers would likely benefit were it to disappear forever.
Rothbard on Slavery Reparations Comments for Rothbard on Slavery Reparations Print Rothbard on Slavery Reparations
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Rothbard on Slavery Reparations
07/12/2019Jeff Deist
In 1969 the hottest new libertarian publication was The Libertarian Forum, edited by Murray Rothbard in New York and Karl Hess in Washington. Hess, famously as associate of Barry Goldwater before becoming a deeply disillusioned anarchist, was a man of many talents—welding,...
In 1969 the hottest new libertarian publication was The Libertarian Forum, edited by Murray Rothbard in New York and Karl Hess in Washington. Hess, famously as associate of Barry Goldwater before becoming a deeply disillusioned anarchist, was a man of many talents—welding, motorcycle racing, and no-holds-barred philosophy among them. His street fighter style, combined with Rothbard's acerbic writing and penetrating political eye, made the Forum an outlet for strategy and tactics more than anything. And it had a surprisingly long run, until 1984, in physical print no less.
There is nothing like it today, either in style or content.
As just one example, consider the short essay Rothbard penned for the June 15, 1969, issue. "Confiscation and the Homestead Principle" elaborates on Rothbard's earlier writing in Power and Market concerning homesteading of land. In the latter, he criticized the Georgist notion of "societal" ownership or control of real property in favor of a "first-user, first-owner" principle. In the former, he considered how we might determine proper title to stolen property, i.e. land where current possession is not based on legitimate homesteading or title transfer.
The homesteading principle means that the way that unowned property gets into private ownership is by the principle that this property justly belongs to the person who finds, occupies, and transforms it by his labor. This is clear in the case of the pioneer and virgin land. But what of the case of stolen property?
This is especially tricky when the thief is the state and the victim is not readily identifiable:
Let us now apply our libertarian theory of property to the case of property in the hands of, or derived from, the State apparatus. The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called “taxation” and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty. In the case of the State, furthermore, the victim is not readily identifiable...All taxpayers, all draftees, all victims of the State have been mulcted. How to go about returning all this property to the taxpayers? What proportions should be used in this terrific tangle of robbery and injustice that we have all suffered at the hands of the State?
The answers are thorny. State-owned entities, like universities, are readily identified and seized. But seized by whom, and given to whom? When decades or centuries have passed, how do we determine rightful owners of land? And what about corporations that derive 50% or 75% of their income from taxes, such as defense contractors? Should they be nationalized, liquidated, and the proceeds distributed to taxpayers?1
But the most interesting feature of the essay, deals with the idea of land reparations for descendants of American slaves.
This brings us to Karl’s point about slaves. One of the tragic aspects of the emancipation of the serfs in Russia in 1861 was that while the serfs gained their personal freedom, the land – their means of production and of life, their land was retained under the ownership of their feudal masters. The land should have gone to the serfs themselves, for under the homestead principle they had tilled the land and deserved its title. Furthermore, the serfs were entitled to a host of reparations from their masters for the centuries of oppression and exploitation. The fact that the land remained in the hands of the lords paved the way inexorably for the Bolshevik Revolution, since the revolution that had freed the serfs remained unfinished.
The same is true of the abolition of slavery in the United States. The slaves gained their freedom, it is true, but the land, the plantations that they had tilled and therefore deserved to own under the homestead principle, remained in the hands of their former masters. Furthermore, no reparations were granted the slaves for their oppression out of the hides of their masters. Hence the abolition of slavery remained unfinished, and the seeds of a new revolt have remained to intensify to the present day. Hence, the great importance of the shift in Negro demands from greater welfare handouts to “reparations,” reparations for the years of slavery and exploitation and for the failure to grant the Negroes their land, the failure to heed the Radical abolitionist’s call for “40 acres and a mule” to the former slaves. In many cases, moreover, the old plantations and the heirs and descendants of the former slaves can be identified, and the reparations can become highly specific indeed.
Rothbard wrote this a century after the Civil War, and another 50 years have gone by since. Can old plantation land be seized today, given all the subsequent owners and land development? (e.g. parceling into housing owned by innocent good faith buyers). Can we identify slave descendants accurately? And if so, wouldn't such a descendant living in another part of the US likely prefer cash to a land title in a southern state? Some slaves may have hundreds of living descendants, will cash amounts be reduced pro rata?
One thing is certain: if paid, reparations will be financed via deficits and general taxes, not specific payments from person X to person Y. "The government," an amorphous blob, will pay—which means all of us, including black Americans, will foot the bill via taxes and inflation.
1. For more on the distinction between stolen and unowned land, see Stephan Kinsella's blog on Rothbard's evolution regarding the subject. As Kinsella explains, Rothbard appears to have changed his thinking between 1969 (when "Confiscation and the Homestead Principle" was published); 1974, in an article titled "Justice and Property Rights," and in Chapter 9 of 1982's The Ethics of Liberty. Kinsella suggests Rothbard does not assert that any cloud over a land title's provenance means the land is open to seizure or homesteading. Subsequent or current owners may be completely innocent in any case, and their rights cannot simply be dismissed.
Free Trade, Not Foreign Aid, Will Reduce the Incentive to Flee Central America Comments for Free Trade, Not Foreign Aid, Will Reduce the Incentive to Flee Central America Print Free Trade, Not Foreign Aid, Will Reduce the Incentive to Flee Central America
Former Secretary of State George Schultz has an idea for dealing with increased immigration from the Northern Triangle region of Central America, which includes of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras: he wants to spend more money on foreign aid.
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal,...
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Schultz writes that the countries of the Northern Triangle could "increase the 'supply' of good governance by us[ing] foreign aid to fund better policing, transparency and higher-quality services—and apply international pressure to root out corruption and encourage political reform."
And who could supply this foreign aid? According top Schultz, "the U.S. is the only nation with the economic, technological and political authority to lead," and "[t]he Inter-American Development Bank could do so by redirecting existing funds without new U.S. expenditures, and could get started with a phone call in Washington."
Schultz wisely doesn't mention any dollar amounts. How could he? His proposal is clearly meant to be a sort of trial balloon: demand more government spending now, and work out all the details in the back rooms later.
But we know how this sort of thing works. There is no real expectation that foreign aid would actually remake the economies of the Northern Triangle.
In reality, it will be yet another foreign aid boondoggle: friends of the US regime will receive funds. There will be little follow-up as to how the money is spent. The money may even go to fund despots who will use the funds to murder their enemies. George Schultz's personal friends and colleagues will no doubt get their cut. This is how the US foreign aid game is played.
It is interesting that Schultz doesn't mention something that does have the potential for revolutionizing the region's access to capital and its standard of living. It will do this while greatly lessening the incentive to emigrate from the region to the US: unrestricted trade with the United States.
To accomplish this, the US need not collect any new taxes. It need not impose any new regulations. It need not form any international "coalitions."
Instead, it only has to make the Northern Triangle a true Free Trade Zone with full access to US markets.
At this point, some observers may claims "the US already has a free trade agreement with Central America! In fact, the region is largely duty free!" But this objection helps to illustrate just how much the term "free trade" has been corrupted in the phrase "free trade agreement." In practice, only qualifying goods can be imported to the US from Central America duty free. In order to qualify, goods must meet a variety of bureaucratic requirements stemming from "rule of origin" requirements. These rules exist to prevent "trade diversion" and other types of trade in which a Central American country might import parts from outside the free trade zone, add only small amounts of value, and then export the finished product to the US. Thus, trade between Central America and the US is not really free, and the trade agreements specifically prevent Central American countries from becoming trade and shipping centers where goods and services can be freely imported and exported globally.1
If Central America had a true free trade agreement with the US, however, both US and foreign manufacturers would have an enormous incentive to set up shop in the region and produce goods there for the US market.
Over time, capital would flood into the region, greatly increasing the standard of living for Central Americans while providing new sources of goods and services for American entrepreneurs and consumers.
The success of such a plan, of course, is not guaranteed. The regimes of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras could squander the opportunity. They could insist on high domestic taxes or an insecure legal environment in which private business owners would have reason to fear expropriation by the regime.
But when facing the possibility of true free trade with the US, the stakes would become very high indeed, and the regime could choose between guaranteed moderate levels of tax revenue, or the disastrous policies of expropriation.
But no matter how it turns out, the US taxpayer is not on the hook for anything. There is no risk of foreign aid flushed down the toilet. Instead, the upside is substantial: access to low-cost goods and services from American, Asian, and European firms all hungry to take advantage of this new "free trade zone" in the western hemisphere. American entrepreneurs would be able to provides goods and services at lower prices. They could hire more workers. They could invest more of their profits.
Moreover, the geo-political benefits would be substantial. The regimes of the Northern Triangle would become committed to maintaining friendly relations with the US, and the pressures of high levels of migration from the region would be lessened.
In his essay " The Case for Free Trade and Restricted Immigration ," Hans-Hermann Hoppe recognized the benefits of free trade in immigration policy:
The relationship between trade and migration is one of elastic substitutibility (rather than rigid exclusivity): the more (or less) you have of one, the less (or more) you need of the other . [Emphasis added.] Other things being equal, businesses move to low wage areas, and labor moves to high wage areas, thus effecting a tendency toward the equalization of wage rates (for the same kind of labor) as well as the optimal localization of capital. With political borders separating high- from low-wage areas, and with national (nation-wide) trade and immigration policies in effect, these normal tendencies—of immigration and capital export—are weakened with free trade and strengthened with protectionism. As long as Mexican products—the products of a low-wage area—can freely enter a high-wage area such as the U.S., the incentive for Mexican people to move to the U.S. is reduced. In contrast, if Mexican products are prevented from entering the American market, the attraction for Mexican workers to move to the U.S. is increased. Similarly, when U.S. producers are free to buy from and sell to Mexican producers and consumers, capital exports from the U.S. to Mexico will be reduced; however, when U.S. producers are prevented from doing so, the attraction of moving production from the U.S. to Mexico is increased.
Bizarrely, protectionists take the opposite self-defeating approach: they want to cut off trade with other nations, thus reducing the standard of living. This then increases the incentive for foreigners to emigrate to the United States. The protectionists then complain there's too much immigration and the government must intervene even more to control both trade and migration.
Not surprisingly, Ludwig von Mises saw the ridiculouslness of this position. As I noted in my article " If You Don't Like Immigration, You Should Love Free Trade ":
Opponents and proponents of immigration may argue endlessly about the potential downsides and upsides of immigration. (For an especially nuanced and insightful view of the downsides, see Ludwig von Mises's work on nationalism and immigration .)
With free trade, though, there is no downside, which is why Mises, who allowed for a number of caveats on immigration, made no exceptions for free trade.
For many modern protectionists, though, the desire to close off trade stems not just from economic ignorance, but from an emotional desire to actually harm other countries on nationalistic grounds. The economic implications of these policies then become secondary to other ideological agendas. Mises understood this well, and in Human Action concluded :
We may, for the sake of argument, disregard the fact that protectionism also hurts the interests of the nations which resort to it. But there can be no doubt that protectionism aims at damaging the interests of foreign peoples and really does damage them. ... The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
George Schultz is correct in the sense that a prosperous Central America is a Central America with less incentive to send its workers and families to North America. But the real solution does not lie in throwing a few extra bucks at the central American regimes in hope they might build a couple of new highways. The real solution lies in expansion of trade, capital investment, and . Only then can a sustainable solution to the region's poverty be found.
1. It should also be noted that the burden of gaining "certification" for qualification under the free trade agreements place small companies at a relative disadvantage compared to larger companies. For more on how these rules affect trade flows, see: "Preferential Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements." https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/reser_e/ersd201305_e.pdf
Murray Rothbard: "Pioneer of Praxeological Analysis" Comments for Murray Rothbard: "Pioneer of Praxeological Analysis" Print Murray Rothbard: "Pioneer of Praxeological Analysis"
07/10/2019Joseph T. Salerno
In the last decade or so there has been a concerted attempt by some economists associated more or less closely with the Austrian school to deny Rothbard’s central role in the modern revival of Austrian economics and to downplay his status as a leading proponent of the Misesian...
In the last decade or so there has been a concerted attempt by some economists associated more or less closely with the Austrian school to deny Rothbard’s central role in the modern revival of Austrian economics and to downplay his status as a leading proponent of the Misesian paradigm. In response, I have provided what I believe to be compelling textual evidence that Mises himself, as well as some of his closest followers, regarded Rothbard as Mises's foremost intellectual heir (here, here, and here). Now from the Rothbard archives comes a small treasure that corroborates the evidence I adduced in my earlier posts. This is in the form of Mises’s charming and pithy inscription in Rothbard’s copy of the third edition of Human Action, which reads:
To Murray N. Rothbard, pioneer of praxeological analysis with all good wishes. March 2nd, 1967.
“Pioneer of praxeological analysis”—given Mises’s well-known restraint in meting out compliments to fellow economists, this is high praise indeed and fits nicely with Mises’s remarks about Rothbard’s work in his letter defending praxeology to the French positivist Louis Rougier, which I cited in an earlier post:
The proof of the cake is in the eating. I can only refer to the systematic exposition of the whole doctrine of praxeology in my book Human Action and nowadays in the brilliant book of a younger man, Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy and State. . . .But, please, first of all read the book of Rothbard. It is very interesting also from the epistemological point of view.
St. George Tucker: Distinguishing Laws from Dictates, and Freedom from Servitude Comments for St. George Tucker: Distinguishing Laws from Dictates, and Freedom from Servitude Print St. George Tucker: Distinguishing Laws from Dictates, and Freedom from Servitude
07/10/2019Gary Galles
While many of America’s founders are justifiably famous, others have received too little attention. St. George Tucker is one.
Born in Bermuda on July 10, 1752, Tucker was a militia colonel in the American Revolution, who even wrote Liberty: a Poem, on the Independence of America (my...
Born in Bermuda on July 10, 1752, Tucker was a militia colonel in the American Revolution, who even wrote Liberty: a Poem, on the Independence of America (my favorite line being “Freedom! thy joys alone are riches to the brave!”), that George Washington said “was equal to a reinforcement of 10,000 disciplined troops.” Afterward, his service included his appointment, with James Madison and Edmund Randolph, to the 1786 Annapolis Convention that led to the Constitutional Convention, and his opposition, with Patrick Henry and George Mason, to adopting the Constitution in the absence of a bill of rights.
Tucker’s greatest service to posterity, however, involved the law. Not only was he a law professor and judge on three different Virginia courts, historian Clyde Wilson noted that,
St. George Tucker’s View of the Constitution of the United States was the first extended, systematic commentary on the Constitution after it had been ratified by the people of the several states and amended by the Bill of Rights. Published in 1803 by a distinguished patriot and jurist, it was for much of the first half of the nineteenth century an important handbook for American law students, lawyers, judges, and statesmen.
David Kopel wrote, “St. George Tucker is perhaps the preeminent source of the original public meaning of the Constitution. His 5-volume American edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries was by far the leading legal treatise in the Early Republic.” Tom DiLorenzo summarized it as laying out “the Jeffersonian interpretation of the Constitution, which was replaced by the centralizing, big government … interpretation after 1865.” The fact that the Supreme Court has cited Tucker 40 times illustrates the importance of his work.
Today, with St. George Tucker’s commitment to limited government, states’ rights, and the judiciary’s role of preventing government oppression a too-dim memory, his insights into liberty and the original understanding of government under our Constitution are worth re-visiting.
In this country … the blessings of liberty have been … dearly purchased.
In a government founded on the basis of equal liberty among all its citizens, to be ignorant of the law and the constitution is to be ignorant of the rights of the citizen.
What can be more absurd than that a person wholly ignorant of the constitution should presume to make laws pursuant thereto?
A distinction … does exist between the indefinite and unlimited power of the people … and the definite powers of the congress and state legislatures, which are severally limited to certain and determinate objects.
All men being by nature equal, in respect to their rights, no man nor set of men, can have any natural, or inherent right, to rule over the rest.
Legitimate government can … be derived only from the voluntary grant of the people, and exercised for their benefit.
Every extension of the administrative authority beyond its just constitutional limits is absolutely an act of usurpation in the government.
Government originally founded upon consent, and compact, may by gradual usurpations on the part of the public functionaries … become a government of force. In this case, the people are as completely enslaved as if the original foundations of the government had been laid by conquest.
No people can ever be free, whose government is founded upon the usurpation of their sovereign rights.
If in a limited government the public functionaries exceed the limits which the constitution prescribes to their powers, every such act is … treason against the sovereignty of the people.
A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government. … Hence every attempt in any government to change the constitution (otherwise than in that mode which the constitution may prescribe) is in fact a subversion of the foundations of its own authority.
A written constitution … [is] a beacon to apprise the people when their rights and liberties are invaded, or in danger.
Abuse of power is despotism … the right of one man is at the mercy of another, and freedom in such a government, has no existence.
It is indispensably necessary … that there be a perfect equality of rights among the citizens. … Equality of rights necessarily produces inequality of possessions; because, by the laws of nature and of equality, every man has a right to use his faculties in an honest way, and the fruits of his labor, thus acquired, are his own.
The rights of property must be sacred.
A thousand … pretexts and arguments … form the ladder by which the agents of the people mount over the heads of their constituents … from whence they behold those who have raised them with contempt.
The American states have reserved to themselves … the administration of justice … in all cases whatsoever, in which they have not specifically consented to the jurisdiction of the United States.
[Federal] jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects, only, and leaves to the several states a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.
This original compact … is to be construed strictly, in all cases where the antecedent rights of a state may be drawn in question … it ought likewise to receive the same strict construction, wherever the right of personal liberty, of personal security, or of private property may become the subject of dispute.
The authority of the federal government … ought therefore to receive the strictest construction. Otherwise the gradual and sometimes imperceptible usurpations of power, will end in the total disregard of all its intended limitations.
The federal government. … Having no existence but under the constitution, nor any rights, but such as that instrument confers … can possess no legitimate power, but such as is absolutely necessary for the performance of a duty prescribed and enjoined by the constitution.
Until, therefore, the people of the United States … shall think it necessary to alter, or revoke the present constitution of the United States, it must be received, respected, and obeyed among us, as the great and unequivocal declaration of the will of the people, and the supreme law of the land.
The powers delegated to the federal government … have no relation to the domestic economy of the state. The right of property, with all its train of incidents … and the rights of persons appear to be no further subject to the control of the federal government, than may be necessary to support the dignity and faith of the nation in its federal or foreign engagements, and obligations.
Since the citizen is on no other account obliged to pay taxes, or undergo any other public burden, but as they are necessary to defray the expenses of the state, it ought to be the singular care of the government to draw no further supplies than the exigencies of the public require.
The first question is whether the power be expressed in the constitution.
All governments have a natural tendency towards an increase and assumption of power; and the administration of the federal government, has too frequently demonstrated, that the people of America are not exempt from this vice ... parchment chains are not sufficient.
A representative democracy ceases to exist the moment that the public functionaries are by any means absolved from their responsibility to their constituents.
The right of self-defense is the first law of nature.
Every power which concerns the right of the citizen, must be construed strictly, where it may operate to infringe or impair his liberty.
In the United States, the great and essential rights of the people are secured against legislative as well as executive ambition … by constitutions, paramount to all laws: defining and limiting the powers of the legislature itself, and opposing barriers against encroachments.
The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state.
Absolute independence of the judiciary … [is] necessary to the liberty and security of the citizen, and his property.
The judiciary … is that department of the government to whom the protection of the rights of the individual is by the constitution especially confided, interposing its shield between him and the sword of usurped authority.
A law limited to such objects as may be authorized by the constitution, would … be the supreme law of the land; but a law not limited to those objects, or not made pursuant to the constitution, would not be the supreme law of the land, but an act of usurpation, and consequently void.
The object of the several states … was not the establishment of a general consolidated government … but a federal government, with powers limited to certain determinate objects.
Acts of congress to be binding, must be made pursuant to the constitution; otherwise they are not laws.
As the subjects upon which congress have the power to legislate are all specially enumerated, so the judicial authority … is limited to the same subjects as congress have power to legislate upon.
People of America have not thought proper to suffer the freedom of speech and of the press to rest upon such an uncertain foundation as the will and pleasure of the government.
Whenever [civil] liberty is, by the laws of the state, further restrained than is necessary … a state of civil slavery commences. ... This species of slavery also exists whenever there is an inequality of rights, or privileges, between the subjects or citizens … for the pre-eminence of one class of men must be founded and erected upon the depression of another; and the measure of exaltation in the former, is that of the slavery of the latter.
St. George Tucker searched for “the criterion that distinguishes laws from dictates, freedom from servitude, rightful government from usurpation.” And Clyde Wilson suggests that his answer is best summarized in his statement that, “It is the due [external] restraint and not the moderation of rulers that constitutes a state of liberty.” Given that today, the federal power to oppress has clearly increased at the expense of Constitutional restraints, we should give Tucker’s understanding as much serious thought now as our forefathers did when our great experiment in liberty began.
Art Laffer Isn't Crazy For Questioning Fed Independence Comments for Art Laffer Isn't Crazy For Questioning Fed Independence Print Art Laffer Isn't Crazy For Questioning Fed Independence
07/09/2019Tho Bishop
Arthur Laffer, the recent Presidential Medal of Freedom winner and occasional Peter Schiff gambling partner, made headlines yesterday for questioning the value of an independent Federal Reserve.
As he told CNBC's Squawk Box:
I don't understand why the Fed is independent, to...
I don't understand why the Fed is independent, to be honest," said Laffer, a former economic advisor to President Donald Trump and former President Ronald Reagan. "Fiscal policy is not independent. Military policy is not independent. Social policy is not. Why should monetary policy, this very powerful tool to control the economy not be subjected to democracy just like every other instrument of government?"
As expected, this quickly came under attack by Fed romanticists who believe that an independence should never be questioned (a faith they grasp on to in spite of the record of both Fed failures and its history of being politically influenced.)
In fact, as Dr. Joseph Salerno has written about over the years, there may be real value in getting rid of the illusion of an independent central bank.
As he wrote in The Austrian:
The desideratum of the Austrian political economist with classical-liberal or libertarian leanings involves the complete separation of government and money through the establishment of a commodity money like gold (or silver), the supply of which is determined exclusively by market forces. Nonetheless, there is great merit in replacing the opaque and pseudo-scientific control of “the money supply process” by entrenched Fed employees and officials with overtly political control of money by elected officials and partisan administration appointees. There are a number of benefits of stripping the Fed of its quasi-independent status and transforming it into a handmaiden of the Treasury, as the American Monetary Institute (AMI) and early Friedmanite reform programs call for.
Of course, a better approach would be to open the Fed up to competition by repealing legal tender laws and exempting parallel currencies from taxes. But, considering other Fed reforms that have been discussed in recent years, Laffer's suggestion is hardly that outlandish.
Keynesian Fake News in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Comments for Keynesian Fake News in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Print Keynesian Fake News in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>
07/09/2019Daniel J. Mitchell
Given the repeated failures of Keynesian economic policy, both in America and around the world, you would think the theory would be discredited.
Or at least be treated with considerable skepticism by anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of economic affairs.
Apparently financial journalists aren’t very familiar with real-world evidence.
Here are some excerpts from a news report in the Wall Street Journal.
The economy was supposed to get a lift this year from higher government spending enacted in 2018, but so far much of that stimulus hasn’t shown up, puzzling economists. Federal dollars contributed significantly less to gross domestic product in early 2019 than what economic forecasters had predicted after Congress reached a two-year budget deal to boost government spending. …Spending by consumers and businesses are the most important drivers of economic growth, but in recent years, government outlays have played a bigger role in supporting the economy.
The lack of “stimulus” wasn’t puzzling to all economists, just the ones who still believe in the perpetual motion machine of Keynesian economics.
Maybe the reporter, Kate Davidson, should have made a few more phone calls. Especially, for instance, to the people who correctly analyzed the failure of Obama’s so-called stimulus.
With any luck, she would have learned not to put the cart before the horse. Spending by consumers and businesses is a consequence of a strong economy, not a “driver.”
Another problem with the article is that she also falls for the fallacy of GDP statistics.
Economists are now wondering whether government spending will catch up to boost the economy later in the year… If government spending were to catch up in the second quarter, it would add 1.6 percentage points to GDP growth that quarter. …The 2018 bipartisan budget deal provided nearly $300 billion more for federal spending in fiscal years 2018 and 2019 above spending limits set in 2011.
The government’s numbers for gross domestic product are a measure of how national income is allocated.
If more of our income is diverted to Washington, that doesn’t mean there’s more of it. It simply means that less of our income is available for private uses.
That’s why gross domestic income is a preferable number. It shows the ways – wages and salaries, small business income, corporate profits, etc – that we earn our national income.
Last but not least, I can’t resist commenting on these two additional sentences, both of which cry out for correction.
Most economists expect separate stimulus provided by the 2017 tax cuts to continue fading this year. …And they must raise the federal borrowing limit this fall to avoid defaulting on the government’s debt.
Ms. Davidson applied misguided Keynesian analysis to the 2017 tax cut.
The accurate way to analyze changes in tax policy is to measure changes in marginal tax rates on productive behavior. Using that correct approach, the pro-growth impact grows over time rather than dissipating.
And she also applied misguided analysis to the upcoming vote over the debt limit.
If the limit isn’t increased, the government is forced to immediately operate on a money-in/money-out basis (i.e. a balanced budget requirement). But since revenues are far greater than interest payments on the debt, there would be plenty of revenue available to fulfill obligations to bondholders. A default would only occur if the Treasury Department deliberately made that choice.
Needless to say, that ain’t gonna happen.
The bottom line is that – at best – Keynesian spending can temporarily boost a nation’s level of consumption, but economic policy should instead focus on increasing production and income.
P.S. If you want to enjoy some Keynesian-themed humor, click here.
P.P.S. If you’re a glutton for punishment, you can watch my 11-year old video on Keynesian economics.
P.P.P.S. Sadly, the article was completely correct about the huge spending increases that Trump and Congress approved when the spending caps were busted (again) in 2018.
Originally published at International Liberty
An Interview With Ron Paul’s "Faithless Elector" Comments for An Interview With Ron Paul’s "Faithless Elector" Print An Interview With Ron Paul’s "Faithless Elector"
07/08/2019Atilla Sulker
I woke up this Independence Day morning, surprised to find out that Bill Greene, the great 2016 faithless elector who cast his vote for Ron Paul, passed away. Among other things, Bill was a fierce advocate of making gold and silver legal tender, and was an assistant professor at South Texas...
I woke up this Independence Day morning, surprised to find out that Bill Greene, the great 2016 faithless elector who cast his vote for Ron Paul, passed away. Among other things, Bill was a fierce advocate of making gold and silver legal tender, and was an assistant professor at South Texas College. He was an early supporter of Ron Paul, his support going as far back as Paul’s 1988 campaign.
[Editor's note: see Greene's Mises Institite author profile.]
Last summer, I had the privilege of interviewing Bill while working on a paper on the history of the Mises Institute and the Austrian Revival. Here, we discussed various different subjects, including Ron Paul’s 1988 campaign, and the growth of the Mises Institute. This has not yet been published, and I would like to do so as a tribute to Bill. Below is our interview, conducted on 6/19/18:
Atilla Sulker: Describe the state of the libertarian movement in 1988, and the extent to which the Mises Institute influenced the overall movement in America at this time?
Bill Greene: In 1988, the Mises Institute was only six years old, having split off from the Cato Institute in 1982 (a Mises co-founder, Murray Rothbard, had co-founded Cato). Up until that split, the Cato Institute was the leading influence on the libertarian movement in the United States since its founding in the mid-1970s (not long after the founding of the Libertarian Party itself in 1971 – Cato’s co-founder, Ed Crane, was the LP’s National Chair from 1974-1977). Even at such a young age, the Mises Institute had already begun to have a strong impact on the libertarian movement – specifically, on its economic policy foundations. Cato’s focus was on government policy recommendations from a libertarian-leaning position. Since that time, the Mises Institute’s influence on libertarianism in the U.S. has equaled, if not surpassed, Cato’s influence. [The Mises Institute was in fact never part of Cato.]
AS: Describe the relationship Ron Paul had with the Mises Institute in 1988, and the extent to which the organization influenced his campaign platform?
BG: Ron Paul’s relationship with the Mises Institute in 1988 was initially through one of its co-founders, Llewellyn (Lew) Rockwell, who had been Paul’s chief of staff, (from 1978-1982) when Paul was a Republican U.S. Congressman. When Rockwell left for Mises in 1982, Paul – who had been heavily influenced by the works of Rothbard beginning in the 1970s – continued his relationship with the co-founders of Mises, drawing much (or most) of his policy positions from the writings of Austrian school economists. When Paul ran for President as the LP nominee in 1988, most of his campaign platform was pulled from these same policy positions. He has continued to be a Senior Fellow of the Institute since that time, often working, writing, and speaking with others connected to it.
AS: Is there a point in Dr. Paul’s career in which it appeared that the Mises Institute’s influence on him was climactic?
BG: I don’t think so, because the relationship has always been symbiotic, and Ron Paul was already firmly in the Austrian school’s camp even before the Mises Institute was founded. Since its beginnings, it’s been difficult to separate the two from each other.
AS: Describe the influence the Mises Institute had on Dr. Paul’s VP candidate Andre Marrou.
BG: I don’t have any personal knowledge of the Mises Institute’s influence on Andre Marrou.
AS: Describe the overall size and sentiment of Ron Paul’s 1988 presidential campaign based on your experience.
BG: Ron Paul’s 1988 presidential campaign appeared to me to be more extensive than the LP’s past campaigns, as this was the first time they had two former elected legislators on the ballot (Paul was a former GOP U.S. Representative, and Marrou was a former LP Alaska Representative). As usual, the campaign’s biggest challenge was getting on the ballot in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Due to highly restrictive ballot-access laws in a number of states, Paul’s campaign was only on the printed ballot in 46 states & DC (although he did achieve write-in status in Missouri –and in North Carolina, where I headed the N.C. Students for Ron Paul and participated in ballot-access petitioning). Despite Paul’s (and Marrou’s) extensive travels across the country, the campaign was excluded from any debates and only achieved 432,179 votes (0.5%) – still twice as much of Lenora Fulani’s (New Alliance Party) campaign, which actually did achieve 50-state ballot access.
AS: Describe the nature of Andre Marrou’s 1992 Libertarian presidential campaign.
BG: I was not active in his 1992 presidential campaign, although I remember reading news stories on it here and there, such as when he received the highest vote total in the primary results of the first town in the nation to report its votes (Dixville Notch, NH).
AS: Briefly describe, based on your experience, the development of the libertarian movement in America up from Dr. Paul’s 1988 presidential campaign to his 2008 presidential campaign, and outline the role of the Mises Institute in this development.
BG: Based on my own experience, the Mises Institute played a vital role in the development of the libertarian movement in America during the 20 years after Dr. Paul’s first campaign for U.S. president. During the first decade, they published and disseminated massive amounts of literature, newsletters, books, audio, video, and more; once the internet became more and more ubiquitous, they were able to have an ever-growing impact, rivalling the much better-financed Cato Institute in scholarly publications and economic education activities. The Mises Institute’s website soon became the highest-trafficked economics website in the world, and when Dr. Paul decided to run for president again in 2008, he was able to draw upon, and direct his new followers to, that large body of works in support of his policy positions. As a result, his following grew and became ever more educated in libertarian thinking.
AS: Describe the instances in which you attempted to run for office.
BG: When I ran for various political offices over the years, most of my own policy positions were influenced by publications I got from the Mises Institute. This was especially true of my unsuccessful campaign for the Florida House of Representatives in 1994, when I became the first state house candidate to be officially endorsed by the Political Action Committee of the nascent Republican Liberty Caucus (the “libertarian wing of the GOP” co-founded in 1991 by Paul). I had followed Dr. Paul out of the LP and back into the GOP, and I have been a member of, and active in, the RLC since that time.
AS: Is there anything else we should know about Dr. Paul’s 1988 campaign, or anything pertaining to the subject matter?
BG: My favorite story from Ron Paul’s 1988 campaign for President is from the time our N.C. Students for Ron Paul group brought him to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a speech to around 150 students and local residents. Following his speech (which professed many of the same policy prescriptions as his speeches today), he opened the floor for questions. A local group of Socialist Workers’ Party members were in attendance, and began challenging his free-market stances in a number of different areas. I remember Dr. Paul’s eyes lighting up at that, as he almost gleefully shot down every challenge with logical rebuttals, point by point. Twenty years later, when I chanced to run into Dr. Paul at a local restaurant while he was campaigning in Florida, I mentioned that event – and he remembered it, clearly and (quite obviously) fondly, remarking on how much fun he had that day. I was, to say the least, impressed.
The Bionic Mosquito on Rothbard and Reason Comments for The Bionic Mosquito on Rothbard and Reason Print The Bionic Mosquito on Rothbard and Reason
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The Bionic Mosquito on Rothbard and Reason
07/08/2019David Gordon
In a series of outstanding posts, the Bionic Mosquito has written on “The Search for Liberty.” In these posts, he presents a penetrating analysis of natural law and metaphysics. I admire these posts and have learned a great deal from them
In his latest post, he argues that...
In his latest post, he argues that Murray Rothbard’s defense of natural law fails. Rothbard thinks that human reason can establish natural law. But, Bionic says, “if each of us are free to make up our own minds – especially regarding ends – how will we come to a natural law that is useful toward liberty and peace? How will justice be determined? Who will arbitrate our ‘differences of opinion’? On what basis?”
Bionic thinks that if you say human reason can establish natural law, then you are holding that “the judged [human beings] can also be the judge.”
This criticism of Rothbard seems to me to be mistaken. Suppose, like Mises and Rothbard, that you claim reasoning can show maximum price laws cause shortages. You are not thereby claiming that it is up to human beings whether this is so. Rather, you are claiming that it is not up to human beings: the effect holds, regardless of what people think about it.
In like fashion, in claiming that human reason can establish natural law, Rothbard is not claiming that the content of natural law is up to human beings. I do not think Thomas Aquinas would have disagreed with this. He offered proofs, based on reason, that God exists. These proofs do not make it up to human beings whether God exists, nor does accepting their validity depend on first accepting Christianity. The principal aim of the first three books on the Summa contra gentiles is to demonstrate the existence of God, and some of God’s attributes, to unbelievers.
Even when I disagree with Bionic, though, I continue to learn from him
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Reconnaissance Fly this Sunday night in SF
This Sunday night, November 1st, at 7:30 p.m., Reconnaissance Fly will take the stage opening for Noertker's Moxie at the Musicians' Union Hall, 116 9th Street at Mission Street in San Francisco. It's the CD release party for Noertker's Moxie and we're playing the opening set.
Who or what is Reconnaissance Fly? It's a band of composers in the midst of co-creating a long-form work. Our first project, Flower Futures, will be a multi-movement “spong cycle” based entirely on spoetry – the deliciously powerful results of robot efforts to evade your spam filter. Some movements are written out, some are improv frameworks, and all celebrate the poetic gifts of the Internet.
Here are the bios of the band members:
Polly Moller (Scorpio) is a composer, performer, improviser, performance artist, curator, and writer based in Oakland, California. Her current passions are found text, extended techniques and improvisation on flute and bass flute, found and/or toy instruments, and composition drawing upon spirituality, ritual movements, and the occult. Polly is currently working on a solo piccolo piece commissioned by Amy Likar of the Oakland East Bay Symphony, and preparing for the Feb. 25, 2010 premiere of her piece Genesis for 12 improvisers.
Amar Chaudhary (Pisces) is a longtime composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music, as well as a developer of advanced software for sound synthesis and music composition. Amar had his music performed internationally and has received several honors for his musical work. He remains actively involved in local electronic and experimental music in the San Francisco Bay Area, and performs regularly, both as a solo artist and in groups, including the ensemble Reconnaissance Fly. His recent music involves experimentation with new sounds and sound-synthesis/processing techniques and new modes of musically expressive performance, free improvisation, combination of disparate elements and styles, and incorporating folk and toy instruments into electro-acoustic music. In addition to his musical work, Amar maintains a deep interest in modern and contemporary art in several media as a creator, consumer and supporter.
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More on a decade following the most devastating financial crisis since the Great Depression. The effects of a crisis are experienced today. Its outbreak occurred on September 15, 2008, when the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. As of that moment, the United States collapsed and then the rest of the developed economies followed.
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Oregon voters approve array of measures
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PORTLAND — A ballot measure that would have taxed Oregon businesses with $25 million or more in sales failed Tuesday, but voters approved ballot measures on an array of other issues.
Measures covering everything from guaranteed outdoor school for Oregon middle schoolers to additional funding for veterans' services to whether public universities should be allowed to play the stock market got the thumbs up at the polls.
Aside from Measure 97 — the tax measure — the only other measure to fail was one that would have lifted ban on state judges serving beyond the age of 75.
The broad sweep at the polls reflected the lack of controversy surrounding most of the measures, many of which were feel-good questions with little or no opposition.
"I voted yes on all of them," said Brian Wilcher, a 47-year-old account executive at a Portland staffing agency, as he dropped his ballot at a drop box.
Two of the ballot measures will rely on state lottery proceeds to pay for social and educational programs.
Measure 99 will take 4 percent of lottery proceeds a year — or up to $22 million — to provide a dedicated funding source for a week of outdoor school, a program that up to 90 percent of the state's sixth-graders once attended.
Now, only about half go on the outdoor education experience because of cuts at local school districts.
The measure will provide funding for 50,000 fifth- or sixth-graders to attend each year, including those who are home-schooled or go to private or charter schools.
"We are thrilled that voters recognized the tremendous value of this amazing Oregon legacy," said Rex Burkholder, chair of Yes on 99 campaign, said in a statement. "We had incredible support from a broad coalition of parents, teachers, conservation groups, and businesses who recognized that even in today's digital age nature is still one of our best classrooms to help ensure the future prosperity and well-being of Oregon and of Oregon's next generation."
Measure 96 will similarly take 1.5 percent of state lottery funds — or nearly $19 million every two years — for veterans' services.
The money will be used to help veterans access state and federal benefits, as well as for employment, education, housing, health care and treatment programs.
Opponents of these measures had argued that lottery proceeds are intended for statewide economic development, and funds should not be carved off for other programs, no matter how appealing the causes may seem.
Two other measures deal with education funding, but approached the problem in different ways.
Measure 95 amends the state constitution to allow public universities to invest student tuition or state appropriations in the stock market — a practice currently banned for state agencies, including Oregon's public universities.
Concerns about ways to raise money without increasing tuition led the University of Oregon to ask state lawmakers to put the measure on the ballot.
Measure 95 had no organized opposition; three university presidents have spoken in favor of it.
At the high school level, Measure 98 will use state funding to try to boost Oregon's high school graduation rate, which is among the worst in the nation.
Measure 98 calls for the Legislature to budget $800 for every Oregon high school student, or about $150 million each year, for programs that are known to improve graduation rates. The measure won't raise taxes and doesn't have a funding source, so critics worry about paying for the programs if state revenues fail to meet expectations.
Two ballot measures didn't involve identifying funding for new or existing programs.
Measure 100 bans commerce in the parts from 12 animal species that are poached at high rates, including elephants, rhinos, whales, sea turtles, tigers and leopards.
California and Washington state have similar bans, and proponents said the measure's intent is to make the West Coast less inviting for trafficking in animal parts.
Measure 100 includes exemptions for objects containing the animal parts, such as certain antiques that are at least 100 years old, certain musical instruments and products possessed by enrolled members of federally recognized Native American tribes.
"I'm extremely proud that Oregonians have done their part to stop the global poaching crisis," said Scott Beckstead, senior Oregon state director for The Humane Society of the United States. "Oregon has a long and proud history of supporting wildlife conservation."
No funding is set aside to enforce the ban, which would be the responsibility of the Oregon State Police's wildlife division.
Measure 94, a measure that would have amended Oregon's constitution to remove a ban on state judges serving beyond age 75, failed.
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Home News BREAKING: Suicide Blasts In Borno Kill At Least 31
BREAKING: Suicide Blasts In Borno Kill At Least 31
SUSPECTED Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, a local official and militia leader told AFP on Sunday.
Two blasts ripped through the town of Damboa in Borno state on Saturday evening targeting people returning from celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, in an attack bearing all the hallmarks of Boko Haram.
Following the suicide bombings, the jihadists fired rocket-propelled grenades into the crowds that had gathered at the scene of the attacks, driving the number of casualties higher.
“There were two suicide attacks and rocket-propelled grenade explosions in Damboa last night which killed 31 people and left several others injured,” said militia leader Babakura Kolo. Two suicide bombers detonated their explosives in Shuwari and nearby Abachari neighbourhoods in the town around 10:45 pm (2145GMT), killing six residents, said Kolo, speaking from the state capital Maiduguri, which is 88 kilometres from the town. “No one needs to be told this is the work of Boko Haram,” Kolo said. A local government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the death toll. “The latest death toll is now 31 but it may increase because many among the injured may not survive,” said the official. “Most of the casualties were from the rocket projectiles fired from outside the town minutes after two suicide bomber attacked,” he said. The jihadist group has deployed suicide bombers, many of them young girls, in mosques, markets and camps housing people displaced by the nine-year insurgency which has devastated Nigeria’s northeast. On May 1 at least 86 people were killed in twin suicide blasts targeting a mosque and a nearby market in the town of Mubi in neighbouring Adamawa state. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari came into power in 2015 vowing to stamp out Boko Haram but the jihadists continue to stage frequent attacks, targeting both civilians and security forces. The militants stormed the Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi on February 19, seizing over 100 schoolgirls in a carbon copy of the abduction in Chibok
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Map and Geologic Sections of the Underground Workings of the Monument No. 1 and Mitten No. 2 Uranium-Vanadium Mines, Navajo County, Arizona
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In the mid-1950's, Charles S. Evensen, Irving B. Gray, John R. Meador, and Robert Ciesiel were geologists for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in Grand Junction, Colorado and worked in Monument Valley in Utah and Arizona (Figure 1). Evensen was the Area Geologist for the AEC in Monument Valley. During March and April 1955, these four geologists mapped the Monument No.1 and Mitten No.2 uranium-vanadium mines (Figures 2, 3, and 4). Gray and Ciesiellater mapped the Black Rock, Sally, and Harve Black No.2 uranium mines in Navajo County, Arizona, as well as three mines in San Juan County, Utah on Holiday and Oljeto Mesas. These mines are described elsewhere (Ciesiel and Gray, 1989; Chenoweth, 1991; Gray and Ciesiel, 1991). In 1983 the uranium resource and liaison programs of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) were transferred from Grand Junction to Washington D.C. The geologic data that the AEC, Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), and DOE had collected from 1947 to 1983, however, were relocated to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Denver. The text of this report is primarily based on information that was obtained when William L. Chenoweth was employed by the AEC. He examined the mines in early 1955, when the mapping project was just getting started. Data on ore production, leasing, and permitting, however, were obtained from the AEC files in Denver, as were copies of the map and geologic sections (Figures 2, 3, 4, and 5).
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You are here: Home › literature › Charles Dickens – Famous Writer and Critic of the Victorian Era
Charles Dickens – Famous Writer and Critic of the Victorian Era
literature 7. February 2018 1 Tabea Tietz
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
On February 7, 1812, the English writer and social critic known as one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian period, Charles Dickens was born.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859
Do you love Dickens?
Either you love Dickens or you may find him untolerably boring or slushy. What I personally love about Dickens is his creative genius when it comes to invent whimsical characters. If you have ever read ‘Oliver Twist‘, for sure you will remember Mr. Bumble. Or think of Scrooge from ‘A Christmas Carol’. And moreover, he even left us with an unsolvable secret. His last novel ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood‘ was supposed to become a crime story, which unfortunately was only half written, when he died. For a crime novel this means, the author leaves us with no trace (or even too many clues) of what might be the solution of the mystery. For more than a century literary scholars and fans have argued about possible solutions of the plot.
Childhood Days
Charles Dickens’ childhood is referred to as happy and quite idyllic, spending a lot of time in the nature and with the literary works of Tobias Smollett or Henry Fielding.[1] He was able to receive public schooling at least for some years and was known to have a photographic memory, an advantage for his later writing activities. When his father went to prison, Dickens moved in with a kind agent for the ‘Insolvent Court’, still visiting his father often, which caused a major influence also in his writings. Furthermore, his time at the warehouse he began working at, depicted an incisive period to Dickens’ life, which was notable in his economical and political essays as well as in his novels.
The Active and Curious Journalist
The happy days of Charles Dickens paused for a while until beginning his career as an active and curious journalist. His journalism, in the form of sketches in periodicals, formed his first collection of pieces, published in 1836: Sketches by Boz – Boz being a family nickname he employed as a pseudonym for some years. The success of Sketches by Boz led to a proposal from publishers Chapman and Hall for Dickens to supply text to match Robert Seymour’s engraved illustrations in a monthly letterpress. Seymour committed suicide after the second instalment, and Dickens, who wanted to write a connected series of sketches, hired “Phiz” to provide the engravings for the story. The resulting story became The Pickwick Papers, and though the first few episodes were not successful, the introduction of the Cockney character Sam Weller in the fourth episode (the first to be illustrated by Phiz) marked a sharp climb in its popularity. The final instalment sold 40,000 copies.
The First Victorian Novel
Until 1836, he was occupied with several jobs before beginning as an editor of “Bentley’s Miscellany” and in the same year, his active work on “Oliver Twist” started. He was known to be a diligent writer, producing about 90 pages a month next to his job at the magazine. When the novel was published two years later, it became very successful, due to its unusual dialogue style and the fact that he produced the very first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. His success as a novelist continued. The young Queen Victoria read both Oliver Twist and Pickwick, staying up until midnight to discuss them.
Great Success
Even though Dickens had to suffer from deep sadness after his relative Marry passed away in 1837 and all his deadlines had to be delayed, his published works experienced a great success. In this period, “Master Humphrey’s Clock“, “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty“, and “The Old Curiosity Shop” were all published in monthly instalments before being made into books.
A Sledge Hammer Blow for the Poor
A longer trip to the United States inspired the author for another famous work, “A Christmas Carol“, which he wrote in 1843. The seeds for the story became planted in Dickens’s mind during a trip to Manchester to witness the conditions of the manufacturing workers there. This, along with scenes he had recently witnessed at the Field Lane Ragged School, caused Dickens to resolve to “strike a sledge hammer blow” for the poor. As the idea for the story took shape and the writing began in earnest, Dickens became engrossed in the book. He later wrote that as the tale unfolded he “wept and laughed, and wept again” as he “walked about the black streets of London fifteen or twenty miles many a night when all sober folks had gone to bed.”
Becoming a Philanthrope
Dickens became known as a philanthrope and raised a great amount of money for hospitals or educational institutions with money he saved from lectures he gave. Major literary works of this period were “A Tale of Two Cities“, “Great Expectations“, or “Household Wars“. During his American visit, Dickens spent a month in New York City, giving lectures, raising the question of international copyright laws and the pirating of his work in America. He persuaded a group of twenty-five writers, headed by Washington Irving, to sign a petition for him to take to Congress, but the press were generally hostile to this, saying that he should be grateful for his popularity and that it was mercenary to complain about his work being pirated.
From Tavistock House to Gad’s Hill Place
After living briefly in Italy during 1844, Dickens travelled to Switzerland in 1846, where he began work on Dombey and Son (1846–48). This and David Copperfield mark a significant artistic break in Dickens’s career as his novels became more serious in theme and more carefully planned than his early works. The later was published between 1849 and 1850. Scholars consider it as Dickens’s veiled autobiography with the title character modeled after the author himself. It was Dickens’s personal favourite among his own novels. In late November 1851, Dickens moved into Tavistock House where he wrote Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1856). During this period he worked closely with the novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins. In 1856, his income from writing allowed him to buy Gad’s Hill Place in Higham, Kent. As a child, Dickens had walked past the house and dreamed of living in it.
Separation From Catherine
After separating from his wife Catherine, Dickens undertook a series of hugely popular and remunerative reading tours which, together with his journalism, were to absorb most of his creative energies for the next decade, in which he was to write only two more novels. His first reading tour, lasting from April 1858 to February 1859, consisted of 129 appearances in 49 different towns throughout England, Scotland and Ireland.
Ellen Ternan
On 9 June 1865, while returning from Paris with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan, Dickens was involved in the Staplehurst rail crash. The train’s first seven carriages plunged off a cast iron bridge that was under repair. The only first-class carriage to remain on the track was the one in which Dickens was travelling.
Edwin Drood
During another trip to the United States, shortly after the end of the American Civil war, Dickens’ health situation started to worsen and he gave some final readings and lectures. The last novel he worked on was “The Mystery of Edwin Drood“, never to be finished. On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day’s work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, five years to the day after the Staplehurst rail crash, he died at Gads Hill Place.
Dickens’ Style
Dickens was known for his satirical and humorous style of writing and his creative way of developing characters for his works. Many of Dickens’ fantastic names made their way into the British culture up to this day and some even created new words for things that reminded them of Dickens’ characters. Some of his writings are also known to be very autobiographical, such as “David Copperfield” or “Bleak House“. Even though Dickens depicted one if the most important writers of the Victorian era, he often criticized its social systems, which he worked up in his writings. The detailed description of the society’s actual problem with poverty and crime was unusual and therefore quite shocking to most readers.
Dickens’ Legacy
Dickens’ works became so famous that even today, TV shows are produced leaning on his masterpieces and his books are still sold at large amounts. To other writers, Charles Dickens triggered various feelings. While Oscar Wilde [2] often criticized his characters, George Orwell [3] and Leo Tolstoy highly admired him for the realism, still humorous and sophisticated literature. Even Karl Marx [4] was a well known fan of Dickens, enjoying that Dickens “issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together.“
At yovisto academic video search, you may enjoy the video lecture ‘Oliver Twist: Parable, Providence and the Poor‘ by Dr. Keith Hopper.
[1] Henry Fielding – the Father of the English Novel, SciHi Blog, October 8, 2013.
[2] Oscar Wilde – One of the Most Iconic Figures of Victorian Society, SciHi Blog, October 16, 2012.
[3] George Orwell’s Opposition to Totalitarism, SciHi Blog, January 21, 2018.
[4] Karl Marx and Das Kapital, SciHi Blog, May 5, 2013.
[5] Dickens’ Journals
[6] Dickens Website
[7] Dickens at the BBC
[8] [In German] Charles Dickens Gesellschaft
[9] Charles Dickens related posts in the Biblionomicon [German literature blog]: Charles Dickens
[10] Charles Dickens at Wikidata
[11] Timeline for Charles Dickens, via Wikidata
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Maria 22. February 2013 at 14:09
Charles Dickens was a fascinating novelist!Regardless being a critic of the Victorian Age and peoples’ livelihood at the time, he was a part of it, the signicant part, I’d say! Great post!
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The narrow gauge Poreč – Trieste railway, popular Parenzana, was put into operation in 1902. Its purpose was to connect the poorest regions of the north-east part of the peninsula with large city markets which sold wine, olive oil, fruit, vegetables, wheat, wood, stone, and other products of Istria. The ride along the 123 km long route was 7 hours and 20 minutes long at the top speed of only 25 km/h. The legend tells that, following the route closure in 1935 due to operating unprofitability considering a faster and cheaper passenger and cargo transport by buses, the tracks were dismounted and ordered by Mussolini to be transported by ship to Abyssinia (today Ethiopia). They never reached Africa as the ship was sunk by Allied air forces. However, historical sources say that the railroad cars, tracks and other material was sold at the public auction. The current witness of this railway route is its alignment and preserved construction remains – a large number of railroad facilities, as many as 11 bridges, viaducts and tunnels which tell a story of this remarkable construction endeavour. The most interesting section of the route stretches from Grožnjan to Oprtalj and Livade, containing as many as four out of the overall six viaducts, and six out of the overall nine tunnels along the tracks.
Following years of neglect, the Region of Istria and its Slovenian partners, the cities of Koper, Izola and Piran revived the route by EU funds as a pedestrian and cycling path. It has officially become known as Parenzana – the route of health and friendship and the best used tourist route in Istria, a special attraction which, due to rails adjustment to terrain features, winds along the rolling Istrian hills, opening the views of breathtaking landscapes. The Parenzana Museum was opened in Izola in 2000. In 2007, the railway station in Livade became the home of the Parenzana permanent exhibition.
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Greg Chalmers Wins Australian Open
By mustang6560 on 11/14/11
Greg Chalmers outlasted a struggling John Senden, the third round leader, to win the Australian Open for the second time in his career.
"I am extremely excited and extremely pleased to have won this tournament twice," Chalmers enthused.
"To win it once, you can stumble into it ... but to win it twice, with this field, you can talk about Tiger and it being the strongest field we've had for a long time."
"To go out there and get it done over the last two days and shoot eight under for the weekend, that does something for me."
Man oh man, I really thought Tiger Woods was going to get it done on the weekend and win for the first time in two years. The former world number one looked solid in his first two rounds at The Lakes Golf Club in Sydney and held the lead heading into Saturday's round. But Tiger opened with three bogeys on Saturday and finished with a three-over par 75. He rebounded with a five-under 67 in the final round but his over-par third round proved to be too much to overcome so he finished in solo third (not bad if you ask me).
Tiger wasn't the only one who couldn't hold onto a lead at the Australian Open, case in point, John Senden. The Australian native lead heading into Sunday's round but he bogeyed four of his first seven holes to allow Chalmers enough breathing room to sneak by for the win. Senden tried to rally late on the back nine with birdies at 11, 13, 14 and 17, but his final round even-par 72 was not good enough to get the job done so he had to settle for second place.
All in all, the Australian Open reinforced one thing - golf is much more exciting with Tiger in the field. And that's exactly why U.S. Team captain Fred Couples picked Tiger with one of his two captain's picks for the Presidents Cup this week - that and the fact he can still play. U-S-A!
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Shaw v. Murphy (2001)
Edited by: John Vile, David L. Hudson & David Schultz
In: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781604265774.n1191
Subject: American Political Thought, Law & Courts, American Political History
Vile, J., Hudson, D. L. & Schultz, D. (2009). Shaw v. murphy (2001). In Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (pp. 988-988). Washington, DC: CQ Press doi: 10.4135/9781604265774.n1191
Vile, John, David L. Hudson and David Schultz. "Shaw v. Murphy (2001)." In Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, edited by John VileDavid L. Hudson and David Schultz, 988. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2009. doi: 10.4135/9781604265774.n1191.
Vile, J, Hudson, D L & Schultz, D 2009, 'Shaw v. murphy (2001)', in Vile, J, Hudson, DL & Schultz, D (eds), Encyclopedia of the first amendment, CQ Press, Washington, DC, pp. 988, viewed 18 July 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781604265774.n1191.
Vile, John, et al. "Shaw v. Murphy (2001)." Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. Eds. Washington: CQ Press, 2009. 988. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 18 Jul. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781604265774.n1191.
The unanimous Supreme Court decision in Shaw v. Murphy, 532 U.S. 223 (2001), limited the First Amendment rights of prisoners in communicating with other prisoners about legal matters.
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Illinois v. Condon (1993)
Tom McInnis
In: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment
Edited by: John R. Vile & David L. Hudson Jr.
Subject: American Political History, American Political Thought, Law & Courts
McInnis, T. (2013). Illinois v. condon (1993). In J. R. Vile & D. L. Hudson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the fourth amendment (Vol. 1, pp. 343-344). Washington, DC: CQ Press doi: 10.4135/9781452234243.n385
McInnis, Tom. "Illinois v. Condon (1993)." In Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment, edited by John R. Vile and David L. Hudson, 343-344. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2013. doi: 10.4135/9781452234243.n385.
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Justice Byron White, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, used the case of Illinois v. Condon, 507 U.S. 948 (1993), to dissent from the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of certiorari in a case involving application of the knock and announce rule.
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Home/Events/Attiya Ahmad: Gendered Malleabilities and South Asian Domestic Workers' Islamic Conversions in Kuwait: Ethical Formation, Affective Labour and Being Naram in the Inter-Asian Region
Attiya Ahmad: Gendered Malleabilities and South Asian Domestic Workers' Islamic Conversions in Kuwait: Ethical Formation, Affective Labour and Being Naram in the Inter-Asian Region
Over the past fifteen years tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers in Kuwait have converted to Islam. A widespread phenomenon, these women's experiences are distinctive and contrast with those of other foreign residents in the Arab Gulf states. Drawing on ethnographic research I conducted in Kuwait, I discuss how South Asian migrant domestic workers’ adoption of Islam marks the interrelation between two contemporary processes that are often examined in isolation from one another—the rise of global Islamic movements, and the feminization of transnational labour migration. Recent scholarship in both fields has revealed the micro-dynamics of these macro-processes. Both religious movements and labour migrations place emphasis on, and rework individual subjectivities. Situated at the convergence of these two processes, migrant domestic workers’ newfound pieties simultaneously index the ethical formation of religious subjectivities promoted by Islamic reformists, as well as the increasing focus on workers’ personalities and comportment that characterizes the ascendance of affective labour in our late-stage capitalist world. Domestic workers' position at the confluence of these two transnational processes is not accidental but points to a gendered discourse shaping their experiences of migration, work and religious piety. Over the course of my fieldwork, the understanding that women are naram, a Hindi/Urdu word denoting softness, pliability, and adaptability, suffused the utterances and experiences of my interlocutors. This gendered discourse of women’s malleability undergirds and works in tandem with contemporary religious and labour processes in reshaping South Asian migrant women’s subjectivities and social belonging in the contemporary Indian Ocean and Inter-Asian region.
Dr. Attiya Ahmad is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the George Washington University (Washington DC, USA). Broadly conceived, her research focuses on the interrelation between gender, labour migration, diasporic formations, cosmopolitanism, and Islamic movements crosscutting the Arab Gulf States and South Asia. Dr. Ahmad is also developing a project focusing on halal tourism networks spanning the Arab Gulf States, the United Kingdom and Turkey. Her work has appeared in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and edited volumes focusing on labour migration, diaspora, and religion in South Asia and the Gulf Arab States. She is currently revising her book manuscript, which focuses on the Islamic conversions of South Asian migrant domestic workers in Kuwait.She obtained her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University.
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Chronic Pain, A Hand Like A Claw, And The Lowest Injury & Illness Rates "On Record"
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao is happy as a clam over a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report that the rate of injuries and illnesses have gone down for the third straight year from to 4.8 cases per 100 workers in 2004 to 4.6 cases per 100 workers in 2005.
According to Chao, all credit goes to
1) compliance assistance; 2) health and safety partnerships with labor, and; 3) targeted, aggressive enforcement against bad actors. (emphasis added)
Now I can't quite tell whether she's joking, or suffering from the same delusional disease affecting the Pentagon, but "health and safety partnerships with labor?" Puleeeze!
Oh, and Elaine, you don't get a reduction in national injury and illnesses number by going after a few "bad actors." You also need to go after all the other "normal actors" who cut a few corners here, rush a few jobs there, and ignore ergonomics and chemical hazards. Oh, and if you really want to address a signficant number of workplace injuries and illnesses, you might want to depend a bit less on the "compliance assistance," and issue a few new standards that address issues like ergonomics and workplace violence which make up for hundreds of thousands of injuries every year.
If the numbers are accurate, this is good news. But, of course, all of this assumes that we even believe these numbers -- and with cases of employers being caught cheating, with "behavioral" incentive programs that discourage employees from reporting injuries and illnesses, one could be forgiven for being a tad bit skeptical.
But most important, these are only numbers, statistics, millions of them. And as famed occupational physician Irving Selikoff once said, “statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.”
What tears are we talking about? Here's one tragic example, and this one didn't even make it into Chao's statistics:
He lost his apartment two years ago, after losing his job. He lost his job after falling off scaffolding in an unacknowledged industrial accident. The company lawyer does not answer his phone calls. Now he has chronic pain, a hand like a claw and a bed in the homeless shelter.
My patient likes to talk about the apartment he used to have, and the honest satisfactions of a home. He liked taking his shower after work, watching his TV. He had a girlfriend who tidied the place from time to time. He took the bus to and from work and said that whenever someone was missing bus fare, he would reach into a pocket and supply it. It felt good, like buying everyone a round. He was not a drinker, but altruism was something he enjoyed.
He especially liked his apartment key. But no job, no key. At first, he slept in a condemned building; it gave comfort, and the illusion of a home: there were doors to walk through. After the building was demolished, he came to the mental health clinic. He had all the profound symptoms of depression one would expect. He understood that antidepressants take weeks to work, and dutifully accepted that fact. He was willing to be patient.
He got thrown out of the shelter, and built himself a nice lean-to in the woods, "using tree stumps and branches, and his one good arm."
He says he lies in it and can see the stars in the roofless sky. There is no heat or electricity, of course, and the house is not structurally safe, but he doesn’t mind. He looks up, and hours pass. In the dark, lying on the floor looking up, he begins to feel the absence of grief, of anger. He feels the blessing of no feelings at all.
The medication is still not working. It won’t work, when his need is for a key. He has begun to talk about train tracks and the uselessness of life. He says one day he may not return to the clinic. He won’t tell me where his house in the woods is, though for now he continues to visit it. It offers respite from the anxiety, rage and heartbreak he faces in the shelter.
Feeling nothing, he says thoughtfully, is almost like feeling peace.
4.6 per 100. I feel much better now.
Labels: Elaine Chao, Ergonomics, Recordkeeping, Workers Compensation, Workplace Violence
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Nimoy was among the many celebrities at the grand opening festivities of the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park at Disney World in Florida on April 30, 1989. Our host was Michael Eisner, chairman/CEO of the Walt Disney Company. The invited guests included Audrey Hepburn, Annette Funicello, Cicely Tyson, Edie Adams, Betty White, Bette Midler, Bob Hope, Willie Nelson, Werner Klemperer, Imogene Coca and Sammy Cahn.
Nimoy, who plays Mr. Spock, William Shatner’s costar on Star Trek, met Mickey Mouse and said, “You and I owe a lot to our parents who could not afford an ear job for us.”
The quips flew fast and furious. The legendary George Burns, at 93, said he can’t retire: “I’m supporting my mother and father.” Morey Amsterdam said it’s nice to be a legend “even if you have to get old to be one.” Radio/TV personality Art Linkletter, who hosted House Party on CBS for 25 years and People Are Funny on NBC for 19 years, served as MC at this event. He also hosted the opening of Disneyland in California on ABC in 1955. A little old lady told him, “I watched your career right from the beginning to the very end of it.”
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City branding: mapping the media images of the SEE capitals
by Konstantina Vasileva, Perceptica
Perceptica is a team of professionals specialised in creating innovative in-depth reports based on online media analytics. Mapping brand perceptions among customers provides valuable insights for helping brands, individuals and organisations thrive. (www.perceptica.com)
The nature of the modern knowledge economy has changed the way we perceive physical spaces. Contemporary cities are increasingly viewed not only as geographic and economic entities, but also as brands, shaped and popularized by the experience they offer to both locals and visitors. The added value, provided by a city’s brand image can help it increase its economic potential, to attract labour force and tourist interest and reap many other advantages. In other words: city landscapes are now turning into brandscapes.
While larger cities around the world have already made significant steps toward building a sustainable and highly recognizable brand identity, the capitals of Southeast Europe face many challenges and opportunities on their way to discovering the importance of city branding. This article aims to take a closer look at ten SEE capitals (Tirana, Sarajevo, Sofia, Zagreb, Skopje, Chisinau, Podgorica, Bucharest, Belgrade, Ljubljana) and the way they are represented in conventional and social media. Identifying the key focal points of the media discourse on a given city is a good starting point to grasp a city’s perceived image and work towards building a more sustainable and recognizable identity.
We chose six key categories for analysis and comparison and we based them on Simon Anholt’s City Branding Index – a methodology developed to measure the image and reputation of world cities, and to track how their profiles evolve. Simon Anholt is an independent policy advisor who has worked with the governments of over 40 countries worldwide and helped them develop and implement strategies for managing and improving country and city reputation. We approached these six categories* through our own analytical methods in two types of media context: conventional news articles and social media sources (blogs, Twitter and forum discussions). The analyzed period was three months (15 April – 15 July 2013) and our focus was only on English-language content, as it is currently the leading global language with a high potential for reaching large international audiences.
With the accumulation of the analyzed conventional and social media content, certain patterns started to emerge and shape the image of individual countries and the region as a whole.
One of the key conclusions from the comparison of the 10 capitals was that only a few of them had a highly recognizable and explicitly distinct city image. The best example in this regard would be Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana, which was often described as a very special and unique mixture of Slavic soulfulness, German industriousness and Italian dolce vita. On the other hand, most of the remaining capitals were frequently discussed en bloc, often mentioning three or four cities in the context of a large Balkan trip. This reveals an important factor for branding these cities: the challenge to create their own distinct identities, as opposed to remaining a part from the collective space – the Balkans.
Alternative forms of tourism were a recurring subject in social media channels. Backpacking, hiking and cycling tours seemed to dominate blog posts and forum conversations – a sign that the SEE region is more popular among adventurers and people interested in exotic, unusual and unexplored destinations as opposed to the standard 4 or 5-star tourist experience. Many travellers from countries such as the UK and even Australia came on a cycling tour and mapped out long itineraries across the Balkan Peninsula, trying to visit as many destinations (countries and cities) as possible. This supported the above-mentioned conclusion that people were generally interested in seeing more of the region, once they have come to this part of Europe, as opposed to staying in a single place.
Given SEE’s troubled history in the past decades, it came as no surprise that themes like politics, religion and ethnic tolerance often emerged in both news and social media discussions. This was particularly true for cities like Sarajevo, Tirana and Belgrade, where the wartime scars often affected visitors on a more emotional level as can be seen from the various tales on travelling blogs. Stories of either religious co-existence (Sarajevo, Tirana) or aggressive nationalism (Belgrade, Skopje) marked the vibrant social media landscape and were the topic of many blog posts and forum discussions. Protests in Sofia (actively discussed on Twitter) and Sarajevo added their influence on the way the two cities were portrayed in the media.
An unexpectedly salient topic which emerged across news and blog posts on most of the analyzed capitals was the lack of tolerance towards the LGBT community. Human rights 10 Capitals – Ranking on Anholt’s Prerequisite, Place, Pulse, Potential abuse and aggression towards gay pride parades were reported in five of the 10 capitals – Sofia, Chisinau, Belgrade, Skopje and Tirana – raising important questions about the culture of tolerance and overall attitudes towards sexual minorities in the region. Reports of this controversial attitude could have negative impact on how Balkan capitals are perceived in more liberal societies.
SEE capital media images
Belgrade: The edgy party capital of Europe
While younger visitors remained charmed and blogged about the bustling street culture of the Serbian capital and music festivals like Belgrade Calling, the city’s image suffered from serious issues like environmental pollution and bad infrastructure, covered mainly in news articles. Additionally, the blogs and on-line forums were abundant with complaints about the uncontrolled stray dogs and rip-off taxi rates.
Nevertheless, the city’s friendly inhabitants, great vistas and the quickly recovering urban life after a harrowing war also left a positive impression on many visitors. In news articles Belgrade’s potential was mentioned in connection to negotiating the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the European Union. Additionally, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development praised the pace of the structural reforms beat in Serbia.
Bucharest: city of extremes
The Romanian capital was a contradicting mixture of positive and negative factors: a unique geographic location (Bucharest was often visited by travellers on their way to the Carpathian Mountains and the popular Transylvania region), poor infrastructure (people complained a lot in forum discussions and blog posts about the horrible public transport, lack of street signs and overall stressful driving conditions), friendly locals, high crime rates (according to news articles) and vibrant cultural life (discussed freely in blogs and Twitter messages). Economically, the country’s potential after entering the EU is marred by the vast ‘to do’ list of the administration; urgent action is needed to reform the public sector and state-owned companies, deliver infrastructure investments, reduce red tape and fight corruption.
Chisinau: troubled beauty
The capital of Moldova turned out to be a popular destination for “bargain shoppers” looking for less popular places around Europe, as well as socially responsible adventurers and Peace Corps volunteers. While it was often mentioned in blogs and news in connection to colorful events like the hot-air balloon festival and its beautiful women, Chisinau’s public image in the traditional media was damaged by reports on human trafficking and smuggling. Ultimately, despite its beautiful parks, museums and location, near beautiful country landscapes and wine producing regions, Chisinau has been portrayed as an unsafe travel destination with many issues to take care of.
Ljubljana: the hidden gem
Ljubljana’s image proved remarkably consistent across all media channels. Intellectual activities, cultural events, museums, folklore festivals and music events contributed to the lively pulse of the city and spread its positive image across news articles, blog posts and forum discussions. In combination with the amazing natural scenery, highly developed infrastructure (bike-friendly alleys, free wi-fi internet connection) and excellent customer service, the Slovenian capital also impressed visitors with the friendliness of the locals. Travellers claimed on their blogs that it was the people of Ljubljana who played a big role in co-creating the city experience with their hospitality and excellent English language skills. In terms of economic potential, news articles reported that Ljubljana has a high concentration of state and local government institutions, as well as a flourishing business climate and art scene.
Podgorica: still on the rise
The location of the city, close to a number of other capitals, could turn it into a bustling transportation hub if it could only improve its bad infrastructure. Blogs and forums were buzzing with people expressing their admiration for Montenegro’s nature but the capital Podgorica seemed underappreciated compared to the beauty of the countryside. The city was noted by bloggers for its climate of religious tolerance and proximity to Montenegro’s beautiful coasts. On the other hand, Podgorica was portrayed in online forum discussions as small and lacking cultural events of international importance.
Sarajevo: a rich culture revived
As could be expected, the image of the Bosnian capital both in news articles and blog posts was heavily marked by the wartime experience. Even sightseeing described by bloggers and online forum users included gruesome reminders of the horrible massacres: bullet holes on the ground are outlined with red paint – the so-called Red Roses of Sarajevo which symbolise the blood spilled during the war. Many travellers wrote in their blogs about the rich and mixed cultural heritage in Sarajevo and the impressive co-habitation of different religious groups. The friendliness of the locals, mixed with the busy cultural life (news of concerts, exhibitions, festivals and conferences were often tweeted) made the city a truly moving experience for most visitors. The good tram system and sights within walking distance were also an advantage.
The news articles featuring Sarajevo suggested that the local business and economic landscape was heavily shaped by the development agency SERDA, indicated by the sheer volume of economic news featuring it. SERDA is a regional development agency appointed by the European Union. According to the numerous reports in the traditional media, the agency’s role is to encourage and strengthen the regional development through the provision of financial support, education, business infrastructure development, capacity building, information services for foreign investors, and through implementation of interregional and international projects.
Skopje: statue-rich Balkan experience
One word was repeated ceaselessly across news articles, blog posts, forum discussions and Twitter – the word statues. Huge, awkwardly contrasting to their surroundings statues are being built for the project Skopje 2014 which is supposed to be a grandiose commemoration of events in Ancient Macedonian history (a point Greeks are not too sure about). Many people noted the striking contrast between the dull communist city architecture and the posterity of the urban centre, sometimes using truly negative remarks such as “the Kitsch capital of Europe”, ”spending more money on ancient horses than roads and development”. The heavy pull on the public budget associated with the ambitious project has resulted in strain for some other important sectors of public spending. The city’s interesting cultural life (including a popular Museum of cartoons and the Memorial house of Mother Theresa), however, attracted positive mentions from foreign bloggers and journalists.
Sofia: a city on fire
Anti-government protests in the summer months have spurred the media interest in the Bulgarian capital. Analyses of political turmoil in the region and the rest of the world appeared frequently in the conventional media. Many bloggers also helped spread the word, mixing other stories about Sofia’s cultural life with a large number of tweets and blog posts capturing the pulse of political pro-activity. However, according to news articles the current political situation seems to have a negative impact on Bulgaria’s economic and FDI image on the international scene.
Apart from politics, Sofia also attracts the attention of travellers and backpackers with its vicinity to the Vitosha mountain. The fact that it is just a few hours away from several other Balkan capitals made it a popular starting point on the route to visit the Bulgarian countryside in addition to other countries in the region. Numerous tweets and blog posts also reported on a wide range of cultural events taking place in Sofia (Sofia Design Week, A to Jazz festival, film fests, dance events, etc) revealing its dynamic social life and focusing on sports events like the Deaf Olympics 2013, held between 23 and 25 July, 2013, which attracted a lot of attention in foreign news articles.
Tirana: spirit over physical presence
Backpackers and travelling cyclists seemed to enjoy the off -the-beat-en-path charm of Tirana and posted many positive stories and photos from the city on their blogs. However, poor infrastructure, irregular transportation and streets full of garbage were a problem for most visitors. Despite (or because of) its many issues, the city kept a strong social position and hosted numerous events and conferences related to pressing social issues (like the Conference on tolerance and non-discrimination) and offered volunteering opportunities for helping the local Roma population. Economic news articles revealed more optimistic plans for the future: the TID tower, an 85 metre business tower constructed in Tirana, has become a media symbol of the local government’s ambition to improve the business climate in the country. Like other Eastern European capitals, Tirana has set up a business park to stimulate business and entrepreneurship environment in the city.
Zagreb: a stop on your way to the coast
Croatia’s accession to the EU attracted a lot of fresh attention to Zagreb and many news sources and bloggers commented on the special celebrations organised in the capital for the day of the big entry. How-ever, despite its booming music festivals (a topic with huge coverage on Twitter), philharmonic concerts and beautiful Austrian-style architecture, the city was often discussed in forums only as a pleasant stop for visitors on their way to the Croatian Adriatic coast. Overshadowed by the beauty of Istria and Dalmatia, Zagreb nevertheless remained a city celebrated in travelling blogs and forums for its well maintained infrastructure, popular tram transportation and exciting open space markets. Zagreb has the image of an international trade and business centre, and is often called “the transport crossroad of Central Europe”. It enjoys the best economic climate in the country, responsible for more than half of the total financial turnover and profit of Croatia.
With this diverse, yet somehow homogenic mixture of cities, the region holds many opportunities for further development and improvement in terms of image and identity. The impressions we have mapped so far form a great basis for differentiating each place and creating a consistent and well-informed brand strategy. How is each capital perceived by different audiences (media, expats, travellers etc.)? What is unique about it? What are people expecting and what do they actually experience? What impressions do they finally share online? By giving answers to all these questions we made an effort to map the media images of the SEE capitals and highlight their emerging points of untapped potential.
Heat Maps – The size of the square represents the overall volume of discussion in both conventional and social media. The colour of the square represents overall sentiment, green being positive and red being negative. Darker hues of the colour signify stronger magnitude (darker green means stronger positive sentiment, and darker red means stronger negative sentiment).
(*) A few words on how the categories themselves are defined: Presence – the overall reputation of a city in the eyes of locals and visitors; Place – how the physical traits of a city are perceived – climate, architecture, environment; People – the perceived general traits and attitude of residents towards visitors and potential emigrants; Prerequisites – these are the basic qualities and living amenities of a place: infrastructure, healthcare, education, transportation, social services, etc.; Pulse – how interesting and exciting a city’s cultural and social life is and a very subjective category: Potential – the economic and educational opportunities provided by the city. Two of the categories, Place and People, were not given numerical values, because conversations consisted mainly of general impressions without focusing on tangible topics. The rest of the categories were benchmarked on a scale from -3 to +3. Theme, sentiment and volume of conversation were used for evaluating the scores.
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She was born in Tehran, Iran. After she graduated from high school in Tehran she moved to the United States. She enrolled at Bryn Mawr, then transferred to Radcliffe College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She obtained a PhD in bacteriology from Harvard Medical School and was awarded an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berdeley.
She joined Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory as a staff biochemist in 1972 and subsequently became a Senior Scientist, Director of Cell & Molecular Biology, Director of the Life Sciences Division, and Distinguished Scientist. In 1996, she received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and medal, the highest scientific honor bestowed by the United States Department of Energy. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, Bissell is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Mellon Award from the University of Pittsburgh, the Eli Lilly/Clowes Award of the American Association for Cancer Research, and the Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society.
She is the former head of life sciences at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Her work started over 30 years ago on the effect of tissue architecture and the role of the cellular microenvironment on cancer still has become increasingly influential in the field of cancer biology and cancer therapeutics. She is credited with the radical but increasingly accepted notion that phenotype can dominate over genotype in normal development and disease.
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“The Church AD 1500 – 2016!”
Acts 18:18 – 28
Ted Jansen July 31, 2016 Waynedale UMC
1.) I want you to know that you are loved by God. Right now, in this place, in this moment. God’s love has been reaching out to you faithfully for years. Will you say, “Yes,” to God’s love in this moment of history?
2.) In Acts 18:18 – 28 we discover four people; Paul, Priscilla, Aquila and Apollos. They were used of God to help believers in Christ in the early church. They had different roles in doing God’s will. Paul was a missionary and founder of many churches. Pricilla and Aquila were supporters of Paul and mentors to Apollos. Apollos was a gifted teacher and communicator. They were all vital to the church.
After a few years of the church’s beginning in Corinth we read these words in 1 Corinthians 1:10 – 12. “I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow Cephas"; still another, "I follow Christ."
These differences in the early church give us a glimpse of divisions coming in the future church.
3.) The church started from a group of men and women who were following Jesus on the day of Pentecost. Since that beginning there are approx. 2.2 billion Christians, the largest “group” of people in the world!
As we think of all those Christians I want you think of a piece of rope. Rope is made up of one substance but is comprised of many strands. If you unravel this rope you will see many smaller strands.
The church is like a rope in that it has many strands of people, but all profess a faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. According to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, there are over 40 thousand different denominations in the church. Those are a lot of strands of different organized people groups in the rope we call church. Let’s look at 1500 to 2016.
4.) Martin Luther, and other leaders, created new churches, and denominations, with their leadership in the 1500’s and later. I don’t believe they knew how things would grow and change when they took each step they felt called to take. Those leaders believed it was important for churches to have local practices of faith that made sense to them in their region and not be a “one church for all” type of church. Listen to this perspective on this time in history.
“Denominationalism, as originally designed, is the opposite of sectarianism. A sect claims the authority of Christ for itself alone. It believes that it is the true body of Christ; all truth belongs to it and no other religion. So, by definition a sect is exclusive.
The denomination by contrast was an inclusive term. It implied that the Christian group called or denominated by a particular name was but one member of a larger group-the church-to which all denominations belong.
The denominational theory of the church, then, insists that the true church cannot be identified with any single ecclesiastical structure. No denomination claims to represent the whole church of Christ. Each simply constitutes a different form – in worship and organization – of the larger life of the church.” (Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley, page 306)
This mindset of the church along with the cultural change set the stage for the church to grow in new ways.
The “Church;” the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church and the Western Church all continued to grow and react to the changing world in different ways. The Orthodox Church continued in the ways it had always practiced; it appeared to resist change by keeping with the ancient ways. The Catholic Church started new orders within the church and the Western Church grew by starting new denominations. All of these branches had their roots in the early church.
I want to look at a little United States church history in the Protestant Church.
5.) The first people coming from Europe to live here were primarily coming for the chance to express their faith in a new way in a new land. One of the things that the churches had in Europe was the support of the state, or an identity with the state.
In this land before there was an organized “state” it was a frontier. The church was on its own in that it did not have any official state identity or support. You can read about how different churches went out into the frontier to share the message of Christ to the people.
Some of the founding documents of our country wanted to ensure that this relationship was clarified so that the “state” would not have an identity with the church. It was about the importance of practicing the faith without any state or governmental obligations.
“The Bill of Rights, with its provision of religious liberty for all, had in effect sanctioned the denominational concept of the church and had ruled out any direct influence of the churches upon the government. The denominations were free, therefore, to define their own faith and practices. But what about Christian responsibility for public life and morals?” (Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley, page 385)
This governmental sanctioned freedom to launch the church in the United States was used by God to reach people for Christ. When people came to Christ it was the way the church could address the morality of the people in this new state.
6.) There was a time when “Revivals” were a part of our history and the term “great awakening” was used to describe times when people were converted and churches grew in this country. Revivals often had joy filled singing and energetic preaching of the Bible. This was in contrast to the ordered, formal, services of some churches.
Two songs that were written in this time period were, “Amazing Grace,” which was written in 1779, and “Holy, Holy, Holy,” which was written in 1826.
The preaching of God’s word and instruction was able to happen because scripture had been translated into English. Have you heard of the King James Version? This was the official Authorized Version printed in 1611 for the Church of England. Sunday School started as a method to focus on children making sure they were taught about the faith.
7.) Let me share an interesting fact from history that is close to my own history.
William Tennent, who was born in 1673 and died in 1746, was a Presbyterian Pastor in Pennsylvania. He had trained a number of evangelists in his time in a little cabin called the “Log College.”
231 years after William Tennent died I graduated from the William Tennent Senior High School, in Warminster, PA. In this school district is a middle school called, “Log College Middle High School,” that sends students into the William Tennent High School. William Tennent taught where I grew up.
8.) The revival meetings were life changing, and people wanted to meet again in the same place, for more uplift and growth. These revivals turned into yearly “camp meetings.” These camp meetings sought to renew people and bring people to Christ each time they met, year by year.
Churches, denominations, bought property and developed campgrounds for these camp meetings, instead of finding new places to meet each year. The outdoor ministries of many churches started from the revivals in the United States. I came to Christ through the outdoor ministry of the United Methodist Church in Eastern Pa.
9.) History is really “His” story of love given to each of us in the life of Jesus Christ. When people say, “yes,” they hold the faith in their heart and the church lives another generation in some form.
God’s Holy Spirit is always looking for people willing to receive this message, share this message and live out life as a disciple on this planet.
10.) In the 1700’s the West was considered the center of Christianity, and the church. You can look back at many worldwide mission efforts that were launched from the West, the US and those close to us. But that has changed.
The largest congregation in the world is in South Korea, Yoido Full Gospel Church. This congregation was started in 1958. The other largest congregations are in Africa, South America and other places. Some of these congregations have been around for 100 years or less.
I recently read the beginning of the book, “Rediscovering Church,” by Lynne and Bill Hybels. They were used by God to start Willow Creek Church, a special ministry that has been a leader for US congregations for 25 years or more.
11.) We can create history in the lives of people and touch families, communities, states, countries and the world when we make God’s love in Christ real and alive.
The Church is a human picture of the love of God in Christ. When we are the church at our best we “re-present” Christ and His love.
When a child is loved through our Nursery, Sunday School, or Pre-School we create history. When we welcome a new person to worship, when we start a new class, when we reach out and call a person, when we agree to volunteer, we create history. You create history in the life of a person by sharing the love God in Christ. When you pray for a person, visit a person, call a person and give some of yourself you make history.
12.) There is someone here that needs to say, “Yes,” to God’s love in Christ. God has been communicating to you, today, about His love. Jesus Christ, is God’s only Son and He lived on this earth, He was crucified and buried. On the third day God resurrected His life and through the Holy Spirit is here with us now, at this moment. The church attempts to paint the picture of God’s love in Christ with imperfect people. God wants to forgive you, to heal you, to give you hope, to give you meaning, to give you joy.
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Saint Catherine Labouré of the Miraculous Medal XVII. Death and Glory
Francisco Javier Fernández Chento August 5, 2016 Catherine Labouré, Virgin MaryLeave a Comment
Author: Joseph Dirvin · Year of first publication: 1958.
The Rev. Father Joseph I. Dirvin, C.M., was a priest and author of the twentieth century, serving St. John's University, New York. His Saint Catherine Laboure of the Miraculous Medal is an enthralling account of the saint who was given the Miraculous Medal. Father Dirvin's work was originally published in 1958 by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., receiving the Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur, and Imprimi Potest upon publication.
XVII. Death and Glory
With the end of the Commune, a peace descended upon France. For the time, at least, the nation seemed to want to forget the past. Under the personal religious impetus of Marshall MacMahon, national pilgrimages set out for the sacred shrines of the land: Chartres, Paray-le-monial, and Lourdes. and work on Sacre Coeur, the basilica of reparation, high above Paris on the hill of Montmartre, was begun. Catherine had predicted a resurgence of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: this was a tangible beginning. The Miraculous Medal was as familiar in the daily life of the people as the commonest household utensil. Literally hundreds of millions of Medals had been stamped and diffused in the forty years since our Lady had given it. An English bishop had written in 1855
Except for the Holy Cross, no other Christian symbol was ever so widely multiplied, or was ever the instrument of so many marvelous results….
These years of external peace were the sunset years for Catherine Laboure. Life at Enghien went back smoothly and quickly to its accustomed round, and it was as if there had been no wars or revolutions. Religious houses are run by an ancient rule, and the greatest cataclysms are mere interruptions of its flow. Catherine’s soul had a new peace within it, for the terrible events foretold by the Mother of God were over and done with. She could not but have felt relieved at the knowledge, for anticipation of the worst, anticipation based as hers was on certainty, must have been a cross, which she had borne silently for forty years. Back in 1830, Father Aladel had asked her:
“Will you and I be alive when these terrible things come to pass?” And she had answered in a phrase of simplicity reminiscent of Jeanne d’Arc before the judges:
“If we are not, others will be.”
On the surface, it would seem there was nothing more for Catherine to do but to die. There were many things to do. There were many more nights and days of caring for her old men, of answering the door, of feeding the chickens and the cows; many more Masses to be heard and prayers to be said; unlike other saints, Catherine seems not to have yearned for death. It is one of the appealing things about her, because it is something she shares with the common run of men: no one is in a hurry to die. She looked forward to death with a happy equanimity when she knew it was on the way, but she never strained at the bonds of flesh. Such a straining was not in harmony with her practical common sense and peasant patience. She would wait calmly until God was ready.
Old age was telling on her. The arthritis of the knees she had contracted, kneeling on the cold flags of the chapel in Fain, was becoming more general. She hobbled about with greater difficulty than before, and the tall, strong figure had grown bent. She refused to take notice, however. Every morning she walked the long path between Enghien and Reuilly, and invariably was the first in chapel for morning prayers. Even snow did not deter her; she floundered through it somehow, before anyone appeared to shovel a path. She worked as hard as the youngest Sister in the house, and asked no quarter. If there was a floor to be scrubbed, Catherine went down on her poor old swollen knees and scrubbed it, despite the pleas of other Sisters to let them do it for her. In chapel, she still knelt without any support, as she had always done. During her last retreat at the Motherhouse, only a few months before her death, she was offered a cushion to relieve the pain of kneeling for many hours throughout eight long days, but she refused it.
These last years are an excellent source for the student of her sanctity. Her secret lay in the fact that she did what she was supposed to do, as well as she could, and for God. It was as simple as that. There can be no doubt that she did not do a particular work as well at sixty-eight as she had done it at twenty-eight. She did it as well as she could—that was the point—and it was just as pleasing to God, for her heart and soul were in it, and He was both. God is the only master Who rewards effort rather than result.
Actually, her Superiors could see that she was unable to do what she formerly did, and little by little they relieved her. At first, it was in the form of extra assistants to help her care for the old men: Catherine had grown older and more crippled than some of her patients. Then they would take her away from the work for longer and longer periods, and put her to minding the door. In the portress’s lodge she had not so much moving about to do, and could sit at her sewing. She was a famous seamstress in the house, and could mend so finely and invisibly that everyone brought work to her. There was always a fresh pile to start on. In her last year, she was confined to the portress’s lodge exclusively.
The help given Catherine made for new problems in her life. Catherine was never lucky in her assistants. A lay helper was given her at this time who proved a sore trial indeed. She was actually a cast-off, for one Sister has stated quite frankly that “they could not employ her any place else, so they gave her to Sister Catherine.” This poor creature was mentally deranged, and of a personality so fearsome that the Sisters nicknamed her La Noire, “The Black One.” She was very cruel and ugly to Catherine, but the saint bore it all with patience. Things got so bad at times that the Sisters would threaten to go to Sister Dufes and have the woman removed from the house; but Catherine would not allow it. She knew that the poor woman could not support herself elsewhere, and so continued to suffer her.
Abuse from such a person was bad enough, but Catherine had also a tormentor among her own Sisters. The other Sisters found this one “entirely insupportable.” She had a nasty disposition and took fiendish delight in venting it upon Catherine. She made jokes at Catherine’s expense, and treated the saint as if she were stupid. Catherine seemed not to notice. Never did she answer back, although she would have had the support of the whole house. Sister Maurel has said, indeed, that Catherine “was humble enough to believe that she was truly stupid.”
By 1874, Catherine’s health had greatly deteriorated. They began to bleed her in both arms from time to time because she complained that she was smothering. Catherine seems to have had an asthmatic condition, and her heart was involved. Blood-letting was an old-fashioned remedy, much in vogue then. The Mother General decided, at this juncture, to relieve Catherine from her charge as custodian of the house of Enghien and of the old men. Sister Tanguy, who was thirty-seven at the time, was appointed Assistant-Superior of both Reuilly and Enghien and given special charge of Enghien. Catherine had been Assistant-Superior, in fact, for thirty-eight years, but she had never held the title.
It was a hard blow to Catherine. Not that she failed to realize that her powers were on the wane. No one, however, especially one of Catherine’s temperament, likes to give up; and the old have a particular aversion to being supplanted by the young. The blow was all the harder to Catherine, because Sister Tanguy was to be her successor. She had lived with Sister Tanguy for eleven years, and she did not particularly like her. Sister Tanguy was one of those women with an efficient mind and a sharp tongue. It is true that she did Catherine a great service in her copious and eulogistic testimony at the Beatification Inquiry, but she owed it to the saint for her treatment of Catherine when she was alive. Sister Levacher has stated in a blunt and detached manner:
“She [Catherine] had a great love for her Superiors. She loved perhaps less than the others our Sister Assistant, who was rather harsh of character, but she loved her sufficiently that you could say she practiced charity towards her.”
This is damning Sister Tanguy with faint praise indeed! It also shows that Catherine’s lack of warmth toward the Sister Assistant was apparent to the others. Nonetheless, Catherine did not let her human dislike get in the way of charity; we have the word of Sister Tanguy herself for it:
“There is a custom in our Community that, at night after the doors are locked, the keys are brought to the bedside of the Superior. At Enghien, they were left with Sister Catherine, who was the oldest in the house, for it was impossible to carry them across to Reuilly, where Sister Dufes slept.
“When I arrived to take over the house of Enghien, I overheard a conversation. Some Sisters were counseling Sister Catherine to hold on to the keys. Sister Catherine replied that they should be handed over to her who represented the Superior, and that she would hand them over.”
There is something humorous, and at the same time moving, in this very human scene of Catherine poised between the new Superior and the resentful Sisters. Of course, the Sisters were actually fomenting mutiny, and Catherine would have none of that. It is heartwarming, however, to know that Catherine was so close to her companions that they could even make the suggestion, knowing it would go no further. It is to be hoped, for their sakes, that Sister Tanguy did not know for sure the identity of the rebellious Sisters.
Catherine’s reaction to the new order of things, moreover, was not mere passive submission. She showed an active good will toward her successor. Even after the change had been effected, Sister Dufes kept Catherine in her accustomed place beside her at table; there was no point in pushing the tired old lady completely aside. Catherine, however, had too much self-respect and virtue to accept a place that was not rightfully hers. Casually, she asked the Sister who had charge of the dining room:
“Would you change my napkin, and give my place to Sister Assistant? It tires me to cross over to that side of the table.”
The distance involved was so negligible as to leave no doubt about Catherine’s motive, and the Sister was touched by the saint’s spirit of deference and humility.
Sister Dufes, who liked things cut and dried, was determined to have a statement from Catherine’s own lips, and so asked her bluntly whether she was upset at Sister Tanguy’s appointment.
“Have no fear,” Catherine answered, just as bluntly. “Our Superiors have spoken, and that should be sufficient for us to receive Sister Tanguy as an angel from heaven.”
Catherine spent most of her days in the portress’s lodge now, praying, sewing, chatting with the young Sisters who stopped to visit with her, never failing to give them some word of spiritual advice.
One day, Abbe Omer, who had charge of a chapel of convenience in the neighborhood called St. Ratagunde, knocked at the door of the lodge. In greeting the priest, Catherine addressed him as “M. le Cure” or pastor.
“You are mistaken, Sister,” he said, smiling. “Of what church am I pastor?”
“Of the Church of the Immaculate Conception.”
“No, no. I am chaplain of St. Ratagunde.”
“True,” the old lady’s eyes twinkled, “but you will be pastor of the Immaculate Conception.”
The naming of the chapel of St. Ratagunde was a sore point with Catherine. When the chapel was built in 1873, she greatly desired that it be dedicated to Our Lady conceived without sin. When it was not, she confided her disappointment to Sister Cosnard, but added:
“All the same, they will call it after the Immaculate Conception in the end.”
In 1877, after Catherine’s death, Cardinal Guilbert established the chapel as a parish church, gave it the title of the Immaculate Conception, and appointed Father Omer as its first pastor.
On another day, Catherine was besieged in her portress’s lodge by two clerics who came from Cardinal Richard, the Coadjutor of Paris, to determine once and for all whether she was the Sister of the Apparitions. Politely but firmly, she brushed them aside.
“I do not know what you are talking about, Messieurs,” she said. “It is the Sister Superior you want.” And she left them standing in the middle of the parlor completely baffled.
According to Father Chevalier, her last confessor, Catherine underwent an interrogation concerning the visions by the major Superiors of the Community in 1874, after Father Bore had succeeded Father Etienne as Superior General. The results were wholly unsatisfactory, for Catherine could remember nothing. It was but one more example of the supernatural loss of memory by which Heaven protected her secret. Lest there be any suspicion that it was otherwise—the natural forgetfulness of old age, for example—it must be stated emphatically and Glory that, in Catherine’s last years, there is no evidence whatever of senility. Quite the contrary. Her speech and mode of action were as sensible and clear-headed in her last days.
This was especially apparent in the way she handled the crisis precipitated in the last year of her life, like a surprise ending to a play. It concerned the making of the statue of “Our Lady of the Globe.” Forty-five years had passed, and the statue had not been made, despite Catherine’s dunning notes to Father Aladel and her periodic reminders in the confessional. Father Aladel was ten years dead, and Father Chinchon had taken his place as Catherine’s director. She must have told him of the statue but, like Father Aladel, he had done nothing. There seems to be more of an excuse for Father Chinchon’s failure to act: he may have felt that Father Aladel had very good reasons for not acting, reasons that Father Chinchon himself could not know. In such a situation, so many years after the visions, a sensible man can be allowed a certain sense of caution. There can be no doubt, either, that Catherine herself had grown used to things as they were, even as an invalid grows used to pain, for it was a question of pain: Catherine said frankly that the failure to make the statue was “the torment of my life.” At any rate in May of 1876, Catherine was spurred to action with dramatic suddenness.
There were two things which prompted her to act. The first was the unexpected transfer of Father Chinchon to other duties: after ten years, Catherine found herself suddenly bereft of her confessor. The second was a supernatural conviction that she would die before the end of the year. In a flash, she saw time running out, and trembled when she thought of appearing before Our Lady, with the mission entrusted to her not completed.
The day of decision must have been for her a day of terrible anguish. Where should she turn? To whom could she go? If she had not been able to prod Father Aladel to action in thirty-five years or Father Chinchon in ten, how could she succeed with a new confessor in a few months? In her anxiety, only one course was plain: Father Chinchon, no matter what his new duties, must continue as her confessor; and she must make him see that the statue had to be carved. There was only one person who could restore Father Chinchon to her, and that was the Superior General, Father Bore. She would go to him.
Of course it was a mad thing to do, and the plan was doomed to failure from the start. That Catherine, with her supreme common sense, should even attempt it, is sufficient index of how very upset she was. She was certainly not thinking straight. With all that, there is a heroism in the sight of this determined old lady, completely reckless of the consequences to herself, of the peril to her secret, marching right to the top, to the General himself, that brings a cheer to the lips.
Father Bore was a kindly man, and so he received her kindly. She was a faithful old servant of the poor who deserved his kindness. Besides, he remembered her as the Sister who, rumor said, had seen Our Blessed Lady. He had even questioned her himself, but had learned nothing. The interview might have gone smoothly enough, except for the fact that Catherine had not thought things out to the end; she had not seen that, in order for the statue to be made, drastic steps had to be taken. Someone besides Father Chinchon had to know her secret, someone who could do something about it—and who better than Father Bore himself? Due to age and her habitual guarding of the secret, however, Catherine had not seen that far, and so, in the presence of the Superior General, she failed completely. She was able only to falter out the request that Father Chinchon be restored to her as her confessor. She could say no more. No reason for the wild request. No hint of her true identity. Nothing.
Father Bore felt for her, but he could do nothing. He could not appoint a special confessor for one lone Sister. He saw she was upset. It was her age—the poor thing was in her dotage. What else could he think? Very gently, he refused her.
Catherine returned home in tears. Sister Dufes was shocked. She had never before seen Catherine in such a state. Naturally, some explanation was needed and, weeping all the while, Catherine told her Superior about her request and how Father Bore had turned it down. Sister Dufes was as much in the dark as ever; she knew only that Catherine was in great trouble and needed desperately to speak with Father Chinchon. Suddenly Catherine’s whole manner changed, as if she had hit upon a plan, and she spoke once more in her old decisive way.
“Since I have not much longer to live,” she told the astonished Superior, “I feel that the moment to speak out has come. But, as the Blessed Virgin told me to speak only to my confessor, I shall say nothing to you until I have asked Our Lady’s permission in prayer. If she tells me I may speak to you, I will do so; otherwise I will remain silent.”
The next morning, promptly at ten o’clock, Catherine most unusually sent for Sister Dufes to come to the parlor. Mary Immaculate had given Catherine leave to speak, to break the silence of forty-six years. The interview lasted for two hours, and so engrossed the Sisters that they remained standing the whole time without realizing the fact.
As Catherine recounted the whole story of her visions, minutely and with precision, Sister Dufes’s attitude toward her underwent a substantial change. It was Catherine’s moment of vindication in the eyes of her Superior, but she was too holy to relish the triumph. Poor Sister Dufes! The times when she had neglected, even worse, had reprimanded harshly this venerable confidante of Mary came crowding in to accuse her. At several points in the narrative she felt impelled to cast herself at Catherine’s feet, and only her basic good sense and strong will kept her from it. What amazed the Superior most of all, perhaps, was the ease with which Catherine spoke, she who was always so shy and spoke so little.
Then Catherine came to the point: The statue must be made, the statue depicting Our Lady in her first attitude, holding the golden ball in her hands and offering it to God. Sister Dufes was completely bewildered.
“But I have never heard tell of this detail,” she cried. “If you speak of such an attitude now, they will say you have grown foolish! ”
“It will not be the first time they have said that of me,” Catherine replied, “but until the moment I die, I shall insist that the Blessed Virgin appeared to me, holding a ball in her
“What became of the ball?” Sister Dufes asked.
“Oh, I do not know; I only know that suddenly I saw rays falling upon the globe on which Our Lady stood, and especially upon a spot where France was written.”
“How about the Medal? Is it necessary to change the design? ”
“Do not touch the Medal,” Catherine replied. “It is only necessary to erect an altar on the spot of the Apparition, as the Blessed Virgin asked, and to place above it her statue, with a ball in her hands.”
Sister Dufes was still doubtful. “They are not going to believe you,” she persisted. “Is there anyone who can confirm your story? ”
“Yes,” Catherine said, considering, “yes, there is someone: Sister Grand, who was secretary in the Motherhouse at the time, and who took notes of the Apparitions from Father Aladel’s dictation.”
Sister Dufes wrote at once to Sister Grand, and Sister Grand replied that all Catherine had said was true; she even included some rough sketches of the proposed statue which had been drawn at the time.
Whatever might be said of her, Sister Dufes was efficient. Within a few days, she had called in a sculptor named Froc Robert and work on the statue was begun. On at least one occasion she took Catherine with her to the sculptor’s studio, to inspect the progress of the work. Catherine had several criticisms to make. The artist’s curiosity was aroused, and he asked Sister Dufes in a low voice whether this was the Sister of the Apparitions, but he received no reply. Shortly before her death, Catherine saw the finished plaster model from which the statue would be carved. Her disappointment was keen.
“Ah,” she exclaimed, making a face, “the Blessed Virgin was much more beautiful than that!”
Sister Dufes lost her temper. “You weary me, Sister Catherine,” she scolded in her old accustomed way. “How can you expect anyone on earth to depict what you saw? Catherine’s mission was fulfilled. Now she could die in peace. As the summer wore on, she began to speak openly of her death. “I will not see the New Year,” she would say. Everyone scoffed, of course. How could she know the moment of death? She did know, but would not argue the point; she would merely smile and say: “You will see.”
On August 15, her niece Marie brought the children to see her. As they were leaving, Catherine pressed a package into Marie’s hand.
“It is a first Communion present for the little one,” she explained.
“But she will not make her first Communion until May,” Marie protested in astonishment.
“Put it away until then,” Catherine said placidly. “I shall not be here in May.”
She began to take to her bed with more and more frequency. It became necessary to bleed her from time to time, so that she could breathe more easily, and to apply leeches in the kidney area. Both these treatments were used in former days to relieve high blood pressure, as well as the breathlessness that comes with hardening of the arteries and the consequent weakening of the heart. All of Catherine’s symptoms would seem to point to some cardio-vascular failure, a condition not uncommon at her age—she was past seventy—and to the complications induced by chronic asthma.
Catherine was still able to go out occasionally, usually to the Motherhouse to attend the monthly conference. On one of these visits, while the other Sisters were at dinner, Catherine led Sister Dufes into the chapel and pointed out the exact spot of the Apparitions, where the altar and statue were to go.
Once, as she climbed into the omnibus to return home—it was a feast day of Our Lady—Catherine slipped and fell. She said nothing, but a few minutes later one of the Sisters noticed that she held her hand wrapped in a handkerchief. She undertook to tease her about it.
“What treasure have you there, Sister Catherine?”
“It is a bouquet from Our Lady,” Catherine said, smiling. “She sends me one like it on every one of her feasts.” Upon examination, it was discovered that she had broken her wrist.
Father Chevalier had succeeded Father Chinchon as confessor at Enghien, and now he asked Catherine to write out, once more, a full account of the visions. It is amazing how well this last account agrees, even to the use of the same words and phrases, with the earlier accounts of 1841 and 1856. She had told the story many times over: Father Chinchon related that every year, as the twenty-seventh of November drew near, she felt urged to tell again the details of the vision.
Two weeks before Christmas, Catherine became so ill that she retired to her room, never to leave it again. She was not confined to bed exclusively; she found it easier to breathe if she sat in a chair from time to time. It was the beginning of the end, but her sufferings were not to be wholly physical. A certain Sister was assigned to nurse her who had neither the aptitude nor the willingness for the task. She was so slipshod, even rough, in her treatment of Catherine, that several of the Sisters were outraged and spoke their minds to the saint. Catherine refused, as always, to make the least unkind comment.
“She is not a worker,” was all she would say; and there is a wry humor in the remark.
Catherine was not to leave the earth without one more encounter with the redoubtable Sister Tanguy. The Assistant entered the sickroom one afternoon while another Sister was visiting Catherine. With scarcely a word of greeting, she asked brusquely:
“Have you taken your medicine?”
Catherine replied in the affirmative, but Sister Tanguy was not satisfied. Lifting the bottle to the light, she said sharply:
“You’ve done nothing of the kind. There isn’t a bit more missing since the last time!” And she proceeded to administer a veritable tongue-lashing to Catherine, in the presence of the visitor. Her conduct was all the more inexcusable since she knew that Catherine was the Sister of the visions. Sister Dufes had told her, with Catherine’s permission. Throughout the scolding, Catherine remained silent. When, finally, Sister Tanguy finished and left the room, the saint could hold her tongue no longer. Turning to her visitor she said, again with that characteristic dryness:
“That one hasn’t been to see me all day, and see the way she is when she does come! ”
Every day, Catherine grew weaker. She continued to remind the Sisters that she would die before the year was out, but there were so few days left in the month that the Sisters could still not believe that she would die so soon.
One of them ventured to ask her whether she was afraid to die. Catherine answered, with genuine astonishment:
“Why should I be afraid? I am going to see Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin and St. Vincent.”
Another Sister asked Catherine to beg Our Lady and St. Vincent, when she saw them, to intercede with God in behalf of certain special intentions of the Sister’s. Catherine’s reply revealed an unexpected naivete and childlike humility.
“I should be glad to do what you ask, but I am not sure that I shall be able to speak the language of Heaven.”
When the Sister laughingly assured the old lady that she would have no difficulty in doing so, Catherine promised to look after the matter.
On December 21, Sister Thomas stopped by to see her. The saint repeated the prediction of her death and added:
“They will not need a hearse for me.” Sister Thomas was either a very guileless person, or something of a ghoul, for she gaped at the saint and asked in amazement:
“How, then, will they carry so large a body? ”
“I am going to stay with you at Reuilly,” Catherine replied
“Furthermore, there will be no need of ribbons for my coffin.” (She referred to the ornamental cords which, by custom, hung from the pall and were carried by the pall bearers.) There can be little doubt that Catherine had her reasons for giving Sister Thomas this particular bit of information. At Catherine’s funeral, Sister Thomas was actually designated to hold one of the ornamental ribbons. She went to take hold of it, thinking to herself that this was one prophecy of Catherine’s that would not come true, when one of the bearers pushed her back, saying with some roughness:
“Get back, Sister, you are in our way.” She had no other choice but to obey, and so, even in death, Catherine won her point.
A few days later, an incident took place which brought trouble many years later. The nurse asked Catherine what she would like for breakfast.
“Anything will do,” was the reply. Indeed, her stomach was so upset in the mornings that she could scarcely bear to take anything but a little bouillon.
“It would be easier for me if you would mention something in particular.”
“Very well, then, a soft-boiled egg.”
From this very innocent conversation a rumor arose through some pious busybody, perhaps the reluctant nurse herself, that Catherine had shown a lack of mortification in asking for special food on her deathbed. The rumor persisted for nearly fifty years, and even found its way into the formal Inquiry of her sanctity, where the “Devil’s Advocate” alleged it as a sign that her holiness was not always so heroic as it seemed.
The last day of the year came, December 31, 1876, and Catherine was no worse than usual. In the afternoon, in fact, she rallied sufficiently to sit on the side of the bed and chat with her niece Marie. Reaching for her old worn purse, she gave Marie the last of her original Miraculous Medals. When it was time to go Marie bent to kiss her and said that she would come to wish her a Happy New Year in the morning.
“You shall see me,” Catherine answered, “but I shall not see you, for I shall not be here.”
Shortly after six o’clock, she took a sudden weak spell. The Sisters were hurriedly summoned and the prayers for the dying begun. She sank so rapidly that there was no time to carry out one of her dearest wishes. She had wanted each of the little orphans of the house to recite an invocation from the Litany of Our Lady as she entered her last agony. At seven o’clock, with no struggle, with scarcely a sigh, Catherine Laboure died.
Her death brought no sadness to the house. Death is never sad in religious houses, but the death of Sister Catherine seemed to leave with her Sisters a spirit of positive joy. As they filed into the refectory for supper, Sister Dufes rose to speak to them:
“Now that Sister Catherine is dead,” she began, “there is no more cause for silence.” And she went on to read to them Catherine’s own accounts of her visions. The Sisters listened with wonder and a growing excitement, for, in spite of the guesses and suspicions of years, no one had known for sure that Sister Catherine was the Sister of the Medal. The excitement spread to the outside, as the news ran quickly through the city. Crowds began to converge on Reuilly the next morning, and clergy, religious, and laity alike, took their places in the line stretching along the sidewalk, patiently awaiting the privilege of passing by the coffin of a saint.
At the time of Catherine’s death, her old friend, Sister Sejole, had been in a coma for three weeks. It was shouted into her ear that Catherine had died, and, rousing from her stupor, she cried:
“Then I must get ready!” It was as if the two had made a pact.
A saint’s story does not end with death. This was the beginning for Catherine, the start of her glory. She who had lived so hidden a life belonged now to the whole world. The change had been marked the night before when, after they had washed the body, the Sisters brought in a photographer to take a picture of her as she lay in state. Someone with a rather peculiar imagination suggested that they photograph her also, dressed in the novice’s habit she had worn when she saw Our Lady, and this, too, was done. There was something incongruous in the sight of the peaceful old face, lying there, framed in the costume of youth.
The funeral was set for January 3, 1877, at 10 o’clock. Sister Dufes was in a ferment. She wanted desperately to keep Catherine at Reuilly, but there was no place to bury her. On the morning of January z, as the Superior rose for morning meditation at four o’clock, she distinctly heard a voice, which said:
“There is a vault beneath the chapel.”
Sister Dufes had forgotten entirely about this vault. It was actually a storeroom, cut out of the earth, and had been boarded up for years. Hurriedly, it was opened and found to be suitable for a grave. The permission of the Superior General to bury Catherine here was easily gotten; permission of the civil authorities might be more difficult to obtain. Sister Dufes took no chances. She went directly to the top, to the wife of the President, Mme MacMahon. This great lady made the necessary arrangements promptly, and with no difficulty.
On the morning of the funeral, a large number of the clergy came to follow Catherine’s body to the grave. Hardly had the funeral procession got under way when it was transformed into a march of joy and triumph. The funeral chants became songs of rejoicing. The requiem, the sad appeal for mercy, was forgotten. Impelled by the Spirit of God, the voices of the faithful trumpeted the Magnificat of Our Lady. “My soul doth magnify the Lord!” Then, “Ave Maris Stella”—”Hail, Star of the Sea!” And finally, “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!” All sadness, all sorrow was gone like the mist of the morning. Amid shouts of gladness and acclaim, the humble Sister was laid to rest.
A few days later, the first cure took place. A child of ten, deprived from birth of the use of his limbs, was brought to Catherine’s tomb. In a scene strongly mindful of Christ’s healing of the paralytic at Capharnaum, the little boy was let down by ropes to the tomb in the chapel basement. Hardly had the child touched the stone when he stood erect and firm upon his feet. He was suddenly and wholly cured.
It was a distinct sign of God’s intention to glorify His servant. And yet, the work of God is not done hastily. In His own good time, He would reveal His further plans. And so, for the time, no thought was given to the introduction of Sister Catherine’s Cause of Beatification.
In 1895, it was decided to petition Rome for a feast day in honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. To this end, the documents recounting the Apparitions were sent to Cardinal Masella, prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The story impressed His Eminence deeply, especially the story of the little novice and the humble part she played as the bearer of Our Lady’s message to mankind. Filled with admiration for her virtue, he called upon Father Fiat, Superior General, and Mother Lamartinie, Superioress of the Sisters of Charity, to begin the process for Catherine’s Beatification.
The Superiors hesitated. It was the spirit of their rule to shrink from glory. Catherine herself had hidden from it all her long life. Did God wish otherwise now? “If you do not undertake it,” the Cardinal insisted, “I shall do it myself!” There was no longer any doubt or holding back. God had spoken in His official. In 1895 the Cause of the Servant of God, Sister Catherine Laboure, was introduced at Rome.
Rome does not hasten. Time counts for little with her, because her gaze is fixed upon eternity. In its bright, unending light she ponders all her problems. Catherine was with God just fifty years when her Cause came up for serious discussion.
Those fifty years had not been idle years. Necessary and exhaustive research into her sheltered life had occupied them But now all things were ready. The members of the Sacred Congregation of Rites were talking excitedly about “this amazing French nun” as they filed into the study of Cardinal Vanutelli on April 2, 1927. Enthusiastically they voted further, intensive consideration of the Cause.
Then, for some reason known only to God, things came to a standstill. Was it perhaps to bring forward two mighty champions for Catherine? Cardinal Ehrle, former director of the Vatican Library, and Father Ojetti, ex-secretary of the Commission of Canon Law, had both been removed from active participation in the sessions of the Congregation of Rites through illness. Now, hearing that the Cause of Catherine was in difficulty, they asked to return to the Congregation, and did in truth return, to the astonishment of everyone, even of the Pope. “The Cause of Sister Catherine Laboure,” they said, “is the Cause of the Immaculate Conception.”
Cardinal Ehrle, more than eighty years old and unable to walk, was carried to the Vatican for the general Congregation, and read a convincing and vigorous defense of the humble Sister.
Father Ojetti, confined to his home by an advanced paralysis, wrote to the Congregation: “I can use only my right hand and my pen, and it is my will to make them serve to uphold the Cause of the Immaculate Conception!”
The action of Divine Providence appeared still more forcibly in the intervention of Father Quentin, the realtor of the Historical Section of the Congregation of Rites. He was somewhat anxious. Only three days before the second preparatory Congregation, held on March 17, 1931, his attention was suddenly drawn to the canonical inquiry made in 1836, by order of the Archbishop of Paris, Msgr. de Quelen—a document of the first importance and an inexhaustible source of information about Sister Catherine. He worked night and day, preparing the results of this great “find,” overcame all opposition, and obtained by unanimous vote the triumph of the Cause of the Immaculate Conception. The day following this session, the Holy Father, rather unusually, ordered the continuation of the process. The decree on the Virtues of Sister Catherine was soon ready, and the Pope, in a moving discourse, traced a finished portrait of the Holy Sister.
The Beatification of Catherine Laboure, held in St. Peter’s on May 28, 1933, ranked in magnificence with those of Jeanne d’Arc and Therese of Lisieux, ceremonies which left a lasting memory in Rome.
The Church now ordered the exhumation of the body of the saint. It had lain, sealed in the vault beneath the chapel at Reuilly, for fifty-seven years. The coffin was carried to the rue du Bac, and there opened in the presence of Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, and a number of civil officials and doctors. As the lid was lifted, a gasp of astonishment ran through the group. Catherine lay there, as fresh and serene as the day she was buried. Her skin had not darkened in the least; the eyes which had looked on Our Lady were as intensely blue as ever, and—most remarkable of all—her arms and legs were as supple as if she were merely asleep.
Fourteen years later, on July 27, 1947, Catherine Laboure was formally declared a saint and raised to the full honors of the altar. At the close of the magnificent rites, Pope Pius XII spoke words which might well be engraved as the epitaph of Catherine Laboure, for they were, in effect, the story of her life.
Favored though she was with visions and celestial delights, she did not advertise herself to seek worldly fame, but took herself merely for the handmaid of God and preferred to remain unknown and to be reputed as nothing. And thus, desiring only the glory of God and of His Mother, she went meekly about the ordinary, and even the unpleasant, tasks that were assigned to her in the bosom of her Religious family.
She was always willing and ready to give diligent attention to the sick, ministering to their bodies and their souls; to wait upon the old and the infirm without sparing herself; to act as portress, receiving all with a serene and modest countenance; to cook; to mend torn and tattered clothing; to carry out, in a word, all the duties laid upon her, even the unattractive and onerous ones. And while she worked away, never idle but always busy and cheerful, her heart never lost sight of heavenly things: indeed she saw God uninterruptedly in all things and all things in God.
Impelled by the urging of love, she hurried eagerly before the tabernacle as often as she could, or before the sacred image of her holy Mother, to pour out the desires of her heart and to make an offering of the fragrance of her prayers. Accordingly, it was evident that while she dwelt in earthly exile, in mind and heart she lived in Heaven and sought, before everything else, to mount with rapid steps to the highest perfection, and to spend all her powers in reaching it. She loved the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary with a special warmth of piety; and she was ever on the watch to influence, by word and example, as many other persons as she could to love Them.
And thus when she came to the end of her mortal life, she did not face death with fear but with gladness. Confident in God and the most holy Virgin, she took time to distribute, with a weak and tremulous hand, the last of her Miraculous Medals to those standing by, and then, content and smiling, she hastened away to heaven.
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A HARD LOOK AT SOME PAINFUL NUMBERS
[Posted May 31, 2013] Oh, rats.
Today, I finally got a look at part of the 2012 State of the Judiciary Report. For those who, like me, actually enjoy poring over statistics to see what trends can be divined from them, this report is quite the goodie bag. It contains figures that are (or at least should be) of interest to every appellate practitioner, and plenty of trial lawyers, too. This report spells out how many petitions arrive at the justices’ door each year, and what the court does with them, at least in the aggregate.
In the past couple of years, I’ve focused on the writ-granted rate in civil cases, to see how appellants fared when seeking a writ. (In criminal cases, the news has always been bad, but now the probability of getting a writ is approaching lottery-ticket odds, as noted below.) Over that time, I’ve simply divided the number of writs granted by the numbers of writs acted upon (grants, plus refusals and procedural dismissals) to get an overall success rate. Stretching back over a couple of decades, that figure has danced around somewhat from year to year, but the long-term average is 21%.
And yet, I’ve concluded relatively recently that I should also calculate the odds of getting a writ assuming you don’t sustain a procedural dismissal. After all, an appellate lawyer should be able to eliminate the chance of a dismissal because of simple but fatal flaws like omitting assignments of error. Factoring procedural dismissals out of the equation gives a truer picture of how often the court grants a writ when it considers the “merits” of the petition.
That’s a fairly easy calculation – or at least it was, until this year. This year’s report no longer delineates between procedural dismissals and refusals; it simply lumps them into a single figure, with the agonizing notation, “Counts for Procedural Dismissal are not shown.” Rats! So much for my attempt to be more exact.
Despite this, we’ll make the best of what we have. Here are the trends that emerge from an evaluation of the most recent stats:
Fillings were down slightly overall – 2,216 last year, as compared with 2,333 in 2011. The court’s overall incoming workload was down about 5% in comparison with 2011. But this drop continues a four-year decline in petitions filed; in 2009, there were 2,639 petitions of all types filed. That’s a drop of 16% in just four years.
Civil filings remained constant at exactly 600 petitions in each year. This is one area in which the court’s caseload has, subject to annual wobbles, remained within a relatively tight range.
Criminal petitions have been falling – there were just 1,016 criminal petitions in 2012. That’s down a whopping 23% from just two years ago.
The justices are granting fewer writs than they have in even the very recent past. Here’s the overall grant rate (which includes procedural dismissals) in civil appeals for the past six years:
Note that each of these numbers is fairly close to the norm of 21%. But behold:
Now let’s compare the rate in criminal appeals. If you’re a defense lawyer, you might want to sit down and maybe pour yourself a wee dram before reading these numbers:
2007: 4.1%
In other words, the Supreme Court is refusing or dismissing 59 out of every 60 criminal petitions. The justices are essentially getting out of the criminal-appeal business, giving unexpected credence to my recent tongue-in-cheek observation that the Court of Appeals is becoming, in effect, the court of last resort in Virginia for criminal appeals.
But the drop in civil writs, if it continues, signals a reduction in that docket, too. For the nine-year period from 1993-2001, the court averaged 235 writs (of all types) a year. The next nine-year stretch, going into 2010, was down noticeably, but the court still averaged 194 writs a year. In the past two years, we’ve seen 152 and 123, respectively.
What about 2013? According to the court’s website, there have been 31 writs granted this year. Today is the last day of May, so the math is easy; at this pace, we’re headed for something like 75 grants in a calendar year, a rate that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The bottom is dropping out of the writ market.
How does this affect you, my loyal readers? It depends on who you are.
If you win your case in the trial court, smile. The odds of your getting reversed were always small, but these days, they’re shrinking.
If you’re a prosecutor, you’re already smiling and you don’t need any advice from me.
If you’re an appellant, know that you now have a tougher row to hoe. There’s no way to calculate the odds of getting a reversal in specific circumstances (for example, it’s easier when a trial judge takes away a jury verdict, and harder when the other side got the verdict and a judgment), so as they say in the advertisements, “Your results may vary.”
Now, once a writ is granted, the odds for the appellant brighten substantially. The long-term historic trend is that the court reverses, in whole or in part, 60% of the time after a grant. That being said, 2012 was the third year in a row in which the court affirmed more often than it reversed after argument on the merits. But fluctuations like that are common; if the trend is still around in another three years, I’ll start to suspect a change.
If you’re an appellate lawyer, then, candidly, it’s becoming a lot tougher to ply your trade, unless you’re one of those lucky souls who always represent appellees. The field of appellate practice was, until very recently, a growth sector in the practice of law. This set of statistics, and its slightly older brethren, convince me that that’s no longer the case. There will always be demand for excellence, in any field of practice, so I won’t try to dissuade my pals in the appellate bar from pressing onward. But fewer petitions and fewer writs mean less work for those of us who venture to Ninth and Franklin for our livelihood.
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For Mexicans, the Donald Trump candidacy is getting scarier
Joshua Partlow | The Washington Post August 18, 2015 August 18, 2015
U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump exits New York Supreme Court after morning jury duty on Aug. 17, 2015. (Don Emmert/AFP)
MEXICO CITY — If Donald Trump were president, he would have Mexico pay to build a wall along its 2,000-mile border to keep itself out.
He’d block the billions of dollars that Mexicans illegally in the United States send home to their families. And prevent their children born in the U.S. from automatically becoming U.S. citizens.
There wouldn’t be many of these children, however, because Trump would be deporting millions of undocumented Mexicans — all of them, if he had his way.
How does that sound, Mexico?
“We don’t know if we should laugh or if we should cry,” said Guadalupe Loaeza, a prominent Mexican columnist. “We think he’s really a nightmare.”
The longer he floats atop the polls, the more Donald Trump has started to make people here feel a bit queasy, forcing them to contemplate whether his candidacy is really something they need to worry about. As Trump published his immigration proposals this week, Mexicans expressed growing concern about his bid for the Republican nomination.
“What he says makes me laugh, but it’s a nervous laughter,” said Gustavo Vega Canovas, a professor at the international studies center of the prestigious College of Mexico. “His comments sound to me like Germany in the 1930s, when they made Jews responsible for everything that was happening.”
“He’s playing with the fears of an important part of the American population,” Vega added. “Perhaps that will help him win the nomination, but it won’t help with the election, because he won’t have the Hispanic vote that is very important.”
Trump has said that he respects Mexico and is trying to defend the needs of working Americans. But he has caused outrage in Mexico by labeling border-crossers drug dealers and rapists.
The Mexican government has tried mostly to stay above the fray. Over the past few months, Foreign Minister José Antonio Meade and other top officials have gone on record with their displeasure about Trump’s comments. But they’ve also chosen not to engage Trump’s near-daily anti-Mexico barrages, in part because the candidate’s proposals change so often and also because officials don’t expect he’ll be president.
“We haven’t even considered that seriously,” a senior diplomat in Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said about the possibility of a Trump victory. “Otherwise I think we would be combating it verbally.” He spoke on the condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.
Even if he doesn’t win, Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration could have a lasting impact. His keep-’em-out rhetoric seems to have influenced other candidates, such as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who said this week his position on immigration is “very similar” to Trump’s.
Asked how the Mexican government views Trump’s immigration plan, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday that “we continue to stand by our position that these comments reflect prejudice, racism or plain ignorance.”
“Anyone who understands the depth of the U.S.-Mexico relationship realizes that those proposals are not only prejudiced and absurd, but would be detrimental to the well-being of both societies,” the statement said.
The Mexican government issued a fact sheet noting that the more than 33 million people of Mexican origin in the United States account for 8 percent of the GDP, that there are more than 2 million Hispanic entrepreneurs in the United States, and that trade between the two countries has reached $530 billion per year.
“What Trump is missing here is that this is a relationship that is a mutually beneficial one for both countries,” Arturo Sarukhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States, told MSNBC. “At the end of the day, Mexico and the United States will either fail or succeed together, and that a rising tide will lift boats on both sides of the border.”
Trump’s comments have already burned bridges between his companies and his Mexican partners. Billionaire businessman Carlos Slim’s Ora TV and the Mexican entertainment giant Televisa canceled projects with Trump, including broadcasting his Miss Universe pageant.
Trump’s threat to block remittances from immigrant workers struck Mexicans as particularly provocative.
“We’re living in a moment of profound crisis, with the fall of petroleum prices and public finances in a very bad state; this would lead to the destruction of the economic system,” said Rodolfo García Zamora, an economics professor at the University of Zacatecas.
“There’s very little feasible about this declaration,” he added, “but it increases the culture of fear and aggression against migrants.”
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The second amendment is about the military, not the individual
Sunday, November 22, 2015 Mike No comments
This post is the fourth part of my response on a gun control thread on Facebook. Specifically, my response to:
4. The second amendment doesn't guarantee individual rights to self defense, only those in military service can bear arms.
This falsehood is based on articles like this one in the NY Time, which says “Most federal appeals courts have said that the amendment read as a whole protects only a collective right of the states to maintain militias.” But appeals courts are not infallible.
The second amendment reads:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
The whole controversy rests on whether the first phrase constrains the second to refer only to states' militias. Before we get into the law and history involved, let's try a little experiment. Replace the “controversial” terms with equivalent “neutral” terms and see how a reasonable person would interpret it.
A well educated electorate being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
So, in the above statement, who has the right to keep and read books? Registered voters, or the people? It is pretty clear that the first phrase merely defines the purpose for the statement, not a limitation. The Supreme court agrees. In D.C. v. Heller the majority opinion states:
The Second Amendment is naturally divided into two parts: its prefatory clause and its operative clause. The former does not limit the latter grammatically, but rather announces a purpose. The Amendment could be rephrased, "Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
The Bill of Rights contains two other amendments which use the phrase “the right of the people.” In both cases the phrase refers to an individual right.
Amendment 1: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Amendment 4: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Furthermore a grammatical analysis of the second amendment reveals
"The words 'A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,'... constitutes a present participle, rather than a clause. It is used as an adjective, modifying 'militia,' which is followed by the main clause of the sentence (subject 'the right', verb 'shall').
The to keep and bear arms is asserted as an essential for maintaining a militia.
"The sentence does not restrict the right to keep and bear arms, nor does it state or imply possession of the right elsewhere or by others than the people; it simply makes a positive statement with respect to a right of the people."
We can also look at the founders and framers of the Constitution to see what they said relevant to the second amendment.
George Mason said “I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” (Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1778).
Richard Henry Lee said “A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms... To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms… The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle.” (Letters From the Federal Farmer to the Republican, Letter XVIII, January 25, 1788)
Samuel Adams said “And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms...” (Debates of the Massachusetts Convention of February 6, 1788)
Thomas Jefferson wrote “False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. Laws that forbid the carrying of arms laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they act rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment)
He also wrote “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.” (Letter to Peter Carr, 178)
Thomas Paine wrote “The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them.” (Thoughts on Defensive War, 1775)
Realize that the second amendment, while it affirms the natural right to self defense, states explicitly that the people have the right to defend themselves and their community against not only criminals, but armies, both foreign and domestic. Therefore such things as “assault weapons” bans are unconstitutional. The quotes around “assault weapons” are because the weapons banned by these laws are, according to the federal government's own definitions not assault weapons. In fact, when the federal government buys more powerful, more deadly versions of these firearms, they call them “personal defense weapons” or PDWs.
The founders of our country considered the second amendment to be an individual right.
A grammatical analysis of the second amendment affirms it to be referring to an individual right.
The Supreme Court has affirmed multiple times that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right.
Self defense is a limited right
This post is the third part of my response on a gun control thread on Facebook. Specifically, my response to:
3. Self defense is a natural right, but it is not unlimited.
This statement is obvious, and I agree with it. The problem is it's being used to justify the disarming of law abiding citizens because they don't “need” a gun. So let's get into the moral and ethical side of self defense.
What does a right to self defense mean? It means that you have a God-given right to preserve your own life against someone who would take it, or cause you serious harm. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2263 The legitimate defense of persons and societies is not an exception to the prohibition against the murder of the innocent that constitutes intentional killing. "The act of self-defense can have a double effect: the preservation of one's own life; and the killing of the aggressor... The one is intended, the other is not."
2264 Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to insist on respect for one's own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow:
If a man in self-defense uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if he repels force with moderation, his defense will be lawful... Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one's own life than of another's.
2265 Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others. The defense of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.
It's pretty explicitly stated in 2265 “those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.” One could argue that this is restricted to police and military, since it talks about the "civil community". However, the basic unit of a community is the family and parents have legitimate authority over the family. I would therefore claim that this statement includes parents in the explicit right to bear arms.
Furthermore limiting this to police and military has a problem in that police are not charged with repelling aggressors, but merely arresting those who have broken the law. Several Supreme court cases have affirmed the fact that the police do not have a duty to protect citizens. So a narrow view of this would be that only the military can bear arms.
Even conceding a narrow view of paragraph 2265, what does the rest of it say about firearms? Note that “Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow” so lethal weapons are not out of the question.
What constitutes a legitimate means of self defense? Certainly one has the right to use one's body to defend itself (e.g. fists). But what if a 5 foot tall 90 pound woman is being attacked by a 6 foot 5, 290 pound man? Saying she has the right to use fists is essentially denying her any effective defense.
Any effective means of self defense must at least even the odds of the defender and attacker. In a
world where attackers are likely to be armed with deadly weapons (knives, guns, etc.) anything less than that is really no defense at all. There is an old adage “God made men, Sam Colt made men equal” referring to firearms manufacturer Colt. There is some truth to the saying.
A 5 foot tall 90 pound woman can hold off a much larger stronger attacker if she possesses a firearm and knows how to use it. There really isn't another weapon that can effectively stop an attacker who is physically superior. I'm not saying everyone should have a firearm, I'm saying that the right to self defense implies a right to be able to morally possess a firearm.
A right to self defense requires a right to tools sufficient to defend oneself from likely attacks.
Police have no duty to protect citizens from criminal attack.
Since attackers are likely to have deadly weapons (knives, guns, bats) defenders should have recourse to similar tools.
Firearms are the only practical means of self defense against a physically stronger attacker.
Legal concealed weapon holders are a menace to society
Monday, November 16, 2015 Mike No comments
This post is the second part of my response on a gun control thread on Facebook. Specifically, my response to:
2. Legal concealed weapon holders are a menace to society/toddlers are dying at more than one per week due to "legal" gun owners.
The articles responsible for the second part of this claim are the “People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis this year” and “L. A. to require that stored handguns be locked up or disabled.”
In this case, the data is sort of accurate. It's not easy to find numbers of toddlers shooting people, but if we look at children under 5 killed by being shot accidentally, there are 30 per year. And that is a shame.
L.A. City Councilman Paul Krekorian said in the L.A. Times article “It’s unacceptable to live in a country where it’s more dangerous to be a preschooler than to be a police officer — and we can do something about that today.”
It is true that it is more dangerous to be a preschooler (death rate 25/100,000) than to be a police officer (death rate 15/100,000) but claiming that accidental shootings by lawful firearm owners are to blame is a lie.
If you look at the deaths of all children under five, you would be hard pressed to find a firearm death. That 30 deaths per year is competing with the 27,500 deaths from other causes.
Car accidents claim around 500 toddlers a year, but we don't ban cars on that basis. There are 400 toddlers a year lost to drownings. If our goal is to save the toddlers, we have a number of areas that will give more “bang for the buck” than harassing law abiding citizens.
In fact, the case can be made that innocent lives are saved by having unsecured firearms available. Just this week there was a story about a 13 year old boy who used his mother's gun to defend himself against armed intruders. Had this boy lived where this law was enacted, he could be dead now.
According to a 1993 survey, firearms are used in self defense 162,000 times per years in situations where the victim believed he would have been killed had he not used a firearm (this data excludes military law enforcement and security guards).
The majority opinion in the Supreme Court case D.C. v. Heller states:
Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional.
Understand I am all for protecting children from harmful things. When my kids were too little to understand I kept child proof locks on all the cabinets that had cleaning supplies and other poisons. But once they were old enough I removed those locks. There are already laws on the books against allowing minors access to firearms, just as there are laws on the books against negligently giving poisons to children; but we don't write laws that require all household poisons to be locked up at all times.
Now let's turn to the more general question: are lawful concealed weapons holders a threat to the public? Let's divide this into two parts, since they are different and the data is collected differently.
There are two ways a concealed weapon holder can be a danger. First off, they could become violent and shoot someone. Secondly, they could be well meaning but accidentally shoot someone.
So let's look at how many concealed weapon holders shoot someone in rage. There are no specific numbers for that, but when someone is convicted of a crime so they lose their conceal weapon holder's license, and we can track that. Understand that this includes not just a concealed weapons holder shooting someone intentionally, but any felony crime committed by a concealed weapons holder. According to the Florida Department of Justice that rate is 0.02%. Another study showed that while the crime rate for the general population is 3,813/100,000 and the crime rate for police is 124/100,000, the crime rate for concealed weapons holders in Florida is 12.5/100,000. In Texas that rate is 20/100,000
That means concealed weapons holders are 6 to 10 time less likely to commit a crime (with or without their firearms) than police officers. If you want to save people from being shot, disarming police would be a better thing to do than disarming concealed weapon holders. Understand that I respect the police and am not in any way claiming they are criminal or dangerous – I am saying that calling concealed weapon holders dangerous to society is even more absurd than calling police dangerous to society.
The second way a concealed weapons holder could be a danger to society would be to accidentally shoot people. Going back to my earlier CDC data, the total for all accidental firearm deaths in the US is 508 per year. There are over 300 million firearms in the US, owned by 110 million citizens. 38% of all households have at least one gun, and there are over 2 million licensed concealed weapons holders (plus six states, Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Maine, Vermont, and Wyoming have “Constitutional carry”, meaning you can carry a concealed weapon with no license required). All of those law abiding citizens carrying concealed weapons result in less than 508 firearm deaths (the 508 includes all deaths, not just from people carrying concealed weapons). Again, compared to the 130,557 accidental deaths per year it is hard to say that firearms are a major factor.
Accidental firearm deaths are extremely rare
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Steeplechase runner Naveen Dagar disqualified after failing dope test
The newspapers reported that Steeplechase runner Naveen Dagar who had won a bronze medal in the 2014 Asiad for India has been disqualified for the 2018 Asian games to be held in Jakarta later in August 2018 after he failed a doping test
He was one of india’s top medal hopes for the 3000 m steeplechase, and now no athlete will represent india in the steeplechase event
Dagar tested positive for the drug meldonium, and a second test is being carried to confirm the presence of the drug.
The russian tennis star Maria sharapova had also tested positive for the same drug and was banned from professional tennis for a period of two years.
He joins the long list of indian athletes who were found guilty of consuming prohibited substances and failing the dope tests. In a clear indication of the lack of accuracy of online reporting, in some articles Naveen Dagar has been mentioned as Naveen Kumar, yet Google ranks these articles well.
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