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There are five Church of England churches serving Hesket Parish, all of which fall within the diocese of Carlisle. There is also a Methodist Chapel, situated between Calthwaite and Plumpton.
The Church of Christ and St Mary’s
Armathwaite, Carlisle
The Church itself is a Grade II listed building. Built in the fifteenth century, it was extensively restored in both the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. The Church houses several stained glass windows, in particular an unusual and attractive stained glass window dating from 1914 supplied by the William Morris Company. It also features a bespoke tapestry, sewn by local people in the late twentieth century.
The Reverend Philip Dorling can be contacted on 016974 73320, or by email at philipdorling123@btinternet.com. Further details about the church can be found here.
Calthwaite, Penrith
Built in 1913 from local Lazonby sandstone, the church was designed by local architect J H Martindale. Decorative stone and woodwork adorn the inside of the building, particularly to the roof, with a unique opera box stone pulpit attached to an interior wall.
Contact details for the Reverend Philip Dorling are as above. Further details about the church can be found here.
St Mary the Virgin’s Church
High Hesket, Carlisle
The church is a Grade II listed building. Built in the early eighteenth century, incorporating the remains of a previous medieval church, there is believed to have been a church in the village since as early as 1340. The chancel dates from 1537, with the nave and aisle being rebuilt in the early 1700’s and the two storey porch later in the same century. In 2004, a replica of the large eighteenth century sundial which adorns the south wall of the nave was commissioned. In the church yard, there is a Grade II listed vault, belonging to the Parker family.
Ivegill, Carlisle
The church was built in 1868, largely of Ivegil stone, designed by local architects Wither and Putney. The church features an unusual polygonal bell-turret and buttress on the west wall. It also features several decorative stained glass windows as well as three elaborately carved oak panels. A Millennium Tapestry sewn in 2000 by parishioners depicting local scenes is displayed in the church.
St John the Evangelist Church
Plumpton, Penrith
The church is Grade II listed. Built in 1907/8, it was designed by architect Robert Lorimer, and faced with local Lazonby Fell sandstone. It also features intricately carved oak furnishings to the interior. The Lych Gate entrance was built to match the materials of the church, and was erected as a war memorial to those who fell during the First World War, 1914-1918.
The Reverend David Sargent can be contacted on 017688 63000 or by email at revdave.sargent@outlook.com. Further details can be found here.
Cottage Wood Centre
Plumpton, Pentrith
Formerly the Plumpton Backstreet Chapel, the chapel was first built in the early eighteenth century by Congregationalists. It was then taken over by Presbyterians and later Wesleyan, who eventually bought the chapel in the late 1800’s. Today it is still used as place of worship, and also as a local community centre.
Further details can be found on their website, here.
Details of Church of England Churches are sourced from the Diocese of Carlisle website.
Details of Cottage Wood Centre are sourced from their website.
Photographs are reproduced with the kind permission of Martin and Jean Norgate of lakesguides.co.uk
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Michelle Williams Checks into Mental Health Facility to Tackle Her Depression [VIDEO]
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REEL TO REAL
Background Essay: Women in Government
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Kagan, Elena
O'Connor, Sandra Day
Sotomayor, Sonia
Baseball's Rise in Popularity in the 1900s
The Reinvention of the American Amusement Park
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RBG: The Life and Work of Justice Ginsburg
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[DATE POSTED: May 7, 2018]—Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become a political and cultural icon, and the documentary, RBG, is a celebration of the Supreme Court justice's life and work. The documentary is a CNN Films project directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, and its release on May 4, 2018, was just two months short of the 25th anniversary of Ginsburg's confirmation hearings in July of 1993. The filmmakers focus on Ginsburg's legacy as an advocate for gender equality on the Supreme Court; but they also include flashes into her personal life as well as her early career, covering her multiple arguments before the Court that championed women's rights. The directors also have fun with their subject, looking at her unlikely friendship with Antonin Scalia—who was often on the opposing side of her opinions—her tenacious workout routine, and her rising fame with younger generations fueled by her regular portrayal on Saturday Night Live.
Ginsburg is one of only four women in American history to serve on the Supreme Court. Her experiences and achievements, as well as those of her fellow women Justices, illustrate the determination that was needed, and the many challenges women faced, to achieve success in the political sphere.
Use the Instruction and Background Resources in the drop-down menu on the left to guide students' library or classroom research into this history. The Instruction will support student analysis of the reference articles. The Background Essay and biographies of the four women to serve on the Supreme Court will contextualize the experiences of women in government and highlight the obstacles and accomplishments of the first women to serve as Supreme Court justices.
"Rbg: the Life and Work of Justice Ginsburg." History Hub, ABC-CLIO, 2019, historyhub.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/2148993. Accessed 19 July 2019.
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All But One Accepted at Rolex
ALL EQUESTRIAN | EVENTING DAILY
Defending champion Michael Jung of Germany keeps an eye on the competition during the first horse inspection at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Land Rover. (Photo: Michelle Dunn)
Lexington, KY - The starting field of 60 has been whittled down by one following the first horse inspection at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Land Rover. Known as the "Best Weekend All Year," the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event Presented by Land Rover is being held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, April 27-30.
The ground jury of Christina Klingspor of Sweden (President), Nick Burton of Great Britain and David Lee of Ireland evaluated the fitness of horses from the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Germany, Australia, France, New Zealand and Mexico before a keen crowd of about 2,000 fans on Wednesday afternoon.
Colleen Rutledge and Covert Rights were held for re-inspection before Rutledge chose to withdraw in the holding box. Also held were Jordan Linstedt and Revitavet Capato, but they were accepted upon re-inspection.
Certainly a favorite to take home the top prize this weekend is Germany's Michael Jung and his superstar mare FischerRocana FST--the pair won this event in 2015 and 2016. But among his prominent rivals for the $400,000 prize money will be former Rolex Kentucky champions Phillip Dutton, who won in 2008 on Connaught, and Kim Severson, who won in 2002, 2004 and 2005 on Winsome Adante.
This year, Dutton will ride Fernhill Fugitive, I'm Sew Ready and the veteran Mr. Medicott and Severson will ride Cooley Cross Border, a young horse she has been developing. If Jung wins again, he will be the first person to have won Rolex Kentucky for three consecutive years.
Kim Severson is back with a new horse and hopes to recapture her winning ways at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Land Rover. (Photo: Michelle Dunn)
The riders will be aiming for the top prizes that will be awarded on Sunday, including the coveted Rolex watch. The total prize money is $400,000-a $50,000 increase from last year--of which $130,000 will go to the winner.
Dressage competition gets underway on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. with a special test ride by the retiring Ballynoe Castle RM and his long-time groom Kathleen Blauth-Murray. The first competitor will enter the ring at 10:10 a.m. After the final competitor rides on Thursday, Alison Springer and Arthur will do one last dressage performance in Rolex Stadium, in a farewell performance for fans. Dressage action resumes Friday at 9:00 a.m. Saturday features the cross-country phase, the heart of the competition, with the climactic show jumping phase concluding the event on Sunday.
The Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event is the nation's premier Three-Day Event and one of the most prestigious equestrian competitions in the world. The International Equestrian Federation (FEI), the world's governing body of equestrian sports, has designated the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event as a 'Four Star' eventing competition, the highest designation, which is given only to the Olympic Games, World Championships, and six annual events around the world. "Rolex Kentucky" is the only Four Star event in the Western Hemisphere and is part of the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing. It hosts the Dubarry of Ireland Nations Team Challenge and serves as the Rolex/USEF CCI4* Eventing National Championship.
Spectators can enjoy a world-class three-day event competition and shop at the Sponsor Village and International Trade Fair with almost 200 booths and tents. Rolex Kentucky also features tailgating, a fund-raising farm-to-table dinner Thursday evening, on-site beer garden, 5K race on Friday evening, Land Rover test drives and Champions Live! on Sunday morning. Ticket buyers also receive general admission to the Kentucky Horse Park, America's only theme park dedicated to horses.
The Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event will be broadcast on NBC on Sunday, May 7, from 1:30-3:00 p.m. EDT. USEFNetwork.com will livestream the competition in its entirety live as it happens and will also have the coverage available on demand. FEITV.org will also livestream the event internationally.
Equestrian Events, Inc. (EEI) is a non-profit charitable Kentucky corporation that was established initially to produce the 1978 World Three-Day Event Championships at the Kentucky Horse Park. Following the success of those championships, EEI established an annual event that evolved into the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event.
The official charity of this year's Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event is Central Kentucky Riding for Hope (CKRH). Further information is available at the event's official website at www.RK3DE.org.
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How to Get Planning Permission in 2018 (Essential Planning Permission Books)
Written by Leon Abrien. Last updated: April 5, 2018
Although we generally advise against homeowners trying to apply themselves for planning permission due to the complexity of regulations and the tediousness of dealing with Local Planning Authorities, we do believe it’s a good idea for them to learn what’s involved in this process, why some practices have more success than others and why some local councils have different sets of rules that come into the decision process of whether to grant approval for a project or turn it down. Or you even apply to get planning permission yourselves if you feel confident enough.
Also see Essential books for home extension builders, homeowners, architects, students and other professionals.
As with other subjects, we’ve put together a list of books that we think are the most representative for the subject they approach. These are in general essential reference materials for anyone trying to understand how certain things work and why they work that way in the world of human structures of the UK, but they can also serve the architecture, development, drafting, surveying specialists and students as guides for the various new projects and situations they encounter in their jobs, as well as being must-haves for every practice in the UK.
We’ve only mentioned the planning permission books that we deem are the most important for the general public and some construction and architectural related activities, so list below is by no means complete or addressing all the issues related to the matter. Please feel free to suggest other materials in the comments, if you believe they belong here.
How to Get Planning Permission, 5th Ed (2016), by Roy Speer
How to Get Planning Permission, 2016
Now at its 5th edition (2016), How to Get Planning Permission for newbuilds, extensions, conversions and alterations also includes some generic handy information about how to appeal when plans don’t get approved by the Local Planning Authority, it’s completely redesigned and properly updated to include the latest regulations.
AMAZONWaterstones
The sort of book that it’s always good to keep on the shelve for when needed (and, from experience we say that sooner or later it will be needed if your practice has had an occasional bad period in terms of plans approval), How to Get Planning Permission provides good coverage of the planning world overall, as someone said, but if you’re to looking to get a deeper understanding on some of the chapters, having a look at the Local Authorities’ supporting documents section will help you for sure.
The material is written clearly and with great attention to laying out information as simple as possible while not skipping on any of the important stuff. In our opinion the authors managed to do a better job in explaining (using easy to understand examples and sample forms) how to overcome application refusals in the previous edition, but that’s just us, your experience may differ in that respect. The essential is that this edition is packed with valuable advice and insider tips (both Speer and Dade are Chartered Planning and Development Surveyors with degrees in Estate Management and they also run their own planning practice) and it includes sample letters, forms and plans. A must-have, if you ask us.
[…] What is planning permission? Do you need it? Who gives it? How’s the decision made? The answers to these questions aren’t always easy to find out. Planning permission can be a complex subject. The people you might turn to immediately – builders, solicitors and architects – often don’t fully understand all the technicalities, procedural requirements and tactical points. In the first part of this book we look at the basics of planning permission, what it, when you need it, who grants it and how it’s decided.
Planning Permission (2016), by Richard Harwood
Planning Permission, 2016
This brand new title that sets out the law and practice of planning applications, appeals and challenges, particularly focussing on the need for planning permission and the concept of development, permitted development rights, applying for planning permission and the consideration of applications by local authorities and planning appeals, among other very relevant themes.
A no-nonsense book that keeps the readers’ eyes on the ball and considered a thorough work on the law and practice in England and Wales, the material is nevertheless sizeable with its 1248 pages long (appendices included) and can be a bit of an effort to go through it for the uninitiated, being aimed primarily at the professionals.
Dealing with why planning permission is needed, how it is obtained by permitted development, planning applications and orders, this essential new title starts with the concept of development, the need for planning permission and permitted development rights and we recommend that it should be obtained by all professionals dealing with property and conveyancing or development. This thoroughly practical and comprehensive guide on all aspects of planning law for practitioners also covers other means of obtaining planning permission, such as local development orders, and discusses the relevant proposals in the Housing and Planning Bill.
Planning Permission analyses the legal rules and caselaw, including the 2015 orders. Practical advice is given on making and responding to applications, dealing with planning committees, Ministerial interventions, appeals and call-ins. The operation of the Planning Court is also addressed from the practitioner’s perspective. Helpful appendices include the relevant parts of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the Development Management Procedure Order 2015, the General Permitted Development Order 2015, the Use Classes Order and the appeal rules and regulations.
A Practical Approach to Planning Law 13th Ed (2015), by Michael Purdue, Victor Moore
A Practical Approach to Planning Law 2015
Originally published in 1987, A Practical Approach to Planning Law has reached its 13th edition in 2015 and it now incorporates all the latest major legislative changes that should concern surveyors, solicitors and the general public (to a certain degree), including the ditching of thousands of pages of Circulars, PPGs, PPSs (and other government planning policy guidance) and the adoption of the National Planning Policy Framework.
Planning law is one of the most rapidly moving legal areas, with major structural changes to the planning system occurring in recent years. Despite these attempts at simplification, it remains one of the most complex fields for both students and practitioners to navigate. In this continually evolving arena the thirteenth edition of A Practical Approach to Planning Law is an authoritative and reliable resource for all those working in the area, providing a comprehensive and systematic account of the principles and practice of planning law. The text guides the reader through each stage of the planning process, from permission applications through to disputes and appeals in a clear and accessible style.
Containing coverage of all recent cases as well as important legislative and policy developments since the publication of the previous edition, particularly those arising out of the Localism Act 2011, the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013, the Enterprise and Regulation Reform Act 2013 and the National Planning Policy Framework, this new edition provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for professionals and students alike.
Complete Planning Permission: How to get it, stop it or alter it (2014), by Roy Speer, Mike Dade
Complete Planning Permission: How to get it, stop it or alter it (2014)
Although “How to get Planning Permission” book (#1, above) is pretty much an updated version of this, this material is still an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn more about obtaining planning permission, particularly because it’s written in a way that makes it very easy to understand the laws and procedures regarding this activity. The price is roughly the same, so it’s comes down to personal preferences.
Some people prefer this one for its simplicity, but you can argue either way for some advantage. Ideally, they should complement each other, so you have the best overview possible can over the subject.
[…] With a step-by-step guide to every part of the application process and exhaustive coverage of the do’s and don’ts, this is an essential guide to securing that first step on the path to building your dream home. And if you’re worried about a nearby development, there are easily implemented strategies for preventing planning permission from being granted.
Do You Require Planning Permission? 3rd Ed(2014), by John Crean
Do You Require Planning Permission? (2014)
Do You Require Planning Permission? contains a clear statement as to whether permission is required in a given situation, with visual aids to assist where necessary. The book also alerts the reader to areas where the opinion of an expert should be sought as development issues are likely to be more complex. This new edition incorporates changes made under the Planning Act 2000 and the Planning Regulations 2001.
It is intended as an easy to use reference guide for solicitors, planning consultants, architects, surveyors, engineers and builders in negotiating the area of exempted development and determining what does and what doesn’t require planning permission.
This material is part of the What is the Law series handbooks for anyone who requires an understanding of the law and its procedures. Avoiding legalese and technical jargon (though some of it is literally unavoidable if one has to follow the specialist vocabulary), these books explain the fundamentals of a particular subject in clear straightforward language – answering common questions that arise.
Do you need help with planning permission applications? Why not drop us an email and we could save you all the headache.
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Old Harry Rocks
Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. They mark the most easterly point of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England
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Old Harry and his (latest) wife
Old Harry Rocks lies directly east of Studland, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Swanage, and about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the large towns of Poole and Bournemouth. To the south are the chalk cliffs of Ballard Down, much of which is owned by the National Trust. The rocks can be viewed from the Dorset section of the South West Coast Path.
The chalk of Old Harry Rocks used to be part of a long stretch of chalk between Purbeck and the Isle of Wight, but remained as a headland after large parts of this seam were eroded away. As the headland suffered hydraulic action (a process in which air and water are forced into small cracks by the force of the sea, resulting in enlarging cracks), first caves, then arches formed. The tops of the arches collapsed after being weakened by rainfall and wind, leaving disconnected stacks. One of these stacks is known as Old Harry. Old Harry's Wife was another stack which was eroded through corrosion and abrasion, until the bottom was so weak the top fell away, leaving a stump. Hydraulic action is the main cause of erosion (sheer force of the wave) that damaged the rock and caused it to fall away.
The downlands of Ballard Down are formed of chalk with some bands of flint, and were formed approximately 66 million years ago. The bands of stone have been gradually eroded over the centuries, some of the earlier stacks having fallen (Old Harry's original wife fell in 1509), while new ones have been formed by the breaching of narrow isthmuses.[1] Across the water to the east The Needles on the Isle of Wight are usually visible. These are also part of the same chalk band and only a few thousand years ago were connected to Ballard Down.
To form the stacks, the sea gradually eroded along the joints and bedding planes where the softer chalk meets harder bedrock of the rock formations to create a cave. This eventually eroded right through to create an arch. The arch subsequently collapsed to leave the stacks of Old Harry and his wife, No Man's Land and the gap of St Lucas' Leap. The large outcrop of rock at the end of the cliffs is often referred to as "No Man's Land".
Old Harry is formed by erosion processes, which will eventually remove the stack, whilst new stacks develop. Some people desire to preserve the rocks and protect them from the erosive processes that formed Old Harry. The National Trust, who own the stacks in perpetuity, have experience in looking after the coast, and have found that "working with natural processes is the most sustainable approach".[2]
There are various stories about the naming of the rocks. One legend says that the Devil (traditionally known euphemistically as "Old Harry") slept on the rocks. Another local legend says that the rocks were named after Harry Paye, the infamous Poole pirate, whose ship hid behind the rocks awaiting passing merchantmen.[3] Yet another tale has it that a ninth-century Viking raid was thwarted by a storm and that one of the drowned, Earl Harold, was turned into a pillar of chalk.[4]
^ "Geology of Harry Rock sand Ballard Point". Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
^ Shifting Shores. Living with a changing coastline (National Trust)
^ "Old Harry - Purbeck landmark". National Trust.
^ Fellows, Griff (2014). The Coastal Headlands of Mainland Britain: A practical guide and much more... p. 44.
The Jurassic Park Trust (2003). A Walk Through Time, the Official Guide to the Jurassic Park. Coastal Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9544845-0-7.
Geology of Harry Rocks and Ballard Point Ian West, University of Southampton
Old Harry Rocks, Dorset: GCSE Geography BBC Bitesize
Ballard Down
Ballard Down is an area of chalk downland on the Purbeck Hills in the English county of Dorset. The hills meet the English Channel here, and Ballard Down forms a headland, Ballard Point, between Studland Bay to the north and Swanage Bay to the south. The chalk here forms part of a system of chalk downlands in southern England, and once formed a continuous ridge between what is now west Dorset and the present day Isle of Wight. Old Harry Rocks, just offshore from the dip slope of the down, and The Needles on the westernmost tip of the Isle of Wight, are remnants of this ridge. The scarp slope of the down faces south, over Swanage, meeting the sea as Ballard Cliff.
The down was an area of calcareous grassland for up to 1000 years until World War II, when there was a sudden rise in the need for arable agricultural land. The down is now owned by the National Trust, and has largely been returned to grassland. The National Trust allows grazing on the down to prevent it becoming a natural beech woodland climax community.
The obelisk at Ballard Down commemorates the provision of a new supply of drinking water for Swanage in 1883. It was taken down in 1941 as it was a landmark that might have aided enemy aircraft during World War II, but was re-erected in 1952.
Ballard Down forms the easternmost part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.The BBC's adaptation of EM Forster's novel 'Howards End' (2017) used Ballard Down as a location.
Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre
The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England.
The centre operates as an independent registered charity within the larger framework of the UNESCO Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, known as the "Jurassic Coast". The Jurassic Coast stretches over a distance of 155 kilometres (96 mi), from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks, in the east. The coastal exposures along the coastline provide a continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rock formations spanning approximately 185 million years of the Earth's history. The localities along the Jurassic Coast includes a large range of important fossil zones.
Entry to the centre and all of its displays is free and, as such, the centre is dependent upon money generated from walks and events as well as charitable donations from the public. It has also received Heritage Lottery Fund grants. The centre was set up in 1985 by local residents, in response to concerns about damage being done to the cliffs by fossil hunters. The role of the centre has always been primarily as an educator and it has undergone several phases of expansion as the demand from the public and from school groups has risen.In 2014 a grant from the Primary Science Teaching Trust enabled the provision of a classroom and resources designed to help local children achieve the requirements of the National Curriculum.
Cliffed coast
A cliffed coast, also called an abrasion coast, is a form of coast where the action of marine waves has formed steep cliffs that may or may not be precipitous. It contrasts with a flat or alluvial coast.
Discordant coastline
A discordant coastline occurs where bands of different rock type run perpendicular to the coast.
The differing resistance to erosion leads to the formation of headlands and bays. A hard rock type such as granite is resistant to erosion and creates a promontory whilst a softer rock type such as the clays of Bagshot Beds is easily eroded creating a bay.
Part of the Dorset coastline running north from the Portland limestone of Durlston Head is a clear example of a discordant coastline. The Portland limestone is resistant to erosion; then to the north there is a bay at Swanage where the rock type is a softer greensand. North of Swanage, the chalk outcrop creates the headland which includes Old Harry Rocks.
The converse of a discordant coastline is a concordant coastline.
Downland
A downland is an area of open chalk hills. This term is especially used to describe the chalk countryside in southern England. Areas of downland are often referred to as downs, deriving from a Celtic word for "hills".
East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council has been based in Honiton since February 2019, and the largest town is Exmouth (with a population of 34,432 at the time of the 2011 census).
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Honiton with the urban districts of Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Ottery St. Mary, Seaton, Sidmouth along with Axminster Rural District, Honiton Rural District and part of St Thomas Rural District.
East Devon is covered by two Parliamentary constituencies, East Devon and Tiverton and Honiton. Both were retained in the 2010 general election by the Conservative Party, and are represented by Sir Hugo Swire and Neil Parish respectively.
In the 2001 census it was found that a third of East Devon's population were over 60. The average for England was 24%. East Devon also had a higher number of people living in "Medical and Care Establishments" at 1.6% compared to the England average of 0.9%.
The council area covers the area of Devon furthest to east, stretching all the way from Exeter to the county border with Dorset and Somerset.
A large amount of East Devon is made up of two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), East Devon AONB and the Blackdown Hills. AONBs have the same level of protection as National parks of England and Wales which restricts new developments, which protects the natural beauty of this district.
The entire East Devon coastline from Exmouth to the border with Dorset is part of the designated World Heritage Site called the Jurassic Coast; the designated area itself continues up to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage.
The Isle of Purbeck is a peninsula in Dorset, England. It is bordered by water on three sides: the English Channel to the south and east, where steep cliffs fall to the sea; and by the marshy lands of the River Frome and Poole Harbour to the north. Its western boundary is less well defined, with some medieval sources placing it at Flower's Barrow above Worbarrow Bay. According to writer and broadcaster Ralph Wightman, Purbeck "is only an island if you accept the barren heaths between Arish Mell and Wareham as cutting off this corner of Dorset as effectively as the sea." The most southerly point is St Alban's Head (archaically St. Aldhelm's Head). Its coastline is suffering from erosion.
The whole of the Isle of Purbeck lies within the local government district of Purbeck, which is named after it. However the district extends significantly further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck along the River Frome.
In terms of natural landscape areas, the southern part of the Isle of Purbeck and the coastal strip as far as Ringstead Bay in the west, have been designated as National Character Area 136 - South Purbeck by Natural England. To the north are the Dorset Heaths and to the west, the Weymouth Lowlands.
The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. It stretches from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset, a distance of about 96 miles (154 km), and was inscribed on the World Heritage List in mid-December 2001.The site spans 185 million years of geological history, coastal erosion having exposed an almost continuous sequence of rock formation covering the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. At different times, this area has been desert, shallow tropical sea and marsh, and the fossilised remains of the various creatures that lived here have been preserved in the rocks.
Natural features seen on this stretch of coast include arches, pinnacles and stack rocks. In some places the sea has broken through resistant rocks to produce coves with restricted entrances, and in one place, the Isle of Portland is connected to the land by a narrow spit. In some parts of the coast, landslides are common. These have exposed a wide range of fossils, the different rock types each having its own typical fauna and flora, thus providing evidence of how animals and plants evolved in this region.
The area around Lulworth Cove contains a fossil forest, and 71 different rock strata have been identified at Lyme Regis, each with its own species of ammonite. The fossil collector Mary Anning lived here and her major discoveries of marine reptiles and other fossils were made at a time when the study of palaeontology was just starting to develop. The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre provides information on the heritage coast, and the whole length of the site can be visited via the South West Coast Path.
List of sea stacks
The following list enumerates and expands on notable sea stacks, including former sea stacks that no longer exist.
Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, southern England. The cove is one of the world's finest examples of such a landform, and is a World Heritage Site and tourist location with approximately 500,000 visitors every year, of whom about 30 percent visit in July and August. It is close to the rock arch of Durdle Door and other Jurassic Coast sites.
Parson's Barn
Parson's Barn is a large sea-level cavern below the Ballard Point cliffs, between Studland and Swanage bays in the English Channel. Ballard Point is the headland of the Ballard Downs, an area of chalk downland, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England.
Parson's Barn lies directly east of Studland, a few hundred metres south of Handfast Point and the Old Harry Rocks. The cave is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northeast of Swanage.
The sea once washed a huge hole in the base of the cliffs. This cavern was then used as a smugglers cave. A large section has collapsed since then and has been eroded away by the sea. Now only a few chalk stacks remain, these are called the Pinnacles. The waves have cut arches through the base of the stacks.
Purbeck District
Purbeck was a local government district in Dorset, England. The district was named after the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula that forms a large proportion of the district's area. However it extended significantly further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck along the River Frome. The district council was based in the town of Wareham, which is itself north of the River Frome.
The district was formed under the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, from the former municipal borough of Wareham, Swanage urban district and Wareham and Purbeck Rural District.
The district and its council were abolished on 1 April 2019 and, together with the other four districts outside the greater Bournemouth area, to form a new Dorset unitary authority.Its name is recorded in 948 AD as Anglo-Saxon Purbicinga, meaning "of the people of Purbic", where Purbic may be a former Celtic name, or may contain a supposed Anglo-Saxon word *pur or "male lamb".
Purbeck Hills
The Purbeck Hills, also called the Purbeck Ridge, are a ridge of chalk downs in Dorset, England. The ridge extends from Lulworth Cove in the west to Old Harry Rocks in the east, where it meets the sea. The hills are part of a system of chalk downlands in southern England formed from the Chalk Group which also includes Salisbury Plain and the South Downs. For most of their length the chalk of the Purbeck Hills is protected from coastal erosion by a band of resistant Portland limestone. Where this band ends, at Durlston Head, the clay and chalk behind has been eroded, creating Poole Bay and the Solent. The ridge of steeply dipping chalk that forms the Purbeck Hills continues further east on the Isle of Wight.
The height of the chalk ridge and proximity to Poole Harbour and the south coast have made the hills of strategic importance. There are a number of Iron Age, Roman and Saxon archaeological sites, such as Nine Barrow Down. At Corfe Castle the hills are broken twice leaving a steep round hill between the ridges on which stood a medieval castle, guarding the only easy route through the hills, until the English Civil War of the 17th century, when it was slighted.
Some of the ridge, around the village of Tyneham, near Lulworth, has been closed to the public for use by the army as a firing range. This has protected them from damage from farming and development, and these areas are now nature reserves. At the eastern end Ballard Down is a National Trust nature reserve which is managed for its calcareous grassland habitat.
Purbeck Monocline
The Purbeck Monocline is a geological fold in southern England. The term 'fold' is used in geology when one or more originally flat sedimentary strata surfaces are bent or curved as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation. A monocline is a step-like fold, in which one limb is roughly horizontal. The Purbeck Monocline was formed during the late Oligocene and early Miocene epochs, about 30 million years ago. It is the northernmost 'ripple' of the Alpine Orogeny.
The Purbeck Monocline gives rise to the prominent ridge of steeply dipping Cretaceous chalk which now forms the Purbeck Hills. This chalk band runs from Swyre Head via Flower's Barrow to Old Harry Rocks. From here the fold continues under the sea to The Needles and forms the central spine of the Isle of Wight. Here it is also known as the Purbeck-Isle of Wight Disturbance. The monocline continues under the English Channel as the Wight-Bray Monocline.
The Purbeck Hills run east–west through the small broad peninsula known as the Isle of Purbeck. The resistant beds of chalk and limestone form two ridges and the softer Wealden rocks between them have been eroded to form a valley.
Some visible features along the monocline include the disharmonic folds and faults, known as the Lulworth Crumple, at Stair Hole, Lulworth Cove, Arish Mell and at Peveril Point further east. These features also include the polygonal thrust ridges developed in the harder rock bands at Kimmeridge Bay and related to the growth of the monocline is the fault at Ballard Down.
Solent
The Solent ( SOH-lənt) is the strait that separates the Isle of Wight from the mainland of England. It is about 20 miles (32 kilometres) long and varies in width between 2 1⁄2 and 5 mi (4 and 8 km), although the Hurst Spit which projects 1 1⁄2 mi (2.4 km) into the Solent narrows the sea crossing between Hurst Castle and Colwell Bay to just over 1 mi (1.6 km).
The Solent is a major shipping lane for passenger, freight and military vessels. It is an important recreational area for water sports, particularly yachting, hosting the Cowes Week sailing event annually. It is sheltered by the Isle of Wight and has a complex tidal pattern, which has benefited Southampton's success as a port, providing a "double high tide" that extends the tidal window during which deep-draught ships can be handled. Portsmouth lies on its shores. Spithead, an area off Gilkicker Point near Gosport, is known as the place where the Royal Navy is traditionally reviewed by the monarch of the day.
The area is of great ecological and landscape importance, particularly because of the coastal and estuarine habitats along its edge. Much of its coastline is designated as a Special Area of Conservation. It is bordered by and forms a part of the character of a number of nationally important protected landscapes including the New Forest National Park, and the Isle of Wight AONB.
Stair Hole
Stair Hole is a small cove located just west of Lulworth Cove in Dorset, southern England. The folded limestone strata known as the Lulworth crumple are particularly visible at Stair Hole. There are several caves visible from the seaward side of Stair Hole; Cathedral Cavern is supported by pillars of rock rising out of the water. The rock structure was created during the Alpine orogeny and exposed by subsequent erosion.
Stair Hole featured in Nuts in May, a Play for Today directed by Mike Leigh, and in Five on a Treasure Island, a 1957 film serial by the Children's Film Foundation and was the background for the climatic sword fight between George Baker and Peter Arne in The Moonraker (1957).
Swanage () is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns, approximately 6 1⁄4 miles (10 km) south of Poole and 25 miles (40 km) east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 9,601. Nearby are Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks, with Studland Bay and Poole Harbour to the north. Within the parish are Durlston Bay and Durlston Country Park to the south of the town. The parish also includes the areas of Herston, just to the west of the town, and Durlston, just to the south.
The town, originally a small port and fishing village, flourished in the Victorian era, when it first became a significant quarrying port and later a seaside resort for the rich of the day. Today the town remains a popular tourist resort, this being the town's primary industry, with many thousands of visitors coming to the town during the peak summer season, drawn by the bay's sandy beaches and other attractions.
During its history the bay was listed variously as Swanawic, Swanwich and Sandwich, and only in more recent history as Swanage.The town is located at the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The town contains many listed buildings and two conservation areas – Swanage Conservation Area and Herston Conservation Area.
The Pinnacles (Dorset)
The Pinnacles are two chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located near Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England.
Orcombe Point
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Beer Head
Beer Quarry Caves
Pinhay Bay
Ware Cliffs
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum
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Chickerell
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Tar Rocks
Clay Ope
Hallelujah Bay
Blacknor
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Portland Bill
Portland Raised Beach
Cave Hole
Church Ope Cove
Portland Museum
Jurassica
Durdle Pier
King's Pier
Folly Pier
Balaclava Bay
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Newton's Cove
Nothe Gardens
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Jurassic Skyline
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Furzy Cliff
Bowleaze Cove
Broadrock
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Peveril Point
Ballard Point
The Pinnacles
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Bangladesh ‘Drug-Offender’ Killings Must Stop — UN Human Rights Chief
The alleged extra-judicial killing of suspected drug offenders must be “immediately halted” and their perpetrators brought to justice, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on 6 June 2018 said.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré
Amid reports that 130 people have been shot dead by security services across the country since the “zero-tolerance” policy began on 15 May, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rightssaid that he was “gravely concerned” that “such a large number of people” have been killed.
In his appeal to the government of Bangladesh, Zeid described official declarations that none of the victims was innocent as “dangerous… and indicative of a total disregard for the rule of law”.
Everyone has the right to life, the High Commissioner continued in his statement, and people “do not lose their human rights, because they sell drugs”. In addition to those allegedly killed in the anti-narcotics drive, 13,000 people have also been reportedly arrested.
Such a high number of detentions indicates “a high likelihood” that many have been detained arbitrarily, the top UN official said.
Every person has the right to life. People do not lose their human rights because they use or sell drugs – UN human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein
In his statement to the government of Bangladesh – where elections are to be held later this year – Zeid noted that there was “no doubt” that drug sales and trafficking caused “tremendous suffering for individuals and entire communities”.
And while commending the country for its “tremendous support” for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar since August last year, the UN High Commissioner insisted that “extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and the stigmatization (of drug-users) cannot be the answer”.
The High Commissioner urged the authorities to investigate the alleged extra-judicial killings, stressing that there must be no impunity for human rights violations in the name of drugs control policies.
His comments follow Bangladesh’s participation in a scheduled review of the country’s human rights record at the UN in Geneva in early May.
At that Universal Periodic Review meeting, Bangladesh’s minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs said that official inquiries would take place into other alleged extrajudicial killings in the country. (SOURCE: UN).
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Morley is a Los Angeles-based street artist. Blending humor, hope and his unique perspective on life, he specializes in bold, typographic posters which he wheatpastes within the urban landscape. His work has been featured in The LA Times, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, LA Magazine and on television networks such as ABC, CBS, Netflix, Comedy Central and Showtime. He's toured the country with his books "If You're Reading This, There's Still Time" and “Let’s Burn This Moment Down to the Filter” (published by Cameron + Company), exhibited in galleries around the world and lectured at numerous universities, LACMA and The Artisphere in Washington DC. He was the focus of a national commercial for Toyota as well as an original docu-series from Verizon. He has designed advertising campaigns for Smirnoff Vodka, The Mortified Guide, The Los Angeles Children’s Hospital and the anti-smoking campaign Truth.
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Airports are getting busier than ever, and had 6.6 percent more passengers in 2017 than in the previous year. For the 20th consecutive year, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has hosted more passengers than any other airport on the planet.
According to preliminary 2017 travel data released on Monday by the Airports Council International (ACI), close to 104 million passengers passed through the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 2017, making it the world’s busiest passenger airport.
Beijing (PEK), with 94.4 million passengers (a 1.5 percent increase) holds the second spot and Dubai (DXB) remained in the third position.
Dubai International Airport is also the world’s busiest in terms of international passengers. Total passenger traffic at DXB grew 5.5 percent in 2017.
The Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, operated by the Delhi International Airport Ltd, is also among the top 20. Delhi Airport jumped from 22nd to 16th, solidifying its status as one of the fastest growing airports in the world for passenger traffic. Total passenger traffic in IGI airport grew by 14.1 percent in 2017.
“Growing rapidly in relatively short period of time, India is poised to be one of the largest aviation markets in the world in the years to come. With an astounding population base of over 1.3 billion inhabitants, the move towards a more liberalized aviation market coupled with stronger economic fundamentals has helped to awaken the Bengal tiger to become one of the fastest growing markets in the world.ACI’s World Airport Traffic Forecasts predicts that the country will represent the third largest aviation market, in terms of passenger throughput, after the US and China by 2020” ACI said in a report.
“Even with this rapid growth in throughput, DEL was also ranked first in Airport Service Quality for airports above 40 million passengers per annum. The award, which is also shared with Mumbai (BOM), the second busiest Indian airport, is based on a derived score from a battery of passenger satisfaction metrics”, ACI noted.
“Calcutta (CCU), Hyderabad (HYD), Bangalore (BLR), Madras (MAA) also ranked among the fastest growing airports in the world. Year-over-year growth of 26.9 percent, 19.6 percent, 12.9 percent and 10.5 percent respectively was achieved in 2017”, the ACI report added.
Of the top 20 busiest airports, five airports – Los Angeles, Chicago O’Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth and Denver International – are located in the US.
ACI report is prepared based on data from more than 1,200 airports worldwide.
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The Cardiac Conduction System: Clinical Electrophysiology and Cardiac Ablation
Jessica Schucht
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THE CARDIAC CONDUCTION 2
The cardiovascular system is vital for human survival. It has many functions and many
components; the most important is the heart. The heart is a muscular organ that
distributes blood throughout the cardiovascular system. Heart contraction is controlled by
an electrical conduction system within the heart. The electrical activity can be visualized
in a recording known as an electrocardiogram (ECG). This conduction system can
malfunction causing a heart arrhythmia. Some heart arrhythmias can be dangerous,
causing illness or death. Improved techniques in imaging have allowed the growth of the
clinical discipline interventional electrophysiology. Medical personnel can now change
some abnormal electrical patterns thorough a procedure known as the ablation technique.
The heart is the hollow, fibro-muscular organ that is the driving component of the
cardiovascular system (Levy & Pappano, 2007). This system is vital to human life, and
contributes to the function of every other part of the human body. Damages to the heart,
heart disease, and heart malfunction affect many adults and youth in America. It is
estimated that every thirty-eight seconds an American dies of cardiovascular disease
(American Heart Association, 2009). Various factors can contribute to heart disease, and
many of these occur within the electrical conduction system in the heart. A minor
complication in this conduction system can lead to an arrhythmia (heart contraction out
of rhythm), which can cause severe malfunctions within the heart. It is estimated that
nearly forty percent of the people who die from cardiovascular disease suffer from an
arrhythmia (American Heart Association, 2009). For this reason, these heart malfunctions
must be diagnosed, assessed, and treated.
Although a few types of arrhythmias are harmless if untreated, the seriousness of
these electrical malfunctions eventually led to the development of a relatively new field
of medicine known as interventional cardiac electrophysiology. Since its inception in
1979, interventional cardiac electrophysiology has arisen as a medical sub-specialty and
is quickly developing very influential therapies. The electrocardiogram and various
mapping techniques have been adapted to easily diagnose arrhythmias. The increasing
development of these technologies has even allowed physicians to invade the heart tissue
and eliminate such arrhythmias. This is a minimally invasive procedure known as the
catheter ablation. If the ablation is performed accurately, it can correct arrhythmias with
only a minor complication rate (Lim, Singleton, Alasady, & McGavigan, 2010). It has a
first-time success rate of over 60 percent and a repeat success rate of up to 77 percent
(Stiles, 2009). This accuracy is allowing the ablation to become a popular treatment for
many different forms of arrhythmias.
Because of the novelty of the cardiac ablation, there is a lack of research
regarding its long-term effects (Lakshmanadoss, Aggarwal, Huang, Daubert, & Shah,
2009). For this reason, it is not always seen as a primary treatment option. Many people
would rather seek pharmaceutical treatment. However, others believe that because of the
curative nature of the ablation procedure, it is an ideal treatment for arrhythmias. Many
physicians are conducting research that supports the idea that it should be considered a
curative treatment for cardiac arrhythmias. The heart is the impetus behind the cardiac
system, which is vital to human survival. Electrophysiology is a relatively new field,
which searches to cure previously incurable heart ailments. A malfunction in the heart
can be deadly, and a lack of long-term research should not stop physicians from
performing the ablation procedure in order to cure patients arrhythmias.
The Hearts Anatomy and Its Importance
The heart is one of the most important organs in the human body. Without its
function, nutrients would not be delivered to other systems. This would cause the
cessation of bodily activities and eventually death. The hearts anatomy and location are
directly linked to its function, which is ultimately controlled by the cardiac conduction
system. The heart is situated so that the majority of the organ lies on the left side of the
bodys midline. Its anterior surface faces toward the sternum and intercostal muscles, and
its inferior surface faces the diaphragm (Mahadevan, 2008). The various surfaces of the
heart all meet at the apex. The entire organ is enclosed in the pericardium, or the
outermost tissue layer (Aaronson & Ward, 2007). The pericardium attaches the heart to
both the diaphragm and the sternum, allowing it to be situated in place in the chest cavity.
In this position, the heart is able to contract and distribute blood to the rest of the body
(Mahadevan, 2008). Most of the heart is composed of a special kind of contractile tissue
called cardiac muscle, which contracts regularly every day of a persons life. This
rhythmic contraction is controlled by the cardiac conduction system in the heart. A
malfunction in this system could lead to improper or insufficient contractions, which
would hinder the normal propulsion of blood through the heart.
Figure 1. Pericardium Layers.
The pericardium consists of various layers. These include the fibrous, parietal,
and visceral layers. Figure obtained and modified from (Marieb, 2001)
Aside from the fibrous pericardial layers, the heart also contains various other
layers of cells. These include the endocardium, epicardium, and the myocardium. The
endocardium is the thin, inner lining of the heart, while the epicardium is the thin layer of
cells on the outside of the heart (Aaronson & Ward, 2007). The largest of the epicardial
cell layers is the myocardium, which is composed of myocytes. Myocytes are small,
mononucleated cardiac muscle cells that are full of mitochondria (for generating energy).
Myocardial cells contain intercalated discs, which connect the myocytes to each other.
The intercalated discs contain adheren, desmosomes, and connexins, which all greatly
contribute to the cells functionality (Figure 2) (Mohrman & Heller, 2010). These discs
are very important to the electrical conduction system in the heart. They connect the
myocardial cells to one another, and facilitate the spread of electrical current from cell to
cell. This electrical current causes the contraction of the heart. The speedy conduction
through the myocardial cells allows them to contract together as one unit. All of these
cellular, fibrous, and muscular layers come together to form the major organ of the
cardiovascular system, the heart.
Figure 2. Cellular components of the myocyte.
These components are vital to the myocytes function, especially in relation to the
ECS. Figure obtained and modified from (Cummings, 2004).
The heart is divided into four chambers: the right atrium, the left atrium, the right
ventricle, and the left ventricle. Each chamber of the heart is influenced by electrical
stimulation from the heart conduction system. The activity of these chambers affects the
other components of the heart, including the vessels and valves. The heart contains many
vessels and valves, which control the movement of blood. Blood leaves the heart, enters
systemic circulation, travels through the body, and is eventually fed into the right atrium
via the superior and inferior vena cava. These veins allow blood to flow into the right
atrium. Within the right atrium, directly above the right ventricle, lies the tricuspid valve.
This valve allows blood flow from the right atrium to the right ventricle (Mohrman &
Heller, 2010). The right ventricle feeds into the pulmonary artery, which sits atop the left
atrium. The pulmonic valve (pulmonary semilunar valve) separates the pulmonary artery
from the ventricle. A pressure gradient during the cardiac cycle controls the opening and
closing of this valve. This allows the heart to be sufficiently filled before ejecting blood
into the pulmonary artery. If the electrical conduction system of the heart is not
functioning properly, these anatomical structures can malfunction.
The left atrium is the smaller of the two atria. Through the regulation of the
cardiac conduction system, it receives blood from the pulmonary veins (from the lungs)
and is connected to the left ventricle via the mitrial (bicuspid) valve (Aaronson & Ward,
2007). Both the mitrial and tricuspid valves are important because they prevent the
backflow of blood from the ventricles into the atria during cardiac contraction. They are
connected to the cusps of the chordae tendineae (fine chords), which are attached to the
papillary muscles inside the ventricles. This attachment couples their contraction to the
ventricle muscles, causing these valves to close upon ventricular contraction. The closed
valves can then prevent backflow into the atria when the pressure of blood in the
ventricle rises. The left ventricle is thicker and more muscular which allows it to generate
more pressure to the blood during cardiac contraction. This ventricle is connected to the
aorta by the aortic semilunar valve. The semilunar valves differ from the mitrial and
tricuspid because they do not have chordae tendineae connections that control their
opening/closing (Klabunde, 2005). However, all of these structures are similar in that
their function is necessary for the proper operation of the cardiac cycle. This cycle is
ultimately controlled by the action potentials of the electrical conduction system of the
heart (ECS).
Figure 3. Heart Anatomy.
The hearts anatomy can help to explain its various functions. Figure
obtained and modified from (UK Health Care, 2007).
Action Potentials Drive the Cardiac Cycle
Although a pressure gradient is influential in the control of the cardiac cycle, the
most important cardiac control is the electrical conduction system throughout the heart
(Figure 4). Cardiac tissue possesses the ability to initiate its own beat and regulate its
activity (automaticity and rhythmicity). Action potentials are rapid voltage changes that
are able to travel across the membranes of cells. Cells are designed in order to have a
resting membrane potential; there is a separation of electric charge across the cell
membrane. In cardiac cells, the inside of the cell is negative with respect to the positive
charges that lie on the membrane. This electric potential is caused by the presence of
ions such as Ca2+, Na+, and K+.
Figure 4. Action Potential Propagation. Figure 5. Muscle Cell Components.
Action potential propagation occurs through The intercalated discs allow for
ion currents. Figure obtained and modified increased flow of ions. Figure obtained
from (Bulman-Fleming, 2000). and modified from (Doohan, 2000).
In order for an action potential to occur, a cell must be depolarized (which can
occur from nervous stimulation). Once the cell reaches its threshold potential, massive
changes occur in the cells ion channels and permeability. A fast inward current of ions
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enters the cell causing it to become depolarized even further. Because the connexin
protein in cardiac gap junctions offers a low-resistance connection between cells, it
allows the propagation of this current to adjacent cells (Figure 5). Eventually, when the
action potential has spread and many cells are depolarized, a large amount of tension is
created, which causes the heart muscle to contract. After depolarization and contraction
occurs, these cells must then be repolarized before another action potential can spread.
This keeps cardiac cells from continually being activated and contracted (Mohrman &
Heller, 2010).
Figure 6. Fast Response Depolarization and Repolarization Curve.
The repolarization and depolarization of the heart muscle can be seen in this type
of curve. Figure obtained and modified from (Zubieta-Calleja & Paulev, 2004).
Two types of action potentials occur in cardiac cells: the fast response and slow
response action potentials. In normal cardiac cells, the fast response action potential
allows for a uniform contraction throughout the heart. Because this is generally the goal
of heart tissue, the majority of action potentials in myocardial cells are fast response
(Figure 6). These cells can be rapidly depolarized and even become depolarized over
their normal limit. They are influenced by the intercalated discs and their components.
Fast action potentials are very important to the proper function of the electrical
conduction system. However, some cardiac cells require a slower action potential. These
action potentials are termed the slow response cells. They have an unstable resting
potential and require more time to depolarize. These slow responses occur in the cells
that contribute to the pacemaker function of the heart, protecting it from over-stimulation
that could lead to an arrhythmia (Klabunde, 2007).
The Electrical Components of the Heart Control the Cardiac Cycle
The SA node is a group of cells approximately 2 mm thick and 8 mm long that
initiate the contraction of the human heart (Levy & Pappano, 2007). The SA node is
located between the right atrium and superior vena cava (Aaronson & Ward, 2007), and
is divided into various regions. A few of these regions possess automaticity, which is the
ability of cardiac cells to initiate a heartbeat (Figure 7). This compilation of cells forms
the SA node, or the atrial pacemaker complex (Levy & Pappano, 2007). As these cells are
depolarized, repolarized, and depolarized again, they spread a wave of depolarization
through the atrial tissue and cause the heart to begin contraction. The number of heart
contractions per minute is known as the heart rate. It is determined by the amount of time
it takes for the repolarization and depolarization of the SA node. In the absence of outside
stimulation, the SA node maintains a heart rate of approximately 100 beats per minute.
However, various outside sources influence the action potentials in the SA node
(Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
Figure 7. Cardiac Conduction System Components.
The cardiac conduction system contributes to the correct functioning of the
heart muscle. Figure adapted and modified from (Cunningham & Saunders,
The main influence on the SA node is the autonomic nervous system. This system
is responsible for the bodys automatic responses. It contains two divisions: the
parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. Both of these systems influence the
SA node, but they elicit very different responses. The parasympathetic nervous system is
activated in times of rest and digestion. Its main connection to the SA node is through the
vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve that extends to the heart and directly
innervates the sinoatrial node. When the parasympathetic nervous system is stimulated,
the vagus nerve releases acetylcholine at the SA node. This has three main effects. First,
it decreases the firing rate of the SA node. Second, it decreases the conduction velocity of
the electrical potential in the myocytes. Finally, it decreases the contractility of the heart
muscle itself. These three effects cause the heart rate to slow from its intrinsic rate. The
sympathetic division of the nervous system acts to increase the heart rate. It accomplishes
this task through the release of norepinephrine onto the SA node. This increases the
contractility of the heart, increases the firing of the SA node, and increases the ion
currents that cause the wave of depolarization through the atria (Mohrman & Heller,
After an impulse spreads through the atria, it travels through the three intermodal
tracts: the Bachmann, Wenckebach, and Thorel. After spreading through these tracks, the
electrical wave reaches the annulus fibrous, where the quick depolarization through the
atria comes to a halt. The annulus fibrous are the fibers between the atria and ventricles
that inhibit conduction. There is only one opening within these fibers that will allow the
propagation of an impulse to continue. This is known as the atrioventricular node (AV
node). Therefore, after some delay, the AV node receives the impulse that began in the
SA node (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
The AV node is a group of cells about 22 millimeters long, 10 millimeters wide,
and three millimeters thick that is located at the mouth of the coronary sinus in between
the right atrium and ventricle (Aaronson & Ward, 2007) (Figure 7). The AV node is an
important aspect of the ECS in the heart; it is divided into three main sections, the AN, N,
and NH regions. The N region, located in the middle of the node, ensures a slow rate of
conduction of the electrical impulse. The AN region, located between the atrium and the
beginning of the node, also offers a delay in conduction. However, this is due to the
length of the AN region, not a slow conduction velocity of the cells. The slow
conduction velocities of the N and AN regions work together to greatly hinder the speed
of the impulse through the AV node. This delay is critical because it allows the atrial
contraction to push blood into the ventricles before they contract and expel the blood
from the heart (Mahadevan, 2008). The NH region is the final region and serves as the
connection between the AV node and the Bundle of His. These three regions form a
complex arrangement of cells, which eventually stimulate the contraction of the
ventricles of the heart (Levy & Pappano, 2007).
Like the SA node, the AV node is also affected by innervation from the
autonomic nervous system. The vagus nerve of the parasympathetic system is able to
prolong conduction even greater than normal through the AV node. This prolonged
conduction increases the length of diastole and decreases the heart rate. Under intense
parasympathetic stimulation, it is even possible to obtain a complete AV block, when no
conduction is able to transverse into the ventricle. The sympathetic division also
innervates the AV node. However, its function is opposite that of the parasympathetic.
Sympathetic innervation enhances the rhythmicity of conduction cells and therefore
decreases conduction time through the AV node. This allows the impulse to rapidly
transverse the NH region into the Atrio-ventricular bundle of His (AV bundle) (Levy &
Pappano, 2007).
The AV bundle emerges out of the AV node and extends down the inter-
ventricular septum (tissue which separates the right and left ventricles) (Mahadevan,
2008). It is another component of the ECS in the heart and transmits the AV nodes
signal into the upper section of the inter-ventricular septum. After transmission through
this area, the bundle splits into the left and right bundle branches. These branches
transmit the electrical impulse towards their respective sides of the heart. The left bundle
branch again splits into the posterior and anterior fascicles (Levy & Pappano, 2007).
These branches form the upper portion of the conduction system in the ventricles. As the
bundle branches transverse the septum, they divide further into the Purkinje System.
The Purkinje System is the portion of the conduction system that transverses the
endocardium of the heart to stimulate the right and left ventricles. It is responsible for the
ventricles specialized conduction. Once the impulse reaches these fibers, the contraction
becomes fully initiated (Aaronson & Ward, 2007). The Purkinje System contains idoi-
ventricular pacemakers, which contribute to the automaticity of these fibers. However,
they fire at a rate of around 30 to 40 beats per minute, which is not enough to sustain
cardiac function in the event of an AV block (Levy & Pappano, 2007). If an AV block
occurs, or other malfunctions stop the electrical impulse from reaching the ventricles,
heart failure can follow.
The Cardiac Cycle and Its Components
All of these anatomical components, along with the electrical events that occur in
one heartbeat, form the cardiac cycle. This cycle revolves around the action of a pressure
gradient instigated by the contraction of the heart (Mahadevan, 2008). The two main
actions of the cardiac cycle are systole and diastole. These are the contraction and
relaxation of the heart, respectively, and they are ultimately controlled by the electrical
components of the heart (Klabunde, 2005). A malfunction of any of these components
can lead to serious problems in the cardiac cycle. Diastole is an important aspect of the
cycle, because it allows the heart muscle to rest. Different aspects and problems of the
cardiac conduction system can shorten the time spent in diastole, which can cause
malfunctions in this cardiac cycle. Diastole is the period of time when the heart is
allowed to relax, refill, and prepare for the next systole. Its length varies depending on
factors including health, age, sex, and outside conditions (Mohrman & Heller, 2010). The
actions of the right and left pump divide the cardiac cycle into four separate stages.
The first stage encompasses both ventricular and atrial diastole. Both components
of the heart are at rest. The atrioventricular valves are open, while the semilunar valves
are closed, allowing both the atria and ventricles to fill with blood. The SA node has not
yet fired to begin a heart contraction. At this time the blood flows freely from the atria
into the ventricles. During this stage the heart is simply receiving blood; it is not
transmitting it to the rest of the body (Potter, 2011). As the atria fill, the pressure of the
blood inside them begins to rise. Once this pressure reaches its maximum, stage two of
the cardiac cycle begins (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
The second stage marks the beginning of atrial systole, which is initiated by the
depolarization of the sinoatrial node. The ventricles are still in diastole, and the
atrioventricular valves are open. The semilunar valves are closed, which again allows
blood to enter the ventricles without escaping their compartment to the rest of the body.
At this time, a pressure gradient drives much of the blood flow in the heart. As the
pressure of the atria increases (in phase 1), eventually the atria must contract. This
increases the pressure even further, causing a pressure gradient between the atria and
ventricles (Mohrman & Heller, 2010). This creates the appearance of the atria milking
blood into the ventricles.
The efficient contraction of the atria allows blood to more quickly flow from the
atria to the ventricles in preparation for ventricle systole. In general, this atrial contraction
is only responsible for about ten percent of ventricle filling. In times of a normal heart
rate this is not required for effective filling of the ventricles. However, during an elevated
heart rate due to exercise, arrhythmia, or heart damage, atrial contraction can become
increasingly important to ventricle filling. Any number of malfunctions in the electrical
conduction system of the heart can lead to an increased atrial contraction or overall rapid
heart rate. Throughout these periods, the ventricles do not have adequate time to fill
passively. Therefore atrial contraction assumes about forty percent of filling duties
(Mohrman & Heller, 2010). A malfunction that interferes with either ventricle filling or
atrial contraction could lead to decreased blood output and other detrimental
consequences.
After atrial contraction occurs, stage three of the heart cycle commences. This
stage is divided into two different phases. The first phase is known as the isovolumetric
phase. The atria have reverted back to diastole; the impulse has traversed the atria, and
they have completed the filling of the ventricles. Their new responsibility is to repolarize
and once again fill with blood in preparation for their next contraction. At this point, the
signal enters the AV node, and the ventricles then begin systole. As with the atria, the
contraction of the ventricle causes a significant rise in the ventricle bloods pressure. This
causes the atrioventricular valves to snap closed and prevent backflow from the ventricles
into the atria. However, because the ventricles are not yet ready to expel the blood to the
rest of the body, the semilunar valves are still closed. During this phase of the cardiac
cycle, the volume in the heart remains constant. For this reason, it is termed the
isovolumetric phase. The ventricles contain about one hundred-twenty milliliters of
blood, and they are ready to expel it to the rest of the body (Potter, 2011).
Phase two of stage three of the cardiac cycle also encompasses atrial diastole and
ventricular systole. The impulse has now entered the Purkinje System, and the ventricles
are in full contraction. However, the pressure in the ventricles has risen substantially,
causing the semilunar valves to open. Because the atrioventricular valves remain closed
to prevent backflow, ventricle contraction pushes blood out of the heart into the
pulmonary trunk and aorta. This action normally expels around 70 milliliters of blood,
which is less than the blood that was originally pumped into the ventricles (Potter, 2011).
The remaining blood in the ventricles is known as the end systolic volume. An important
measure of heart efficiency is the ejection fraction. This is the end systolic volume
(normally 70 milliliters) divided diastolic volume (normally about 120 milliliters) and
multiplied by 100 percent. An efficiency of 50 to 70 percent is normal for a healthy adult.
However, if there is a malfunction in the cardiac cycle due to disease, damage, or an
arrhythmia, this number can be much smaller and be an indication of a cardiac
malfunction (Cleveland Clinic, 2011).
The final stage of the cardiac cycle, stage four, is marked by both atrial and
ventricular diastole once again. The atria are continuing to fill from the systemic
circulation, and the ventricles have just begun diastole. The cardiac cells are all in the
process of repolarizing and preparing for the next action potential. The atrioventricular
valves are once again open, and the blood flows into the ventricles via a pressure
gradient. The semilunar valves are once again closed due to the backflow of blood from
the aorta and pulmonary trunk (Potter, 2011).
When the cardiac cycle ends, the heart has already started to prepare for another
cycle. This continuous cycle of systole and diastole is responsible for the pressure
gradient that pushes blood through the entire body. Although autonomic innervation
plays a part in the control of the duration of the contraction and relaxation cycles, the
ECS within the heart muscle elicits these functions. This system is driven by the
propagation of action potentials throughout heart muscle (Klabunde, 2005). If any one of
these components is malfunctioning, there could be severe consequences. The cardiac
cycle can be viewed through an electrocardiogram. This machine can help diagnose these
malfunctions, lead to curative processes, and has been the impetus to the discipline of
clinical electrophysiology.
The Clinical Use of Cardiac Electrophysiology
The Electrocardiogram Contributes to Clinical Diagnosis
The cardiac cycle and cardiac conduction system can be visualized in an
electrocardiogram (Figure 8). An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a powerful tool that is used
to evaluate cardiologic functions such as heart rate, rhythm, and the conduction
characteristics of heart tissues (Mohrman & Heller, 2010). It was first performed in
humans in 1887 and grows increasingly important as the science of interventional
electrophysiology develops (Luderitz, 2009). It is such a powerful tool because it can be
used to diagnose conduction problems that would go unnoticed otherwise. Some of the
main problems that can be diagnosed by an ECG include: cardiac rhythm disturbances,
heart attacks, and myocardial ischemia.
Figure 8. Typical ECG Reading.
The ECG is a very useful tool in clinical electrophysiology. Figure adapted
and modified from (Dahan & Sade, 2004).
Because of the efficacy of the ECG, it has greatly enhanced the field of
electrophysiology. In order for it to be accurate and uniform, a standard lead protocol was
developed. This first began with Einthoven, a Dutch physiologist, who proposed a
triangular bi-polar lead placement, in which electrodes are placed in the formation of an
equilateral triangle on the body (Mohrman & Heller, 2010). A bi-polar lead is one in
which electrodes have opposite polarity. Einthovens triangular placement allows each
bipolar lead to measure the potential difference from their respective position, which is
60 degrees away from the other leads. Lead I is placed on the left wrist and measures the
potential difference of activity between the right and left arm. Lead II is placed on the
right wrist and is able to measure the electrical activity between the right arm and left leg.
Finally, lead III, is placed on the left ankle and records the potential difference between
the left leg and left arm (Aaronson & Ward, 2007).
Figure 9. Einthovens Lead Placement and Explanation.
The three lead placement records the electrical potentials from different
perspectives across the heart. Figure adapted and modified from (The
McGill Physiology Virtual Laboratory, 2011)
However, for clinical purposes, a more intensive lead placement provides a more
accurate diagnostic tool. This placement is based on Einthovens original triangle of
bipolar leads, but it also includes nine extra unipolar leads. Three of these are placed on
the left leg, right arm, and left arm at various vertices of Einthovens triangle (Figure 9).
Three more leads, known as the augmented leads, aVR, aVL, and aVF, generate an
augmented view of the frontal plane of electrical activity in the heart (Aaronson & Ward,
2007). Finally, the six precordial leads (V1-V6) are placed strategically on the chest of
the patient.
They provide a view of the heart at a different angle than the bipolar and augmented
placements, and therefore provide a recording of a different plane of electrical activity in
the heart. Together, these twelve leads (the precordial, augmented, and bipolar leads)
provide a recording that is composed of at least six different perspectives on the electrical
activity in the human heart (Aaronson & Ward, 2007) (Figure 10). The recording that
forms is a wave of electrical current known as the ECG tracing, and it represents a
voltage difference between any two of the leads (Klabunde, 2005).
Figure 10. The augmented and precordial lead placements.
The placement of the augmented leads (left) generates a view of the frontal plane of the
heart. The placement of the unipolar precordial provides a view of the heart from several
different angles. Figure adapted and modified from (Klabunde, Cardiovascular
Physiology, 2007).
An upward deflection in the ECG normally depicts a difference between the left
leg and right shoulder leads. A negative deflection depicts a negative potential in the
patients left leg. Each portion of the ECG represents a specific part of the cardiac cycle
and allows physicians to pinpoint specific problems in the ECG that can relate to
electrical activity in the heart. A normal ECG is broken into three major portions. These
are the P wave, QRS complex, and T wave (Mohrman & Heller, 2010) (as shown in
Figure 8). Throughout variations in these complexes, electrophysiologists have learned to
detect and treat heart arrhythmias.
The P wave represents the beginning of one cycle of the ECG (Figure 8). It is an
upward deflection in the reading that represents the depolarization of the atria. It begins
when the sinoatrial node is depolarized, and fires an action potential through the atria.
The P wave has small amplitude because the propagation of electrical potential through
the extracellular fluid of atrial cells is not synchronous. This is much different from the
amplitude of the next complex, the QRS (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
The QRS complex begins with the downward deflection known as the Q wave,
and then flows into the sharp spike known as the R wave (Figure 8). The R wave is the
largest spike because it represents the coordinated depolarization of many ventricular
cells. Finally, the complex terminates with the S wave (Figure 8). This entire process
typically lasts from about 60 to 120 milliseconds. The QRS cooperatively represents the
spread of the electrical current from the AV node, through the bundle of His, and
eventually the Purkinje system. While the ventricles are depolarizing in the QRS, the
atria are simultaneously repolarizing. This is not seen in the ECG because atrial
repolarization is not synchronous. The synchronous depolarization of the ventricle cells
completely overshadows the atria repolarization; therefore, the ECG does not detect this
voltage difference (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
The final portion of the ECG is the T wave (Figure 8). This wave represents
ventricle repolarization. The T wave is much smaller than the QRS complex, because
unlike ventricular depolarization, ventricular repolarization does not occur synchronously
throughout the cells. Repolarization actually begins with the most recently depolarized
cells and spreads upward toward the atria. During this period of time the atria are resting
and preparing for the next action potential (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
The ECG recording is also divided into various segments, which describe
physiological voltage differences during specific parts of the cardiac cycle. The first of
these is the PR segment, also known as the PR interval. It stretches from the beginning of
the P wave to the beginning of the QRS complex. This distance represents the time it
takes for an action potential to spread from the SA node, through the atria and to the AV
node. In a healthy adult, its normal duration is anywhere from 100 to 120 milliseconds.
This delay is normal because it indicates the proper delay between the excitation of the
SA node and the AV node. As shown in Figure 1, at the end of the PR interval, there is
no deflection in the ECG reading. The leads are not detecting any voltage change. Two
main reasons describe this absence. First, the atrial cells are depolarized as part of the
action potential. Because atrial cells do not depolarize simultaneously, the action
potential spreading through these cells is not strong enough at this point to be detected by
the leads. Second, because the electrical wave has not yet reached the AV node, the
ventricle cells are still resting (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
The next segment of the ECG encompasses both ventricular depolarization and
ventricular systole. It is known as the QT interval, and under healthy, resting conditions
lasts less than 380 milliseconds. It stretches from the beginning of the Q wave to the
beginning of the T segment, and demonstrates normal ventricular repolarization. Like the
PR segment, the end of the QT interval is marked by a lack of electrical activity. This
allows for the heart cells to rest and prepare for the next contraction as the atria fill with
blood (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
The final segment of the ECG represents the time from the beginning of the S
wave to the beginning of the T wave. At the time of the S wave, the ventricle cells are at
their maximum action potential. The atria are resting, and after the S wave, there are no
deflections in the electrocardiogram. The electrically silent part of this segment is the
same as that of the QT interval; no rapid changes in membrane potential of the heart cells
exist (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
Because it encompasses many cardiac functions, is simple to perform, and
represents universal readings in healthy adults, the electrocardiogram has become a
powerful tool in the field of electrophysiology. Various pathologies can be determined by
simply examining a reading from one electrical lead. After the development of the 12-
lead system, this tool became even more powerful. Because of its diagnostic ability, the
scale of the ECG has been standardized. Generally, every centimeter on the y-axis
represents a potential difference of one millivolt, and every 25 millimeters on the x-axis
of the reading represents one second of time. When evaluating the electrocardiogram
reading, a diagnostician examines each complexs duration, frequency, and amplitude to
determine if it is within a normal range. For example, under normal conditions (heart rate
of 60 beats per minute) the QRS complex occurs once per minute, has high, sharp
amplitude, and lasts for less than 120 milliseconds. If there is any significant deviation
from these qualities, the diagnostician can deduce there is a problem with the conduction
system in the ventricles.
Cardiac Malfunctions That Can Be Detected by the Electrocardiogram
Abnormalities in the electrical conduction system can severely undermine the
function of the heart muscle. These aberrations tend to occur because of abnormal cardiac
excitation and cause rhythmic disturbances in cardiac contraction. These disturbances are
known as arrhythmias. Various arrhythmias of the heart include tachycardia, bradycardia,
pre-mature ventricular contractions, atrial flutter, and atrial fibrillation (Klabunde, 2005).
Tachycardia can be divided into different types and is categorized by its origin. In
general, tachycardia describes an increased heart rate of around 100 to 200 beats per
minute (Aaronson & Ward, 2007). It can be problematic because it leads to increased
time between ventricular contractions, where there is not as much time for cardiac filling.
This limits the cardiac output, and therefore the amount of blood that is able to leave the
heart and reach the various tissues. In general, tachycardia is fairly harmless: it is only
responsible for deaths at a rate of 575 people per year (American Heart Association,
Tachycardia is generally caused by two main phenomena: ectopic foci and re-
entry. Re-entry occurs when the wave of atrial conduction does not terminate at the AV
node, but travels through an alternative route causing re-excitation of the atrial tissue
(Mohrman & Heller, 2010). This re-excitation pathway can occur in a localized area of
the heart, or it can even occur between a larger region such as the atria and ventricles.
This larger pattern is known as global re-entry, and generally leads to tachycardias within
the ventricles (Klabunde, 2007). Another way to describe the route of re-entry is through
its pattern: ordered or random. An ordered re-entry route continually travels in a fixed
path. A random re-entry occurs when the route of re-excitation continues to change. The
tachycardia can then seem random and out of control. This type of re-entry is known as
fibrillation (Levy & Pappano, 2007).
In order for re-entry to effectively occur, three conditions must be met. First, there
must be the presence of a block in the conduction pathway. This block must stop
conduction in only one direction, allowing the stimulus to return through it in only one
direction. Second, the re-entry must have the correct timing. If the conduction pathway is
too fast, the re-entry will be halted because the tissues are still in their absolute refractive
period, and therefore unable to propagate the action potential. Third, the tissue through
the re-entry loop must have a short absolute refractory period. Once again, if the stimulus
reaches already excited tissues during their absolute refractory period, the stimulus will
die because it cannot repolarize these tissues (Klabunde, 2007).
Ectopic foci are also responsible for various types of tachycardia. They are
electrical regions in the heart other than the SA node and are sometimes referred to as
ectopic pacemakers. Under special circumstances, such as SA node failure, they are able
to initiate the heartbeat. However, sometimes these ectopic foci become easily excitable
and take over the SA nodes function unnecessarily. They tend to fire at a more rapid
rate, causing various types of tachycardia.
Sinus tachycardia (Figure 11) occurs when there is an increased firing of the
sinoatrial node (normally due to sympathetic stimulation). It normally occurs during
exercise or times of stress; however, it can be caused by cardiac disease (Aaronson &
Ward, 2007). Sinus tachycardia is generally harmless, but it does lead to a decreased
cardiac output (per each heartbeat). This decreased output can lead to dizziness, fatigue,
or the feeling of heart palpitations. Sinus tachycardia generally returns to normal when
the exercise is ended or the stress is removed (Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, 2011).
Another form of tachycardia that can be inconsequential is known as
supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). It causes less than 150 deaths per year.
Supraventricular refers to an abnormality that occurs above the ventricles. In SVT the
atrial cells become abnormally excited and fire at an accelerated rate. The excitation of
atrial cells in SVT could be caused by various deficiencies. One of which is the presence
of an ectopic focus outside the SA node that becomes excited and takes over the SA
nodes pacemaker function. Supraventricular tachycardia can be diagnosed from looking
at the ECG. The QRS complex appears to be normal; however, it actually occurs more
frequently. Also, the increase in heart rate can cause the superimposition of the P and T
waves. Symptoms of supraventricular tachycardia include dizziness and low blood
pressure. It can be treated many different ways; however, recently the ablation procedure
has been used as a curative measure (Mohrman & Heller, 2010).
Figure 11. A normal ECG (top) compared to an ECG reading of Sinus Tachycardia
(bottom).
During sinus tachycardia, the heart beats at a faster rate due to the faster repolarizing
of the atria. Figure adapted and modified from (Malmivuo & Plonsey, 1995).
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a common arrhythmia that describes a condition
in which the ventricles depolarize and contract apart from atrial contraction (Segal,
2002). This accelerated ventricular depolarization is generally caused by re-entry
mechanisms or ectopic foci. Ventricular tachycardia is clinically defined as the presence
of three or more consecutive QRS complexes on the ECG, occurring at an accelerated
rate (over 100bpm). If these accelerated complexes last for a duration longer than thirty
seconds, or elicit symptoms, the condition is described as sustained ventricular
tachycardia (SVT). This type of tachycardia generally needs medical attention (Singh &
Murphy, 2009).
There are two main categories of SVT: polymorphic and monomorphic. They are
defined by their appearance on the ECG as well as their etiology. Polymorphic describes
a condition in which the QRS complexes take different shapes and varieties on the ECG.
It has three main causes (Lim, Singleton, Alasady, & McGavigan, 2010). First, it can be
due to an acute, periodic restriction of blood flow to cardiac tissues. This can cause a
diversion of the electrical impulse through various pathways, leading to the appearance of
different QRS complexes on the ECG. It can also be caused by abnormalities of ion
channels that lead to other disturbances in the ECG such as the Long and Short QT
syndromes. Finally, polymorphic SVT can result from structural diseases within the heart
that affect the normal path of the ECS current (Stevenson & Kyoko Soejima, 2007).
Polymorphic VT (Figure 12) is a very serious problem because it can lead to
idiopathic ventricular fibrillation. Ventricular fibrillation is the most common cause of
death in developed nations (Lim, et al., 2010). It occurs when the ventricular cells begin
to depolarize and contract at random (Figure 13). The ECG is scattered and has no
discernable complexes, and there is no pulse during this rhythm. It is very dangerous, and
as of late there are not many treatment options available. The American Heart
Association estimates that nearly 310,000 people die as a result of V-fib per year
(American Heart Association, 2009; Torpy, 2010). For this reason, research on curative
procedures has become very important.
Figure 12. An ECG reading for a case with polymorphic VT.
The complexes are not defined, and the QRS complexes are near
unrecognizable. Figure adapted and modified from (Krusor, 2009).
Figure 13. The activity of the ECS during polymorphic VT.
Various ectopic foci can contribute to increased ventricular contraction. Figure
adapted and modified from (Washington Heart Rhythm Associates, LLC).
Monomorphic ventricular tachycardia describes the condition in which each
frequently occurring QRS complex is similar. This is generally indicative of ventricular
damage or excess scar tissue within the heart. The excess scar tissue and damaged zones,
can cause a uni-directional block or a decrease in conduction. This paves the way for re-
entry and ectopic foci mechanisms that lead to arrhythmias (Lim et al., 2010).
Monomorphic VT can also be caused by surgical incisions as well as Purkinje disease.
Purkinje disease allows for the re-entry of mechanisms below the His-bundle, allowing
for a continual current conduction (Stevenson & Soejima, 2007). Because these
mechanisms generate frequent and uniform currents, they all produce monomorphic VT.
Monomorphic VT can also occur in patients without known structural damage.
This is known as idiopathic (without a known cause), and can be once again evidenced in
the ECG (Stevenson & Soejima, 2007). There are two main categories of VT: those that
arise from ectopic focal mechanisms and those that occur in the left ventricle septum next
to the posterior papillary muscle in the heart. Ectopic foci are the most common cause of
idiopathic VT; they are able to stimulate conduction because of the automaticity of heart
cells (Josephson, 2003). VT associated with the left ventricular septum is less common
and has a less defined cause. Some physicians suggest it is caused by re-entry within the
Purkinje system. However, the exact function of the conductive system in these pathways
is ultimately unknown. This leaves another example of the importance of further research
in the area of electrophysiology (Josephson, 2003).
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common form of arrhythmia. It affects nearly
two million people in the United States (Boyle, Paul Fleming, & Hale, 2011). It is a type
of tachycardia that occurs when the atria begin to beat uncontrollably. It is described as
presenting as irregularly irregular (Neal, 2007). This is because the normal conduction
system in the heart goes from being systematic and coordinated to a highly disorganized
system. The atria contract at rates of 350-900 beats per minute, and because the impulse
is conducted slower through the AV node to the ventricles, they only contract 90-170
beats per minute. Sometimes this number is higher, but this unequal contraction in the
heart causes the heart to flutter (Andrews & Nelson, 2006). The mechanisms for atrial
fibrillation are still under question. However it is thought that much of AF is initiated and
maintained through re-entrant circuits in the pulmonary veins and right atrium (Chugh &
Morady, 2006).
The disorganized, rapid contraction does not generate enough force to supply the
body with blood. People with atrial fibrillation experience symptoms such as heart
palpitations, shortness of breath, discomfort, fatigue, and dizziness. In infrequent
occurrences atrial fibrillation is not harmless. However, prolonged episodes can increase
the risk of serious problems including blood clots, stroke, and heart failure. Atrial
fibrillation presents with an irregular pulse rate and recording on the electrocardiogram.
During atrial fibrillation, the complexes are not regularly formed, and the QRS
complexes are closer together indicating a rapid, irregular heartbeat (Torpy, 2010).
Figure 14. A normal heart and ECG (top) compared to a heart and ECG with atrial
fibrillation (bottom).
Re-entry and ectopic foci in the atria can lead to AF. Figures adapted and modified
from (Medical Disability Advisor, 2010) (Ryan, 2011).
Atrial fibrillation can be classified into four different types: lone, paroxysmal,
persistent, and permanent. Lone atrial fibrillation describes atrial fibrillation in younger
patients due to structural heart disease. Paroxysmal explains a condition that includes
periodic instances of atrial flutter. The patient normally returns to normal rhythm within
seven days, and the fibrillation episodes last for less than twenty-four hours. Persistent
AF occurs when episodes last more than seven days and require an outside influence or
treatment to resume normal pacing activity. Finally, permanent AF describes a condition
in which the fibrillation persists for over a year. This generally only occurs when
interventional techniques have failed or not yet been attempted (Rosenthal, 2011).
Bradycardia is yet another type of arrhythmia caused by a malfunction in the ECS
(Figure 15). However, it elicits a slow heart rate. It occurs when the heartbeat is slowed
due to a failure of the electrical impulse to reach the atrioventricular node. Bradycardia
can be caused by pathologies. An example of this is Sick Sinus Syndrome. This is caused
by hardening of the SA node, and can result in escape beats in the ECG. These beats
come from ectopic foci that take over for the function of the SA node. Much research has
been done on this syndrome. It has become one of the more distinguished and explained
arrhythmias in the heart due to the research of JJ Wellens (Luderitz, 2009). It is generally
treated with a pacemaker, but the ablation procedure could offer a cure (Aaronson &
Ward, 2007). Many more arrhythmias exist: atrial flutter, atrioventricular block,
atrioventricular nodal re-entry tachycardia, and other conduction blocks associated with
the cardiac conduction system. Many of these arrhythmias have been cured and/or treated
through the new science of clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
Figure 15. Bradycardia ECG Reading.
Bradycardia is characterized by a larger time gap between each QRS complex in
the ECG. Figure adapted and modified from (Preventing-a-heart-attack.com, 2008)
The Development of Clinical, Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
Because of the wide range of malfunctions that occur within the conduction
system of the heart and the increase in technology available, physicians began to study
the mechanisms and treatment options for these arrhythmias. Eventually, a new clinical
discipline grew out of this research. This was known as interventional electrophysiology.
For many years doctors were unsure of the mechanisms and pathologies of heart
arrhythmias. In the 1960s, it was even believed that coronary bypass surgery was curative
for patients with ventricular tachycardia (Luderitz, 2009). The conduction mechanism
that occurs in heart issues was not yet completely understood. It is now clear that this
method was far too simplistic, but at that time other curative options were not available.
The only treatments that existed were pharmacological supplements, which suppressed
arrhythmias but did not cure them (Josephson, 2003).
However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s many different discoveries allowed
the field of interventional electrophysiology to grow. Physicians began to use the catheter
(a thin, flexible tube) to examine, diagnose, and stimulate the conduction system of the
heart (Figure 16). This allowed scientists and physicians to come to a greater, less
simplistic understanding of the conduction system in the heart. As more and more
discoveries were made, electrophysiology grew. Physicians went from completely
resecting damage tissues (in the 1970s), to repairing and restoring function (Luderitz,
2009). This was a complicated and invasive procedure, but it did provide an option for
those who could not undergo other treatments. In the 1980s the first curative catheter
ablation procedure was performed. At this time, however, the ablation procedure had
severe limitations. It could not treat ventricular tachycardia because physicians could not
make deep enough lesions in the tissue with the current technology (Josephson, 2003).
Mapping abilities were poor, leaving the performing physicians with less of an ability to
pinpoint the particular place to lesion (Lim et al., 2010). However, these mapping studies
generated enough research to allow physicians to further develop the ablation technique.
Figure 16. Catheter entrance into the heart.
The heart catheter has allowed physicians to gain a deeper understanding of
the functions of the heart. Figure adapted and modified from (United
Therapeutics, 2011)
The Catheter Ablation Procedure
The catheter ablation is the most significant procedure to develop from the
science of electrophysiology (Figure 17). The techniques associated with this procedure
grew out of the mapping advances and studies during the 1970s and beyond (Josephson,
2003). Ablation is an ideal treatment for arrhythmias, as it is curative, unlike
pharmaceuticals. It involves the insertion of a thin catheter into the heart (Cleveland
Clinic, 2010). Once vascular access is obtained, the physician must locate the critical site
of the arrhythmia. This is the area in which the arrhythmia originates or must pass
through to continue (Stevenson & Soejima, 2007). This could either be a location of
ectopic foci, over active pacemaker cells, or re-entry pathway. Depending on the patient,
type of arrhythmia, and source of arrhythmia, this part of the procedure varies from
patient to patient.
After determining the source of the origin of the arrhythmia, the physician must
be able to induce the arrhythmia from this site. During induction of the arrhythmia, the
physician must be able to pace the heart at a faster rate than the arrhythmia, at the same
rate as the arrhythmia, at a normal rate, and finally back to the rate of the arrhythmia
(Josephson, 2003). This confirms the diagnosis and assures that termination of the
arrhythmia is a potential result of the case. Without this conformation, the procedure
would be less accurate and successful. After induction, more mapping is performed in
order to pinpoint the source of the arrhythmia. Finally, the physician creates lesions with
a machine that delivers energy into the critical site. This is known as the ablation portion
of the procedure. The energy delivered disconnects the pathway, and therefore halts the
arrhythmia (Cleveland Clinic, 2010). Finally, after the lesions are created, the physician
tests the area to determine if the ablation was successful (Stevenson & Soejima, 2007).
Figure 17. Diagram of a Radiofrequency Ablation Procedure.
This procedure uses radiowaves to create the lesions and cure the arrhythmia.
Figure adapted and modified from (Medical University of South Carolina).
As ventricular arrhythmias are the most common cause of sudden death in
developed nations, this procedure is becoming increasingly important (Lim et all, 2010).
Generally, ventricular tachycardia is not fatal in those with a healthy heart. However,
sustained VT has been shown as a leading cause of sudden death in patients with heart
disease (Stevenson & Soejima, 2007). Ablation has proven to be a successful cure for the
many that suffer from VT. The various techniques for ablation of ventricular tachycardias
grew out of the many mapping studies in the 1970s, and the ablation procedure has since
been shown to successfully cure various forms of ventricular tachycardia. In 1970,
Guiraduon and his colleagues developed the first ablation technique to cure patients
suffering from SVT due to cardiac disease. This procedure was not ideal because it had a
high mortality rate. However, research continued, and the sources of most ventricular
arrhythmias were subsequently identified. He believed that they occur on the endocardial
surface of the heart. From this knowledge, Josephson implemented a technique that used
mapping capabilities to resect subendocardial areas of the heart. This proved successful,
and this technique is still used to eliminate VT in many different patients (Josephson,
Most types of ventricular tachycardia can be treated with ablation. The technique
used by most physicians is fairly standard. First, the critical site for the current must be
located. Then pacing abilities must be obtained at this site. Finally, once a site is
determined, lesions are created. After the lesions are created, the success of the procedure
is evaluated, and the case ends (Josephson, 2003). Although the general procedure
remains constant, the various types of VT are attacked differently. In patients with
previous heart damage, VT is much more dangerous and can arise from many different
circuits. Many have so much damage to the tissue that eliminating all triggers is
impossible. The goal of the ablation is to eliminate the most important, clinically relevant
pathways. There is a lower success rate in patients with damage because of the great
amount of re-entrant circuits available due to the damaged tissue. Monomorphic
ventricular tachycardias are very favorable to the ablation process. The triggers are
generally easy to determine. Bundle-branch VT is an example of this; it is generally
caused by re-entrant pathways through the bundle branches. Once this site is determined,
a lesion is created. This has been found very effective, and with little complication. In
spite of the success of the ablative procedure in monomorphic VT, polymorphic VT is
only treated with ablation in certain circumstances (such as an ectopic trigger in the
Purkinje system, which leads to random stimulation). Polymorphic ventricular
tachycardia is controlled with an implanted defibrillator or the use of pharmaceuticals
(Josephson, 2003).
Two other modes of treatment for ventricular tachycardia are defibrillator
implantation and anti-arrhythmic pharmaceuticals. Although defibrillators have been
used to prevent sudden death in patients with VT, these devices are not curative. They
simply provide a restorative shock to the heart when it does jump out of rhythm. Patients
with defibrillators (ICD) have a decreased quality of life due to the anxiety and stress of
the chance of a recurrent attack. Defibrillators are also associated with an increased
mortality in patients after a heart attack (Lim et al., 2010). It seems obvious that they
should not be a first treatment priority in patients with cardiac malfunction. Yet, many
patients receive these devices after an attack or if they are thought to be candidates for
VT. A study showed that VT reappears in 40-60% of patients who received a defibrillator
after an attack of ventricular tachycardia, and 20% of patients who received an ICD prior
to their first attack (Stevenson & Soejima, 2007). In spite of these numbers, many people
still opt for this mode of treatment over catheter ablation (Josephson, 2003).
Ventricular tachycardia is a common phenomenon, and if it can be cured it seems
that it should be. It is an inconvenience to those with it, and in prolonged instances can
lead to heart damage and failure. Anti-arrhythmic drugs are a popular treatment for VT,
but they are not ideal for many patients. Many side effects are associated with these
medications; some prescriptions even increase the risk of mortality in patients after a
heart attack. Although there are some benefits to these medications (they do not involve a
surgical procedure), there are too many side effects to implement these as the main
treatment for VT. Although some physicians may utilize pharmacological techniques for
a short period of time, ablation seems to be a much better choice for patients with heart
damage or disease. Ideally, catheter ablation should be the first mode of treatment for
those with SVT because it offers a cure for patients. It has a high success rate, and
relatively few complications. Other modes of treatment for VT do not offer the same
benefits. As technology continues to expand, the ablation procedure will only get more
effective and influential in curing ventricular tachycardias (Josephson, 2003).
The ablation procedure has also been used to effectively treat atrial fibrillation
(Figure 18). A major discovery that led to the ablations effectiveness in this area occurred
when Michel Haissaguerre determined that the pulmonary veins play a role in the
initiation of atrial fibrillation. Physicians began to research this and enacted the trigger
approach to ablations. The goal of this procedure is to eliminate triggers in ectopic foci
and the pulmonary veins (Figure 19). When the trigger is eliminated through the ablation
procedure, the atrial fibrillation ceases. However, this procedure is yet to be perfected,
and there is not one fix for all forms of atrial fibrillation (Chugh & Morady, 2006).
Because of the diverse and even unknown mechanisms that lead to atrial fibrillation,
there are many different ablation treatments that need to be conformed for each patient.
Figure 18. The ablation procedure for AF.
The mapping catheter is used to find the area, while the ablation catheter is used to
create lesions. Figure adapted and modified from (Shapira, 2009).
Figure 19. After cardiac ablation.
After cardiac ablation the impulses cannot transverse the lesions. Figure
adapted and modified from (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2010).
Generally, when patients are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation they are first treated
with medication for a period of time. This allows the physician to determine if the
condition can be managed pharmaceutically. Pharmaceutical treatment is often believed
to be an ideal option, but in reality it does not offer a cure for atrial fibrillation.
Medications have many limitations. They function to suppress the stimulation of atrial
fibrillation and protect against blood clots, and they are only completely effective when
taken as part of a strict schedule. Because patients are often not compliant with
medications, the reported statistics are often inaccurate. Atrial fibrillation can lead to
serious cardiac malfunctions, and it is important that a curative option be offered to
patients with AF (Singh & Murphy, 2009). Ablation offers this cure, and it should be
prescribed more to treat this illness.
AV nodal ablation is one of these techniques (Figure 20). This procedure has been
used for many years, and its efficacy has even been shown (Lakshmanadoss, Aggarwal,
Huang, Daubert, & Shah, 2009). Atrioventricular nodal ablation is often used in patients
with recurrent AF that has not been sufficiently managed with medications and/or
pacemaker activity. However, during this procedure it is necessary to pace the heart from
a separate site other than the atrioventricular node. For many years this was performed
thorough the right ventricle. However, recent studies have shown that pacing from the
right ventricle can lead to dysfunction in the left ventricle, heart failure, and an increased
risk of mortality. These findings have led physicians to look for other methods of pacing
during AV node ablation. Two more modes of pacing have proven to be accompanied
with less risk: His bundle pacing and Bi-ventricular pacing. However, bi-ventricular
pacing can be complicated, because left ventricle pacing is hard to obtain. Therefore,
studies have shown that His bundle pacing may be safer and more effective during AV
nodal ablation.
Figure 20. AV Nodal ablation.
The AV nodal ablation is used as a treatment for AF. Figure adapted and
modified from (Healthwise, 2010).
One study performed on a 66-year-old woman helps to demonstrate an effective
ablation. This procedure consisted of the main aspects of the normal ablative procedure.
The physicians obtained vascular access of the His bundle. After access was obtained,
pacing was initiated in the His bundle. It was determined that this was a critical and
acceptable site that was able to adequately mimic the arrhythmia. Finally, permanent
pacing was applied, and the effectiveness was tested and achieved. During this procedure,
there were no signs of the normal complications that occur during RV pacing
(Lakshmanadoss et al., 2009). As exciting as these findings are, these results originate
from only a six-month follow-up visit. It is clear that there must be more long-term
studies performed in this area. Although many would say this study was an exciting
breakthrough, it is not sufficient to determine a procedures effectiveness solely based on
short-term follow up visits. It is necessary to monitor patients.
Another ablative technique used to cure atrial fibrillation is termed segmental
ostial ablation (Figure 21). This technique can be used for patients with paroxysmal atrial
fibrillation, as well as those who suffer from atrial fibrillation due to ectopic foci in the
pulmonary veins (Tamborero et al., 2007). This procedure was the first interventional,
trigger catheter ablation technique used to treat atrial fibrillation. It utilizes a circular
mapping technique along with a larger tipped ablation catheter that allows the physician
to deliver higher energy near the critical site within the pulmonary vein. The high energy
current produces the risk of the hardening of the pulmonary vein. Although physicians
have taken measures to prevent vein hardening, it is still a problem associated with this
technique. Segmental ostial ablation is shown be effective in greater than fifty percent of
patients, with a complication rate of less than nine percent (Tamborero et al., 2007).
Segmental ostial ablation is most effective in patients with paroxysmal AF; those
with persistent AF have less success during this procedure. The University of Michigan
has performed long-term studies (with a three year follow-up) on the efficacy of this
procedure (Chugh & Morady, 2006). However, there is a sufficient lack of data regarding
the effects of ablative procedures greater than five years post-operation. This is one of the
primary reasons some physicians are still hesitant to offer ablation as the primary
treatment option. In spite of this deficit, the curative and diverse benefits of the ablation
procedure should still be recognized.
Figure 21. Fluoroscope image taken during a PV ostial ablation procedure.
This type of ostial ablation technique can be used to treat paroxysmal AF. The
figure depicts the HRA (high right atrium), ABL (ablation catheter), CS (coronary
sinus,), His catheter, and Lasso guidance. Figure adapted and modified from (Lee
et al., 2010)
Because of the many different origins and mechanisms behind atrial fibrillation,
various modifications have been made when using to the catheter ablation procedure to
cure AF (Weerasooriya et al., 2011). Many of these involve ablation (the creation of
lesions) in areas of the pulmonary veins. This is because current research shows that
much of the atrial fibrillation is triggered inside these veins, or within their attachment to
the right atrium. Another influential ablation procedure, atrial circumferential ablation,
utilizes the new mapping technologies. This ablation technique has proven to be very
effective in curing paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. However, it also has the tendency to
transform atrial fibrillation into atrial flutter. Although this condition is less serious than
AF, this side effect prevents the complete curative nature of the procedure (Chugh &
Morady, 2006). Ablation still remains to be the most curative and preferential procedure
when treating AF.
Because of the lack of information regarding long-term and residual effects
regarding the ablation procedure, many physicians still choose to treat atrial fibrillation
with more traditional methods. A number atrial fibrillation cases are managed with
pharmaceuticals for a period of time before the ablation procedure is even considered
(Singh & Murphy, 2009). Although it is clear that more research must be conducted on
the results of the ablation procedure, it remains the most effective, curative method for
treating atrial fibrillation. The catheter ablation procedure has been successfully used to
treat patients whose AF cannot be treated with medication alone (Weerasooriya et al.,
2011). This procedure has also been utilized in conjunction with pacemakers and
defibrillators, when they are not able to sufficiently manage a patients atrial fibrillation
(Lakshmanadoss et al., 2009). Physicians are performing novel procedures and adapting
techniques to treat a varying degree of patients. Although there is still a large gap in
information regarding these techniques, physicians are making strides to perform long-
term research that will lead to a greater efficacy during the ablation procedure
(Weerasooriya et al., 2011).
The vast amount of research performed by the pioneers of electrophysiology has
greatly contributed to the success of the ablation procedure. These scientists have
significantly improved the discipline of interventional electrophysiology. In less than 30
years, new ablative energies have been developed, new catheters have been developed,
and mapping abilities have greatly increased. Direct current was the first form of energy
used to create lesions in the tissue (Josephson, 2003). This was not ideal because it
created a mini explosion in the tissue, which led to less control of the procedure and
greater complications (Lim et al., 2010). This was replaced by cryoablation, which did
not have as high of a success rate (Josephson, 2003). Currently, physicians are using
radio-frequency ablation. This offers a more controllable and safe source of energy for
the creation of lesions in the heart muscle. The type of catheter tip has also evolved from
the beginning stages of interventional electrophysiology. Physicians are now able to use
irrigated tip catheters, which allows the control of temperature at the catheter tip. This
helps to eliminate blood pooling, increases power delivery, and reduces the risk of clot
formation. The mapping abilities available to physicians have also lead to an increase in
the efficacy of ventricular tachycardia (Josephson, 2003).
There is still much unknown about ventricular tachycardia and the causes of other
arrhythmias. In addition, the long-term efficacy of the catheter ablation procedure is
under-researched. However, physicians are currently reporting a 70% success rate, and
10-40% recurrence rate (Josephson, 2003). In those with recurrent arrhythmias, a second
ablative procedure is often more terminally curative (Lim et al., 2010). Sometimes,
inadequate mapping and pacing techniques can alter the efficacy of the ablative
procedure. There is clearly room for improvement within the catheter ablation
procedures, but its success thus far is undeniable (Josephson, 2003). The most recent
research shows a high success rate in most ablative procedures accompanied by a low
risk of complications (Lim et al., 2010). Physicians are in the process of perfecting and
making corrections to the procedure. As they incorporate more research into their
practices, the ablation procedure will become more curative and accurate.
This has been evidenced through physicians responsiveness to complications and
recurrences. Thus far, when a repetitive complication arises within the ablation
procedure, a group of physicians has determined a method to overcome the difficulty. It
was determined that a magnesium deficiency resulted due to combination of anti-
arrhythmic medication and the ablation procedure. A group of physicians eventually
demonstrated that the use of intravenous magnesium treatments could help buffer this
problem (Sachin et al., 2008). The threat of clot formation during RFCA was remedied
by the administration of heparin to thin the blood. When it was found that this same
heparin could cause other types of bleeding complications, a group of physicians
proposed the administration of protamine post-op to reduce these problems. This
treatment was found to be highly successful in the trial phase, and should significantly
reduce thrombotic events as well as other bleeding complications that may arise during
the ablation procedure (Patel et al., 2007). Research regarding the ablation procedure has
allowed for an increase in its overall safeness and efficacy.
It is evident that the effectiveness of the ablation procedure would greatly benefit
from more research and innovation. The use of various pacing techniques is an example
of this. Pacing in some areas of the ECS has been shown to increase complications and
reduce the efficacy of the ablation (in permanently curing arrhythmias). Currently,
physicians are combatting these complications. They have discovered new methods for
pacing during the ablative procedure. These include His bundle and bi-ventricular pacing
in place of sole right ventricular pacing (Lakshmanadoss et al., 2009). Post-operative
care is also an issue that must be addressed. Often after an ablation, a patient must be
treated with pharmaceuticals to reduce the risk of a recurrent abnormal rhythm.
Electrophysiologists are in the process of determining how to reduce this need for
pharmaceuticals (Sachin et al., 2008). In spite of a lack of long-term research, physicians
continue to make improvements to the ablative procedure. Although it is able to treat
many different types of arrhythmias such as: AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia, accessory
pathways, atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation, and ventricular tachycardia, there are still
complications and side effects associated with this procedure. In order for some to
consider the ablation procedure a foremost treatment option, these issues must be
addressed.
Although some view interventional electrophysiology as an under-researched
field, its novelty is often forgotten. There have been many advances in the field of
electrophysiology since its inception in 1979. Physicians have learned the mechanisms
behind arrhythmias, as well as developed curative and preventive measures for such
problems. The most exciting development out of this field, the ablation procedure, arose a
little over 30 years ago. The majority of these years have been spent perfecting the
mapping, pacing, and ablation techniques that have led to the accuracy of the current
procedure (Josephson, 2003). This has left little room for significant long-term research
regarding the ablation techniques. As the procedure continues to develop, there will be an
increase in studies regarding its effectiveness, curative nature, and complication rate. One
such study reported by Lim, Singleton, Alasady, and McGavigan (2010) spans five years,
and reveals many exciting results from the ablation procedure. As many fear that
mortality related to ablation could be a long-term complication, this study showed a 0%
mortality rate after the procedure (Lim et al., 2010). In order to address skeptics of the
ablation procedure, this type of research is necessary and will increase the awareness of
the benefits of this technique.
Due to the importance of the cardiac electrical conduction system, the
significance of its malfunctions, and the high efficacy of the ablation procedure in curing
these aberrations, the catheter ablation procedure should be considered a priority when
treating an arrhythmia. More research conducted in the discipline of interventional
electrophysiology, especially on the ablation procedure and its techniques, will greatly
benefit the health of many Americans. As Americans continue to age and obesity
continues to rise, there will be a significant increase in the number of arrhythmias
diagnosed each year. One study has predicted that in the next fifty years, Americans will
see a three-fold increase in the number of patients with atrial fibrillation alone (Neal,
2007). This is just one of the many arrhythmias that can be cured through the ablation
procedure. Although there is currently not a great deal of long-term research regarding
this procedure, the efficacy of the ablation has yet to be disproven (Josephson, 2003). The
significance of the electrical conduction system in the heart is clear, and the further
development of the ablation procedure to treat its malfunctions will greatly benefit
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Washington, DC - On Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 12 p.m. EST, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release the complete set of tables prepared for the upcoming USDA Agricultural Projections to 2028 report. The new tables will include projections for farm income, U.S. fruits, nuts, and vegetables supply and use, and global commodity trade. Tables containing long-term supply, use, and price projections to 2028 for major U.S. crops and livestock products as well as supporting U.S. and international macroeconomic assumptions were released on November 2, 2018. Short-term projections from the October 11, 2018 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report are used as a starting point.
“The baseline tables provide important data to many stakeholders. We had to delay their release due to the lapse in federal funding, but I am pleased to announce they will be available to the public in few days,” said USDA Chief Economist Rob Johansson.
The tables will be in MS Excel format and posted to the USDA Office of the Chief Economist’s (OCE) website.
The complete USDA Agricultural Projections to 2028 report will be released on March 13, 2019 and will include a full discussion of the projections for U.S. commodity supply and use, farm income, and global commodity trade.
USDA’s long-term agricultural projections represent a departmental consensus on a ten-year representative scenario for the agricultural sector. The projections do not represent USDA forecasts, but rather reflect a conditional long-run scenario based on specific assumptions about macroeconomic conditions, policy, weather, and international developments, with no domestic or external shocks to global agricultural markets. The Agricultural Act of 2014 is assumed to remain in effect through the projection period.
Background on USDA’s long-term projections and past issues of the report are available at the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) website.
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April 1, 2019 / 5:37 AM / 4 months ago
UK should have said soft Brexit was inevitable in 2017 - chief whip
Britain's Conservative Party Chief Whip Julian Smith is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government should have said in 2017 that a softer Brexit was inevitable after it lost its parliamentary majority in an election, the chief enforcer of her Conservative Party in parliament said.
Chief whip Julian Smith, speaking in an interview with the BBC released on Monday, also criticised senior ministers for “the worst example of ill-discipline in cabinet in British political history”.
The BBC said it was unprecedented for a chief whip to publicly criticise the government. It comes as May’s ministers are deeply split over how to break Britain’s Brexit impasse.
Lawmakers are due to vote on Monday on alternatives to May’s deal, several of which call for Britain to have closer ties to the EU than foreseen under the prime minister’s plan.
Smith told the BBC that, when it failed to get a majority in the 2017 election, “the government as a whole probably should have just been clearer on the consequences of that. The parliamentary arithmetic would mean that this would be inevitably a kind of softer type of Brexit.”
He said he had seen ministers “sitting around the cabinet table... trying to destabilise her (May).”
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Jackie Brown (baseball)
Born: (1943-05-31) May 31, 1943 (age 76)
Holdenville, Oklahoma
Batted: Right Threw: Right
July 2, 1970, for the Washington Senators
September 27, 1977, for the Montréal Expos
Washington Senators/Texas Rangers (1970–1971; 1973–1975)
Cleveland Indians (1975–1976)
Montréal Expos (1977)
Jackie Gene Brown (born May 31, 1943) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1970 through 1977 for the Washington Senators/Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, and Montreal Expos. He batted and threw right-handed. His older brother, Paul Brown, also pitched in the majors.
In 7 seasons he had a 47–53 win–loss record, 214 games (105 started), 26 complete games, 8 shutouts, 39 games finished, 3 saves, 8922⁄3 innings pitched, 934 hits allowed, 460 runs allowed, 415 earned runs allowed, 82 home runs allowed, 353 walks, 516 strikeouts, 20 hit batsmen, 28 wild pitches, 3,865 batters faced, 24 intentional walks, 1 balk, a 4.18 ERA and a 1.442 WHIP.
After his playing career, Brown was a pitching coach for the Texas Rangers (1979–82), Chicago White Sox (1992–95) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2002), and also was a minor league pitching coordinator and pitching coach in a number of organizations.
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The Impact of the Location on Innovation
By: Gunjan Bhardwaj
Not only internal, but also external factors are strong drivers of innovation. Why have, for instance, some places emerged as “hot spots” for innovation? The impact of the location on innovation is the second in a series of five articles by Gunjan Bhardwaj, head of Ernst & Young´s Global Business Performance Think-tank. The topics of the other articles are: Disruptive Innovation; Innovation in Networks; Social Innovation; and Business Model Innovation.
Where does innovation come from? What are its main drivers? Of course innovation is driven by some internal factors, such as a firm’s capabilities, its processes, its values, or its resources. However, these internal factors only partially drive innovation. External factors are also important drivers of innovation. The external environment, through strong links between institutions of higher education and industry, for instance, can trigger innovation as well. Some locations have thus emerged as “hot spots” for innovation. These fertile locations in fact vary across sectors and industries (Porter & Stern, 2001: 28). Since innovation is one of the most significant factors of economic competitiveness, countries or regions are trying hard to establish innovative structures (Pohlmann, 2005: 9).
How does the location affect innovation?
Regional Innovativeness
… the socio-economic environment of a location … has a strong impact on the companies located in this area with regards to their innovativeness
According to the Regional Innovation Systems (RIS), the socio-economic environment of a location, such as human capital, or the existence of certain institutions, has a strong impact on the companies located in this area with regards to their innovativeness. However in the literature there is no commonly accepted definition of the RIS’s components and several studies introduce different regional factors as crucial for a firm’s innovativeness.
A study of the Max Planck Institute of Economics carried out in among German firms shows a strong impact of economic agglomeration, extramural science institutions and human capital, especially the graduates at technical colleges, on regional innovativeness (Brökel & Brenner, 2006).
National Innovativeness
According to Porter and Stern, the innovativeness of a location is determined by national innovative capacity, which is the potential of a country to produce commercially valuable innovations. Thus, the authors have developed the national innovative capacity framework, comprising the common innovation infrastructure, the cluster-specific environment for innovation, and the quality of the linkages between these 2 components, as 3 main elements.
The cluster-specific environment also plays an important role, since innovation and the marketing of new products essentially takes place in these locations
The first element, the so-called common innovation infrastructure, includes all factors encouraging innovation throughout the economy as a whole. These can be the total human and financial resources the country is devoting to research, or important policies such as the protection of intellectual property or incentives for innovation.
The cluster-specific environment also plays an important role, since innovation and the marketing of new products essentially takes place in these locations. A cluster can be defined as a geographic concentration of inter-related firms and institutions working in a specific field.
The quality of the cluster innovation environment can be measured by Porter’s Diamond framework, which includes local demand conditions, strategy, structure and rivalry (Porter, 1998: 131-179). Finally, the linkages between the common innovation infrastructure and the clusters have to be strong to allow for a reciprocal relationship. Actually strong clusters should contribute to the common infrastructure, but also take advantage of it (Porter & Stern, 2001).
Silicon Valley, USA
Silicon Valley is well known for being a “learning region”, where a successful innovation system has been implemented (Doloreux, 2003: 69). Silicon Valley’s business model, in which ideas, capital, and talent freely move and mix to create innovation and wealth, really makes the difference.
Silicon Valley’s business model, in which ideas, capital, and talent freely move and mix to create innovation and wealth, really makes the difference
At the centre of this way of doing business, 3 interdependent markets meet: a market for ideas, a market for capital, and a market for talent. It is at their crossroad that wealth is created. The absence of bureaucracy, which would slow down or even paralyse innovation, helps the circulation of ideas, capital, and talent.
In addition, decision-making power in Silicon Valley is very diffuse, and workers are not afraid of changing companies. Silicon Valley works on a resource attraction basis, meaning that only if an idea is worth something will it attract capital and talent (Hamel, 2000: 3-4).
The emergence of a knowledge based economy has had significant effects on the existing comparative advantages of innovation systems in metropolitan areas and has brought along some important challenges. One of them has been the adjustment of these cities to this new landscape, especially cities in mature industrial sectors. Actually this was the case of Stuttgart.
The comparative innovation strength of Stuttgart mainly came from the technology based knowledge production and diffusion
The comparative innovation strength of Stuttgart mainly came from the technology based knowledge production and diffusion. Thus the institutional structures, by privileging the industrial sector, had prevented the metropolitan city from adjusting to new forms of knowledge production and diffusion.
However Stuttgart has now managed to adapt. Since the mid 1990s several measures have been taken to adjust the organisation of innovation and learning processes in the region. Initiatives now focus on technological, but also organisational and service innovation. Moreover regional knowledge concentration as well as international relationships now benefit from a powerful support (Strambach, 2002).
Innovation is nevertheless not restricted to the famous “learning regions” or to metropolitan areas. Innovation activities can also be significant in peripheral areas, such as the Beauce, in Québec, Canada, for instance. The economic vitality of the region comes from endogenous collective entrepreneurship and from co-operations. In fact, the region’s entrepreneurship finds profuse historical evidence.
Innovation in the region is mainly driven by inter-firm relations and the fierce industry competition
However the uniqueness of the region comes from the fact that on the one hand it is characterised by an important entrepreneurial spirit and several entrepreneurial initiatives, but on the other hand it is characterised by unqualified and inexpensive labour. There are a lot of SMEs in the region, mostly focusing on low value-added technology sectors.
Based on surveys of firms in non-metropolitan areas, the results of innovativeness of the Beauce region are significantly higher than results elsewhere in Canada, although links to research institutions or related public organisations are quite weak. Innovation in the region is mainly driven by inter-firm relations and the fierce industry competition (Doloreux, 2003).
The choice of R&D locations should not be driven by labour costs, or taxes. Companies should rather choose the most fertile locations in terms of innovation. By locating R&D facilities in countries with favourable common innovation infrastructures and powerful clusters in their sector, companies can indeed get better opportunities to develop new products or processes.
The choice of R&D locations should not be driven by labour costs, or taxes
However to reach this potential, firms must not only set up R&D facilities, but also proactively access the strengths of their local environment, and maybe even enhance the local innovative capacity, in order to make it more favourable to innovation (Porter & Stern, 2001).
By Gunjan Bhardwaj
Gunjan Bhardwaj is coordinator of the Global Business Performance Think-tank of Ernst&Young. He is also the solution champion for Pricing strategy and effectiveness as well as Innovation management in the advisory services of Ernst & Young with a focus on Pharmaceutical and FMCG sector.
Gunjan is also a guest professor for Growth and Innovation management at European Business School (EBS) in Germany and a member of the scientific advisory board of Plexus Institute in the US which researches on complexity in health sciences
Gunjan Bhardwaj graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India in Metallurgical Engineering and Material Sciences and then did his MBA in International Management and Marketing in Pforzheim University, Germany on a DAAD Scholarship.
Gunjan has published a number of papers and articles in various Journals and magazines and has been a frequent speaker in conferences on marketing and innovation related topics. He is also the chief editor of the quarterly journal of Ernst & Young’s advisory practice called Performance.
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Doloreux, D. (2003) Regional innovation system in the periphery: the case of the Beauce in Québec (Canada). International Journal of Innovation Management, 7:1, pp.67-94.
Hamel, G. (2000) Resource attraction. Executive Excellence, August, pp. 3-4.
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Magic News December 7, 2004
Bookslut: I Love Tour of Magician’s Study
The Bookslut gives the unusual book A Guided Tour of The Magician’s Study by Tobias Seamon two thumbs up for its authenticity and approach to storytelling.
We?re no geniuses but it does sound like an interesting way to tell a story. Instead of focusing on the day-to-day, hour-by-hour flow of life, the magician tells his story after he is dead.
The author apparently enjoyed researching New York?s magic scene at the end of the 19th Century; and specifically sought as much information about Houdini as possible. As a result, says The Bookslut, the chapter on Houdini stands out as one of the most interesting chapters in the book.
We checked Amazon to see if the book was available. It is. We also checked out the other reviews of the book critics have loaded to Amazon and other websites. No one seems to like this book except The Bookslut.
The reason the book seems to lack support, suggests The Bookslut, is that it is written from the perspective not of time but of place and objects. We don?t know what that means but we?re going to buy it, read it, and review it right here.
The critic writes:
The true richness of the story, and what will continually captivate the reader, is the juxtaposition of the larger story of America, as represented by Rouncival?s experiences in the Bowery, his friendships with Houdini, Frida Kahlo, H.G. Wells, etc., and the intense and utterly riveting smaller story of his own life and loves. The character of Robert Rouncival, who is long dead when the story begins, completely enthralls the reader; and the format in which his life is revealed only makes the story that much more fascinating.
The Magician?s Study joins two other magic-related manuscripts on the fiction list. Critics on both sides of the Atlantic have raved…
The Magician?s Study joins two other magic-related manuscripts on the fiction list. Critics on both sides of the Atlantic have raved about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. The book is considered the Harry Potter for adults. Clear, a book based on an author?s life under the influence of David Blaine?s 44-Day Glass Box of Self-Love is apparently written in an less than orthodox manner but has a powerful message for the reader.
Inside Magic will soon be releasing its The Clueless Magician, a novel about a former police detective who returns to his magic roots to help investigate a murder. The twist is: Police believe he is the murderer and the victim.
The book is currently in early draft form but will be released by Inside Magic Press around May of 2005. We are currently attempting to get an alluring model to pose in a skimpy bathing suit for the book?s cover. With our limited budget, however, we can only get a former professional nose model or Al Gore.
The Bookslut’s Column and current review can be read here.
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The Gold Standard: Too Many Avengers, Over-Saturated Writers, Top Five Moments, And A Weekly Roundup
Grey Scherl | March 20, 2012 | Columns, Top Story | No Comments
The Avengers line is more over-saturated than the X-Men line.
I know, it may seem blasphemous, after all, the X-Men line consists of no less than ten books hitting the stands every month, in most cases twice a month. The Avengers line is about the same amount of books, but the majority of that line is still somewhat monthly. So why is it more over-saturated if the X-Men, with more books, isn’t? It’s all about what you get out of them.
The X-Men books currently feature Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen, Victor Gischler, Marjorie Liu, Rick Remender, Peter David, Christos Gage, Cullen Bunn (taking over Wolverine), James Asmus, Dan Abnett, and Andy Lanning as writers for the line. I may even be missing a few (I know I omitted Greg Pak since it’ll be a few months before he returns).
The Avengers books, on the other hand, feature Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Rick Remender, Christos Gage, Jeff Parker, and Cullen Bunn.
With the X-Men line of books, Jason Aaron is one of the writers who has multiple books, and he’s passing Wolverine off to rising star Cullen Bunn.
Look at Avengers, however, and Brian Bendis is writing Avengers, New Avengers, and Avengers Assemble. Matt Fraction is writing Invincible Iron Man, Thor, and Defenders. Ed Brubaker is writing Captain America and about to hand off Captain America & Bucky to Cullen Bunn (I won’t hold Winter Soldier against him here as it’s not so much an Avengers title as a neo-noir spy thriller). Remender, Gage, and Parker each currently write one book that I’d dub an Avengers books.
With the X-Men you have a wide variety of voices giving you a multitude of titles that don’t feel the same. There’s something for everyone. Want big time over the top super heroics? Read Uncanny. Want to see the X-Men team up with people? Read X-Men. Want to see high concept ideas and over the top characters? Wolverine and the X-Men. X-Men who kill? Uncanny X-Force. There is literally something for everyone in that line so long as your guidelines for what you want don’t include “anything but X-Men”.
But on the Avengers front, my current guideline is “an Avengers book by someone not Bendis”, which leaves me with Secret Avengers as the only title I’ve enjoyed from the line in months. I’m getting back into Captain America because Cullen Bunn is taking over a book from Ed Brubaker, whose best Captain America work I feel to be in the past. Matt Fraction has been writing Iron Man since audiences were sitting down to watch Robert Downey Jr. save his career, and while it was a great book (and some people tell me it still is), Fear Itself left such an ugly taste. So he also has Thor.
It’s the variety. Bendis writes three books and any and all of those books are interchangeable. The only thing that makes them at all able to be told apart is that each has a slightly different roster with Wolverine and Spider-Man on all of them. The last time I really enjoyed an Avengers title, that was in line with a classic Avengers title (I enjoyed Dark Avengers), was when Dan Slott wrote his criminally underrated run on Mighty Avengers. Avengers Academy is the current crown jewel of the franchise, but it’s also hardly an A-list book; it has name value of “Giant Man”. They are conditioning their Avengers readers to understand that unless it’s written by Bendis, Bru, or Frac, then chances are it doesn’t matter. The eggs are all entering the smallest of baskets.
It’s why things are so weak right now. Bendis has his strangle hold, despite the sales numbers collapsing over the years, and because there’s no chance he’ll see his books cancelled, he can continue turning in crappy stories. Same with Brubaker on Captain America, though less of the stranglehold and more of the fact that he reinvigorated the character and Marvel doesn’t want to yank him off…even if that reinvigoration was around eight years ago.
There’s a high turnover in the X-Office, at least where core titles are concerned. Sure, Mike Carey just ended one of the three longest runs in X-Men history, and Peter David has been on X-Factor for a while, but look at the rest. Jason Aaron is still in his first year of writing a team book with the X-Men, Kieron Gillen is the new big thing at Marvel and it’s because of the past year of him writing Uncanny. Frac and Bru both preceded Gillen on Uncanny, but both left before they outlasted their welcome. Rick Remender picked up X-Force from Craig Kyle and Chris Yost. Marjorie Liu is getting a freaking team book! The X-Office is all about change and new talent and building the profile of talent. There’s an abundance of characters, an abundance of titles, and an abundance of creators to handle them. It’s where stars are born.
The advantage to having different voices on every title is not something to be scoffed at, it really legitimately is an advantage. It means that a turned off reader won’t abandon the entire line because they are tired of one book, which, unfortunately, is what’s happening with Avengers. If you don’t like one book, you won’t like any of them because Bendis can’t mix it up. Fresh blood is what you need to revamp that line, not new number ones or catering to movies.
Look at what DC did with their relaunch. The Superman books are by Grant Morrison and George Perez. They didn’t give both books to Geoff Johns and tell him to make them better than Green Lantern. Brian Azzarello, a Vertigo writer first and foremost, was given Wonder Woman and has been doing a fantastic job with it. They took talent and put them on franchises that they were not already associated with (well, unless it was a Batman or Green Lantern book), and gave change a chance. For the most part, pretty successful.
Let Jonathan Hickman have an Avengers title, let Matt Fraction have another. Give Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man to a different brain trust. Bring in Jason Aaron and Kieron Gillen and Nick Spencer. Move Bendis, Bru, and Frac, for the most part, move on to other books and other franchises. Franchises where their voices are new and fresh, and not just the ones we’ve been hearing for so long.
What I read this week:
Avengers Assemble #1
Wolverine and the X-Men #7
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Nine #7
Top Five Books of the Week:
5. Resurrection Man #7
4. Green Lantern #7
3. X-23 #21
2. Saga #1
1. Fantastic Four #604
Top Four Worst Things I Read This Week:
4. Superboy #7
3. Batgirl #7
2. Avengers Assemble #1
1. Avengers #24
The Worst Things I Saw On Shelves:
Avengers: The Children’s Crusade was released in hardcover. The nine issue mini that took entirely too long to come out, which wrapped up last week, is already in trade. Really? Already? Not even gonna wait a month on that?
The New Dark Avengers.
The Best News I Got All Week:
Carol Danvers is finally being promoted to the A-list with her new title of Captain Marvel!
Top Five Moments of the Week:
5. “Not including her.” – Green Lantern #7
4. Wait, where did all the buildings go? – Scarlet Spider #3
3. Creepiest. Proposition. Ever. – Wolverine and the X-Men #7
2. Never try and call Amanda Waller on her bluff, you will lose your head. – Suicide Squad #7
1. Behold Galactus….herald of Franklin Richards. – Fantastic Four #604
Tags: Avengers, Avengers Assemble, Brian Michael Bendis, Fantastic Four, galactus, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Jonathan Hickman, Scarlet Spider, Suicide Squad, The Gold Standard, Wolverine and the X-Men
Grey Scherl
A lifelong reader and self proclaimed continuity guru, Grey is the Editor in Chief of Comics Nexus. Known for his love of Booster Gold, Spider-Girl (the real one), Stephanie Brown, and The Boys. Don't miss The Gold Standard.
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Tag: straight man
Do we really need a straight man to make comedy work?
I love the concept, it’s extremely useful, but I hate the term. Every time I hear it, it sounds more and more tone deaf.
I’d like to propose a simple change in terminology for analyzing comedy and improv scenes. Often two person comedy scenes will have one character who is inappropriate, absurd, irrational, illogical or weird, and another character who’s role is to react to this strange character as we think an average person might. This other character is usually more reasonable, skeptical, logical, or rational than the strange one.
The term that most people use for this is “straight man.” I love the concept, it’s extremely useful, but I hate the term. Every time I hear it, it sounds more and more tone deaf. Instead, I think we should use the term “voice of reason” instead:
the voice of reason (definition): Often when one character in a scene is odd, weird or strange, we need another character who is the voice of reason. This character’s job is to react as an ordinary person might to the absurd character. They might be skeptical of the other character’s point of view. They might react by being annoyed, or amazed, or shocked, or nonplussed.
The voice of reason does not have to act straight, or like a man, they have to react as a person, a person usually very similar to the real life performer behind the character.
If you don’t like this idea, feel free to keep using the tone deaf term. But if you are open to it, start using “voice of reason” instead. I think you will see it’s much more accurate and leaves out all the cultural baggage that normal and ordinary equals straight and male.
Author mullaneyPosted on March 20, 2016 Categories improvTags game of the scene, improv definitions, improv terms, straight man, voice of reason1 Comment on Do we really need a straight man to make comedy work?
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Teaching Professionals
Teaching Professionals – Global
Distinguished Writers in Residence
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Writer in Residence
Email: oransi01@nyu.edu
Ivan Oransky, MD, Distinguished Writer In Residence, has taught medical reporting in the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program since 2002. He is vice president of editorial at Medscape and co-founder of Retraction Watch, a site that reports on scientific integrity, fraud, and other issues. The site, which has been funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and the Helmsley Charitable Trust, has been called “one of the best innovations in science in recent years” by the former editor in chief of the British Medical Journal.
Ivan previously was global editorial director of MedPage Today, executive editor of Reuters Health, and held editorial positions at Scientific American and The Scientist. A 2012 TEDMED speaker, he is the recipient of the 2015 John P. McGovern Medal for excellence in biomedical communication from the American Medical Writers Association, and in 2017 was awarded an honorary doctorate in civil laws from The University of the South (Sewanee). Ivan, who holds an appointment at the School of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor of medicine, has also taught at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and has written for publications from Nature to the New York Times. As of September 2017, he serves as president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Three randomized controlled trials evaluating the impact of “spin” in health news stories reporting studies of pharmacologic treatments on patients’/caregivers’ interpretation of treatment benefit June 4th, 2019 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
Reasonable Versus Unreasonable Doubt March 12th, 2018 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
Institutional Research Misconduct Reports Need More Credibility March 12th, 2018 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
Interpretation of health news items reported with or without spin: protocol for a prospective meta-analysis of 16 randomised controlled trials November 30th, 2017 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? November 27th, 2017 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
Bad Incentives Push Universities to Protect Rogue Scientists March 17th, 2017 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
Should scientists engage in activism? February 6th, 2017 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
Why science news embargoes are bad for the public November 29th, 2016 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
How Publish or Perish Promotes Inaccuracy in Science—and Journalism December 1st, 2015 Ivan Oransky, MD Distinguished Writer in Residence
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ThunderCats Writer Murdered
Filed to: TragedyFiled to: Tragedy
Stephen Perry, who was a writer for 1980s cartoon ThunderCats, recently went missing. His van was found last Sunday. Inside it, a man's severed arm. Stephen Perry, police now report, is dead.
Thundercats writer Stephen Perry missing in Florida
Stephen Perry, a writer for such 1980s cartoons as ThunderCats and SilverHawks, went missing last…
The 56-year-old writer went missing from his Zephyrhills, Florida home, which authorities discovered was ransacked. His roommates, James Davis (45) and Roxanne Davis (49), disappeared, but have since been arrested on unrelated charges, writes Tampa Bay Online. James Davis was picked up on drug trafficking charges, and his wife is charged with violating probation.
"I cried. I cried when they told me," says 26-year-old Krystal Carroll, the mother of Perry's 5-year-old son. Last year, Carroll moved out and is currently in another relationship. Perry was slated to appear in court on May 9 for a domestic violence charge against Carroll. He has also been battling cancer as well.
"I am glad they are releasing the information to the public," Carroll added. "At least the public will know and there will be no more speculation about whether he was murdered. I am glad that we will start coming to some kind of closure not only for me and my son, but for the rest of his family as well."
Perry also wrote the 1985 comic book series Time Spirits, which gained renewed interest last winter when similarities between it and Avatar were discovered.
Avatar's Neytiri Has a Striking Comic Book Twin
Yesterday, we noted that the surreal landscapes of Pandora have a lot in common with the artwork of …
There have been plans to make a Hollywood version of ThunderCats. The project is currently on hold.
Police: Missing Zephyrhills comic writer is victim of homicide [TBO] [Pic]
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Idlewild Presbyterian Church Pastor Nominating Committee
Dear Idlewild Congregation,
Your Pastor Nominating Committee continues to be optimistic in our search for a new Head of Staff for Idlewild. As we reported last month, we have been in conversation with prospective candidates and have made visits to some of them. Those visits have proven valuable and we expect to make others.
From the beginning of the search we were aware that the Idlewild staff could change as the Holy Spirit moves. All of us have seen these changes in the last month. But Idlewild Church is still here—in the Sunday morning congregations, in the Sunday School classes of adults and children, in the choirs, in those who offer hospitality at More Than A Meal, in QUEST and BASIC, in the youth who led the Youth Service so ably, in Presbyterian Women, in CAFÉ, in MICAH, in Clean Water projects, in our strong support and house staffs, in all of us who find ways to show that our worship leads to service. So as we continue our search, we are certain that the next Head of Staff will be coming to a strong and vibrant congregation.
At this time, as much as we would like to see into the future, we cannot say when a call will be made. Our focus remains on identifying the best candidate for Idlewild, regardless of timing. We will continue to give periodic updates to provide as much clarity as possible, trusting that we are following the lead of the Holy Spirit. As we move forward, we will keep in mind the advice from a seminary president that “you may not yet know the person God has prepared for Idlewild.” For your patient support we are very grateful.
Please continue to pray for the search, for our faithful Idlewild staff, and for our church as we move forward together.
“Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serving the Lord.” Romans 12:11
The Idlewild PNC
Betty Louis Sheppard (chair), Jeanne Marie Cummings, Albert Johnson, Julie Markham, Cindy Moore, Mitchell Redd, Jeremy Sykes, and Jeff Thompson
Posted by Jeremy at 6:02 PM No comments:
Dear Congregation,
Your Pastor Nominating Committee continues to be optimistic in our search for a new Head of Staff. We have heard many words of encouragement from around the PC(USA), such as “This is a sacred time for your congregation and your committee” and we are thankful for the loving support and sincere concern from all of you. Indeed, we are all in this search together.
As we reported in February, we have developed a short list of strong candidates. We are getting to know them by watching livestream services, listening to online sermons, reading their church websites, and looking at their writings as well as their work in their presbyteries and in the PC(USA). We have begun making visits to these selected candidates to get better acquainted in face-to-face meetings and to attend their church services. These visits will continue into April.
We celebrate Steve Montgomery, his faithful ministry to Idlewild and in Memphis, his guiding leadership in a time of shifting cultures, his loving care for our congregation, and his special tenderness in times of grief. We as the PNC are NOT in a search to replace Steve. Rather, we are charged to search for a new pastor to serve as Head of Staff with his or her own particular gifts. This person will bring new vision, new skills and talents, new leadership, but the same faithfulness to Christ and his call to love and serve God. We trust that we are following the leading of the Holy Spirit to the person that God has prepared for Idlewild.
We are hopeful that a new Head of Staff can be in place after a transition period following Steve’s retirement. The Administrative Leadership Team, chaired by Mitchell Redd, is working on the specifics of a transition plan. We plan to give another update at the April Session meeting and will provide as much additional clarity as possible at that time. We are grateful for your patience. We are at work and will continue to make regular reports.
Please continue to pray for the search and for our faithful Idlewild staff.
Posted by Jeremy at 8:07 AM No comments:
Idlewild PNC update - February 2019
The PNC is optimistic about the search for a new Head of Staff. During our conversations with the exceptional women and men of the PC(USA), we have heard comments such as: “Idlewild is the conscience of Memphis” and “Idlewild is the tall-steeple church of the Mid-South.” We have been humbled and thrilled to discover the high regard for Idlewild found throughout the denomination.
Since posting our Ministry Information Form (MIF) in late September 2018, we have received referrals from members of the congregation, contacts throughout the PC(USA), other ministers, and matches with our MIF through the Church Leadership Connection system. In total, we have received referrals for over 100 potential candidates. Since about mid-October, we have been in contact with many of these candidates, have reviewed their Personal Information Forms (PIF), have listened to online sermons, and have conducted limited phone interviews.
Most candidates we’ve contacted were aware of Idlewild’s Head of Staff search and were honored to be contacted. After consideration and discussion, the PNC determined that some candidates were not a good fit for Idlewild while others advised us that they were unable to consider a move at the current time.
As of February 2019, the PNC has identified several strong candidates and is in the process of more thoroughly vetting their qualifications and fit for Idlewild. This will include making in-person visits for church services and getting to know them better on a personal level. The PNC expects these more detailed conversations to take place over the next several months prior to making a call. Our focus has been, and will continue to be, on finding the best Head of Staff for Idlewild, regardless of timeframe. The PNC will continue to provide the Session regular reports on the status of the search to assist with the planning process.
One of the many things the PNC has learned is that a thriving ministry is taking place all across the Presbyterian Church. It is a joy to hear that a pastor feels there is “more call” where he or she is currently serving. For this and for the continued support of our Idlewild congregation we give thanks. We are all in this together.
As always, feel free to reach out to members of the PNC with questions or concerns about the search, or e-mail us at pnc@idlewildchurch.org.
Idlewild PNC update - January 2019
Greetings from the Idlewild Pastor Nominating Committee.
The PNC made significant progress during the latter part of 2018. We are currently meeting weekly to continue our work. Thus far, our tasks have included the following, among other steps:
Preparing the Ministry Information Form to "advertise" the open position on the PC(USA)'s Church Leadership Connection system.
Seeking input and referrals from church members, clergy, and staff regarding our next Head of Staff and Idlewild's future.
Reviewing Pastor Information Forms (PIFs) received from candidate ministers, and seeking input on potential candidates and referrals from pastors, seminary presidents, professors, and other contacts within the PC(USA).
Reaching out to potential candidates to gauge their interest and to ask questions about their background, experience, vision, and current ministries. The potential candidates also asked questions of the PNC in order to learn more about Idlewild.
Listening to sermons available online and doing further research about candidates preferred by PNC members.
Taking time to deliberate over the Advent season, we began meeting again in early January and further narrowed our focus on preferred candidates.
That brings us to today. As of mid-January 2019, the PNC is in active communication with candidates who have expressed interest in Idlewild. Our next steps will involve a more thorough vetting process which includes formal interviews. Please keep in mind that our work is and must remain confidential, as candidates may be actively engaged in ministry at other churches.
We invite you to continue in prayer for the PNC as we move forward in our work.
"Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serving the Lord."
Praise be to God,
A time of reflection in a season of hope
Over the last two months, members of the Idlewild PNC have spoken with a number of well-qualified and impressive ministers of the Gospel. We are grateful to God for the ministries of each of those with whom we have spoken, and we ask that the Church remember them in prayer. Regardless of whether we have spoken with the next Head of Staff for Idlewild, we have been excited to experience and see the work of God being accomplished in communities across the country through God's ministers. Truly has the Lord poured out blessings on the PC(USA)!
The PNC is currently in a time of reflection and discernment. We have had conversations, listened to sermons, and researched candidate ministers, but we know our task has only just begun. Difficult decisions loom, but so does hope for the future of Idlewild. How fitting that we approach this hope, then, in the season of Advent as we profess hope for the blessing of peace through Christ. We are inspired by this excerpt from the Companion to the Book of Common Worship (Geneva Press, 2003, 96):
In Advent we expectantly wait for the One who has already come. We anticipate the promised justice of God’s new world, yet we praise God who raised the “righteous branch” to rule with justice and righteousness. We hope for the restoration of the afflicted, the tormented, and the grieving, yet we delight that healing has come in Christ. We long for the beating of swords into plowshares, yet we rejoice that the Prince of Peace has appeared. We yearn for the barren deserts of our inner cities to flourish, yet we laud the desert Rose that has bloomed. We dream of the land where lions and lambs live in harmony, yet we acclaim the child born to lead us into the promised land.
As always, do not hesitate to contact any member of the PNC with a suggestion or request. We are grateful for our engaged and thoughtful congregation! Our email addresses are linked below, along with a short bio about each of our members. You can also reach us collectively by e-mailing us at pnc@idlewildchurch.org.
Jeanne Marie Cummings
Jeanne Marie Cummings is a lifelong Memphian and a child of Idlewild Presbyterian Church. She is the daughter of Lee and Lucy Cummings and the older sister of DC Cummings. She works for Welcome To Memphis, the training subsidiary of Memphis Tourism and is the President of the Kemmons Wilson School Alumni Chapter at the University of Memphis. Jeanne Marie is also involved with Pinecrest Conference and Retreat Center leading ropes courses when needed and leading recreation at Presbyterian Youth Conference every year.
Albert Johnson
Albert Johnson has been a lifelong member of the church and grew up in the recreation department. He has coached various sports and put on numerous basketball camps in the past. He recently served as the chair of the house and properties committee. His grandfather was an associate pastor at Idlewild in the 1960s and his mother and late father have been longtime members. Albert is married to his wife of 10 years, Trinh Johnson, and has two children: Levi (9) and Beklin (7). Albert works for local civil construction company, VuCon, as a Project Manager.
Julie Markham
Dr. Julie Markham was born and raised in Virginia, trained as a neuroscientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore before her husband Brent’s job at St. Jude brought them to Memphis in 2012. She planned a brief hiatus from her career to accommodate the move, which turned out to be so delightful and fulfilling that she decided not to run from happiness; six years later she continues to embrace life as a self-styled “family manager”. This shift has allowed her to be more present in the lives of their boys Aiden and Miles, now 11 and 7, and also to become engaged in the life of their faith community at Idlewild. Julie was ordained as a deacon in 2016, and has enjoyed facilitating Lenten Lectionary small groups, leading workshops on prayer practices, serving on the planning committee for a Sunday school class (Faith and Function: Ancient Texts and Today’s Questions), and chairing the Congregational Care Committee.
Cindy Moore
Cindy Moore is long time member of Idlewild. She has served on various committees in the church, and she has served as both a deacon and an elder. Cindy was Idlewild's director of Outreach Ministry in the 1990s. She is now the director of development at MIFA. She and her husband, Scott, have two daughters, Isabelle and Lucy.
Mitchell Redd
Mitchell and Mary Katherine Redd joined Idlewild in August 2000. He is currently a member of the Budget & Finance Committee as well as Chair of the Administration Ministry Unit. He previously served on the Stewardship Committee and the Board of the Children’s Center/Kindergarten as well as both a deacon and an elder. He has three children – Josephine, Katherine and John – all of whom were baptized at Idlewild. The girls are in their senior and sophomore years at Hutchison School and John is in 6th grade at Presbyterian Day School. Mitchell is a Senior Vice President for FTN Financial Capital Assets, a loan trading and advisory subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank.
Betty Louis Sheppard (chair)
Betty Louis Sheppard moved to Memphis in 2002. After many years in the Mid-South Presbytery, she knew that Idlewild with its traditions of fine preaching, community outreach, and commitment to the PC(USA) would be her home. Her primary interest in church life is worship and music, which is where the congregation gathers together to prepare and be inspired to live as daily Christians. Music as an integral part of worship gives voice to faith through the singing of hymns, psalms, and liturgy. Betty Louis have four children who grew up in the Church, all of whom are grown with families of their own. She is fortunate to have one daughter as a member of Idlewild, along with a son-in-law and their two children.
Jeremy Sykes
Jeremy Sykes is a lifelong Memphian with deep roots, both family and professional, in the area. He is a graduate of Rhodes College and the University of Memphis' Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. He and his family joined Idlewild in 2015. Jeremy is married to Jenna. Their twins, Eden and Reid, are first graders. Jeremy is self-employed as an immigration attorney in private practice and serves as a volunteer youth soccer coach. He previously served as an immigration adviser to the Office of Multicultural and Religious Affairs for former Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton.
Jeff Thompson has been a member of Idlewild for more than forty years. He has served two terms each as a deacon and an elder and has served on various committees of the church. He is married to Nancy, and they have three adult children. Jeff is in the private practice of law.
Will our associate ministers be required to resign when a new pastor is called?
No. Our associates are called to their positions at Idlewild. They are free to make their own choices with regard to their futures at Idlewild.
Will there be an interim minister?
The Pastor Nominating Committee has been charged with seeking a new Head of Staff for Idlewild. We are focusing on this goal. The question of whether to call an interim minister during the transition period is outside the scope of our charge.
What are these acronyms we keep hearing?
PNC - Pastor Nominating Committee
CLC - Church Leadership Connection. The PC(USA)'s online matching system which endeavors to match candidates to open jobs in the denomination.
MIF - Ministry Information Form. The PC(USA)'s version of a job advertisement. Ours has been posted in the CLC since September after approval by the Session and Presbytery.
PIF - Personal (or Pastor) Information Form. Function as both resumes and job applications for potential candidates. The PNC receives PIFs in response to our MIF which is posted on the CLC.
How is the position being advertised?
Our Ministry Information Form was posted on the PC(USA)'s electronic matching system in September. You can read the Idlewild MIF here. We have also spoken with PC(USA) leaders, pastors, and contacts in affiliated seminaries for direction and suggestions regarding our next Head of Staff. Finally, we sincerely appreciate the suggestions we have received from members of our congregation, and we welcome further suggestions.
Have you spoken with potential candidates?
Yes. As of late October, we are in the process of reaching out to and speaking with potential candidates.
....can you tell us about the candidates?!?
With apologies, no. Among other reasons, the PNC must maintain confidentiality to avoid impacting the candidates' relationships with their congregations. This does not mean that we will tell you nothing, however. We represent you, and we intend to continue to update you about our search progress. That said, we will be unable to mention names, locations, or even the genders of our candidates.
I have a candidate or resource to suggest, how can I communicate with the committee?
Please feel free to e-mail any suggestions to pnc@idlewildchurch.org
Otherwise, stop us at church and let us know! Just make certain we have a pen and paper handy.
Who are you, exactly, PNC members?
Betty Louis Sheppard (chair) - ESSheppard@gmail.com
Jeanne Marie Cummings - jcmmings1@gmail.com
Albert Johnson - albert@vuconllc.com
Julie Markham - julie.a.markham@gmail.com
Cindy Moore - cmoore@mifa.org
Mitchell Redd - mitchellredd@yahoo.com
Jeremy Sykes - jssykes@gmail.com
Jeff Thompson - jthompson@martintate.com
Apart from sending us suggested candidates or resources, we invite you to pray for:
1) our church as we enter a season of change,
2) our committee as we speak with candidates, and
3) the candidates as they discern whether they have been called to Idlewild and continue serving in their current roles.
Open congregation conversation session
The Pastor Nominating Committee invites the congregation to an open conversation session on Sunday, October 21 in the chapel following the 11:00AM worship service. All are invited to inform us about what qualities you may like to see in our next pastor. We are also interested in your vision of Idlewild's future.
We are sincerely grateful for the thoughtful suggestions, comments, and questions we have received in our listening sessions so far. You may have participated in a session already, perhaps in Sunday School, or in our conversations with staff and clergy, or in our exchanges with the diaconate and Session.
Truly, these sessions have been conversations and not merely passive listening sessions. Because of time constraints (and possibly our own gregariousness), we may not have heard every voice. Perhaps you had more to say and did not have the opportunity, or perhaps you have given the future of Idlewild additional prayerful thought in the interim. Some may not have been able to participate at all. Whether you want to follow up on a prior conversation or speak with us for the first time, October 21st will be your opportunity to engage the PNC regarding our shared future.
As you contemplate the work God will do at Idlewild under our next pastor, we encourage all to remember our vision statement, which has formed the foundation of the PNC's work thus far:
Idlewild Presbyterian Church is a community in which ...
Jesus Christ is the center; The mighty voice of God inspires us to love; the Spirit joyfully sustains and nurtures seekers of every age, stage and circumstance.
Worship forms the core of community life; prayer binds our brokenness and connects us in Christ's love to God and to one another; music, poetry and art flourish in gratitude to our Creator; the beauty of creation is treasured and preserved; all the members of the church are ministers.
The focus is scripture and its meaning for today; faith is formed and spirits nourished through reflection, practice and shared learning; the wisdom of other faith traditions is respected; and a diverse membership enriches and unites us.
Justice speaks loudly and peace is our aspiration; all voices are heard; recreation and play are a wellspring for fellowship, celebration and growth; the love of God guides our minds and spirits, leading us to right action in our hearts, our homes, our community, our nation, and our world; and
all who enter find a home.
Please continue to keep the PNC, the church, and the potential candidates in your prayers. We look forward to hearing from you on the 21st.
With gratitude and love,
The Idlewild Pastor Nominating Committee
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Betty Louis Sheppard, chair
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Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of IIM Udaipur
The much awaited foundation stone laying ceremony of IIM Udaipur was held on 13th February, 2015 at the site of the institute’s upcoming campus at Balicha, Udaipur.
The Balicha campus, which is spread over an expanse of 253 acres, is set to be the largest IIM campus in the country. The campus will have state of the art facilities in terms of both academics and extra-curricular activities, to facilitate holistic development of its students. In accordance with IIM Udaipur’s constant endeavor to be environment-friendly, particular emphasis is being laid on ensuring that the new campus is a green campus, with over fifty percent of space being reserved for parks. The new campus will also house twenty-seven water bodies of different sizes.
With the vision of setting new standards for sustainable and energy efficient academic institutions, construction of the new campus was initiated on barren land of 300 acres which was devoid of vegetation. With the help of xeriscaping and added area research, a green belt is being created which will be an inspiration for the native arid zone. Traditional water harvesting systems are being employed, to create a self-sustainable campus in terms of water demand, which will help neighbouring villages and surrounding zones to achieve water efficiency. In terms of green technology, the highlight of the new campus is that it will be a net zero-waste campus where all waste will be treated as a resource.
The ceremony began with the unveiling of the foundation stone by the Chief Guest, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani – Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The event also had Smt. Vasundhara Raje – Chief Minister of Rajasthan as the Guest of Honour.
Post the unveiling of the foundation stone, the lighting of the lamp was done by Smt. Smriti Irani and Smt. Vasundhara Raje. The welcome address was then given by Shri. C. K. Birla, Chairman – Board of Governors, IIM Udaipur. Mr. Birla spoke about the role of management institutes as a bridge between academia and industry. He also mentioned that the vision of IIM Udaipur is being committed to research and generation of new knowledge in the field of management. IIM Udaipur would be achieving this, through its mission to inculcate values that will guide the journey of its students as leaders. Mr. Birla also discussed at length about IIM Udaipur’s emphasis on development of the region and on constantly striving to be a world class institute.
Smt. Vasundhara Raje heralded the laying of IIM Udaipur’s foundation stone, as a very prestigious event for the region. She emphasized on the need for IIM Udaipur to become a Centre of Excellence for Rajasthan.
Smt. Smriti Irani then addressed the audience and mentioned the laying of the foundation stone as an initiative to give substance to the dreams of many aspiring students. Ms. Irani also discussed about initiatives that should be taken up at IIM Udaipur, namely world class water management research that would benefit the entire state of Rajasthan, adoption of five surrounding villages by the institute to help improve their standard of living, use of agro-based industry skill development technologies from India and abroad at the institute, and development of a centre for tourism and hospitality on the campus.
Prof. Janat Shah, Director – IIM Udaipur then expressed his gratitude to all individuals, organizations and especially the Centre and State of Rajasthan, for their unwavering commitment and support. Some of the other dignitaries who attended the ceremony were Shri Arjun Lal Meena – MP (Lok Sabha), Shri Phool Singh Meena, MLA – Udaipur Rural, Shri Kewal Nohria, Member – Board of Governors, IIM Udaipur, Shri Shailendra Kumar, Director (Management) – MHRD, Govt. of India, Shri Ashwini Bhagat, Secretary – Higher Education, Govt. of Rajasthan, Prof. I.V. Trivedi, Vice Chancellor – Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Shri Bhawani Singh Detha – Tribal Commissioner and Shri. Rajendra Pawar, Chariman – NIIT & Member – Board of Governors, IIM Udaipur.
The ceremony came to an end with the playing of the National Anthem. With the laying of the foundation stone, work on the new campus has begun in full swing. Future batches of IIM Udaipur can look forward to moving to a campus with world class amenities that is known for the competitive students it produces, as also for its constant efforts to build a sustainable campus that works with the local community to create an ecology that is beneficial to both the institute and the region.
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Who is Rory Farquharson – Malia Obama’s British Boyfriend?
Any man can have a woman he can call a girlfriend but how many men can have an ex-first daughter as a significant other? And how many such men can have an Obama offspring as his woman? Well, Rory Farquharson is one man who can lay claim to this prestige. Rory has become a name ringing out from the lips of many people around America after news emerged that he is dating Malia Obama, one of the daughters of former US President, Barrack Obama. As expected, the media and Malia’s fans have become very curious about Rory and where he comes from.
Malia, being a quiet person herself, has never spoken about Rory, but the young man’s history has been dug out by the investigating media and many reports have emerged detailing how he met and fell in love with the former first daughter of the United States. Well, apparently this intrusion into his private life is the prize he has to pay for being linked romantically to one of the most famous American youngsters. If you are connected to a prominent person romantically, you have to get ready to be talked about around media circles whether you like it or not.
Who is Rory Farquharson?
Rory Farquharson was born in 1998. He is the same age with Malia Obama who was born on the 4th of July, 1998. However, the exact day in which Rory was born is not known. A British man, he was born into a wealthy family in Woodbridge, a town in Suffolk, in the United Kingdom.
Sources say his father, identified as Charles Farquharson, is a Chief Risk Officer and Director at Insight Investment Management Limited, an asset management company based in London and which is charged with handling billions of pounds in assets. His mother, Catherine Farquharson, is a certified accountant also in the UK. Rory’s rich family live in a massive six-bedroom home which costs £1.6m and is located in Suffolk. Apart from this, they also another big house in London, sources say.
Reports show that Rory also has ties to the government of the United Kingdom. This is because he is related to Andrew Farquharson, a former aide of Queen Elizabeth II. He is also reported to have taken part in a rugby video which was played at the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup in 2015 which also featured an appearance by Prince Harry.
As a rich kid, Rory grew up surrounded by luxury and went to the best schools. For high school, he attended Rugby School which happens to be one of the most prestigious and oldest schools in England where students pay a large sum as school fees. The school is said to cost a massive £11,584 ($14,339) per term.
Rory appears to have done really well as a student because while at Rugby School, he was appointed the head boy or ‘head of school’ from 2015 to 2016. Sources say Rory was also quite good at sports, in fact, he was especially good at the rugby and golf and played them competitively.
When he finished from Rugby School, Rory gained admission to study Law at the very prestigious Harvard University and that was where he met with Malia Obama. He is reported to be a strong critic of Donald Trump.
Rory Farquharson and Malia Obama
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Rory Farquharson & Malia Obama’s Relationship
Rory Farquharson shot into the limelight overnight in 2017 when he began to date Malia Obama. At the time, no one knew who Malia was romantically linked with so many people were curious to know about the young man. The first reports about them being together emerged in late 2017 when they were caught on camera kissing each other in public. A Harvard-Yale football game had just ended and the two lovebirds were walking back home when they kissed in a parking lot and clearly did not care what anyone thought about them.
In the following weeks and months, more reports emerged about Malia and Rory being seen in public places holding hands and showing affection for each other. For instance, in January 2018, they were seen on a date in the Soho neighborhood of New York. They were laughing and completely relaxed with each other while holding hands and snuggling up to each other. For many fans of Malia, this date is what confirmed the relationship status of Malia and Rory.
It is noteworthy that Rory is also a smoker. This conclusion has been reached because he has been spotted holding a cigarette in some photos he has been spotted in with Malia. In one of the photos, both he and Malia have been seen with cigarettes. Some fans have raised concern about this. The important thing, though is that they both appear to be very happy when they are with each other.
Also, it appears that Rory has already met with Malia’s parents because in July 2018, he was spotted attending a Beyonce concert with his girlfriend, Michelle Obama – the former US First Lady and Sasha Obama, Malia’s younger sister.
Following the realization that Rory is Malia’s boyfriend, a lot of news sources and media houses have started to investigate him and in the future, more information is bound to be revealed about the young man.
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Jean and John Comaroff
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Theory From the Antipodes
Notes on Jean & John Comaroffs' TFS
The antipodes. Kmorozov
(University of Witwatersrand)
A theory from the Antipodes will attend not only to "how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa", but also to the conditions under which Africa (the South) and China (the East) are trying to weave the paths that tie both regions in the present and in the future, writes Achille Mbembe.
First of all, I would like to acknowledge how difficult it is, in this noisy age of ours - an age of yelling rather than argument and an age that gives a premium to distraction and distortion rather than to the virtues of listening together - to nurture a scholarly and public voice that can be legitimately regarded as daring, original and authentic.
Yet, this is exactly what Jean and John Comaroff have achieved not only throughout their previous scholarly works (the depth and breadth of which have been widely lauded [1]), but specifically in this new book. I read Theory From the South as their dialogue with their own journey through places, times, problems and disciplines. The voice in this new book is unmistakably theirs-the eloquence, the prose, a certain kind of rhetorical style, a new lexicon that makes new thought, even moments of polyphony, possible.
Theirs is also an effort to work from, within, through, and at times against the archive of their first love, anthropology. Time and again, in this book as in Rules and Processes, Body of Power, Ethnicity Inc., Millennial Capitalism, Law and Disorder and countless other essays, they return to the centers of their discipline while, at the same time, mining its peripheries, They play the peripheries of the discipline against its centers and other bodies of knowledge against anthropology itself. This is because theirs is a mode of thought whose primary object is to delineate the crucial fault lines and turbulences that constitute our world today as well as the world of contemporary criticism. Reading this many-faceted book, a complicated tapestry threaded with multiple strands and sub-themes but with one master thesis, we are faced once again with what we have come to expect from them - a generosity of spirit and a polymorphous intelligence capable of sweeping claims, starting with the seemingly outrageous (and yet plausible) idea that "Euro-America is evolving toward Africa"; or the more heuristically productive one that "in the present moment, it is the Global South that affords privileged insight into the workings of the world at large", which is why, in accounting for these workings of the world, "our theory-making" ought to be coming from there, "at least in significant part" (1).
Although their claims warrant substantial empirical evidence, a proper response to Jean and John Comaroff's new book might not be to ask whether what they say-especially in this "provocative", "parodic" and "counter-evolutionary" sub-title, Euro-America Is Evolving Toward Africa - is true or false. Of course in more than one instance, they do back with facts the claims that "the global north is becoming more like the south" (13); that we can read the future of the north in what is happening in the south (12); that "the global south is running ahead of the global north" (19); or that the south can be taken as the "frontier in the unfolding history of neoliberalism" (38). To be sure, these different claims are not exactly the same. Nor do they carry the same weight in this book, and each, taken separately, would warrant a specific treatment. But besides chapter 1, the rest of the book (which concerns itself with questions of personhood, identity, difference and belonging, sovereignty and governmentality, citizenship and borders, law, liberalism and democracy, history, memory, labor and the politics of life) is less about actually tracing the lineaments of Euro-America's "evolution" toward Africa than it is about "inverting" and "subverting" the standpoints from which we read both Africa and the world at large or what they call "the contemporary order of things" (2).
In this risky and quasi-Herculean task, they are the first to recognize the dangers inherent to this gesture - especially the danger of the turning of the story "upside down" leaving intact "the Manichean dualism that holds Euro-America and its others in the same fixed embrace" (7) - and I would add the all too familiar danger, whenever the sign "Africa" is mobilized in modern theory, that any trace of historicity will be effaced in favor of images of regression and dystopian collapse. They also know very well that "displacing" the established telos with its opposite might not be enough if this operation ends up "leaving teleology itself intact" (7). "What we suggest, they say, is that contemporary world-historical processes are disrupting received geographies of core and periphery, relocating southward - and, of course, eastward as well - some of the most innovative and energetic modes of producing value" (7). And this, they add, "cuts to the very heart of contemporary capitalism" (13).
ON "THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM"
As we can see, a major goal of Theory From the South is therefore to take Africa as a window from which "to interrogate the present and future of global capitalism and its many mediations" (19). This implies bringing "Africa" to perform a radically new kind of work in theory - a work radically different, in its nature and scope, from the one "Africa" has always been historically assigned to perform. This is a project I fully support.
Now, to interrogate the present and future of global capitalism in terms of "Euro-America "evolving" toward Africa" will undoubtedly scandalize many if only because, in the eyes of many, Africa has simply dropped out of history, written off as a hopeless and terminal case of-as I have just suggested-dystopian collapse. With its "failed states", archaic "ethnic hatreds", famine, human-made catastrophes and pestilence, it is at best ministered to by NGOs and not by capital as such, at least not in its incarnation as global finance-a thesis that can be critiqued of course. One might expect that many might want to dismiss the Comaroffs thesis simply by restating the old Hegelian myth the Comaroffs are precisely trying to subvert-the myth according to which strictly speaking Africa, this living vessel of global and historical misery and debt has nothing to say about the current condition of our world, let alone its future.
many might want to dismiss the Comaroffs thesis simply by restating the old Hegelian myth the Comaroffs are precisely trying to subvert-the myth according to which strictly speaking Africa, this living vessel of global and historical misery and debt has nothing to say about the current condition of our world, let alone its future
Yet, in spite of its uneven incorporation into the world economy, this region does tell us a lot more than we might want to think or we might want to hear about the histories of market societies and commercial cultures [2] . It tells us about the future of global capitalism-and not only of the kind that lies close to, but is not always coincident with, the vast global shadow economy dependent on illegal activities like smuggling, drug and people trafficking and money-laundering through which trillions of dollars circulate around the globe outside formal legal reckoning. Let's call this extractive economy of unprocessed raw materials the raw economy. It has been the source of growth in Africa over the last decade. This growth has been largely the result of a tremendous demand for export commodities and the resulting high price of crude oil and minerals. Africa today supplies the world economy with more than half its diamonds, platinum and cobalt and more than a third of strategic minerals like Vanadium.
The logic of extraction that underpins this raw economy might not be the same as the logic of de-industrialization that seems to partly characterize Northern economies. But both seem to have quickened the accumulation of surplus populations. Marx used to divide "surplus populations" into three categories: latent (made up of those with insecure employment); floating (composed of those cycling rapidly in and out of the labor force; and stagnant (comprised of those only rarely employed) [3]. To these three categories we should add a fourth composed of those who will never be formally employed. The expansion of capitalism in this new phase of globalization and its transformation into a financial system significantly intensifies this process. In fact, it confirms global unemployment, un-employability (?) and the rise of surplus or superfluous populations as part of what Marx called its "absolute general law". Such a rise itself points toward the growing crisis of reproduction going on worldwide-a crisis of reproduction Africa has, to use one of Comaroffs terms, "prefigured". Whether old categories of "production", "work", "exploitation" and "domination" -and more recent ones of "bare life" or "naked life" inherited from recent theorizations of sovereignty and the state of exception-suffice to write into theory such planetary recodings of situations of misery, debt and enforced idleness is open to question.
Second, the Continent's historical experience shows that in order to expand, capitalism paradoxically does not need to absorb everything in its path. It does not need to interiorize everything that was hitherto exterior to it. In fact, it needs to keep producing or generating an exterior. And for this to happen, it needs to do two things. On the one hand, it needs to keep jumping from place to place- "hopping", as Jim Ferguson puts it [4]. In Africa in particular, the machine might be constantly "breaking down". Whether from the perspective of the "longue duree" it is repairing itself remains to be seen. What is evident is that whenever it undertakes to solve its local problems, it is usually either by mutation onto larger and larger scales or by a singular concatenation of profit-making and, where necessary, war-making activities and the militarization of trade. This is how the dynamic of primitive accumulation has historically been able to produce its full effects.
Third, Africa also teaches us that global capitalism cannot expand without what we should call massive racial subsidies or discounts. It needs to work through and across different scales of race as it attempts to mark people either as disposable or as waste. It needs to produce, order, segment and racialize surplus or superfluous populations to strategic effect. This takes various forms throughout our contemporary world. One of these is their incorporation into military markets. Significant in this regard is the fact that today white working class masculinity has been alienated in the de-industrializing contexts of Euro-America, allowing for an accumulation of "excess masculinity" upon which the military complex is drawing. To maintain military numbers, unemployed or under-employed whites are not enough. Vast reserves of the racially disenfranchised men have been recruited. It hardly matters that some are uneducated. Those with criminal(ized) pasts are granted "moral waivers" that allow them for the first time to join the lower rungs of military ranks and to, hence, gain a semblance of enfranchisement and citizenry. Those who are marked as waste are disenfranchised, or simply spatially confined within the prison-industrial gulag [5]. Another form is through cross-border migrant labor. Labor operating in the interstices or the entrails of the global economy is hyper-exploited. The racial subsidy is precisely what allows global capital to feel no sense of responsibility for its actions, the crimes against humanity, the horrendous damage done not only in Euro-America, but to the rest of the world as well.
Finally - significant, too, is the increasing conflict between market forces and democracy. Democracy should normally imply the rule of the majority. Since the rich in any given society are almost always a minority, democracy in the form of majority rule should-taken to its logical consequences-imply the rule of the poor over the rich. It is also the idea that people have rights that take precedence over the outcomes of market exchanges and one of the roles of a democratic government is to honor, to some extent, this most human expectation of a life outside the law of the market and the right of property. Historically, the biggest fear of capital has always been that the rule of the poor over the rich would ultimately do away with private property and the "free" play of market forces. Faced with this dilemma, capital would rather abolish democracy in order to save capitalism from a majority dedicated to economic and social redistribution. Today, we have reached a stage where it is increasingly apparent that capitalism is not naturally compatible with democracy. For capitalism to be compatible with democracy, capitalism would have to be subjected to extensive political control and democracy protected from being restrained in the name of market power. The collapse of the international credit pyramid on which the prosperity of the late 1990s and early 2000s had rested only highlights this fact. Under the emerging international politics of public debt, global capital increasingly requires that the "average citizen" pays-for the consolidation of public finances, the bankruptcy of foreign states, the rising rates of interest on public debt, and if necessary the rescue of national and international banks-with his or her private savings, cuts in public entitlements, reduced public services and higher taxation [6].
The capacity of national states to mediate between the rights of citizens and the requirements of capital accumulation is severely affected. The tensions between economy and society, between market power and democracy, can no longer be handled exclusively inside national political communities (see recent events in Greece, Italy, Ireland). They have become internationalized. Markets are dictating in unprecedented ways what presumably sovereign and democratic states may still do or not for their citizens. The pre-emption-or even suspension-of democracy by market forces is now propounded as the only rational and responsible behavior in a world in which individual debt, public deficits and public debt have resulted in the mortgaging of the future of entire nations and the quasi-expropriation of their citizens. Euro-American democratic states-just like African states during the long years of structural adjustment programs-are in danger of being "turned into debt-collecting agencies on behalf of a global oligarchy of investors" and the propertied classes now firmly entrenched in what looks like "a politically unassailable stronghold, the international financial industry" (Streeck, 29).
The arguments sketched above clearly indicate that the Comaroffs' master thesis is not without foundation.
EURO-AMERICA | AFRICA | CHINA
I would now like to turn to another important dimension of their project, which is to turn their back to the Western ethnocentric tendency to re-interpret the world and all its socio-economic, political and cultural processes from a Euro-American perspective. This epistemic re-orientation has been attempted in a number of disciplines (world history in particular) where it has raised various methodological questions not unlike those implied by the Comaroffs' "counter-evolutionary" and "prefigurative" approach [7]. For instance, should the global system be studied as a single world system? Should it better be described in terms of its many nodes and edges or as a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts? Should we rather understand regions of the world in their own terms, mindful of the fact that they experience separate models of development which may overlap in various ways but that are nonetheless essentially independent? Or is it that what we need is a horizontally integrative macro-history, one that seeks for the connections between the various events that are happening in regions that have traditionally been considered separate? To what extent does our ability to link events in one region to subsequent events in those regions connected with it depend on a close identification of the series of paths that tie the various regions of the world? Is it true that simultaneous and momentous events triggered in different regions or contexts do necessarily lead to similar outcomes and similar implications elsewhere?
This brings me to Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty First Century. As he himself said in an interview by David Harvey before his death [8], Arrighi's variety of world-systems analysis had deep African roots-just as, I must add, some of the most powerful social theories of the twentieth-century (a story-that of the work Africa does in 20th-century theory-that still needs to be properly written!). In fact, some of the key categories Arrighi will later deploy in his work were forged during his African experience-especially his encounter with "the Africa of the labor reserves" (Samir Amin), i.e., the trajectories of accumulation through racialized dispossession in the context of white settler colonialism in Southern Africa [9]. It is in Southern Africa that he discovered that the full dispossession of much of the African peasantry (so as to provide low cost migrant labor for agriculture, the mines and manufacturing industry) not only ended up raising labor costs, it hindered the development of capitalism there by eliminating the ability of the rural labor force to subsidize its own reproduction and capital accumulation. In this sense, the Southern African experience stands in marked contrast to accumulation without dispossession and associated rural development and industrialization throughout much of East Asia.
Examples taken from other parts of Africa might very well contradict the validity of this thesis. Nevertheless significant to me is that, having started his attempt to account for the longue durée of capitalism and its current crises in Africa, Arrighi ended in East Asia, and in particular in Beijing. To be sure, his project was not necessarily to de-center Euro-American theory or to highlight the plurality of theories that emerge out of the processes of decolonization [10]. He ended up in Beijing because China has become the workshop of the world. He ended up in China because Euro-America is no longer where the most advanced production facilities are located although Euro-America is still able to cream off a substantial part of the super-profits created elsewhere. He ended up in China because Euro-America depends, more than at any time in its history and nowadays in an increasingly parasitic manner, on the productive labor of others.
The Comaroffs did not end in China although they agree that some of the most energetic and innovative modes of producing value are increasingly relocated southward and eastward. The production of value is one thing. The capture or appropriation of value physically produced elsewhere is another. How surplus-value created in newly industrializing nations is captured by de-industrializing ones through transnational production networks, foreign trade and international finance is key to our understanding of the future of global capitalism. They did not end in China, and I think they should have-or maybe not in China as such but in that space of new material relations being formed between China and Africa in particular. Indeed, it might be that if "Euro-America is evolving toward Africa", Africa in turn is "evolving" toward China rather than toward Euro-America. The need to feed a vast and growing productive capacity compels Chinese capital to source raw materials all over the world, especially in Africa. China is now the world's largest consumer of Africa's copper, tin, zinc, platinum, and iron ore; a large consumer of Africa's petroleum, aluminium and lead, nickel and gold. The ongoing acceleration and redistribution of global productive forces China is leading will not by-pass Africa forever. Without Africa, China will not be able to indefinitely lend so that America (the globe's most parasitic nation) can buy Chinese and other Asian products and see a sizeable portion of its enormous debt written off through the fall of the value of the dollars and Treasury bills China holds. If America's irrecoverable debt to China is the price China pays for the enlargement of her own productive base, then for America to be put in a position where she can no longer exact this right of seigniorage, China will need to build a stronger domestic economy of her own. But this she cannot do without Africa.
The ongoing acceleration and redistribution of global productive forces China is leading will not by-pass Africa forever
A theory from the South will therefore attend not only to "How Euro-America Is Evolving Toward Africa", but also to the conditions under which Africa (the South) and China (the East) are trying to weave the paths that tie both regions in the present and in the future. For us in Africa, one of the implications of China's (and for that matter India's) ascent for the future of theory is that it forces us to reflect anew on the multiple ways to grow the wealth of a nation. Prior to the arrival of capitalism, Africa may not have known models of growth based on labor-intensive forms of production and husbanding of natural resources. The region's subordinate incorporation into the Euro-American centered regime of accumulation did not simply erase the historical matrixes that governed the production of wealth prior to the arrival of capitalism. One such matrix is the existence of a long tradition of market economy and long-distance trading diasporas which mobilized human rather than non-human resources and protected rather than destroyed the economic independence and welfare of agricultural producers. Under what conditions could these historical matrixes re-emerge or be reshaped as resources as Africa tries to formulate a place for herself in a world where the power of the West has begun to decline is certainly a question the rise of China and India poses to the future of theory from Africa.
ON THEORY AS SUCH
Let me finally turn to the question of theory itself which, after all, is at the center of this book. The question here is whether the kind of "reflexive theorization" Jean and John propose-and which they call grounded theory-helps us, in any way, to make sense of the times we live in; whether it helps us to assess with some degree of plausibility various intuitions about what is going on, what is possible, and the odds against it. I say "what is possible" because for the Comaroffs themselves, "to theorize" only makes sense if theory is part of a broader design: to make "the history of the future different from the history of the present" (48). Whether they are examining questions of personhood, of liberalism, citizenship and democracy, of boundaries and modes of belonging, or questions of memory and alien-nation, capitalism and bare life, theirs is as much an anthropology of the present as it is an anthropology of the future-the future as that unique, singular creation resulting from the encounter between difference and repetition.
And here, I think Jean and John are not necessarily saying that Euro-America has hit an impasse (although others have made such an argument here and elsewhere). Nor are they saying that the Euro-American archive has, after a thousand years of world ascendancy, finally run dry and has nothing new to offer in our struggles to perceive the world anew. I hear them saying that we are witnessing a situation in which something that will perhaps matter (or that already matters) is unfolding amidst the usual activity of life-something in the present that may become an event (that is already an event), something of a drama that shocks us (and for that matter theory itself) into radically open situations. This is how I understand the controversial expression "Euro-America is evolving toward Africa"-as an audacious attempt to solve a historical, sociological, but also philosophical and representational problem. They are trying to solve this representational problem in a very peculiar context for theory. Indeed, I would characterize the current theoretical moment as one of cacophony.
Cacophony for four reasons-first, because there is no agreement today about the state of "theory", what it is all about and what distinguishes it from "criticism". [11] Just like the term "critique", theory today covers a wide variety of acephalic, segmentary practices from methods to question the truth of authority to techniques to reveal the figures of power that operate in dominant discourses, institutions or social processes to investigating the limits of human reason and judgment.[12] Cacophony, too, for a reason Jean and John themselves single out in their book. There have been, they say, "something of a flight from theory, a re-embrace both of methodological empiricism and born-again realism; also a return to the ethical and the theological" (47) to which I would add biology, or the growth of a kind of popular science that has produced a ready public for arguments that seek to reduce human nature to biology. The increasing theoretical confidence of theology and biology has resulted in the story of "being human" becoming more and more conflated with the story of "human nature".[13] What the Comaroffs call "the flight from theory" has left a vacuum in which sociobiology, genetic reductionism, neurosciences and cognitive sciences have flourished. These disciplines are annexing core humanities questions of intentionality, agency, memory, sexuality, cognition, and language.
In this context, I understand the kind of grounded theory advocated by the Comaroffs as a conscious effort to reassert a domain of inquiry which focuses not so much on "the place of human beings in the universe" as on the modes of production of the historical and the social. Grounded theory, they suggest, is "historically contextualized", a "problem-driven effort to account for the production of social and cultural "facts" in the world by recourse to an imaginative methodological counterpoint between the inductive and the deductive, the concrete and the concept", "the epic and the everyday, the meaningful and the material" (48). In other words, it is a reflexive theory, a theory of how "history" is humanly produced not as an essence, but as openness-to-contingency. This is indeed what the term "evolving" of their title ("Euro-America Is Evolving Toward Africa") signifies-openness-to-contingency, rather than the domestication of contingency (which can be said to have been the project of theory for most of the twentieth-century). I also understand "grounded theory" to be a process-a process whereby the theory of what is human changes what it is to be human, that is, contributes to creating the conditions for the emergence of the sort of world we want to live in and the sort of life we wish to pursue, the sort of imaginative ways in which human self-assertion manifests and expresses itself.
Third, cacophony because in the US especially, or at least in certain sectors of the US academy, theory is still understood or represented as literature. But more importantly-an after effect of deconstruction and psychoanalysis in particular (?)-theory is constantly haunted either by melancholia or by hysteria. Of the melancholic affect surrounding theory now, Wendy Brown has written some remarkable pages.[14] She has not gone as far as to argue that what we call theory is not an object but a mediated affect. What passes for theory is itself, in some way, "hystericizing" in the sense that it always tends to provoke or produce effects that, for better or worse, are hysterical.[15] This is the case because theory, like hysteria, is a strange discourse that is never satisfied with a neat answer. It is always asking for more. It is asking for more in the name of a certain notion of truth, at a time precisely when, thanks partly to deconstruction and psychoanalysis in particular, the idea that there is no truth has gained a lot of traction. This is a time, too, when history as such has become a problem of representation; interrogations of truth now turn around the question of representation. And the problem of representation has destabilized the dimensions of language, reference, and even thought itself. And this idea that there is no truth is filling some of us with a certain kind of real terror. In such a context, theory is nothing but the discourse of a relation to a missing Master/Mistress. And as we know all too well, where the Master/Mistress is missing, the discourse of hysteria always tends to mask-or to compensate, or substitute for-his/her absence.
theory, like hysteria, is a strange discourse that is never satisfied with a neat answer. It is always asking for more
As we know, historically, theory among the Western Left has always been many things at the same time. It has always been, of course, an investigation into the conditions and limits of knowledge. But the task of theory has also always been to ask "what characterizes our present and our age"-a "construction of the intelligibility of our time" as Barthes said-and of "who is the collective subject that belongs to it".[16] Even more so, Theory was always conceived as a political intervention, something somewhat beyond critique as such. What gave it its power was its presupposed capacity both to transform the existing structures of power and to create alternative social arrangements. In this sense, Theory was always understood to be a means of struggle-which allows Michael Hardt to define it as a form of "philosophical and political militancy".
But the feeling today is that critique has run out of steam.[17] We keep making the same gestures when everything else has changed around us, says Bruno Latour. We keep fighting enemies long gone, wars that are no longer possible, and we are ill-equipped in the face of threats we have not anticipated and for which we are thoroughly unprepared. In short, we are on the ready but one war late. How should we get out of this impasse? Says Latour, by "renewing empiricism" (231), getting closer to facts, cultivating a "stubbornly realist attitude"-realism in relation to what he calls "matters of concern". As we can surmise, Latour's crusade is mainly directed against "deconstruction" which he would like to replace with something he calls "constructivism" (232)-a franco-French war, therefore (?). For Mary Poovey on the other hand, "we now need to move beyond theories of representation" (what she calls "language-based theories") to "consideration of social processes" (same volume of CI)-a project which requires, according to her, forming "alliances with practitioners in the social and natural sciences"-as if the human and natural worlds were not, to a large extent, organized into discrete series of signals and messages that invite recognition and interpretation, a certain way of coming to terms with language and with representation.
On the other hand, if we look carefully around us, beyond the ivory tower of the humanities, we can make two observations, both of which profoundly contradict most of recent assumptions concerning the death of theory.
The first is that abstract theory has never had such a hold on the material and social reality of the world as today. The particular power of economic abstraction is a case in point.
Theory is always a particular theory of the world. Increasingly, that world is being constructed by invisible entities like finance capital and abstract singularities like derivatives-a business, says Nigel Thrift, "that uses theory as an instrumental method, as a source of expertise and as an affective register to inform an everyday life that is increasingly built from that theory".[18] The power and effectivity of abstractions depends not so much on whether their depiction of the world is accurate as on their capacity to constitute a world. This is indeed the case when "idealized apprehensions of the world produced through theory" end up being held up "as desirable states of being" to which social, economic, political or cultural life should conform.[19] As a practice that flows from abstraction to action, theory becomes a guideline or a template that operates on different scales and registers.
On the other hand, a myriad of critical practices are flourishing, alongside new forms of public and politically committed intellectual work. Practice plays a role in the construction of a wide range of abstractions. Some of these critical practices are direct responses to an emphatic moment of urgency, which itself seems to have rekindled the utopia of the radically new. They are also facilitated by the rapid transformations in contemporary media. Here, I do not simply refer to the arts of transmission of knowledge but also to the fact that the sensibilities, ethos, interior and public life of most people today are determined more and more by television, cinema, DVDs, the internet, computer games, and technologies of instant communication. Critical intellectual practices today are those that are capable of writing themselves within a frame of immediacy and presence; those that are able to locate themselves in nodes that attract other texts; and forms of discourses that have the potential of being forwarded, redistributed, quoted and translated in other languages and texts, including video and audio. The result is not only a transformation in the language of knowledge itself, but also a displacement of theory, the kind of disarray in which it finds itself these days.
Theory From the South suggests that global capitalism today seems to be moving in many directions at once. It is moving towards increasing exploitation of large parts of the Southern world through what Marx called "primitive accumulation", which, as suggested earlier, is increasingly taking the form of a raw economy. Worldwide, it is attempting to squeeze every last drop of value out of the planet by increasing the rate of innovation and invention or through an active refiguring of space, currencies, resources and time itself. By boosting difference and by reinserting this difference into the cycles of its reproduction, contemporary global capitalism, as with its earlier incarnations, relies more than ever before on a reconfigured version of the "racial subsidy". This is probably what explains its renewed violence and the extreme disorders it is engendering worldwide.
A great book is, first and foremost, a creative and imaginative act. It is a book that formulates better questions which can reveal aspects of the world that have hitherto been neglected or, in this case, un-imagined; a book that is likely to shape the discourse of an age; a book that carves out an entirely new domain of inquiry; a book that creates a space for interaction among different forms of knowledge while striving to keep such a space open. And on all these counts, this new book is not only compelling. It powerfully advances contemporary debates about the place of theory in cultural criticism in the aftermath of postmodernism, decolonization and globalization.
[1] See in particular the two volumes of Revelation ...
[2] Jane Guyer, Marginal Gains ....
[3] Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume 1, New York, Vintage Books, 1976, ch. 25.
[4] James Ferguson, Global Shadows ...
[5] Ruth Gilmore, The Golden Gulag ...
[6] Wolfgang Streeck, "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism", New Left Review 71, Sept.-Oct. 2011.
[7] Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989; Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998; G. Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century, London, Verso, 2007.
[8] Giovanni Arrighi, "The Winding Paths of Capital. Interview by David Harvey", New Left Review 56, March-April 2009.
[9] See, "Labour Supplies in Historical Perspective: A study of the Proletarianization of the African peasantry in Rhodesia", Journal of Development Studies 6, 1970; "The Political Economy of Rhodesia", NLR ...; with John Saul, Essays on the Political Economy of Africa, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1973; "The African Crisis. World Systemic and Regional Aspects", NLR 15, May-June 2002; and, with Nicole Ashoff and Ben Scully, "Accumulation by Dispossession and Its Limits: The Southern African Paradigm Revisited" (Unpublished Paper, 2009)
[10] For a recent attempt, see Françoise Lionnet & Shu-mei Shih, The Creolization of Theory, Durham, Duke University Press, 2011.
[11] Michel Foucault, "What is Critique?", The Politics of Truth, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, 2nd ed, 2007; Judith Butler, "What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault's Virtue", The Political, ed. David Ingram, 2002.
[12] Michael Hardt, "The Militancy of Theory", The South Atlantic Quarterly 110:1, Winter 2011.
[13] Roger Smith, Being human: Historical knowledge and the creation of human nature (Manchester University Press, 2007).
[14] Wendy Brown, "Resisting Left Melancholy", boundary 2, 26.3, 1999. See, too, Brown, "Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times", in Edgework....
[15] Jean Michel Rabaté, The Future of Theory ...
[16] Michael Hardt, "The Militancy of Theory", 20.
[17] Bruno Latour, "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern", CI, 30, winter 2004.
[18] Nigel Thrift, "Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification", Economy & Society, vol. 35, no 2, 2006, 301.
[19] Andrew Leyson and al., "Accounting for e-commerce: abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital", Economy and Society, vol. 34, no 3, 2005, 431.
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I read through this Daily Kos post about support from African Americans in particular for the impeachment (or what may turn into that) of our Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator Wannabe, and I had some thoughts in response that I was going to share at first, but then thought better of it. Then, I turned on “Real Time” last night and heard someone named Jonathan Swan of Axios say that if we had another U.S. House speaker besides Nancy Pelosi, Trump would have been impeached by now.
And I then shut the TV off right away because I thought “this guy is just a damn idiot.” And I then decided, for better or worse as they say, to speak my mind on this subject.
For those who didn’t live through the Nixon Watergate ordeal or the Clinton fiasco with Monica Whatsername (who, by the way, knew exactly what she was doing and Clinton, smart as he was and as good a president as I thought he was overall, was dumb enough to fall for it), let me just review for you what impeachment is all about.
The U.S. House has the responsibility to draft articles of impeachment against a president and vote on whether they should go to the U.S. Senate. So, yeah, it would be up to the House to make the case (which, again, I think they definitely can do with Trump on obstruction and violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution all by itself, and I’m sure they could find other charges). Then, the Senate would conduct a trial of the president and vote on whether or not the president should be removed from office.
And here are the practical consequences of this from our history over the last 45 years or so. The reason Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 wasn’t because the House voted to impeach him, and he resigned in shame. No, the reason why was because he was told by Barry Goldwater and other leading Republican senators that, should he be impeached and a trial was held in the Senate, there would be enough votes to convict him and remove him from office. It wasn’t because Nixon gave a damn about the Democrats in any way whatsoever.
In the case of Bill Clinton, you had both chambers of Congress under Republican control and working in unison, so Clinton had no choice but to wait out the entire process (and to say that Newt Gingrich in the House and Bob Dole in the Senate dragged out the damn thing interminably is an understatement to say the least – for what it’s worth, the group MoveOn.org was formed in response, echoing the sentiments of many in this country who said to Congressional Republicans “censure and move on,” which of course they abjectly refused to do). And when the Senate failed to convict, it strengthened Clinton and the blowback ended up costing Newt Gingrich his position as House Speaker.
Now, let’s return to the present day. And I would ask that you keep in mind the fact that the current Speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, knows that her party’s victory last year came from swing districts who could just as easily flip back to the “R” column in November 2020. And I don’t know what the polling is on impeachment in those districts, but my guess is that they may be moving in the right direction when it comes to the “I” word, but they’re not there yet.
But suppose they get there faster than we think. And suppose the brave example of Repug U.S. House Rep Justin Amash of Michigan (who, let us not forget, is otherwise staunchly conservative) sets forward a groundswell of support, and the House does indeed end up drafting articles of impeachment and sending them to the Senate for a trial to remove Trump from office.
Sending them to the U.S. Senate, where Mitch McConnell is the speaker Majority Leader, to hold a trial to remove Trump from office…
Did I mention that we’re talking about the U.S. Senate? You know, where McConnell takes up space along with other cretins like Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Cory Gardner, our very own “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey, Marsha Blackburn, Tom Cotton, Cindy Hyde-Smith (and where Roy Moore could conceivably still get in next year, believe it or not)? Shall I go on?
Does any biped life form with a pulse and at least a double-digit IQ actually think these thoroughly compromised grifters and lowlifes will actually vote to convict Donald Freaking Trump and remove him from the White House? In the “Fox News” era (which, had it existed in 1974, might have actually allowed Nixon to remain in office)?
Oh, and here’s something else to consider. Suppose the vote to convict takes place, and Trump is acquitted (which, as I just said, would very likely happen). Does anyone think that actually WOULD NOT embolden him and consolidate support among his base, and heading into the 2020 election no less?
And here’s another nightmare scenario…suppose Trump is actually removed from office by the Senate. That means we’ll now be dealing with a whole other brand of crazy in “Onward Christian Soldiers” Mike Pence. And putting him into Trump’s spot would give Pence a head start on his own 2020 campaign for president.
Do I still think we should go forward with impeaching Trump? Definitely. But I guarantee you that Nancy Pelosi knows everything I just pointed out, and she’s absolutely doing the right thing to “slow walk” all of this (and again, that’s why I think Jonathan Swan is a damn idiot).
Taking the road to impeachment, though I think it’s a necessary path at this point, is a path fraught with danger. Republicans (who, unfortunately, are better at playing the “long game” on stuff like this than team “D”), I think, know that very well.
I just hope our side figures out all of this, and acts and speaks accordingly. Or, at a minimum, if we can’t, leave it in the hands of Pelosi, because I believe she already has. And we should stop trying to beat her up over it.
Update 6/4/19: My point exactly (here)…
Update 7/14/19: Once again…
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I guess it wasn’t possible to avoid David Horowitz forever (here)…
Earlier this year, congressman and former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan released a proposed budget for 2015. It contains an impressive list of cuts projecting a $5.1 trillion savings over ten years. It is also the height of political stupidity and an example of everything that cripples Republicans in their battles with the left.
If you are going to make budget cuts, you do it. You don’t telegraph it. Paul Ryan can’t even make budget cuts unless Republicans win the White House and he has just made it harder for them to do it.
For starters, Ryan’s list of cuts includes the subsidy to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and likely reductions in funding to the Legal Services Corporation. These cuts (and there are many more) may be reasonable from an accounting point of view. Politically, however, what they mean is that the tens of millions of fans of public radio and television will see Ryan and the Republicans as mortal enemies, and so will the poor who benefit from Legal Services, and also their advocates and more importantly all those middle class Americans who have a charitable attitude towards the less fortunate. Republicans should hope that no one hears of Paul Ryan’s plan.
Of course Republicans will be thrilled by all these proposed cuts. But everyone who understands the importance of fiscal responsibility is probably already a Republican.
Oh brother – as noted from here…
1981-1989: With full support from congressional Republicans, Reagan begins the worst annual deficits the nation has seen since WWII.
2001-2009: With full support from congressional Republicans, Bush begins running enormous deficits again as a way of pumping the economy back up from the dot-com crash. Bush hits the accelerator hard enough to double the gross debt that had already been quadrupled during the Reagan-Bush I years. Most of the new annual deficits that add to the debt are due to the Bush Tax Cuts, two wars, and the expansion of government. Bush manages to break the United States for the first time since the Great Depression just as Reagan broke the Soviet Union … by drawing it into military spending that it obviously could not actually afford.
Also, I know this is “water wet, sky blue” stuff at this point, but this reminds us just how awful Ryan’s budgets truly are; being a filthy, unkempt liberal blogger, I’m inclined to lump them all together since they pretty much do the same thing, and that is to stick it to the “47 percent” out there, those dastardly “takers” if you will, and starve the federal government so all it can do is generate tax cuts and military spending (no wonder Horowitz wants those cuts to be put in place without anyone knowing about them first).
There are lots of other ways to respond to Horowitz, and I guess we can begin by pointing out the following:
He accused Media Matters for America of “ignoring the actual facts,” which is truly hilarious given how veracity-challenged Horowitz is (here).
He once said here that the Fort Hood killings are the “chickens of the Left” coming home to roost (here).
He also said that President Obama sought a “rapprochement with the Islamist regime” of Iran, among other dreck, here (also alleging that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and al Qaeda were allies, when in fact, quite the opposite is true…fifth bullet).
In addition, Horowitz cooked up a completely unsubstantiated story about how a college student supposedly failed an exam because he wouldn’t answer a question about why Dubya is a war criminal (I give you The Rude Pundit here, definitely NSFW).
In his Daily Tucker screed, Horowitz also says (trafficking in usual violent wingnut imagery) that “Republicans need to punch Democrats in the mouth by using a moral language to describe the atrocities they have committed against minorities and the poor. But they are probably too polite to do so.”
Actually, inasmuch as those few sane Republicans left have any political smarts at all, they know that the ultra-right fringe as exemplified by Horowitz will drag down their electoral hopes now and always, so they’re trying to distance themselves any way possible (of course, it would be better if they did so for the good of the country they claim to represent, but I guess I’ll take what we can get at this point).
Next, I have a bit of an update to some prior Bushco-related posts, as noted from here…
Colombian families whose relatives were massacred by paramilitaries cannot sue the Chiquita Brands fruit company in federal court, the 11th Circuit United States Court of Appeals ruled last week. The victims charged that Chiquita was responsible for the deaths by funding a right-wing paramilitary group.
A panel of judges decided the victims did not have standing in U.S. court, even though the North Carolina-based banana giant pled guilty to U.S. criminal charges in 2007. The victims were claiming potentially billions of dollars in damages from the company.
The ruling was a big victory for the banana giant — and for the rights of American companies to finance international terrorism.
In a general statement sent to ThinkProgress, a Chiquita spokesman said, “Chiquita has long maintained that these cases do not belong in the U.S. courts and that the claims should be dismissed. We are gratified that the U.S. Court of Appeals has now agreed with us.”
As for the families whose loved ones were murdered, Chiquita says it has “great sympathy for the Colombians who suffered at the hands of these Colombian armed groups” but asserts “the responsibility for the violent crimes committed in that country belongs to the perpetrators, not the innocent people and companies they extorted.”
As Think Progress tells us, “Chiquita made at least 100 payments — $1.7 million in total — to the United Auto-Defense Forces of Colombia (or AUC, a paramilitary group responsible for the most heinous human rights atrocities committed over the course of Colombia’s 50-year armed conflict) between 1997 and 2004. In the decade prior to that, the company had maintained a similar arrangement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the nominally leftist rebel group chased out of the region by the combined (and coordinated) efforts of the AUC and Colombian military.”
Between 1997 and 2004, 3,778 people were murdered in Uraba, with an additional 60,000 forced into what is now the second-largest internally displaced population in the world. Between 1991 and 2006, 668 unionists were killed from the main banana-workers union alone, according to the National Union School.
If the testimony of several former high-level paramilitaries can be believed, Chiquita played an integral role in the formation of Uraba’s so-called Quintuple Alliance, a sprawling conspiracy made up of politicians and public servants, large landowners and business interests, military officials, paramilitaries, and narcotraffickers. This would at least partly explain why, in 2001, some 3,400 AK-47 assault rifles sent to the AUC from Nicaraguan trafficking partners were unloaded by a Chiquita subsidiary on a Chiquita dock, the same dock where a company official had recently paid $30,000 in bribe money to Colombian customs officials.
In its 2007 settlement with the Justice Department, Chiquita assured it never received “any actual security services or actual security equipment in exchange for the [AUC] payments.” Instead, the company says it paid the AUC out of concern for its employees — something it was not generally inclined to express through things like wage increases, favorable labor conditions, or a pesticide-free work environment, according to former members of the banana-workers union.
I commented on this some time ago here because former Bushco DHS Head Mike (“City of Louisiana”) Chertoff once knew that Chiquita’s payments to the AUC were illegal, but pretty much “kicked the can” because a friend, Roderick Hills of the Chiquita board, was involved (Hills and Chertoff were law school colleagues). And as noted from here, former Bushco Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez played down anti-labor violence in Colombia.
And while there has been some halting progress in the area of human rights abuses, Colombia is still a horrifically dangerous country (here); they have a refugee crisis that has led children to our southwest border (here – maybe something that we should remember the next time we hear idiocy such as this). And while I lay a lot of the blame at the feet of Former President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History, Number 44 definitely doesn’t get a pass either.
Further, NRO’s James Sherk tells us that the Obama NLRB has declared war on the franchise model for corporations, or something (here)…
Would you like to own a small business someday? If so, sorry — the Service Employees International Union would rather you didn’t. The SEIU has convinced the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to eviscerate the franchising model that many small-business owners rely on.
Under the current model, these small-business owners pay for the right to use a corporate brand. The franchising corporation researches appealing products. It also does marketing to promote the brand. In return, the local franchisees agree to produce those products to fit certain price and quality specifications. The local franchisee handles all the hiring and employment.
This division of labor cuts the risks of starting a small business, because the franchisee can focus on running the business without having to develop a market niche from scratch. A franchisee opening a new restaurant, for example, doesn’t need to market a new menu. The corporate brand has already done the work. The franchisor similarly does not have to operate thousands of local restaurants remotely.
Many businesses, from Burger King to Jiffy Lube to the Hair Cuttery, use franchising. It enables many Americans to run small businesses that would otherwise never get off the ground.
However, unions hate this business model. They find it much easier to organize big businesses than small ones.
In response, I give you the following from here…
According to the US Department of Labor, fewer than 2 percent of food service workers are unionized. It shows. Employees…are at a major disadvantage when demanding better pay and working conditions. Average wages in the sector have stagnated at just above the federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, for two decades. About 13 percent of fast-food workers have employer-sponsored health benefits, compared with 59 percent of the workforce as a whole. Whether through traditional unions or some other vehicle, one of the quickest ways to improve the lot of most restaurant employees would be for them to band together.
Larger unions often have trouble making inroads into restaurants because of the small-scale nature of the business, with its mom-and-pop eateries and franchised fast-food outlets. Fortunately, less conventional advocates for workers are filling the gap.
One promising example is New York-based Restaurant Opportunities Center United, which recently expanded its efforts to Boston. The advocacy group is probably best known for a $5.25 million settlement it helped win against celebrity chef Mario Batali in 2012 after servers at several of Batali’s famed restaurants alleged their employer had violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, in part by pocketing gratuities. Beyond its workplace justice campaigns, however, ROC-United offers its 10,000 nationwide members benefits such as free job training and an affordable health plan. In Boston, this work should complement local immigrant worker centers, which already help collect unpaid wages, connect employees to enforcement agencies, and provide multilingual education on workers’ rights.
And in a case of a restaurant in these parts that took gratuities from the staff that they shouldn’t have, I give you this; a shame because we like the place, but that doesn’t give them the right to break the law.
So yeah, maybe the NLRB ruling on franchises makes it easier for workers to organize. And the problem is?
As noted from here…
McDonald’s has even warned some franchisees that they were paying their workers too much.
If McDonald’s thinks it’s the company’s business to correct when workers are being paid too well, shouldn’t it be held responsibly when they’re not paid enough, or are fired illegally? It seems that the NLRB agrees. McDonald’s is, of course, challenging that.
Yeah, and Mickey D’s is also “challenging” by firing workers who have tried to organize, as noted here.
Think Progress continues…
The justification for targeting McDonald’s corporate is based on a computer system the company installs in its stores to monitor labor costs. “Managers at McDonald’s look at something they call the ‘labor number’ on the computer throughout the day,” said Jason Hughes, who has worked at a McDonald’s location in Fremont, CA, for the past two years. “The labor number is how much the store spends on workers versus how much money the store brings in, and I often hear managers worry that ‘labor is too high,’” Hughes said on a call with reporters Thursday afternoon.
“I knew I wouldn’t be making a lot of money,” said Hughes, “but I thought that a well-known company like McDonald’s would treat me fairly, or at least follow the law. We brought this lawsuit because neither of those things happened.”
The use of the “labor number” monitoring computers is crucial to these class-action suits’ effort to hold the corporate center of McDonald’s accountable for wage law violations at its stores. According to attorneys who explained the suits to reporters, those computer systems are installed in franchise and corporate-owned McDonald’s locations alike, and they are systematically used to keep workers in unpaid limbo, which violates federal wage and hour laws. “When that labor cost reaches a certain percentage,” Michigan attorney Ed James said, “the franchisees take people off the clock to get it down below that number, then get people to clock back in.” There are about 1,500 workers in Michigan who will be eligible to join the two suits there should it be granted class-action status, according to James.
Wage theft is rampant in low-wage occupations, and laws against it are difficult to enforce. In California, even workers who successfully prove they were not paid for hours worked and win a judgment in their favor hardly ever see any back pay, because companies simply close down and rebrand rather than pay what they owe.
And it’s not as if the fast food industry, among other franchisees, enjoys tax breaks already (and why is that, exactly?) as noted here.
Raising the federal minimum wage would go a long way towards getting rid of the types of abuses carried out by the “golden arches” and their fellow corporate “persons” against their workforces. In addition to simple economic decency and fairness, it’s also good business (here). But don’t expect that there’s a snow ball’s chance in hell that that will ever happen with this Congress (and the lesson is to go out and help elect Democrats to change that, as well as protecting the ones we already have, in case anyone hasn’t figured that out by now).
Continuing, Cal Thomas of Fix Noise inflicts the following here…
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England – William Shakespeare is not known for his economic expertise, but the advice he gives through Polonius in “Hamlet” may be the best counsel ever offered for individuals and governments.
After years of debt (90.6 percent of GDP in 2013) and deficit spending, Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is crowing about the latest economic figures that show the country has outpaced the developed world in its economic recovery. Reuters reports that the International Monetary Fund recently upgraded Britain’s projected economic growth this year to 3.2 percent, leading “the world’s big rich economies.” According to UK’s Office for National Statistics, Britain has recovered all of the ground lost during the recession.
Well, that’s nice, even though our supposedly glorious private sector economy did that very thing two years earlier under Number 44, as noted here, and I don’t think a 0.8 GDP increase is much of anything to crow about (here – and by the way, even though Thomas doesn’t mention the quote for some reason, this is what he’s talking about with the Polonius//Hamlet thing).
But if Thomas really wants to talk about how The Bard viewed income inequality, he should note the following (here):
“So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”
[King Lear, Act 4, Scene 1]
And when it comes to Thomas and money matters, I give you the following bit of hilarity from here (and speaking of McDonnell…).
Finally, it looks like longtime Repug dirty trickster Roger Stone is back to hawk a book timed for the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s registration from office, which we recently observed, as noted here.
And who is Stone blaming in his book as the supposed mastermind of Watergate? Why, former White House counsel John Dean, of course (removing my tongue from my cheek)…
Dean began the cover-up shortly after the 1972 election by telling Nixon he had concluded that the White House had nothing to do with the break-in. Nixon would announce this in a press conference.
Actually, I would argue that the cover-up began on August 1, 1972, when a $25,000 cashier’s check earmarked for the Nixon re-election campaign was found in the bank account of one of the Watergate burglars. As the Watergate timeline article also tells us, further investigation revealed that, in the months leading up to their arrests, more thousands had passed through their bank and credit card accounts, supporting the burglars’ travel, living expenses, and purchases. Several donations (totaling $89,000) were made by individuals who thought they were making private donations to the President’s re-election committee. The donations were made in the form of cashier’s, certified, and personal checks, and all were made payable only to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. However, through a complicated fiduciary set-up, the money actually went into an account owned by a Miami company run by Watergate burglar Bernard Barker. On the backs of these checks was the official endorsement by the person who had the authority to do so, Committee Bookkeeper and Treasurer, Hugh Sloan. Thus a direct connection between the Watergate break-in and the Committee to Re-Elect the President had been established.
And John Dean didn’t have a damn thing to do with any of that.
To be fair, though, I suppose there is a bit of a “tit for tat” nature to this, because Dean has also recently published a book called “Nixon’s Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It” based on 1,000 hours of tapes that only he has had transcribed, or so Stone claims. Stone says that Dean should also submit transcripts of the tape “for independent review,” whatever that may mean.
Stone’s argument seems to be that Dean needs to “come clean” on his alleged activities on March 13,16, 17, 20 and 21st, 1973. I’m not sure why Stone believes that is necessary when the House Judiciary Committee record tells us the following (there’s a lot going on here, and I’ll try to summarize at the end):
On March 13, 1973 the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in executive session to ask John Dean to testify in the (hearings to confirm L. Patrick Gray as head of the FBI) concerning his contacts with the FBI during the investigation of the Watergate break-in.
On March 14, 1973 Dean wrote to Senator James 0. Eastland, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and, citing the doctrine of executive privilege, formally refused to testify in the Senate confirmation hearing on the nomination of Gray to be Director of the FBI. On the same day the President met with Dean and White House Special Counsel Richard Moore in his Executive Office Building Office from 9:43 to 10:50 a.m. and from 12:47 to 1:30 p.m. They discussed a press conference scheduled for the next day and making Dean a test case in the courts on executive privilege.
On March 15, 1973 the President held a press conference. He stated he would adhere to his decision not to allow Dean to testify before the Congress even if it meant defeat of Gray’s nomination as Director of the FBI, because there was “a double privilege, the lawyer-client relationship, as well as the Presidential privilege.” He also stated that he would not be willing to have Dean sit down informally and let Senators question him, but Dean would provide all pertinent information.
On or about March 16, 1973 E. Howard Hunt (ringleader of the Watergate burglars) met with Paul O’Brien, an attorney for (the Committee to Re-Elect the President). Hunt informed O’Brien that commitments had not been met, that he had done “seamy things” for the White House, and that unless he received $130,000 he might review his options. On March 16, 1973 Hunt also met with Colson’s lawyer, David Shapiro (Charles Colson was Nixon’s special counsel). According to Colson, Hunt requested of Shapiro that Colson act as Hunt’s liaison with the White House, but was told that that was impossible.
On March 17, 1973 the President met with John Dean in the Oval Office from 1:25 to 2:10 p.m. (On April 11, 1974 the Committee on the Judiciary subpoenaed the President to produce the tape recording of the March 17 meeting. The President has refused to produce that tape but has furnished an edited partial transcript of the meeting. After having listened to the tape recording of the March 17, 1973 meeting, the President on June 4, 1973 discussed with Press Secretary Ron Ziegler his recollections of that March 17 meeting. A tape recording of the June 4 discussion has been furnished to the Committee. The evidence regarding the content of the March 17 meeting presently possessed by the Committee also includes a summary of the March 17 meeting furnished, in June 1973, to SSC Minority Counsel Fred Thompson by White House Special Counsel (Fred) Buzhardt and the SSC testimony of John Dean.)
In his discussion with Ziegler on June 4, 1973 the President told Ziegler the following regarding the March 17 meeting: Up to March 17, 1973 the President had no discussion with Dean on the basic conception of Watergate, but on the 17th there began a discussion of the substance of Watergate. Dean told the President that Dean had been over this like a blanket. Dean said that (Jeb Magruder, Deputy Director of CRP) was good, but that if he sees himself sinking he’ll drag everything with him. He said no one in the White House had prior knowledge of Watergate, except possibly (Haldeman aide Gordon) Strachan. There was a discussion of whether (White House Chief of Staff H. R.) Haldeman or Strachan had pushed on Watergate and whether anyone in the White House was involved. The President said that Magruder put the heat on, and (Hugh)Sloan (treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect) starts pissing on Haldeman. The President said that “we’ve got to cut that off. We can’t have that go to Haldeman.” The President said that looking to the future there were problems and that Magruder could bring it right to Haldeman, and that could bring it to the White House, to the President. The President said that “We’ve got to cut that back. That ought to be cut out.” There was also a discussion of the (Daniel) Ellsberg break-in.
On March 19, 1973 Paul O’Brien met with John Dean in the EOB and conveyed a message from E. Howard Hunt that if money for living and for attorneys’ fees were not forthcoming, Hunt might have to reconsider his options and might have some very seamy things to say about Ehrlichman.
On March 20, 1973 (Nixon Assistant for Domestic Affairs) John Ehrlichman met with John Dean at the White House. They discussed Howard Hunt’s request for money, the possibility that Hunt would reveal activities of the Plumbers’ operations if the money were not forthcoming, and plans for Dean to discuss the matter with (Attorney General John) Mitchell. According to Dean, Dean discussed the matter with Mitchell by telephone later that evening, but Mitchell did not indicate whether Hunt would be paid. On the afternoon of March 20, 1973 Ehrlichman had a telephone conversation with (White House lawyer) Egil Krogh and told him Hunt was asking for a large amount of money. They discussed the possibility that Hunt might publicly reveal the Plumbers’ operations. Krogh has testified that Ehrlichman stated that Hunt might blow the lid off and that Mitchell was responsible for the care and feeding of Howard Hunt.
On March 20, 1973 Dean had a conversation with Richard Moore, Special Counsel to the President. Dean told Moore that Hunt was demanding a large sum of money before his sentencing on March 23, and that if this payment were not made, Hunt was threatening to say things that would be very serious for the White House. After this conversation, Dean and Moore met with the President from 1:42 to 2:31 p.m. According to information furnished to the Senate Select Committee by Special Counsel Buzhardt, the President and Moore agreed that a statement should be released immediately after the sentencing of the defendants. According to Moore, following this meeting he told Dean that Dean should tell the President what he knew.
According to Dean, Dean told Moore that Dean did not think the President understood all of the facts involved in the Watergate and particularly the implication of those facts and that Dean felt he had to lay those facts and implications out for the President.
On March 20, 1973 John Dean had an evening telephone conversation with the President during which he arranged a meeting with the President for the next morning. According to the edited transcript of this conversation made public by the White House, Dean requested a meeting with the President to go over soft spots and potential problem areas. Dean said that his prior conversation with the President had been “sort of bits and pieces” and that he wanted to paint the whole picture for the President. The President agreed to such a meeting, and the President also instructed Dean to try to write a general statement like one that would state categorically that based on Dean’s investigation Haldeman, Colson and others were not involved in the Watergate matter.
On the afternoon of March 21, 1973 Dean met with Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Ehrlichman and Dean have testified that the participants at the meeting speculated about John Mitchell’s role in the Watergate affair, and wondered whether Mitchell’s not coming forward was the cause of the beating everyone was taking on the subject of Watergate. Dean and Haldeman have testified that in the late afternoon of March 21, just before their second meeting with the President on that day, Dean told Haldeman that perhaps the solution to the whole thing was to draw the wagons around the White House. According to Haldeman, Dean also said that they should let all the chips fall where they may, because that would not hurt anybody at the White House since no one there had a problem.
OK, so it sounds to me like, more than anything else, the White House (including Dean of course) was trying to find a way to get Howard Hunt to shut up. And it sounds like that meant trying to get the Committee to Re-Elect and the White House on the same page concerning the Watergate break-in. They were also trying to keep the Senate at arms length so questions wouldn’t come up during the confirmation hearing for L. Patrick Gray. It also sounds to me like John Dean was busy more with trying to get all of this stuff coordinated between the White House and the Committee to Re-Elect in a way that would shield the White House as much as possible (though, in one of the March 21 meetings with Nixon, Dean used the phrase “cancer on the presidency”).
So my conclusion is as follows: if Dean was supposedly the Watergate “mastermind” as Stone alleges, then Dean was pretty crummy at the job.
I would argue, though, that Stone has, as best, only a casual relationship with historical scholarship anyway, seeing as how he also produced the following book last year supposedly proving that Lyndon Johnson murdered JFK (here). And I would also that Stone is hardly an impartial observer on the subject of Nixon, seeing as how Stone has a tattoo of our 37th president’s face on his back, as noted here (Stone also acknowledged a certain sexual proclivity in Jeffrey Toobin’s 2008 New Yorker article, describing himself as “a libertarian and a libertine”…just sayin’). And as noted from here (#2), Stone denied having anything to do with the Willie Horton ad that Lee Atwater ran against Michael Dukakis on behalf of Poppy Bush in 1988, and Stone also denied having anything whatsoever to do with the infamous “Brooks Brothers Riot” that halted the Miami Dade vote recount in Florida in November 2000 (I guess this is typical for a guy who says, “Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack”…more on Stone is here, and I guess the answer to the Media Matters question is yes).
Stone also says that Dean proposed Operation Gemstone – actually, according to Wikipedia, it was proposed by Liddy, though Dean was in attendance to hear about it along with Mitchell and Magruder.
The Watergate break-in and the downfall of Richard Nixon’s presidency, I’m sure, will be written about, studied and analyzed for many years to come because of its cautionary lessons concerning governance and the abuse of presidential power. No doubt many works of scholarship will be added to that body of knowledge for study by future generations (and probably this too).
And I have a feeling that anything concocted by Roger Stone will not add to that in any way, shape or form.
Update 8/19/14: From here…
Dean also slammed author Roger Stone, whose book, Nixon’s Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon, questions Dean’s account of the scandal, seeks to defend Nixon, and claims Deep Throat, the secret informant for The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, wasn’t FBI Associate Director Mark Felt — despite the fact that Woodward and Bernstein confirmed his identity in 2005.
Stone is one of several former Nixon aides who have been defending the disgraced president in recent media appearances. A “professional dirty trickster” with a history of virulent misogyny, Stone believes Nixon should not have been impeached for Watergate. He wrote three op-eds for FoxNews.com in the last few months in which he attacked Dean and other Nixon critics, plugged his book, and claimed that “Nixon was bad but Obama is worse.”
“This is typical of the alternative universe out there. That is pure bullshit, why would Woodward say it if it is someone else?” Dean said about Stone’s Deep Throat claim. “I don’t care to know anything about Stone. From everything I’ve been told about him I’m not sure you want to put in print.”
Uh, yep.
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10 Forgotten Americans Who Made History
Ardelia Lee March 26, 2015 0
Many people shaped US history, yet only a few make their way into textbooks. What of the people who were left out? Some were spies. Some were slaves. All of them worked to create a better country, the present-day United States.
10Elizabeth Jennings Graham
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In 1854, 101 years before Rosa Parks made her historic stand in Montgomery, Elizabeth Jennings Graham made one of her own in New York City. Graham and a friend were on their way to church. They were running late, so Graham didn’t wait for a horse-drawn car designated for colored people.
She hailed the first one she saw and got in. The white driver balked and refused to drive her. Graham stood her ground, so the driver finally continued on. However, when he stopped to pick up white passengers, Graham still refused to move. The driver finally hauled Graham from the car and tossed her onto the sidewalk.
Graham, furious at the way she had been treated, wrote a letter detailing the incident. It was read to her church family and sent to Fredrick Douglass’ Paper and the editor at The New York Daily Tribune. Graham’s father hired Chester Arthur to take his daughter’s case to court. Arthur won the case, and in another year, New York City transportation was fully integrated. None of it would’ve happened if Elizabeth Jennings Graham hadn’t refused to give up her seat.
9James Armistead Lafayette
Photo credit: Marquis de Lafayette
Sometimes, to win a war, all a commander needs is a perfectly placed spy. James Armistead Lafayette, a Virginian slave, had the perfect cover. He served under the Marquis de Lafayette, the commander of the French forces allied with the American Continental Army. Armistead managed to convince British General Charles Cornwallis that he was a runaway slave hired to spy on the American army. He gained the confidence of Benedict Arnold and Cornwallis, and he relayed vital information to Lafayette and Washington about the British army’s movements and supplies.
In the summer of 1781, Armistead’s reports helped Washington win the battle at Yorktown, which resulted in the surrender of the British. Despite his heroic acts in the American Revolution, Armistead returned to his master after the war and continued to live as a slave. When the Marquis de Lafayette discovered this, he testified on behalf or Armistead, and two years later, the Virginia Grand Assembly emancipated Armistead, who changed his last name to Lafayette in honor of the general.
8Elizabeth Freeman
Photo credit: Susan Sedgwick
Elizabeth Freeman’s courage and determination to face her master created a court case that forever changed Massachusetts. Freeman was born a slave in 1742 in New York. In the 1770s, she was sold to Colonel John Ashley. In Ashley’s household, Freeman suffered abuse from the colonel’s wife, so she fled the home and refused to return.
Freeman had often heard Ashley and his friends discuss the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, and she began to wonder why the statutes set forth in those documents couldn’t apply to her. She enlisted the help of Ashley’s friend, attorney Theodore Sedgwick, who listened to Freeman’s case for freedom.
In 1781, Sedgwick initiated the case Brom and Bett v. Ashley, in which he argued for Freeman’s freedom using the Massachusetts Constitution, which stated that all individuals were born free and equal. The jury agreed with the argument, and the case set a precedent for the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts.
7Roger Sherman
The atmosphere was tense in the meeting room that housed the Constitutional Convention on July 16, 1787. The future of America’s fledgling government was at stake, and the delegates couldn’t decide how to proceed. The main sticking point was representation in the newly proposed Senate. Naturally, delegates from the larger, Southern states wanted representation to be based proportionally on the amount of financial and economic contribution states made to the federal government. Smaller states opposed this plan and wanted representation to be equal between all states.
Enter Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman, the main promoter of the Connecticut Compromise. He and fellow Connecticut delegate Oliver Ellsworth proposed creating one house in which representation was based on each state’s population and one in which each state received equal representation. The Constitutional Convention voted five to four to adopt Sherman’s plan.
Despite his crucial role in America’s founding and the fact that he’s the only person to sign all four documents from the American Revolution (the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the 1774 Continental Association), Roger Sherman is largely forgotten today.
6Mary Bowser
Photo credit: John Shuck
Though she never saw combat, Mary Bowser was a spy whose efforts were crucial for her side. Born into slavery in Virginia in 1840, Bowser resided in the Van Lew household. She was sent north to be educated when she was a child, and she returned to the Van Lews after her education was complete. Bowser helped Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union supporter, relay information to Generals Benjamin Butler, Ulysses Grant, and George Sharpe.
Bowser was the most important figure in the Richmond underground, Van Lew’s spy ring. She served in the Confederate White House, where she reported what she read, observed, and heard. Because she could read, Bowser was especially useful in her position. In 1995, to honor her contribution to the Union’s war effort, Bowser was inducted into the US Army Intelligence Hall of Fame.
5Annie Turner Wittenmeyer
Annie Turner Wittenmyer was a social and political activist, and her work has helped shaped American history. She started her career as a social worker in Civil War army camps in Iowa, but she resigned her post in 1864. Wittenmeyer, intent on making life better for soldiers, started special kitchens at army hospitals. In these kitchens, two women were responsible for properly preparing food that doctors ordered specifically for each patient. This change ensured that patients received only nutritious food that would help their recovery.
With the help of the United States Christian Commission, Wittenmeyer opened her first kitchen in Nashville, Tennessee. By the end of the Civil War, her idea had been adopted by most of the army medical department.
Wittenmeyer became active in the “Women’s Crusade,” an unorganized anti-alcohol movement. In 1874, she attended a convention in Cleveland, Ohio, where the national Women’s Christian Temperance Union was formed. She was elected the union’s first president, an office she held until 1879. During her years as WCTU president, Wittenmeyer traveled across America, visiting local and state branches of the organization.
4Edmund G. Ross
Photo credit: Mathew Brady
In 1866, the United States Government was in shambles in the wake of the Civil War. President Andrew Johnson couldn’t agree with Congress on the question of how to treat the South. Into this strained situation came Edmund G. Ross, a greenhorn senator from Kansas. The radical Republicans who opposed Johnson couldn’t have been happier. Ross had a political track record of opposing the Southern states and their beliefs.
On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives formally impeached Andrew Johnson for failing to follow the Tenure of Office Act. On March 4, Johnson’s case went to the Senate for trial. His opponents needed to secure 36 guilty votes to remove Johnson from office. Most senators would cast a guilty vote, but Ross wasn’t sure of his. When voting started, each senator stood up and declared his vote.
By the time it was Ross’s turn to vote, 24 senators had declared Johnson guilty. 11 more “guilty” votes were certain. Ross’s vote was all the Senate needed to remove Johnson from office. Ross cast a not guilty vote, and Andrew Johnson was able to finish his presidential term.
3Myra Colby Bradwell
Photo credit: C.D. Mosher
Myra Colby Bradwell spent much of her life working to better women’s lives. Her far-reaching influence started in 1868, when she founded the Chicago Legal News, the first Midwestern weekly law journal. She served as business manager and editor of the News, often attacking lawyers and judges for their lack of morals.
Bradwell wielded her extensive legal knowledge and financial influence by securing the passage of two bills she helped write: the Married Woman’s Property Act of 1861 and the Earnings Act of 1869. The bills aimed to give married women more control over their property and earnings.
Despite Bradwell’s desire to be a lawyer and the practical experience she had gained in her husband’s law office, the Illinois state court denied her a license to practice law. She appealed to the Supreme Court, but the court upheld the state’s decision. Though she made no more requests to practice law in Illinois, the Supreme Court relented and approved her application in 1890. Bradwell was finally able to realize her dreams.
2Percy Julian
Photo credit: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Although he was limited to an eighth-grade education as a result of racial tensions in Alabama, Percy Julian would eventually become a giant in the chemical industry. His first major breakthrough happened between 1932 and 1935. Julian worked closely with one of his fellow students, Josef Pikl, to synthesize physostigmine, a compound that only existed in nature and was crucial in the treatment of glaucoma. In 1935, Julian had the proof he needed to claim that he had, in fact, made the compound in a lab. He had effectively made a way to mass-produce glaucoma treatment.
However, Julian’s biggest breakthrough came when he created a method for inexpensive production of cortisone, an important steroid for treating arthritis. The increased production of cortisone resulted in a decrease in price, making the steroid accessible to a wider population. Though Julian’s contributions to science and medicine have enabled us to enjoy increased access to steroids, he isn’t widely known, most likely as a result of racist attitudes during his lifetime.
1Frank Wills
Photo credit: Jack E. Kightlinger
Frank Wills’s vigilance as a night watchman led to one of the most infamous political scandals in American history. On the night of June 17, 1972, 24-year-old Wills was making his rounds at the Watergate office building. He happened to notice a piece of tape placed over the lock of a basement door. Wills removed it, reasoning that an employee probably left the tape over the lock to make it easier for him to come and go. However, on one of his later rounds, he noticed that a piece of tape had again been put over the lock.
Wills called the police, who promptly arrived and locked all the doors, turned off power to the elevators, and conducted a sweep of the entire building. They eventually found five burglars on the sixth floor in the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Upon further investigation, police found that the men were acting on orders from Richard Nixon’s campaign committee. From there, the Watergate scandal exploded, and Nixon was forced to resign.
And what of the vigilant night watchman Frank Wills? Sadly, he left his job at Watergate soon after the burglary and struggled with employment until his death in 2000.
Ardelia Lee is a freelance writer and blogger who uses her blog, The Unplumbed Sea, and her literary wit to encourage readers everywhere to dive deeper into their books. You can find her on Twitter.
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Donald (Dwight) Scott is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone and Head of GSO Capital Partners’ Energy Practice. Mr. Scott is a member of GSO’s...
Donald (Dwight) Scott is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone and Head of GSO Capital Partners’ Energy Practice. Mr. Scott is a member of GSO’s Investment Committee and the Investment Committee for Tactical Opportunities.
Before joining GSO Capital in 2005, Mr. Scott was an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of El Paso Corporation. Prior to joining El Paso, Mr. Scott served as a Managing Director in the energy investment banking practice of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Scott is currently a Director of 3Bear Energy, LLC, Energy Alloys LLC , TapStone Energy, LLC, Giant Cement Holdings, Inc., Twin Eagle Resource Management, LLC and Compass Well Services, LLC.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of KIPP, Inc. and the Board of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. Mr. Scott earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Sarah Champion MP to be at Child Sexual Exploitation Summit at 10 Downing Street →
Downing St Summit on Child Sexual Exploitation – Today, 3rd March 2015
Posted on March 3, 2015 by maltbyblogger
David Cameron outlines plans to tackle child sexual exploitation at summit today.
“Teachers, councillors and social workers in England and Wales who fail to protect children could face up to five years in jail under new proposals.
The new measures, being unveiled by the prime minister, would see the crime of “wilful neglect” extended to cover children’s social care and education.
There would also be unlimited fines for individuals and organisations shown to have let children down.
Meanwhile a retired officer said police failed victims of an Oxford abuse gang.
We owe it to our children, and to the children who survive horrific sexual abuse, to do better”
Prime Minister David Cameron
The government’s proposals – also to include a national helpline being set up to enable professionals to report bad practice – are a response to child abuse scandals in Rotherham, Oxford and elsewhere.
Police are being ordered to prioritise the issue as a national threat, as with serious and organised crime, with police forces, chief constables and police and crime commissioners having a duty to collaborate in order to protect children.
The proposals are being unveiled at a summit in Downing Street – attended by victims, survivors groups, ministers, police chiefs, council leaders, child protection experts, and health and social care providers.
Labour has criticised the summit as a “missed opportunity”, saying the government is not going far enough.
‘Catastrophic failure’
David Cameron will say that in Rotherham and elsewhere, children had been “ignored, sometimes blamed” with the issue of exploitation “swept under the carpet”.
He will also say: “That culture of denial which let them down so badly must be eradicated.
“Today I am sending an unequivocal message that professionals who fail to protect children will be held properly accountable, and council bosses who preside over such catastrophic failure will not see rewards for that failure.
“It is not just about introducing new policies. It is about making sure that the professionals we charge with protecting our children – the council staff, police officers and social workers – do the jobs they are paid to do.
“We owe it to our children, and to the children who survive horrific sexual abuse, to do better and ensure the mistakes of the past are never repeated again.”
Anne Longfield, England’s children’s commissioner: “What we’ve seen is a culture of denial”
The plans involve making it a criminal offence to wilfully neglect those at risk of, and victims of, child sexual abuse.
Social workers, education practitioners and local councillors would be covered by the sanction, which would be introduced as an extension of the crime of wilful neglect of patients by care workers in this year’s Criminal Justice and Courts Act. The plans are going out to consultation.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has called on the government to create a new offence of child exploitation.
She said: “We need a radical overhaul of our child protection system, but I fear this is a missed opportunity to get all the reforms we need.”
‘Systematically ignored’
Anne Longfield, the new Children’s Commissioner for England, said there were “worrying levels” of abuse taking place across the country.
She told BBC Breakfast: “I think this is a very clear and symbolic signal that things need to change.
“We can’t have this situation where children suffering one of the most horrendous crimes you can think of, as young as 11 or 12, are being systematically ignored if they present to you.
“The firm message here is that professionals must respond.”
Britain has been rocked by a series of child sex abuse cases including those in Rotherham, Rochdale and Oxford.
An independent report found that at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham by gangs of men who were predominantly of Pakistani origin between 1997 and 2013. ”
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Overview of PNoy’s Final SONA Coverage
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Eyes will be on President Noynoy Aquino as he makes his final State of the Nation Address. (Photo credit: Philstar.com)
Welcome to SONA Monday.
Held every fourth Monday of July, the State of the Nation Address is an annual event where the President of the Philippines addresses the public of his accomplishments and plans for the nation. While the SONA is not a national holiday, it remains an important political event in the country, ranking just above the presidential inauguration and the national elections.
This year’s SONA will be the last for President Noynoy Aquino, and it will be interesting to see how he will respond to the recent string events that have plagued his administration. As always, it will be greeted by protests from those against his administration.
Television and radio coverage will once again be at the forefront of this annual event, so without further ado, here are the plans for some of the stations covering the SONA.
The SONA coverage on Channel 2 will proceed after ‘Flordeliza’. ‘Nasaan Ka Nang Kailangan Kita’, ‘Pinoy Big Brother: 737 Gold’ and ‘Mission Possible’ will be preempted, while ‘Kapamilya: Deal or No Deal’ may be preempted in case the SONA runs overtime.
ABS-CBN will use three different broadcast teams for their coverage. Channel 2 will be led by Ted Failon and Lynda Jumilla, ANC will be led by Tony Velasquez and Karmina Constantino, and DZMM TeleRadyo and Radyo Patrol 630 will be led by Anthony Taberna and Gerry Baja.
A live and uninterrupted feed of the coverage will also be streamed on abs-cbnnews.com. It is unknown if the SONA coverage will also be seen on ABS-CBN Sports+Action, since the NCAA will no longer be in conflict with the SONA.
The SONA coverage on TV5 will proceed after the Marvel animation block. ‘Hi-5 Philippines’ will be the only show preempted, as ‘Movie Max 5’ only airs as a filler program.
TV5 will utilize a parallel broadcast approach for the coverage. Erwin Tulfo and Cheryl Cosim will anchor TV5’s coverage of the SONA on four different platforms: TV5, AksyonTV, Radyo5 92.3 News FM, and News5Everywhere.
The SONA coverage on GMA will proceed after ‘The Half-Sisters’. ‘Buena Familia”s premiere will be moved tomorrow, while ‘Healing Hearts’, ‘Alisto’ and possibly ‘Birth of a Beauty’ will be preempted.
The press release of the network only indicated that Mel Tiangco and Mike Enriquez will anchor Channel 7’s coverage. Whether or not it will be a parallel coverage or a separate coverage on Channel 7, GMA News TV, GMA News Online and Super Radyo DZBB 594 remains to be seen.
All AM stations, save for specialty ones, will also pool their resources for the SONA coverage. Updates on the event will also be provided by a few FM stations.
Net 25 will also cover the SONA, but since it takes place on the same day as the Iglesia ni Cristo’s 101st founding anniversary, the primary focus of the station could be on the latter. UNTV will also handle their own coverage of the event.
Finally, the neophyte CNN Philippines (formerly Solar News Channel and 9TV) will join in on the SONA fun for the first time. Their coverage of the SONA will be anchored by Jing Magsaysay and Pia Hontiveros.
Regardless of the station, the entire nation will pay attention to the statements made by President Aquino. His last SONA will be very important, so keep an eye on what he says.
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Koreanovelas Return to ABS-CBN
March 11, 2016 ralphierceABS-CBN, ABS-CBN Asianovelas, ABS-CBN First and True Home of Asianovelas, ABS-CBN Koreanovelas, ABS-CBN new programs, ABS-CBN new shows, ABS-CBN upcoming programs, ABS-CBN upcoming shows, Afternoon Prime, Ana Manuela, Ana Manuela ABS-CBN, Ana Manuela Latinovela, Ana Manuela telenovela, And I Love You So, And I Love You So ABS-CBN, Andrea Torres, GMA, GMA Afternoon Prime, GMA Heart of Asia, GMA Network, Heart of Asia Presents, Heart of Asia Presents GMA, Joo Jin-Mo, Kapamilya Gold, Kim Sa-Rang, Let's Get Married, Let's Get Married ABS-CBN, Let's Get Married Asianovela, Let's Get Married Koreanovela, My Love Donna, My Love Donna ABS-CBN, My Love Donna Asianovela, My Love Donna Koreanovela, My Lovely Girl, My Lovely Girl ABS-CBN, My Lovely Girl Asianovela, My Lovely Girl Koreanovela, Star Magic, Temptation, Temptation GMA, The Millionaire's Wife, The Millionaire's Wife GMA, Wowowin, Wowowin GMA 13 Comments
What’s going on, ABS-CBN?
In an extremely unusual move, the Kapamilya network decided to bring back Koreanovelas after an eight-month absence. Their newest Koreanovela, ‘My Love Donna’ will air starting this Monday, and will replace ‘And I Love You So’ on the Kapamilya Gold block.
‘My Love Donna’ stars Joo Jin-Mo and Kim Sa-Rang. It will be the first Koreanovela since ‘Let’s Get Married’ and ‘My Lovely Girl’ to air on ABS-CBN.
Bringing back Koreanovelas on ABS-CBN doesn’t make sense. They already have the resources and technology to produce more local programming, so why do they still need to import foreign series when in fact interest in Koreanovelas are declining and there are some Star Magic artists who are waiting for opportunities to shine.
In addition, ABS-CBN is infamous for cutting a lot of good scenes when it comes to foreign dramas, so much so that their runs are shorter than originally indicated (remember ‘Ana Manuela’?). The fact that these dramas are short-term in nature doesn’t help ABS-CBN at all, and it only hurts their viewership whenever they are present.
By bringing ‘My Love Donna’ to Kapamilya Gold, ABS-CBN has made the wrong decision and the wrong time to bring back a Koreanovela. On the same day ‘My Love Donna’ premieres, GMA will bring in a new teleserye, the Andrea Torres-starred ‘The Millionaire’s Wife’, on the very same timeslot (more on that this Monday).
Remember, the Kapuso network only airs Koreanovelas in the morning and evening slots, and on Mondays to Thursdays as well. The presence of ‘Wowowin’ and longer teleseryes means that there is no place for them to add Koreanovelas in the afternoon.
That said, expect ABS-CBN to lose in the ratings with their newest Koreanovela. This is a definite mismatch for the Kapamilya network, and thus, it won’t help them at all.
What was thought to be the ‘end of an era’ for Koreanovelas on the network turned out to be false hope. Yes, ABS-CBN brought back a Koreanovela, but it won’t be long before they stopped airing them anew.
Other Notes: Speaking of Koreanovelas, GMA will have Korean movies every Monday to Thursday at 10:00 p.m. as part of the ‘Heart of Asia Presents’ series. It will replace ‘Temptation’ starting March 14.
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Check out this short slideshow to see why we live in Faubourg St. John:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ygexPn_is
Faubourg St. John, established in 1708, is a neighborhood located just north of Broad Street at the intersection of Orleans Ave.
It is approximately 75 city blocks in area and has an average elevation of about 1 foot above sea level. Not bad when you consider about half of New Orleans is several feet under sea level. More than 4,000 residents call Faubourg St. John home.
One of New Orleans’ finest neighborhoods, Faubourg St. John is famous for its stately trees, abundant parks, spectacular homes, world-class museums, vibrant bayou, excellent restaurants and fine shops throughout the neighborhood especially along its business districts on Ponce de Leon and Broad Streets.
Faubourg St. John contains the full range of residential uses, fun and friendly business districts, office space, a wide range of medical services and a small amount of light industrial property. This full range of land use, plus the economic and ethnic diversity of the neighborhoods’ population qualifies Faubourg St. John as a premier destination.
FAUBOURG ST. JOHN
“Where Big Dreams Grow!”
Bayou St. John
Census 2000 Data Tables: People & Household Characteristics, Housing & Housing Costs, Income & Poverty, Transportation, Employment, Educational Attainment, Immigration & Language, Disabilities, Neighborhood Characteristics
Stretching along the western border of the Bayou St. John neighborhood, the bayou has been a central part of the life and development of this community that obtained its name from this waterway.
Native American settlement
The word bayou comes from bayuk, meaning minor streams in the language spoken by the Choktaw, believed to have been one of the Native American nation-groups that inhabited this area before the Europeans settled here. The Native Americans called the bayou area Bayouk Choupic, after the mudfish, and built thatched homes near its bank.
Groups from the Chapitoulas nation are thought to be the first to inhabit the area. Another nation-group, the Choctaw had noted the advantages of living near this waterway and transported food and other goods on the bayou. They also traveled to the Mississippi River, by way of the bayou and a path now called Bayou Road. Ultimately, a trading village was established at Bayouk Choupic and Bayou Road.
Europeans’ arrival
The French were looking for shorter routes from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mississippi River. In 1699, some of the Choctaw showed them various routes, including where Bayou Road met the river. The French decided to build a city at that site, the present day French Quarter.
They renamed Bayouk Choupic Bayou St. Jean, and by 1703 were using the bayou as a shipping channel. After the arrival of the Spaniards, the two groups battled for trading control.
Europeans soon began bringing enslaved Africans into the area as unpaid laborers, many stripped of their self-respect and identity and separated from their families. The Choctaw people had long before left the area and are thought to have settled in Houma.
The Old Portage sign is “the historical marker on Moss Street [that] marks where goods were unloaded from the bayou and carried along the overland ‘portage’ to the river.”
During the 18th and early 19th centuries the land along the bayou became a place for recreation. The Tivoli Amusement Park, where the Pitot House now stands, was a popular entertainment center. Dances were held on Sundays in an octagon-shaped pavilion in the park.
Taste of Voodoo in New Orleans
The first noted Voodoo queen of the area was thought to be Sanite Dede. Those who presided over the Voodoo ceremonies were always free women of color. (Voodoo uses a matriarchal line.)
Europeans were frightened of the powers of this religion and its practitioners. “As an example of the fear that some had for Voodoo, in 1782 during the Spanish regime, Governor Galvez forbade the import of slaves from Martinique in the Caribbean to New Orleans because the slaves’ belief in Voodoo made them too dangerous.”
Police often raided Voodoo gatherings that took place in the city. Many practitioners and their followers moved out to the Bayou St. John area in order to freely express their religious beliefs.
Learn more about Voodoo at the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
Marie Laveau
One of the most powerful and influential Voodoo priestess of the time was Marie Laveau, called Voodoo Queen on Bayou St. John. She was so respected that thousands are said to have attended her rituals at the “Wishing Spot” on the bayou.
Each year on June 23rd, St. John’s Eve is celebrated on Bayou St. John:
Bayou St. John is full of historic houses, including cottages, bungalows and colonial style homes. The oldest house in the Bayou St. John neighborhood is the Old Spanish Custom House built in 1784.
Construction of the Pitot House, now a museum, began in 1799 and was completed in 1805 by another owner. James Pitot, second mayor of New Orleans, bought this French Colonial/West-Indies architectural style plantation home in 1810. Today Louisiana Landmarks Society uses it as its headquarters.
In 1804, Daniel Clark bought a large portion of land from many of the plantation owners, mapped out Faubourg St. John, where most of the present-day Bayou St. John neighborhood exists, then sold parceled lots. Barthelemy Lafon designed the plan for the area in 1809, which resulted in a suburb of thirty-five irregularly shaped blocks. He drew a fan-like composition whose focal point was at Place Bretonne, where Bayou Road and Dorgenois Street met just under Broad Street.
In 1855, Esplanade Avenue was constructed splitting through established streets and causing the removal of old houses in its path. A few years later, Ursuline Avenue was laid the same way. In the 1860s and 1870s French Creole families built homes along Esplanade Avenue.
Visit the link below to learn more about Vignaud Street:
Vignaud
Transportation and drainage improvements increase population
By 1857, due to the wet conditions of the land, there were not a significant number of houses in the neighborhood. However, improvements in drainage systems and transportation services contributed to the increase of neighborhood development.
The Rodriguez Bayou Road omnibus started in 1857, the Rampart-Esplanade Railroad in 1861 and the Esplanade Bayou Bride Line in 1863, which ran until 1913. Additionally, the bayou remained an important passageway for freight transportation in the 1800s.
In the 1930s, families built houseboats along the bayou. But as the neighborhood developed, other residents complained about their unkempt appearance and called for the cleaning up of the bayou, including the prohibition of houseboats on the waterway. In 1936, Congress ended navigational use on the bayou. Beautification projects were implemented along the bayou, the earliest being by WPA workers who dredged and cleaned it in the 1930s. Today rules for using the bayou have been established and it is well-maintained.
Some of Today’s Landmarks
One of the architectural attractions to the area is the European dome of Our Lady of the Rosary, whose church faces Esplanade Avenue. Cabrini High School, a Catholic school for girls sits nearby and faces the bayou. The New Orleans Krishna Temple, a Swiss Mountain structure on Esplanade Avenue, is one of the temples of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. For more information, please visit the link below:
Crescent City Memory–Part Six
nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/ccmem/6.htm
Visit the link below for more about the Pitot House:
Pitot House
Neighborhood Profiles Project Document prepared by the City of New Orleans Office of Policy Planning and the City Planning Commission. Published December 1980. Study available at the Williams Research Center (non-circulating collection).
Bayou St. John is the Reason for New Orleans
by Angela Carll Times Picayune – November 15, 1985
Bayou St. John is the reason New Orleans is located where it is. The bayou provided a connection from the Mississippi River overland via an old Indian path to Lake Ponchartrain.
A number of historic landmarks still stand in this neighborhood to remind visitors of the city’s heritage.
The Old Spanish Custom House, built in 1784 at the corner of Moss Street and Grand Route Saint John, is the oldest structure in this neighborhood.
Another renowned home is the Pitot House, named for James Pitot, the second mayor of New Orleans. Built in 1799 at 1370 Moss Street, the Pitot House was later moved a short distance up the bayou to 1440 Moss in 1970.
The Tivoli amusement park once stood where the Pitot House is now. It featured a pavillion, orange trees, and dances were held there on Sundays.
Much of Bayou St. John remained swampy and unable to be developed while the city was attempting to drain the area, which was called “back of town” as early as 1835.
In 1866, the city started using the bayou as a drainage receptacle, and a community of houseboats grew up along it. In 1936, the State House of Representatives declared the bayou a non-navigable stream.
Fort St. John, where the bayou and lake meet, was originally built as a fortification by the French and later became the most prominent resort area in New Orleans during the 1930s. The Old Spanish Fort still stands on this site.
The fort is a modern-day battleground. The Orleans Levee Board has proposed replacing the Lakeshore Drive bridge that spans the bayou at its entrance to the lake with a grade-level crossing using culverts for water to flow back and forth from the lake to the bayou.
Members of the Bayou St. John Improvement Association sued the Levee Board to halt construction, arguing that wind moves water currents and that the City Park lagoons which are fed by water from the bayou will soon stagnate. They also contend that closing the mouth of the bayou will damage an important part of the city’s historical heritage. (The “waterfall dam” near the mouth of Bayou St. John was removed in 2013. Please visit the link for more information: https://fsjna.org/2012/08/update-on-dam-removal/)
Although the bayou today lacks even the rowing clubs, which were popular in the last century, a drive along its curving shore shows typical Louisiana country homes. It still exists to remind us of New Orleans’ earliest beginnings, and why the city was built in a place that seems most improbable to us today.
Faubourg St. John was a community ten years before the founding of New Orleans in 1718.
Click on the map of Faubourg St. John for a larger view.
Before New Orleans there was…FAUBOURG ST. JOHN
House on Grand Route St. John: This house was situated on the last leg of the Bayou Road that led from New Orleans to the settlement of Bayou St. John, which had become an important small port and settlement in the late Spanish period. Before other canals were dug, supplies coming to New Orleans via the Lake Route, through the Rigolets and Lake Pontchartrain to Bayou St. John were unloaded at Port St. John and carried to the city over the portage road. The portage road was the earliest path from the Lake to the River, and has been used since time immemorial by the Indians before the French began exploring the area.
With the coming of the French colonizers it became the main road for bringing supplies and people to the new settlement on the Mississippi. During the late 1700’s and first half of the 1800’s, it became the fashionable road of the area, along which many lovely homes were built, most of them two-story plantation type homes. This area, along with Gentilly, was one of the earliest and most fashionable suburbs of New Orleans. It was so early that concessions of land in this location of Grand Bayou de St. Jean (as named by Bienville) were granted to settlers as early as 1708.
In 1718, when the future Nouvelle Orleans could boast little more than a rude shack serving as a temporary shelter for the Commandant, Jean Baptist LeMoyne Sieur de Bienville, settlers were established along the banks of Bayou St. John.
Information obtained from the link below:
http://old-new-orleans.com/NO_Historical_Images.html
Research below by Emily Antoine and Erin Leiva:
Centuries ago, when Native Americans first entered Southern Louisiana, they saw vast marshes and swamps. While looking for places to settle, they found a body of water which they named Bayouk Choupic after the mudfish. They started building their villages there. On Bayouk Choupic palmetto leaves and tree branches were use to build houses. Others built their homes on top of mounds or hills of dirt and clamshells.
The natives used the bayou for transportation and food. Using the bayou, along with a path now called Bayou Road, they were able to travel to the Mississippi River. A trading community developed on the convergence of Bayouk Choupic and Bayou Road.
One such tribe was the Tangipahoa, which means “Corn Gatherers” or “Corn Cob People”. They are thought to be a part of the Acolapissa from Pearl River. They moved closer to Lake Pontchartrain and stopped on the north and south shores. One day, the Houma, from the Choctaw Tribe, and their allies entered a Tangipahoa village and destroyed it. After returning to Pearl River, they moved to another river. That river now bears their name. It is called the Tangipahoa River.
Some Acolapissa lived here. The Houma and the Bayougoula lived on Bayou St. John also. All three are related, says Grayhawk of the Cannes Brulee Native American Center. He also tells us that the Houma see the crawfish as a sign of bravery.
Later, the French came looking to control the Mighty Mississippi. They wanted control over trade to their Canadian colonies. What they needed was a shorter route to the river from the gulf. That is when French explorers met natives from Biloxi. They showed the French their route to the bayou. They traveled from Biloxi, on the Gulf of Mexico, to Lake Borgne. Then into Lake Catherine and into Rigolets Pass. From there they went into Lake Pontchartrain to Bayouk Choupic and stopped at the bend. They walked down Bayou Road to the Mississippi.
The French decided to build a city there. They built the city of New Orleans on the crescent of the river – their New Orleans, the part of the city we call the French Quarter. The city was surrounded by a wall, which is now Rampart, St. Peter, Esplanade, and Canal Streets. They renamed Bayouk Choupic, calling it Bayou St. Jean, and used it for importing and exporting goods with New Orleans as their port city.
Other people, including the Spanish, wanted New Orleans because they wanted to control trade. To protect the city, the French built a fort at the mouth of the bayou called Fort St. Jean. When the Spanish owned Louisiana, they called the fort Spanish Fort.
Source: http://www.geology.uno.edu/~gfrierso/history.htm
Bayou St. John is a small, sluggish channel that was once a major shipping route between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. Because of the river’s constant geographical evolution, the stream is no longer directly connected to the river, the lake or any of the other bayous. But when the French arrived in the area, they used it as a trade route for trappers and merchants.
The French established a landing at the headwaters of the bayou and named it Port St. John when the City of New Orleans was established at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1701, the French constructed a fortress near the mouth of the Bayou. Under Spanish rule in 1779, the fort was rebuilt and became known as Spanish Fort. Remnants of the structure still exist. Local folklore says that the voodoo queen, Marie Laveau, performed voodoo at the mouth of Bayou St. John on Lake Pontchartrain.
Bayou St. John was fundamental to the early life of New Orleans. In 1803 a canal was dredged from the Bayou toward the City’s heart. It was a commercially valuable route until 1838, when Americans built a new canal from Lake Pontchartrain into the city. Bayou St. John has not been navigable for boats larger than canoes and skiffs for the better part of this century, because of construction of bridges and changes in commerce.
Source: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:56zbtuL-mss:pubweb.northwestern.edu/~baa328/project/bayou.html+%22bayou+st.+john%22+port&hl=en
As early as 1703 (15 years before the founding of New Orleans), the Bayou was used as a shipping channel for French trappers and traders who lived on the Bayou. Prior to the arrival of the French, a Choctaw Indian village of the Houmas tribe existed at the headwaters of the Bayou. They had probably already relocated to what is now called Houma, Louisiana by the time the French arrived.
The French established a landing at the headwaters and named it Port St. John when the City of New Orleans was established. A route to the new City on the river was cleared and named Grand Route St. John. A street bearing this name still exist to memorialize this route.
In 1701, the French constructed a fortress near the mouth of the Bayou. Under Spanish rule in 1779, the fort was rebuilt and became known as Spanish Fort. Remnants of the structure still exist. Local folklore says that the voodoo queen, Marie Laveau, performed voodoo at the mouth of Bayou St. John on Lake Pontchartrain.
Bayou St. John was fundamental to the early life of New Orleans. In 1803 a canal was dredged from the Bayou toward the City’s heart. This new canal terminated at current day Basin Street named for the ship turning basin at the terminus of the canal. This canal was originally called the Carondelet Canal in honor of the Spanish governor of that name.
In 1838, a new canal under American control was dredged from Lake Pontchartrain into the City. The new canal was known as the New Basin Canal. The Carondelet Canal became known as the Old Basin Canal and remained primarily under the control of the Creoles. Bayou St. John and the Old Basin Canal became commercially less important. The Bayou has not been navigable for the better part of this century. Construction of vehicular bridges and changes in commerce during this century have rendered the Bayou unsuitable for water traffic except for very small canoes and skiffs.
Source: http://wbhjr.home.gs.net/page4.html
The high ground along Bayou St. John offered some of the earliest settlement opportunities in the city. In 1708 European arrivals settled along the Bayou. As a major route from Lake Pontchartrain, the Bayou became even more important with completion of the Carondelet Canal in 1795. The Old Spanish Custom House, built in 1784, at the corner of Moss and Grand Route St. John, is the oldest structure still standing in the neighborhood.
For many, Bayou St. John offered the possibility of living in houseboats. However, with the ‘ragtag’ nature of the houseboats, the decline of the corridor as a critical part of the trade route, and the Bayou’s increased use as a holding basin for city drainage, the area experienced a general deterioration in its condition. By 1936 it was declared a non-navigable stream. Today the Bayou is a pleasing green space connecting residential areas surrounding City Park both to one another and to the park.
Source: http://www.new-orleans.la.us/cnoweb/cpc/1999_dist_four.htm
An Act for Laying And Collecting Duties or Imports and Tonnage within the Territories Ceded to the United States, by the Treaty of the Thirtieth of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three, Between the United States and the French Republic, and for Other Purposes:
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, to the end that the laws providing for the collection of the duties imposed, by law, on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and the laws respecting the revenue and navigation of the United States, may be carried into effect within the said territories, the territories ceded to the United States by the treaty above mentioned, and also all the navigable waters, rivers, creeks, bays, and inlets, lying within the United States, which empty into the Gulf of Mexico, east of the river Mississippi, shall be annexed to the Mississippi district, and shall, together with the same, constitute one district, to be called the ‘District of Mississippi.’ The city of New Orleans shall be the sole port of entry in the said district, and the town of Bayou e St. John shall be a port of delivery, a collector, naval officer, and surveyor shall be appointed to reside at New Orleans, and a surveyor shall e be appointed to reside at the port of Bayou St. John; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint, not exceeding three surveyors, to reside at such other places, within the said district, as he shall deem expedient, and to constitute each, or either of such places ports of delivery only. And so much of any law or laws, as establishes a district on the river Mississippi, south of the river Tennessee, is hereby repealed, except as to the recovery and receipt of such of duties on goods, wares and merchandise, and on the tonnage of ships c or vessels, as shall have accrued, and as to the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, which shall have been incurred before the commencement of the operation of this act.
Source: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/1803-01.htm
By the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Chiconcte (Madisonville) and Barrio of Buck Falia (Covington) had begun to develop as trade and transportation centers. The Port of Bayou St. John in New Orleans began trade excursions across Pontchartrain to the settlements, and vessels began to be built on the Northshore. So began an industry in Madisonville which continues today.
Source: http://www.crt.state.la.us/folklife/book_florida_northshore.html
HEY BLAKE,
MY WIFE AND I WERE WALKING ALONG BAYOU ST. JOHN AND CAME UPON A STREET NAMED ST. JOHN’S COURT. WHAT’S THE STORY ON THIS? WAS IT SET UP AS A PRIVATE ENCLAVE THAT IS NOW PUBLIC?
JOE TOUPS
St. John’s Court was established in 1917 when real estate developer J.F. Lafont acquired the property and built the quaint subdivision of houses on a cul-de-sac to rent to workers at the nearby American Can Company. Lafont numbered the houses A through P.
In 1923, a person could buy one of the 15 cottages for $4,000 or $4,500. That’s right; for a down payment of $750 in cash and mortgage of $32.50 to $37.50 every four weeks, you could stop paying rent and live in a five-room cottage with a living room, dining room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom. When the cottages went up for sale, they were being completely renovated and painted inside and out.
The real estate agents described St. John’s Court as “one of the beauty spots of New Orleans … conveniently located along Bayou St. John. It’s the only one of its kind in the city. It has a beautiful garden and lawn with shade trees forming a central park with 15 cottages around it.”
And it still is.
I just wanted to let y’all know that Saturday’s breakfast bicycle ride was a success. Tom was the only one able to tolerate the early morning start, and I took him past the Old Spanish Custom House along Grand Route St John on the way there while we returned along a road that was once known as St John Street but was changed to Bell St on 7/9/1894. From a map of New Orleans dating to the late 1700’s (see Waggonner & Ball’s publication “Lafitte Greenway Sustainable Water Design” available on the FOLC website), I believe modern-day Bell Street was the portage route between Bayou Road and Bayou St John prior to the construction of the Carondelet Canal in the 1790’s. The point where Bell St meets Bayou Road is the intersection where Bayou Road becomes known as Gentilly Blvd, and it is also the terminus of DeSoto (formerly Washington Street) and Kerlerec (formerly Washington, History and Peace Streets) and is bisected by Dorgenois Street.
LeBreton Market.
From the old map I believe this six-way intersection to be where the ancient Bayou Gentilly ended (or at least fractured into small unnavigable arms), and it was indisputably the site of an Indian Market that pre-dates Bienville. From 1861 to 1880 the site of the Indian Market was known as the LeBreton Market (named after LeBreton Dorgenois, a relative of the LeMoyne brothers of Bienville and Iberville that briefly served as mayor of New Orleans in 1812 while Nicholas Girod was ill or traveling), and it was one of many public markets in the city at that time.
The Buttermilk Drop Cafe is on the corner of O’Reilly and Dorgenois
(Alejandro O’Reilly was the second governor of Louisiana during the Spanish colonial period of 1766-1803, and he succeeded the unpopular Antonio de Ulloa who was forced to flee to Havana Cuba in 1768). If you like doughnuts they had a spectacular array of them including their namesake offering, the buttermilk drop.
1. Francois Joseph LeBreton D’Orgenois was the namesake of the street Dorgenois as well as the LeBreton public market. He was the first United States Marshal after the Louisiana Purchase, and I believe he was one and the same as our seventh mayor LeBreton Dorgenois. Spellings back in that era were inconsistent (ex. LeBretton), and today in my browsing it appears the names LeBreton and Dorgenois are interchangeable!
2. I believe it was Bayou Sauvage (not Bayou Gentilly) that ran towards Lake Pontchartrain with modern-day Gentilly Blvd and Crete Street along either side of it. “Crete” means “crest” in French, and it explains Crete’s peculiar dog-leg between Lepage and Grand Route St John where the street grid jumps to the natural ridge.
According to the 1798 Spanish colonial map in Waggonner & Ball’s publication entitled “Lafitte Greenway Sustainable Water Design”, the bayou alongside modern-day Gentilly Boulevard is clearly labeled Bayou Gentilly. However, according to the famed book “Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children” it was called Bayou Sauvage. It was known as both names! Bayou Sauvage took the name Gentilly from the Gentilly Plantation, owned by brothers Mathurin and Pierre Dreux, which (I believe) was located where Dillard University now stands. Though Bayou St John and many other smaller waterways of that time drained into Lake Pontchartrain, I believe Bayou Sauvage drained instead into Lake Borgne. If you want to take a look at Lake Borgne as it appeared in 1720 follow the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Borgne_de_la_Tour_map_1720.jpg. Even though 291 years is a long time by human standards, it is short in geological time and it is startling to see how much marshland southeastern Louisiana has lost in less than 300 years!
3. Somewhere today I read that the original portage route from Bayou St John most likely started at modern-day 1222 Moss Street. I read text referring to both Bayou San Juan and Petit Bayou being in the vicinity of modern-day Grand Route St John, and I’m willing to bet that one of those bayous was the small waterway that ran along the portage route. I’d like to find a map that identifies these two bayous.
My new-found curiosity for historical paths stems from my post-Katrina preoccupation with flooding in New Orleans and how this area naturally drained before human engineering failed us. Of course, much of this area naturally drained very slowly or didn’t drain at all making it a swamp, but I’m still interested to know where New Orleans’ subtle ridges and depressions lie. The Lafitte Greenway project in it’s simplest form will be a bike path and recreational area with community amenities, but in a more complex form the Lafitte Greenway may significantly alter (and improve) the drainage of our city and provide a sustainable means of coping with water. Dealing with rain water, stagnant water, waste water etc has been a central issue in New Orleans for hundreds of years, literally, and continues to be one of our greatest challenges.
~Peter Hickman
A cartoon in John Churchill Chase’s ‘Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children’ shows the saints mitigating a fight between French royals. Click here for a compilation of the history of the streets and buildings in and around Faubourg St. John. Submitted by Peter Hickman of Mid-City Volleyball.
In 1849, a levee break along the Mississippi River in what is now Harahan, LA inundated New Orleans. See a map of the flooded area in the link below.
map-of-new-orleans-1849
Check out a map of Faubourg St. John done in 1877 in the link below.
This map indicates street car tracks on Grand Route, Esplanade, Broad, and along what is now Moss Street. FSJmap
A map of areas annexed by the City of New Orleans before 1925 can be seen in the link below.
nola-before-1925
Curious about what Faubourg St. John looked like in 1975? Click on the link to a PDF below:
http://katrinafilm.com/FSJ_1975.pdf
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRAND ROUTE SAINT JOHN!
200 years ago (1810), Grand Route Saint John was formed.
In 1977, the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association was formed.
But, the term Faubourg St. John has been in use since the area became a neighborhood. French was spoken and used in official documents for many years after the founding of New Orleans. Faubourg is the french word for neighborhood or suburb.
Frenchmen, Desire and Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans
Excerpts of the 1979 novel in celebration of this year’s Grand Route St. John 200th anniversary.
Research provided by Dean Burridge.
There was, however, one ribbon of development back there not retarded by swampy terrain. Bayou Road, the ancient portage, was a well-settled street long before the days of American domination. Trim plantation homes lined its way from the rear of the Vieux Carre to the Place Breton, formerly an Indian trading post, then a meat market.
Photo from page 225 of Frenchmen, Desire and Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans
Here the lawless meandering of Bayou Road was brought to an abrupt halt by the three earliest back-of-town suburbs. Most important of there, and the largest, was Faubourg St. John, a subdivision of part of the huge estate of Daniel Clark. It was made by Barthelemy Lafon in 1809.
Here at Place Bretonne the old portage was redesigned to fork into four directions. To the left went Dorgenois street, through the property of Francois Joseph LeBreton D’Orgenois; straight ahead two streets through the Faubourg St. John continued the road to the bayou, these were St. John and Washington, changed now to Bell and De Soto. The fourth fork was Gentilly Road, which flanked both Daniel Clark’s subdivision and that of Blanque and Fortin.
This last suburb, called Faubourg Pontchartrain, is interesting for the accurate manner in which its streets tell its history. Grand Route St. John, the main street, comes nearest to being Bayou Road’s original continuation to the bayou. Because the suburb was named for the old Count of Pontchartrain, another street honors his son, the Count of Maurepas.
There is less significance to the third running street, called Florida, now changed to Ponce de Leon. Faubourg Pontchartrain marks the spot where the Houmas Indians were found encamped when the first white men came; here, too, the French workmen encamped when they arrived to clear the site for Bienville’s city. It was fitting that a crossing street should be named Encampment; historians shake their heads sadly when they learn the street has been changed to N. Lopez, which street it vaguely continues. It is further regrettable that another called Swamp street, so symbolic of all the back-of-town, has been changed to N. White. However Sauvage street remains, as does Mystery street, whose origin, properly enough, is something of a mystery.
Between Daniel Clark’s suburb and the tract of D’Orgenois, surveyor Lafon allowed sufficient width for the street to include a drainage ditch. Here was set a pattern for subdivisions that followed for which modern New Orleans may well be grateful. Planned to meet the economic needs of that period, to drain the tracts, these broad streets are now admirably fitted to economic requirements of the present era. Today these streets, with their canals underground, are the wide automobile boulevards which crisscross the city. It is strikingly appropriate that this first broad street was called, and is still called, Broad. (Pages 146-147)
Of all Daniel Clark’s property, Faubourg St. John was the section from which his daughter received most of her inheritance. Today it is a confusing neighborhood, its streets in such juxtaposition with all the others, it seems as though the long legal warring had knocked them cockeyed. Also, Ursulines street and Esplanade Avenue have been slashed right through Lafon’s orderly plan of 1809, thus adding to the confusion.
It is interesting, however, that the street named for Daniel Clark’s best friend and executor of his purloined will, Colonel Bellechasse, has been retained in the nomenclature.
Retained, also, is Lepage street which recalls LePage DuPratz, colonial settler in the neighborhood; and winding Crete street nearby is not named for the Mediterranean island, but for crete, or crest, which once distinguished the terrain there. Orchid street was formerly Oak: and St. John street which was changed to Bell, honors H.H. Bell, City Surveyor in 1873. Except for Port street, on the bayou, the crossing streets were numbered: First, Second, etc. None has been retained. And Port was changed to Moss in 1895. (Pages 150-151)
Street name changers also got historically lost on winding Crete street, an eight block long thoroughfare between the Jockey Club Racetrack and Ursulines Street. Crete is in the ancient Faubourg St. John, subdivided for Daniel Clark by Lafon in 1809. And Crete is even older than this.
Photo from page 103 of Frenchmen, Desire and
Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans
Here’s how it happened: just as Bayou Metairie had ridges or crests (crete in French) on both sides of it, the most pronounced of which became Metairie Ridge Road, so, too, did Bayou Sauvage have its ridges. Both Bayous Metairie and Sauvage were originally one of the same stream, the Supicatcha, or Mudfish River, of the Choctaws. The ridge on the right bank of Bayou Sauvage became Gentilly Road, and the crest on the opposite, left-bank was popularly called La Crete Road. Once it ran for some distance along the bayou in the direction of Chef Menteur.
In 1932 a commission of street name changers sought to correct some of the confusion encountered by seven streets which cross Canal, between Broad and Jefferson Davis, and venture downtown into the Faubourg St. John. A glance at any city map will show how the streets in this section run in different alignment from all other streets around them.
Streets as well as people get lost in Faubourg St. John, and these seven did. All of them end up differently; and what is more unusual, two which disappear in the faubourg miraculously reappear on the other side of it beyond Gentilly Road! The commissioners went into a huddle over this and decided that such conduct upon the part of Gayoso and Dupre, they were the two streets which faded out and then faded in, made them entirely different streets. So they gave them different names beyond Gentilly Road; Romulus and Theseus they would be.
Then for some unexplainable reason the commission decided to explain why they had selected Theseus as the name of the reappeared section of Dupre. This street, they pointed out, was just across Gentilly Road from Crete street, and it would be both historically and classically appropriate to call it Theseus after the celebrated hero of Crete. Theseus was the Greek hatchet boy who slew the Minotaur, a disagreeable (and hungry) mythological monster of the island of Crete who had served regular feeding of Athenian youths and virgins, or else.
It is equally unexplainable how the historians won their point here. But neither Gayoso nor Dupre was changed as recommended; and Crete street, La Crete Road, continues to recall the crete, or ridge, of Bayou Sauvage. (Pages 202-203)
Bayou St. John in Colonial Louisiana 1699-1803 by Edna B. Freiberg
Excerpts of the 1980 novel in celebration of this year’s Grand Route St. John’s 200th anniversary. Research provided by Dean Burridge.
If one-way streets are favorable, that same route can be traveled today, from the river to the bayou. Beginning at Governor Nicholls and Decatur Street, near the Mississippi River, the ancient trail- traveled by Indians since time unknown, and by Canadian trappers and traders long before Iberville arrived, leads one down Governor Nicholls toward the lake.
Through the French Quarter to North Claiborne (where Governor Nicholls becomes Bayou Road) the street then angles northeasterly, crossing Esplanade Avenue at North Miro, and a few blocks further on, Bayou Road intersects with Grand Route St. John. A sharp turn to the left on the street will, within three-quarters of a mile, bring the traveler to the shores of Bayou St. John at 1300 Moss Street.
The route of this old Indian portage trail, called Bayou Road in French times, has varied through the years. The original trail curved around trees and other natural obstacles, and the stretch leading away from the bayou, began west of today’s Grand Route St. John, probably halfway between DeSoto and Bell Streets, as early French maps and American conveyance records of the area would indicate, and in 1777 the road was shifted northeasterly by twenty feet at the request of a bayou plantation owner who wanted his neighbor, across Bayou Road, to contribute half the road’s width.
The route leading away from the bayou today (Grand Route St. John) was no doubt established about 1810, when a new bridge was built two hundred yards lakeside of the previous structure, and when Daniel Clark developed Faubourg St. John in the first decade of the 1800s. (page14)
Some of the Indians would be invited to occupy the land of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis in 1708; and some of the abandoned dwellings, from Bayouk Choupic back along Bayouk Chapitoulas, would provide temporary shelter for many a newly-arrived French settler in the years ahead.
Directly across the stream – on the east bank, the obviously rich, high land would within nine years be conceded to Antoine Rivard de LaVigne and a handful of other French and Canadian colonists, the earliest landowners in the region. On today’s map their concessions would stretch approximately from Grand Route St. John to a point beyond Esplanade Avenue.
Near the joining of the bayous, tales tell us, Bienville first set foot on historic Bayou bend. Gazing about the quiet wilderness, infringed only by soft swamp sounds, he and one of the Indians sauntered down the trial alongside Bayouk Choupic. A few yards further on, the stream took a sharp turn around a bosky bend to the right.
If he had left the trail and followed that bank southwesterly, Bienville would soon have reached the end of Bayouk Choupic, which within three-fourths of a mile branched into several streamlets that fingered into the various corners of the surrounding swamplands. However, the trees and undergrowth, spilling into the water along the bank, were too formidable for easy penetration. That part of the stream would have to wait for another time. Besides, the path lay straight ahead, across Bayouk Choupic on the portage trail that led to the River St. Louis. (Iberville had rechristened the Colbert Riviere St. Louis in honor of his King.) The bayou end of the portage trail began somewhat west of today’s Grand Route St. John, near 1222 Moss Street. (Pages 20-21)
Of these first bayou settlers, Antoine Rivad de LaVigne (referred to in the records also as Rivard or Rivart) was the only one who stayed on permanently. By 1718 he had purchased the ancient village of the Acolapissas across the bayou from his plantation; and by 1721 he had enlarged his original holdings by purchasing the adjoining concessions of those who had left. An additional three-arpent frontage, granted him by Bienville on February 5, 1721, together with what he already owned, established him as the earliest large-property- owner on Bayou St. Jean, with seventeen arpents front. Today’s landmarks would extend the LaVigne plantation approximately from Grand Route St. John northerly to the vicinity of the National Guard property lakeside of Esplanade Avenue. (Page 32)
And then there was Marc Antoine Hubert (Commissary General of Louisiane from November 12, 1716 to September 15, 1720), who on March 14, 1718 was appointed Director General of the New Orleans counter, to work with (and check on) Bienville. He came to New Orleans from Mobile in the fall of 1718 by way of Lake Ponchartrain and Riviere d’Orleans, as Bayou St. Jean was sometimes called because of its nearness to the new settlement. He chose for his home a concession of land where Petit Bayou crossed the portage path which was to be called Bayou Road by the French. (Today Huber’s concession would be below the juncture of Esplanade Avenue and Grand Route St. John). (Page 39)
Thus Kernion succeeded to the management and eventual ownership of the seventeen arpent LaVigne holdings on Bayou St. Jean, which, during his proprietorship would expand to twenty-two arpents, nineteen fathoms of Bayou frontage. Today his property, at its most extensive, would reach approximately from Grand Route St. John to the vicinity of DeSaix Boulevard on the east bank of the bayou.
In 1737 Luis Brazillier (called Tourangeau), who had purchased the Dugue property on Bayou St. Jean in 1729, quadrupled his holdings on the bayou by purchasing the adjoining Langlois plantation, eight arpents by the usual depth, from M. Renaud D’Hauterive. This transaction established Brazillier, with 10½ arpents front, (which today would extend approximately from Grand Route St. John westerly to Orleans Street) as the second largest landowner on the east bank of Bayou St. Jean. The property of Kernion, the largest landowner, was located immediately lakeside of Brazillier’s arpents. (Page 90)
(Dean’s personal note – a little known fact is the Spanish separately declared war on England during the American Revolutionary War and there was a sort of much earlier Battle of New Orleans, before the later two that are taught)
Going on to capture Baton Rouge on September 21st, the terms of surrender guaranteed Galvez control of Fort Panmure at Natchez. As Galvez gathered victories, Spanish gunboats from the Navy Yard at the bend of Bayu San Juan (near Grand Route St. John on Moss Street today) proceeded down the stream, past Fort San Juan, and advanced through Lakes Ponchartrain and Maurepas into the Iberville Route (Bayou Manchac).
Galveztown, on the right bank of the Amite River, immediately below it confluence with Bayou Manchac (where Ascension, East Baton Rouge and Livingston Parish meet) was in the thick of the conflict. Of the eight Englich ships captured at the time, only one was taken on the Mississippi, the rest taken on the Iberville Route. (Page 221)
The French-West-Indian Plantation at 1300 Moss Street, the oldest house on Bayou St. John today, had from the earliest times been referred to as the Custom House, although there is no record it was ever used as such. The original King’s Warehouse-Receiving Station, was built in 1719-20 to the west of Bayou Road, which in French times began at Bayou St. Jean west of today’s Desoto Street.
However, after Luis Brazillier purchased the Dugue plantation in 1729, he transferred apportion of that property on the bayou to the French government to be used as a Naval Arsenal. Maps of that time indicate that pirogues and ships were unloaded at that site, so the arsenal may have served as a warehousing area also, since the maps do not show the original warehouse west of Bayou Road during this period. The location of this arsenal, near the 1784 house, may account for the Custom House appellation.
When Spain took over Louisiana, the arsenal was ceded to that country, and Spanish officials ceded the site to Alexandro Latil in 1770, who, it is believed, sold the small plot back to Juan Bautista Brazillier who’d inherited the surrounding small plantation from his father, In 1777, at the request of Joseph Chalon, Bayou Road was moved easterly by twenty feet, bringing the location of the road closer to Grand Route St. John of today. (Page 263)
Spanning Bayu San Juan from the west bank to a point near today’s Desoto Street (east bank), the balance drawbridge was built in the middle of a dormant bridge which had been located there for over forty years, and which had been the means of communication between New Orleans (by way of Bayou Road), Grand Bayou, Metairie, Chapitouolas and Cannes Brulee. In 1810 a new bridge would be built two-hundred yards lakeside of this bridge, closer to today’s Grand Route St. John at 1300 Moss Street.(page 308)
At the end of the eighteenth century, visitors to New Orleans were always driven by carriage on Bayou Road out to Bayu San Juan to see the handsome villas and gardens.
The houses along Bayu San Juan had been the first different structures of New Orleans, most of the city’s buildings being absolutely plain. (Page 309)
Walter Parker’s home at 924 Moss St., on the shore of Bayou St. John circa 1951. He was among the waterway’s greatest advocates. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orleans-Magazine/November-2010/JULIA-STREET-WITH-POYDRAS-THE-PARROT/
The Dumaine Street bridge that crosses Bayou St. John has a plaque on it indicating that it was built in 1951 as “The Walter Parker Memorial Bridge.” Who was this guy Walter Parker, and what did he do to get a bridge named after him? I am told that in addition to the bridge, the house at 924 Moss St., which I have always heard referred to as “The Sanctuary” was also once called “The Walter Parker House.” I would love to know more about this person who was apparently rather influential in the early days of the development of Bayou St. John. ~Mary-jo Webster
Walter Parker was an economist, a journalist, an expert on the cotton industry and an authority on waterways development. In the first decade of the 1900s, he headed the Louisiana Boat Owners Association. In later years, Parker was a prominent member of the Association of Commerce, helped organize the Mississippi Valley Association and fought for flood control. In the early ’60s, Parker’s home, which had been built in the late 1700s, became home to the Sanctuary School.
Walter Parker lived on the shore of Bayou St. John and was among the waterway’s greatest advocates. He was one of the first people to pressure the city to address the issue of sewage flowing into Lake Pontchartrain and Bayou St. John. Parker actively promoted beautification and encouraged community pride for neighborhoods fronting the Bayou St. John.
Walter Parker died in 1950 but his widow, Anita Hernandez Parker, continued to fight for the waterway her husband held dear. In ’66, it was she who rallied neighbors and the City Council in opposition to a zoning change that, had it been implemented, would have permitted high-rise apartments to replace single-family homes along the Bayou St. John waterfront.
March 18, 2008 issue of Gambit
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/new-orleans-know-it-all/Content?oid=1249660
I have a bit of information about Olive Stallings. Can you tell me more?
Charlie London
I’ll tell the readers the information you have, then I will tell everyone a little more.
Olive Andrews Stallings is known as the ‘Mother of Playgrounds in New Orleans.” In 1906, she established the first play center, the Poydras Playground, at her own expense and continued to maintain it for two years. When the Playgrounds Commission was established in 1911, she served as its first president ” a post she held until her death in 1940. When Stallings died, she left one-fourth of her estate ” $150,000 ” to the playgrounds system, which was soon to become the New Orleans Recreation Department.This remarkable woman was born in New Orleans on June 22, 1866. She was educated at the Holy Angels Academy and soon became active in various civic and philanthropic movements.
Stallings was founder and first president of the New Orleans Outdoor Art and Improvement Association, which sponsored the tree-planting commission later known as the parkway commission. She is best known, however, for her work in promoting public playgrounds.
It was in 1906 that Stallings attended the first recreational congress. Held in Pittsburgh, this first congress grew into the National Recreation Association. It was upon her return to New Orleans that she founded the first playground. Others were soon to follow: the Cleveland playground in 1909, the St. Roch Playground in 1910, and the Taylor Playground in 1911. That same year, Stallings was made president of the playground community service commission, a group created by the New Orleans City Council.
For her efforts, Stallings was awarded The Times-Picayune Loving Cup in 1929. The Loving Cup is given out annually to a citizen who has rendered great service to the city the preceding year. She also received a loving cup from the New Orleans Progressive Civic Association in 1932.
Stallings continued to work on behalf of the city’s children. By 1938, two years before her death, $1 million had already been spent on a total of 18 playgrounds and six swimming pools, and children visited the playgrounds more than a million times annually.Never seeming to tire, Stallings was a member of the first zoning board of New Orleans and founder of the first Girl Scouts organization in the city. It’s hard to name an organization, civic or religious, to which Stallings did not contribute her time, talent and money.
Stallings Playground at 1600 Gentilly Blvd. was built in 1938, and on Jan. 19, 2008, hundreds of people gathered to give the eponymous playground a new beginning. Folks from organizations such as the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association (FSJNA); KaBOOM, a national nonprofit devoted to creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America; the New Orleans Recreation Department and the New Orleans’ Hornets came out on a rainy, cold day to help.
The Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association raised the $14,000 needed for a concrete pad for the new playground structure, and Whitney Bank contributed $25,000 for the rubber surfacing. Grants came from the Keep Louisiana Beautiful Foundation ($11,000), Home Depot ($3,000) and the Greater New Orleans Foundation ($1,000). The largest contribution came from NBA Cares, the National Basketball Association’s philanthropic division, which paid for most of the $100,000 project.
If readers would like to see a short video of the restoration of Stallings Playground, you can go to www.katrinafilm.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/olive-stallings-playground-renewal-2/.
I think you will be impressed with this group of volunteers who worked with FSJNA President Kathryn Parker and project supervisor Kenneth Briscoe to remake this old playground in just one day. Even better, take your children to the playground to see for yourself. I believe Olive Stallings would be very, very proud.
On January 19, 2008 hundreds of volunteers from various organizations renovated Stallings Playground named in honor of the “Mother of Playgrounds in New Orleans,’ Olive Stallings in just one day.
Here’s an interesting excerpt from John Kendall’s History of New Orleans, Chapter 39, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1922. This text is in the public domain. Note that the Carondelet Canal lay in what we now call the Lafitte Corridor; it was filled in 1938. ~ from Bart Everson
A branch of the commerce of New Orleans the importance of which is underestimated even in the city itself is that on the New and Old Basins and their canals. The imports over these routes are valued at about $1,500,000 per annum. The Old Basin and Canal, more properly called the Carondelet Canal, was perhaps the first artificial waterway constructed in the great territory of Louisiana. It was built to connect New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain through Bayou St. John. History tells us that Bienville established the capital of the province on the Mississippi River, but that empire builder probably had his eye on the Bayou as much as on the river. The bayou was the point of entrance to the new town site and in direct communication with the settlements on Mississippi Sound, whereas the route by the river was long and at times dangerous. Between the bayou and the little settlement was a swamp, traversed by an Indian trail, which later became Bayou Road Street. The portage from bayou to town was difficult and laborious and the earliest settlers must have seen the necessity for an extension of the bayou to the walls of the city. Nothing was done, however, until Carondelet became governor of the Spanish province.
Bayou St. John was a narrow and shallow stream, without current, except during flood. It ran from a point in the rear of the spot where the town was located into Lake Pontchartrain, its source being about a mile and a half from the river. It broke through the Metairie Ridge, which runs from the river to a considerable distance beyond the point where the bayou cuts through it. The main French settlements were on the coast of the Mississippi Sound, at Biloxi, Dauphin Island, Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis and Mobile, and communication existed between these posts and the French posts in Illinois and Canada by means of canoes and pirogues.
The main route was through Mississippi Sound, Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain and Bayou St. John, and up the Mississippi River. After Bienville moved his headquarters from Mobile to New Orleans no attempt was made to improve the little bayou, which had a bar across the mouth, passable by even small schooners only at high water. The Spanish built a fort at the mouth of the bayou, because it offered access to New Orleans. This old fort still stands. During the French and Spanish dominations the bayou was navigable as far up as the settlement at the bayou, where the portage trail struck the stream, and where a rude bridge was built, but this navigation was confined to canoes, pirogues and “chalans” or bateaux.
Seventy-six years after the founding of the city, in 1794, Louisiana then being a Spanish colony, Baron de Carondelet, the royal governor, laid off a strip of land extending from Bayou St. John to a point adjacent to the ramparts of the city for the purpose of digging a canal to connect the city through the bayou with the lake. This strip was 150 feet wide. Through the center of this strip there was dug by slave labor, donated by the king’s liege subjects, a ditch fifteen feet wide for the double purpose of navigation and drainage. It was intended that the strips on either side the ditch should be embellished with an avenue of trees, affording an esplanade for the recreation of the inhabitants. But “mañana” is no new word for in the Spanish language and the esplanade was never built.
The canal was allowed to fill up with the sediment carried in the drainage from the town, and when the Americans took charge of the colony the ditch was practically useless for purposes of navigation. Pierre Baam testified that “this canal and basin did not last long; the canal got filled up by cattle passing through it.” The territorial council of Orleans in 1805 vested the canal and bayou in the Orleans Navigation Company for the purpose of improvement and permitted the collection of tolls for its use. Up to November 15, 1821, the company expended $143,490.39 upon work in the bayou and canal, and $28,633.08 in the purchase of land. Ultimately $375,000 was expended in the digging of the canal, its basin, and deepening the bayou. In 1821 the state brought suit to forfeit the charter of the navigation company but was unsuccessful. The company continued to operate until 1852 when it became insolvent, and its charter was judicially forfeited. The property was purchased by Currie and others, who organized the New Orleans Canal and Navigation Company and transferred the property to that corporation. The company was to have corporate existence for fifty years from March 10, 1858, after which it was to revert to the state under certain conditions. After the expiry of this half century the state entered claim to the property, which claim has been contested in the courts since that date and is still before the Supreme Court of the United States, where it promises to remain for some years.
The canal served for over a century to supply the needs of the city in the commodities of the parishes across Lake Pontchartrain, the principal entries being schooners loaded with charcoal, firewood, lumber, sea food from the lakes and sound and various other articles. Until a new canal was dug in 1835 it was practically the only means of traffic with that territory. A proposition is now being urged to have the State of Louisiana purchase this property and operate it for the public benefit.
1803 map of New Orleans overlaid on modern map.http://dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas/157/c/
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Marian University men's basketball announces 2011 recruiting class
By: Mark Miller, Wissports.net
Twins Mike and Mark Keller of Oostburg highlight a talented incoming recruiting class for coach Mark Boyle and the Marian University Sabres.
The Keller twins played integral roles in helping Oostburg capture the Central Lakeshore Conference championship while also earning a trip to the WIAA Division 4 State Tournament.
Joining the Kellers in the Sabres’ incoming recruiting class are Jordan Beck of Lomira, Jake Coenen of Kimberly and the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley and Dickie Knar of Mundelein High School near Chicago.
“I think these guys will definitely help,” Boyle said. “We’ve struggled the last two years so we needed to bring in some really good players.
“The Keller twins give us a lot of versatility as they are both able to play the two-through-four positions. We have a group of really good incoming kids who will be great additions to our program.”
Mike Keller, a 6-foot-5 forward, led Oostburg in scoring at 13.7 points per game while also averaging 4.7 rebounds per game. He earned unanimous first-team all-league honors while helping the Flying Dutchmen to a 26-1 overall record and a 16-0 mark in league games.
Mark Keller, also a 6-5 forward, averaged 7.0 points and 2.7 rebounds per contest for coach Kevin Bruggink and picked up second-team all-conference honors.
Beck, a 6-1 guard, received unanimous first-team all-conference recognition in the Wisconsin Flyway Conference after averaging 18.0 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game for coach Tyler Witkowski.
A four-year varsity performer, Beck scored a career-high 32 points in a 68-63 victory over Montello on November 30, 2010.
Knar is the grandson of former Marian coach Dick Knar and the son of former Fond du Lac standout Dick Knar Jr., Knar is an extremely quick and heady 5-9 point guard.
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Titanic II Unveiling Opens With 'My Heart Will Go On' Performance
By Brian Anthony Hernandez 2013-02-27 11:36:52 -0800
Fingerstyle guitarist Sungha Jung, a Korean pop star whose YouTube videos have been viewed more than 635 million times, opened this week's Titanic II press conference in New York City with a performance of "My Heart Will Go On."
The 16-year-old's acoustic rendition of Celine Dion's massive hit song from the 1997 film Titanic helped build suspense for the unveiling of blueprints for the Titanic II, a replica of the fated British passenger liner that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.
SEE ALSO: One Direction Fan Hurls Shoe at Harry Styles' Groin
Titanic II's maiden voyage could set sail as early as 2016 with costumes for passengers.
"It will really help you pretend you are in the movie," billionaire Clive Palmer, the man behind the Titanic II project, told reporters at NYC's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
BONUS: 'Titanic II' Will Set Sail by 2016, Costumes Included
Titanic II Renderings
Titanic II
Third-Class Dining Room
Turkish Baths
Photo by Mashable
Topics: Entertainment, Mashable Videos, Music, music videos, titanic, Titanic II, YouTube
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Eredivisie extends international rights deal with IMG
The IMG agency has renewed its deal to market the international media rights to the Eredivisie, the top tier of club football in the Netherlands.
The new four-year deal will cover the 2018-19 to 2021-22 seasons. IMG’s previous deal with the league had been due to expire at the end of the 2017-18 campaign.
The extended deal also covers the league’s international online live broadcasting rights.
Michael Mellor, senior vice-president of IMG Media, said: “We are delighted to have extended our relationship with the league past the 20-year mark and will continue to help expand the market for Dutch football across the globe.”
IMG first partnered with the Eredivisie in 2000.
EFL opens new revenue stream with live-streaming service
IMG to market International Champions Cup’s global rights
The IMG agency has agreed a two-year deal to market the global media rights to the International Champions Cup club football competition
EXCLUSIVE: FA breaks $1bn barrier for international media rights in deals with Pitch and IMG
England’s Football Association is set to break the billion-dollar barrier for its international media rights, excluding the UK, in deals agreed this week with the IMG and Pitch International agencies, TV Sports Markets understands.
NOS extends Eredivisie highlights deal
Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS has renewed a domestic rights deal for highlights of the Eredivisie, the top division of football in the Netherlands, it was announced this (Wednesday) afternoon.
CBF, clubs to reopen international rights tender
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and clubs in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A have opted to reopen the tender process for international rights to the top-tier competition.
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Great Recession heightened cardiovascular risk factors, study finds
The Great Recession, from late 2007 to mid-2009, was associated with heightened cardiovascular risk factors, including increased blood pressure and glucose levels, according to a new UCLA-led study. The conditions were especially pronounced among older homeowners and people still in the work force, two groups that may have been especially vulnerable to the stresses this recession brought about.
Virtually all Americans were affected directly or indirectly by the Great Recession, the most significant economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s — some lost jobs, others their houses or life savings. Previous studies have arrived at mixed evidence for the health impact of the recession, with some reporting negative health effects and others reporting benefits. But no study has looked at health measures at multiple time points leading up to the recession or used well-known biomarkers of overall health — blood pressure and glucose — to study the question objectively.
The team looked at data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis for the period from 2000 to 2012. Blood pressure and glucose levels for the 4,600 participants, ages 45 to 84, were analyzed at the outset, at multiple times leading up to the Great Recession and one time immediately after the recession ended. The researchers calculated changes in blood pressure and glucose level that would have been expected to occur naturally with age had the recession not occurred, and compared that information to the changes that were actually observed at the end of the recession. The two sets of results, which are particularly valuable since they change rapidly in response to stress, provide a more accurate snapshot of how the crisis may have affected public health.
The results suggest that not only did both blood pressure and glucose rise during the recession, but the changes were also particularly pronounced in people still in the labor force (under age 65) and older homeowners (over age 65). The researchers point out that both groups might be especially vulnerable to psychological fallout of economic downturns, since they could be at risk of losing jobs and houses, respectively.
The results provide strong evidence that economic crises can have measurable effects on public health. Understanding these connections in greater detail may help health care providers and policymakers prepare better for this reality in the future. The team next plans to look at additional time points after the Great Recession, and take into account other markers of health, including inflammation and insulin resistance. They’ll also try to determine whether there were any regional differences for the recession’s effects on public health.
Teresa Seeman, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the study’s first author. Dr. Arun Karlamangla, a geriatrician in the Geffen School, is the senior author. Other authors are: Sharon Merkin and Karol Watson, both of UCLA, Duncan Thomas of Duke University and Kari Moore of Drexel University.
The study was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research was funded by grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
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Academy Member Listing
John D. Laughton
Law Offices of John D. Laughton
215 W. Franklin St., Suite 411 P.O. Box 3080
Law Offices of John D. Laughton Website
http://www.estateplan-lawyers.com
About Law Offices of John D. Laughton
Law Offices of John D. Laughton is a firm focusing on estate planning, probate, trust administration and elder law issues. Based in Monterey, CA, our mission is to provide residents of Monterey and surrounding areas with quality estate planning resources, such as assistance with Living Trusts, Wills (simple & complex), Probate, Trust Administration, Powers of Attorney, Living Wills, Irrevocable Trusts, Family Limited Partnerships, and Charitable Giving. When you visit or call our office, we want you to feel comfortable discussing such an important issue concerning both you and your family. We want to arm you with the information you need to make an informed decision about your family's future. Visit our online Estate Planning Information Center to obtain timely, quality information on estate planning and related issues, including complimentary issues of our Special Reports and Estate Planning News articles. Residents of Monterey and surrounding areas can register to attend our Estate Planning Seminars.
About John D. Laughton
Mr. Laughton is an estate planning lawyer in his 31th year of law practice. He became associated with the old firm of Davis & Schroeder in 1978 and became a principal of that firm in 1984. The firm, now called The Law Offices of John D. Laughton, A Professional Law Corporation, is committed to providing personalized legal services in a highly ethical, professional, solution oriented, and cost effective manner. In addition to providing timely and high quality legal services, Mr. Laughton is committed to educating the community about important estate planning issues through public seminars.
His primary area of practice today is estate planning. Such work includes advice concerning and preparation of Wills and Trusts, and the handling of Probates and Trust Administration. He also consults with clients on business and real estate matters that are often related to such estate planning. Such work includes the formation of and the day-to-day counseling of corporations, sole proprietorships, general partnerships, (family) limited partnerships (FLP's), and limited liability companies (LLC's). Related work includes the acquisition, operation and sale of such businesses, commercial leasing, and the purchase, sale or tax deferred exchange of commercial real estate for such clients.
He received his undergraduate degree with Distinction in General Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley, and his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Mr. Laughton is a member of the California State Bar and the American Bar Association, Sections on Real Property, Estates and Trusts. He is also a member of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys (AAEPA) and The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. (NAELA). Mr. Laughton is admitted to practice before all of the courts of the State of California, including the California Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Federal Court, Northern District.
Mr. Laughton is a member of the Advisory Board of The Salvation Army – Monterey Peninsula Corps He has served on the Boy Scouts of America, Monterey Bay Area Council Board of Directors for the past 26 years, and is an Eagle Scout, a former Cubmaster (Pack 38) and Assistant Scoutmaster (Troop 2). He has served on the Chartwell School Board of Trustees, and on the All Saints' Episcopal Day School Board of Trustees (1998 to 2001 and from 2006 to the present). He was appointed to the City of Del Rey Oaks Planning Commission and served between 1985 and 1992.He is active in other community affairs and enjoys pro bono legal work for non-profit organizations. He served in the U.S. Army (Vietnam 1971-1972).
About the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys
The Academy is a national organization dedicated to promoting excellence in estate planning by providing its exclusive membership of attorneys with up-to-date research on estate and tax planning, educational materials, and other important resources to empower them to provide superior estate planning services. The Academy expects members to have at least 36 hours of legal education each year specifically in estate, tax, probate and/or elder law subjects. To ensure this goal is met, the Academy provides over 40 hours of continuing legal education each year. Since 1993, the Academy has also been a highly-regarded and sought-after resource for attorneys and consumers alike, and has been recognized by Consumer Reports, Suze Orman in her book, 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and numerous times by Money Magazine.
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Windows 7 Beta on the Dell XPS M1330 Laptop continued…
Last night I took the plunge and downloaded the beta release of Windows 7 and installed it on my Dell XPS M1330. This is the story so far:
Regular reads of my blog will know that I like to keep abreast of software and hardware developments as and when they happen and this is how I come to be writing this post from Windows 7. I am not a Windows fan but wanted to know what the new update is like and what Microsoft will eventually be asking customers to shell out more money for.
Ok, the install.
I went for an upgrade from Vista Premium at first which took an amazingly long time to complete, about 2 and a half hours. It ran fine, however the internet refused to work which I worked out was because Zonealarm was installed. So, rather than weed out any other conflicts I decided to do a fresh install, working out at about 45 mins in total. And yes, now the internet is working. Wireless works out of the box also, no drivers needed. Display drivers for the M1330 by Nvidia from Dell also work fine. If I have any problems with any other drivers I’ll be sure to post an update.
Windows 7 on the Dell XPS M1330
For the new features Microsoft lists as new / improved in Windows 7 I will refer you to this wikipedia article.
I will no doubt be referencing these in future posts on this beta release.
For the main part I notice only a few cosmetic differences after using the operating system, but that is only after an hours proper usage. Battery life does however seem to be improved when running off it.
I am going to set up a special static page on my blog for listing software that works and does not work with this beta.
That’s about it for now, check back for updates as and when they happen.
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It’s Distro Time
The time has come around again for me to do some switching around with regards to the Operating System I use on my main computer, my Dell XPS M1330 laptop.
Up until yesterday I had been using a dual boot system consisting of Ubuntu 8.10 Hardy Heron which I have been using on and off since the alpha stage of it’s release. Along with Ubuntu the other OS was Vista Home Premium.
So why did I feel the need to change this set up?
To be honest I have been more than happy with Ubuntu for a long time but I wanted to switch from the dual boot system with WIndows eating up half of my 250gig hard drive, to a streamlined linux only option. I don’t use Vista often enough to justify it being installed here. I do, however, have Vista Ultimate on our desktop should I need it for whatever reason.
After deciding to get rid of Vista I could simply have deleted the partition, formatted it to ext3 and added it to the Ubuntu partition and edited the grub bootloader. But I decided to take this opportunity to try out a few new major Linux distribution releases and then stay with one based on whichever I prefer.
First off was Fedora 9 which although very smart looking failed me due to issues with the way the display is managed. The fact that there are problems getting the proprietary Nvidia drivers working for my mobile laptop graphics card is something I can’t live with. Stuck without this working properly the system runs hot and the display simply isn’t up to scratch. Maybe Fedora will be worth another look when this issue is resolved properly through the repos provided.
Next up was Linux Mint, which is a perfectly fine distro. It is basically a modified Ubuntu Heron which includes the restricted extras like codecs. The front end is very smart indeed but I found that it was basically a pretty Ubuntu and the extras are things I already had working in Hardy Heron.
I am currently writing this on the Gnome version of openSUSE 11. This is definitely a promising distro and one which I have not used for any length of time before. That is about to change however as it installed like a charm detecting all the relevant hardware, including the wireless, out of the box. I need to keep an eye on the battery life as that is one thing I have discovered with different Linus Distributions on laptops. They all seem to use up battery power at different rates by default, with Ubuntu being the easiest on power consumption as far as I can tell.
Next on my hit list is Debian, which I have used before and I know will take a bit more setting up on this laptop.
At the moment though, as I said, it’s time to give openSUSE a fair run out. I’ll post my thoughts on it later.
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It's Distro Time
Games consoles reveal the supercomputer within
WHEN Todd Martínez broke his son’s Sony PlayStation he didn’t realise this would change the course of his career as a theoretical chemist. Having dutifully bought a PlayStation 2 as a replacement, he was browsing through the games console’s technical specification when he realised it might have another use. “I noticed that the architecture looked a lot like high-performance supercomputers I had seen before,” he says. “That’s when I thought about getting one for myself.”
Six years on and Martínez has persuaded the supercomputing centre at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, to buy eight computers each driven by two of the specialised chips that are at the heart of Sony’s PlayStation 3 console. Together with his student Benjamin Levine he is using them to simulate the interactions between the electrons in atoms. Scaled up over entire molecules, the results could pave the way to predicting how a protein will interact with a drug.
Martínez and Levine are not the only researchers who have turned to gaming hardware to do their number crunching. That’s because the kinds of calculations required to produce the mouth-wateringly realistic graphics now seen in high-end video games are similar to those used by chemists and physicists as they simulate the interactions between particles in systems ranging in scale from the molecular to the astronomical. Rotating, enlarging or reflecting an object from one frame to the next in a game, for example, requires a technique called matrix multiplication. Modelling the interactions between thousands of electrons in a molecule calls for similar techniques.
Such simulations are usually carried out on a supercomputer, but time on these machines is expensive and in short supply. By comparison, games consoles are cheap and easily available, and they come with the added bonus of some innovative hardware. For example, the Wii, made by Nintendo, has a motion-tracking remote control unit that is far cheaper than a comparable device would be if researchers had to build it from scratch.
One key advance is the ease with which scientists can now program games consoles for their own purposes. Although consoles do a great job of rendering images, games programs don’t require software to save data once it has been used to render the image. Scientists, by contrast, need to be able to store the results of the calculations they have fed into their machines.
Things started to get easier in 2002, when demand from computer enthusiasts who wanted to use their PlayStations as fully fledged desktop machines prompted Sony to release software that allowed the PlayStation 2 to run the Linux operating system. That allowed scientists to reprogram the consoles to run their calculations. Then in 2006 came the big breakthrough, with the launch by IBM, Sony and Toshiba of the Cell chip that now drives Sony’s PlayStation 3 (see Timeline). With one central processor and eight “servant” processors (New Scientist, 19 February 2005, p 23), it is vastly more powerful than the PS2 chip, and was designed from day 1 to run Linux.
The release of the Cell has accelerated research into black holes by Gaurav Khanna, an astrophysicist at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He has strung together 16 PS3 consoles to calculate the properties of the gravity waves that are expected to be produced when two black holes merge. Meanwhile, a collaboration between IBM and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is using the Cell’s ability to render high-resolution video graphics to do the same with data gathered by MRI and other medical scanning techniques. The aim is to make diagnosis easier and faster – by using the images to determine whether a tumour has grown or shrunk, for example.
Other researchers are pushing for even more speed. One of Martínez’s students, Ivan Ufimtsev, is experimenting with the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX graphical processing unit (GPU) for PCs, which was released in November 2006. The GPU has 128 processors – compared to the Cell’s eight – and when slotted into a PC, helps turn it into a high-quality gaming engine. To start with, these cards were hard to program, just like the PS2 without the Linux add-on, but NVIDIA soon cottoned on to the sales opportunities that scientists like Martínez could offer for its product. In February 2007 it released the Compute Unified Device Architecture, a software package that allows the C programming language to be used to program the GPUs.
The results were staggering. When Martínez used it to simulate the repulsion between two electrons in an atom, he found that the calculation ran 130 times faster than it did on an ordinary desktop computer (Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, DOI: 10.1021/ct700268q). He is now calculating the energy of the electrons in 1000 atoms, which add up to the size of a small protein. “We can now do the things we were killing ourselves to do,” he says.
Martínez predicts that it will soon be possible to use the GPU to predict more accurately which drug molecules will most strongly interact with a protein and how they will react, which could revolutionise pharmaceutical research. Similarly, Koji Yasuda at Nagoya University in Japan reported in a paper published this month (Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol 29, p 334) that he used the same GPU to map the electron energies in two molecules: the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel and the cyclic peptide valinomycin.
Games hardware still isn’t perfect for science. The Cell’s eight processors and the NVIDIA GPUs are forced to round decimal numbers to seven decimal places. As numbers are repeatedly multiplied together, this small error becomes magnified. In a game, the result might be nothing more serious than a car appearing slightly closer to a wall than it should, but in research such inaccuracies can be show-stoppers.
It’s not just the chips that researchers can usefully borrow from gaming hardware. Take the Wii’s hand-held remote control, which contains an accelerometer that can sense in which direction it is being moved, and how vigorously. It transmits this information via a Bluetooth link to the console, where it is used to adjust the graphics to respond to the player’s movements in real time.
Monitoring Parkinson’s
The device recently grabbed attention as a tool for surgeons to improve their technique (New Scientist, 19 January, p 24). Meanwhile, neurologist Thomas Davis at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, is using it to measure movement deficiencies in Parkinson’s patients. By attaching up to four Wii remotes to different limbs, Davis captures data for tremor, speed and smoothness of movement, and gait. This data is then sent via the Bluetooth link to a laptop running software that allows Davis to assess quantitatively how well a patient can move. Davis hopes this can be used in clinical trials for Parkinson’s drugs to replace the scoring scales now used, which are based on a doctor observing a patient’s condition.
Others are using the console to assess the progress of patients who have had a stroke or a head injury by monitoring their performance as they play Wii games. Johnny Chung Lee at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is using the Wii remote as a virtual reality research tool. As the wearer’s head moves, the Wii tracks it and displays images dependent on where the wearer is looking. Meanwhile, a team at the University of Valladolid in Spain hopes to use the Wii remote to rotate and manipulate ultrasound images more intuitively.
Computer gamers have always hankered after the latest console or PC hardware to run ever more realistic-looking games. Now scientists are lining up right beside them.
From issue 2643 of New Scientist magazine, 16 February 2008, page 26-27
And not an xbox360 in sight….
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111 Songs, 10 Hours 2 Minutes
Sleep: 111 Pieces of Classical Music for Bedtime Various Artists
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
By Samuel Barber - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air
By Johann Sebastian Bach - Münchener Bach-Orchester & Karl Richter
Adagio for Strings and Organ in G Minor
By Tomaso Albinoni - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Karl Münchinger
Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4
By Johannes Brahms - Marisa Robles
Dyrenes Karneval: Aquarium
By Camille Saint-Saëns - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & André Previn
Cantata, BWV 156: Arioso (Adagio in G)
By Johann Sebastian Bach - Julian Lloyd Webber & John Lenehan
Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
By Frédéric Chopin - Daniel Barenboim
3 Gymnopédies: Gymnopédie No. 1
By Erik Satie - Pascal Rogé
Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune
By Claude Debussy - Zoltán Kocsis
Beau soir
By Claude Debussy - Lynn Harrell & Bruno Canino
Elegy for Strings, Op. 58
By Sir Edward Elgar - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Thaïs, Act II: Méditation religieuse
By Jules Massenet - Nigel Kennedy, National Philharmonic Orchestra & Richard Bonynge
Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
By Arvo Pärt - English Chamber Orchestra & Nigel Short
6 Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D-Flat Major (Lento, placido)
By Franz Liszt - Daniel Barenboim
Capriol Suite: II. Pavane
By Peter Warlock - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
By Maurice Ravel - Albrecht Mayer, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Mathias Mönius
Canon in D Major
By Johann Pachelbel - Edward Brewer & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Le onde
By Anonymous - Myleene Klass
Dyrenes Karneval: Le cygne
By Camille Saint-Saëns - Anne Martindale Williams, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & André Previn
Wiegenlied, Op. 41 No. 1: Wiegenlied
By Richard Strauss - Measha Brueggergosman & Justus Zeyen
Madama Butterfly, Act 2: Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming Chorus)
By Giacomo Puccini - Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 13 in F-Sharp Major
By Frédéric Chopin - Martha Argerich
By the Sleepy Lagoon
By Eric Coates - East of England Orchestra & Malcolm Nabarro
Estampes, L. 100: I. Pagodes
By Claude Debussy - Jean-Yves Thibaudet
The Planets, Op. 32: VII. Neptune, the Mystic
By Gustav Holst - Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan & RIAS Kammerchor
Pour le piano: II. Sarabande
By Claude Debussy - Lilya Zilberstein
Les contes d'Hoffmann, Act 4: Entr'acte (Barcarolle)
By Jacques Offenbach - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Georg Solti
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation 18
By Sergei Rachmaninoff - Lang Lang, The Mariinsky Orchestra & Valery Gergiev
Suite for Cello Solo No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude
By Johann Sebastian Bach - Pierre Fournier
Rinaldo, HWV 57, Act 2: Lascia ch'io pianga
By George Frideric Handel - Cecilia Bartoli, Academy of Ancient Music & Christopher Hogwood
Images, Book 1, L. 110: I. Reflets dans l'eau
By Claude Debussy - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Elijah, Op. 70, Pt. 1: "For He Shall Give His Angels Charge"
By Felix Mendelssohn - Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Patricia Bardon, Renée Fleming, John Mark Ainsley, Libby Crabtree, Sara Fulgoni, John Bowen, Geoffrey Moses, Neal Davies, Stephen Doughty, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Paul Daniel
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto
By Ludwig van Beethoven - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1
Gianni Schicchi: "O mio babbino caro"
By Giacomo Puccini - Renée Fleming, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras
Sospiri, Op. 70
By Edvard Grieg - Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Concerto for Harpsichord, Strings, and Continuo No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo
By Johann Sebastian Bach - András Schiff & Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: VIII. La fille aux cheveux de lin
By Claude Debussy - Pascal Rogé
Swan Lake, Op. 20 Suite: I. Swan Theme
By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Vienna Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: V. Largo
By Dmitri Shostakovich - Emerson String Quartet
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto
By Johannes Brahms - Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
6 Consolations, S. 172: No. 4 in D-Flat Major (Quasi adagio)
4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D.899: No. 3 in G-Flat Major (Andante)
By Franz Schubert - Mitsuko Uchida
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma": Variation IX. Nimrod (Adagio)
By Sir Edward Elgar - Philharmonia Orchestra & Giuseppe Sinopoli
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: III. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
By Johannes Brahms - Herbert Stahr, Alfred Malecek, Ferdinand Mezger, Kunio Tsuchiya & Peter Steiner
3 Études de concert, S. 144: No. 3 in D-Flat Major "Un sospiro" (Allegro affettuoso)
By Franz Liszt - Claudio Arrau
The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
By Gustav Holst - Vienna Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Petite suite, L. 65: I. En bateau
By Claude Debussy - L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Ernest Ansermet
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
By Claude Debussy - Timothy Hutchins, Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal & Charles Dutoit
24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor
Chants d'Auvergne: II. Bailero
By Marie-Joseph Canteloube - Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, English Chamber Orchestra & Jeffrey Tate
Suite bergamasque, L. 75: IV. Passepied
The Lord's Prayer: "Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel" - Words of Institution: "Unser Herr Jesus Christus"
By Anonymous - Raimund Nolte
String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: III. Notturno
By Alexander Borodin - Takács Quartet
Valse romantique, L. 71
By Claude Debussy - Daniel Ericourt
The Rustle of Spring, Op. 32 No. 3
By Christian August Sinding - Joseph Cooper
Silent Woods, Op. 68 No. 5 (Version for Cello and Piano)
By Antonín Dvořák - Mischa Maisky & Pavel Gililov
Egdon Heath, Op. 47
By Gustav Holst - London Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Adrian Boult
Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik": II. Romance (Andante)
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Children's Corner, L. 113: IV. The Snow Is Dancing
Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat Major, S. 541 No. 3
By Franz Liszt - Jorge Bolet
Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: III. Adagio
By Sir Edward Elgar - Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Yehudi Menuhin
Salut d'amour, Op. 12
By Sir Edward Elgar - Lynn Harrell & Bruno Canino
Crucifixus (8-Part)
By Antonio Lotti - Harry Christophers & The Sixteen
in the Fen Country. Symphonic Impression
By Ralph Vaughan Williams - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Deux arabesques, L. 66: No. 1, Andante con moto
Ganymed, D. 544 (, Op. 19 No. 3)
By Franz Schubert - Kathleen Ferrier & Benjamin Britten
The Planets, Op. 32: III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger
By Gustav Holst - Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Fantasia on Greensleeves
By Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sir Adrian Boult & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"
Romance for String Orchestra
By Gerald Finzi - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Ave Maris Stella
By Edvard Grieg - Gabrieli & Paul McCreesh
Violin Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIa:1: II. Adagio
By Franz Joseph Haydn - Salvatore Accardo & English Chamber Orchestra
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: II. Andante moderato
Aria mit 30 Veränderungen, BWV 988 "Goldberg Variations": Aria
By Johann Sebastian Bach - András Schiff
Symphony No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 55: III. Adagio
By Sir Edward Elgar - London Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Georg Solti
Ave Maria (4vv)
By Josquin Des Prez - Gabrieli & Paul McCreesh
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
By Aram Khachaturian - Vienna Philharmonic
Khovanshchina: Prelude (Compl. & Orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
By Modest Mussorgsky - L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Ernest Ansermet
Lakmé, Act 1: Viens, Mallika, . Dôme épais (Flower Duet)
By Léo Delibes - Dame Joan Sutherland, Jane Berbié, Orchestre national de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo & Richard Bonynge
Schemellis Gesangbuch: "Mein Jesu! Was fur Seelenweh", BWV 487
By Johann Sebastian Bach - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Leopold Stokowski
Liebestraum, S. 541 No. 1
Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19: No. 6 in G Minor (Andante sostenuto) "Venetian Gondola Song"
By Felix Mendelssohn - Daniel Barenboim
Die Forelle, D. 550 (, Op. 32)
By Franz Schubert - Renée Fleming & Christoph Eschenbach
Christmas Mass: Processional "Christum wir sollen loben schon" (Arranged by Michael Praetorius / Har. Lucas Osiander)
By Martin Luther - Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Paul McCreesh & Gabrieli
By Gregorio Allegri - The Choir Of Westminster Abbey & Simon Preston
Rückert-Lieder: Um Mitternacht
By Gustav Mahler - Christa Ludwig, Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Dies Natalis: V. The Salutation (Aria)
By Gerald Finzi - Philip Langridge, London Symphony Orchestra & Richard Hickox
Dies Natalis: I. Intrada
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": II. Adagio un poco mosso
By Ludwig van Beethoven - Vladimir Ashkenazy & Cleveland Orchestra
Messiah, HWN 56, Pt. 1: I. Accompagnato "Comfort Ye, My People"
By George Frideric Handel - Kenneth McKellar, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Adrian Boult
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture: Love Theme
4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 4 in A-Flat Major (Allegretto)
Ave Maria, "Ellens Gesang III", D. 839
By Franz Schubert - Elly Ameling & Dalton Baldwin
Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 36, Air "How Beautiful Are the Feet"
By George Frideric Handel - Dame Joan Sutherland, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Adrian Boult
Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 13, Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
By George Frideric Handel - London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Adrian Boult
Phidylé
By Henri Duparc - Measha Brueggergosman & Justus Zeyen
Hymn to the Mother Of God
By Sir John Tavener - Gabrieli & Paul McCreesh
Nocturnes, L. 91: I. Nuages (Orchestral Version)
By Claude Debussy - Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal & Charles Dutoit
Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: II. Adagio
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Maria João Pires
By Sir John Tavener - Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Sir Stephen Cleobury
in terra pax: A frosty Christmas Eve (Original Version)
By Gerald Finzi - Donald Sweeney, Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & David Hill
Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18
By Gerald Finzi - Malcolm Martineau & Bryn Terfel
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile
By Ludwig van Beethoven - Lucas Jussen
A Village Romeo and Juliet, Scene 5: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
By Frederick Delius - Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera & Sir Charles Mackerras
O sacrum convivium!
By Olivier Messiaen - Myung-Whun Chung, Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia & Norbert Balatsch
The Lark Ascending
By Ralph Vaughan Williams - Iona Brown, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Lachrimae Antiquae Pavan
By John Dowland - Julian Bream
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
By Ralph Vaughan Williams - London Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Roger Norrington
Released: Jan 1, 2013
This Compilation ℗ 2013 Decca, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
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To set the tone for their romantic third album, Nashville’s Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney released “Speechless” to fans as an early single. A starry-eyed tribute to the feeling they each got upon seeing their wives at the end of the aisle (both men got married in 2017), it’s the sort of fairy-tale love song that’s destined to soundtrack wedding ceremonies and first dances. The country-pop singers explore their respective marriages throughout the rest of the album. "What Keeps You Up at Night” has the soft sway of a John Mayer song, while the Kelly Clarkson-assisted “Keeping Score” makes a case for minding the big picture through a relationship's challenges.
Dan + Shay Dan + Shay
What Keeps You Up at Night
All To Myself
Keeping Score (feat. Kelly Clarkson)
Stupid Love
My Side of the Fence
Island Time
℗ 2018 Warner Music Nashville LLC for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
More By Dan + Shay
Tequila (The Remixes) - EP
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Single
Tequila (R3HAB Remix) - Single
Dan + Shay (The Vocals) - Single
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Pat Travers
Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)
Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) 1991
Born Under a Bad Sign
Crash and Burn 1980
The Very Best of Pat Travers 1991
Putting It Straight 1977
Black Betty
Gettin' Betta
About Pat Travers
While most bluesy hard rock acts of the '70s and '80s hailed from the United States (the South, to be exact), there were several exceptions to the rule, such as Canadian singer/guitarist Pat Travers. Born in Toronto on April 12, 1954, Travers first picked up the guitar just prior to entering his teens after witnessing a local performance by the great Jimi Hendrix. It wasn't long before Travers was studying the other top rock guitarists of the day (Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, etc.), and paying his dues by playing in bar bands in Quebec. His first true touring gig came his way when he hooked up with '50s rock & roll vet Ronnie Hawkins (best known for performing with a backing cast that would eventually transform into the Band).
But Travers' main love was hard rock, so after a year, he packed up his belongings and headed to London. Shortly after touchdown in the U.K., Travers recorded a demo that would land him a recording deal with Polydor and result in the release of his debut, Pat Travers, during the spring of 1976. A performance at England's annual Reading Festival the same year only piqued further interest, which resulted in two more releases in 1977, Makin' Magic and Putting It Straight (both of which followed a pre-Iron Maiden Nicko McBrain on drums), before Travers returned to North America and set his sights on the U.S. rock market.
Featuring drummer Tommy Aldridge, guitarist Pat Thrall, and bassist Mars Cowling, the new Travers band lineup premiered on 1979's Heat in the Street. This led to Travers' most commercially successful period, resulting in a pair of Top 30 releases, 1979's Live! Go for What You Know (considered by many Travers fans to be his finest hour) and 1980's Crash and Burn. But soon after the dawn of the '80s, bluesy hard rock seemed to quickly fall out of favor among the U.S. record buying public, in favor of slickly produced arena rock, and later, MTV-approved bands.
As a result, each subsequent Travers release sold less, as his last albums to appear on the U.S. album charts included 1981's Radio Active, 1982's Black Pearl, and 1984's Hot Shot. Unhappy with Polydor, Travers opted to take a break from releasing albums for the remainder of the decade, but continued to tour. Travers' 1990 comeback album, School of Hard Knocks, failed to re-spark interest on the charts, although he continued to issue new studio albums (Blues Tracks, Just a Touch, Blues Magnet, etc.) and archival live sets (King Biscuit Flower Hour, BBC Radio One Live in Concert) throughout the decade.
Travers continues to tour and record regularly (playing alongside the likes of Night Ranger's Jeff Watson, Cinderella's Tom Keifer, and Rick Derringer), and in 2001, performed as part of the Voices of Classic Rock tour. Travers emerged from the recording studio once more in 2003, with P.T. Power Trio, a recording that featured covers of songs by the likes of Cream ("White Room"), Robin Trower ("Day of the Eagle"), and ZZ Top ("Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings"), among others. Subsequent releases include 2004's It Takes A Lot of Balls, a collaboration with Carmine Appice, PT=MC2 (2005), a second Power Trio outing called P.T. Power Trio 2 (2006), Travelin' Blues (2009), Blues on Fire (2012), Can Do (2013), and Retro Rocket (2015). In 2016, Travers reunited with Appice for the cheekily titled Balls Album, which saw the dynamic duo tearing through a set of classic blues-rock numbers. ~ Greg Prato
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Assistant Professor Ashley Fure's "Filament" at NY Philharmonic
Submitted by f003hvd on Fri, 09/21/2018 - 10:51
Professor Ashley Fure's "Filament" premiered at the New York Philharmonic's season-opening gala on September 20, and is the subject of a September 18 New York Times feature by Joshua Barone:
"Ms. Fure thinks concerts are a little weird. If the music we hear is just sound waves traveling through the air, she said in an interview, then 'we’re coming together to let air bump up against us. It’s a strange collective act.' This perspective — looking at music as something physical — is at the heart of much of Ms. Fure’s work, which deals in sound environments more than melodic lines. 'Filament' is no exception."
Anthony Tommasini's reviewed "Filament" for the New York Times on September 21:
"In 'Filament,' a 14-minute work for three soloists, orchestra and moving voices, Ms. Fure sought, as she writes in the score, to 'create a dynamic spatialization of sound whose angles and arrays shift around the audience in real time.' It’s an aural environment — yet, for all its calm, shimmering stretches, the music is kinetic and disruptive, even needling, by turns dreamy and dangerous."
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ASHLEY FURE
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Wedding Music Recorder and Guitar
Mouret, Jean-Joseph
(Descant Recorder and Guitar)
Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682- 1738) was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading exponents of Baroque music in his country. Even though most of his works are no longer performed, Mouret's name survives today thanks to the popularity of the Fanfare-Rondeau from his first Suite de Symphonies, which has been adopted as the signature tune of the PBS program Masterpiece.
Also by Mouret, Jean-Joseph:
Rondeau (Clarinet & Guitar)
Rondeau (Violin & Guitar)
Rondeau (Viola & Guitar)
Rondeau (Flute & Guitar)
Arioso from Cantata No. 156 - advanced (Guitar Duo)
Air (Flute & Guitar)
Eight Inventions by J. S. Bach (Guitar Duo)
Suite No. 2 - Gigue (Guitar Solo)
Three Menuets (Guitar Solo)
Largo from Concerto in C (Descant Recorder & Guitar)
La Musète (Clarinet & Guitar)
Orchestral Suite No. 2, BWV 1067 (Guitar Quartet)
Suite No. II (Guitar Solo)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cello & Guitar)
The Entertainer (Guitar & Descant Recorder)
from Drei Klavierstucke, No. 2 (Flute, Violin & Guitar)
Returning II (Flute & Guitar)
The Holly & the Ivy Fantasia (Flute & Guitar)
Arioso from Cantata No. 156 - Easy Guitar (Flute & Guitar)
Sonatina (Treble Recorder & Guitar)
Pizzicato Polka (Guitar Duo)
Cantique de Noel (Cello & Guitar)
Romanza (Guitar Solo)
Air on the G String, BWV 1068 (Cello & Guitar) - C
Greensleeves (Descant Recorder & Guitar)
Siciliano - Am, Easy Guitar (Recorder & Guitar)
Gavotte (Recorder & Guitar)
Bourree 1 & 2, BWV 1066 (Recorder & Guitar)
Etude in B Minor (Recorder & Guitar)
Gavotte en Rondeau (Recorder & Guitar)
Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Descant Recorder & Guitar)
Alla Hornpipe (Recorder & Guitar)
Ave Maria (Violin & Guitar) - C
Bourree 1 & 2, BWV 1066 (Clarinet & Guitar)
Gymnopedie No. 1 (Clarinet & Guitar)
Gran Vals (Viola & Guitar)
Serenata - Easy Guitar (Flute & Guitar)
Wedding March (Viola & Guitar)
The Entertainer (Cello & Guitar)
Andante, Op. 18 No. 1 (Guitar Quartet)
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Massachusetts Fashion
Homeschool High School Social Studies
Types of Culpability Name Institution Instructor Course Date Types of Culpability Culpability is the degree to which an individual can be legally held responsible for an action committed by the person
Types of Culpability
Culpability is the degree to which an individual can be legally held responsible for an action committed by the person. An individual is culpable if their action, which was intentional, led to a negative outcome and no proof of justification for the actions (Ashworth & Horder, 2013). Culpability measures whether a person had knowledge of their wrongful acts and whether the person should take blame for their actions. Culpability will also determine the type and level of punishment with the judge having the responsibility of determining the level of intent based on the criminal law (Ashworth & Horder, 2013). There are four types of criminal intent based under culpability, which include general intent, specific intent, transferred intent, and constructive intent (Breton, 2014).
General Intent
General intent involves the intent of a defendant to commit a certain criminal act. This may involve the defendant having acted intentionally but not having the desire to achieve a certain outcome or bring about a certain result (Breton, 2014). If the defendant did not commit anything other than the criminal act, this may be also categorized as a general intent. Crimes of general intent are easier to prove in court and the punishment is less severe compared to crimes of specific intent (Breton, 2014). A crime under this category may include battery, which involves physical abuse in which the defendant may not have a desire to cause a certain result or may not have the knowledge of the illegal activity (Breton, 2014).
Specific Intent
Specific intent means that the accused commits a crime with a high level of awareness (Ashworth & Horder, 2013). Either most of the offenders engaging in crimes requiring specific intent have had intentions to cause a certain negative effect or the offender intends to do more than just the crime. The defendant may also act with the knowledge of the criminal act but proceeds to commit the criminal act (Ashworth & Horder, 2013). Crimes that may fall under this type of culpability include violent behaviors or offenders causing chaos with the intention to cause harm to the certain victim. A crime involving physical abuse which the defendant warned the victim of his/her intentions before proceeding to commit the criminal act is a crime under the specific intent category (Ashworth & Horder, 2013).
Transferred Intent
This involves crime in which the defendant criminal intent is not purposely directed to a certain victim (Ashworth & Horder, 2013). This may involve the intent to harm a certain individual, which inadvertently leads to hurting of another individual instead. The offender is still held responsible for the crime committed. The defendant may be charged with more than one criminal act, which may involve an attempt to commit a criminal act on the intended victim (Ashworth & Horder, 2013). A crime, which falls under this category, is a crime involving physical abuse where a third party who tries to separate the fight gets hurt in the process. The perpetrator’s intentions were not to hurt the third party but still caused harm to the third party (Ashworth ; Horder, 2013).
Constructive Intent
This involves an intent, which is indicated to have existed, and a crime committed may be due to a willing nature of the defendant or due to the recklessness of the defendant, which led to the criminal act (Breton, 2014). This applies to a situation where the defendant may not have desired to cause any harm to the victim but their actions led to certain consequences, which were foreseeable (Breton, 2014). A crime under this category may involve a police officer who shoots in the sky to scare someone where the bullet unfortunately leads to the death of another person (Breton, 2014).
Ashworth, A., ; Horder, J. (2013). Principles of criminal law. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Breton, L. (2014). Criminal Intent. Harlequin MIRA.
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Issue September 2011 By Tricia M.Olivia
Robert W. Harnais has joined the MBA officer ranks as secretary. On Sept. 1, Harnais and the other returning officers will begin their work for the 2011-12 association year.
Harnais is with Mahoney, Diamond and Harnais Law Offices in Quincy, where his general practice concentrates on criminal, family, real estate, labor and consumer law.
Harnais was first exposed to the MBA when he first sat on the MBA's House of Delegates, its governing body. Since his involvement with HOD as president of the Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys (an affiliated bar of the MBA), he has enjoyed several years of volunteer service for the organization.
'The energy here is tremendous," said Harnais, who looks forward to helping carry out the goals of President Richard P. Campbell and his other fellow officers.
"I feel like I can be used to help support the organization's diversity efforts," said Harnais, who has served as the co-chair of the MBA Task Force on Diversity.
"I've enjoyed my involvement with the MBA. Learning from the members' varying perspectives-whether it be through education programming or in other forums made available through the MBA-has been important for me professionally," said Harnais, who has served on the MBA's Executive Management Board.
A past president of both MAHA and the National Hispanic Bar Association, he remains highly involved with both organizations.
In addition to his involvement with the MBA, Harnais is also a member of the Norfolk County Bar Association. Since 2007, he has served as a member of the Race and Ethnic Advisory Board for the Massachusetts courts.
Harnais received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 1984 and graduated from New England Law | Boston in 1989. He resides in Braintree.
Incoming MBA President Richard P. Campbell will continue to lead the association's Centennial anniversary celebration efforts until Dec. 2011. Campbell has set the following priorities for the 2011-12 year:
Educating the public-at-large on the grave consequences from underfunding the courts;
Being a part of the policy debates and analysis of the Gateway Cities in Massachusetts; and
Evaluating the ongoing relevancy of law schools.
The other officers are President-elect Robert L. Holloway Jr., Vice President Jeffrey N. Catalano, Vice President Marsha V. Kazarosian and Treasurer Douglas K. Sheff.
Robert L. Holloway Jr.
President-elect
As MBA Treasurer in the 2010-11 association year, Holloway chaired the Budget and Finance Committee. He also co-chaired the MBA Strategic Planning Committee with Campbell.
Holloway is a shareholder and president of MacLean, Holloway, Doherty, Ardiff & Morse PC in Peabody. Holloway is a long-term member of the MBA's Ethics Committee, a member and past chair of the MBA's Civil Litigation Section Council and a former regional delegate to the MBA House of Delegates. Holloway received the MBA's Community Service Award in 1993 and served on the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Nominations for six years. In August 2009, Holloway began a three-year appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, and is a regular panelist for continuing legal education programs. Holloway also is an emeritus member of the Board of Editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, having served on that board since 1981. Recognized by Boston magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in the area of business litigation, Holloway is also a past president of the Essex County Bar Association. A Topsfield resident, Holloway has served as a member of the town's Board of Health, as an elected representative to the Masconomet Regional School Committee from 1990 to 1999, as director and president of the Topsfield Athletic Association and as chair of the Danvers Recreation Committee. In addition, he was a founding member of Hospice of the North Shore and served for many years as a corporator of Beverly Hospital.
Jeffrey N. Catalano
Catalano led the successful efforts of the MBA Centennial Commission Fundraising Subcommittee over the last year. He also worked to develop the MBA Pro Bono Prescription in the spring, launching a pioneering initiative that brings together volunteer attorneys and medical professionals to promote the health and well-being of low-income patients through legal advocacy.
Catalano is a partner at Todd & Weld LLP in Boston, where he specializes in representing victims of catastrophic injuries in the areas of medical negligence, product liability, auto accident, class action and other personal injury cases. A chair of the MBA's Volunteer, Recognition, Recruitment & Retention Task Force and a member of its Executive Management Board, he is a past chair of the MBA's Civil Litigation Section and has served on the MBA's House of Delegates since 2006. A Massachusetts Bar Foundation Fellow, Catalano is also a member of the executive committee for the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. He is also on the board of directors for the non-profit law firm Health Law Advocates Inc., where his pro bono work includes patient advocacy and representing chronically ill and impoverished people who are denied access to health care services. In 2009, he received a "Hero from the Field" award for his efforts in improving health care quality and patient rights. Catalano was selected as a New England "Super Lawyer" in 2009 and a "Rising Star" by Boston magazine in 2005. He lives in West Roxbury.
Marsha V. Kazarosian
Chair of both the MBA's Education Committee, and the Technology Implementation Task Force, she served as co-chair of the MBA Centennial Conference this past year.
Kazarosian is managing partner of Kazarosian Law Offices in Haverhill, where she concentrates in civil rights litigation, family law and discrimination. Kazarosian previously served as an MBA secretary and vice president. Kazarosian has also served on the MBA's Executive Management Board, House of Delegates, Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Nominations, Nominating Committee and Gala Dinner Committee. She has sat on a dozen association committees and sections, including the Access to Justice, Civil Litigation, Family Law and Probate Law section councils. In addition, Kazarosian is a Life Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. Long active in bar associations across the state, she is a past president of the Essex County Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. An accomplished trial lawyer, Kazarosian was recently nominated as Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's Top Women in the Law, and was also named one of the top 10 lawyers in the commonwealth in 1999 by the paper after successfully suing the Haverhill Golf and Country Club for gender discrimination. Kazarosian served a two-year term as one of 25 lawyers in the commonwealth appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Pro Bono Panel, and a six-year term as a Hearings Committee officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. She also hosts an Internet radio program on Legal Talk Network. Kazarosian lives in Haverhill.
Douglas K. Sheff
Sheff is chair of the Workplace Safety Task Force and has also served as chair of the MBA Membership Committee and as co-chair of the MBA Centennial Conference and Ball.
Sheff is senior partner at Sheff Law Offices in Boston, where he specializes in all aspects of personal injury law and is considered an expert in brain injury law. Sheff is also a member of the MBA's Executive Management Board and Budget and Finance Committee. In addition, he served two terms as MBA vice president, as MBA secretary in 2008-09 and as chair of the MBA Civil Litigation Section in 2005-06. He is also a Massachusetts Bar Foundation Fellow. A past president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, he was honored with the group's inaugural Excellence in Advocacy Award for his representation of children and adults who have suffered traumatic brain injury. Sheff has been appointed trustee of the National College of Advocacy, which provides superior education and training for trial lawyers across the United States. Sheff has been awarded the ORT Award for integrity in the law and is a seven-time recipient of the American Association for Justice's prestigious Wiedemann-Wysocki Award. In addition, Sheff has been awarded the AAJ's New Generation Award and served as chair to the AAJ's Council of Presidents, representing 50,000 attorneys nationwide. A Boston magazine "Super Lawyer," Sheff has also been recognized in Lifesavers for preventing injury through aggressive representation of victims of defective products. He resides in Boston
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Our Founding Story and History
The Gatekeeper of Quality
In 1975, with the support of local philanthropists, Paula Jorde Bloom designed and brought to life the child care center of her dreams in Alamo, California. Classrooms were spacious. Windows were abundant. Farm animals and a vegetable garden were thriving in an expansive yard. Children were happy and engaged with a developmentally appropriate curriculum. Yet, something was missing. Operating a sustainable program required more skills and knowledge than Paula felt she possessed.
Dr. Paula Jorde Bloom
“While I had been a very talented and accomplished classroom teacher, I had no clue about program administration and had had no formal organizational leadership and management courses,” Paula reflected. “At that time, I didn’t know the difference between a debit and a credit.” This experience fueled Paula’s passion and life’s work.
Paula dedicated the rest of her life to not only bringing national attention to the role of leaders in early care and education, but also to inspiring those leaders to learn more and improve the quality of their programs. She went on to be an instructor at Mills College and the director of the campus lab school. Paula completed her doctorate at Stanford University, moved to the Chicago area, and started as an assistant professor at National Louis University (then National College of Education).
In 1985, she applied for and received a $600 Membership Action Grant from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) to start the Early Childhood Professional Development Project. Ultimately, the project, which focused on directors of early care and education programs, led to the founding of another center. This one, though, would focus on leadership development for those in early childhood. Her goals for the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership were to identify, define, and support the competencies of early childhood program administrators and to bring credibility to the importance and complexity of the administrator’s role.
Throughout the next 30 years, Paula devoted her work to supporting program administrators, whom she referred to as the “gatekeepers to quality.” She authored scores of journal articles and resources including the widely read Director’s Toolbox management book series and the Early Childhood Work Environment Survey (ECWES), an organizational climate assessment tool. She also co-authored the first valid and reliable tools to measure early childhood leadership and management, the Program Administration Scale (PAS) and the Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS).
Paula’s far-reaching impact on the field of early childhood is widely recognized and much celebrated. For Paula’s retirement celebration in 2014, scores of colleagues across the country called the McCormick Center to leave Paula voicemails of endearment, congratulations, and a tremendous amount of gratitude. You can listen to some of them here, as well as read Paula’s inspiring retirement address. Unsurprisingly, Paula did not stop working when she “retired.” Instead, she worked on new editions of several of her most widely read books and trainer’s guides. And, despite knowing her time among us was nearing an end, Paula continued to work on projects and offer insights that will undoubtedly move the field forward. Paula passed away on February 17, 2018, after living with cancer for nearly two decades.
Paula took a $600 grant and built a thriving, nationally recognized organization with an annual budget of more than $5 million. Today, the McCormick Center is a driving force in improving the quality of early childhood education nationwide, supporting administrators in their passion to provide high-quality programs for the families and children who depend on their leadership.
Thank you, Paula. Thousands of children, families, and early childhood leaders have a brighter future because of you.
After her passing in early 2018, Paula’s family established the Paula Jorde Bloom Scholarship Fund to support emerging early childhood leaders who are dedicated to providing the highest quality care and education for children and families. Become part of Paula’s legacy by supporting the development of the next generation of early childhood leaders.
You can give by clicking the button below, which will take you to a donation page for National Louis University, the McCormick Center’s parent organization. Be sure to indicate “Paula Jorde Bloom Scholarship Fund” when making your gift.
Leadership books and resources authored by Paula are available for purchase from New Horizons, a publishing company she founded that specializes in resources to support program administration.
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Dr. Paula Jorde Bloom launches the Early Childhood Professional Development Project, which creates several widely used tools within its first few years.
With a $600 Membership Action Grant from NAEYC, Paula launches the Early Childhood Professional Development Project.
The first organizational climate assessment specific to early childhood work settings is published. More than 35,000 individuals have since completed the Early Childhood Work Environment Survey (ECWES) and their centers have received a summary profile.
The Early Childhood Job Satisfaction Survey (ECJSS) is developed. The first research using the ECJSS to describe the factors impacting organizational commitment is published.
A Great Place to Work is published and distributed as a membership benefit to all NAEYC members.
Measuring Work Attitudes in the Early Childhood Setting is published, summarizing the reliability and validity studies of the ECJSS and ECWES.
The Early Childhood Professional Development Project becomes the Center for Early Childhood Leadership.
A major grant from the Head Start Bureau supports leadership training leading to a master’s degree for 34 Head Start directors in Chicago.
Blueprint for Action is published. A centerpiece of the Center’s training, this book provides a framework for understanding the dynamics of organizational change in early care and education programs.
The spotlight begins to shine on early childhood directors with a featured article in Educational Horizons and a research article documenting the effect of leadership training in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
Taking Charge of Change™ (TCC), the Center’s flagship leadership training program, is launched. More than 500 Illinois directors have since participated in TCC and a train-the-trainer model has disseminated the initiative in other states.
The Center becomes a partner in the McCormick Foundation’s Focus on Quality initiative supporting center accreditation in Chicago.
The McCormick Fellows Leadership Training program is launched with 32 directors receiving coursework leading to a master’s degree and on-site technical assistance to achieve center accreditation.
With an organizational development grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation, the Early Childhood Professional Development Project becomes the Center for Early Childhood Leadership with an expanded vision that includes policy and public awareness activities.
The Center hosted a statewide symposium of policymakers to explore the feasibility of a director credential. Center faculty spearhead the work of developing core competencies for the credential.
With grants from Work/Family Directions, the Center conducts Preschool Science Training and Family Friendly Directors training. The first issue of The Director’s Link, the Center’s quarterly newsletter, is published.
IBM sponsors the Center’s move into technology training and the publication of a technology manual for early childhood administrators.
The Center for Early Childhood Leadership gets a new name, conducts workforce studies, launches a national conference, conducts classroom assessments, and establishes the first online national director credential. Faculty author the PAS and BAS.
The Center conducts a comprehensive study of the early childhood workforce in Illinois, resulting in the publication of Who’s Caring for the Kids? The report served as an important resource for policymakers for strengthening the state’s professional development system.
Leadership Connections™ National Conference is launched. Dr. Adelaide Sanford, chair of the New York Board of Regents, was the first keynote speaker, paving the way for dozens of notable presenters from education, law, medicine, business, and other fields over the years.
In partnership with Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (INCCRRA), the Center conducts five cohorts of The Next Step, an advanced leadership training program designed to prepare professional development advisors for the state’s emerging professional development system.
The Center published Zoom: The Impact of Early Childhood Leadership Training on Role Perceptions, Job Performance, and Career Decisions.
The Program Administration Scale (PAS) is published. Designed to measure, monitor, and improve leadership and management practices in early childhood programs, the PAS has been embedded in quality improvement initiatives across the country.
With $3.6 million in gifts from the McCormick Foundation and the Josephine and John Louis Foundation, the Center is renamed and an endowed chair is established. Dr. Bloom is named the first recipient of the Michael W. Louis Endowed Chair.
Three initiatives in Chicago take flight: The Next Generation of Chicago Leaders supported seasoned directors in developing leadership succession plans; Coaching for Results developed a cadre of skilled instructional leaders; and Go for the Gold helped directors achieve their Illinois Director Credential (IDC).
Illinois launched Quality Counts quality rating system (QRS) and the McCormick Center assumes the role of conducting all on-site classroom and program quality assessments required for the star-rating system.
Research supporting the reliability and validity of the Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS) is completed and the instrument is published by Teachers College Press. An update to the Who’s Caring for the Kids early childhood workforce study is also published.
The McCormick Center launches Aim4Excellence,™ a national online director credential that utilizes cutting-edge technology to deliver engaging content. To date, more than 2,500 early childhood educators have enrolled and more than 1,300 have earned their credential.
The McCormick Center provides quality monitoring and trains various specialists in Illinois, pilots an initiative for family child care providers, publishes the Whole Leadership Framework, and develops the L.E.A.D. Early Childhood™ Clearinghouse.
The McCormick Center’s assessment work expands as it takes on the state’s Preschool for All quality monitoring.
Online modules for Getting Ready for the PAS and Getting Ready for the BAS are launched.
Illinois receives a Race-to-the-Top–Early Learning Challenge grant and launches ExceleRate™ QRIS. The McCormick Center takes the lead in providing professional development for quality specialists, infant-toddler specialists, and mental health consultants.
The Center partners with the Ounce of Prevention Fund on a new initiative—Lead. Learn. Excel—to improve instructional leadership in early care and education programs. Paula Jorde Bloom, founder and endowed chair, retires.
A new initiative for family child care providers, Taking the Lead, is piloted in Chicago. The McCormick Center celebrates its 30-year anniversary and 15 years of memorable Leadership Connections™ National Conferences.
With input from leaders in the field, the Center develops the Whole Leadership Framework, a seminal, practical guide to the interconnected and overlapped domains of early childhood leadership: administrative leadership, pedagogical leadership, and leadership essentials.
A grant from the McCormick Foundation enables the McCormick Center to develop L.E.A.D. Early Childhood™ Clearinghouse, a comprehensive resource that is razor focused on early childhood leadership—birth through age eight. The Clearinghouse serves as an important catalyst for leadership advocacy efforts.
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Broadway In Boston & Autism Speaks Will Offer an Autism-Friendly Performance of The Lion King
June 19th, 2014 | By Broadway.com Staff
The first ever autism-friendly performance offered by Broadway In Boston will be Disney’s The Lion King on October 11 at 2:00PM. All tickets will be sold at reduced prices and are now available for the performance, which is tailored to meet the needs of children and adults on the autism spectrum. The Lion King will return to Boston on September 9 where it will play the Boston Opera House through October 12 as part of the Lexus 2014-2015 Broadway In Boston Series.
Modeled after similar performances presented by TDF (Theater Development Fund) on Broadway, this performance will provide a friendly and supportive environment for the audience in attendance. Slight adjustments to the production will be implemented, including the reduction of jarring sounds and the elimination of strobe lights focused into the audience. In addition, the Boston Opera House lobby will offer quiet spaces and activity areas for families during the performances, while trained staff and volunteers will be available to provide assistance and support to all patrons.
A lively stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning animated film, The Lion King is the story of Simba, a young lion prince born into the royal family, who idolizes his kingly father, Mufasa, while youthfully shirking the responsibility his position in life requires. When an unthinkable tragedy, orchestrated by Simba’s wicked uncle, Scar, takes his father’s life, Simba flees the Pride Lands, leaving his loss and the life he knew behind. Simba starts anew, but eventually, the weight of responsibility comes to find the adult prince, and Simba must take on a formidable enemy and fulfill his destiny to be king. The score by Elton John and Tim Rice features the songs “The Circle of Life” and “Can You Feel The Love Tonight.”
The show stars Jelani Remy as Simba, Patrick R. Brown as Scar, L. Steven Taylor as Mufasa, Brown Lindlwe Mkhize as Rafiki, Nia Holloway as Nala, Ben Lipitz as Pumbaa, Nick Cordileone as Timon and Andrew Gorell as Zazu. The production is directed by Tony winner Julie Taymor.
Broadway In Boston is working closely alongside Disney Theatrical Productions and Autism Speaks, which is expertly advising on various aspects of the development and execution of this initiative, including identifying and reaching appropriate audiences, developing alternative activity and quiet areas during the performance and the recruitment of specialized volunteers.
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Get In Line! Riverdance Opens in Boston
April 13th, 2012 | By Broadway.com Staff
The national tour of Riverdance begins performances in Boston on April 13. The Irish dance show will play the Boston Opera House and close on April 15.
Riverdance is an innovative blend of dance, music and song. The show draws on Irish traditions and the combined talents of the performers propel historic customs of Ireland’s dance and music into the present day. The show features an international company of talents, all performing to music composed by Bill Whelan.
Since making its U.S. debut in 1996, Riverdance has become a smash hit and played to audiences around the globe. Some of Riverdance’s milestones include playing over 10,000 performances collectively, being seen by more than 22 million people and opening in over 350 venues throughout 40 countries across the world.
Don’t miss your chance to see this dance spectacular!
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Radiohead Announce 2018 North American Tour
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Radiohead have lined up a series of summer tour dates that will bring the band back to North American audiences for the first time since last spring.
The group's 2018 North American tour is set to begin July 7 in Chicago and continue for roughly a month, with the final date currently scheduled to take place Aug. 1 in Philadelphia.
In between, they'll visit a smattering of cities, mainly in the northeast, with multiple stops booked for New York — where they'll take a three-night stand at Madison Square Garden — as well as shows scheduled in Montreal, Toronto, Boston and Philadelphia.
Radiohead's latest tour leg extends their live commitments in support of their most recent studio release, A Moon Shaped Pool, which arrived in stores in May 2016.
Tickets for the North American dates are scheduled to go on sale Feb. 23; look over the complete list of currently announced shows below, and visit the band's official site for detailed ticketing information.
Radiohead 2018 North American Tour
7/07 — Chicago, IL — United Center
7/10 — New York, NY — Madison Square Garden
7/16 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre
7/19 — Toronto, ON — Air Canada Centre
7/22 — Detroit, MI — Little Caesars Arena
7/23 — Columbus, OH — Schottenstein Center
7/25 — Cincinnati, OH — US Bank Arena
7/26 — Pittsburgh, PA — PPG Paints Arena
7/28 — Boston, MA — TD Garden
7/31 — Philadelphia, PA — Wells Fargo Center
Next: Top 100 Classic Rock Artists
Source: Radiohead Announce 2018 North American Tour
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Japanese Professor Studies MCE’s Teacher Prep Success
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Dr. Hitoshi Sato, associate professor at Fukuoka University in Japan, visited MCE this week as part of his government-funded research on teacher preparation in the U.S.
Sato selected MCE due to its CAEP accreditation and track record of teacher residency success.
“The University of Denver, Morgridge College of Education has one of the best and largest teacher preparation programs in the US, so I am really interested in how the program assesses the outcome of teacher candidates and assures the quality of programs, including how to respond to the requirement of CAEP standards,” Sato said.
Sato spent the day at Morgridge College interacting with faculty, staff and students around the topic of internal quality assurance and assessment within teacher preparation programs.
“It was great to visit with Dr. Sato and share some of our experiences building our teacher education program here at Morgridge,” said Dr. Jessica Lerner, Associate Professor of Practice and Director of Teacher Education. “I hope sharing what we have learned can improve the educational experiences of students in Japan, as I know we are grappling with some of the same issues.”
“Through this study, I am trying to lead some suggestions for Japanese teacher preparation especially at the level of teacher preparation program,” Sato said. “In Japan, the competition rate of our current hiring examination is decreasing, so the role of assuring the quality of teachers will be changed to teacher preparation level.”
Sato explained that of particular interest to the Japanese government is the teacher residency model.
“We have traditionally focused on teacher knowledge without a lot of emphasis on teaching practice and experience,” Sato said. “Japan is experiencing a growing achievement gap that is making teacher preparation a primary area of focus.”
Sato’s stop at MCE is part of his third year of research into the teacher preparation challenge. His fourth and final year will involve summarizing his findings into a report, which will be presented to the Japanese government to help inform their state-funded teacher education model of the future.
View photos from the visit in our Flickr album.
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Student Joins Diversity Roundtable with Denver Mayor Michael Hancock
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Teacher Education Program (TEP) student Krystal Giles participated in a round-table discussion with Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock as part of the Make Your Mark campaign. The round-table, hosted by Denver Public Schools (DPS) Acting Superintendent Susana Cordova and Mayor Hancock, focused on the important role teachers of color play as advocates and role models for students of color.
The Make your Mark Campaign is an initiative dedicated to diversifying the faculty population working in Denver schools by recruiting educators of color. Mayor Hancock, DPS, six charter school networks, and several foundations have teamed up to lead this campaign. Their goal is to assure that the faculty working in Denver schools better reflects the diverse student population.
Diversifying teacher demographics is especially important in Denver. Statistics from Make Your Mark show that—in DPS—while over 75% of Denver students are of color, teachers of color make up less than 25% of the regions educators.
As part of the TEP field experience requirement, Giles, a Dual Degree Teacher Education candidate at MCE, works as an Apprentice Teacher at Barnum Elementary School in Denver. She was invited to participate in the round-table through the connections she developed during her field experience.
MCE promotes inclusive excellence and diversity in all of its programs, and recruits students who have a passion for inclusivity. Students like Giles are trained to become ideal candidates for schools looking to employ teachers dedicated to serving diverse populations.
Morgridge College of Education screening TEACH by Davis Guggenheim
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The University of Denver Morgridge College of Education (MCE) is screening the film TEACH by Davis Guggenheim, on Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Teach follows the struggles and triumphs of America’s education system through the eyes, minds and hearts of its most essential resource: teachers.
The film is hosted by Queen Latifah and directed by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who also created the documentary, Waiting for “Superman.” Guggenheim focuses on how to develop and retain great teachers in the United States; Morgridge’s Teacher Preparation Programs (TPP) are a part of this movement. A Morgridge Alum, Matt Johnson, is featured in the film.
The screening is being held for educators from across the Denver metropolitan area. It will also feature a special Q&A session with two of the film’s featured teachers, Matt Johnson (McGlone Elementary School-Denver) and Lindsay Chinn (MLK Early College-Denver), as well as an administrator from each school. Because we’ve had such a positive response from community members/educators, there will be a separate screening for MCE students, faculty and staff.
TEACH by Davis Guggenheim
Teacher Education Program (TEP) Featured in La Voz
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Morgridge College of Education’s Teacher Education Program (TEP), was recently featured in the September 24, 2014, edition of La Voz, “Colorado’s #1 Hispanic-Owned Bilingual Publication.” The feature can be found on page 8 of the Digital Edition, as well as in the print variant. The article highlights TEP’s 12-month Master’s Degree with Licensure as well as the 10-month Certification program for Licensure only.
Graduate Awarded Fox31 Good Day Gold Star Award
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We’d like to send a special congratulations to recent Teacher Education Program (TEP) graduate, Nina Jarnot. Nina has bas been awarded the Fox31 Good Day Gold Star Award, by Fox31 Denver. This monthly award goes to teachers who go above and beyond their call of duty.
With one week to go before the start of the 2014/2015 school year, Coyote Creek Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, CO, was in need of a second grade teacher. Nina quickly arrived to the rescue. She interviewed in the morning and by afternoon received a callback from administrators offering her the job, “It was a quick turnaround, but I was really thankful and excited,” Nina explains. The administrators aren’t alone in their approval of the new second grade teacher expresses one parent, “With her youth and enthusiasm, I think it really shines through, and I just think she’s a great asset to the school.”
The Morgridge College of Education and Teacher Education Program are proud of our very own, Nina Jarnot!
To see the Fox 31 segment highlighting Nina, follow this link: http://www.covideo.com/p.php?s=51302bcd8b
A Day in the Life of an Apprentice Teacher
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“When I was growing up, I didn’t think I’d be a teacher. My parents were both teachers; my sister is a teacher; it’s the family occupation,” explains Aaron Stites, a fresh face in this year’s Teacher Education Program cohort at the University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education. “I was a probation officer for the State of Colorado for over four years, volunteered for six months to teach in Latin America and ended up as the director of an education program down in Nicaragua for 22 months. I was the program coordinator for a teen homeless shelter for a year and worked for the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver in an educational summer camp teaching 5th grade. I learned firsthand, that teaching was what I enjoyed most.”
His work experience, time abroad, and his family’s influence, along with some inspiration from teachers back home in Grand Junction helped Aaron confirm his passion for teaching. After deciding on a career path, Aaron started researching Teacher Education programs in the state of Colorado. “DU is head and shoulders above other programs in the state,” commented Stites. “It’s a selective, one year program based on a gradual release model, where students are placed in cohorts for a brief classroom period before learning InContext with an apprentice teacher and a classroom of students. I applied, interviewed, got accepted, and now I’m here.”
Among several cognate options, Aaron selected focused coursework around culturally and linguistically diverse learners for his masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction. Before starting classes at Morgridge College of Education, Aaron received his apprentice teacher and classroom assignment at Bryant-Webster Elementary School in the Denver Public School System to learn from and teach with Ginger Skelton and her 5th grade classroom. Bryant-Webster is the only early childhood education through 8th grade dual-language school in the state. Students at Bryant-Webster are on the course to be bilingual, bi-cultural and bi-literate in both Spanish and English by the 8th grade.
The first quarter of classes at DU started with four intensive courses: Second Language Acquisition with Dr. Maria Salazar, Teaching and Learning Environments with Jessica Lerner, Special Education with Dr. Molly Leamon, and Teaching Mathematics for Elementary Teachers with Dr. Richard Kitchen and Dr. Terrence Blackman. Stites elaborates: “In a matter of weeks, everything we’ve learned feels like six months of coursework. But I’ve already developed baseline fundamentals of managing a classroom, working with diverse populations and breaking down the subject most elementary teachers fear the most, math. All of these classes moved quickly to get us in our classrooms where it all comes together with experiential learning. You start with your classroom on their first day of school and observe the apprentice teacher for a while; eventually, you teach a lesson, then a few lessons, a full day, and ultimately a full week. It’s overwhelming, everything teachers have to do, but we get to see the whole process, from day one to the end of the year, all with the same group of kids.”
Before students filled the classrooms and hallways, Aaron joined Ginger and other Bryant-Webster faculty and administration for professional development, reviewing the philosophies of the school and the district and setting goals for the 2013-2014 academic year. Aaron describes his first few weeks in his apprentice classroom: “It has been rewarding to observe Ginger the past few weeks. She is a consummate professional and with 16 years of teaching experience, she has everything set up perfectly and collaborates often with other teachers. That first week with students is all about establishing expectations, behaviors and routines. It surprised me how much she went over transitions like changing classrooms or sitting down for floor time, but the kids really responded to it. I am excited to get to know my 5th grade classroom better; it’s a really interesting age because the kids are getting ready to transition to the next level, but are still definitely kids.”
Throughout the year, the InContext learning at Bryant-Webster will be coupled with many more classes at MCE. Stites reflects on his experience at MCE so far: “My cohort is filled with people of all different ages, from various places and diverse backgrounds. People came from occupations such as finance, the corporate world, international education, or are recent graduates. Most of the students are from Colorado, but many of my fellow classmates are from New York, California, and Tennessee (as well as other states). It’s enlightening for everyone when you have that kind of diversity. And each professor I’ve had has been extraordinary; no matter what the situation, they’ve ‘been there, done that’. Our teachers do the things that we need to do in our classroom, like setting up different ways of learning and displaying objectives for the day; they are modeling how to be an effective teacher.”
There are months to go and there is much to learn, but when asked what his dream job is, Aaron answers, “I’m concentrated on being a good teacher, to feel like I’ve made an impact and that my kids are getting the knowledge and understanding they need to move on to the next level … that, is my dream job.”
Click here to learn more about the program Aaron Stites is in, the Teacher Education Preparation program.
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Evolution of Organic – with Filmmaker Mark Kitchell
UPDATE: This screening was a big success, enjoyed by almost a full house of interested community members. Here’s a follow-up note from film maker Mark Kitchell:
Facing BUY US A SONG, our crowdfunding campaign’s deadline of July 31, we are extending it into the fall. By now $10.5K has been raised, enough to license “Uncle John’s Band.” So our biggest concern, the Grateful Dead, is met. Coming up, we have to raise funds for Dave Mallet’’s “Garden Song”; Country Joe & the Fish’s “Fixin’ to Die Rag”; and Springsteen’s “Further on (Up the Road)”. We haven’t gotten a quote from Springsteen yet, so maybe some time on that.
May I ask for your help, a contribution toward BUY US A SONG?
Here’s how:
Link to Evolution of Organic website: http://evolutionoforganic.com
On top menu click on tab: Buy Us A Song
That webpage has a video and all the info.
Choices are Paypal or IDA, the film’s fiscal sponsor. It’s a 501(c)3 tax-deductible donation and can be paid by check or electronically.
For Paypal, find the button on the Buy Us A Song site
For IDA’s electronic webpage, go to http://documentary.org/film/evolution-organic
To pay by check, make it payable to: International Documentary Association
On memo line, put: #4219, Evolution of Organic
Mail to: IDA, 3470 Wilshire Blvd #980, Los Angeles CA 90010
EVOLUTION of ORGANIC – In Person: Mark Kitchell Filmmaker Q&A
Mount Shasta, CA – Filmmaker Mark Kitchell (Berkeley in the Sixties, A Fierce Green Fire) will be here to screen his new film: EVOLUTION of ORGANIC on Sunday, July 15, 7:30 pm at the Temple of Intention (301 S. Old Stage Rd., Mt. Shasta; $8-20 sliding scale/donation).
This film tells the story of organic agriculture, in the words of those who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers, spiritual seekers and farmers’ sons and daughters reject chemical farming and set out to explore organic alternatives.
It’s a heartfelt journey of change, from a small band of rebels to a cultural transformation in the way we grow and eat food. By now organic has gone mainstream, split into an industry oriented toward bringing organic to all people and a movement that has realized a vision of sustainable agriculture. It’s the most popular and successful outgrowth of the environmental impulse of the last fifty years.
EVOLUTION of ORGANIC is not just a history, but looks to exciting and important futures:
The next generation who are broadening organic into no-till and urban farms; Latino growers and eco-fashion; even raising salmon in flooded rice fields
Carbon farming as a solution to climate change, taking carbon out of the air and putting it in the ground where it belongs – “The best news on the planet”
What lies “beyond organic,” from soil microbiology as the new frontier to visions of a regenerative agriculture that restores everything from the ecosphere to the human spirit.
Actress Frances McDormand narrates the film, with a score by Gary Malkin and Dan Alvarez. This special screening is part of a grassroots campaign to fund music licensing of songs by artists including the Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, and Country Joe and the Fish.
DVDs for sale and more information about this campaign will be available at the screening. A portion of the proceeds will also benefit the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center.
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Interview: Francesca Capaldi on “Max 2: White House Hero”
Posted on May 19, 2017 at 8:00 am
“Max 2: White House Hero” star Francesca Capaldi has a very extensive resume for someone born in 2004, including three seasons on the popular series “Dog with a Blog” and the voice of the little red-haired girl in “The Charlie Brown Movie.” It was a lot of fun to talk to the charming and remarkably bright and poised young actress about her newest project, Max 2: White House Hero, available on DVD/Blu-Ray and streaming May 23, 2017. I have a copy to give away! Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with Max in the subject line and tell me your favorite pet’s name. Don’t forget your address! (US addresses only.) I’ll pick a winner at random on May 31, 2017.
“Okay, so the movie is basically the Russian President and his daughter come to America for talks with the US President,” she told me. “I play Alex, the daughter, and I meet the first son, TJ, who is played by Zane Austin, and his dog Max, who is a Marine dog but he stays with TJ. We kind of get into some trouble and we kind of get in some mischief. We go to a party, I went in the water on this raft, and it’s because someone is trying to sabotage these talks between Russia and the US.”
She was experienced in working with dogs before, from “Dog with a Blog.” “The most important thing to know is probably that they are not typical dogs and they’re not pets either. They’re workers. They are like actors but they’re just not humans and they are so well trained and they know so much that it’s crazy. You just have to remember they are working, kind of like service dogs, you can’t really go around playing with them.” There were actually four dogs playing the part of Max, each with different specialties. “They all had different abilities. They have different strong suits and we got to spend time with all of them before we filmed so that they are comfortable with us and there’s a better emotional connection when we’re filming. One could jump really, really well, one was a runner, one was like the face for the dogs. He’s on the posters and stuff like that. So, they all have different things they do and I thought was really cool.”
Francesca describes her character as “really excited to see what’s going to happen and I think she had a great time visiting America. And she’s a really fun character to play especially since I never did a Russian accent before. It was really cool to try something new with that. And she is a little precocious, she is a little funky and she was really fun to play.” She loves doing accents and developed this one by watching YouTube videos and working with her dad, who speaks a lot of languages. “Russians have a really distinct accent. Instead of ‘will’ they say ‘vill.’ I actually got to say some things in Russian and I’ve never spoken Russian I barely even heard it been spoken before so it was really fun. It was a little bit difficult because it’s not like anything I ever heard.”
She also had her first opportunity to do stunts, which she enjoyed very much. “I had to do a scene where I was kidnapped, where I was thrown into a van and I head butted someone and I was in this river. It was so cold I had to wear a dry suit, it was freezing and I remember the medic that was on set was saying, ‘Yes, keep your toes moving or there’s not going to be any circulation and we’re going to have to amputate them,’ and I was like ‘Oh, okay, yes, I’ll keep my toes moving.’ So it was just so cold but I loved it. I thought it was so much fun.”
Francesca has been performing since she was a baby and says, “I just love acting so much, it’s crazy.” She keeps in mind advice she got from the late Don Rickles. “He said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone ever discourage you. Stay confident, no matter what. Stay strong.’ He just gave me the best advice about the business and how to stay true to yourself.”
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Bill Cosby Found Guilty on Three Counts of Aggravated Indecent Assault
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Bill Cosby was found guilty by a jury Thursday (April 26) of three counts of aggravated, indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, according to CNN. Now, the disgraced 80-year-old comedian faces up to 10 years in prison for each count, and will likely serve them concurrently if he's to receive a maximum sentence.
The jury debated Cosby's case — a retrial — across a two-day period after hearing from key witness Constand, a former employee of Temple University's women's basketball team. She claimed that in January 2004, Cosby urged her to drink wine and take three blue pills. She testified that she then lost consciousness and was eventually “jolted awake” to find Cosby sexually assaulting her.
“I wanted it to stop. I couldn’t say anything. I was trying to get my hands to move, my legs to move and the message just wasn’t getting there. I was weak, I was limp and I couldn’t fight him off," she'd said during court proceedings. "I was really humiliated. I was in shock. And I was really confused."
Cosby's team argued that Constand was a con artist who was after Cosby's money and that their sex had been consensual.
The preceding trial ended in a mistrial in 2017 after a Pennsylvania jury failed to come to a consensus.
Dozens of women have accused Cosby of sexual assault in recent years, but only Constand's case has managed to amount to criminal charges filed against Cosby.
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Source: Bill Cosby Found Guilty on Three Counts of Aggravated Indecent Assault
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Ronald "Ron" Kovic is a former United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded in the Vietnam War and became an American anti-war activist. His life was featured in the biopic Born on the Fourth of July.
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By: Anabelle Vo
Ron has been through a lot, but what's most important is that all of these things have made him a very determined man. Ron Kovic has devoted his life to fighting for peace and nonviolence.
Peacemaker Hero: Ron Kovic
By: Anabell Vo
Listen to the audio version of Anabelle's interview with Ron Kovic.
By: Betty Bailey and Jeanne Meyers
With his friend and companion TerriAnn Ferren, Kovic has traveled the world, speaking before peace activists, presidents, and Nobel Prize winners.
By: Victoria Murphy
In his journey, Ron also turned to art. He is a self-taught expressionist who paints with authority and with love.
Ron Kovic Peace Prize
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The MY HERO Film Festival is honored to annually bestow the Ron Kovic Peace Prize to the director of the short film that most effectively addresses the issue of world peace. The accompanying $1000 cash prize supports the critical efforts of artists and peace activists whose work shows the power of non-violent solutions to our world's troubles.
Ron Kovic Peace Prize Sizzle
Producer: Hila Hamidi
Learn all about the Ron Kovic Peace Prize in the MY HERO International Film Festival.
Watch the Trailer for Ron Kovic Biopic Born on the 4th of July
Ron Kovic Became an Artist as Part of His Creative Journey
By: Ron Kovic
According to Ron Kovic, a fiercely independent artist, "This [work] was done during the Winship cottage period. I felt very creative. I just didn't care what other people thought."
Ours is a Tragic Age
Ron places his self portrait in the midst of words inspired by author D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover."
Blue Ship
This piece is about loneliness and turbulence in one's life. Kovic uses visual imagery to heal from the PTSD he suffered as a result of the war.
Ron Kovic, 2014
By: Robert Shetterly
After Robert Shetterly met Ron Kovic in Los Angeles, he painted his portrait as part of the Americans Who Tell the Truth series: "There is nothing in the lives of human beings more Brutal and terrifying than war, and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth."
Watch Short Films about Ron Kovic
A Good American: The Times of Ron Kovic [excerpt] (6:40)
Produced by:Loretta Smith
Loretta Smith, a close friend of Ron Kovic, documents his amazing journey as a Vietnam war veteran and a world renowned peace activist.
Honoring RON KOVIC
Producer: Jeanne Meyers
Learn more about Ron Kovic's multi-faceted life overcoming hardship and transforming into an author, painter, and activist who has worked for world peace over the last 40 years.
Listen to Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic BBC InterviewBy: BBC
Please enjoy this BBC Interview of Ron Kovic.
Ron Kovic speaks at MY HERO's International Day of Peace Celebration
Producer: The MY HERO Project
Ron Kovic shares his passion for a better world.
Books by Ron Kovic
This latest edition of Ron Kovic's moving account of his experiences during and after the Vietnam War contains a new introduction in which Ron draws parallels to the war in Iraq.
Around the World in Eight Days
A novel about a young man who hitches west around the world from his home town of Massapequa, Long Island, and meets an array of colorful characters, including a mad DJ--Doctor Twist.
Hurricane Street
As the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement.
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Language Is Key to Easing the Stigma of Mental Illness
July 9, 2018 | By Carolyn Reinach Wolf
It’s difficult to overstate the persistence or harm of the stigma of mental health issues for the 1 in 5 Americans who suffer from them and their families who care for them. In spite of the dedicated, long-standing work of individual activists and charitable organizations seeking to demystify and normalize mental illness and treatment, many individuals still choose to suffer alone and in silence rather than risk the shame and humiliation of being labeled mentally ill, “crazy,” or worse.
It’s hard to blame them when influential figures use powerful platforms to equate mental health conditions with such negative attributes as weakness, naiveté, and even stupidity. Just recently, Rudy Giuliani told attendees at a political rally that those doing their job of investigating President Trump are “Wackadoodles.” He further stated, with exaggerated wide eyes and hands waving around his head, that such individuals “need a psychiatrist” and “should go to Bellevue,” a hospital in New York City with a well-known psychiatric unit.
Such comments should not be taken lightly, excused, or brushed under the rug. Consider their impact on, say, an enthusiastic attendee at that very rally who might one day need psychiatric care, perhaps at Bellevue, to say nothing of those currently suffering from a serious mental health crisis—on either side of the political aisle.
As a former New York City Mayor, Giuliani in particular should be aware that beyond its well-known expertise in psychiatric care, Bellevue is a premier medical facility and, in fact, is designated to treat our nation’s presidents should they suffer a medical emergency while in New York. Bellevue Hospital has one of the most expert and dedicated medical and mental-health teams in the country.
Though that’s hardly the point.
Words are powerful. They matter. They instruct. When the short-lived White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called Reince Priebus, the chief of staff at the time, a “paranoid schizophrenic,” it served to make life increasingly difficult for those who are, or who love someone, schizophrenic, or suffering from other psychiatric illnesses. Such people have it hard enough. It is very, very challenging.
Suicide rates are climbing across the nation. Celebrity figures like Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, and before them Robin Williams, chose to end their lives despite supposedly having it all—including resources to hire the kind of mental-health resources that are tragically out of reach for most Americans. Their deaths illustrate the depths of the struggles endured by all those suffering from various mental-health conditions, from chronic depression to bipolar disorder to schizophrenia.
We must all aspire to do better. We must choose our words with care. We must believe those who tell us they’ve been hurt by inappropriate language, both purposeful and unintentional. And we must help bring others along to recognize this truth.
Those with mental illness and their families will attest to the everyday struggles that come with their condition. By simply focusing our attention and extending our compassion in a realistic and constructive way, we can help to address the facts and truths of mental illness.
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Knicks’ Ossie Schectman, who scored first points in NBA history, dies
Oscar B. “Ossie” Schectman — the man credited with scoring the first basket in the first ever NBA game (then called the BAA) — has passed away at the age of 94.
He played a little before my time (1946-47) but the NBA History twitter feed did a nice tribute to him, which we pass along part of.
Sad News: Former Knick Oscar B. "Ossie" Schectman passed away this a.m. Ossie scored the first basket in @NBAHistory (11/1/46). Ossie was 94
— NBA History (@NBAHistory) July 30, 2013
Ossie Schectman (1919-2013) Ossie was born in Queens, N.Y. and attended Samuel Tilden H.S. in Brooklyn.
Ossie Schectman (1919-2013) Ossie starred at point guard for Long Island University, which won two NIT titles in three years (1939, 1941)
Ossie Schectman (1919-2013) The 1st @NBA game, then known as the BAA (Basketball Assoc. of America) was between the Knicks & Toronto Huskies
Ossie Schectman (1919-2013) Ossie not only scored the first basket in @NBAHistory but also finished 3rd in the @NBA in assists in 1946-47
Ossie Schectman (1919-2013) What kind of player was Ossie? Think @CP3. A relentless penetrator who would routinely set up his teammates
Ossie Schectman (1919-2013) Ossie also excelled in baseball (CF). Bill Terry, Mgr. NY Giants, invited Ossie to the Polo Grounds for a tryout
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Home / US / Pulse nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen, intended to attack Disney, prosecutors say
Pulse nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen, intended to attack Disney, prosecutors say
March 29, 2018 US 14 Views
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orlando nightclub shooter intended to attack Disney Worlds shopping and entertainment complex by hiding a gun in a stroller, but was scared by the police and instead chose the gay club as its target, prosecutor said Wednesday. The prosecutors revealed the details during their closing arguments in the trial of Noor Salman the widow of the Pulse night shooter Omar Mateen. Salman, 31, is accused of helping her husband in the attack that killed 49 people in 2016. She is accused of having disabled and materially supported a terrorist organization.
"The defendant's steps do not have to equal her husband," Deputy US Attorney Sara Sweeney told the jury.
Defense lawyers have described Salman as a simple low-IQ woman abused by her husband who did not know his plans because he hid much of his life from her. They will present their final arguments later on Wednesday.
Sweeney said that Salman did not know that Mateen went to Pulse nightclub on the night of the attack. She thought he was in Disney World. The two had visited Disney in the days before the attack, according to one of their statements to federal authorities.
"The target of this terrorist attack was not the Pulse nightclub," Sweeney said. "The target of the attack was Disney."
Sweeney showed a video of the Disney Springs complex that captured Mateen in the hours before the Pulse attack near the House of Blues club. In it he sees policemen standing nearby.
"He had to choose a new destination," she said.
Sweeney told Salman "knowingly misleading behavior" when talking to the FBI in the hours following the attack.
The prosecutor said she claimed that her husband did not use the Internet at home, but he did. She also told the investigators that Mateen had disabled his Facebook account in 201
3, but investigators found that he had an account until the month of the shoot and was friends with his wife. She said that her husband only had one gun when he had three, and that he was not radicalized, although the prosecution said he spent time beheading videos and looking at the ISIS pages.
Mateen, who swore allegiance to IS, was killed by the police in the hours following the shootings.
Sweeney also said that Mateen had bought a stroller and a doll in Walmart on June 11, the day before the attack, and had a plan to hide a gun in the stroller while going to Disney. Www.mjfriendship.de/de/index.php?op…=view&id=167 During the month, prosecutors had shown the video of the jury 's shots during Salman' s trial as a timeline. Englisch: www.mjfriendship.de/en/index.php?op…=view&id=167 firmly laid. Prosecutors told the court that they had shown the video to the judges because they believe it is the clearest proof that they point to Salman for supporting her husband in a terrorist attack, Michelle Miller of CBS News reports.
The edited courtroom video begins by showing Matenen buying a ticket before entering Pulse while clubbers enjoy the last call. It is just before 2am, Mateen is leaving the building. He returns less than 10 minutes later and almost immediately opens the main body of the club with his semi-automatic rifle.
After several shots, he heads for the back of the club and fires again, methodically picking up the guests, some dive to the floor, others just fall over each other. He seems to shoot some victims if they have already fallen.
At one point Mateen dropped a used clip and reloaded. As he swings back and forth between the rooms, he fires on and then heads for the bathroom, where people are watching in covert video on mobile video.
At 2:07, about six minutes after he started firing, the police entered the building with weapons drawn. As they search for Mateen, they are stumbled over the victims and evacuated as many as possible who are still alive.
At 2:37, survivors can be seen as they climb out of the building as law enforcement continues to enter the club.
The video shows the police who busy Mateen, but it does not show his last moments. He was found dead more than three hours after the shooting started.
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Home / US / "The second amendment will never be lifted": Trump beats the call of John Paul Stevens for change
"The second amendment will never be lifted": Trump beats the call of John Paul Stevens for change
March 28, 2018 US 9 Views
President Donald Trump has rejected the resignation of retired Supreme Court John Paul Stevens from the repeal of the second amendment.
"The second change will never be lifted," Trump tweeted on Wednesday. "As much as the Democrats want to see that, and despite the words spoken yesterday by former Supreme Court Justice Stevens."
THE SECOND CHANGE IS NEVER REPEALED! As much as the Democrats want to see it, and despite the words written yesterday by former Supreme Court Justice Stevens, there is NO WAY. We need more Republicans in 201
8 and ALWAYS have to hold the Supreme Court!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2018
Stevens, 97, has moved from the March to Our Lives last weekend. 11 / 21.html Hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country called for action against gun violence, a commentary published in the New York Times wrote.
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People are holding her hands up as directed by musician Brandi Carlile at Seattle Center during the march for our life rally, held in Seattle March 24, 2018.
The former Justice, who resigned from the Supreme Court in 2010, called for the repeal of the Second Amendment of the Constitution to block the ability of the National Rifle Association to "weaken legislative debate and constructive arms laws."
"Rarely in my life have I seen the kind of citizenship school children and their supporters have displayed in Washington," Stevens wrote. "These demonstrations demand our respect and show broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass murder of schoolchildren and others in our society."
The second additional article says: "A well-regulated militia, which is necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and carry weapons, must not be violated."
Stevens argues in his statement released on Tuesday that a Supreme Court ruling of 2008, District of Columbia v. Lighter, it was crucial, as it stated that the Second Amendment gave individuals the right to carry arms.
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The Supreme Court judges of the United States states for their official family photo in Washington, September 29, 2009.
"This decision – which I am convinced was wrong and undoubtedly controversial – has provided the NRA with a propaganda weapon of immense power," wrote Stevens, who was among the four dissidents in the case.
The White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, approached the former Justice Minister Tuesday, saying that the President and his government "still fully support the Second Amendment".
"We believe the focus must continue to be on removing weapons from dangerous individuals and not blocking all Americans from their constitutional rights," Sanders said when asked if Trump was looking for Steven's request for one Suspension has reacted.
The NRA also made a statement that responded to Stevens & # 39; Op-Ed, The Associated Press reported.
"The men and women of the National Rifle Association, along with the majority of the American people and the Supreme Court, believe in the right to self-protection of the second Amendment and we will continue to fight unplugally to protect that freedom," the statement said.
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Child Killed, 2 Adults Hurt In Accident At Alstede Farms in Chester, N.J.
Filed Under:Alex Silverman, Alstede Farms, Bill Cogger, Chester, Elizabeth Fuehring, Frederic Knapp, Kenny Fuehring, Morris County, Rebecca Granet
Elizabeth Fuehring's Go fund me page (Gofundme.com)
CHESTER, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A child was killed and two adults were hurt in an accident at a fall festival in New Jersey on Sunday.
Morris County Prosecutor Frederic Knapp confirmed the fatality of the child Monday. The accident happened around 4:30 p.m. Sunday when the pedestrians were hit at Alstede Farms in Chester after two shuttle buses crashed in a parking lot, CBS 2 reported.
Authorities had not released the names of those involved in the accident, but WCBS 880’s Alex Silverman reported, Kenny Fuehring, of Lake Hopatcong, wrote on Facebook on Sunday night that his 2-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, died at Alstede Farms.
Child Killed, 2 Adults Hurt In Accident At Alstede Farms in Chester
“This afternoon, I lost a piece of me, my daughter Elizabeth,” the father wrote. “She was happy, energetic, and adorable. She was way too young and innocent to go.”
Fuehring, overcome with grief, spoke about the loss of his daughter on Monday.
“She just…she had that glow about her. That smile,” he said.
Elizabeth’s mother Sarah was also struck and broke a leg in the accident. She remains heavily sedated, but is aware of what happened.
A Gofundme page was also set up in Elizabeth’s honor. More than $20,000 has been raised to help the family with funeral expenses, according to the site.
The farm was hosting a weekend harvest festival at the time of the incident.
As CBS 2’s Weijia Jiang reported, the community has been sounding the alarm for years, about traffic jams near the farm.
“Somebody other than the landowner needs to be in control of these events,” Mayo Bill Cogger told Silverman.
Cogger said the farm’s owner has spent money studying traffic patterns.
“Fact of the matter is, it simply did not work,” he said.
Neighbors said they, too, have voiced concerns.
“It is completely unconscionable,” said resident Andrew O’Connor. “It is absurd to have this amount of traffic with no oversight. We have repeatedly complained to Alstede.”
Until recently, Alstede was a farm stand, but it then morphed into a regional attraction that now draws tens of thousands of visitors on fall weekends.
Sunday’s accident didn’t stop many from coming to the farm Monday, but some said they were taking precautions.
“Keep the kids a little close, make sure we keep an eye on them,” one man told 1010 WINS’ Rebecca Granet.
Alstede posted a statement on its website that said: “The Alstede family and staff grieve and mourn for the families impacted by the motor vehicle accident that occurred Sunday October 12, 2014. Our sincere prayers and heartfelt thoughts are extended to everyone involved.”
Fuehring wants answers, but for now he is focused on grieving the loss of his little girl, and comforting his 6-year-old son, who saw the crash.
“Everybody will miss her. She’s touched so many more people than she knows,” he said.
The investigation is ongoing, but a spokesman said that the company could not answer any questions about the accident as it was still under investigation.
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Google's Robotic Spinoff Launches Ride-Hailing Service
by Michael Liedtke .
Wednesday Dec 5, 2018
Google's self-driving car spinoff is finally ready to try to profit from its nearly decade-old technology.
Waymo is introducing a small-scale ride-hailing service in the Phoenix area that will include a human behind the wheel in case the robotic vehicles malfunction.
The service debuting Wednesday marks a significant milestone for Waymo, a company that began as a secretive project within Google in 2009. Since then, its cars have robotically logged more 10 million miles on public roads in 25 cities in California, Arizona, Washington, Michigan and Georgia while getting into only a few accidents — mostly fender benders.
The company is initially operating the new service cautiously, underscoring the challenges still facing its autonomous vehicles as they navigate around vehicles with human drivers that don't always follow the same rules as robots.
The service, dubbed Waymo One, at first will only be available to a couple hundred riders, all of whom had already been participating in a free pilot program that began in April 2017. It will be confined to a roughly 100-square-mile area in and around Phoenix, including the neighboring cities of Chandler, Tempe, Mesa, and Gilbert.
Although Waymo has been driving passengers without any humans behind the wheel in its free pilot program, it decided to be less daring with the new commercial service.
"Self-driving technology is new to many, so we're proceeding carefully with the comfort and convenience of our riders in mind," Waymo CEO John Krafcik wrote in Wednesday blog post heralding the arrival of the new service.
The ride-hailing service is launching in the same area where a car using robotic technology from ride-hailing service Uber hit and killed a pedestrian crossing a darkened street in Tempe, Arizona seven months ago. That fatal collision attracted worldwide attention that cast a pall over the entire self-driving car industry as more people began to publicly question the safety of the vehicles.
"I suspect the Uber fatality has caused Waymo to slow down its pace a bit" and use human safety drivers in its ride-hailing service," said Navigant Research analyst Sam Abuelsamid. "If people keep dying, there will be a bigger backlash against these vehicles."
The Uber robotic car had a human safety driver behind the wheel, but that wasn't enough to prevent its lethal accident in March.
Waymo's self-driving vehicles are still susceptible to glitches, as an Associated Press reporter experienced during a mid-October ride in an autonomous minivan alongside Krafcik near company's Mountain View, California, headquarters.
The minivan performed smoothly, even stopping for a jaywalker, before abruptly pulling to the right side of the road. Ahead was a left-turning FedEx delivery truck. In a digital message to the two human backup drivers, the van said it "detected an issue" and it would connect to a rider support agent. Rider support didn't respond, so they switched to manual mode and returned to Waymo headquarters.
At that time, Krafcik conceded to the AP that Waymo's self-driving vehicles were still encountering occasional problems negotiating left-hand turns at complicated intersections.
"I think the things that humans have challenges with, we're challenged with as well," Krafcik said. "So sometimes unprotected lefts are super challenging for a human, sometimes they're super challenging for us."
Waymo eventually plans to open its new ride-hailing app to all comers in the Phoenix area, although it won't say when. It also wants to expand its service to other cities, but isn't saying where. When that happens, it could pose a threat to Uber and the second most popular U.S. ride-hailing service, Lyft, especially since it should be able charge lower prices without the need to share revenue with a human driver in control at all times.
General Motors also is gearing up to begin offering a ride-hailing service through its Cruise subsidiary under the management of a new CEO, Dan Ammann, who has been the Detroit automaker's No. 2 executive. Cruise plans to start its ride-hailing service at some point next year in at least one U.S. city. Another self-driving car company, Drive.ai, has been giving short-distance rides to all comers within Frisco, Texas and Arlington, Texas since the summer.
AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this story.
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The good, the bad, the fabulous
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NYC’S FABULOUS WOMEN UNDER GROUND
Part of my fascination with New York City lies in what is not usually encountered and most often missing from our cityscape. By this, I mean evidence of the contributions that New York’s fabulous women have made to the five boroughs. Over the centuries, women have accounted for roughly half of New York City’s population. But historical documents and histories of the city are invariably lacking in information about New York women. For that information, you need to go underground.
Enter Amanda Sutphin, an urban archaeologist working for the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Sutphin might be called the city’s quintessential underground woman. She spends her days in the city’s underground, climate-controlled archaeological repository. Here, she works with with artifacts that often spent centuries underground before resurfacing in New York City during archaeological excavations.
Urban archaeologist, Amanda Sutphin,in the Nan A. Rothschild Research Center of the New York City Archaeological Repository. The underground facility houses over a million objects collected from excavations throughout the five boroughs. Located in the Durst Organization Building on Corporate Row, the facility places artifacts associated with New York women of the past, once again, at the very heart of New York City.
When bulldozers dig the foundations of a new building, excavate a new subway tunnel or refurbish a ferry landing, they destroy the archaeological record of the city. Construction projects that take place on city land are required to complete an archaeological survey before the earth–and important evidence of the past–is disturbed. In this way, the destruction of the city’s past also turns up artifacts that once belonged to long gone of New Yorkers. Once these objects resurface on city land, ownership then transfers to the current generation of New Yorkers.
Artifacts that enter the city’s archaeological repository are used by Sutphin and her colleagues to reconstruct the past for the benefit of contemporary New Yorkers. “These object were found on public land,” explains Ms. Sutphin. “The collection has been catalogued and studied with public money. The public should benefit from these efforts, and we hope to help them do so.”
Dr. Nan Rothschild, Adjunct professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, at the Stadt Huys excavation at the southern tip of Manhattan. She holds the bowl of a pipe from Dutch New Amsterdam, recovered at the site. Photo courtesy Stadt Huys Excavation Project.
Asked to provide the earliest example of objects associated with fabulous New York women of the past, Ms. Sutphin points to the city’s prehistory and Native American culture. Archaeological sites from this early period are most associated with exploiting the land for seasonal food sources such as coastal spring fishing camps, fall open air hunting camps and shellfish collecting stations. Native American women in sites such as the one now at College Point, Queens, worked at collecting and processing food. Artifacts from this site include shells that were discarded after processing and a stone weight used to sink fishing nets.
Whelk, scallop and oyster shells unearthed at the College Point, Queens, prehistoric site. A stone net weight is at left. This site indicates the rich coastal food resources available to the earliest New York women. Photo courtesy New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
“The archaeological record of urban New York actually begins in 17th century New Amsterdam,” explains Ms. Sutphin. The Stadt Huys or City Hall, a site in lower Manhattan located at today’s 85 Broad Street was the site of an archaeological excavation. The Stadt Huys was built by William Kieft, a lesser-known director of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam before Peter Stuyvesant and his peg leg arrived in town.
Louis Oram, View of Stadthuys, watercolor. Collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
The site originally served as a place where officials and guests of the Director were lodged and fed. And drank. A lot.
The archaeological record of The Stadt Huys is rich in bottles and pitchers that held the liquor seemingly necessary for official business of the Dutch city. Locally-made pottery and imported glass bottles were found in abundance at the site.
Found at the Stadt Huys site, a redware pitcher and a glass bottle that were likely hefted by New Amsterdam serving maids, the original New York City waitresses. The locally-made pottery pitcher, modeled on Dutch prototypes, held locally-brewed ale or cider. The glass decanter, an elite object imported from Europe, held imported wine. It was likely used by New Amsterdam’s political elite when attending to official business. Kitchen work and serving were two of the limited options of work for New Amsterdam women.
In 1664, Dutch New Amsterdam became English New York. Artifacts from colonial era New York were discovered during an excavation over an 18th century “ice-box” room on the grounds of what is now the Tweed Courthouse at 52 Chambers Street in lower Manhattan. The 18th century English custom of tea drinking was adopted by colonial New York ladies and was a feature of New York loyalist families (which was most of them.) The evidence of tea drinking squarely places the colony in the middle of the political crisis that loomed when that commodity was taxed by the British. And we all know what happened next….(though New York City remained staunchly loyal to the Crown.)
A green glazed teapot spout from the 18th century might have broken during a tea party hosted by loyalist New York women. The beloved and oft-told (but likely apocryphal) tale of Mrs. Murray and her daughters describes such a party. After the American defeat at the Battle of Brooklyn, the Murray ladies, secret patriots, hosted a tea party for British officers. Their aim was to distract them while American troops escaped pursuing red coats. New York legend says that a maid kept watch at an upstairs window and signaled her mistress once the troops had made their way to safety. The unsuspecting Mr. Murray, a loyalist, provided the tea for the entertainment which took place in today’s Murray Hill section of Manhattan.
Tea was an expensive commodity, usually kept in a box that was kept locked by the lady of the house. And the accoutrements for serving tea were imported elite items including teapots, teaspoons, teacups and saucers.
Jean-Étienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702 – 1789), Still Life: Tea Set, about 1781 – 1783, Oil on canvas mounted on board. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Speaking about New York women of the 19th century, Ms. Sutphin pointed to three different bottles designed to hold manufactured goods. These artifacts signaled that like today, New York women of the past were responsible for the majority of purchases in the city’s households–thus a driving economic force in the city. A variety of 19th century bottles were excavated from root cellars in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx when it morphed from a private home to a public park.
L. Miller’s Hair Invigorator was part of the manufacturing boom in 19th century New York. The product was marketed as a product for mother’s who wished to see their babies grow a lush head of hair (and their balding husbands.)
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Mother Combing Her Child’s Hair, Pastel on Gray Paper, Behest of Mary T. Cockcroft, Courtesy The Brooklyn Museum.
At the southern tip of Manhattan, the renovation of the Battery Park subway tunnel yielded a mid-20th century toy belonging to a New York child. A play teacup made of Depression era glass was likely lost by a little girl playing in what was then a park.
The child’s replica of her mother’s tea set was manufactured in Akron, Ohio during the Depression. Ms. Sutphin points to modern New York City girls of the 20th century being given a set of expectations that seem to differ little from those of little ladies in colonial era New York.
“Assigning gender to artifacts is often difficult,” warns Ms. Sutphin. “But it is also true that the increasing presence of female archaeologists in New York City has meant that attention is often given to objects that can offer clues to the lives of past New York women.”
Play-Time Glass Dish Set in its original box. Akro Company produced a wonderful collection of dishes for little girls. Perhaps best known for their marbles, Akro Agate Company was founded in Akron, Ohio, in 1911 and moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia, in 1914.
And the influence of New York women who work as archaeologists is overwhelmingly evident in the formation of the city’s archaeological archives. The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center of the New York City Archaeological Repository is named for the Barnard College archaeologist who trained Ms. Sutphin as an undergraduate student. Professor Rothschild persuaded her cousin, Helena Durst, to donate space in the basement of the Durst Organization building, located on Corporate Row on West 47th Street, to house the collection. Three fabulous New York women at work in the city!
Professor Rothschild has conducted extensive research into the lower Manhattan neighborhoods that comprised New Amsterdam and New York. Photo courtesy of amazon.com.
The ghosts of New York women past are among us. They may be underground instead of featured in history books and archives, but they account for half of the actors in our city’s great history. And today’s New York women archaeologists are working to preserve their past, record their lives and tell the stories of their contributions to the city we know: the good, the bad, the fabulous.
The excavations or digs from which objects enter the collection of the New York City Landmarks and Preservation Commission are situated throughout the 5 boroughs. New York City is the first city in the nation to allow access to its archaeological records through a website. The website lets you browse current and past digs in several ways: using a map, through a list of excavations, or via thematic collections. The themed collections include: Food and Drink in Colonial New York, Historic Toys and Animals Among Us. This final collection includes some of the oldest objects in the archives, and helps us reconstruct the natural environment of New York and its abundant natural resources.
In an effort to bring education about archaeology into New York classrooms, lesson plans for teachers and fun quizzes for kids are also available. If you catch the bug for unearthing Gotham (or other places) and want to study archaeology, the web site offers a list of institutions in the city with formal programs as well as field schools–a way to literally get your hands dirty while learning about digging up the past.
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New Role for Astrocytes in Controlling Circadian Rhythms
Summary: Astrocytes may lead the tempo of the body’s internal clock and control patterns of daily behavior, a new study reports.
Source: Medical Research Council.
Astrocytes, ‘caretaker’ cells that surround and support neurons in the brain, play a much more important role in circadian rhythms, the body’s 24-hour internal clock, than previously understood.
The Medical Research Council (MRC)-funded study published today in the journal Science, found that these star-shaped cells, previously thought of as just supporting neurons in regulating circadian rhythms, can actually lead the tempo of the body’s internal clock and have been shown for the first time to be able to control patterns of daily behaviour in mammals.
The findings of the new study could pave the way for new treatments to be exploited when circadian rhythms are disrupted, which can cause jet lag and sleep disorders, as well as contribute to a range of health conditions, from psychiatric disorders to dementia, diabetes and cancer.
Circadian rhythms are well known for their role in maintaining human health and although many different types of cells across the body have been found to have their own internal clock, the timing of these clocks is chiefly controlled by the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a small brain region in the hypothalamus which acts as the master clock responsible for regulating daily behaviour.
This new study, led by the MRC’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, used microscopic imaging to observe the detailed internal molecular clock timing of the astrocytes and neurons of the SCN. Surprisingly, this showed that although both types of cell have their own circadian clocks, they are differently regulated and were seen to be active at different times of the day. This delicate interplay was found to be critical in keeping the entire SCN clockwork ticking.
Following this initial discovery, the scientists found mice genetically altered to silence their internal body clock showed disruption to their SCN function and behaviour but, unexpectedly, found that the restoration of a genetically functional clock in astrocytes alone enabled the mice to regulate their daily activity. This meant that even when astrocytes were the only cell in an animal with a working internal clock, there were still observed patterns of daily behaviour of mice. When the researchers compared this pattern of behaviour to mice whose neuronal clocks were working, they found that the period of regulated activity in the SCN was approximately one hour shorter, which was also reflected by the mouse behaviour, showing that astrocytes were capable of controlling animal behaviour to their own cell-specific tune.
The study also revealed that glutamate, a neurotransmitter in the brain and central nervous system, acted as the chemical signal used to convey time cues from the working astrocytes of the SCN to their clockless neuronal partners.
“The discovery that astrocytes can be as effective as neurons in generating and transmitting a circadian timing signal across an animal really surprised us,” said Dr Marco Brancaccio, a Dementia Lecturer and UK Dementia Research Institute Fellow at Imperial College London and lead author of the paper, previously at the MRC’s LMB when this research was undertaken. “We knew from previous research that these cells played a role in circadian clocks, but we had no idea they could restart the circadian function of neurons. This adds a totally new and unanticipated dimension to the neurobiology of circadian body clocks and suggests some exciting avenues for future research and the potential to develop treatments.”
A micrograph of suprachiasmatic nucleus tissue (SCN) showing a subset of astrocytes within the nucleus, as revealed by staining by the GFAP-GFP marker. The inset is a magnification of the astrocyte highlighted in the low resolution figure, showing the distinctive shape of these cells. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Marco Brancaccio.
“This is the first time that it has been demonstrated that astrocytes, cells we’d previously overlooked as mere support cells, can actually control animal behaviour. This is a significant advance in the field of neuroscience,” added Dr Michael Hastings, Head of the Neurobiology Division at the MRC’s LMB and senior author of the paper.
Dr Joanna Latimer, Head of Neurosciences and Mental Health at the MRC, said: “In recent years it has become increasingly clear that disruption of the body’s internal clock through shift-work, dementia and other neurological diseases can have a dangerous impact on our health and well-being. This research is an important step towards a better understanding of how the brain controls these circadian rhythms at a molecular and cellular level, an essential advance if we are to manage the impact of these conditions more effectively.”
Funding: Medical Research Council funded this study.
Source: Caroline Brooks – Medical Research Council
Image Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Marco Brancaccio.
Original Research: The study will appear in Science.
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January 11, 2019 Dr V Reghunandanan
It is highly interesting to read about the role of astrocytes in controlling circadian rhythms. Though in initial stage studies in this directiowill definitely prove to be highly useful to humans by solving problems like jet lag and others and even to a great extent harmful effects of cancer.
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Steadily moving towards leadership
Pinehas Nakaziko Youth Khomas
WINDHOEK – Selma Ambunda is a goal-driven mid-career woman with a passion for driving change.
A devoted hardworking Christian and believer she grew up in rural Namibia in the small village of Ouma, in the Omusati Region. Walking long distances from home to school and back, covering ten kilometres a day, did not put her off school but instead motivated her to one day change her circumstances. “Without the perseverance to succeed, I would not be where I am today. I continued to study hard, although being duty-bound as a child, working in the fields as expected from society, at the time I had only one thing in mind … that was to do well enough in school, pass Grade 12 and go to university,” she says.
Her foremost challenge was her parents’ inability to pay for her tertiary education having to fend for five siblings with only one breadwinner. “I was the last born and I had an older sister that was in education as a teacher, and she offered to pay for my first year, while I tried to secure a government loan,” explains Ambunda.
“A teacher, a nurse or police officer. Knowing that many of my friends and family expected me to become a nurse, probably due to my caring nature and love of working with people, I then had my mind made up and decided I too shall become a nurse,” says Ambunda, adding that she was admitted to the then Polytechnic of Namibia, and because it did not offer nursing she opted for human resource management. “This is a field I have grown to love and have not looked back a day ever since,” she says.
“Besides being hardworking, I was an extremely competitive scholar, which meant that I always strived to achieve better grades compared to my classmates.”
Ambunda is currently acting CEO at the Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA). The challenging aspect for her as head of BIPA is financial sustainability. “As leadership we have to ensure that the entity becomes and remains financially sustainable, while at the same time focused on providing effective and efficient service delivery. However, I have no doubt that as a team we are dedicated and able to turn around the situation,” she says.
Acting in this position for the last four months now, Ambunda says readiness and eagerness to adjust as well as perseverance helped her to settle in the position. And of course surrounded by a capable team with the requisite passion and skills have made it easy for her. “It calls for new ways of doing things and different expectations, however it’s an experience that I embrace as it’s an opportunity to learn, grow and provide leadership to the team.”
Her qualifications include a Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Australia Institute of Business, Master Degree in Human Resources Development from the University of South Africa (UNISA), a Bachelor Degree in Human Resources Development from UNISA and a Diploma in Human Resources Management from the Namibia University of Science and Technology. The past 19 years of her life have taught her to work much harder. Her desirable goal in life is becoming more actively involved in philanthropic work, especially involving previously disadvantaged children.
“Making a difference, even just to one Namibian child, should not be a goal, but rather a calling for each privileged Namibian.” Ambunda advises all those aiming to be in a leadership position to always do for others what they expect from others. “If you want your team to work hard and be honest, then make sure that you work the hardest and that you are always honest to yourself. As a leader, your success is no longer about your own output, it’s about other people and what they do too. The most important part of your job is enabling your team to do their jobs.”
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Wang Yi: China-Poland ties at new starting point
Updated 23:00, 09-Jul-2019
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke highly on Monday of China-Poland relations, proposing that the two countries should further develop bilateral ties and enhance mutual trust so as to inject new impetus to their national development.
FM: China to further promote ties with EU, CEEC
Speaking during a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki Monday in Warsaw, Wang, noting that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations, said ties between the two nations are at a starting point in a new era.
China has a huge market and has been expanding the opening-up of its economy for mutual benefits and win-win outcomes, Wang said, adding that his country welcomes Poland sharing in its development opportunities.
Wang expressed China's willingness to import more quality products from Poland, expand trade volume and boost balanced growth of bilateral trade.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) holds talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Warsaw, Poland, July 9, 2019. /Photo via Chinese Foreign Ministry
China also encourages its enterprises to invest in Poland, he said, voicing hope that the Polish government will provide a fair, just and transparent business environment for Chinese and other foreign enterprises, Wang added.
Viewing Poland as an important cooperation partner in jointly building the Belt and Road, Wang stressed that China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Poland under the framework of China and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) cooperation.
China hopes that Poland, as one of the emerging forces of the European Union (EU), will play a constructive role in China-EU ties, he added.
For his part, Morawiecki said his country, which firmly opposes protectionism and unilateralism, welcomes China's move to expand trade with and investment in Poland, and will treat foreign enterprises in an open and transparent manner.
Poland is willing to continue to work with China to deepen mutual trust and promote win-win cooperation, and jointly formulate a roadmap for medium- and long-term cooperation, he said.
(With inputs from Xinhua)
(Cover: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) shakes hand with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Warsaw, Poland, July 9, 2019. /Photo via Chinese Foreign Ministry)
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‘Address root causes’ of instability in Mali through ‘aid and support’ urges UN chief
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Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta receives the UN Security Council delegation at Palais de Koulouba in Bamako. March 2019.
Appearing before the Security Council on Friday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the only way to prevent increased violence and instability in Mali is to tackle root causes such as grinding poverty; climate change and competition for resources; underdevelopment, and a fundamental lack of opportunities for young people.
Although the security situation in Mali is deteriorating, Mr. Guterres pointed to important steps taken in the last six months, to implement a stalled peace agreement signed by the Government and armed groups, in 2015.
These include the integration of over 1,400 former combatants into the Malian army; the establishment of interim administrations in all five northern regions; and the effective participation of women in the peace process.
I call on all national, regional and international actors to step up efforts to tackle the multiple threats facing Mali and the entire Sahel region - UN chief Guterres
The Malian Government has been seeking to restore stability and rebuild following a series of setbacks since early 2012 that fractured the country, including a military coup d'état, renewed fighting between Government forces and Tuareg rebels, and the seizure of its northern territory by radical extremists.
Noting the launch of a comprehensive political and administrative reform process by the Government, the UN chief encouraged leaders in the north-west African nation to promote reconciliation and inter-communal dialogue, “aimed at inclusivity, strengthening resilience and creating social cohesion from the ground up.”
He also welcomed efforts by the Government to make the process as broad as possible, including political leaders across the spectrum, armed groups and movements involved in the peace process – both pro-Government and opposition – as well as experts and members of civil society.
Mr. Guterres urged all Malian parties to redouble their efforts, use dialogue to address their differences, and listen to the voices of Malian people, and called on the international community to continue its support.
Recalling the ongoing humanitarian challenges in Mali, where he visited restive areas north of the capital last year, the Secretary-General said that 2.4 million people in the country need food assistance, and that, in northern and central regions, there are just three health workers per 10,000 people. 800 schools are closed, and nearly a quarter of a million children have no access to education.
We 'cannot stand by' while Mali deteriorates
He praised the UN Integrated Strategic Framework adopted inside the country, international initiatives underway, such as the Sahel Allliance, launched by France, Germany and the European Union (EU), which aims to invest nine billion euros by 2022 across the vast region, badly effected by rising extremism, trans-national crime and economic instability.
Such initiatives are in themselves, “insufficient” he warned the Council, calling on “all to strengthen efforts to address the root causes of instability and insecurity in Mali through humanitarian aid and support for sustainable development, including programmes on climate change mitigation and adaptation.”
Mali’s recovery is “a test of the international community’s ability to mobilize in support of peace and stability. This is not a question of charity; it is one of enlightened self-interest. Security in Mali has an impact on the entire Sahel, which in turn affects global stability.”
We cannot stand by while the humanitarian situation deteriorates, development gaps increase, and security risks become unsustainable”, said Mr. Guterres. “I call on all national, regional and international actors to step up efforts to tackle the multiple threats facing Mali and the entire Sahel region.”
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The United Nations has strongly condemned the armed attack on a village in restive central Mali which reportedly left at least 134 people dead and dozens wounded early on Saturday.
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NYU School of Medicine Leads Consortium of Medical Schools with Three-Year Accelerated Pathway MD Programs to Garner Best Practices
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Provides $250,000 Four-Year Grant to Establish Consortium
April 2, 2015 (8:00AM)
NYU School of Medicine today announced it is leading a medical school consortium to identify and share best practices for the development of accelerated pathways to obtain a medical degree (MD). The consortium, funded by a four-year, $250,000 grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, will serve as an incubator that promotes necessary peer interaction to help ensure a more systematic approach to accelerated programs nationwide.
The consortium concept was created in spring 2014 when NYU School of Medicine hosted a roundtable of deans from 11 medical schools who had already implemented or were considering implementing shortened pathways to the MD degree. To complement the June roundtable meeting, NYU School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania sponsored a survey of deans and program directors at 125 U.S. medical schools.
The results of the survey and the roundtable discussion indicate that a growing number of U.S. medical schools have or will begin to develop accelerated pathways, and that this phenomenon has already begun to change the paradigm of medical education. The issue now at hand is whether such accelerated programs can ensure that the competencies, maturity, professionalism, and attractiveness of its graduates as compared to the graduates of non-accelerated programs.
“Fast-track programs should not emerge haphazardly across the country,” said Steven B. Abramson, MD, co-principal investigator of the Macy Foundation grant, senior vice president and vice dean for education, faculty and academic affairs at NYU School of Medicine. “Rather, they should be carefully developed as an option for interested and qualified students based upon common principles and standards. We are at crucial time where institutions with expertise and experience, such as those in the consortium, need to unite to ensure that the important concerns are addressed, novel ideas are disseminated, and the outcomes of accelerated programs can be measured.”
“This is an important moment to explore new models of medical education to better respond to societal needs,” George E. Thibault, MD, president, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
The consortium is currently comprised of eight medical schools that have or will implement three year accelerated pathways:
Medical College of Wisconsin - Central Wisconsin and Green Bay
Penn State College of Medicine
According to Joan Cangiarella, MD, co-principal investigator, associate dean for faculty and academic affairs at NYU School of Medicine, “With generous support from the Macy Foundation, we will have the resources necessary to coalesce the experience and expertise of the participating medical schools and describe the unique role accelerated pathway programs can serve in medical education. We anticipate that this work will have tremendous and lasting effects throughout the healthcare education environment.”
NYU School of Medicine, which has earned national attention in recent years for reimagining medical education to address the needs of future physicians, recently announced it is #14 in the nation for research, and #2 in New York, out of 130 medical schools on the 2016 U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” rankings. NYU School of Medicine is also known for the importance it places on providing individualized education, such as its three-year MD and dual degree programs.
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It’s time to help our builders build.
Affordable housing crises, outdated infrastructure, aging power grids: these are massive, pressing problems facing our country, and the world. But we’re not facing them down as fast as we should - in part because we haven’t provided the men and women in construction with the same powerful tools to manage their work that office workers take for granted.
It’s time to change that.
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Philip was recently a computer vision and data visualization Research Scientist at MIT, where he completed his PhD (and Masters, and BS). His work has been featured at TED (among other places).
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After completing his PhD at MIT, Michael started Bluefin Labs, a company that specialized in analysis of massive amounts of video. Twitter acquired Bluefin in one of its largest acquisitions. Michael was most recently advisor to Twitter’s CTO.
Futuristic technology, years in the making.
The technology behind OpenSpace’s patent pending video processing algorithms is the culmination of nearly 20 years of combined research and development, starting with the founders’ PhD work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This research into cutting edge approaches to Computer Vision, 3D Modeling and big data visualization, as featured in this TED talk, form the foundation of the AI system that powers the OpenSpace suite of products.
Building on this work, OpenSpace’s team of PhDs and Masters of Science from MIT, CalTech, Stanford and Berkeley has spent the last 3 years adapting these core algorithms, similar to the technology behind self-driving cars, specifically for the construction industry.
The OpenSpace team are seasoned entrepreneurs specializing in commercializing cutting edge technology, having founded and built high growth AI companies with acquirers such as 3D Robotics and Twitter.
We are proud to be the first product in the market that provides builders and owners a fully automatic reality capture system.
And we aim to be the technology leaders in this space. If you like what you see now, rest assured that there is more to come in the future. Because at OpenSpace, we provide products to our end users that—while backed with incredibly advanced technology—are simple, powerful, and help get the job done.
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Theological Earthquake at Virginia Trad Chapel: Fr. Ronald Ringrose abandons Recognize-and-Resist Position
St. Athanasius Church in Vienna, Virginia, established in 1968
Let's cut right to the chase: Fr. Ronald Ringrose, the pastor of St. Athanasius Church in Vienna, Virginia, has publicly repudiated his long-time theological position of recognizing the papal claimants since Vatican II as valid but resisting them in their magisterium and their government of the church (commonly known as the "recognize-and-resist" position). Realizing that the position is plainly contrary to the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church, Fr. Ringrose began to disavow it publicly in three of his parish bulletins in January 2018. The excerpts can be downloaded in a single file here:
Excerpts of St. Athanasius Church Bulletin (Jan. 14, 21, and 28, 2018)
Together with his rejection of the recognize-and-resist position, however, Fr. Ringrose also came out against Sedevacantism, which he believes to be erroneous as well. Instead, he cautiously proposes a third option which seems very similar, if not identical in all its nuances and details, to what is typically called "Sedeprivationism" (alternatively, it is referred to as the "material-formal theory" or the "Cassiciacum Thesis"), which was first enunicated by the Dominican theologian Bp. Michel-Louis Guerard des Lauriers and is today maintained by Bp. Donald J. Sanborn in the United States and Fr. Francesco Ricossa in Italy, among others. Before we comment on what Fr. Ringrose says, let us first allow him to speak in full. For our readers' convenience, we have merged together the texts in question from the three separate bulletins into one whole, which reads as follows:
The Chair of St. Peter at Rome (January 18) -- This feast reinforces the unique role of the pope as vicar of Christ, and that as universal pastor, he cannot err when he teaches on matters of faith and morals. How then, are faithful Catholics to explain the appearance that the pope has erred since Vatican II? Here are some of the attempts that have been made over the years. Some of you old timers will no doubt remember them. - It is the liberal bishops and not the pope who are responsible. - The council was ambiguous and the wrong interpretation has been given. - The real pope is being held captive and a look-alike imposter has taken over. - The pope didn't speak ex cathedra. - The council was only a pastoral council. - Nowadays it seems that it can sometimes happen that the pope teaches error. When he does, we must continue to recognize his authority, but hold fast and resist whatever erroneous teaching or evil commands he may give. - The pope and bishops have embraced the apostasy of the new religion and have thereby lost their offices. All the seats are empty, including that of the pope and we are today without any hierarchy whatsoever. We understand that as glaring as some of these errors may seem today, they were the best answers that were available at the time. Only in time and with further reflection, did the error of these answers become apparent. Let us consider today this last error, which many now call sedevacantism (Latin for "the see being vacant"). The popular name for this error is borrowed from the term that is used between the death of one pope and the election of a new one. Good Catholics, who believed the idea that all the seats are vacant, did so only to be faithful to the promise of Christ that the religion any pope would teach the Universal Church would be guaranteed by His own word and the power of the Holy Ghost. However, while defending this one truth of Christ, they unwittingly fell into an error contrary to another teaching of the Church, that the Hierarchy is perpetual, that it will last to the end of time, and that Peter will have perpetual successors. The pope and the Hierarchy cannot simply be gone! Therefore, this explanation must be rejected by Catholics. The Chair of St Peter at Rome (continued) - This feast reinforces Catholic teaching that Christ has given to Peter and his successors a unique role in the Church as Universal Pastor. In this role as teacher Our Lord has promised that he who hears Peter hears Him. Recognizing this promise, the Church has infallibly taught that Peter and his successors cannot teach error to the Universal Church any more than Christ can. So Christ guarantees that Peter will never teach error and Peter has the special assistance of the Holy Ghost to carry this out. Last week we considered the error of sedevacantism, which holds that there is no pope, and that there is no hierarchy. Today let us consider another error, referred to by some as "Recognize and Resist." In a nutshell, R&R holds that sometimes the pope teaches error or imposes evil or harmful practices or laws.* When he does, we must recognize his authority but resist his erroneous teachings or evil commands. Good Catholics have mistakenly fallen into this error in their attempt to protect the teaching of the Church that the pope must have perpetual successors and that somehow there must always be a hierarchy. The R&R position cannot be held because it ignores the clear teaching of the Church that the pope cannot teach error or impose evil or harmful practices and laws by virtue of the guarantee of Our Lord and the special assistance of the Holy Ghost. If we recognize the pope's authority to teach and rule the Church in matters of faith and morals, we have no choice but to assent and obey, for not to do so would be to fail to assent to Christ Himself, by Whose authority and in Whose name the pope speaks. So R&R cannot be the answer, and like sedevacantism, it too must be rejected. (*Some have said that the pope taught error at the time of St. Athanasius, but a closer examination of the facts shows this not to be true.) Chair of St. Peter at Rome ... conclusion) - We have been considering the past few weeks this feast, which reinforces the teaching of the Church that the office of the Chair of St. Peter (Peter and his successors, the popes) is indefectible, that is it is always free from error and must be perpetual. Its teachings are the standard and rule of Faith, despite the worthiness or unworthiness of the successor. In light of this and what we have said before, what is a faithful Catholic to do? Join or re-join the Novus Ordo? By no means! It is a false religion and to do so would be to abandon the Catholic Faith. We have considered some answers to the question: How is it that the New Order popes have attempted to impose on the Church erroneous teachings and harmful or evil laws or practices? We gave particular attention to two of the most widely-held erroneous explanations: sedevacantism and recognize and resist (R&R). In light of what has been said, the following become apparent: - Contrary to the teaching of the Church: The pope can teach error sometimes and impose harmful or evil practices and laws on the Universal Church. - Contrary to the teaching of the Church: There is no hierarchy whatsoever. (It is de fide that the hierarchy must be perpetual.) - Contrary to the teaching of the Church: We may resist the authority of the pope. - That since it is obvious that the Vatican II popes have imposed teachings and practices contrary to Faith and morals, it must be concluded that the infallible and indefectible teaching power promised to Peter's successors is absent. - It may be held that since the Vatican II popes possess a legal and valid election, they have a certain legal status as popes. - It may be held that this legal status is sufficient to maintain the succession to Peter and the perpetuity of the hierarchy. It would appear, then, that the Chair is not totally vacant, nor is it completely full. The new order popes possess some legal aspect as popes but lack the authority to teach and rule on matters of faith and morals. In the face of this situation, the proper response of all faithful Catholics is to believe what Catholics have always believed and to do what Catholics have always done. We cannot go wrong doing that! (Fr. Ronald Ringrose, St. Athanasius Church Bulletins of Jan. 14, Jan. 21, Jan. 28, 2018; bold print and italics given.)
Thus far the text Fr. Ringrose published in the three January parish bulletins. In the most recent one, dated Apr. 29, 2018, the pastor of St. Athanasius Church again touches upon the same topic and writes:
We must as Catholics believe these truths revealed by Christ and taught as dogma by the Church: 1. We know the things we are to believe from the Catholic Church. It is the pope with the bishops, through whom God speaks to us. (Baltimore Catechism #3 q. 10 also q. 157) 2. The Church (pope & bishops) certainly can never teach us falsehood because the Holy Ghost abides with it forever. (BC #3 q. 445) 3. Infallibility means that the Church (pope & bishops) cannot err when they teach faith and morals. (BC #3 q. 526) This is all nicely summarized in a Youtube video entitled, "Archbishop Lefebvre Speaks Frankly About the Pope" [accessible HERE]. It is a recorded conference of the Archbishop in which he clearly states that it is impossible for a pope to impose heresy and evil practices on the Church and that he who would do so certainly cannot be pope. Look up these questions in the Baltimore Catechism for yourself and listen to the Archbishop's own words. (Fr. Ronald Ringrose, St. Athanasius Church Bulletin of Apr. 29, 2018; italics given; view scanned image here.)
Notice that the truths Fr. Ringrose summarizes here are so basic to the Catholic Faith that they are contained in the Baltimore Catechism, the fundamental catechetical tool used in the United States in the 20th century for educating youth in the Catholic Faith (it is called "Baltimore Catechism" because it was commissioned by the three national plenary councils held in Baltimore, Maryland in the second half of the 19th century). The recognize-and-resist traditionalists are contradicting Church teaching on so elementary a level that even properly catechized youth can see the position is wrong! 1
Originally "ordained" for the Archdiocese of Baltimore in the invalid Novus Ordo rite, Fr. Ringrose was conditionally ordained a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1982. He has been at St. Athanasius Church ever since. Although Fr. Ringrose had already publicly voiced his rejection of the recognize-and-resist position before, it was not until earlier this year that he noticeably eliminated the name of Francis from his liturgical prayers (such as the Good Friday intercessory prayers and the Exsultet hymn on Holy Saturday) and dropped his usual weekly request for prayers for the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff. He has also discarded the missalettes in his parish that had Francis' name in them. A question that must be asked is: Where does this leave Fr. Juan Carlos Ortiz, who is Fr. Ringrose's subordinate and assists his work but has always been vocal in condemning public and dogmatic Sedevacantism and Sedeprivationism? Fr. Ortiz has always said that any Mass that publicly and dogmatically drops Francis' name from the Canon cannot be attended because it is schismatic. Is he now leaving St. Athanasius to be consistent, or has he changed his position so it aligns with that of the pastor? Or is he engaging in cognitive dissonance, saying one thing while doing another? Interestingly enough, Fr. Ringrose is joined in his repudiation of the recognize-and-resist position by other former resistance priests: Fr. Pierre Roy, Fr. Olivier Rioult, Fr. Nicolas Pinaud, and even Fr. Francois Chazal have all recently modified their theological position to where they now hold that recognize-and-resist is doctrinally erroneous and that the Vatican II "popes" do not possess the infallible and indefectible teaching authority of the Vicar of Christ. On the other hand, the former SSPX bishop Richard Williamson, a man who advocates the recognize-and-resist position ad absurdum, is still trying to defend the indefensible, as a recent post on Dr. Peter Chojnowski's blog shows. It remains to be seen how he reacts to the recent defections from the R&R camp into a quasi-Sedevacantism.
Commentary on Fr. Ringrose's Assessment
As we proceed now to comment upon what Fr. Ringrose has written in his bulletins, we must first point out that obviously he is only providing a rough sketch of the different positions and his own and is not meaning to write a theological treatise. In other words, we must not look for nuance where nuance is obviously not intended. Overall, we commend Fr. Ringrose for abandoning the false recognize-and-resist theology and publicly declaring it to be contrary to the Catholic Faith. Changing one's stance in the face of so much opposition, and against what is admittedly a very popular and comfortable best-of-both-worlds position, is not easy. Besides, it takes humility, courage, and personal integrity to abandon a position one has held for multiple decades. Kudos to you and God bless you, Fr. Ringrose! With regard to Sedevacantism, Fr. Ringrose says that he believes it denies the perpetuity of the hierarchy and in particular the perpetual succession of Popes. Without engaging now in a full-fledged discussion of the issues involved in this controversy, we must reiterate clearly that obviously no position may be held by a Catholic if it is contrary to Faith or if it involves denial of a doctrine that must be held under pain of mortal sin. If the sedevacantist position were to do that, then it could not be embraced, naturally. But here we must distinguish strictly between what is directly affirmed and what merely seems to follow but does not in fact follow with necessity. We can and must leave certain things to mystery, as apparently it has pleased God to keep them hidden from us, perhaps in punishment of our sins (cf. Mt 11:25); but at no point are we permitted to deviate from what the Church teaches, even if this means we cannot put all the pieces of the puzzle neatly together and must acknowledge that we do not have all the answers. God does not expect us to know all things, but He does expect us to believe His Truth: "…be not faithless, but believing" (Jn 20:27). The Church certainly teaches that she must continue to exist until the end of time, and that she will remain unchanged in her essential constitution:
...[T]he mystical body of Christ is the true Church, only because its visible parts draw life and power from the supernatural gifts and other things whence spring their very nature and essence. But since the Church is such by divine will and constitution, such it must uniformly remain to the end of time. If it did not, then it would not have been founded as perpetual, and the end set before it would have been limited to some certain place and to some certain period of time; both of which are contrary to the truth. The union consequently of visible and invisible elements because it harmonizes with the natural order and by God’s will belongs to the very essence of the Church, must necessarily remain so long as the Church itself shall endure. ...But the mission of Christ is to save that which had perished: that is to say, not some nations or peoples, but the whole human race, without distinction of time or place. “The Son of Man came that the world might be saved by Him” (John iii., 17). “For there is no other name under Heaven given to men whereby we must be saved” (Acts iv., 12). The Church, therefore, is bound to communicate without stint to all men, and to transmit through all ages, the salvation effected by Jesus Christ, and the blessings flowing there from. Wherefore, by the will of its Founder, it is necessary that this Church should be one in all lands and at all times. (Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Satis Cognitum, nn. 3,5) "The eternal Pastor and Bishop of our souls" [1 Pet. 2:25], in order to render the saving work of redemption perennial, willed to build a holy Church, in which, as in the house of the living God, all the faithful might be contained by the bond of one faith and charity. Therefore, before His glory was made manifest, "He asked the Father, not only for the Apostles but also for those who would believe through their word in Him, that all might be one, just as the Son Himself and the Father are one" [John 17:20 f.]. Thus, then, as He sent the apostles, whom He had selected from the world for Himself, as He himself had been sent by the Father [John 20:21], so in His Church He wished the pastors and the doctors to be "even to the consummation of the world" [Matt. 28:20]. But, that the episcopacy itself might be one and undivided, and that the entire multitude of the faithful through priests closely connected with one another might be preserved in the unity of faith and communion, placing the blessed Peter over the other apostles He established in him the perpetual principle and visible foundation of both unities, upon whose strength the eternal temple might be erected, and the sublimity of the Church to be raised to heaven might rise in the firmness of this faith. And, since the gates of hell, to overthrow the Church, if this were possible, arise from all sides with ever greater hatred against its divinely established foundation, We judge it to be necessary for the protection, safety, and increase of the Catholic flock, with the approbation of the Council, to set forth the doctrine on the institution, perpetuity, and nature of the Sacred Apostolic Primacy, in which the strength and solidarity of the whole Church consist, to be believed and held by all the faithful, according to the ancient and continual faith of the universal Church, and to proscribe and condemn the contrary errors, so pernicious to the Lord's flock. (First Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus, prologue; Denz. 1821)
Condemning the so-called Old Catholics who repudiated the First Vatican Council's definition of papal infallibility, Pope Pius IX wrote in 1873: "Therefore they deny also the indefectibility of the Church and blasphemously declare that it has perished throughout the world and that its visible Head and the bishops have erred" (Encyclical Etsi Multa, n. 22). All this puts us before a great deal of mystery. We know what the Church requires us to hold, and this we must affirm most loyally. It cannot be, and it is not, a question of the Church perishing. The Catholic Church is indestructible and indefectible. She will last until the end of time, or, in any case, for as long as there are human beings, for she is the Ark of Salvation for them. God Himself guarantees it! Yet what exactly this means with regard to the hierarchy is a separate question. For example, does it necessitate that at least one office is always actually occupied or does it only require that the Church is at all times capable of filling her hierarchical offices? If the latter, precisely in what does this capability consist? Etc. These are important questions that deserve an answer. Insofar as there can be legitimate debate about details, we are not going to take a firm position one way or another. In any case, it is evident that this calls for very competent, very nuanced, and very careful theological work, and we must resist the temptation to think we can easily and quickly answer all of these questions by flipping through Denzinger. In his phenomenal work on ecclesiology, the Jesuit theologian Fr. Joachim Salaverri presents and discusses Church teaching on the perpetuity of the Church's hierarchy in depth (see nn. 286-329). Thankfully, this work is now available in English, as Sacrae Theologiae Summa IB: On the Church of Christ, translated by Fr. Kenneth Baker (original Latin published by BAC, 1955; English published by Keep the Faith, 2015). We must firmly believe that the Church cannot perish, any more than she can lead souls astray. Therefore, Fr. Ringrose is entirely right in rejecting any notion according to which the Church has ceased to exist or has defected. The precise theological explanation that can reconcile all the empirical facts with all of Catholic teaching would no doubt have been a very challenging task even for the Church's greatest theologians prior to Vatican II -- let's not forget that -- but this consideration, of course, does not permit us to deviate from the Faith. The beauty of the gift of Faith is that we can affirm our belief in dogma even if we do not fully understand it or cannot fully reconcile it with certain things that appear to be the case. The truth of what God has revealed is absolutely certain, and Divine Revelation, at least insofar as it has been proposed by the Church, demands every bit of our assent. Yet where clarity of teaching, clarity of empirical fact, or simply our own understanding are lacking, we can at least express our loyal adherence conditionally:
If (note the condition!) we must believe that there will always be at least one man who is part of the Catholic hierarchy and possesses ordinary jurisdiction, then we most certainly do, even if we do not know who or where these individuals are.
If we are required to hold that the Church can restore herself to her former glory even without divine intervention, then we unquestioningly do, even though we do not have a clear answer as to how this should be accomplished.
Whatever God requires of us to believe, we firmly believe, in accordance with the Act of Faith: "...I believe these and all the truths which the holy Catholic Church teaches, because Thou hast revealed them, Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived."
It is a great temptation for us humans to refuse to accept something until its truth has been demonstrated to us rationally. We cannot do that with Divine Revelation because that is not how Faith works. On the contrary, the Roman Catechism issued after the Council of Trent teaches: "Faith, therefore, must exclude not only all doubt, but all desire for demonstration" (Article I). The virtue of Faith, without which we will never see God (see Heb 11:6), disposes us by the help of divine grace to accept what God has revealed because He who cannot lie and cannot be mistaken has revealed it, and for no other reason. We have a divine guarantee that what God has revealed can never conflict with reason, although it may infinitely surpass it. For the author of the Faith is also the author of reason, hence any contradiction between the two is utterly impossible. Genuine Faith results in untold blessings. As Christ the Lord told us: “…blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed” (Jn 20:29; cf. Mt 24:24). God has a strict right to demand from us a sincere Faith, not a pseudo-faith that we only uphold for as long as we can make rational sense of everything: “For we walk by faith, and not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7). And so our Lord tells us today, as He once did to Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue: "Fear not, only believe" (Mk 5:36). Perhaps (perhaps!) the best theological answer given for our current state of affairs is indeed Sedeprivationism. In essence, this complex theory holds that although the “Popes” after Pius XII are not true Popes, they nevertheless possess a valid election to the Roman pontificate, and, for this reason, would automatically become pope if they should renounce their heresies and convert to Catholicism. They are, in a sense, “Pope-elect” — validly chosen and designated to be Pope, but unable to actually be Pope because of an obstacle they have placed in the way (the lack of objective intention to promote the good of the Church). This thesis, which is often misunderstood and therefore quickly dismissed out of hand by people who have little understanding of what it actually asserts, rests on considerable theological and philosophical grounds. One of the distinct advantages of Sedeprivationism is that it can explain cogently how it is that a legitimate conclave (as most certainly the one held in 1958 was and probably also that of 1963) could produce a "Pope" who is not actually Pope; and, more importantly, it can answer how the interrupted papal succession can once again resume because it cleanly and clearly safeguards the Church's power to produce her own visible head. For those interested in understanding Sedeprivationism in greater depth, here are some links which explain it:
The Problem of Authority in the Post-Conciliar Church: The Cassiciacum Thesis by Fr. Bernard Lucien
Explanation of the Thesis of Bp. Guerard des Lauriers by Bp. Donald Sanborn
The Material Papacy: On the Cassiciacum Thesis by Bp. Donald Sanborn
Pope, Papacy, and the Vacant See by Fr. Francesco Ricossa
Since the position espoused now by Fr. Ringrose is akin to Sedeprivationism, Bp. Sanborn has welcomed this development:
A step in the right direction. We are told on good authority that, in St. Athanasius Chapel in Vienna, Virginia, the priest in charge there, Fr. Ringrose, posted a notice on the bulletin board that recognize and resist is contrary to the teachings of the Church and must be rejected, and that the chair of Peter may not be completely vacant, but it is certain that the Novus Ordo “popes” do not possess the authority of Peter and his successors. Fr. Ringrose, formerly a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, was conditionally re-ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1982. He has been saying the Mass in the Washington D.C. area since that time. I am naturally happy to see progress in his position regarding the new religion and the Modernist hierarchy. (Bp. Donald J. Sanborn, Most Holy Trinity Seminary Newsletter for March 2018; bold print and italics given.)
At Novus Ordo Watch, we take a very clear position against the Novus Ordo Sect and its false shepherds, for we know by Faith that they are not legitimate, else the promises of Christ would be void, and this is impossible. With regard to those things that are legitimately disputed among sedevacantists, however, we typically take no firm position one way or another. And this includes the question whether Sedeprivationism is a better alternative to what is sometimes called the "Totalist" Sedevacantist position. That this need not threaten Catholic unity is shown, for example, by the fact that Fr. Anthony Cekada, who takes a Totalist position, teaches theology at Bp. Sanborn's seminary, who adheres to Sedeprivationism and argues in one of his essays that in his view, Totalism "deprives the Church of the means to elect a legitimate successor of St. Peter [and] ultimately destroys its apostolicity" ("Explanation of the Thesis of Bishop Guerard des Lauriers", p. 8). Let each side produce the evidence for its position; let each side demonstrate that it can best explain the situation in the Catholic Church after the death of Pope Pius XII without contradicting Church teaching. We need not have figured everything out; oftentimes it is through such debate that clarity is obtained and new insights are discovered. In these extremely difficult times, we must never forget to pray. Prayer is the key to Heaven, and if we do not make it to Heaven, then all our Faith will have been in vain: "And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing" (1 Cor 13:2). The attitude which we must always maintain in these dark times is best summed up by St. Augustine: "In certain things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity." A follow-up article to this post has been published here. Image sources: ordo-resistance.blogspot.com / youtube.com (screenshot) License: Fair use / Fair use
Change of position in favor of Sedeprivationism…
Let’s cut right to the chase: Fr. Ronald Ringrose, the pastor of St. Athanasius Church in Vienna, Virginia, has publicly repudiated his long-time theological position of recognizing the papal claimants since Vatican II as valid but resisting them in their magisterium and their government of the church (commonly known as the “recognize-and-resist” position).
Realizing that the position is plainly contrary to the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church, Fr. Ringrose began to disavow it publicly in three of his parish bulletins in January 2018.
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Dreams for sale or rent
Ten years ago you couldn't hire a classic car for love or money. Now you're spoilt for choice. In the UK alone there are now more than 20 companies renting classics like a Jaguar E-Type for the day or an old Porsche 911 for a year. There is something of a boom going on in classic car sales too, especially for cars made in the late 1960s and 70s. Motor-sport events targeting the owners of these cars - everything from track days to historic racing - are growing too. But what if you want a car that looks like it's 30 years old but has the performance and reliability of a modern car? Easy, buy yourself a classic replica. For example, companies like Autofarm and PS Autoart are taking genuine galvanised Porsche 911s from the 1980s and early-90s and rebuilding them to look like 911s from the early 70s. A typical replica 1973 911 RS for instance costs around GB £50,000 plus the cost of a donor car - usually a 911 SC or 3.2. Why is all this happening? Simple. Adolescents in the early 1970s are now ageing baby-boomers and some of them (largely, but not exclusively, men) have cash to burn and childhood fantasties to re-ignite. Gentlemen, start your engines!
Ref: Thoroughbred & Classic Cars (UK), May 2006, 'Re-creating an icon'. www.classiccarsmagazine.co.uk www.autofarm.com www.psautoart.com www.parc-ferme.co.uk, www.classiccarclub.co.uk,
If classic cars aren't quite your thing then perhaps a modern Ferrari is - for a weekend.Clubs such as Ecurie 25 rent out supercars to their members in return for an annual membership fee. Is supercar rental, or fractional ownership as it's increasingly known, simply an indication that the economy is booming and people just don't know what else to do with their money, or is it a very sensible response to the fact that people don't want the financial headache of owning an expensive asset that depreciates? Possibly it's both, although the true test will be whether such services survive the next recession. Our money is on the former, although the general trend towards buying experiences rather than products will probably survive any economic crash.
Ref: Springwise (Neth), 25 July 2006, 'Fractional supercar ownership'. www.springwise.com
Politically correct driving
The mayor of London has said that the GB £8 daily congestion charge to enter central London will be increased to GB £25 for anyone driving a vehicle that emits more than 225 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre. This effectively means that over 800 models, ranging from large family estates to vans used by small business owners, will be hit with the charge although the primary target is undoubtedly drivers of 4x4 vehicles.Conversely, drivers of small 'eco-friendly' vehicles will pay less. According to the mayor, Ken Livingstone, 'climate change is the biggest single problem facing humanity'.It will be interesting to see whether similar measures are applied to aircraft or even users of dishwashers, which emit similarly high or even higher levels of CO2.
Ref: Weekly Telegraph (UK), July 19-25, 2006. '£25-a-day to drive 'Chelsea tractors', C. Clover. www.telegraph.co.uk
Links: anti-4x4 protests
Search words: 4x4, SUV, climate change, road pricing, congestion charging.
Green light for car rentals
A company based in Los Angeles is claiming to be the world's first 100% eco-friendly car rental firm. EV Car Rentals, in partnership with Fox Rent A Car, operates in eight airport locations in California, Arizona and Nevada and offers drivers the choice of cars including models such as the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic. Prices range from US $39 per day or US $215 per week. Apart from a cleaner conscience, drivers also get to use special car pool lanes even when there is only one driver in the car.
Ref: Springwise.com (Neth), 25 July 2006, 'Green rentals' www.springwise.com
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Moloch: An Appetite For Children
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Peter J. Fast
Among all the paganism of the ancient world, and the gods and goddesses people worshiped, there may be none more complex in nature, terrible in homage and mysterious in identity then the name, Moloch. When examining and reviewing idolatry of the ancient world, it is like peering through a spyglass at an entangled labyrinth of twisting paths and blocked roads. What we must rely on to clear those roads and gain access to understanding are written records, reliefs and frescoes, archeological remains, and geographical land marks. It is always important to know that paganism in the ancient world was physically seen everywhere and entwined into society, just like name brands or slogans are today in the 21st century. Images of idols could be found on hairpieces, combs, perfume bottles, oil lamps, door frames, jugs and vessels, armour and weaponry, equipment for horses, records of history, clothing, jewellery, etc. The deities were talked about, revered in nature, forged into standing idols and altars, and explained through myths. Often when drastic patterns of nature would effect the land (i.e. crops and drought), the awareness of the gods would increase as would desperation to appease the power. This awareness would take the forefront with the hope to appease the deity to such an extent that he/she would relent from their intended wrath or displeasure. It would be at this center stage, concerning such fear of the unknown, that Moloch would find himself with throngs of worshipers prepared to do anything.
Historians, anthropologists, theologians and archaeologists alike that commit vast amounts of time to the study of mythological beliefs of the ancient world, all wrestle with the memory of Moloch. Little information exists about who or what exactly Moloch actually was and what kind of god he represented and was believed to be. One of the best texts of understanding Moloch is the Hebrew text of the Bible, and a number of other Jewish sources which we will explore further on. Yet, the problem remains that as far as information and cataloged evidence goes, there is not much that has survived to give us a full dimensional and accurate picture of Moloch. So, a level of speculation must enter into the picture, but speculation based on what we know about ancient pagan societies, what their gods/goddesses demanded from their loyal patrons, and how these false deities influenced peoples lives. We will examine the Bible and other sources, and try and formulate an image of Moloch and what we know about him. Thus, for now, I will attempt to place Moloch in his historical setting so that we may be able to grasp an essence of who worshiped this god, why he is considered to be one of the most sadistic of gods, and why some of the most harshest warnings and judgements found in the Bible were directed at him and those who would succumb to his worship.
Origins and Biblical Evidence:
The worship of Moloch (with early roots tied to the Ammonites) was common during the 13th-5th century B.C.. It was practiced in large part by the Canaanites, Phoenicians (which most likely had Judaic roots as a people from the tribe of Asher) and other related cultures in North Africa and the lands of the Levant as far as the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. The name, Moloch, is a Semitic term that derives its root meaning from the word, ‘king.’ As a god, Moloch was part of cult worship which revolved around a kind of propitiatory child sacrifice system where the children were offered by the parents themselves in a honour ceremony to the god. This kind of sacrifice was void of any edged knives or weapons, but instead gave homage to fire which was connected with Moloch. Thus, for what we know about this cult, the children (male and female- 2nd Kings 23:10) were offered to Moloch by being consumed by fire. “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch.” Leviticus 18:21-23.
In Biblical text, we see the cult religion of Moloch infiltrate elements of the Kingdom of Judah as we see King Manassah, overseeing and allowing sacrifices to take place in the Hinnom Valley, which is outside Jerusalem. The terms, Gehenna (Greek) and Gihinnom (Hebrew) both describe this valley which the Bible also calls it, Valley of the Son of Hinnom. In 2nd Chronicles 28:3, 33:6; Jeremiah 7:31, 19:2-6 we see the apostate Israelites and followers of various forms of Ba’al and other Canaanite gods, including Moloch, offer their children to the fires. Later, the term Gehenna would be used to demonstrate a picture of hell where the wicked will perish.
We see clearly in the Bible (Leviticus 20:2-5) warnings from God through Moses to His people, Israel, against the practice, veneration and worship of Moloch. “Again you shall say to the children of Israel, or of any of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendents to Moloch, he shall surely be put to death.” (Lev. 20:2) This will also result in God turning His face from the accused and having the perpetrator cut off from Israel for it is viewed as a defilement against God and directly profaning His holy name. Then the passage is opened up from the individual to the community, should many people take part in the worship of Moloch. “And if the people of the land should in any way hide their eyes from the man, when he gives some of his descendents to Moloch, and they do not kill him, then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from the people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Moloch.” (Lev. 20:4-5). The warning is clear and judgment declared, thus by the time King Manassah reigns over Judah, and allows the worship of Moloch to occur, we see swift judgment following in the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. by the Babylonian Empire.
In the Hebrew text we see the letters מלך (mlk) used which stand for “melek” or “king”. However, when examined and vocalized in the Masoretic text we hear the name, moloch which has been the traditional pronunciation for the god. Yet, the name in its form regularly appears as (lmlk) when translated letter for letter from the text. The Hebrew equivalent for the “l” means simply, “to”, but it can also take on further meanings such as, “for” or “as/an”. Thus, one could translate the text and read the name as, “to Moloch” or “for Moloch” or “as Moloch”, or “to the Moloch” or “for the Moloch” or “as the Moloch”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch) If we translate this this as, “king” then it gives us either two options, either this is a title and we do not know the true name for Moloch apart from the people of that day who referred to him with honour as, “king,” or that simply was his name, such as Ba’al meaning, “master”.
In reference to the mention of children being sacrificed to Moloch as seen in the Bible, this term “children” is translated as “offspring” or “seed” and demonstrates a literal action displaying the seed, as the continuation of a family, being willingly offered to Moloch into the flames. As it is also seen, offspring could have meant a single family also offering all of their children to Moloch, both male and female. As far as the age of the children, that is not known, although it is a common assumption that they were babies.
Jewish Classical Sources:
In the 12th century A.D. the Jewish rabbinic commentator and revered teacher, Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki (1040-1105 A.D.) known by the acronym name as Rashi, dealt with the question of Moloch in his examination of Jeremiah 7:31. He stated, ” Tophet is Moloch, which was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower parts; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt; when it vehemently cried out; but the priests beat a drum, that the father might not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved.”
Rashi dealt with the fact that the entire ceremony was designed to put people in a trance as they worshiped Moloch and to quench any emotion or reluctance on behalf of the parents offering the children. He gives a description of Moloch and how traditionally he was viewed throughout the Oral History of the Jewish people and the common understanding in rabbinic Judaism. Nevertheless, it is clear that Moloch was wicked and that the institution of such a deity was blasphemous and therefore was worthy to incur the wrath of God upon the people who committed the apostasy. Other forms of rabbinic tradition to support Rashi is attributed to the Yalkout of Rabbi Simeon who said, “that the idol was hollow and was divided into seven compartments, in one of which they put flour, in the second turtle-doves, in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and in the seventh a child, which were all burned together by heating the statue inside.” This is simply impossible to know for sure, but still may have an ounce of truth in it as it was common for these types of animals to be used in sacrifices to gods and goddesses and if we know one thing about the sacrifices in the Hinnom Valley during the days of Manassah, Moloch was only one of many other gods present.
In closing, despite not having all of the details concerning Moloch, it is true that he was a cruel and terrible god. He demanded victims for the obedience of wicked and deceived people to offer, many of whom chose to deliberately turn their backs on the true God to serve a false one. Not only would their own flesh and blood pay for their transgressions and deliberate rebellion, but entire kingdoms and peoples would be vanquished, crushed, exiled, and wrenched from their lands in judgment. The line of kings both in Israel and Judah would be cut off, the Canaanites and Ammonites would vanish from history, and things would never again be the same. Although, in the time of Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubbabel the Jewish people would once again return and cleanse the land, they would again feel the weight of judgment and oppression through the occupations of the Hellenist Greek world and the Romans. From there, Jerusalem would be destroyed in 70 A.D. and again in 135 A.D. and the people would be scattered again. However, nearly two thousand years later the entire world would behold an amazing event as a nation would be born in a single day (Isaiah 66:8-11) and God would be shown to remember His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as He restored Israel on May 14th 1948.
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T.M. (Terry) Smith says:
Moloch, the first of the minions of Satan (the enemy) designated as such by Milton in Paradise Lost, and rightly so. it is not far fetched at all that there were seven levels of blasphemous sacrifice, culminating in children of men, representing symbolically the life of Adam, the one whom Satan hates. for, it is we who shall ultimately possess the possession of the Earth which Lucifer, the angel of light fallen into darkness, once possessed as the gift of the Supreme Elohim. (Is. 14 & Ezek. 28.
ozdawn says:
So are you saying Theodor Herzl is God since he was actually the visionary of the Jewish State!
Peter J. Fast says:
I believe you are misunderstanding my point and the conclusion of my article. Of course I am not insinuating that Theodor Herzl is God. However, many people would agree that God used Theodor Herzl, among other key people, to restore Israel. Of course this opens up a unique discussion that certainly not everyone would agree, but it is an interesting point to consider. For those who believe God (the God of the Bible) is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, than when God declares something will happen, it will happen! As it states in Numbers 19, “God is not a man that He should lie.” When we understand the Biblical concept of covenant and what He established with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, then we clearly see a God who will never break His promise to Israel, and despite their failings in history (which they will be held accountable for), God declares that He will never forget His promise He made to Jacob (Genesis 15, Jeremiah 31), and in that promise the restoration to the land is included. So, although there were key individuals (Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Samuel Herbert, Lord Arthur Balfour, etc.) who were movers and shakers in the rebirth of the modern State of Israel, the Jewish people for nearly 2000 years have been longing for a return, as they declare every Passover, “Next year in Jerusalem”. This long held belief, and this desire to return, is embedded in Jewish faith, and the fact that the land of Israel is their ancestral homeland. So, God is at work and although He is capable of not using humans to get things done, He usually does use people, whether they know it or not, to accomplish His will and see His plan fulfilled. Like I said, there are those that may disagree, and that is fine, but for those who consider themselves Bible-believing Christians…and Jews for that matter…than they must confront this reality. Thank you for your comment.
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EU Report: ISIS Has Smuggled WMD into Europe
EU Report: ISIS Has Smuggled WMD Materials into Europe
By Rick Moran 2015-12-06T18:48:43
If this information had come from Islamic State, we could probably dismiss it as more bombast from the terrorists.
But it did not originate with ISIS. A report from the EU Parliament is making some shocking claims about Islamic State recruiting scientists to build chemical and biological weapons -- weapons that have already been smuggled into Europe.
The report claims that CBRN substances (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) "have been carried undetected into the European Union" and that "Interpol's monthly CBRN intelligence reports show numerous examples of attempts to acquire, smuggle or use CBRN materials."
The Daily Mail reports:
ISIS has recruited experts with chemistry, physics and computer science degrees to wage war with weapons of mass destruction against the West, a shocking European Parliament report has claimed.
The terror organisation, according to the briefing document, 'may be planning to try to use internationally banned weapons of mass destruction in future attacks'.
The document, which was compiled in the aftermath of the deadly attacks on Paris claimed that ISIS has already smuggled WMD material into Europe.
Experts fear that ISIS will be able to exploit a failure of EU governments to share information on possible terrorists.
Already, British police forces have been conducting exercises on how to deal with various types of terrorist attack. But the EU report claims that government should 'consider publicly addressing the possibility of terrorist attack using chemical, biological, radiological or even nuclear materials'.
The report, ISIL/Da'esh and 'non-conventional' weapons of terror warns: 'At present, European citizens are not seriously contemplating the possibility that extremist groups might use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) materials during attacks in Europe. Under these circumstances, the impact of such an attack, should it occur, would be even more destabilising.'
Rob Wainwright, head of Europol said after the attacks on Paris: 'We are dealing with a very serious, well-resourced, determined international terrorist organisation that is now active on the streets of Europe.
'This represents the most serious terrorist threat faced in Europe for 10 years.'
Mr Wainwright warned that ISIS had serious capabilities in terms of resources and manpower.'
Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Associate Fellow in Chatham House's International Security Department said: 'There is a very real risk of ISIS using unconventional weapons in Europe and beyond.'
Wolfgang Rudischhauser, Director of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Non-Proliferation Centre at NATO said: 'ISIS actually has already acquired the knowledge, and in some cases the human expertise, that would allow it to use CBRN materials as weapons of terror.'
The report claims 'ISIL/Da'esh has recruited and continues to recruit hundreds of foreign fighters, including some with degrees in physics, chemistry and computer science, who experts believe have the ability to manufacture lethal weapons from raw substances.'
ISIS possessing the raw materials to build a chemical or biological weapon is probable. But to weaponize those materials to carry out a mass casualty attack is, thankfully, much more complicated.
The most obvious target for a chemical weapon is a closed space with a lot of people. A backpack could carry a dispersal system that could cause an enormous loss of life. Subways are ideal targets but have become "hard targets" thanks to security in evidence in every major city of Europe. A larger dispersal system releasing thousands of gallons of chemical weapons is far more likely to be discovered and the plot foiled.
Bio weapons need care and tending, but the dispersal system could be relatively unobtrusive and hundreds could be infected before the terrorist was discovered. But it's extremely difficult to create a viable bio terror weapon. Ricin, a deadly poison found in nature, is one possibility. But weaponizing a disease like anthrax or smallpox takes an expertise not found in your garden-variety biologist.
A radiological attack or dirty-bomb attack would seem to be far more likely. Nuclear waste from hospitals and research labs is not well tracked (we can do much better), so it shouldn't surprise us if ISIS has gotten its hands on enough to wreak havoc in a major city. But not only is the nuclear material difficult to handle, there is the question of how large the explosion should be for maximum effect. Most likely even if only a few people were sickened by a dirty bomb blast, the point would be made and the terror spread.
I have no reason to doubt the EU report. But there doesn't appear to be any evidence that Islamic State has been able to successfully create weapons that could be used in a terrorist attack. What they have are "aspirations" and "goals." And given the success of ISIS in the past, this report certainly shouldn't be ignored.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2015/12/6/eu-report-isis-has-smuggled-wmd-into-europe/
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As MTN Nigeria lists on NSE, VP Osinbajo, other shareholders meet payday
PageOne May 15, 2019
As MTN Nigeria Plc plans its listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, for tomorrow (May 16th, 2019), it will be an interesting time for several of its reclusive Nigerian shareholders.
One of the most popular shareholders in MTN Nigeria is the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Mr. Pascal Dozie, founder of Diamond Bank (now Access Bank) and the company’s former chairman. Although he is not listed in the company’s public filings, his shareholding was acquired through his company.
According to his asset declaration made public by his office on the 2nd of September, 2015, he declared that he had:
“A bank balance of about N94 million and 900,000 United States Dollars in his bank accounts.”
“Houses: 4-bedroom residence at Victoria Garden City, Lagos and a 3-bedroom flat at 2 Mosley Road, Ikoyi; 2-bedroom flat at Redemption Camp along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and a 2-bedroom mortgaged property in Bedford, England.”
“Others: Apart from his law firm, known as SimmonsCooper, the Vice-President also declared shareholding in six private companies based in Lagos, including Octogenerium Ltd., Windsor Grant Ltd., Tarapolsa, Vistorion Ltd., Aviva Ltd. and MTN Nigeria.”
People with the knowledge of the details estimated his shares in MTN Nigeria at about 5%.
MTN Nigeria started operations on May 16th, 2001 registered as MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, launching operations in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.
The company paid $285 million for its operating license. The company claimed it has invested about US$1.8 billion has been invested in building mobile telecommunications infrastructure in Nigeria.
The company’s shares which are estimated at about 30% was sold to local investors including the current Vice President, Professor Osinbajo. It is not clear if the Vice President has sold his shares after he declared it publicly since 2015.
However, the listing of MTN shares on the NSE will avail MTN Nigeria’s local shareholders the opportunity to sell all or part of their shares.
Earlier today, MTN confirmed that it has received the go-ahead of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, to list its shares on the bourse.
Here are other Nigerian shareholders, international and institutional investors who are likely to benefit from the floating of MTN Nigerian shares.
Pascal Dozie, Chairman, Africa Capital Alliance
Mr. Pascal Gabriel Dozie is the Co-Founder, Partner, Founding Partner and Non-Executive Partner at African Capital Alliance. Mr. Dozie is the Founder of Kunoch Limited. He was the Founder of Diamond Bank PLC and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1991 to 2006.
He served as the President at the Nigeria Stock Exchange. He served as the President of OON.
He is the Chairman of New Nigeria Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of African Development Foundation. He also serves as the Co-Chairman of the Nigeria Business Coalition against HIV/AIDS. Mr. Dozie serves as the Chairman of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited and the Co- Chairman of the Commonwealth Business Council board and Chairman of Diamond Group Advisory Board. He serves as the Chairman of Kunoch Limited; Landmark Africa; ADIC Insurance Limited; Aluminium Extrusion Industries Plc.
He serves as a member of the Governing Council at Pan-Atlantic University. He is the former Chairman of Nigeria Business Support Group. He served as Chairman of Diamond Bank Plc until December 31, 2006. He served as the Chairman of Nigerian Economic Summit Group and served on the Lagos Business School Advisory Board. Mr. Dozie serves as a Non Executive Director of Gulf of Guinea Energy Limited. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Kaizen Venture Partners. Mr. Dozie served as a Director of The Central Bank of Nigeria. He was an Economic Adviser for Niger State Government. Mr. Dozie was a Member of Vision 2010 Council. He served as the President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
He was a Council Member of The Nigerian Stock Exchange. He is the Recipient of National Award of Officer of the order of the Niger. Mr. Dozie holds Honorary Doctorate degrees in Law, Management Technology and Business Administration from three Universities. Mr. Dozie holds an M.Sc. in Econometrics from City University, London and a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Colonel Sani Bello, Chairman, MTN Communications Limited, Nigeria
Colonel M. Sani Bello serves as Vice Chairman at MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. Colonel Bello previously served as Chairman at Law Union & Rock Insurance Plc.
Mr. Karel W. Pienaar, MTN Group Limited
Mr. Karel W. Pienaar, B.Sc. (Electrical & Electronic Engineering), PrEng, served as Group Chief Strategy Officer of MTN Group Limited since May 29, 2013 until December 3, 2015. Mr. Pienaar was responsible for overseeing MTN strategy across its 22 operations. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Mtn (Pty) Ltd and MTN SA. Mr. Pienaar served as Chief technical and Information Officer and Managing Director of MTN Group Ltd. Mr. Pienaar served as Group Chief Technology Officer and Group Chief Information Officer of MTN Group Ltd. since 2003.
He served for 10 years as Group Executive Networks, Chief Technology Officer, in charge of the network for MTN. He served as Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria for a year to handle the start up. Mr. Pienaar started his career at Telkom SA Limited and was involved in the full spectrum of Telecommunication and Technical Management.
He served as the Technical Director of Elex Electronic Limited, CRB Divisional Head Communications and MultiChoice (Strategic Business Development Manager). Mr. Pienaar serves as a Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited.
Gbenga Oyebode, Advisor, Ingressive Capital
Mr. Gbenga Oyebode, MFR serves as Advisor at Ingressive Capital and has been Managing Partner of Aluko & Oyebode & Co. since 1993. Mr. Oyebode is the President of Okomu Oil Palm Company and Access Bank. For over years, he has developed significant experience in the project finance, corporate law, energy and natural resources, telecommunications and aviation law.
Mr. Oyebode serves as the Chairman of The Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc. Mr. Oyebode served as Non-Executive Chairman and Director of Access Bank Plc (formerly, Access Bank Nigeria) until July 30, 2015. He has been Independent Non-Executive Director of Nestle Nigeria PLC since February 24, 2014 and Director at Socfinaf SA since 2011. He serves as a Non-Executive Director of The Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc and Crusader Nigeria Plc. He serves as on the Board of Crusader Insurance PlC respectively. Mr. Oyebode serves as a Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited (also known as MTN Nigeria Ltd.). He is on the Africa Advisory Committee of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and the Nigerian Leadership Initiative. He is the Chairman of the Section of Business Law of the Nigerian Bar Association, a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (MFR) and Belgian Royal Honour of Knight of the Order of Leopold. He is a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (admitted June 1980) and Attorney at Law of the Supreme Court of New York State (admitted November 1983), and the American Bar Society of the International Law.
Mr. Oyebode was educated at University of IFE (LL. B Honours) and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (LL. M Honours) where he graduated in 1979 and 1982, respectively.
Mr. Victor Odili, Nigeria Communications Limited
Chief Victor Odili serves as Director at MTN Nigeria Communications Limited.
The move will make Nigeria’s largest mobile carrier the second largest traded company by market capitalization of about N1.8 trillion.
Mr. Robert D. Nisbet, Director, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited
Mr. Robert D. Nisbet, also known as Rob, BCom, BAcc, CA (SA) served as the Chief Financial Officer of MTN Group Ltd. and also served as its Group Finance Director until July 2009. Mr. Nisbet served as Financial Director of Mathieson and Ashley.
He held financial directorships in both listed and unlisted companies. He serves as Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Tiger Brands Limited since August 01, 2010 until September 7, 2018.
He serves as a Director of MTN Network Operator, MTN Service Provider and MTN International. Mr. Nisbet served as an Executive Director of MTN Group Ltd. from October 1, 2001 to September 30, 2009. He served as a Director of other Private and Public Companies.
Mrs. Fatima Daniels, Clicks Group
Ms. Fatima Daniels , also known as Jakoet, B.Sc., CTA, CA (SA), served as a General Manager of Denel. She worked in the Eskom Group for ten years in positions ranging from regional and corporate finance to General Manager of Telecommunications. She has depth experience in various facets of large corporate business, from both a strategic and operational perspective. She is an advocate of competition and free-market principles. She has extensive corporate experience ranging from finance to telecommunications.
She has in-depth experience in various facets of large corporate business, from both a strategic and operational perspective, including industrial relations, transformation and employment equity issues. She has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Tongaat Hulett Limited since 2008, Clicks Group Limited since March 1, 2008 and SAB&T Ubuntu Holdings Limited since October 13, 2006. She serves as a Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. She served as a Director at Public Investment Corporation Limited, South African Mint Company (Pty) Limited, South African Bank Note Co (Pty) Ltd., MTN Cameroon Ltd., MTN Congo Ltd., MTN Côte d’Ivoire, MTN Côte d’Ivoire, Qualsa Healthcare (Pty) Ltd., Abathwa Capital Holdings (Pty) Ltd., Philelana Holdings (Pty) Ltd and Metropolitan Life (Pty) Ltd. She serves as a Director at Rand Refinery Limited. She has been a Independent & Non-Executive Director of MMI Holdings Limited since 2010. She serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of MMI Group Limited. She has been a Independent & Non-Executive Director of JSE Ltd. since October 1, 2018. She serves as a Non-Executive Director of the SA Reserve Bank, Impala Platinum Ltd., Clicks Group Ltd., Metropolitan Health Group and MTN West and Central Africa Region.
She served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of South African Reserve Bank from August 29, 2000 to September 12, 2010. She served as a Director of Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. from August 2007 to May 28, 2010. She served as served on the Metropolitan board from May 1996 to November 2001. She served as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Metropolitan Holdings Ltd. since March 11, 2005. She served as a Director at Telkom SA (Pty) Ltd., Unitrans Rentals (SA), Alisa Car Sales (Pty) Ltd., Alisa Finance Corporation (Pty) Ltd., Woolworths Holdings (Pty) Ltd and African Bank (Pty) Ltd. She is a Member of South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Dr. Babatunde Tijani Folawiyo, Coronation Merchant Bank
Dr. Babatunde Tijani Folawiyo, also known as Tunde D.BA serves as the Managing Director of Yinka Folowiyo Power. Mr. Folawiyo is Chairman of Coronation Merchant Bank Ltd. Mr. Folawiyo serves as Director of MTN Nigeria Ltd. Mr. Folawiyo serves as an Executive Director of Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Co. Ltd. He serves as Executive Director of Yinka Folawiyo Group of Companies.
He has been a Director of Abacan Resource Corp. since December 1993. Over the course of his career, he has been actively involved in petroleum exploration activities under the indigenous programme of the Nigerian Petroleum Industry, and was instrumental in pioneering developmental activities in the Benin Embayment. Since 1996, he has served as Vice President of the Nigeria Association of Indigenous Petroleum Explorers and Productions (NAIPEC). During the 2005 recapitalisation/consolidation of the banking industry, he led Marina International Bank Ltd into a successful merger with Access Bank Plc, and served on the board of the Bank until February 2016. He was also a Director at Unic Insurance Plc. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Access Bank Plc (formerly, Access Bank Nigeria) since October 11, 2005 until January 29, 2014.
He serves as a Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Honorable Society of the Inner temple) in 1985, he started his law Practice in Nigeris with the firm of Ogunsanya and from where he resigned in 1989. Mr. Folawiyo holds a B.Sc degree in Economics obtained in 1980 from the London School of Economics coupled with LL.B and LL.M degrees obtained from the famous University College London in June 1984 and 1985 respectively. His achievements include an appointment as Honorary Consul of Barbados in Lagos, Nigeria, a position he holds to this day, and the receipt of the African Business Leadership Award in 2010. He is a member of the Bar Association of England and Wales, and the Nigerian Bar Association.
Mallam Ahmed I. Dasuki, Nigeria Communications Limited
Mr. Mallam Ahmed I. Dasuki serves as the Executive Chairman of Quaditect Consultants. Mr. Dasuki serves as a Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. He serves as a Director of Phillips Project Centre. He served as a Director of Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC from 1989 to 2010. He is an Architect and Businessman.
Mr. Ahmed Farroukh, Smile Telecoms Holdings Limited
Mr. Ahmed Farroukh, MBA, CPA, has been Executive Director of Operations at Smile Telecoms Holdings Limited since May 1, 2017. Mr. Farroukh served as the Chief Executive Officer of Mobily since July 2015.
He served as the Chief Executive Officer of MTN South Africa since August 2014 until July 31, 2015. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Etisalat Company since July 12, 2015. He served as Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria. Mr. Farroukh served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, a unit of MTN Group Ltd. since July 19, 2006. Mr. Farroukh served as Group Chief Operating Executive of MTN Group Ltd. from April 1, 2012 to August 2014 and as its Vice President of West and Central Africa (WECA) Region since March 2011 until August 2014.
He served as Acting Vice President of WECA Region at MTN Group Ltd. until March 2011. He served as Regional Manager for West Africa of Investcom and Managing Director of Scancom Limited, in which position he ran the Areeba Network in Ghana. He served as Managing Director of Scancom Ltd., operators of Areeba, Ghana. He worked for Mediterranean Investor Group, KPMG and Deloitte & Touche. He is an experienced telecoms executive with a distinguished record of commercial success, extensive experience working in Africa and an impressive ability to drive strategy and profitability in accordance with international standards. He serves as a Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited.
He lectured in accounting at the American University of Beirut. Mr. Farroukh holds an MBA and belongs to a host of high profile professional bodies including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the New York State Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Lebanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a Certified Public Accountant. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Accounting from the Lebanese American University.
Mr. Raymond Sifiso Dabengwa, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited
Mr. Raymond Sifiso Ndlovu Dabengwa, BSc Elect Eng, MBA, EDP, served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of MTN Group Ltd. from March 31, 2011 to November 9, 2015. Mr. Dabengwa served as Chief Operating Officer of MTN Group Ltd. until March 31, 2011. He served as Managing Director of MTN SA of MTN Group Ltd. Mr. Dabengwa served as Chief Operating Officer-South Africa of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited.
He served as Chief Executive Officer of -MTN Nigeria Communications Limited since November 1, 2004 and also served as its Managing Director. He was responsible to develop and implement strategic direction, ensure profitable growth and meet required performance targets.
He served as Group Chief Operating Officer of MTN Group Ltd. until November 2004. His major achievements have been to maintain and improve the MTN’s group’s market position, despite increased competition and demand for resources. Prior to MTN, he served several years at Eskom, where as a Member of Eskom’s Management Board, where Mr. Dabengwa was responsible for all of its distribution operations, including sales, customer service, marketing, engineering and technology.
At Eskom, he was also responsible for the planning and implementation of the national electrification programme, one of the most successful projects of the Reconstruction and Development Plan. He serves as a Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. He serves as Director of Leaf, e-Bucks, MTN International, MTN Network Operator and MTN Service Provider.
He serves as a Non-Executive Director of Peermont Global Limited. Mr. Dabengwa served as an Executive Director of MTN Group Ltd. from October 1, 2001 to November 9, 2015. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. from January 1, 2004 to November 10, 2004. Mr. Dabengwa holds B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, MBA and EDP.
Mr. Christian M. DeFaria, Airtel Uganda Limited
Mr. Christian M. DeFaria, CA, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Africa of Airtel Uganda Limited. Mr. de Faria has been the Head of Telecom at Bharti Enterprises Limited since January 2014.
Mr. de Faria served as Chief Executive Officer of Bharti Airtel Africa B.V. until January 1, 2017. Mr. de Faria served as the Chief Executive Officer of Africa at Bharti Airtel Limited since January 1, 2014 and served as its Managing Director of Africa. He has been Executive at MTN since 2006. He served as Group Chief Commercial Officer at MTN Group Ltd. until January 31, 2013 and also served as its Regional Vice President of West Africa since May 2006.
He served as Senior Vice President of Commercial & Innovation, Vice President of Operations and Regional Vice President for WECA Region at MTN Group Ltd. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of PT Excelcomindo Pratama, known as XL. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Axiata Group Berhad since February 2003. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of TM International Sdn Bhd at Telekom Malaysia Berhad since February 2003 and served as its Chief Executive Officer of Excelcomindo since January 2005.
He also served various positions including Finance Director, Group Financial Controller, Group Finance Director and Business Development Director in various companies in Europe and Asia. Mr. de Faria has extensive experience in the telecommunication and multimedia industry. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Telekom Malaysia, where he was responsible for international strategy. He contributed to the divestment in Africa and concluded acquisitions for the group. He was involved in the rapid growth of investments in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Cambodia. He served as President Director of PT XL Axiata Tbk since January 2005. He served as Chairman of Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) B.V. at Bharti Airtel Limited since November 1, 2013 until October 2017. He serves as the Executive Chairman of Bharti Airtel Africa B.V.
He served as a Director of Airtel Networks Zambia Plc since December 1, 2013 until October 31, 2017. He serves as a Director of MTN (Dubai) Ltd. and MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. He served as a Director of Bharti Airtel Limited. He served as a Director of PT XL Axiata Tbk. Mr. de Faria holds Degree in Finance and Administration from the University of Toulouse, France from 1969 to 1972.
Mr. MTN Group Limited, Paul D. Norman
Mr. Paul D. Norman, MA (Psychology), MBA, serves as Group Chief Human Resources Officer of MTN Group Limited. He served as Group Chief Human Resources & Corporate Affairs Officer at MTN Group Limited since 1997.
Mr. Norman served as Group Executive, Human Resources of MTN Group Ltd. since 1997. He has spent more than 10 years in the field of HR. He has worked extensively in the transport and telecommunications industry. He serves as a Director of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited.
He serves as Trustee of CAMAF (“Chartered Accountants Medical Aid Fund”). He was awarded HR Practitioner of the Year in 2003 by the Institute for People Management (IPM). He is a registered psychologist and completed various executive development programmes at Wits Business School and IMD in Switzerland.
Mr. Joseph Solan, Bharti Airtel Africa B.V.
Mr. Joseph Solan serves as Senior Manager of Credit Review and Portfolio of Global Information and Communication Technologies Department at International Finance Corporation.
Mr. Solan served as an Investment Officer in Europe, the Middle East, and in Latin America, covering a range of industries and banks. He worked at 3i Group plc.
Mr. Solan joined the IFC Telecommunications Division at its formation in 1992 and has wide experience of financings and restructurings in the wireline, wireless, satellite and cable TV sectors. Mr. Solan is a Director at MTN Nigeria Communications Limited and Bharti Airtel Africa B.V.
He has also participated in the privatization of several national wireline operators and served as a director of one of those.
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Adele’s ‘Hello’ Wins Song Of The Year at the 2017 Grammy Awards
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Adele's mega-hit "Hello" won Song Of The Year at the 2017 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (Feb. 12). It was her third win of the evening after taking she was awarded the honors of Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Adele and Greg Kurstin accepted the award on stage, to which Adele began her acceptance speech by apologizing for swearing during her tribute to George Michael. The ceremony cut Greg Kurstin short as he took to the mic to deliver his speech, a move which erupted boos from the crowd who felt that Kurstin should have been given a chance to give his thanks.
See Adele's Acceptance Speech For Song Of The Year
"Hello" faced fierce competition from some of the year's biggest hits, including Beyonce's "Formation," Lukas Graham's "7 Years," Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself," and Mike Posner's "I Took a Pill in Ibiza."
It was a big night for Adele, as the British songstress also opened the show by performing "Hello" and later delivered a moving tribute to George Michael.
Hosted by James Corden, the 59th annual Grammy Awards ceremony took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 12, broadcast live on CBS. The 2017 Grammy Awards nominees were announced on December 6, with a tribute performance to Prince.
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Finding Neverland Will Release a Cast Recording
May 5th, 2015 | By Ryan McPhee
Ready to have your world turned upside down? The Broadway musical Finding Neverland will record a cast album! The Republic Records albums will drop on June 23, with Matthew Morrison, Kelsey Grammer, Laura Michelle Kelly and company singing such Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy tunes as “Believe,” “All That Matters,” “Stronger” and “When Your Feet Don’t Touch the Ground”
The cast album, which was recorded on May 4, will be the second release the Neverland believers will be able to get their hands on. The previously reported concept album hits stores and online on April 21. The concept recording features new takes on the score by the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Nick Jonas, Jon Bon Jovi and more.
Directed by Diane Paulus and featuring a score by Barlow and Kennedy and a book by James Graham, Finding Neverland follows the story of J.M. Barrie (Morrison) and his relationship with the family of widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kelly). Llewelyn Davies' children eventually became Barrie's inspiration to write Peter Pan.
In addition to Morrison, Grammer and Kelly, the original cast includes Carolee Carmello, Teal Wicks, Alex Dreier, Hayden Signoretti, Noah Hinsdale, Hayden Signoretti, Christopher Paul Richards, Sawyer Nunes, Jackson Demott Hill and Aidan Gemme.
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Wynn Las Vegas and Community Partners Complete 10- Month Revitalization of The Shade Tree
Women’s Shelter Receives Vital, Large-Scale Construction Upgrade
LAS VEGAS (May 9, 2019) – Today, Wynn Las Vegas announced the completion of its 10-month revitalization of The Shade Tree, a 24-hour accessible shelter designed to specifically meet the needs of women and children in crisis. Following the resort’s partnership announcement with The Shade Tree in Aug. 2018, Wynn Las Vegas, with assistance from more than 170 community partners, has collectively donated more than 15,500 hours of labor, and a total of $2.5 million in donated labor costs and in-kind donations of construction materials to make cosmetic and functional upgrades to the shelter from the ground-up. The Shade Tree, a Las Vegas-based non-profit organization, helps women and children who are victims of homelessness, sex trafficking and abuse.
Renovations include, but are not limited to, an all-new expanded kitchen that can better accommodate the more than 200,000 meals served there each year; full renovation of the first floor, including an expanded intake center; full renovations to the second and third floor residential areas, including all-new bathrooms, mattresses and linens; upgrades to the common areas on each floor; increased security measures; and a revitalized children’s play area.
“What began as an opportunity to aid an essential community organization quickly became a project of passion for our staff,” said Darrell Richards, vice president of construction, Wynn Design and Development. “As we filtered through the list of upgrades The Shade Tree facility needed and started to narrow our project scope, it was quickly realized that there was an opportunity to make a much greater impact here. The Shade Tree residents deserve to be in an environment where they feel safe and dignified, and we hope that with these upgrades we’re helping them do just that.”
The combined investments from Wynn Las Vegas and several community partners helped to alleviate substantial current and future construction costs for The Shade Tree. The improved facility expands the capacity of the shelter, providing more women and children with temporary housing, meals, medical care, and other life-changing services that align with the shelter’s goal of fostering stability, dignity and self-reliance. Wynn Las Vegas alone provided 2,717 hours of pro bono services to The Shade Tree in the areas of food safety, security, engineering and marketing – amounting to more than $295,000 in value – and $250,000 in overall construction costs.
“Words aren’t adequate to fully express our deep appreciation for the generosity and leadership of Wynn Las Vegas,” said Linda Perez, executive director of The Shade Tree. “The Wynn team has had an ongoing presence at our shelter for many months now, and their generosity is evident in so many forms, from monetary contributions, to volunteer hours, as well as taking on such a monumental community-wide initiative by securing nearly 200 partners to rally behind this project. “Wynn’s investment has significantly changed the overall energy of the facility, staff and more importantly, our residents. While the work is complete, the legacy of the project will positively impact our residents for years to come. An improved and upgraded facility enhances the overall living experience and elevates the efficiency and operations of our organization’s programming and services. As a result, Wynn has rebuilt more than just the physical structure of our building, it has rebuilt our residents’ independence, stability and dignity.”
For broadcast quality video of The Shade Tree revitalization, please click below:
https://wynn.box.com/s/mw6tf5qlfqwdxt6x2hcomvztj3u1nvb2
Courtesy: Wynn Las Vegas
WYNN RESORTS IN THE COMMUNITY
Wynn Resorts strives to make a difference in the communities where our employees and guests live and work. By mobilizing the spirit of service in the hearts of our employees, a global philanthropic program has been cultivated since the Company’s inception in 2002 that continuously finds new ways to support education, develop neighborhoods, provide crisis relief, promote the arts, protect the environment, care for Veterans, battle food insecurity, promote diversity, and so much more. In 2017, Wynn Resorts invested $24 million in improving local communities, partnered with 100 non-profit organizations, and sponsored 125 volunteer events where employees donated 22,000 hours of time. The Wynn Employee Foundation helps employees further extend their financial impact by matching donations dollar-for-dollar, raising millions more to assist local non-profits. More information can be found in Wynn Resorts’ 2017 Corporate Sustainability Report, or at WynnEmployeeFoundation.com.
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Home Previous Elections 2016 Elections A Practical Plan to Get Trump to Resign
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A Practical Plan to Get Trump to Resign
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The walls are closing in on Donald Trump…but what happens when they close on him completely?
The hesitation of prosecutors in the Department of Justice to indict a sitting president, due to questionable memos in the past by the DoJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (in each case, these memos were only issued under Presidents who had good reason to feel vulnerable to being indicted, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton), could mean that impeachment may be the only route to pursue Trump for proven crimes.
While impeachment could pass in The House, two-thirds of The Senate would have to agree to remove Trump under impeachment. It’s reasonable to assume that this Trump-loyal GOP would be unlikely to remove their own party’s president from office no matter the evidence of his guilt in even traitorous crimes (so far they have had no problem with Trump embracing Russia and Vladamir Putin while undermining America’s intelligence services, law enforcement, the press, foreign allies and our democracy).
Despite the crimes Trump may be proven to have committed, the end result could be that a proven and sociopathic criminal remains in power over the United States and much of the world.
Hopefully in such a situation, considering that some of his likely crimes were committed during the election and may have helped him steal the power of the presidency from American voters, prosecutors may feel a necessity and responsibility to pursue criminally indicting him. Election crimes could be their best argument in court to proceed with indictments against Trump while in office.
If they do move forward with indicting him, Trump will immediately file suit against the constitutionality of that. The case will rise to the Supreme Court (where his toady Brett Kavanaugh will have the chance to pay back his patron and fellow assaulter of women by calling the indictment of a sitting president unconstitutional).
The outcome in the SCOTUS would be questionable and here too, despite undeniable evidence of crimes, Trump could remain unprosecuted and in the White House.
So how could America pry Trump out of power if he’s guilty of serious crimes but impeachment and prosecution of him won’t do the trick? Would there be any way to make him resign?
The answer to that may be yes.
Trump knows he holds the powerful card of the pardon to avoid the prosecution or verdict against any family member or co-conspirator so their imprisonment can’t necessarily be used by prosecutors to pressure Trump to resign.
Prosecutors could come to him saying that they would still be able to indict him before the statute of limitations run out on his crimes if he loses in 2020. The problem here is that if Trump wins re-election in 2020, that’s irrelevant and even more potent is that even if Trump loses in 2020, he could officially resign the day before the new president is inaugurated and a one-day-president Mike Pence could pardon him (he’s also claimed he can self-pardon but that is disputed by most knowledgeable constitutional scholars).
The secret to leverage over Trump, having the power to force him to resign, is to remember what he values most. Even more than his children or his wife, more than publicity, even more than being in the White House, what Trump wants and needs most…is his wealth. A Donald Trump that has no money, no property or business, isn’t Donald Trump. He needs to be wealthy, he needs to be “a winner”, his image is who Donald Trump is and without that, he would see himself as nothing.
So, prosecutors need to keep pulling on the threads that lead from the Trump Organization and Trump to the commission of financially-related crimes. Whether for money laundering and tax evasion, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (which forbids bribery), conspiracies with organized crime in the U.S. and abroad, election fraud and campaign finance violations, if Mueller and/or other Feds dig deep enough to prove financial crimes have been committed by The Trump Organization and Trump himself that warrant seizing its and his “dirty” assets…they will also have the most powerful leverage to negotiate with Trump to resign.
Trump can pardon people but he can’t pardon companies or stop the Feds from seizing criminally obtained wealth and property from a company or individual. Pardons only apply to criminal prosecutions…not civil suits from the Feds, IRS, etc.
So, Robert Mueller could sit down with Trump and his lawyers and explain to him that he has him dead to rights on financial crimes and that they will be going after his and his organization’s assets…but if Trump wants to make a deal, to preserve most of his wealth and avoid criminal indictments that the Supreme Court may yet approve of, he will have to agree to resign.
Faced with the prospect of taking such a deal or staying in office but losing much or even all of his money and property along with the money and assets of The Trump Organization, it is hard to imagine Trump would choose to stay.
The pursuit of evidence of criminal activity by the Trump Organization and Donald Trump is underway in any case. The cooperation with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and guilty pleas by Michael Cohen have already hit paydirt in pursuing campaign finance crimes committed by Trump and his organization.
In October of this year, The New York Times published a blockbuster investigation that demonstrated Trump, his father and other family members engaged in tax evasion and fraud regarding at least $413 million dollars Trump was given and inherited. It’s also well documented that Trump sold a Palm Beach estate he bought for $41 million to a Russian oligarch four years later, in the midst of The Great Recession, for $95 million, more than double what he paid in a thriving real estate market at a time when real estate values tanked.
The evidence already in the public screams of the crimes of tax evasion and money laundering by Trump and his organization. Who knows what Mueller and other Feds have uncovered along the way? Ironically, it was financial sanctions that led Russia to collude with and support Trump’s election and it could be financial sanctions that force Trump from office.
It would be up to Mueller and other Feds if going right at Trump to resign or face indictment and seizure of his and his company’s wealth should be the first step taken or the final hammer after other avenues have failed. It may depend on how dangerously they view Trump, based on the crimes and conspiracies they uncover.
Would it be a fair deal for the nation to get Trump to resign but let him off the hook for his crimes in stealing the White House and selling out our democracy to Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc. to benefit himself and his family?
It may be the best deal for Americans. Keep in mind that despite any deals Trump could make with Mueller and the Feds, New York’s Attorney General would be free to continue down the path of investigating state crimes against Trump, his family and his organization, including tax evasion and fraud. Trump could still see his wealth seized as well as criminal trials ahead of him.
And after all of this, who would want to lend money to or even try to launder money with Trump? Who would want to risk partnering with him? Even without any criminal conviction or losing most of his wealth, Trump would be radioactive in the business world. Not even criminally-minded oligarchs would want to get into bed with someone who may still be under the Fed’s magnifying glass?
The tables could be turned on Trump, he could go from giving a payoff to an adult film actress to protect his election, to accepting a payoff himself to protect Americans from his election.
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jerryab
Spankie has already resigned–you just did not notice he had done so.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/27/opinions/pelosi-gave-trump-what-he-wants-gup/index.html
Fittingly, the word “abdication” has two meanings. The first applies to when a monarch relinquishes his throne (in Trump’s case, not likely); the second, when anyone in a position of authority chooses to neglect or ignore his duties. The latter is what this petulant President has said he will do so long as anyone dares question him. He has announced, in effect, that America now has a government in absentia.
An Amendment 25 removal might be in order if he continues to fail to do his job–the job he WANTED (which was not the job he got–LOL !!).
Or he’s jst declared moral bankruptcy. It was said about him during the campaign, that he would just want to do “the fun parts” of being president and wouldn’t care about the less-fun but critical nuts and bolts of leading a nation.
And from his not staffing much of the government and slashing and neglecting most everything needed by the majority, it’s clear he’s just in it for the self-gratification and self-dealing that a sociopathic narcissist would be.
Spankie has suffered from moral bankruptcy since the 1980s, or earlier. He lacks the authority to only do “the fun parts” of the position because he can not delegate the not-fun parts to others. It is likely the continental US will be *successfully* attacked again because he failed to do his job (i.e. protecting the US). Spankie is the definition of failure, and the right knows it.
I think we can go back to his childhood to see when Trump first became morally bankrupt. Having a bigoted, Nazi/Klan supporting father who discriminated enough for the Feds to come after him couldn’t have been the best role model.
You call him Spankie and I think that reflects who he is very well, an immature, insecure bully who can only operate out of base emotions linked to simplistic “sins” of greed and narcissism.
He is an example of being a failure at nearly everything except of conning people out of their money and votes.
I can only hope that after he’s defeated in 2020 and maybe it will take until he is criminally prosecuted (and hopefully has his criminally acquired money and assets seized), the spell will finally break with the GOP and his cult followers. But I’m not counting on it, like typical cult members, they are happily following him off a cliff.
jjgravitas
Trump has no class whatsoever. He won’t leave voluntarily, doesn’t have that kind of class. But he’s guilty of dozens of crimes, as POTUS and before. He won’t leave until he’s tried and convicted of so many crimes that Congress will have no choice but to impeach him and kick him out of office using whatever Constitutional tool they have available. All this should be gradually chipping away at the fantasy world Trump lives in. And when that comes crashing down, …
It is a legit concern that when Trump is completely cornered that he may do something horrible out of vindictiveness.
But leaving him alone to be above the law would be just as dangerous.
Nope, he won’t leave voluntarily so he either needs to be forced out by impeachment and removal, making a plea deal to protect his crime family and wealth or ultimately, in the 2020 election.
One way or another, he will be disposed of before too long.
Trump has no class whatsoever. He won’t leave voluntarily, doesn’t have that kind of class.
No disagreement re no class. However, when faced with a choice between being booted out of office for any reason (think Nixon AND Agnew), he will choose to resign and pretend he left with his dignity intact (i.e. it was HIS idea). Of course, that will be a major blow to the right, but they have lived in a bubble of their own making since the early 1980s. And now it is popping.
I hope you are right about that. I can imagine that happening but I also think of a competing scenario where he just decides not to go because he doesn’t want to accept the reality he doesn’t want to be true.
What also has to happen for the scenario you describe to happen is that far more detail about Trump’s criminal acts need to be made public (a televised impeachment hearing would accomplish that, not sure these other hearings would) so that Republicans in Congress could see the writing on the wall and turn on him (finally!)
A great start would be making the criminal acts betrayed by his tax returns public. Or Mueller attending a public hearing. Trump’s stonewalling has to broken apart, hope the courts keep showing an interest in doing that quickly.
kesmarn
AdLib, I think you nailed it when you noted that Trump’s money means more to him than anything — including friends, family and — who knows? — maybe even life itself.
I heard a suggestion somewhat similar to what you’re describing here a few weeks ago (I think it was an interview on NPR, but I can’t recall the interviewee. Curse you, inefficient brain cells!) Only in this person’s scenario, the deal was: “Donald, you agree not to run for a second term and we’ll hold off on any impeachment/prosecution activity.” Each side’s commitment would be contingent upon the other side’s sticking to the bargain.
I don’t think this is quite as desirable (and morally acceptable) an option as the one you’re proposing here. But I wonder if it might be more doable? I honestly don’t know…
Yes, I don’t see that simply offering to delay prosecution of Trump is much of an incentive for him to resign or not run in 2020. And frankly, that’s a pretty weak goal to simply ask him to not run for re-election when he’s going to lose to a Dem if he does run.
I could only see getting him to resign this term as worth negotiating away prosecutions of him, let alone his family.
Until this month, I saw the possibility of Trump resigning as very slight. Now, seeing all of the crosshairs lining up on Trump and his crime family from (literally) 17 different directions right now, I think it is much more viable.
It depends on his ego and ability to believe his own BS. If he buys his lies that polls mean nothing and he can still win re-election (and escape the statutes of limitations of his many crimes), he may run no matter what.
And if he does, I think he will take the whole GOP down with him.
Though a GOP primary without Trump would be even more insane as Repubs tried to do their best Trump imitations for core voters who will still follow Trump like the cult members they are.
I don’t see that simply offering to delay prosecution of Trump is much of an incentive for him to resign or not run in 2020.
Correct. The problem Spankie faces is two-fold.
The first one is federal crimes. Those
be pardoned by a succeeding President (ala Nixon/Ford).
The second one is state and local crimes (i.e. *below* the federal level–which can NOT be pardoned by any President). THAT is where the real leverage can be applied–and be successful. Another key point is simple: Other members of his family can ALSO be criminally charged and face real jail time for a variety of crimes committed (co-conspirators). How do we know? They signed the documents submitted KNOWING they were committing fraud and perjury. Think in terms of his foundation. Nothing has happened *yet* because the federal govt said a sitting President can not be indicted. So that means they ALL know they are sitting in the cross hairs–with no way out.
AdLib, the fact that the Trump “Charitable” Foundation is shutting down and that he’s buckling on the demand for $5 billion for the wall makes me wonder whether he’s losing a bit of his swagger. And whether resignation might be looking more appealing.
But it’s always hard to tell with this guy. Just when you think he’s down for the count, he pops back up again.
And scares all the little children.
Oh, he’s losing his swagger alright. He lost in court two times in the last two days too, his turning away immigrants BS was struck down and today Sessions’ declaration that immigrants fleeing gangs and domestic violence can’t apply for sanctuary was struck down.
So much winning!
MurphTheSurf3
I agree with you Ad Lib. For the good of the nation a deal will have to be struck and what you suggest strikes me as a reasonable course of action. Let me add that the deal will have to be an umbrella that protects his immediate family…….next to his money, his daughter, his sons, and his wife (maybe?) come next. But they too will not be free from pursuit by other jurisdictions. Those jurisdictions would be less motivated to offer deals (but may be dragged into a cooperative agreement with Mueller IF Trump hangs tough.
Now what about Pence. He is clearly implicated in numerous acts of malfeasance. He would have to go as well in which case the President is….drum roll please…..Nancy Pelosi.
Another way this could go is that Pence, hoping to save his skin, invokes the 25th with the Cabinet, backed by House on appeal, and he becomes acting President. Would he have pardon powers? I suspect so. But then Pence could (would?) find himself as ground zero for investigation and removal. Of course, he could make a deal and step down too which results in….drum roll please….Nancy Pelosi.
What a hoot!
P.S. Your fine piece belongs on other sites……may I suggest….you know….
Agreed Murph, Mueller and the Feds would have to agree not to prosecute Trump’s kids and son-in-law to make the deal complete. And as you say, they would still be vulnerable to prosecution by NY and other states and most importantly, civil judgements against all of them by Fed entities like the IRS should not be included. Only their criminal prosecution should be part of a deal. They shouldn’t be allowed to keep money they obtained through the commission of crimes.
Pence led the transition and was brought in by Manafort, I’m sure Mueller has a lot of very surprising and damning evidence on Pence’s dealings with Russia and as part of the conspiracy to accept the bribe of Russian help in the election in exchange for removing sanctions against them. If that proof is there as I think it will be, he should be impeached and indicted as well.
Then, as you say, the Repub nightmare of President Pelosi could come true.
I didn’t address Pence in the article because I wanted the focus to be on the issue of removing a criminal from the WH, as opposed to clearing a path for Dems to take over the WH.
It may happen in any case and if the cases can be proven against Pence too, they should be pursued. However, especially if Trump resigned then Pence was impeached and removed, we know that the RW would be whipped up especially by Trump, to call such a series of events “a coup” and Dems will be on the defensive through 2020.
No one should be above the law and if Trump can be forced to resign then Pence can be proven to have committed crimes, he should be removed too but I can imagine violent protests of Trumpers as well as the commitment by Repubs to impeach every Dem that becomes president.
I wonder if the least explosive scenario might turn out to be forcing Trump to resign and pursuing the crimes Pence may have committed while he finishes up Trump’s term, with the GOP in such disarray in 2020 that Dems easily win the WH and Congress by big margins.
Trump is an immediate and existential threat, he needs to go ASAP. Pence is such a slimy liar and hateful person and he shouldn’t be above the law but I would be concerned about setting the precedent of installing a president that wasn’t voted in nationally.
Because knowing the Repubs, instead of that happening again in the future due to circumstances, I can imagine them trying to engineer such a “coup” against Dems, framing or entrapping them to install their future House Speaker to get even.
We’ve seen in WI, MI, OH, NC and elsewhere, how Repubs won’t hesitate to slam a wrecking ball into our democracy (let alone the Trump madness), I can imagine the takedown of Trump and Pence to make them feel free to do absolutely anything to take back power.
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Dodgers pitcher Urias arrested on domestic battery
(NEW YORK) — Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery outside of a Los Angeles mall on Monday night, ESPN has learned.
Urias, 22, was arrested after police responded to a report of an argument in a parking lot for the Beverly Center around 7:30 p.m. He was booked for a misdemeanor and spent the night in jail before posting $20,000 bail.
The Dodgers released a statement saying that they are aware of the situation and are cooperating with the authorities and Major League Baseball, but have no further comment at this time.
Urias was recently moved out of the Dodgers’ starting rotation and placed in a bullpen role where he recorded his second save in five days on Monday.
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STI Part of Tiger Woods Quicken Loans Announcement
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Andy Biggs & Ami Bera
Compare the voting records of Andy Biggs and Ami Bera in 2017-18.
Represented Arizona's 5th Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.
Ami Bera
Represented California's 7th Congressional District. This is his 3rd term in the House.
Andy Biggs and Ami Bera are from different parties and disagreed on 69 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
Sept. 7, 2018 — Community Safety and Security Act
July 25, 2018 — Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018
July 19, 2018 — Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes
June 21, 2018 — Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018
May 18, 2018 — Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018
May 9, 2018 — Citizens’ Right to Know Act
Dec. 20, 2017 — Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act
Nov. 7, 2017 — Save Local Business Act
Sept. 28, 2017 — Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017
Sept. 26, 2017 — Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act
Sept. 14, 2017 — Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes
May 18, 2017 — Thin Blue Line Act
March 1, 2017 — SCRUB Act
Jan. 13, 2017 — To provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces
Dec. 21, 2018 — Space Frontier Act of 2019
Dec. 12, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, and for other purposes
Nov. 14, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 6784, the Manage our Wolves Act; and providing for proceedings during the period from November 19, 2018, through November 26, 2018
July 18, 2018 — Supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
April 12, 2018 — Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States
March 22, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to H.R. 1625, Consolidated Appropriations Act and the TARGET Act; and providing for proceedings during the period from March 23, 2018, through April 9, 2018
Feb. 15, 2018 — Langevin of Rhode Island Part A Amendment No. 2
On Ordering a Call of the House
Dec. 6, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 38) to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a means by which nonresidents of a State whose residents may carry concealed firearms may also do so in the State
Sept. 27, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 3823, Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017; and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules
Sept. 13, 2017 — Norton of District of Columbia Amendment No. 117
Sept. 7, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Amendment No. 2
Sept. 7, 2017 — Hunter of California Part B Amendment No. 77
July 13, 2017 — Blumenauer of Oregon Part B Amendment No. 8
June 28, 2017 — Hudson of North Carolina Amendment No. 4
May 25, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part B Amendment No. 1
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Michael McCaul
Represented Texas's 10th Congressional District. This is his 7th term in the House.
Robert A. Brady
Represented Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District. This is his 11th term in the House.
Michael McCaul and Robert A. Brady are from different parties and disagreed on 73 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
Sept. 6, 2018 — Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty and Access Act
Nov. 30, 2017 — Minnesota’s Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act
Nov. 8, 2017 — Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017
July 19, 2017 — Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act
July 19, 2017 — Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act
Sept. 13, 2017 — Courtney of Connecticut Amendment No. 164
July 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part A Amendment No. 1
July 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part B Amendment No. 2
July 19, 2017 — Engel of New York Part B Amendment No. 1
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***Before we begin! In this post I discuss the belief systems of some Indigenous people in Canada and the United States. I’m doing my best to represent things properly but, as I have said before, I’m not an expert here. More importantly, the beliefs and philosophies I’m writing about here are held by some First Nations people. Not all. Maybe not even a majority. Some. The point here is not to conduct a detailed survey of First Nations beliefs but to present some philosophies that are diametrically opposed to the ones presented by Douglas Bland in Uprising.***
I love music, but I’m not really a music guy. I’m not the kind of person who pours over the details of their favourite band or artists, learning all the trivia of their history and their creative process. I got a huge library of music on my iTunes account, and a (now unused) CD collection in a box in my closet, but I don’t go wild for the tactile feel of vinyl or anything. But I love stories, and I love history, so while I don’t actively go out looking for it, I do pick up some knowledge from time to time. And every once in a while I can honestly say that I’ve managed to pick up on a trend and briefly been ‘with it.’
This is my way of saying that, while I’m going to be talking about First Nations’ artists/DJ collective A Tribe Called Red, I am not an expert. I love their music, I approved of their message, but I did have to do some research over the last few days to write this post.
So over the last chapter of Uprising, we’ve managed to get some vague idea of the ideology that Bland has assigned to the Movement. How they view themselves, how they view settler-colonialism, and the basis for which they make their claim to the land (as opposed to other First Nations groups whom they denounce as ‘white Indians’). It’s…it’s a pretty ugly view of life. Not only does Molly Grace’s ideology have some really vicious portrayals of ‘white’ people and Canadian society as a whole, it actually strikes me as pretty toxic towards the First Nations as well. Reading these passages gives me a sense of some serious self-loathing at work here, and while I’d hesitate to call it wrong or impossible, it does seem to be at odds with a lot of what I’ve seen in real life.
***Just to reiterate the note I had at the start of this post, I am in no position to speak for the First Nations of Canada, or even to provide a realistic survey of their belief systems. Nor am I saying that A Tribe Called Red speaks on behalf of Indigenous people either. They speak for themselves and to some extent, for the artists with whom they collaborate. Presumably their beliefs are at least acceptable to their fans, but in the end they’re one group of voices out of millions. What I am going to say, is that they articulate a very different vision for Indigenaity and settler-colonialism, and while they may not be the last word on the subject, their beliefs are shared by more than a few First Nations activists, artists, and leaders that I have encountered over the years.***
The title of ATCR’s album ‘We are the Halluci Nation’ comes from a poem by the late John Trudell (Santee Sioux), an activist and Native American poet who (among other things) had been chairman of the American Indian Movement (AIM) from 1973-79 and participated in the occupation of Alcatraz. In Tribe’s album, Trudell’s poetry bookends the work as a kind of spoken-word introduction and conclusion(?)[1].
So here’s the opening half, where ATCR introduces the Halluci Nation:
So far, so good. The Halluci Nation are the people who see the sacredness of the world around them. Who see the connection between earth, sky, nature and the people. If you’re ‘white’ and you’ve paid any attention at all to First Nations issues, you’ve probably heard something along these lines at some point[2]. It’s interesting to note that the Halluci Nation is a group of people that defy easy characterization or definition (literally, according to the poem). This is important and it’s an outright refutation of Bland’s Movement ideology. They are a people tied to the land but not to a specific geographic locality, and their defining characteristic is a state of mind rather than a blood quanta. The Halluci Nation actively rejects attempts to quantify or define what a person is.
This point gets reiterated in the poem’s second half (the second to last track on the album) which describes the forces of settler-colonialism:
The A-Lie Nation is us. The ‘white’ people. We are A Lie but more importantly, when those words are put together you discover that we are also the ALieNation. We are alienated. Separated. While the Halluci Nation can see the spiritual in all things, we of the alienation can see only commodities to be exploited.
Including ourselves.
It’s an awesome play on words with a deeply unsettling implication. This sense of commodification is A Lie, and its purpose is to alienate us from the real world. To devalue everything. Including ourselves. Through trauma and numbness we have been cut off from the reality of the world, and it has made us into something different, and dangerous.
This is a theme that I’ve found more than a few times in Indigenous philosophy and spirituality. People themselves are seldom bad, but they can be misled, deceived and poisoned into becoming that way. A common feature in a lot of Indigenous novels and films is to end the story with a kind of reckoning and rebalancing. The characters need to work out some kind of new understanding that will bring wayward villain character back into society and heal the trauma that has been caused.
The closest comparison that I’ve found in western literature would be in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in the redemption arc of the protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge. As the story opens, we see Scrooge as a hateful, cruel man twisted by greed and utterly alienated from humanity. It’s only after a terrifying visit by the ghost of his old partner Jacob Marley and a haunting by three spirits that he finally turns himself around, becoming kind and generous and loving both humanity and himself.
The thing is, the spirits who visit him on Christmas Eve aren’t actually there to haunt him or torment him directly, even though for him the experience is traumatic in the extreme. All the suffering and torment inflicted upon Scrooge came from Scrooge himself. He forged his own chain, similar to the one Jacob Marley drags around in his ghostly wanderings. Marley and the three spirits are just there to lift the veil from his eyes and show him what he has done to himself.
“It is a ponderous chain…” Jacob Marley (Michael Hordern) appears before Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim).
In his youth Scrooge was a neglected and frightened child, who learned early on that life was hard and cruel. Instead of taking this as an inducement to help his fellow man and surround himself with people whom he loved and who loved him, he instead sought out money and power. He tried to protect himself by becoming rich and in the process he drove away every person that he ever loved, and that ever loved him.
In the ultimate scene of the haunting Scrooge, overcome by anguish, throws himself upon his own tombstone, which has been revealed to him by the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come. His agonized wail is not one of a terrified man struck down by outside forces, but by a man who realizes at last that he was his own worse enemy the whole time.
Scrooge is the ALieNation personified.
While the first half of the poem shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to you, but the second half puts it into a fascinating context. The A Lie Nation are the bad guys in this story, but not because of anything inherent to their own nature. They were cheated, they were lied to, they were traumatized.
The A Lie Nation are victims as well as victimizers.
This begs the question, if an ALieNation person breaks free of the Lie, can they become a member of the Halluci Nation?
ATCR members have actually already answered this question, and I think it’s what makes the concept especially cool. The Halluci Nation is not directly chained to any particular band or nation or Treaty or tract of land. Anyone can be a part of the Halluci Nation provided they are willing to see the world and all the people within is as interconnected and precious. This is emphasized in the structure of the album itself, in which ATCR collaborates with dozens of different artists including many non-Indigenous ones. Check out this video where ATCR teams up with Iraqi-Canadian rapper Narcy and hip hop artist Yasiin Bey, an American muslim probably better known by his pre-conversion name ‘Mos Def.’
This is one of the reason I’m so incensed by how Bland has dismissed a real life Governor General as a ‘black foreigner‘ and a fictional Minister of Indigenous Affairs as ‘a Sikh just off the boat.’ This is not in any way to say that racism doesn’t exist in the First Nations of Canada (or America, for that matter) but that there is a powerful counter-argument out there and Bland is actively ignoring it.
Could a toxic, racist ideology seize hold of the Indigenous people of Canada and drive them mad? Could this madness lead them to launch an ill-conceived ethno-nationalist war against the rest of the country, striking out against the innocent and guilty alike? Yeah, it’s possible. Hell, smaller scale versions of these stories are a common staple in First Nations literature. But even as this madness consumed the majority you’d expect there to still be that counter-argument to be made from the margins.
I’m going to wrap this up with one more quote from John Trudell which I found on a Facebook archive page dedicated to preserving his work.
“When I go around America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed. They feel powerless. When I go amongst my own people, we do not feel powerless. We feel oppressed. We do not want to make the trade. We see the physical genocide they are attempting to inflict upon our lives and we understand the psychological genocide they have already inflicted upon their own people … that this is the trade-off they want us to make for survival, that we become subservient to them, that we no longer understand our real connection to power, our real connection to the earth.”
John Trudell
Radical words indeed.
***Videos from A Tribe Called Red’s YouTube channel. The Great Seal of the Halluci Nation from atribecalledred.com. Image captured from Morningstar Entertainment’s restoration of ‘Scrooge‘ Renown Film Productions, 1951.***
[1] As soon as I wrote the word ‘conclusion’ I wondered if that was the right word to use. The entire record feels a lot like an overture, like the beginning of something even bigger and more sublime, so maybe the whole thing is like one big introduction? It’s probably no good for me to try and answer these questions. Like I said, I love music but I’m not a music guy.
[2] Hell, even if you’ve never gone beyond the stereotypes you’ve probably heard something like this. If that’s the case, then this part is real. The rest of it may be questionable, though.
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Probably like many of us, I’ve grown up hearing about the Niagra Falls—seeing pictures of it. To be honest with you, I was always kind of like, whatever. This past summer my wife and I decided to take a little vacation and go spend a few days at Niagra Falls, and I have to tell you, I found it absolutely mesmerizing! It’s astonishing! It was mesmerizing, and I realized there’s just no way, once you’ve experienced that, you would ever settle for just a picture. That’s exactly the point the writer of Hebrews is trying to make. Once you’ve experienced the real thing, you’d never settle for a picture again. That’s what we want to talk about. If you have a Bible, turn to Hebrews, Chapter 8, continuing our study through a very complex part of the book of Hebrews. We pick it up in chapter 8, verse 1:
Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, (*NASB, Hebrews 8:1)
So, he says this is the main point: we have such a high priest. Now that word such is basically referring to everything we’ve already learned about the high priest in Hebrews. We’ve learned that the high priest is the ultimate high priest king, who has made the ultimate sacrifice for sin, offering Himself to make propitiation for sins, and when He completed the offering, He sat down, indicating that the work was done. He is no longer doing a further work of blotting out sins or waiting to do any such things. He has done it. The long-awaited Messiah, the Savior of the world had come!
What are His qualifications? He is qualified because He has an indestructible life. He is the high priest forever. God promises. As long as this priest is the high priest, His offering for sin remains valid. We will never be without an intercessor. Therefore, if He is the high priest forever, then His offering for sin is valid forever. And He gives Himself as the guarantee that this is true. Since we have such a high priest, verse 2:
…a minister (which is a typical word for a priest, one who serves) in the sanctuary, the holy place, and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
So, what is the tabernacle? The tabernacle was a tent, a version of the temple in the Old Testament. When the nation of Israel was moving from the land of Egypt to the Promised Land, God gave very clear, very precise, detailed instructions about erecting a tent, which basically would be a mobile temple that would reflect God’s presence in the center of the nation of Israel. The tabernacle then gave way to the temple. What the text is telling us is that even though the tabernacle represented the dwelling place of God, it was just a replica; it was a shadow. It was a picture of the ultimate dwelling place of God, which is pitched or erected in the heavens. When the text says the true tabernacle, it’s not saying true as in the other was false, but true as in that one was a replica. But the dwelling place of God in the heavens is the true dwelling place of God with all of its glory. Verse 3:
For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
The verb tenses, which aren’t all that obvious in the English, are important in the original language. When he’s talking about the priests making offering—the present tense verbs— basically the writer of Hebrews is saying this is currently still going on in Jerusalem, as the priests are continuing to make their offerings. This is one of many comments that helps us date the book of Hebrews. So that would mean it would have to be pre-70 AD because that’s when the temple was destroyed, so probably late ‘60s. But his point is that while the priests continue to make offerings in Jerusalem, this ultimate high priest that now dwells in the heavenlies, it was necessary—the language could be it is necessary or was necessary—for Him to make an offering. The verse is a bit of a teaser because the writer doesn’t come back to what that offering was until the following chapter. We just kind of file that away for now. Verse 4:
Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law; who serve a copy (The Greek word there is the word from which we get the English word type—a copy, a shadow.) and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “SEE,” He says, “THAT YOU MAKE all things ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN TO YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN. (Vs. 4-5)
What’s he saying there? He is saying this ultimate high priest who came, made the ultimate offering for sin and now dwells at the right hand of the Father in the true tabernacle, the true dwelling place of God. But if that priest were to come to earth and go to Jerusalem, He would not be allowed to function as a priest in that temple.
Now he’s not criticizing so much as he is pointing out that the old covenant was designed in such a way there were very clear guidelines and restrictions on who could be a priest in the temple and how everything functioned. But it was actually designed in such a way that the ultimate high priest—God Himself in the flesh—could not fit in the old covenant. In other words, the purpose was not for Jesus to just slide in and blend into the old covenant. It was actually purposefully designed in such a way that was not possible. Rather the old covenant had to come to an end in order that this ultimate high priest would usher in something new…and something better!
One of the big problems was that the Judaizers and even potentially these Jewish Christians, were tempted to just blend Jesus into the old system. “Let’s just kind of add Him in there.” This continues to be a huge problem today among certain groups.
Now you think about all the different religions and denominations of the world—many of them are just simply trying to blend Jesus into their religious system. They may have a high view of Jesus, but they’re just trying to blend Him in with the other religious activity. This is Paul’s concern in writing to the Galatians—you can’t blend Jesus in! He is very clear that if you add one single work to the gospel of grace, it ceases to be a gospel of grace. There’s no blend. It’s either Jesus or it’s a religion of works. There’s no combining the two.
The point the writer is making is the old covenant was actually designed in such a way that if the ultimate high priest were to come to earth, He couldn’t function in that system. That system with all its laws would have to end, and there would have to be the launching of a new system, or a new covenant. Verse 6:
But now (Here’s the contrast) But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry (So something has changed.) by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
This whole idea of mediation has always been the problem. All the way back to Genesis chapter three, the question has been, “How does a holy God have a relationship with sinful men and women?” The whole idea of the old covenant system—the law, the tabernacle, the temple, the priestly system, the sacrificial system—all of that was meant to be a type or a shadow of this layer of mediation. How do sinful men and women have a relationship with a holy God? Answer is, “They had to go through this level of mediation somehow to make it possible.”
Now it’s important to understand that that could not save them. The Scriptures are very clear that people in the old covenant could be saved, but it wasn’t on the basis of that religious activity, but on the basis of their belief, by faith, that God made a promise that one day He would send a Savior who would die for their sins. In essence, people in the old covenant were saved by faith—kind of on credit—looking forward to the belief that one day God would keep that promise.
It would be right to say that if Jesus had never come, none of those people could have been saved. It was all on credit, hanging on their belief that one day the Savior would come. So their entering into the system was basically an act of faith, that this middle layer of mediation is somehow a shadow or a picture of God’s ultimate fulfillment of the promise. That’s what he’s talking about in verse six, that there is now a better covenant that is built on better promises, and we learned in the previous chapter that includes a better hope.
Think of it this way: Let’s imagine that I convince you to go see Niagra Falls. You drive to Niagra Falls and you stay in at the Niagra Falls lodge. You stay in the lodge, but you never leave the lodge. You just stay in the lodge and look at the pictures all day long. You go down to the gift shop and you look at the postcards, which are pictures of the Niagra Falls. And the writer of Hebrews is trying to convince you, “Hey, you’re so close! But you have to put down the pictures and go to the rim and see the breathtaking view for yourself!”
What he’s saying is Jesus could never fit in the old covenant. The old covenant was just a picture, and the picture has to come to an end. He’s ushering in something new, which is something better because it’s built on better promises. Verse 7:
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
Let’s back up a little bit and explain this old covenant/new covenant thing. The story of redemption starts in Genesis chapter three. God makes a promise that through the seed of a woman He would send one who would bring life back out of death. It’s developed in different ways. You have a covenant made to Abraham, for example, and the promise is that that promised seed would come through Abraham’s line, and God would make Abraham a great nation. Then you go from Abraham to Isaac, to Jacob, to Joseph, which gets them into Egypt. God blesses the nation of Israel and they become a nation—well over a million people strong—when God raises up Moses to lead the nation out of Egypt and into the land of promise. En route God appears to Moses on Mt. Sinai and gives him what we call the old covenant. It was all the Laws; it included the tablets of the covenant, it included the book of the covenant, it included the ark of the covenant, the blueprint for the tabernacle and the temple and all the furniture. It included the priesthood; it was all of that.
And all of that was meant to be a shadow, or a picture of God’s ultimate fulfillment of the promise going all the way back to Genesis chapter three. You get into the four Gospels, and it’s really important to remember the Gospels are still under the old covenant. The new covenant is not ushered in until the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus Himself in the upper room, the night He was to be arrested, took the elements of Passover and said, “This is the beginning of the new covenant.” His broken body and His shed blood—so clearly He indicated that it was still yet to come. His death, burial and resurrection would usher in this new covenant, a better covenant, built on better promises. That’s what we’re talking about.
In verse seven, this is the same argument he made in chapter seven: that if the old covenant was faultless—in other words had the ability to save us—there would have been no need for a change. The message is not, “Try harder.” The message is not, “Let’s give it one more go.” The message is not, “Let’s tweak it to kind of blend Jesus into it.” The message is, “It didn’t work!” He told us last time it was weak and useless in terms of its ability to save. But what he’s saying here is the fault wasn’t with the covenant;the fault was with the people and their inability to keep the covenant. So, he says, verse 8:
For finding fault with them, He says, “BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD,
WHEN I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT… (Vs. 8a)
Now he’s quoting from Jeremiah chapter 31. Jeremiah was an Old Testament prophet. The nation of Israel was divided between the North and the South. The North was Israel; the South was Judah. The North, Israel, has already been taken away into captivity; Judah, the South, is getting close to being taken away into captivity, and Jeremiah is writing this prophecy to them. There is a clear sense in which we as a people, fail to keep the covenant. The promise of Jeremiah’s prophecy is God is going to usher in a new covenant that will deal with people’s inability to keep the covenant—in other words, to make some way of salvation possible. Verse 8-9:
…I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH; (And of course we learn that we as Gentiles have been made part of this covenant.)
NOT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS (because that one didn’t work) ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; (he’s talking about Sinai) BUT THEY DID NOT CONTINUE (they didn’t obey my covenant) AND I DID NOT CARE FOR THEM, SAYS THE LORD. (Vs. 8b- 9)
In other words, they didn’t obey, so God didn’t get to bless them. God’s heart is to bless His people but He can’t do that when they are full of sin and disobedience. So what are the better promises in this better covenant? He starts then in verse 10:
“FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL
AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: (Promise number one:) I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS, AND I WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS.
The first promise is the new covenant would be an internal covenant, not an external covenant, not written on tablets of stone or parchment of paper, but written on the human heart. 2 Corinthians 3, which is the other extensive discussion on this, talks about the fact that the change would be that now the message, the law, would be written in the hearts of the people rather than on tablets of stone or with ink on paper. It would be internal rather than external. Until the price was paid for sin, it was an external covenant. It was about a limited set of laws; it was about rules; it was about a written standard. It was about, “Obey and you will blessed; disobey and you’ll experience the consequence of that.” But it was external, with all of the religious activity. The radical change in the new covenant is this would actually come from within. The language of the new covenant is radical. It’s not a tweaking; it’s not a try-harder theology. It’s not a righteousness expressed through just Ten Commandments. It’s language is, “You will be born again. You will become a new creation in Christ. You’ll be transformed—literally metamorphized. You actually will become a partaker of the divine nature,” according to Peter. You’ll produce righteousness beyond and above a written code of laws.
Paul says that your old self will actually die with Christ, and a new self will be resurrected in Christ. You’ve been radically changed and transformed. The old you doesn’t exist anymore; you can’t go back. You didn’t receive a ticket to heaven. You didn’t receive just a remodeling job. It’s a complete, total, radical transformation from the inside out, to such a degree that you actually have the indwelling Spirit of Jesus Himself now within you that empowers you to walk in obedience and live out this new life in Christ in a way that people in the old covenant couldn’t have imagined!
Think of it like this: I think all of us would agree that I should remain faithful to my wife. I don’t think anybody disagrees with that. In the old covenant, why? Because it’s the law; because it’s the rule; because if I don’t, there will be consequences to that. Therefore, I seek to abide by the rule. But in the new covenant, it’s different. I actually have the nature of Christ. I actually stand in the righteousness of Christ. So why do I remain faithful to my wife? Because I want to, because it’s intrinsically motivated, because my heart is for righteousness. The motivation does not come from a list of external laws; it doesn’t have anything to do with whether somebody catches me or sees me…doesn’t have anything to do with that. It has to do with the fact I’ve been radically changed from the inside out and my heart is for righteousness. It’s my passion; it’s how I want to live.
In the old covenant, which continues to be true today for those that are stuck in legalism, they want everything black and white, they want a narrow list of don’ts and do’s, and the reason they want it black and white is because they want to be able to get as close to the line as possible without going over it. “Give me real clear lines so I can come up to the line, but I don’t want to step over the line.”
The new covenant is radically different from that. I’m not trying to see how close I can get to the line; I’m full speed the other direction. My heart is for righteousness. I want to do the right thing; I want to please God. It’s the motivation of my heart. You say, “Is that because you’re such a really good guy?” “It’s because I’ve been radically changed by the power of Jesus. I actually have a new self. I’m a new creation. There’s a new me, and through the power of the Spirit in me, my life is headed a different direction, and that’s what I want! That’s what I’m passionate about!” It’s an intrinsic motivation that is radically different than the external motivation of the old covenant—a better covenant built on better promises! The second promise is in the latter part of verse 10:
…AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
Now first of all, that language was in the old covenant, but it had great limitations. God dwelt in the center of the camp, in the Holy of Holies, in the tabernacle, and to get to God, you went through the mediation, the priestly system. It was true they had a relationship, but not a relationship like we have today as the people of God.
When Jesus died on the cross, when His death completed payment for salvation, miraculously in the temple, the veil that separated the Holy of Holies from the holy place split in two— miraculously by itself! The message was that that limited access to God through the system of mediation is now over, and we now as the people of God, having been made right by the ultimate offering, by the ultimate High Priest, have direct access into the presence of God ourselves. We are God’s people, and He is our God, in a way that people in the old covenant could never have imagined. The New Testament says we call God, “Abba, Father”…Papa, daddy. That’s language in the old covenant that was unimaginable to those people! Hebrews has already told us we come boldly into the presence of God. They couldn’t have imagined that in the old covenant. But now: better covenant, better promises. The third is kind of similar to that. Verse 11:
“AND THEY SHALL NOT TEACH EVERYONE HIS FELLOW CITIZEN, AND EVERYONE HIS BROTHER, SAYING, ‘KNOW THE LORD,’ FOR ALL WILL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST OF THEM.
Now you say, “What does that mean?” Basically it’s capturing this idea that in the old covenant people had to go through the mediation level to get to God. And so the mediation level, the priests, basically taught the people and directed the people, and to get to God you went through them. But as a result of a better covenant with better promises, that mediation level is gone. That mediation level was meant to be a picture of the Savior to come. Jesus is the fulfillment. Paul tells Timothy there is no mediator between a holy God and sinful men and women other than Christ Himself. There is no clergy class; there is no priestly class; there is no pastor; there’s no denomination; there’s no special church; there’s no person you have to go through now or in the end times. You have direct access into the presence of God in a way people in the old covenant could never have imagined.
God does not live in a building. God is not housed in some sort of a sanctuary. You don’t go to a building to visit God. There’s a lot of confusion around that today. There’s no sanctuary that’s any more sacred than you walking through a city park, because you have become the temple of God. You have become the dwelling place of God. You have an intimate access to God that was unimaginable in the old covenant. The text even says it doesn’t matter if you’re the greatest; it doesn’t matter if you’re the least. That wasn’t true in the old covenant. So, many people felt no possibility of access to a holy God. Whether you are the greatest or the least, God has opened up direct access into His presence. Better covenant, better promises, and all of it is built on the fourth promise, verse 12:
“FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES, AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE.”
That word FOR—Greek word gar—we call it an explanatory gar. I know you’re thrilled to know that…but mention that to somebody at work tomorrow. The idea of the explanatory gar is that verse twelve explains the basis for the other promises. In other words, lose verse twelve, and nothing else we’ve talked about is possible. “How is all this possible?” Answer: “Because God has forgiven our sins in Jesus. The ultimate high priest has sacrificed Himself to make payment for sin, the propitiation for sin in order that we as sinful men and women can stand right before a holy God. Offered once for all, He is seated at the right hand, and as long as the ultimate high priest lives, that sacrifice for sin remains valid. Therefore, because we stand forgiven, the other promises are true as well. Better covenant, better hope, built on better promises.
Now that is the longest quote of an Old Testament passage without interruption in the entire New Testament. You would think at the end of that there would be a significant amount of conversation. But it’s actually quite limited. Verse 13:
When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first covenant obsolete. (It feels like what he is saying in verse thirteen is when He said a new covenant, He meant a new covenant…which means the old one is old; the old one is obsolete; the old one is done. He has made the first obsolete.) But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
A lot of scholars think that was kind of prophetic, hinting toward the destruction of the temple in AD 70. It’s kind of the idea that if they’re not going to stop, God will allow it to be destroyed in order to stop it. It wasn’t long after verse thirteen that the temple was actually destroyed. But the greater argument is because there is a new one, the old is obsolete. Therefore, the old has to go…be done…replaced by the new.
Over the years it is just curious, concerning how many Christians seem unwilling or unable to let go of the old covenant. The old covenant is gone. Read 2 Corinthians, chapter three. It’s the most comprehensive discussion on this. It is faded away; it’s gone! It was a picture, but once you’ve experienced the true, you would never settle for a picture again.
Again, let’s imagine that I convince you to leave the lodge at Niagra Falls and go to the rim…and see this absolutely breathtaking site! I say to you, “Put the picture down! We’re done with the picture. Enter into the breathtaking view of the real thing!” You say, “What exactly are you talking about?” Well, things like this: People have trouble letting go of the Sabbath. People have trouble letting go of the dietary laws. People have trouble letting go of some of the feasts and festivals. People have trouble letting go of the Ten Commandments. You hear all these evangelicals talking about wanting the Ten Commandments in the schools and the courthouses. You do understand that the Ten Commandments are old covenant, don’t you? What would be the biblical basis by which you choose ten commandments and move them forward and ignore over six hundred other commandments? What is the biblical basis by which we have permission to do that?
But it’s even other practical things—ways we use the old covenant to reinforce our opinion. Somebody comes along and says, “I don’t think you should have a tattoo.” You say, “Why is that?” “Because that’s what the Bible says,” to which we say, “Where does the Bible say that?” “Well, there’s a verse in Leviticus.” “You mean the same verse that says you shouldn’t shave your sideburns or cut your hair or your beard? Is that the verse you’re referring to?” What is the permission to cherry-pick certain laws from the old covenant to reinforce our opinion? What is the biblical basis by which we do that? You understand: “The old is old!”
What’s not fine is so many Christians reach back into the Old Testament—to the old covenant—and cherry-pick verses and laws that reinforce their opinion as their way of saying, “God’s on my side,” to which I would say, “Wait a minute. What is the biblical basis by which you can cherry-pick one verse, one law, and ignore the other six hundred-plus? You can’t just go back and cherry-pick what you want out of the old covenant. The old covenant is old; it’s obsolete. There is a new covenant. It’s a better covenant, with better hope, built on better promises. You’re never really going to get a breath-taking view of the new covenant until you put down the pictures and realize this is something different, and something so much better!
It’s the whole message of Christmas. For unto you is born this day in the City of David, a Savior, and it is Christ the Lord! Blend Him into the system? That’s not what it says. It was the beginning of something radical—the transition from the picture to the reality—better covenant, better hope, built on better promises. Not Jesus plus anything else. It’s built on Christ, and Christ alone. The new covenant theology is Christ is enough!
Our Father, we are reminded of the importance of entering into the fullness and the wonder of the new covenant. Lord, we can’t keep the covenant any better than the nation of Israel did. Without a new covenant, we would be lost forever. But the new covenant, built on new promises, gives us a new hope, because we find our life in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, and Jesus alone! Lord, that’s what we celebrate, and it’s in whose name we pray, Amen.
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This whole discussion about Melchizedek, it is complicated, so a couple of things to keep in mind. One is it’s helpful to remember that the first readers are struggling. They’re primarily Jewish Christians that are headed into persecution, but there is clearly some influence seeking to convince them to return to the old covenant, to the old ways. It was not so much abandoning Jesus as much as it was blending Jesus into the old covenant. For example, when Paul wrote to the Galatians, the concern was not an abandonment of Jesus but kind of the blending of Jesus into the old covenant system-cherry picking those laws—and that’s what these people are wrestling with, and that’s what the writer is talking about. If something far better has come, a new covenant, why would you do that? Why would you go back to something that was a shadow?
So the writer of Hebrews present Melchizedek very skillfully with limited details, and all the details are meant to fit this picture or type. We refer to it as a literary figure. We learned that he is the ultimate king priest and we learned that he’s greater than Abraham and greater than the Levitical priesthood. That’s pretty much where we left it last time. We pick it up in verse 11:
Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood…
In Colossians chapter 1, the end of it, when Paul talks about presenting every person complete, that’s this word perfect in Christ. So that’s what this whole discussion is about. How does that happen? How is someone presented perfect or complete before a holy God? verse 11:
Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people [Jews] received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron? For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also. For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. (*NASB Hebrews 7:11-14)
So what is he talking about there? He’s basically saying, “If the Levitical priesthood, which is by necessity tied into the Law—in other words the two are inseparable—so the Law is connected to the priesthood; the priesthood is connected to the Law, one thing he’s not saying is that when this ultimate priest in the order of Melchizedek was to come, he was not just going to open a new line of priesthood within the old covenant. What he’s saying is this would be a complete and total change. The change in the priesthood would mean a change in the law and the entirety of the old covenant. By the way, this is the Law of Moses (including the ten commandments), which was the Law of God given to the Israelite’s. The Levitical priesthood and the Mosaic Law are inseparable. If someone wanted to incorporate the Mosaic Law into their religious system today, they would also have to incorporate the Levitical priesthood because it was the basis for the Mosaic Law.
So, it’s not a little change; it’s a complete change. Now to understand how tense this was felt with the Judaizers, the first Christian martyr that we know of is in Acts chapters 6 and 7—Stephen. When the Judaizers are preparing to stone Stephen to death, they identify two reasons why he must die. One is because Stephen was proclaiming that Jesus was going to replace the temple, and number two is that Jesus was going to replace the Law (not just the ceremonial law, but the entire law of Moses). They accused Stephen, “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law” (Acts 6:13).
So it’s the exact same two things that the writer of Hebrews is talking about here. They found that message so offensive that they stoned Stephen to death! So this was pretty intense stuff. What the writer, then, is saying is that this change of priesthood—that there’s nothing in the old covenant law that identifies anyone from the tribe of Judah to somehow be qualified for the priesthood.
Now some were probably arguing that Melchizedek showed up in Genesis 14, but after that would come Moses and the Law-the old covenant, so perhaps some were saying that the old covenant, the Law, the Levitical priesthood superseded or was superior to Melchizedek. And that’s why the writer of Hebrews keeps quoting from Psalm 110 that there is still one coming in the order of Melchizedek who would be the ultimate priest/king and the writer of Hebrews has already identified Jesus as the fulfillment of that type. Verse 15:
And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, (in other words genealogy) but according to the power of an indestructible life. For it is attested of Him, “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.” (Vs. 15-17)
Now that’s the fourth time the writer has quoted Psalm 110, verse 4. What he’s saying is, “If this new priest comes along, and he’s already identified Jesus as that person, and He does not qualify on the basis of His genealogy, or what tribe He’s from—but rather He qualifies on the basis of the fact that He lives forever—an indestructible life. This will be a critical part of the argument that he is going to make. The Bible mentions Jesus is the King, not because of his genealogical record, but because he is King. He’s the ultimate high priest, not because of his genealogical record but because he is the ultimate high priest, and what are his credentials? His credentials are that He conquered sin and death once and for all, and He lives forever. Those are pretty good credentials. He goes on to say, verse 18:
For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment (meaning the old covenant; why?) because of its weakness and uselessness (for the Law made nothing perfect)… (Vs. 18-19a)
So on the one hand, the old covenant is completed; it is fulfilled, it is set aside. It is weak in terms of its ability to make one perfect or complete or right before a holy God. Now this is not to say that somehow the old covenant failed. It accomplished exactly what God intended it to accomplish. It was never meant to be a means of salvation. It was never meant to make people right.
The fallacy of religion is to think religious activity somehow makes someone righteous in the presence of a holy God. The problem is sin, which is falling short of God’s perfection (which actually cannot be captured by a written code of laws) and sin is offensive to God and no amount of religious activity un-sins us. That’s just a ridiculous notion. You can do religion until the day you die; it doesn’t erase the sin. The old covenant was never meant to un-sin the people. It was meant to accomplish two things: One is it created a standard for those who think they can accomplish selfrighteousness. Here’s the standard by which everybody could measure themselves and realize, “We’re in real trouble here!” The second thing it was meant to accomplish was to create a shadow, a foreshadowing of the one who would ultimately come to be the Messiah of the world. The temple, the furniture, Sabbath day (weekly or other), the sacrificial system—all of that was meant to be a foreshadowing of the fulfillment of the promise.
The promise goes back to Genesis chapter 3, verse 15. God made a promise He would do something through the seed of a woman that would ultimately crush the head of the enemy and bring life back out of death. He re-ups the promise to Abraham in a covenant. It is pictured through the old covenant Law, but all the way through there was always an awareness that no amount of religious activity could make us perfect, could make us complete before a holy God. Therefore:
…on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. (Vs. 19b)
How could we as sinful men and women ever draw near to a holy God? There has to be some other way. The old covenant, with its laws—was weak and useless to do this. So God ushers in a better hope. This is language that the writer of Hebrews really likes and uses a lot. Why would you go back to something completely ineffective and useless, when God had provided something better? “For instance, You observe days (weekly) and months (monthly) and seasons and years (yearly). I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain“ (Gal 4:10,11). Something better is Someone better, who has done for you what you could never do for yourself.
He told us earlier in Hebrews, “Hope is what we anchor our souls to.” There’s no promise that everything is going to be rosy and make sense in this life. We anchor our hope to the promise that through Christ there is a world to come—a new heaven and a new earth—that will be everything that our souls long for today. How do we get there? Not through the old covenant, not through a religious system, or a special church, not through observing holy days in the last days, but through a Person, a new covenant, a better hope through which we draw near to God. Verse 20:
And inasmuch as it was not without an oath (for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, “THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL NOT CHANGE HIS MIND, ‘YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER’”); (Vs. 20-21)
So what is he saying there? He’s saying that when God brought forth the Levitical priesthood in the old covenant, there was never a moment where God promised that the Levitical priesthood would last forever. It was always understood to be temporary. But when God promised—this is the fifth time he’s quoted Psalm 110 verse 4—there is an oath, a promise, that this new priesthood, this fulfillment of the order of Melchizedek—the writer has already identified Jesus as the ultimate High Priest, the fulfillment of the order of Melchizedek—that when this One comes, this will be the ultimate high priest forever. God says, “I promise I will never change my mind on this.” Verse 22:
…so much the more also, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
This word covenant will be a really important term in the book of Hebrews, but this is the first time that he mentions it. This is the new covenant, this is a better covenant. The idea, then, is Jesus is the guarantee; literally the text says that he is the guarantor of the promise. We learned in the very first verses of Hebrews chapter one that Jesus is not another word from God; he is the last word from God. So no church should have any special message to us anything other than what Jesus has spoken to us. This is what the whole story has been working up to is the fulfillment of a promise from Genesis 3:15—that God would ultimately send one who would be the better hope, who would usher in a better covenant that would make it possible for sinful men and women to stand right before a holy God. How do we know that this covenant will endure? Answer: because God promised; He will not change his mind. How do we know? There’s a guarantee. What is the guarantee? It’s a guarantor. It’s a Person, and as long as this Person lives forever, the guarantee lives forever. Verse 23:
The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers (Why?) because they were prevented by death from continuing, (in other words they died) but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God (How?) through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. (Vs. 23-25)
So what he just said is under the old covenant there were hundreds of priests. Why? Because they died. They lived and they died; they lived and they died. But along comes the ultimate high priest. What are His qualifications? An indestructible life! He’s conquered sin and death once and for all! Because He lives forever, He will be a priest forever! Therefore He holds the priesthood permanently; therefore the salvation that He offers is permanent. It will endure forever.
Can you imagine getting to heaven, getting a thousand years down the road and having God show up and say, “Alright, we have a problem! The ultimate high priest who was your salvation; He’s dead. Therefore I’m changing my mind: you’re out!” The whole idea is that could never happen. We are never without an intercessor! Ellen White (the SDA a prophet) said, “In that fearful time the righteous must live in the sight of a holy God without an intercessor.—The Great Controversy, 613, 614 (1911)“. How erroneous! We are never without an intercessor!
God made a promise; this priest has an indestructible life; this priest will last forever! He will be the priest forever; therefore His salvation will be forever. How do we know that? He’s the guarantee and He’s forever. The last verse then, 25, is often misunderstood, where it says …since He always lives to make intercession for them. Now intercession is not the same as making payment for sin. Nowhere in the Bible do the Scriptures say that Jesus is continuing to make payment for sin or making some kind of a final atonement or blotting out sin from heaven. He’s not! When He hung on the cross, Jesus himself uttered the words, “Tetelestai,” meaning, “It’s finished…paid in full.” We learned in the first part of Hebrews that as the ultimate high priest He offered the sacrifice, rose from the dead, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, indicating, “Mission accomplished; ultimate price paid; work is done; He is seated.” So it is just wrong that Jesus still is somehow making payment for sin or blotting sins out.
The point is that He is the priest forever. He is the guarantor forever. Therefore, correctly read: “Since He always lives—as long as He lives, the intercession is good.” How long will He live? Forever! How long is our salvation? Forever! How do we know? He guarantees it with a promise. He is the guarantor; He is the eternal Son of God. Verse 26:
For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest…
Now in modern English that can be misleading. We sometimes say, “Well, that’s fitting,” kind of meaning, “Well, that’s what the person deserved.” That’s not what this is saying. It’s not saying that we somehow deserve this. What it is saying in the greek is what Jesus the ultimate high priest did, fit the problem. The solution fit the problem. We have a huge problem; we needed an ultimate high priest. What Jesus did for us fit the problem. Verse 26:
For it is fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, (which has to do with no sin in His behavior)separated from sinners (meaning He wasn’t a sinner) and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all (not for some, for everyone) when He offered up Himself. For the law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, (the promise) which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever. (Vs. 26-28)
So what the text is saying is that the Levitical priest had to first offer sacrifice for their own sins before they could offer sacrifice for the sins of the people, but because Jesus was sinless, He did not sacrifice for His own sins but rather, as the perfect spotless lamb of God, He sacrificed Himself for the sins of the world.
The very last line, a Son made perfect forever. This has been the discussion, starting in verse 11: “How does one become complete, perfect before a holy God?” If it could be done through the old covenant, if it could be done through religious activity, if it could be done through good works, why the need for a Savior, why the need for the ultimate high priest making the ultimate sacrifice for sin? Answer is, “Because there is no other way.” We need a better way, a better hope, a better covenant that would come with a guarantee that as long as this Savior lives, then you stand right before a holy God if you have received His salvation.
Now back to that description in verse 26 …exalted above the heavens. We see this throughout the New Testament. He sits above all rule and authority. He is the King of the universe. He is the King in heaven. He is in charge!
Now we live in a culture where there’s a lot of argument as to whether or not all roads lead to God. But ‘There’s only one way.’” It’s through a better hope; it’s through a better covenant; it’s through the One who came as the ultimate high priest to offer Himself as the ultimate sacrifice in payment for sin, in order that we as sinful men and women might stand right before a holy God. There’s only one way. And as long as He lives, He says so! God promised, “I won’t change my mind; this is the way it’s going to be.” What are His credentials? An indestructible life! He will be the high priest forever…for the rest of eternity. He will acknowledge, “My payment was sufficient;” Christ is enough! Not Jesus plus some religion, not Jesus plus some other activity, not Jesus plus weekly Sabbath day, not Jesus plus anything. Paul in writing to the Galatians says that if you add one single religious work or activity to Jesus, it’s no longer grace. It’s Christ and Christ alone for salvation!
There may be some of us who’ve convinced yourself there’s no way I could ever be right before a holy God. I don’t know what you’ve done. I don’t know what’s been done to you. I only know that God offers everyone salvation freely as a gift of His grace if you choose by faith to receive it. Christ died for your sins and He’s willing to offer you salvation today and forever as the ultimate high priest, if you just choose by faith to receive it.
There may be others who are up to their eyebrows in religion. One of the earmarks of religion is fear. There’s this restlessness, because in religion you never know how much is enough? How good is good enough? It’s full of despair; it’s full of fear; it’s full of this restlessness. Religion is this endless effort to somehow try to make yourself right before God. But what Hebrews tells us is that is weak and useless because you cannot un-sin yourself. Someone had to pay your debt. Someone had to die for you. Someone had to sacrifice for you and make payment for your sin in order to offer you salvation freely as a gift. It’s not religion; it’s not programming; it’s not activities. It’s a Person. It’s a Person, the ultimate high priest, who sacrificed Himself in order that you might know salvation forever! This is something to be very thankful for!
Our Father, we are thankful this day that when there was no hope, You sent Your Son to be the Savior of the world. Lord, you couldn’t be clearer. It can’t come through religion; it can’t come through religious activity or good works or end times sabbath day or feast day observance. Those ultimately are weak and useless to make us perfect. It would have to come through the ultimate high priest who would make the ultimate sacrifice for sin. God, my prayer is that none of us would end a day without having the experience, the salvation you freely offer today. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
As people made in the image of God, there is something deep within us that longs to know God. But what many experience is religion, customs, rituals but religion ends up being distasteful and greatly dissatisfying. Many of them walk away, not realizing that what they experienced that was so distasteful was religion, and it didn’t satisfy because what their souls were actually longing for is an encounter with the resurrected Jesus. That’s what we want to talk about in Hebrews chapter 7.
If you have a Bible, turn to Hebrews, Chapter 7. Continuing our study in the book of Hebrews, the writer of Hebrews introduced us to a very mysterious Old Testament figure by the name of Melchizedek in chapter 5. He quoted from Psalm 110 verse 4, and then he talked about Melchizedek again in chapter 5 verse 10, identifying Jesus as the fulfillment of the Melchizedek type in the Old Testament. Starting then at verse 11 of chapter 5, all the way through chapter 6, the writer diverts into what we refer to as one of the warning passages of Hebrews. But now, having given the warning at the end of chapter 6, he moves back to this ongoing discussion of Melchizedek. We pick it up then in Chapter 7, verse 1:
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God… (*NASB, Hebrews 7:1a)
So this Melchizedek is both a king and a priest. There may have been kings in the pagan world that were both kings and priests, but not for the nation of Israel. Either you were a king, or you were a priest, but you weren’t both. As a matter of fact, there were a couple of kings in Israel’s history that tried to function as priests, and it did not go well. So this is quite a puzzling introduction—this one who is both king and priest.
As king, he is the king of Salem. Now there is some discussion, but most scholars think Salem is a reference to Jerusalem before Jerusalem was called Jerusalem. There are psalms where Salem is clearly a reference to Jerusalem, so that seems to make the most sense. Salem, the word itself, is derived from the word shalom, which is a word that means peace or probably betterflourishing. So, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God.
Now Melchizedek was not Jewish; he was not from the line of Israel but he wasn’t priest over some pagan God. He was priest of the Most High God, the God of Abraham, the one true God, which again makes him kind of a mysterious, puzzling figure.
…priest of the Most High God who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, (Vs. 1b)
So, at this point it’s helpful to know the back story, to begin to make sense of this. One of the challenges of a section like this—there are two real challenges—is to just try to understand what the writer is saying. It’s very complex. The second would be: what is the relevance to us today? This is one of the passages you read before you go to work in the morning and you say, “Whatever,” and then you go on because it’s like, “I have no idea what this is saying!”
So, part of this is built on the backstory. Melchizedek only shows up in four verses in the book of Genesis, chapter 14—verses 17, 18, 19, and 20. What’s happening is four kings from the East come together and basically attack the five kings around Sodom and Gomorrah. For convenience, we are just going to call them the kings of Sodom. They defeat the kings of Sodom; they plunder the cities, and they capture the people. Among those captured is the nephew of Abraham, Lot. So Lot and his family are taken away by the four kings of the East. Someone escapes, gets to Abraham, and tells Abraham, “This is what has happened!” So Abraham musters an army—three hundred and eighteen fighting men to be exact. They trace down the four kings of the East, and in the middle of the night they attack and win a resounding victory. The plunder is given back; the captives are set free. Abraham and his men are headed back home and they are coming through what most people think was probably the Valley of the Kings, or the Kidron Valley. There they encounter the king of Sodom but then also encounter this mysterious figure,the king of Salem by the name of Melchizedek. So the Kidron Valley would be right below Jerusalem, and that’s again a reason why most people think that’s what Salem is referring to. So that’s what the text—who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him—is talking about.
Now when we see that language of a blessing, we probably don’t think that much of it. But in an ancient Near East culture, in anhonor culture, this terminology was not just thrown about. As a matter of fact it was very strategic. Even today, in an honor culture, this has to do with the fact of one who is greater passing a blessing on to one who is lesser. The greater is called the patron or the benefactor; the lesser is called the client, and the idea is that it establishes a social relationship—the greater and the lesser. Abraham is the superstar for Israel but yet, in this moment, Abraham is identified as the lesser because it is Melchizedek, the greater, the benefactor, the patron, who is offering this blessing. He blessed him. Verse 2:
…to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part (a tithe) of all the spoils…
So the response of Abraham was to give Melchizedek a tithe from spoils not income. It was a voluntary thank offering without any law commanding it. Now this again would indicate that Abraham was entering into this relationship. He didn’t argue; he didn’t push back. He didn’t say, “Hey wait a minute, I’m greater than you.” As a matter of fact he was agreeing. He received the blessing and in return gave a tithe of the spoils, which in essence would say he was in agreement and entering into this social relationship. Now, why did he do that? The text tells us.
…was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, (Vs. 2b)
Now in the ancient world, names were often descriptive. They weren’t just names; they were descriptive of the person. So the name Melchizedek literally means king of righteousness. The Hebrew melek, which means king, and then the rest of his name is a word we are pretty familiar with because of our studies in the book of Proverbs. It is the Hebrew word or a derivation of tzadik. It is the righteous one. Melchizedek’s name literally could be pronounced Melek-tzadik. He is the king of righteousness. The text goes on:
…and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace. (Vs. 2c)
I mentioned Salem is a derivative of the word shalom, which again is a critical term in the book of Proverbs. So two of the most significant terms in Proverbs—the tzadik and shalom— are part of the story. It’s also familiar Christmas language—that the One who was to come was the One that would be the righteous King and the Prince of Peace. So you’ve got a lot of significant language here. So Jerusalem means Jeru—foundation—salem—of peace. So Melchizedek, the king of righteousness, is alsoking over flourishing, in essence what the names are saying. Abraham knows that. That’s why he responds the way that he does.Verse 3:
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually (or continually).
So what does that mean? There are a couple of different views. One view is that Melchizedek was what was referred to as atheophany, an appearance of Jesus in the Old Testament—the preincarnate Christ. Very few people hold that view. Even the text itself—when it says but made like the Son of God—if this was a theophany, it’s not He is like the Son of God; He is the Son of God, so even that language really rules that out. Some scholars think it’s a reference to a supernatural being, some sort of angelic being in human form, because he doesn’t have a mother, doesn’t have a father, doesn’t have a beginning and ending, doesn’t have a genealogy. While that is possible, it’s probably not likely. There are not a lot of scholars that hold that view. Most people, most scholars rather—and I think most likely—believe that Melchizedek is what we would refer to as a “literary type.” Now this is common in the Old Testament: he is a real person, a real king, over real people, but he is presented in a specific way as a “literary type,” or a “shadow” of one who would come later, who would be the fulfillment of that shadow. So the idea is not that Melchizedek literally didn’t have a mom or a dad or a birthdate or a death date. As a human, of course he did, but as this literary type, he doesn’t, and so you have someone that we don’t know his father; we don’t know his mother; we don’t know his genealogy.
In the ancient world, being a king was all about the family line. Being a priest was all about the family line. It’s all about the genealogy. As a matter of fact, if you were a priest and you could not prove your genealogy, you were determined to be unclean, and you could not be a functioning priest. And yet along comes this one who is not Jewish, who is identified as greater than Abraham, who is a king, not because of his family line…just because he is king….who is not a priest because of his family line…just because he’s a priest…and he’s identified as one who will be a priest forever.
So the text is saying the literary figure doesn’t die. Go back and read the Old Testament. Abraham died. Isaac died. Jacob died. David died. Moses died. Aaron died. The text records the death of all those people, but all we know is in these four verses, this mysterious figure, the literary figure, doesn’t die. His priesthood continues forever. So that’s Genesis 14.
So that would have been written let’s say roughly about 2000 BC. Melchizedek is then brought up in one place in Psalm 110, verse 4 a thousand years later—just identified as this priesthood that goes on forever. And then he is brought up another thousand years later by the writer of the book of Hebrews, and the book of Hebrews identifies Jesus as the fulfillment of this ultimate King Priest that would remain a priest forever—very consistent with what we’ve already learned in the book of Hebrews. Verse 4:
Now observe (We would probably say in our language, “Now pay careful attention to this.”) how great this man (Melchizedek)was to whom Abraham, the patriarch (the superstar of Israel), gave a tenth (a tithe) of the choicest spoils. And those indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, although these are descended from Abraham. (Vs: 4-5)
Okay, what does that mean? What the text is saying is, “Now pay attention to this.” This one who is greater than Abraham—Melchizedek—is the one that received a tithe from Abraham. The priests, according to the Law, according to commandment, their job was to collect the tithe from the people, the temple tithe. But they did not collect the tithe because they were considered greater than. It simply was the commandment of the Law; that was their job. It wasn’t because they were identified as greater. It simply was their job according to the commandment. Verse 6:
But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them (Melchizedek) collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.
So what’s he is saying is, “But Melchizedek is different. He didn’t collect a tithe like the priest because that was his job; he actually received a tithe of spoils from Abraham because Abraham was agreeing that Melchizedek was greater than Abraham. And, again, the language is that Melchizedek blessed Abraham, the one who received the promises, and Abraham agreed with that and gave him the tithe of spoils in return. Now, again, in an ancient Near East culture this would be abundantly clear that Melchizedek was identifying himself as the greater, and Abraham was agreeing with that, which is then affirmed in Verse 7:
But without any dispute (nobody would argue with this) the lesser is blessed by the greater. (That just affirms what we just said.) Verse 8:
In this case (meaning right now, today, while he is writing the book of Hebrews, present tense verbs) mortal men receive tithes…(The priests in Jerusalem are still doing their jobs. Mortal men, priests that have no ability to save them, are going out and collecting tithes.) …but in that case (meaning Melchizedek) one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.
The Jewish people understood that this fulfillment of this shadow by the name of Melchizedek would one day come who would be even greater than Abraham, who would be the ultimate king priest, not because of his genealogy, but simply because he is king and simply because he is the ultimate high priest! Verse 9:
And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. (Vs. 9-10)
So, Levi was the great grandson of Abraham. Abraham…Isaac…Jacob…Levi—and you had to be within the tribe of Levi to be a priest, and specifically within the family of Aaron. So what the writer is saying is even though it is the tribe of Levi, the priest that collects tithes, in this story Levi was still in Abraham, so he is in Abraham’s biology. He’s in his genetic code; he’s in there somewhere. So technically, even Levi, representing all the priests, paid tithes to Melchizedek, even the priests affirming that Melchizedek is the great high priest.
So, having said all that, the application is abundantly clear, is it not? The writer will continue to talk about this in the rest of the chapter, and we will continue to move on step by step. But for us today, we want to talk about what makes this relevant; it goes to the, “So what?” question.
The point that the writer of Hebrews has been trying to make to a group of mostly Jewish Christian believers who seem to betempted to go back to Judaism—and this has come up again and again in the book of Hebrews—is that there is a concern, and it’s likely that the Judaizers were talking to them saying things like, “If this was really true, if this was really what God wanted, you wouldn’t be persecuted. This must be God’s punishment. You need to go back to the old covenant, back to the old ways.” So, the writer of Hebrews is trying to remind them, “Wait a minute. Jesus is greater than the angels. He’s greater than Abraham. He’s greater than Moses. He’s greater than the Law. He’s greater than the Sabbath. He’s greater than all these. He is the fulfillment of the Melchizedek type from that story, the long-awaited Messiah.”
Now stop and think about this. Everything in the temple system was set up to be a shadow, a picture of the promise of a coming Messiah. The temple, the priest, everything within the temple, the sacrificial system, the Sabbath—all of those things were meant to be a shadow, or a picture, of the One who would come and would be the fulfillment of the promise—the One greater than Abraham, the long-awaited ultimate King Priest. But when that Messiah actually came, you would think there would have been the celebration of all celebrations, that finally, after all these years, the long- awaited Messiah has come. “Shut everything down! He is finally here!” But as you know, that’s not what happened. As a matter of fact, rather, they rejected Him and executed Him in order to keep their religious machinery going. That is just a staggering concept! That at some point the shadows and pictures that were meant to reveal the Christ, actually became the substitute for the Christ when He comes. This is the point the writer of Hebrews is trying to make. “Those were just pictures and shadows. He’s here! He’s come! The fulfillment of what Melchizedek foreshadowed has actually come! The ultimate King Priest is here!”
Advance two thousand years: Certainly we don’t have the same problem, do we? The world is filled with religion—always has been, always will be—because religion appeals to our flesh. There’s something deep within us that wants to believe, “I can do this myself.” Religion is all about selfrighteousness. “Here is the practice. Here are the rules. Here is the liturgy. Here are the sacred days. Do this on this day. Here are the steps. Here is everything you do. Ultimately, if you do this, God will accept you.” How many thousands and thousands and thousands of people who were honestly, sincerely seeking God, experienced cold dead religion, and for them it was so distasteful, so dissatisfying, they walked away, not realizing what their soul was longing for was not religionbut an encounter with a person—the resurrected Christ!
We live in a world today where we have convinced ourselves there’s no absolute truth; there’s no absolute morality. Nothing’s really nailed down and everything is kind of loose and up for grabs, and what that creates in people is anxiety and fear and confusion. And so many people in today’s culture then are turning to something that feels like it’s nailed down, that feels like it is rooted, that feels like it has some sort of substance to deal with my anxiety, to deal with my fear and my struggles. So where do they turn? They turn to religion. They think that somehow they are going to find what they are looking for in a building. They are going to find what they are looking for in a practice or observance. They are going to find what they are looking for in a liturgy. They are going to find what they are looking for in a discipline or a practice or a ritual or custom of some sort. Many of them are not seeking to experience Jesus. They’re seeking to experience an experience. But at the end of the day, religion will never be enough. Religion can’t deliver the goods.
It’s easy for us this morning to think, “Oh I know just what you are talking about. It’s those people. It’s that religion. It’s that denomination. It’s that church. Somewhere along the way we start to think it’s a practice; it’s a program; it’s a group; it’s a methodology; it’s something that we are doing that was originally intended to lead us into a more dynamic relationship with Jesus, but at some stage that thing that was supposed to lead us to Christ comes to an end in itself.
Hebrews talks about Jesus and the gospel being the anchor for our soul in the midst of difficult times. But there’s another kind of anchor and it’s an anchor that holds us down into bondage, where we never really experience the life that God has called us to because somewhere along the way we lose sight and what was supposed to be, what was supposed to lead us to a deeper relationship to Christ, becomes an end in itself, which just becomes another form of idolatry.
No religion, no practice, no discipline, no ritual will ever be enough. Only Christ is enough. What a tragedy it is that thousands and thousands and thousands of people very sincerely search for God and encounter religion, and in their confused mind they think they have encountered God, and it’s distasteful and it’s dissatisfying, so they wander away and they fail to realize that actually what their soul was longing for was a meaningful encounter with a Person—a relationship with the resurrected living Christ! At the end of the day, Christ and Christ alone will be enough. So my prayer is that we wouldn’t get lost in the programs, lost in the rituals, lost in observing days, lost in the liturgies and the traditions, lost in the disciplines and the practices…that we think somehow it’s a group…it’s a program…it’s a methodology, but instead we would never lose sight that it’s a Person! It’s the Person that ultimately sets me free. It’s Christ and Christ alone that is enough!
Our Father, we are aware that we are just as prone to getting lost in some sort of religious practice as anyone. Lord, well-intentioned, well-meaning, but at some point, we forget that it is Christ that sets us free! Lord, may we never forget that it is Christ and Christ alone that gives us life now and forever. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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J.D. van der Toorn (1999-2001)
Cetacean releases
Joe and Rosie
Echo and Misha
Into the Blue: Rocky, Missie and Silver Atlantis Marine Park dolphins
Bogie and Bacall
Buck, Luther and Jake Dicky
Menique
Ariel and Turbo
This paper is a compilation of articles on cetacean releases, originally written for the EAAM Newsletter. The texts have been updated to reflect the latest information about the animals involved. Additional references have been added and links to web sites with related information have been included.
The release of captive cetaceans back to the wild is an issue that is discussed more and more often. This discussion has intensified after the movie "Free Willy" appeared. Often, the release of captive cetaceans is portrayed as a straightforward procedure that is a logical solution for the controversy surrounding the keeping of cetaceans in captivity. (It is interesting to note, that the controversy focuses on cetaceans and is hardly ever extended to other marine mammals).
There are several types of release events, each requiring a different approach:
releases of rehabilitated stranded animals (St. Aubin et al, 1996).
conservation releases. These are releases with the express purpose to either strengthen a depleted population (re-stocking) or re-establish an extinct population (re-introduction) (IUCN, 1987 and UFAW, 1992).
other releases. These include experimental releases and releases for (perceived) welfare purposes.
This paper deals with the latter category.
In this context, it is a good idea to look at what has been documented about earlier releases. In a list compiled by Ken Balcomb for the Center of Whale Research (Balcomb, 1995) in Friday Harbor, 58 bottlenose dolphins release events are mentioned and 20 killer whale release events. Of those so-called releases, only 12 cases involved the active release of bottlenose dolphins that had been in captivity for a year or longer. There was only one such case for killer whale and for that case no documentation is available and no follow-up was performed. All the other release events were:
animals restrained in a capture situation for a limited period of time (less than one day to a few weeks) and released afterwards
stranded animals released after rehabilitation
animals that have disappeared/escaped during open water work or from open water pens
The first 2 have no relevance with respect to the release of long-term captive cetaceans, since these animals have not been adapted to the captive situation so a readaptation to the wild prior to the release was not necessary. Of the last (the "escapees") usually no confirmed sightings occur after their "release".
A few releases have been documented to some extent and these we will examine a bit closer. For each, literature and web references will be given if available.
K. C. Balcomb III (1995)
Cetacean Releases. Version 4.3, 3 March 1995
Prepared for the Center for Whale Research, Friday Harbor WA
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) (1987)
Translocation of living organism
IUCN Position Statement, Sept 4. 1987
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Avenue du Mont-Blanc
D. J. St. Aubin, J.R. Geraci and V.J. Lounsbury (1996)
Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release of Marine Mammals: An Analysis of Current Views and Practices. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-8, July 1996
UFAW (International Academy of Animal Welfare Sciences, Universities Federation for Animal Welfare) (1992)
Welfare guidelines for the re-introduction of captive bred mammals to the wild
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
8 Hamilton Close, South Mimms, Potters Bar
Hertfordshire EN6 3QD
Joe and Rosie were captured in the Gulf of Mexico off Mississippi in 1980. They were the subjects of JANUS experiment by John Lilly and the Human Dolphin Foundation. Lilly stated that: "he had pledged to return them to the society of wild dolphins after five years of interacting with humans in captivity". In preparation, they were transferred to the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Florida on September 9, 1984. As it turned out, Rosie was pregnant at the time. Her calf was born on December 3, 1984. Unfortunately, the calf died on December 7, 1984. On March 11, 1985, Joe and Rosie were transferred to the swim program at Dolphins Plus in Key Largo, which marked the start of a number of moves back and forth between DRC and Dolphins Plus. In February 1987, Ric O'Barry, as a member of the ORCA team (Ocean Research Communication Alliance) officially took over the care for Joe and Rosie at DRC, although he was already involved before that (Personal note: my wife and I were at DRC from August 1984 through March 1985 and have seen O'Barry there to prepare the first move to Dolphins Plus). A blood test performed on April 22, 1987 showed that Rosie was pregnant again.
In June 1987 Joe and Rosie were moved to Georgia, to the site from which they were to be released. After the transport they were freeze-branded. On July 13 the gates of their holding facility in Georgia were dropped and they were released. On July 14, Rosie was spotted with a local pod. Later she was resighted with a group, but it was unclear if that was the same group. On July 15, Joe was spotted by himself, but in the vicinity of other dolphins. In the first two months after their release, they were sighted 8 times (confirmed sightings). (see Linden (1988), O'Barry (1988)). Despite the fact that both dolphins should be highly recognizable due to their freeze brands, no confirmed sightings have been documented after that. Consequently, nothing is known about the fate of Joe, Rosie or Rosie's baby after that. This release is a so-called non-native release, because the animals were released in an area that they would not be found in under natural circumstances, far away from their natural home range.
Rosie at DRC, December 1984
E. Linden (1988)
Setting free the dolphins.
Whalewatcher 22(1):6-7
R. O'Barry (1988)
Glimpes of the journey home.
Whalewatcher 22(1): 8-10
Dr. John C. Lilly's Home Page
General information on John Lilly
The Janus project
Part of Lilly's description of the Janus project. This page contains the quote about releasing Joe and Rosie after five years.
When Echo and Misha were captured in the Tampa Bay area in 1988, their future release was already planned. They were transferred to Long Marine Lab in Santa Cruz, where they were the subjects of echolocation studies. After a long readaptation process, they were released near the site where they were captured, in southeastern Tampa Bay, on October 10, 1990 under the supervision of Randy Wells and the Chicago Zoological Society. Echo was fitted with a radio transmitter, but this device failed within 2 hours post-release. The attachment came off in late October 1990.
In the first month, the dolphins remained together. They were seen integrated into a dolphin group on October 22, 1990 for the first time. Subsequently, Echo moved out of southeastern Tampa Bay and was spotted in Old Tampa Bay, close to his original home range, on September 3, 1991 (within 4 km from his capture site). All subsequent sightings of Echo (in 1991, 1992 and 1993), were in Old Tampa Bay, within 9 km from this capture site. He has not been sighted after 1993. Misha has been sighted numerous times from 1990 through 1996, within 11 km from his captures sites (Misha was captured, tagged and released in 1984).
The dolphins appear to have successfully acclimatised to life in the wild. They have not been observed to interact with humans. Systematic follow-up monitoring was considered crucial in identifying their successful acclimation. Factors attributed to this success appeared to be:
they were released as a natural functional social unit. Male pairs are common in bottlenose dolphins.
the two dolphins were fairly young. They were approximately 6-7 years old at the time of their capture. This means that they had extensive experience in fending for themselves in the wild prior to their capture. At they time of their release, they were 8-9 years old (sub-adults).
they were released back into their native waters, close to their capture sites.
they were released after relatively short period of time in captivity (2.2 years)
they were acclimatised in a sea pen near the release site prior to the release.
R.S. Wells, K. Bassos-Hull and K.S. Norris (1998)
Experimental return to the wild of two bottlenose dolphins
Marine Mammal Science 14(1): 51-71
Echo and Misha Update: 7 years after release
Status update at Mote Marine Lab site
Into the Blue: Rocky, Missie and Silver
Rocky was collected in the Florida panhandle in 1971 and maintained at Marineland in Morecambe (UK). Missie was collected off Biloxi, Texas in 1969 and maintained at Brighton Aquarium (UK). Silver was collected in waters off Taiwan in 1978 and also housed at Brighton Aquarium. These animals had been in captivity for 20, 22 and 13 years respectively. A project group called "Into the Blue" took these animals to the Turks and Caicos Islands and released them there. It has been reported that Silver had a Candida infection when he was released. They were released on September 10, 1991. Silver has reportedly been spotted by the project team one to two weeks after his release. He had lost weight. He received food and medication. (There is a photograph of Silver, taken 1-2 weeks after his release. This picture shows a very emaciated dolphin. (Peter Bloom, pers. comm.)) There are no confirmed sightings of any of the three dolphins after September 29, 1991. A $100 reward for pictures of the released dolphins remains unclaimed. Ken Balcomb reported that undisclosed sources have seen Silver in the company of Jojo, a local friendly dolphin, in the Turks and Caicos in 1994. Since all animals were released far from their home ranges, this is a non-native release. According to Rice (1998), dolphins from the Taiwan area are a separate species: Tursiops aduncus, If so, the release of Silver could be considered an introduction of a non-native species.
V. McKenna (1992)
Aquarian Press, London
Into the Blue - Whatever became of "Missie", "Silver" and "Rocky"
John Dineley's review of the Into the Blue project
Atlantis Marine Park dolphins
In 1981, Atlantis Marine Park in Perth, Australia captured 7 bottlenose dolphins from its local waters. In August 1990, the park closed and attempts to relocate the animals failed. Therefore an attempt was made to release the animals. At the time of the release, on January 13, 1992, 2 adult females had died, but 4 calves survived, so a total of 9 animals were released. One of the females was pregnant at the time of the release; the youngest calf was 2 months old. All dolphins (except the newly born calf) were freeze branded. Prior to release, the 5 adult dolphins were fitted with radio tags to make tracking them possible. On January 13 the gates of the holding area at the release site were dropped, but none of the dolphins left. One of the animals, Rajah, left the area the next day. 5 days later he was resighted. He had lost a lot of weight and followed the boat to the pen from which he was released. He was returned to the pen to regain his weight. On January 16 the other animals left the pen, first as a group. Later the group split up. Echo, a juvenile was recaptured in poor condition after a few days. Mila was seen repeatedly with her calf. After 4 weeks the calf disappeared and was presumed dead. Mila was recaptured on February 28 and returned to the sea pen. The radio tags failed fairly soon, making the planned tracking of the dolphins impossible. There were a few sightings of animals with radio tags, presumably some of these dolphins, but that could not be confirmed. In summary: 3 dolphins had to be recaptured and were not released again, 1 (the calf) is presumed dead, the rest is unaccounted for although there have been sightings of tagged dolphins that might have been adults from this group.
N. Gales and K. Waples (1993)
The rehabilitation and release of bottlenose dolphins from Atlantis Marine Park, Western Australia
Aquatic Mammals 19(2): 49-59
Flipper was captured in 1981 in Brazil and was kept in a now defunct amusement park near Sao Paolo. The WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) hired Ric O'Barry to release Flipper. He was released in 1993. He has been resighted several times. The most recent sighting was in March 1995 (he was filmed by a local TV crew in Sao Vicente, Brazil, and he was identified by his freeze brand). Reports of Flipper often mention injuries from fishing gear or rake marks. He is often seen near beaches, interacting with bathers and accepting handouts. Also he is often seen in the company of a group of tucuxi dolphins (Sotalia fluviatilis). His attention for people and the fact that he seeks the company of another dolphin species has raised some doubts about the adequacy of the pre-release preparations.
M.M. Rollo (1994)
The last captive dolphin in Brazil: a project of rehabilitation, releasing, and monitoring in the natural environment (Abstract)
The Tenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Galveston, Texas.
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Illinois drivers honor deceased driver with 150-truck procession
Created: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 05:01 pm
After Alyssa Van Meter, a truck driver working for O’Hare Towing, was murdered in her home, drivers in the area came together to honor her memory. On December 22, 2012, a procession of more than 150 trucks followed Van Meter to her resting place - a cemetery in Lombard, Illinois.
“She deserves nothing less than this,” Jessica Baker, fellow driver at O’Hare Towing, told the Daily Herald. “Anyone who encounters this, I think will be touched. She accepted every challenge and never backed down from it.”
Baker and other friends used their trucks to help transport Van Meter’s casket.
Van Meter was an influential member of the trucking industry as a woman who used her profession to defy gender norms. She reveled in the fact that police were often surprised to see her pull up at the scene of a car accident, loved helping people, and worked to get more women involved in the trucking industry.
Although many of the drivers in the 150-truck procession did not know Van Meter personally, their participation shows the bond that many CDL-licensed professionals feel with other members of the industry.
After Alyssa Van Meter, a truck driver working for OÂ’Hare Towing, was murdered in her home, drivers in the area came together to honor her memory.
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Cloudy early, becoming mostly sunny this afternoon. High 73F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph..
Partly cloudy skies early will give way to cloudy skies late. Low 57F. W winds at 10 to 20 mph, decreasing to less than 5 mph.
Highlights from history: July 11
Highlights from major events that happened around the world on this day in history.
1798: U.S. Marine Corps
In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.
1804: Aaron Burr & Alexander Hamilton
In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Hamilton died the next day.)
1859: Big Ben
In 1859, Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time.
1914: Babe Ruth
In 1914, Babe Ruth made his Major League baseball debut, pitching the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 victory over Cleveland.
1937: George Gershwin
In 1937, American composer and pianist George Gershwin died at a Los Angeles hospital of a brain tumor; he was 38.
1952: Dwight Eisenhower
In 1952, the Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.
1960: Harper Lee
In 1960, the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee was first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.
1972: World Chess Championship
On July 11, 1972, the World Chess Championship opened as grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union began play in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Fischer won after 21 games.)
1979: Skylab
In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1995: Srebrenica
In 1995, the U.N.-designated "safe haven" of Srebrenica (sreh-breh-NEET'-sah) in Bosnia-Herzegovina fell to Bosnian Serb forces, who then carried out the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
1995: United States & Vietnam
In 1995, the United States normalized relations with Vietnam.
2009: Barack Obama Ghana
Ten years ago: During a visit to sub-Saharan Africa, President Barack Obama addressed Ghana's Parliament, where he challenged the continent of his ancestors to shed corruption and conflict in favor of peace.
2009: Steve McNair Funeral
Ten years ago: Funeral services were held in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for former NFL star Steve McNair, who had been shot to death in Nashville a week earlier by Sahel Kazemi (sah-HEHL' kah-ZEE'-mee), who then took her own life.
2014: Hal Rogers
Five years ago: House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., said that President Barack Obama's $3.7 billion emergency request to deal with tens of thousands of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border was too big to get through the House, as a growing number of Democrats rejected policy changes Republicans were demanding as their price for approving any money.
2014: Tommy Ramone
Five years ago: Tommy Ramone, 65, a co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones and the last surviving member of the original group, died in New York.
2017: Joe Scarborough
In 2017, MSNBC "Morning Joe" host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough announced that he was leaving the Republican party, partly because of its loyalty to President Donald Trump.
2017: Trump Russia Probe
In 2017, emails released by Donald Trump Jr. revealed that he'd been told before meeting with a Russian attorney during the presidential campaign that the Russian government had information that could "incriminate" Hillary Clinton.
2018: Brussels NATO Summit
One year ago: At a NATO summit in Brussels, President Donald Trump declared that a gas pipeline venture had left Germany's government "captive to Russia," and questioned the necessity of the NATO alliance.
2018: Papa John's,
One year ago: John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John's, resigned as chairman of the board of the pizza chain, and apologized for using a racial slur during a conference call in May.
2018: Stormy Daniels
One year ago: Porn star Stormy Daniels was arrested at an Ohio strip club, accused of touching and being touched by patrons in violation of state law; prosecutors dropped the charges hours later, saying the law had been improperly applied.
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Global error reduction in vision-based self-localization using a topological graph representation
Karam ShayaFollow
M.A.Sc.
Xiang Chen
Applied sciences, Camera, Error reduction, Self-localization, Topological graphs, Vision
A single-sensor self-localization system which uses a monocular camera and a set of artificial landmarks is presented herein. The system represents the surrounding environment as a topological map (or graph) where each node corresponds to a marker (i.e., artificial landmark) and each edge corresponds to the existence of a relative pose between two markers. The edges are weighted based on an error metric (related to pose uncertainty) and a shortest path algorithm is applied to the map to compute the path corresponding to the least aggregate error. This path is used to localize the camera with respect to a global coordinate system whose origin lies on an arbitrary reference marker (i.e., the destination node of the path). Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the system in reducing the global error associated with large-scale localization.
Shaya, Karam, "Global error reduction in vision-based self-localization using a topological graph representation " (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4840.
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Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
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The Right Of A Minor To Independent Status - Three Models
Yitshak Cohen
This article examines a minor’s right to independent status in matters of family law, the importance and benefits of that right, the interests it competes with, and possible approaches for the future. The right of a minor to independent status was initially intended to resolve a concern that parents, while undergoing divorce proceedings and focused on their own interests, might compromise the interests of their children. I argue that this concern has developed into a legal presumption that parents compromise the interest of minors in divorce proceedings. However, this presumption contradicts the assumption, fundamental to every legal system, that parents are natural guardians who safeguard the interests of their children. In addition, the development of a minor’s right to independent status has several negative effects on divorce proceedings, among them: contractual uncertainty, lack of finality of judgment, waste of judicial resources, and prolonged divorce proceedings between parents.
This article offers the following three models for protecting the interests of the minor: (i) requiring the court to comprehensively examine the interests of the child and then granting a presumption of validity to the court’s determination—that determination should also serve as binding precedent for a subsequent court; (ii) legislating clear considerations and guidelines for defining the best interests of the child and thereby reducing future relitigation; and (iii) appointing independent representation for the minor. These models may serve to create a more appropriate formula for balancing the competing interests in family law proceedings.
Yitshak Cohen, The Right Of A Minor To Independent Status - Three Models, 10 Nw. J. L. & Soc. Pol'y. 1 (2015).
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njlsp/vol10/iss1/1
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Antioxidant constituents from Lawsonia inermis leaves: Isolation, structure elucidation and antioxidative capacity
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Ben Hsounaa, Anis
Trigui, Mohamed
Culioli, Gerald
Blache, Yves
Jaoua, Samir
The antioxidant potential of different fractions of Lawsonia inermis (Lythraceae) was investigated. The n-butanolic fraction showed the highest yield of extraction; it also exhibited a strong antioxidant activity in the DPPH assay and a potent capacity in preventing linoleic acid oxidation. Five phenolic glycosides were identified in this fraction. The structure of a new compound was established as 1,2,4-trihydroxynaphthalene-1-Ο-β-d-glucopyranoside. In addition, the known 2,4,6-trihydroxyacetophenone-2-Ο-β-d-glucopyranoside was described for the first time in this species. The three other compounds, lalioside (2,3,4,6-tetrahydroxyacetophenone-2-Ο-β-d-glucopyranoside), lawsoniaside (1,2,4-trihydroxynaphthalene-1,4-di-Ο-β-d-glucopyranoside) and luteolin-7-Ο-β-d-glucopyranoside, have been previously reported in L. inermis. The antioxidant activity of these glycosides was evaluated by DPPH and β-carotene assays, and compared to those of commercial standards. 1,2,4-Trihydroxynaphthalene-1-Ο-β-d-glucopyranoside was the most active in the DPPH free-radical scavenging test (EC50 = 6.5 μg/ml) and showed a moderate inhibition in the β-carotene bleaching assay. Chemical components of L. inermis have good antioxidant capacities and this species could be used as a potential source of new natural antioxidants.
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February 11, 2015 by raishimi33
Fluidity of Lines
You know how something comes along to take your mind out of its grey haze into a place of stillness – where the next breath is your life, recharged? No, I’m not talking about A&E, but those sharp moments of clarity when the kaleidoscope twists, and your sense of Self makes sense again.
Walking in the door tonight, I found my landlady sorting out her kids’ books. She was weary and apologetic, having a need for the whisky I keep to offset the blue edge of a mood. We borrow from one another all the time, it’s an interchangeable relationship not unlike mother and daughter, sometimes friend to friend, sometimes boss to employee. A slow surge of emotions (from various pressure points) had left her reeling; her losses have created a diamond, but still, the diamond is multifaceted and stands alone. I do what I can, and it’s never enough, but she is one of the few women in my life that I understand.
We share an enthusiasm for nurturing the physical form. As an osteopath, it comes with the territory, but I get the sense that her upbringing and shadow-rimmed life experiences, have had a profound effect upon her appreciation of what true health means, inside and out. She cooks for her children in the way a painter adds texture and layers to a canvas; their activities take them beyond screen-absorption (TV and computer use are carefully monitored) and their bedroom carpet resembles that of my childhood home, in a jungle of animal toys and books. The little lad is defining himself with a wick-slip humour, and has already mastered the art of getting under his sister’s skin; she in her turn, knows how to draw him out from the dark little place he sometimes goes to, curling inward like a leaf in frost.
Night and Day.
Not so long ago, she introduced them to dance – specifically, ballet. Gender stereotypes have little place in this household, and the boy is as entranced as the girl (though he’s more prone to break-dancing on the lounge floor than attempting to heft up on tippy-toes.) Watching their faces shine in the light of the screen, I was taken back to the first time I saw Swan Lake, at Christmas in 1993. A slight snobbishness has prevailed since; no amount of patriotism can bring me back around from regarding the Royal Russian Ballet company as the axis upon which the world of dance spins. There’s a ghostly elegance in every performance I watch, which riddles up my skin – yesteryear and tomorrow, silence and fine faded curtains, solemnity and real fervour crystallized in posture.
Seeing the tired lines ease in my landlady’s face as she described a video she had watched earlier, I had the sense that she’d found something within herself to feel calm again. To feel alive. We all need an emotional adrenalin-shot like that, now and then.
She left me alone in the kitchen to watch it on her laptop, with only a snippet of information – “He was the youngest dancer to go principal [lead] in the Royal Ballet company, then quit out of the blue.”
That was enough. I knew exactly who she meant, and to get some perspective on his talent, there’s this from the artistic director of the Stanislavsky Ballet, Igor Zelensky: ‘Talent is very rare. Margot Fonteyn is a talent. Maya Plisetskaya is a talent. Baryshnikov is. I don’t want to go on too much about Sergei. But it is inside him. He is unusual. Unbelievable.’ Which is one way to sum up Sergei Polunin, born of Kherkov in Ukraine, whose career has taken him through significant highs and lows that have nothing to do with his talent, and everything to do with his sense of Self. In an 2013 interview with the Daily Telegraph’s Sarah Crompton, he described the personal troubles that beset his experience of the company: “I was not able to put things together. Dancing-wise I didn’t feel I was in charge of anything… It had been an amazing place, and I had worked with amazing people but you pay a price of not being in charge… I moved up quite quickly so I didn’t make many friends. You are on your own in that sort of place.” After his abrupt departure from the company, with the following months spent adrift and out of sorts, Sergei was taken under the wing of Zelensky, who settled him into the Stanislavsky Ballet in Moscow. From here, he had the opportunity to explore guest performances around the world with Zelensky’s mentoring: ‘You can call me anything you want: director, father, brother, friend… But I really worry about him, what he eats, where he goes, what he is doing. Because he needs a shoulder.’
The video, directed by David LaChapelle, is clean-cut and filled with white and gold lines, like embroidered silk. Skilful editing makes full use of the interior of a beautiful structure filled with life and light, unmistakable in its resemblance to religious architecture, and standing in contrast to the darkness of Hozier’s “Take me to Church”. The central themes of denied love and oppression are reinterpreted through Polunin’s facial expressions and sometimes agonized contortions (which still retain the supple grace that defies gravity and defines dance); there are those rare moments of synergy when sound and sight form a seamless atmosphere that social media sites like Youtube are made for.
I simply cannot stop watching this young Ukrainian throw, loop, leap, bound, tear himself through a dance that is less choreographed routine than a fluidity of lines. The look on his face goes beyond the process – he’s somewhere else, translating and sketching the lyrics over the air for us to see. Try to comprehend how a human body can send itself down to its knees on a stone floor; how bones can arc in seams of gold through careful camera angles and sunlight (if we want to ground ourselves and get prosaic about this. But what the hell, it’s as stunning an image as you’ll see this week.) Assess the worn and blackened soles.
It might not be for everyone, and that’s fine. But, coming from a background of dance, I can only say that “effortless pain” just took on a whole new meaning.
Anyway. Enough of my waffling – watch it, and decide for yourselves.
Posted in Personal, Review
Tagged Art, Ballet, blogging, Conflict, Dance, noir, personal, Russia, Sergei Polunin, Ukraine
Thoughts and memories of Dunstable: Between five years
When it comes to Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, my thoughts and memories are of pubs and hikes, aching legs and red kites, and rain. Oh and the dole. A year or so spent wandering (yes, with the clouds) over hills and through sopping woodland, trudging through muddy fields. It’s easy to forget the harder times when life is good; and I’ve had it relatively easy-good for the past four or so years, having relocated to St Albans in Hertfordshire in 2010, when a job finally came up at the local police station. Here, I’ve found the sort of security that was craved back when I lived with my former partner, Jimmi, and his parents in a small village called Eaton Bray, on the outskirts of Dunstable. The whole point of being there was to set up home.
One song that always comes to mind to frame that time, is the National’s “Heavenfaced”:
“Hit the ceiling, then you fall
Things are tougher than we are.”
And they were. Not all the time, for there were those long golden-soaked afternoons, spent strolling between pubs and down sepia’d alleyways. For two nature-lovers, there was plenty to do in terms of what comes for free (You make the best of what you Have)… and still.
We were younger then, and rough around the edges, and still a bit raw at the prospect of suddenly living under the same roof. I had taken the leap from East Sussex to Bedfordshire, after eighteen months of online interaction and weekends spent barrelling up and down the countryside, through the capital; we’d decided the to-and-fro visits were a bit ridiculous, in light of our strengthening bond. The trouble lay in my timing. It was October 2009, and the country was floundering in recession. Not that I was really aware of it at the time. My blinkers were still firmly in place, while focusing on recovery from anorexia nervosa. How dire our situation would become only sank in when Jimmi left his job to find hours better suited to our relationship, and instead found the market almost empty.
When he signed on the dole in late 2008, neither of us expected him to still be heading into the Job Centre until January 2010, when a reprieve came. There were a few glimmers of light along the way, all of which were extinguished by the ineptitude of would-be employers and agency staff (one of the latter forgot to mention that a job happened to be on a building site, and would therefore require the necessary protective clothing and shoes. J had driven out at 6am over black ice, and – unable to enter the site – had to turn back. I can’t describe to you the relief and fear I felt, waking to find him home so soon.)
For my part, I spent hours, days, months, wandering those old streets and over the windswept Downs, dotting in and out of the local gym, while waiting on calls from potential employers. Interviews were few and far between. My morale slipped with the weather; 2009 into 2010 saw the worst snowfall for years, layering up over black ice, so it seemed that the long slog up Lancott Hill out of Eaton Bray would break my soul as well as my spine. Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s “Dead Flag Blues” became sewn into that time, with the ice-claw grass and brassy sky, wreathes of mist, when the air itself froze heavy and still.
Cracked-tooth paintwork. Dark alleys. Splintered wood beams in pubs that smelled of smoke and pine, with horse brasses shining on the walls. Mud and chalk caked my hiking boots and waterproof trousers – a uniform I wore to keep warm and dry (almost) against the weather fronts that circled on the push-pull of air currents between Dunstable Downs and Ivinghoe Beacon, the latter rising magnificent against the sky in the distance. And further still, to form the great bowl of the Aylesbury Vale, there were the blue slopes of Woburn…
…and back to the breath-fogged windows of the Job Centre. The sagging chairs and boards with print-outs of work details; the briefest of conversations. The diversity of age and class, the faces with their oh-so-similar expressions: anger, frustration, wariness, fear. Downcast eyes, with the deep ashes of despair. Jimmi’s observations at the time betrayed a greater understanding of the system and our situation. I was completely out of my depth, ready to nod along with anything pushed at me so long as it got me off the damn chair, and back out for a walk or into the gym. With an eating/exercise disorder, nothing matters more than the next hit of compulsions. It was all I could do not to pace the floor while waiting to be seen.
On the dole, all the little things you take for granted – buying an extra packet of sweets, catching the bus or train to nowhere in particular for a few hours of exploring, downloading a new album from iTunes, buying birthday and Christmas presents – become so many coins counted out and measured like sand. My stamped Job Centre booklet went everywhere with me. I was terrified of losing it, in case they stopped my payments. I was treated with the same indifference as everyone else – I didn’t dare raise mental health issues, in case they prevented me from finding work. Given the use of sanctions in the welfare state today, I wouldn’t have stood a chance, as has been the case for too many people already.
Enough time has passed to sand away those sharp edges. The bitter sting of rain pelting my skin, the wind tearing at my hair and echoing that same empty song of No Employment. There was the subsequent guilt of dependency on Jimmi’s parents for financial support, with the emotional kind from the fella, firing up my spirits. But he had his own internal struggles to deal with. The only way I can describe our range of feelings at the time, is through a single word.
Nabokov put it best:
“Toska – noun /tō-skə/ – Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.
“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
2009-10 saw a forest fire of unemployment and bankruptcy run across the UK. Economic forecasts and GDP meant less to me (and most people, I imagine) than the fact Woolworths had disappeared from the high street, and queues were forming out of the Job Centre. I’d had a job set up in Luton to walk into, so I wasn’t jumping blind from Sussex. When this didn’t work out, all I could do was spruce up my CV in creative ways that weren’t complete lies. I’ve had precious little experience in anything other than cleaning and fitness training, since my state of mental health has left me unable to work in jobs that (to put it frankly) oblige me to keep still. It’s an ongoing problem, one I chip away at each year. It’s set me back financially, sometimes emotionally. But in light of the recession – when I lived in a town with rickety trade and the dulled eyes of a cat left in the rain – I’m in a stronger position. It would take that random hop over to St Albans, for a rather obscure interview, to get my life in motion again.
The rest is almost four and a half years’ history, as part of a noisy, messy and wonderful family unit.
But I haven’t forgotten Dunstable. It plays on my thoughts often, particularly when a red kite angles past, free on the chasing winds, burnished bronze under the sun. They became symbolic of hope, of a freedom we longed for while faced with the grey Everyday of a town that seemed (at the time) to be bent on draining us of our youth. Which of course, it wasn’t. In simple terms, Dunstable has been through a series of internal mistakes, combined with wider issues which have undermined its ability to sustain itself. From a well-established market town, Dunstable has gone downhill into poor trade and high unemployment, as was highlighted in a recent Daily Mail article tweeted by an old friend – a former Dunstablian – a few weeks ago.
Image: www.dailymail.co.uk
Those pictures splintered behind my eyes, more painfully at odds than ever with the country’s (slow) economic recovery. But Dunstable’s problems run deeper than the most recent recession, and they won’t be eased with a quick-fix, either.
On the weave of human travel and commerce, Dunstable grew up from where the Icknield Way (a Neolithic route running along the chalk spine of England, from Norfolk to Wiltshire) met the Roman-made Watling Street, a significant economic route to London. While traces of Neolithic activity (such as the Round Barrow cemetery on the Downs) pin a far greater age of settlement to the area, it was the Romans who gave it the name “Durocobrivis”, setting up a posting station where travellers could change horses. When they left, and the area had become thick with woodland and undergrowth (adding to the dangers of the road for travellers) it was through royal intervention, at the behest of Henry I that Dunstable began to reform.
In 1109, the tangles of nature were cut back and royal favour was granted to those who would settle, and encourage growth of a different kind. Dunstable became a focal point for communication and trade, while playing host to a series of royal figures passing through; they left their own marks on the developing town, as further testament to its origins. King Henry I had a royal residence constructed in 1123, as a base to hunt on the surrounding countryside – this is now the site of the Old Palace Lodge hotel on Church Street.
The Eleanor Cross precinct was named for the last journey of Queen Eleanor of Castile, when her coffin was brought to Dunstable on its way to Westminster Abbey for internment. The beloved wife of King Edward I was kept in the Priory Monastery overnight, and a cross was built close to the entrance of Church Street, as part of the set of twelve created by order of the king to mark her passage. Only three of these crosses have survived; the one at Dunstable was destroyed in 1643. It’s a startlingly poignant tribute to the “Queen of Good Memory”, and a message of grief set in stones across the landscape.
Image: www.timetravel-britain.com
There were plenty of occasions when I’d walk past something in and around town, completely unaware of its historical context until Jimmi pointed out the details. The local library held a wealth of information in its archives, and I soon learned what to look out for – all those odd lumps and bumps in the ground on our numerous hikes, turned out to be more than nature’s designs. I’d never heard of barrows before, let alone seen any. One memorable hike took us up to the small copse atop the Downs, overlooking the Aylesbury vale; beneath that lowlight shade, we stood in a sunken bowl, surrounded by what appeared to be grassy sand dunes. He told me that these were where ancient VIPs had been buried, long before the Romans came.
I always get a slight shiver walking around them – never over, because they’re already scored hard with the tyre-tracks of bikes, the tread of countless feet.
Benches speckle the Downs, set with plaques to commemorate those who once took pleasure in the undulating view. Visitors use the rip-curl of cross-winds to send their plastic kites up against the sky (much to the chagrin of J who, out cycling to fend off dole boredom and to keep up a fitness routine, was once saved from a broken nose by his helmet when a kite came plunging down like a knife.) The London Gliding Club, located at the foot of the Downs among fields that shine pewter-gold in the summer, send up their white gliders to hover vast silent shadows over the landscape. They are ubiquitous to the area, and can sometimes – on a day with strong winds – be sighted as far away as Houghton Regis. Towing them up from the ground are the TigerMoth planes, little beauties with a pleasantly familiar burring-buzz.
Dunstable holds a wealth of ancient treasures, both above and beneath its soil. Many of these have been relocated over the years, with the local museum (holding Iron and Bronze Age relics recovered from archaeological excavations) switching between buildings, from the town hall in 1925 to the Kingsbury Stables in 1927 to Priory House. Jimmi told me of how the museum was once kept in the “adult section” of the library, with staff training hawk-eyes on the kids who came to see the full-size skeleton of an Iron Age man, held frozen in time behind a glass cabinet, among books on erotic photography.
The town emblem – a livery badge known as the Dunstable Swan jewel and crafted from opaque white enamel fused over gold – was sold to the British Museum in 1966, following excavations at the friary. Those who discovered it had no real idea of its significance, as a declaration of allegiance to a noble family or a king – a pity then, that it can’t be restored to its township.
Image: www.britishmuseum.org
While out wandering through the Quadrant shopping precinct, I couldn’t help but notice the archaeological-dig exhibitions that had been set up in empty shop windows. The Manshead Archaeological Society is a credit to South Bedfordshire for calling attention to the region’s abundance of (pre)historical sites and artefacts, with details of each excavation logged onto their system at Winfield Street for analytical reports to be written and drawn up. It’s priceless, both for the preservation of Dunstable’s roots and as a symbolic reminder of what the town still stands for. It would benefit from making more of its past, in the way that York city has grounded much of its trade in its history. As Jimmi put it, “As a town that had many English kings and queens stay, a town that saw major historical events happen (the beginning of the end of Catholicism started in Dunstable with the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon – in Priory Church) … Dunstable needs more than a tiny visitors’ centre tucked away.”
You don’t have to travel up the country to find urban decay, though it’s acknowledged that the smaller towns and cities have fared poorly in comparison to their larger neighbours. Cuts to council budgets and a lack of follow-through on regeneration projects have seen local infrastructure become frail, while unemployment reflects the shuttered-down high streets and closed businesses. With a population of approximately 36,000 people and situated 30 miles north of London, Dunstable bears similar marks of a town that has gradually lost its industrial and cultural identity, even as its larger neighbours have flourished around it.
When the late Michael Partington took a wander through town in 1966 for the short Anglia Television documentary, “Focus On: Dunstable”, he found it thriving on the back of its growing motor industry. This came as a result of overspill from Luton – Bedford Vehicles, a division of Vauxhall owned by General Motors, had become a major supplier to the British Army in WWII, progressing from its bus and truck productions to the Churchill Tank. With the help of government funds, in 1942 the company was able to open a new site on Boscombe road in Dunstable, sprawling its plant over 98 acres; by the 1950’s, all bus and truck productions had gone over to Dunstable, with recruitment rates reaching almost 6,000 people. By 1953, the average wage was £10 a week, while 1958 saw the millionth Bedford commercial vehicle roll off a Dunstable line. This lively company’s production merged with that of A C Sphinx Sparking Plug Co’s Works, which had moved from Birmingham in 1934 and was later renamed A C Delco (where Jimmi’s mother and members of her family worked); together with Renault Trucks and Commer Cars, the motoring industry formed a springboard for Dunstable’s burgeoning economy.
The future seemed set – as Partington pointed out, the sleepy market town was now “wide awake.”
“Focus On: Dunstable” left an ache in my throat. There was the bustling high street, with even these levels of activity seeming healthier than the roaring rivers of exhaust fumes and tyres that channel through Dunstable today. People filled the pavements, going in and out of shops that were bright as the eyes of children. There was a sense of hope and well-being, as “big orders mean higher wages, and a sense of security.” More shops and homes were going up, to accommodate the influx of workers from surrounding areas, as well as local residents. Dunstable was set on outstripping Luton (which had been made a country borough) to hold the title of South Bedfordshire’s hub for culture and commerce.
(Inside the California Ballroom, Dunstable, for a performance by The Searchers, “Needles and Pins”.)
Image: www.dunstablehistory.co.uk
But the race to the future stalled out, with one factory closure after another, brought on by a chain-reaction of events in the UK’s automotive industry. Depending on who you’d prefer to listen to, then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was either a saint or a sinner for her intervention on behalf of British Leyland, once the country’s largest car company. According to Garel Rhys, the retired director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School, Thatcher saw British Leyland as “too big to fail”, bailing it out to the tune of 2.9 billion pounds of taxpayer money from 1979 to 1988. Though the company would ultimately collapse, Rhys stated that the UK’s automotive industry was saved by Thatcher’s support. “Jaguar Land Rover came out of the rescue. Mini was saved, along with Leyland Daf trucks and component firms such as Unipart.”
Those same Leyland Daf trucks were a division of British Leyland, formed in 1987 after the company was granted the British Army service contract to produce the 4 Tonne GS (general service) truck. This struck a terrible blow to General Motors, whose main market was by then in military vehicle production – pulling out of Bedford Trucks, they left it to be bought by AWD Ltd, a company owned by David John Bowes Brown, which in its turn went into receivership in 1992 and was sold to Marshall SPV in Cambridge. This came in spite of a poignant plea to the House of Commons in 1992 by Mr. David Madel, the MP for South West Bedfordshire at the time, for the company to be allowed to sell “a large order for civilian – I stress the word ‘civilian’ – lorries for Libya.” The emphasis came because Libya was at the time under UN sanctions, one of the key elements of which for the UK was an arms embargo. This, according to Minister for Trade Mr. Richard Needham in response to Mr. Madel, included “the provision of arms and related material of all types, including the sale or transfer of weapons and ammunitions, military vehicles and equipment.” While the AWD trucks were specified as civilian, there were concerns over whether some, if not all were likely to be used by the country’s military.
Of the 850 Dunstable workers at AWD prior to receivership, only about half of the 150 workers left, after redundancies, were offered jobs in Cambridge.
Image: www.lutontoday.co.uk
Mr. Madel stood again in 1993 for the support of Renault Trucks (which by that point had also run into difficulties) as well as Dunstable council’s need for extra governmental funding, in light of the sudden increase in unemployment:
“The Bedfordshire training and enterprise council is effective, but, given the difficulties of the Dunstable area, it needs an extra boost. What is needed is Government help to attract new industry into the area.”
What caught my eye, too, were his cautionary comments regarding the delicate balance between housing and employment, which Jimmi had often remarked upon while we lived in Dunstable. This seems more prevalent than ever:
“Before the employment base in the Dunstable area has been sorted out and re-established, we must take another look at the numbers and types of houses that we are required to build under Bedfordshire’s structure plan and at the time scale for that building programme. A big imbalance between housing development and employment opportunities is arising in the south of the county. Now is the time for a fresh and urgent look at that balance.”
With the nosedive in industry, the cultural aspects of Dunstable began to lose their shine too. The beautifully futuristic Civic Hall, which opened in 1964 and was later renamed the Queensway Hall, was once able to seat up to 900 people for concerts and plays, while serving 500 people for banquets; its situation on the touring circuit saw the likes of Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols and David Bowie pass through its doors, to give performances that leave once-in-a-lifetime memories.
Pulled down in 2000, the Hall now lies beneath an ASDA supermarket, while its entertainment predecessor, the California Ballroom, suffered a similar fate in the early 80’s – it now lies beneath a housing estate. Though both venues had their fair share of inherent problems, their loss has been seen as a downswing in the presence of professional live acts. Dunstable seems to have fallen off the tour circuit.
These pieces fit with others to form an image of a town now riddled with deep-running problems. The loss of free parking in the town centre further discourages shoppers from travelling in; they can just as easily head to the outskirts of town for the large retail stores and supermarkets that have set up. These offer many of the products sold by the independents and mainstream stores on the high street, under one roof. Those people who do decide to come into the centre must then battle the heavy flux-flow of traffic. It’s a stop/start process, from one set of lights to the next, and an unpleasant experience for pedestrians and drivers alike. I didn’t even dare to consider buying a bike.
Dunstable is, by an unhappy quirk of fate, also one of the largest towns in SE England without a rail connection (only adding to the congestion through and around town.) The Great Northern Railway’s branch line from Welwyn, had served Dunstable from 1858 to 1965 – it fell to the Beeching cuts, like many others, due to its decline in freight exchange and passenger numbers. This was something of a sore point for me, coming up from East Sussex, where I’d been accustomed to having a station on my doorstep. I’d arrive in Luton on a Friday evening (sweaty and bothered) to be picked up by Jimmi and taken back through the slow surge of Dunstable, then on to Eaton Bray. It took about 3 hours on a good day; travelling home on a Sunday-skeleton-service, was even more “fun.”
Rising business rates – the bane of high streets across Britain – have hit those retailers already struggling to compete with the evolving supermarkets, and internet giants like Amazon. The Book Castle, a beautiful shop on Church Street with an elegant greystone front, closed its doors in 2011 citing a reduction in sales. Its founder, Paul Bowes, who opened the shop in 1980 and sold it to the Independent Retail Group in 2008 (while maintaining the separate business of Book Castle Publishing) said that “A lot of book shops are closing because of the demand in supermarkets and online. People are therefore not visiting their high street shops… the town is going to be the poorer for losing its specialist book shop.”
I couldn’t agree more. There’s nothing to compare with that feeling of Presence when you step into a book shop – particularly one has old and fine as the Book Castle, situated in a building dated 1872, and formerly used as a drill hall by volunteer soldiers – to go sifting through titles that are tangible beneath the fingers, with unique covers and jackets. It’s the literary equivalent of choosing vinyl over downloads – yes, the latter will have the drag ‘n drop convenience, taking up a smidgen of space; but it won’t have the solidity, the textures and inimitable *crackle-pop* of the former.
Then there’s the actual experience of making a purchase – when shopping feels like an adventure. The Book Castle had a smell of nostalgia ingrained in its deep walls: dust, cold stone and warm wooden beams, and that indescribable scent of many types of paper and binding, hanging in the air like the woodsmoke of pubs. Descending the staircase to reach the bottom level where my favourite genres were kept – science fiction and fantasy – I felt like an explorer. If a title wasn’t on the shelves or had gone out of print, the staff would order it in for you with the professional charm of people who know what they’re doing, and take pride in their societal place as distributors. If a particular author had your attention, the staff recommendations would put you onto someone of their style, in a way that Amazon / iTunes algorithms still don’t quite seem to have mastered. You can’t beat a human approach to taste.
It was a wonderful place to visit, even when I was on the dole and had little spare to spend. It was somewhere to hide from the rain, and to feel more like myself. Sadly, such sentiments don’t keep shops open.
Image: www.theoldchapelivinghoe.com
The Quadrant shopping precinct now sits desolate even on Saturday afternoons, when trade should be at its peak. A third of its stores are shuttered-down, collecting rust and sprouting weeds through their walls, despite council attempts to spruce up the shop fronts and maintain appearances. The campaigners at Long Live Dunstable: Don’t Let Dunstable Die, keep a directory website open for visitors, and maintain a Facebook page with regular updates and dedications, memories of days-past and thoughts on the future, from a community that still cares about the fate of its town.
What Dunstable needs is real industry, for all of its residents to feel that sense of pride and security again. The most recent profile of Dunstable (April 2013, Central Bedfordshire Council) showed that residents aged 16 and over who work, are more likely to be in unskilled positions: process, plant and/or machine operatives (18.6% compared to 15.8% in Central Bedfordshire) with employment mainly in wholesale and retail, education, and manufacturing.
This certainly paints the town’s past, if not also its progressive future. Dunstable’s unemployment rate – though similar to the national average – currently sits above that of Central Bedfordshire; 780 people claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance in February 2013. With the Job Centre’s closure in 2012 those seeking work must now travel to Luton to sign on, and if their experiences are anything like those of freelance journalist Harriet Williamson, they won’t be reimbursed for travel costs.
Central Bedfordshire college – formerly known as Dunstable college – was set up in 1961. Mr Madel referred to it as “a highly successful college of further education”, which had helped to provide for Dunstable’s “great bank of industrial skills.” Today, the college reflects a need for diversity in the town’s employment sectors, offering full and part-time courses that range from engineering to arts, IT & computing to sports therapy, construction to health and social care. Apprenticeship schemes are available, along with “an army of experienced trades people and professionals” drawn from small and medium-sized companies, who as lecturers enhance the education of potential future employees. It’s a synergistic approach aimed at boosting the regional economy – on his “Meet the Principal” page, Ali Hadawi CBE acknowledges that “unemployment is high”, but that the difference lies in skills provided with education: “Businesses have to be careful about how many people they employ… They also have to make sure those people they do take on can work well and be productive.”
To this end, the college works in tandem with the Incuba Innovation Centre, which was developed in partnership with Central Bedfordshire Council and the European Regional Development Fund. Full of light, spacious, and with a glittering roof of solar panels, it has the appearance of an updated Civic Hall – though the focus here is upon introducing a new industry of renewable energies to Dunstable, with support given to fledgling businesses “that champion a greener economy.” They are provided with classrooms, hot desk facilities and meeting rooms to, as Principal Hadawi put it, “offer business development… for those working on developing ideas in the renewable energies field.” In the short film “Dunstable: The Next Chapter”, shot in late 2014 as part of Dunstable Town Council’s corporate plan for the next three years, he added that “the greener renewable technology arena promises to be one of the largest growth industries worldwide.” With the drive to cut harmful emissions and reduce dependency on fossil fuels (not to mention the global market volatility often accompanying them), alternative/renewable energies form a progressive industry that’s not likely to peter out any time soon. Writing for the Economist, senior editor Edward Lucas said that “The International Energy Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental organisation often criticised for its focus on fossil fuels, says the world will need to stump up about $23 trillion over the next 20 years to finance continued fossil-fuel extraction, but the prospect of much cheaper solar power and storage capability may put investors off. The story may be not so much what falling oil prices mean for clean energy than what the prospect of clean energy will mean for the oil price.”
More locally, Dunstable could see real benefits from this versatile mix of on-site training and business accommodation. Bringing students into an environment where they can explore a fast-developing industry, there’s the potential for expansion and putting Dunstable’s name back on the map, as a destination for those with an eye on the future.
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But still, those high street shops must be open for new arrivals, as well as established residents. The town centre needs to become attractive again.
Working with Central Bedfordshire Council and business partners, Dunstable Town Council’s masterplan was drawn up for the regeneration of the town covering 2014-2016. Particular focus was given to improving connections between different parts of the town, easing congestion, and bringing retail, leisure, community, residential and office facilities up to scratch. An example of this redevelopment is the three-pronged work on transport infrastructure. The Dunstable-Luton busway opened in September 2013, and carries passengers on a straightforward route serving the town centres of Dunstable, Houghton Regis and Luton, bypassing their congestion while providing a fast route to major transport links like Luton airport and train station. What was once a 40-60 minute one-way journey has been cut to approximately 15 minutes. It’s ideal for commuters and shoppers. Add to this the other two major transport developments – the A5-M1 link road and the Woodside link road – and you have an area that’s attractive to businesses wishing to set up in the nearby retail parks. With deliveries conveyed on alternate routes, the clutter of lorries often found snarling up the town centres will be taken away, improving the sound and air quality for retailers and customers. Cafes and restaurants overlooking the centre will benefit from more peaceful views. Dunstable’s streets won’t feel quite so charged and chaotic. A bigger step would be to bring back free parking throughout the week, thus encouraging local residents and those passing through to give the shopping precincts a chance. If employment levels pick up and feed down into wage packets, Dunstable could see another resurgence in trade. Going on my own experience, a bit of financial security does wonders for confidence and the spirit.
Running parallel with the need to support businesses, there’s the need to preserve Dunstable’s historical identity. As part of the council’s corporate priorities, these restoration projects take on specific points across town, with the current focus being on the Priory and its gardens. Sadly, the same relief hasn’t been extended to the Norman King pub, a once-proud and elegant structure dating back to the time of King Henry I.
I was only a resident of the town for a year or so, and while I didn’t have the privilege to drink my first (legal) pints in there, Jimmi’s anecdotes left their mark on my mind. It’s difficult to imagine him playing darts with old school friends now; or indeed, to remember how it felt when he first took me inside and I saw the beautiful sweep of the ceiling, felt the thick walls under my hands. Those white walls are now blackened, the roof gone, after the pub was burnt out in a senseless arson attack on the 10th August 2011. The structural damage was enough for the Grade II listed building to be stripped of its conservation status, and for a long time the poor cigarette-stub of what remained stared out over the street until it was boarded up. I can’t bring myself to look at pictures of what remains.
The council has decided to push ahead with plans for the pub’s demolition, to make way for an extension to the neighbouring Old Palace Hotel. An online petition, with over 2,500 signatures, appears to have gone unheeded, despite the obvious influence the building’s heritage has upon Dunstable’s identity.
TV presenter Kevin McCloud MBE, raised in Dunstable, put it best:
“Dunstable is short on great historic buildings and so the removal of any ancient scrap of architecture from the town is an appalling idea. We need to conserve the old to help us understand the present (and, for that matter, the future) and heritage is not a burden but an amenity and a great blessing for our society. It gives us a sense of place and connection. The loss of the ancient fabric of The Norman King will be a crying shame and a further erosion of that connection. It’s appalling that there has been no collective will among the authorities to keep as much as possible that remains of this fine old building and to insist on a sensitive programme of repair and even reinstatement of the structure and roof lost to the fire. Apart from anything else, I used to drink there and will miss it.”
Images: gallery.nen.gov.uk
Special thanks to Jimmi Campkin (@jimmicampkin) for letting me pick his brain for memories and facts; and for proof-reading the whole thing.
Tagged Bedfordshire, blogging, brassy light, business, dead flag blues, depression, Dunstable, Economics, love (something like it) death, memories, nostalgia, one for sorrow, personal, relationships, unemployment
January 11, 2015 by raishimi33
Marching for our future
Two themes mingled on the streets of Paris today. In the photographs and reports pouring in, I saw hope and hypocrisy: both will shape the future of this world. Crowds marched in defiance of the terror waged against them in the past week. Leaders went arm-in-arm in supposed solidarity for freedom of expression, after the recent attacks on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket … while back in their home countries, those who stand for freedom of speech and democracy face persecution and imprisonment.
I don’t suppose any of this was far from the minds of more liberal leaders but then, within the context of the march – honouring the fallen – it’d be difficult to speak of other things. I must admit, I found myself hesitating before calling attention to the brilliant research by Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) on the unique abuse of human rights / freedom of expression by many of the world leaders in attendance, if only because I didn’t want to dampen the moment. But then, there are so many moments in time, and they all add up to Change – or not. I thought of Tracy Chapman’s song, “If not Now…”
Then when? One voice among many.
With responsibility comes the shocker of having to give up a lot of what you might believe in. For the greater good, etc. Belarus, for example, is allowed a lot of leeway when it comes to human rights, just so the Lukashenka regime doesn’t kick up a shit-storm between the EU and the loudly-snarling bear, Russia. Or anywhere else, for that matter.
“The Lukashenko administration gives the EU chills from time to time. Belarusian officials make claims about Belarus’s exit from the Eastern Partnership. Belarus threatens to redirect its cargo transit routes from Lithuanian and Latvian ports to Russian ports. Belarus also promises to deploy Russian Tactical Ballistic Missile Systems against Poland. The message is clear: The West must turn a blind eye on the human rights violations in Belarus in order to cooperate with Lukashenka.” – Rethinking the EU Policies Towards Belarus, Andrei Liakhovich.
The world’s internet freedom is falling, with Turkey and Russia leading the descent. In Azerbaijan recently, the US-funded Radio Azadliq was ransacked by the Azerbaijani authorities, with twelve employees arrested and others threatened with the same if they chose not to comply with questioning.
The reason?
“The office raid and forced questioning come as prosecutors are investigating the Azadliq office as a foreign-funded entity. RFE/RL and its bureaus are funded by the U.S. government.
Siyavoush Novruzov, a high-ranking member of the ruling Yeni Azerbaycan Party, defended the raid as a national security issue.
Speaking to local media, he said it was necessary to close the bureau to prevent espionage, adding, “Every place that works for foreign intelligence and the Armenian lobby should be raided.”
And still.
I found the scenes in France heartening for a number of reasons – most of them pointed out by other people, tweeting as they watched with me, or attended the march themselves. Jamie Barlett (@JamieJBartlett) of think-tank Demos, put it most aptly:
“In 20 years, there will be a new wave of fearless journalists, cartoonists, writers – who as children were moved by the events of last week.”
We can only hope, for this is what and who will stand against the hypocrisy seen today. We all of us have a common enemy, exemplified by the extremists who would like to stir up trouble between Muslims and the countries they call home, or those who would have online dissent (AKA freedom of expression) flogged into silence, or those who would brainwash a populace with disinformation about external persecution, while quietly raiding the home piggybank.
If we’re marching for something – in our minds on social media, with our bodies in the multicultural cities – then let it be for change. Real change. Not words produced today, in the pathos of the moment, but for all of our tomorrows, because we still have to live among each other, every day, and our lives are as intertwined as they have ever been. What comes next, will count the most.
Posted in Review, Social networking
Tagged blogging, Censorship, Charlie Hebdo, Conflict, dead flag blues, EU, Europe, Freedom of speech, Hope, Hypocrisy, journalism, one for sorrow, responsibility, Russia, Social networking, twitter
November 30, 2014 by raishimi33
The Silence of the Lambs: Starling as a feminist heroine
Clarice Starling, in Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs, delivers a crucial message of what it means to be a woman in a man’s world. There’s the all-important balance between working to professional standards, while dealing with some of the most soul-darkening situations imaginable – and facing up to the fact that the enemy is more sympathetic of your cause than your own establishment. Her awareness is a keen blade.
‘”Couple of things, Starling. I look for first-rate forensics from you, but I need more than that. You don’t say much, and that’s okay, neither do I. But don’t ever feel you’ve got to have a new fact to tell me before you can bring something up. There aren’t any silly questions. You’ll see things that I won’t, and I want to know what they are. Maybe you’ve got a knack for this. All of a sudden we’ve got this chance to see if you do.”
Listening to him, her stomach lifting and her expression properly rapt, Starling wondered how long Crawford had known he’d use her on this case, how hungry for a chance he had wanted her to be. He was a leader, with a leader’s frank-and-open bullshit, all right.
“One other thing: an investigation like this is a zoo. It’s spread out over a lot of jurisdictions, and a few are run by losers. We have to get along with them so they won’t hold out on us.”‘
‘”Sheriff, this kind of a sex crime has some aspects that I’d rather say to you just between us men, you understand what I mean?” Crawford said, indicating Starling’s presence with a small movement. of his head. He hustled the smaller man into a cluttered office off the hall and closed the door.
Starling was left to mask her umbrage before the
gaggle of deputies. Her teeth hard together, she gazed on Saint Cecilia and returned the saint’s ethereal smile while eavesdropping through the door.’
Against the oil-slick eyes of colleagues, the authority figures who would use gender as an angle in laugh-about-it-later examples of professional sexism, Starling holds her dignity in being able to continue with her work – primarily in the plot, saving other women – rather than be shredded by the constant dissection of her capabilities. She maintains control not only for her own sake, but for the vulnerable ones who are most at risk.
“In Clarice, we see an action/adventure character who is full of feelings from beginning to end, one who never doubts that feelings are an asset, a source of power. We watch her balance her intuitive clarity with a skilful manoeuvring of frank and intimate conversation. She has an uncanny ease with emotionally piercing scrutiny by her male bosses, peers and even the male killers. Close examination of her most private thoughts does not rattle her. If anything, she becomes more focused. She is responsive, not passive, in the face of male betrayals and holds a mirror for the transgressors to look at themselves.” – Jane Alexander Stewart, Ph.D.,
San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal
Something that’s come to my mind only recently, while watching the film again (and subsequently going back to the book), reflects a transition going on in my own life. Starling has always been a role model; this was based upon her intelligence, unassuming nature, and ability to stand up for herself in some truly excruciating situations. What I’d failed to note, was her femininity. The way she doesn’t try to disguise her gender, or play up to it for the sake of gaining ground with men, except where it suits her own needs:
“I understood you’d brief me, Dr. Chilton,” Starling said.
“I can do that while we walk.” He came around his desk, looking at his watch. “I have a lunch in half an hour.”
Dammit, she should have read him better, quicker. He might not be a total jerk. He might know something useful. It wouldn’t have hurt her to simper once, even if she wasn’t at it.”
She trains hard, applies herself in classes, works among and against men – and doesn’t try to be one of them. It’s worth noting that her best friend is another woman, equally as competent, and willing to go up against the everyday bombardment of male privilege/sexual entitlement for the sake of ambitions and the needs of others.
‘Ardelia Mapp saw the fatigue in her face. “What did you do today, girl?” Mapp always asked question as if the answers could make no possible difference.
“Wheedled a crazy man with come all over me.”
“I wish I had time for a social life – I don’t know how you manage it, and school too.”
Starling found that she was laughing. Ardelia Mapp laughed with her, as much as the small joke was worth. Starling did not stop, and she heard herself from far away, laughing and laughing. Through Starling’s tears, Mapp looked strangely old and her smile had sadness in it.’
It would have been easy for both Harris and Demme to cast Starling/Foster as a hard-line ice queen, or a vulnerable heroine in need of assistance from male colleagues, or as a rough ‘n tumble tomboy hinging her gags on perceived male weaknesses. Indeed, there are chances for Starling to take advantage when moments of vulnerability in her opponents arise – she uses the subtle-bitter sheen of that mirror, held up for them see what they are with their own eyes.
‘”When I told that deputy he and I shouldn’t talk in front of a woman, that burned you, didn’t it?”
“It was just smoke. I wanted to get him by himself.”
“I know that.”
“Okay.” Crawford slammed the trunk and turned away.
Starling couldn’t let it go.
“It matters, Mr. Crawford.”
He was turning back to her, laden with his fax machine and briefcase, and she had his full attention.
“Those cops know who you are,” she said. “They look at you to see how to act.” She stood steady, shrugged her shoulders, opened her palms. There it was, it was true.
Crawford performed a measurement on his cold scales.
“Duly noted, Starling. Now get on with the bug.”
“Yes sir.”
She watched him walk away, a middle-aged man laden with cases and rumpled from flying, his cuffs muddy from the riverbank, going home to what he did at home.
She would have killed for him then. That was one of Crawford’s great talents.’
‘”What you’re doing is coming into my hospital to conduct an interview and refusing to share information with me.”
“I’m acting on my instructions, Dr. Chilton. I have the U.S. Attorney’s night number here. Now please, either discuss it with him or let me do my job.”
“I’m not a turnkey here, Miss Starling. I don’t come running down here at night just to let people in and out. I had a ticket to Holiday on Ice.”
He realized he’d said a ticket. In that instant Starling saw his life, and he knew it.
She saw his bleak refrigerator, the crumbs on the TV tray where he ate alone, the still piles his things stayed in for months until he moved them— she felt the ache of his whole yellow-smiling Sen-Sen lonesome life— and switchblade-quick she knew not to spare him, not to talk on or look away. She stared into his face, and with the smallest tilt of her head, she gave him her good looks and bored her knowledge in, speared him with it, knowing he couldn’t stand for the conversation to go on.
He sent her with an orderly named Alonzo.’
Starling is a flawed human, like any other: willing to learn and to engage; straight-forward, and able to conduct herself with as much diplomacy in the face of afore-mentioned gender prejudice, as in unpredictable situations where her own life and that of others, are at risk. Her mind and soul stay resilient against the constant chipping-away at her gender.
It’s this sort of determined dignity that I relish in literature and on-screen – no overt attempts to pander to men’s goodwill, nor extreme agitation against their advances in tit-for-tat mocking. More than once, I catch myself wondering if it’s boredom at their behaviour that keeps the thin-lipped resolution in place. She’s able to withstand bullshit while exposing the “transgressors” for what they are, and to work through and around her internal knots as much as the external ones, for the sake of those in need of her help.
First and foremost, Starling is her own woman, getting on with more important things.
Posted in Feminism, Personal, Review
Tagged blogging, Clarice Starling, Feminism, relationships, responsibility, Sexism, The Silence of the Lambs
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Vernee Apollo Lite will receive Android 7.0 Nougat in December
Great news for all owners of a smartphone made by the brand Vernee. The Chinese manufacturer is trying to make its way in the crowded Android scene with mid-range devices at attractive prices, but especially also for support that includes updates constantly. Through the official profile of the company in Facebook, Vernee announced that the final version of Android 7.0 Nougat for the Apollo Lite is scheduled for next December.
Thus, the Apollo Lite will actually be the first deca-core X20 smartphone to obtain the latest operating system from Google, and while the beta phase has been completed, Vernee developers are focusing now on the troubleshooting and stabilization of the system. This period of correction should be short, so that the final and stable version of Android 7.0 Nougat should not take too long to arrive with all relevant developments already known.
In its official account on Facebook, the manufacturer has also shown the first images that shed light on the interface and the new environment of the updated software. The list of known changes includes new emoji, faster transitions between apps, improved to handle notifications, more efficient battery, more versatile and customized by quick setting adjustments, some applications that can be run on multiple windows and multitasking and faster responses that can be driven directly from the notifications panel.
Launched this summer at a very attractive price, Vernee Apollo Lite received the attention of users very soon. It is a smartphone with Full HD 5.5-inch screen that is around $ 220 (although in various promotions has come to cost $ 99.99). In fact, as has been told through Vernee, a new promotion is planned for the period between October 31 and November 6. As the name suggests, this smartphone is the "lite" version of Vernee Apollo, but, despite this detail, we find a respectable Mediatek chipset, especially considering that finding a Helio X20 processor with a clock frequency up to 2.4 GHz and with a support of 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage is virtually unthinkable in the Western market at this price.
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Davis photographed in his New York City home by Tom Palumbo, c. 1955–1956
Miles Dewey Davis III
(1926-05-26)May 26, 1926
Alton, Illinois, U.S.
September 28, 1991(1991-09-28) (aged 65)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
bandleader
Red Garland
Tony Williams
milesdavis.com
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. He was very important to 20th century music. He helped to develop several different styles of jazz, like cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz, and fusion. As a bandleader he worked with other famous musicians like John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Cannonball Adderley, Gerry Mulligan, Tony Williams, George Coleman, J. J. Johnson, Keith Jarrett, John Scofield and Kenny Garrett.
In 1959 he released an album called Kind of Blue. That album became very famous and popular. In 2008, it had sold 4 million copies.[1] In 2006 Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and described as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz".[1]
2 New York years (1944–48)
3 Birth of the Cool (1948–49)
Early life[change | change source]
Davis was born in 1926 in Alton, Illinois. His father, Miles Dewey Davis, Jr., was a dentist. In 1927, the family moved to East St. Louis. They also owned a big ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses.
Davis's mother, Cleota Mae (Henry) Davis, wanted him to learn to play the piano. She was a good blues pianist but did not tell her son this. Davis started to learn music when he was 13, when his father gave him a trumpet and arranged for him to have lessons with local musician Elwood Buchanan. Buchanan taught Davis to play the trumpet without vibrato, and Davis always played like this. Buchanan was said to slap Davis's knuckles every time he started using heavy vibrato.[2] Davis later said "I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo and not too much baseline bass. Just right in the middle. If I can’t get that sound I can’t play anything."[3]
When he was 16, Davis played the trumpet professionally when he was not at school. At 17, he played in bandleader Eddie Randle's band for a year. Saxophone-player Sonny Stitt tried to persuade Davis to join the Tiny Bradshaw band, but Davis's mother wanted Davis to finish his final year of high school.
In 1944, the Billy Eckstine band visited East St. Louis. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were in the band, and Davis joined them as third trumpet player when trumpeter Buddy Anderson was out sick. When the band left to finish the tour, Davis' parents still wanted him to finish his studies.
New York years (1944–48)[change | change source]
After he graduated from high school in 1944, Davis moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School of Music.
When he arrived in New York, he spent most of his time trying to get in contact with Charlie Parker, even though some people had told him that he should not.[2] When he found Parker, Davis became involved in jam sessions that took place every night in two of Harlem's night clubs, Minton's Playhouse and Monroe's. Other famous musicians like Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke also tookpart in these sessions.
Davis left Juilliard early, having first asked permission from his father. He did not like the classes at Juilliard because he thought they focused too much on classical European and "white" music. He also said that his Juilliard classes helped him to understand music theory.
He began playing professionally in many jazz groups, performing in several 52nd Street clubs with Coleman Hawkins and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. In 1945, he went into a recording studio for the first time, as a member of the group of Herbie Fields. In 1946 he made his first recording as a bandleader, with a group called "Miles Davis Sextet plus Earl Coleman and Ann Hathaway".[4] He did not make many recordings as a bandleader at this time.
Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie stopped working with Parker and Parker hired Davis as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet. Also in the group were Max Roach at the drums, Al Haig (replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan) at the piano, and Curley Russell (later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin) as bass player.
With Parker's quintet, Davis recorded several times. He had a solo on Parker's signature song, "Now's the Time". This solo led to the beginning of a style of jazz called "cool jazz". The group also toured the United States. During a tour in Los Angeles, Parker had a nervous breakdown and went to the Camarillo State Mental Hospital for several months. Davis found himself stuck in L.A. He stayed with, and played music with jazz musician Charles Mingus. Later he got a job with Billy Eckstine on a California tour that brought him back to New York.[5] In 1948, Parker returned from Los Angeles, and Davis joined his group again.
The musicians in Parker's group were not getting on very well. Parker's behavior was unpredictable because of his drug addiction. Davis and Roach did not agree with Parker hiring Duke Jordan as a pianist[2] and would have preferred Bud Powell). In December 1948, Davis left the group after an argument with Parker at the Royal Roost. He began to work more independently with different groups in New York.
Birth of the Cool (1948–49)[change | change source]
In 1948 Davis grew close to the Canadian composer and music arranger Gil Evans. Davis used to meet other musicians at Evans' house, like Roach, the pianist John Lewis and the baritone saxophone player Gerry Mulligan. Evans had been the arranger for the orchestra of Claude Thornhill and it was the sound of this group, as well as Duke Ellington's example, that inspired the creation of a large group including a french horn and a tuba.
Davis took a very active role in the project,[6] and it soon became "his project". They tried to achieve a sound similar to a human voice, over carefully arranged compositions.
The group first played in the summer of 1948 at the Royal Roost. They were active to the end of 1949 and had several changes of musician. There were many white musicians in the group and this made some African American jazz players angry. Many of them were unemployed at the time. Davis did not listen to them.[7]
The group got a recording contract with Capitol Records and they had several recording sessions between January 1949 and April 1950. This music was released on an album called Birth of the Cool. This album gave its name to a new style of jazz called "cool jazz". Davis knew how important his project was and even turned down a job with Duke Ellington's orchestra.[2] This group also led to the beginning of the lifelong friendship between Davis and Gil Evans.
↑ 1.0 1.1 "Miles Davis". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.. http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/miles-davis. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography, Simon and Schuster, 1989, ISBN 0671635042.
↑ Ashley Kahn Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece.
↑ See the Plosin session database [1].
↑ On this occasion, Mingus criticized bitterly Davis for abandoning his "musical father" (see Autobiography).
↑ "Miles, the bandleader. He took the initiative and put the theories to work. He called the rehearsals, hired the halls, called the players, and generally cracked the whip." Gerry Mulligan "I hear America singing".
↑ "So I just told them that if a guy could play as good as Lee Konitz played – that's who they were mad about most, because there were a lot of black alto players around – I would hire him every time, and I wouldn't give a damn if he was green with red breath. I'm hiring a motherfucker to play, not for what color he is." Miles Davis, Autobiography
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11.8.11 Paradigm Lost
Paradigm lost as the Western Oligarchís lies unravel
by Benjamin Fulford, November 8, 2011
These days, reading some of the Western corporate propaganda media, you get the feeling you are reading Axis news reports of imminent victory late during World War 2. The reality people can see with their own eyes contradicts their reports so much that only a diehard rump of the most thoroughly brainwashed now really believes the propaganda. No matter what wishful thinking headlines they conjure up about the IMF coming to the rescue, or the Feds printing more dollars or FRNís coming to the rescue, the fact of the matter is that the cabal that hijacked the worldís financial system has lost. The criminal cabal is caput. Events this week and next will provide ample proof of this.
Both behind the scenes and in public, the worldís law enforcement agencies continue to close in on the criminal cabal from all directions. The big lawsuit expected next week against the cabal has now obtained as evidence something known as the Book of Maklumat. This is a book that details the historical ownership of much of the worldís gold by a group of Asian royal families. They also have copies of the original cash certificates and evidence of how this money was transferred to the custodianship of the Government of United States for the use on behalf of the international community. This evidence is icing on the cake in a lawsuit that will prove the private owners of the Federal Reserve Board stole this money and have been using it illegally for over 50 years.
That is why the illegal ìtrading platformsî that were being used to steal this money have been shut down. That, in turn, is why the International Monetary Fund, the European governments and the Federal Reserve Board have been powerless to stop the ongoing crisis affecting the G5 group of terrorist states (France, England, Italy, Germany and the United States), as well as their armed camp known as Israel.
Although these governments have threatened Greeceís government into stopping a referendum on the Euro, they cannot take their threats to the bank. The fact is that the European fascists do not have the money to help Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the five Baltic states. Furthermore, the government of Ireland has already asked the European bankers to prove Ireland is in debt to them, show where the money came from, prove that it is real and prove they have the legal rights to it. This is something they cannot do which is why Ireland is not in the headlines. It is also one of the reasons they have shut down Irelandís Vatican embassy.
Although the G5 and Israel threaten to ignite World War 3 by attacking Iran, that is a suicidal bluff. The commanders of the US, Chinese and Russian militaries will not let this happen. These rogue G5 leaders are, of course, terrified because they know they have committed countless crimes against humanity (e.g. hundreds of millions of murders since World War 2 ended). It may still be possible for most of them to obtain forgiveness via a truth and reconciliation committee but the window of opportunity is shutting fast.
One man who has now put himself beyond the pale is Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger last week desperately tried to orchestrate a series of assassinations in the hope of somehow turning the situation around. This writer was once again last week targeted by people hired by Kissinger.
However, Kissinger has been told to back off and his orders are not being obeyed.
ìPresidentî Obama, for his part, was the subject of severe verbal attacks at last weekís G20 meeting in France. He was told the United States was in far worse shape than Europe and that he had a lot of the blame for that, according to sources at the meeting. Obama is no longer expected to be able to complete his term as President because of the various legal actions against his regime.
In Japan, meanwhile, there has been a lot of rumbling under the surface.
Senior Japanese right wing sources say that a group of Colonels in the Japanese Self-Defense forces are plotting a military coup díetat. Their plan is to put in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as their leader. Abe, of course, is linked to the Moonies, who in turn have a ranch next to the Bush ranch in Paraguay. They are also linked to the international drug business.
Needless to say, these misguided Colonels have been educated and are now realizing that no matter how honorable their wish to help Japan might be, they were about to be manipulated by the very people who helped ruin Japanís economy.
Another move in Japan came as US CIA and Pentagon types told power broker Ichiro Ozawa to permanently cease his plans to try to take over the government if he wished to stay alive. Ozawa is not trusted because of both his Rockefeller and cabal connections.
It is also worth noting that Emperor Akihito is suffering from ìBronchitis,î and has thus ìtemporarilyî handed over control to crown prince Naruhito, according to the Royal Household Agency.
The official go-ahead has now been given for a new International Economic Planning Agency. Itís motto will be ìwe turn dreams into reality.
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A New School Year and New Opportunities
This is a repost of a Disability.Gov Blog post by Carmen Sánchez, Education Program Specialist, Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education and Debra Jennings, Executive Co-Director, SPAN.
A new school year is a new opportunity to build the relationships that strengthen the foundations of support that are so important for our students with disabilities. As one parent engagement professional stated, “Parents and schools should reach out and open lines of communication in a time of peace before that first poor grade or behavior issue. Find out how people would like to be addressed and their preferred method of communication.”
But how does a parent start the conversation in a way that is focused on strengths just as much as need? A Positive Student Profile is a great way to introduce a child to teachers at the beginning of the school year. Here’s an example of one way to introduce the profile, which can be customized to fit your student:
Dear Mr. Rogers,
Alex and I are excited about this new school year! I am writing to share some things I believe will help make this successful year for him. You likely received Alex’s individualized education program and are thinking about how to implement the supports and accommodations listed in his IEP. But while the IEP does a good job of describing Alex’s learning and needs, it doesn’t fully describe him or who he is. I am including a profile (http://www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/pbp-student-profile/) that Alex prepared that tells about his interests, his strengths, and what works best for him to help him learn.
Our family has high expectations for Alex, just as we have for his sister. And we know that he requires some supports and accommodations to meet these expectations. We are always looking for information about Alex’s abilities and challenges. We have come across several resources that have really helped us and Alex’s teachers work together to help Alex learn. Here are some that might be of interest…
Want more tips on how to make the best of the new school year? The Parent Training and Information Center (PTI) or Community Parent Resource Center (CPRC) in an area or state is an excellent source of resources, materials, support and connections for families of children with disabilities. PTIs and CPRCs can help families understand student’s education rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. They can also help families understand more about their child’s disability and needs as well as promising practices in education. In addition, they can help families learn how to effectively communicate and work with school personnel and other providers in meeting their child’s needs. PTIs and CPRCs provide information on the phone, through workshops (in-person, on-line, live and pre-recorded) and through a treasure trove of materials and resources that are shared on their websites and social media. They may also provide these materials in other languages based upon the needs of families in the community.
Centers are run by well-trained and knowledgeable staff, most of whom have children with disabilities themselves. PTIs and CPRCs answer families’ questions with practical advice or refer families to other organizations in the families’ community that can help. Most centers also extend their training and information services to professionals who work with children with disabilities and their families. And through the PTIs and CPRCs, families can also connect with other families and professionals for support and problem solving.
Many families can feel overwhelmed dealing with multiple issues raised by their child’s needs. PTIs and CPRCs help families sort through the issues and provide strategies to help parents and professionals address them together.
In addition to the PTIs and CPRCs, the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services funds a network of technical assistance and dissemination centers that can connect parents and professionals to best practices in special education and early intervention services. Some of these centers include:
CADRE—The National Center on Dispute Resolution provides resources to help families to work with professionals to resolve differences.
Center for Parent Information and Resources is a one-stop website for a host of parent-friendly information about special education.
Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports provides resources to support positive behavior for students with disabilities.
Center on Technology and Disability provides resources for families and professionals to support the use of technology in educating children with disabilities.
National Technical Assistance Center on Transition provides resources for families and professionals to support effective transitions to postsecondary education and employment.
SWIFT—School Wide Integrated Framework for Transformation provides resources for families and professionals to support the inclusion of children with disabilities in the general education classroom.
And, check out ED’s Early Learning site full of information.
Finally, the new school year is an excellent time for students, no matter what their age, to learn how to advocate for themselves. Whether it’s focusing on using a communication device to indicate what they want or need, or leading their own individualized education plans, parents and teachers can work together to include self-advocacy skills in all that they do with students with disabilities. One good resource is the RAISE Center, Resources for Access, Independence, Self-Advocacy and Employment, also funded by the Department of Education, and the National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Here’s to a positive, productive new school year for all students!
About the Guest Bloggers
Carmen Sánchez
Carmen Sánchez is an Education Program Specialist in the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education. She is the program lead for the Parent Center Program, which consists of grants for Parent Training and Information (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRCs) to train, inform, and engage families of children with disabilities throughout the country; and a national, six regional, and two topical technical assistance centers that support the PTIs and CPRCs. She is also the mother of a young adult with disabilities.
Debra Jennings
Debra Jennings is the Executive Co-Director of SPAN, a parent-led non-profit organization that empowers families as advocates and partners in improving education, health, and mental health outcomes for infants, toddlers, children and youth. Debra leads SPAN’s parent leadership development activities and also directs SPAN’s national technical assistance centers that are funded by the U.S. Department of Education to provide information, resources and support for the almost 90 Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers serving families of children with disabilities and also youth/young adults with disabilities across the U.S. and its territories.
Education Program Specialist, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education
Executive Co-Director of SPAN
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Immerse Yourself in Our Cultural Heritage
Visit these 6 amazing cultural attractions!
We are lucky to live in an area that is rich in cultural history. These featured museums and historic sites are some of the finest cultural attractions that you definitely need to visit.
MICHENER ART MUSEUM
Michener Art Museum was once a prison, now a world-class art museum. Housed on the site of what was once the Bucks County Jail, the Michener Art Museum is an American art institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting the art and cultural heritage of the Delaware Valley region and beyond. Welcoming 135,000 visitors each year, the Michener showcases a world-class collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings as well as many special and permanent exhibitions that include the work of historical and contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers, and furniture designers. Art transforms - we will show you how.
138 S. Pine Street, Doylestown, PA 18901 (map it)
www.michenerartmuseum.org
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES
Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) is the Teaching Museum at Lehigh University. LUAG maintains and develops the university's world-class art collection of over 15,000 objects and presents exhibitions featuring regional and international artists. LUAG refers to itself as a "Museum Without Walls", extending throughout three campuses in the form of galleries, classrooms, 50+ outdoor sculptures, and an open-storage facility. LUAG's mission is to inspire, develop, and promote visual literacy and cultural understanding through cross-disciplinary educational opportunities to benefit the community-at-large. All LUAG exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
420 E Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 (map it)
www.luag.org
KEMERER MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS
The Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts in historic Bethlehem, presents three centuries of style and design through period-interpretive rooms and galleries with changing exhibits. This distinctive museum was founded in 1954 through the bequest of Annie S. Kemerer, a renowned collector of decorative arts, and is the only museum dedicated to the Decorative Arts in Pennsylvania. The world-class Elizabeth Johnston Prime Dollhouse Collection, one of the largest antique dollhouse collections in the U.S., can be viewed on the Behind-the-Scenes Dollhouse Tour that takes visitors through the Collections Resource Center, an area not typically open to the public! Admission is free on Sundays from 1 to 4 pm. Families can enjoy a range of crafts and activities catered to many ages that introduce artistic skills used historically by the Moravians such as calligraphy, crossed letters, design your own hex sign, creating your own family tree or time capsule, and much more. Museum Storytime, featuring a book related to an artifact from the collection, will educate and captivate young listeners while the artifact scavenger hunt is a fun way to find and learn about historic pieces within the museum rooms.
427 North New Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018 (map it)
www.historicbethlehem.org
MORAVIAN MUSEUM OF BETHLEHEM
The Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, also known as the 1741 Gemeinhaus (or Community House), is a National Historic Landmark and believed to be the largest Colonial-period log structure in continuous use in the United States. It was the second building erected by the Moravian settlers, and is the oldest surviving building in Bethlehem. It is an excellent example of Colonial Germanic architecture that, for a few years, housed the entire Moravian community, approximately 80 people. During this time the structure provided home, church, classrooms, kitchens, workrooms and healthcare as the community was building their choir (residential) houses along Church Street. The Gemeinhaus remained the center gathering place for the Moravian settlers; the second story was the Saal, their earliest place of worship. Through the years following it was used as a residence for clergymen and their families and was the birthplace of Lewis David von Schweinitz, the Father of American Mycology (the study of fungi). At the Moravian museum, visitors can discover how the 18th century Moravian missionaries survived in the New World and grew their community. Come hear the remarkable stories behind Bethlehem's founders, including early Moravian medicinal practices, communal living, missionary work, and a progressive educational system.
66 West Church Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018 (map it)
MERCER MUSEUM
The Mercer Museum celebrates the legacy of Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930), American archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramicist and scholar. The Mercer Museum, one of Bucks County's premier tourist attractions, offers visitors a unique window into pre-Industrial America as seen through the implements used in everyday life. The Museum's collection includes more than 50,000 objects exhibiting the tools of more than 60 different crafts and trades, and provides one of the world's most comprehensive portraits of material culture in America. The Mercer Museum is located at 84 South Pine Street in Doylestown and is open 7 days a week. For schedule and admission information visit mercermuseum.org or call 215-345-0210.
84 South Pine Street, Doylestown, PA 18901 (map it)
www.mercermuseum.org
FONTHILL CASTLE
Fonthill Castle was the home and showplace of Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930), American archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramicist and scholar. Mercer completed Fonthill Castle in 1912 in Doylestown. The castle serves as an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces, 10 bathrooms and one powder room. Fonthill Castle's maze-like interior features built-in furniture and a myriad of decorative tile embellishments that Mercer made at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. Fonthill Castle is located at 525 East Court Street in Doylestown, PA and is open for tours 7 days a week by reservation only. For more information, call 215-348-9461 or visit mercermuseum.org.
525 East Court Street, Doylestown, PA 18901 (map it)
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Prayer For Renewal Of Faith Before you begin, please take a moment to review the information below about our requirements and limitations for posting prayer requests. Arts & Faith: Lent. Enter into a visual prayer experience this Lent with Arts & Faith: Lent.Each week we’ll provide a video commentary about a work of art inspired by the Sunday Scriptures. Oct
7 Common Spiritual Dream Meanings. by Doug Addison. One amazing way that God can speak to us is through our dreams at night. Unfortunately, most people do not understand their dreams.
(March 12, 2019) Sky Daniels has been instrumental in the development of the Triple A format at KCSN (88.5/fm). In the most recent ratings book, the station had an auspicious debut in the PPM. On Monday, the general manager / program director announced he is stepping down after eight years.
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The Rev. Ann M. Aaberg, Pastor Mystic Congregational Church Mystic, CT The Rev. Leon Aalberts Presbyterian Church (USA) Williamstown, MA Pastor James Aalgaard
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Michael Akerman. Michael Daniel Akerman, age 83 and a resident of Konawa, died at his home on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. A wake service is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 8, 2010 at Swearingen Funeral Home in Konawa, and a funeral mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Friday, April 9, 2010 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Konawa.
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Jul 31, 2011. Christian churches, a synagogue, two mosques and several regional denominational headquarters make their homes in Lubbock. or write the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Attn: Irie Price, P.O. Box 491, Lubbock, TX 79408. Original content available for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons.
Another ex girlfriend died and also was given a Christian funeral against her wishes, but this preacher was at least non denominational and not a. recently interviewed for another position in.
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The Rev. Mark Lubbock, pastor of Walker United Methodist Church and executive director of Gulf South Men, a non-denominational coalition of men’s ministries from Texas to Alabama, said he sees the.
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I grew up In Lubbock, Texas going to church with my mom when I was younger, My wife, Sharon, and I had attended a non-denominational church in Amarillo.
Cheer Texas 9200. education from a non-denominational but biblical perspective. Today, it has become the largest private Christian school in the Panhandle. Its students hail from a broad.
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Among the dignitaries attending the groundbreaking were Dr. Jaroy Weber of Lubbock, president of the Southern. 690-1412—495-4578 CHRIST AS LIFE CHURCH 6809 Hammond Ave. Plano Non-Denominational.
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Sure of his destiny but uncertain he could make a living at it, he took a Texas Tech business degree. to Nebraska and joined an Assembly of God church. Then in Lubbock they joined Trinity Church,
The bride is a graduate of Akron General Medical Center School of Nursing and is employed at Health Sciences Center Hospital, Lubbock, Texas. The bridegroom is. C FOR WEDDINGS BON TON BAKERY.
His next position of service was as Director of Missions for the Caprock/Plains Association based in Plainview, Texas. He served there for the next 10 years. Dr. Bradley was very active in Baptist.
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We caught up with the best-selling author and energetic young pastor from Lubbock, TX to ask some questions. You’re the senior pastor of a non-denominational evangelical church called Ecclesia:.
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Another Jewish classmate went to Lubbock, Texas, for a job and was asked if his. At its center was U.S. Navy Ensign Michael Izbicki, who grew up in a non-denominational church in California, felt.
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UNWTO Sports Tourism Start-up Competition
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UNWTO and Barça Innovation Hub Launch Global Sports Tourism Start-up Competition
The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) in collaboration with Barça Innovation Hub (BIHUB) and with the support of the Qatar National Tourism Council (QNTC), has announced the launch of the 1st UNWTO Sports Tourism Start-up Competition. The initiative is designed to identify projects and innovations that can transform the sports tourism sector in the near future.
Increasing demand from tourists and the growing influence of sports on destinations’ popularity have combined to make sports tourism one of the segments with the greatest potential for socioeconomic development opportunities, attracting growing levels of government interest. The 1st UNWTO Sports Tourism Start-up Competition, launched by UNWTO and BIHUB, with the support of QNTC, is looking for start-ups with disruptive ideas focused on solving real needs and addressing knowledge gaps in the growing sports tourism sector.
In all, 20 start-ups will be shortlisted by a panel of international experts and sports and tourism stakeholders, drawn from the public and private sectors, academia and civil society. The shortlisted start-ups will be announced on the competition’s website. The panel will then select five semi-finalists who will all be invited to Barcelona to pitch their ideas to sports experts, government representatives, tourism business leaders and international investors.
“We are pleased to be partnering with the Barça Innovation Hub to harness the potential of sports tourism to stimulate creativity, innovation and sustainable growth. Through this competition, start-ups with disruptive visions can propose new ideas that will allow the sports tourism sector to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. We thank BIHUB for their vision and collaboration and, as we move towards the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, we thank the QNTC for their support for this exciting project,” said UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili as he opened the competition.
As part of the partnership with QNTC, the winning ideas will also be considered for implementation in Qatar, which is gearing up to host the FIFA World Cup 2022.
His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, Secretary General of QNTC, commented, “At QNTC we believe sporting events have a unique power to bring people of the world together, and that is also why sports tourism is a key focus area in our tourism vision. We look forward to seeing the innovative ideas that will come through the inaugural Sports Tourism Start-Up Competition and hope that one of them will come to life in Qatar.”
Marta Plana, Director of BIHUB, added: “We are very pleased to work together with UNWTO to develop tourism in relation to the sports industry, a growing sector, and identify companies with the talents to help achieve this. Barcelona is a city linked to design and innovation, and a tourism hub. At BIHUB we want to make Barcelona the Silicon Valley of the sports industry and to use our experience as a tourist attraction, with the FC Barcelona museum the most visited in the Catalan region and more than 4 million people visiting our ground every year.”
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